Thanks a bunches

Card details:

Stamps: Back2Basics, Tinyand2Cute from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Pale Plum, Certainly Celery, Confetti White, Marina Mist

Inks: Color Box Spray by Stephanie Barnard in Grape, Bordering Blue, Certainly Celery, Not Quite Navy

Embellishments: Talk4Bubbles from The {Stamps} of Life

Card details:

Stamps: Talk4Phone from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Confetti White, Real Red

Inks: Real Red, Night of Navy, Bordering Blue, Bashful Blue

Embellishments: Chevron and Talk4Bubbles dies from The {Stamps} of Life

Card details:

Stamps: Turtle2Love and Talk4Phone from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Regal Rose, Confetti Cream, Crumb Cake

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Regal Rose

Embellishments: Talk4Bubbles die from The {Stamps} of Life, Fancy Labels #4 from Sizzix

Introducing ABC Letter Die

Today the new ABC die from The {Stamps} of Life was released.  This is a fun die set that coordinates with letters2color, zebra2letter and outline4letters so a lot of different sets to work with it.

I've been using it in my Project Life album, it's perfect for scrapbooking.

My first card I created some of my own patterned paper and then die cut the letters out of it.

Card details:

Stamps: Daisies2Garden and Tinytitles2stamp from The {Stamps} of Life

Card Stock: Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Confetti White

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Licorice and Banana

Embellishments: My Minds Eye Boy Crazy enamel dots, ABC dies from The {Stamps} of Life

Wanted to get creative with this card and combine it with some of the sentiments, so I emphasized the Happy Birthday with just using the die cut for the first letter of the sentiment.

 Card details:

Stamps: Greetings4birthday, Letters2color from The {Stamps} of Life

Card Stock: Soft Sky, Confetti White, Teresa Collins Memories paper

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

Embellishments:  ABC dies from The {Stamps} of Life

By far one of my favorites of my collection and am sorry I couldn't get a better picture of it.  I love using the Sizzix die to create these layered flowers.

Card details:

Stamps: Letters2color from The {Stamps} of Life

Card Stock: Basic Gray, Confetti White, Real Red, Teresa Collins Memories Paper

Inks: Basic Gray, copic

Embellishments: Sizzix Flower Framelits, Letter die from The {Stamps} of Life, Want2Scrap pearls

Hope you are having a great Sunday and thanks for stopping by to visit my blog!

Sorry I missed your birthday...

Just a quick share this morning.  If you haven't heard the news over at The {Stamps} of Life and their new club, you might want to jump over and see the announcement.

I created this card with one of my favorite color combinations for the summer time.  I cut a few of the Banners #2 Sizzix Framelits after stamping them with Guava ink.  I tucked them under a strip of solid paper to give it a "flag" look.

My itty bitty snail is from the Snails2mail set and I colored it with copics and then added some chunky glitter to the shell.

Inside my card says "better late than never"

Hope you are having a good Tuesday!

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Card details:

Stamps: Snails2Mail from The {Stamps} of Life, Banners #2 Sizzix Framelits

Cardstock: Hibiscus Burst, Whisper White, Basic Grey, Tempting Turquoise

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice and Guava, Basic Gray

Embellishments: Stephanie Barnard Chunky Sprinkles Glitter

Banner Dies

Looking for a great banner stamp, The {Stamps} of Life has one that works well with the Sizzix Framelits Banners #2 die.  I know this is one I'll use often in my scrapbooking-perfect for party pictures.

Here are a few I created with this set, Banners2Cut that was released today.  Hope you enjoy.

Card details:

Stamps: Greetings4Birthday and Banners2Cut from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Confetti White, Pumpkin Pie, Cool Carribean, Teresa Collins Tell Your Story

Inks: Pumpkin Pie, Cool Carribean, Memento Tsukineko Gray Flannel

Embellishments: Janome sewing, Sizzix Framelits Banners #2

This is by far my most favorite card in the group, I adore the color combination of the dark brown and bright pink against the craft paper.

