I Got Carried Away with the Mojo for The Paper Players

The Paper Player's have a Theme challenge this week and the theme is Transportation. There were some obvious choices, but I wanted something a little more creative so I turned to a retiring Hostess stamp set, called Time to Celebrate. I love this sketched hot air balloon and it is not a common mode of transportation so I ran with it. I used Mojo Monday's Challenge sketch for the layout of the card! Perfect!

Here are the two challenges:

What is the strangest mode of transportation you have ever used? I guess mine would have to be a cable car going between major peaks at Whistler/Blackcomb Ski Resort. It was breathtaking really! Luckily, I am not afraid of heights! Let me know what your most unique form of transportation was?

• I decided on a palette of Island Indigo, Rose Red and Whisper White. It's quite a crisp combination and I like the contrasts. That's got to be, what? maybe 4 times now that I've ever used Rose Red. I think it's growing on me!
• I love the whimsical sketched images in Time to Celebrate. It's one of the Hostess Sets in the Occasions Catalogue, so it will be retired once June 2 rolls around.
• The sentiment originally read: "I get carried away over you". I suppose I could have left it that way, but I didn't want the "over you" part in there. I wanted it to be consistent with the transportation theme so I masked that part with some tape and inked it up. I removed the tape and stamped the greeting and the "over you", which had no ink, didn't print.
• I stamped the hot air balloon in Island Indigo and coloured in parts with a Rose Red Stampin' Write Marker. I hand cut it with Paper Snips and mounted it on a piece of Island Indigo cardstock and cropped it again by hand, leaving a 1/16" margin around the outside, estimating as I went. It gives the image a little more definition and it's not too hard to do.

Tuesday means it's time for more Weekly Deals! Check out what Stampin' Up! has for you this week:

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Product List

Time To Celebrate Clear Stamp Set [137945]	Time To Celebrate Wood Stamp Set [137150]	Regals Backgrounds Designer Series Paper Stack [130139]	Island Indigo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122923]	Rose Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102544]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad [126986]	Regals Stampin' Write Markers [131262]	Paper Snips Scissors [103579]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Time to Celebrate for the Paper Players

It's time for a whimsical Valentine card, perhaps for someone who doesn't like mushy cards.  You know who you are! I've been looking for an opportunity to use the Hostess set from the Occasions Catalogue called Time to Celebrate, and when I saw this week's Paper Players Challenge, I knew the time had come!

Okay, I guess a worm doesn't count as a "furry" friend, but he is a critter, I guess, and because I think he's so gosh darned cute, I'm going to go ahead and use him for this challenge!! I mean, look at those delightful glasses (I'm guessing he's a bookworm - the best kind!) and the little posy!  Who could resist that charm?  Let's take a closer look:

• I stamped the worm image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then took him to my ecutter for the trim! It sure does save a lot of time, but sometimes I miss the therapy! I coloured him in using my Smoky Slate Assortment of Blendabilities, as well as accents of Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana and Old Olive.
• Both background papers are from the Best Year Ever Designer Series Paper featuring Calypso Coral and Coastal Cabana. Love that DSP!!
• The heart behind the worm is from the Groovy Love Stamp set and punched out with the Sweetheart Punch. I mounted the worm and the heart on a circle of Whisper White and a Starburst Framelit, just larger than that Circle Framelit was used to die cut the Calypso Coral starburst.
• Both sentiments are from Time to Celebrate and I admit I couldn't resist the "worm" wishes! I'm just a punny girl at heart! The little heart is from the Hello Darling Stamp set.

Time to Celebrate is a Hostess Set, which means the only way you can order it is as part of your Stampin' Rewards!  But did you know that there are 3 ways you could earn Stampin' Rewards? 

1. Of course, the first way is to host a private class and that way you earn rewards based on the sales from all your guests! Your friends will enjoy a crafty night out with some fun projects to complete and you'll get your choice of free products in any current catalogue. The Hostess sets are exclusive to hosts and are priced lower than other stamp sets so you get more for your rewards dollars! If you host a private class during Sale-A-Bration, your guests are more likely to have higher sales to earn Sale-A-Bration rewards, plus Stampin' Up! is adding an extra $35 in Stampin' Rewards for every class that earns $330 or higher!
2. But, say you don't have time to host a private class. In that case you could join my Stamp Club. You commit to ordering a minimum of $20 every month for 12 months and during one of those months, you get all the Stampin' Rewards earned by the sales of everyone else in the club that month. I have two spots open at the present time, so if you are quick and contact me, I can register you as a member and assign you a month during which you will receive the rewards!!
3. The last way is to spend over $200 yourself and earn the free product all on your own. If you do that often however, your best bet is to get the Starter Kit and have demonstrator status, so you can get the 20% discount on top of earning the free rewards!

Three ways - which ones will you choose??

Thanks for dropping by today!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Time To Celebrate Clear Stamp Set [137945]	Time To Celebrate Wood Stamp Set [137150]	Groovy Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set [134246]	Groovy Love Wood-Mount Stamp Set [134243]	Hello Darling Clear-Mount Stamp Set [133994]
Hello Darling Wood-Mount Stamp Set [133991]	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131202]	Best Year Ever Designer Series Paper [138633]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122925]
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Smoky Slate Assortment [131005]	Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Coastal Cabana Assortment [131000]	Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Calypso Coral Assortment [130996]	Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Old Olive Assortment [130999]
Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad [131175]	Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [126983]	Starburst Framelits Die [132967]	Circles Collection Framelits Die [130911]	Sweetheart Punch [133786]
Decorative Label Punch [120907]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Big Shot [113439]