CSF Saturday Hop - New 2024 In Colors

Today's Create With Stamping Friends Saturday Hop theme is our favorite new In Color! That's a tough call because I love them ALL this year, but right now I guess it's Petunia Pop. I'm sure that will change, though. 😁

This is the card I'm sending Mom, who will be 89 in a couple months, for Mother's day. I'm not worried about her seeing it here, because all she uses her laptop for is playing Solitaire and reading books from the library. Occasionally she gets on Facebook, too, but I don't think she even knows my blog exists, so it's safe to show it now!

I borrowed the Stippled Roses bundle from my friend and downline Sherry, so I could make a bunch of "useful bits" as we like to call them. We swap bundles sometimes so we don't have to each buy everything in the catalog. Our tastes are amazingly similar (she has good taste, haha), so we always have something the other one wants to play with.

Stippled Roses and the Stipples Roses dies are carrying over to the new annual catalog, but they are only available as 10% off bundled savings until the end of this month.

That's all for today - see you next Saturday! Up next is Libby Fens at Libby Stamps. Or click the "back" button to go back to Lori at Loritamarie Crafts.

Stampin' Up! products used:

• Stamps: Stippled Roses
  
• Paper: Basic White, Petunia Pop, Mossy Meadow
  
• Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Mossy Meadow, plus Petunia Pop and Mossy Meadow Stampin' Blends Combos
  
• Accessories: Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder, Stippled Roses Dies, Countryside Corners Dies, Everyday Details Dies, Petunia Pop 3/8" Bordered Ribbon, Iridescent Pearls
  

Thursday Challenge - CSF815

Today's Create With Stamping Friends Thursday Challenge is a sketch and I knew immediately that I wanted to use zinnias as the two focal points. Here's the sketch we used:

I am absolutely loving the new In Colors (they start in 6 days!), and for this card I chose Peach Pie on a Basic Beige background. The 4" x 5 1/4" Basic Beige was embossed with the Eyelet 3D folder, and a White Craft ink pad was lightly dragged over to show the detail a little more. It was then adhered to the BB card base. It's subtle in the photos, but shows up better in real life.

Onto the background I added a 2 1/4" x 4" piece of Peach Pie Glimmer Paper and a 1 3/4" x 4 3/4" piece of Peach Pie DSP. The zinnias were cut from Peach Pie and Pumpkin Pie (now I'm hungry for pie, lol) with Crushed Curry and Daffodil Delight centers.

The greeting and Pumpkin Pie zinnia are popped up - everything else is adhered to the card base with liquid glue. That's all for this week. See you next Thursday when the new Stampin' Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalog will be live!

CSF Saturday Hop - Warmer Weather

Today's Create With Stamping Friends Saturday Hop theme is something that represents Spring's warmer weather. We had the first hummingbirds show up this past week, and that always signals Spring for me!

I am so glad Thoughtful Expressions is carrying over, even if the dies aren't I know I'll be using that hummingbird many more times!

This hummer is colored in Petunia Pop and Shy Shamrock, two of the new In Colors coming May 1st.

That's all for today - see you next Saturday! Up next is Libby Fens at Libby Stamps. Or click the "back" button to go back to Lori at Loritamarie Crafts.

Stampin' Up! products used:

• Stamps: Thoughtful Expressions
  
• Paper: Basic White, Bubble Bath, Shy Shamrock
  
• Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends Combos Petunia Pop and Shy Shamrock
  
• Accessories: Thoughtful Expressions Dies (retiring!), Everyday Details Dies, Fun Patterns Embossing Folders, Petunia Pop Bordered Ribbon, 2024-2026 In Color Shimmer Gems