Stylin' Stampin' Squad Blog Hop: May 2012

Hello and welcome to this month's installment of the Stylin' Stampin' Squad Blog Hop.  If you came from Shellie's Creative Electica blog, thank you for visiting me!  This month's themes are Mother's Day, Kids and/or Friendship.  I have a project for each of these themes.  I hope you'll like what I have for you.  And please, give my blogpost some love with your kind comments!

The first card is for Mother's Day coming up.  Using the retiring 2010-2012 In-Colors, my card was inspired by ?  I am so sorry... I can't find it!  Anyways, I had made some changes and here is my version.  I used a lot of retiring products on here: the In-Color papers, Ticket Corner punch, ribbon, embossing folder.  Yes, this particular folder is the ONLY embossing folder to be retired.  Can you see me

This next card is inspired by my newest downline (Hi, Bronwen!).  Before Bronwen decided to take advantage of the awesome new $99 Starter Kit, she had ordered a Word Window punch from me, in order to make spinner cards.  She even emailed me her fabulous cards.  That got me thinking that I really should do one myself.  So, I dug out the tutorial I had saved from quite awhile ago HERE.  Two more items to be retired here: Fox and Friends ( ) and On Your Birthday.

This last project is a fun-fold.  It's a double-pocket.  You can find the tutorial HERE.  Here is the front. I used Top Note die.  For the Whisper White and DSP pieces, I used my paper snips and cut along the perforation so that they will layer nicely with the Peach Parfait piece underneath.  I used retiring Upsy Daisy () stamp set here.

Inside, you see how it's a double-pocket.

I used Two Tags die to create 2 simple bookmarks.  Since they're bookmarks, I didn't want to create too much dimension and ruin someone's book, so all pieces are flat.

Retiring items here are the Chantilly Crochet Trim ribbon (), Triple Treat Flower stamp (), 5-Petal Flower punch (), and the already-retired Punch Bunch from Sale-a-Bration 2011.

There you have it.  Please continue along the hop with us.  Your next stop is with Pam.

Blog Hop Participants:

1. Shellie G. of Creative Electica
2. Annie L. of Love Me Cards
3. Pam S. of Stampin' in the Sun!
4. Nancy B. of Lady Stamps a Lot
5. Rose C. of Stamp with Rose
6. Tonya B. of Stampin' with Tonya
7. Dawn S. of Dawn's Creative Chalet
8. Patricia T. of Sunnyone Stampin'
9. Heather W. of Heather's Stampin' Blog
10. Pamela W. of Stinky Tofu
11. Marla R. of Marla's Stampin' Spot
12. Darcy J. of DJ's Stampin' Place
13. Nicole B. of Creations by Mommy
14. Kim R. of Stamping with Kim

Click HERE for the Retiring Stamp Sets

Click HERE for the Retiring Accessories

Click HERE for the Retiring Definitely Decorative