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Hello! Happy Monday:)  I have no idea where the past week went.  With the warmer temperatures I have been spring cleaning and sprucing up some painting in the house and hanging outside more.  But, I am going to try to get some cards made this week!  Yay--I love April weather and here is a happy little spring card I made using the newest Gina K Designs StampTV kit-  Bold and Blooming:

I love how all the stamps and dies in this kit work so well together!

Special thanks to Gina for asking me to guest design for this kit! It has been a blast! xoxo

Hope you have a GREAT day!
Cammie

The Twinery and Nikki Sivils {Product Showcase}

Hello there!  Welcome to Day 2 of The Twinery and Nikki Sivils product showcase!  If you missed the first day....be sure to check it out. The projects are fantastic and I am so honored to be on a design team with these ladies.

For today's hop, start at The Twinery Blog for a list of blogs to visit.  Be sure to comment on all the blogs for your chance to win the Colorful Sampler pack from The Twinery !

Here are my projects.  I used the Nikki Sivils collection Messages on all of them.
The first two are cards:

For my first card, I went with a round card design and decided to highlight the circle shape with some Charcoal twine.  I wanted it to feel like a phone cord (remember those?!) so I gave it some extra loops on the right.  I added a tiny bit of  Maraschino twine on the mini clothespin that holds the HI message.  The phone was cut from one of the pieces of designer paper.  I added the little metal heart to the center of the phone.

My next card uses the same collection but I focused on the typewriter on this one:

I used some Buttercreme and Stone bakers twine to accent this card.  I added lots of layers of the beautiful patterns in the collection and then cut out the thank you section to add on top of the typewriter.

Finally, I have a little notebook I created with this collection:  Here is the front.  I used some Stone Baker's twine to wind around the binder ring. (Note: when doing this, make sure to only wind about half of the ring so that the book will still open!) And I used some Charcoal twine to wind around the borders:

Here is the book when opened.  The heart is on the inside page.. I used some Stone twine to wind around the arrow inside the heart and some Charcoal twine to accent the pages again:

Here are the next two pages---I added a bunch of ivory cardstock sheets inside for notes:

Here is the last page of the note pad:

I hope you enjoyed these projects. I certainly had fun making them!
Head on over to The Twinery blog for more inspiration. Don't forget to leave comments along the way for your chance to win! (Details on The Twinery blog!)

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Card Designs

Hello! Today I have some cards to share that I made with the amazing Lori Whitlock silhouette files.  I love how easy it is to create fun cards with Lori's files! 

Here are two card designs for several different occasions:

This card uses Bird on Branch and Thank You files. I used some baker's twine (The Twinery) to add some embellishing around the bird and tiny pearls to accent the branch. 

Next,  I have a masculine birthday card that I created for my brother's 50th birthday.  It uses Shirt and Tie Card file and was super simple to put together.  The sentiment stickers are by SRM stickers--

Hope you enjoyed these card designs featuring Lori Whitlock files.  You can find the files in the Silhouette Online store and there are plenty of new designs in Lori's online store!

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Geometric Thanks

I created this card for the Moxie Fab Challenge Cure for the Winter Blues.  Hey, I live in Pittsburgh now so I HAD to play along with this one :)

and

The  Paper Smooches challenge--focusing on the nautical color scheme.  Click the link to see the inspiration piece!

Here is my simple take on this navy challenge:

Supplies:
White cardstock (Gina k Designs)
Patterned paper (Echo Park Paper)
Stamps- Sentiment Sampler, Hip to Be Square (Paper Smooches)
Ink- Memento tuxedo black
Adhesive- Zapdots (Helmar)

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Thank You Card Set!

Hello! Happy Thanksgiving (tomorrow). I will not be posting for the rest of the week so that I can take some time off and enjoy the holiday with my family. Wishing you all my readers in the U.S. a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Here is a set of Thank You cards I created for my Helmar design team post last week.

