Friday Flashback: Happiest of Holidays

Happy Friday, folks!  Whaddya know, I'm posting a Friday Flashback *ON* a Friday!

I used three out of the four stamps from Heard from the Heart on my All I Have Seen Flashback post, so I wanted to use the last one too.  Enter the pink and red poinsettia card.  I got Happiest of Holidays pretty early in my stamping career and managed to use all four stamps on the set on the second card :)

I finally got my latest big fat Stampin' Up! order and I really need to get upstairs and play with my new goodies!  Have a great weekend, kids.

Supplies, all SU!, left card:
Stamps:  Heard from the Heart, Happiest of Holidays
Ink:  pink?, Real Red, Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Real Red, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  none

Supplies, all SU!, right card:
Stamps:  Happiest of Holidays
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Real Red, Night of Navy
Paper:  Real Red, Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Shaded Spruce DSP
Accessories:  none

Friday Flashback: All I Have Seen & Heard From the Heart

Hey hey hey, happy Friday and guess what?  I have a Friday Flashback post ON a Friday this time!  When I pulled out All I Have Seen to play with, I decided to make some monochrome cards and used Heard from the Heart for the sentiments, so this flashback post covers both of those sets.

Dang, I didn't write down what colors I used when I made these and now I can't remember.  Pretty sure the card bases are Mint Macaron, Just Jade, and...wow I have no idea for that pink.  I made these cards weeks ago and I can't remember what I used!  Note to self, write down the recipe when I make the cards...

Oh well, whatever colors I used, I did like how they turned out!  And this is when I discovered my Soft Sea Foam ink pad was totally dried out, and I had to get a new set of ink refills because the last time I bought Subtles ink refills was before the last color refresh.  Soft Sea Foam isn't a color I use much anyway, but at least now I CAN use it.

Cheers, peeps!

Friday Flashback: Upsy Daisy

Happy Friday, peeps!  Are you ready for a Friday Flashback?  This time it's a short one; the stamp set today is Upsy Daisy and while it's super cute, somehow I only have one card in the archives.  Not sure how that happened.

Also features Heard from the Heart

The flower silhouette image is the only image in the set; it also has three sentiments.  So yep, that's the Flashback card, and here's today's brand new creation:

I stamped the image with Mint Macaron ink, then sponged the panel, and then stamped the image again with Versamark and heat embossed to give it a little extra interest.  I didn't get the second image lined up perfectly though, you can see it if you look especially on the right side, but I kinda like the effect so I'm okay with that.  I kept thinking I should add some pearls or some paper piecing, but I couldn't figure out where or how to do that so I left it as-is.

I flipped this week's Freshly Made Sketch 90 degrees for my card:

I also extended the strip in the background so it went to the edges of the card front, that was just to hide the edge of the background stamp since I didn't get it completely straight.

I also used this week's Pals Paper Arts color challenge:

This challenge was interesting to me, but I'm not sure how much I like Mint Macaron and Pool Party together.  Seems to me they're a little bit too close in color for my tastes but hey, I gave it a shot.

Hope you enjoy your Friday afternoon!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Upsy Daisy, Filigree
Ink:  Mint Macaron, Pool Party, Tip Top Taupe, Versamark
Paper:  Mint Macaron, Pool Party, Whisper White, Cherry on Top DSP Stack
Accessories:  Clear EP

Friday Flashback: Morning Cup

Happy Friday, peeps!  My computer is running slow this morning (so am I, actually) so I had to restart it before I could get this post written.  But I think we're in business now :)  Today's Friday Flashback stamp set is Morning Cup, which I got completely by accident:  it was included in an order I received even though I didn't order it, and Stampin' Up! told me to keep it.  Isn't that nice of them?  So let's flash back!

Also features Heard from the Heart

I'm sure this was for a combination SCS sketch/color challenge.  I think the main image panel and the stripey strip should be larger to balance out the polka dot panel.  But those stacked teacups are my favorite Morning Cup image...'cause I'm a tea drinker, not a coffee person.

I did make this for a friend who does drink coffee every morning, though :)

Also features Curly Cute, Take a Sip wheel

There was also a coordinating wheel of teacup images called Take a Sip, so I bought that and cut up the wheel to make individual stamps, which I used on here.  The tea bag background is from Morning Cup.

Also features Warm Words

I made these for my family when they came to visit us in England, the colors match the teapots I bought them.  And that's it for the flash back part, here is today's new creation:

Had I looked through my archives before I made this, I *might* have chosen a different image to play with, but I just love those stacked teacups so I went with that.  The colors are from the Color Throwdown:

I used Blushing Bride, Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzazz, and So Saffron for my colors.  I also used last week's Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch:

And that's all she wrote this week!  Hope you have a great weekend, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Morning Cup
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Blushing Bride, Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron
Paper:  So Saffron, Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, Blushing Bride DSP
Accessories:  Chalk Talk Framelits, wide oval punch, scalloped border punch, Subtles Candy Dots, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Crazy for Cupcakes

Howdy stampy friends!  It's time for another Friday Flashback, and today's featured stamp set is going to come in useful for me since I know so many people with October birthdays.  So let's take a look back at Crazy for Cupcakes!

