Oct 16, 2014 | Birthday, Cards, Masculine |
Not sure about you but I seem to have a lot of Fall birthdays in my family. And let’s just say that even though I make tons of cards I’m not very good at actually getting them in the mail to people. Bad me. I was doing a pretty good job of leaving digital birthday cards on friend and family Facebook pages as they pop up every day. But then I took that trip to Alaska and while I was gone and since I’ve been back I haven’t really been doing that either. Bad me. So I owe a lot of people birthday wishes. Now to come up with a plan to tackle this problem. What do you do to keep up with birthdays and do you send cards out to everyone – or just to family?
So speaking of Fall birthdays I do have a nice card that would work for anyone – and it’s a good masculine card or teen card which can be hard to create at times.
A couple of tips for this card.
- Cut the circle in the Designer Series Paper
- Turn the paper upside down and lay it on the Very Vanilla card stock and stamp the greeting – this way you won’t accidentally stamp on the front of the designer paper when you position the words inside. And if you don’t like your first try – turn the Vanilla card stock over and try it again.
- Attach the Designer Paper right side up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Use one of the frame wooden pieces and tie it on with the linen thread.
Here are the products I used to create this card:
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Thanks for stopping by today. Let me know your system for birthday cards and actually getting them sent out. One idea for everyone else is to attend my Card Maker’s Class each month. You can make the cards you need for the upcoming month. Now I just need to figure out actually getting them out in the mail.
Jul 11, 2014 | Cards, Masculine, Photopolymer |
You may have noticed in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog we no longer have Stampin’ Around Wheels. They all retired with our last catalog. I know that for me I really hadn’t used any in a long time – and I guess others weren’t either. In fact some people were unmounting their wheels so they could use them on a clear block. It was something I had considered but hadn’t gotten around to doing. Well Stampin’ Up! gave us a new solution – new photopolymer stamps in our catalog that are borders or what I call long stamps. These are designed to replace the wheels. Because they are the new clear photopolymer they are very easy to place and position on your project. For this project I used the new Draw the Line stamp set. This card is a slightly modified version of a card from our Stampin’ Success demonstrator magazine.
The open circles, the arrows and the full circles are all just one line of images – but so easy to repeat and place on the card because the stamps are photopolymer and you can see exactly where you are placing them.
I have a couple of tips for using the photopolymer that work for me. Make sure you get ink on the whole image – the new Stampin’ Up! ink pads work well the old style not so much. When you stamp hold the image on the card stock briefly to give the ink a chance to transfer from the stamp to the card stock. Don’t go down and up really fast – you want full contact between the stamp and the card stock. Clean your photopolymer stamps on a paper towel sprayed with Stampin’ Mist. I found that when I use my scrub my stamps pick up any residual ink left from other projects. Inks that are red, yellow, brown will leave a faint stain on the stamps – I can’t find any way to avoid it. The blue, greens don’t seem to do that. I have not tried using Stazon on my photopolymers.
FYI the little clip at the top of the card is attached with a glue dot not actually clipped to my card – i wanted to see the whole clip and if you slide it on part of it ends up in the back where you can’t see it.
Here is everything I used on this card:
Jun 13, 2014 | Cards, Masculine, Paper Pumpkin |
Hey Man – did you get your May 2014 Paper Pumpkin kit? It’s called Hey Man! This kit was a card kit all ready to create cards for Father’s Day and masculine looking birthday. I put mine together late one night when I was in my craft room – I wanted to make something but didn’t want to come up with any ideas. So I pulled out my Paper Pumpkin kit and started by making the card following the instructions and then I went out on my own and started doing things a little different. I ended up with 7 cards total – the 6 that were in the kit plus I added some extra card stock to make one more with the extra pieces I had left. Since I did some altering I was left with a few odds and ends and those were what I used on my extra card.
That’s a group picture and now let me show you each one individually. Here is the one I started with – following the directions:
and then here is the 3×3 card that I also made following the directions. Well almost – on the little tag I used one of the candy dots instead of the little stamp.
Oh and by the way can you see that I stamped on the envelopes too. That arrow stamp isn’t from this Paper Pumpkin kit but it’s from an earlier one. With all the arrows in this kit I thought that one was appropriate to coordinate.
I decided I wanted to make a horizontal card so I came up with this
And then I used the extra piece of the blue/green plus the cut off banner piece from the first 3×3 card to make the other 3×3 card –
And then here are two other of the regular cards –
And then with the pieces I had left over I decided to make one more card. I pulled out some Marina Mist and Wild Wasabi card stock and created this:
So what do you think?
I’ve been enjoying these kits each month. I have a couple that I didn’t put together (well actually I think just 1). I have been using a lot of the cards recently for Graduation – remember the Wahoo kit – those were great and also the one with the wood words that said Congrats – I think that one was called Glittered Greetings. Greg even used one of the Thanks cards to give to someone at work. He thought the wood words were pretty cool.
