A summery card and pool pics!

Hello! Today I have a card using a new release from The Stamps Of Life called, swirls4words.  I used one of the sentiments and one of the flowers for the orange panel.  The designer paper is Sasafrass Lass.  The butterflies are die cuts from Cosmo Cricket's Salt Air collection.  I thought these colors were fun for summertime.
It is amazing to me how fast the summer has gone.  We have been busy, busy doing a bit of traveling and hanging out in our little backyard pool.  We bought this pool last summer, and  never imagined it would last for another!  It's one of those soft sided pools that you hook up to a filter, but easy to put up and take down.  It is perfect for the boys (for now).  We would like to put in an in-ground pool when all of the boys are a bit older and stronger swimmers!  For now, this little pool works beautifully!
Below you will find some fun summer photos I took of them the other day.  Will is showing off his new Lego freighter.  We had to get that set since it reminds us of the lake freighters that go by my parents cottage in Michigan!  Max and Luke are goofing around with the pool noodles.  Good times...

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Emily

HELLO

  I wanted to share this card I made using the new release from The Stamps Of Life, standup4sentiments.  I love all of the wonderful vertical sentiments in this set.  This card fit the "collage" challenge over on SCS today, too.  I used several die cut elements and papers from echo park's For The Record collection along with a die from Basic Grey's Saltwater collection.  I added some staples for effect and the baker's twine is from The Twinery.

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Emily

TFD-Whatcha' Got Cookin'? (second post for today)

Hello! Today I made a card using the Tradefish Design set, Grill Master.  I stamped, colored and cut out the chef's hat and spatula. The chef's hat is popped up with foam adhesives.  I wanted to keep this clean and simple, as I may give it to my hubby just for the heck of it!  This set is great for making cards for all of the "grill masters" in your life!  In fact, a lot of Tradefish Design stamps are perfect for masculine cards of all types.  Stay tuned for more cards using Tradefish Design stamps!!!

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Emily

Vote for MEG!

Hi there!  I am asking you to please vote for a fellow blogging friend, Meg in the Gallery Idol competition.  Meg made an AMAZING card for the top twenty. Check out the incredible house above.  I was completely blown away by the design and details of this card.  Below you will find her most recent card for the second part of the competition, do it yourself embellishments.  Isn't she FABULOUS?  Please vote for Meg!!!

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Emily

Hello! Today I have a beachy card for you using the new island2visit set from The Stamps Of Life.  I used a sentiment and the palm tree from this set.  I created a mask to sponge my sun, and then sponged a light blue for the sky.  The water is a layer of Pacific Point paper and the sand is kraft paper that I stamped the "sand" on with brown ink.  The sand stamp is also from this set.  I used a white gel pen for my waves.

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Emily

Exciting Announcement!!!

Hello! Today I have an exciting announcement to make.  I am now a member of the Tradefish Design Team!  Tradefish is a company that is new to me, but one that I quickly fell in love with.  Their stamps are clean, fun and perfect for CAS cards!  I made the card above using stamps from two different sets.  The banner is from the set, Independence Day and the sentiment is from the set, Missing You.  There are two different sized banners perfect for sentiments and words of all sizes.  The stamps are awesome to use...they stamp perfectly the first time. Very high quality clear stamps.

I made this card for the accordian flower challenge over on the CREATE blog.  It is featured HERE on their blog!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I can't wait to show you more projects using Tradefish Designs stamps!

Emily

A couple more CAS cards

Hello!  Today I am sharing a couple of cards I made for the Holiday CAS challenge event on SCS.  You can participate all week and two people will be randomly chosen to be guest designers on the CAS design team.

My first card features part of a die cut border from K&Company.  The sentiment is from TSOL set, daisies2garden.
The second card features stamps from ippity's How You Doin' set.  I love the fun whimsical images and cute matching sentiments in this set.  If you are wanting any ippity stamps, I highly recommend Noelle.  She ships for free and gives you free baker's twine with every order!

Hope you get a chance to participate in some of the CAS challenges on SCS.  My challenge is #12-To use stars on your CAS card!

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Emily

Day full of CAS challenges!

Stamps:  island2vist-The Stamps Of Life

paper:  winter storm white; pumpkin pie (SU)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; SU pumpkin pie and baja breeze

Accessories:  baker's twine-The Twinery

Hello, and Happy Fourth Of July!  Today I am sharing a card with you that I made for the holiday CAS challenges over on SCS.  If you are a lover of CAS design, then you will want to check out all of the fabulous challenges running all day long.  There will be 22 challenges in all, but you don't have to do all of them. You can pick and choose which you do and create at your own pace!

My challenge goes live at 2:00 PM.  It is a "Star Spangled Banner" theme.  My challenge is to use stars in a CAS design, so I decided to think out of the box.  Instead of using regular stars, I used starfish stamps from the new TSOL release, island2visit set!

I hope all of you CAS lovers can play along in some of the challenges today.

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Emily

TSOL July Club Set-Island2visit

Hello!  Can you believe I have two post in one day!!!!????? WOW!  This card was featured on the CREATE blog yesterday.  I used some fab DP from echo park's Splash collection. I punched an orange circle and yellow circle from DP from this same collection, added rhinestones and adhered to the middle of the sunburst.  The sentiment is from the new July club release from The Stamps Of Life.  This set is super fun for summer.  You will be seeing more cards with that set!

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Emily

FWF-Beyond Happy For You!

Hello! Happy Friday.  Today I have a card using my brand new ippity stamps.  LOVE this set, The Best.  It has so many fun banners and a large tag that can be used for many occasions.  If you are wanting some ippity, make sure you go and check out Noelle's ippity site.  She has every single ippity set in stock, she mails you some baker's twine with every order and she ships for FREE!  How awesome is that?
This card is also for the "bling" challenge over on the ippity blog.  I used some My Mind's Eye, "Lime Twist" patterned paper for this card.  Love the bright colors against the kraft base.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Emily