Stampin Addicts Mega Retiring Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the Stampin Addicts Mega Retiring Blog Hop! We have tons of great ideas to help you decide which retiring sets you HAVE to have before they go away forever :)

If you are following the hop, you most likely arrived here from Heidi's blog where she featured Game Night. Didn't she do an awesome job?!

The set I chose to feature is Wanted. The thing I love about this set is it's versatility. It can be masculine or feminine, for the very young, the teens, and the mature adult... it's all about the colors you use and which images you chose :)

These have the Father's Day sentiment on them, but that could really be changed to just about anything. And as you will see, I am currently addicted to my white gel pen, lol! I also lined these cards with decorated Kraft  (soon to be Crumb Cake!) card stock.

Patriotic Father's Day card

• Stamps: Wanted, Teeny Tiny Wishes
• Paper: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Kraft
• Ink: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Chocolate Chip
• Other: Circle Designer Brads, Real Red polka dot  3/4" ribbon (flipped over), Clear rhinestone brads, Signo white gel pen, paper piercer with mat pack (to poke holes for brads)

Earthy Father's Day card

• Stamps: Wanted, Teeny Tiny Wishes
• Paper: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Kraft
• Ink: Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Whisper White Craft
• Other: Signo white gel pen, Tempting Turquoise 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Fresh Favorites I buttons, crochet thread, paper piercer with mat pack, Stampin Dimensionals, sponge

Doesn't this set make wonderful backgrounds?! I LOVE that about this set!

Ok, this next card I made for my hubby for our 20th wedding anniversary, which last week. Yes, I am still crazy about my love :) Life wouldn't be nearly as good without him. Sniff, sniff.... sappy moment here... OK I'm good now, lol.

Ok, so after putting the whole card together, I realized that my writing is crooked and I had to squeeze a "c" into "wicked", lol! But I think you have to give me points for bucking up and using my own handwriting! I mean come on, it's not the best you have ever seen, but it is legible. I just hope my embellishment at the bottom isn't to girlie, lol! My hubby did have a big smile on his face when he read it, so he must have liked it. :) I also couldn't resist adding some glitz to this card, I sprayed the card base with Log Cabin Smooch Spritz.
This is a half fold card (5-1/2 x 8-1/2)

• Stamps: Wanted
• Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Naturals Ivory, Soft Suede
• Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede, Old Olive
• Other: Twill tape, Scallop Circle punch, 1" circle punch, clear button, paper piercer with mat pack, crochet thread, sticky strip, distressing tool from Cutter Kit, Signo white gel pen, Stampin Dimensionals, silver brads, Log Cabin Smooch Spritz

This was my first try with that particular ribbon technique. I think I like it! I used up most of my 3/4" Twill tape though! 

This is a little gift card and an almond can decorated to use as a gift holder (think baby socks or a fancy onsie), or as a shower favor, or a votive candle holder as a baby shower decoration. I bet you all could think of more things to use it for ;) I also used the new Smooch Spritz in Vanilla to add a lovely shimmer to the paper. It is so hard to capture that on film!

• Stamps: Wanted, Teeny Tiny Wishes
• Paper: Whisper White, Soft Suede, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink
• Ink: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Soft Suede
• Other: Pinking Hearts border punch, White Satin ribbon, crochet thread, Fresh Favorites I buttons, Playground Designer buttons, Boho Blossoms punch, Designer Label punch, Stampin Dimensionals, Smooch Spritz spray in Vanilla

These last 2 projects are a treat bag holder and a 6x6 scrapbook page. The treat holder I made with a 4th of July party in mind. Wouldn't these make cute favors for the kids?! Of course, they will get lots of candy at the parades, but they always want more. I had some Sweet Stripes in the house (leftover from Christmas!) and they actually fit right in with the theme! I used the small Cello bags which are 3x5.
The picture on the scrapbook page was taken by my daughter on graduation day for Dakota. We had just eaten our feast of burgers and brats, and everyone was just chillin on the new downstairs deck. Charlene caught David drifting off to sleep, lol! I think it took about 10 minutes to make this page, including the planning! That is record time for me. Really, I mean it!

