StampNation Beach Vacation Blog Hop!

Today we are kicking off the StampNation Summer Beach Vacation event with a Blog Hop. Each of the StampNation Dream Team members, along with some of our crafty friends, are hopping along sharing cards inspired by our first challenge, "Beach Style", as well as a peek at our favorite projects from the event!

Here's my card for the first challenge

What is my Beach Style? 

Packing up and heading to the sand. The retro van because it is JUST THAT COOL and palm trees in the background. I used Avery Elle's new Surf's Up beach inspired stamp set for my card which allowed me to colour the van retro orange, toss a surfboard on the roof and of course some silver Wink of Stella for the hubcaps!  To stamp the palm tree on the ocean side of the van I created a post it mask of the surf board and the van, masked them off and stamped the palm.

It's time to hop along now. Make sure you leave comments at each of the blogs listed below to be eligible to win...

One of THREE one month StampNation memberships.

Plus...

$25 Pretty Pink Posh Gift Certificate

Ellen Hutson $25 Gift Certificate 

Choice of Lawn Fawn Stamp Set & Let's Polka 6 x 6 Pad

For each of these prizes, one winner will be randomly drawn from all the blog hop comments. A second winner will be chosen from all the challenge entries at StampNation!

You will have have until 11:59 pm EST on July 27th to leave a comment. Winners will be chosen randomly and will be announced on Monday, July 28th on Catherine's blog www.catherinepooler.com/blog .

Catherine Pooler

Maureen Merritt

Kristie Goulet
Heather North
Allison Cope
Virginia Lu
Iwona Palamountain
Paulina Nakamura
Jean Manis
Suzanne Dahlberg
Sandy Allnock
Amy Sheffer
Tracey McNeely

Not a StampNation Sistah yet? We hope you will join us. Learn more here. http://www.catherinepooler.com/pages/stampnation/

This event is going to be SO MUCH FUN! Here's a peek at another project I have coming later this week...

TYIC #2

Are you ready for Challenge #2 at Tag You're It?

This challenge we have the super talented Laura Bassen as our Guest Designer and she made this gorgeous tag to share with us:

I was inspired by the gorgeous colours of Laura's tag, the embossed background and the botanical theme.  Here is what I created:

Head over to to Tag You're It so that you can seen how the rest of the Design Team has been inspired by Laura's tag and to inspire you to create and link up your own tags!

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Top Dog Dies - Butterfly Belly Band Gatefold Card

Happy Friday!

I am on today over at the Top Dog Dies Blog with a tutorial for this Butterfly Belly Band Gatefold card. Fun and easy to make using the steel-rule Top Dog Dies A2 Card #1 and the Butterfly Die Set. I would love it if you popped over to have a look and let me know what you think!

I am also submitting this card to Virginia's View Challenge #5 - Die Cutting

Have a great weekend!

StampNation Beach Vacation Guest Designer!

I am so excited to finally be able to share with you that I am one of the Guest Designers for the StampNation Dream Vacation Event!

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When Catherine Pooler contacted me a  couple month's ago to ask if I would like to join the StampNation Dream Team for this event I didn't have to think twice.

Click HERE to see the announcement with all the details for this fun summer event!

Top Dog Dies Weekly Post

It's Thursday and that means time for my weekly Top Dog Dies post.
Today I have a card to share with you that is made using two exclusive Top Dog Dies...

Signature Antique Die
Sew Much Fun

I ran a folded A2 card base through my Sizzix placing the fold just outside of the steel blade on the left of the die so that it did not cut the base into two pieces. I ended up with a shaped card. I covered the front with some of my coveted Bella Blvd. Snapshots patterned paper. Then I cut a bright pink and then a smaller white panel to put in the centre of the card. The patterned paper is now a frame. I embellished the card front with two spool of twine from the Sew Much Fun die set.

CCC #104

Time for a new Cue Card at CASology!

The cue for this week is:

Tell me what kid would love to have a pet monkey!
The monkey image was not hanging from anything, so on his own he seemed out of place on the card. So I stamped him on a circle and then put the brown scallop frame on the circle.  Still looking a bit lost I stamped some greenery at the top of the circle, grounding the monkey image.

1.  One main image--monkey
2.  Lots of open space

3.  Limited layers & embellishments--scallop frame

4.  Quick & easy to recreate

Head on over to CASology today to learn what the 'cue card' means to you, how you can play along and see the all the cards created by the Design Team to inspire you.

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely (that's me)

Jen Wills

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Judy Marino

Meghan McMillan

Gillian Ross

Kimberly Weiner

Joyce Mehrberg

May Sukyong Park

Guest Designer: Angela and Lindsey

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Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Anything Goes

Today marks the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge 1st Anniversary!

What a fabulous year it has been!

Let's celebrate with an Anything Goes challenge!

photo source:  decoritdarling.net

and that's not all!

We have loads of sponsors for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Anything Goes!  Check out all of the amazing prizes that our sponsors are giving away to YOU, our randomly selected challenge participants!  A LEAD and several SHOW STOPPERS will also be named from the Anything Goes challenge gallery!

Sugar Pea Designs

$15 Gift Certificate

Newton's Nook

$20 Store Credit

Neat & Tangled

choice stamp set

The Cat's Pajamas

$25 Gift Voucher

Lawn Fawn

Say Cheese Lawn Cut Die

Paper Sweeties

$20 Gift Cerfificate

Pretty Pink Posh

$20 Gift Certificate

Uniko Studio

£15 Gift Certificate

My Favorite Things

$25 Voucher

Linnie Blooms

12 x 12 Scrapbook Kit

Paper Issues

Swag Bag

Clearly Besotted Stamps

 £15 Gift Card

Taylored Expressions

$25 Gift Certificate

Reverse Confetti

$15 Gift Certificate

Verve Stamps
$30 Gift Certificate

Another Faux Shaker card!

The other day I made a faux shaker card, HERE. I decided to make another one for my card today. I will still make shaker cards, but these are so fast and easy and the sequins stick because you glued them down. My card started off with inspiration from Laura Bassen for a card that she created using Four Square for the January Papertery Release. I adhered a piece of acetate behind the square and over the hole, then I adhered some sequins to the card base, popped up the square and then popped up the flower and adhered it on top of the acetate. It looks awesome in real life.

Curtain Call Crew

Amber Kroening

Amy Kolling

Amy Tsuruta

Gayatri Murali

Kim Singdahlsen

Laurie Willison

Lisa Henke

Marisa Ritzen

Maureen Plut

Monika Davis

Sheri Gilson

Sarah Gough

Stacey Schafer

Tenia Nelson

Tracey McNeely

Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Anything Goes for the challenge details and to play along with us!

LOTS OF SPONSORS!