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09/30/2016

World Card Making Day Specials

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Do you remember the last time you received a card in the mail? In a sea of junk mail and bills, a card is a simple thing that really stands out to the person who receives it. Sending a card is a small gesture that shows just how much you care about that special someone in your life. With World Card Making Day coming up on October 1, celebrate by making and sending a handmade card to someone who could use a little recognition, love, or just a boost (which is anyone, really!). And in celebration of World Card Making Day, from October 1-5, you can save up to 25% on card making essentials that can be used to share your love all year long!

WCMD Prices 2016

Click on the items below between October 1st and October 5th and save up to 25%

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09/29/2016

Pals Paper Arts 320 - Your Kindness

PPA-320-Sep29Stampin' UP! Thoughtful Branches and Woodland

It's Thursday and time for Pals Paper Arts weekly challenge.  This week it's a sketch challenge by Pal Dawn Tidd.  It's elegant in its simplicity!  If you've never played with us, it's time to join in.  It's super easy to play and challenges are just that - challenges on how you interpret a sketch or color palette.  There's no wrong answer so please join us!

I think simple sketch challenges are the most difficult fort me.  In case you haven't noticed, I don't do simple very well.  So while this is not super simple, it truly is easy.  I call it my homage to trees.  There are three different tree stamp products in this card.  And they all work beautifully together.  Thoughtful Branches is still available in case you haven't picked it up yet.  It's a great set and, I think, rivals Lovely As A Tree in it's flexibility!

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Step by Step Tips:

  • A piece of Whisper White card stock was run through the Woodland Embossing Folder and mounted on Delightful Dijon card stock.
  • Next I took the small leaf from Lovely As A Tree and stamped in randomly on the card face using Delightful Dijon Classic Ink.  I then colored it in using a Crushed Curry marker.  To give the illusion that some of the leaves are falling behind the trees, I masked off the tree trunks with a scrap of card stock.
  • I took a piece of vellum card stock and stamped the single leaf from Thoughtful Branches on the strap to form a border using Delightful Dijon Classic Ink and attached it using a trail of SNAIL behind the leaves where it won't show.
  • The sentiment is stamped on a banner of vellum using Memento Ink and attached using two Dimensional.  Simple!

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09/28/2016

Inspiration Pics

I love the fact that my phone has a built in camera!  I rarely have a camera with me but I ALWAYS have my phone!  Funny story.  One night while I was ushering at the McCallum, a patron asked me if I would take a picture of her and her daughter.  Beauty and The Beast was playing and her daughter was all dressed up as Belle.  Of course I said yes.  Then she handed me a camera!  Who takes pictures with a camera any more.  I was so embarrassed because i couldn't figure out how to use it!

The main reason I love always having a photo taking device with me is for inspiration photos.  You know I've always said inspiration is everywhere.  It's true!  Here are just a few of the pics I've taken.  They might be texture inspiration, color inspiration, or even as blatant as a card in a gift shop I like.  These are my orange and red inspirations.  I hope you enjoy these:

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Hallmark is getting some really great ornaments - this one's for Halloween.

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This was a feather I found up in Idyllwild.  It was placed on a red table top.

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Labor Day is a big Yard Sale weekend.  This was a tabletop at one of the sales.

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A quick snapshot of a Mexican Bird of Paradise






 

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09/27/2016

Technique Tuesday - Reverse Masking

It's Tuesday and that's the day that I pull together a video - either Stampin' UP!'s or mine - that shows you a card making technique.  Today we'll be concluding our training on masking with a technique called reverse masking.  It's what you do with what's left after you die cut or punch a shape out of a piece of card stock.  There are a few retired products used in this video.  So I've included suggestions for alternate products.  Below the video you'll find links to the other three masking posts.  Be creative.  Have Fun!

Basic Masking

Vignette Masking

Masking Techniques

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09/25/2016

Better Together - Cheerful Tags

Okay, I admit it.  I LOVE stamp sets that coordinate with Framelits.  You don't need to purchase both, but if you do, you get Bundle Pricing with a 10% discount.  The Cheerful Tags stamp set and Framelits die set is a perfect example of this flexibility.  Donna will introduce you to the set and give you some great ideas for using them - and then YOU'LL come up with great ideas for using them.  Please share!

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09/24/2016

Product Showcase - Moments Like These - Project Life by Stampin' UP!

Project Life has been a member of the Stampin' UP! family for quite some time now.  Each themed kit is available in two parts - Card Collections and Accessory Packs.  But we never really look at these kits as potential for making greeting cards.  Today I'm featuring the "Moments Like These" Card Collection and Accessory Packs as they are used for memory keeping.  But look at them as a great new "card making kit."  After all there's nothing that says you HAVE to use these in a Project Life album!

 

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09/23/2016

50% Off Select Photopolymer Stamp Sets

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All of these stamps are 50% OFF

While supplies last.

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Texting Humor

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09/22/2016

Pals Paper Arts 319 - Reason For The Season

PPA-319-Sep22Stampin' UP! Reason for the Season and Embellished Ornaments

It's Thursday and time for Pals Paper Arts weekly challenge.  This week it's a color challenge by Pal Peggy Noe.  And what a great color palette it is! What goes better together than pink and green?  It's a beautiful soft palette that will be fun to work with.  I decided to rely on two Holiday sets from the 2016-17 Annual Catalog.  Let's not forget that there is a Holiday section there as well.  Be creative!  Have fun!

