Aug 27, 2022 | Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards, TGIF |
This month’s Paper Pumpkin, Sweet Sunflowers, is beautiful, and as promised, here are two more alternatives:
Sweet Sunflowers alternatives
Card #3 uses a Fresh Freesia card base, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″. See how it brings out the color in the card front?
To make the card unique, I used the largest Deckled Rectangles Die to cut the Paper Pumpkin card front. Then, I used the fourth largest Deckled Rectangles Die to cut the center from the card front. After gluing the larger cut to the card base, I raised the middle cut on Dimensionals.
Next, I stamped the sunflower in Crushed Curry Ink on a punched flower from the kit, and stamped the center in Mossy Meadow Ink. Then, I attached the flower with Dimensionals, along with the bees and vellum honeycomb from the kit.
“Thank you” is from the Sweet Sunflowers Stamp Set, stamped in Soft Suede Ink on a label from the kit, and attached with Dimensionals.
Card #4 has a card base of Gorgeous Grape Cardstock, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″. I used the largest Scalloped Contours Die to cut another Paper Pumpkin card front.
This time I used an Amazing Thanks Die, cutting a “bubble” from the card front, and layered it with the word “thanks,” which I cut from a green card base in the Paper Pumpkin kit. After gluing the card front to the card base, I placed “thanks” in the hole, raising it on Dimensionals.
The Sweet Sunflowers Stamp Set, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Crushed Curry Ink, Soft Suede Ink, Honeycomb Sheets, sentiment labels, punch-outs (bees and flowers), 9 decorative envelopes, 9 card bases, and directions, are included in the kit. Everything not included in the kit is in my Product List below.
One more alternative idea will be on Tuesday. I saved my favorite for last!
I’m sharing my cards with TGIF, because it’s a rarity that Basic White Cardstock wasn’t used!
My August Host Code Gift
Type the current host code (found beneath my profile picture) in the box provided, on your order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you the Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon Combo Pack in September.
One pack, two ribbons! The Real Red & Garden Green 3/8″ (1 cm) Ribbon Combo Pack has two spools of craft ribbon in traditional Christmas colors. Add it to cards, tie it through tags, wrap it around packages. You’ll want to have this on hand for your Christmas crafting!
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Aug 26, 2022 | Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards, Paper Pumpkin |
This month’s Paper Pumpkin, Sweet Sunflowers, is beautiful, and I’ve been on a roll making alternatives. I’ll be sharing them for the next few days.
The first card uses the green card base, layered with a sheet of the honeycomb (white side up, and gold foil side down), both from the kit. Then, I used a Deckled Rectangles Die to cut a piece from one of the decorative envelopes, 2 1/2″ X 4″, and placed it on Dimensionals.
Sweet Sunflowers alternative #1
Next, I stamped the sunflower in Crushed Curry Ink on Basic White Cardstock, colored the petals with Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends, and stamped the center in Mossy Meadow Ink. After fussy cutting with Paper Snips, I attached the flower with Dimensionals.
“Thank you” is from the Sweet Sunflowers Stamp Set, stamped in Blackberry Bliss Ink on a label from the kit. I added a bow of Soft Sea Foam.
Card #2 is changed simply by placing the ready-made card front on a Smoky Slate card base, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″. The background color gives it the feeling of a sympathy card, don’t you think? In keeping with that idea, I chose a sentiment from a retired stamp set, Itty Bitty Greetings, and stamped it in Basic Gray on the label.
The Sweet Sunflowers Stamp Set, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Crushed Curry Ink, Soft Suede Ink, Honeycomb Sheets, sentiment labels, punch-outs (bees and flowers), 9 decorative envelopes, 9 card bases, and directions, are included in the kit. Everything not included in the kit is in my Product List below.
Come back tomorrow for more alternative ideas!
My August Host Code Gift
Type the current host code (found beneath my profile picture) in the box provided, on your order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you the Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon Combo Pack in September.
One pack, two ribbons! The Real Red & Garden Green 3/8″ (1 cm) Ribbon Combo Pack has two spools of craft ribbon in traditional Christmas colors. Add it to cards, tie it through tags, wrap it around packages. You’ll want to have this on hand for your Christmas crafting!
July-December 2022 Mini Catalog (click to open)
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Sale-a-bration $99.00 Starter Kit promotion.
Kick off the Holiday Mini catalog with the BEST SAVINGS of all! You get up to $125.00 in products of YOUR choice (that’s $26 in FREE Product) for $99, PLUS the Making Plans Collection (a $45 value) can be added to your Starter Kit FREE. The kit ships FREE (another 11% savings). Click HERE to join my Dream Makers Team; I welcome Hobby Stampers.
