Jul 4, 2015 | Big Shot, Cards, Masking |
I hope you have a wonderful day with your family & friends celebrating Independence Day! I just got home from the airport and brought Kyle home. I’m thrilled to have everyone under one roof again for the next week.
It’s time for a patriotic card featuring Real Red, Night of Navy and Whisper White, The layout of this card comes from a card featured in our demonstrator magazine – Stampin’ Success. It was a completely different color scheme but the stamp set and layout worked for this patriotic card.
The card base is Real Red. Then I have a layer of Whisper White card stock and used the Stripes decorative Mask and a Sponge Dauber to add the red stripes to it. All the stars are from the Be the Star stamp set and all are stamped in Night of Navy ink. The larger stars were die cut with the coordinating Star Framelits. The stamp set and framelits are available as a bundle for a 15% savings!
I’ve started saving all the little strips I end up with after cutting the layers for the front of the card. I have a bunch stored in a bucket on my craft table and then pull them out when I need to for adding a greeting on a card like this one. Here I used the And Many More stamp set for the word celebrate. To create the little flag at the end you can use the new Triple Banner Punch. When you want to use a strip narrower than the 1″ guide just flip the punch over and position your strip before you punch it.
Finish with some Whisper White Baker’s Twine and Rhinestones. I hope you like this Red, White and Blue Card.
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Jul 3, 2015 | Cards, In Colors |
I’m going to share another sample out of the catalog with you today. On page 105 in the Stampin’ Up! catalog is a pretty card made with the Six-Sided Sampler stamp set and Hexagon punch – which happens to be one of the new bundles offered in the catalog.
I did make a couple of changes – instead of using Pool Party like they did in the catalog I used Mint Macaron. I only did that because the class that I had this card for I was already using Pool Party in another place and decided it would be better to have a different color. And actually to me the sample in the catalog looks like they used Basic Gray which is not available any more so my card I used Tip Top Taupe and also Sahara Sand.
Can you see the two other changes I made? I used a strip of Tip Top Taupe instead of the Silver Glimmer paper and used pearls on my butterfly instead of rhinestones.
I think this is a pretty card. Stamp all of the hexagon images and punch them out. I put the center row of three on my card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then positioned the other two but glued those flat. I added the strip and the butterfly.
Oh one more thing – the sample is a solid white card – probably using the new Thick White Card stock – which is super nice! I didn’t use it here on this card instead putting it on a Mint Macaron base. But this week I’ve made a couple of cards using the thick white as a base and it is nice!
Thanks for stopping in. I’ll come back later and add in the supply list. My stamp club is coming so I need to get ready for them. Oh by the way I’m doing this post on my new computer!
Jul 1, 2015 | Big Shot, Cards, Paper Pumpkin |
How did you like the June Paper Pumpkin Kit? I think it’s adorable and I love the stamp set that came with it. It seems to me that this kit gave us both feminine and masculine cards – which is nice. And the lined envelopes are always a treat. For me I ended up cutting a piece off of the end of each liner – you can’t see it way down in the bottom of the envelope anyway and that gave me some other pieces of patterned paper to use for other projects. Each month I try to create an alternate card idea using the stamps and ink from the kit and I include that in my monthly Card Maker’s Class. My Paper Pumpkin subscribers that attend this class can make this card as an extra freebie!
My card for the June Kit features the cute flower and one of the greetings. I wanted to pair it with some other products and decided to use the brand new Brick Wall embossing folder. It is going to be a fun product and it’s a new size – 6″ x 6″ – so you have the option to emboss in either direction on your card front. These wide folders won’t fit through the Embossing Boutique that we used to sell – you will have to use it in the Big Shot so it is wide enough.
I added my brick wall embossed Whisper White card stock onto a piece of Tip Top Taupe card stock that I cut for my card base. The flower is stamped on Watermelon Wonder card stock with Black memento ink and had cut. The stem is a die cut from the Flower Flair Framelits and cut out of Cucumber Crush card stock. I stamped my greeting on Crushed Curry strip that was punched with the Triple Banner Punch – you gotta have it, I don’t think I have used a punch as much as I have used this one in the few weeks I’ve had it, seriously not kidding.
