FINAL M&T DISPLAY PROJECT:

Hello there! This is the last of my Leadership display projects to share with you. Again, it features Mixed Bunch and Loving Thoughts stamp sets from the Occasions Mini and the Twitterpated DSP and Fabric from the mini also. I used Baja Breeze, Blushing Bride, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade and Poppy Parade. I used the Modern Label punch for the sentiment, the New Blossom Punch for the flower, and the Scallop Edge Border Punch. I used the Tasteful Trim Die with the Big Shot for the flower stem and added some Lucky Limeade Baker's Twine for the leaves. I added a little bit of bling with the Rhinestone Jewels and a couple of the lovely Pink Rhinstones from the Blossom kit in the mini. I have to confess, I was getting a little sick of flowers, but I was really happy with the way this card came together.  I hope you enjoyed seeing my Leadership projects. Tomorrow, I'll share the Make & Take projects that the SU! Design Team came up with for us to make at Leadership. Or maybe I'll give you a little break and show you the cards from Card Night this month...It'll be a surprise! I know the suspense is killing you! Make sure you stop back tomorrow. Have a wonderful day!

M&T PROJECT # 3:

Thanks for stopping by today! This is yet another card made with Mixed Bunch and Loving Thoughts from the Occasions Mini. I used a piece of the On Board Merry Medley chipboard and instead of covering it with DSP, I stamped a flower image on it using Versamark. I used some of the flowers from the Blossom Builders kit in the mini along with the lovely Twitterpated DSP. I punched the leaves from the Bird Builder Punch and I used the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch for added layers on the flowers. I added some Brights Buttons and a Brights Brad, and a few of the Large Pearls from the mini. I really love this DSP-there's so many different color combinations you can use and there's many designs that work well for masculine cards. I hope you like this bright, cheery card. Make sure to come back tomorrow and check out another one. Have a great day!

M&T PROJECT # 3:

I hope you had a wonderful week-end! I got so busy with my taxes, I forgot to post yesterday-sorry! This card was made with Lovely Thoughts and Twitterpated DSP from the Occasions Mini. SU! included some On Board Merry Medley pieces, so I covered this one with DSP, sanded it and distressed it with the Tea Stain ink. I punched a little strip using the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch and stitched some Lucky Limeade Baker's Twine through it. I made some little flowers using the Boho Blossoms Punch and the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack for the centers. I added some of the sweet little Pink Rhinestones from the Blossom Builders Kit from the mini to give them a little sparkle. The color scheme is Lucky Limeade, Baja Breeze and Blushing Bride. I hope you liked todays project-stop by tomorrow to see another. Have a wonderful day!

MAKE & TAKE PROJECT # 2:

Here's another card I came up with using the Make & Take supplies we were provided. This isn't really the vision I had for this card, but I needed to move on-22 more projects in 7 days! Aagin, I used the Mixed Bunch and Loving Thoughts sets from the Occasions Mini. SU! also provided us with a package of the Twitterpated Fabric from the Mini. I tore off a strip of each design and braided them together for the flowers stem. I used some of the flowers from the Blossom Builders die cut kit from the Mini also. I used the Distressed Dots Background in Poppy Parade and added a Pool Party ric rac strip made with the Tasteful Trim Die and Big Shot. I finished it off with some of the beautiful pink little rhinestones from the Blossom Builders Kit. Like I said, I couldn't get this to come together as I would have liked, but I hope you enjoyed seeing it anyway! Now I'm off to get started on tax stuff. If anyone feels the need to bring me a Venti Skinny Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks, please feel free to do so-I think I'm gonna need it! Thanks for coming by. Have a great day!

MAKE & TAKE SAMPLES:

I'm down to 5 more samples to share with you. These projects were made with products that were used for our Make & Take projects at Leadership. They all feature the Mixed Bunch and Loving Thoughts stamp sets in the Occasions mini. They gave us some ribbon, Baker's Twine, buttons, DSP, skewers and distressing ink in addition to the stamp sets. They had 9 M&T projects for us at Leadership and they were really fun projects, but we didn't get to see the projects they had made when we got our kits. We were told to make 5 projects 'My Way'-the theme of Leadership this year. We could use any tools or punches or dies that we wanted, but they wanted us to not add too many other embellishments other than what were provided. We could use a little, not a lot. These projects were a challenge for me. I'm not a big floral fan, and knowing I had to come up with 5 projects using 1 stamp set that was all flowers didn't sound like fun to me! We also got the Blossom Builders Designer Printed Kit from the Occasions Mini---more flowers!

