Stampin' Up! Video - Holiday Catalogue 2017 - Be Merry Kit

Eclipse Technique - Lovely as a Tree

I saw a card on Pinterest using the Lovely as a Tree stamp set and thought it would work very well using the Eclipse technique.  A few years back I had bought a set of dies from DiesbyDave that fit the images in the Lovely as a Tree stamp set.

I used the colours from the original card.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Lovely as a Tree, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Work of Art
Ink - Early Espresso, Old Olive, Marina Mist, Baked Brown Sugar (retired)
Card Stock - Very Vanilla, Early Espresso
Other - Burlap Ribbon, Classic Label Punch, Stampin' Dimensionals, Cutting Dies (nonSU)

Wood Textures and Daisy Delight

Today is my sister's birthday - there are lots of September birthdays in my family.  I had the Wood Textures DSP out for some other cards and decided to use it along with the Daisy Delight stamp set to make a card for my sister.

I copied it from a card I had seen on Pinterest .  Here's the link to the original.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Daisy Delight, Rose Wonder
Ink - Basic Black, Crushed Curry
Card Stock - Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Wood Textures DSP
Other - Daisy Punch, Flourish Thinlits, Rose Garden Thinlits, Little Leaves Sizzlit (retired), Banner Triple Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch

Note added September 25 -  I had scheduled this post several weeks ago and have only just realised this is not the card I gave to my sister.

Wood Textures - Again

Another masculine card, another CASE from Pinterest and more Wood Textures Designer Series Paper.

You can find the original card HERE.   I changed it a tiny bit but pretty much a direct copy.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink - Early Espresso
Card Stock - Kraft (retired), Basic Black, Whisper White, Wood Textures Designer Series Paper, Gold Glimmer
Other - Stampin' Dimensionals, Mini glue Dots, Thin Wood (retired), Starbutst Framelits (retired), retired Star punch

Inky Divas Challenge - Week of September 18

This week the challenge was to use the colours Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze and Soft Suede.

The first project uses one of the Mini Pizza Boxes from the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue.  I added two panels to the top - the larger one in Cajun Craze and the next using Soft Suede.  I dry embossed that piece using the Woodlands embossing folder.

The oak and maple leaves are from the Vintage Leaves stamp set.  They were stamped onto white cardstock using Soft Suede ink.  I then sponged on Crushed Curry, Cajun and Garden Green inks and die cut them using the Leaflets framelits.  Once those were adhered to the box I added a couple of the leaves from my September Paper Pumpkin kit  I brushed one of those with Gold Wink of Stella (retired).  The little round label and sentiment are also from the same Paper Pumpkin kit,  Before adhering the label I wrapped linen thread around the box several times and tied it in a knot.  I then made the bow by wrapping linen thread around my fingers and tied it in the middle.  It is attached to the label with a glue dot and I added a retired Candy Dot to the middle.  Now I just have to figure out what to put in the box.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Vintage Leave, Paper Pumpkin September 2017
Ink - Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Garden Green
Card Stock - Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla
Other - Mini Pizza Box, Leaflet dies, Linen Thread, September 2017 Paper Pumpkin kit

I did a second project for the challenge.  I had seen a card using the "baby wipe" technique that also used the "eclipse" technique.  I have never done the baby wipe technique so thought I would give it a try.

I  used the solid image leaf from the Colorful Seasons stamp set.  For the baby wipe technique I folded a wipe in four and then added drops of ink (using reinkers) in the challenge colours.  I then used it as my stamp pad and inked up my leaf and stamped it on the Very Vanilla cardstock.  I then stamped the open leaf from the same stamp set using Soft Suede ink.

