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Stamp Review Crew - Art Gallery Stamp Set

Stampin’ Up! Stitched Rectangles and Basket Weave 3D Embossing Folder

It's the third Monday of January and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew Blog Hop.  We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the  stamp set Timeless Tropical. You have likely come from  Mickey Roberts’ blog 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.

The stamp set we are featuring this week is from the new January-June Mini Catalog.  The Art Gallery Bundle is an amazing set.  I rate it right up there with Painted Poppies.  What I love about both these sets is the are designed to look like impressionistic brush strokes.  The beauty is the stamped images don’t have to be perfect to be - well - perfect!  These projects are super easy.  Everyone knows it’s a flower, so feel free to be creative - I did!

My first project starts out with a Basic White card front with the retired Basket Weave 3D Embossing folder and matted on Mossy Meadow Card Stock.

The flower bloom first uses So Saffron ink on So Saffron card stock.  It is accented with Pumpkin Pie ink.  The leaves are stamped with Old Olive ink on Pear Pizzazz card stock.  This set has a matching set of dies which makes it super easy to cut out both images.  They are mounted on a rectangle of Basic White card stock cut out using one of the Stitched Rectangles die sets.  Mount this on the card front using Mini Dimensionals.

The sentiment was stamped on Basic White card stock using Mossy Meadow ink and attached to the card front using Mini Dimensionals.

My second project started by stamping three flowers - Crushed Curry/Pumpkin Pie, Bermuda Bay/Coastal Cabana, and Flirty Flamingo/Poppy Parade.  Cut them out using the die from the Floral Gallery Die set.

I cut a piece of Basic White card stock 4x5 1/4”. I placed the three flowers so I knew where to stamp the stems.  Then one at a time I moved the flower, stamped the stem using Old Olive ink, and put the flower back.  Fill in the bottom of the card by inking just the leaves on the stem.  Attach the flowers using Mini Dimensionals.

Stamp the sentiment using Mossy Meadow ink.  

 

Next stop on the Hop is Lou Kitzelman’s blog where she'll

wow you with her beautiful design skills.

Stamp Review Crew Bonus Hop - Sale-a-bration!

Stampin’ Up! Heal Your Heart, Brushed Blooms and Art Gallery

It's the first month of Sale-e-bration and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew Bonus Hop.  We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the  stamp set Timeless Tropical. You have likely come from Betty Traciak‘s Kitty Stamp blog 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.

🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year!🎶  No, it’s not Christmas again OR Back to School (although I’m sure many of you are hoping it’s soon)!  It’s Sale-a-bration!  New stamps and free stuff are better than Christmas!  So the Stamp Review Crew decided to feature the free stuff! Since I’m a sucker for sentiment stamps AND cursive fonts, Heal Your Heart was the clear choice.  I’ve also loved paintbrush style image stamps, so I chose Art Gallery and Brushed Blooms from the January - June Mini Catalog to compliment the Heal Your Heart set.

My first card is a simple monochromatic project using black, white, Smoky Slate and Basic Gray.

My second project features a retired Cut & Emboss set called Heirloom Frames in Old Olive.  It’s gilded with silver ink and a brayer.  The background is Mossy Meadow embossed with the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder.

My third project is the most involved.  The sentiment was stamped on Whisper White using several different shades of blue (Pretty Peacock, Balmy Blue and Bermuda Bay) and our Stamparatus.  I used our new Blending Brushes and several pink inks (Flirty Flamingo, Cajun Craze, Melon Mambo and Calypso Coral) for the background. The roses are from the new Blended Blooms in Cajun Craze ink and matted on a piece of Cajun Craze Cardstock.

Next stop on the Hop is Lou Kitzelman’s

With A Bow On Top blog

where she'll wow you with

her beautiful design skills.

 

 

New Stampin’ UP! Bundle - in Bloom

There’s no sound for this video but the techniques are clear enough.  You’ll see “direct to paper” ink application, layering of the components, and creating your own Designer Series Paper.  Links to the products used are below the video.

Enjoy!

