Hi Everyone! Just a quick post today to share a birthday card I made for my husband's grandfather last month (he's not doing well, and very much in our thoughts today, so seemed like an appropriate time to share this card). I made it using the Circle Thinlets to shape the card and stamps from fabulous Sky is the Limit set, only available for about a week and a half!
The larger clouds and "let us celebrate" are from the Balloon Celebrations stamp set.
There's been a whole lot of baseball around here lately. Both of my boys just finished their regular seasons playing Little League ball this weekend (though one of them is preparing for more baseball post-season and this summer! He just can't get enough). We've been busy with end of season games and parties. So, now that things are starting to calm down a bit from that, I thought it would be fun to share some of the stamping I did for that! (I do have new catalog creations to share with you, too . . . hopefully will be back tomorrow with some of those!)
First up are cards I created for my husband to give as thank you notes to his assistant coaches and team mom for our youngest son's team, the Cardinals. They are made out of Real Red Card Stock, die cut with the Circle Card Thinlits:
The stamps are from retired sets -- the cardinal is from Beauty of the Season, the baseball and flourish behind it are from Great Sport, and the other elements are from Sporting and Extreme Elements.
Our other son played on the Blue Jays this year, and I got creative with the cardinal stamp and transformed it into a blue jay with some help from my Blendabilities. Here's how the thank you cards for his coaches turned out:
The card base is Pacific Point, and I stenciled it with the Stars Decorative Mask and Pacific Point ink. The "Thanks" is from the April 2015 Paper Pumpkin kit's stamps. I created the banners with the new Banner Triple Punch.
I also created some coordinating tissue paper to go in the bags with the cards and gifts for the coaches:
Bloom with Hope has been one of my favorite stamp sets from the 2014-15 Annual Catalog, so I'm sad to see it retiring (though, since it is a hostess set, I knew it was coming!). Anyway, one of the first cards I made with it was this flip card, and I wanted to (finally) share it with you!!! Here it is:
This was inspired by the white embossing on the boxed note card sample on page 240 of the Catalog. I decided to change the color to Lost Lagoon and make my card a flip card using the awesome Circle Thinlits (not retiring!). The butterfly is from the Papillon Potpourri set (also not retiring!), stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black, colored with Blendabilities, and cut with the Elegant Butterfly Punch.
If you'd like to check out the other retiring items, you can see the lists here or in my online store here. My Digital Studio is also retiring, and you can see the list of everything going away along with that here. Retiring products are only available until June 2nd, or while supplies last (and some items have already sold out -- particularly card stocks and ink refills).
Stampin' Up! has also created a video with their favorite retiring products, which you can see here:
Hi! Happy Saturday! It has been a day o' soccer here . . . both my boys had games and team photos today! Nice to be able to spend time with friends during that, though.
Anyway, busy prepping for my open house tomorrow, but wanted to be sure to pop in and share a couple cards. These were from my Catalog Favorites class this summer -- here is the card we made in class, which is "CASED" from the sample on the bottom of page 155 of the 2014-15 Annual Catalog. I decided to create a card instead of a journal, use Crumb Cake instead of Kraft card stock, add some layers, and use my die cut "thx" from the Circle Card Thinlits for the greeting:
I also created this alternate sample, changing up the color scheme:
This is a Lost Lagoon card base. Flowers are stamped in Blackberry Bliss, a happy accident of So Saffron combined with stamped off Blackberry Bliss, and Crisp Cantaloupe with Calypso Coral.
Which do you like best? Please leave me a comment below to let me know -- always enjoy hearing from you!
