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Dainty Delight Stampin’ Up!
The Dainty Delight bundle at Stampin’ Up! carried over into the new catalog and I am definitely delighted! I am casing a Wyermann’s Whimsey card design and she has a great tip for us on her youtube channel. I will include those links further down the blog.
Here is a thank you card just like Lorraine Weyermann’s with just a few of my own changes:
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Wait! You used a die cut for the greeting that isn’t symmetrical?!
Yes, Sal, it is from the Beautiful Shapes Dies from Stampin’ Up! – retiring May 3!
The stamping on the inside of the birthday card is from the Stampin’ Up! Artistically Inked Stamp Set and it is not retiring. The little flowers and grass at the bottom of the inside of the birthday card are from the Dainty Delight stamp set and I colored the back of the stamp with markers. The front greetings are both from the Dainty Delight stamp set stamped in Memento Black on a Basic White Beautiful Shapes Die- (the one I said I would never use-ha -never say never)!
Recipe
- Base: Basic White, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2, scored at 4 1/4
- Layer (X2): Designer Series Paper (DSP), 5 1/4 X 4 (cut with the yellow at top left for a bit of sunshine)
- Flowers: Die cut with Dainty Delight dies
- Flirty Flamingo – 1 1/2 X 2, 1 full flower cut, 1 half flower cut
- Melon Mambo – 1 1/2 X 2, 1 full flower cut, 1 half flower cut, layer behind Flirty Flamingo
- Fresh Freesia – 1 1/2 X 2, 1 full flower cut, 1 half flower cut
- Highland Heather – 1 1/2 X 2, 1 full flower cut, 1 half flower cut, layer behind Fresh Freesia
- Vine: Old Olive, 5 X 2 1/2, die cut with Dainty Delight vine die
- Centers: Daffodil Delight, 1 X 1, die cut with the center which has four centers together – 2 full and 2 half centers
- Greeting: Basic White, 3 1/4 X 1 1/2, stamp greeting in Memento Black, die cut with Beautiful Shapes die and adhere direct to the DSP
- Embellish: brass butterfly and flower resin shape – retired
The vine is glued direct to the DSP.
Layer the flowers with glue dots and then pop up with dimensionals.
Lorraine Weyermann’s video below shows this presentation of the dies:
And one more video from Melanie Coverston using a background with a brick embossing folder and sunflowers:
Yes, thanks to the ladies who post videos for us to learn from.
My Bake Sale tab now has the products I am selling so let me know if you would like anything. I will eventually post to Facebook and Ebay but I wanted to let my loyal followers have first pick. I accept paypal, so send me your requests and your zip code and I will invoice you. When I receive payment, I will immediatly ship the product(s).
Sal, Stamp A Lot
Karen
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Triple Time Stamping
Have you ever tried ‘Triple Time Stamping’? It gives a fun look and is not hard to accomplish. You have three sizes of Basic White temporarily adhered together on which you stamp your images and then you pull them apart and add the borders. Easy peasy!
Color and Contour Triple Time Stamping Card (A)
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If you love a water color look, you will love this stamp set. You actually have one stamp for the outline and one stamp for the coloring. The stamps for coloring do not color in the flowers perfectly, use a Blender Pen or Water Painter if you prefer a perfectly colored flower with a water color look or use a marker in the same color.
I love those little dots you added!
They are part of the set, Sal, take a look-see:
The Scalloped Contour Dies go with the set. Where you see the stamps with a pinkish color, that is showing a die that cuts that stamp. This die set is a must for your stash!
Best Butterflies Triple Time Stamping Card (B)
Design your own whimsical butterfly with the Best Butterflies stamp set! There’s big wings, small wings, big bodies, small bodies, big words, small words and triangles or dots for added interest! I used Fresh Freesia and Calypso Coral with Granny Apple Green on this card with a Fresh Freesia base. Those little flowers are Fun Flowers Resin Shapes.
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. For the butterfly card I found it best to use the Stamparatus to stamp the images; with the added layers it is a bit hard to get the images to stamp completely so you need to stamp a second or third time. However, remember there is a border that will cover 1/8 inch of the image so don’t fret too much about those incomplete edges right next to a layer where the mat will be.
For the Best Butterflies card, use one plate for the butterfly bodies- stamp this first then mask, a second plate for the calypso coral wings and a third plate (or the back of your plate) for the fresh freesia wings. It makes a workshop go quickly to have them all aligned on different plates for perfect stamping. I had several butterfly body masks already fussy cut with our new Masking Paper to lay over the bodies before stamping the wings. Post it notes work pretty well if you don’t have the masking paper, just stamp the image on the post it note and fussy cut.
For the Color and Contour card, I mounted the stamps on acrylic blocks to give the stampers opportunity to stamp and color only what they wanted. I had an Evening Evergreen marker available so if the image wasn’t stamped clear to the edge we could use the marker to complete it, if we saw it was necessary after adding the border mats. I also had a Highland Heather marker so those who didn’t like the watercolor look could color in their flowers.
Secondly, start with stamping your greeting on the center layer, then stamp the images around the greeting.