I finished the card with some Linen Thread tied around in a bow and a Crushed Curry Designer button added to the center of the flower. I love my linen thread and have it on my next order cause I’m running low – gasp!
It’s a fun card and a fun Paper Pumpkin kit. I wonder what the July kit is going to be? If you want one you have to join before July 10th to get that one. And by the way once you are a subscriber you can buy past kits, so if you love this June kit – once it becomes available you can add that to any Stampin’ Up! order that you place. The refill is available now and hopefully the full kit will be added in the next couple of weeks.
You can join HERE for a month-to-month subscription or contact me to order a prepaid subscription for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months. Prepaid subscriptions can also be ordered online in my store!
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Jun 30, 2015 | Demonstrator, Weekly Deals |
There are only a few more hours left to get TWO FREE STAMP SETS! Yes that’s right today JUNE 30th – is the last day for this special offer. Join my team as a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and get $125 in product of your choice,free shipping and two free stamp sets all for $99! It’s a great way to take a “test drive” and there is no obligation to stay a demonstrator if you don’t want to. But you’ll be one for the next 4 months at least! It was one of the BEST decisions I ever made and i have a bunch of wonderful friends all over the world because of it! CLICK HERE to Join the FUN!
Plus today is the start of some bonus deals –
Stampin’ Up! is offering amazing discounts on more products in the Weekly Deals and Clearance Rack this month! Check them out on my website or give me a call to order them.
Just a quick post for you. I’m trying to move from my old laptop to my new one and it isn’t going as smoothly as I had hoped. Here is what it looks like –
Old computer with instructions for what I’m trying to accomplish and then the new computer with me trying to do it. I finally got me Outlook email moved over. But now my calendars are in the cloud somewhere and not on my laptop. Another task for another day. All my software was so old nothing looks the same anymore. New operating system, new office, new word, excel, outlook, everything really. But I’m clunking my way through it. In case you are wondering – this post is being written on my old computer. tomorrow I’ll try to start blogging from the new one.
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Jun 26, 2015 | Birthday, Cards, In Colors |
I had plans to start something new on Fridays called Share The Fun. That is what the front of the new Stampin’ Up! catalog says and my idea was to share a card from the catalog. In really old catalogs they used to have a list of supplies for every project that was shown in the catalog. In more recent catalogs it was no longer printed as part of the catalog but was available as a pdf for us to access. And currently we just have the samples in the catalog without the supply list (unless you look at the You Can Make It ideas those show you the supplies). I often have people ask what was used to make a particular sample. So my idea is to try to recreate some of those samples so I can give you a list of the supplies and maybe some instructions too. Originally I planned to copy them exactly but when I was working on this card I opted to make a few changes – one main reason is I didn’t have one of the stamp sets that they used. So let’s just say sometimes I’ll make a variation of the sample in the catalog.
For my In-Color class the other week I wanted a card that showcased the Mint Macaron color. When I looked through the catalog I would always return to the card on page 16 – it was simple, clean and very pretty and soft. It had just a hint of the Mint Macaron. I decided to use that idea for my class but wanted a bit more Mint Macaron by using that for my card base instead of Very Vanilla like the one in the catalog. I also had to change the stamp set since I didn’t have One Big Meaning.
Here you can see what I came up with.
- I used Mint Macaron for the card base instead of Very Vanilla
- I added the Typeset Specialty Designer Series paper – it’s torn along the top edge and stamped along the bottom edge with the Honeycomb image from Butterfly Basics – to keep the color light stamp off on scratch paper first.
- My Very Vanilla layer is stamped with the flower from Butterfly Basics – the catalog card looks a bit lighter so I think they may have stamped off first
- I used the Host stamp set called Happy Birthday, Everyone for my card and stamped Memento Black Ink
- I tied the Linen Thread around my layer – I just put mine in a different place because of where I did my stamping
- I finished with the Mint Macaron blossom just like they did
- They also added some Pearls which I opted not to do
- Put the layer on the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals
Now you can go make this card – switch out the stamp sets or even the colors for something else and make several variations.
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