Beauty Abounds And Butterfly Beauty
Hello Stamping Friends,
I have some fun cards today using the Butterfly Beauty Thinlits and the Beauty Abounds Stamp Set. These two sets carry into the new catalog but if you get them now you will get a 10% bundle discount, #150617. See them on page 13 of the Occasions catalog.
Before we get into the club card I want to show you The Vertical Greetings stamp set that I used for the Thank You notes. It is being retired:
I have used this set more times than I can count. In today’s thank you cards I didn’t want to cover up the beautiful butterflies but there was just enough room to do a vertical greeting.
Let’s start with the card I did for my card class:
The little ‘hello’ in the Beauty Abounds stamp set fit right between the butterflies. I stamped the hello in Versa Mark ink and embossed it with black embossing powder and then punched it out. I held the butterflies in place- without adhering them- to determine where to place the hello, being careful that the butterflies didn’t go outside the card.
Note: the double sided adhesive sheets are being retired, #144106, so stock up now. I used a sheet to adhere the top layer of the butterfly to the bottom layer. I put a 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″ piece of the adhesive on the back of the Gorgeous Grape cardstock of the same size before running it through the Big Shot. After you cut out the butterflies and pull off the adhesive backing sheet, save it! It is shiny and beautiful. I used it on the thank you cards you will see in a minute.
There is a large stamp in the Beauty Abounds set with six bokeh dots and a smaller one with four bokeh dots. I used both and stamped them with Highland Heather. I stamped the dots with Gorgeous Grape. It is amazing how SU can make stamps that get several different shades of color with just one stamp. I didn’t have to do any masking or coloring- it was all in the stamp!
It was a little tedious to put dimensionals on all the butterflies but so worth the effort! These are the small dimensionals with a strip cut from the edge of the dimensionals sheet to put in the middle.
On the inside I stamped another set of bokeh dots in Highland Heather and two of the little butterflies from the same Beauty Abounds set in Gorgeous Grape.
Dimensions & Supplies:
Ink: Versa Mark, Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, Black Embossing Powder
Stamps & Dies: Beauty Abounds & Butterfly Beauty Thinlits
Card Base: Gorgeous Grape, 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″
Second Layer- make 2: Highland Heather, 5 3/8″ X 4 1/8″
Butterfly Outside Layer: Gorgeous Grape, 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″
Adhesive Sheet: 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″ – adhere the whole sheet to the back of the Gorgeous Grape
Butterfly Bottom Layer: Highland Heather, 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″
Whisper White Layer: 3 7/8″ X 5 1/8″
Whisper White Scrap for punching the ‘hello’ greeting
Bling: Five black Faceted Dots (#146910- retiring)
The little butterflies have thinlits to cut them out and Stampin’ Up! has heard our frustrations with the time it takes when we want multiples of a cutout so they are making dies with several duplicates to save us time:
Lots of little butterflies we can run through the Big Shot!
After the card class I had leftover cutouts as well as the adhesive sheet backings and I wanted to use them for my thank you cards. I chose Flirty Flamingo for another cutout and black for some of the backings. From a past catalog I had purchased Calypso Coral embossing powder and it matched the Flirty Flamingo card stock so I used it and ‘Vertical Greetings’ to emboss the thank you on the purple layers. (I showed that set first since I really don’t want you to miss having it in your collection.) I colored the wings with the clear Wink of Stella and adhered Iridescent Sequins, # 144212, for even more sparkle.
In this card I stamped the wing cutouts with the little dot stamp and then did a bit of paper piecing to make the wings.
I wish you could see how the Wink of Stella makes it look like black glimmer paper was used! The Share What You Love Artisan Pearls were used and they, too, are retiring, #146927.
Which one is your favorite? I would love to see what you come up with!
SAL, Showing A Lot of butterflies today
Karen
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Wonderful Romance Thinking of You
Hello Stamping Friends,
If you are not into fancy folds like the prior posts’ bendi card, this card with its beautiful vellum designer paper might be what you are looking to make. The bouquet of flowers has a framelit to cut it out and there is a framelit to cut the beautiful leafy edge. The ‘Thinking of You’ greeting fits perfectly on one of the stitched rectangle framelits and the Frosted Flower Embellishment with a rhinestone in the middle dresses it up.
Base: Fresh Fig, 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″, Score at 4 1/4″. Cut a piece of copy paper 2 5/8″ X 5 1/2″ and place it on the front with a sticky note so you can line up your leaf edge framelit along the copy paper edge to make sure your leaf edge is cut straight. There is a lot of stress on the Big Shot to cut the leaf edge all at once so the cranking seems hard but it worked and I ran it back and forth several times to get a good cut.
Powder Pink Inside Layer: 4 1/8″ X 5 3/8″
Pear Pizzaz: 2 3/8″ X 5 3/8″
Whisper White: 2 3/16″ X 5 3/16″ This is the backing for your vellum. If you don’t have vellum adhesive, use tombow glue and a sponge to ‘paint’ the glue on the back of the vellum with the sponge and the glue will not show.
