As I have said previously, the Peony is my favorite flower. That said, I have another card using the Prized Peony stamp set and the Peony Garden Designer Series Paper. Both of these are just simple and pretty.
The flower is stamped using Smoky Slate Ink and colored with the Dark Petal Pink Stampin’ Blend. I just went over the darker areas of the flower and left the rest white. The center is colored using the Dark So Saffron Stampin’ Blend.
The dark layer of the card is Basic Gray card stock. This is one color that I do not use very often. I just forget about it and it is a great neutral. It pairs beautifully with the Petal Pink card stock. The DSP on the lever and behind the flower are also shades of gray, so it blends there as well.
Thank you for stopping by today! I really appreciate it and hope you will return tomorrow. There are quite a few layers and pieces to this card, and although it is quite simple to put together, it does take a bit of time to cut the pieces. I am working on a video and will have that for you soon.
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Today’s card is one I made for a swap with some of my Stampin’ Up! fellow demonstrators. We couldn’t do a weekend together due to covid, so did a swap to at least have a bit of sharing.
The stamp set is the Don’t Stop Believin’ set. I adore all of the stamps in this set. It also has the large Santa stamp that I have used previously. I think we all can relate to the tangled lights and tinsel!!
For the background I wanted to use the Tis The Season Designer Series Paper. It went best with the colors I invisioned for the elf. The downside is that it is 6X6 paper. I love 6X6 paper, but it limits your usage when doing multiples. To solve this problem, I cut strips from some of the ones I felt best went together and layered them on some Whisper White. Then all I had to do was flip it over and cut off the excess. I love this technique of paper piecing. It’s by far the easiest one for me.
I stamped the elf with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored him with a variety of Stampin’ Blends. The sentiment is stamped in the Memento Ink as well. I just realized that I took this photo before I decided it needed a bit more bling! To achieve that bit of bling, I added a green from the Holiday Rhinestones just to the left of the sentiment. I only added the one and it was perfect.
Thank you for stopping by today. I greatly appreciate you checking my cards and I love to read your comments. I found on Friday that anyone reaching out to me from my blog using the Contact Me button, was going to spam! If you were one of those people, I am SO SORRY!!!! It is fixed now, and hopefully will never be repeated!
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I am sure you were thinking “what in the world” to my title for today! I had the Pampered Pets set out to color an image for a friend to determine the best brown for a dog card. When I went to play today, I decided to use that dog I had colored. My crazy mind went back to our chocolate lab that passed a few years ago. He was always good for craziness!! And the card was born.
The idea behind this layout, is that our dog was allowed to lick the cat plates once they were finished. However, there is always one in a crowd! One of the girls would always sit there acting like she was still eating if he made a move to her plate! Even though she was finished and had cleaned the plate. She just loved to aggravate the dog 🙂 So that is what I see in this kitty by the food bowl. LOL!!!
I truly adore the Playful Pets Suite of products. But the paper is almost the tops. I know I can pair the animals with other paper, but I just adore these patterns. They are just perfect images in my opinion.
You cannot see the sentiment layer as clearly as I had hoped. But it is punched using the Rectangle Postage Punch. The sentiment itself is from the Ghoulish Goodies stamp set. Good To The Last Bite fit the image in my mind perfectly!
The finishing touch is the heart above the sentiment. It is from the Dog Builder Punch. I finished it off with a small Pearl for some bling.
Thank you for stopping by today! I really appreciate it. And I would love to hear from you to see if you agree with my animal humor! I have added the measurements below, and have all of the products listed at the bottom of the page.
Measurements:
base of Basic Black is 4 1/4 X 11, folded in half
Real Red layer is 4 1/8 X 5 3/8
DSP large layer is 4 X 5 1/4
Dog layer is 2 3/8 X 2 1/4 and 2 1/2 X 2 3/8
Cat layer is 2 7/8 X 1 3/8 and 3 X 1 1/2
layer behind sentiment is 1 1/2 X 2 1/8
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Today’s card is a perfect layout to use leftover strips of designer paper. You can alter everything easily to coordinate for a specific occasion. My version today is a Winter or Christmas card. Although the colors are not your traditional Christmas colors by any means.
The jolly polar bear is from the Warm & Toasty stamp set. It is full of cute winter images. The DSP is the Play With Pattern Designer Series Paper 6×6 stack. I love all of the colors in the package. I chose the Night of Navy and Calypso Coral for my pairing.
