Monthly Archives: September 2016

Stacks of Ice Cream 2 Ways – Birthday & Holiday

Don’t think a stamp set can only be use for the intended occasion, today I will show you how the Sweet Cupcake Bundle can be used for the type of card you know it’s meant to be, a Birthday card, but also for a holiday card. Today’s holiday of choice is Halloween.

The “ice cream” or frosting stamp is done using two of the three stamps in the Sweet Cupcake stamp set and the same ink color. First image is stamped off (ink up stamp, stamp on scrap paper then on good paper) then second layer is stamped in full strength ink. Matching framelits were used to die cut the ice cream on both cards. Each layer has been adhered with Stampin Dimensionals. Only the base was stamped directly on the Very Vanilla or Whisper White paper.

For the portion of the card with the image the measurements are:

Card stock – 3″ x 5″
Designer Series Paper – 2¾” x 4¾”
Very Vanilla & Whisper White for image – 2½” x 4½”

Birthday card featuring Moroccan Designer Series Paper, Delightful Dijon, Cajun Craze and Dapper Denim ink.

Halloween card features Emerald Envy, Rich Razzleberry and Pumpkin Pie inks and the new Halloween Nights Designer Series Paper, Halloween Nights Bakers Twine and Halloween Treat stamp (I stamped the image and hand cut out the Trick or Treat).

Inside of both cards:

Hope you enjoyed the cards. If you would like to make cards like this yourself the supply list is below with a link to my online store. I would greatly appreciate your business. Everyone who orders from me receives a handmade card and small gift.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, have a great day, Craft On!

PCC212 Color Challenge with Paisleys & Posies

Hope you all had a good Saturday, we went to our only concert of the ‘summer’ Jason Aldean and had a great time. Opening acts were One Thousand Horse and Thomas Rhett, they all put on great shows. Since the weather was so nice yesterday we even went earlier and tailgated!

Today’s card is for the Paper Craft Crew Challenge, a Color Challenge. When I saw their post it was the same day I received my order with the new Paisley & Posies Photopolymer Bundle and thought the colors and this set would make the perfect card, which I am sharing with you today. The bold color choice is beautiful together for a background.

To create my card I started with a piece of Whisper White and using images from the stamp set using the largest image and Night of Navy, followed by Tangerine Tango and Crushed Curry. The smaller images are in Emerald Envy to fill in spaces. This piece is adhered to Night of Navy, backed with Stampin Dimensionals and adhered to a Tangerine Tango card base. The greeting is from Confetti Celebration, stamped in Night of Navy and die cut with an oval from the new Layering Ovals Framelits, the scalloped oval is also from the same set. Linen thread was rolled up, adhered to the card with glue dots then the greeting set on top. I really like how this came out, the colors really work well together.

This same background process can be used with a variety of colors and greetings. How about greens and red for Christmas, pastels for baby, orange/purple/green for Halloween, I’m sure you see the themes here!

Hope you enjoyed the card. If you would like to make a card like this yourself the supply list is below with a link to my online store. I would greatly appreciate your business. Everyone who orders from me receives a handmade card and small gift.

Next Sunday will start my “12 Sundays before Christmas” series.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, have a great day, Craft On!

Simple Saturday with Acorny Thank You

Happy Saturday, welcome to the weekend.

It’s Simple Saturday, where I use one stamp set to create my card. Today’s card uses the Acorny Thank You Photopolymer Stamp set found in the Annual Catalog along with it’s matching punch. This is the perfect card to make for the first weekend of fall. After 88 degrees yesterday it feels more that a fall morning at 62 degrees.

To start my card, I matted a piece of Moroccan Designer Series Paper on Dapper Denim, then adhered to a card base of Very Vanilla. Next using the colors in the paper pack, Dapper Denim, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Delightful Dijon and Emerald Envy, I stamped bottom and tops of Acorns using different stamps to create the acorns. The acorns on the left and right are adhered directly to the card with the one in the middle back with dimensionals. The greeting is stamped in Dapper Demin, hand cut into a tiny banner and adhered with liquid glue.

Hope you liked the card. If you would like to make a card like this yourself the supply list is below with a link to my online store. I would greatly appreciate your business. Everyone who orders from me receives a handmade card and small gift.

Have a great day, Craft On!

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Happy Birthday Maya!

Happy birthday to my niece Maya. Today I’m sharing with you the card and birthday banner I sent her. The card is a bendy when put together but mails flat.

Maya is growing up to be such a beautiful young lady. Here is a picture of her with her brother Jake from when he started college this year.