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Aug 24, 2022 | Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards |
Balloons are synonymous with birthdays, right? For today’s card, I have to, first, show you my inspiration; the colors, and the upside down sketch from Fusion.
I was inspired by Fusion.
My bouquet of round balloons was cut with the smallest Layering Circles Die, and the bow is a Sentiments Silhouettes Die.
Balloon Bouquet
To get the pastel colors, I used Blending Brushes with four colors of Ink: Balmy Blue, Petal Pink, Flirty Flamingo, and Pool Party. After cutting the balloons and bows, I positioned them, along with the strings, stamped in Gray Granite. This string is from a long retired stamp set, Party Pants. It was among my first stamp sets when joining Stampin’ Up!, and you can see it in my Product List below.
The card base is Gray Granite Cardstock, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″, layered with Basic White Cardstock, 5 1/4″ X 4″.
The sentiment is from the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set, cut with its Sentiments Silhouettes Die. I stamped “wishing you the happiest of birthdays” in Gray Granite Ink, attached it with Dimensionals, and my birthday card was complete.
My August Host Code Gift
Type the current host code (found beneath my profile picture) in the box provided, on your order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you the Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon Combo Pack in September.
One pack, two ribbons! The Real Red & Garden Green 3/8″ (1 cm) Ribbon Combo Pack has two spools of craft ribbon in traditional Christmas colors. Add it to cards, tie it through tags, wrap it around packages. You’ll want to have this on hand for your Christmas crafting!
July-December 2022 Mini Catalog (click to open)
Sale-a-bration 1 July – 31 August 2022 (click to open)
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Kick off the Holiday Mini catalog with the BEST SAVINGS of all! You get up to $125.00 in products of YOUR choice (that’s $26 in FREE Product) for $99, PLUS the Making Plans Collection (a $45 value) can be added to your Starter Kit FREE. The kit ships FREE (another 11% savings). Click HERE to join my Dream Makers Team; I welcome Hobby Stampers.
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Aug 23, 2022 | Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards, Paper Pumpkin |
If you recall, I was touting the Sweet Sunflower, August Paper Pumpkin, during the time it could be ordered, July 11-August 10. It was just delivered to my home, and is absolutely gorgeous!
I couldn’t wait to open the beautiful box, and get started. Following the pictured instructions, I made three cards in a “snap.”
Here you can see card #1 with the box that contains all of your supplies to make nine cards.
Sweet Sunflowers
This is card #2 with the front of an envelope.
And, this is card #3 with the back of an envelope.
If you’d like a monthly surprise, containing an easy crafting experience, Paper Pumpkin is for you! It can be ordered a month at a time, or in 3 month, 6 month, and annual subscriptions. The links are in my Product List below. Plus, if you order during the month of August, because it’s Sale-a-bration time, you can also qualify for FREE items seen below.
Click here to watch a Stampin’ Up! unboxing and assembling. After opening, you can click the tab to skip the ads.
My August Host Code Gift
Type the current host code (found beneath my profile picture) in the box provided, on your order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you the Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon Combo Pack in September.
One pack, two ribbons! The Real Red & Garden Green 3/8″ (1 cm) Ribbon Combo Pack has two spools of craft ribbon in traditional Christmas colors. Add it to cards, tie it through tags, wrap it around packages. You’ll want to have this on hand for your Christmas crafting!
July-December 2022 Mini Catalog (click to open)
Sale-a-bration 1 July – 31 August 2022 (click to open)
Additional Sale-a-bration items:
Sale-a-bration $99.00 Starter Kit promotion.
Kick off the Holiday Mini catalog with the BEST SAVINGS of all! You get up to $125.00 in products of YOUR choice (that’s $26 in FREE Product) for $99, PLUS the Making Plans Collection (a $45 value) can be added to your Starter Kit FREE. The kit ships FREE (another 11% savings). Click HERE to join my Dream Makers Team; I welcome Hobby Stampers.
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Aug 22, 2022 | Gallery, Global Design Project, Hand-Crafted Cards |
This week’s Global Design Project is a color challenge, using Pool Party, Flirty Flamingo and Tahitian Tide. The colors made me think of apple blossoms against a blue sky, and I was excited to give you a sneak peek of a new die set, Apple Blossoms Dies, that will be available in September.