The bear is stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored using Stamin’ Blends. There really is not much to color. I did highlight the edges of the bear with the Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend to show the “cold”. It does not show up very much in the photo.
The sentiment is from the Host Rewards stamp set A Merry Hello. It is an adorable stamp set that was high on my must have list when the Mini Catalog debuted. I love the look of stamping on DSP. I just forget to do that sometimes.
I have all of the measurements listed just below so you can give your scraps pieces a new look. Thank you for visiting today! I really appreciate you stopping by and love to hear from you. I very much appreciate your comments. Although I had some glitches on Wednesday’s blog hop with comments. They all went to spam! Yikes!! Hopefully that is all corrected now.
Measurements :
Calypso Coral base card is 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, folded in half
Night of Navy layer is 4 1/8 X 5 3/8
Center Calypso Coral layer is 3 1/8 X 2 7/8
Center bear layer is 3 X 2 3/4
left side strip of DSP is 1 1/4 X 5 3/8
bottom sentiment DSP is 3/4 X 4
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I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s InKing Royalty Blog Hop! I added a little Note that I had a bonus project to share with you today. Using the negatives from the die cut leaves, I created three note cards that are perfect little Thinking Of You type cards. I am making more than three, but these are the three designs.
This one is die cut with Just Jade card stock and the stamping is in Just Jade as well. The plaid is the Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper. (I used different sheets of the Plaid Tidings for all of the cards.) I also added a Misty Moonlight In Color Enamel Dot to coordinate with the Misty Moonlight in the DSP. There is Just Jade in the DSP also, it just doesn’t show much in the photo.
For this card, I backed the Bumblee card stock with Basic Black to match the Black in the Plaid Tidings DSP. The sentiment is in Memento Tuxedo Black. I also added a Bumblee In Color Enamel Dot. The black and white baker’s twine is from the Playful Pets Trim Combo. It worked perfectly here.
This is the final one. I think this piece of the plaid worked best with the Cinnamon Cider card stock. Due to the length of the stem of this leaf, it needed a touch of something. It received a bow made of Linen Thread . The Bumblebee In Color Enamel Dot seems the best match for the sentiment due to the lighter tones in the plaid. The sentiment is stamped in Cinnamon Cider.
I hope I inspired you to make use of the negatives left from these gorgeous leaves. It is hard for me to choose which I like best, the leaf or the negative! Please let me know your thoughts. I love to hear from you. And please know that even though my responses do not show in the post, I respond by email to every comment. I feel that is a more personal touch.
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Welcome to InKing Royalty’s August Blog Hop! During this year’s blog hops, we are enjoying a year of celebrations. This month’s projects celebrate Autumn Weather, so prepare yourself for projects that are filled with warm tones and beautiful nods to the upcoming change in weather. We are excited to share our creations with you today! After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.
To get my mind into the Fall weather, I used a mix of Annual Catalog and the Mini Catalog. I have paired old and new and the layout is a really good one for most stamps and occasions. But the most important items are the beautiful Stampin’ Up! Colors that I have used. They are beautiful individually, but really shout FALL when together.
This is one of my most favorite cards ever! I love the details of the embossed layer as well as the definition on the leaves. Not to mention the sentiment! You cannot go wrong with an encouraging word or two.
I started with the Love of Leaves Bundle. It was at the top of my list from the Mini Catalog. The distinctive stamping of the leaves is only topped by the detail in the dies. I did tone on tone with the new In Colors of Just Jade, Bumblebee and Cinnamon Cider. The background circle is also Bumblee card stock.
The embossed Sahara Sand piece is done using the Old World Paper 3D Embossing Folder. I LOVE the look of this. It has So Much detail to it.
The banner is cut using the Banners Pick A Punch. The sentiment is from the Love of Leaves stamp set as well. The finishing touch is a few of the Champagne Rhinestones in a few places.
NOTE: Do not throw away your negatives from die cutting the leaves. I have an added extra to share with you tomorrow by using those negatives! So stop back in tomorrow for a bonus idea.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn Stamps. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!
Thank you for hopping along with us. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:
Sunday was my Stamp Club meeting and one of the ladies had a birthday (Faye!). Her favorite color is Purple! So I made her a Highland Heather Birthday Card.