Floral Romance Designer Series Paper Vellum: 2 3/16″ X 5 3/16″
Greeting: Whisper White 2″ X 2 1/2″ stamped in Fresh Fig and cut with the stitched rectangle framelit.
Bouquet: Shimmer White 3 1/2″ X 4″ stamped in Memento Black and colored with Stampin’ Blends. The shimmer of the card stock even shows up in the picture! I used Dark Old Olive on the large leaves and Light Old Olive on the smaller leaves. Dark Pink Pirouette was used on the middle flower and the little buds to look similar to the vellum DSP. Rich Razzleberry Stampin’ Blends matched the Fresh Fig very well to color the other flowers. Rhinestones were put in the middle of the flowers and a bow was put on the base of the bouquet using the Old Olive Linen Thread.
This Wonderful Romance Stamp Set, the Wonderful Floral Framelits Dies, the Floral Romance DSP and the Old Olive Linen Thread all retire June 3rd. The products are on page 11 of the Occasions catalog and there is a bundle, #150592, that gives you 10% off if you buy the stamps and framelits together. I am sad to see these products go away. The Old Olive Linen Thread is on page 39, #148811. It is just a little finer than baker’s twine and dresses up any project.
SAL, Sad At Losing this product
Karen
Tea Together Bendi Card
Hello Stamping Friends,
May is zooming along and April projects are yet to be posted. To those of you waiting anxiously for some directions, thank you for your patience, and to those still looking for Mother’s Day inspiration I have a card or two that just might work.
I have seen several ‘Bendi Cards’ on Pinterest and when I saw Sara Levin’s Tea Together Bendi card I wanted to try it. She has a video at theartfulinker.com.
For those whose beloved mothers have passed away, the ‘Tea Together’ stamp set has an additional stamp that says “Love is a warm cup of tea”. A perfect saying for all those dear friends with whom we share a cup of tea and a listening ear!
Stamp Set: Tea Together, Amazing Life (for the corners on the back)
Designer Series Paper (DSP): Petal Promenade, Floral Romance, and Gold Foil Sheet
Dies: Tea Time Framelits (Pot and Cup), In The Woods (curves on the bendi arms), Be Mine Stitched Framelits (hearts), Sunshine Wishes ( Love), Celebrate You ( You). The club ladies also used the Happy Birthday framelit for an alternative saying.
Ink: Versa Mark, Old Olive
Tools: Gold Embossing Powder, Spritzer with Frost White Paint (Wink of Stella does the same), Tufted Embossing Folder,
Embellishments: 6″ of gold and white 1/8″ Tea Room ribbon
Card Base: Blushing Bride, 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″
Layer 1: Old Olive, 5 1/4″ X 4 1/8″ – note: this layer has a 1/8″ border on the top and sides but is flush to the bottom. Lay this piece landscape on the Stampin Trimmer at 1 1/2″ from the left and cut from 2″ to 3 5/8″ to make a tab for the bendi arm, then run through the Big Shot with the Tufted embossing folder. (Alternatively, you could make your large bendi arm with its tab and lay the tab 1 1/2″ from the left edge and place pencil marks on the old olive layer at the widest parts of the tab and then cut.)
Bendi Arms:
Old Olive, 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″ , Score at 1/2″ in landscape then turn to portrait and cut at 2 1/2″. You now have an arm that is 2 1/2″ X 5 1/2″ and an arm that is 1 3/4″ X 5 1/2″. The large arm is at the right side of the front and the small arm is at the left.
Place tear and tape on the 1/2″ scored section on the side that will wrap around the tufted old olive layer. This will help you keep from mixing up the arms. Oops, I mixed them up in the picture! The small arm goes to the left!
Score 3/8″ on the unscored side of the arms. Make a tab out of the 3/8″ scored edge by marking lightly with a pencil 1/2″ from the top and 1/2″ from the bottom of each arm. Fussy cut a tab on each arm by cutting a slight diagonal from the pencil mark to the edge of the arm. The larger arm will have a 1 1/2″ tab and the smaller arm will have a 3/4″ tab.
DSP for Bendi Arms: Petal Promenade 4 1/2 + 1/16″ (4 9/16″) X 1 3/4″ Small Arm, 4 1/2 + 1/16″ (4 9/16″) X 2 1/2″ for Large Arm. I know, I know, crazy measurements but we don’t want a green border where the small arm goes in to the large arm.
Cut both the DSP and the Bendi Arms at the same time to have a matching curve – the framelit will handle two layers. I used the curved die from the ‘In The Woods’ framelit set. Or fussy cut, making sure the curve on the small, left hand arm goes up at the right side where you will attach the teapot. If it is cut too narrow at the right side you won’t have room for the teapot above the cup. (yep-made that mistake!) Slide the DSP flush to the bottom of each arm giving you a border at the top and adhere. This picture shows the backside of the teapot and how important it is to curve up the bendi arm to give room to attach the teapot.
