Whirly Wednesday for October Swaps and Mystery Card #17
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So where are you going to start today with so many cards to show everyone?
Well, Sal, I had better start with my swap since I have two youtube videos to upload. I had trouble when I did an unscheduled Facebook Live. Facebook cancelled me when they decided I had gone long enough and I had to start a second Facebook Live.
The first video is the long one showing the coloring and cutting. The second shows the assembling.
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. Recipe:
- Stamps: Pretty Pumpkins, Delivering Cheer
- Dies: Give It A Whirl Dies, retired Pillow Box Dies for small leaves
- Inks: Tuxedo Memento Black, Old Olive, Early Espresso
- Tools: Small Brad, 1 3/4″ circle punch, Foam Adhesive Strips and Stampin’ Dimensionals, Masking Paper, Purple Tape, Cut and Emboss Machine, Stamparatus, Scissors, Tombow adhesive, Picker Upper Tool
- Stampin’ Blends:
- Lt Misty Moonlight (coat)
- Dk & Lt Pumpkin Pie(pumpkins)
- Lt Cinnamon Cider (gloves)
- Lt Cherry Cobbler (two sprigs, stocking stripes and scarf)
- Lt Mango Melody (stripe on sock)
- Lt Daffodil Delight (two outside branches & one stripe on sock)
- Lt Shaded Spruce (one sock stripe, four spruce branches)
- Lt Old Olive (two branches)
- Lt Soft Succulent (Pumpkin Leaves)
- Black Marker for drawing the arrows and adding detail between circle and the top layer
- Base: Cajun Craze, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, scored at 4 1/4
- Layer: Beauty Of The Earth Designer Series Paper (DSP), 3 7/8 X 5 1/4, cut with large rectangular Give It A Whirl Die
- Top Layer: Basic White, 2 3/4 X 4 1/4, Cut with 4th smallest Stitched Rectangle Die
- Inside Layer: Basic White, 4 X 5 1/4, Cut with largest Stitched Rectangle Die
- Circle for the Spin: Basic White, 3 3/4 X 3 3/4
- Copy Paper: 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 for masking the die cut opening and a scrap to die cut a second circle for positioning foam strips
- Little Leaves: 2 1/2 X 3/4, punch three little leaves for embellishments (I used the retired pillow box dies)
- Circle Punch: Basic White, 2 X 2, punch with 1 3/4 circle punch
- Greeting: Pumpkin Pie, 3 1/2 X 1 1/2, stamp with greeting and pencil draw around the stamp to fussy cut
Tips:
- Mount the Delivering Cheer coat stamp on one stamparatus plate and mount the greenery stamp on the second stamparatus plate to stamp in line with the coat. Keep the greenery stamp in place. Once you have the pumpkins stamped on each opening, you will mask the pumpkins and stamp the greenery over the masked pumpkins.
- Cut the shape for the opening in the DSP and Basic White top layer (after stamping the coat), lining up the little circles
- Place a template of the large die cut circle on the back of the DSP to know where to put strips of foam adhesive so the circle will not touch the adhesive and get stuck
- The brad goes through the middle circle cut by the big circle die and then through the middle of the punched 1 3/4 circle (in which you created a little circle in the middle with the Take Your Pick tool or a hat pin). Place Stampin’ Dimensionals around the brad and mount to the base, temporarily holding the DSP in place to position the circle
- Summary of Layers:
- Base
- 1 3/4″ punched circle attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals after attaching to large circle with brad
- Large Circle attached to little punched circle with the brad
- DSP cut with the rectangular Give it a Whirl die with the opening cut, mounted with foam adhesive strips to base after mounting the whirly circle
- Stitched Rectangle stamped with coat and cut for opening, adhered with Tombow glue to the DSP
- Greeting attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals
. I think you may have gone over your word limit just like you went over your time limit on Facebook
It was really hard to explain in words and so much easier to show in the video. I make it sound complicated and I don’t want to scare people off when the Give It A Whirl dies lend themselves to so many fun cards and just making one shows you how easy it can be.
Let’s look at some of the other’s swaps:
Joy made a fabulous friendship card using Blackberry Beauty DSP, Be Dazzling DSP, and a Blackberry Bliss base. The circle is cut with the Encircled In Beauty dies and the leaves are cut with the Intricate Leaves dies. The stamps she used are Gorgeous Leaves and Quiet Meadow. I love how Joy used the background stamp with the little dots especially on the inside behind the little leaf.
