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Welcome to Day 3 of the Catherine Pooler Designs Sunny with a Side of Sparkle Release Blog Hop. This is the final day of the release hop. You should have arrived here from the amazing Laurel Beard.
Sunny with a Side of Sparkle is a spectacular release with so many options. The release contains two stamp sets of which one has coordinating dies, one stand alone word die, one stencil and a bright and cheerful “Paisleys & Peacock” patterned paper pack. At this time the contents of the Love is in the Air Stamp of Approval collection are also available.
Today I have three cards to share with you.
You’re Super
My first card is a simple, one layer card with a popped up sentiment. The colors I used were inspired by the Peacock & Paisley patterned paper pack. The background stamp is one of the diamonds from the fabulous Say it in Diamonds stamp set and the sentiment is from the Starlights stamp set. These colors work well to create a rainbow. At the ends of the rows I used Black Jack ink. The sentiment is white heat embossed on midnight cardstock and is adhered to the card with foam tape. The Say it in Diamonds stamp set has endless creative possibilities. You will definitely see more cards from me using this stamp set.
Happy Birthday
My second card is so bright and cheerful. I was inspired by the fun and colorful floral design in the Peacock & Paisley patterned paper pack. So, I used that for the background and then created a layered sentiment. The sentiment is from the Say it in Diamonds stamp set and is white heat embossed on vellum. I then cut it out as a diamond shape. I went on to create my own colored cardstock by applying ink directly from the ink pad to white cardstock. This was done each for Lime Rickey and All That Jazz. Once the cardstock was dry I cut into diamonds using the vellum piece as a guide. Finally, I assembled the sentiment embellishment with foam tape and adhered to the card. The layered die-cut is just what the busy, but beautiful background needed to calm it down just a tiny. This card really makes me smile. I hope it does you too.
Star
My third and final card for today was inspired by the star dies found in the Starlights die set. I could not resist using them to create a dry embossed background on white cardstock. Then I challenged myself to keep this card stamp free. So I used the star word die as the sentiment. I did have to jazz it up just a little. The card base is Sand Dunes cardstock, so that is what I used for most of the sentiment too. I did die-cut a couple in white to add some layers and then I also used one to color the star in Limoncello ink. It was easy to cut the star and then glue on. The star die-cut sentiment still needed something more, so I used one of the large stars from the Starlights die set and created a gold heat embossed star as a background for the sentiment. The star die sentiment was glued to the heat embossed star die cut and then this was adhered to the card with foam tape. That Limoncello star sure does pop. 
Thank you everyone for hopping by. Sunny with a side of Sparkle really is a super release. I honestly can’t wait to create more with it. And better yet, I am so anxious to see what all of you create with it!
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PRIZES
5 random winners will be chosen to receive two free ink pads (and free shipping!). So make sure you leave comments on all stops for each of the three days of the blog hop. The winners will be announced Friday evening, June 22.
Day 3 Sunny with a Side of Sparkle Blog Hop
- Catherine Pooler
- Josefine Fouarge
- Jenny Colacicco
- Susan Powell
- Justine Hovey
- Laurel Beard
- Tracie Pond – You are here
- Ilina Crouse
- Ingrid Blackburn
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Love is in the Air
Kind thanks for your feedback and have a beautiful day!
All of your cards are great but my favorite is the embossed star card!!! I’m always looking for good masculine card ideas and that is perfect!
Love your cards!!! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the amazing inspiration, Tracie!
That card without stamping is beautiful! LOVE how it turned out Tracie 🙂
Beutiful cstfd cards!!
Great cards. Beautiful designs💕
Wonderful colors and designs.
Awesome cards, Tracie. I love how you used the dies to dry emboss on the last one. So many possibilities in this release. Thanks for sharing!
You did such a good job with these.
You’ve made a very nice set of cards !!
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This is just such a fun release. The creative possibilities are endless! Thanks for sharing.
WoW! Absolutely gorgeous cards ! I’m totally in love of your first card. So beautiful with these colours! Stunning showcase!
Bright, fun and happy cards! Love the colors and dimension.
Great cards! Love your use of the Say it in Diamonds stamp set.
Your cards are great and make me smile! Great job…
Pure awsomeness!! Love your cards!
I love your first card
Your cards are so fun! I love the dry embossed stars on the last card 🙂
Cool cards. I especially like the dry embossed star card.
Love the colors of the diamond card.
Your cards are gorgeous and elegant. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Great cards…love the 1st one!
I didn’t think I “needed” the Say it in Diamonds stamp set, but I was wrong! You cards wonderfully display the versatility of these stamps. Great cards.
Very nicely done!
WOW love your cards!
Great cards – the star one is stunning
Stunning card!!
Awesome and spectacular cards!!
Great cards Love the colors!
Loving the Say it with Diamonds more and more. So versatile!!!!
Gorgeous and inspiring cards. I love the one with the patterned paper
It is a powerful force field of AWESOMENESS with this release!
Fantastic cards.
Love the star. Haven’t done much with
embossing with a die. Need to get it
done to use more often. the first
card has a wonderful color combo
and the second is bold and bright.
thanks for sharing.
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Beautiful cards! Love the pretty colors in your first card. And the new paper
pad is my favorite of this release. It’s just so awesome.
I really like the colorful cards.
Great cards. I particularly like the last one.
we all need to dry emboss more, such great double use of our dies.
Such fun cards – will surely bring smiles to the recipients.
I love your use with the pattern paper! That is so doable and easy!
Really love all your cards – but I like your challenge of not stamping anything on that third card. We have a county fair here and you can submit entries into the card category. There is a stamped card category and a non-stamped card category – which I was always struggling with. I know have a GREAT idea. THX.
Great cards! I especially like the one from the Say It in Diamonds set!
Love your cards. Such great ideas!
The gold star almost looks like soft leather! These are great!
My head is going to explode with all the great ideas on this blog hop! I am inspired by the way you dry-embossed with the star dies. So simple, but so creative!
Awesome cards! Love the Say it in Diamonds set!
So great
Gorgeous cards! Love the ink colors!
These cards are so great
Beautiful cards. Love the diamond stamp set.
Thanks so much for sharing….
These are fantastic Tracie!
Great examples of how to use the new products! I love how you made the Star card!
Wow! Love yuor gorgeous cards! Beautiful desgins and colors!
Love your card designs! The colors are fabulous.
Awesome cards