Stamp Off Sunshine Wishes Thinlits for Mom

Yippee Skippee, it's Friday!  You get to spend

it with a little Stamp Off Challenge,

featuring Buffy, Susan and myself.

This week, we honor our Mom's, the most wonderful

women in our lives!!

For this challenge, there was only one word that

described my Mom, and that is "love".

The Color Theory DSP (annual p 187) was the perfect

backdrop for glossy words from the Sunshine Wishes

Thinlits dies (p 216).    I colored glossing card stock with

the Stampin' Blends and then cut out the different 

combinations of blended color.  It was nice to see how

all of the colors blended.

Now it is time to hop on over to see what Buffy

and Susan have done for our Love you Mom challenge.

Retiring Butterfly Basics

The retiring Butterfly Basics set (p 149) is a set that

I go to often, because of the beautiful images.  They go

together beautifully and enable creation of quick cards.

This set coordinates with the retiring Butterfly Thinlits dies

on page 215.   For this card, I used the retiring

Wild Wasabi with some Old Olive on the ferns.  The

butterfly is Sweet Sugarplum.  I did use the Stamparatus

to get the sentiment straight.  The plates on the Stamparatus

have a grid outline, that enables you to position 

photopolymer stamps along the lines. 

Celebrate You Thinlits with Brusho

I wanted to share another Brusho Crystal Colours card,

as it's been a while!   This was a really simple card, with the 

Brusho used sparingly to create the speckled background.

I used the Celebrate You Thinlits Dies, which work so well

over a nice background.  I added a bit of Crushed Curry

Baker's Twin and colored White Perfect Accents with

Stampin' Blends.

Stamparatus Circle with Butterfly Basics and Lift Me up

This is a Stamparatus project, using a template (see link below)

 to create a circle card.  I've had a modicum of success, but

I think I will consider using images as the "wreath"
rather than sentiments.  From other samples of the 
wreath technique, it might be easier to line up images!

In this example, I paired the sentiment from 
the retiring Butterfly Basics

(annual p 149) with the Lift Me Up stamp set (p 58)

and Up & Away Thinlits (p 216).

For more information and the directions for making

this template, check this video out.

Bird Banter on Tranquil Tulip Leaves

It's been a while since I posted some birds, specifically

Bird Banter.  I still like the look of the birds perched on

leaves from the Tranquil Tulips hostess set (annual p 223).

  I colored the birds with Stampin' Blends, which

should be available in the upcoming new Stampin' Up! catalog.

Work of Art with Flower Shop

Two of my favorite retiring sets are Work of Art (p 151)

and Flower Shop (p 28) with coordinating Pansy Punch

(p 207).  I love the whimsy of these two sets, which

go very well together.  Here is another example that

combines these two products.  

For this example, the retiring Flirty Flamingo In Color

was used liberally.  Leaves were created with the 

Layered Leaves 3D Dynamic Textured Impressions

Embossing Folder and Leaf Punch from the Holiday Catalog.