Cu-Tea - Mama Elephant

Hello Crafty Friends! Well you know how I am about coffee but I'm also a huge fan of Bubble Tea too so I just had to have this new Mama Elephant set. My son Gage thinks Bubble Tea is the best so he was also excited to see this set, especially the one with the kitty cat. I stamped a few card fronts for him to color so we can give to Grandma.



I wanted something simple and sweet that I can send to friends. I made a few in this design in different colors. I love how easy it is to mix Mama Elephant sets! For the background I did a simple ink blending with distress oxide in Worn Lipstick. I then stamped a pair of hearts from the sets & my sentiment that I thought would be great to send to friends.



For the Monkies I did some basic copic coloring with E27, E25, E23 for the bodies & E53, E50 for the faces. I did the Boba Tea in the same way. For the lid on the cup I used E41 to give it a light tint of brown. The straw I did in R11.

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Valentine's Day Theme Week - Pretty Pink Posh

Hello Crafty Friends! I have a blog post up on the Pretty Pink Posh blog today to celebrate Valentine's day. All the details for this card can be found there. You can save 15% off this week on all products in the Valentine's Day category here.

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Gimme Kisses - My Favorite Things

Hello Crafty friends! I'm here today with a new MFT card. This is more on the CAS side for me which I have really been enjoying lately. A little spotlight ink blending, a few images, done! The card is great for Valentine's or any time you want to tell your sweetie you love them.

I started with a piece of pale pink cardstock from my stash. I blended on a bit of Worn Lipstick distress oxide first and faded that toward center leaving the highlight in the middle the original cardstock color. Then very lightly in the corners and around the edges I darkened the blend up with some Picked Raspberry oxide. When I use the oxides I prefer the large blender brushes for a nice soft blend. Once the panel was dry I splattered it with some white paint.

I did very minimal copic coloring to these Panda. I adore the whimsical look to the stamping. I added a bit of C2 to add a bit of depth to the white areas and R20 to the cheeks. I also used R20 & R11 on the two hearts. And that's it! The sentiment was white heat embossed on black cardstock and all the images are popped up with some 3m foam tape. Lastly I added a bit of glossy accents to the hearts to finish it off.

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Sweet Christmas - Lawn Fawn

Have yourself a sweet Christmas to all who are celebrating today!






Supplies:
Sweet Christmas 
Oh Snap
Simple Wavy Banner

Distress Oxide:
Spun Sugar

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Together (Release Week Neat & Tangled)

Hello!! I am so excited to be joining the Neat and Tangled crew for release week. 

Kicking of this release today with this fun sentiment set, Together. 

I just love all the different uses for this set!

I water colored the background first using some distress inks in Abandon Coral, Worn Lipstick and Tattered rose. I used the coordinating dies to the stamp set to die cut first in this gorgeous coral colored card stock for the background die and then die cut the sentiment Together in Neenah Solar White card stock. I chose the companion sentiment In Spirit so I could send this to a friend who could use a pick me up. I heat embossed that on a small stripe of black. Lastly I used the Sherbet Sequin Mix from N&T and I know a few look purple but they are actually iridescent and pick up blue/purple one way and peachy sparkle the other. They are some of my favorite sequins for summer.

Don't forget to check everyone else's cards at the Neat & Tangled blog!

Wish You - Lawn Fawn

Got together with some "Fawny" friends to wish one of our
favorite stamp companies a very happy 5th Birthday! 

Who can resist all their adorable stamps & 

their super sweet owner Kelly Marie and the rest of the staff. 

You guys rock! Here's to many more years!!

All paper & stamps from Lawn Fawn!

I made this card using the 6x6 paper pad Hello Sunshine & Lets Polka, small stitched rectangles dies, the new flirty frames stamps & the year three cake stamps. The inside of the card says 'Smile... it's your birthday!' also from the year 3 stamp set.
Sequins in sparkling clear from Pretty Pink Posh.

You should have arrived here from Caryn's.
The next stop on the hop is Suzanne's!

For a full list please visit Jenn's page at Shurkus.com.

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Valentine | Blog Hop

Thanks for joining me on our Valentine Blog Hop! The amazing & talented Jenn invited me to play along with her for the 7th day of her 14 day series! Be sure to visit her at Creative Chick and see all 14 days of inspirational posts & links to all the great ladies participating.

Jenn and I met on instagram. As you know I am slightly obsessed with LawnFawn and she happened to be posting some yummy LawnFawn designs and I just HAD to say something. Love of mutual things goes a long way to starting new friendships. She is the biggest sweetheart, dollface. <3 her! I may not have been blogging or entering in all this fun stuff if it weren't for her!

Sharing the LOVE! Since this is the season of L-O-V-E be sure to leave me a little love and the other hop participants a little love as well throughout this series. (hint: we LOVE comments) Let me know in the comments how you are sharing the LOVE of this blog hop- you can share the link on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. The more times you share, and the more days you share the better your odds of winning! Jenn will be randomly picking some sharers and posting them and the prizes at the end of this series.

So this is my contribution! I hope you like it. I used my new Femme Frames die cuts from Mama Elephant as well as the Water Blooms stamp set. I use a really nifty product for my shaker cards which makes it super easy & no more sticking confetti!! Shake it shaker card pouches come in a ton of sizes and I totally recommend them to anyone who loves shaker cards as much as I do. All the confetti can be grabbed from Pretty Pink Posh store, I ADORE her products.

Valentine Blog Hop Series 2014

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• Day 5
• Day 6
• Day 7 

And be sure to check out Tsurata Designs if you missed yesterday!