It's Time for a Blog Hop!

 


Yes it's time for another Wacky Watercooler Gang Blog Hop, and this month we are CASEing our friends while we focus on some of the retiring In Colors.  You may have just arrived from one of my favorite blogger's sites (yes, that's you, creative Jean Fitch!); our hop is circular--click on any site and there will be "buttons" to take you to the next person until you've traveled all the way around.  There are 11 of us this month; please enjoy the inspiration!

I felt really fortunate when I got to CASE Penny Hanuszak.  Penny is a wonderful stamper with some "out of the box" thinking.  I had fun perusing her past creations and had a difficult time picking just one thing for my CASE (copy and share everything).  But one of her cards resonated with me.  Take a look at Penny's card:

Penny created her own background paper using stamps from the set In the Wild; that along with the Lots of Labels Framelits dies highlighting the giraffe got my juices flowing.

I decided on a baby card, using the set Zoo Babies (btw, this fabulous set is retiring soon; be sure to place your order before you miss out).  And here's my card:

Instead of Penny's muted colors, I chose bright, primary colors, and randomly stamped my animals all over my Whisper White cardstock.  This was mounted to a layer of Pacific Point, then added to my 5-1/4" x 5-1/4" base of Cucumber Crush.

I used the giraffe image (channeling Penny's card) as my focal point and used the same Lots of Labels framelits.  My sentiment, from Suite Sayings is popped up under a Pumpkin Pie bow.

So what do you think?  Was my CASE a success?


Now on to the retiring In Colors.  This is making me a little sad, especially since I realized that I hardly played at all with one of the colors!  My bad!

So I decided to focus on Hello Honey (badly neglected) and Mossy Meadow.  Now Mossy Meadow is my absolute favorite of the last round of In Colors (sorry, Blackberry Bliss!), and paired with Hello Honey, makes a very pretty combo.

I took a cue from the English Garden Designer Series Paper (retiring), and used my little rose stamps from the Floral Wings Host set (also retiring) to stamp a background.  The DSP is the top layer and a tag has some more, fussy-cut roses and a butterfly from Butterfly Basics.

The tag was made by stamping on a 1" strip of cardstock, then inserting the corners into the Curvy Corner Trio Punch (guess what?  Retiring) one corner at a time.

So what does this little 3" x 3" card go with?

A teeny tiny birthday cake of course:

I had some left-over flameless candles from another project and saw some In Color Washi Tape on my desk.  Wrapping the Hello Honey-striped tape around my candle and topping it with a few punched pieces gave me the start of my cake.  (and...those scalloped circle punches are all retiring too)

I cut a few roses and leaves, dressed it up with some Rhinestone Basic Jewels and designed a little 1-3/4" x 1-3/4" box in which it can be presented:

So cute!

 And here they are together, ready for a mini birthday party!

OK, that's it for me!  Time to run off and see what Bev has to show you.  She always comes up with wonderful projects!

Thanks for stopping by.