Crafty Carrot Co Blog Hop with Suite Sentiments

Welcome to The Crafty Carrot Collective Blog Hop! A selection of former Stampin' UP! Artisans from all over the world got together to form this interactive rewards program where you can learn and participate with us each month! Today we are bringing you some sneak peaks into what our February month in action will bring in advance so you can purchase the stamp set Suite Sentiments knowing you are going to get plenty of ideas and have fun creating with all of us!

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This stamp set has got to one of the most versatile stamp sets I have ever created with! The ladies will be sharing many ideas with this stamp set on this hop!

With Valentine's coming up in just a few weeks, I focused on using the "Love is in the Air Mail" greeting. Using the Tasty Treats Specialty DSP and the Peekaboo Peach Ruffled Ribbon from our optional shopping supply list, I made this cute little notecard. Extras used are the Enamel Shapes Hearts and Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies.

The next card and gift bag, I created for a Valentine's gift for my guy. The "Best Guy Ever" image is perfect for birthday and Father's Day so why not Valentine's, right?

Using more of the Tasty Treats Specialty DSP, Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies, Sweet and Sassy Framelits Dies and Whisper White Baker's Twine.

Gift bag is super easy to make with all the same products I used. 

Think I will get some pistachios (my guy's favorite) and fill this Petite Cafe Gift Bag full. 

Here is how our program works... during the month of January you purchase the Suite Sentiments stamp set (or product of equal or greater value) from a participating Crafty Carrot Collective demonstrator using the host code.  Then, in February, you will receive the program completely FREE!

Now we know that you are going to want a FREE Sale-a-bration item when you are shopping!  After all, it is Stampin' Up!'s most wonderful time of the year.  With every $50 you spend in Stampin' Up! merchandise, you will receive a free product of your choice.  So we have offered a few extra shopping suggestions - optional products that you could add to your shopping cart to get that exclusive product of your choice.  For more details find the full Sale-a-bration flyer  HERE.

Suite Sentiments Stamp Set,  Tasty Treats Designer Series Paper, Peekaboo Peach Ruffled Ribbon, Sprinkles Embellishments, Tasty Trucks Stamp Set (Sale-a-bration exclusive) are on our shopping list so you can make all the projects and more with us! This program brings video tutorials and written instructions into your own home so you can stamp in your own time. What is not to love about that?

Live in USA?  Use this host code to qualify.

If you live outside of USA, please shop with one of my Crafty Carrot team members: 

Still not sure this program is for you?  Throughout this month we have been offering a taste of this wonderful program for FREE for all to enjoy.  This teaser program features the Weather Together stamp set.  Like us on Facebook HERE to access it today.

Inspire. Create. Share. That's what I love to do.

Cindy

The uber talented Jennifer Frost over in Australia is next! Hop on over there and say hello!

Love is in the Air with the Creation Station Blog Hop

 I am back this month with the Creation Station Design Blog Hop! I was beyond thrilled to join this group of talented women again after a little needed holiday break. We plan to inspire you each month with Stampin' UP! creative top of the line projects with a theme from all around the globe! We hope that you hop thru each blog and leave comments as we all love to hear praise about our creations!

This month our theme was "Love is in the Air, Love is Everywhere" but not limit it to Valentine's Day but just a general show of love any day. This thought of "love in the air" brought me to use the Lift Me Up Stamp Set and Up and Away Thinlits Dies Bundle #144712 from the NEW Occasions Catalog. Both of these cards are perfect for a stamp a stack card class and a great way to showcase this bundle to your customers!

This first card incorporated lots of stamping using the Lift Me Up Stamp Set. The hot air balloons are done with Pool Party, Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo and Bermuda Bay Classic Inks. The lighter pink one is a "stamped off" version with Flirty Flamingo as well as the Bermuda Bay one. "Stamped off" means to ink your stamp image up and then stamp once off on a scrap piece of paper. This will make the ink appear lighter when stamped again immediately on a piece of Whisper White Cardstock. All of the hot air balloons are die cut out with the new Up and Away Thinlits Dies. Smoky Slate Classic Ink is use on the clouds and greetings. That DSP layer is a piece of the Pool Party diagonal stripes from the A Little Foxy Designer Series Paper Stack.

 My next card is so simple and perfect for a stamp a stack class. I stamped the small hot air balloon in Smoky Slate Classic Ink directly on top of the Smoky Slate Cardstock base in a random pattern. Then I die cut the letters X and O with Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White, Pool Party and Peekaboo Peach Cardstock. The Large Letter Framelit Dies make this card so easy to XOXO (love). I stamped the greeting in Flirty Flamingo Classic Ink and added to the middle of the letters. The Bermuda Bay Baker's Twine bow adds a pop of color and whimsy. Just a nice way to say it with love....

