Make It Mine

Making-It-Mine Monday: Summer Splash and Spotlight on Nature

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It’s been a while since I’ve done a Make-It-Mine Monday post, and I’ve missed it.  I love getting inspiration from other people’s projects and Make-It-Mine Monday is the perfect way to showcase that!

I try to write an email newsletter every week which I send out on Tuesdays or Wednesdays.  I try to share a project each week. 

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In last week’s newsletter I shared this card that I made at Stampin’ Up!’s On Stage event in March.  I had explained how it was a very nice card, but it just wasn’t me.  The combination of colors isn’t me and the design itself isn’t really me.  The card did inspire me though.

It inspired me so much that I had to make it mine!  Nothing against Stampin’ Up! designers, but I do like my card better.  Their card was way outside of my comfort zone.  The Stampin’ Up! designer used the new Spotlight in Nature (#163579 $23) which will be in the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog and since I had that stamp set I used it on my card too.  For my card I decided to stick with a single color and white.  To choose a color I started with the designer paper that I used on the layer behind the flowers.  I used the new Unbounded Bounty Beauty Designer Series Paper (#163372 $12.50) which you can find on page 55 of the new catalog or in my online store starting on Wednesday.  The color I used is the new 2024-2026 In-Color, Summer Splash.  So pretty!

The angled pieces that the flowers are on aren’t something that I would usually use on a card but I did find the technique intriguing, so I decided to give it another shot.  It’s not hard to line up the two images after stamping them, the hard part is stamping them and making sure that the two pieces will fit on the layer underneath them.

I could have heat embossed the sentiment in white on a piece Summer Splash cardstock but I think my layered sentiment works a little better on this card. 

As I mentioned above, I love being inspired by other people’s work.  It’s nice to have a starting point and go from there.  Give it a try!  Take my card and make it your own by changing a little something about the card or a lot.  The choice is yours!  Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Make It Mine Monday With Sentimental Swirls

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Stampin’ Up!’s Sentimental Swirls stamp set is a fun and simple stamp set that can be found in the January – June Mini Catalog. It is a stamp set perfect for the beginner stamper.

The flowers that you see on this card are punched out with the Flowers & Leaves Punch. There are also smaller flowers in the stamp set that can be punched out with the Strawberry Builder Punch.

As I was scrolling through Pinterest I came across this card by Carol Brown that caught my eye. I knew I wanted to recreate it for Make It Mine Monday. Pink flowers with a touch of black. Of course it caught my eye! 🙂

As you can see on my card, I made pink the prominent color and black is just an accent. The card came together easily. I started with the black swirl and went from there. The flowers were stamped on a scrap of Basic White cardstock and then colored and punched out. I set them around the swirl where I was going to adhere them so I could figure out where to stamp the leaves.

The stamp set is photopolymer so it was quite easy to stamp the outlines of the flowers, leaves and bird and then use a second stamp to stamp the colored portion. Two step stamping at it’s best!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Make It Mine With Dahlia Days

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Dahlia Days

Dahlias are a favorite flower in my family. My mom used to grow them in her garden and her dad used to grow them and enter them in the Minnesota State Fair. He even won awards with them. So when I saw the new Dahlia Days stamp set in Stampin’ Up!’s January – June Mini catalog I knew that I had to get it. Then when I saw it on my stamp shelf it was time to create a card or two with it.

Not only do Dahlias come in different sizes and shapes but they can come in many different colors too.

This is my inspiration card. I love Tarabeth’s card but it’s Make It Mine Monday and I had to change it up.

The basic layout of my card is the same as the inspiration card but I did add another layer (of course!). It’s hard to tell in the photo of my card but I used the Gingham Embossing Folder like Tarabeth did.

I added another flower to my card. You know, that Rule of 3 that I’ve talked about before. This rule says that elements in groups of 3, or at least odd numbers, are more pleasing to the eye.

Tarabeth’s card gave me the inspiration that I needed. That’s why I love checking out other people’s cards. I may not copy them exactly, but they give me the little boost I need to get started.

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

A Springtime Thank You

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Ah, Springtime! It’s finally here! Ok…snow is actually forecast for here in the Denver area today but the calendar says Spring! Woo hoo!

