Stampin' Up! Artisan Blog Hop-Birthday Surprise

Hello! Welcome back to another Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Blog hop! Join us each week as artisans from around the world share our creativity with you!

This week we have decided to feature the Birthday Surprise stamp set. I think you will love what the team has created with this fun set!

At first, I created a card with the set. It was going to be for my hubby. But. . . then I needed a gift bag, and quick! So I took the card I had made for my dear hubby and instead, stuck it to the front of a gift bag to solve my problem! And . . now I must go make hubby another card.

 

If you are wondering where the washi tape came from. . . I made it with the Moonlight DSP! Check out my tutorial on last week's post!

Hope you all have a happy day!

Let's go check out Cindy's creation with this set, shall we?!

 There's still time to sign up an receive the April SITM kit! We are featuring fun projects created using the Hello Darling stamp set! Let us show you how versatile, from beautiful to masculine, and everything in between, this set can be! Plus, if you sign up and pay before the 15th, you will receive a free PDF tutorial for a bonus project (do you love mini albums? {hint, hint})! Sign up today! Check out a few of the sneaks for April's projects. . .

Fancy Friday-Make it Masculine!

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to another Fancy Friday! For this month's hop we have challenged ourselves to make it masculine! I'm not sure about you, but my projects seem to be over-riddled with girlishness! Perhaps it is because I am the only girl in a house full of guys. So, I thought I would try and make the most of this challenge.

I own very few masculine sets. . . in fact, the only current masculine set I own is Guy Greetings from the Occasions Catalog. I could have very easily created a man card using Guy Greetings, but then where would be the challenge?! Instead I decided to take the challenge a step further and use a very girly set and try to make it masculine. Since I have been busy creating projects for my next round of Stamps in the Mail using the Hello Darling set, I thought. . . .sure, why not?! I can make Hello Darling masculine, can't I?! Hmmmm. . . let's see. . . here is the image of the set. . .

and here is my MAKE IT MASCULINE card!

Yup! Good enough for me!

Let's head In the Cat Cave and see what manly project Cathy has created, shall we?! Don't forget to continue on the hop as we have a surprise guest designer! She's someone who I often look to for inspiration, she is absolutely amazing, and if you don't love her already you will after stopping by her blog!

Supplies used: Hello Darling stamp set; Lost Lagoon and Basic Black ink pads; Lost Lagoon, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, and Kraft cardstock; Typeset and Moonlight DSP; What's Up and 1/2" circle punch; File Tab Thinlits; Stacked With Love Washi; Linen Thread; Project Life Journaling Pens; other: needle and black thread.