Stampin Up Nature Walk 2

Here's another card I made using Stampin Up's Nature Walk.  I also used a few other stamp sets to create this scene. 

 

Details:
Stampin' Up Stamps - Nature Walk, A Little Birdie Told Me (sentiment), Lovely as a Tree, Nature's Nest
SU Punches
Blue Embossing Powder

Stampin Up Nature Walk 1

I think Nature Walk is my favorite Stampin Up set.  I love birds, birdcages, bees, butterflies, and flowers.  This set has it all! 

Details:
SU Nature Walk
Sentiment SU Clearly for You
SU Tulips Embossing Folder

Stampin Up Fabulous Florets

Two cards in one day! I've been busy busy creating. I've actually been making about 4 cards per day, since I'm off from work. But I don't like to post too many cards per day to my blog, since they tend to get buried.

I have a recent obsession with embossing powder, so that's what I used here.  

SU Fabulous Florets
Clear Embossing Powder
White Embossing Powder
Ribbon from stash

Stampin Up Plane & Simple Masculine Card

My father in law's birthday is this week, so I made this card for him.

Details:
Paper by The Paper Co
Diamond Nestabilities
Stampin' Up Stamps (Plane & Simple), Punches, and Embossing Folder

Tuesday Throwdown #55

Happy Tuesday! This week at Tuesday Throwdown, our challenge is Red, White, and Blue.  Our sponsor is My Grafico, so the flowers I used were from there. 

Details:
Flowers by My Grafico
Sentiment by Studio G
Paper from Target Dollar Bin
SU Ticket Punch
White Embossing Powder
SU Oval & Scalloped Oval Punches

Heart Song Inspirations 4

This week at Heart Song Inspirations, our challenge is scallops and/or paper piercing.  I chose to use my new MFT dies to be creative with this theme.  I used scalloped clouds and scalloped background paper. 

Details:
Paper by K&Co
Image by Heart Song Designs
Sentiment by Stampin Up
MFT Grass, Sun, and Clouds dies

Lasting Memories 44

This week at Lasting Memories, our challenge is to recycle something.  I thought long and hard on this one.  I remembered some card fronts that I had cut out and saved from cards I received at my wedding.  One looked very similar to my mother's dress.  The card came with a pink background.  I cut it apart and gave it a purple background.  I used it on a layout of my mom doing my bustle. 

Details:
Recolletions Paper
Cricut Gypsy Font
Jolees Lace Embellishments
K&Co Sticker & Photo Frame

Another Father's Day Card

It just occurred to me that I never posted this card that I made for Father's Day.

Inside:

Details:
Paper by American Crafts
For Father stamp set by Stampin Up
Sentiment from Plane & Simple set by Stampin Up
MS Circle Cutter

Craft Us Crazy 11

This fortnight at Craft Us Crazy, our challenge is red, white, and blue.  I had some photos from last Fourth of July that I was really excited to scrap. 

My husband's best friend has the cutest daughter, Alana.  She turned 1 on July 3rd.  We went to the baby parade that morning, then we went to her birthday party.

Left: 

Right: 

Details:
Paper, stickers, and letters from Dollar Bin at Target
Cricut (sorry, I don't remember which cart)

New Releases at Heart Song Designs

Here's some new releases from Heart Song Designs this week:

Poppies:

Soapwart:

Peacock:

They're only $2.50 at Heart Song Designs, so hop on over and pick them up!

Tuesday Throwdown #54

Happy Tuesday! This week at Tuesday Throwdown, our challenge is to create a masculine card.  I chose the "Driftin' Denton" image from Dude Time Doodles. 

Details:
Image by Dude Time Doodles
Sentiment by Stampin' Up
Paper by Robin's Nest
Buttons from Stash

Heart Song Inspirations 3

This week at Heart Song Inspirations, our challenge is to use flowers. They can be in the stamped image, the designer papers, paper flowers, etc. 

I just bought a few sets of Nestabilities, so this gave me the perfect opportunity to try them out.  

 

Details:
Image - HSD Water Lily
Sentiment by Stampin Up
Paper by DCWV
Diamond Nestabilities
Ribbon & brads from stash

Lasting Memories 43

This week at Lasting Memories, we have an inspiration challenge.  Here is the photo:

I don't have any father's day photos to scrap, but I chose to use the colors brown, green, blue, and yellow which I pulled from the inspiration.

This layout is from the day we bought our house.  We were SO excited!  And yes, I HAD to make the title rhyme, LOL.