Flowers of Friendship is the stamp set I used on today’s card. It’s Make-It-Mine Monday so I did get my inspiration for today’s card elsewhere. You’ve got to love Pinterest. We Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators also have the Demonstrator Planning Place Facebook Page where we can share ideas with each other which is nice.

The fun gingham designer paper is from the Pansy Petals Designer Paper in the current Annual Catalog. I do love my gingham!

The stitched, scalloped rectangle was die cut using the Scalloped Contours Dies.

AnaMarie’s card definitely caught my eye and is so lovely, but I have to be honest, I couldn’t get over the Soft Succulent green flowers. That’s why I chose to change the main color to Fresh Fresh Freesia.

I kept most of the elements on the card the same but changed up the label and sentiment. It’s rare that I simplify a card instead of adding to it. Ha!

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

Make It Mine With A Hello

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A simple hello for you on Make It Mine Monday. Once again, the simplicity of a card caught my eye. I have trouble recreating simplicity, but I like it. As the banner above the photo says, this card was created using Stampin’ Up!’s Dressed To Impress stamp set. This fun stamp set is quite “girly”. The coordinating All Dressed Up dies die cut some of the images and also has dies that you can create a 3D purse with.

I love the white on white that Kim did on this card with her layers with just the subtle pink dots to set them apart. That is what made me want to recreate her card.

Of course when I started my creative process things didn’t turn out quite as simple as I wanted.

Stampin’ Up!’s All Dressed Up!

To start with, I didn’t want to use the “fabulous” portion of the “hello fabulous” stamp so I masked that portion of the stamp before inking it up. I also wanted to use a die that fit around my images a little closer so as not to leave quite as much white space. The Hippo & Friends dies fit worked perfectly and I was able to layer my stamped images.

The flowers on my card are colored with the Polished Pink and Just Jade Stampin’ Blend Markers so those are the colors I used on the rest of the card. The larger label is embossed with the Tasteful Texture 3D Embossing Folder. To really change up my card from Kim’s I used a Just Jade card base instead of Basic White.

Even though I changed quite a bit about Kim’s card, I do love hers. One of these days I will figure out simple stamping. How do you do with simple stamping? If you’ve got the hang of it I’d love to see some of your projects.

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

A Beachy Make It Mine Card

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Oceanfront Seaside Card

This beachy card is so easy and so fun to make with the Oceanfront stamp set.  This was one of those stamp sets that I didn’t think I needed.  I live in land-locked Colorado so I don’t get to the ocean much. I’m more of a lake girl (my Minnesota roots). Ha!

But I fell in love with the New Horizons designer paper and saw all sort of cards online that used both this gorgeous paper and the Oceanfront stamp set.  It was time to make the purchase. 

The Oceanfront stamp set makes it so easy to create a beach scene.  There is one stamp for the sky, one stamp for the ocean and one stamp for the sand.  On my card I stamped the “sand” three times to give it a little more texture and depth.  I used Balmy Blue for the sky, Coastal Cabana for the water and Crumb Cake for the sand.  Easy Peasy!

This stamp set is one of Stampin’ Up!’s DistINKtive stamp sets which is why there is so much texture and shading in the water and the sky. Stampin’ Up! sure does make it easy for us to create a lovely scene like this.

Thank you Tracy for the inspiration. The simpleness of this card is what first caught my attention and I knew I wanted to recreate it.

When you compare the two cards you can see that I added a some more of the grasses and left off the sentiment. I also added the birds from the On The Horizon stamp set as I felt the upper portion of the card needed some type of black element on it. I also made my layers slightly smaller. You know me, I don’t handle white space very well. 🙂

Of course looking at this card while writing this in frigid Minnesota (although the weather is actually very mild right now) makes me want to head to the ocean. How about you?

Have a great day! Take care and happy stamping!

Make It Mine In Black & White

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This week’s Make-It-Mine card is black and white with a little bit of gray on it.  Monochromatic is the technical term.  Monochromatic means: “of, relating to, or having tones of one color in addition to the ground hue”.

