Monthly Archives: February 2016

Happy Birthday Leap Year Babies!

Happy Feburary 29th all you leap year babies ! Do you know any? Wouldn’t that make a cool birthday, you could be 4 or 16, 10 or 40 – sounds rather interesting if you ask me. Which day would you pick to celebrate your birthday on non-leap year years, February 28th or March 1st?

Today’s card features the soon to be retiring 2014-2016 In-Color Ink pads – – Tangelo Twist, Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon and Mossy Meadow.  If you don’t have them already you will want to get both the ink pad and refills today while they are still available, don’t forget the card stock as well!

To get started on the card I used the Gorgeous Grunge Stamp set and the 2014-2016 In-Color Ink Pads to create the background on a standard size 4¼” x 5½” card. I used Shimmery White card stock for added sparkle. Next using my Big Shot with the Precision Plate and Magnetic Platform, die cut the largest detailed butterfly from the Butterflies Thinlits Dies in the center of 4¼” x 5½” piece of Shimmery White card stock and adhered the negative space piece to the card base with dimensionals. I stamped once full strength then again for a lighter image, offsetting the full strength images. The sentiment is from Remembering your Birthday in Mossy Meadow – using all five In-Colors. Don’t you just love the effect? Any four colors would work wonderfully.

Butterfly with InColors

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What do you think of my display board?

So how’s your weekend going, so far so good for me. In April Stampin’ Up! is having their On Stage event in Salt Lake City, which is a gathering featuring stamping presentations, business tips, swapping and preview of the new 2016-2017 Annual catalog.  This past week on the Stampin’ Up! demonstrator site in the weekly update they announced with our OnStage event coming up fast, did we want to get involved? Silly question if you ask me – ok course I do!  If so, they are looking for demonstrators who would like the opportunity to stamp projects for their OnStage display boards.

Display boards have projects on them made by demonstrators that all attendee’s at the event can view and take photo’s of.  To be considered for a spot you need to create or collect your best hand stamped items, include three card fronts, one scrapbook page and two 3D items, create a blog post with these items and submit an application.

For my card selection Friday night I pulled out my cards, narrowed it down to six that were my favorites and Saturday asked my husband what he thought, below are the final three he suggested. What do you think? Did he pick good ones?

3 Cards together

For the two 3-D items, I decided to update the items around my candle display in the living room, both the box and berry basket are great to use for either decoration or gift packaging. Projects feature the Gift Box Punch Board, Bouquet Bigz L Die, Berry Basket Bigz Die and Botanical Builder Framelits Dies. The peeps look so cute peeping out, they are from my Easter decoration box and who doesn’t like a flameless candle?

3D items with candle

For my Birthday Scrapbook page I used the It’s My Party Designer series paper and Balloon Celebration bundle, just add a picture of that special someone blowing out their birthday candles and your ready to go:

Scrapbook page

Wish me luck, I’ll let you know if I get picked.

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Simple Saturday In the Meadow

Welcome to Simple Saturday, where I highlight a simple card to make using just one stamp set.

Today’s card features the stamp set “In the Meadow”, one of the new sets in the Occasions catalog. This set has a variety of nature scenes, perfect for both male and female cards.  My card today features the sentiments and a few images from the set. I chose to use Very Vanilla Cardstock for the card base and Early espresso ink.  The image mat is adhered with a few dimensionals, but you could easily glue to the card base.  In the photo after the card you will see the other sentiment and stamped images. There is a third photo of the remaining images, you could very easily make a nice card collection to give as a gift with images from this set and a greetings set you have in your collection.

 

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Inside of the card:

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Other images in the stamp set:

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Birthday Card with matching Gift Bag Envelope

Happy Friday, in a few short hours the weekend will begin. I will be working on some project and a special post for Sunday, make sure to stop back them.

Today’s post features the card and bag combo we made this past Sunday, it’s a mashup of a few designs I found on Pinterest.

Let’s start with the bag first, it’ been embossed with the Softly Falling Textured embossing folder foe detail. Next is a band of Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper wrapped around, finishing touch is a piece of the new Pool Party Glitter Ribbon, Designer Series Paper, and sentiment stamped in Watermelon Wonder and all three pieces are stapled together and adhered to the bag with Bow Paper Clip.

For the card, started with a Blushing Bride card base, with a piece of Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper used for the mat and to create the hat. Pool Party cut ¼” larger all around creates the mat for the hat. Another piece of Pool Party is adhered to the bottom with glue dots and finished with a bow, entire piece is adhered with dimensionals. Sentiment banner “for You” is stamped in Pool Party on Whisper White and cut with a banner end. New Honeycomb Embellishment has been added at the top of the hat.

Hat bad card outside

Inside of card was stamped with Watermelon Wonder using the Birthday Blooms stamp set, available in both wood or clear stamps:

Hat bad card inside

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Pretty Pink Chick!

