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.

World Cardmaking Day

World Card Making Day is this coming Saturday, October 7th. And what better way to celebrate than getting your supplies at a discounted price?!
Select Stampin’ Up! Products are on sale tomorrow through Saturday! Below is a list. Let me know if you have questions, need more info or want to place an order. Enjoy!

What's Up My Witches!

Oh my gosh you guys! I almost forgot to share the cutest card I made for a local swap group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators. This card is so cute. I'm in love with the Toil & Trouble designer series paper. I used up all the stars one on these cards, and I kinda want more!

This is the only photo I have. I totally forgot to get one before I sent them off. So I had to ask the swap coordinator to get a pic for me. Isn't it the sweetest? 

I had the funnest time coloring the witches. It got to practice with my Stampin' Blends, and I love them. They are so much easier than I thought they would be to blend with.

Pssst.....I cheated a bit. That cauldron and cat? Well I didn't color those. I cut them out of the DSP with the framelits from the designer series paper! Yes, there are stamps, but it was so convenient for me to just cut the ones from the dsp because I was making 12 of these cards. I wanted to color the witch. That was fun. But coloring all of that would have been difficult. I was on a time crunch. Because, hello do you know me? Ha ha. I always wait til the last minute. I think I am more motivated when I do that lol.

For this card, I used a fun gate fold and the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase in my SU store:

Paper: Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper, Basic Black Cardstock, Crushed Curry Cardstock, Rich Razzleberry Cardstock

Stamp Sets: Cauldron Bubble
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad, Rich Razzleberry Ink Pad, Stampin' Blends Markers: (Light and Dark) in Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, and Ivory (just one shade in that last one).

Embellishments: Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon

Tools: Big Shot Machine, Swirls & Curls Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Stitched Shapes Framelets Dies (Circle) and Cauldron Framelits
Adhesive: Glue Dots and, Stampin' Dimensionals, Multipurpose Liquid Glue

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

You Are Wonderful Rooted in Nature Card

I feel like I am always apologizing for not being here lol. Life is so annoying ;) How dare it get in the way of my crafty time?!

Today I'm sharing a card I made as a thank you to a customer for her order. This is my first real play with the Rooted in Nature stamp set from Stampin' Up!, and I'm loving it! Those skeleton leaves are gorgeous. And the font for the sentiments in this set makes me swoon. Love, love, love this set. But now I'm pretty sorry I didn't just get the bundle with the dies. Now I need them after searching Pinterest for ideas. *Shakes fist in the air*, "Gah! Pinterest!" It's like a black hole. LMAO. But I adore Pinterest so much.

For this card, I used the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase in my SU store:

Paper: Early Espresso Cardstock, Soft Suede Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock, Coastal Cabana Cardstock (I admit I actually don't have coastal cabana. I used something in my stash from the craft store. But it matched really well. 😊), 
Stamp Sets: Rooted in Nature
Ink: Early Espresso
Tools: Stampin Trimmer, Big Shot Machine, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Ovals Framelits, Leaf Punch
Embellishments: Burlap Ribbon, Metallics Sequin Assortment
Adhesive: Snail Adhesivie Tape Dispenser, Stampin' Dimensionals

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

Dandelion Wedding Wishes

I can't help it. I'm loving this Dandelion Wishes stamp set. It has sentiments for wedding, get well and love. It is so versatile! You can even combine it with sentiments from other sets. I think the dandelion images in this set would be great for a sympathy card.

Today I'm sharing a wedding card for a special girl in our life. She is the daughter of my husband's work friend. And she is the biggest sweetheart. I was so happy to see her meet the love of her life :) They had a rustic, cowboy theme wedding. So I thought this card was very appropriate.

For this card, I used the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase in my SU store:

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

Stamp Sets: Dandelion Wishes

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Early Espresso

Tools: Stampin Trimmer, Label Punch (retired)

Embellishments: Burlap Ribbon, Gold Twine from old Paper Pumpkin kit, Scrap of Aqua Ribbon from Dollar Tree, Button from my Craft Stash

Adhesive: Snail Adhesivie Tape Dispenser, Glue Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals

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

I'm slowly working through my new catalog wish list, one paycheck at a time :) There are so many fun new stamp sets!

 This Bokeh Dots background stamp really caught my eye, but I wasn't sure how I'd ever use it. It's small for a background, and I'm truly not very creative. But I knew lots of ideas would pop up from other talented people, and it would be an awesome addition to my ever growing stamp collection once I got it figured out.

 Enter the Dandelion Wishes set. How did I not see this the first time I flipped eagerly through my catty? I mean, it's so cute! And it compliments the Bokeh Dots set perfectly. As soon as I saw it, I wanted to do a sentiment that said "Wish" in it. Didn't we all make a wish while blowing on dandelions as kids? Nostalgic. 

For this card, I used the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase in my SU store:

Paper: Whisper White Cardstock, Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper

Stamp Sets: Dandelion Wishes, Follow Your Dreams (sentiment), Bokeh Dots

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Tuxedo Black Memento 

Tools: Stampin Trimmer

Embellishments: Metallics Sequin Assortment

Adhesive: Snail Adhesivie Tape Dispenser, Tombow Mono Liquid Glue

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

Follow Your Dreams

Today I'm sharing a card that I created for a new catalog card swap with my team. I've always adored dream catchers. They have a magical quality to them. And, let's face it, they're just so darn pretty. So I was really excited to see this set in the new catalog. 

I used an aqua painter to pick up color from the lid of my ink pad and sweep it across the shimmery cardstock. It is kind of fun to get messy sometimes. And the effect was just what I was looking for.

I'm sort of addicted to sequins. They add such a whimsical, pretty touch. I think they are the perfect finisher for nearly any card. 

For this card, I used the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase in my SU store:

Paper: Shimmery White Cardstock, Flirty Flamingo Cardstock, Scrap of Whisper White Cardstock

Stamp Sets: Follow Your Dreams

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Mint Macaron, Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Marker (Light), Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Marker (Light)

Tools: Stampin Trimmer, Big Shot, Follow Your Dreams Die Set

Embellishments: Iridescent Sequin Assortment, Rhinestone Basic Jewels

Adhesive: Snail Adhesivie Tape Dispenser, Stampin' Dimensionals

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

Father's Day Card

Hey all! I was such a slacker all week that I didn't even have a card ready for my awesome dad for Father's Day! It's a good thing that the Waterfront stamp set makes it so easy to throw one together that looks like it took hours.
I guess I wasn't really a "slacker". I worked all week in Salt Lake from 8:00-8:00, plus I had an hour drive each way, so I didn't have a lot of time. I was excused from convention on Friday, so I got to work at the warehouse in Utah County for a normal shift. But, I was pooped. I'm telling you. Ninety five degrees inside a sales tent is no joke peeps.
Anyway, I'm back now. And I'm so grateful for shade and air conditioning!
I wanted to share the card I made for my amazing dad this weekend. Seriously--everyone always tells me how lucky I am to have a dad like him. And I agree!

I am seriously loving the waterfront stamp set. It gives us peeps that don't have a lot of watercoloring skills a way to make those awesome cards that look so artistic lol. It is so great for any occasion, but especially for the masculine card needs in life. 

For this card, I used the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase in my SU store:

Paper: Whisper White Cardstock

Stamp Sets: Waterfront, Thoughtful Banners

Ink: Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizazz, Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight

Tools: Big Shot Machine, Pinewood Planks Embossing Folder, Stampin Trimmer, Paper Snips, 1" Circle Punch (used negative as a mask)

Other: Gold Twine from an old Paper Pumpkin kit and retired Daisy Delight Designer Series Paper

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