I have been working on a Skinny card for a card swap. It has been very difficult getting the layout I want. There have been some good results and some not so good ones. Today is one of the good results that I liked but decided not to use in the swap. So I thought I would share it with you.
Stamps
There are two really awesome stamp sets used on this card. The first is the Pretty Pumpkins stamps. This trio of pumpkins is my favorite from that set. And it comes as a Bundle, I just didn’t use the dies. The second stamp set is the Gorgeous Leaves. It is also a Bundle, and I did use two of the Dies.
I love how well these two stamp sets work together. Fall leaves and pumpkins are like Peanut Butter and Jelly! They just go together. The sentiment is such a sweet one and is from the Pretty Pumpkin stamp set. I just love it.
Colors and Finishes
Normally I would say Paper instead of Color, but I did not use any Designer Series Paper on this card. That is very unusual for me. I did choose some of my favorites of the colors I think of for Fall. They are Cinnamon Cider and Soft Succulent for the card base and layer.
The stamped leaves are more of the great Fall colors. They are Merry Merlot, Cinnamon Cider with some speckles of Pale Papaya.
To finish the card I went to the Annual Catalog for some ribbon. It is from the Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo. The gingham is actually Just Jade instead of Soft Succulent, but the color matches very well. The final touch was two die cut leaves from Merry Merlot cardstock. These dies are so intricate (The name of the dies are Intricate Leaves!) that it really pops against the white cardstock.
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Since Sale-A-Bration is winding down I thought I would share two of my favorite picks in one card. It is a little bit of an odd mix of colors. But the different patterns seem to work.
Stamps
The Stamp set I chose as a favorite from Sale-A-Bration is the Delicate Dahlias. Yes, it is one of the $100.00 product purchase requirement, but it is really nice. The flower is a two step flower. I chose Bumblebee Ink as the outline and Pale Papaya as the inside. The leaves are two step as well. They are Garden Green for the outline and Soft Sea Foam for the inside. Those colors came from the Green DSP piece.
Delicate Dahlias has a couple of great sentiments included in the set. However, I chose to go with the Smile sentiment from Forever Fern. It is stamped directly onto the DSP. That is something that packs a bit of a punch, and I generally forget to do it.
Paper
I chose the two pieces of the Peaceful Prints Designer Series Paper before I decided on anything else. Not normally how I begin a card! I love the tan plaid and wanted to use it. The base of the card is Bumblebee cardstock, which matches the dahlia. The Garden Green piece has flecks of a lighter green that led to the Soft Sea Foam leaves color.
The Peaceful Prints Designer Series Paper is also from the Sale-A-Bration Catalog. It is one of the $50.00 product purchase choices. The paper matches the Peaceful Deer Bundle in the Mini Catalog. The Deer Punch fits the pages of Deers on the paper.
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I am showcasing one of the Free Sale-A-Bration stamp sets today. It is one that is Free with a $50.00 product order. The Feels Like Home stamp set is a sweet set to have on hand. And if you are like me and love to color, then it is a perfect one to get.
Stamps
I love this little scene with the bicycle, flowers, and what appears to be, an older building and door. As soon as I saw this scene I thought of my trip to Amsterdam a few years ago. There were flowers everywhere and more bicycles than I would have imagined.
This layout is a bit of a “clean” one from my normal cards. I did not intend for it to be that way. But the stamp and the sweet sentiment sort of decided for me.
Colors
To bring out all of the images in the stamp, it required quite a bit of color. I thought a purple would go great with the Crumb Cake card base and the brown of the door. It needed to pop a bit. The 1/8″ border you see of Highland Heather is enough to pull the flower pots and bicycle flowers out. . All of the Stampin’ Blends I used are listed in the supply list. I will say that this is one of the shortest supplies lists I have ever done, with the exception of the Stampin’ Blends!!
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Hello, welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month our Design Team’s theme is “Fun Ways to Use Your Stampin’ Up! Products” where we show our favorite product tips. We hope you enjoy and will be inspired by them! Don’t forget to leave comments! We love hearing from you. At the end of my post, you will find the full line-up to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.
There are way too many products to choose from for this Tips blog hop. I finally narrowed it down to Punches. One of my favorite ways to use a punch is to make a “negative”. I have two cards to share using this technique. I hope you like it.
