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#7 of 12 Cards of Christmas
Hello Stamping Friends,
It is snowing here in Castle Rock, Colorado, with several inches expected, so today’s card is just perfect! This was one of our club cards in November. Club will start again in January so contact me if you are interested in joining.
Card #7 Flurry of Wishes with the technique of Watercoloring on Vellum.
I saw this technique on Stacey Lane’s blog “A Work of Carte” and then revised it to make a more mottled look. Hmmm, I think we should call it coloring with rubbing alcohol. My PDF sheet has step by step instructions but the basic idea is to dot your vellum with reinkers, then dribble with a cap of rubbing alcohol and use a paintbrush to swirl the ink. Salt the inked sheet, let stand for several minutes, then spritz with alcohol to get a mottled look. Let dry and then use a paper towel to remove the salt.
Flurry of Wishes PDF Instruction Sheet
The main Merry Christmas is from the Flurry of Wishes set but the others are from a random selection of stamp sets. I wanted a collage look but after stamping the “Love, Peace, Joy” I decided less was more! Wishing you every blessing is from Every Blessing in the big catalog, Love, Peace, Joy comes from A Little Something, Warm Wishes from Winter Wishes, Sending Every Good Wish is in the carryover White Christmas set. When I used just part of a saying, I masked what I didn’t want with a sticky note, inked the stamp, removed the sticky note and stamped. Except for the main Merry Christmas, the greetings are stamped off on scrap paper first and then stamped on the card. Supplies used:
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#6 of Twelve Cards of Christmas
Merry Christmas Stamping Friends,
Yay! It is December and we can say Merry Christmas. Sheri Sullivan won the blog candy for November! Add a comment to the blog in December and your name will be in the December drawing. (It is a bribe so that I know someone is really out there!)
Today’s card is titled “Home For Christmas”, Red Foil with Whisper White and just a touch of gold! Dazzling in real life…..
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Home For Christmas PDF Instruction Sheet
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# 5 of Twelve Cards of Christmas
Hello Stamping Friends,
Thank you for visiting/following. I would love to hear if any of the cards has inspired you! I am calling today’s card the Rejoicing Pocket Card. It is one that would be easy to mass produce and is the fourth card using the Versatile Christmas stamp set. The Designer Series Paper (DSP) that I used in the pictured card is retired but the new “Home For Christmas” paper on page 9 of the Holiday catalog has a red and white striped paper that would look really awesome with the red and white striped ribbon. The directions are in a blue link right after the pictures in a printable PDF file. Just click on the blue link and the file will download for you. The card and directions will also be in the recipe box so you have the measurements and can make pocket cards for birthdays, get well, or other times when you need a quick card. I first saw it on Dawn Olchefske’s blog. Thank you, Dawn!
Rejoicing – Pocket Card Printable PDF Instruction Sheet
I think I need a new camera, (or new glasses?). Yesterday’s post looked like I spritzed it with Crumb Cake instead of sparkly white and today’s very vanilla looks a tint of red. Sigh A Loud! (Can’t resist playing with SAL acronyms.)
So here are the supplies you need. Just click on any product image to go directly to the online store.
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#4 of Twelve Cards of Christmas
Hello Stamping Friends,
As you think about Christmas this Black Friday, don’t forget all the great specials at our online extravaganza! Give gifts of stamping tools and accessories or buy what you need to make special handmade gifts!
Today’s card #4 of our 12 cards of Christmas, and the third of our verses from Versatile Christmas, is called the “Pick Me…” Forest card. The instructions include the technique “Stamping on Embossing Folders”.
_Pick Me.._ Forest Card Printable PDF Instruction Sheet
The instruction sheet has two additional pictures of images stamped on the Woodland embossing folder to show you the potential of this folder. Here are the supplies:
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#3 of Twelve Cards of Christmas-Best of Times
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Happy Thanksgiving dear friends! May your day be blessed with food, fun, friends and family! Should you need an afternoon craft project I have a fun Christmas card that is quite easy to make.
