Thanks SO much!

OH. MY. GOSH! Do you ever create a card and think to yourself "This is the most stinkin' cute thing I have EVER created!"

For me, today's card is it! (at least for the moment...till I create something else - LOL!) I saw something similar on Pinterest and when I saw the sketch for this week, I just knew I had to recreate it! :)

Retro Tag

This week at Retro Sketches, the sketch is actually a tag! I don't make that many tags (unless you count the insanity at Christmas), so I thought I'd give it a shot. You could absolutely put this onto a card as the focal point too.

Check it out:

It's still Crumb Cake/Real Red/Coastal Cabana week and I just love the way this tag turned out! You won't want to give it to just anybody, of course, with all those pearls on there...you have to be sure all your hard work will be appreciated!

I started off with Crumb Cake Base (2" wide) which I punched with the Scalloped Tag Topper. Then I added layers of Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper and stamped some images from Lacy and Lovely which I hand cut before adding to the tag.

The sentiment from Lots of Thanks was stamped in Real Red Ink onto Whisper White Cardstock and notched before being added as the top layer.

What do you think?

STAMPS: Lacy and Lovely, Lots of Thanks
INK: Real Red, Crumb Cake, Coastal Cabana
PAPERS: Whisper White and Crumb Cake Cardstock; Fresh Prints DSP
ACCESSORIES: Scalloped Tag Topper, Ribbon, Marker, Basic Pearls, Stampin' Dimensionals

Happy Stampin'!

Utah meets Fresh!

If you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you know how much Summer Starfruit is NOT one of my favourite colours. In fact, yes, I'm STILL working on the original pack of paper that I ordered back in May of 2012. There's not much of it left (thank goodness!) and it retires at the end of May (thank goodness again!).

Knowing all of that, you can just imagine my dismay when I saw this:

Yep! Smack in the middle...Summer Starfruit. *sigh*

I wasn't entirely sure how I was going to combine those three colours, so I thought and played...and came up with this:

The base is Summer Starfruit (my last ½ sheet - now I just have ¼ sheets and scraps left) and then I followed the Freshly Made Sketch for the next layer (Very Vanilla and Summer Starfruit DSP).

My nod to Pool Party is the layer behind the sentiment as well as the sentiment itself. I added just a touch of Crisp Cantaloupe by using the bakers twine that's in the Sale-A-Bration brochure (which starts in just a few short days!!). The stamped, adhesive cork flower comes in the kit with the bakers twine (how cool is THAT?)

What do you think?

STAMPS: Lots of Thanks

INK: Pool Party

PAPERS: Very Vanilla, Pool Party and Summer Starfruit Cardstock; Soho Subway DSP

ACCESSORIES: Baker Twine, Adhesive Cork, Stampin' Dimenstionals

Happy Stampin'!