Bendy part of the card

Birthday banner I created

Close up of a banner using the x x x x xx x

Thank you for stopping by today, have a great day – Craft On!

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Simple Saturday with Birthday Blooms

Welcome to Simple Saturday were I use one stamp set to make one card. Today I’m featuring the Birthday Blooms Stamp set, which comes in wood or clear and the Pop of Pink Specialty Designer Series Paper.

To make today’s card I’ve used a Whisper White card base with a piece of designer series paper matted on Melon Mambo. Next I stamped the sentiment and used one of the nesting Layering Circles Framelits to die cut it out, this piece is then adhered to a scallop circle die cut from the same Layering Circles Framelits. Thought this piece needed a little something extra so I stamped three flowers (two using the stamped off method) and added small rhinestone for some bling, this piece was then adhered to the card with Stampin Dimensionals.

Measurements:

Melon Mambo – 3 5/8″ x 3 5/8″ square
Designer Series Paper – 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ square

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day – Craft On!

If you liked today’s card and would like to make one of your own, supply list below.

Congratulations Ann

Today I thought I would share with you the card I sent to friend and fellow demonstrator Ann Clemmer who recently hit a sales milestone.

It’s always nice to recognize people for their achievements and today’s card does that. My card features the Playful Palette Designer Series Paper Stack and Washi tape along with the Sunshine Wishes Thinlit Dies. Simple yet elegant, this card is easy to mass produce and could be turned into a thank, hello, happy birthday or any type of card.

Thank you for stopping by, have a great day – Craft On!

Supply list below if you would like to make a cool card like this. All online purchasers receive a small gift and handmade card from me, happy shopping!

Wonderful Years – part 2

Happy Tuesday, hope all is well with you. I’m here in Stamford CT this week for my day job in accounting and finance but wanted to make sure to share some projects with you.

This Gate fold Peek-a- Boo card uses the other main sentiment from the Wonderful Year stamp set. This time I used White Stampin’ Emboss powder for the sentiment and sponge daubers along with Cherry Cobbler and Emerald Envy ink to color the Whisper White cardstock.

Measurement:

Cherry Cobbler card base – 5½” x 7 ¾”, scored at 1¾” and 6″
Delightful Dijon mat – 1½” x 5¼” (need 2)
Designer Series Paper – 1¼” x 5″
Whisper White for sentiment – 3¼” x 2¾”
Cherry Cobbler mat – 3½” x 3″ (this piece is adhered with Stampin Dimensionals)
Inside Whisper White – 4″ x 5¼”

Inside, with the second half of the greeting. Just watch where the greeting is stamped so that you don’t see it when the card is closed.

This card is perfect for any occasion, just change the size of mat and sentiment piece to fit your stamp set.

Thank you for stopping by, have a great day – Craft On!

If you would like to make the Simple Saturday or today’s card, supply list below. Remember that when you order from me you will receive a small gift and handmade card from me as a thank you, happy shopping.

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But, I LOVE to create, stamp and share my love of stamping with others! In fact, the group of ladies I stamp with every month asked me to join Stampin Up so I could be their demonstrator when our demonstrator decided to go down a different career path.

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Simple Saturday with Wonderful Year

Welcome to Simple Saturday, one stamp set for one card. Today I am featuring the Wonderful Year stamp set, which comes in both wood and clear mount.

I’ve not done much heat embossing lately and thought the new Copper Stampin Emboss powder along with the Presents & Pinecones Designer Series Paper went together nicely which gave me the idea for todays card. The card base is Emerald Envy with a piece of designer series paper as a mat. To get started with the heat embossing I ran my embossing buddy over the Whisper White cardstock to eliminate static, stamped greeting with Versamark ink, sprinkled with copper powder and heat embossed, this piece was then adhered to a mat of Emerald Envy cardstock. This piece was adhered to the card with Stampin Dimensionals. For a finishing touch, I used the Petite Petal punch to create a flower from Cherry Cobbler cardstock, adhered with a glue dot and rhinestone in the center.

Measurements:

Designer Series mat – 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″
Emerald Envy mat – 4 1/4″ x 2 3/4″
Whisper White for sentiment – 4 1/8″ x 2 5/8″
Cherry Cobbler scrap for flower

Stop back next week to see a card made with the other focus stamp from this set.

Thank you for stopping by today, have a great day – Craft On!

If you liked today’s card and would like ot make one of your own, supply list below.