You have already made the slit for the large arm to slide into the Old Olive layer, now you need to make a slit in the large arm for the small arm to slide into. Lay the large arm on your stampin’ Trimmer at 2 1/2″ from the right edge (this includes the 1/2″ scored for the fold). Cut a slit from 1 1/4″ to 2″.
Work your two bendi arms into a curve with your fingers to break down the paper fibers so the arms curve easily.
Adhere the arms to the Old Olive layer. (Earlier you put tear and tape on the side that wraps around).
Now adhere the entire front to the Blushing Bride back. I used Tear and Tape for strength. Remember you do not have a bottom border, it is flush.
Teapot and Cup: Floral Romance DSP, 3 1/2″ X 12″ ; Stamp two pots and two cups with Old Olive ink. Cut with the framelits and then stamp with Versa Mark and gold emboss a large flower on the teapot and the small buds on the cups. I gold embossed both cups and both teapots so I could choose the best for the top. Spritz the cups and teapots or paint with Wink of Stella.
Teapot: Top layer has handle, base, lid cut off. Pop up on whole teapot with dimensionals.
Teacup: Top layer has handle, base, back of cup cut off. Pop up on the whole cup with dimensionals.
Both the teacup and the teapot are mounted on the small arm. Start by adhering the teacup 3/4″ from the left on the small bendi arm with glue dots. Now lay your bendi arms flat and mount the teapot on the top right edge of the arm tilting it to make sure no part goes outside the Blushing Bride layer so that it fits inside the envelope. Use a glue dot to put the hearts between the two layers of the tea cup and pull the tea cup handle in front of the teapot. The hearts are behind the teapot. Both the hearts and the teapot “float” with very little adhesive. Note the Dimensionals on the very bottom of the back of the teapot.
Embellish: Gold Foil, 2 1/2″ X 4″ Cut – love (Sunshine Wishes Framelit), – you (Celebrate You Framelit), and 9 hearts (on right hand side of Be Mine Stitched framelit). One of the punched out hearts was put between the words with a little bow underneath. The 9 open hearts are placed between the two layers of the cup to look like steam.
Embellish the back of the Blushing Bride with an Old Olive strip 7/8″ X 5 1/2″ and a Petal Promenade DSP strip 3/4″ X 5 1/2″. Use the corner stamps from the Amazing Life stamp set to make a nice corner with gold foil accent.
This special fold card is worth all the work when your mother or friend is astonished by your creation!!
I would love to hear from you! Leave a comment below. I will be back with another card tomorrow.
SAL, Share A Love
Karen
Gingham Daisy Cards
Hello Stamping Friends,
Gingham Daisy cards designed by Janice Laroche!
As always,
SAL, Stamp A Lot with the Stampalosopher
Karen
What’s this? A Hidden Pot of Gold?
Hello Stamping Friends,
The current hostess code is: KTHPFHPP A hostess will be picked from all those ordering! We have two weeks left of Sale A Bration and several new products added as free with a $50 order. Click here.
For club this month we made a St. Patrick’s Day card! It is a wiper card special fold and the pot of gold pops up out of the middle!
Let’s start by making a rainbow with our Stampin’ Up! markers. I tried blender pens and the alcohol Stampin’ Blends but was able to get the clearest image with the markers. I cut out an oval with a framelit and used the center of my grid paper to determine placement for the Whisper White cardstock. I went over 9 squares and down 9 squares and marked the oval with the placement line. ( I will list all the measurements at the end.)
Now place your cardstock on the grid paper and draw the first rainbow line holding the marker at a somewhat slanted angle – too much slant and your line will be too thick, too little slant and your line will be too thin. Use the thick end of the marker and let the curve of the oval guide your hand. Remember, this is a marker not a crayon so you don’t need to press hard. After the first line is drawn, move the oval up slightly to mask the first line and draw the next line. Continue for all seven colors. You will do ‘damage control’ at the end when you have completed all the rainbow lines by switching to the thin end of the marker and coloring in any missed bits or edges. I advise practicing once on the grid paper before doing the card. Clean the tips of your markers by tapping them off on the grid paper after each attempt. The oval will absorb the ink so use the other side of the oval after practicing, just be sure and cover your cardstock with sticky notes so the ink from the practice side of the oval doesn’t get on your cardstock. I tried a window sheet to see if that would keep the ink from bleeding but it wasn’t any better.
With your rainbow completed, run the cardstock through the Big Shot with the Subtle Embossing Folder.
For the greeting we will use the stamp from “Love What You Do” and the framelit from “Wonderful Floral”. The Stamparatus will let us stamp and then restamp until we have a perfect image. I placed the framelit on the paper to verify I had enough on each side of the greeting for the cutout- but be careful – those magnets love to grab framelits! Remember – stamp first – then cut!
