Mikki's Creative Corner: Festival of Prints

Sunday, September 9, 2012

FMS 51 - Button Buddies & Punches

Design Team member Cindy Hall over at Freshly Made Sketches is the hostess for the week who created this fun sketch to play with, FMS#51. If you would like to join the fun, you can click here to go directly to the challenge.

Here is mine below:

Loving this paper and color combination as you can see from previous posts but bare with me. I promise my next card will be totally different including the color combo and paper.

Once again, Festival of Prints is the DSP along with Cherry Cobbler, Black, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, and Whisper White. The sentiment comes from the set: Watercolor Trio (now retired). Adorning Accents Edgelits with matching embossing folder were used to create the scallop border on the side.

Punches are so fun and made this card fun to do. I used the Blossom punch in Old Olive as my base for the flower along with the stamp set: Button Buddies.

To create the flower dimensionaI, I stamped it three times using Cherry Cobbler and used my little scissors on 2 of them. The 1 3/4" Scallop Punch was used to start this flower. Afterwards, I layered the 3 on top of one another using Stampin Dimensionals. Added a button on top to finish it off. Hope you enjoy and have fun creating!!

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Mojo Monday 257 - Lacy & Lovely Again

Another week at Mojo Monday, MOJO257. This week designed by the talented Julee Tilman herself. Since it's the beggining of the month, it's contest week where you have a chance to win some Verse Stamps up to 7 winners max. Click here to go directly to the challenge.

Most importantly, have fun with the sketch. I was glad myself to work on a card and with this beautiful sketch. Here is mine below:

Yes, I had to create another card with this stamp set: Lacy & Lovely along with the DSP: Festival of Prints but added some new elements to this one.

Here is one of the newest Sizzlits Delicate Doilies with Black cardstock as my base circle. Used the 2 1/2" circle, 1 3/4" circle, and 1" circle punches for the focal point. Behind that I used Basic Gray cardstock along with DSP stack from the neutrals collection.

Not to forget, also used some Crumb Cake with the stripes embossing folder on this card as well.

Used the new Finishing Touches Edgelits in Whisper White and love the look of this border contrast.

Stampin Dimensionals always adds a nice touch and were used under two layers of circles to pop it up. Also, some Basic Pearls were added as final touches. Hope you enjoy and have fun creating!!

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Mojo Monday 256 - Lacy & Lovely with Festive Prints

Another week at Mojo Monday, MOJO256, with another sketch designed by Julee Tilman. For me, it's another Sunday. I won't tell you how long this took, but I will say I almost gave up completely on it since I could not decide on which papers and combination worked best, than it was a decision on stamp set and so on, but finally finished it.

This will be a short post since I've been on my computer most of the day fixing it and running out of time, but wanted to get this card posted. If you would like to join the fun click here to go directly to the challenge. It's a super cute sketch. Here is mine below:

Loving this DSP called: Festival of Prints....so many choices and not just for Christmas!! Used the embossing folder: Stripes with Crumb Cake cardstock. My focus was trying to mantain a 2 tone look for this card, Black and Cherry Cobbler. Used the Designer Frames embossing Folder to give me another texture for the oval.

Added Basic Rhinestones on each corner and flower from the stamp set: Lacy & Lovely. Sentiment also comes from this terrific set. Card Measures 5 x 5 square. Not to forget, stampin dimensionals were used under the 1 inch circle. Hope you enjoy and have fun creating!!

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Pals Blog Hop August 2012 - Holiday Catalog

Glad you could join us for some holiday crafting with the Stampin' Pretty Pals! You've probably hopped over from Kim Luithle at Kim's Stampin Stuff, I'm stop number 20 on the Pals Hop and I'm glad you hopped in! I'll help you "hop along" from blog to blog where you'll find great ideas for Stampin' Up! projects featuring the new Holiday Catalog! Should you hop off course, simply click on any of the links in the Pals Hop Line-up below and you'll be back on track

Here is mine:

So many choices from this year Holiday Catalog and such beautiful DSP such as this one called: Festival of Prints. This DSP comes in a paper stack of 48 sheets with each sheet size (4 1/2 x 6 1/2"). Perfect for cards and several prints to choose from. You'll love it!!

Oh and what about this stamp set called: Friendship Preserves, it's so versatile and has matching Framelits to go with it. This one is called: Window Frames Collection. One of my favorite among the Holiday Catalog.

Even better yet, it also has a Paper-Piercing Pack which I also used for this card. The best way to get this would be as a bundle purchase to save 15% that includes the stamp set (Friendship Preserves), Framelits, and Paper-Piercing Pack.

The colors used for this card are obvious to many, but just in case here are the colors used: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, and Black cardstock and for the main focal point, I used Island Indigo ink. I was thinking of coloring the leaves, but at the end felt it was better just as is.

Almost forgot, I used my favorite: Stampin Dimensionals under each layer of the framelits, which is hard to see in this picture, but in person you see how it pops out throughout the layers.

Also a SPECIAL THANK YOU TO Nicole Watt, who custom designed our adorable holiday hop badges and buttons with Stampin' Up! My Digital Studio. Hope you Enjoy and Have Fun Creating!!!

Now hop along for more inspiring ideas from Angela Curry at Kindred Stampers, stop number 21 on the Pals Holiday Catalog Blog Hop! Thanks for "hopping" by!