Jan 3, 2025 | Artisan Projects, Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards |
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Our 2024 Artisan Design Team was coming to an end, and it was time to show appreciation to our leader, Cindy Schuster. With the help of Elizabeth Price, coordinating the project, we all submitted two pages for the 6″ X 8″ pocket style scrapbook album. Our assignment was to create a spread based on our favorite Artisan submission this past year. I chose the Artisan Road Trip, because it was such a fun project, learning about everyone’s hometown.
Pocket Album Thank you Gift
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As the saying goes; “once an Artisan, always an Artisan,” and I was invited to be part of the Artisan group that designs for Stampin’ Fancy Friday. The topic for January is “Bold & Bright,” and you’ll see my designs on Instagram this Sat (1/4), and my blog post this Sunday (1/5). I will always enjoys sharing my creations with you, my blog followers! Let’s make 2025 the best year ever!
My January Host Code Gift
Place an order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you a surprise! Please add my 8 digit Host Code to your order (found beneath my profile picture).
Thank you for stopping by.
Dec 29, 2024 | Artisan Projects, Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards |
The 2024 Artisan Design Team introduced the incoming 2025 Artisan Design Team on Instagram, Friday the 27th. Today, I am sharing a card that I cased from Andrea Sargent @andreaksargent on Instagram.
Heart Shaped with an angle
Andrea is a talented designer from South Australia, and I can’t wait to see her Artisan creations in 2025. I love the card she created with Soft Sea Foam, gold, and an interesting angle.
Using Andrea’s ideas, I’m giving you a sneak peek of a Sale-a-bration item, the Heart Shaped Bundle, available January 7th The heart die is amazing, which I used to cut Soft Sea Foam Cardstock. Then, I glued the die-cut heart on top of a heart I stamped in Soft Sea Foam Ink on Basic White Cardstock, 4″ X 5 1/4″.
Next, I used Heart Shaped Dies to cut the flowers and leaves from Basic White Cardstock. The cardstock was colored with a Blending Brush and Soft Sea Foam and Pretty In Pink inks. The dots were created with a Peaceful Evergreens Die, Soft Sea Foam Ink, and a Soft Sea Foam Stampin’ Blend. The layer was glued to a Soft Sea Foam card base, and given a 1/8″ strip of Gold Foil to make the angle.
“Just because I care” is from the Heart Shaped Stamp Set, stamped in Crumb Cake Ink. After cutting with a Heart Shaped Die, I attached the sentiment on top of the Gold Foil strip. As a final touch, I added three, gold, Blooming Pearls.
My December Host Code Gift
Place an order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you Iridescent Foil gems in January. Please add my 8 digit Host Code to your order (found beneath my profile picture).
Last Chance products are now available; only while supplies last.
Special Release: Designer Series paper that has been recolored!
Click the picture to see the exciting, new, Online Exclusives! You can sort the list, so all of the new products will be first. And, don’t forget to check out the two new kits!
Thank you for stopping by.
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Dec 26, 2024 | Artisan Projects, Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards, Paper Pumpkin |
It was such fun creating alternative projects with the December Paper Pumpkin Kit, Notes From The Heart. I have instructions below, as well as products I used in addition to the kit.
#1 Project
Notes From The Heart
Instructions:
1. Use a card base from the kit. Emboss it with the Fern 3D Embossing Folder, and use a Blending Brush to color it with Mossy Meadow Ink.
2. Cut Basic White Cardstock, 3 1⁄2” X 4 1⁄2”. Make a stencil with the fern die from Merry Tags & More Dies. Use a Blending Brush with Mossy Meadow Ink to color three ferns on the Basic White Cardstock. Glue this to Blackberry Bliss Cardstock, 3 5⁄8” X 4 5⁄8”.
3. Attach the stenciled piece to the embossed card front with Dimensionals.
4. Use a Blending Brush to color a circular, sentiment label. Stamp “Just A Note” in Blackberry Bliss Ink on the label, and attach it with Dimensionals.
5. Attach three jewels from the kit.
#2 Project
Instructions:
1. Use the tag die from Merry Tags & More Add-On Dies to cut Blackberry Bliss Cardstock.
2. Color a rectangular sentiment label from the kit with a Blending Brush and the Blackberry Bliss Ink Spot from the kit. Then, stamp “Thank You” in Blackberry Bliss Ink, and glue it to the front of the tag.
3. Glue the floral arrangement from the kit to the front of the tag, and add gems from the kit to the flowers.
4. Glue a sentiment label to the back of the tag for a personal message, and tie Gold Trim through the hole at the top of the tag.
My December Host Code Gift
Place an order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you Iridescent Foil Gems in January. Please add my 8 digit Host Code to your order (found beneath my profile picture).
Last Chance products are now available; only while supplies last.
Special Release: Designer Series paper that has been recolored!
Click the picture to see the exciting, new, Online Exclusives! You can sort the list, so all of the new products will be first. And, don’t forget to check out the two new kits!
Thank you for stopping by.
