Feb 6, 2015 | Cards, Club, New Products, Occasions |
I don’t have any weddings coming up in my circle of friends and family, but not to worry. The soft hues of Sahara Sand and Whisper White make the Something Borrowed DSP an elegant, understated choice for many projects. Here’s one of the cards we made in February’s Stamp Club meeting this week.
The Your Perfect Day stamp set has a sweet little wreath that fits perfectly around one of the large letters from the Sophisticated Serif Stamp set. And have you noticed that the Your Perfect Day set comes in wood, clear, AND photopolymer?
This note card is CASEd from one of the presentations at Leadership 2015. It is super easy to make and only takes a few minutes. (CASE = copy and share everything)
Stamp Club members Martha and Linda showing off their note cards.
Here’s what we used:
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Feb 4, 2015 | Blog Hop, Club, Food, Gift Wrap, Gifts, Kits, New Products, Occasions, Paper Pumpkin |
Welcome to the February InKing Royalty Blog Hop. We’re excited to share projects that share inspiration for Valentine’s Day and our love of Stampin’ Up! products. This hop is all about love.
You may have started the Blog Hop here or may have hopped over from Amy Whelan at Amy’s Inklings. After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next. If you get off track at any point during the blog hop, there’s a complete list of participants at the end of this post.
At each month’s Stamp Club meeting, I like to give the members a little something, just to show my love and appreciation. For the February meeting, which is today, I decorated water bottles and filled the January Paper Pumpkin bags with Valentine colored M&Ms. Aren’t they adorable?
Anyone who subscribes to Paper Pumpkin knows how amazing the kits are. Everything you need to create the project is included, except scissors and adhesive. Actually, sometimes they even include the adhesive! The projects are easy peasy, especially with included pictures and instructions. All the shapes are pre-cut. All I had to do was use the stamps and ink (included) to decorate some of the pieces and attach them to the clear bags (also included.) Such a cute way to give folks a sweet little treat!
The bottles are sooooo easy. Take the original belly band off the bottle and measure it. Cut a new belly band to fit and decorate as desired.
This particular bottle takes a 1-3/8″ wide band. I cut Basic Black background paper into 8-1/2″ x 1-3/8″ strips and adhered them with Fast Fuse. I used the Sweetheart Punch and the Modern Label Punch to cut Stacked With Love DSP. The sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes is stamped in Memento black ink and cut with the Word Window punch. I used Stampin’ Dimensionals behind the Modern Label shape. Everything else was adhered with Fast Fuse or Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Pam Morris at Tap Tap Stamp. You certainly won’t want to miss any of these projects.
And as always, Sweet Stamping!
- September Gray at SeptemberGray.com
- Brian King at Stamp with Brian
- Amy Whelan at Amy’s Inklings
- Candy Ford at StampCandy
- Pam Morris at Tap Tap Stamp
- Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
- Becky Volpp at Ink Blossom with Becky
- Angie Coleman at Coastal Stamping
- Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly’s Creative Corner
- Katie Ferguson at Cottage Paper
Jan 20, 2015 | Club, Gift Wrap, Gifts, New Products, Occasions |
When I first saw the Hey, Valentine stamp set, I thought I’d never use it because it seemed juvenile, and since we only have fur babies, I have no need for elementary school classmate Valentine’s.
Then I started looking at it a bit more closely and realized that I can definitely use these images. Here’s the one we used at January’s Stamp Club.
It’s perfect for a gift of chocolates in the new Mini Treat Bag.
Front Back
Cut both pieces of the bag with the Mini Treat Bag Framelits Dies and crease at the score lines.
Apply adhesive (we used Sticky Strip) to the left and right edges of the larger piece on the inner side of the bag, as well as to the bottom flap on the outer side of the bag.
Attach the smaller piece to the right side of the larger piece.
Fold over the left side of the larger piece and you have a treat bag.
Flip it over to see the front.
Score across the bag 4-1/2″ up from the bottom.
Now put some sweets in the bag, fold it over at the score line, and staple it closed off center – we stapled it at the vertical seam.
Wrap a piece of Whisper White twine a couple of times around the right side of the bag and tie a simple knot.
Lay a piece of Calypso Coral Pompom Trim across the knot and tie the twine again around it.
Now stamp the image on Whisper White card stock with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, then color it with Blendabilities. Cut it out with the banner die from the Mini Treat Bag Framelits. Then score across it at the middle line in the image.
Apply adhesive (again we used Sticky Strip) and fold it over the bag to cover the staple.
Here’s what we used:
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Jan 19, 2015 | Cards, Club, Deals, New Products, Occasions |
Here is another of the new 15% OFF Bundles from the Occasions Catalog. The You Plus Me stamp set and the Stacked With Love DSP Stack are a perfect pairing.
After stamping the sentiment in black and cutting it out with a die from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits, we used a Sponge Dauber to ink the edges with Real Red ink to help it pop off the card.
Here’s a tip for lining envelopes. After cutting the liner with the Envelope Liner Framelits, score from one notch to the other, shown here at the 4-1/2″ mark.
Insert the liner into the envelope and line up the fold line you just created with the fold line of the envelope. Apply adhesive only to the top part of the liner – the part that sticks to the envelope flap. No need to adhere the rest of the liner. It will stay in place.
After lining the envelope, we stamped on the outside: on the front, a small heart from the You Plus Me stamp set in Real Red,
and on the back flap, a sentiment from the Hello Life stamp set in Calypso Coral.
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Jan 18, 2015 | Cards, Club, Deals, New Products, Occasions |
I do love a good deal. With Stampin’ Up’s bundles, you get two coordinating products at a 15% discount! There are seven new bundles in the Occasions Catalog. One of them was used to make this card: the Celebrate Today Photopolymer Bundle (138869) includes the Balloon Framelits Dies. I’m going to be using this bundle a LOT, I can already tell.
Here’s a tip for using multiple photopolymer stamps on the same acrylic block. Lay the stamps on your project as you want them to look.
Then press the block on top. The stamps stick to the block and they are lined up just as you want them to be.
Ink it up and stamp away!
After tying one end of the Whisper White Baker’s Twine onto the balloons, we used a small piece of Sticky Strip on the back of the Birthday Bash DSP to hold the other end in place.
This stamp on the card’s interior is from the Big On You stamp set.
Lately I’ve been using the Sophisticated Serifs stamp set to stamp the recipient’s initials onto the envelope. This only works if you’re hand delivering the card, but it makes a nice presentation.
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Jan 17, 2015 | Cards, Club, Gift Wrap, Gifts, New Products, Occasions |
The Stamp Candy Stamp Club began the year with three projects: one birthday and two Valentine’s.
Linda & Caitlin
Margie & Martha
Check back for details on each project.
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stampin!
