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Mystery Card #3 and July Swap Cards
Hello Stamping Friends,
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Our club met by Zoom last Tuesday and we shared our swap cards and made a “Mystery Card” using the list of supplies I had sent them all earlier.
What happened to Mystery Card Challenge #2?
Hmmm….. I guess I was too excited to travel to Mount Rushmore and didn’t post. I will have to backtrack with a different post.
The cool 1″ fold of the base on the Mystery Card #3 lets you see and use both sides of a Designer Series Paper (DSP). So often we let our DSP sit on a shelf because we love both sides and don’t want to use one side and lose the other. Here is our answer to using both sides! I am using the Ornate Garden Specialty DSP on a Terracotta Tile Base.
I glued the DSP to the back of the 1″ flap and used the reverse side of one of the 3/4″ DSP strips. On the inside you have the full DSP showing on the left and a 3/4″ strip of the DSP with the front side showing on the right.
For the greeting I used the Stitched Nested Labels and the Ornate Thanks stamp set with Old Olive ink and Soft Suede ink. The ribbon is the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack and Terra Cotta Tile gems (retired). I wish I would have had the new In Color Butterfly Gems in the Terra Cotta Tile.
I received pictures from some of the club members who completed the card:
Sharon made three cards while we chit chatted and made one! She is preparing for Christmas and sends out 200+ cards so definitely time to get started!
I will be starting Christmas cards August 11 on Facebook Live (and it will be recorded if you can’t be there at 9:30AM). I will be demonstrating 3 Christmas cards and a Christmas gift box as I launch the new Mini Catalog. Kits are $10 for guests, free for club members. Contact me by Wednesday and I will deliver or mail your kits to you. You can create the cards at your leisure watching the recorded Facebook Live on the Stampalosopher Facebook page or right here on the blog.
July Swap Cards:
I promised in my July Facebook Live with the Banner Blooms Easel Birthday Card using the Rainbow Glimmer paper that I would make a card with the die cut colored so here you are:
Recipe:
- Base: Granny Apple Green 4 1/4 X 11 Scored at 5 1/2
- Border: Perennial Essence DSP 3 3/4 X 5 1/2
- Top: Whisper White 5 1/2 X 4 Cut with Banner Blooms Dies, colored with Stampin’ Blends
- Inside Layer: Whisper White 3 3/4 X 5 1/2
- Strips for Inside Layer: Perennial Essence DSP 1/4 X 5 1/2
Here are swaps from my creative stamping friends:
Swaps are so fun! We just mail our cards to each other throughout the month. If you are interested in August Swaps let me know ASAP and I will add your name and address to the list. Swaps are due to each other in time for the August 25th 9:30 am Zoom meeting.
Have a wonderful day!
SAL, So August Leaps into the picture
Karen
Hand Drawn Blooms and Prized Peony
Hello Stamping Friends,
Today’s Facebook Live event was successful!! For those of you who have done this for a long time I’m sure you are shaking your head but it was my third Facebook Live and the second one crashed and had to be abandoned. So two successful events feels rather nice!
Club members received two card kits for this month’s club and we joined together with a Facebook Live followed by a Zoom meeting. We created an Easel card with the Hand Drawn Blooms bundle and a Tri-Fold card with the Prized Peony bundle.
What you still need is the specific recipe for each card.
Easel Card with Rainbow Glimmer Paper:
Color #1, Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo
Color #2, Granny Apple Green and Bermuda Bay
The Banner Blooms Die was used to cut the beautiful bouquet from the Rainbow Glimmer Paper. Since the paper is multi colored the cards were different depending on where the cut was made.
Recipe:
- Base: 4 1/4 X 11 scored at 5 1/2 and 2 3/4
- Layer 1: 5 3/8 X 4 1/8 Make 2 and Corner Round the top of one
- Layer 2: Shimmer White, 4 X 5 1/4 , Corner Round the top
- Easel Holder: Shimmer White, 4 X 1
- Scrap of Shimmer White on which to stamp the words to put on the banner 3 X 1 1/2
- Rainbow Glimmer Paper: 6 X 4, cut one bouquet and one butterfly
- Twine: 10″
- Jewels to embellish: 3
- Ink: Bermuda Bay or Melon Mambo
- Stamp Set: Hand-Drawn Blooms
- Die Set: Banner Blooms
Gosh, you didn’t post for a month and now you made a video! When do I get to be in the video?
Patience, Sal, I have been working with an animator and soon you will be joining the videos.