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Dec 15, 2024 | Artisan Projects, Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards |
December’s assignment for the 2024 Artisan Design Team was to create projects using the Cake Celebrations Bundle.
Cake Celebrations
For the first card, I chose a Crumb Cake card base with a layer of Basic White Cardstock. After stamping the layer with Granny Apple Green leaves, I used an Everyday Details Die to cut a circle for the cake. The cake, plate, candles and banner were all created with Cake Celebrations Stamps and Dies.
“Happy Birthday,” is from the Cake Celebrations Stamp Set, cut with an Everyday Details Die, and embellished with Rainbow Dots.
The second card features multi-layered cake, decorated with pretty flowers, on a gold plate.
The circle behind the cake is the “cut out” circle from the first card, heat embossed with “Happy Anniversary.” For the background, I used Regal Distressed Patterns Specialty Paper in gold & white, on a Thick Basic White card base.
My December Host Code Gift
Place an order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you Iridescent Foil gems in January. Please add my 8 digit Host Code to your order (found beneath my profile picture).
Last Chance products are now available; only while supplies last.
Special Release: Designer Series paper that has been recolored!
Click the picture to see the exciting, new, Online Exclusives! You can sort the list, so all of the new products will be first. And, don’t forget to check out the two new kits!
Thank you for stopping by.
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Nov 29, 2024 | Artisan Projects, Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards |
The 2024 Artisan Design Team is feeling the spirit of the season. Today we are hopping, but this isn’t an ordinary hop. This is a special Secret Santa Gift Exchange Hop! Earlier we drew names and then got busy hand stamping a project just for them. The projects in this hop are all gifts to one another. You will see the hop on Instagram.
Humble Home
I am gifting my talented, Artisan friend, Dani Dziama, with a CASE of her Humble Home card. I always look forward to seeing her artistic contributions, and she is a master of “clean & simple cards.” I love the way Dani used heat embossing to add “icing” to the gingerbread house, and line the roof with peppermints. I copied her ideas, with additional trees of “sugar,” and So Swirly embossing. It has been a pleasure being on the 2024 Artisan Design Team with her, and it will be a year I’ll always remember.
Dani’s inspiration
My November Host Code Gift
Place an order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries in December. Please add my 8 digit Host Code to your order (found beneath my profile picture).
Click the picture to see the exciting, new, Online Exclusives! You can sort the list, so all of the new products will be first. And, don’t forget to check out the two new kits!
Thanks for stopping by.
I mentioned that the Artisans are hopping over on Instagram. There are several of us who are also sharing our Exchange on our blogs. Below are links to those who are blogging. To see all the gifts head over to Instagram.
Jacque – https://
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Nov 17, 2024 | Artisan Projects, Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards |
November’s assignment for the 2024 Artisan Design Team was to create projects using the Happy Hibiscus Bundle, one of the new additions to Online Exclusives. You’ll find the supplies in my Product List below, as well as the link to Online Exclusives.
Happy Hibiscus Artisan Project
For the first card, I chose a Petal Pink card base, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″. Then, I used the Happy Hibiscus Hybrid Embossing Folder with Basic White Cardstock, 5 1/4″ X 4″. After running it through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine, I colored it with a Large Blending Brush and Flirty Flamingo Ink. Next, I used a Small Blending Brush and Petal Pink Ink to add highlights to the flowers.
The sentiment, “You make me smile,” is from the Happy Hibiscus Stamp Set. I stamped it in Memento Black Ink on Basic White Cardstock, and used a Happy Hibiscus Die for cutting. Before attaching it with Dimensionals, I colored it with a Blending Brush and Flirty Flamingo Ink. The three flowers were cut from Flirty Flamingo and Petal Pink Cardstock with Happy Hibiscus Dies, and glued in place. The flower centers are Resin Dots.
The second card features a large hibiscus flower, cut with a Happy Hibiscus Die from Basic White Cardstock, and embossed with the Happy Hibiscus “Hybrid” Embossing Folder. I used the same colors, with a Blending Brush, as the first card, and placed it on Dimensionals. Then, I used another Happy Hibiscus Die to cut three leaves from Basic White Cardstock. After cutting, I colored the leaves with a Blending Brush and Old Olive Ink, and glued them in place.
The background was created with a Happy Hibiscus Die, which I used to cut four circles. One was stamped with the sentiment from the stamp set, “Thanks for being so kind.” Before gluing the circles to Basic White Cardstock, 3 5/8″ X 4 7/8″, I used a Happy Hibiscus stamp with Memento Black Ink in four places. This layer was backed with Flirty Flamingo Cardstock, 3 3/4″ X 5″, giving it a 1/16″ border. The card base is Thick Basic White Cardstock, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″.
My November Host Code Gift
Place an order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries in December. Please add my 8 digit Host Code to your order (found beneath my profile picture).
Click the picture to see the exciting, new, Online Exclusives! You can sort the list, so all of the new products will be first. And, don’t forget to check out the two new kits!
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