Gotta go – talk to you later…..
Jun 12, 2014 | Cards, Masculine, Retired List |
Father’s Day is quickly approaching and I’m not sure I shared this card previously so I better do it now. This was one of the cards from my Good-Bye class as it uses mostly retired stamp sets.
It has some good masculine colors – Soft Suede and I used the Naturals white and some Crumb Cake ink too. Stamp sets I used are:
- Gorgeous Grunge (in the new catalog too)
- Delightful Dozen ( for the happy Father’s day – but there was also one in the May Paper Pumpkin kit)
- Off the Grid (so sad they retired this – I think it is a great background)
- Clockworks
For the center of the clock I added a Vintage Trinkets brad.
I think you could probably use the Open Sea stamp set and create a similar feeling card for Father’s day. And it is still in the new catalog.
Enjoy the day!
Jun 10, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Masculine, Occasions Catalog 2014, Sale-A-Bration 2014, Stamp, Scrap, & Create Retreat |
This was our third Make&Take project at the Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat. A Birthday card kit that included a birthday cards for a variety of people – a kids card, a teen card, a feminine card and a masculine card. I wanted to accomplish a few things for this project and set of cards. While designing it the plan was to use a consistent color scheme – so the whole set coordinates, and I wanted to use the same layout for each of the cards – to show that changing just the stamp set could make it a completely different card. I was able to use items from my pre-order for the new Stampin’ Up! catalog along with items from the Occasions catalog that continued on into the new annual catalog.
I decided to use the new Moonlight Designer Series Paper Stack for this project so the color scheme is Sahara Sand, Basic Gray, Whisper White and two brand new colors – Hello Honey and Lost Lagoon. I’m not sure if you have noticed this before but with the paper stacks if you look at one side you have one set of colors and if you flip over and look at the other side you have a slightly different set of colors. For this moonlight stack one side includes the Lost Lagoon (that’s what I used for this project) while the other side included the Blackberry Bliss.
Here is a closer look at each piece of this project.
The box that holds the 4 cards and envelopes was made with the Envelope Punch Board. The front decorated with the Starburst Sayings and Starburst Framelits.
The kids card uses the new Sea Street stamp set and the “happy birthday” is from a new set called Something to Say. A strip of the Moonlight paper stack – that looks like waves and the Starburst die cut is embossed with the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder – to look like bubbles. Does that embossing folder look familiar? It was one of the Sale-A-Bration free choices a few months ago.
The teen card uses the Geometrical stamp set and the Triangle punch. For this one the greeting is on the circle and then the punched triangles were added around the front of the card giving a little different look to the same card layout.
Here is the feminine card – it uses the new So Very Happy stamp set. While this wasn’t part of our pre-order it was a set that I received during the Leadership conference back in January. The flower in the set coordinates with the Blossom Punch.
And finally the masculine card – it uses the set called Timeless Talk. This isn’t a new set it was actually in last years catalog too. But sometimes you don’t notice a set until its presented in a different way. For the center of the dial on the phone I added a little Basic Gray candy dot.
For all the cards I used the Hardwood Background stamp. And they each have the large starburst that is embossed, the strip of Moonlight Designer Paper and the 2-1/2″ circle punch with an image plus the punched greeting.
Thanks for stopping by today!
May 1, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Masculine, Occasions Catalog 2014 |
I think the Just Sayin’ Stamp set and the Word Bubble Framelits are a fun combination from the Occasions catalog. This Pinterest inspired card is one that the girls made at my team meeting this past weekend. Literally something I threw together at the last minute (they laugh at me for that).
This is how I made it –
- The card base is Bermuda Bay.
- For the Whisper White layer place it on the cutting mat on top of the Magnetic Platform and then add the word bubble framelits – I used 3 different ones. Run it through the Big Shot to cut. Set the cut pieces aside and use on another project – for this one we are using the negative piece.
- I cut pieces of the Kaleidoscope Designer paper – I think mine were 2″ x 3″ pieces. glue them to the back behind each of the cut holes. Where the paper extends out beyond the edge of the white – trim – these will be the pieces that get layered on the front – and I did not worry about them being straight or perfect at all. They were what they were.
- Layer the White on a piece of Basic Black and add to the card base.
- I hand drew the lines/dots around the cut outs.
- Add the leftover strips to the front – I used the opposite sides from what I used in the word bubbles.
- I stamped the Hey There on another piece of White and cut it. Alternately you could use one of the shapes that you cut out and try to line the stamp up – or stamp it before you cut and that would save paper – unless you want a different shape. Add to front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Add some coordinating Candy Dots – for this one I used Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry and Melon Mambo.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Thanks for stopping by today. Let me know your system for birthday cards and actually getting them sent out. One idea for everyone else is to attend my Card Maker’s Class each month. You can make the cards you need for the upcoming month. Now I just need to figure out actually getting them out in the mail.