Prized Peony Tri-Fold Card:
I just received my mini catalog preorder and added a stamped image to my wedding card using the Little Treats Stamp set:
Isn’t that just the perfect addition?
Here is the original one I did in the Facebook Live Video:
Recipe:
- Base: Whisper White 12″ X 6″
To cut your tri-fold follow these step by step instructions:
- Place the base on the Stampin’ Up! Cutter the long way – (vertically) on 2″ mark- and cut from the 2″ to the 10″ mark on the cutter
- Move the base to the 4″ mark on cutter and cut from 2″ to 10″
- Turn the base the short way-(horizontal) and place it at the 2″ mark of the cutter and score from 0″ to 2″, lift the scoring blade and move to the 4″ mark on the cutter and score from 4″ to 6″
- Move the base to the 4″ mark on cutter and score from 0″ to 6″- top to bottom
- Turn the base to the other side and place it at the 2″ mark of the cutter and score from 0″ to 2″, lift the scoring blade and move to the 4″ mark on the cutter and score from 4″ to 6″
- Move the base to the 4″ mark on cutter and score from 0″ to 6″- top to bottom
Front Base Layer: Whisper White 5 1/8 X 3 5/8
Layer #1 all in Basic Gray:
- (1) 5 X 3 1/2 for front base
- (2) 5 7/8 X 1 7/8
- (3) 3 7/8 X 1 7/8
- (5) 1 7/8 X 1 7/8
Layer #2 in Designer Series Paper (Note: two of the top layers are whisper white)
- (1) 4 7/8 X 3 3/8 for front base
- (2) 5 3/4 X 1 3/4
- (2) 3 3/4 X 1 3/4
- (4) 1 3/4 X 1 3/4
Whisper White – all three pieces are embossed at the bottom with the Peony Edge Die
- (1) 2 1/4 X 4 1/4 Front Banner
- (1) 3 3/4 X 1 3/4 for stamping greeting
- (1) 1 3/4 X 1 3/4 for stamping peony
Envelope Punch Board – Whisper White Envelope Paper 8 1/4 X 8 1/4 with 3 3/8 score line starting point
Envelope Decor – Designer Series Paper 6 X 3 1/2, glue to flap and then fussy cut to fit
Ribbon – 1/4″ Gray Granite Shimmer Ribbon- 10″ for knot, 12″ for bow
Elegant Faceted Jems – 3
Peony (4) – Petal Pink 8 1/2 X 3 , die cut the four parts, each piece slides into the next largest piece matching up the notches. Use a bone folder to curl the edges and then sponge with Blushing Bride for a darker contrast.
Stamin (1) – Scrap of Daffodil Delight at least 1″ square
Leaves (3)- Garden Green large sections 2 X 3, die cut one of each size
Leaf accent (3)- Granny Apple Green 2 X 3, die cut one of each size
I used a glue dot to attach each piece at the notch and then added dimensionals in between the layers.
Here is the base with the gray granite layer and the DSP layers, the white part of the base is where you will glue the front base so it does not need a gray layer:
This shows the front base added and the die cutting at the bottom of each edge of the white pieces:
Obviously, you want to stamp the white pieces before you adhere.
I stamped the greeting in Basic Gray and then colored the back of the peony stamp with Stampin’ Write Markers – Petal Pink, Daffodil Delight, Garden Green and Granny Apple Green.
Note: Do not use Stampin’ Blends – they will stain your stamp.
Prized Peony Suite Card
Here is a card I made using every single one of the Prized Peony Suite products for a thank you card. I am casing Mary Deatherage of Stampsnlingers with this one:
Recipe:
- Base: Gray Granite 4 1/4 X 11 scored at 5 1/2
- Front Base: Gray Granite 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 Embossed with the Dainty Diamonds Embossing Folder; it might need shaved a hair on the edges if it stretches
- Front Mat: Petal Pink 2 7/8 X 5 1/2
- Cross Panel Mat: Petal Pink 2 1/8 X 4 1/4
- Inside Mat: Petal Pink 4″ X 5 1/4″
- Front Vertical Top: Peony Garden Designer Series Paper (DSP) 2 3/4 X 5 1/2 colored with Stampin’ Blends Petal Pink and Granny Apple Green. Don’t panic as you color the DSP flowers pink, as they look an ugly dark pink from the grey on the back of the DSP showing through. Once it dries it is a pretty petal pink!
