Friday Flashback: Heartfelt Thanks

This week's Friday Flashback stamp set is Heartfelt Thanks, which is probably one of Stampin' Up!'s most popular stamp sets ever (at least based on the fact that there are 7,000+ cards in its Splitcoast gallery!).  I had several Heartfelt Thanks cards in my archives so rather than inundate you with all of them, I just picked a couple older creations to share and then one new one.

This was for a Ways to Use It challenge to use inchies.  It was also for a color challenge because I hardly ever reach for Bravo Burgundy by choice : )

Stamps:  Heartfelt Thanks, Paisley, Holidays & Wishes
Remaining supply list can be found here.

This one uses all the same stamps as the card above with the addition of En Francais.  The technique for the background squares is called Serendipity and it works like this:

1.  Start with a piece of white or vanilla paper and ink it up with two colors of ink, direct to paper.  Start wondering if you picked colors that don't go together at all.
2.  Stamp over it with a background stamp in a third color just to add to the mess.
3.  Heat emboss the flower all over on top of everything and think to yourself that this is going to be really, really not pretty.
4.  Cut or punch it into squares and somehow magically it looks much cooler.  Act like you're not surprised and that you knew it was going to be okay from the start.
5.  Rearrange your pieces on a mat however you like and build the rest of your card from there.

Stamps:  Heartfelt Thanks, Paisley, Holidays & Wishes, En Francais
Remaining supply list can be found here.

And here's my new Heartfelt Thanks card, which was oddly enough inspired by a card I made years ago using Carved & Candlelit.  I chose a sketch & color challenge I hadn't done yet and voila, here it is.  I wanted the sentiment to be in the middle of the flower image, but that left me with a lot of empty space on the bottom right so I added a Glimmer Brad.  The sketch is a little on the complicated side for me, but on the whole I like how this turned out.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Heartfelt Thanks, Occasional Quotes
Ink:  Versamark, Soft Suede, Blushing Bride, Certainly Celery
Paper:  Blushing Bride, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Attic Boutique & Twitterpated DSP
Accessories:  clear EP, retired In Color Glimmer Brad, Fancy Fan embossing folder

I recently went through and organized all my card and scrapbook project photos (hence why I was looking at that old Carved & Candlelit card) and I noticed that for the first several years, I hardly ever used patterned paper.  Instead, I used a lot of background stamps.  Now I think it's mostly DSP, sometimes embossing folders, and rarely do I break out the backgrounds.  Note to self:  use more background stamps : )  Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed this Friday Flashback!

Happy Birthday, Adam

Oyy, I had a headache when I went to bed last night and unfortunately it's still here.  Today's card is a pretty clean and simple one I made for my brother's birthday (which is tomorrow, so I need to figure out a gift to go with it!).

This was last week's sketch challenge on Splitcoast, I love these kinds of sketches--enough pieces to be interesting but not so many that it feels overly complicated.  My biggest problem with this sketch was figuring out what I wanted to do because I had so many ideas for it!  : )  Once I picked my stamps, this went together in under 10 minutes.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies (all SU):
Stamps:  Gently Falling (I may be addicted to this set), Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink:  Daffodil Delight, Cajun Craze, Not Quite Navy
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White, Regals DSP Stack
Accessories:  Brights & Regals brads

Thistle Do Nicely

Last year, my husband and I visited Edinburgh, Scotland, with my parents and some friends (my dad totally loves all things Scotland).  The thistle is a national symbol of Scotland, and we saw several shops with punny thistle names, my favorite one being Thistle Do Nicely.  When Nature's Pace was released with the thistle stamp, I had to get it.  Now all I need is some tartan DSP to go with it...hmm!

Really simple card, just inked up the image with markers and cut it out with Framelits.  A bit of piercing around the mat for extra interest and there you have it!

Thanks for visiting today!

Supplies (all SU):
Stamps:  Nature's Pace, Field Flowers (sentiment)
Ink:  Old Olive, Perfect Plum, Whisper White
Paper:  Perfect Plum, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Brights DSP Stack
Accessories:  Labels Framelits

Perfectly Wonderfall

Happy Tuesday!  Today's card is one I did for a swap when the SU holiday catalog first arrived.  I really liked the Island Indigo with the more traditional fall colors in the Orchard Harvest DSP.

