Wacky Watercooler Blog Hop 3rd Anniversary Celebration

It's been awhile since I last hopped with my friends but I didn't want to miss our anniversary! If this isn't your first stop then you probably came here from Kathe's blog, I'm sure you enjoyed your visit with her.

RULES FOR OUR HOP:   Project One:  Featuring an Anniversary Card.   Project Two:  Featuring a stamp set that has survived since being introduced in 2013 (Wetlands, Gorgeous Grunge, Flower Shop).  Project Three:  Featuring your version of a CASE from the original blog hop. 

My first project:

I used three stamp sets for this card: Birthday Blooms, Birthday Banners & matching Framelit and the sentiment is from Number of Years. My colors are Watermelon Wonder, Flirty Flamingo, So Saffron, Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz, Card Stock is Shimmery White & Flirty Flamingo.

Next The stamp set I used from 2013 is Gorgeous Grunge I paired it with Timeless Textures.

The colors used are Basic Gray, Dapper Denim, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight. I used the Butterfly Framelits and colored Rhinestones

For my last project I CASEd Kathe's last card from our first hop.

All the framelits she used are retired so I combined Framelits from several sets as well as used the Seaside Textured Embossing Folder.

Stamp Sets are Seaside Shore and Guy Greetings. Colors are Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight and Dapper Denim.

So there you have it, I'd love to hear what you think of my projects but now it's time to hop on to Bev's Blog.  Thanks for stopping by.

WWC61 - Anything Goes

Every 5th week is an anything goes challenge at Watercooler Wednesday.

Here is a card using "No Bones About It" I also used Gorgeous Grunge and Perpetual Birthday Calendar.

Go ahead and link whatever you are currently working on so that we can see what you have created. Go to http://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.ca/ andsee what the artists there have been working on and to link your project.

PCCCS#137

I made another card to enter the PCCCS#137 sketch challenge.

Here is the sketch

Stamps: Love and Sympathy & Gorgeous Grunge

Paper: Very Vanilla, Pacific Point CS, Painted Blooms DSP & Watercolor Paper

Ink: Pacific Point & Old Olive

Misc: Dimensionals, Bakers Twine & Candy Dots

Watercooler Challenges

(click on the banner to go to the challenge blog)

This time the challenge is CASE the Occasions catalog. I am CASEing the card found at the top of page 34.

Stamps: Indescribable Gift & Gorgeous Grunge 
Paper: Whisper White, Blushing Bride & Baked Brown Sugar CS
Ink: Baked Brown Sugar, Memento Tuxedo Black & So Saffron Ink Pads, Crumb Cake, Pink Pirouette & Wild Wasabi Blendabilities 
Misc: retired lace

I really rarely sell Easter cards and I don't send them either, so I changed this one into a birthday card.

Stained Glass Window Butterfly

Butterfly Basics and Butterflies Thinlits are bundled together for a 15% discount!

Stamps: Butterfly Basics, Gorgeous Grunge
Paper: Naturals White, Basic Black, Vellum CS
Ink: Crushed Curry, Marina Mist, Hello Honey, Wild Wasabi, Rose Red Ink, Med Night of Navy, Lt Calypso Coral, Natural, Dk Pumpkin Pie Blendibilities
Misc: Butterflies Framelits, Dimensionals, Multipurpose Glue

For the butterfly I glued the Framelit Piece to Vellum CS with Multipurpose Glue than cut the vellum to the butterflies edge.  I colored the back of the Butterfly with the blendabilities.

Wacky Watercooler Blog Hop

This month we are sharing our "Best of/ Favorite" Blog Hop.  Our "Best of/ Favorite"CASE of a fellow Hoppers projects (I drew Marie's name). Our "Best of/ Favorite" of Retired product. Also our "Best of/ Favorite" Current product.  All in time for those last minute projects. We hop in a circle so keep clicking on next until you return to your starting point. If you hopped over from Stephanie's Blog, Welcome!

First up I CASEd Marie Green's last project from our last hop, you can see her project here. Her Project was my starting point but turned out much different, I went simpler(could it be I am lazy?) I had my boxes sitting on my table last week when my daughters friend stopped by, she loved them!

Paper: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler & Mossy Meadow CS, retired DSP
Misc: Little Letters Thinlits, Artisan Label Punch, Dimensionals & Gift Box Punch Board

Next up features retired product(yes my stash is large). This card is fun because only the letters hold the two panels together(use your grid paper to keep the two pieces straight and even).

Stamp: retired(I don't remember the name, I keep every snowman stamp I buy and keep them together in one box)
Paper: Whisper White & Cherry Cobbler CS Retired DSP
Ink: Stazon, Soft Sky, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Old Olive, Island Indigo, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Basic Gray & Tangelo Tango
Misc: Blender Pen. Dazzling Details, Little Letters Thinelits

Last is Current Products. Lovely as a Tree has to be one of the most versatile sets that Stampin' Up carries.

