Welcome to the 15th stop on VC_Rocks July Blog hop!  VC_Rocks is a great group of women who love stamping, scrapbooking, and Stampin' Up!  If you're hopping along in order, you arrived here from Angela's blog.  If not, and you would like to see more of our creativity, continue hopping from the link at the end of this post.  You can also find a list of all the participating blogs on the VC_Rocks blog.
Our theme this month is ABC -- Anything But a Card.  My project is a Card Keeper Portfolio made from a template by Stampin' Up!  These are fun to make and great for giving a set of assorted hand made cards as a gift.  The first photo shows the keeper closed by tying the Very Vanilla ribbon into a bow.  The design on the front was case'd from a card posted on SCS by Janine Tinklenberg.

The next photo shows the card keeper open with a few cards inside.

Supply list:  Nature Walk and Sincere Salutations stamp sets; Very Vanilla, Rich Razzleberry, Marina Mist, and Old Olive card stock; Very Vanilla and Old Olive ribbon; brads; Stampin' Write markers.

Thanks for stopping by.  The next stop on the hop is the blog of Mary Jo Price-Williams.  Enjoy!

Welcome to the 12th stop on the VC_Rocks June blog hop! If you are hopping along in order, you arrived here from Tammy Howell's blog. Didn't you love her project? If you didn't just come from Tammy's blog and would like to see a wonderful collection of fabulous projects, you can find the complete list on the VC_Rocks blog. Or look for a link to the next project at the end of this post and follow the links in each blog post until you've completed the hop.

Our theme this month is Big Shot Madness! What a fun and versatile tool! If you have one, don't you love it? My project is a birthday card on which the polka dotted layer of DSP was embossed using my Big Shot and the Square Lattice embossing folder. Other items used on this card are: Basic Black and Very Vanilla card stock, Newsprint DSP, Victoria Crochet trim, stamps from the Four Frames, Teeny Tiny Wishes, and retired Bliss stamp sets, the Decorative Label punch and Stampin' Write markers.

The next stop is Tessa Boulter's blog. She's so creative! Enjoy!

Welcome to the 24th stop on the first blog hop of the VC_Rocks 11th season! If you are hopping along in order you arrived here from Tammy's Tarheel Stamper blog. Wasn't her project lovely? If you happened upon this hop some other way and would like to see the rest of the fantastic projects we have to share with you, a link to the next blog will be at the end of this post. Or, you can go to the VC_Rocks blog where you will find a list of all the participating bloggers. Our theme this month is Color My World featuring a coloring technique. I love SU's Watercolor Wonder Crayons so that's what I used on the card below. The image is from a current hostess set, Fast and Fabulous and was stamped on watercolor paper with StazOn ink. The oval mats were cut from Old Olive and Chocolate Chip card stock with Coluzzle templates and the Perfect Details Texturz plate was used to emboss the Chocolate Chip layer. A piece of Old Olive and White retired gross grain ribbon was tied around the embossed layer before it was adhered to the Chocolate Chip card base. The card design is by Wendy Janson. I'm so glad you came to visit! Please leave a comment or become a follower of my blog to be entered in a drawing for blog candy! Come back on Monday, May 16 to see if you are the lucky winner.

The next stop on the hop is Jane Hignite's blog Stamp with Jane. You'll love her project!

The last three summers I have participated in an online group called VC_Rocks. This virtual celebration of Stampin' Up! was started eleven years by a group of SU demonstrators who were unable to attend the annual SU convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. It's a wonderful time of stamping, swapping, learning, and meeting new people. It opened for returning members April 15th and will be accepting new members during the month of May. If you would like more information or are interested in joining, check out our blog or home page here. We have had daily challenges these first two weeks to get us warmed up and I just finished the last one this morning. The challenge was to find a photo in a non-paper crafting magazine, select 3 colors and match them to SU colors, then create a card using those colors plus 2 different kind of embellishments. I chose the photo below from Southern Living magazine and matched SU's Early Espresso, Old Olive, and Baja Breeze with it. Here is the card I created using those colors. The design was inspired by a card in an old SU catalog. The Baja Breeze layer was stamped with the retired Linen background stamp and a piece of Newsprint DSP was added to the Early Espresso strip. The two different embellishments are the decorative snap and the ribbon.