Best of Times #3 of Twelve Cards of Christmas
This is the second card using the Versatile Christmas stamp set. I challenged myself to create a card for each of the verses and came up with this “clock” card. The Merry Moments DSP used on the front has a Merry Moments Cardstock Pack that matches! There are eight sheets of three cardstock colors, Smoky Slate, Cherry Cobbler, and Old Olive. What a great new product bundling that Stampin’ Up! is doing for us! It takes a 6X6 envelope so have your envelope punch board ready! Here are your instructions with all the measurements and helpful hints:
Best of Times Clock Card Printable PDF Instruction Sheet
Supplies for the card, click to be redirected to the online store:
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#2 of Twelve Cards of Christmas- Gift Card Slider
Hello Stamping Friends,
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Welcome to all my new blog followers! I plan on giving you lots of fun ideas for Christmas cards!
While at the Denver Merchandise Mart for a scrapbooking event I found a booth called PineconePress and they had a most interesting slider gift card. I immediately thought how nice the card would look with stamped images and beautiful Stampin’ Up! designer paper. So here is my creation resized to fit our SU products:
When you pull on the right side, the left side slides open:
I challenged myself to use all the greetings in the Versatile Christmas stamp set (page 26 of the holiday catalog). Stampin’ Up! listened to our request for more stamp sets with outside and inside greetings and this one is awesome with great fonts and verses! A gift card seemed the best way to use “The gift of LOVE, the gift of PEACE, the gift of HEALTH & HAPPINESS….. May all these be yours at CHRISTMAS”. Stay tuned for the next three cards which will use the other verses. Of course you must have a direction sheet which I will also post here and to the recipe box on the main blog!
Gift Card Slider Card Printable PDF – Two Pages
And here are the supplies:
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#1 of Twelve Cards of Christmas
Hello Stamping Friends,
We had a great time at the card buffet. Let me show you what we made in hopes you will find the perfect design for your Christmas cards this year! I will do separate posts for each card so I can list the supplies.
#1 White Christmas Tree The picture doesn’t do it justice! The Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer paper is lovely!
White Christmas Tree – Printable PDF Instruction Sheet
Supplies for this project- just click on any image to go to the online store:
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Grateful For You, Thinking of You
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Hello Stamping Friends,
It isn’t too early to start thinking about the holidays! Accordingly, our September club was all about Thanksgiving… sort of…..
The new Holiday catalog is so full of yummy stamp sets and tools that I was tempted to jump straight to Christmas cards but I didn’t….not exactly….. My first card is the standard for a Thanksgiving card but my second card could actually be used for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. My daughter, Stacia, lives in Steamboat Springs and the snow will be falling at Thanksgiving so the snowy card is perfect for that mountainous world.
Card 1: Grateful For You
And for the inside:
The base of the card is Cajun Craze. The Brick Embossing Folder was used to emboss Very Vanilla paper and then sponged with Crumb Cake, Baked Brown Sugar, and Cajun Craze. I sponged and responged until I reached the deep rich color I was after.
The leaves were stamped with the Vintage Leaves on Always Artichoke, Cajun Craze, and Crushed Curry and then cut with the Leaflets Framelits. The “You” comes from the Hello You Thinlits using Early Espresso Card stock and the new Precision Base Plate! No more running the card stock back and forth several times to get a good cut. The plate is a wonderful tool!
The Happy Thanksgiving is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and punched out with the Word Window punch. The garland is from Thankful Forest Friends and the little leaves are punched out with one of many thinlits in the Square Pillow Box Thinlit Die set. An Early Espresso Candy Dot ties all the colors from the front into the inside. Here are the supplies I used; click on any image to go straight to the store!