Stars and Stripes Treat Holder

• Stamps: Wanted
• Paper: Kraft
• Ink: Real Red, Night of Navy
• Other: Platinum Shimmer Paint, sponge dauber, Signo white gel pen, Star punch, Double Rectangle punch, paper cutter with scoring blade, Real Red 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, small cello bag, SNAIL

Wanted: Nap page

• Stamps: Wanted
• Paper: Soft Suede, Naturals Ivory
• Ink: Soft Suede
• Other: distressing tool from Cutter Kit, Very Vanilla Hodgepodge brads, paper piercer with mat pack, Signo white gel pen

Well, I hope you enjoyed my projects! Be sure to come back later this week for more details on the treat bag holder, and more pictures of the other projects! And don't forget to order your favorite retiring sets by June 30th!

Now on with the hop! You can continue on to Melina's blog where she is featuring Only Ovals.
Or you can go to the Blog Hop thread and hop around at random, it's up to you.
Thanks for stoppin', and happy hoppin'!

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Be sure to join us for a fabulous weekend of projects featuring all those sets that are retiring and you just HAVE to have, lol! You can check out the Blog Roll here.

June Stamp Club Projects

This month, I went a little wild with the projects....we made FIVE! And the amazing thing is everyone was done before 9:00pm!  Amazing!

These cute little note cards with their own cute pockets/envelopes were inspired from the June issue of Stampin Success, the Stampin Up! demo magazine. They used a new set from the upcoming catty, but this is super cute too!

• Stamps: Dreams du Jour, Bella Toile BG
• Paper: Whisper White, Naturals White, Pumpkin Pie, Dusty Durango, Old Olive, Island Oasis DSP
• Ink: Old Olive, Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie, Dusty Durango
• Other: Paper cutter with scoring blade, Horizontal Slot punch, lossom Party die with Big Shot, bone folder, Signo white gel pen, distressing tool from Cutter Kit, Stampin Dimensionals, Sticky Strip, paper snips, Dusty Durango and Soft Suede polka dot ribbon, Bitty Buttons, 1-1/2" Old Olive Striped ribbon, Hemp Twine

 Ok, I realize this is really bright. In real life it looks much better, but I could not get it to look any less vibrant. These pictures are from last year when the older boys went to Bluewater Bible Camp. They had a great time! I love that pic of the owl, just eye-popping! Along the bottom edge, I stamped the grass image from Inspired by Nature in Yoyo Yellow, making it shorter each time I stamped. To me that looks like lake shore reeds and grasses.

• Stamps: Inspired by Nature, Define Your Life
• Paper: Yoyo  Yellow, Close to Cocoa, Dusty Durango, Gable Green
• Ink: Yoyo Yellow, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa marker
• Other: signo white gel pen, distressing tool from Cutter kit,, Chocolate Chip Corduroy button, Trio Flower punch, Stampin Dimensionals

This is a super cute and fast project! I got the tutorial from Rhonda on her blog here. I used bamboo skewers for these umbrellas.

• Stamps: Petal Pizazz, Itty Bitty Bits
• Paper: Bermuda Bay
• Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay
• Other: Scallop Circle die with Big Shot, paper cutter with scoring blade, Signo white gel pen, paper piercer with mat pack, Sticky Strip

 Here we are using some of my almond cans. A 2x11" strip of paper fits wonderfully around these cans! We just wrapped some 1/4" Tempting Turquoise ribbon around the can, secured with glue dots on the ends, and made the flower embellishment with the 5 petal flower punch and Fresh Favorites II buttons and attached with a glue dot!

And the last project I have to share is this adorable card! I love this set! I used the Finial Press embossing folder on a strip of Tempting Turquoise and then sponged/rubbed Whisper White Craft ink on it. The Kraft card stock on the right of the card is stamped with the border stamp from the set in 3 colors. this was super easy to do with the clear mount stamps! The Bitty Punch pack helped with the flowers in the Old Olive strip.

• Stamps: Pedaling Past
• Paper: Kraft, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive
• Ink: Whisper White Craft, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip ink and marker, Tempting Turquoise ink and marker, Going Gray marker
• Other: Finial Press embossing folder with Big Shot, Signo white gel pen, Scallop Trim border punch, Bitty punch set, sponge

Wow, that was a lot of typing! I hope you enjoyed our projects!

Girlie Grad Card

We had a grad party to go to this weekend for one of Dakota's friends and this is the card I made for Faith. This is a more feminine version of the card I made for the Blog Hop.