Stamp Review Crew - So Sentimental

Stampin’ UP! Playful Alphabet and Word Wishes Dies

It's the first Monday of January AND 2021 and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew.  We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the  stamp set Timeless Tropical. You have likely come from Lou Kitzelman’s “With A Bow On Top” blog 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.

Was it terrible (or cheating!) that I chose the obvious theme for today’s blog hop?  It’s so close to New Year’s Day that I couldn’t pass it up! Minimal supplies and minimal effort produce a beautiful card that looks like you spent HOURS creating it.  Although this card just published today, the pic was taken exactly one week earlier as we were getting 10” of snow.

This card started by dry embossing a 3 3/4” x 5” piece of retired Brushed Silver card stock with the Winter Snow Embossing folder and matting it on a 4” x 5 1/4” piece of Basic Black card stock.

I cut out the 2021 mat from the Stitched So Sweetly dies using Basic Black card stock and dry embossing it using the same embossing folder as above.  The numbers were cut from the Playful Alphabet die set using Gold Foil card stock and glued to the mat.  It’s mounted on the card front using Dimensionals.

The script words were cut out of Gold Foil card stock using the Word Wishes die set (an indispensable die set, in my estimation) and glued to the card front using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

Although the inside sentiment is more associated with a birthday or anniversary, it’s also perfect to celebrate a much needed New Year!

 
Next stop on the Hop is Betty Traciak’s blog Kitty Stamps where she'll

wow you with her beautiful design skills.

My Blue and White Period

Stampin’ UP! Snowflake Wishes and So Many Snowflakes Dies

If you tuned in to my Stamp Review Crew post on Monday you saw we featured the Snowflake Splendor Suite.  I’m usually not to excited about designing in blue.  Not my favorite color.  However as I’m typing this post out I’m wearing a blue shirt.  Hmmmm.....  Truth be told after I created my SRC post I had this hexagon cut out in Bermuda Bay I wanted to use,  so I duplicated the technique I used in that post with my favorite retired stamp set of all times Lovely As A Tree.  It’s amazing how the “lights” on the tree seem to glow in the dark!

See what I mean by the lights lighting up in the dark!  Enlarge the pic to see what I mean.  

To see how I created the tree, check out my SRC post.  
I used a Chalk Marker to add the “lights” and lighten up the snow under the tree.

It’s mounted on a piece of Snowflake Splendor DSP matted in Pacific Point card stock.

The sentiment is stamped in Pacific Point ink on Whisper White card stock. The background is another snowflake cluster stamp from the set in Pool Party as the background.

The snowflake is cut from retired Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper.

Stamp Review Crew - Snowflake Wishes

Stampin’ UP! Snowflake Splendor DSP and So Many Snowflakes Dies

It's the third Monday of December and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew.  We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the stamp set suite Snowflake Wishes. You have likely come from Jay Soriano’s blog Mitosu Crafts 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.

Snowflake Wishes is part of a suite of products called Snowflake Splendor Suite.  This suite contains everything you need to create a color coordinated project with very little effort.

This is my favorite time of year.  It’s a time to dress up your home with sparkle and the fragrant smell of fresh pine and cookies fresh from the oven.  The above pic was taken in front of our tree in our cabin in the San Jacinto Mountains of Idyllwild California.  In fact, since this pandemic started, all of the backgrounds to my cards have been here.  Since the pic gave you a peek of our tree, I thought I’d include a pic of the whole tree.  Click the image to get a clear pic of the whole tree.  I thought ‘what better place to take a picture of a Christmas card than in front of a Christmas tree!’  But enough of the cabin.  Let’s get to the card!

This card was inspired by a card I received many years ago.  Do you save Christmas cards you like?  It’s been sitting on my stamping desk all season just waiting for an opportunity to use the inspiration.  The tree image is from the Winter Woods stamp set.  It was stamped on Bermuda Bay card stock using VersaMark™️ Ink and embossed with Clear Embossing Powder. I used a quarter of a Stamping Sponge (cut them in quarters using a pair of sharp scissors) to apply Pacific Point ink over the image.  Wipe off the excess ink on the image using a tissue.

