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Guy Stuff

Posted On: 15. 03. 16

I taught a class recently that was all about the guys we love. Husbands, fathers, boyfriends, sons, grandsons, grandfathers, pastors, nephews, you name them and we created a card for them. LOL We used Guy Greetings, The Wilderness Awaits and Traveler Stamp Sets, to create some great masculine cards.

Here are a few of them.

Guy Greetings Stamp Set in Old Olive and Very Vanilla

The Wilderness Awaits – Watercolouring Technique

Traveler Stamp Set – Distressing and Heat Embossing Background stamping with Timeless Texture Stamp Set

Happy Stamping! Inspire, Create and Share!

First Card of 2016

Posted On: 10. 01. 16

What was your first card of 2016? My 5 year old son and I created this card for his sweet little bestie who turned 6 not long after the beginning of the new year. My son loves to sit with me and scroll through Pinterest and look at Punch Art Cards. He is obsessed and always is asking, “Do you own that punch Mom?” (The answer is usually, Yes!) Then he responds, “Yes, that means we can make it.” He really is totally adorable and you can see a picture of him on my Stamping.Cards pinterest page, I photobombed him on his birthday last year. LOL

Here is what we came up with after some huge Pinterest Inspiration.

I loved it so much, I made a second one, to keep and display. Happy 6th Birthday C-man!!!

The number and stamp on the card are from our brand new product suite: Number of Years Bundle – $60.25 (stamps and framelits at 15% off). It was one of the first products, I had to have from the new Occasions Catalogue.

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Celebrate Today Gift Packaging Ensemble

Posted On: 27. 09. 15

This Celebrate Today gift packaging ensemble was for a very good friend of mine. Her birthday was recently and we celebrated by going out for supper together. It was really fun to make Celebrate Today coordinating items for her gift: the card, wine bottle tag and gift bag tag. I plan on making more of these to sell at up coming craft fairs. It makes for a terrific presentation.

Celebrate Today stamp set is available as a BUNDLE and you know what that means, extra 15% savings for you. Celebrate Today is only available as a photopolymer set, it is totally see through, which makes lining up the images super easy.

You can make birthday cards, wedding cards, baby cards and graduation cards with the Celebrate Today stamp set. It is super versatile and a fantastic value.

To stamp the two tone balloons, you ink the entire stamp with the base colour, then use a sponge dauber along one edge of the stamp (before) stamping to add the second colour of ink to the stamp. Then you stamp the image onto whisper white card stock while both colours of ink are still wet. Be sure to add the shadow/second colour on the same side of both balloons, otherwise, your card will look off balance. You will then heat emboss with gold embossing powder on the top of your balloons. Add a little sweetness with a little linen thread bow attached with a mini glue dot and add a little bling with the gold sequin trim attached with the mini handheld stapler.

The gift tag and the wine bottle tag used the same technique as the card with the use of the Banners framelits for the trendy shape.

I hope you like my Celebrate Today Gift Packaging Ensemble! I do! 🙂 I will be adding these to all my future gifts.

Remember to inspire, create and share. Let me know your thoughts. I would love to hear from you.

Happy Stamping to you all!

Punch Art – Minion and Mario Birthday Card

Posted On: 13. 09. 15

We celebrated some big birthdays over the past few weeks at our house. Our son turned 5 not too long ago and my daughters and I created a couple of punch art cards for him. He is in love with Mario Kart and the Minions, of course, so our choices were quite simple. If you Google punch art cards, you will be overwhelmed with images. We chose to keep our cards simple, focus on the punch art faces and go from there. Some punch art is over the top intricate, totally beautiful but time consuming. These were a pretty quick craft.

The fun thing about punch art is that anyone can do it. In fact, my son always wants to create a punch art card for all his friend’s birthdays. We look at a few pictures on line, he chooses one he would like to attempt and we recreate our own version of the card.

The Minion card uses the following card stock Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point, Basic Black, Soft Suede and Whisper White. We used 5 different punches to make the minion eyes and coverall straps. They are: 1/2″, 3/4″, 1-1/4″ and the 1-3/8″ Circle punches. The straps were made using the Word Window punch.

If the Minion card is all circles, the Mario card is all about the ovals. The eyes were made with the Large and Extra Large handheld punches, you need to trim the Large oval down a little for the smallest oval in the eye. The nose is the Extra Large Oval and the mustache is made with the bird body and wing from the Bird Builder punch, just trim the top portion of the bird to the shape of an oval. The half oval on the hat is made using the second smallest oval in the Oval Framelits collection. Cardstock used in the Mario card is Real Red, Basic Black, Soft Suede, Blushing Bride, Pacific Point and Whisper White.

