New Blog Design, Re-Design of Circle Card, Plus Free Card Give Away

I am so excited to share my new blog look with you! I absolutely love it!! The new look was created by the talented creative Lesley Croghan who recently launched a new business called Banners by Lesley, where she is selling pre-made blog banners using all Stampin' Up products!!!

In addition to the pre-made blog banners, she also offers custom blog banner with matching shop button, which is what I decided to go with. I must say she nailed it with the colors and graphics of what I was looking for and her response time is outstanding.

If you have been wanting to update your blog, you can click here to go directly to her site and check it out.

Now moving on to the re-design, I kept looking at one of my previous cards and decided to re-vamp it a little and to show you how you can take the same card and or layout and make some slight changes and convert it to another look.

To see the orginal card, you can click here

Let's see, what did I change (might be obvious, but I'll go over it). First, I changed how you opened the card, before you opened right to left, now you open it bottom to top with the straight edge on top versus on the left hand side.

Second, I added a sentiment, I felt it needed a purpose and the saying "Hello" is perfect for any day occassion and so pleased that this set came with it. Than I decided to sponge the circle using Chocolate Chip ink. Wow!! this made a difference, don't you think??

Last but not least, I changed the flower and leaves to be more on the right side of the focal point versus in the middle. Now there you go......slight changes, but it can make a difference on the look of the card.

Hope you enjoyed the redesign of the card and my new updated Blog.

This Card Can Be Yours

Please let me know what you think of the changes of the card and Blog by leaving a comment on this post. I will randomly select a winner using Random.org to receive this card from all the comments left on today's post. I will announce the winner on Sunday September 4th.


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MOJO201 & PPA104 - Combo Challenge - Elements of Style

 

Wanted to try a challenge combo and since I enjoyed the circle layout sketch, MOJO201 from the the Mojo Monday Website and the PPA104 Paper Piercing challenge at the Pals Paper Art, I figured to combine both in one card.

Here is what I came up with

This is the top view of the card using the stamp set: Element of Style and again the DSP paper called: Beau Chateau. I just love this paper and can't put it away quite yet. For the scallop circle card, I used the Bigz Die called: Circle Scallop.

You may be asking where is the paper piercing, well here it is on the inside of the circle easel card.

For the inside, I cut out a 3 3/4" circle in Very Vanilla and than cut out a 3 1/2" circle in DSP (Beau Chateau). Before placing it down, I used the mat pack and paper piercing tool to poke holes around the circle.

For the sentiment, I used Early Espresso ink and punched it out using the Modern Label Punch and for the Mat behind the sentiment (Marina Mist cardstock), I used the Mover's and Shaper's Punch Window Set.

Here is the finished look when set up as an easel card. Almost forgot, I added stampin dimensionals under the sentiment, so when you open the card, not only does the sentiment pop out at you, but the top card has a place to rest on when sitting upright. Hope you enjoy the combo.

If you would like to join the fun, click here for the Mojo Monday challenge MOJO201 and click here to join the fun at the Pals Paper Arts PPA104 challenge.

Complete List of Supplies:

• Stamp Set - Element of Style (120045)
• Inks - Early Espresso (119670) 
• Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Marina Mist
• DSP - Beau Chateau (122357) 
• Other- Stampin Dimensionals (104430),  Basic Pearls ( 119247), Mat Pack (105826), Paper-Piercing Tool (116631), 5/8 " Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon
• Punches - Mover & Shaper's Punch Windows (115953), Modern Label Punch (119849)

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PPA104 - CAS Element of Style Paper Piercing - Posy Punch

Don't want to miss out on this week's challenge at the Pals Paper Arts. The challenge is an Element of Style - Paper Piercing and I love to poke holes. All you need to do is create a CAS, (Clean and Simple) card using paper piercing and link it to their website by clicking here. So poke away!!! 

Here is mine

For this card, I decided to focus on a circle card to change it up a bit from the normal 4.25 x 5.5 " that I normally do. In addition, I focused on it being clean and simple which is always a challenge for me. I always feel there is something missing, but this one I was happy with.



I started off by poking holes along the left hand side of the chocolate chip cardstock to define the circle more and than took the Pink Pirouette cardstock and paper pierced the sides to add more definition to it using the mat pack and paper piercing tool.

I used the new hostess set called: Posy Punch and stamped it with Marina Mist Ink and than used the matching punch called Fancy Flower to punch it out. Afterwards, I took another image and stamped it using Soft Suede Ink and put stampin dimensionals under it before putting it in the center and added dimensionals under the fancy flower itself also.

Last but not least, I added Basic Pearl in the center and 5 little rhinestones around the flower to give it a little sparkle. For the leaves, I used the stamp set called: Build a Blossom which comes in super handy when you want to add some leaves to any flowers with Pear Pizzazz ink on top of Pear Pizzazz cardstock.

Chocolate Chip circle size is 3 3/4"

Pink Pirouette strip measures 5/8" width x 3 3/4"

DSP: Beau Chateau approx 1/4 of the 3 3/4" circle

Complet list of supplies:

• Stamp Set - Posy Punch (Hostess) (122482) C (122480) W
• Inks - Soft Suede (115657), Marina Mist (119668), Pear Pizzazz (119784) 
• Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Pear Pizzazz
• DSP - Beau Chateau (122357) 
• Other- Stampin Dimensionals (104430),  Basic Pearls ( 119247), Mat Pack (105826), Paper-Piercing Tool (116631)
• Punches - Fancy Flower (118073)



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Mojo Monday MOJO201 - Sketch - Elements of Style

Staying on track with this week's Mojo Monday MOJO 201 Sketch design by Stephanie Kraft. Two choices this week and both are cute, either round or square, your pick on which one. If you would like to join the fun click here to go directly to their website.

This week, I decided to do square, but also thinking of doing round....maybe during the week since both sketch designs are really cute.

Finally got a chance to use another new DSP paper called: Beau Chateau with the stamp set: Elements of Style. Love this color combination, I would say it's one of my top favorites.

Marina Mist, Pretty in Pink, and Chocolate Chip are just a few colors that match up with this new DSP paper, and what I used for this card. Also, as always, Stampin dimensionals was used for the bird along with Chocolate Chip 5/8" Satin Ribbon.

Card size measures 5 x 5

Complete list of supplies:

• Stamp Set - Element of Style (120045) 
• Inks - Early Espresso (119670) 
• Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip
• DSP - Beau Chateau (122357) 
• Other- Stampin Dimensionals (104430), Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon (124327)
• Punches - Large Tag (119876)

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