Hello everyone, and welcome back! It's the third Saturday of the month...time for another Blog Hop!  Thank you for joining us for another Stamping with Friends Blog Hop!  If you are new to my blog, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up!® demonstrators worldwide who share our love of card-making through monthly blog hops with various themes. If you are following the hop, you'll have just popped over  from  Mickey Moore - "2 Moore Stampers's " blog .  I hope you took a minute to leave a comment for her as I'm sure she'll appreciate it as much as I will. If you are starting the hop with me, thank you so much and I hope you enjoy what I and the other hoppers have prepared for you today! Our theme this month is all about shapes...circles, squares, rectangles, animal shapes...whatever that means to you.  I chose to use a hexagon shape for my quick and easy project.  I hope you enjoy this card and that you will try to make one or two for your...

Hello everyone, and welcome to July...the month of Independence Day, Bastille Day, and my birth month... and thank you for joining us!  If you are new to my blog, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world, who share our love of card-making through monthly blog hops with various themes. If you are following the hop, then you'll have just popped over  from  Diane Evans - Stampin with Diane's  blog .  I hope you took a minute to leave a comment for her as I'm sure she'll appreciate it as much as I will. If you are starting the hop with me, thank you so much and I hope you enjoy what I and the other hoppers have prepared for you today! Today, we are sharing projects that are all about colors.  Our projects must use colors from the 2023 - 2025 In Colors ™, the new Core Colors, or both.  These are the colors that I'm including in today's project. Pebbled Path Boho Blue ...

Are you enjoying my weekly CAS the Catty videos on YouTube?  I know I am! I had so much fun last night CASing the Stampin' Up! July - December 2022 Mini Catalog...I had been wanting to play with this set for a while...and I think the results were amazing!  I took some poetic licenses but pretty much stuck to the cards created by the artists. This was the first card we made ( I actually made a second one).  Measurements: Base: standard A2 (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") scored at 4 1/4" Panel: 4" x 5 1/4" Basic white panel (inside): 4" x 5 1/4", and scrap for sentiment Watercolor paper (6" x 6") should be enough to stamp and die-cut the images. Emboss the panel using the Leaf Fall 3D Embossing Folder Watercolor the bird and the branch For the leaves, on a scrap of watercolor paper; use the watercolor wash technique to apply colors; then die-cut with the leafy die. Stamp and punch the sentiment, then use a sponge dauber or blending brush to apply color ...

 I hope you are truly enjoying the Roll of the Die series that I bring to you monthly, because I surely do enjoy doing them...the creativity, the comraderie, the friendships, and the community.   This month, the elements included: sponging, over-the-top, sympathy, die-cuts, and using colors from the Stampin' Up! Brights collection. My style of cardmaking is generally simple yet elegant so "over-the-top" was a little challenging for me...especially when paired with sympathy.  Oi' ve! I initially made this card...it met all of the elements, but then I thought with the time constraints, I wouldn't have time to demonstrate it properly during the video.  This card I used the copper foil and the retired Soaring Swallows Bundle So I came up with another idea that I demonstrated on YouTube. I used vellum for the floral image and the artistic elements from the Soaring Swallows Bundle. Which do you like the best? If you weren't able to catch the live, click on the video...