- Front Horizontal Panel Top: Peony Garden DSP 2 X 4 1/4
- Inside Liner Top: Whisper White 3 7/8 X 5 1/8
- Sentiment: Whisper White Scrap stamped with Hand Drawn Blooms and fussy cut
- Ribbon – 1/4″ Gray Granite Shimmer Ribbon- 4″, glued underneath peony with glue dot
- Elegant Faceted Jems – 3
- Peony (4) – Petal Pink 8 1/2 X 3 , die cut the four parts, each piece slides into the next largest piece matching up the notches. Use a bone folder to curl the edges and then sponge with Blushing Bride for a darker contrast.
- Stamin (1) – Scrap of Daffodil Delight at least 1″ square
- Leaves (3)- Garden Green large sections 2 X 3, die cut one of each size
- Leaf accent (3)- Granny Apple Green 2 X 3, die cut one of each size
There you have it folks, recipes, pictures, a video and everything you need to create some beautiful cards!
SAL, Such A Lot (of pieces)
Karen
Father’s Day with Enjoy Life
Hello Stampin’ Friends,
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Hostess Code for June: 2KNDJXFN Use this code if your order is under $150 and our monthly hostess will get the hostess rewards so no free dollars are left unused. If your order is over $150 you will have earned the hostess rewards. You will get a little thank you gift from me for any order outside of club! Club members receive the special reward of receiving card kits.
To all the wonderful men in our life that we need to celebrate and those we will always remember this Father’s Day: Happy Father’s Day!
I used the Enjoy Life stamp set (retired) and the Silhouette Scenes (pg 136) to make three Father’s Day Cards:
The greeting: “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
I did three different inside greetings as well using the “A Good Man” stamp set on page 32.
For my son-in-law, Tyler, with two little boys, Jaxson & Emmitt:
For my son-in-law, Jonathan, with a little girl – Emma:
For Paul:
Here they are at the Cheyenne Mtn. Zoo in Colorado Springs:
Such a great dad and such a great grandpa!
Well, Sal, it isn’t hard. Let me take a picture of the tools I use:
It is a piece of window sheet with several different sizes of circles punched in the sheet. (I placed the window sheet on black for the picture so you could see the different circles.) The largest circle is 1 1/2″, then 1″, 3/4″, and 5/8″ punched circles.
First, I used the Sponge Brayer (#141714 on pg. 147) and Mint Macaron ink and lightly sponged the entire front whisper white piece.
Then I placed the window sheet on that front sponged piece, held it in place with washi tape, and sponged several times over all the circles. I moved the window sheet to a new place on the front piece, secured it with tape, and sponged the circles again.
May we see that up close, please?
Sure, let me zoom it a bit:
The circles overlap giving the out of focus bokeh look!
I cased this layout from one at StampinSavvy.com. She used a watercolor wash for the background and added long hair to the image of the silhouette. I wanted a masculine silhouette instead so I used our Take Your Pick tool’s pointy end and removed ink from the neckline before stamping so it didn’t have any hair on the neck. I also increased the arm and leg sizes with a Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker.
We still sell the Basic Black marker individually -pg 147, #100082. I used the black marker to color the edge of the front piece by using the side of the marker- not the tip -to color all around the edge. The Just Jade base was stamped at the bottom with Versa Mark and the grass stamp in Enjoy Life.
For the inside greeting, I used the black marker once again to color the “to be a” of the Enjoy LIfe greeting stamp – see above in red. This brought the same font from the front to the inside. Remember – only use the Stampin’ Write Markers to color the back of your stamps, if you use the alcohol Stampin’ Blends they will stain your stamp.
I used the retired Guy Greetings set for the dad, grandpa and Happy Father’s Day words and the Make A Difference stamp set for a nice exclamation point.
And “voila” we are done!
Not to be a pest, but could we have the recipe?
Of course, it is a great layout that would work with dozens of stamps.
Recipe
- Base: Just Jade 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- First Layer: DSP (designer series paper) Forever Greenery 5 1/2 X 1 3/4
- Top Layer: Whisper White 3 X 4 1/4 sponged with Mint Macaron- bokeh technique
- Inside Layer: Whisper White 4 X 5 1/4
- Inside Strip: DSP Forever Greenery 1/2 X 5 1/4
- Stamp Sets: A Good Man, Enjoy Life, Guy Greetings, Summer Days for the tiny butterflies, Make A Difference for the explanation mark
- Ink: Mint Macaron, Tuxedo Memento Black, Versa Mark
- Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker
- 61/2 Black Twine to wrap DSP and 2 1/2 to tie knot
- Three black jewels for corner
Thank you for stopping by and visiting! I hope you have learned something and will come back. Next week I will post a card with the Summer Days stamp set. If you add your email address at the top right of the page, you will receive an email each time I post. Leaving a comment lets me know there is someone out there and I am not just talking to Sal and myself! I love hearing from you.
