Ink About Me: March 2018

Friday, March 30, 2018

Happy 4th Birthday SugarPea Designs!

Welcome to the biggest birthday bash in town! SugarPea Designs is celebrating its 4th birthday with a super sized blog hop and awesome giveaways, so read all the way to the bottom of my post for all the details.

I have two birthday cards for you today that use the same birthday sentiment from the newly released Topiary Garden. I'm smitten with this stamp set and find ways to combine it with other favorite SugarPea products whenever possible!

I've combine Topiary Garden with my favorite-est Diagonal Striped Cover Plate. And, you know me, clean and simple, so I simply stamped the twiggy wreath from Funky Wreath - All Seasons and finished it with my birthday sentiment and a few black leaves.

Next up is the FarmScape scene. I trimmed the card base and FarmScape layer with the stitched rectangle die from Card Front Element Builder to give everything a crisp, uniform look and again added my simply stamped sentiment.

SugarPea Designs will be giving away 4 - $40 gift certificates to the SugarPea Designs shop. Winners will be randomly chosen from all the comments left along each stop of the hop. Comments will close on April 7^th 11:59 PM EST with winners announced on April 8^th.

Wait...there's more!

SugarPea Designs is offering a coupon code: BDAY04 for customers to receive 15% off their entire purchase AND a FREE 4x8 stamp set with any purchase (valid until April 7^th 11:59 EST).

Vera Yates

Thanks so much for stopping by today.
I hope you enjoy our blog hop projects and have a little luck with the giveaways, too!
~Amy

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Color Throwdown - He Is Risen

Hi, and welcome to this week's Color Throwdown Challenge. This week's colors are a beautiful pastel combination of blush, pink and apricot which you can see below. I've used a new cover plate from Reverse Confetti, Stitched Rays Cover Panel, along with a sentiment from Easter Blessings.

After embossing the sentiment in white, I watercolored over it in the challenge colors.

The Color Throwdown crew is on deck with more inspiration for you. I hope you'll find time to play along with this week's challenge!

Cheiron Brandon - March Guest Designer

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Color Throwdown #485

How can it be Wednesday already, right?!

That means it's time for a brand new set of colors for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.

This week we're using peach, white and black. What I would give for that chair!

Here's a full view of my card using a sweet little chick-duck from Reverse Confetti's All About Ewe, perched up on my absolute favorite SugarPea Designs Hello die. Sweet and simple!

Ready for more color inspiration? Check out the CTD team and guests below.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

~Amy

Cheiron Brandon - March Guest Designer

Reverse Confetti Spring Fling Blog Hop

Welcome to the Reverse Confetti - My Sweet Petunia blog hop! The entire hop is linked below and of course there's a prize involved, so be sure to leave comments at each of the blogs linked below.

Good luck!

I have a project for you today featuring Reverse Confetti's Clear Tote that I've filled with the cutest little wind up chick, just in time for Easter. I lined the bottom with yummy new patterned paper from the Fun Times 6x6 pad using the coordinating In The Bag Confetti Cuts die. I think these papers simply scream "Spring"!

I used my Mini Misti to stamp both the tag sentiment and cute little chick (or is it a ducky, hmm?) for a nice, solid image. I find that when stamping a sentiment on patterned paper, that solid coverage really makes the sentiment pop over the pattern. The sentiment is from Hippity Hoppity and the chick is from All About Ewe, two great sets for Spring.

Two lucky commenters from the hop will win one of two prizes: a $60 shopping spree at My Sweet Petunia or a $60 shopping spree at Reverse Confetti. Comments must be left no later than Sunday, March 25th, at 11:59 PM Central time and winners will be announced on Tuesday March 27th, on the Reverse Confetti and My Sweet Petunia blogs.

Amy Rohl <---you are here

Friday, March 16, 2018

Sweet 2 Repeat Blog Hop

Welcome to the SugarPea Designs Sweet 2 Repeat Blog Hop! I'm sharing a card made with one of the SugarCut dies from from my favorite set from last month's release - Garden Topiary.

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I simply cut 4 of the heart shapes to create a shamrock and then added a hand cut stem and topped it with my favorite new SugarCut die - Hello. Everything is layered on top of a Diagonal Stripe CoverPlate.

Leave a comment on each of the blogs below for a chance to win a SugarPea Designs gift certificate. The winner will be announced on the SugarPea blog March 24th. Good luck and happy hopping!
~Amy

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Amy Kolling
Amy Rohl
Amy Tsuruta
Ardyth Percy-Robb
Lea Lawson
Kelly Lunceford
Kerin Sylvester
Stéphanie Beauchemin
Vera Yates
Lexa Levana
Raluca Vezeteu

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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Color Throwdown 484 + Mix It Up 41

Welcome, friends! I've got a card for you today using this week's Color Throwdown Challenge colors and the sketch from SugarPea's Mix It Up Challenge. Click on the challenge graphics below to take you directly to each blog.

http://sugarpeadesigns.com/blog/category/mix-it-up-challenge/

Terrific Ties | Striped Background | Garden Topiary

Ready for more color inspiration? Check out the CTD team and guests below.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

~Amy

Wanda Cullen
Cheiron Brandon - March Guest Designer
Nance Leedy - Guest Star Stamper

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Reverse Confetti - Now Available!

The Reverse Confetti March Release is NOW AVAILABLE!
Click HERE to get your shopping started. Thanks so much for stopping by this week for Countdown to Confetti.

My final card of the release features the adorable bears from Honey Bear in combination with sweet new patterned paper from the Fun Times 6x6 pad.

Could that little buzzing bee BE any cuter? And how about those clouds!

All of the images were watercolored with Zig markers and die cut using the coordinating Confetti Cuts. The rolling hills of grass are compliments of Fun Times and the spiky grass die from the Nuts About You Confetti Cuts.

It's time to hop!
The Crew and 'Fetti Friends have more in store for you today, so look around and start tucking ideas away for you new products.