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Card 2: Thinking of You
This was a fun card and a great introduction to the new holiday catalog. The stamp set with both types of trees is the Happy Scenes stamp set on page 11 of the catalog. It can be bundled with the Hearth and Home Thinlits Dies that I used for the window. (Bundling saves you 15% over buying each separately.) I cut out two windows and glued them in the middle to make a nice big picture window. The little dog comes from the Jingle All The Way stamp set on page 12. One of my stampers used the fox from that set for a wild look. The greeting is from the Happy Scenes set and bordered with dazzling diamonds glimmer paper cut out with the Bitty Banners Framelits. The glimmer paper is a full size banner cut out. The greeting is cut with the same framelit twice to shorten it. I am sure you recognize those apples from the Sprinkles of Life stamp set with its matching Tree Builder punch, and the cupcake base in the stamp set makes a perfect basket when bordered with a tiny bit of Tea Lace Paper Doilies. The little bow is Crushed Curry Baker’s Twine. The scene is stamped on our dotted specialty designer paper to give the look of falling snow. This card uses the symmetrical embossed dotted paper from Sale A Bration but we have a more snowy looking paper on page 142 of the big catalog called the Color Me Irresistible Specialty Designer Paper.
For the inside I just had to play with more products from the catalog:
The greeting is the Six Sayings host set in the holiday catalog (you host and earn the stamp set, I’ll do the work)! See page 51. The snow flakes are from the Flurry of Wishes stamp set, page 25, and punched with the Snow Flurry Punch-another pair you can bundle and save 15%! The Curvy Corner Trio punch is on page 18 and another must have. We were so sad when our little ribbon slide punch retired but now we have it back with two other punches all in one.
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Date Change: The next card buffet will be October 17 starting at 10:00.
Merry Christmas Greetings!
Dear Stamping Friends,
May your Christmas be wonderful this 2014 and may your memories keep your heart warm all year!
Hallmark’s “Mary’s Angels” ornament collection spices up our Lladro nativity scene!
And part of the collection loves to sing “Joy To The World”! May you have a joyful day today!
Need a quick neighborly gift? How about grabbing the Voila’ set from years ago and creating a quick card for a bottle of Martinellis?
I stamped the cover on the silver foil paper, fussy cut it and used our new little brads to attach to the serving platter with Merry Christmas on the platter.
Paul worked on Chapstick holders for all his coworkers. Might be the thing of the future as we learn to eat less sugar!
Merry Christmas!
Christmas Cards from the Stamp A Stack and Card Buffet
Hello Stamping Friends,
I held two Christmas card making events this year- A Stamp A Stack and A Card Buffet.
Thank you to those of you who were able to get away. Order products now for next year- the catalog expires Jan. 5th. Click Here to order.
Drum roll – May I present:
The Stamp A Stack
#A – the Snowflake Flip Card using the Snowflake Card Thinlits Dies (page 22 of the holiday catalog), the All Is Calm Specialty Designer Paper, Frosted Sequins, and the Lost Lagoon Silky Taffeta Ribbon, all on that same page. The card uses the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper to make the snowflakes, two large and one small layered here, and — the Joy greeting from the Thinlits Set is punched out twice, once backwards; layering the two makes it look wonderfully 3D- almost like our clay with glitter.
Inside we have Jackie Topa’s design for making a gift card holder by punching out a snowflake with the die, rotating it 90 degrees and punching again. Cool Technique! Jackie has a nice video at Jackietopa.typepad.com. The Holiday Invitation stamp set from page 49 is perfect for a gift card – well maybe not Borders or Home Depot- but definitely a Starbucks gift card which is what each attendee received from me.
#B – The second card used the Cheerful Christmas stamp set on page 15 of the Holiday catalog. I cased this from a posting on Pinterest by Inkandpapercafe.com. I have used the Deco Labels Framelits to frame a circular punched image but liked using a punched circle cut in half to frame the deco label. The Filigree Frame Textured Embossing Folder was perfect for lots of little scrollys.
Masking Tip: I taught the stampers how to mask the stamp by stamping the green sections on the sticky edge of a post it note, fussy cut the masks and put them on the stamp before stamping in Real Red Ink. Ink up with Real Red ink, remove the masks, color the green evergreen bows with the Garden Green marker and stamp on your cardstock! Voila – a much richer image than coloring all the red of the image.