Hostess Code for June: 2KNDJXFN Use this code if your order is under $150 and our monthly hostess will get the hostess rewards so no free dollars are left unused. If your order is over $150 you will have earned the hostess rewards. You will get a little thank you gift from me for any order outside of club! Club members have the special reward of receiving card kits so contact me if you are interested in being a part of a club: 303-815-0838 or [email protected].
If you are part of club and my faithful followers – THANK YOU for your support. If you don’t have a demonstrator, I would love to earn your business!
SAL, Sharing A Love of the wonderful Dads in my life
Karen
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Grace’s Garden & Garden Gateway Dies & Bookmark
Hello Stamping Friends, (Click on the title to go to the full blog if you are viewing this on your mobile device)
Today’s card is a bridge fold card using Grace’s Garden Stamp Set and Garden Gateway dies.
I used the Forever Greenery DSP (designer series paper) for the background. I thought the ferns looked like evergreen trees and made a great background. Remember that movie ‘Secret Garden’ where the children find the gate to a beautiful garden?
Here is the card with a large evergreen tree and then the card with a small evergreen tree (fern).
Do you feel like you are in a forest?
I put the greeting on the back.
And more flowers and a sun in the middle of the front.
I taught a little bit about using the Stamparatus to save time by mounting three of the stamps on the plate and then moving the plate down two counts on the hinge and stamping again. The stamps I only wanted to stamp once, the bird, kitty cat and little flower were on the second plate and the gate and lupines on a third plate. I used three plates instead of 9 blocks when you count the greeting on the back!!
I stamped everything with Memento Tuxedo ink and then colored with Stampin’ Blends, except for the edging on the arch which I used a black Stampin’ Marker to color the edge so the arch looked very much like the gate and not so stark white. I just held the marker so I could rub the edge of the arch on the side of the marker, similar to sponging. Compare the arch on the first card without the edges colored to the arch on the second card with the coloring. Huge difference – yes? Little details like that make us artists not just crafters.
Grace’s Garden Stamp Set & Garden Gateway Dies Bridge Card Recipe
Base: Mint Macaron 8 X 4 1/4
Score the base at: 1 1/4, 2 1/2, 5 1/2, 6 3/4
Bridge Strip: Mint Macaron 5 1/2 X 1/2
Back for greeting: Whisper White 4 x 2 7/8
Front Garden Back: DSP 4 X 2 7/8
Sides and front: DSP Make 4- 4 X 1 1/8
Thick Whisper White for arch: 3 X 4 1/4, die cut with Garden Gateway Dies
Sun: 1″ punch of Daffodil Delight scrap, sponge the edge
Vines at corners: Mint Macaron 2 1/2 X 2 , die cut with Garden Gateway Dies
Cardstock for Stamped Images: Whisper White 5 1/2 X 4 1/4 make 2
Stamp two of each of the 3 flower images, die cut with Garden Gateway Dies
Stamp two fence posts and two rose vines, die cut with Garden Gateway Dies
Stamp one gate, one cat, one bird, die cut with Garden Gateway Dies
Note: 5 X 7 1/4 magnet sheet to hold the dies in place in your plastic pouch
Stampin’ Blends Coloring
Arch, Gate and Posts: Light Smoky Slate; also used the black Stampin’ Marker to color the edge of the arch.
Note: I colored with the Stampin’ Marker on the edge because the Stampin’ Blends will bleed.
Grass: Dk Old Olive
Lupine: Dk Highland Heather and Dk Granny Apple Green
Smallest flowers: Lt Mango Melody and Dk Granny Apple Green
Medium flowers: Lt Daffodil Delight, Lt Old Olive and a touch of Dk Mango melody in the center
Large hollyhock flowers: Dk Night of Navy and Lt Call Me Clover
Rose vine: Dk Real Red and Dk Shaded Spruce
Bird: Dk Daffodil Delight
Kitty Cat: Dk and Lt Pumpkin Pie
Remember to add a Lt Smoky Slate shadow below the cat and flowers on your back greeting
We made two other projects together – the In Color Sampler sheet and the In Color bookmark. It is tradition you know!