After you have cut out the stamped greeting, use the negative space of the cutout to mark the cut for the gold glimmer paper. On the back of the glimmer paper draw around the cutout with a pencil and then fussy cut. You could cut out the glimmer paper with the framelit but then all those little rectangles on the side will have to be taped in place. Fussy cutting was easier for me.
Adhere the gold glimmer paper directly to the card front and then pop up the greeting. When adhering to glimmer paper glue dots work the best so place a glue dot on top of each dimensional. Since the glimmer paper is not a circle, be careful to line up your greeting before gluing down the glimmer paper.
That picture shows the beauty of the ‘Subtle’ embossing folder!
I needed a birthday card for my daughter so I colored the stamp with my marker leaving out ‘friend’ and then used the retired ‘Family Reunion’ stamp set which has a daughter stamp to stamp the middle of the greeting. Sticky notes worked better than the grid paper to align the ‘daughter’ stamp since you can see through the sticky note. (It took me more than once to get it aligned right so I threw away sticky notes instead of grid paper.)
I will square it up when I cut it out with the framelit and put a bling over the dot where the ‘i’ in friend was touched when I colored. Butterflies and bling fix most anything!
With the rainbow and greeting completed, let’s stamp! I wanted the images to be a rich shiny black so I embossed them and then cut them out. The Whisper White cardstock we used for the greeting has enough room for all with enough left over to cut out two lily pad flowers.
Let’s go to the Big Shot now and cut out our pieces. Cut two pots out of black using the retired ‘Cannery Set’ lid. The ‘Coffee Cup’ framelits has a lid that would work, too. Cut out the lily pad with the Hop Along framelits and nine hearts for shamrocks with the ‘Every Day Jar Framelits’. Use a 1/4″ circular punch, mine was just an office punch, and punch out three green circles for the back of the shamrocks and a dozen or so glimmer paper circles for the coins in the pot. Punch half circles out of the side of the glimmer paper to line the front edge of the pot so it looks like the coins are half way out of the pot.
Now the relaxing fun! Coloring! I used light and dark ‘Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blends’ for the frogs. I colored their tummies and the dots with the light and then did two layers of the dark for the rest. The open mouth got a little ‘Blushing Bride Marker’, the lilies got a touch of Dark Daffodil Delight and the unicycle was colored in Light Smoky Slate with a Daffodil Delight seat. The bug was colored in Dark Highland Heather and Dark Daffodil Delight. The bees got a touch of Dark Daffodil Delight. The lily pad was sponged on the edge for extra depth. The two frogs and the purple bug were popped up. The lily pad, flower, bees and shamrocks were glued directly down.
To give your pot the illusion of a front edge, place your framelit on the pot and score around the edge then move the framelit up a bit and score again. Color black between the scored lines and use a Versa Mark pen to make it even darker.
I used the fine tip glue pen to place my first layer of half coins on the pot and to glue the coins that adhered directly to the black paper. When stacking the coins be sure and use glue dots so they will stick to the glimmer paper.
My first attempt at the shamrocks was with the fine tip glue pen but I didn’t like the result (shown here) so I used a glue dot on top of the 1/4″ circle and found it much easier to place the little hearts and have them stay in place. Cut just a little triangle out of the bottom of your 1/4″ circle if you don’t want it to show under the stem. I fussy cut little stems.
This picture shows the shamrocks with glue dots. Less mess and no shiny excess from the glue.
The front is adhered directly to the black layer and those two layers are popped up on a Garden Green layer but don’t glue it on the base until you have constructed the wiper.
Use your bone folder to fold the two score lines on the two base pieces in Z folds. Place the front to the back and check that you have the folds going the right way. It should look like this:
The front has the long portion on the right. Lay this face down on your grid sheet. The top is now at the bottom.
Line up your scored wiper piece with the bottom of the card (which is really the top when you stand it up). Place the diagonal of the scored portion on each edge of the second fold of the Z. Before adhering the wiper piece, bend the diagonal forward and backward a few times to exercise its movement! To score the wiper, place the square piece with a right angle at the 1/2″ of the right side of the Stampin’ Trimmer and the opposite right angle on the same line. I drew a pencil line to show you what I mean. Score- creating a little triangle on one corner.
You are going to glue only that little triangle to the cardstock. I tried tear and tape and it pulled off so I found ‘Tombow liquid glue’ worked well, you just have to hold it in place for a bit and be careful not to let the glue squish out. I like to put ‘Tombow’ on the piece I am gluing and then count to twenty before adhering so it doesn’t squish out. I did use ‘Tear and Tape’ on the front and back edges.
The pot is next! Glue the window sheet to the wiper piece and then glue the pot upside down to the other side of the window sheet at the very edge of the cardstock. Glue on your second pot to cover the window sheet.
