Cards

3 x 3 Thursday: Avant Garden

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AvantGarden.0317I think I’ve mentioned at least once or twice that I really, really like this flower and stamp set.  🙂

The Avant Garden stamp set is gorgeous and you can get it for FREE during Sale-a-bration!  It doesn’t get much better than that!

It’s 3 x 3 Thursday.  I haven’t had one of these for awhile.  I like to put little 3 x 3 thank you notes in with the orders for my customers.

Yes, this is basically the same layout that I used on the Avant Garden card that I showed you last week but it’s such a great and versatile layout that I had to use it on these little notes!

I think I’ve found a new favorite color combination:  Rich Razzleberry and Sweet Sugarplum.  Yum!  They work so well together!  Do you have a favorite Stampin’ Up! color combination?  Leave me a comment and let me know what it is!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Make it Mine Monday: Cool Treats

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Cool Treats.0217How about a birthday card for Make It Mine Monday?  My March is filled with birthdays.  Today is my favorite pastor’s birthday.  Happy Birthday Pastor DJ!  As you can tell from the picture below, DJ is young….he’s not even 40!  He’s a great and inspirational speaker and a lot of fun to be around.  The big joke between us is hugs.  DJ is not a hugger yet every time I see him I 20170305_074926 (2)give him a hug….he tries to run away.  I secretly think he really loves hugs!  Ha!

I’m kind of sad though because Pastor DJ is leaving our church.  He and his family (his wife Jen is a hoot and I love her as much as I love DJ) are heading to a church in Houston, TX.  It’s definitely a big loss for us and a big gain for the congregation in Houston.

But back to the card!  This fun card that I made for the Card Buffet class last week was copied from the talented Dawn 16828e267156bc02b79d25857c185d87Olchefske.  As you can see, I kept the same basic design and colors but I changed the card orientation and added a couple of layers.  I just love getting inspiration from others.  Thanks Dawn!

Later this week I’ll share the actual card that I made for Pastor DJ as well as the card I made for my niece for her Sweet 16th!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Simple Saturday: Beautiful You

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Beautiful You.0217Last week I held a Card Buffet Class where my customers can make as many cards as they’d like.  I designed 8 fairly simple cards so that they would have time to make a bunch if they liked.

Today’s card is one of the one’s I designed for the Card Buffet.  I couldn’t go wrong with the Beautiful You stamp set and the Floral Boutique Designer Series Paper!  🙂

It’s hard to tell but on the right edge of the designer paper I added a piece of Night of Navy Solid Baker’s Twine.  It just seemed to finish the card off.  Simple, yet elegant.

This design will definitely work with any of the images in the Beautiful You stamp set since the area you are stamping on is so large.  The blue and white color scheme is simple enough too for any of the images.  Give it a try!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Lift Me Up Treat Bag

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CampTreatBag.0217My friend Jan loves to make 3D projects.  For our Stamp Camps she always volunteers to make the bags that we give to customers as they come in.  The bags have a few pieces of candy in them and the customers can place their finished projects in the bag.

This is the bag that she made for our recent Stamp Camp.  All I can say is WOW!  That was a lot of work.  She made 40 of them!  Thanks Jan!

Jan used the Lift Me Up stamp set and the Up & Away Thinlits Dies as well as the Carried Away Designer Series Paper.  The designer paper is a Sale-a-bration item that you’re close to earning for FREE if you purchase the Lift Me Up Bundle.  How great is that?  The designer paper is fun because it coordinates perfectly with the bundle.  Some of the designs have hot air balloons on them and some have clouds.  COORDINATION!  Woo Hoo!  🙂

The decorated focal point is a little too large for a regular card front but with a little trimming I think it would work.  I’m definitely going to give it a try!

You can check out the Lift Me Up Bundle on page 10 of the Occasion Catalog and the Carried Away Designer Series Paper can be found on page 7 of the Sale-a-bration Brochure.

Have a great day!  I hope it’s uplifting!  🙂

That’s the Tag

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StampCampJan.0217Absolutely Gorgeous!  That’s all I have to say about this card.  OK…not really….you know I always have more to say!  Ha!

This was one of the projects from our Sassy Stampers & Friends Stamp Camp this past Saturday.  Isn’t it beautiful?  Thanks Jan for sharing this project with us!

You just can’t seem to go wrong with the Copper Foil Sheets!  They are definitely one of my favorite specialty papers.

Now, you know me….I have my own way of doing things.  If I was going to recreate this card I would have another layer of the Copper Foil behind the Whisper White layer.  With me it’s all about the layers….I can’t seem to get enough of them!

What about you?  Would you have changed anything on this card?

In case you’re wondering, the designer paper is from the Affectionately Yours Designer Series Paper pack.

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!  Happy March!

Make it Mine Monday: Avant Garden

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Avant Garden.0217Have you played with the Avant Garden Sale-a-bration stamp set yet?  I love these flowers!

