Hi again! Today I have the awesome pleasure of being a part of the Textured Fun Blog Hop using Avery Elle’s Texture Tiles: Be Cool stamp set, which was designed by the super cute and super sweet Nina Yang. I used colors and a sketch from this week’s Summer Card Camp 2, and used emboss resist to highlight this fun stamp set.

I used PB&J papers from Basic Grey, along with Distress Inks, Hero Arts hexagon dies and Nina’s other Avery Elle set, Simply Tags: Everyday…and put together a quick little video explaining my approach to this card. It’s not an Oscar-winning performance but I hope it does the trick!

Here are the other lovely ladies on this hop with me. There will be three random winners (one for each stamp/die listed) drawn from comments left on all of our blogs, so be sure to enter for a chance to win! Please be sure to let me know If follow me in other places (on Bloglovin, Feedly, Flickr, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.) because this gives you more chances to win! The winners will be announced on Nina’s blog on July 22nd.

Nina Yang
Danielle Walls
Taheerah Atchia
Suzanne Dahlberg <— you’re here!
Wida Miller
Natasha Kara
Amanda Coleman
Pamela Ho
Joni Andaya
Laurie Willison

If you have any of Nina’s stamp sets, she would love for you to link up here anytime. Thanks very much for stopping by - have a great day!

Suzanne

Hi there! Thanks so much to everyone for their kind words about my new blog! Some of you had questions about “the switch” to WordPress, so I am planning a post about that for you later this week. In the meantime, don’t forget to enter my giveaway in the post below.

Today my hubby and I went to visit my grandma and then we went to Harvard Square to window shop and get some iced coffee from Au Bon Pain - the one that was featured in “Good Will Hunting.” It was a great day that ended with dinner with my dad and the rest of the family for Father’s Day. I came home and made this little card for the June Avery Elle Challenge:

Using the Poppy collection from Little Yellow Bicycle and Avery Elle’s Simple Tags: Everyday set, I came up with this little birthday card following Nina’s sketch.

Have a great night!

Suzanne

Yay for Friday! Let’s finish the week with one more Avery Elle card, okay? (You can see how much fun I had with this set on my trip, right?)

The bokeh effect on this Glitz patterned paper is so fun, and goes with sequins so well! Many thanks to Laurie for giving me the flower and the doily!

Have a great weekend, everyone!
Suzanne

Hey there! Here’s another card that I made at Laurie’s house last weekend, using Avery Elle’s Simply Tags: Everyday stamp set.

I positioned the plastic buttons on white cardstock and stamped the sentiment in A Muse bubblegum ink and then layered that onto some Bazzill cardstock, which has a nice orange peel texture to it.

Hugs!
Suzanne

Happy Wednesday! I’ve made another project using Avery Elle’s Simply Tags: Everyday stamps and dies, designed by the one and only Nina Yang! These tags are the perfect size - not too small, not too big at 2.75×1.5 inches in size. I embellished this project using some Glitz patterned paper and Simon Says Stamp wooden hearts and dotted kraft envelope.

So cute, just like Nina! Thanks for stopping by!

Suzanne

Hello! I am back from my trip to visit Laurie, Amy and Jen, with lots of Kansas Kreations! I will share them here throughout the next week or so. I had so much fun and am so thankful for the chance to hang out with these beautiful ladies - extra special thanks to Laurie for opening her home to me! xoxo

I packed light for my trip; I brought a few Simon Says Stamp card kits and Nina Yang’s new sets from Avery Elle - these are what I am featuring this week. Today’s card uses Simply Tags: Everyday along with the coordinating dies:

Didn’t Nina do such a fantastic job designing these sets and dies? I am so proud of her! I think this makes for such a sweet wedding card.

Have an awesome day…my vacation continues for a few weeks here, so I am off to do some cleaning, shopping and more packing!

Suzanne

Day 2 of Pattern Play really took me out of my comfort zone, but the technique that Jennifer McGuire shared with us was too awesome to go untried. I did my best to find a good background stamp for emboss resist on patterned paper, and this great Flower Bursts image from Hero Arts was the one with the most open and filled space.

I used patterned paper from Doodlebug Designs’ Sugar and Spice line (ETA: Thanks, Bobby, for suggesting I show the original pattern. You can view it in 12×12 form here.) and a Framed Fonts sentiment from Avery Elle, as well as some Distress Inks - don’t see those much around here, either! Below you can see how I made this card twice using lighter and darker shades of Distress Ink:

You may also notice that the shine from the clear embossing powder is gone, and that’s because I also used Jennifer’s ironing technique to remove it - GENIUS!

Anyway, I think I prefer the darker green color since it makes the patterned paper stand out more, but these matching cards will come in super handy this weekend for my twin sisters’ birthday! Even into their 30s, I feel like I need to give them the same thing.

So what do you think? Not bad for my first try, and now I think I need a whole new suite of background stamps for this technique! And with all the green going on here, I am entering this in the elegant emerald challenge over at Moxie Fab…

Suzanne

For my card, I cut 0.75 inch strips of In Bloom patterned paper and layered them onto some 80lb cardstock. Then I diecut into the strips using the My Favorite Things Die-namics Hexagon, which I really love because it offers you the ability to cut individual hexagons in two different sizes or a long hexagon border strip - this side can also be used to cut chevrons! I adhered the diecuts to my cardfront using some foam tape and added the sweet sentiment from Avery Elle’s Bright Days set. That’s pretty much it!

Hope you’ve had a great week and that you’ll consider playing along!