The stamp set is Tasteful Touches. I have not used it but once or twice, but in making this card, I came to love those flowers. I stamped it on and half off the paper. They are colored with the Highland Heather Stampin’ Blends. I went around the dark areas with the darker blend and then over the entire flower with the lighter one.
I used Highland Heather card stock as the base. The Whisper White narrow layer showing is to help pop the white from the Gorgeous Grape DSP. It is from the Brights Designer Series Paper 6×6 Pack.
To add some extra texture, I added the Square Vellum Doily behind the center piece. It is placed in a diamond orientation. The final touch is the Epoxy Drops to each flower center. The frosted drops seem to match the Vellum Doily.
Measurements:
8 1/2 X 5 1/2 base of Highland Heather
4 1/8 X 5 3/8 layer of Whisper White
4 X 5 1/4 layer of Brights DSP
4 5/8 X 2 1/4 layer of Highland Heather
4 1/2 X 2 1/8 focal layer of Whisper White
Thank you very much for stopping in today. I love reading your comments. It may not appear that I respond to comments, but please know that I definitely do!! I send an email Thanking each person for their comment.
I hope you will come back tomorrow as it is the August InKing Royalty Blog Hop. There will be a lot of great ideas for you to see.
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I think the new Nothing Better Than Bundle is so stinking cute! It has cute sentiments and matching designs. Today’s version is a cutie.
The chocolate with Melon Mambo reminds me of the Whtman’s Samplers boxes of chocolates my Mom loved when I was growing up. I knew if they had any “color” on them, that it wasn’t just chocolate. I remember biting into a few and then putting them back ! 🙂
To replicate the fruity chocolates, I stamped the solid image with Soft Suede and then the outline with Melon Mambo. I love the photopolymer stamps for making this type stamping so easy to get just right.
The banner is a scrap of In Color Brights 6×6 DSP . I just trimmed it a touch down to 2″ and used the Banner Triple Punch. The “Chocolate” is stamped on a strip of Whisper White cut 3/4 X 2 1/4. Again, I could place it perfectly on a small strip due to being able to see through the stamp.
Thank you for stopping by today. I really appreciate it. I hope my chocolate card reminds you of your favorite candies.
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Today’s card is a quick, cute and easy to make multiples of. I am using the Whisper White Notecards and Envelopes. The star of this card though is “leftovers” from other cards. I love “Leftovers” !!!
The “Leftover” is the DSP in the center. If you are a regular follower of my posts, you may recognize it from Wednesday’s Pal Blog Hop. This is the die cut center of the “frame” for Santa Claus. You can see that post HERE.
I keep all of my pieces that are die cut leftovers in a little basket on my desk. I was looking for a quick, but cute, card for today and spied this piece. I added the background of Real Red card stock for a bit more color. The ornament is from the Christmas Gleaming stamp set and is punched with the small ornament punch. (This is one of the Returning Favorites Bundles in the Mini Catalog)
The ornament is stamped in Real Red and colored with the Light Just Jade Stampin’ Blend. I stamped the sentiment and since it is just a rectangle, cut it out with my paper snips. To give it the backing, I simply adhered it to the Real Red card stock and fussy cut again. The finishing touch of the ribbon bow is a cutie! It is from the Playful Pets Trim Combo and has been used on many other projects.
Thank you for visiting today. I really appreciate it and would love for you to leave me a comment.
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It is so hot and muggy these days here in the south that I have been wishing for Fall. In prepping for my card club and going through stamp sets, I stopped on a new one that made Fall seem a bit closer.
The stamp set I stopped on was Celebration Tidings. It is a very versatile set that pairs with the Celebration Dies that are a varying size of the same layering die. I chose to use the floral image and this gorgeous sentiment. I love the beautiful cursive font used here.
The background is the Greenery pair of Embossing folders. There are two different , smaller size, embossing folders. This is the one I named #1. Because it is narrow, it leaves a mark along the top and bottom if you use a full size layer of card stock as I did. I was careful to get the card stock centered in the die, so the line is on the top and bottom like it is supposed to be there!
The dies used for the image and the background are the Tasteful Labels Dies. The DSP is the Cinnamon Cider DSP from the 2020-2022 In Color 6×6 DSP. I adore the texture shown in the paper. I used the Banner Pick A Punch for the sentiment layer.
Thank you very much for visiting today! I love to hear from and appreciate your comments.
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