I used the frame die from the So Many Snowflakes dies to cut out the frame from a piece of the Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper.  I used the same die to cut out the frame on a pieces of Glimmer Paper.  I used the retired Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper because my Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper didn’t arrive on time.

Then I used the Stitched Nested Labels die that was a size larger than the So Many Snowflakes frame die to create the Glimmer frame and glued it on top of the DSP.  

Place the DSP/Glimmer frame over the embossed tree image and mat it on a piece of Pacific Point card stock.  I added a few Opal Rounds from the upcoming 2021 January - June Mini Catalog for accents.  These are part of the Sand & Sea Suite and IT IS GORGEOUS!

The sentiment was stamped on Whisper White card stock using Bermuda Bay ink and cut out using the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch and a 3/4” strip of Whisper White card stock!

 

 

Next stop on the Hop is Cindy Elam’s Heart’s Delight blog where she'll

wow you with her beautiful design skills.

 

Which Dwarf Are You?

With winter just around the corner, I thought this might be a great time to visit Snow....White.  If I were one of the 7 Dwarfs, I would probably be Doc - I’m very analytical!  Which one would you be - and why?
Leave a comment below...

Stamp Review Crew - Gnome For The Holidays

Stampin’ UP! Heartwarming Hugs and Stampin’ Blends

It's the first Monday of December (17 more shopping days left) and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew.  We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the  stamp set Timeless Tropical. You have likely come from Kelly Kent’s My Papercrafting Journey 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.

This was such a fun card to make.  The only thing I’d do differently is I’d create the inside of the card on a separate piece of cardstock and glue it inside the card after it was complete so the Blends bleed-through didn’t show on the back of the card.

I laid out the card front so the door in the stump would be high enough to show the tree hat in the inside of the card by positioning it on the card front before I stamped the tree image.  After I stamped the image I used a craft knife to cut out the door leaving the light bulb in place.  Then I colored the image.

I glued the card front created above on the Heartwarming Hugs DSP and used a craft knife to cut out the door opening in the DSP.

I glued the card front to the card base and used a craft knife to cut out the door opening in the card base.

With the card closed I lightly traced the door opening onto the inside of the card.  That was a guide so I’d know where to position the Christmas tree.

I stamped the tree hat gnome inside positioning it over the traced image.  It actually sounds more difficult than it really is.

Next stop on the Hop is Cindy Elam’s Heart’s Delight Cards where she'll

wow you with her beautiful design skills.

 

Stamp Review Crew - Perfectly Plaid

It's the fifth Monday of August and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew Bonus Round.  We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the  stamp set Perfectly Plaid. You have likely come from Kelly Kent’s blog 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.

This set is part of the 2020-21 Annual Catalog’s Holiday section.  It’s a great set to create many Clean and Simple creations.  And it had a wonderful Designer Series Paper which I used in these cards.  So let’s get started...

My first card features the Stamparatus.  And I’m going to start this by saying “Thank God for the Stamparatus.”  There’s no way I could have created this card without it.  It uses Silver Embossing Powder on Pacific  Point card stock. The sentiment is Pacific Point ink on Whisper White card stock matted on Silver Foil Card Stock. I staggered the trees to be able to fit more on the card front.  The sentiment is from the Light Me Home stamp set and matted on Silver Foil using the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch.  

My second card uses the Designer Series Paper Wrapped In Plaid matted on Green Foil using Dimentionals.  The center tree was punched from the matt but the cut out is hidden by the DSP. It is attached using Dimensionals.  The DSP has gold lines running through it. So the star is from the Stitched Stars Thinlits set cut out of Gold Foil.  The sentiment is stamped in Garden Green ink on Whisper White card stock.

 

 
Next stop on the Hop is Charlet Mallett where she'll
wow you with her beautiful design skills.

A Thanksgiving Prayer

Help me to give other people something to be thankful for:

By being generous to them when I am sad.

By being patient with them when I am tired.

By encouraging them when I am feeling low.

Most of all, draw me closer to your Son. During his time on earth, Jesus saw people who were hungry, visited people who were sick and wept over the death of his friend Lazarus. He entered a world of illness, suffering and death, so he understands what we are going through—not only because he is divine and knows all things, but because he is human and experienced all things.