Bookmark Recipe
Base: Cinnamon Cider 6 X 2 (minus a hair) Punch with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch
Layer: Just Jade 5 3/8 X 1 3/4 Corner round the top with the Detailed Trio Punch
Medallions: Many Medallions Dies in 1 X 5 1/2 strip Magenta Madness, 1/2 X 5 1/2 Misty Moonlight and Bumblebee.
Ribbon: 4″ of Faux Suede and Bumblebee Gingham; 6″ of Linen Thread
Magnet Insert to store Medallion Dies 6 1/2 X 6 1/4
See you soon!
SAL, Sharing A Lot
Karen
Music From The Heart
Today I am sharing three cards with several of my favorites:
First Card with my favorite- Music From The Heart:
Dawn Olchefske achieved one million dollars in sales and designed this stamp set as one of her many rewards!
When you reach one million will you design a set with me?
Of course if Toons4Biz will allow it.
This is Whisper White with a white background and natural light just like I researched would be best for picture taking and now I have a bluish white instead of yellow.
Better go back to the Youtube videos on that one.
Sigh….
The hearts have Wink of Stella to add some sparkle. I felt like Cinderella with the birds making the bow.
Recipe:
Base: Basic Black 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 Scored at 4 1/4
Top: Make 2 – 5 7/16 X 4 3/16 I know, crazy, but I wanted just a little black. Go to the 5 1/2 mark and move back 1/16 to get 5 7/16. For 4 3/16, go to 4 1/4 and move back 1/16. That is easier than counting 16ths.
Piano: Whisper White 2 1/8 X 2 3/4
Two Keyboard Pieces to layer at the bottom: 3 X 2 1/4, stamp twice and fussy cut. Adhere to bottom and then fussy cut around the bottom inside and out.
6 ” of twine
To cut your white top piece:
- place a pencil mark from the top right corner over 3/4″ and from the corner down 2 1/4″
- place two pencil marks from the bottom left corner up 1/4″ and up 1/2″
- cut diagonally from the 1/4″ mark at the bottom to the 2 1/4″ mark at the top right
- cut diagonally from the 1/2″ mark at the bottom to the 3/4″ mark at the top right
- shave off 1/16″ on each side of the middle piece
Okay, let me grab the sketch book.
Once they are cut remember to cut off just 1/16″ from each side of the middle piece so you have the black showing.
Second Card with two Favorites: Beautiful You and Special Celebrations:
I have used a stamp from this set on so many different cards. Today I used it on a graduation card that I am casing from Sharon Armstrong.
The Congratulations is from the retiring Special Celebrations set:
Recipe:
Base: Gorgeous Grape 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 Scored at 4 1/4
Layer 1: Smoky Slate 3 3/8 X 4 5/8
Layer 2: Gorgeous Grape 3 1/4 X 4 1/2
Top Layer Outside and Inside: Whisper White 3 X 4 1/4 – make 2
Inside Layer: Smoky Slate 3 3/8 X 4 5/8
Cap: Gorgeous Grape 1/2″ square
Diploma: Copy Paper 1/2″ X 5/8″ rolled up and tied with a double wrap of 2″ of colored twine
Tassle: 8″ colored with the Highland Heather Stampin’ Blend
- wrap twine 4 times around 1″ of cardstock
- cut the bottom ends and remove from cardstock
- slip the top ends on the end of your Take Your Pick tool
- tie another short piece of twine twice around 1/4″ from the top
- Use a glue dot to adhere the top to the middle of the cap
- punch a 1/16″ circle from Gorgeous Grape and put on top of the tassle
I used the Highland Heather Stampin’ Blend to color the dress and create sleeves then used a black journaler pen to color the edges of the sleeves. Ivory Stampin’ Blend was used for the legs and arms and Smoky Slate for the shadow. Wink of Stella was used to color the slip.
‘Congratulations’ was stamped in Versa Mark and then sprinkled with Silver Embossing Powder and heat set. The inside greeting is a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp.
Third Card with Two Favorite Retiring Items – Flourishing Phrases and the Pretty Label punch:
The Flourishing Phrases greeting set and the Special Celebrations set are excellent additions to your collection and you will use them over and over. I used Flourishing Phrases for a sympathy card in a Mystery Card Challenge. That is a challenge where you are given a specific list of supplies and measurements and you create a card with just those supplies.
Recipe:
- 1/2 sheet cardstock
- Designer Series Paper 3 X 5.5
- Coordinating Card Stock 3.25 X 5.5
- Stamp Set with words
- Punched Shape
- Ribbon
- Matching Ink
- Adhesive
I know, Sal, it was a fun challenge but I found out none of us avid crafters can make a card without blinging it up. I even had to add a few jewels.