Recipe for Triple Time Stamping Layers
- Base: A – Highland Heather; B- Fresh Freesia; 11 X 4 1/4, scored at 5 1/2
- Mats: same cardstock as bases
- 3 1/4 X 4 1/2
- 2 1/4 X 3 1/2
- Artwork Layers: Basic White, Temporarily adhere together with temp glue or use just a bit of snail and then use your fingers to rub the snail so the oil in your fingers makes the glue less sticky
- 2 X 3 1/4
- 3 X 4 1/4
- 4 X 5 1/4
- Inside Layer: Basic White, 4 X 5 1/4
- Ink: A- Evening Evergreen, Highland Heather, Crushed Curry; B- Fresh Freesia, Calypso Coral and Granny Apple Green with the greeting in Tuxedo Black.
- Embellishments: A- Evening Evergreen Open Weave Ribbon, Brass Butterfly; B- Fun Flowers Resin Shapes
The recipe sounds pretty easy!
The beauty, Sal, is all in the stamping and adding the borders!
For the Color and Contour card I used a Happy Birthday greeting from the Shaded Summer Stamp Set.
For the inside of the Best Butterflies card, I used a fussy cut butterfly from the Butterfly Kisses Designer Series Paper.
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SAL, Sharing A Love of stamping
Karen
Happiness Abounds, Flowering Tulips, Sending Smiles
Hello Stamping Friends, (double click the header if you are using a mobile device)
June’s Party Event included three cards:
1) Happiness Abounds
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. 3) Sending Smiles
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What a fun party! One lady said she was going to get a frame and make the card a wall hanging! There was lots of laughter as the stamping was going on!
My thank you gift to the hostess was a sweet bag made with the Butterfly Kisses designer series paper, casing Debra Harrison at www.simplysweetinkdesigns.com, by covering a white lunch bag with designer series paper. The guests received an Embossed Treat Bag of goodies with a Sweet Songbird flying through the air with clouds from Give It A Whirl dies.
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The hostess received a card in her bag with a gift certificate to one of my events among other goodies. The greeting on the card is from Happy Hedgehogs. The ‘Hello Friend’ is the retired Friendly Hello. ‘So Happy You’re Here’ is from Sweet Songbirds.
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Those butterflies and birds just make me feel happy! So what is in the bags?
For the bags, I found a variety pack of M&Ms with hopes that they each would have a little of a flavor they liked and then I added a bag of flower seeds and a thank you card they could use; that way they went home with four cards from the event. For the thank you card I used the cards and matching envelopes from Sale A Bration. The door prize was a set of garden tools to help the winner plant her flower seeds.
The cardstock and matching envelope are so pretty that all I did is add the layering thank you from Amazing Thanks dies in the same colors of Pool Party and Soft Sea Foam, scored two lines at the bottom and then added some gems! I wish I would have taken a better picture.
Recipe for card #1) Happiness Abounds
- Base: Thick Whisper White, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Layer 1(X2): Fresh Freesia, 5 1/4 X 4
- Layer 2 (X2): Basic White, 3 3/4 X 5
- Outside layer is die cut with Blossoming Happiness Die with the top point of die 1/4″ from top
- Stamp ‘happy birthday’ from Happiness Abounds Stamp Set in Gorgeous Grape Ink 3/4″ from bottom
- Wrap 6″ of Fresh Freesia 3/8″ Open Weave Ribbon around the bottom, add bow- 8″ of ribbon needed
- Inside uses a fussy cut flower from the side of Hues of Happinesss designer series paper, (don’t toss out those sides of your pretty paper); stamp greeting from Happiness Abounds Stamp Set in Gorgeous Grape ink
- Die cut three flowers, three double leaves and one many leaved stem from the Hues of Happinesss designer series paper with Blossoming Happiness Dies, attach flowers with Stampin’ Dimensionals and leaves with Glue Dots.
