Monthly Memories Calypso Cards

Friday night my Monthly Memories Scrapbooking club is finally getting together in person again. I'm so excited to be back in a functional studio space! We scrap, we have dinner, we laugh - it's just so much fun!

The scrappers have chosen either Magical or Calypso for their projects. It's too late to order those kits, but I wanted to share what we did with the Calypso card designs. If you've been hanging around here you've noticed I'm in LOVE with this True Love stamp set. The sentiment on this card came from me second favorite stamp set right now, Sweet Birthday. 

My Calypso kit gals will also be making some Flamingo cards, but instead of using the retried Flamingo stamp set we will be using the pre-printed PML cards that came with the Calypso kit.

Using the cards made these sweet handmade cards come together in a snap!

Here's a little sneak peek of our October Kit, Jeepers Creepers. I'll be posting all the details on the Monthly Memories Jeepers Creepers kit this weekend and how you can join in on the Monthly Memories fun! 

Swan Lake With Love Card

As I sat down to make a new card for this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, I really wanted to make a bunch of new flowers and a fabulously lumpy 3-D card. Then I pondered mailing the card...

...aaaaand I decided for those flowers in the sketch I really needed to break out my new Swan Lake papers. and do some fussy cutting instead. There are so many cute florals tucked into this paper suite and I love the contrast of the brighter colors against the black backgrounds.

I added some stamped pieces from Season of Magic, which is probably supposed to be a Christmas stamp set, but hey, man, it's my card and I'll stamp what I want to. I love the sketchy look of the teensy florals and leaves in that set. I handcut the larger leaves from one of the Swan Lake patterns before tucking them under that big poppy sunflower. Then I topped the sunflower and most of the leaves with some Shimmer Pen action.  It picked up the lights funny in the pictures, but I just love a subtle shimmery... well, anything, really. Bring on the shimmer!

I hope you'll pop over to Atlantic Hearts and play along this week! I'm also linking up to the Heart 2 Heart Challenge National Stamping Month linky, celebrating all things stamp. #CREATEKINDNESS all month long! 

Hello Cupcake Watercolor Card

Remember my Instagram posts about messing around with watercolors? And then what I did with those messy panels I was making? Here's a sweet finish to that project!

Working from the MUSE challenge this week, I took those cupcake toppers and built this card using the placement as a sketch and the watercolored heart as my inspirations. I used the new Jeepers Creepers papers because I wanted a cheerful birthday feel. I was so excited to get my new Thin Cuts Hello and Thanks set, so I broke that out and paired it with just the Cupcake word from Sweet Birthday.  

I stamped the cuppie base onto White Daisy CS and gave it a quick color with a couple Shin Han markers before topping off the dots with some shimmer pen. I forgot to grab a picture but I added a #createkindness sentiment on the inside that says "You are SPECIAL to Me".  I think my favorite part are the little pink cuppie cheeks!

Kindness Changes Everything Card

This month CTMH has a sweet special card kit called Create Kindness to celebrate National Stamping Month. I love all 8 of the thoughtful stamp images, but this "Kindness changes everything" sentiment is my absolute favorite. Choosing kindness is something I talk about with my boys all the time, so you could say that this one is very close to my mommy heart.

I had painted some small panels of watercolor last week, just messing around with my waterbrush and some thick cream colored watercolor paper. Once that was dry I trimmed the panels to size and stamped over the watercolor with the balloon boy from True Love. I paper pieced the balloons with a bit of Oh Deer paper. Then I set those aside to ponder what to do with them. When I saw this week's CAS(E) this Sketch challenge, I knew they would be perfect!

I tore the bottom edge of a colonial white panel and inked the edges with black  ink. I added the watercolor panel to the top, and stamped the sentiment at the bottom in Black ink. I stamped it again onto a scrap of colonial White CS and trimmed out the "KINDNESS" word. I layered this over two banners with thin foam tape, overlapping the bottom of the watercolor panel. I added a scattering of gold star sequins and I painted the banners and balloons with shimmer pen.

You can see all the sweet stamps that are part of this Choose Kindness special here. I'm happy to share that the stamps are available as part of a kit or as individual images. You can use the hashtag #createkindness to follow along with the acts of kindness or post some kindness of your very own. Hugs to you, Stampin' Peeps!

Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop

Welcome to the Scrapping Our Stash monthly blog hop! In this hop you'll find creative project made entirely from items just hanging out in our stash of crafty goodies. You may be arriving here from CHRISTINE'S BLOG. Below this post you'll find a list of all the hoppers for this month.

This page for my Gilmore Girls My Crush Swap group may be one of my favorite things I've made this summer. Each flower was crafted from individual flowers cut on the Cricut. We send our Gilmore Girls crush books from person to person,c rafting pages for all the fans in our swap group! 

I topped each flower with a gold sequin and then filled the sequins with layers of orange glitter gel. It's so sparkly! Next up on the hop is MAJKEN'S BLOG. Happy hopping!

Wendy @ Stamping Rules - YOU ARE HERE! 

Majken

Alison

Wendi

Laura

Christine