You can check out the POST for more details on the creation of these cards.
Supply list:
Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Helmar Quick-Fix Adhesive Runner
Helmar Zapdots
Patterned paper- Finally Fall: Quadrants, Borders, Cute Cuts (Bella Blvd)
Stamps- Very Square Sentiments (Mint Motif)
Memento tuxedo black ink
Mini clothespins (Tree House Studio)
rhinestones (Recollections, Michael's)
Have a wonderful week!

Many Thanks...

Hello!!! I am painfully aware that my blogging time is almost over (...for awhile anyway!) The packers will be coming in a few short weeks and I have to start packing up my beloved stamp room soon (especially the things I want to be sure are packed with care!) Sniff.
But....until I have to stop...I will keep sharing a few more creations-- :)

Today I have a thanks card to share...

I did some paper piecing of the leaves using lots of different patterned papers to get the falling leaves design on this card:

I embossed the sentiment in white and then stitched along the edge to coordinate with the sentiment. I finished this card with some walnut seam binding.

Stamps are from Floral Wreath and A Year of Leaves, both from Gina K Designs.

I just love paper piecing!!!

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Gina K Preview Day 3!

Hello!!! Tonight is the final night of Gina K Previews. All of the new sets will be available for purchase on Thursday night at 10 p.m. cst on the website! Tonight the design team is peeking the one free with three set, Floral Wreath.

Here is my cas creation with this set: I stamped the wreath and colored it with Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils. After I cut it out. I popped it over a strip of onyx cardstock (cut in banner shape on edges) and adhered it to some ivory cardstock. I added the sentiment on top and then added some crystal stickles and black pearls to the wreath.

I used my Scor-Pal to make a double scored line on the bottom of the card.

Wanna see more? Check out what the awesome design team has to share and be sure to comment on each blog because Gina will randomly choose FOUR winners from ALL of the comments! That means you have LOTS more chances to win free stamps! Gina will announce the winners tomorrow night:

AJ Otto
Asela Hopkins
Carolina Buchting
Carolyn King
Cathy Tidwell
Colleen Schaan
Deb Felts
Emily Giovanni
Gina K
Giovana Smith
Lee Murphy
Melanie Muenchinger
Theresa Momber
Tina Gilliland

Don't forget: The Gina K release party will be held this Thursday night, December 2. We'll have contest questions, challenges, chatter, and lots of samples with the new stamp sets to share during the party. Please make plans to join us from 7-10 central on StampTV!

Thanks for stopping by!

Dog-Gone SWEET Blog Candy!

***ETA: This contest is now closed.

Hello!!! Happy Thursday evening! Spring has been busy so far and there are no signs of it letting up! But all is good this week because--- we just booked our family vacation to Disney!! (woohoo!) Cannot wait.

Today, I am delighted to be able to offer you some fantabulous blog candy, courtesy of Kim (My Favorite Things!) But first, a card:


Ain't she cute? This card features the new Die-namics dies--cloud trio and jumbo scallop and MFT stamp sets: Meet Emma & Wyatt and (sentiment) Dog-Gone Cute.

I coupled them with some October Afternoon designer paper and rub-ons for a little whimsical thank you note!

Materials used: Stamps-Dog-Gone Cute, Meet Emma & Wyatt (My Favorite Things); cardstock-white (Gina K Designs); Copic markers; Designer paper- Fly a Kite 8 by 8 pad (October Afternoon); Fly a Kite rub-ons (October Afternoon); Farm Fresh Shape stickers (October Afternoon); Die-namics dies- Cloud trio die, jumbo scallop (My Favorite Things); Cuttlebug (Provocraft); ribbon -(SU!); circle punch (SU!); Mark Richards adhesive dots.

So......do you want to win a the Scalloped Scallop die-namics die AND a $25 gift card to My Favorite Things? Silly question, I know. Just leave me a comment on this post and you will be entered to win! You have until Saturday, May 15 at 11 p.m. central time to leave your comment. (Yep--subscribers can enter twice!) Random.Cara will select a winner on Sunday! The winner will have three days to email me with their information before Random.Cara selects another winner. Good luck!!