- Add bling
Recipe for card #2) Flowering Tulips (thank you Lindastamps.com)
- Base: Pool Party, 4 1/4 X 11, scored at 5 1/2
- Layer 1: Basic Black, 4 X 5 1/4
- Top Pieces:
- Flowering Fields DSP (retired) Tulips – 3 X 4 for middle
- Flowering Fields DSP (retired) Dots- 1 X 4 (X2) for top and bottom
- Mount the top and bottom first, flush to the black layer then mount the middle
- Banner: Vellum, 5 1/4 X 1 9/16 (1/16 beyond 1/2), punch with banner punch
- Tip: Build your banner with your tulip, stem and greeting then adhere to card front, I have vellum glue that doesn’t show but you can glue behind your tulip and greeting with just a touch under butterfly
- Tulip:
- Poppy Parade for main piece, 3 1/4 X 1 1/2 die cut with Tulips Dies
- Petal Pink for inside piece of tulip, 1 X 1 1/4 die cut with Tulips Dies; I used the top three dies shown in this picture with the first two pieces both done in Poppy Parade and sponged slightly with white ink and the third piece done in Petal Pink
- Greenery is Garden Green with the longer stem and leaf shown to the right in the picture and sponged with Garden Green to look like the DSP (designer series paper)
- Inside Layer 1:
- Poppy Parade, 4 X 5 1/4
- Basic White, 3 3/4 X 5
- DSP at bottom, 3 3/4 X 1
- Basic Black Strip, 3 3/4 X 1/8
- Greeting: Basic White, 2 X 2, stamp with greeting from Flowering Tulips Stamp Set and die cut with the scalloped Layering Circle Die, second to smallest that is 1 1/2 ” in diameter
- Brass Butterfly for bling
Recipe for card #3) Sending Smiles
- Base: Polished Pink, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, scored at 4 1/4
- Layer 1 (X2): Basic White, 5 1/4 X 4
- Greeting:
- Basic White, 4 X 1, Stamp with Sending Smiles greeting in Polished Pink and die cut with Sending Dies greeting strip
- Sending:
- Background for ‘sending’ is Polished Pink, 1 5/8 X 3 5/8, Die cut with solid ‘sending’ in Sending Dies
- Top of ‘sending’ is Basic White, 1 5/8 X 3 5/8, layered on a piece of Adhesive Sheet 1 1/2 X 3 1/2, then die cut with the detailed ‘sending’ in the Sending Dies
- Brass Butterflies and In Color Jewels (retired)
- Inks:
- Polished Pink for flowers
- Pale Papaya for center of flowers
- Garden Green for stems of the flowers
- Granny Apple Green full strength and then second generation (no reinking just stamp) for grass
- Tips:
- Cut out your sending greeting and position it (without adhering) so you see where to stamp the flowers and stems. Be sure and move it out of the way before stamping
- Position the two flowers on the left on the same block by stamping the green stem made for the two flowers on a piece of scratch paper/ grid paper – and then positioning the flowers on the block so they will fit on the stem. If you stamp the stem first you may go off the paper with your flowers. The best option is to use a stamparatus with one plate for flowers and one plate for stems.
- Mask the flowers by stamping them on our Masking Paper and then fussy cutting them out. Place them on the flowers and then stamp the stem.
Hostess Bag
- White Lunch Bag base: Cut the bag off so it is 6″ tall
- Front: Butterfly Kisses designer series paper, 6″ X width of bag, adhere to front of bag
- Flap: Butterfly Kisses DSP (designer series paper), 3 X width of bag; score at 1″ on the short side and round the opposite corners. Adhere 1″ score section to back of lunch bag
- Label: Basic White, die cut with the Designer Tags Die, stamp sentiment in Starry Sky
- Label Strip: Fresh Freesia, 11/16″ (1/16 less than 3/4) X width of bag
- Fold over the top flap and adhere the label about half way down from flap
- Fussy cut and adhere 3 butterflies from the DSP and add Fun Flowers Resin Shapes, a clip and a bow in the clip made from Orchid Oasis 1/8″ Mettalic Woven Ribbon
Thank you for sharing part of your day with me.
SAL, Sharing A Lot
Karen
Triangle Corner Pop Up Card for Case The Creator (CTC) #3
Hello Stamping Friends,
Case The Creator Card Challenge
This month we cased Dawn Griffith’s Triangle Corner Pop Up Easel Card!
Yes, Dawn calls it a “Fancy, Schmancy Corner Fun Fold”! Her video is in the instructions.
Case The Creator #3 printable pdf file
I ordered the tiny magnets from Amazon:
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The bicycle is hidden when you open up the easel so be careful with your design. I had a lot of fun with the bicycle! I used the long, tiny tulip die to create a basket of tulips! I will write my greeting under the ‘thank you’ since I went against protocol and made the bottom left another flower display instead of the place to write a note.
Heather made a fabulous graduation card with beautiful gold embossed paper and black! I love the diploma for the easel stand up!
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Joy’s beautiful card uses the ‘Expressions In Ink’ designer series paper. We only have until May 2nd to get discontinuing items, like this DSP, from the annual catalog!
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Sharon’s uses the Tea Time stamp set and Tea Together dies- look at the little heart she put on the lid!
Sheri used the ‘Flowering Fields’ DSP and the ‘Simply Succulents’ stamp set for greetings:
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Ann used the ‘You’re A Peach’ DSP and the ’Sweet As A Peach Bundle’. Those peaches even look fuzzy! The amazing “Dist ink tive” stamps! These are in the Annual catalog as well so order before May 2.
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Jo’s little rabbit made us all smile, and eggs from the Arrange A Wreath set and Wreath Builder Dies were perfect with the paper.
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They followed instructions and had a large place for a message.
Indeed! Isn’t it fun to see all the different creations from one set of instructions?!
SAL, Seeing April Leave
Karen
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Simple Side Step Card
Hello Stamping Friends,
Let’s look at a Simple Side Step Card. I saw this design on Lori Pinto’s Lollipop Paper & Ink blog and used it for my Case The Creator #2 Challenge with my stamping group. It is so cool to see all the different cards from one set of instructions!
