Paper Pumpkin Fun

Hey all. I just wanted to jump on and share what I got to play with yesterday. I haven't had much time or motivation to play with my crafty stuff lately. Do you sometimes get in a funk like that? I watch lots of videos on YouTube of others playing, but I'm just not motivated. It's a cycle for me I think.

Anyhow, this month's Paper Pumpkin was quite motivating! OMG. So much good stuff. This kit was designed to go with three suites in the new catalog (Garden Lane, Come Sail Away and Woven Threads) none of which I really wanted. But now I think I'm in love with Come Sail Away and need it lol. The sailing stuff in this kit really blew me away. And the paper that went with Woven Threads had me swooning too.

Y'all know I did not design these cards. I CASE almost everything I do. It's just easier and funner when I don't have to think about things :) I cased these cards from several people on the Paper Pumpkin Fan Page on Facebook (Molly Partin, Debbie Henderson, Carrie Ricksecker, and Dana Mclelland).

Aren't those sailboat images stunning? And the map paper, which is actually cut from the envelope liners, just really goes so well. I'm also loving the little anchors.

I love the Bird Ballad suite. I can't help it. And the birds in that paper went lovely with the papers provided in the Paper Pumpkin kit this month. 

I find the color combination and patterns in this paper so beautiful. Makes me kind of want to buy the Woven Threads paper now. And, I'll let you know a little secret. That cardstock is not the new Pretty Peacock that is in the papers. That is a retired color-- Dapper Denim (I think). I loved that paper and couldn't let it go. And it is so close that you really can't tell. 

Well, that's all I have for today. I hope you enjoyed it and find some inspiration to get you crafting a bit as well!

Please, if you don't have a demonstrator already, choose me as your demonstrator when you go to make a purchase on the Stampin' Up! website. My name is Chelle Scott, and I live in Utah :)

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. 

Ode to Hello Cupcake

Oh Hello Cupcake, I will miss you. You retired in March, and life just isn't the same without you.

Ok, just kidding. I don't have to miss the Hello Cupcake stamp set because I still have it and won't part with it lol. But, I am sorry if you didn't get it. The good news is that you can do this same card with any cupcake image, or even a cake or cute animal or whatev.

I'm starting to think that whenever I make a card, I should just make two, right? Because I have everything out. And the cardstock sheets make two card bases anyhow. So why not build up my stash?

As everyone knows, I usually CASE cards (copy and share everything) from someone else. It makes my brain hurt to try to come up with a new design. This card is no different. I cased the lovely Mary Haugen at Center Stage Stamping. You can find her card here.

The little heart stickers are the only thing I didn't case. They are also not Stampin' Up! :0 I do have the Well Written thinlits dies, but I was too lazy to get them out. Lol. They are just stickers I had laying around from Walmart.

The twine is actually a strand that I pulled out of the burlap ribbon. Cause I didn't have twine. Smart huh?

Please, if you don't have a demonstrator already, choose me as your demonstrator when you go to make a purchase on the Stampin' Up! website. My name is Chelle Scott, and I live in Utah :)

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. And I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.

Gorgeous Grape Birthday

This coming week we have a lot of birthdays in our family. On May 21st my son will be 22, my sister will be 39, and Shane's aunt will be 65 (those three all on the same day!). My Dad will also turn 65 the next day. So, I have lots of cards to make in a hurry. My son doesn't want one. He didn't want to hurt my feelings, but I understand it isn't his thing. I'm not asking the rest of them lol. I think they will all enjoy them.

Anyhow, I decided to start with Shane's aunt. She is probably the easiest one to make a card for. She likes almost everything I do. And I know one of her fave colors is purple because it was her mom's favorite.

I have been loving the most recent Paper Pumpkin stamp set, Sentimental Rose. It is no longer available, but I had to share how awesome Paper Pumpkin has really become. This set will most likely stay in my stash for a very long time. As long as I love florals or it gets worn out :)

Don't you just love it?! I stamped the background all with the large rose image in Smoky Slate ink too.

