Global Design Project #545 - Color Challenge

Spring is HERE! Aren’t these colors just the most fun??? This week the GDP Crew is working with this color challenge - welcome to GDP #545~

Check out the challenge here - Global Design Project if you’d like to play along.

Ohmygosh! I FINALLY got to make some daffodils using the Easter Basket Dies … I want to make them in every color possible!! (To be honest, I have about a dozen more I made just like these that I can use on future creations … I just couldn’t stop!).

The embossed layer was created using the Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder, which I highlighted using a white gel pen.

Stamps: Sweet Words and Labels

Paper: Basic White, Bubble Bath, Strawberry Slush, Granny Apple Green

Ink: Bubble Bath, Versamark; Stampin’ Blends - Melon Mambo, White Gel Pen

Accessories: Sweet Words and Labels Dies, Easter Basket Dies, 3D Eyelet Embossing Folder, Old Olive Baker’s Twine

What do these colors make you think of? What kind of inspiration do you feel from them? I think they are great!

We’d love to have you play along!! You can check us out here on Instagram … you’re gonna LOVE what you see!!

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Stampin’ Fancy Friday - In Color Challenge

The Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge this month is all about In Colors. Sooooo many choices … how is one to choose???

When I made this card last month the Spring Corners Dies and Stamps were still available. Alas, as time has passed they have sold out!

I love the little sunshine, for which I used both Timid Tiger and Darling Duckling (just the names alone make me smile!). They are both part of the 2025-2027 In Colors family. I sponged a little Darling Duckling ink onto the sun’s rays and onto the little flowers in the corners of the Lemon Lolly panel.

I once again used some Painterly Pairs DSP … every single sheet of it is gorgeous!

I used a needle to thread some White Baker’s Twine through the strip of DSP. I actually did an accordion fold on that strip of paper but it didn’t come through in the photo that way!

Stamps: Spring Corners

Paper: Basic White, Lemon Lolly, Darling Duckling, Timid Tiger, Painterly Pears DSP

Ink: Darling Duckling, Versamark

Accessories: Spring Corners Dies, 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls, White Baker’s Twine, White Embossing Powder

Check out all the fun things created by the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge Team on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/stampinfancyfriday/!!!

Sunshine Vibes

This is one of those cards that looked much better in my mind than the final product. I don’t dislike this card, I just expected to like it more!

The Sunshine Vibes Dies are really great! I was trying to use colors that were NOT in the accompanying Boho Vibes DSP. I have seen a lot of GREAT cards made with that paper, but I wanted to do something that I hadn’t seen.

This is my version of a muted, beachy-vibe rainbow!

I particularly love how each of the “stripes” from the Sunshine Vibes dies has its own look. 

Using the Dotted Circles 3D Embossing Folder seemed like the perfect choice to compliment the rainbow. This card was 

Stamps: Sunshine Vibes

Paper: Basic White, Strawberry Slush, Pretty in Pink, Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly, Coastal Cabana, Pool Party, Bubble Bath

Ink: Coastal Cabana

Accessories: Sunshine Vibes Dies, Spotlight On Nature Dies, Dotted Circles 3D Embossing Folder, Muted Palette Dots

I feel like you can never go wrong with a rainbow. They always cheer me up!

Monday Montage - Perfectly Pairs

It’s Monday so that can only mean one thing … Monday Montage! Once again, the girls are bringing the fire!!

Every. Single. Element. I mean it! Every single product in the Perfectly Pairs Suite is, well … PERFECT!

The DSP - Painterly Pears - is GORRRRRGEOUS!!! Each and every sheet is a work of art!

The dies are awesome (don’t ya love the little crosshatch bit??)! The embellishments are beautiful! The ribbon … which I didn’t end up using on this particular card … is beautiful!!

To stamp the pears, I used Darling Duckling and Mellow Moss. I stamped first with the Darling Duckling and then used a sponge dauber tapped in Mellow Moss to add dimension. The leaves were colored with Mellow Moss Stampin’ Blends and Soft Suede.

I kinda like to layer … a LOT! I used the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder for the Basic White layer. I also cut a frame using the Sentimental Framing Dies. 

I also put criss-cross strips of the lovely DSP behind the frame but on top of the Basic White layer. Sigh … I love these elements soooo much!

Stamps: Perfectly Pairs

Paper: Basic White, Darling Duckling, Painterly Pears DSP

Ink: Soft Sea, Darling Duckling, Mossy Meadow; Stampin’ Blends - Mossy Meadow, Pecan Pie

Accessories: Perfectly Pairs Dies, Sentimental Framing Dies, Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder, Low Profile Sparkle Dots

This one was super fun to put together! What’s your new favorite product??

Our Monday Montage Hop has gone exclusively to Instagram! You can check it out by finding me @tinkermom85. From there you will be able to find all of my Monday Montage Friends, too!

Monday Montage - Cutest Onesie!

It’s MONDAY! Which means we are doing another Monday Montage Hop! Hooray! I am forever inspired and enabled by my fellow Monday Montagers. They are all soooo talented … and lovely humans as well!

I have not made a “baby” card in what feels like forever! Since Bree also had this Cutest Onesie Bundle at her house, I got to play with it! (We stamped a LOT while I was there!)

I had visions of multi colors of these cute little onesies. I stole the Daffodil Delight gingham paper from the Floral Delight DSP (cute, cute!). The Pool Party gingham is from Everyday Happiness DSP. Since I wanted to lighten the tone on it a bit, I stamped the onesie outline with Black Memento Ink on some vellum (which, sadly, SU doesn’t carry any more!) and then layered it on top of the Everyday Happiness onesie I had cut with the Cutest Onesie Dies.