. I have four fun Halloween swap cards; let’s take a look:
Jo made this fun monster card with the retired Stampin’ Up! Hallows Night Magic Stamp set (inside stamps), the retired Stampin’ Up! Boo To You, and the Peek A Hoot Dies from last year’s mini catalog. Love those googly eyes!!
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Heather used the Clever Cats stamp set, Frightful Tags Dies and the retired Spooky Bats Punch with nested circle dies for the card. The stars are from a Paper Pumpkin set, the blue layer is Island Indigo with miscellaneous scrapbook paper on top. I must show you the inside so you see how she stamped those bats around the greeting:
. Ann used the Frightfully Cute stamp set and the Textures and Frames stamp set with witches embossed with black embossing powder! She used Rectangle Stitched Dies, Black Glitter Paper, Cute Halloween DSP, Cute Stars Sequins and Old Olive Ribbon. The greeting is Zing! Leaf embossing powder and look at her bats on the inside flying toward you!
. Sharon’s card uses almost every one of the Frightful Tags Dies with a 3D sticker spider from her stash:
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. Lori is getting a head start on Christmas cards with a card made with the Whimsical Trees Bundle in the mini catalog. The blue DSP is part of the Whimsy and Wonder Specialty DSP – special because it has lots of foil embellishing the paper. The dies have six different sizes of Christmas trees and then fun embellishments to die cut.
. Why are the pictures of your cards not focused?
Well, Sal, I am cutting corners by sizing the cards for the blog with the tools in Word Press. If I size them using Gimp they are focused a little better but I would be here much longer and I have a Mystery Card to show everyone!
Mystery Card Challenge #17. Click on the blue to print
Mystery Card Challenge #17 printable pdf file
. It is a full pleated front card! I used the Expressions In Ink DSP and Artistically Inked stamps and a Pretty Pumpkin stamp. Which do you like better the one with dots of gold foiling on the Pale Papaya or the gold bling?
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The pleated DSP can go pointed to the bottom as I did, to the top as Sharon did or horizontally as Joy did.
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. That should be enough to spice up someone’s crafting world!
So true, Sal! If you would like to be a part of club or join with friends to create a club of your own, contact me by text at 303-815-0838 or email [email protected]. We have club on the second Tuesday of the month or an event here at my home if it is an off month for club. November 8th is the next club!
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SAL, Sharing A Lot this fine fall day
Karen
Merriest Moments and Poinsettia Petals Center Panel Easel Cards
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Hello Stamping Friends,
I don’t know when I have had as much fun with a stamp set as I had with Stampin’ Up!’s ‘Merriest Moments’! Usually I search and search for just the right card to teach at club and then I combine different ideas from different cards to come up with what I like. This time was different; I found so many cards that I loved. If you are still on the fence about which stamp set to buy to make your Christmas cards, I recommend the Merriest Moments bundle. It has a stamp set, a set of dies and a hybrid embossing folder. You could make dozens of Christmas cards without a hint of boredom.
Join me here on Youtube or in the written words as I show off this amazing set with the Poinsettia Petals set coming along for fun!
Thank you, Julianne Richards, for the inspiration to make these easel cards! Stampin With Julie Richards.com
Let’s start with the Poinsettia Petals-
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Recipe
- Stamps: Poinsettia Petals
- Tools: Poinsettia Dies, Ornate Layers Dies, Stitched Rectangle dies, Double Oval Punch, sponge daubers
- Ink: Shaded Spruce
- Base: Shaded Spruce, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4. Cut 1 1/2 inches from the score line to the front bottom edge on both the right and left sides. Cut 1″ off the middle flap front edge then score 2 1/4″ from the score line to the cut edge. Glue down the side flaps.
- Side Flaps: Expressions In Ink DSP, 4 1/8″ X 1 3/8″
- Ornate Layer: Shaded Spruce, 5 X 3 1/2, Use the 2nd largest Ornate Layer Die to cut. TIP: Place a dryer sheet folded in half under the cardstock before die cutting to hold all the little pieces. Also place a piece of copy paper 2 1/2 X 1 3/4 under the cardstock on top of the dryer sheet to prevent a film on the back of your die cut piece since it will be visible from back.