Stamp Ink Paper #64

We sure have had a strange week of weather, the last few days mid afternoon while the sun was brightly shining the rain came pouring down for no more than about five minutes, with rainbows following. For some reasons rainbows always make me think of family and friends who have passed away and puts a smile on my face.

It’s been a while since I’ve participated in any blog challenges, but when I saw the Stamp Ink Paper challenge banner and the title Clean & Simple I knew I needed to participate as a card just popped into my head. Click on the banner for a link to their blog to see other cool creations.

To me clean and simple is a white card with minimal stamping. For my card I used a Whisper White card base, with an additional piece of Whisper White stamping the greeting in Night of Navy. Before stamping I wiped the ink off the little heart at the bottom of the stamp and added a Sweet Sugarplum Enamel Heart. For a final touch I spritzed a little Sweet Sugarplum ink on the card.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day – Craft On!

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Have you used your envelope punch board lately?

Say it isn’t so, you haven’t used your envelope punch board for awhile, or worse you don’t have one. Just look at these cute totes you can make using one. They are perfect for the holidays or just about any reason.

Last week I received my email from SplitcoastStampers, a stampers community and when I saw these cute little totes Susan Campfield was sharing with us, I need I had to break out my punch board and make a few!

They are darling and use one piece of designer series paper cut to 6″ x 6″ plus pieces to embellish. I can see mine filled with candies or even a Stampin’ Up surprise.

Here is a side view of the three different Envelope Punch Board Tote’s I made using Playful Palette DSP, A Little Foxy DSP and the Present & Pinecones DSP. Each has different embellishments and closures.

Top view of the boxes:

For a photo tutorial go to Splitcoaststampers for step by step instructions.

Thank you for stopping by, have a great day – Craft On!

Supply list for products I used below.

Happy Birthday Jason!

Today’s card is the birthday card I sent my godson Jason this year. Even though he is 16 years younger than me, you are never to old for a spinner card, they are fun for all ages. So, how old am I, let’s just say I was in high school when he was born.

The card features the Sliding Star Framelits Dies, Confetti Celebration and Balloon Celebration Stamp set. This card was not only decorated on the front, but the inside, which is below. If you click here, you can see a post on just how to put a spinner card together.

Inside of the card has a greeting from Confetti Celebration stamp set in Bermuda Bay and Balloons from the Balloon Celebration Photopolymer stamp set. The balloons where stamped first using the “stamp off” technique in Smokey Slate then full strength in either Bermuda Bay or Calypso Coral for the dots. Stamp off is a technique where you ink the stamp, stamp on scrap paper first then the good piece of card stock, this provides a lighter version of the color.

Thank you for stopping by, have a great day – Craft On!

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Simple Saturday featuring Halloween Treats

Welcome to Simple Saturday, one stamp set for one card. Today I’m featuring the new “Halloween Treat” stamp from the 2016 Holiday Catalog.

Today’s card features some of the new products from the Halloween Night Product Suite:

Halloween Night Specialty Designer Series Paper (includes 1 each of 2 single sided silver foil designs)
Halloween Night Designer Washi Tape
Halloween Night Baker’s Twine

Making this card was rather easy, using Pumpkin Pie ink I stamped the image on Whisper White card stock and used my paper snips to cut it out leaving a small white border. Next, on the Whisper White card base I adhered a piece of the Halloween Night Designer Series Paper and added two pieces of Washi tape for added dimension. The stamped image is adhered with a few Stampin Dimensional and a baker’s twine bow finishes off the card. Other uses for this stamp are treat bags, with these few simple items your Halloween card/gift making can be met.

Thank you for stopping by, hope you have a great day – Craft On!

Supply list with link to my on-line store below. As a thank you for all orders you will receive a free small gift and handmade card.

2016 Holiday Catalog is here!

The 2016 Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog goes live today! Click on the catalog below and go directly to the online catalog.

There are so many beautiful stamp set, bundles and accessories in this catalog. Each Sunday, starting September 25th I will feature a Christmas project with instructions for the “12 weeks before Christmas”.

Here is the card I created with the new Star of Light Bundle, which features the Star of Light Photopolymer Stamp set and Starlight Thinlits Dies. I just the sentiments of this stamp set and the thinlits die cut beautifully using the precision base plate and die brush. Card base is Whisper White, stamped with Night of Navy. Base star is Night of Navy with Silver Foil star layered on top.

Thank you for stopping by today, hope you enjoyed the card – Craft On!

Supply list with link to my on-line store below. As a thank you for your order you will receive a free small gift and handmade card.