Today I'm hopping with Stamping with Friends a group of international demonstrators who do a blog hop on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. One hop a month focuses on a technique the other focuses on a theme. Today is a themed hop and the theme is CASEing a demonstrator. What is CASEing? It's when you take inspiration from someone else and make it your own. I chose to CASE Kylie Bertucci's beautiful card. She's a demonstrator from Australia. Check out her card here. I used her layout and ... Read More about Joyful Flurry for Stamping with Friends
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Happy New Year for a Winter Holiday Blog Hop
The theme for today's hop is Winter Holiday excluding Christmas and Hanukkah. I had no idea there were so many Winter Holidays! However, when I first saw the Lights Aglow DSP, I wanted to make this card. Unfortunately, it's no longer available. But, you could swap it out for any other DSP that has Basic Black as its base. Today's Project - Winter Holiday At the heart of this card is the Gilded Leaf sentiment on a Vellum overlay on the DSP. The card itself is pretty simple. A layer of ... Read More about Happy New Year for a Winter Holiday Blog Hop
Soft Seedlings for an In Memoriam Blog Hop
Today the demonstrators from Crafty Collaborations are showcasing cards In Memoriam. These cards can be for a national holiday such as Veteran's Day or Remembrance Day or general sympathy cards. Since this is fall, I chose to use the Soft Seedlings stamp set. Let's see what I did. ToDay's Project - Soft Seedlings To color the stamp, I used sponge daubers adding colors as I thought they'd look in nature. After cutting the image with the largest square from the Stylish Shapes die, I ... Read More about Soft Seedlings for an In Memoriam Blog Hop
Pretty Popups for a Step It Up Blog Hop
Today Crafty Collaborations is doing a 'Step It Up' blog hop for Technique Tuesday where we make 3 cards - one basic, one stepped-up, and one WOW to show you how to craft at all levels. I chose to make three cards using the Pretty Popups Dies from the Annual Catalog. Today's Projects - Pretty Popups I received the middle card as a swap and it inspired me to make the WOW version on the right and then to struggle with making the basic version on the left. You'll notice they all use the ... Read More about Pretty Popups for a Step It Up Blog Hop
Framed & Festive Simple Stamping for Stamping with Friends
Stamping with Friends is hopping again today featuring simple stamping. Oh, boy! This is a hard one for me. What is simple stamping? It's using stamps, ink, paper, and optionally an embellishment to create a card. No dies, no embossing, not a lot of layers, and very clean looking. Does that sound like my typical card? Nope, Nope, Nope. And yet, done right simple stamping can be very striking. So while struggling with what to do, the new Framed & Festive stamp set caught my eye and it was ... Read More about Framed & Festive Simple Stamping for Stamping with Friends