Have a GREAT weekend!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Gina K Preview Day 2

Before I head into the preview info...I just want to say---

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINA!

Wow...there is just so much goodness being released this month at Gina K Designs. Tonight, the design team is back with some more peeks of new sets--Oh Baby (by Rupa Shevde) and Pressed Flowers (by Melanie Muenchinger).

First up---Oh Baby! I created this simple baby card with this set: I used the three ducks stamps (which I adore!) and popped the image up so that I could add some hemp string underneath.

I added some tiny silver dots to the wheel centers, some Report Card-October Afternoon designer paper and some jute twine.

Easy!

Next is a card I created with Pressed Flowers:
This card took on an Asian feel because of the colors I chose...ivory, kraft, blue and black. I used Inspiration Mosaic to create the background and used a sentiment from Inside & Out, which will be previewed on Wednesday (I am bad!)

As a final touch, I added some sateen flowers and self adhesive rhinestones to the design.

They all worked so well together, I couldn't resist. Pressed Flowers works well with every set....to accent other flowers or to use with A Year of Flowers and do two step stamping!

The Pressed Flowers stamp set was designed to be a perfect companion to Melanie's A Year of Flowers set! It is also a perfect stand alone set as each bold stamp image lends itself to many techniques as you will see on each designer's blogs tonight!


Start with the Illustrator's blog Melanie Muenchinger and then visit these designer's blogs for even more samples with this stamp set and Rupa Shevde's Oh Baby Stamp set as well!

Gina Krupsky
Jessica Fick *

Theresa Momber
Nina Brackett
Carolyn King
Cathy Tidwell
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mercurio
Kurtis Amundson
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Bev Gerard
Suzanne Dean *

* also previewing the new Card Kit Stamp set: Spring Florals

Stop back tomorrow for more Gina K previews. Thanks for stopping by!

Simple Sunday!

Just popping in today to say Hello and to share this quick creation: This was created with some fun designer paper (Black Orchid, SEI) and some rub-ons and metal accents. Fast...easy. I just love this color combination.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Thanks for stopping by!

Embroidered Leaves - Gina K Preview Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of the Gina K Designs previews. Today, I am showing you a card I designed using Melanie's new set called Year of Leaves.
This set is filled with beautiful leaves and sentiments that will inspire your cardmaking throughout the year.
Because it is almost September, I went with a more Autumn-y card: I stamped four of the leaves from the set on some shimmer vellum (masking as I went along) and then used embroidery floss to stitch around each leaf, just following the stamped image. Because I stamped on vellum (can see through it), it was easy to follow the stamped lines.

I really wasn't sure how this was going to turn out---or how much time it would take...but I was pleasantly surprised (right Mel?). It really came together quickly and I love the homey end result.

I finished the card by adhering the vellum piece over some Ivory pure luxury cardstock. I matted that on some Chocolate Kiss cardstock and then attached the panel to the new Pumpkin Spice cardstock (which will be released this week too!). The ribbon and twine are both from the Signs of Autumn Stamp TV kit.

Materials used: Stamps-Year of Leaves (Gina K Designs); Memento black ink; vellum; cardstock-Pure Luxury Ivory, Chocolate Kiss, Pumpkin spice (Gina K Designs); ribbon and fibers (Gina K Designs); Embroidery floss; needle.

For more inspiration with the stamps previewed today, visit Gina's blog as well as Melanie Muenchinger, the illustrator of Year of Leaves and Asela Hopkins, the illustrator of Fruitful Harvest.
For even more projects with tonight's two stamp sets, these Senior Design Team Members are participating in previews today: Carolyn, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Kurtis, Jessica, Lee, Lynn, and Theresa as well as our CenterStage Spotlight Design Team members: Denise Kelemen and Geri Utterback

Our Release Party will be held once again over on SCS starting at 7pm CST on Thursday, August 27th. There will be contests, challenges, lots of chatter as well as a ton more samples shared by the Senior Design team members and our CenterStage Spotlight team too! You won't want to miss it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you

*Note: I am away on vacation. This is an auto-post!