Here is a card I made for my upline’s Mystery Card challenge that meets most of the criteria. I did use two ink pads, though.
SAL, Sharing A Love of stamping
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
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Meerkats “We’re in this together”
Hello Stampin’ Friends,
Do I have a treat for you!!! To stay sane (sorta), I had a card swap with my club members and seven people participated.
I can attest to the ‘sorta sane’.
For me or for you, Sal? I am going a bit stir crazy and not because I am bored. I listed all the projects I have started and all the cleaning and organizing I would like to get done and I could be quarantined for a long long time and not get them all done; but I am just not motivated. Sigh…….
I know, let’s run around the block and get your blood pumping.
There is lightening and rain out there, Sal. How about let’s show our friends the cards we’ve made and received.
March’s Paper Pumpkin was one of the best ever! It made three card styles x four each. I thought the boot one was kind of odd until I realized that it would perfectly represent the coffee club I have with my neighborhood ladies. I put the initials of each of the neighbors on the top of the boots and left one blank for our dear friend who moved away. I cut away the boot around the leggings and used a greeting from Fable Friends. The kit even had little raindrop embellishments (on the umbrella).
I changed the greeting on the second Paper Pumpkin card and once again used the ‘Fable Friends’ stamp set for the “Happy Spring”. The flower bling is from Frosted Flower Embellishments (#148782) and I covered the heart with Glittery Crystal Effects from the Holiday catalog- you do have some left don’t you? It dries to a beautiful glossy finish.
The third card I pretty much made per instructions:
Okay, not quite, I added rain drops which the instructions didn’t call for. Satisfied, Sal? The flowers have the little rain drop embellishments but they didn’t show up in the picture.
The lined envelopes are like icing on a cake!
Using the stamps in the Paper Pumpkin kit I created my swap card:
Paper Pumpkin had Meerkats????
No, Sal, those are from ‘The Gangs All Meer’. The “Miss You” greeting is from the ‘Enjoy Life’ stamp set. The tape measure is narrow silver ribbon from my stash. The boots were stamped on gingham paper and fussy cut. I loved the basket of flowers in the Paper Pumpkin stamp set. It was a two time stamping set so I stamped the entire basket in Soft Suede and then stamped Crushed Curry to color the flowers. What fun!! I colored the leaves with Call Me Clover Stampin’ Blends and the background with Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blends. If I made it again I would stamp the basket directly on the blue and then mask it to stamp the clouds and ground around it. That would have saved some coloring and fussy cutting.
Recipe
Base: Balmy Blue, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
Border Layer: Soft Suede, 5 3/8 X 4 1/8 (make 2- one for the inside)
Top: Balmy Blue, 5 1/4 X 4 stamped with clouds, a ground stamp and raindrops
Inside: Whisper White 5 1/4 X 4, sponged just a tad with the sponge roller, then stamped greeting and meerkat in soft suede
Greeting: Whisper White 2 X 1 1/2 cut with the rectangle stitiched framelit to 1 1/4 X 1 5/8, sponged with Balmy Blue and decorated with raindrops from leftover pieces of the Paper Pumpkin. Pop this up with dimensionals.
Boots: 2 X 2 1/2 gingham paper in desired colors (note: the Designer Series Paper shown at the top of Page 168 has gingham in all the different color families.)
Meerkats and flower basket: Whisper White 2 X 4, stamped in soft suede and colored with Stampin’ Blends.
Ribbon: 3 3/4″, marked every 1 1/2 cm with a black journaler so it looked like a ruler. I attached each end under the meerkat arms with a glue dot.
I still smile every time I look at those little meerkats!!
I received another card from Jo that keeps me smiling:
The stamp is from the retired ‘Postcard Pals’ stamp set, isn’t it just the cutest?!
You’re not thinking of replacing me with an otter, are you?
Of course not! Let’s look at swaps.
Some swappers made differing cards so there will be two cards with the same name on some. Thank you, Heather, for putting the names on the card pictures and sending them to the group. We had fun talking about them during a Zoom meeting.
We could all use this one in a frame on our walls:
Aren’t all those beautiful cards wonderfully inspiring?! Such talented, creative crafters. Thank you, friends.
Text me if you have questions: 303-814-0838
SAL, Safe And isoLated
Karen
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Ornate Garden Suite
Hello Stamping Friends,
Hostess code through April 25th: RH4REUGF
Stampin’ Up! is letting us order from a new suite of products that will be in the June annual catalog!