Card details:

Stamps: Daisies2Garden and Banners2Cut from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Confetti White, Paint the Town Pink, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Chocolate and Guava

Embellishments: Sizzix Framelits Banners #2

Card details:

Stamps: Mums2Love, MoreMums2Love and Banners2Cut from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: River Rock, Hibiscus Burst, My Mind's Eye Portobello Road

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Bubble Gum and Guava, River Rock

Embellishments: Sizzix Framelits Banners #2, Basic Grey Candy Buttons

This card I used one of the stamps to created the framed background on my card.  I like how it turned out and will try to space a little in between next time to give it a little more of a different pattern.

Card details:

Stamps: Crayon2Stamp and Banners2Cut from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Confetti White, My Favorite Blue Jeans

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Cornflower and Chocolate

Embellishments: Twine, Stampin' Up! basic pearls

Alpha Fun

This week The {Stamps} of Life released 3 more sets, moreladybugs2love (one that coordinates with the ladybug set I used last week), a swirls background and this adorable Alpha4Fayleen set.  

If you've been to any of the stamps shows that The {Stamps} of Life has attended, you may have met Fayleen yourself as she attends many of them helping out.

Never can have enough love cards and this sentiment was perfect for what I had in mind.  I sewed my little banner on my cardstock and then embossed the little hearts from the ladybugs2love set in red.

This next card has to be one of my favorite color combinations.  I'm not sure what it is about the turquoise/orange/black combination but I am always turning to it.  (Maybe why the Teresa Collins-Tell Your Story patterned paper pack is one of my favorites).

I simple stamped the hello from the Alpha4fayleen set on my paper and used the mums2stamp and moremums2love to create a focal image.

Hope you enjoyed seeing the use of the new alpha set and if you want to see some more incredible creations, jump on over to The {Stamps} of Life gallery to see what others are doing with it.

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Card details #1:

Stamps: Alpha4Fayleen and Ladybugs2love from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Real Red

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Strawberry, Versamark

Embellishments: Janome Sewing, Clear Embossing Powder, mini rhinestones

Card details #2: 

Stamps: Alpha4Fayleen, Mums2stamp and Moremums2love from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Teresa Collins Tell Your Story

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice and Tangerine

Embellishments: Zva Crystals

LadyBugs2Love

Have you seen the new Ladybugs2Love set from The {Stamps} of Life?  Does it make you wish summer were here already?  I know it does for me.

Here are a few cards I created with this set, I know my little ladybug girl is going to absolutely love this set!

This first one above I wanted to use some of the new sprays I got and decided to use it on the sentiment instead of on the background.  I added some of the chunky glitter to the little ladybugs.

card details:

Stamps: Ladybugs2Love from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Creamsicle Cardigan, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White

Inks: Color Box Tangerine and Licorice, Stephanie Barnard Sprays from Color Box-Tangerine

Embellishments: Chunky Glitter from Stephanie Barnard

card details:

Stamps: Ladybugs2Love from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White

Inks: Color Box Strawberry and Licorice

Embellishments: Scallop Border Dies, maraschino twine

card details:

Stamps: Ladybugs2Love from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: So Saffron, VIP Purple, Confetti Cream

Inks: Color Box Grape and Licorice

Embellishments: Scallop Border Dies, scattered straw distress stickles

This is a little 3 x 3 card to accompany the paperclip.  I added some of the polka dot body of the ladybug as my strip through the middle by masking off using a post it note.

card details:

Stamps: Ladybugs2Love from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Paint the Town Pink, Basic Black

Inks: Color Box Guava and Licorice

Embellishments: ruler, large paperclip

Want to see some more darling samples using this set-make sure to check out The {Stamps} of Life gallery.

Snow Joy

I shared this on SCS yesterday as it was for The Paper Player's Challenge to use Snowmen (or hopefully snow girls).

This card was originally being done for the 10 minute craft dash too, but I went over a little, so I'm not going to enter it in that (use red).

The color combination on this card is one of my favorites, holiday or otherwise.  I opted not to color my snow girl and the little birdie is popped up on her shoulder.

My little girl & I are off tomorrow to Alabama for our first cheerleading competition of the season, we are so excited and hoping that this new team places a bit this year.

