April Design Team Work - Day #4

Greetings Stamping Friends!

I can't believe it's already Thursday again!! The days and weeks seem to be flying by faster than ever, especially when I stop to think that 1/4 of 2014 is already gone!! My parents always said that time flies as you get older and I thought they were nuts! As I've gotten older I've come to realize that they weren't nuts, instead they were speaking words of wisdom! Wow!!

Since you didn't stop by to read a dissertation about flying pigs time, I will go ahead and get to the point of today's post ... the Scrapbook and More Focus challenge.

Theme:  
April seems to open the door and invite us outside! This month let's focus on welcoming spring's attitude back into our hearts.

Scrapbook and More Focus: Show us your take on the layout featured on page 13 of the March/April 2014 Stampin' Success magazine.

Let me just say, I was NOT a huge fan of the layout until I got a little ways into it. Although I knew I wanted my page to focus on the cards that I'd made for this month's challenges, I didn't have a clue of how I was going to make that happen. I was even more perplexed when I realized that I didn't have any of the products that were showcased on the layout in the magazine. Yikes!! After walking away from my desk a few times, my creativity started flowing and before I knew it, I had a bright and cheerful scrapbook page complete with a framed picture with diagonal stripes, a cattywampus background, a film strip full of flowers, some buttons, and an arrow made with the Chevron Punch. After that I threw in a page title, a scripture, and VIOLA! my page was complete!! Happy, Happy, Happy!!!

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This wraps up the April CCrew Design Team Challenges so I will be back on Monday, if not before, with some regular stamping goodness!!

Hugs, Smiles, Blessings, and Happy Stamping!
Hallie
"The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” Isaiah 40:8

April Design Team Work - Day #3

Greetings Readers,

I'm so excited about today's "card" that I am going to jump right into the details.  

Theme:  
April seems to open the door and invite us outside! This month let's focus on welcoming spring's attitude back into our hearts.

Holiday Focus: Choose one of the following occasions and ahow a card, an ensemble, an SB page, or a decor item! Earth Day, Historic Garden Week, Easter, National Egg Salad Week, Go Fly a Kite Day.


As I was reading the Holiday Focus challenge and saw the words "Historic Garden Week" I knew exactly what I wanted to make!! This challenge was begging for a Flower Pot Pocket Card so I was happy to oblige. Since y'all know how much I LOVE polka dots, I decided to make a cheery Daffodil Delight pot and then embellish it with Bermuda Bay polka dots that I punched out with my 1/4" Circle Punch. I used the Flower Shop stamp set with the coordinating Pansy Punch to make my flowers and then finished them off with Basic Pearls. When my pot was finished it still needed a little "something" so I decided to add the Daffodil Delight Button and some Baker's Twine. I *LOVE* how bright and cheery it turned out!

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If you'd like to make your own flower pot pocket card, you can find the instructions HERE. I'd love to see what you create, so please leave a link to your creation in the comments section below.

That's it for today so I will be back tomorrow with my fourth and final April DT project.

Hugs, Smiles, Blessings, and Happy Stampin'!

Hallie

April Design Team Work - Day #2

Howdy, Blog Readers!!

Welcome to Day #2 of my April CCrew Design Team project reveal. Since I am showing you one project per day and there isn't a lot to say about the projects, my posts will be short and sweet. Of course if you have any questions, please leave a comment and I will be happy to provide you with an answer!!

Theme:  
April seems to open the door and invite us outside! This month let's focus on welcoming spring's attitude back into our hearts.

Catalog Focus: Watercoloring! Whether it be with an ink pad aqua painter, markers, watercolor pencils, making a background, or dying something. What can you do with water & color?

I definitely ventured out of my comfort zone for this challenge because I am NOT one to water color.  The most water coloring I've done was when I was a small child at my parent's office. I remember having a glass of water alongside the long container of Crayola water colors and the little yellow paintbrush. Of course the paint always started out new and then the pretty colors inevitably ended up being mixed together which eventually resulted in ALL of the circles of paint being BLACK! It was then that I began scheming of ways to get a hold of my sister's water colors so I could mess them up too have colors that weren't mixed together. Sometimes my schemes worked and sometimes they didn't. Whichever the case, I only have happy memories of my childhood water coloring so I'm guessing the details worked themselves out. 

For this card I used the Triple Time Stamping technique and paired it with stamped, punched, and water colored flowers. I stamped the pansies from the Flower Shop stamp set onto some Stampin' Up! watercolor paper and then water colored them using my Stampin' Write markers and an aqua painter. Once the flowers were finished I punched them out and adhered them to my card using dimensionals. The process was pretty straight forward and easy so without further adieu ...
 

 

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That wraps up today!! Until tomorrow ...

Hugs, Smiles, Blessings, & Happy Stampin'!!
Hallie

Triple Time Stamping

As it turns out, I did not make it to my craft room yesterday to have something for you this morning; however, I am sneaking this post in now; in just enough time to have it count for today!! Yay!!

Thankfully my hubby is MUCH better and will be returning to work tomorrow which means I will be able to spend most of my day stamping. I am a little panicked because I currently have eight, that's right - EIGHT!, Design Team assignments that I need to do in addition to several other projects. YIKES!! The only down side to my DT work is that I can't share my projects with you until they go live; 4 on April 1st and then 4 more on May 1st (that was a hidden announcement, did you catch it?!?). What's the saying?!?  All good things come to those who wait!! It's a good thing that I'm the one creating the projects and will see the end result immediately because I'm not a patient person. Nope - Not Me!! I am all about instant gratification!!

Speaking of instant gratification, how about I show you today's project?!?  Actually, hang on just a second while I tell you that I visited my dear friend Marsha's blog, found her Triple Time Stamping (TTS) tutorial, and then stole CAS'd (that's Copy And Shared) my version of her card. If you've never made a TTS card, I highly recommend you boogie head on over to her blog and follow her instructions - they are wonderful!! You could also be so kind as to leave her a sweet comment when you are there!! Now for my card...

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That's all for now!! I'm off to continue creating while my creative juices are flowing!!

Hugs, Smiles, Blessings, and Happy Stamping!!
~Hallie

All supplies Stampin' Up! (you can order HERE).
Stamp Set:  Flower Shop; A Dozen Thoughts
Ink: Pacific Point; Tangerine Tango; So Saffron
Cardstock:  Pacific Point; Tangerine Tango; So Saffron; Whisper White
Accessories: Pansy Punch; White Baker's Twine; Basic Pearl; Dimensionals
Techniques:  Paper Piercing
Note: The background flowers were tapped off TWICE before stamping them onto the Whisper White cardstock.  The single popped up flower is 100% saturated Tangerine Tango ink (in other words, ink pad to paper ... no stamping off!).