Monday Montage 265 - Sea Turtle

Are you melting in this summer heat?  I am doing my best to stay inside where there is air conditioning. Not much happening in my neck of the woods.  I have been hoping to do some fun things this summer, but so far it is not stacking up in my favor.  There is always some factor that keeps me from getting out of dodge and doing something fun.

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 How cool would it be to swim with the sea turtles.  What is it that makes them so enchanting and graceful.  The Sea Turtle stamp set is great for creating an underwater adventure.

I stamped and embossed the bubble trail in ink and then ink blended over the top of them.  Creating the EAC...perfect for a ride, Dude.  If you are not a Disney fan - you won't get it.  LOL

  I stamped the turtles in Night of Navy and immediately covered them in clear embossing powder.  It doesn't work perfectly, but does enough that the ink didn't blend with the other colors I added to the turtle and it does give him a little shine - like he might be wet.

Stamps - Sea Turtle, Changing Leaves

Ink - Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Soft Seafoam, Balmy Blue, Night of Navy, White Craft Ink

Paper - Bermuda Bay, White

Accessories - White and Clear embossing powder, Glossy dots, Opal rounds, Changing Leaves Dies Twisted Rope EF (sorry its retired)

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Monday Montage 264 - Beach Day

I am not exactly sure what happened to June, but we have jumped into July with both feet running.  My goal is to get up earlier and get some exercise in each day.  This summer heat is going to keep me indoors as much as possible.  Maybe we will be able to get away for an afternoon picnic up one of the many canyons we have here at our disposal.

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What would be really amazing is to find myself at the beach this summer.  I have very fond memories of spending days at the beach, body board surfing, protecting my food from the seagulls and praying they don't poop on my

I know this stamp set is not new, and there have been LOTS of ideas posted, but thought I would give it a go with many more ideas in my head.

I may have used a couple of different die sets, but if you have them I say use them.  I did some shading and layering with some fun summer colors

Stamps - Beach Party

Ink - Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue, Summer Splash, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Pean Pie,

Paper - Peach Pie, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, White, Summer Splash

Accessories - Beach Party Dies, Bright Skies Dies, Changing Leaves Dies, Stylish Shapes, White embossing powder, ombre matte dots, Cane Weave EF

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Monday Montage 263 - Tuned In

The Summer solstice happened and we are officially in summer season.  I am not sure I am ready for the heat and what goals we have set for this season.  I do love the longer daylight we get to experience.  

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I wasn't too sure about this stamp set, but wanted something new to create cards with.  I knew this could be used as a good gender neutral card.  It also allows for adding your own sentiments to make it fun and even a bit spicy.  I appreciate the thought that goes in to each stamp set, but my husband and I love to personalize the card for the receiver.  We never cease to get laughs.

This stamp set also allows for all the colors and a real retro style.  And for some of us a few memories.  No such thing as a remote control and the knobs are for real!

Stamps - Tuned In

Ink - Marvelous Markers, Versamark

Paper - Brights DSP, Granny Apple Green, Silver Foil CS, Black, White

Accessories - Dotted circles 3D EF, Silver embossing powder, adhesive backed metallic gems, ombre matte dots, sparkle gems

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Monday Montage 262 - Latte Love

Its been a full 3 weeks since my last post.  We lost our sweet Oliver who passed the morning of May 24th.  He was 11.5 yrs old. My heart is broken.  We also were able to spend some good quality time with my Mom in beautiful Garden Valley ID, picnics at Stanley Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains and some seriously needed down time.  We  have come home to an empty house and adjustment.  I am so grateful for my boy crush and my friends as I have felt their support and love.

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The online exclusive Latte Love has the cutest little cup die.  I knew I wanted to cut a bunch and stack them.  All I could picture was the scene from Sword and the Stone where the stack of cups float across the room to be washed.  My stack are awaiting beautiful flowers, or just a good cuppa!

When trying to come up with an idea to fill in some space, I found this cute little Daffodil Die and knew it would be a perfect fill for the cup.  I paper pieced the the flower.

