Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for July.  This month we are excited to show off the new 2015 - 2017 Stampin' Up! In Colors, namely, Cucumber Crush, Delightful Dijon, Mint Macaron, Tip Top Taupe and Watermelon Wonder. The In Color products include card stock, designer series paper, ribbon and other embellishments.  We hope you find great inspiration from the projects.

You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from the lovely Denise Hoepfner at The Mountain Magpie, number 27 on the Pals Hop.  If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all the projects.

Today I am sharing my love of three of the new in colors!  I absolutely adore Tip Top Taupe, Mint Macaron, and Delightful (or delicious as I like to call it!) Dijon!  These colors pair nicely together and could work for any type of card!  Can you imagine a Christmas card using these colors?  Beautiful!

I am happily taking advantage of three things, a sketch I recently saw that I adored, the awesome Awesomely Artistic stamp set and the sentiments from the Cottage Greetings stamp set (love these fonts!!).  I started off with the splotchy stamp from the Awesomely Artistic set and with the help of versamark, made a pattern from corner to corner on the Mint Macaron.  Then I glued the mint panel to the base layer of tip top taupe.

Using the new thicker whisper white, I stamped the ferns and dragonfly using second generation stamping (in other words – I inked the stamp and stamped off once on scratch paper before applying to the whisper white).  I added the birthday greeting in tip top taupe ink to finish off the image for the card.  With my circle framelits, I die cut the white and a piece of delicious! Dijon, offsetting the circles and cutting off one side of the circle.  I took advantage of the new gold metallic thread to make some loops to surround the circles.  Then it was just a matter of popping the circles up on the card base and adding some pearls.  It was that easy!

The next stop is the delightful Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping, number 2 on the Pals Blog Hop!  Thanks for visiting; I hope to see you on next month’s Pals Hop!

Blog Hop Line-up:  

1. Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
2. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
3. Jackie Diediker at Stampin' Jackie
4. Beth Beard at My little craft blog
5. Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven's Retreat
6. Debra Simonis at Deb's Stampin' Grounds
7. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
8. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
9. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
10. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
11. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
12. Sherrie Gross at Stampin' Sunshine
13. Candy Ford at Stamp Candy
14. Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn
15. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin'
16. Karen Hallam at Karen's Stampin' Habit!
17. Amy Whelan at Amy's Inklings
18. Natalie Bradley at Natalie Bradley Events
19. Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards
20. Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty
21. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
22. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
23. Lynn Kolcun at Stamping With Avery's Owlery
24. Kimberly Sparks at Stampin' Daisy
25. Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
26. Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn Stamps
27. Denise Hoepfner at The Mountain Magpie

Supplies:  CS:  SU! whisper white, delightful Dijon, mint macaron, tip top taupe.  Inks:  SU! mint macaron, tip top taupe, delightful Dijon, and versamark.  Stamps:  SU! awesomely artistic and cottage greetings.  Other:  Pearls, gold metallic thread.