Let it Ride Pines

This is a different approach to Let it Ride on Occasions

page 45.  I think that the pine trees are a great stand alone

item.  I paired the pines with the Gingham Gala DSP

on page 35.  The SAB Organdy Ribbon Combo pack

on page 7 completed the card.

Sadly, the Gingham Gala DSP is not available right now.

Dear Doily with Butterfly Gala

Looking at the images from Dear Doily (Occasions 2019 p 47),

I thought the circle punched doily images looked a lot

like an old doodling technique called zentangling.  

There is a tutorial on Splitcoaststampers HERE.

This is a very simple card, given my limited stamping supplies,

so I layered the circles on a strip of Wood Textures DSP

(page 191).  The sentiment from Butterfly Gala 

(Occasions page 35) was stamped in the corner.  

I colored some candy dots with Stampin' Blends!

in order to coordinate with the Coastal Cabana

card base.  I liked the fact that this ended up feeling

a bit "Southwest",  likely because 

of the patterns and color combination.

Dear Doily with Geared Up Garage

I never have enough condolence cards.  Often, I'm 

stymied by the fact that I need to come up with something

elegant, yet get it into the mail quickly.

That was the impetus behind this card.  I used the flower

from Dear Doily (Occasions 2019), the cloud from

Geared Up Garaged (Occasions 2019) and the 

spatter of dots from Timeless Textures (Annual Catalog).

This card was fast to stamp in Mint Macaron and Soft Suede,

 with a bit of Mint Macaron Baker's Twine added

as the finishing touch.

Stamp Off Tea Together with Celebrate You

Happy March, and welcome to another Stamp Off

Challenge with Susan, Buffy and I.

This week, the theme of our challenge is 

"Time to Start Drinking"!

I think that the Occasions Tea Together set, with coordinating

SAB Tea Time framelits dies, is a lovely combination.  

Those tea cups are just screaming to be colored with 
Stampin' Blends and hung on a shelf.

So that was the inspiration for this card!  

To dress this card up, I added a thinlit sentiment from Celebrate
You Thinlits on page 216.  The Blackberry Bliss layer
was run through the Big Shot Lace Dynamic Textured
Impressions Embossing Folder (Occasions page 11), 
because this worked back wonderfully to the tea cups.
As usual, I had to add a layer of Wood Textures DSP,
found on page 191, because it looks a bit like a shelf.

Now that you've seen what I'm drinking, please click
on over to check out Buffy and Susan's cards!! 

Butterfly Gala with Sunshine Sayings

Again, with the butterflies!  But then I just love the

Butterfly Gala set, with coordinating Butterfly Duet Punch

(page 35) and coordinating SAB Botanical Butterfly DSP (p 9).

The butterflies were colored with the Stampin' Blends!

In this example, I used Sunshine Sayings, on page 112 of

the annual catalog, for the sentiment.  

Recessed Let It Ride

I'm so happy that I purchased the Let It Ride set,

on page 45 of the Occasions catalog.  It is fun to color,

and enables me to make cards for my family horse lovers.

For this card, I wanted to recess the horse, so that it

would look a bit like it is in a stall.  I colored it with

Stampin' Blends, which work so well with this set!

I had a little mishap, and am stamping upstairs, because

I cannot use steps right now.  That means NO BIG SHOT!

I have a few punches, but texture is dependent upon

DSP and crumpling paper.  Both techniques 

were used in this sample!