Crafty Meraki ~ Sending Hugs

Happy Monday all!  I'm back sharing another fun Crafty Meraki card I made this month.

Today's card stars the beautiful peony bouquet called "All My Love" stamp set.

I decided on a slimline cards to feature 2 of the bouquet images.

To finish off the card I stamped a greeting from the same "All My Love" stamp set and added some fun crosshatching and dots to my card front.

I love the vibrancy of the color palette of this beaut!

I hope you have a wonderful and creative week!

~ Ally ~

Catherine Pooler ~ Yeehaw!

A new fun honky-tonkin' release is coming to the Catherine Pooler shop this week!

Meet the "Lasso Life" release! 

This collection arrives in the shop on Wednesday February 5th BUT if you belong to StampNation, you get to shop a DAY EARLY!  Sign in to the CP shop with your account and you can shop on Tuesday February 4th at 12 noon EST.

For today's card I also pulled out the adorable "These Boots" stamp set.  This stamp set has 3 different styled boots and I chose the ones with the blooms on them.  I started by stamping the boots in our new Succulent ink.  This color is so pretty!  I used some Copic Markers to darken up some of the parts of the boot.  I also used Polychromos Pencils to add in some of the details on the flowers, the curly-ques and the buckles.  I even included a spur!

To create the patterned paper, I used some Succulent, Glacier, Catching Rays, Cashmere, Icing on the Cake and Sandcastle inks.

I placed a tiny strip of Glacier swiped cardstock to add a bit of trim.

The greeting of "Yeehaw" is from the "Lasso Life" stamp set and I also add a Cashmere inked knot of rope from the "Lots of Knots" stamp set.  I used Polychromos Pencils to add some of the fine details to each of these.

I had a blast creating all the fun pieces for this card!

Hope you're having a great day!

~ Ally ~

Catherine Pooler ~ Lasso Life Is Coming!

A new release is coming soon to Catherine Pooler Designs.  This release is called Lasso Life and it's filled with all kinds of rootin' tootin' fun!  This new release is inspired by the Western Revival trend, featuring coordinating stamps, dies, and accessories designed to bring a little Yeehaw to your craft room!

Not only are going to see some adorable cowgirl inspired products but we also have 3 new ink colors too!  We have the brand new Neutral ink, Cashmere.  I lovely soft creamy brown.  Then we have Glacier, a rich, deep muted blue will be sure to be a must-have color!  And finally we have a soft, muted green to add to the Spa line called Succulent.  Another great Earthy green for your ink palette.

So I thought I'd share a little sneak peek of one of my cards with you today!

Today's card features the adorable "These Boots" stamp set and matching die.

I started out by creating a full panel of Cashmere cardstock as my card base.  Then I die cut a "Hobnob Cover Plate Die" and direct-to-paper inked it with our new Glacier ink.

Next I stamped the large open rope from the "Lots of Knots" stamp set with Cashmere ink and die cut it out.  I also cut out a panel to back with.  I thought the rope would be the perfect addition to a cowboy/cowgirl card!

Next I stamped out the hat from the "These Boots" stamp set and some small flowers using Rockin' Red ink.  I die cut them all out.  I also included some Glacier inked stamped flowers.

Inside the rope I stamped some mini stars from the "This Calls for Champagne" stamp set in Rockin' Red ink.

Next I stamped out the fun greeting from the "Lasso Life" stamp set and fussy cut it out.

To add dimension to the hat and greeting, I using a darker brown Polychromos Pencil to add some details.

I think this card came out super fun!

You only have to wait a few days for this collection to hit the shop!  StampNation members get to shop on Tuesday February 4th at noon EST and the whole collection hits the shop the next day at 9am EST.  

Join us for the release festivities this week...

        * Monday, Feb 3: Card making YouTube Video

        * Tuesday, Feb. 4: Card making YouTube Video

        * Wednesday, Feb 5: Card making YouTube Video

        * Wednesday, Feb 5, at 9 AM Eastern: General Ordering Opens!

 

We will be offering the Lucky Blooms 3x4 Stamp Set for FREE during release week on orders of $50 or more (through February) with Code YEEHAW. 

I hope you check out all the fun this week!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Happy Birthday my Sledding Pals

Happy Saturday all!  Today I'm sharing my latest card creation featuring Sweet November Stamps and Craft Roulette.

Today's card was made for last week's episode, episode #251.

For episode #251, the four parameters that the wheel gave us were:

• Project: Slimline Card
• Colors: Lumberjack Colors (I was inspired by a plaid - blues, reds and oranges)
  
• Element: Hat(s) or Cap(s) (my little girl is wearing her Winter hat)
  
• Random: Lace or Doily (I drew a tiny little lace collar on the tiny little puppies coat)

 Here's my card...

Today's card features the adorable "Downhill Dashers" stamp set.  I was inspired by a card by Amy Young.  Here's her card on this post a few cards down... HERE.

Everything is colored using Copic Markers. 

For my greeting, I pulled out my "Fairwee Happy Birthday" stamp set.