Well, that's it for me today. Short and sweet. But stay tuned for more birthday stamping madness :)

For this card, I used the following Stampin' Up! (and some non SU) products available (mostly) for purchase at the Stampin' Up! store. Please, if you don't have a demonstrator already, choose me as your demonstrator when you go to checkout. My name is Chelle Scott, and I live in Utah :)

Stamps: April Paper Pumpkin "Sentimental Rose" set (no longer available for purchase)

Ink: Gorgeous Grape, Pear Pizazz, Smoky Slate, Basic Grey 

Paper: Whisper White Cardstock, Gorgeous Grape Cardstock, scrap of purple patterned paper from my stash (non SU)

Embellishments: Metallics Sequin Assortment, leftover corrugated flag piece from April Paper Pumpkin kit

Adhesive: Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Snail Adhesive

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. And I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.

Happy Mother's Day

Hello again, and Happy Mother's Day! I've had a great day so far. My son bought me some geraniums yesterday, and we'll be putting them in planters shortly this afternoon. We went to breakfast this morning, which is one of my favorite things to do. And hubby told me he will do my dishes for me tonight. So it'll be an all around good day!

Here are my geraniums. Don't you just love them? I like geraniums because the colors are so vibrant and bright. My favorite color is, of course, the red. But that lighter, hot pink coralish one, is really pretty as well.

Two posts in less than a week? What?! Lol. I just had occasions to make cards for I guess. But it has felt really good to be more creative lately :)

I wanted to share with you some cards I made for my three sisters who are mothers. Kim's favorite colors are blue and green. Kenzi's (basically my sister-in-law) favorite color is brown. And, I don't know if Lacy even has a favorite color. But I used pink, green and yellow for her because I like them, and we have a lot of the same tastes.

I actually used gelatos from Faber-Castelle to do Kim and Lacy's cards. But I didn't have any in brown, so I did Kenzi's by sponging brown inks onto cardstock. I love all of them.

For this card, I used the following Stampin' Up! (and some non SU) products available (mostly) for purchase at the Stampin' Up! store. Please, if you don't have a demonstrator already, choose me as your demonstrator when you go to checkout. My name is Chelle Scott, and I live in Utah :)

Stamps: April Paper Pumpkin "Sentimental Rose" set (no longer available for purchase)

Ink: Early Espresso, Bermuda Bay, Pear Pizazz

Paper: Whisper White Cardstock, Watercolor Paper, Scraps of Early Espresso and Pool Party, and the pink one is the inside of an envelope liner from the April Paper Pumpkin kit. 

Dies: Butterfly Beauty Die

Embellishments: Metallics Sequin Assortment

Adhesive: Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Snail Adhesive

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. And I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.

2019 Graduation Card

Hey friends! I know it's been a while. I can't be consistent these days to save my life! Ugh.

Anyway, I did want to let you know that I'm still alive lol. And I wanted to share a quick card I made today (even though it uses retired dies *gasp*). The large numbers are already retired, and the Sunshine Wishes Dies will be retired as of June 4th. So buy them before June 3rd if you want them!

My sister asked me to make a graduation card for someone whose school colors are purple and gold. I have to say, I love to make graduation cards with the retired large numbers dies from Stampin' Up! I'm so sad they retired. I use them for at least one graduation card a year. Not usually for myself, but by request from family and friends.

I should definitely mention that I pretty much cased some cards made by another demo, Bonnie O'Neill, to make this design. 

For this card, I used the following Stampin' Up! products available (mostly) for purchase at the Stampin' Up! store. Please, if you don't have a demonstrator already, choose me as your demonstrator when you go to checkout. My name is Chelle Scott, and I live in Utah :)

Paper: Gorgeous Grape Cardstock, Gold Glimmer Paper, Gold Foil Sheets, Vellum Cardstock

Dies: Large Numbers (retired), Sunshine Wishes Thinlets Dies (retiring too! So sad.)

