Catherine Pooler's Celebrate Friends Stamp of Approval

It's time to celebrate friends with a NEW Stamp of Approval Box from Catherine Pooler!  Welcome to Day 1 of the blog hop featuring this fantastic collection of celebration goodies!  For the first time ever you get to pick what is in your box!  Do you want coffee...or tea...or both?  And there's some add-ons that you will also want to grab a hold of too!  This collection will be available on Tuesday, April 24th!

Introducing the Celebrate Friends Collection
This Stamp of Approval box is packed FULL of great products.  And guess what?  There is a NEW INK color (the actual color is a surprise!) included in the collection!  Yippee!!  

If you are unsure what the Stamp of Approval Box is, it is a quarterly hand picked, exclusive collection of products that were designed just for the box. The stamps, dies and other fun products in the Stamp of Approval Collection won’t be released for individual sale for several months over at the Catherine Pooler store. 

Be sure to subscribe to the Wait List so you will be emailed the purchase link when the collection goes on sale on April 24th! These boxes do sell out quickly so if you want I'd suggest getting it now or it may be gone! 

Yay! Hooray! Celebrate!

My favorite stamp set in the collection is probably the one I used to create this first card called Punctuated Party stamp set.  There are so many fun possibilities with this set!

I love the color combo on this card.  Something a little different for me and unexpected and it just works with these stamps.  I used Juniper Mist (this is such a pretty blue!), Party Dress, Lime Rickey, Sauna & It's a Girl to stamp the 1/2 circles on White Premium cardstock.  I offset each one as I stamped.  After I completed the pattern I added in some black dots from the same set.  The cute speech bubble and YAY! are also stamps in the set.

For the bottom portion of the card I die cut the super cute Hooray & Celebrate word dies from the collection out of Catherine Pooler Vellum (I love the thickness of this vellum, it is perfect!) and attached them over the top of the background.

What is in YOUR Cup?

Each of the team members was sent either the tea collection or the coffee collection to work with.  I am representing Team Tea!  I don't usually drink hot tea but I do love cold peach tea...have you tried the peach tree at Olive Garden?  YUM!

A Cup of Tea Solves Everything

I love, love, love the photos where cups are stacked and knew when I first saw the set that that was something I wanted to do with this set.  The tea cups in this set are so cute!  

I started by using the Scattered Circles Stencil in the collection.  I inked it up with Sweet Sixteen, Mint to Be, Shea Butter & It's a Girl making sure to overlap the colors slightly to help with flow. I die cut the tea cuts & tea pot with the add-on Cuppa Tea Dies (I totally recommend getting these, it'll make cutting out the handles so much easier!!) and then stamped the mugs & tea pot with the same colors.  There's possibly a new ink color somewhere on this card, can you find it? :)   

I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock with Sweet Sixteen & Mint to Be ink, masking off the "solves" so I could stamp it in 2 colors.  This was super easy to do using the Misti.  That cute little aqua border is a border die included in the collected called Bordering Sweet dies (there's 2 in the set).

Keep Hopping!

To see more from the Celebrate Friends Stamp of Approval collection, be sure to visit all of the designers who are posting today!

Catherine Pooler
Maureen Merritt
Ilina Crouse
Josefine Fourage
Lydia Evans
Jen Carter - that's me!

Also be sure to visit Catherine's blog tomorrow for more sneak peeks from this collection. And come back here on Tuesday, April 24th at 6 PM EST for more projects from me as we celebrate Release Day!

Here's Your Chance to WIN!

Comment to win! THREE random winners will be chosen to receive a $97 Gift Certificate to the shop. Winners will be announced Monday, April 23rd at 6 PM on Catherine's blog.

Thank you so much for joining me today!  I hope to see you back on Tuesday for another Release Day Sneak Peek!

Spring Sunflowers Thank You // Right at Home Stamps + Catherine Pooler Ink Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello!  I am excited to be a part of a special collaboration blog hop featuring Right at Home Stamps & Catherine Pooler ink.  Right at Home recently started carrying the awesome Catherine Pooler ink line and today we are showing off the inks with Right at Home products!  Be sure to leave a comment on my post because a random commenter will get to choose an item of their choice from the newest Right at Home release.

Spring Sunflowers

I am a Kansas girl and I love sunflowers!  When Right at Home released the Sunflower stamp set, I knew I needed it!  I also knew that I wanted to create with that set for this blog hop but it's Spring now, not Fall when you typically see sunflowers.   Well, needless to say I played with lots of Catherine Pooler ink colors to put together some "Spring" sunflowers while also honoring the traditional colored sunflower as well.

