Summer Mini Sneak Peek!

Hi there! I have been busy this week making samples for my June Stamp-A-Stack class. I wanted to use my new favorite stamp set, On the Grow, because the images just beg to be colored and I love to color. I can't remember a time that I didn't love coloring. When I was a kid I always looked forward to shopping for summertime art supplies. My mom would take my sisters and I to buy us new color books and crayons. Isn't there something magical about a brand spankin' new box of crayons? I think so! In this class we will get to play with a variety of coloring tools and media such as blender pens, aqua painters, watercolor crayons, and ink pads (to do this with Stampin' Up! ink pads you press on the stamp pad before opening it which creates a small pool of ink in the lid which you can then pick up with a blender pen or aqua painter.) 

For this next card I used the new stamp set Strength & Hope, another new one from the Summer Mini catalog available May 1st. For each Strength & Hope stamp set sold, Stampin' Up! will donate $2 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation! Way to go SU!

I am nearly finished with my scrapbook pages class samples, I'll be back to share those with you tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by today!

~Sara~

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Stamp Set: On the Grow (C123077) Strength & Hope (C123660)

Paper: Certainly Celery (105125) Regal Rose (105130) So Saffron(105118) Bashful Blue (105120) Pretty in Pink (100459) Very Vanilla (101650) Watercolor Paper (105019) Pawsitively Prints (118060)

Color: Watercolor Wonder Crayons Subtles (119802) Regals (119803) Neutrals (119805), Classic Stamp Pads Bashful Blue (105209) So Saffron (105213)

Tools: Aqua Painter (103954) Blender Pens (102845) Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch (119275) Scallop Trim Punch (118402) Scallop Edge Punch (119882) Perfect Polka Dots EF (117335)

Finishing Touch: Certainly Celery & So Saffron Ribbon Bundle (114618) Bashful Blue Taffeta Ribbon (retired)



Seriously!?! Snowing Again....

Good morning... so this morning I woke up to this lovely view... I put the patio furniture out last week since it was an unusually warm day here in Michigan... 87 degrees... I thought I would sit outside and do some reading in the sunshine. That, I might add, was heavenly... this mess we have today... sheeesh I don't even have words! We are supposed to get between two and four inches!



My husband and I are taking Justin and Hannah, our two teenagers, to Chicago Friday morning for the weekend. We have made arrangements to take a segway tour of the city and to visit the human body exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. I am so looking forward to this trip! It has been a long hard winter and I am hoping for better weather in the windy city this weekend!

So... Mojo Monday again already! The weeks are just flying by! Justin will be graduating from high school in less than seven weeks! Holy smokes how time flies! Ok, on to my card I made for this weeks Mojo Monday sketch. I must say I L♥O♥V♥E this sketch, the new Basic Grey Luscious paper and this new stamp set from Stampin' Up! called "On the Grow." It will be available in the new Summer Mini Catalog starting on May 1st! I stamped the image on watercolor paper with stazon ink and colored it in with my watercolor wonder crayons and a blender pen. I love how soft this effect is, and not as messy as using an aqua painter.

 

Well, that is it for now. I have to finish my Easter cards and get them in the mail today and then off to Scrapbook Leagues I go this afternoon. Have a great week! Thanks for stopping by.