A little bit of sponging around the edges of the card stock with the matching colour ink adds a great deal of depth and dimension to your project. I love to use Stampin’ Up’s Sponge Daubers for this job, makes it super simple and mess free. No inky fingers here. Well, not much anyway.

Designer Series Paper Purse / Tote

Posted On: 13. 09. 15

I recently taught a class on how to make a super cute Designer Series Paper (DSP) Purse. We filled them with chocolate treats, a matching pen, a covered journal, a package of tissues, a small pad of sticky notes and a set of matching greeting cards.

Each tote bag measures approx. 9.5″ high (including the handles), 6″ to the top of the actual bag and 7″ x 3″ around. These are hefty and you can stuff a lot more things in them than you can possibly imagine. We used a lot of retired DSP, ribbon and brads that I had in my crafter’s hoard. Don’t judge me, I know you have one too. 😉

Basic tools you will need to make the Designer Series Paper Purse are a paper trimmer, a simply scored scoring tool, a handheld scallop punch, a strong adhesive like tear tape, a paper piercing tool, a corner rounder punch and a stampin’ pierce mat.

The journal was created by purchasing a generic small paper notebook at the $Store. The size of your journal will determine the size of the card stock required to cover it. I stamped my own cover by stamping a small flower image from the Petite Petal stamp set and embellishing with ribbon, a small flower and rhinestone, plus a sentiment.

The fun thing about this project was that everyone went home with a completely different project, as each person chose a different colour for the base and coordinating DSP.

I have all the directions on a Word document. If you would like a copy, you will receive it free, via email, with a $35 dollar purchase from my online store. Just be sure to sign in and choose me as your demonstrator. Thanks and happy shopping!

Petite Petals Stamp Set and Punch

Posted On: 29. 03. 15

Don’t you love it when a plan comes together and everything works out the way it is supposed to? It was a bit dicey with timing for my last class and the arrival of the stamp sets and punches I had ordered for my product based class. The online site was saying my order wasn’t going to make it in time for my class. Ugh, right! Instead it arrived a day early! Whoo Hoo!!!! I was soooo happy! Packages are never early! It must have been my lucky day.

So, all participants in this class received both the Petite Petals stamp set and the coordinating punch. We created 4 cards at the class, here are three of them and one I created as a sample.

Quick Tip: Always stamp the image before punching it out with the coordinating punch. Turn the punch over so you can view the stamped image while punching it out. This allows you to perfectly line up the stamp inside the punch opening. If you need a visual of this, let me know and I will add some pictures. 🙂

Lovely Amazing You Card used: Cardstock-Basic Black, Whisper White, Soft Sky & Wild Wasabi; Ink – Melon Mambo & Tuxedo Black Momento; Embossing Folders – Chevron & Perfect Polka Dots; Framelits – Labels Collection; Other – Rhinestones & Dimensionals, Big Shot. Additional Stamp Set – Lovely Amazing You Photopolymer, this set has terrific sentiments in a fun font.

Oh Happy Day Card incorporated: Cardstock- Bermuda Bay, Sahara Sand & Strawberry Slush; Ink – Versamark, Strawberry Slush and Sahara Sand; Framelits – Starburst; Punch – Bird builder; Stamp Sets – Starburst Sayings & Gorgeous Grunge: Rhinestones and Dimensionals; Other – Big Shot, Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder & Clear Embossing Powder.

Here are two bonus cards for you. Happy Stamping!

Sale-a-bration ~ Big Day Stamp Set

Posted On: 01. 03. 15

I have to give a shout out and credit to the lovely and uber talented, Tamara Overbeek, for the design of this stylish card. I CASED a card of hers that she posted online. 🙂 Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

In fact, I loved it so much I made several, in different colours. Here they are in Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight and Strawberry Slush. To add colour to the line art stamps, I simply coloured them in with the matching markers, II, DD and SS. Isn’t that quick and easy? Designer Series Paper from the All Abloom DSP Stack is cut out with the Top Note Die, for the bottom layer. I always, always, always, use Stampin’ Up Whisper White cardstock to stamp on. Did you know that it used to be called Ultrasmooth white? It has a silky smooth texture and ink dries on it like a dream, quickly and without smearing. My black ink is Memento Tuxedo Black which dries quickly, is fade resistant and acid free.

I punched out the ice cream stamp and a matching tag, layered them and used Linen Thread to tie them to the card. ( Note: the punch I used is now retired but you could easily swap out another punch, like the Scallop Oval or the Decorative Label). As an added bonus, the linen thread coordinates with the Cru mb Cake base layer.

I hope you like these cards. Thanks again to Tamara! Remember to inspire, create and share!