Happy Wednesday, as promised here is the another of the cards we made this past Sunday with my Sunday Stampers group. It will have a cute card for any occasion.

Today’s card features the Sale-A-Bration stamp set “Honeycomb Happiness” and coloring on Shimmery White with Aqua Painters. Shimmery White card stock is cool in that it can hold water, so it’s great for water coloring if you don’t have water color paper handy.  The chick was colored with Melon Mambo and a little Crushed Curry on the beak. The base of the card is Bermuda Bay cut to 4 ¼” x 11″ and folded in half for a top folding card. There is a piece of paper from the Have a Cuppa Designer Series Paper Stack adhered to the bottom. Next is a mat of Basic Gray, with the Shimmery White piece adhered with liquid glue once the image is dry. Ribbon is adhere on the backside with glue dots, then the entire piece is backed with dimensioanls and adhered to the card. Bow is attached with a glue dot and liquid glue adheres the sequins.  For a little added bling, you could replace the ribbon for a string of the Bermuda Bay sequin trim.

Honeycomb Happiness card

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Sunday Stamper Cards!

Happy Sunday, hope you are enjoying the weekend. The weather here was beautiful Saturday, it was in the upper 60’s in the afternoon and sunny. I spent time on the sun porch in the morning, afternoon and evening enjoying the bright moon! Sure hope today is as nice, we’ll probably have a foot a snow by Wednesday, but who cares – the weekend was great!

Here is a picture of the cards we are making  today in my Sunday Stampers group. They are featuring a bunch of new items from the Occasions catalog as well a couple Sale-A-Bration items.

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February 2016 Sunday Stampers Card

 

Today I will feature the Birthday Hat Card with matching Kraft Bag.  New items used include: Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper, Birthday Blooms Stamp set, Honeycomb Embellishments, Pool Party Glitter Ribbon and Bow Paper Clips. Here is a close on the inside and outside of the card.

The Kraft bag was run through the Big Shot with the Softly Falling Textured embossing folder and decorated with a strip of Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper, on the top is a banner of designer paper, Whisper White with sentiment and piece of Pool Party Glitter Ribbon, all stapled together and attached with a Bow Paper Clip.

For the card, the base is Blushing Bride with another piece of Birthday Bouquet Designer Series paper. Hat is 3″ wide at the bottom and 3½” at the peak, Pool Party mat is ¼” bigger at 3¼” x 3¾”. Pool Party Glimmer ribbon is attached at the bottom with Glue Dots, same for the bow.  Hat is attached with dimensionals, with sentiment slid underneath. Final touch is the Honeycomb Embellishment at the top of the hat!

 

Hat bad card outside

 

Hat bad card inside

 

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Happy Simple Saturday!

Welcome to the weekend!

Today’s card for  Simple Saturday features the Celebrate Today Stamp set from the Annual Catalog.

For this card I first stamped the Wisteria Wonder and So Saffron balloons and strings on Whisper White, then stamped the added images in the balloons with Elegant Eggplant and Daffodil Delight. Hint: For a better stamped image with photopolymer stamps, use a new piercing mat underneath, new so you don’t have impressions from the piercing marks. I actual have a piercing mat labeled for stamping only.  The Happy Birthday was stamped with Elegant Eggplant. Flags on the upper right are in Elegant Eggplant and Daffodil Delight. In the bottom left corner are three candy dots for a little bling.

This stamp set can also be purchased is part of a bundle with the Balloon Framelits Dies, use the framelits for a stepped up version of the card by stamping the So Saffron on matching card stock, stamp with Daffodil Delight then die cut and adhere with dimensionals for added depth on your card.

 

Simple Saturday Feb 20th

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Kinda Eclectic Birthday!

Happy Friday to you all! Are you looking forward to the weekend, I know I am. Last weekend we have minus degree wind chills and I never left the house, this weekend we could see temperatures in the low 60’s, what a difference seven days can make!

Todays card features the Kinda Eclectic Stamp Set and soon to be retiring 2014-2016 In-Colors.  I haven’t used this stamp set for awhile and thought highlighting the In-Colors just made sense. It’s a nice stamp set,  you can use all the stamps together on card. For my card,  instead of using the butterflies, I added a flower in the center using the new Botanical Builder Framelits Dies from the Occasions Catalog.  Happy Birthday is from the Rose Garden stamp set in the Occasions Catalog, it fit the space nicely.  It was a quick and easy card to put together!

 

Kinda Eclectic Card

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Get your Bundles here !

Who doesn’t like to save 15%? . . . it’s one of the advantages of purchasing the bundles offered by Stampin’ Up. When you purchase a bundle, it’s a great way to have a stamp set with either matching thinlits, framelits or punch! WooHoo ! ! !