Uh oh…… I see lots of daisies – better grab the checkbook, Dad, or the grocery money will be gone!
But Sal, we are isolating in our homes and Stampin’ Up! is still delivering fun new products to help us keep our sanity. The home office has set up new schedules to protect their employees who can’t work from home so they stay safe yet are able to process and ship our orders. The shipping is only about one day later than normal. For those of us in Colorado, that means four days instead of three until we receive our crafting supplies.
Watch this Ornate Garden Suite video from the home office:
Checkout this paper with gold foil designs on some of the sheets:
That’s a lot to choose from. What if they need (want) it all?
Then you order the suite, Sal! With just one product number they will get it all!
Here is a pdf FLYER if you would like to print it out.
Look at this foil paper with a bit of coloring and the use of two of the border dies and the Old Olive ribbon:
This sample shows the detail of the Ornate Floral Embossing Folder, different Ornate Border Dies and the Terracotta Tile ribbon.
This next sample shows the uniqueness of the large greeting paired with the small words in the Ornate Thanks stamp set. The Ornate Layers Die is used and the long rectangle die in the set will be a nice addition for a longer version of the stitched rectangles. Note the Gilded Gems and the five flowers stamped from the single flower in the Ornate Style Stamp set, fussy cut and then layered on top of each other for a nice edge to the greeting.
And the final sample uses the Ornate Layers dies and that cool corner stamp in the Ornate Style Stamp set. Did you notice the little bit of designer series paper underneath the greeting?
Let’s take a closer look at the samples shown on the flyer. The first two use the single daisy stamp with Ornate Borders:
I had to look twice but the Ornate Thanks stamp set does have the “I’m” stamp shown above. There is a clump of little flowers in the Ornate Style Stamp set and the tiny flowers on the ‘So Grateful’ card used fussy cuts from that stamp. The ‘So Grateful’ card also uses Versa Mark to stamp the scrolly design on the Grapefruit Grove card stock but I couldn’t get it to zoom in enough to show you.
Those samples use every stamp in the Ornate Style Stamp set!!
Yes, indeed! Thank you, Stampin’ Up!
Hostess code through April 25th: RH4REUGF
I have tentatively scheduled Tuesday, June 9th, for our first weekday club and Saturday, June 13th, for the weekend club. Both will start at 9:30. We are starting a new year of rotations so please let me know if you are interested. I would love to have two weekday clubs so tell your friends and text me at 303-814-8799 or email [email protected] .
Stay safe and stay sane!
SAL, Stamping A Lone (poetic license)
Karen
PS Today and tomorrow, the 10th, are the last days to order the April Paper Pumpkin kit. You won’t want to miss this one to bless your family:
PPSS: If you order the suite and one month of Paper Pumpkin (#137858) you will have earned $15 in free products of your choice.
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?
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
Sending Flowers Dies meets Fable Friends
Hello Stamping friends,
I used these dies for a valentine card which you can see by clicking HERE.
I designed a ‘Happy Spring’ card and a card with an Easter greeting:
The “Happy Spring”, “Easter Greetings”, mama goose with babies and the grass stamp are all in the Fable Friends stamp set in the annual catalog.
The lamb with the puff paint is a retired set called “Easter Lamb”. It has just the one stamp in the set.
The cross is from the ‘Cross of Hope’ die set and cut from a piece of wood-tone paper in the Tropical Oasis Designer Series Paper(DSP). Samples of this paper are also in the 6 X 6 paper stack you receive if you join Stampin’ Up! during Sale A Bration. I cut off the flower from the Sending Flowers die that was right in front of the cross and put that flower in the inside of the card.
The little butterfly on the Easter Card is from the “Enjoy Life” stamp set (annual catalog) and stamped in Calypso Coral.
The inside greeting, ‘today is a day for new beginnings’, is from our Sale A Bration ‘Power of Hope’ stamp set. With a $100 purchase you earn this set and the Stone 3D embossing folder.
I added the sunbeam from the retired ‘Kinda Eclectic’ for my personal Easter cards this year.
There is just something about seeing all those little lambs together that made me want to take another picture!!
We have less than a week, just until March 31, to earn Sale A Bration products or to purchase the coordinating products that include the Sending Flowers Die set. I will show all the products further on in the post.