For this card I Punched three of the Medium Daisy Punch from a piece of Basic White cardstock. I also stamped two sentiments from the Daisy Lane stamp set. The layers are a Melon Mambo base and Basic White beneath a beautiful sheet of Melon Mambo from the Brights Collection 6X6 Designer Series Paper stack. The punched layer is then added on top using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The finishing touches are to add a punched daisy from Melon Mambo cardstock onto the front layer with a Glue Dot only beneath the center of the flower. I also added a Playing With Patterns Resin Dot to the center of the flower.
I love how the gorgeous DSP shows through the punched daisies! Here is another card using the same products with the DSP as the punched out layer.
This is a 4 X 4 card using the same products. It is a different sheet of the Melon Mambo Brights DSP though. This time I layered the White and punched from the DSP. I also added a two layer flower using the punched DSP flower and a White flower from the first card. The petals are alternated and the two pieced together in the center with a Glue Dot.
To finish this one, I added the same Playing With Patterns Resin Dots to both the negative flower and the double layer flower. The sentiment is from the Daisy Lane stamp set, as was the first card. This time I used the Double Oval Punch, the larger oval, to punch the sentiment. It is adhered using Stampin’ Dimensionals
I love the depth and dimension that using the “negative” gives to the cards. If this is not a new idea for you, I hope it will inspire you to give this old trick and new look! Both of these cards are quick and simple to do. They would qualify as #simplestamping as it is simply Paper, Ink, Stamp, and a punch plus an embellishment. And there is only one ink color to go with it.
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The main product I am sharing today may be one that you have overlooked in the Annual Catalog. It is one of the Stand Alone Die sets. This one has two main pieces that are like little windows. The name is the Picture This Dies.
Dies
This die set has this die, all of the circles are attached as one die, and another with three attached rectangles. This one makes me think of a Peek-A-Boo! The example in the catalog shows different barn animals in each window.
The die cut circles also have stitching around them like the negative here does. I have used those in a card that will be tomorrow’s post.
Designer Series paper
All of the Stampin’ Up! DSP is beautiful, but this Hand-Penned is one of my, actually one of many, favorites. I love pairing the lovely paper with this Peek-a-boo look. It is like looking through an old fashioned camera lense and seeing the garden on the other side. Remember the old cameras with the tiny area you could see through the lense?
For the pairing on this card I cut the DSP sheet a bit smaller than the circle layer. It is glued to the base card. The circle layer is then added with dimensionals underneath to add to the window look.
Sentiment
The sentiment I used is from Free As A Bird. It is punched using the Rectangle Postage Stamp Punch. I hated to cover up the DSP, but wanted it to float on top as well. Hopefully it looks appropriate. And I love the sentiment.
The finishing touch is to add a few of the Metallic Pearls. I chose the gold ones to match the Pale Papaya in the DSP.
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Keep Calm and Keep On Stamping,
Jackie
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It is almost time for my beach trip and I cannot wait. Sitting on the sand and doing NOTHING is my idea of a good time. Thinking about my trip helped me to realize that I had not shared my Seashell card with you. My upline, Brian King, shared it and others recently. The card was made for a card swap among team members. If you did not see it on his page, then awesome! You get to see it from me first.
I love this layout. It came from an old sketch challenge I had seen and made note of. This really allows a pretty piece of designer paper to shine.
The Sand & Sea Suite of products is Amazing!!! I love every piece in the suite. And I managed to use quite a few products in the suite.
The base of my card is a piece of Thick White cardstock. The gorgeous blue is Seaside Spray, one of the retiring colors 🙁 . Both pieces of DSP used are from the Sand & Sea Designer Series Paper. The seashell piece is layered onto a piece of White cardstock and raised with dimensionals. The gorgeous blue water piece of DSP is cut 2 X 4 , and then 3/4 is cut from each end. Those pieces are adhered onto the Seaside Spray on each side of the raised piece. The larger section is then lined up across the top.
The seashell images are from the Friends Are Like Seashells stamp set. They are stamped using Sahara Sand Ink and then filled in with the appropriate pieces from the stamp set using Blushing Bride Ink. The dies are part of the Suite of products and are amazing! I finished each of the shells with a touch of Wink of Stella for some glimmer. The sentiment piece is also from the set and is stamped with Seaside Spray Ink, with an overlay of the small starfish. It is then cut using the 2 1/4″ Circle Punch. The final touch is a couple of the Opal Rounds. They do not show very well in the photo but do shine and fit in perfectly in person.
Thank you so much for stopping in on this Monday. I hope you were safe from the storms of Saturday that seemed to be everywhere!
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