Case The Creator #2 printable pdf file
And here is the file if you don’t want to print it out:
I used the SAB Daffodil Afternoon designer series paper for my background and the Daffodil Dies for my card:
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Joy Meadows used the Pierced Blooms Dies for her beautiful card:
Ann Hausmann used the Sale A Bration Friendly Hello set with the Friendly Hello Designer Series Paper:
. Heather Guitreau used the Art In Bloom bundle with its Bloom Hybrid Embossing folder and dies:
They are all beautiful and so fun to see the variety! Thank you for participating!
I made a thank you card using this same style. I used the Happy Hedgehogs stamp set and the retired Love You Lots stamp set and the SAB Thoughtful Blooms set. I used the New Horizons DSP and then sponged the front to match the DSP after masking the stamped images. The hedgehog is the little one in the set and I used the reverse image technique to face him toward the right. Just use a silicone pad and your stamparatus, stamp the image several times in Memento on the silicon pad and then carefully lay your paper on top and burnish to get a nice reverse image.
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Thank you for sharing some of your precious time with me!
SAL, Spring At Last
Pop Up Bouquet Birthday Card with Artistic Dies
Hello Stamping Friends,
Remember to click the heading if you have opened this post in your phone so that you go to the main blog and all the videos and pictures will work correctly.
I have a very special card to show you today using the Artistic Dies! Spoiler alert – if you have an October birthday, you will see your card!
If a picture if worth a thousand words, what is a video worth?
Good question, Sal! And here are pictures of the card:
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Recipe
- Base: Shimmer White, 8 1/2 X 11, scored at 4 1/4
- Layer: Shimmer White, 4 X 4, Embossed with the 3D Tasteful Textile folder
- Front Flower: Shimmer White, 4 1/4 X 4 1/4, Die Cut with large Artistic Die bouquet layered on a double back adhesive sheet to make things easier
- Rose- color with Lt Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Blend
- Daisy- color with Lt Polished Pink Stampin’ Blend
- Circles- color with Lt Highland Heather Stampin’ Blend
- Sprigs- color with Lt Misty Moonlight Stampin’ Blend
- Lg Leaves- color with Dk Granny Apple Green, reversed from the video colors
- Sm Leaves- color with Lt Old Olive, reversed from the video picture
- Inside Leaves: Granny Apple Green, 5 1/2 X 4 1/4; die cut 2 long leaves placed on card stock with a dryer sheet under the card stock and die. Layer the card stock on a double back adhesive sheet for ease of adhering. Tip: after cutting out one of the leaf stems, turn it to the back side, place it on a shim of card stock and run it through the Cut and Emboss machine to give it a nice flat look since we are placing it on the card with the back side facing up.
- Greeting stamps and ink: Pansy Patch with Smoky Slate; stamp the outside greeting then emboss; stamp the inside greeting and then apply your flower
- Ribbon: 5″ to wrap the front, 4″ for the tied knot and (X2) 1 3/4 for inside
- Embellishments: Rhinestones and butterflies
- Pop Up Flower: Copy Paper (copy paper can be brayered to color) or Envelope Paper, (7) 2 3/4 X 2 3/4
- Fold Corner to Corner three times
- Holding point cut like an ice cream cone then use that cut as template to cut additional six flowers
- Unfold your flowers and fold each flower in half repeatedly to give crisp folds on all of the flower folds
- Stamp the middles of each with the largest ‘beard’ of the Pansy Patch stamp set; or sponge, or draw stamen
- Cut out one of the petals on each flower and then glue the two petals on either side of the cut out together- neighbor on neighbor
- Fold each flower in half
- Step 1 – place a bit of tombow glue on the two petals on either side of the middle petal of a folded flower and place another folded flower on the glue on each side
- Step 2 – place a bit of tombow glue on the middle three petals and place a folded flower on the glue
- Step 3 – repeat step 1
- Step 4 – repeat step 2
. It is so hard to explain even with pictures, Sal, which is why the video on this one is so important.
- Keeping the flower folded, place a dot of tombow on the middle petal of the seven petals and lay the flower on the inside right of the card by placing the flower with the open ‘V’ 1/8″ away from the middle fold. Hold to dry. Place another dot of glue on the middle petal that is now the top of the folded flower and then close the card front over the flower and hold to let the glue dry. When dry, open and gasp at the awesomeness!
- Add a leaf stem on each side of the bouquet and two lengths of ribbon to the bottom of each side of the inside
. Could you make a poinsettia bouquet for a Christmas card?
Maybe, Sal. I do have red envelope paper from Stampin’ Up! a couple years ago. We’ll see. It sure was a fun one to make!
Thank you for giving me some of your precious time today!
. ’cause we want to bring a pinch of creativity to spice up your crafting world!
lol, yes, Sal, that is the best part.
Enjoy this wonderful fall season!
SAL, Saw A Leaf (a falling)
Karen
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Paper Piecing with Summer Shadows Dies
Hello Stamping Friends,
Paper Piecing with Summer Shadows Dies:
I had fun yesterday making this video to show you how to do Paper Piecing with the ‘Summer Shadows Dies’ . They coordinate with the Shaded Summer stamp set.
Your customers keep asking about that technique.
I know, Sal, and this is the perfect set of dies to help out with paper piecing. There is a set of background dies and a set of detailed dies in exactly the same size! We can cut the backgrounds using the double back adhesive sheets and then die cut two colors in the detail dies for the paper piecing.