Over at Sweet November Stamps in our Facebook group, we are celebrating February this month with a little fairy dust.  Check out the details...

I hope you'll come out and join us!

Also, join us Friday at 6:10pm CST for the next episode of Craft Roulette!  Hope to see you there!

~ Ally ~

Catherine Pooler ~ Boldly Blue Birthday

Happy Friday!  StampNation is having a birthday this month! To celebrate, I made another fun birthday card for this Weekend Challenge. 

The challenge is to make a card or project featuring the color BLUE.

For my card, I used some fun Catherine Pooler Designs products. 

I began by created my background.  I took the fun "It's a Jungle Out There" stencil and a whole bunch of blue CP inks; Dress Blues, Daydream, On The Lake, Oh Boy! and Minted and created a jungle themed back drop. I used a blending brush to add some soft Dress Blues ink to all the edges.  I splattered some silvery white and gold metallic inks across the panel to finish it off.

Next I stamped one of the monkeys from the "Going Bananas" stamp set in Rich Cocoa Memento ink.  I colored him in using Copic Markers.  I fussy cut him out.

I then die cut out the "Marvelous Layered Word Die" backing it with the solid layer inked with Dress Blue ink.

To finish off the sentiment I stamped out the wording from the "Hey There Marvelous" stamp set using Dress Blue ink and fussy cut them out.

I adhered everything to the card and then added some iridescent sequins for some bling and shine.

Come and join StampNation for all the fun.  We have 3 different subscriptions.  Give the single month subscription and come and check us out.  We have quarterly events and exclusive CP Shop codes and freebies every year!  We even get FREE shipping every once and awhile!

Hope you'll come and play along!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ A Fairy Cute Day

We have some more cutie-patooties entering the Sweet November Stamps shop today!

We have 6 new little fairies coming your way!

Today's card features the adorable little "Tia" from the "A Cute Fairy Day" collection.

To set the scene I used a variety of digital mushroom images: Amanita and Pixie Cap.

I had fun dressing her up!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

~ Ally ~

Crafty Meraki - All My Love

Happy Monday all!  Today I'm sharing one of the full cards from the Meraki Genesis for the January release from Crafty Meraki! 

Today's card features this bright and bold yellow bouquet called "All My Love".

I started by stamping this bouquet in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  Next I used the "All My Love Layering Stencil" set to colorize my image.  I actually used my Copic Air Brush System to color in the bouquet!  After coloring it in, I used it's coordinating die set, "All My Love Dies".

Next I die a background piece of paper for my card panel.  I used the beautiful "Sahara Symphony Background Die". 

Next I popped a frame from the "A2 Frame-Worthy Die" set and adhered my bouquet to the center of the panel.

To add the finishing touches on the card, I stamped out a few sentiments from the "All My Love" stamp set and adhered them to the card.   I also added some the black hearts from the "Black Iridescent Twinkle Treats Sequins".

Yellow is typically not my favorite color to create with so I decided that I wanted that challenge with this card.   I think it turned out pretty good!

Have a great week everyone!

~ Ally ~
 

Sweet November Stamps ~ Snow Glad We're Friends

Happy Saturday all!  Today I'm sharing another fun wintry card I created from the last Sweet November Stamps winter release!

I started my card by stamping this sweet little pair of snowmen from the "Snow Buddy Like You" stamp set using Memento Desert Sand ink.

I kept my Copic coloring very simple and tried to match it to my patterned paper by Catherine Pooler called "Through the Pines" patterned paper.

I die cut my stacked patterned papers using the Prism Studio from their "Stitched Rectangles Dies".

I stamped the sentiment in CP's Cranberry Fizz ink and then used a white gel pen to add some dots to part of the wording.  So simple!

Hope you're having a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Catherine Pooler ~ Let's Party

Happy Friday!

StampNation is having a birthday this week!  We're turning 14!  Yup... it's been around for 14 years!

To celebrate, we're having a little challenge over at StampNation!  

The challenge is to make a birthday card.

So I pulled out the newest Catherine Pooler ink color, Blue Raspberry. I also pulled out Something Blue, Melon Ice, Garden Party, Limoncello, and Tiara.

I started by making my background.  I used the "Block & Script Birthday Background" stamp set. 

Then I pulled out the "Birthday Cake Remix" stamp set.  I stamped and die cut all of the elements of the 3 layer cake.  I also used some "Halo Embossing Powder" to create the frosting layers.

For the sentiment, I used just the letter die shapes of the "Party Word Die" and used 5 of my ink colors.  I wanted a little "let's" word so I pulled that word from one of the sentiments for the "Fall Finds" stamp set.

For the finishing touch, I used some Star Dust Stickles to add some dots of sparkle!

Come and check out more about StampNation if you are not a member... click below...

Hope you'll come and party along with us!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps & Craft Roulette - Fairy Thank You!

Happy Wednesday all!  Today I'm sharing a sweet thank you card featuring a digital stamp from Sweet November Stamps!

Today's card shows was made a few weeks ago for an episode of Craft Roulette.