Here is a simple thank you using Gina K Designs Eclectic Summer Stamp TV kit. I stamped each flower on a piece of colored designer paper and then I cut out a circle so you can see the last flower and sentiment from the inside of the card. Here is a picture of the inside:

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Materials:Stamps-Eclectic Summer, Eclectic Summer Sentiments (Gina K designs);White pure luxury cardstock (Gina K Designs);Designer paper- Water balloons:Celebration (American Crafts); How's It going:Everyday (American Crafts); Morning glory:Alley's Wonderland (SEI); Ribbon-Horizontal stripes (American Crafts); 1 1/2 inch circle punch (Stampin' Up!); memento tuxedo black ink; Certainly celery ink (SU!); Circle cutter (Creative Memories).

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New Chick in the House

My sweet friend Charmaine is scheduled to have her little baby girl tomorrow. The girls at Stamper's Dream are celebrating her today on our blogs!!

Since I didn't have any "baby" stamps from Stamper's Dream to use for this card---I chose instead to use this cute chick from the Pink Paislee set Spring Fling. The images in this set are fun and trendy....they work well for any occasion. This card totally reminds me of Charmaine!!

Here is the card I am sending to Charmaine to help welcome the New Chick in the House:
To help show the versatility of these images/set---here is the same card with a few alterations--as a Thank You:

Materials used: Stamps-Spring Fling (Pink Paislee); Memento tuxedo black ink; Heart punch-Marvy Uchida; Designer paper-Morning Glory-Ally's Wonderland (SEI), How's It Going-Everyday (American Crafts), Frenzy Glee-White Out (We R Memory Keepers); paper piercing tool; rhinestones (Brenda Walton-K& Company); ribbon (SU!); Card Sayings rub ons (Making Memories).

Huge Congratulations Charmaine---cannot wait to see pictures of that beautiful baby girl! Head on over to these blogs to see more cards for Charmaine:

Michelle

Amy

Becca

Denise

Kimberly

Laurie

Tosh

This week the Stamper's Dream team will be showcasing all the newest JustRite products--Michelle has them in the store NOW...and the team has lots of projects planned this to inspire you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Elegant Thanks

Thank you for all your tooth sympathy stories! I did end up calling my dentist and I am going in to see him today...wohooo!!! Hopefully he will figure out what is wrong as I am pretty sure that something IS! (I am updating this at 1:00 am as I am awake with a toothache..sigh! Just waiting for pain meds to kick in.)

I LOVE elegant cards. And I really LOVE elegant cards that come together so easily.

I recently received the Anna Griffin Elegant Borders clear stamp set from Anita's Arts. There are TONS of elegant borders (clear stamps) in the set AND a chocolate pigment ink pad and a clear stamp mount in this KIT. (You can also purchase all the stamps without the ink pad and stamp mount.) I stamped that beautiful flourish design on the top and bottom of some Ivory Pure Luxury cardstock. They stamped very nicely and I am excited about HOW EASY it was to create my own designer paper. And there are tons of different borders and designs to choose from. You can find this set and lots of other Anna Griffin products at Anita's Arts!

I paired the Anna Griffin border with a Thanks stamp from Inkadinkado. The cardstock is Chocolate Kiss Pure Luxury from Gina K Designs and the small flower is a sateen flower that is colored with a Copic marker.

Materials used: Stamps-Anna Griffin Elegant borders; Thanks (Inkadinkado); Ink-chocolate (Anna Griffin); cardstock-Ivory, chocolate kiss (Gina K Pure Luxury); gold (Stampin' Up!); Spellbinders Oval/scalloped oval Nestabilities; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Copic markers; hemp (SU!); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories); Prima flower; sateen flower (Gina K Designs); foam mounting tape; wedding jewels.

Thanks for stopping by!