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An alternative using a different stamp in Shaded Summer:
That doesn’t look like the stamp in the set. It is not on two lines.
Shhh, Sal. I took my snips and cut the stamp apart so it would fit on the Tailor Made Tag.
Recipe:
This card was inspired by the diagonal strip that I saw on a card by Mary Deatheridge.
- Stamps: Shaded Summer
- Dies: Summer Shadows Dies, Tailor Made Tags Dies
- Markers: Cherry Cobbler, Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green (DO NOT USE BLENDS-blends stain stamps)
- Base: Flirty Flamingo, 4 1/4 X 11, scored at 5 1/2
- Layer 1 (make 2-one for the inside): Cherry Cobbler, 4 X 5 1/4
- Layer 2: Designer Series Paper (DSP)- Painted Christmas, 3 7/8 X 5 1/8- NOTE: Do not mount until diagonal strip is on
- Layer 2-Inside: Basic White, 3 7/8 X 5 1/8
- Layer 3-Inside: DSP, 1 3/4 X 3 7/8 cut diagonally, Hint: if you make two cards, this is the remainder of two 3 7/8 X 5 1/8 pieces; Tip: Make sure when you cut your diagonal it runs the same way as the diagonal on the front. Yep – made that mistake.
- Diagonal Strip: Basic White, 2 X 5,
- Emboss with Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder
- Border on Strip: Cherry Cobbler, 2 1/8 X 5 1/8
- Adhere the Basic White strip on this small Cherry Cobbler border
- Mount this bordered strip of Basic White on the DSP diagonally, the left side is about 2″ down from top, 3/4″ up from bottom
- Turn to the back and cut off the excess strip
- Now mount to the main Cherry Cobbler layer
- Tag: Basic White, 1 1/2 X 2 3/4, Stamp then die cut with smallest of the straight top Tailor Made Tags Die
- Flowers: the dies on the left are background dies, the dies on the right are detailed dies for the top and the two at the bottom are just cute dies I layered together without any paper piecing.
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- Adhesive Sheet, 3 X 4, Die cut the two background flowers and the large leaves background from the sheet. Place the die on the side that is NOT shiny when you cut.
- Cherry Cobbler: 4 X 2 1/2, die cut two large flowers and the little flower with the detailed dies; adhere to the adhesive sheet background
- Flirty Flamingo: 4 X 2 1/2, die cut two large flowers and the little flower with the detailed die;
- NOTE: Layer a piece of dryer sheet underneath the cardstock of the large flower detail dies before cutting; after cutting use tweezers to pick each inside piece off the dryer sheet and place on the adhesive backgrounds
- Layer the little flowers, no paper piecing with these, with a bit of the Cherry Cobbler peeking out from the Flirty Flamingo little flower
- Leaves:
- Garden Green, 2 1/2 X 2, Die cut with the detailed triple leaf die and the little leaf die; place the triple leaves on the adhesive background cut from the adhesive sheet shown above
- Granny Apple Green, 2 1/2 X 2, Use a dryer sheet underneath your cardstock and die cut with the detailed triple leaf die and the little leaf die
- Layer the little leaves, no paper piecing with these, with a bit of the Garden Green peeking out for a layer to the Granny Apple Green little leaf
- Flower Stamens: (sounds more scientific than the ‘inside of the flowers’) Daffodil Delight, 3 X 2 1/2, place the cardstock on a dryer sheet before die cutting
- Inside Stamping:
- Mount your large flower stamp from Shaded Summer on the Stamparatus and color your stamp with MARKERS in Cherry Cobbler and Granny Apple Green, then stamp the top left edge of the inside
- Color in the flower image with Flirty Flamingo marker
- Embellishments: 9″ Cherry Cobbler Twine, 5 Rhinestones
What if I don’t have double back adhesive sheets?
Good question, Sal. In that case you would cut the background pieces from a Basic White sheet, apply glue to the background pieces and then adhere your pieces starting with the color you want on the outside.
Start your bouquet at the left edge by gluing down the little leaves, then glue the little flower directly down. Here’s another conundrum – dimensionals don’t stick to the adhesive backing so if you want to pop them up, as I did here, you need to cut some of the larger dimensionals in half and place them where the cardstock shows through and not remove the adhesive backing sheet. I positioned the two flowers where I wanted them without gluing them down so I could place the triple leaf correctly. The leaf adhesive backing can be removed for a nice flat mounting. When it was mounted, I then mounted the two flowers.
I would love to see the colors you come up with in Paper Piecing using the Summer Shadows Dies! Post a picture in the comments below.
Thank you for sharing your precious time with me today!
SAL, Share A Love
Easter Swap Cards
Hello Stamping Friends,
HAPPY EASTER!! What a joyous time as we celebrate that Jesus is alive and He provided the sacrifice for all our sins!!
I will share my Easter swap card and the swap cards from the club. Jo and Sharon sent their April swap cards early so I have extra cards for you to enjoy!
The lily is the inside petals of the Poinsettia Place DSP we had in the last mini catalog.
