Feb 15, 2016 | Cards, Deals, Occasions, Sale-A-Bration |
I recently came across some cards I made when I was at the Stampin’ Up! home office a few months ago, and realized I had never shared them with you. Today I’m sharing one of these Make & Takes using the Botanical Gardens Bundle in the Occasions catalog. This is a three piece bundle – when you buy Botanical Blooms stamp set, Botanical Builder Framelits Dies, and Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper together, you save 15%! And you qualify for a free Sale-a-bration item!
The card base is Cajun Craze card stock with a Whisper White CS layer on top.
The card front is a piece of Botanical Gardens Designers Series Paper that we stamped with the Botanical Blooms stamp set. We cut the edge off a piece of 1-1/4″ Burlap Ribbon and frayed it a bit, then attached it along the back edge of the DSP with Fast Fuse. This heavy duty, dry adhesive is perfect for the heavy ribbon.
We stamped on another sheet of the DSP and cut the leaves out with the Botanical Builder Framelits Dies. We cut the Cajun Craze and Hello Honey flowers with the same die set. We glued all these pieces onto the card front, and attached a Rhinestone Basic Jewel with a Glue Dot in the center of the flower.
We used Glue Dots to attach the Botanical Garden Jewel and the Linen Thread bow.
We glued on the wooden sentiment from the Expressions Natural Elements.
Here’s what we used:
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Feb 7, 2016 | Cards, Challenges, CYCI, Occasions, Sketches |
It’s time for another sketch challenge from CYCI! Go to canyoucaseit.com to see the other projects and to play along with us by posting your own project! Here is this week’s challenge…
…and here is my card.
The Picture Perfect stamp set has four different multi-step images: a 3 step flower, a 2 step starfish, a three step leaf, and a 4 step hummingbird. The see through photopolymer stamps make lining up the images a snap.
Picture Perfect Photopolymer Stamp Set 140520
For today’s card, I’ve used the starfish. On Very Vanilla card stock, I stamped the heavier image, seen on the right in the above image, in Hello Honey. Then I stamped the lighter, more detailed image in Soft Suede over the top of the first one. I did this twice, then used my Paper Snips to cut out the two starfish.
I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set in Pacific Point on a strip of Very Vanilla card stock.
The fish and coral are from the By the Tide stamp set in the Annual catalog. It’s available in wood mount and clear mount.
By the Tide: Clear Mount 129120, Wood Mount 131910
On the front panel of Pool Party, I stamped the fish in Pacific Point and the coral in, you guessed it, Calypso Coral. I went over the fish with the Clear Wink of Stella Brush to give them a little shimmer. It also made the Pacific Point ink bleed slightly, to make the them stand out from the surrounding water.
Wink of Stella shimmer on the fish
I attached the starfish with Stampin’ Dimensionals that I cut into skinny pieces. Then I glued the front panel to a Pacific Point card stock layer, and glued that to the Calypso Coral card base.
Here’s what I used. Click on the images below to get what you need to make your own version of today’s project!
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Feb 5, 2016 | Boxes, Classes, Gift Wrap, Gifts, New Products, Occasions, Paper Pumpkin |
This weekend I’m in Phoenix, AZ, spending some quality time with, and learning a lot from, some wonderful Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from all over the country. Lisa Pretto of InkBig Academy is the organizer and leader of the weekend. I thought one of the projects we made in the January Bloomin’ Love Bundle Class would be a perfect thank you gift for her, so today I’m sharing that with you.
The sour cream containers – so called because single servings of sour cream usually come in containers shaped like this – are incredibly easy to make, even though they look much more complicated.
For today’s container, I started with a sheet from the Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack. The 6″x6″ size is perfect for this project, so no cutting required!
On the side of the paper that will be on the inside of the container, I put strong adhesive (I recommend Tear & tape or Fast Fuse) along three of the edges. Then I rolled the paper and adhered the two sides together to create a tube.
NOTE: If the paper design has a definite direction, make sure you put the adhesive along the top and bottom edges and along one side edge.
I pinched the bottom end closed, with the seam along one edge of the bottom.
I used a gusseted bag and twine from the Filled With Love Paper Pumpkin Kit Refill and filled it with Candy Hearts. This and other past Paper Pumpkin kits and refills are available for purchase to any current Paper Pumpkin subscriber.
I pinched the top of the container closed, with the seam in the center of the top. This created the interesting shape, with one end flat in one direction and the other end flat in the other direction.
NOTE: Don’t over fill the bag before putting it into the container. It should be skinny enough to insert without it getting caught on the adhesive around the interior edge of the container.
I stamped the word FRIEND, from the Bloomin’ Love stamp set, in Rose Red on a piece of Whisper White card stock, then punched it out with the Sweetheart Punch. I used the same punch to cut a heart out of Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper. Then I glued the two hearts together.
I used the heart punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack to cut two hearts each from two different designs in the Love Blossoms DSP Stack and from Rose Red CS. I glued them together along a length of Whisper White Baker’s Twine, sandwiching the twine between the two hearts, and tied the twine around one of the gold clips from the same Filled With Love PP kit refill.
I used the clip to attach the two glued-together hearts as well as a gold heart doily and length of pearl trim from the Love Blossoms Embellishment Kit. The layers make it look much more complicated that it really is.