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Step by Step Tips:

  • Most times any time I need an outline stamped, I rely on Basic Black or Memento ink.  But they are just so dark and harsh for this pastel set of colors that I decided to use Smoky Slate instead.  It allows you to create a visible outline without smacking you in the face!  And no one likes to get smacked!
  • I created my custom ”Designer Series Paper“ by stamping multiple images on a 5” x 3 3/4“ piece of Whisper White.  Be sure to start by stamping off the card stock to give a more random and less planned look.
  • I then stamped three additional poinsettias on a scrap of Whisper White.  I colored them all in using the watercolor image provided in the set and cut the three scrap stamped ones out.
  • The sentiment is from the Embellished Ornaments set.  It's stamped on Emerald Envy card stock and white embossed.  I mounted this in the top right corner.
  • The poinsettia in the lower left is popped up using a single layer of Dimensionals and the other two have a double set of Dimensionals to create more height.  Simple!

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09/21/2016

Paper Pumpkin - September 2016

Here's the latest edition of Paper Pumpkin.  These kits are such a great value.  If you haven't already taken a look, it's definitely worth a gander!

 

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09/18/2016

Stamp Review Crew - Timeless Textures

 

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Stampin' UP! Timeless Textures and
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It's the first Monday of the month and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew.  We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators focused on sharing a ton of ideas focusing on a single stamp set.  This week we're featuring Timeless Textures. You have likely come from Bruno Bertucci on your way through this amazing hop.  If you get lost, simply click on the banner for a list of participants and get back on track.

Well now.  Here's a challenge for you.  Take a stamp set that is just full of accents and show different ways to use it.  Initially I could only think of one way to use it - as an accent!  But then I thought “Oh, c'mon Mike!  Be creative!  Have fun!”  So I decided to see just what I could create.  The mesh sure looked like an old farm fence to me...and the rest is history.  I wanted it to look like an old tin type pic.  How's this?

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Step by Step Tips:

  • Timeless TexturesI started with a 3 3/5“ x 5” piece of Crumb Cake card stock and Crumb Cake ink.  I matted it on a 4“ x 5 1/4” piece of Early Espresso card stock and then added it to a Crumb Cake card base.
  • I used the mesh stamp (lower left ->) to create the fence.
  • I used the Washi Tape stamp (upper right ->) for the fence post. 
  • The stamp second from the bottom on the left became the horizon. ->
  • The stamp second from the top on the left became the snow bank.
  • The flourish (bottom right) stamped multiple times became the tree.
  • The splatter was stamped using gold embossing powder to create lights.
  • A gold metallic enamel star topped the tree and the circles became the halo!
  • I have to cheat and use the Tin of Tags photopolymer stamp set for the sentiment - there are no greetings in an accent set!  Simple!

How'd I do?

Next stop on the Hop is Sue Plote where she'll

wow you with her beautiful design skills.

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09/17/2016

Product Showcase - Perfectly Wrapped Project Kit

Kits are really big these days.  And why wouldn't they be.  Everything is already picked out for you to create some great 3D projects.  The Perfectly Wrapped Project Kit is a perfect example of this.  This kit creates wrappings for 4 sets of four different styles.  I'm always happy to provide the extra supplies if you're in my area.  Let's get together and create!

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09/16/2016

Heels!

 I thought you all would find this interesting.  I did.  The evolution of the big heel.  It's all about prestige, even today!

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09/15/2016

Pals Paper Arts 318 - Jolly

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PPA-318-Sep15Stampin' UP! Jolly Friends and Warmth & Cheer Designer Series Paper

It's Thursday and that means it's that time again.  It's time for Pals Paper Arts Weekly Challenge.  This week it's a sketch challenge from Pal Beth Beard and I'm ready to go.  I hope you'll play along with us.  It's fun!  It's easy!  and it's FREE!!!  Just click on the link above to go to our site and post your creation.You'll have until noon on Tuesday to play this weeks challenge.

Sketches are always my favorite challenges because I think they're easier, and you have a certain amount of latitude in your creation.  Unlike color challenges which limit you to a certain color palette, sketch challenges simply give you a design and you plug in the elements.  What could be easier than that.  I always find creating the design is the hardest part.  Once that parts done, the rest is a piece of cake.

I love the Warmth and Cheer Designer Series Paper.  In fact there's very little I DON'T like in this year's Holiday catalog.  This is my first time using the new Cable Knit Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.  And no picture can do it justice.  Feeling is believing.  Check my post from yesterday for an exclusive Stampin' UP! video on it's features and benefits.

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Step by Step Tips:

  • I started by mounting a Whisper White piece of card stock embossed with the new Cable Knit embossing folder on a piece of Cherry Cobbler card stock.  It's attached to a Whisper White card base.
  • I took a red and green piece of the Warmth and Cheer DSP and cut one in a banner and the other in a square.  Pay particular attention to the pattern on the paper when you cut both so you don't crop off a piece of the design.  I mounted the red piece first.  Then I trimmed a narrow piece of the stitching and added it to the top and bottom to give it the look of a patch.  The banner is glued on top.
  • The elf face was stamped on Blushing Bride card stock using Memento Ink.  Fussy cut it out and use a sponge dauber to add blush to the checks and a Crumb Cake marker to color in the hair.  The hat and scarf are stamped with Real Red Classic Ink on Whisper White card stock. I attached the scarf to the banner first.  Then  I used White Multipurpose glue to attache the hat to the head and Dimensionals to attach the head to the card.
  • A gold embossed hassle and a Gold Foil sentiment finish the card off.  Simple!

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09/14/2016

Dynamic Embossing

Stampin' UP! Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

This Holiday catalog has introduced a bunch of new stuff, as it does every year.  But this year is different.  This year we have introduced a new style of embossing folder that will knock your socks off!  The Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder is much heavier than our other embossing folders, and there's a reason.  The resulting effect just begs to be touched. It literally pops right off the page.  Tomorrow you'll see a card created using this neat product, but for now here's a Stampim' UP! video that shows you all the features and benefits.

 

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