Light it Up for Autism Awareness {Beautiful Just the Way You Are}

Today I am participating in the Light it Up Blue for Autism Awareness blog hop. My friends, Tenia and Veronica have organized this hop to shed some light on Autism. Being an educator, this hits near to my heart and I knew I wanted to be a part of this wonderful celebration. 

World Autism day was yesterday...and I wore blue to celebrate. Today I am linking up a brand new card that I made with some Altenew Stamps called Vintage Roses and a sentiment from Verve called Beautiful.

I went for a clean and simple (CAS) design and used some Verve sequins to highlight my roses. 

There is a FANTASTIC line up of sponsors who have generously donated prizes and time to make this hop all about friendship, support, and fabulous prizes! To link up, be sure to visit the blog of either Veronica or Tenia. Come and show your support.

I used the sketch at Splitcoast Stampers for my inspiration and flipped it upside down.

FUSION {Birthday Wishes in Red, Green & Yellow}

Hi stampy friends! This week I am thrilled to be Guest Designing for my Challenge called FUSION. My dear friend and designer, Amy Tsuruta, is taking this challenge off at FUSION and so I decided to jump in for her!

This week we have a cupcake for inspiration. I create all the sketches and the inspirations for FUSION, and I chose this cupcake because of the cupcake liner. LOVE the texture on it. So I reached into my hoarded stash of embossing folders and chose a criss-cross pattern to mimic the texture on the cupcake liner. I also went with a birthday theme sentiment using the Poppy Birthday stamp set from Verve.

I used the flowers from a retired Stampin' Up set called Peaceful Petals. I wanted the flowers to pop, so I kept my background white. The sketch comes from the current SCS Sketch. I went with an A2 card and used the large yellow flower as the #4 piece of the sketch. I also used the fun colours at The Color Throwdown. The inspiration photo got me thinking about flowers. I tried to find a suitable red copic in my stash, for a more muted look. I tried to shade the large yellow flower to match the yellow flowers on the dress.

Thank you for stopping by my blog! I had so much fun creating my card for FUSION. I hope you will come and play along with us.

SugarPea Designs Stamp Release Day 4 {Bountiful Blessings}

Good morning stamping friends! Wow, Thursday already! Where has the week gone? Today I am happy to introduce another new stamp set from SugarPea Designs called Bountiful Blessings.

I was inspired by the Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge! I LOVED the fun sketch this week...it couldn't be more perfect for my card! I am also sharing my FUSSY cutting skills with Paper Issues.

Our fabulous September release will be available in the SugarPea Designs Online Shoppe at 6:00 AM EST this Friday!

Would you like to WIN the Bountiful Blessings stamp set?! Hop along and visit with the SugarPeas and guests, leaving some comment love along the way! One lucky person will be randomly selected to win the Bountiful Blessings stamp set!

Rhea	Sarah	Mary	Kim
Jennifer	Wendy	Jenny	Tracy
Anita	Simonne	Stacey	Lesley

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Fresh Squeezed Stamps Design Team Card and Playing with a few Challenges at Splitcoast Stampers

Today I am sharing this card at Fresh Squeezed Stamps! This is the time of year a teacher has many special people to thank! I have such awesome volunteers and co-workers who work with me and help me everyday!!! It is nice to create a special card for them.

There is one gal in particular who has gone above and beyond. So I went to work with my favourite stamp sets called Hot, Hot, Hot and Take a Number. I just love the pretty font and the teacup is fun to paper piece!

 

Hot, Hot, Hot                                           Take a Number

I played along with the following challenges:

Splitcoast Stampers-Colour & Sketch Challenges

   

Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge #308

One last post for the night!  I found this neat sketch at the Splitcoast Stampers Website and decided to play with the designer paper called "Elegant Soiree" (117163).  The colours came from the paper, I love Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Very Vanilla together!  So soft and pretty!

I used my En Francais Stamp set to create the back panel.  I love that stamp!  It is my favourite by far!! 

Off to sleep!  Back to work tomorrow.  The snow day is over!!

Smiles,