Here’s what I used today. Click on the images below to get what you need to make your own sweet sour cream container!
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Feb 2, 2016 | Cards, New Products, Occasions |
At first glance, this card might look like a swirling vortex of stars in the night sky. Look more closely and you’ll see the stars are actually flowers. I got this affect by layering a piece of Botanical Garden Designer Series Paper with the coordinating piece from Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack. I pressed my fingertip where I wanted the center of the swirl to be, where you see the Iced Rhinestone, then spun the vellum just a tiny bit. The flowers near the center are lined up, but the farther away from the center you get, the more offset the flowers are, giving the illusion of a spinning motion.
Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper, Item #140583
Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack, Item #141019
NOTE 1: Trim the DSP to size, but keep the vellum larger until you’ve spun it to find out where it should go. Then trim the vellum to fit the DSP.
NOTE 2: This vellum is 6″ x 6″ and the DSP is 12″ x 12″. The vellum lines up perfectly with the center of the DSP.
I chose an Iced Rhinestone as a bright, shiny focal point for the center of the swirl. The card base and banner are Basic Black card stock.
The sentiment, from the Picture Perfect stamp set, seemed perfectly “cosmic” for this particular background. I heat embossed it in white on the Basic Black banner.
I think this would be a great card for anyone who is graduating, marrying, or starting any other new adventure.
NOTE 3: There is always a lot of discussion amongst paper crafters about the best way to adhere vellum so it doesn’t show through. As you can see, there isn’t a lot of covered area on this card where adhesive can be hidden – only under the rhinestone and the banner. I used teeny tiny dots of the Multipurpose Liquid Glue in several spots, making sure they were behind one of the flowers on the vellum. I used such a thin layer of glue that I felt the need to hold the vellum down to the DSP for a moment, until I felt it was dry enough to stay put.
The Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack is available FREE with any $50 order during Sale-a-bration. Get it while you can!
Here’s what I used. Click on the images below to get what you need to make your own version of today’s card.
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Feb 1, 2016 | Cards, Occasions |
Did you know that the It’s My Birthday Designer Series Paper Stack has 48 sheets of double sided 12×12 paper? 48! That’s 4 each of 12 different double sided designs.
The design I’m using today has a Whisper White background with birthday candles in Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Mint Macaron, and Sahara Sand.
The card base is Whisper White Thick card stock, with layers of Sahara Sand and Basic Black behind the DSP.
The sentiment is from the Party With Cake stamp set.
I stamped it in Basic Black Archival Ink on Whisper White CS, then filled in the open letters with Stampin’ Write Markers in Melon Mambo and Mint Macaron. There are layers of Basic Back and Crushed Curry CS under the sentiment banner.
Here’s what I used. Click on the images below to get what you need to make your own version of this card!
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Jan 27, 2016 | Cards, New Products, Occasions, Sale-A-Bration |
Every time I say the name of this Designer Series Paper from the Sale-a-bration catalog, I think of the old Beatles song that goes, “Strawberry Fields forever…” I call it Wildflower Fields forever.
I love to mix different products, like using two different stamp sets or two different Designer Series Papers, on the same card. Today I’ve paired a piece of Wildflower Fields DSP with a piece from the Pretty Petals DSP Stack. They have Calypso Coral in common, but the neutral colors are different: Wildflower Fields has Whisper White and Pretty Petals has Very Vanilla. I don’t normally use those two colors together, but I did like these two DSPs together, so I had to find a way to make them bond.
I tried a few different ribbons with either Whisper White or Very Vanilla/natural in them, but in the end the Lost Lagoon 5/8″ Striped Cotton Ribbon seemed perfect. It matches the Lost Lagoon flowers in the upper panel AND it matches the Very Vanilla in the bottom panel. I would have expected the natural color of the ribbon to clash with the Whisper White directly above it, but I find this particular combo pleasing to the eye. Imagine that the top panel is a big bunch of flowers in blue, white, coral, and yellow, and that the bottom panel is a basket or other container in coral, natural, and blue.
The Lost Lagoon card base frames the card, and the numbers pull more of that color into the center of the card, helping with the overall balance.
I stamped the sentiment from the Number of Years stamp set in Lost Lagoon on Hello Honey CS; and I cut the numbers with the coordinating Large Numbers Framelits Dies. I could have stamped the numbers first, then cut them out, but in this case I thought the solid CS would pop better against the busy DSP. I used the Banner Triple Punch to notch one end of the sentiment.
By the way, the stamp set and dies are available in a bundle to save 15%!
I attached the ribbon with Fast Fuse, the numbers with Stampin’ Dimensionals cut into small strips, and everything else with glue.
All that was left was to line the Whisper White Medium Envelope with a piece of the same Wildflower Fields DSP. I cut it with the Envelope Liners Framelits and glued it into the envelope. There are three dies in the Envelope Liners set, and they cut liners to fit perfectly into Stampin’ Up’s Medium Envelopes (in Whisper White, Very Vanilla, or Crumb Cake,) Note Card Envelopes (in Whisper White or Crumb Cake,) and Whisper White Square Envelopes. I’ll post links to all these products below so you can see them for yourself.
Here are the products I used or mentioned today. Click on the images below to get the things you need to make your own version of this card.
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
