Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Project Life® by Stampin' UP!® Convention Samples

I had the honor of being a display stamper for the Stampin' Up! Inspire Create and Share Convention 2014. I was asked to create a total of 24 samples but a selected few were posted on the boards at Convention. I plan to show all the samples that I made over the next few days.

Below are the samples created for the Project Life® by Stampin' UP!® Everyday Adventure Collection. All the supplies for each of the projects are available in the current catalog. 

You can still do traditional scrapbooking style with Project Life® by Stampin' Up!®. But I have to say that memory keeping has never been more easy with Project Life® by Stampin' UP®. Plan to see more from me!

Neither of these cards were on the scaled down sample boards at Convention but I love them sooo much! I wonder where they went? Hello???
Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!
Cindy

Be sure to check out the rest of the display samples from the following:

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Amazing Stars - Artisan WOW

Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! I am so EXCITED at this very minute! I leave in the morning for Salt Lake City and the Stampin UP Convention!!! I am going to see all my stampin friends and learn about new product and have fun and be crazy and sleep very little! I also get to see some of these fantastic Artisan Design Team members! I CAN'T WAIT!

We are moving on to our last box of Stampin' Up products for this AWESOME Artisan Design Team! We are all so sad that our term is coming to a close at the end of July. Gonna miss this so much! This box was full of NEW products that just came out in our new Annual Stampin' Up catalog!!! We hope you stay with our Artisan Design Team Blog Hop for the whole month of July! You just came from Cathy Caines and next is Connie Collins, but before you do come check out my card made the fabulous Star Framelits, sponge daubers and a new stamp set!

Some of my favorite things on this card:
This stamp set called Amazing Birthday and coloring it in with Stampin Up Markers in Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry and Bermuda Bay.
Using the end of a sponge dauber for the background circles! I used Whisper White and Bermuda Bay ink pads.
The Star Framelits with DSP from the Brights Color Collections and the Moonlight Paper Stack. 
Now go and make today ridiculously AMAZING! I plan to do just that for the next 5 days!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!

Cindy

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button! She is gonna make you CRY!!!!

Monday, July 14, 2014

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #74

This challenge brought to this week by Beth can be so fun once you find a perfect picture for it. That one picture you move and highlight has to be placed just right in the original photo. It took me while to find a photo that worked well then the rest of the page sort of fell into place. I used the downloads called When the Clock Strikes Twelve and Glimmer Kit.

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! Follow the directions on the site to upload your page and link it from your blog or MDS.net. Winners and honorable mentions are announced every week.

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 
MDS Mondays and our challenges!
Cindy 

Friday, July 11, 2014

Project Life Tough Mudder


Trying my hand at Project Life® by Stampin' UP® again! We went to the Tough Mudder Race back in April to support our group friends and watch their baby boy while they did the race. PL was perfect to scrapbook this event! I took the Everyday Adventure Kit and selected the cards that had the color theme that I was going for: Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Basic Black and Basic Gray. I used the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and the What's Up punch too! You have to have red mud splatters being in Georgia!
Page 1
Page 2

I love how they looked all clean on page 1 at top left and how they finished looking 
on Page 2 on top right. Muddy and very very sore! I give my friends high praise for finishing the race! It was brutal!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you to scrap your next event 
with Project Life®by Stampin Up®!
Cindy

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Summer Smooches Fun - MDS Blog Hop

WELCOME TO THE MDS BLOG HOP!
A bunch of us have joined together to share our passion for digital designing with Stampin' UP's My Digital Studio.  These ladies are SERIOUSLY talented in MDS and I am thrilled to be on this Blog Hop with them! You will find us blog hopping on the 2nd and 4th THURSDAYS of each month! We will have a "theme" selected on the first hop and then a "What we are doing in MDS" on the second hop. This week we are celebrating some good SUMMER FUN!
Some MDS techniques I used on this page:
*I stuck with just ONE download on this page called "Summer Smooches" for nearly EVERYTHING but the Taffeta Ribbons.
*To get the "sweeeeeeeet" to look more bold: I copied it once and then paste in place then using my cursor moved it over one space to the left. Instant BOLD letters!
*I added another orange tone dotted circle and recolored it to Melon Mambo.
*I also added a small circle punch in Melon Mambo to the small circles in a row from the embellishment "banner 18" off the Summer Smooches download.
* The font on journaling is called Pupcat.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!
 Cindy 
Click on the button to move on to see what Cori made!

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Flower Patch Blooming - Artisan WOW

Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! We are moving on to our last box of Stampin' Up products for this AWESOME Artisan Design Team! We are all so sad that our term is coming to a close at the end of July. Gonna miss this....but back to the post.
This box was full of NEW products that just came out in our new Annual Stampin' Up catalog!!! We hope you stay with our Artisan Design Team Blog Hop for the whole month of July! You just came from Cathy Caines and next is Connie Collins, but before you do come check out my card made with the fantastic and very popular photopolymer stamp set called Flower Patch.


Some of my favorite things on this card:
*The fact that the Flower Patch stamp set #134207 has matching Flower Fair Framelits #134207. All but the Pool Party flowers that I had to hand cut each one! Fancy!
*The background paper is from the designer series paper stack called Moonlight #133701
*Designer WASHI TAPE!!! - I used a combination of both the NEW Sweet Sadie #133690 and Beach House #133689.
*Crushed Curry Embossing powder on the sentiment.
*Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Set in Basic Gray for some splatter effect.
*The color combo - Crushed Curry, Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral and Pool Party with Basic Gray, Crumb Cake and Whisper White.
*Using a Crumb Cake envelope and making an envelope liner with Crushed Curry diagonal stripes from the Flowerpot  Designer Series Paper #133698.


I made this card with my sister-in-law in mind...She turns the big 4-0 today! She is BLOOMING into a blessed prime time in her life. Happy Birthday Lois! She is a really great aunt, mom, friend and wife and I love her joy and enthusiasm for everything she does!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!
Cindy

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button!

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Large Polka Dot Card - Artisan WOW

Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! We are moving on to our last box of Stampin' Up products for this AWESOME Artisan Design Team! It has been so amazing to work together as a team for Stampin' Up!!!  I am extremely blessed beyond measure that I can call each of this fabulous ladies...my friends and ADT sisters for life!
This box was full of NEW products that just came out in our new Annual Stampin' Up catalog!!! We hope you stay with our Artisan Design Team Blog Hop for the whole month of July! You just came from Cathy Caines and next is Connie Collins, but before you do come check out my Large Polka Dot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder technique card featuring the Flowerpot Designer Series Paper and holy smokes...a tutorial!!!  All in thanks to Pinterest and Monika's downline meeting that I discovered this awesome look!
Some other new products used on this card:
Sweetheart Punch
What's Up punch
Tangerine Tango Baker's Twine
Basics Hodgepodge Clips




Want to see what it looks like if you did the other side of the folder?
A whole different look so I created a card to show it off...
Some other NEW products used on this card:
Sweetheart Punch
Basics Hodgepodge Clips
1/4" Cotton Ribbon in Whisper White ( I used the Lost Lagoon marker brush tip to make it looked striped!)

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!
Cindy

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button!