- Middle Greeting: Basic White, 2 3/4 X 4, Die cut with the fourth from smallest Stitched Rectangle die; I usually say stamp first then die cut but in this case it is better to see the actual corners for stamping
- Oval Greeting: Basic White, 1 1/2 X 3, stamp then punch with the double oval punch
- Stitched Rectangle, three leaves and leaves for tiny flower : Just Jade, 2 3/4 X 5 1/2; picture below; cut one large and two small leaves and one tiny flower to be the leaves behind the poinsettia. Sponge the edge with Shaded Spruce and they come alive!
- Poinsettias: Cherry Cobbler, 4 1/4 X 5 1/2, Die cut four smaller flowers, 4 tiny flowers and 2 circle tops; picture below. TIP: place double back adhesive tape under the cherry cobbler on the 2 circle tops so you can easily glue them to the gold centers; if you are really careful you can place the tape so it only covers 2/3 or so of the circle and then it is easy to pull off. Happened by serendipity for me. The poinsettias are layered with two same size flowers offset and then a tiny one on top with gold solid centers covered with the red center with holes. TIP: Roll the edges of the flowers toward the middle with a pencil and sponge the edges with Cherry Cobbler.
- Gold Sprigs and centers: Gold Foil, (X2) 1 1/2 X 2 1/2, Die cut one solid round center and one sprig. TIP: cut two separate foil pieces; running foil through the cut and emboss machine can show lines from the cutting pad. Cut one little ball off the sprig for the center of the tiny poinsettia
- Inside Greeting: Basic White, 2 X 2 3/4 (Or use the stitched rectangle in the Merriest Frames dies)
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. The Just Jade rectangle is a duplicate. If you have a scrap you won’t need the length shown on the right. You need two of the gold foils and don’t forget to back the tiny Cherry Cobbler circles with double back adhesive tape.
The gold foil in the designer series paper and the gold sprigs make this card a wow!
I agree and last year we used the same tools for this card so the set is a great addition to a crafter’s stash! Click to see that post:
. Now on to the Merriest Moments Bundle:
. Don’t you just love those large greetings! Our cards today will use almost everyone of those stamps. So let’s start with the club card:
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Merriest Moments Center Panel Easel Card
Recipe
- Stamps: Merriest Moments
- Tools: Merriest Frames Dies and Hybrid Embossing Folder, Stitched Rectangle dies,
- Ink: Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen, Versa Mark
- Base: Shaded Spruce, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4. Cut 1 1/2 inches from the score line to the front bottom edge on both the right and left sides. Cut 1″ off the middle flap front edge then score 2 1/4″ from the score line to the cut edge. Glue down the side flaps.
- Side Flaps: Expressions In Ink DSP, 4 1/8″ X 1 3/8″
- Gold Foil Layer: Gold Foil, 5 5/8 X 4 3/8; place the border die inside the embossing folder and you can cut and emboss the gold layer at the same time. Of course, in our instance we really just need to cut the layer using the border die from the gold foil but it is so cool to see how it looks embossed! Just playing….
- Detail Layer on the gold: Shaded Spruce, 5 1/2 X 4 1/4, Two steps – 1-cut with the detailed die, 2- place in embossing folder and emboss
- Front and Inside Greeting: Basic White (X2), 2 1/4 X 3; die cut with stitched rectangle in the Merriest Frames Dies
- Bottom Greeting and Easel: Just Jade, 2 3/4 X 1 1/2, Stamp ‘Joy’ with Versa Mark, apply gold embossing powder, heat
- Stamped Images: Basic White, 5 1/2 X 4 1/4; I set up the Stamparatus with all the geenery on one plate and all the flower and berry parts on a separate plate. Stamp the greenery in Evening Evergreen and the Flowers and Berries in Cherry Cobbler. With the stamparatus, I could stamp the Evening Evergreen more than once to get a darker color. Stamp one of each of the greeneries from the set, one large and one small flower, one flower middle and one set of berries.
I used a little extra spacing so we could be sure and die cut each stamped image.
Glue the layers, embellish with three of the In Color jewels and you have one more Christmas card ready to send.