I used several retired and retiring products knowing the message was more important than product presentation.
The base is Purple Posy which will retire May 3 but the Ornate Layers Dies do not retire so that is good news.
Recipe:
Note: DSP is an acronym for Designer Series Paper
- Stamp Sets: Easter Message, Teeny Tiny Wishes, His Grace.
- Ink: Gorgeous Grape, Memento Black.
- Dies: Ornate Layers, Stitched Rectangle Framelits, Detailed Bands (oval), Banner Blooms (stem).
- Embossing Folder: Tasteful Textile 3D or Subtle.
- Base: Purple Posy, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, Scored at 2″, 3″, 5 1/2″ and 6 1/2″. Note: This is 3/8 inch more than a standard card but I found it was easy to fold our standard envelope just 3/8″ more to send the card. This size allowed the card to have a nice background for the Ornate borders without the lacy edges hanging over.
- Side Layers (X2): Plain Oh So Ombre purple, 2 (minus a hair) X 5 1/2. The score line creates the need for just a hair less than the 2″ side. I used the darker at the bottom and cut 1/2″ off the dark bottom of the 6 X 6 DSP to start (you will use part of this piece later so don’t toss it).
- Side Ornate Border (X2): Very Vanilla, 2 X 5, Die cut with Ornate Border.
- Inside Layer of Side Ornate Border (X2): Oh So Ombre circles on purple DSP, 1 X 4.
- Top Ornate Border: Very Vanilla, 5 3/4 X 2 3/4, Die Cut with Ornate Border.
- Inside Layer of Top Ornate Border: Plain Oh So Ombre Purple DSP, 3 5/8 X 1 1/2, Cut this piece in half lengthwise (3/4″) for each side of cross and then place both halves in your paper cutter at the same time to cut 1″ off the lighter end so that you have two matching pieces that are 1 X 3/4 and two pieces that are 2 5/8 X 3/4. Glue these 4 pieces to the edges of the wood tone paper leaving a 3/8″ cross.
- Cross: Natural Touch Specialty Paper, 1 7/8 X 4, glue this to the Ornate Border.
- Base of cross: Plain Oh So Ombre, 1/2 X 1 7/8, Use a piece of the dark end that you cut off, glue this piece to the Ornate Border leaving the same border as the top.
- Once all your pieces are glued to the Very Vanilla Ornate Border, run the layer through an embossing folder. I used Tasteful Textiles for this one but switched to the Subtle 3D embossing folder for the others I made to make the texture more — well — subtle! Glue this directly to the middle.
- Greetings: Very Vanilla Strip, 1 3/4 X 8 1/2, stamp the dove and John 3:16 from His Grace stamp set, He Is Not Here from Easter Message Stamp Set, and Happy Easter from Teeny Tiny wishes on the vanilla strip. Fussy cut the dove, and use the Stitched Rectangle to cut the two side greetings and the oval from the Detailed Bands dies to cut He is Not Here.
- Lily: Poinsettia Place DSP, fussy cut the inside petals of one of the poinsettias or cut one of the small poinsettias in the paper and add an extra petal since lilies have six petals.
- Greenery: Garden Green, 1 1/2 X 2, Die cut two stems using the solid stem in Banner Blooms. Attach to the back of the lily and then pop up the lily in the middle of the cross.
- Dove: Very Vanilla, fussy cut from the strip shown at greetings, color the branch green and pop up above cross.
- Embellshments: Heart Charm, use Tombow on the flat side and let it sit to get good and tacky then attach. I also added three rhinestones here and there.
The three greetings, the lily, and the dove are all popped up with dimensionals, all the other pieces are glued down. Try not to get glue on the sides of the ornate borders so they look a bit lacy. I put Tombow glue in the middle back of the ornate pieces and then use a scrap piece of cardstock to spread the Tombow glue just to the edge of the middles.
How did something that looks so simple turn into so many words?
I know, Sal, but I like to add all the little tips that can help someone else make the card; especially knowing that I am that someone and might want to make half a dozen more.
Let’s look at some swaps.
Jo Brooks used Mountain Air and His Grace stamp sets with the Majestic Mountains dies, the Cross of Hope Dies and the Word Wishes dies. I love how she sponged the background!
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Sharon Fincham used the Wreath Builder dies for her Easter card swap, the dies make perfectly shaped eggs!
Lucille’s swap is the cutest little bunny!
Joy Meadow’s swap card looks quite springy with the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper. She said this fun fold is quite easy to make; we will have to try it someday.
Jo Brook’s March swap was an adorable St. Patrick’s Day card using the Word Wishes Dies and a fun gnome/leprechaun!
Lori Moore’s swap uses the Pretty Perennials stamp set in the JJ mini. The set has the big ‘happy’ word and then little words you can use with it- ‘birthday’, ‘mail’, ‘for you’, ‘you make me’, ‘sending lots of’.
Suzi Walker used the Pretty Perennials set, as well, with the matching Perennial Petals Dies. The DSP on the white is embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. I am longing for spring flowers like these:
Sharon Fincham did an amazing card with a fun pop up center. She used the ‘Hey Girlfriend’ stamp set in the JJ mini:
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Great job everyone! All the cards are beautiful and such an inspiration.
