Enjoy the Adventure!

The Life's Adventure hostess stamp set has some really fun images to play around with and I decided to mix it with some Sweet Taffy designer series paper (possibly my favorite collection in the Catalog/Idea Book).

 



 

There is nothing too complicated about the card, just some bright colors and a fun little arrow from the What's Up punch.

 

Supplies:

Life's Adventure

Tempting Turquoise ink

Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, Tempting Turquoise card stock

Sweet Taffy dsp

What's up punch

 

Celebrate

On page 13 of the Catalog and Idea Book there is a very versatile stamp set called Fabulous Four and I have chosen it for my card today.  The background of Pear Pizzazz is randomly stamped with one of the sentiments and a stamp from the August Paper Pumpkin kit. 

 

 

On the corners I used some Typeset specialty paper and added the main sentiment to middle matted with Marina Mist card stock.

 

Supplies:

Fabulous Four

Pear Pizzazz and Blackberry Bliss ink

Pear Pizzazz, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla and Blackberry Bliss card stock

Typeset specialty paper

Venetian crochet trim ribbon

vintage trinkets

Paper Pumpkin (August '14)

 

Simple Hello

 

Sometimes simple is great and I really like the way this simple card took shape.  The idea comes from a sample in our demonstrator magazine that came this month (so many great ideas in those!!).

 

I added a little baker's twine bow to the single layer card for a small accent.

 

For the hello image, I used my Blackberry Bliss marker and only inked part of the sentiment because I didn't want it to say hello fall, just hello.

 

Supplies:

For all things

Whisper White card stock

Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss and Mossy Meadow ink

Baker's twine

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Big Brothers

 

I had some fun pictures that I took while the kids weren't watching and I thought I would document them. The boys were so sweet to make sure Maddie didn't fall on the rocks while they were setting up for their picture!

 

 

My journaling is a little different than what I usually do as I followed the picture line and kind of zig zagged around them.

 

 

 

Supplies:

Blessed by God

Epic Alphabet

Smoky Slate, Lost Lagoon ink

Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, Pear Pizzazz card stock

All is Calm specialty paper

1 3/4" circle punch

What's up punch

 

 

 

Retro News

 

There always seems to be leftover scraps of designer series paper on my desk and while this paper is retired, I am sharing a sample with it anyway because you can really use whatever paper and colors you like if you choose to recreate it!  

 

I used the Retro Fresh dsp along with Big News and Something for Baby stamp sets.  A pretty quick and simple card, especially if you have the scraps already cut!

 

Supplies:

Big News

Something for Baby

Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight ink

Pool Party, Very Vanilla card stock

Retro Fresh dsp

Phase 10 Box

 

Over the summer the kids and I played a lot of games of Phase 10 and the box kind of had seen better days.  When I was looking for fun things to alter one day I picked up this box and it wasn't until I had it sitting on my desk for about a month that I opened it and discovered it would be great for holding the Phase 10 cards.

 

Before adding any papers to the box, I used my Rich Razzleberry blendabilities maker (the middle shade) and colored the wood in the places that I knew would show after I added the papers and card stock.

 

Next, I added some card stock layers and my "phase 10" using the Sweet Taffy designer series paper, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise and Rich Razzleberry card stock. 

 

Lastly, I added a couple arrows, one that is a wooden essential element which I also used the blendabilities marker on and the other is a punched piece from the What's Up punch.

 

Finally, I added some 3/4" Chevron ribbon (Pumpkin Pie) and had my new game card holder.

 

Supplies:

Metro Type alphabet, Epic Alphabet

Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie ink

Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie and Rich Razzleberry card stock

What's up punch

Wooden essentials elements

3/4" chevron ribbon

Sweet Taffy dsp

corner punch

sticky strip

Rich Razzleberry Blendabilities