And that frame!! Gotta love it! I snatched that die out of the Storybook Friends Dies … it looks adorable with the onesie framed in it!

You can see up close that I used the 3D Eyelet Embossing Folder in the background … another new favorite in my personal collection.

I used my Stampin’ Blends to color the bands around the arms and legs and also the little snaps. Too-too fun!

Stamps: Cutest Onesie

Paper: Basic White, Everyday Happiness DSP, Floral Delight DSP

Ink: Black Memento, Pool Party

Accessories: Cutest Onesie Dies, Storybook Friends Dies, 3D Eyelet Embossing Folder, 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls

I shall be heading back into my craft room to make another attempt to dig myself out! Sheesh! It’s an ongoing battle! You know what they say … you only need about a 6”x6” square of blank surface to make a card, right???

Our Monday Montage Hop has gone exclusively to Instagram! You can check it out by finding me @tinkermom85. From there you will be able to find all of my Monday Montage Friends, too!

Stampin’ Fancy Friday - Friends Forever

This month for the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge we are going back to scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is where my papercrafting journey began oh-so-many moons ago! This page was so much fun as it features so many of my fellow Fancy Friday Friends when we were at a recent Stampin’ Up OnStage event in Raleigh, North Carolina.

This page was alllll about dies!

I used flowers from Impressions Abloom to accent each of the photos. I used the Perennial Postage Dies to create a stacked “border” of sorts to the right of the photos using the Turtle-y Cute DSP and a combo of Flirty Flamingo and Basic Black.

For the lettering I used the Alphabet AlaMode Dies. They work so well with everything!

I also used a couple of dies from the Sentimental Frames Dies to highlight the letters and the little journaling panel.

Stamps: None!

Paper: Basic White, Basic Black, Flirty Flamingo, Strawberry Slush, Darling Duckling, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lolly, Turtle-y Cute DSP

Ink: None!

Accessories: Impressions Abloom Dies, Alphabet Ala Mode Dies, Sentimental Frames Dies, Strawberry Slush and Pretty in Pink Gems

Check out all the fun things created by the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge Team on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/stampinfancyfriday/!!!

Monday Montage - Sunrise Sailing

Who doesn’t love to play with new toys??!!? I was able to preorder a number of things that will be featured in the upcoming 2025-2025 Stampin’ Up Annual Catalog. I think I’m in LOVE!

Using both the positive and negative pieces I cut using the Everyday Arches Dies to create two fun cards. The light blue cardstock is actually one of the new upcoming In Colors … it’s called Cloud Cover and it’s so pretty! The ink pads had a formula problem so I used Balmy Blue to make the stripes on the sailboats sails. 

The embossing folder in the Sunrise Sailing Bundle is sooooo lovely … there’s actually a sailboat in the middle of it that you can’t see because I used a stamped image instead. Can’t wait to play with it!

Stamps: Sunrise Sailing

Paper:  Basic White, Secret Sea, Smoky Slate, Cloud Cover

Ink: Secret Sea, Balmy Blue; Stampin’ Blends - Night of Navy

Accessories: Sunrise Sailing Dies, Everyday Arches Dies, Sunrise Sailing 3D Embossing Folder, 2025-2027 In Color Flat Dots

The dimension of the arches together with the embossing folder is sooooo good!

I also sponged the bottom edges of the clouds with my new FAVORITE color coming with the 2025-2027 In Colors … it’s called Secret Sea. It’s a beautiful, deep rich dark blue color.

I also used my Night of Navy Stampin’ Blends to ‘flick” some ink on the backgrounds of both cards … I love the affect, don’t you!

Our Monday Montage Hop has gone exclusively to Instagram! You can check it out by finding me @tinkermom85. From there you will be able to find all of my Monday Montage Friends, too!

TGIF Challenge #517

Last week spending time with my Stampin’ Up friends was A-MAZ-ING!! They are truly some of the best people I know and I am very blessed to have so many dear friends! I still feel like I’m on overdrive, but after this weekend things should get a little more stable!

We all got to bring home LOTS of fun and pretty new goodies that will be coming out in the 2025-2026 Annual Catalog. Plus, I came home and ordered even MORE things … so I have a lot to play with!

A-hem … the dies from the Impressions Abloom Bundle are just incredible! This week for the TGIF Challenge hop we are doing “bold backgrounds” … could I have GONE any bolder??? (I said that it my best “Chandler” voice … iykyk!)! I incorporated a couple of the new In Colors for 2025-2027 as well … Darling Ducking (the darker yellow) and a welcome back to Strawberry Slush (the darker pink!)! 

I’m doing a happy dance!!

Stamps: Notes & Totes

Paper:  Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Darling Duckling, Lemon Lolly, Strawberry Slush, Flirty Flamiingo

Ink: Strawberry Slush

Accessories: Impressions Abloom Dies, Strawberry Slush and Pretty in Pink Gems, White Baker’s Twine

See what I mean??? The little frame die (also from Impressions Abloom … I used every single die in that set on this!)! is my new favorite thing!

Check back in the next few days … I have more things to share from the new catalog! Squuuueeee!!

We’d love to have you play along!! You can check us out our blog HERE and Instagram … lots of great inspiration from the rest of the TGIF Crew!