Thanks for stopping by my post for the Creations Station Blog Hop!

Inspire. Create. Share. That's what I love to do.

Cindy

You saw Julie's awesome project before me and now move on to 
Holly's incredible project by clicking on the next button below! 

Julie Kettlewell

Holly Stene

Going on right now is a FREE month of Crafty Carrot Collective for EVERYONE -EVERYWHERE! Stop by now to check it out and join the fun! OUR FACEBOOK GROUP HERE

 

Then you will need to purchase just one stamp set from me (for USA customers)

to get access to our exclusive February group! We are talking 5 detailed tutorials, numerous how to videos and fun challenges with prizes! Worth it!

Glimmer Paper Love with Creation Station Blog Hop

 The Creation Station Design and Blog Hop is back this month! I was beyond thrilled to be asked to join this group of talented women for a monthly blog hop to inspire you with creative top of the line projects with a theme from all around the globe! We hope that you hop thru each blog and leave comments as we all love to hear praise about our creations!

This month we were to cover the Bloomin' Love Bundle or any color of the Glimmer Paper! Well as you can tell I picked the pretty bling side of that coin toss! 

For these very bling anniversary cards, I used the Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper found in the Stampin' UP Occasions Catalog as well as the Gold Glimmer Paper. I used the Thick White Cardstock for my base. For the line stripes, I used the Gold Wink of Stella to make the lines. The photo does not show it off as well as it does in person. It gives you a little glitter across the card. I also used pieces from the Love Blossums Embellishment Kit: the Gold foil Heart, the Blushing Bride Satin Ribbon, and the sequins. The Sweetheart Punch makes the perfect layer on top of the foil heart. I used the Number of Years Photopolymer stamp set for the banner and greeting. 

Thanks for stopping by my post for the Creations Station Blog Hop!

Inspire. Create. Share. That's what I love to do.

Cindy

You saw Julie B's awesome project before me and now move on to Elizabeth's incredible project by clicking on the next button below! 

Julie B

Elizabeth Price

Fancy Friday - Valentine's Blues

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop!

My fancy friends and I are back with some NEW fancy friends too! We loved working with each other so much that we decided to continue on with an all new blog hop to inspire you in fun new ways! Then a few of us had to take a break so we invited some new FANCY friends to join us and make the blog hop a little longer for your enjoyment! These are a group of past and current Stampin' UP Artisans that have become fast friends thru the Stampin' UP Artisan journey.

 Each month on the last Friday, we will bring to you new challenges of all kinds (color,sketch, stamp focus, etc)! This month we are getting fancy with an all new challenge! How about a NO Red and Pink Valentine's Challenge? Oh man! Seriously? THIS is going to be a challenge for sure! Don't miss what everyone came up with!!!

I went right to thinking about "Blue Valentine" or the "Valentine Blues". I started searching thru my stamp collection and found a new set that I have not used since November at the big Stampin' UP Onstage event in Tampa. It is called Happy Home and you can find it in the new Occasions Catalog on page 21. One stamp image and greeting from this set in particular conveys the "blues" so it worked perfectly for my non-pink or red but blue and sad Valentine's. 

Some of my favorite things on this card:

*The Happy Heart Textured Impressions Embossing Folder on Pool Party cardstock.

*Punched hearts of the Everyday Chic DSP placed all over in the heart embossed areas.

*Ink and Blender Pen on the stamped image for the watercolor effect.

*The Calypso Coral heart balloon instead of the kite.

*That Basic Black 3/8" Satin Striped Ribbon!

So what do you think about my non-Red or Pink Valentine?

I will be sending this card to a love one that I have not seen in quite awhile. I do miss them!

Thanks for stopping by my post for the Fancy Friday blog hop!

Inspire. Create. Share. That's what I love to do.

Cindy
You saw Sarah Sagert's adorable cards before me and now move on to 

Jennifer Timko's black and gold love card by clicking on the next button below! 

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Wood You Be Mine? - Stampin' UP Artisan Blog Hop

Welcome back to the Artisan Design Team Blog Hop! We are just starting on our January 2015 box from Stampin' UP. This box was full of brand NEW products from the Stampin' UP Occasions Catalog that went live on January 6th! I feel it is AMAZING Occasions Catalog as well as the Sale-a-bration this year is the BEST EVER! You are going to want it ALL! We have 5 Thursdays this month so each week you will see all NEW items with a variety of inspiring creations from the Artisan Design Team! Be sure to get Google Translate so that you can read in your language all about how they created their projects too. Now on to my project this 2nd week...

