Moved Nicole

I have found a new obsession....the amazing Waterfront stamp set.  I did lots of looking through Pinterest to see ideas before I gave this set a try.  I was a little intimidated since the set is so abstract.  But let me tell you, I just can't stop now that I've started stamping!  And yes, I have made some horrible looking things and pitched them, but I've also done some beautiful ones as well. This one started out with the Ohio sunset as inspiration.  At night lately I've been noticing the sky has tones of lavender and pink right before the sun goes down.  So I looked to my Stampin' Up! colors and pulled out Wisteria Wonder, Fresh Fig and Powder Pink to try to re-create what I've seen. The left side is a layered with my pinks and purples moving in on the blue sky on the right done in Pool Party.  I took an aqua painter to soften the lines and mellow things out.  Then added the sunset in Pumpkin Pie and the hills in Smokey Slate. I went through my stamps to look ...

The Barn Door Bundle has some wonderful greetings as you saw in last week's post.  But sometimes I like to mix things up add in different stamp sets.  In today's card I used sentiments and flowers from the beautiful stamp set Happy Birthday Gorgeous . What a fun birthday card to give!  It has a both sentiments on the front of the card so the inside has plenty of room for writing a note. This card was actually inspired by the February My Paper Pumpkin .  If you look closely, you can see the card base and the card front are from the kit.  I loved the subtle striped design plus it was easy!  The pieces were ready to go! I hope you give this idea a try and do a little mixing and matching with your stamp sets...including My Paper Pumpkin ! March is the 5 year anniversary for My Paper Pumpkin !  If you haven't given the monthly program a try yet, what's holding you up!!!  You get a ready to go kit each month that lets you craft without planning or thinking....all the work is...