I designed this card for my Card Buffet Class that I’m holding this week.  I had plenty of inspiration.  I found quite a few cards on Pinterest that inspired me.  They were gorgeous but a little more involved than I wanted.  For the class I was looking for a simple design that people could make multiples of if they wanted.  I simplified my e78096e7b1d9e52eae829c52ea23a43edesign by only stamping the flowers along with the sentiment and leaving off the leaves and such.

You can see how I kept the basic layout but also simplified it by keeping my flowers one color.

This past weekend my group, Sassy Stampers & Friends held our Sale-a-bration Stamp Camp for our customers.  One of our IMG_9539designers came up with a card using this same basic design.

All three of these are basically the same card but they all look different.  From these you can see how easy it is to make a card your own.  Give it a try!

Avant Garden is a GORGEOUS stamp set and you can get it for FREE during Sale-a-bration with a qualified order.  There’s only a little over a month left of Sale-a-bration!  Don’t miss out!  Get those orders in today!  You can check out all the Sale-a-bration items available here.

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Inside the Lines Specialty Designer Series Paper

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sab17_10aDo you like to color?  If you do, you definitely need to check out the Inside the Lines Specialty Designer Series Paper.  It’s a 2017 Sale-a-bration item that you can choose for FREE with a $50 dollar order.

This fun package of paper contains 12 sheets of coloring paper….3 sheets of 4 different designs.  In the picture at the left you can see some of the many different ways that you can color this fun paper.   The video below shows these techniques in more detail.  Check it out!

If you love to color and want to try out this fun paper remember that it is only available through March 31st with a qualifying order!

 

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

 

Lift Me Up Tri-Fold (Gate Fold) Card

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Lift Me Up.1.0217Thank you to the talented Dawn Olchefske for this card idea.  Actually, I pretty much CASEd (copied) Dawn’s idea step by step.  I did change the measurements a little and only added one balloon.

Why change a good thing?  I loved Dawn’s card from the start but as I was making it I had to change a few things.

I had to change the measurements and a little Lift Me Up.2.0217bit of the layout only because I used a different sentiment.  I wanted to use the birthday sentiment since I didn’t need a card about “love”.  That meant that I had to shorten my front “flaps” a little bit to make sure the sentiment would fit in the white area.

Here are the measurements I used:

Card Base: 5 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ score at 1 5/8″ & 5 7/8″

Whisper White:  5 1/4″ x 4″, 1 3/8″ x 5 1/4″ (2x)

Designer Paper:  1 1/4″ x 5 1/8″ (2x)

Night of Navy:  3″ x 3 3/4″

4748457f02b195cfab94f45b4061800bTo stamp the sentiment perfectly I adhered the large piece of Whisper White card stock to the inside of my card and then used removable adhesive to hold the two front flaps down so that my card was “closed”.  Then I got out my Stamp-a-ma-jig to perfectly align the sentiment.  When I was done stamping I just had to rub off the removable adhesive with my finger and I was good to go.

To finish off the card, I die cut my balloon and adhered just the top of it to the top flap.  Don’t put adhesive on the whole balloon or you won’t be able to open your card!  🙂

This designer paper (Carried Away) is one of the Sale-a-bration items that you can choose for FREE.  Don’t forget that for every $50 you spend during Sale-a-bration you can choose a FREE Sale-a-bration item!  Woo Hoo!

As you can see from the last picture, I couldn’t add the small balloon to my card because there wasn’t room when I used the longer sentiment.  Thanks again Dawn for your inspiration!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Candle Border Punch Birthday Card

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Candle Border Punch.0217Well, vacation is over and it’s time to get back to work!  I had a great time up in the mountains doing pretty much nothing.  My cousin got me hooked on HGTV again and that’s probably not a good thing.  I usually don’t watch much TV and now I seem to have it on constantly.  The one good thing about that is that I haven’t bee reading too much.  Hmm…it’s sounding like I have trouble staying on task…..

This is one of the 8 cards that I’ve designed for my All-Occasion Card Buffet Class next week.  I think it’s pretty fun.  A person can never have too many birthday cards on hand, right?

Don’t you love the row of candles punch on the bottom of the card?  They’re made with the new Candle Border Punch found at the bottom of page 7 in the Occasions Catalog.  It’s easy to miss because it’s so small.

I punched my row of candles first before running the Daffodil Delight card stock  through the Big Shot with the Softly Falling Embossing Folder.  That way I could figure out how to place the card stock on the embossing folder.

I used the Stylized Birthday stamp for my sentiment.  This is one of those stamps that was collecting dust on my shelf.  So glad I found a use for it finally!  It’s a great size to be the focal point on a card.  I’m not sure why I haven’t used it before now!  Sheesh!

If you’re in the Denver area and would like to attend my Card Buffet next Tuesday (morning or evening session) just let me know!  There’s plenty of room!  🙂

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Happy Valentine’s Day from Breckenridge Colorado!

