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! 

Sweetest Thing with Jar of Sweets

Sweetest Thing, with the coordinating Jar of Sweets

Framelits Dies (Occasions page 15) is a darling set.

Who can resist jars of candy, with great sentiments?

I used the Brights Designer Series Paper Pack (p 191)

as a layer behind the candy jar.   The entire card front

was run through the Swirls and Curls Textured Impressions

Embossing Folder from the Holiday Mini Catalog.

So Hoppy Together

These frogs from So Hoppy Together (SAB page 13)

make me smile every time I look at them.  They work so

well with sentiments from any set.    In this example,

I stamped with Memento ink and colored the image with

Stampin' Blends.  Easy as pie!

Well Written Framelits Dies

When working on Stamp Off Challenges (previous post),

I sometimes make several cards to get to the final sample

that I want to post.   This was the first sample that

I designed, using the color combination of Blackberry Bliss,

Mango Melody and Smoky Slate.

It's hard to tell, but the background Blackberry Bliss

layer was run through the Suble Textured Impressions

Embossing Folder.

I used three sets of Occasions Framelits Dies:

Well Written (page 27) and

Doily Builder Thinlits (page 47) and

Rectangle Stitched Framelits (page 28).

This is a quick, easy card that still looks "fancy"

because of the wonderful Stampin' Up!

 thinlits and framelits!