Summer Fun, Remarkables Blog Hop

The topic for July's Remarkables Blog Hop is Summer Fun.  Boy, am I ready for some summer fun.  Since April, I have been focused on prepping and selling our home of 14 years, finding a 6 month rental in the neighborhood we're moving to, keeping the boys focused on finishing out the school year well, graduating my oldest son from high school, moving into said rental--doing it all ourselves, with the help of my Dad, settling into the rental, taking care of many of the changes that need to happen when you move, and trying to get things done in regards to the college that my son will be attending in the Fall!  Wow!  It's quite a lot when you list it all out like that.  I am ready for some summer fun!  And fortunately, we go on a beach vacation next week!

Crafting wise, I was a bit stumped on Summer fun at first.  So I decided to keep it simple with a few cards.  Then I thought of the bike rides we would be doing next week, and I was like, "we have a stamp for that!" This stamp is in a really cool hostess set called Life's Adventure, that you can purchase for $10 with a $150 purchase. I love all the stamps in the set, so you'll probably be seeing more from it in the future.

This card features some summery colors, Costal Cabana and Crushed Curry, and the bike is colored in with one of SU's new Blendabilities pens in Pumpkin Pie. I made a mask with two sizes of punches for the big dots, the zig zag comes from the Work of Art stamp set and it's all topped off with a bit of Washi Tape!

Card number two features the cute little sea birds from the Wetlands stamp set.  Nothing says "beach" quite like those little guys!

This card started with the birds and was inspired by two new rolls of ribbon that were sitting on my craft table.  The seam binding ribbon is so versatile.  Night of Navy and Calypso Coral are the colors.  I  wanted to fill things up a bit, so I experimented with the new Polymer stamp set called Dotty Angles.  It is pretty nice, yes?  I stamped the color off once to lighten it a bit.  I sewed the ribbons across the sponge daubered (that might be a word!) doily and added bits of ribbons and strips of sequins to the back of the greeting (see the dots there too?)  Our new fast fuse adhesive made that all possible!  Sahara Sand is the stamping base card stock.  I think this is a bit more vintage for me, it's nice to change up your style every once and a while.

Let me know what you like and if I inspired you.  For further inspiration keep clicking!

See Maria's Blog Here!

Nancy Amato - http://stampinallnight.blogspot.com/2014/07/summer-fun.html

Missy Bolinger - http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/missybolinger/blog

Tamra Davis - http://www.thecardladies.com/pinworthy-blog-tour-my-kind-of-summer-fun

Connie Deibler - http://www.conniestamps.com/2014/07/summer-fun.html 

Sherrie Eddleblute - http://goo.gl/JzEm0f

Anne Matasci - http://wp.me/pCcBw-1Gl

Audra Monk -http://thecraftyyogi.blogspot.com/2014/07/summer-fun-remarkables-blog-hop.html HERE YOU ARE!

Maria Pane -http://stampinandscrappinwithriri.blogspot.com/2014/07/summer-fun-remarkable-pinworthy-blog.html

Andi Potler - http://www.absolutekreations.com/2014/07/10/remarkable-pinworthy-blog-tour-summer-fun

Michele Reynolds - http://inspirationink.typepad.com/inspiration-ink/2014/07/summer-fun-pinworthy-blog-tour.html

Pam Staples - http://wp.me/p3p2VA-LD

Janet Wakeland  - http://wp.me/pHIQD-6FB

Thank You!

So, we are moved into our rental home, and mostly settled. And after I got most of the kitchen squared away, I arranged my craft area.  We won't talk in depth about what the bedroom looks like!

My fingers were itchy to make something so I thought I would start with thank you cards.  I am planning to send bunches of them out to thank all my wonderful yoga students for their gifts and cards.

I started with a sketch challenge to get the crafty fires burning, and made this card inspired by the Paper Craft Crew's sketch challenge (number 100, how cool is that?).

Here's the sketch:

And here's my card, the new SU in-colors are so hard to resist! So I didn't!

Then, later I was feeling like I needed to play with some blendabilities and color.  So I used this hostess set and some pinterest inspiration (the masking idea) and this cute card was born.

Then, (don't you just love when there's time and more creative ideas happen?) I got out the Everything Eleanor stamp set that I just got before we moved and this pretty card was made.

Do you have a favorite?  If so, let me know!  And if you were inspired by the sketch, there is still time to play!  Check out their info here:

http://www.papercraftcrew.com/2014/07/02/pcccs-100-card-sketch-blog-candy/

Happy crafting!

Shapes and More Shapes--Remarkable!

So shapes are the theme this month.  Therefore my cards are brought to you by squares and rectangles! See the scored lines on the cake card?  Pretty nifty!!

Our move is getting closer!  I will soon be packing my crafty stuff up for a bit.  So glad I had time to make these cards!  Happy Crafting!

Just a note, the new blendabilities markers are pretty awesome!!  Can't wait till their available for everyone to order.

So now back to life!!  My son is graduating from high school this Saturday and I begin packing in earnest on Sunday for our big move to Maryland next weekend!!  Whew!

For more inspiration check out Maria's blog and the rest of The Remarkable Bloggers!

For Maria's blog, click here!