Stand the front back up, line the edges of each side carefully, adhering the front to the back. Voila! You have made a wiper card!
Finish by gluing the Garden Green strip on the front side and stamping the back of the card. The greeting stamp used on the back is a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp but the four leaf clover is in the ‘Amazing Life’ stamp set. The ‘ Make A Difference’ stamp set has the alphabet in capitals and small letters so you could make ‘daughter’ or Happy St. Patrick’s day with that set.
Supplies:
- So Hoppy Together Sale A Bration stamp set with coordinating framelits
- Love What You Do stamp set for the greeting
- Amazing Life Stamp set for the four leaf clover (great for the envelope, too)
- Wonderful Floral Framelits for the greeting
- Every Day Jars Framelits for the hearts
- Framelits – Cannery Set for the pot (The Coffee Cups framelits has a lid that would work well)
- Granny Apple Green Ink
- Garden Green Ink
- Stampin’ Blends – Light and Dark Granny Apple Green, Dark Daffodil Delight, Dark Highland Heather, Light Smoky Slate
- Markers – Basic Black for the edge of the pot, Blushing Bride for the mouth. Markers for rainbow in order of use-
- Rich Razzleberry
- Night of Navy
- Pacific Point
- Garden Green
- Daffodil Delight
- Pumpkin Pie
- Real Red
- 1/4″ circle punch
Dimensions:
- Base: Granny Apple Green (make 2) 7″ X 4 1/4″ Scored at 1 1/4″ and 2″
- Wiper Pop Up: Granny Apple Green 2 1/4″ X 2 1/4″ scored diagonally with the right angle at the 1/2″ mark on Stampin Trimmer and the other right angle lined up straight across on the same 1/2″ line
- Front Side Layer: Granny Apple Green 4″ X 1″
- Front & Back Layers: Garden Green (make 2) 4 3/4″ X 4″ Glue Directly to base
- Black Layer for front: Basic Black 4 1/2″ X 3 3/4″ Pop up with dimensionals
- Top Layer: Whisper White (make 2) 4 3/8″ X 3 5/8″
- Whisper White for cutouts: 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″
- Lily Pad: Granny Apple Green 1 1/2″ X 3 1/8″
- Gold Glimmer paper for behind the greeting and for the coins: 2 1/2″ X 4″
- Black for pot: (make 2) 4″ X 1 1/4″
- Window Sheet: 1 1/2″ X 1 1/4″
- Shamrocks: Garden Green 1″ X 3 1/2″
- Oval cut out for rainbow: Whisper White 5″ X 4″ to make a 4 3/8 X 3 1/2″ oval (retired oval set)
That took longer to detail than it probably would take for a video. I need to get to work on producing videos. Which do you like better – videos or detailed pictures?
Let me know if you have questions.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 13 or Tuesday, April 16 at 10:00. I will be having a card class and luncheon on those days ( same cards each time). We will meet from 10:00 to 2:00 and make four cards. I will provide a light lunch. The cost is $20 and RSVPs are necessary by April 5, please. There are so many wonderful products I want to use before the catalogs go away June 3rd. Assuming the product is still available for you to order, we will do one card with the Tea Together stamp and framelit set, one card with the Wonderful Romance bundle, one card with the Beauty Abounds bundle and one card with the Let It Ride stamp set.
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SAL, (Stamp A Lot, Smile A Little, and Share A Love)
Karen
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Petal Promenade DSP, Friendship Pizza Boxes
Hello Stamping Friends,
Let’s look at some projects:
The Petal Promenade DSP is gorgeous with two sheets that can be cut to be card fronts like the piece shown here behind this Laser Cut paper. Both papers are available as a free Sale A Bration item. Both outside and inside greetings are from ‘Ribbon of Courage’, as well as the little heart. The roses in the corner are from the ‘Painted Glass’ stamp set and cut out with the ‘Stained Glass Thinlits Dies’.
Here is another project using the Petal Promenade DSP, a Pearlized Doily, and the Organdy Ribbon. The greeting is from ‘Guy Greetings’, the inside greeting is the ‘Forever Lovely’ stamp :
Pizza boxes make wonderful gifts that can be regifted. I made these pizza boxes for my “kit class” thank you gifts. I bought a cookie press and Lisa, bless her heart and her patience, helped me make little spritz cookies in flower and leaf shapes to go in the boxes. The greeting is from ‘A Big Thank You’ stamp set:
Besides the pizza box, this uses the ‘Share What You Love’ DSP which has foil accents on it. The Frosted Flower Embellishment is perfect with one of our little rhinestones fitting perfectly in the middle of the flower.
