Sweetest Blessings Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sweetest Blessings Blog Hop! Jessica has designed card kits with many Gina K. Designs stamp sets that are just fabulous and the Sweetest Blessings Card Kit is no exception. In fact, if you purchase Sweetest Blessings, it comes with a FREE Card Kit (***until August 26th)! Here are two cards I made with this adorable stamp set:

A favorite color combination is Creme de Menthe and Bubblegum Pink and couldn't stop at just one, lol! I also worked in some buttons and Creme de Menthe double-stitched ribbon (love to be matchy-matchy, makes me happy!!).

Sweetest Blessings has the cutest images and sentiments and is sure to meet the need for many a birthday card or simple thinking of you. Please check out these designer's links to see more samples with the Sweetest Blessings stamp set:

• Jessica Fick


• Bev Gerard


• Colleen Schaan


• Sankari Wegman


• Jennie Harper (that's me!)

Then, check out this discussion in the Idea Center to view the card kit that Jessica designed to coordinate with this adorable stamp set. It's free with the purchase of the Sweetest Blessings stamp set until August 26! The StampTV gallery is also filled with lots of ideas that you won't want to miss. Here's the link: sweetestblessings

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful day!

Blessings,

Hey, Cupcake!

I got the general design for this card from a card I saw in Scrapbooks, etc.  It was an advertisement from doodlebug design, Inc. and I wanted to try it using the new Basic Grey designer paper Lemonade. I am love this new paper and think it goes so nicely with Barely Banana.  I used the stamp set Sweetest Blessings and paper pieced the cupcake onto a punched white circle that I sponged lightly with Pretty in Pink.  A nice simple card I think would qualify as CAS!

Birthday Page

Today I have another scrapbook page to share from a sketch challenge.   I just love how I am really starting to make a dent into the pictures I have been developing with the intent of scrapbooking.   Now my hubby doesn't fuss when I ask for so many extras to develop because I *am* using them :o))) For the past 15 years of marriage, we have very carefully placed our family pictures in chronological order in a series of 20 (yes, I said 20) photo albums.  And there is NO WAY I am going back and redoing all of those albums.... (it is just not going to happen) so I am starting with the last year and working from there for a separate way of keeping pictures which the kids will get when they grow up (IF I can part with them...and if not, they will get them when I...well, you know!) :o))

I am working on three separate books for the three kids and have one today of the baby (is he still a "baby" at one? I am not sure about that..) I just loved watching him eat cake. He was the only one of our three who enjoyed getting messy and just ate and ate and ate his birthday cake. He turned one back in March and has just about no hair (you can see it faintly in the natural light, so it is there, LOL!)....I am hoping by age 2 he will grow some but won't hold my breath.

Off for a busy day and back to town again :o)) Have a great day!

Sweetest Blessings~Cake

This is obviously for quite the girly birthday using the stamp set Sweetest Blessings. I just love pink! :o) I added the pearls to the scallops as an after-thought and realize I *need* more pearl stickers! The cake was colored with Copics and then popped up on dimensionals. It has been a full week here...still recovering from being out of town and getting back in the swing of things. Tomorrow is the blog hop for InStyle Stamps and I am excited about what I have to share :o)

Have a great day!

Best Things...

I made this card for a challenge that Joanne has on the Gina K. forum on SCS. The challenge was to use Kraft on a project so I made a card using Kraft cardstock as well as three different GKD stamp sets: The Best of Life, Sweetest Blessings and My Cuppa' Joe. I love how they all worked together for this card. The Pink Pirouette didn't show up quite as dark in the picture, but you get the idea.
Hope you have a wonderful start to your week!

Limelight Sketch Challenge

You all are so nice (no one mentioned the red line stamp dimensional on my card)...I noticed when I was cleaning my craft space the red backing of a dimensional on top of this card and immediately went to my photo file and sure enough there it was...I totally missed it. haha, LOL! Can you find it in the second photo?



Limelight Papercrafts blog has a great sketch challenge on their blog that I just had to try. You can find the sketch HERE and the challenge was to use pink bling. Now pink is my absolute favorite color (I am quite a girly girl) so I was excited to try this one!  The cupcake image is from the new Gina K. set Sweetest Blessings...it is just the most adorable stamp :o)

After coloring the cupcakes with Copics, I covered them with Cotton Candy stickles to make them sparkle (that is where the "bling" comes in).  The sweet sentiment is from the retired SU set: Love Matters.  And don't you just love the designer paper?  It is a sheet in the Basic Grey Bittersweet line...and it is sooo pretty! I am already sad because I am running out... :o(   I know Mandy carries it in here store...you can find it here.

Have a great weekend!

TECC#53

Today I wanted to try Taylor's Cupcake Challenge #53. It is a first time for me doing a challenge from her blog and this sketch just really drew me in to give it a whirl. I think I could get hooked doing these each week (especially since I always need these kind of cards in my stash!).

Sweetest Blessings from Gina K. has the cutest cupcake image and fit perfectly with Taylor's challenge. I used the colors Pink Pirouette and Sage Shadow and some older Basic Grey paper that matched very nicely. The top of the cupcake was colored using a pink Copic and then covered with Cotton Candy stickles...created a great sparkle. The bottom of the cupcake is paper pieced using the same dp as the bottom panel. The heart brads were a Target $ spot find and matched up nicely (and most of all fit with the sketch :o)).

Right now pre-game Superbowl coverage is on so the family is pretty much centered around the TV.
I can stamp and enjoy time together with the family :o)
Have a great Sunday!