Nancy Amato - http://stampinallnight.blogspot.com/2014/06/remarkable-stampers-pinworthy-blog-tour.html

Missy Bolinger - http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/missybolinger/blog

Tamra Davis - http://www.theCardLadies.com/pinworthy-blog-tour-cool-shapes-and-angles

Connie Diebler - http://www.conniestamps.com/2014/06/its-time-to-shape-up.html

Sherrie Eddleblute - http://goo.gl/ImF4Wg

Anne Matasci - http://wp.me/pCcBw-1EO

Audra Monk - http://thecraftyyogi.blogspot.com/2014/06/shapes-and-more-shapes-remarkable.html

Maria Pane - http://stampinandscrappinwithriri.blogspot.com/2014/06/remarkable-pinworthy-blog-tour.html

Andi Potler - http://www.absolutekreations.com/2014/06/12/remarkable-pinworthy-blog-tour-shape-it-up

Michele Reynolds - http://inspirationink.typepad.com/inspiration-ink/2014/06/shape-up-pinworthy-blog-tour.html

Pam Staples - http://wp.me/p3p2VA-KX

Janet Wakeland - http://wp.me/pHIQD-6BA

Creativity in the Midst of Turmoil

Studio before and afters!!  I am a super messy crafter!

I think I may have mentioned that we are moving to be closer to my husband's job.. if not, we are.  So things have been a bit busy and crafting (and blogging) had been on the back burner.  Things we're finally settling down a bit and my class participants we're hoping and asking for one more class before things are all packed up and we move.  So amazing as I am, I gave them TWO classes.  And it was super awesome and I am going to miss them all so much!!  I am finally starting to grow this business just a bit and now I'm moving!

Anyway, keeping things short and sweet (as I've gotta help my daughter get things packed to move her back to college for a summer research position (they're going to pay her!!)) I'll let the pictures and captions do the talking!!

Using the super awesome new in colors, this is card one, which I also used as my swap at a team meeting.  I really like it, but it was not a fave at the class.

This one was the most liked I think.  Everyone loved the Flowering Flourishes stamp set, and the bright colors.

I just want to note for the record, that this blogger thing is not working correctly!!  Super frustrating so I am just going to post the pictures!!!  My computer may actually be possesed by demons!

Hope you enjoy the card ideas and sorry about the brevity of the post, but technology is not my friend at this time!  Happy crafting!

 

Capture the Moment, Remarkables Blog Tour

Small book scrap booking is my new favorite way to keep track of my photos.  I've been through all the paths of photo keeping and I am enjoying trying to keep it simple.  My husband and I went to London this summer to celebrate our 20th anniversary.  We had a wonderful trip and I wanted to share it with family and friends. Once I had the photos and information organized, I made this scrap book in one day!!

I used some of the wonderful Stampin' Up! designer series paper, but I am super excited that Stampin' Up! has partnered with Project Life (the journaling cards I used in this book are Project Life cards).  This will make things even quicker!  And the key of course is pocket pages!  Which Stampin' Up! will also be selling in this years catalog!

Lots of excitement on my craft table!  Anyhow, here are some of the highlights of my London scrap book.  Enjoy!

For more inspiring ideas, continue on your Remarkable blog-hop!!

For Maria's blog, click here!

Here is the complete list of blog participants:

Nancy Amato    http://stampinallnight.blogspot.com/2014/05/remarkable-pinworthy-blog-tour-capture.html

 Missy Bolinger    http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/missybolinger/blog

Tamra Davis    http://wp.me/p2QFfC-le

Sherri Eddleblute     http://goo.gl/o4VA2c

Anne Matasci     http://wp.me/pCcBw-1Ds

Audra Monk  http://thecraftyyogi.blogspot.com/2014/05/capture-moment-remarkables-blog-tour.html
Maria Pane http://stampinandscrappinwithriri.blogspot.com/2014/05/got-film-remarkable-pinworthy-blog-tour_8.html

Andi Potler      http://www.absolutekreations.com/2014/05/08/remarkable-pinworthy-blog-tour-capture-the-moment

Michele Reynolds     http://inspirationink.typepad.com/inspiration-ink/2014/05/capture-the-moment-pinworthy-blog-tour.html

Pam Staples - http://wp.me/p3p2VA-Jy

Thank You for stopping by...

I've been off the radar lately.  We are planning a move to Maryland over the summer to be nearer to my husband's job.  So I've been super busy getting our house ready to put on the market.  And now the big day is here! We'll have fancy brochures next week, but with an optimistic mind to lots of "traffic" through the house this weekend, I thought I'd make some pretty little cards to leave out for people to take to remind them of our house.

I used the Create with Connie and Mary color challenge as inspiration.

Here are the cards, I did a bunch of sponging of the edges with crumb cake!

I added the words at the bottom and on the back I wrote our address. 

Here is a close up of the flowers, to give them a little depth, I used the back side of my paper piercer to put a little indent in them.

And finally, just to share here is a picture of our house taken in the Fall.  I love the house and am hoping the perfect family will come along and buy it.  Wish me luck!!

Bloomin' Wonderful, Flowers, Flowers, Flowers!

Remarkables blog tour time again!  I have one card to share with you today. Have you ever had a time where things are super busy, and your craft area is a long forgotten memory?  That's how things have been for me lately.  So just this morning I took a few minutes and made this pretty card.

It all started with the denim blue ribbon, then I was like "I'm feeling so saffron." And as the blog is about flowers, I stamped the whisper white with the trailing flowers from the thoughts and prayers stamp set. Punch out a few flowers with the itty bitty punch and tada!

Well, enjoy the rest of the hop, I'm sure that you'll get some great ideas!!

click here to go to Maria's blog.