Embellishments: Gold Faceted Gems 

Adhesive: Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Mini Glue Dots

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. And I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.

April Crafty Sharing

Just thought I'd check in and share a couple of cards I've made over the last couple of weeks.

The first one is a card that I really love. I made it for Shane's birthday. He turned 45 this week. I can't believe we're in our 40s. Time really does fly. I still feel 20 in my head. My body, now that's a bit different :) I actually made two of these so I could use one for my Dad for Father's Day.

As you can see above and below, I decorated the flap of my envelope as well as the inside of the card with some extra pieces of patterned paper. I love decorating and personalizing things that I gift to people. I hope that it shows my love and care for them. 

As I have mentioned many times in the past, I hardly ever come up with card designs on my own. I almost always copy someone else's genius. I have the desire to create with my hands, but not to design lol. I think I can leave that up to people who are truly good at it and just happily go about emulating their talents to the best of may abilities. I think most people don't mind that. Otherwise they wouldn't share their work. But, I do want to give credit where credit is due. So, with that in mind, I got the above design from the extremely gifted Making Memories with Michelle.

This design from Julie's Japes I just loved when looking for ideas for using up my Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper. I got two packs for free during Sale-A-Bration, so I have lots to use up :)

For these cards, I used the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase at the Stampin' Up! store. Please, if you don't have a demonstrator already, choose me as your demonstrator when you go to checkout. My name is Chelle Scott, and I live in Utah :)

Waterfront Birthday Card:

Paper: Crumb Cake Cardstock, Early Espresso Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock, Wood Textures DSP

Stamp Sets: Waterfront and Picture Perfect Birthday

Ink: Garden Green, Granny Apple Green, Crushed Curry, Pacific Point, Bermuda Bay

Adhesive: Snail

Botanical Butterfly Card:

Paper: Basic Black Cardstock, Gorgeous Grape Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock, Botanical Butterfly DSP (no longer available)

Stamp Sets: Butterfly Gala

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Light Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Marker, Light Rich Razzleberry Stampin Blends Marker (I just colored the small butterfly. The others were cut from the DSP.)

Tools: Pretty Label Punch

Adhesive: Snail

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. And I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.

Sharing a Thank You

I know....it's been FOREVER since I blogged. It's how I roll lol (My son says I'm too old to say that. I say, whatevs :). 

I honestly haven't been making many cards :( I go through these phases where I just don't really wanna. I still love looking....and buying :0 

But, I do feel the itch for papercrafting coming back. In fact, just last week I made these two cards as a special thank you for some customers at work.

Sometimes I think that I have a lot more motivation to create a card if I know who it's going to. In fact, I know I do lol. I think it allows it to be more personal, even if I don't really know the person. I don't know. That might just be me. I definitely know it's more personal when I am well acquainted with the recipient. Because then I usually have an idea of what they are into as far as hobbies and interests as well as colors they like or dislike.

For these, they were going to ladies who use essential oils. So I wanted some nature going on. And usually green and purple are popular colors for essential oil enthusiasts. So that's what I was looking for with my paper choices. I haven't used the "Share What You Love" paper near enough. And it's gorgeous. So I decided to use that for these cards.

Of course, you guys, I found inspiration on Pinterest. I am not that talented! This design was taken from the card you can find here by the talented Chris at BuckeyInklings.

For this card, I used a fun fold (I think it's called the joy fold?) and the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase at the Stampin' Up! store. Please, if you don't have a demonstrator already, choose me as your demonstrator when you go to checkout. My name is Chelle Scott, and I live in Utah :)

Paper: Share What You Love Designer Series Paper, Rich Razzleberry Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock

Stamp Sets: Love What You Do

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Grapefruit Grove, Pear Pizazz

Tools: Stampin' Trimmer

Embellishments: Pearlized Doilies, Share What You Love Artisan Pearls

Adhesive: Snail, Tombo Mono Multipurpose Liquid Glue

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. And I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.