I decided to make the M&T projects first. I figured they were going to take me the most time, so I wanted to get them out of the way. Like I said, I wasn't really feeling the love with this bundle at first, but once I got to using all of the products and put my own spin on them, I was happy with what I came up with. This was the very first project I did. I thought it turned out pretty cute, so that gave me the push to move on to another project.

I used Blushing Bride, Poppy Parade and Lucky Limeade Cardstock. The Baker's Twine is in Lucky Limeade and available in the mini catalog. I used the Daffodil Delight Ribbon and Brights Brads they gave us to use. They also gave us the Blossom Punch from the mini, so I used that to punch out the big flower after I had stamped the image with Whisper White Craft Ink. I used the leaves from the Bird Builder Punch and the mini flowers were made with the Boho Blossoms Punch. I added some Twitterpated DSP to the pages inside and added a little ric rac border using the Tasteful Trim Die. I stamped the sentiment in Basic Grey. I hope you like this little book. I'll have another one of my M&T projects to show you the next 4 days and then I'll show you the projects that the SU! Design Team came up with! Thanks for coming by!

A COUPLE MORE LEADERSHIP CARDS:

As promised, here's a couple of cards made with the SAB set Elementary Elegance. I have to say, some of the sets I was given to work with were a bit challenging for me-this one in particular. I saved this set for last because everytime I looked at it, I had nothing. But once I inked it up and started working with it, I found you could do alot with it. I added some Blushing Bride DSP from the Paper Stack and a couple of different ribbons in Basic Black, and I thought it came together nicely.

Here's another idea for this set. I tried to Shabby Chic it up a bit. I prefer a romantic, cutesy approach to Vintage, rather than a Victorian Vintage. I think that's why this set was a challenge for me. I made it as sweet as I could-the Everyday Enchantment DSP and scallop borders helped alot. And I love how you can scrunch up the Seam Binding to give it a true aged look.

Thank you for stopping by. I'm down to 5 projects to share with you. Tomorrow, I'll show you what I made using the Mixed Bunch set from the new Occasions Mini Catalog. Thanks so much for visiting!

STILL MORE CARDS FROM LEADERSHIP:

Here are some cards I made using the Fresh Vintage SAB set. This set kind of has a Folk Arty feel to me and I love the Twitterpated DSP with it. There's also several papers that match this set in the Everyday Enchantment DSP. I used the Style Beautiful set for the sentiment and layered it all on top of a Basic Black Top Note that I cut out with the Big Shot. I stamped everything on Crumb Cake to give it an aged look. I finished it off with a Baja Breeze Seam Binding bow.

Here's a little 3 x 3 I made with this set. I punched the flower out of More Mustard Cardstock with the new Blossom Punch in the Occasions Mini. I have no idea how I colored the inside-it's been so long ago it seems. I think I stamped the image in Basic Black ink on Crumb Cake Cardstock and colored in the image with markers. I might have embossed it too-sorry, it's a blur! I added the border image in Whisper White Craft ink and added a little 'hello' from the Pennant Parade set and added a little Brights Brad to it.

And here's the last card I made using this set. Wow, there's a lot going on here-let's see if I can remember what I did! I mainly used Fresh Vintage here, but I also stamped the little key image from another SAB set called Elementary Elegance. I also stamped the little 'Love' from Pennant Parade. I used a Poppy Parade, Soft Suede, maybe Very Vanilla or Naturals Ivory Cardstock color scheme. I used the SAB Everyday Enchantment DSP and used the Scallop Trim Corner and Border Punches around the edge. I used the Big Shop to cut out the scallop circle using one of the Scallop Circle Dies and a Circle Die-sorry, I don't know which sizes I used. I used some of the beautiful Victoria Crochet Trim at the top and made some flowers using the Blossom Punch. I spritzed them with some alcohol and crumpled them up. I layered 3 on top of each other with dimensionals in between. I plopped one of the big honking pearls from the Occasions Mini in the center. I'm not real sure how I made the smaller flowers. I added one of the cute butterfly brads from the Everyday Enchantment SAB Pack. I finished it off with a little row of the Basic Pearls at the bottom. Stop back tomorrow for a couple ideas using the SAB Elementary Elegance set. Thanks so much for looking!