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Card details:

Stamps: Snowgirl Roly-Poly from Frog's Whiskers Ink, Trees4Christmas from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Cool Carribean, Real Red, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic, Color Box for Stephanie Barnard- Strawberry

Embellishments: Basics Pearls-Red, circle punch

Sweeter than honey

I have some more Bee cards to share for you.  I had a blast with this set as I usually do with any of The {Stamps} of Life sets.  I had a hard time breaking from the black, white and yellow bee scheme.

Card details:

Stamps: Hive4Bees from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Whisper White and Basic Black from Stampin'Up!, Say Yellow to All Your Fans from Clear & Simple Stamps

Inks: Copic Y38, Color Box for Stephanie Barnard in Licorice and Banana

Embellishments: Sizzix for Stephanie Barnard Fancy Labels #4, Dimensionals from Stampin'Up!, Say Yellow to all your fans ribbon from Clear & Simple Stamps

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I don't care for bees, and being swarmed doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but these swarming bees are too cute around their hive.

Card details:

Stamps: Hive4Bees from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Golden Tiara, Crumb Cake

Inks: Copic Y38, Color Box for Stephanie Barnard in Licorice

Embellishments: Washi tape from Crafty Steals, Lemondrop Twine from The Twinery

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My last card incorporates the Background4Bees set to create my own patterned paper.

Card details:

Stamps: Bee4Me and Background4Bees from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, My Mind's Eye For the Record 2

Inks: Color Box for Stephanie Barnard in Licorice

Embellishments: Crystal Lacquer

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Hope you have a wonderful Monday!  I enjoyed my girls weekend and now need to get in the holiday frame of mind.

Happy 13th Birthday

Today is some more new releases over at The {Stamps} of Life.  This release there are a few sets I like, but I knew that the numbers2stamp and the crayonletters2stamp would be wonderful to work with in my Project Life albums (which I'm behind on).

My soon to be teenage son was invited to a co-ed birthday party this past weekend and so I thought this set would work perfectly to make the girl a 13th birthday card.  

For my banner, I stamped my cardstock with the dictionary4me before cutting out my pennants.  I decided to create my own background for the large strip so I stamped my cardstock with the animals4print set.

I used the current Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #166 for this card, I think it worked perfectly for a teenage girl.  This is also for the current challenge over at There She Goes for their 4th anniversary to use banners.

Card details:

Stamps: Greetings4Birthday, Animals4Print, Dictionary4me and Numbers2Stamp from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Mauved by the Paprazzi, Basic Black, My Mind's Eye Blush

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice, Mauved by the Paprazzi 

Embellishments: Sizzie Plain Pennant Banners, Circle Spellbinders, Janome Sewing

Tickled Pink

I was so excited to see how many different ways this new crayon set can be used.  The gallery at The {Stamps} of Life has got some really fabulous creations in it already and once the club members begin receiving their sets it will fill up with even more.

When I saw this sentiment, it made me immediately think of a Congratulations card for someone expecting a little baby girl.  I used the crayon scribbles to highlight the Congratulations on the card and this layout is one of the MFT Wednesday Sketch Club and is my one of my favorites!

This is for the Stamp It! Cards Congratulations Challenge in the Moxie Fab World

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Card details:

Stamps: Crayons2stamp from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Melon Mambo, Whisper White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Bubblegum

Embellishments: Mark Richards metal stickers, scallop trim border

Praying for you

Last night as I was face timing with my friend Vicki, we discussed how popular hexagons are now while we were stamping away.  I was creating this card for the new release for The {Stamps}of Life which is available to our club members today.  Are you a club member?  Check out the many benefits of being a club member here.

Yesterday there was a fantastic tutorial over at SCS on dryer sheet flowers so I had to try my hand at it.  I love how it turned out and am thinking I need to do some more laundry now :-)

I used the current Retro Sketch for this card-another CAS sketch that I can see using over and over again.

Off to venture over to a park today and then follow it up with a stop to my local stamp store-preparing my wallet for the damage I may do there.

Card details:

Stamps: Hexagons2love from The {Stamps}of Life

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Golden Tiara

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Chocolate, Smooch Spritz by Clearsnap in Sun Kissed

Embellishments: Scattered Straw Distress Stickles, SU rhinestone Brad