The second technique on this card is the eclipse technique - I am obsessed with this technique.  I used the Large Letters dies to cut out the word Fall from my stamped card stock.  I set the letters aside and adhered the stamped panel to a panel of basic black card stock.  Once that was done I laid the letter A back into it's spot.  I then took the little "triangular" piece, added adhesive on the back and glued it down and removed the letter A.  I added dimensionals to the back of each letter (I used the Stampin' Up! Foam Adhesive Strips for this), removed the backing and stuck the letters to the card.  I added a few rhinestones and wrapped linen thread around the panel before adhering the whole panel to the Cajun Craze card base and then added the bow and another rhinestone.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Colorful Seasons
Ink - Garden Green, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Soft Suede
Card Stock - Cajun Craze, Basic Black, Very Vanilla
Other - Large Letters dies, Foam Adhesive Strips, Linen Thread, Rhinestones

Wood Textures - Birthday

Another birthday card using the Wood Textures DSP stack.  I saw THIS card on Pinterest and knew it would be perfect for my brother's birthday card.

The only changes I made from the original were the greeting (I don't have the set the stamper used so I pulled out the retired Four You stamp set) and I used linen thread rather than baker's twine.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Four You (retired)
Ink - Basic Black
Card Stock - Basic Black, Whisper White, Wood Textures DSP
Other - Banner Triple Punch, Stampin' Dimensionals, Linen Thread

Another Card Using The Eclipse Technique

The day I realised that I had not sent a birthday card to a friend I saw a card online using the Eclipse technique that I thought would fit the occasion.  It was not a birthday card but could be adapted.  I didn't have any stamps to fit the occasion so I created the sentiment using a digital program.  The only stamping on the card is the butterflies.  They were stamped using the Butterfly Basics set and then punched out with a retired butterfly punch.  The background is from the Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper.  The letters are raised using dimensionals - I used some from on of my Paper Pumpkin kits because they are a little bit thicker than the ones in the catalogue.

I popped the card in the mail and now I have noticed that Birthday is spelled wrong!  I have a sticky "T" on my keyboard but I was sure I had proofread before I printed.  Apparently not!

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Butterfly Basics
Ink - Wisteria Wonder
Card Stock - Calypso Coral, Basic Black, Delightful Daisy DSP, Whisper White
Other - Large Letters Framelits, Butterfly Punch (retired), Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Black Ribbon (retired)

Eclipse Technique

Lately I have been seeing many cards using the "Eclipse" technique.  Sandi MacIver posted a card using this technique HERE that I really liked so I decided to give it a try.  I don't have some of the Stampin' Up! products Sandi used so I substituted with things from my stash.  Not too bad for a first try but I may try raising the letters with two layers of Stampin' Dimensionals.

Most of the cards I have seen using this technique stamp the image first (as I have done on this one) and then cut out the letters using the Stampin' Up! Large Letters cutting dies.  There were a few that cut the letters out, left them in place and then stamped the images over top.  I have seen others where the letters were cut from the stamped card stock and then several other layers of the letters were cut from plain cardstock.  All of the layers were then carefully glued together for thicker letters and placed on the card front.  

Here's my version of Sandi's card.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Happy Birthday Gorgeous
Ink - Rich Razzleberry, Rose Red, Old Olive, Versamark
Card Stock - Rose Red, Basic Black, Whisper White
Other - Large Letters dies, Stampin' Dimensionals, Rhinestones, Rose Red Seam Binding (retired)

Thanksgiving Card 2

While I had my "autumn" colours out I made a second Thanksgiving card.  The sentiment was printed using a digital program.

I found the card on Pinerest - you can see it HERE.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Colourful Seasons
Ink - Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie
Card Stock - Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive
Other - Glitter Enamel Dots

Inky Divas Challenge - Week of September 11, 2017

This week's challenge was to create a "Double Front" card.  I had never heard of this fun fold before and found several samples on Pinterest.  I posted a few to a board on Pinterest.  You can click HERE to view my pins to the Fun Folds - Double Front.

I used two stamp sets for my card - Merry Mistletoe and Christmas Pines.