Dimensions:
- Pizza Box itself is 3 3/8 X 3 3/8
- Solid First Layer is Merry Merlot 3 1/4 X 3 1/4
- Second Layer is Share What You Love DSP 3 X 3
- Sides First Layer is Merry Merlot 3 3/8 X 7/8
- Sides Top Layer is DSP 3 1/8 X 5/8
- Doily is retired product
- Greeting is stamped on Whisper White and cut with a Stitched Shapes Circle then sponged on edges
- Stamp Set is ‘A Big Thank You’
- Flower is Frosted Flower Embellishment in Occasions Catalog, pg. 11, topped with a rhinestone
- A Whisper White twine bow completes the top
The Gingham Gala DSP was used for these thank you cards. There are four cards here for the sake of the picture, it isn’t a fancy fold of some kind. “Thank You for your endless love and support” is in the ‘Lasting Lily’ Sale A Bration stamp set. The butterflies are in the ‘Beauty Abounds’ stamp set and cut with the ‘Butterfly Beauty Thinlits Dies’. “Ever So Grateful” is in the ‘A Big Thank You’ stamp set.
Since I have a captive audience, or at least I am pretending I do, I will show you one more project using the ‘Share What You Love Embellishment Kit’:
I stamped on the vellum cutout from the front and it wasn’t as fuzzy as it looks here. Isn’t the tag from the kit unique?
I need to get more little cookies done to put in the pizza boxes so I will sign off for now.
SAL, Share A Love – I love, love, love new goodies so I am sharing. I love comments, too!
Karen
More Valentine Fun
Hello Stamping Friends,
I hope your weekend was an extension of Valentine’s day like mine was! Our newest grandbaby is 4 1/2 months old and changing so fast that we decided a trip to Steamboat for her first Valentine’s day (month) was essential. Here’s mommy and daddy with little Emma. Daddy had just taken a group of guests for a hot air balloon ride. If you are ever in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, he would love to take you on a flight as well! Click here for Wild West Balloon Adventures. 
My prior Valentine post showed all the gorgeous cards my club members designed. Using the same trifold and designer series paper (DSP), I made one card in pinks and one in reds. Click here for my previous Valentine Post to see all the card dimensions and to take a look at the amazing ‘Be Mine Stitched Framelits’ set.
The heart in the middle of the doily with all the flowers is cut from the ‘All My Love’ DSP with a framelit. I colored the leaves with the Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend and added a touch of light Rich Razzleberry Stampin’ Blend on the tiny flowers so the heart would match the DSP. ‘Dazzling Diamonds’ glitter was added to the center of the flowers for a little sparkle. I used the framelit with the multiple little hearts to cut hearts from the matching DSP to go around the edge of the doily. The middle heart is a ‘Heart Epoxy Droplet’ with a piece of the Flirty Flamingo cardstock, fussy cut to size,behind it.
For the red valentine I decided to use glimmer papers in red and blushing bride for the middle hearts to add sparkle and to use the skinny hearts in the framelits since the DSP has both heart shapes:
The hearts your see stamped below the ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ greeting are stamped in Lovely Lipstick with only one stamp from the ‘Forever Lovely’ stamp set. It matches the ‘All My Love’ Designer Series Paper perfectly and the stamp is made to have all the different levels of color. Check out page 5 of the Occasions catalog to see the stamp set and DSP.
It is amazing what SU can do with stamps these days. I did use retired doilies but have you seen the ‘Dear Doily’ stamp Bundle in the Occasions catalog page 47? We can now make our own! 
For a little addition to this blog post I wanted to add pre-blog valentines to have a record of the past. If you go to the Recipe Box tab you can see valentines made over the past four years but we are missing inspiration from before that. March will mark my 10th year with Stampin’ Up! but I have only blogged since November of 2014.
Flashback Fun
I made this valentine for one of my first Stampin’ Up! convention contests. I learned that Stampin’ Up! does not like ‘Karen Cards’ as my DH, Paul, calls them. The winners were all very ‘Clean and Simple’ thirty minute cards not something like this multiple hours card that used several stamp sets, multiple techniques and even had the greeting stamped on red satin ribbon. My daughter and son-in-law met on a bike path so I made this with them in mind:
The next one is a trifold with a heart cutout in the middle of each side and a dangling trifold glimmer heart. One card just doesn’t say enough for a husband like Paul so this card is a three in one:
For club one year we made this card with its floating hearts in the middle:
To prove I can make clean and simple cards check out these two:
The first card is on Whisper White though it looks Very Vanilla like the second one. The top card pictures I took in the morning with more natural light so I need to remember to do that for future pictures.
It is time to move on from valentines to birthdays and Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. We have so many fun stamp sets and bundles it is hard to choose! If you have the same problem you might consider joining as a demonstrator and getting $175 of product for $99 during Sale A Bration. Just saying…….
Paper Pumpkin will be celebrating their sixth birthday in March! They are going to have a special box and the kit will include two stamp sets instead of one:
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SAL, Sharing A Love
Karen
Shrinky Dink Card with Technique Sheet
Hello Stamping Friends,
Club members have a fun day making a technique sheet and a special card.