Recipe:
- Base: Thick Whisper White, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Top: Thick Whisper White, 4 1/8 X 5 3/8
- Characters: Regular Whisper White, Depending on your choice of character, the goose can lay sideways above the goslings so a 4 X 2 piece should work or use up some of your scraps
- Embellishments: 7″ of ribbon and seven little pearls colored to match the flower with Stampin’ Blends.
Are you sure you didn’t miss something? Your cards hardly ever have that few pieces.
By using our thick Whisper White we don’t necessarily need another layer in the inside and the ‘Sending Flowers’ die gives incredible dimension to the front so we don’t need more layers. Probably a good thing I did this card with my club because the second card we did had 13 pieces!
Did you post that card already?
Not yet, Sal, but hopefully this week since it uses the Happy Birthday Sale A Bration set which has amazing flowers. But I regress. Let’s look at the steps for this card.
- Make cloud masks, a 3 1/4″ circle mask with your circle dies, and use sticky notes to mask the top of the base and the top of the inside as you sponge each section. I fussy cut a cloud mask around the Happy Spring, Easter greetings, and inside greeting and used the Up and Away thinlets set (in the clearance rack) which has several cloud shapes to cut out. If you don’t like the idea of fussy cutting your own, there are several dies in the catalog that could be modified to look like clouds. For example ‘Lakeside’ dies have a die for a lily pad that could be a cloud.
- Cut out the cross if you are making the Easter card.
- Cut out your front flower circle with the ‘Sending Flowers’ Die. You need this piece to position your clouds in the background.
- Lay your base open flat, mask the back side of the card, and mark 2 1/2″ on your grid sheet to guide you where to sponge the blue and green. I used Balmy Blue and Granny Apple Green and our Sponge Brayers (#141714). The brayers come in a pack with two handles and four sponges for $8. They are so much easier to use than the rubber brayers and they give a nice consistent look. Lay the cutout flowers over top of the front just to position your clouds and the cross then set that piece and the cross piece aside and sponge the base front.
- Remove the cloud masks and without reinking the brayer, lightly sponge over the sky to soften the white of the clouds.
- Likewise, do the inside of the card:
- by first stamping the greeting and then masking the greeting with a cloud shape and adding other cloud shape masks as desired and masking off the other side of the inside of the card.
- sponge the blue sky and the green grass. Remove the masks and do a light sponge over the clouds.
- Now you have the idea so let’s sponge the top flower cut out piece. Mask it with circle cutouts covering only the flowers. I had to use two circle masks since my die was just a little bit small. Stamp the greeting and mask it with a cloud mask and add other clouds as desired then sponge.
- I purchased the gina K Masking Magic sheets from Amazon.
- Using Granny Apple Green and the grass stamp from Fable Friends, stamp little grass clumps on the inside, the front, and the area that will show behind the circle.
- Use Stampin Blends and color your flowers:
- Dk Pineapple Punch
- Lt Highland Heather
- Lt Calypso Coral
- Leave two tulips white
- Leaves of the tulips- Dk Granny Apple Green
- Leaves of the other flowers – Lt Granny Apple Green
- Using the same colors of Stampin’ Blends, color your Pearl Basic Jewels and add to the centers of the five petaled flowers. Stampin’ Blends are alcohol so they won’t rub off the pearls. Regular markers do rub off and we have used Sharpies in the past when we colored rhinestones or pearls- yay for matching colors in our own Stampin’ Blends!
- Stamp your characters in Memento Black so you can color them with Stampin’ Blends or apply puff paint. Fussy cut them out and mount with glue dots.
- Place foam adhesive strips on the back of the front piece and a few dimensionals around the sides of the circle and attach.
but there is ribbon and a butterfly?
Good catch, Sal! The ribbon knot is tied around the front before the adhesive strips are added and the little butterfly is stamped on the front in Calypso Coral before the adhesive strips are added. Whether you want these are not depends on the character you use. The goose stands up so tall that the ribbon wouldn’t work, and the card might get a bit busy if you add a butterfly with all the little goslings. Personal preference.
I stamped the ‘Happy Spring’ with Highland Heather but decided it was a little too light so I stamped Easter Greetings on a separate scrap of Whisper White in Gorgeous Grape and fussy cut it to look like a cloud. I used glue dots to adhere it since I didn’t want it popped up too much and glue dots are just a slight pop up and a bit more than using snail or liquid glue.
I cut a few extra ‘Sending Flowers’ cut outs so the club members could cut off a flower or two or three to put on the insides of their cards and their cards looked awesome. I just used the one flower I cut off the front so you could see the cross better to put on the inside.
SAL, Send A Lot of flowers on a card
Karen
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