Apple Blossoms
The dies coordinate with the Apple Harvest Stamp Set from the 2022 July-December Mini Catalog that is available now, which you can see in my Product List below. Beginning September, the dies can be ordered (#160255), or in a bundle for a 10% savings (#162526).
I began by using an Apple Blossom Die to give scalloped sides to Basic White Cardstock, 3 1/4″ X 5 1/2″. Then, I used a Blending Brush with Tahitian Tide Ink to create the sky for a background.
Next I used Apple Blossom Dies to cut two branches from Soft Suede Cardstock, seven leaves from Pool Party Cardstock, three blossoms from Basic White Cardstock, and three blossom centers from Flirty Flamingo Cardstock.
After gluing everything in place, I stamped the sentiment in Soft Suede Ink on Basic White Cardstock, used another Apple Blossom Die for cutting, and attached it with Mini Dimensionals. “The greatest gift is a good friend” is one of three sentiments in the Apple Harvest Stamp Set. Don’t you love it?
For a bit of embellishment, I placed Iridescent Pearls in the center of the blossoms.
See what our designers created, then play with the colors, and hang your design in our gallery.
My August Host Code Gift
Type the current host code (found beneath my profile picture) in the box provided, on your order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you the Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon Combo Pack in September.
One pack, two ribbons! The Real Red & Garden Green 3/8″ (1 cm) Ribbon Combo Pack has two spools of craft ribbon in traditional Christmas colors. Add it to cards, tie it through tags, wrap it around packages. You’ll want to have this on hand for your Christmas crafting!
July-December 2022 Mini Catalog (click to open)
Sale-a-bration 1 July – 31 August 2022 (click to open)
Additional Sale-a-bration items:
Sale-a-bration $99.00 Starter Kit promotion.
Kick off the Holiday Mini catalog with the BEST SAVINGS of all! You get up to $125.00 in products of YOUR choice (that’s $26 in FREE Product) for $99, PLUS the Making Plans Collection (a $45 value) can be added to your Starter Kit FREE. The kit ships FREE (another 11% savings). Click HERE to join my Dream Makers Team; I welcome Hobby Stampers.
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Aug 21, 2022 | Gallery, Hand-Crafted Cards, TGIF |
For those who relish the warm days of summer, the Waves of Inspiration Stamp Set, and Waves Dies, are perfect for creating beach scenes. The Waves Dies are amazing, and I had fun using the “paper piecing” technique on today’s card.
After cutting the wave from Basic White Cardstock, I colored the “cut out” pieces with a Sponge Dauber and ink (Pool Party, Balmy Blue and a mystery color), and replaced them in the holes. The mystery color was in a Sponge Dauber that I thought had been rinsed clean; an accident that improved the look. LOL
Beach Scene
For the background, I used a Blending Brush and Petal Pink Ink to lightly color Basic White Cardstock, 4 3/4″ X 3 1/2″. Then, I cut clouds, using Wave Dies, from Basic White Cardstock I had colored with a Blending Brush and two inks: Petal Pink and Flirty Flamingo.
Next, I decided to use a Fabulous Frames Die to cut a Gray Granite frame for my scene, and attached the framed scene to a Gray Granite card base, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″.
The last step was adding detail to the frame with a sentiment and a Pelican, both from the Waves Of Inspiration Stamp Set, and attached with Dimensionals. I stamped the Pelican and “happy birthday” in Gray Granite Ink, and used a Waves Die to cut the Pelican, and a Sending Die for the sentiment.
I was inspired by TGIF.
My August Host Code Gift
Type the current host code (found beneath my profile picture) in the box provided, on your order of $75.00 or more, before tax and shipping, and I will send you the Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon Combo Pack in September.
One pack, two ribbons! The Real Red & Garden Green 3/8″ (1 cm) Ribbon Combo Pack has two spools of craft ribbon in traditional Christmas colors. Add it to cards, tie it through tags, wrap it around packages. You’ll want to have this on hand for your Christmas crafting!
July-December 2022 Mini Catalog (click to open)
Sale-a-bration 1 July – 31 August 2022 (click to open)
Additional Sale-a-bration items:
Sale-a-bration $99.00 Starter Kit promotion.
Kick off the Holiday Mini catalog with the BEST SAVINGS of all! You get up to $125.00 in products of YOUR choice (that’s $26 in FREE Product) for $99, PLUS the Making Plans Collection (a $45 value) can be added to your Starter Kit FREE. The kit ships FREE (another 11% savings). Click HERE to join my Dream Makers Team; I welcome Hobby Stampers.
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