I die cut three of the large sunflowers and using my Misti and the stamping guide that Nicole has put together (found here) started stamping the flowers & leaves in various ink colors.  My favorites, shown here were stamped with:

• Pink Flower: It's a Girl & Be Mine; Leaves: Mint to Be & Seafoam
• Yellow: Sauna & Tiara; Leaves: Garden Party
• Coral: Polished & Tutti Frutti; Leaves: Garden Party & Lime Rickey

Now let's talk about that background!  I really love the Watercolor Background stamp from Right at Home.  Here I stamped it with Tiara ink but once I stamped this one I kept going and going and going and sometime soon I'll show you a whole card set I've put together using these same stamp sets in lots of fun colors!

The sentiment is from another gorgeous stamp set called Script Greetings that has four large script words/phrases and coordinating smaller sentiments to go along with them.

Comment to Win

Be sure to leave a comment to win an item of your choice from the newest Right at Home release.

Keep Hopping for Lots of Inspiration

Right at Home

Melissa Miller

Chrissie Tobas

Tracie Pond

Ashlea Cornell

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Ilina Crouse

Laurel Beard

Jen Carter

Karen Baker

Jenny Colaciccio

Kristie Goulet

Maureen Merritt

Kelly Martin

Susan Powell

Thank you so much for joining me today!! I hope you all have a very sunny day! :)

Eat, Sleep, Create Mixed Media Class at StampNation

There is a fun new class going on over at StampNation that teaches all about Mixed Media called Eat, Sleep, Create.  This was a little "scary" for me because it was outside the box but once I loosened up, I had a lot of fun.  This class also includes tips and tricks on Bible journaling and I've shared a sneak peek at the end of this post.  The full project can be seen at StampNation.

Here's the card I created for this class.  I used Distress Oxide inks to create the background: Picked Raspberry, Lucky Clover, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers & Cracked Pistachio.  I also sprayed some Sparkle Shimmer on it once it dried to give it some sparkle.  The stamps in the background are from Lil' Inker Designs Unstoppable stamp set.  I added a little gold glitter washi tape also.

The sentiment is from Neat & Tangled and is called Hope Anchors.  It embossed in black on a piece of Catherine Pooler Vellum that was die cut with one of the Lil' Inker Designs Dual Dotted Rectangle dies.  I added some Iridescent Bubbles from Studio Katia to finish the card off.  

Here's a sneak peek of my Bible journaling project that I've shared on StampNation.

For more information about StampNation and the StampNation community, check out this page.  I hope you'll come over and join in on the fun, learning & sharing!

Grads, Weddings and a Giveaway Too!

It's that time of the year when weddings will be happening more frequently and students will be graduating.  In honor of that I have two cards to share today AND a giveaway for leaving a comment!  More details about that below.

Edit: This just in!  

Many of the products I've used on this post are on sale until 9 PM EST on April 10, 2018!  Shop here now!  

You Did It!

I'm always looking for fun but easy cards to use for graduation.  This year I'm thinking ahead because we have quite a few that we'll be attending this year.  I like cards that I can mass produce but also use school cards on each one to individualize them as needed.

Our school colors are orange and black so I knew I wanted to use those colors for this card.  As I was looking at the gorgeous floral stamps in the Perfect Reason stamp set I start visualizing how I could use this set differently and this card was created.  I used the pieces to the flowers for different elements on the background stamping them in black & Orange Twist ink.   I took a piece of Midnight cardstock & embossed the fun sentiment from the You Did It! stamp set in white and attached it to the panel with dimensional tape.  For the right edge of the card I used a small piece of Black Tie Gala patterned paper.

Wedding Congrats
I have a wedding to attend next weekend and so this card was made with that in mind.  Again as I was looking at the stamps I wanted to use them in an unexpected way.

I started by stamping the Congrats from the You Did It! Stamp set in the middle of my card panel with All that Jazz Ink.  I stamped over that again, using my Misti, with VersaMark ink and embossed it using the best embossing powder Wanderlust.  I just love how you can still see the ink underneath but it adds a layer of glitter over the top!  I then used quite a few of the stamps in the Paisley Peacock stamp set to stamp the paisleys & leaves around the outside edge of the panel.  I used a BG49 copic marker to add a touch of color to the inside of the leaf-like image.  For the middle layer I cut a piece of white cardstock a part and layered it on top of a Midnight cardstock base.  I attached the Congrats panel to the top with dimensional tape.

Giveaway Details!

Up for grabs is one Perfect Reason Stamp & Die Bundle.  All you have to do is leave a comment on this post by Saturday, April 14th.  One commenter will be picked randomly to win!  This giveaway is eligible for US residents only.

Thank you so much for joining me today!

All that Jazz Shop at: CP	Midnight Ink Shop at: CP
Orange Twist Shop at: CP	You Did It! Stamp Set Shop at: CP
Perfect Reason Stamp Set Shop at: CP	Paisley Peacock Stamp Set Shop at: CP
Midnight Cardstock Shop at: CP	Black Tie Gala Patterned Paper Shop at: CP
Wanderlust Embossing Pwd Shop at: CP