Today I thought I would share a post with you of all the bundles from the 2016 Handmade from the Heart Occasions catalog, guess how many I have? Two of my favorites are “Party with Cake” and “Cups and Kettles”.  Images in this post are made with the Party with Cake Bundle which includes the Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies and Party with Cake Stamp set. I also used the It’s Your Party Designer Series Paper Stack and Mint Macaron 1″ Dotted Lace Trim for the bow.

Party with Cake inside

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Are you 29 again ?

How was your Valentine’s Day? Mine was perfect, my husband told me I should spend the day crafting and he took care of making the meals, gotta love this guy!  I was rather crafty making sample cards and deciding what cards will be made next Sunday when my Sunday Stampers meet while watching all the Valentine movies on the Hallmark Channel.

Today features cards made using the Number of Years Bundle. Both cards have Watermelon Wonder card bases and one uses the negative die cut while the other uses the actual die cut images.

For these cards I choose the saying “Look who’s turning 29 again”

Here is a close up of card using the die cut 29. This card features the Shine On Specialty Designer Series Paper and Watermelon Wonder 1″ Dotted Lace Trim.

29thBirthday card with Shine On DSP

 

This card using the negative cut-out space, features 2015-2017 In-Color Designer Series Paper Stack and 1″ Whisper White Satin Ribbon.

29th Birthday card InColor DSP

 

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Happy Valentine’s Day !

Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope it’s warm where you are, here it’s -4 degrees this morning, only one in this house that likes this weather is our husky Bandit! Here he is walking around the yard enjoying the cold and snow 🙂

 

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Today’s card  features one of my favorite colors, Blackberry Bliss and the Bloomin’ Heart Thinlits Die.  To get started on the card I used the Bloomin’ Heart die and the Blackberry Bliss cardstock and ran it through the Big Shot using the Magnetic Platform and the new Precision Base Plate. Next, I ran the Big Shot Die Brush over the back of the die to loosen and pop out all the little pieces from the cutout, this brush sure makes it a lot easier!  The card base is Thick Whisper White, with a piece of Whisper White that had been run through the Big Shot using the Decorative Dots Embossing folder.  Next layer is a 1″ banner of Silver Glimmer paper, followed by the heart and finished with “I♥U”, from the retired Thinlits Label Card, in Silver Fold paper.

 

Valentine day card

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Fly away with Simple Saturday!

Welcome to the Simple Saturday version of CardsandCraftwithKaren, an easy to make card using one stamp set.

This week I am featuring the “Sky Is The Limit” stamp set from the 2016 Sale-A-Bration Catalog. This is one of the three items only available through February 15th, along with the Hello Stamp set and Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Paper, when they will retire and three new Sale-A-Bration items will be announced!  This is one of the stamp set great to have around for those masculine card we need, not to mention fits right in with the Going Places Suite from the 2016 Occasion catalog.

The card starts with a Lost Lagoon card base and mat of Basic Black, adhered with dimensionals. The Whisper White was first stamped with the plane and Happy Birthday using Memento Black. Next, using the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and Lost Lagoon Ink I stamped the heart filled smoke to line up perfectly with the plane. To finish the card I added clouds using Soft Sky.

Simple Saturday Plane Card

 

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#imbringbirthdaysback

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Thanks Shannon – #Imbringingbirthdaysback

Shannon at Stampin Up was thinking about how a handmade, handwritten card in the mailbox seemed to be nearly extinct and wanted to do something about it, she posted on Facebook how she would send birthday cards to any friend who asked and the response was overwhelming. To finish off the envelope for each card she carved the #imbringingbirthdaysback stamp – and now a movement has started, let bring birthday’s back.

Today’s card, of course, is a birthday card, in honor of Shannon! 🙂

This card features one of the cups from the Cups & Kettles Framelits and sentiment from the Suite Sayings Stamp set, both from the Occasions catalog. The card base is Bermuda Bay, with a piece of paper from the Have a Cuppa Designer Series Paper Stack, matted on Crushed Curry. Before the piece was adhered to the card base, two pieces of the new Bermuda Bay 1/8″ Stitched Ribbon which is attached with glue dots then the piece adhered to the card base. The cup is die cut using a piece of paper from the same stack and using the Cups & Kettles Framelits. They Say Its Your Birthday was stamped with Basic Black with room for a Melon Mambo heart. This was glued to a Crushed Curry Circle with enough room for some steam waves from the same Framelit set.

Teacup card with ribbon

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You Send Me Soaring until February 15th

Happy Hump Day, half way to the weekend, next to Friday the best day of the work week.

This year Stampin Up is doing something different during Sale-A-Bration with three items only available until February 15th when they will be retired and replaced with three new items. One of the items, the “Sky Is The Limit” stamp set is one of my favorite items and today’s card features that set.  For a $50 before tax & shipping order this stamp set can be yours as well! Think of the possibilities with this set especially when paired with items from the Going Global Suite from the Occasions catalog.

