The Occasional Card: July 2014

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

A Creative Journey July Blog Hop

Hello, Good morning and welcome to A Creative Journey's July Blog Hop Day 2! Isn't this exciting?! Have you seen some pretty ideas and creations that jump started your creative juices? I know I have and I hope you have to!

I really loved the Everyday Alphabet set so much by A Creative Journey, I used it on today's creation, too. I decided to go really bold and frame out my card by matting it all in black cardstock to really highlight the lettering.

I used A Creative Journey's Everyday Alphabet set stamped in black and framed out my image in black cardstock. I colored the flowers and leaves from Petals For You in Copics and added the to my card. I colored some pearls with my R27 Copic marker and added them around my frame for a splash of color.

Do you want to win one of A Creative Journey's stamp release's? To enter, simply answer this question for a chance to win! Question : What's Your Favorite A Creative Journey with Melissa Stamp Set?? You can see all the stamp sets here at A Creative Journey!

Please leave your answer in the comments section in yesterday's blog comments: A Creative Journey July Blog Hop, not below!

Thank you for visiting and please be sure to hop along to all of our other amazingly talented design team members and comment on each blog answering their questions correctly. If you do, you will be entered to win one of five prizes. You can win the Tie Dye and Splatter stamp set, the complete two piece set of the Everyday Alphabet stamp set, the complete two piece set of the Everyday Outline Alphabet stamp set! Contest ends Friday at 8 PM. Winners will be chosen and announced on A Creative Journey blog on Saturday July 12th!

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

A Creative Journey July Blog Hop!!

Good morning crafty friends! I am back from a rather long absence to participate in my first blog hop with A Creative Journey with Melissa stamps!! I'm pretty excited and I hope you are too and ready to get inspired!

This release I am working with the other DT ladies to show off some pretty gorgeous and diverse stamp sets. Today I am going to show two of the stamp sets! They are the Everyday Alphabet Uppercase and Emoticon & the Everyday Lowercase and Numbers sets.

I made a soft yet cheery card to really make the yellow flowers and ribbon pop and really set off the inked alphabet.

I used A Creative Journey's Petals For You to inked in Stampin Up Sage ink, for the leaves and Everyday Alphabet Uppercase and Emoticon set with the Lowercase set too, inked in CTMH Gold Rush ink. I layered and matted everything on some scrap polka dot paper, and Kraft cardstock, then added some faux stitching around the patterned paper edges. To finish the card I added a golden yellow ribbon, some swirling bling and rhinestones for some pizzaz.

Now for the fun part of every stamp release blog hop: Prizes!! Simply answer this question for a chance to win! Question : What's Your Favorite A Creative Journey with Melissa Stamp Set?? You can see all the stamp sets here at A Creative Journey! Please leave your answer in the comments section below for your entry to win!