CCMC395 Company Store-Inspired Birthday

Happy Leap Day, everyone!  I must say, even though February is the shortest month of the year, it feels like this month will NEVER end!  I am happy to turn the calendar to March tomorrow!

I was reading my latest Southern Living magazine and came across this ad for some bedding from The Company Store:

The colors intrigued me, and since I needed a birthday card, I decided to try to replicate the design.  In hindsight, I wish I had used Marina Mist instead of Lost Lagoon, but otherwise, I am happy with it:

The card base is Smoky Slate, and I used Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Mint Macaron, Mossy Meadow and Cameo Coral for my ink colors.  I outlined each floral image on the background with a white gel pen (and I see I missed one at the top...boo).  The stamps I used were Flower Patch, Endless Thanks and Summer Silhouettes along with a sentiment from Remembering Your Birthday, and I used the sketch from Create with Connie & Mary:

I used Cottage Greetings for the inside, stamping the flowers in Basic Black and using a blender pen and ink to color them in:

Do you ever get inspiration from pictures or people's clothing (that happens to me in church, LOL!)?  I am interested in hearing where others get their inspiration!  Thanks so much for popping by today!  And I don't think I ever shared this photo from Valentine's, when Cassidy lined up all her gifts.  "Lovey" the hedgehog was by far the favorite, almost edging out Lambie for top billing!!!

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I am so glad Arielle has a beautiful fresh palette for us today, because it has been nothing but gray and dreary here in PA!  What do you think of these:

I chose to substitute Pool Party for Cool Caribbean for my card today!



I used the Mojo Monday Sketch 340 from this week:

I used elements from Betsy Blossoms and Summer Silhouettes as well as a sentiment from Remembering your Birthday:

Such happy colors!  I hope you can play along with us this week too!  Check out all the details and sample at the ColourQ blog!

Another one of those “quiet” moments….I came in to find Cassidy emptying her bureau drawer of ALL her outfits and piling them in her little cart.  She was going shopping at Walmart:

She informed me she even had a credit card!!!

Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Betsy's Blossoms, Summer Silhouettes, Remembering Your Birthday
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Tangerine Tango, Peach Parfait (ret SU), Pool Party Patterns DP (ret)
Ink	Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango, White Craft, Peach Parfait (ret)
Accessories	Pearls, Bermuda Bay Ribbon (ret), White cord
Tools	Big Shot, Circles Framelits, White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool,  Elegant Lines EF (ret), Petite Scalloped Circle Dies (Spellbinder), Stitched Mats Dies (Lil'Inker), Dimensionals

Kraft Journal Sketch 156

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I have a masculine birthday card for you today, courtesy of The Kraft Journal’s sketch 156:

While I love Sale-a-bration and the mini catalogs, I sometimes think the sets from the regular catalog get forgotten, so I am trying to use them more often.  You see lots of the other stuff out in blogland, so hopefully you’ll see something different here!  I pulled out Soho Subway DP and Postage Due for this one:

I stamped directly onto the Soho Subway paper, grunging it up with Gorgeous Grunge, and distressing my little postage stamps a bit; I even pulled the paper layers apart so they had a lighter feel to them:

I added some burlap trim, distressed my mats, and added a little sentiment banner, and it was done!  Now it’s off to the mailbox to its receipient!

This is what I call the “bossy face”…

Ahhhh….this one is better!




My WeeInkling stamping supplies:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Thankful Tablescape Projects

Happy Thursday, everyone!  Hope you’re having a great week!  Now that my September clubs are over, I can share a couple projects we did.  One of the perks of being a SU demonstrator is earning free products!  I earned the Thankful Tablescape kit but knew I would not have a chance to use it for Thanksgiving, so I came up with some projects to “repurpose” all the goodies in the kit…and believe me, it’s a lot!  I still have some things left! 

The first project was a little goodie bag made from the napkin holders, belly bands and name banners:

We used the Halloween Happiness set, some Witches Brew washi tape and black glitter on the hexagon-punched embellishments:

It was so cool to write on the blackboard paper with the chalk marker!  The next project was a CASE from Deb Crowley (you can see it here) but again, I used papers from the Tablescape kit for all the layers except for the card base and stamped images:

This time I used the Truly Grateful set.  The linen thread even came with the kit!  Finally, I wanted to show them the Circle Card Thinlets, so we made a card using the fold going a different way, and I cut some of the stripes off the journaling cards for an embellishment, and we used the leaves from the kit to go on the circle:

The sentiments for this card were from Remembering Your Birthday:

This sample is Baja Breeze but since that’s retired, we used Marina Mist and it looked just as great!  The Tablescape set is only $19.95 and my girls were happy to see that it has lots of uses for other than your Thanksgiving table!

We had a glorious day yesterday at the Solanco (Southern Lancaster County, PA) fair!  I won’t share all the pix today, but here are a couple:

Playing in a “sandbox” full of dried corn, looking for buried treasure!

A cute little cow planter with some beautiful mums:

Some very comfy napping pigs:

And a smile after you’ve had some French fries from the Lions!

Enjoy your day!!!

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Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Popping in today with another ColourQ challenge:

I was wishing I had one of those big doily stamps, but I decided to go a different route and use a new SU set, A Round Array:

I combined it with some various DPs in the challenge colors, stamping each little element in Basic Gray and Ruby Red, then cutting out the centers and popping them up:

I also used the cool sketch from this week’s Create with Connie & Mary:

For some added interest, I embossed diagonal lines on the card front, added some washi tape, baker’s twine, ribbon and candy dots!  The sentiment is from Remembering Your Birthday.   I like that this isn’t frilly & girly…..but still a fun birthday card.  I have a few friends that might like this card!  Hope you can play with us this week—can’t wait to see what you come up with once you slap on your creative thinking cap!

Cassidy was helping Grampy spread stone with her own little pink shovel:

And when she found one that was too big, she was a big helper, and put it in the bucket of the tractor:

Thanks for stopping by!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	A Round Array, Remembering Your Birthday
Card stock & Papers	Ruby Red, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White; Fan Fair, Summer Smooches & Neutral Patterns DP
Ink	Ruby Red, Basic Gray
Accessories	Stitched Ribbon, Baker's Twine, Candy Dots, Epic Day This & That Washi Tape
Tools	1 1/4" Circle Punch, 7/8" Scallop Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Dimensionals, Diagonal Scoring Plate