There’s something about a black and white card that always catches my eye.  Black and white together is simple and it’s stunning.  I like these types of cards so much that I’m sharing them all week on my blog, Facebook and even in my newsletter.  Be sure to check them all out!  (If you don’t get my newsletter yet, just fill out the info in the box to the right.)

I used Stampin’ Up!’s Artfully Layered stamp set on today’s card.  I was inspired by Tess Rollin’s card.  As you can see, I stuck pretty close to Tess’s card and only added a few extra leaves. 

This card is quite simple.  All stamping except the sentiment is done directly on the card base.  The two leaves on the upper portion of the card were stamped first.  Then I used a piece of scrap paper to cover them so I could stamp just a portion of the leaves on the lower section of the card.  The sentiment is layered on black cardstock and adhered to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Easy Peasy!

I tried using embellishments of some sort on my card like Tess did but they seemed to distract from the simplicity of the card.  I like Tess’s use of embellishments but I just couldn’t make them work.  Sometimes simple is better.

Make-It-Mine: Awesome Otters Birthday

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I’m in love with Stampin’ Up!’s Awesome Otters Sale-a-bration stamp set!  These little critters are adorable!  This stamp set was one of my first Sale-a-bration choices. 

I was so excited when I saw this birthday card to copy.  Not only did it have the Awesome Otters Sale-a-bration item it but the designer paper, Simply Marbelous, is also a Sale-a-bration choice!  Thank you, Monika, for the inspiration!

As much as I loved Monika’s card, I just couldn’t get the angled cardstock to work for me.  I can’t do random and I’m not good at angles either.  I decided to go with my strength which is lots of layers (that line up).  Ha!

On Monika’s card it looks like she stamped the hat on the otter’s head before cutting it out.  I didn’t want to try to line up the hat on the head since the Awesome Otters is a cling stamp set.  I took the easier way out.  I stamped and colored the otter and hat separately, cut them out and lined them up when I put them on the card.

Either one of these cards will be perfect for the next birthday on your calendar, especially if you like to color and fussy cut! Remember that you don’t have to do all of the fancy shading with your Stampin’ Blends if you don’t want to or don’t have the time. You can see that Monika did a much better job of shading on her otter than I did but that’s ok.

If you like my card you can click here for step-by-step instructions.

Now go get that Stampin’ Wish List started so you can choose both the Awesome Otters and the Simply Marbelous Designer Paper Sale-a-bration items on your next order! Have a great day. Take care and Happy Stamping!

It’s Gorgeous!

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Late last week I received my order that contained the absolutely GORGEOUS Ever Eden Specialty Designer Series Paper.  The only colors in this pack of paper are Evening Evergree, Soft Succulent, Basic White and Gold Foil.  Be sure to check out this paper here.  Did I mention that it’s gorgeous? 😊

Needless to say, I had to use it on today’s card.  Actually, I have a feeling you’ll be seeing a lot of projects made with this paper in the next three months.  I can’t seem to get enough of it!  Let’s get to today’s Make it Mine project.  It shows off one of the lovely patterns of this paper pack.

Ever Eden Card

The paper pattern on this card is one of the ones that has gold foil on it. It’s hard to tell but the little dots around the leaves are the gold foil. Working with this paper is so easy because there are only a few colors that you’re working with.

As you can see on both pictures, I used one of the dies in the Eden Dies to cut the leafy pattern on the edge of the card front. So pretty. The decorative edge really makes the card and ties in nicely with the designer paper.

Here you can see the card that inspired me. I definitely made it into a “Cindy card” with all of the layers I added. The things I did take from Jaimie’s card was the designer paper (although I did use a different pattern) and the decorative edge on the card front.

Both Jaimie and I used sentiments from the Eden’s Garden stamp set. The sentiments are one of the things that really drew me to this stamp set.

Jaimie stamped her sentiment on a label that was die cut using the Eden Dies. The labels on my card are from the Tasteful Labels Dies and a Layering Circle Die.

I’ll finish this post by once again telling you how much I love this Ever Eden Designer Series Paper. Don’t forget that this paper is only available through Jan 3rd or while supplies last!

Have a great day. Take care and Happy Stamping!