And now do we get to see the Mystery cards you all made yesterday?
Well, Sal, I think I will start a new post so we don’t overwhelm our readers.
Thank you for spending some time with me and some of my club members today. Would you like to join a club or create one for you and your friends. Our club rotation starts again in May and we would love to have you join. Contact me by text at 303-815-0838 or email [email protected].
The hostess code for today and April is: DJRYFBKM
The retired list has been posted and the best way to see what is still available is to go to my online store – click on little Sal in the computer – and click on specials. The list is already outdated with things that have sold out so best to just head to the store!
Have a wonderful day and a blessed Easter!
SAL, sharing a love of Jesus
Karen
Mother’s Day Double Point Card
Happy Mother’s Day Stamping Friends,
Since we are still on the “Safer At Home” regulations, Mother’s Day is not the norm with visiting our mothers and delivering flowers so I made a special card with lots of flowers- vellum flowers on the outside, a potted plant underneath the double-point on the outside and a bouquet of flowers on the inside.
I was hesitant with the vellum flowers and vellum leaves since they don’t show much detail but they are so soft and pretty that I was pleased.
The Petal Pink Organdy Ribbon has that same soft look of the vellum flowers.
They do go well together, Sal, and with Petal Pink cardstock for the base it is a very feminine card, perfect for Mother’s Day!
I saw this card fold at http://thepamperedstamper.com.
I changed the flowers and the greeting and the paper and added ribbon but started with her double point card with vellum flowers.
So after all those changes is it still a case (copy and share everything)?
How about CASE -as in copy and selectively edit?!
I have found designing cards is a process of looking at lots and lots of ideas and then incorporating what I like – or changing things up based on what supplies I have in stock. The design changes constantly as I work and sometimes my trash can is full of the trial and errors of a design.
This is really quite a simple card to make. The points are two pieces of Designer Series Paper, Perennial Essence, that measure 3″ X 4″, scored at 1″ along the long side and then the corners are folded down to just above the score line. The 1″ section is adhered under the main layer-Whisper White in my case.
I put a little pencil mark in the middle of the long edge- 2″, and scored to the 1″ score line to make folding a little easier. I also cut a little off of each edge so nothing would hang out if my cuts weren’t quite perfect.
Hmmmm…….. sounds like that probably happened to you, right?
Guilty as charged! Check out these two sets of flowers for the inside. Do you notice the difference?
Yes, but notice the Petal Pink shading around the image in the first one. I saw that technique on a video tutorial by Tina Wardell and I think it really makes a difference. Tina showed how she colors around her images with a light colored Stampin’ Blend and then she takes the Stampin’ Blend color lifter and softens the edge of the coloring.
That is a retired set called ‘Just Because’. It is also what I used for the ‘Thinking of You’ greeting on the front. I set up the Stamparatus and masked off the flower pot above the words to get just the words that I wanted.
This set will go in the Bake Sale sets since I have used it for this Mother’s Day. Be sure and visit the Bake Sale tab once in a while. I will be adding more items after I compare what I have with what I see in the new catalog that I “must” have. Space is becoming an issue here at the house. I like this quote from ‘A Girl And A Glue Gun’:
Recipe
- Base: Petal Pink 4 1/4 X 11 Scored at 5 1/2
- Points: Designer Series Paper, Perennial Essence, 3 X 4 scored at 1″ along the long side. Make a small pencil mark at the 2″ middle of the wide section and score from the middle mark to the 1″ score line. Clip a little off the edges – see picture above. Adhere the 1″ under the Whisper White layer.
- Whisper White Layer: 4 X 5 1/4, make 2
- Stitched Nested Labels: Petal Pink 2 3/4 X 4 3/4, Die cut with the 2 1/8 X 4 (measured at the inside of the stitching on the die)
- Top Stitched Nested Labels: Whisper White 2 3/4 X 4 1/2, Die cut with the 1 3/4 X 3 1/2 (measured at the inside of the stitching)
- Flowers & Leaves: Perennial Essence Vellum Cardstock in green, yellow and pink- retiring in June . I used Flower Shop (retired) and its matching punch for the Petal Pink large flower and then punched three little yellow vellum flowers with a small flower punch just like the one we had for Sale A Bration. The green vellum leaves were punched from various retired punches. Current products would be the Perennial Flower Punch layering two punched pieces to make a six petal flower. The Leaf Punch and the Sprig Punch would work beautifully with the green vellum to make the greenery.
- Stamp Set for the inside bouquet is ‘Accented Blooms’ – retiring in June
- Stamp Set ‘Just Because’ with the greeting Thinking of You and the potted plant with Happy Mother’s Day
- Ink: Memento -Tuxedo Black, Petal Pink stamped on the large flower, Crushed Curry on the small flowers, Pear Pizzaz on the leaves
- Stampin’ Blends – Various with Light Petal Pink used to outline the bouquet image
- Embellishments – Petal Pink Organdy Striped Ribbon 11″ ; one Perennial Essence Floral Center; three sequins
Did I miss anything, Sal?