Oh yes, Sal, just remember that many are duplicates of what is on pinterest and all I had to do was add my special touches with different embossing, different DSP and of course – an inside!
Card #1
Inspired by StampWithTami.com using the detail cut out and a separate piece of Night of Navy for the greeting
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. There is a separate full card front layer of Night of Navy that is embossed with the Wintry 3D boughs embossing folder. Don’t be afraid of this mini embossing folder. You can run it through twice to cover the front. I stamped the “Glory to the Newborn King” in versa mark, embossed with white, then fussy cut around the words.
Stamps: For Unto Us, Music From The Heart (retired – but I really wanted music notes)
Card #2
Red Velvet meets Merriest Moments inspired by Margi Stamps:
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The pictures don’t do justice to the simple beauty of this card. The outside is embossed on a separate layer of Basic White. Look at all the little snowflakes or stars around the embossed greenery. Love it! The greeting is stamped directly on the embossed front. Red Velvet Paper is on page 41 of the mini. I suggest stocking up.
I wanted to carry the idea of the frame to the middle so I cut a piece of basic white 3 1/4 X 2 1/2 expecting to trim off the edges but I loved the extra embossing around the frame and left it untrimmed.
The outside greeting is ‘Merriest Moments’ and inside is a greeting from the ‘Snowman Season’ stamp set with the Merry Christmas from ‘For Unto Us’. Together is the best place to build heartwarming memories!
Card #3
Jenny Hayward at A Stamping Journey inspired this partial die cut:
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I used the center ‘frame only’ idea and ‘Painted Christmas’ Designer Series Paper (DSP) with the detailed Merriest Moments die- cut first, then embossed and cut in half for a side partial die. There is an additional layer of Basic White added on the inside and a matching piece of DSP cut with the stitched rectangle in the set. I used the bough stamp in the Merriest Moments stamp set to do 2nd and 3rd generation stamping for the boughs. The inside greeting and the pinecone are in the ‘Perfectly Plaid’ stamp set. The boughs Wintry 3D embossing folder is used on the right edge.
Card #4
Another partial die cut layered on the side inspired by Jenny Hayward at A Stamping Journey:
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I used the ‘Snowflake Wishes’ stamp set for the outside greeting and inside snowflakes, The inside greeting is Merriest Moments and the side DSP is from the ‘Gingerbread and Peppermint’ DSP. The large snowflake comes from the set of 24 iridescent snowflakes called Wonderful Snowflakes. (see page 25 of the mini) One of the Stitched Rectangle Dies cut out the greeting perfectly!
Card #5
Inspired by Lori Pinto at Lolly Pop Papers & Ink:
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Similar to our easel card in its layering and yet exceptional in the use of Evening Evergreen for the background and Crumb Cake for a layer and the greeting. The greeting is a separate stitched rectangle cut and popped up on the detailed embossed layer.
A ‘Snowman Season’ greeting is used for the inside and Merry Christmas from ‘For Unto Us’. I wanted to bring the outside colors in so I cut Crumb Cake squares diagonally in half and layered them with a little larger diagonal cut square in Evening Evergreen.
Card #6
Here is a different use of the dies by Stamp It Up With Jamie. She cut out the middle and popped up the embossed detail with stampin’ dimensionals (lots) on DSP. I didn’t have the DSP she used so I came up with this using ‘Painted Christmas’ DSP:
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The greeting comes from the ‘Frosted Gingerbread’ stamp set. The pine cones are fussy cut from the DSP.
Card #7
Jenny Hayward at A Stamping Journey used vellum so I had to give that a try.
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Isn’t it beautiful?! The inside greeting is from ‘Perfectly Plaid’ but everything else is ‘Merriest Moments’. The base is Fresh
Freesia as are the stamped flowers. The greenery is stamped in Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. I used three of the smallest In Color gems for the inside of the flower.
You know, it is a good thing they don’t limit you to the number of words you can use!
..or pictures, Sal, I would be in trouble!
So, Stamping Friends, you have 8 Merriest Moments cards for inspiration and 1 Poinsettia Petal card. Which would you use for your Christmas cards if you were to make just one version?? I would love to hear from you!
SAL, Sharing A Lot of Merriest Moments
Karen
Pop Up Bouquet Birthday Card with Artistic Dies
Hello Stamping Friends,
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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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