At January’s club I taught the Shrinky Dink technique using the humming bird in the ‘Humming Along’ set. The paper is our ‘Petal Promenade’ Designer Series Paper. It has sheets of paper with realistic little images to cut out like I have done here. The greeting is from ‘A Big Thank You’ .
The technique sheet is 6″ X 6″, perfect for putting in a photo album of that size for future reference.
I have some Valentines to post, since it is the day after the party and I won’t spoil the surprise, so I will sign off this post and begin another.
SAL, (Shrink Anything Large)
Karen
Happy Valentines Day
Hello Stamping Friends and Happy Valentines Day!!
(Hostess code for Terri’s kit party February 23 at 10:00am : MKATNKJV)
(Hostess code for Joy’s online party: FCGZVMVE)
I hope you have wonderful plans to celebrate all the loves of your life next week. How about celebrating our “LOVE” of stamping?
At club last month I gave the stampers a card base with a special trifold and then had lots of the new designer paper, the new stamp sets and dies offered in the Occasions catalog and the free foil paper from Sale A Bration available for them to use and design their own Valentine! The results were amazing!
I cut and stamped the Meant To Be stamps with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies so we could see all the wonderful things we could make. The All My Love Designer Series Paper (DSP) even has one side with hearts that exactly match the framelits. Can you tell which ones are from the DSP and which ones are stamped? What a great bundle this is for many occasions. Check out page 6 of the Occasions catalog.
The card bases were a fun trifold layered with DSP from All My Love Designer Paper.
- Card Base: 11″ X 5 1/2″; Score at 1 1/4″ then 4″ then 6 3/4″
- DSP (X2) for front flaps: 1″ X 5 1/4″
- Coordinating DSP for next flap: 2 1/2″ X 5 1/4″
- Whisper White Message Panel: 2 1/2″ X 5 1/4″ (If Whisper White is your base, cut a coordinating DSP first with these measurements and then make a Whisper White Panel that is 2 1/4″ X 5″
- DSP Panel on the right side matching DSP of the front panels: 4″ X 5 1/4″
Now the fun begins! Check out these beautiful valentines my club ladies created:
Valentine 1 by Joy:
The greeting is from Amazing Life on page 28 of the Occasions catalog item # 148750.
Valentine 2 by Jo:
The Grapefruit Grove foil (free with a $50 order) is quite unique-especially when trying to photograph a project. See page 12 of the Sale A Bration brochure.
Valentine 3 by Terri:
Terri used the Lovely Lipstick foil. I missed the closed version of her card.
Valentine 4 by Lucille:
I love how she mounted the foil on a white background and used the little flourish and a heart in the middle!
Valentine #5 by —-:
How creative to pull in the color of the DSP with ribbon and to layer a DSP heart on a white heart!
Valentine #6 by Sharon:
The little Heart Epoxy Droplets pick up the color of the shiny foil beautifully. See page 5, item # 148583. The little flowers she used are the Frosted Flower Embellishments on page 11, item #148782.
Valentine #7 by LIsa:
Check out the embossed heart embellished with a flourish and the top little stamped heart holds the front flap down.
Valentine #8 by Christine:
I love how Christine placed the red outline of the heart so it perfectly matched her front white heart.
Valentine 9 by —–:
The white on the DSP is lovely and there is a plethora of hearts from the one framelit!
Valentine 10 by —-
Look at how she used the Crumb Cake to stamp the greeting and the heart so everything coordinates!
Help me with names dear stamping friends. Send me a comment with which numbered Valentine is yours and I will update the post. After all, it will be sort of a scrapbook for us.
Next post I will share the Shrinky Dink fun that we had for our club technique as well as the new Sale A Bration free products that will be available February 15 and the coordinating products we can purchase March 1 to go with many of the free stamp sets.
SAL,
Karen
Flashback Fun:
This is the Christmas card we made in 2017 with the same folds:
The DSP used here is retired but the stamp set and framelits are still available!! See page 102 of the Annual Catalog for the Ready For Christmas stamp set and the Christmas Staircase thinlits dies on page 216. There is a little Dachshund in this set so it was a must have for me! Check out the other trifold card we made with this set at the card buffet:
I think I started down a rabbit trail, one trifold leading to another and then to another! Thank you for stopping by!
I have a couple people interested in doing a monthly or bimonthly Christmas Card Stamp A Stack starting now so we have lots of cards made by November. Leave me a comment if you are interested.
Shop online and get a free Sale A Bration product for each $50 or $100 spent! Click on SAL and he will take you to the online site.
Thank You Notes
Our current hostess code is FCGZVMVE.
Hello Stamping Friends,
It is another very snowy day here in Castle Rock, Colorado and I am loving it! As a little girl I would get so excited when it snowed, but my dad would look at me and say “If you had to go out and feed the cows you wouldn’t be so happy!” I just have birds outside to feed and they were sure glad we had stocked up the bird feeders!