I was able to be creative on the inside, (love making the inside special), which you will see as you follow Stampalosopher. I turned the main image upside down for one lovely scrolly to use for hanging ornaments, stamped the message from a retired set – Joyful Christmas – (remember those lovely poinsettias?!), stamped the ornaments, and then drew a line with a ruler to each ornament being careful to not draw over the greeting. Or, as one creative stamper did, draw the line for the middle one over top of the greeting and then stamp the middle ornament on another piece of paper, fussy cut it, and attach with dimensionals for a different 3D look!
#C – The third Stamp A Stack card was a more formal card cased in part – the banner part – from one of my many convention swaps. I wish I knew to whom credit should go but the name is lost.
The greeting is from Seasonally Scattered, page 43 of the Holiday catalog. For those who thought it was too ornate a simple Merry Christmas was stamped instead. One stamper liked the silver snowflakes but not the greeting, so she stamped Merry Christmas, punched it out with the large oval punch, and then mounted the greeting with dimensionals on top of the silver snowflakes. So nice!
For the inside I used the greeting from the Bright and Beautiful stamp set on page 25 and a strip of silver foil paper:
Leftover card kits from the Stamp A Stack were available at my next event The Card Buffet!
The Card Buffet
We had such fun at the Card Buffet and everyone went home with a door prize – a kitchen towel angel. Well okay, they did have to make their own door prize but it was fun. Here is a picture of Michele’s angel:
The angel uses one kitchen towel, a matching rectangular potholder, a dishcloth, several rubber bands, lots of ribbon, a pipecleaner to attach all, and decorations for her to hold. Here is a pdf file with one of the poems I found on Pinterest printed inside a frame from My Digital Studio:
Kitchen Angel Poem
#1 – Moving right along we have the Chapstick holder from Angie Leach at TooCoolStamping.com using leftover silver circles from the November Paper Pumpkin kit. Walmart had peppermint striped chap sticks for $1:
#2 – The November Paper Pumpkin had eight cards in the kit so they were available to make at the Card Buffet, I added Blue Lagoon to the front for an upscale version:
#3 A revised case of a card from the StampWithSandi.com blog. I used three gold embossed middle sized stars from the Bright and Beautiful stamp set instead of two and stamped them on white instead of gold foil paper. I glued sequins on the card instead of using gold embossing and I used a retired stamp set, The Sounding Joy. But wait until you see the inside…….
I used the Confetti Stars Punch-page 30 of the catalog – and taped on a strip of gold glimmer paper underneath to sparkle through the top and tie in the gold of the front! Thanks to my darling husband for that touch of creativity!
#4 – I purchased a Simply Sent Noel Notes card kit from the Clearance Rack and it turned out to be a favorite of all the stampers. The Noel was precut and the card used textured card stock. The envelope and liner were all included. The kit was meant to be for a Christmas family picture but I made it into this card with the alphabet from the photopolymer stamp set and the Merry Christmas greeting from Petite Pairs. The kit had a scalloped inside layer to tie with the scallops on the envelope. I used a greeting from the Many Merry Messages stamp set -retired. I have a new appreciation for the wonderful kits SU offers!
#5 – The Card Buffet would not have been complete without using the White Christmas stamp set, pg. 31. I sponged the Organza ribbon and used the Project Life Cards and Labels Framelits for the greeting. One stamper put the Santa and sleigh from Holiday Home, pg. 16, in the top left which was a very cute addition. I used the Northern Flurry embossing folder and we used the brayer to make a beautiful inside. Stay tuned for specifics on brayering an embossing folder in a later post.
Embossing Folder Tip: To avoid getting little creases in your cardstock from an embossing folder – use a piece of cardstock larger than your embossing folder, for example 6″ wide instead of 4″. Run your folder and extra sized paper through the Big Shot and then cut to size.
#6 – Last but not least is the card I designed for the swap at the Unite and Excite event. Jesus is the reason for the season and The Newborn King stamp set on page 19 says it beautifully!
“May we remember Him this Christmas season and throughout the coming year!”
Merry Christmas Dear Stamping Friends!
Karen
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