To make this card, I started first by  stamping the plane from the Sky Is The Limit Stamp set in Memento Black Ink on Very Vanilla and used my paper snips to cut it out, turned out to be a lot easier than expected. Next ran a piece of Sahara Sand through the Big Shot using the World Traveler Textured Impressions Embossing folder, then backed it with Basic Black card stock and adhered to a card base of Sahara Sand. Next, using a Circles Framlit die cut the circle and adhered the plane with dimensionals. Sentiment is stamped in Memento Black on Delightful Dijon with a banner end cut into the right side, this is also adhered with dimensinals.  Once I was done I sat there looking at the card thinking it needed something, so using the new Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush I painted the raised area of the world for a little subtle bling, love how it turned out.

Sky the Limit with Global emboss folder

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CYCI#106 Happy Birthday

Happy Monday, welcome to another week, any special plans?  Don’t forget this coming Sunday is Valentine’s Day, a great time to show some love to the special people in our lives!

Today’s card is for the CanYouCaseIt weekly challenge, this week it’s a sketch by Elizabeth.

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When I first saw this sketch I though of the two sheets of paper from the Wildflower Fields Designer Series Paper, a Sale-A-Bration item, that are similar but with different background colors and knew I wanted to use that. All the patterned paper for the card is from the Wildflower Fields Designer Series Paper. The card base is Pool Party and there is a mat of Basic Black behind one of the designer series papers. Once I had all the patterned paper adhered to the card, I adhered the sentiment banner using dimensionals. To make the banner I used a sentiment from the Rose Wonder Photopolymer Stamp set on Mossy Meadow card stock, VersaMark ink and White Stampin Embossing powder. The flowers were built using the Botanical Builder Framelits with the Big Shot and Magnetic Platform. Finishing touch of a couple rhinestones finish off the flowers.

CYCI large card

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Happy Minty Birthday !

Happy Sunday, ready for some football tonight? While my team is not playing in the big game, I still plan on watching the game, having some great food and watching those commercials. One of the best part of the game is the commercials, you never know what you will see.

The card for today features Mint Macaron ink stamped on Mint Macaron card stock for a tone on tone look.  The stamp set used is Birthday Blooms from the occasions catalog. There are a combination of circles from the Circles Collection Framelits and the 2 ½” Circle Punch, base circle is stamped Mint on Mint, layered with a Gold Foil 2½” circle and finally a Whisper White circle with the sentiment. The Mint Macaron circle was backed with dimensionals before adhering to the card. The finishing touches are flowers punched out of Gold Foil using the flower punch from the Itty Bitty Accent Punch Pack with a rhinestone in the center.

 

Birthday tone on tone card

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You’ve Got This – Simple Saturday

Welcome to the Simple Saturday version of CardsandCraftswithKaren, an easy to make card using one stamp set.

Today’s card features the You’ve Got This Stamp set, one from the annual catalog that I just love. This stamp set can be used for any occasion based on the sentiment used. The background image can used behind any focal image stamp from any stamp set you have. For my card today, I decided on typical Valentine colors (Real Red and Blushing Bride) with one of the sentiments from the stamp set, remember – depending on the inside sentiment could be used for any occasion – Birthday, Get Well, Sympathy, Thinking of You, etc. or why not include a special hand written note. While I decided to stamp the background in Blushing Bride and the flower in Real Red, you can also stamp the background image, then use Versamark ink to stamp the flower, sprinkle with embossing powder and heat set for a stepped up version of the card.

Simple Saturday Flower

 

Stepped up version featuring the retired 2013-2015 In-Colors and Gold Embossing powder and Gold Foil for the mat on the Whisper White cardbase:

Can you case it card #71:

 

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CYCI#105 – Heart for Phil

Happy Ground Hog Day! It’s a big day here is Pennsylvania, hopefully Punxsutawney Phil will not see his shadow and winter will be ending, I’m ready for warmer temperatures, how about you?

Today’s card is for the CanYouCaseIt weekly challenge, this week it’s a color challenge, you can see the banner below. I would like to take the time to thank Elizabeth for picking my card from the week #104 challenge as a “Design Team Member Pick”, you can see that post here.

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To make my card I started with a card base of Crumb Cake cut to 4.25″ x 11″, scored at 5.5″ for a top folding card.  I used a stamp from Gorgeous Grunge and Crumb Cake ink to add a little background before layering the Basic Black and Whisper White across the card. The sentiment is from the January 2016 Paper Pumpkin kit and stamped in Real Red.  Heart is die cut in red glimmer paper, using the Precision Base Plate and Big Shot Die Brush to remove all the small pieces from the die. Heart is adhered with dimensionals. Final touches are rhinestones in the center of the flowers.

CYCI Large card

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