They might like to see how you made the same design a birthday card.
Of course! For the birthday card I used the ‘Beautiful Moments’ stamp set for the greeting on the inside:
The little vine under the greeting above is in the Accented Blooms stamp set and in the next image is a cute little curly stamp with a heart in the middle from Accented Blooms which I stamped under the potted plant and glued a heart shaped sequin over the stamped heart:
“What you focus on determines what you miss! ” I often focus so much on the greetings and large images that I miss these cute little stamps.
This stamp set is retiring so get it before it is gone (or selling on Ebay for three times the price)! We used the coordinating Tailored Tag punch at Christmas for the quilted plaid card so the two make a nice set to add to your collection.
Let’s take a walk down memory lane.
I love setting out the past cards we have made in clubs and I have several I set out for Mother’s Day. Some of you were with me when we made these and it makes me smile to remember the fun we had!
A Tea Together Bendy Card, this set is retiring in June:
A pop up box card:
A Magic Shutter Card:
A Rose Box:
Birthday Blooms Pull Up Card:
Layering Framelits (this is Whisper White in real life):
Using the cut out from the front:
This card is a monochromatic Very Vanilla:
The Tulip Embossing Folder was one of our very favorites for stunning cards:
A spinner card:
An Easel Card:
Remember the Top Note Die and lining up Designer Series Paper on the grid sheet and then cutting with the Top Note?
I posted all these mostly for my benefit to “scrapbook” our creations but it also shows the types of cards that we make during club and just might entice you to join when we start up clubs again in June. Contact me if you are interested.
Thank you for spending time with me today! Paul is on a special schedule due to the virus so he had to work and I played on the computer.
Happy Mother’s Day whether remembering and honoring your mothers or celebrating your own motherhood, I hope your day was blessed.
SAL, Sharing A Love
Karen
Current Hostess code is TQ3JBKP3 , click to visit the store. Don’t forget to check out the retiring list.
Happy Birthday To You Pop Up Cake
Hello Stamping Friends,
Today we will focus on the Happy Birthday To You set.
I saw a card on Tina Wardell’s blog: tinascraftyinkspot.com and had a new appreciation for the beautiful flowers. I had focused on the cake and thought it was more of a wedding cake than a birthday cake – and it would work well for a wedding- but when you use only the flowers for the outside of the card it is stunning as a birthday card. Here is Tina’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqctK_KjjG8
The card has the birthday cake popped up on the inside with beautiful flowers on the outside. I changed a few things to suit my liking. I used matching colors for the base and the flowers and then used the little dots in the same stamp set and versa mark to decorate the edge of the base.
The inside has the cake popping up! I used our Pearlized Doilies for the base of the cake. You can’t see it here, but the cake actually has a matching cake mirrored image on its other side. The pop up technique and making a mirror image of the cake are both in Tina’s video. Our Silicone Craft Sheet works beautifully to stamp the image -twice (a stamparatus is a must) and then place your white cardstock on the silicone sheet and rub-rub-rub.
Recipe
- Card Base: Rich Razzleberry 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 Scored at 4 1/4
- Layer: Daffodil Delight 3 1/4 X 4 5/8
- Top: Whisper White 3 1/4 X 4 1/2 Cut to 4 3/8 X 3 with Rectangle Stitched Framelit
- Cakes & Flowers: Make 3; Whisper White 3 X 4 1/4
- Pop Up Strips: Make 2; 1/4 X 2 1/2 scored at 1/4″ on only one end
- Leaves: Old Olive 2 1/4 X 5 1/2, make six leaves-the framelit makes two at a time, sponge edges
- Sprigs: Daffodil Delight 2 X 2, make two sprigs-the framelit makes two at a time
- One Pearlized Doily
- Three sequins
- Inside Greeting: Whisper White 2 3/4 X 2, stamp and then punch with Pretty Label Punch
- Border for Greeting: Daffodil Delight 2 3/4 X 2, Punch with Pretty Label Punch, cut in half to mount behind the greeting.
- Stampin’ Blends: Lt & Dk Rich Razzleberry, Dk Daffodil Delight, Lt & Dk Old Olive, Lt Balmy Blue-cake shadows, Dk Smoky Slate-cake base
- Ink – Memento Tuxedo Black, Versa Mark
- Birthday Dies
To make our time at club more efficient, I made card kits with the Rich Razzleberry/Daffodil Delight, Real Red/Black, Bermuda Bay/Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo/Highland Heather. There was a lot of coloring on the flower images so I chose colors based on the Stampin’ Blends that I have. It worked really well and stampers could all be coloring at the same time. Check out their beautiful creations:
Wendy chose to do red and black and Jo made the flirty flamingo and purple:
Havi made the Bermuda Bay and Daffodil Delight:
Thank you for sharing your cards, ladies! They are all beautiful. Which is your favorite?
I think I like the red roses best, but I really like pink with the purple, but blue is …. hmmm undecided!
Color Inventory Chart 19-20 Excel File
Color Inventory Chart 19-20 PDF File
Please take care to be very very safe and take some time to craft!
SAL, Sad And Lonely – NOT I have stamps!
Karen
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