Today I have a few Thank You cards to show you.
Which do you like better? These were simple using the Lovely Floral Embossing Folder, #148048 and the Banners For You Stamp Set, # 141710, with the Bunch of Banners Framelits, #141488. There is a Heart Epoxy Droplet, #148583, in front of the Thank You and a Frosted Flower Embellishment, #148782, in the center of the flower. The tiny clear droplets are retired as is the ribbon. I am learning to stock those embellishments when they are introduced before they sell out. Hopefully you have done the same.
- Card Base: Thick Whisper White 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″
- Top Layer: Pacific Point 5 1/4″ X 4″ embossed with the Lovely Floral embossing folder
- Greeting: Scrap of Whisper White stamped with the Banners For You greeting and cut with Bunch of Banners Framelits
- Inside: Greeting is stamped directly on the Thick Whisper White. It is from the Spirited Snowmen stamp set in the Holiday Catalog. The bottom design is from the Banners For You stamp set. I had never noticed that little flourish design before.
Stay with me while I show you how fantastic our Stamparatus is for mass production. I have been delighted to use it instead of blocks so I can restamp an image if it is not as perfect as I like, but I never thought I would use the hinge apparatus that lets you move the plate down the base in perfect intervals. It was interesting to watch the demonstrations as the stampers stamped Happy Birthday or a design a number of times down a card but not something I thought I would ever do. However, I tried it for mass producing the banners and it worked beautifully. Tip: Place one of our stamp cases under the plate to give a sturdy base for inking up the stamp.
I inked the stamp and then moved it down one step in the hinges. I had six beautifully lined up banners. I should have stamped the inside greeting first so I could line up the banner over top instead of doing the greeting over the banner. I ruined the first one in my line up attempt but once the stamp was lined up, I moved the plate down the hinges and had a nice set of banners ready to cut out. Tip: Use the acrylic sheet from your Stamp A Ma Jig to test the line up of the stamp. You will save a lot of grid paper and it would have saved me a banner!
Tip: Cut up your shammy to make a great little tool to clean any shadows off the edges of your stamps. It works great for cleaning your stamps while they are on the Stamparatus as well. I cut mine into several rectangles for each person to have at their station instead of a wet wipe. I store them in another of our stamp cases.
These are the cards you see me producing in the pictures:
The Spirited Snowmen set did not carryover (they didn’t ask me…) but I wanted to show you the Delightfully Detailed Note Cards & Envelopes from the Annual Catalog page 193, #146911. There are 20 cards that are already color-washed. 10 are in Blackberry Bliss and 10 are in Mint Macaron (but I thought Pool Party was a better match and used it for my cards). I embossed some with the Softly Falling embossing folder, #139672, and I used the new Big Shot Embossing Mats, #146327, with the snowflakes from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits, #143751, to emboss the images instead of cutting them. We can do this with any of our framelits giving us a whole new application for embossing. You can see the embossing done on top facing down or on the bottom facing up in these images.
The Pool Party Shimmer Ribbon, #144152, was a great accent for the image which was stamped on a 3 1/2″ X 2 5/8″ Oval. The edges were sponged with Pool Party.
Greetings: ‘From The Heart’ – Petal Palette, #145788; ‘Thanks so much’- A Big Thank You, #147377; Inside bottom flourish – Banners For You, #141710
Bonus Card:
I made this card for Paul, my DH-darling hubby- and wonderful helper in this business! We celebrated 43 years of marriage on December 20. The card uses the Sprited Snowmen, the tree from Winter Woods (which does carryover), the Swirls & Curls embossing folder (also carrys over), and the Star of Light stamp set, which I hope stays in the annual catalogs for years. I bought the Stitched All Around stamp set, page 17, # 146632, just because it had a stamp that said “Oh darling you are fabulous” and I wanted to use it on a card for Paul. It made a great inside for this card.
Flashback Fun
When you are in the design zone, don’t forget Vertical Greetings on page 31 of the Annual Catalog. This is another set I hope continues for years. I used the current Vertical Greetings set with the ‘Special Reason’ stamp set and the ‘Stylish Stems’ Framelits that are retired.
The pink strip I cut off the front side was placed on the inside on top of a fun piece of Designer Series Paper.
Another favorite from the past is Paisleys and Posies with the Paisley Framelits:
You could use this as a card layout for a thank you card using a piece of Designer Series Paper, DSP, with a strip of foil paper, a fun framelit cutout and a thank you in the corner. It is fun to challenge yourself to bring in all the colors of a piece of Designer Series Paper. The photopolymer stamps will bend so you can round them into a corner similar to what is shown here using a past Sale A Bration stamp set. Send me a picture if you make a card with this layout, I would love to see it.
Next time I have some amazing Valentines to show you from my stamping friends at club.
The current hostess code is: FCGZVMVE and it is Sale A Bration time!
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Karen
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