Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Christmas Traditions

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations   If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll know that I love to attend the Proverbial Stampers & Friends gatherings--especially when there's a new catalog gathering! Unfortunately, I had to miss the most recent event because I was out of town on a work trip. However, my BFF sent me pictures of some of the cards on the display tables and she took pity on me and gave me one of the cards they made at the event so I could share it with you!

The label on the card is made using the "Christmas Traditions Punch Box" available in the Holiday catalog (just click on the link below). You get the 6-piece "Christmas Traditions" photopolymer stamp set, a clear stamp block, Call Me Clover and Real Red Classic Stampin' Spots, and the Christmas Traditions Punch. All these goodies come in a beautiful 8" by 8" by 3" tin that you could repurpose for just about anything!
Here's how to make the card. Start with a 3-3/4" by 5" Call Me Clover Card Stock panel and emboss it with the gorgeous Corrugated Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. Adhere the embossed piece to a 3-7/8" by 5-1/8" Soft Suede Card Stock mat. Adhere two 1-1/2" by 3-3/4" strips of Under the Mistletoe Designer Series Paper to the front of these pieces and wrap them in a length of Copper Trim, tying on a cute bow. Adhere this to a Call Me Clover Card Stock card base.

To finish the card, stamp a sentiment from the "Christmas Traditions" stamp set in Soft Suede Ink onto Very Vanilla Card Stock and punch it out with the Christmas Traditions Punch. Cut another piece of Copper Trim and pull it apart to form netting and adhere this to the back of the label. Then, adhere the label to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals and you're done!

I love all the textures in this card and the Call Me Clover and Soft Suede are gorgeous together, don't you think?










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Monday, September 24, 2018

At Home for Christmas

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations   This weekend, I held the second of four Christmas card stamp-a-stack sessions. This has become an annual tradition for several of my stamping friends. Once a month, August through November, I design 3 cards and we get together to stamp and assemble them. By Thanksgiving, if they have attended all four sessions, my friends leave with 48 hand-made cards giving them plenty of time to address and mail them out and attend to all their holiday activities.

This year, I'm offering a limited, long-distance option. If you see a card that you like, let me know. I'll do all the prep work (cutting the paper and counting the embellishments) and you purchase the stamp set and ink to go with the cards. For instance, if you'd like to make today's card, you could click on the "At Home with You" stamp set at the end of this post and it would take you to my online store where you could purchase the set and the "Hardwood" background stamp. You would need to have on hand (or purchase from me) Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Mossy Meadow Ink, and Crumb Cake Ink. Then, send me an email and let me know how many cards you want to make and we'll work out a deal--and cost--where I'll prep the materials for you and get them in the mail to arrive about the time your Stampin' Up order arrives.
This card was super easy to make and the Boxwood Wreath is a fun addition! I started by stamping the "Hardwood" background in Crumb Cake Ink onto a 3-3/4" by 5" Whisper White panel. I adhered this to a 3-7/8" by 5-1/8" Cherry Cobbler mat. I wrapped a length of Mossy Meadow Festive Farmhouse Twine around and tied it in a cute bow.

Next, I stamped the door from the "At Home with You" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Cherry Cobbler Card Stock and again onto Basic Gray Card Stock. I cut out the door and the door frame and adhered them directly to the card.

I stamped the "Merry Christmas" sentiment from the "At Home with You" set in Mossy Meadow onto Whisper White Card Stock and cut it out with an oval from the Stitched Shapes Framelits. I adhered this to a Mossy Meadow scalloped oval cut with one of the Layering Ovals Framelits. I adhered this to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals.

For that cute finishing touch, I used three Glue Dots to adhere the Boxwood Wreath to the card. Isn't this adorable?! And so easy--just the way I like it!








 
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Friday, September 21, 2018

CAS Tree

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations   This week I'm featuring CAS (clean and simple) cards that I have CASEd (copy and share everything) from samples on Pinterest. If you want to see the cards that inspired me this week, check out my Pinterest board here.


I've been playing with watercolor wash backgrounds lately. It's a quick and easy way to add a beautiful background detail to your cards. And you don't have to be a watercoloring expert to do it.




I started with a 3-3/4" by 5" piece of Watercolor Paper and used an Aqua Painter to add quick washes of Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, and Mossy Meadow Inks. I kept the colors separate so they didn't bleed into each other. And because I am the world's most impatient stamper, I set the inks with my Heat Tool so I didn't have to wait very long to keep stamping.


I used my Stamparatus tool for the rest of the card. First I stamped the tree from the "Rooted in Nature" stamp set in Night of Navy Ink. I stamped over it in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink so that it yielded a darker color of navy. I cut the tree out with the matching Nature's Roots Framelit.


After my Watercolor Paper panel was dry, I placed it into the Stamparatus so that I could stamp the sentiment. I used the gorgeous "thinking of you" stamp from the "Rooted in Nature" stamp set and stamped it in Mossy Meadow Ink. Because the Watercolor Paper is nubbly, you can use the Stamparatus to overstamp it as many times as you need to get a solid image. I love how that works!


I adhered the stamped piece to a 3-7/8" by 5-1/8" piece of Mossy Meadow Card Stock and then onto a Night of Navy Card Stock card base.















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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Butterfly Words

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations   This week I'm featuring CAS (clean and simple) cards that I have CASEd (copy and share everything) from samples on Pinterest. If you want to see the cards that inspired me this week, check out my Pinterest board here.



When it comes to sympathy cards, I think simple is best. A simple design and a simple sentiment sometimes say more. I used the "Painted Glass" stamp set for these beautiful butterflies and a sentiment from "Rooted in Nature."




I started with a 3-3/4" by 5" Whisper White Card Stock panel. I used the Stamparatus to stamp a sentiment from the "Rooted in Nature" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto the center of the panel. I set this aside to dry.


Next, I stamped three butterflies from the "Painted Glass" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Whisper White Card Stock. I colored them with Pineapple Punch, Mint Macaron, and Bermuda Bay Stampin' Write Markers. I cut them out with the matching Stained Glass Thinlit Die.


I adhered the stamped panel to a 3-7/8" by 5-1/8" Basic Black Card Stock Panel and then onto a Thick Whisper White Card Stock card base. Finally, I adhered the butterflies to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals and placed a large Rhinestone Basic Jewel between each of them.


Such a pretty card to show someone you are thinking of them in their sorrow.











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