I put a cute little heart on the cup and embellished with some in color gems, a sentiment and twine.   Its actually one of those cards, where I used all the things!

Stamps - Beach Day

Ink - White

Paper - Full of Life DSP, Gorgeous Grape, Blueberry Bushel, Coastal Cabana, Garden Green, Granny Apple, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Melon Mambo, Black and White

Accessories - Latte Love Dies, The love of Spring Dies, Adoring hearts, White embossing powder, Twine, 2024-2026 In color shimmer gems, wink of stella

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My sweet, curious, loyal, bossy best friend...go chase the bunnies and kitties, but don't go too far.  I miss you!

Monday Montage 261 - Latte Love

Happy Monday! I am just loving all the spring weather regardless of rain or sun.  The trees and grass are green, my eyes itch, my nose runs and despite that I am enjoying going outside in flip flops and without a jacket.

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I am not a coffee drinker but I was totally drawn to the Latte Love Bundle.   I will take a cup of hot chocolate any day and I think this set fits totally in that category.  I also have many friends and family members who live for their daily coffee fix

I used the deckled circles to make the curved border.  Creates a fun edge and contrast to the card.  I love how the spoon turned out.  I cut the spoon and then stamped the image in versa mark and silver embossing powder.  It created dimension to the spoon and some extra detail.  I stamped the steam on vellum and used white embossing powder.

I the the Tartan DSP online exclusive paper.  It fit my bistro them and again love the effect it gave the card.  It is a sort of foil shine, really pretty.  I sponged the mug along the edges and detail lines to create some depth.

Stamps - Latte Love

Ink - Early Espresso, Lost Lagoon, Crumb Cake

Paper - Tartan Foil DSP, Lost Lagoon, Basic White, Silver Foil, Crumb Cake

Accessories - Basic Bakers Twine, Blooming Pearls, Deckled Circle Dies, Adoring Hearts Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Latte Love Dies, white embossing powder.

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Monday Montage 260 - Simply Sparkling

Its May!  The month of it may be sunny, it may be rainy, it may freeze, it may snow....wait....It is snowing!

Perfect day to stay in and have homemade soup and bread take a nap and do some crafting.  I still can't figure out where April went.

One of the activities that was held at Onstage was an after hours stamping event where we could select a bundle to create with. I chose to purchase a stamp set and dies called Spotlight on nature. The set of circle dies have various different borders.  One of the designs, we thought. would be cool to weave some thread in and out of the border

I took my white bakers twine and colored it yellow and green to match my lemon lime soda and wove the thread through the "holes"  I think it turned out pretty good!  It will be fun to see how other threads look.

I also surprised myself by using some of that amazing BRIGHT paper we were gifted at onstage - Full of Life DSP.  The DSP doesn't leave any color out!  I also used the markers to fleck some ink splatter on the card for additional Fizzzzzzz.

Stamps - Simply Sparkling

Ink - Garden Green, Black and Markers

Paper - Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Basic White, Full of Life DSP, Vellum, Silver Foil

Accessories - White Bakers Twine, Simply Sparkling Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies

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Monday Montage 259 - Country Birdhouse

My mom has this cute little ornamental birdhouse that she hung from the roof edge off the deck of the house.  These cute little wrens decided to make a home out of it.  It is so fun to get a peak inside during the spring and see those cute little babies.

The Country Birdhouse is a sneak peak stamp set and dies from the new catalog.  I wasn't overly interested until my friend Bree created such a cute card with this bundle go check it out!  I then had to have it.  It is also inspiration for my card today.

I wanted to create an effect of a birdhouse hanging from a tree full of foliage using drizzling droplets stamp and quickly found out it sort of swallowed my image.  I couldn't quickly come up with a quick alternative that I liked, so I stuck with it.

I stamped a mirror image of my little bird using a window sheet, so that I could put a cute little female (my brother calls them drab little birds because they are always brown) and the brightly colored male on the outside with the flowers. 

The lazuli bunting is colored in azure afternoon, boho blue, crumb cake, peach pie and pumpkin pie,  The flowers are real red, flirty flamingo, calypso coral and bubble bath.

I love seeing all the things spring brings to life!

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