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Artisan Wednesday Wow - One for Him and one for Her

 

Hi there, Happy Wednesday! Hope you are having a great week, it has been a busy one around here! Did you join is from Jane's Blog, or are you just jumping in? Either way, I hope you'll take a few minutes and hop all the way around.

This week I have two cards for you - one for her and one for him :)  First let me share with you the "her" card. I used the Best of Flowers Stamp Set and the Amazing Family set. It's a simple layout and one I like to rely on when I want to focus on a smaller image. I stamped the flowers in Early Espresso on a scrap of Whisper White cardstock and sponged Summer Starfruit and Calypso Coral to fill in the flowers. After that, I cut them out, adhered them to the card and used the Natural Designer Buttons for the centers. The Friend is embossed with Early Espresso Embossing Powder

 

and I was also playing with the Dapper Dad set and wanted a mix of a very simple card with an extra special element to it, so I went a little nuts on the shoe and kept the rest of the card simple.

 

Head on over to Marisa's Blog now and check out what she created this week.

 

Hope you have a great day!!!!

 

Artisan Wednesday Wow - Amazing Mother

Hi everyone! Welcome back! I know I have only been posting on Wednesdays lately, hopefully that will change soon, although we did find out hubby has to have surgery on the 24th, so that might put a kink in things!

Are you joining me from Jane's blog? If so, I am sure glad to have you! She creates the most awesome projects! If you are starting the hop here, make sure you follow it around so you can check out everyone's projects!

 This month we received a few different stamp sets, some custom color pallettes and some fun accessories. However, I will say I am not sure that they are in my comfort zone, so I hope I can create some projects that you will like. This card is being sent in the mail TODAY.... to a seriously amazing woman!

 

I really like the antique look to this. Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso always make for a beautiful, calm, vintage look. I stamped the Hydrangea from Best of Flowers (March - Best Od set) in Early Espresso ink on a Crumb Cake layer in the lower left corner, then stamped it multiple times on Very Vanilla. After adding some shading with my Blender Pen, I carefully cut out each one. Several of them are adhered directly to the card and others are popped up on a dimensional. I embossed the Sentiment in Early Espresso Embossing Powder. I was thrilled when I realized I could add both stamps to the same block and stamp it all at once. A touch of crochet ribbon and a Natural Designer Button tied with a snippet of Linen Thread and there you go!

Best thing about sending a card to your Mom is that she is always going to love it no matter what!

I hope you enjoyed your visit, and I hope that you will also enjoy the rest of the hop this week. Make sure that you check out Marisa's blog - you know she rocks, right?

 

P.S. - If you have a few minutes - why don't you check out today's MDS Blog Hop?

 

Are you a Stampin' Up! Collector?

 Ok, so you might have been teased once or twice by someone you love about your "collecting" habits when it comes to stamping/papercrafting supplies. I know I have! Not so much anymore, because I USE a lot of my stuff!!! BUT, once upon a time I was called a "collector"

 Well, I'm going to tell you today that being a collector is a GOOD thing right now. Well, it is if you are collecting Stampin' Up!'s BEST OF monthly sets. These cool sets contain some of the most popular previous images from the past 25 years.

 As a THANK YOU from Stampin' Up! for collecting these sets, they are giving you FREE sets. Isn't that COOL!!!! Well, being as yesterday was March 1st, this month's set, Best of Flowers was JUST RELEASED! FUN....  I have been playing with these sets and sharing step by step projects with my newsletter subscribers....

 Take a look at what Best of Flowers contains....

 

 So pretty! The one in the lower right corner is a brand-new, exclusive stamp and it fits in the scallop circle punch - cool, love having time savers. I love the hydrangea, which is your favorite?

 I will for sure post some projects with this set in my newsletter soon, so you'll want to make sure that you've subscribed!

 Have a great weekend!