• Stamps: Happy Grad, Motorcyle
• Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Island Oasis DSP
• Ink: Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie
• Other: Soft Suede polka dot ribbon, gold brad, Stampin Dimensionals, Signo white gel pen, Corner Rounder punch, distressing tool from Cutter Kit

And I just have to share my amazing plants with you. I say mine because I bought it, but the credit has to go to Deer Haven nursery, a small local greenhouse that is only open for about a month in the spring, lol.

I hung it in the corner of the house on our upstairs deck and it is so gorgeous I just stare at it sometimes, lol! It will apparently get much larger and form a teardrop.

Well, it is a gorgeous day, I'm not working, and I have club projects to plan and cut out, a swap due in TN on Friday, and  new blog hop to make projects for! And I just placed an order for the new catalog preview today and treated myself to next day air shipping! I am sooo bad! But I have 3 days off and I don't want to waste any time waiting for my stuff to arrive a minimum of Friday afternoon and I have to work on Saturday! Oh, the justifications I can come up with ;) Just think of the preview projects I will be able to do! Ok, I better get to work on the stuff I need to finish before the new stuff comes in the morning!

Oh, and today is our 20th anniversary! Jamie is working in Crookston though and won't be home until tomorrow midday, probably after I get my box of goodies, poor guy! Here is a recent picture of us with our new high school graduate, Dakota :)

And one of all of my kids together!

Geoffrey 14, Dakota 18, Charlene 19, David 20- aren't they a good-looking bunch of kids! I am a little biased though ;)

For those of you who have lived in Minnesota, you will recognize this as a typical Minnesota Good-bye. It takes three times to actually get gone, lol!
 So here it is- I really must go now!

Itty Bitty Bits Card

Is everyone having a great Monday?! I am! It is the first time in 2 weeeks tha I don't have to be somewhere of do something for anyone else :) And I have tomorrow off too! Now maybe I should work on a swap or 2 ;)
I guess I had better post the 3rd project from club this month. We made a card featuring the new Presto designer series paper and the Itty Bitty bits stuff. Love those tiny little buttons and coordinating punches and stamps!

So this is what we made! The phrase on the front was just what was handy on my stamping desk, but you could put anything there. Maybe I was thinking of my hubby when I was making the card, I mean he has been out of town working alot, lol! The Presto paper is white 12x12 heavy card stock with white embossed images on it already. You can then do all kinds of resist techniques on it! Here we just took 1" x1.5" pieces of the Presto paper with a script image, then rubbed an inked sponge on each piece and wiped the excess ink off the embossed part. Quick, easy, and gorgeous! I stapled the ribbon on then mounted the inked Presto block with Stampin Dimensionals.

• Stamps: Itty Bitty Bits, You & Moi
• Paper: Bermuda Bay, Creamy Caramel, Presto Patterns Specialty designer series paper
• Ink: Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry, Creamy Caramel
• Other: Paper piercer with Mat Pack, Crushed Curry and Bermuda Bay polka dot ribbon, stapler, Itty Bitty Bitty Buttons, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, needle and crochet thread, Stampin Dimensionals, Distressing tool from Cutter Kit, sponges

Thankful Peacock

This is a card we made in Stamp Club back in July or August, but apparently I never posted it and one of my club ladies was looking for it in vain. Well here it is! We used the Rock and Roll technique on the peacock with Green Galore and Bermuda Bay. Then used the 2-way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds to add some glamour to the peacock and the Medallion BG on the card base. I also made the scallops off-set on the matted main image just to mix things up :)

• Stamps: Very Thankful, Medallion BG
• Paper: Green Galore, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White
• Ink: Green Galore, Bermuda Bay
• Other: 2-way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Scallop Edge punch, Bermuda BAy polka dot ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals

Drifting Hearts on Thoughtful Tree

I made this card for a friend who is going through a hard time right now. I just wanted her to know I was thinking about her. I wanted to have flowers drifting off of the tree but I couldn't make small enough ones for this tree. So I used the Pinking Hearts border punch and put those little confetti hearts to good use! I had to use my paper piercer to pick them up and put them on the little dots of glue, but it worked out great! This is a 4x4" card, and I took the picture with my Blackberry so it is not very good, but I had to hurry up and use the only camera I had with me before I gave this card away! The ink wasn't even dry on it yet when I sent it with my friend's husband :)

• Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Vintage Vogue
• Paper: Tangerine Tango (coming back soon!), Old Olive, Naturals White
• Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
• Other: Square Lattice embossing folder with Big Shot, Distressing tool from Cutter Kit, Pinking Hearts border punch, paper piercer (to pick up the tiny hearts!), Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint