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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.

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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:

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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!

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 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.

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  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

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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!

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SAL,   Sharing A Lot this fine fall day

Karen