Flying By to Say Hi!

Hello everyone!! Boy is it windy today here in Kansas!  It reminds me of Pooh's Blustery Day that my kiddos use to watch when they were really little! :)

I found a perfect challenge to play along with for this Fall, blustery day!  This week at The Card Concept the theme is "Thank" Fall.

It didn't take too much to be inspired by this theme considering when I step out the door there are leaves blowing everywhere!

I pulled out my Frantic Stamper Small Birch Tree die and cut it out with white cardstock to make the birch trees. I also cut the trees in the dark gray cardstock that I used for my outer frame to fill in the "holes" in the bark.   I love the photos of birch trees with yellow leaves so that is the direction that I went with this card.  I cut "leaves" from 3 different shades of yellow.  I needed small leaves but didn't actually have a leaf die the right size until I realized that the hearts in the Singing in the Rain die set would work perfectly! Score!  I adhered them with micro glue dots which I love to use to adhere small die cuts and sequins with!

To make the leaf trail I used a tool that has been gathering dust lately, my Paper Piercer.  I cut my dark gray layer and my light gray layer out with the Elementals #1 die set.  It's hard to tell from the photo, but I popped up the light gray inside stitched panel with dimensionals so it is slightly raised from the frame.  I cut out the outside frame 3 times and glued it together so it has a slight dimension to it as well without adding a lot of bulk.  The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn's Flying By set which I embossed with Mustard Zing Embossing powder.

 Small Birch Tree die

Elementals #1 die set

Singing in the Rain

I'm also suppose to explain what card style I used for this card.  That is hard for me but I'm going to say Clean & Layered.

I'm also entering this in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.

Thanks for visiting today!

Clearly Whimsy Stamps Release Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of the Clearly Whimsy October 2014 Stamps Release!

Today we have some more great sets to share with you!  All of the new stamps & dies that we are sharing are available now in the Whimsy store! My post today is all about the holidays.  Since yesterday was Halloween I am going to start there! 

When I was playing with the Penguin Fun dies I noticed that one of them looked an awful lot like a ghost.  I love getting more bang for my buck so I took that die and stamped the penguin eyes onto it.  I also used a light gray copic marker to outline the ghost.  I used the new Scandi Christmas stamp set to decorate the tag.  I stamped one of the borders included in the set repeatedly in Halloween colors, some of which are covered up by the ghosts.  I cut the "sweet" with the Sweet as Candy Large Word Die.

Now moving on to Christmas...

I love making non-traditional Christmas cards with non-traditional Christmas colors.  I love celebrating the true meaning of Christmas, but I just get so tired of red & green.  I like mixing it up a little!  So that is what I did with this card.  I used one of the border strips from Scandi Christmas and embossed each row in a different color.  

I added some vellum, attaching it by wrapping the backs around the backside of the card mat.  I then attached the beautiful Christmas Large Word die that I cut out of red glitter paper.  I embossed the 'Merry" from the Scandi stamp set and then added some groupings of colorful sequins to match the embossed stripes.

Along with this release Clearly Whimsy is also announcing a new challenge blog called ShowCASe Your Style Challenge blog with the first challenge starting TODAY!!  Here's a little about the challenge: "Our new challenges will be dedicated to Clean & Simple stamping and card making and is brought to you by Clearly Whimsy Stamps. New challenges will post every other Saturday by 8am ET. Our awesomely talented design team will be using Clearly Whimsy Stamps clear sets and coordinating dies on all of their challenge inspirations. Players do not need to use Clearly Whimsy Stamps to play along, but if you have any of our products, we would love to see you use them on your challenge entries."

Today's challenge is to make a card using 3 of the items from the tic-tac-toe grid.  

For the card above, I chose to use the sentiment, red & emboss squares on my card!  We'd LOVE to have you play along!  

Here is a peek at the sets the team is showcasing today:

And guess what!! There is a 10% off sale on all of these new Clearly Whimsy products until Sunday, November 2nd!

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop!  Be sure to visit each of the team members and comment on their posts for more chances to win!

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Simonne Clay

Amy Kolling

Alanna Moses

Michelle Short (GDT)

Heather Pulvirenti

Debbie Eastman

Sylvia Blum

Jen Carter -- You are here!

Lisa Henke (GDT)

Becky Carafa

Denise Lynn

Thanks for joining me!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Clearly Whimsy October Release Day 2

**This is my second post today!  If you are looking for my Lil' Inker Designs post, please scroll down!  Thanks!**

Happy Halloween!  Welcome to Day 2 of the October Clearly Whimsy Release!  Today the design team is sharing projects made with 3 stamp sets & 2 dies.

Today's card features the light set in the Sparkle & Shine stamp set.  I love that there are 2 different shapes you can choose to make the lights! After I stamped the lights in several different colors of ink, I used a touch of crystal Stickles to make them shine.  I really like the big "Merry & Bright" sentiment included in this set too!  To finish it off I added some clear sequins.

The products we've featured today are:

Don't forget that there is a sale going on!  Until Sunday you can get 10% off the new products being released at the Whimsy store!

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop!  We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment to be entered into the drawing:

Michelle Short (GDT)

Heather Pulvirenti

Becky Carafa

Simonne Clay

Jen Carter -- You are here!

Denise Lynn

Amy Kolling

Debbie Eastman

Alanna Moses

Lisa Henke (GDT)

Sylvia Blum

Thanks for joining me today!  We'll be back for a release blog hop tomorrow!

Happy Days: Lil' Inker Designs Release Day 3

Welcome back to day 3 of the Lil' Inker Designs release!  If you are following along in the blog hop you should have come from Erin Schreiner's blog and if you'd like to start at the beginning, visit Laura's blog!  There are three $15 gift certificates to the LID store up for grabs, so the more blogs you comment on, the better your chances are of winning!

For today's card I used the Cover Up Die: Snowflakes to create my background on top of a kraft card base.  I added glue to certain areas on the snowflakes and dumped some chunky glitter on top.  My sentiment, from Big Christmas, was embossed in red on a panel cut with the Stitched Mats: Rounded Rectangle dies.   

This next card uses a fun new die called the Baubled Christmas tree die. I die cut the tree from white glittered cardstock and then added some fun enamel dots & pearls to the inside.  

The sentiment is also part of a unique new die set called Stitched Script Holiday Word Dies.

Thank you so much for visiting this week!  Don't forget to leave a comment to win!  The more blogs you comment on, the better your chances are of winning!  There's plenty more inspiration to see using these sets today!  Your next stop on the hop is over to Karen's blog!

Thanks again for stopping by and for leaving your sweet comments!

Laura Pryor

Amy Kolling

Chrissy Larson

Erin Lee Schreiner

Jen Carter -- You are here!

Karen Baker

Kristen Foreman

Laura Williams

Lea Lawson

Lisa Henke

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Maureen Merritt

Sarah Jay

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