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Gorgeous Grunge & Holiday Home(Yes I bought it mostly for the santa sled with reindeer)
Paper: Whisper White & Night of Navy
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMark, Island Indigo, Night of Navy, Garden Green, Chocolate Chip
Misc: Deco Label Framelits, White Embossing Powder, Irridecent Ice, Dimensionals & Dazzling Details

So there you have it my "Best of/ Favorite" now please hop on and see what Marsha has to share. I am sure you will find lots of ideas to help you use up your "stash"

Watercooler Challenges

The challenge this time was Halloween, I went with a 3D item.

Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge
Ink: Tangerine Tango
Paper: Pumpkin Pie & Mossy Meadow
Misc: Curvy Keepsake Box, Baby's First Framelit(bib is mouth), Chalk Talk Framelits(eyes), Autumn Accents Bigz Die(leaf) and a battery operated candle

Let Your Hair Down

This card has retied pieces but could easily be changed out with DSP

Stamps: Let Your Hair Down, Work of Art & Gorgeous Grunge
Ink: Pacific Point, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy Smoky Slate
Paper: Whisper White & Crumb Cake
Misc: Basic Black Bakers Twine, Dimensionals

CASEing Terri Antoniw

I CASEd a card from one of the blog hops I was in this fall, the card I CASEd can be found here. I changed it up a bit.

• The card base is Whisper White CS, layered with Soft Suede CS.
• I stamped Gorgeous Grunge  In Backed Brown Sugar on a piece of Whisper White cut at 3 3/4"x 5". I also stamped a phrase from Christmas Messages in Soft Suede. I added the tiniest pearls to the back ground.
• I stamped the single Christmas Star on a piece of Whisper White in Baked Brown Sugar, I cut it out and scored it along the un-stamped lines. Folding every other line as Mountain or Valley.I stacked 4 Dimensionals at the center back of the star. I added a Glue Dot to the tip of each star point. I added the star to the card front. 
• Last I added a pearl to the center of the star. 

Stampin' UP! Convention and Llama Swaps

Strange Title huh?

Stampin' UP! convention started yesterday in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was unable to attend this year but the Opening Ceremonies were streamed live and recorded for us to share. So if you are interested here is the video.

I was able to meet my Llama Friends for a long lunch in SLC and we swapped cards so I will be sharing them over the next few posts.

The first one I received was from Buffy, she was also the first Llama I met.

Here are some details as I see them:
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Soft Suede and Basic Black
Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Soho Subway DSP (remember DSP is buy 3 get one free until the end of July)
Punches:Word Window, Modern Label, Pansy
Misc: paper doilies(sponged), Crumb Cake 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Large Pearls. Basic Pearls, Little Leaves Sizzlits.

Love Buffy's Cards I've been following her blog since she started it.



You might wonder why we call ourselves Llamas so here is our story(it's a long one) as I remember it...

Stampin! Up! has a demo forum that demos can chat, ask questions share idea etc. in theory a great idea but it doesn't always run smoothly. They have several categories/topics that they have a short description of what you should be able to find in that category sadly not everyone reads what they are and since there is not a board moderator (strange huh?) the board was and still is a mess. The top category is the default dump for any thread started that does not have a category selected at the time of posting. In an effort to make questions easier to find and answer and in an effort to make the un-moderated board more useful Darrah started a thread explaining how to locate categories and tag posts. In an effort to keep that information at the top of the board several of us started "bumping" the thread but after a few "bumps" we started chatting thus keeping the thread alive and at the top.  SU! finally added additional categories and Darrah moved the thread to "All About You" and renamed it the  Wacky Women's Watercooler (a place to stop and talk just like an office watercooler in days gone bye. To make it easier to find and because the interesting conversations we had(one all about Llamas, from weaving their wool? to raising them and more) Darrah added the word Llama to the tags because she was pretty sure nothing else would have that tag. So many of the original participants started referring to ourselves as Llama, some of us have a Llama as an Avatar.
We wanted a place to talk about everything going on in our lives and so we started a site where we can meet and talk about life and Stampin' Up, a place we can vent about anything or share our joys and know that someone else is happy for us. Together we started blog hopping and have a site with links to all our hops http://stampinllamas.blogspot.com/. The watercooler is still there, faces and tones have changed since the day(Dec 2, 2010) it started, some of the originals still stop in from time to time. The watercooler will be having their own hop very soon here is the landing page for it http://wackywatercoolerstamping.blogspot.com/

Any way after 2 1/2 years as on line friends I was able to meet a few of them in person yesterday, it was a fun afternoon!