My first card shows off hunky Lumberjack Man from the "Wood You Be Mine?" Photopolymer Stamp Set. I did not expect to like this stamp set however I found it very fun to color in the images with Blendabilities! Some other fun elements I did: spritzing with Basic Black and Baked Brown Sugar ink and alcohol in Aqua Painter, using the strip of hearts thinlits from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies, the frames using the Stacked with Love Designer Series Paper Stack and square collection framelits dies.

My second card shows off the bold pattern ampersand from the Stacked with Love Designer Series Paper Stack. I used the Hardwood Stamp Set with Baked Brown Sugar ink for my background to play up the "wood" part of the sentiment. See that jagged edge of the ampersand layer? It is from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies and it ties in with the same shape in the washi tape. You get just 4 each of this pattern in the stack, but I thought you could use the ampersand from the You Plus Me Stamp Set as well on Smoky Slate Cardstock maybe stenciled with stripes. This would be if you wanted to do a card buffet class with this design.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspire you!!!

Cindy

You saw my friend, Becky Cowley before me and now move on to my friend, Helene Legrand by clicking on the next button below! Be sure to stop by all 16 of us!

Artisan Wednesday Wow - Bliss Banner

 Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! We are moving on to our February box of Stampin' UP products from the 2014 Occasions Catalog! We hope you stay with our Artisan Design Team Blog Hop over the next few months to inspire your creative juices!

You just came from Cathy Caines and next is Connie Collins, but before you come check out my Mini Memories Simply Created Album Kit and Hearts Display.

I think that this Mini Memories Simply Created Album Kit is FANTASTIC! A MUST HAVE and a steal at $14.95!  I love all of the embellishments like the gold heart shaped clips and the white and gold twine, (which I could buy a spool of it!) The designer papers are limited only to this kit and they are so beautiful! You could create multiple cards or a thinner album with it but as soon as I saw it in person....

a BANNER!

I nearly used EVERY piece in the kit to make the banner. I did some enough pieces left to make something extra. I used my e-cutter to cut the letters BLISS in Real Red. When I punched the Real Red hearts in the Full Heart Punch it gave me the idea to do the next step up on my display.....

Ta-da!  I used the Hearts Collection Framelits Dies and the Full Heart Punch to make my strings of hearts. I used Real Red, Calypso Coral and Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock. I taped them onto Whisper White Baker's Twine and taped them to my frame backside. Can you tell that I love that frame for all kinds of holiday displays? You can see Halloween HERE.

Well, Valentine's Day was last week but a couple of ideas for use would be... You can do the hearts NEXT year too! And that banner would be PERFECT for a Bridal Shower! 

After all, love IS bliss!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!

Cindy

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button!

MDS Blog Hop - Love is All Around Page

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's theme is LOVE which is fitting for the week! But also it is what we LOVE about MDS!  I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT!  I can not express enough of my love for this program! It sparks my creative side and can be my saving grace when I need a boost of design energy.

Ok enough of that mushy stuff, on to my page....Every once in awhile, I love to capture what is going on with my family OR our currant interests and thoughts. Bubble quotes are so trendy right now and I wanted to play with them in my new favorite download called Love Is All Around. I used the black chalkboard paper from the Convention 2012 download. I did a little re-coloring onto the Basic Black Chevron Ribbon to make to deeper color of Pool Party. The "Love" stamp image was colored with the coloring tool with Whisper White and Real Red. I also re-colored the staples on the ribbon flag on top. The photos are from a photo layout that comes right on the program and made it a simple easy start to my page. 

Just click on the NEXT button and it will take you to the next person on the hop. We hope this inspires you to get into My Digital Studio! YOU WILL LOVE IT!

Click on the button to move on to see what Cori made!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!

 Cindy 

MDS Blog Hop - What ya doing in MDS January?

 
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. 

I just got this new My Digital Studio download called Love is all Around Kit and I took some time to make a scrapbook page with it.  I love the arrows and the quote bubbles in this download. All the Designer Series Paper with it is fantastic! I so see re-coloring a bunch of them for other projects.

This is a wonderful picture of my daughter Megan with her dad. Very special to get a picture of them together also heart-breaking as our sweet girl is growing up so fast in front of our eyes. 

Just click on the NEXT button and it will take you to the next person on the hop. We hope this inspires you to get into My Digital Studio! 

Click on the button to move on to see what Cori made!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!

 Cindy