Also features Priceless and Heard from the Heart

Kind of an interesting layout on this card...I like the colors though.  I think SU! needs more purples in its permanent lineup.  (Well, semi-permanent lineup since they keep changing them every few years!)

Also features Happiest Birthday Wishes

I've got some reverse masks that I made for that giant cupcake so I can use them to sponge color on each individual part of the image.

Also features the cupcake wheel, which I unmounted and put in the case with Crazy for Cupcakes

Oh yes, Crazy for Cupcakes has seen frequent use in baby books!

Also features Bitty Birthday and Sprinkles

Also features Birthday Bakery and Background Basics

Hey, I found an idea I liked so I stuck with it.  And that's it for the flashback part, here's today's brand new card!

I think that this stamp set just begs to be used with bright fun colors, and lucky for me the challenge at Colour Me this week is perfect!

I also used one of the older Nacho challenges that I missed in my unplanned unpack-the-house crafting hiatus:

That's it for me today, peeps.  Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Crazy for Cupcakes, Background Basics
Ink:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Smoky Slate, Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight, Real Red
Paper:  Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Sycamore Street DSP (retired)
Accessories:  corner rounder, oval, & scalloped oval punches, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Heard from the Heart

It's Friday again and that means it's time for another Friday Flashback!  Today's randomly chosen retired stamp set is Heard from the Heart, a lovely set of 4 sentiment stamps; I love the mixed fonts.  So let's do the time warp again!

The butterfly on this one is from God's Beauty, which was a hostess set and though I like it, this was its solo voyage.  

The cupcakes are from Crazy for Cupcakes, and the background flourishes and flowers are from Priceless.

Here's Morning Cup and a slightly weird layout...it was a sketch challenge.  I think my card looks a little unbalanced...like the main image and the stripey bit should be larger to balance out the polka dots.  Oh well.

The main image on this one is from Serene Spring, another one hit wonder hostess set.  I made this one for a swap.

Pretty Peonies in orange...

And a monochromatic Upsy Daisy card.  You know what I just noticed?  There are four stamps in the set but I've only ever used two of them!  I didn't go back and look at my previous cards before I did the new card for this week, so that "wishes" stamp is making yet another appearance:

The flowers on this one are from Array of Sunshine, by coincidence yet another hostess set.  This little birthday card will be going out in the mail to a sweet friend today :)  I used the latest Unscripted Sketches challenge for my card:

When I copied down the sketch to take with me into my craft room, somehow I didn't draw it square so my card is the standard A2 size.  I used a striped pattern instead of cutting out lots of strips for the background panel, I think that still keeps to the spirit of the sketch.

That's it for me today, folks!  Have a great weekend!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Heard from the Heart, Array of Sunshine
Ink:  Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie,  Garden Green
Paper:  Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Rainbow Sherbet DSP
Accessories:  Labels Collection Framelits, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Pretty Peony

Wow, it's time for a Friday Flashback again already!  Today's randomly-chosen stamp set is a good one, and one I've used a lot so this is a long post :)  Let's take a flashback to Pretty Peony!  Oh wow, no posts in that gallery since 2011?  We're about to change that.

So this is from before I learned how to tie knots where they don't stick out all akimbo like that, but I still like this card.  I also used Sanded and Sweet Serendipity (both retired).

Here's another super-simple layout with one of my favorite colors:  Elegant Eggplant.  The other color is Close to Cocoa, which I still miss.  I remember being kinda surprised how well those two colors worked together when I did this card. The sentiment is from longtime favorite Sincere Salutations (retired).

I made a set of these for a friend of mine as a farewell gift (her first initial is S).  Kind of in love with this stamp set. I also used French Script (retired) for the background and the initial is from Lovely Letters.

Here's the Mother's Day card I made a couple years ago, again with Lovely Letters.  I love these peonies in all kinds of colors!

Made this for my SIL's November birthday a couple years ago, so I went with fall colors on this one.  The sentiment is from Heard from the Heart.

Hey look, I've also used Pretty Peony on a scrapbook layout!  It's a bit of a pain to cut out the flowers and leaves, but I've done it a couple times.  So those were all the Flashback pics, here's a new one!

The color combo was a challenge on Still Addinktive recently but I didn't get a chance to play at the time, so I was excited to use these colors today--Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, and Rich Razzleberry.  I was flipping through my binder looking for a sentiment to put on this and came across Elegant Cheer and thought perfect!  The card came together pretty fast thanks to the Nacho sketch challenge:

Hope you enjoyed today's Friday Flashback!  I had fun revisiting this particular retired stamp set today.

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Pretty Peony, Elegant Cheer (both retired)
Ink:  Pretty in Pink, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Haiku DSP & Pretty in Pink DSP (both retired)
Accessories:  Dimensionals