Front View

Partially Open

"Inside Card Front"

Fully Open

Dimensions
Card Base - 5 1/2" x 6 1/4", scored at 4 1/4"
"Inside" Card Base - 5 1/4" x 8", scored at 4"
I used framelits for my "focal" panels.  Most of the samples I saw had rectangular or square panels cut from card stock.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Merry Mistletoe, Christmas Pines
Ink - Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler
Card Stock - Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Wood Textures DSP, Gold Foil
Other - Pretty Pines Thinlits, Layering Ovals and Stitched Frames Thinlits, Seasonal Layers Thinlits, Rhinestones, Mini Glue Dots, 1/4" Cherry Cobbler Double Stitched Ribbon, Woodland Embossing Folder

Starting To Think About Thanksgiving

With the cooling temperatures I have started thinking about Thanksgiving.  I headed over to Pinerest to see what I could find there and came across THIS card using the Vintage Leaves stamp set and coordinating Leaflets Framelits.  There was no link to a blog so I guessed at the colours used.  

The ink colours I decided on are Always Artichoke, Cajun Craze and Crushed Curry.  I first stamped the leaves onto some Very Vanilla card stock, sponged over them randomly with the three ink colours and then cut them out with the Framelits dies.  I "painted" them using the Wink of Stella (clear) brush.

I embossed the Always Artichoke panel using the Woodland Textured Embossing folder and then added a piece of burlap ribbon (retired).  Some of the leaves were adhered with glue dots and some with Stampin' Dimensionals.  The sentiment from Tags 4 You (retired) was stamped with Cajun Craze onto Very Vanilla and then punched out with the coordinating punch (retired).  This was adhered with Stampin' Dimensionals as well.

Stampin' Supplies

Stamps - Vintage Leaves, Tags 4 You (retired)

Ink - Always Artichoke, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry

Card Stock - Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla

Other - Leaflets Framelits, Burlap Ribbon (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots, retired punch, Woodlands Embossing Folder, Wink of Stella - clear

Paper Pumpkin 2016

I am catching up on some of my old Paper Pumpkin kits.  I pulled out the November 2016 kit and although I had made a few of the cards I still had plenty of supplies left.  The kit contained supplies to make 8 note sized cards.  I searched on Pinterest and YouTube and found several alternate ideas for the kit.

I found one that I especially liked posted by Rachel Tessman HERE.

Although I do like the smaller notecards, I much prefer full size cards.

A second version of Rachel's card

This card was made following the kit instructions - the finished card size is 4.25" x 3.00"

Stampin' Up! Video - Holiday Catalogue 2017 - Hearts Come Home Bundle

Inky Divas Challenge - Week of September 4

This week's challenge was to create a card using only ONE stamp and make it the focal point.  I had the Watercolour Christmas stamp set from the 2017 Holiday Catalogue on my desk and realised that some of the images would work perfectly for the challenge.

I had seen THIS CARD on Pinterest and decided it would be perfect for the challenge.  The original used a stamp from the Christmas Pines stamp set and used Cherry Cobbler twine.  I decided to use gold cord instead.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamp - Watercolor Christmas
Ink - Cherry Cobbler
Card Stock - Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Gold Foil, Red Glimmer
Other - Gold Cord (retired), Metallic Enamel Dots, Stitched Frames Framelits, Layering Circles Framelits, Pretty Pines Thinlits, Stampin' Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots, Cable Knit Dynamic Embossing Folder

Inky Divas Challenge - Week of August 28

For this week's challenge we were asked to create a card using a watercoloured background.  I used watercolour pencils to scribble on a piece of watercolour paper and then used an aqua painter to smooth out the colours.  I did a second piece to use for die cutting some leaves and the sentiment.

I stamped some leaves on the background with Versamark Ink and heat embossing with with whie embossing powder.  I did the same for the sentiment.

Stampin' Supplies
Stamps - Colourful Seasons
Ink - Versamark; Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry Watercolour Pencils
Card Stock - Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Watercolour Paper
Other - White Embossing Powder, Stampin' Dimensionals, Seasonal Layers Thinlits, Layering Circles dies, Stitched Frames dies, Glitter Enamel Dots