For episode #248, the four parameters that the wheel gave us were:

• Project: Card with a Tag (my tag is tucked under the end of my sentiment)
  
• Colors: Disney Colors (I was inspired by Monsters Inc. - blues, purple, lime green)
  
• Element: January (time to send out thank you cards for Christmas gifts)
  
• Random: Branch(es)(ing) (I used a variety of branchy plant stamps to create my colorful strip)

 Here's my card...

 For this card I used the adorable "Mistletoe Fairy" digital stamp from Sweet November Stamps.

I made the bright panel for our little Copic Marker colored fairy to peeking out from using a variety of fun Distress Oxide inks and some cool, branchy Lavinia stamp sets. 

I added a pre-made foiled sentiment and a stitched tag to the front of the card too.

Join us Friday at 6:10pm CST for the next episode of Craft Roulette!  Hope to see you there!

~ Ally ~

Crafty Meraki ~ Introducing Meraki Genesis

 

Crafty Meraki is celebrating 5 years in business and I'm so happy to joining their amazing team of creative talent!

Today we're celebrating with a Instagram Hop.

BEGIN HERE:  Crafty Meraki Insta

The card I'm sharing on today's hop stars the beautiful new Press-tacular plate called "Crimson Charm".

 

I foiled today's "Crimson Charm Press-tacular Plate" with a simple gold foil and colored in the gorgeous Dahlia using a rainbow of soft Copic Marker colors. 

For my very subtle background, I also foiled a gorgeous background A2 die called "Sahara Symphony Background Die".  Yes... I foiled a die!  It gives you very fine lines but it still gives you a design!

For the final touch of my card, I foiled an entire sheet of the "Gilded Greetings EAP" with gold foil and die cut it using the "Gilded Greetings Dies" to cut the entire sheet out at once!  I love the concept of foiled a number of sentiments all at once and die cutting them all out at once!  So quick and easy!

Thanks for dropping by!  Don't forget to head on over to Instagram for your chance to WIN one of the gift certificates and also check out all the amazing new designs!

~ Ally ~

Crafty Meraki ~ All My Love Sneak Peek

Today I'm sharing another sneak peek of one of the newest products coming from Crafty Meraki! 

Today we're sharing sneaks of the brand new "All My Love" stamp set, stencil and die!

The whole Crafty Meraki release goes live TOMORROW in the shop!

I hope you'll check out the shop and my blog over the next few weeks where I'll be sharing my projects from this release!

Have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Hearts & Bows

Happy Saturday all!  Today I'm sharing a sweet little card featuring brand new digital stamps from Sweet November Stamps!

Today's card shows all three of our little "Hearts & Bows" little girls released today!

From left to right, I used "Hannah Hearts", then "Hallie Hearts" in the middle and finally, "Helena Hearts".

I made my card to use a birthday card so I added the fun "Happy" banner from the SNS "Holiday Banner Sentiment Pack" to Hallie and Helena's hands.

To finish off the card I used some Catherine Pooler Designs "Be Mine Prints" patterned papers with cute hearts and a Be Mine inked sentiment from Studio Katia.

Love this adorable birthday card!

Have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ My Punny Valentine's Hop **PRIZE**

Welcome to the Scrap 'N Stamp My Punny Valentine's Blog Hop!

Today's hop is all about sharing some punny Valentine's Day projects!

Today's card features the cool "Feelin' Fizzy" stamp set by Catherine Pooler.  This fun stamp set features some cool soda pop bottle shapes, liquid images to fill each bottle and some fun retro sentiments and shapes!

I started by die cutting my popped up panel using the Prism Studio "Nesting Stitched Rectangle" dies for the outside and then the "Nesting Stitched Circles" dies for the inner circle.

I then stamped my die cut elements; the soda pop image, the straw and arrow.  I used Catherine Pooler inks; Be Mine and Party Dress inks.  I used Onyx Black ink from Versafine for the black outlines.  I used the corresponding dies to die cut those 3 items.

Next I positioned my sentiment within the circular window and stamped it using the black ink.

Then I used some CP Twilight ink and added some of the fun bubbles across the top panel.  I also added some cool star shapes from the "Feelin' Fizzy" stamp set across the panel and inside the circular window.  I used some Cotton Candy and Be Mine inks. 

Next I adhered all of the die cut images.  I had to use some 3D foam to add some of the items through the window.

We also have a fun sale on right now...

Now through January 15th we have our Punny Valentine Sale - 20% off!

NOW... check out all the other projects that our design team has to share!!

Here's our hop list...

Scrap'n Stamp
Meghan
Allison
Kate - go here!
Tara
Deepa

Now for the GIVEAWAY...

 GIVEAWAY DETAILS!!

1.  Hop along and LEAVE A COMMENT on each designers blog post.
2.  One lucky WINNER will be chosen to receive a $50 gift certificate to the store.
   
3.  Winners will posted on the Scrap 'N Stamp blog sometime in mid to late January.  Good luck!

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy hopping and GOOD LUCK!

~ Ally ~