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Breck.0217Hubby and I are up in the mountains of Colorado at our time share for the week.  That’s why you haven’t heard much from me.  My cousin, her husband, daughter and daughter’s boyfriend were up for the weekend and we had a really great time.  We ate, drank and just enjoyed each other’s company.  Some of us went skiing and other’s of us didn’t.  Now we’re recuperating before the next batch of company shows up.  🙂

Hubby and I had an early Valentine’s dinner last night at our favorite seafood restaurant here in Breckenridge and will probably just lay low today.  Do you have any exciting plans to celebrate with your valentine?

Birthday Blast Swap Card

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IMG_9398It’s another gorgeous swap card.  I love doing swaps because I get so many great samples and ideas.

I love the black and gold on this card.  So elegant and fun.  Thank you to Carn Meagher for this great sample card.  Carn used the Birthday Blast stamp set and the Star Blast Edgelits Dies on this card.  I actually don’t own these yet but they are definitely on my wish list!  I love the stars!

Speaking of stars…if you look closely at the card you can see that Carn used the Lucky Stars Embossing Folder on the background piece.  It really adds to the card.

OK…this is probably going to be on my next order…..what’s on yours?

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Traditional Sealed with Love Valentine

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Sealed With Love.0117Yesterday I showed you not-so-traditional valentine so today it’s time for a traditional one.

I actually made this card way back in December for a make-and-take project at my team’s Holiday Party.  Red and white….you can’t get a more traditional color combination for Valentines Day.  This is a little 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ square card.  I cut 3/8″ of an inch off the front of the card so that the die-cut heart edge would overlap the right edge of the card.

Can you tell that the little hearts kind of pop up?  The outside edges of the hearts are die cut but the very centers of the are attached.  They’re pretty cute.  The Sealed with Love stamp set is photopolymer so you can stamp perfectly in the little die cut areas of the hearts.

Have you played with the Stitched Shapes Framelits yet?  They are great and they add so much to a card!  They work wonderfully on my little valentine and layer perfectly with the Layering Circles Framelits!  You know me….I LOVE products that coordinate and work together!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Masculine Sealed with Love

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IMG_9328Thank you to Katherine Anderson for this fun masculine valentine.  I love how she used non-traditional valentine colors on the card.  It’s absolutely perfect for a guy.  Hmm…I may have to give this to my husband next week.  I wonder if he’d realize that I didn’t make it.  😉

Katherine used the Sealed with Love stamp set, the Sending Love Embellishments and the Love Notes Framelits along with the Urban Underground Specialty Designer Series Paper.  What a great combination!

Do you think outside the box like Katherine did on this card?  I have to admit that I don’t.  I’m pretty traditional with my color combinations and my card designs.  That’s why I really enjoy seeing what other people come up with.

Where do you like to go for inspiration?  (other than my blog of course…ha!)  I really like Pinterest.  I can type in the name of a stamp set and find all sorts of samples for that set and get inspired.  I love being inspired.

I hope you have an inspiring day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Make it Mine Monday: Sweet Delicate Details Card

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Delicate Detail.0117Ah, so sweet.  That’s what this color combination says to me.  It’s soft and relaxing.  The lace from the Sale-a-bration stamp set Delicate Details makes it sweet too.

Here again I stuck close to the original card keeping the basic layout.  When I was making my card I tried all of the different designs on the same piece of card stock like the original but I just couldn’t get it to look right.  That’s when I decided to stick with one pattern.  Not only did I stick to one pattern of lace but I decided to take my card a step further and I embossed it!  I really like the look of the embossed lace, don’t you?

Once I had that piece taken care of it was on to the 2250deb76fd346f8c49868b4d597ba84label.  I could have just copied Brenda’s label because I do like it but I wanted something a little simpler.  I opted to go with the little label and sentiments from the Rose Wonder stamp set.  If you have used this stamp set and coordinating framelits you my be wondering how I got two different sizes of the labels.  Well…I cheated.  The Blushing Bride label is the size of the framelit.  I stamped my label and sentiment and then simply cut the stamped label out with scissors right next to the stamped image.   Pretty clever, huh?  Not really, but it was a simple way to get the same shaped border.  🙂

Have you played with the Blushing Bride Baker’s Twine yet?  You should.  It’s so pretty and soft to touch.

As I mentioned before, the Delicate Details is a Sale-a-bration item.  It’s one of the items you can choose for free when you place a $50 order.  Have you placed your Sale-a-bration order yet?

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Simple Saturday: Dragonflies

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Detailed Dragonfly.0117This was one of those cards that just made me smile when I finished designing it.  🙂

How can you go wrong with dragonflies, pink Bokeh paper and Cooper Foil Sheets?  I mean really…..

I took three of my favorite Stampin’ Up! products and put them together on a card….an easy card!  No stamping involved.  I just die cut some dragonflies, added a few layers and had this fabulous looking card.  LOVE IT!

Isn’t it great when you come up with a design that makes you feel good and then have it so easy to make too?  I designed this card for a swap that my team did for the new Occasions Catalog.  It was tough to decide on a card since there are so many great products to choose from.

Do you have a favorite product from the Occasions Catalog?  I’m pretty sure that the Dragonfly Dreams Bundle is my favorite.  Let me know what yours is!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!