I think I've gotten spoiled though, it's so much easier to use stamp sets that coordinate with Framelits than the Bigz dies.  The leaves are stamped on Sahara Sand cardstock so this is one of those rare cards that uses no white or vanilla at all.  Have to admit, I've gotten several colors of SU's embossing powder now too, that's fun to play with :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies (all SU):
Stamps:  Wonderfall, Perfectly Penned
Ink:  Gumball Green, Raspberry Ripple, VersaMark
Paper:  Island Indigo, Sahara Sand, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Autumn Accents Bigz die, Gumball Green EP

Daydream Friend

I got a couple of new stamp sets recently, including Daydream Medallions, so I had to use it for the most recent sketch at Fab Friday.  Here's my card:

And the Fab Friday sketch:

I also used the colors from Nacho Average Challenge 18:

I'm thinking about using them again for a baby book layout, it's a fun color combo.  Thanks for visiting today!

Supplies (all SU):
Stamps:  Daydream Medallions, Mixed Medley
Ink:  Calypso Coral, Summer Starfruit, Soft Suede
Paper:  Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, DSP Stacks in Neutrals & In Colors
Accessories:  Floral Framelits dies, smaller scalloped circle punch

Friday Flashback: A Little Bit of Happiness

Time for another Friday Flashback!  Today's stamp set is A Little Bit of Happiness, which I think might have been a hostess set?  It's from 2008, so that was a while ago and I don't have to know everything about SU all the time.  Here's the one and only card I made with it (at this point I kind of hope it was a freebie so I won't feel so bad for not using it more...):

I know this was for a color/sketch challenge combo on Splitcoast.  I miss Almost Amethyst and Taken with Teal.  We need more purples and teals.  And maybe some more sketches using long, skinny images.  At any rate, this week I made two more cards with this stamp set.

This is one of those Splitcoast sketches that leaves me cold, but at least I can check it off as done.  I like the colors though, Barely Banana, Always Artichoke (I just so tried to type WARTichoke) and Rich Razzleberry.  That's not the full image on the card; I masked with a Post-It note to only get the part of the image I wanted to use.  This one and the next one are both stamped in Chocolate Chip craft ink (why did they retire that?  I love that color in craft ink!) and then embossed.  Helps me stay within the lines when I color that way.

For this one, I stamped the whole image, colored it with a mix of markers and WWC, and then cut it all apart (which I only recommend if a.) you're crazy like me and b.) you like cutting things out).  This is a much simpler sketch since the main image took me so long.  This is the kind of sketch I like, easy breezy beautiful.  Only with stamps and paper, not makeup.  I can't do makeup.

Thanks for joining me for this Friday Flashback!

Supplies:
     Card #1
Stamps:  A Little Bit of Happiness
Ink:  Basic Black, Taken with Teal, Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery
Paper:  Certainly Celery, Taken with Teal, Whisper White, Almost Amethyst monochromatic DSP (retired)
Accessories:  white taffeta, corner rounder punch

     Card #2
Stamps:  A Little Bit of Happiness
Ink:  Chocolate Chip craft
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, monochromatic DSP in Always Artichoke and Barely Banana (retired)
Accessories:  WWC, clear EP

     Card #3
Stamps:  A Little Bit of Happiness, Sprinkles
Ink:  Chocolate Chip Craft, Barely Banana marker
Paper:  Barely Banana, Ballet Blue, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Accessories:  WWC, clear EP

A Harvest of Apples

A few weeks ago, I was talking to my friend Missy and she said she'd gotten an old SU stamp set with a jar image in it when she first started stamping and then never ever used it again.  Then we both said we would not be getting Perfectly Preserved from the holiday catalog.

Oops.

Stampin' Up!'s powers of psychic resonance are just too strong.  C'mon, it coordinates with the Orchard Harvest DSP, so I had to get it!  Right?

I tried to resist, really I did.

This card is based on Freshly Made Sketches #59.  I didn't realize until just a minute ago that yesterday's Halloween card uses an almost identical layout...I actually stamped that other card two years ago : )  Just so happens everything on it is still current except the ribbon, but we already talked about that.

 Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies (all SU):
Stamps:  Perfectly Preserved
Ink:  Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo
Paper:  Early Espresso, Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Cannery Framelits, postage stamp punch, Raspberry Ripple stitched satin ribbon