Details:
Paper by American Crafts & Miss Elizabeth's
House sticker by Jolees
Home rhinestones by Mary Engelbreight
Cricut Sentimentals (I think) - key & lock
Lyrical Letters

A Crossword Father's Day Card

I always want to do something extra special for my dad on father's day.  He's such a unique person.  He's a police officer.  He loves cars, and can tell you the year, make, and model of anything that drives past.  He loves animals of ALL kinds.  Growing up, we had SO many pets!  Cats, rabbits, hampsters, a ferret, hedgehogs, turtles, snakes, alligators, lizards, you name it.  He also LOVES crossword puzzles.

Since I usually give him cards with reptiles on them, I decided to make him a crossword card this year.  I googled crossword puzzles and counted out the squares until I found one where I could fit "Happy Father's Day" in it. 

Details:
SU Define Your Life Stamps
Studio G "Dad" sentiment
Ribbon & twine from stash
SU Oval Punches

Tuesday Throwdown Anniversary Celebration -- Day 3

Today is day three of our blog hop at Tuesday Throwdown. Our Sponsor today is Heart Song Digis.  Leah has lots of wonderful images to choose from.

Details:
Image by Heart Song Designs
Paper by DCWV
Sentiment by Stampin Up
Oval punch by Stampin Up
Adhesive Rhinestones
Ribbon from stash

 Don't forget, there's two of us hosting today!  You will need to comment on both of our posts in order to be entered to win images from Heart Song Designs.  So make sure you also stop by Davi's Blog to see her gorgeous creation! 

Better late than never... Lasting Memories 42

Ok, I'm a few days late with this challenge.   Last was a busy week, since it was the last week of school and therefore my last week of work before summer vacation.  My husband is away for his two weeks at the National Guard.  I had a Stampin' Up party at my house on Saturday, so I was cleaning all week in preparation.  Saturday evening after the party, I found out that my great aunt passed away from a massive stroke.  Needless to say, with all of this going on, I didn't find time to create my layout. 

Here's the cards we made at my Stampin' Up party.  Claire was our lovely demonstrator. The party was a huge success and I received LOTS of free products (and I purchased stuff on top of that).  I can't wait to play with all my new stuff!

And now onto my Lasting Memories DT project.  Our challenge is to create a background using punches.  I have tons of border punches, but not many shape punches.  I realized that I had TONS of Christmas punches that would work well together, so this is what I came up with. 

Close up of the punches (all by Martha Stewart): 

Details:
Paper by K&Co
Martha Stewart Punches: Gingerbread, Stars, Holly, Ornaments, Snowflake, Trees, Fir Branch, Presents, and Joy
K&Co "Deck the Halls" chipboard
Cricut Christmas Noel Cart

Tuesday Throwdown #53 - ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

HAPPY TUESDAY! It's a very special day at Tuesday Throwdown!  We are celebrating our first anniversary!  WOW, time has flown by!

Over the next several days our DT will be giving away a prize on their blog so make sure to hop on over to enter and win some fun prizes. 

The blog hop starts on the Tuesday Throwdown blog. Make sure to visit each DT member listed on each day to enter and win some stamps.

Tuesday: Tuesday Throwdown blog

Wednesday: Ceal Pritchett

Thursday: Davi Reid

                           Lauren Mullarkey (me)

Friday: Leah Cornelius

Saturday: Kim Sherrod

Sunday: Emily Keaton

                    DeeDee Anderson

All winners will be announced on the Tuesday Throwdown blog Tuesday, June 21st.

Our challenge this week is to make a card using any 3 previous Tuesday Throwdown challenges.  The entire past challenge list is on the Tuesday Throwdown blog.

I chose to use these challenges:
stitching
three elements
florals

My card photographed darker than it is in person. 

Details:
Image by Paper Pretties
Paper by DCWV
Recollections Sunflowers
White Gelly Roll Pen
Marvy Markers
SU Oval & Scalloped Oval Punches

Heart Song Inspirations

This week, our challenge at Heart Song Inspirations is buttons, bling & bows, and/or a sketch. I chose to go with buttons, bling, & bows.

 

Details:

Paper by DCWV
Stamp by Heart Song Designs
SU Scalloped Oval & Oval Punches
Nestabilities Ovals
Ribbon & Buttons from stash
Marvy Markers

Craft Us Crazy 10

This fortnight, our challenge at Craft Us Crazy is father's day and/or masculine. I chose to make another card with Stampin' Up's The Open Sea.  I'm really loving it, plus my father in law and grandfather in law were in the Navy, so it works perfectly. 

Details:
SU The Open Sea (Sentiment from Plane and Simple)
SU Oval Punches
Paper by DCWV