Another Tropical Party Just For You

This is a CASE of my friend Cheryl Dendinger's card, which was a CASE of another person's! :-) yes, CASEing is fun. I love to copy other people's cards and tweak them to make my own. My main panel is wider and the flowers are cut out instead of punched with a circle punch, so that is how I made it a bit of a Julie original.
This card was for a special occasion. My In-Laws are celebrating their 50th anniversary this summer and decided to take the whole family to Hawaii. As a gift to them, their children bought tickets for a dinner cruise and they were presented in this card. So you see, I really did NEED a tropical themed card for the occasion. Sure glad I had this wonderful stamp set and DSP!

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station.

Blessings,
Julie

Long Time No Post....

Hi! Yes, it's been forever since I posted. So sorry about that!

Just a quick not to encourage you. You don't need a definitely masculine set to make masculine cards. Almost any nature set will work. I've made so many masculine cards with Tropical Party and it's so easy! My husband's reaction to receiving this card was "sure, I'll take one of those!" ;-) Play with your nature sets and see what masculine cards you can come up with!

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Blessings,
Julie

The Hard Disk Is Reformatted....

Yes, the hard drive was reformatted and I'm almost done reloading all of the programs. Wow, what a job! Thankfully, I heard the hard drive working really had and bought an external hard drive before it went kaput. And so, here we are, finally posting a couple of workshop projects. This first project uses the new Sweet Scoops stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog. I was quite afraid that it was too simple and the guests would be bored with it, but they really loved the simplicity of it! We used the kissing technique on the ice cream (bashful blue and ballet blue) and stamped the sentiment across the pumpkin strip. The DSP is the Build-A-Bear set. I really like it! We cut out the ice cream and popped it up on dimensionals.
This card was one of my favorites. We're going to make it at the next workshop as a Father's Day card. We used a Post it note to punch out a circle and sponge around for the sun. The sand was made with Itty Bitty Backgrounds and sponging. The inside of the card was the same scene as the main image, just enlarged. Fun! This card uses the new Tropical Party stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog. Can you tell by the number of times that I've used this stamp set that I love it?!
Ok, back to taking care of the family. The laundry just doesn't fold itself and the folding fairy has skipped over our house again. Bummer!
Well, thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station. Hugs to you all!

Blessings,
Julie

Sorry for the Delay....

Yes, I'm sorry for the delay in posting. My computer crashed and I'm having trouble uploading photos with my DH's laptop. I don't like it!

Ok, enough complaining. I made this card today for the Stampin' Addicts Sketch Challenge 51. I did rotate the sketch because I thought it would work better for this card. It's hard to see the color combo on here (again, because I don't have my own computer and editing program!) so I'll just tell you that I used Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay, and Soft Suede. The stamp set is Tropical Party from the upcoming Summer Mini Catalog. The little dots of Bermuda Bay are the sprinkles from the Sweet Scoops (ice cream cones) stamp set in the same Mini.

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station!

Blessings,
Julie

One More Before the Kids Get Home....

One more quick upload before the kids get home ... this is my take on Splitcoaststampers' sketch from this week. I had a lot of fun experimenting with this new stamp set from the upcoming Summer Mini Catalog. The sand is Itty Bitty Backgrounds in Saffron and sponged over. The flower is 3 5-petal punches with the edges sponged in Rose Red and Pumpkin Pie. Yep, I used that gorgeous Square Lattice Embossing Folder again. :-)

Blessings,
Julie

Masculine Birthday Card (Inky Fingers Girls, DON'T LOOK! You might get one of these.)

I needed some inspiration for some swaps that I'm making for the Inky Fingers Swappers. I'm loving my new stamp set (Tropical Party) and embossing folder from the Summer Mini, which my customers will receive in the mail soon. Everything is spritzed with the Vanilla Smooch Spritz. I love the shimmer and it's so easy to use. For the background, I first stamped the trees and then the palm branches. After sending it through the Big Shot with the SU! Square Lattice Embossing Folder, I sponged the edges with the same color ink (Old Olive). I think everything else is self explanatory. The frame behind the greeting is from the Matchbox XL Die for the Big Shot. Yes, it's another exclusive die from Stampin' Up!

I won't be posting as often for the next few months...we have a junior higher in track and the two younger boys are in baseball, so we're running, running RUNNING! :-)

Blessings to you,
Julie