So on Thanksgiving this year, teach me to be thankful, Almighty God.

And one more thing, God:

Hurry up with those vaccines.

Be safe and well,

 

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Stamp Review Crew -Coming Home

Stampin’ Up! Evergreen Forest Embossing Folder and Plaid Tidings DSP

It's the third Monday of November and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew.  We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the  stamp set bundle Coming Home.  You have likely come from Betty Traciak’s blog 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.

 

I’ve loved crafting houses since I was a kid.  We used to have little cardboard houses that you could put Christmas lights in them to light them up.  I find out now that those little houses have a name!  They’re call Putz houses.  (I’m not kidding)  Very retro circa the 1950s.  Well, these are not Putz houses but they’re the next best thing!  Four houses, three trees, one VW. (no partridge) This time around I tried to create three different projects.  I hope you enjoy them.  Please leave a comment to let me know if I’m on the right track.

The first project I created was likely the hardest.  But our cute little Volkswagen climbs the hill from our house to yours.  The sentiments are from the Fireside Trimmings Photopolymer stamp set.  Just tug the pine tree on the upper right to start the climb.

My second project looks NOTHING like the way it started out.  Although the photo doesn’t show it, adding a Wink of Stella gives the Evergreen Forest a gentle sparkle. The house has a brushed copper foil roof, green foil pine trees, silver foil windows, and a red foil door.

My third and final projects the easiest of the three.  I love the Plaid Tidings DSP and wanted to feature one of them  I thought making the focal points monochromatic would allow both the DSP and the stamped images shine.  Enjoy!

 
Next stop on the Hop is Jay Soriano’s blog where he’ll

wow you with his beautiful design skills.

 

Stamp Review Crew - Love of Leaves

Stampin’ Up!’s Love of Leaves and Stitched Leaves Dies

It's the first Monday of November (Can you believe it?) and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew.  We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the  stamp set Love of Leaves Bundle. You have likely come from Holly Krautkremer‘s blog 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.

   

   

I didn't like this set when I first saw it.  But now I love its versatility.  The first card I created is somewhat playful and the other is more elegant.  Either would be a great Thanks You card, Thanksgiving card, or just because it's fall.

For the friendship card I used every yellow that Stampin' Up! has to offer for the leaves and the Ornate Frames Thinlits set to frame the sentiment.  I used the retired Power of Hope embossing folder from the Sale-a-bration Power of Hope Bundle for the background. 

For the Thanksgiving card I die cut the leaf from Brushed Copper card stock.  It's mounted on a piece of Early Espresso card stock and matted it on Brushed Copper card stock.  I used the retired Layered Leaves 3D Embossing folder for the Early Espresso background. 

Next stop on the Hop is Kelly Kent where she'll

wow you with her beautiful design skills.

 

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Stamp Review Crew - Wrapped In Christmas

Stampin’ UP! Wrapped In Christmas and Heartwarming Hugs DSP

It's the third Monday of October and that means it's time for the Stamp Review Crew. We are a group of Stampin' UP! demonstrators sharing a ton of ideas focused on a single stamp set. This week we're featuring the  stamp set Wrapped In Christmas. You have likely come from Cindy Elam 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.

This stamp set is a sentiment stamp set, so there’s not a lot you can do to create unique cards unless you rely on something else to pair with it.  I chose to use Stampin’ UP!’s Heartwarming Hugs Designer Series Paper and the color palette of Real Red, Pear Pizzazz, and Mossy Meadow used in the DSP.

This style is a tried and true design for integrating Designer Series Paper.  But in the creation of this card traditionally there’s a lot of waste because of all the layers.  So I decided to use one quarter sheet of card stock and one 4” x 6” sheet of DSP.  The first pic below shows the backs of the layers so you can see where they came from.  And the second pic shows the fronts of the layers.

   

The second card was the easiest card to make thanks to the Stitched Triangles in the 2020-21 Annual Catalog and the Wrapped In Texture Embossing Folder.

The last card was probably the most difficult.  I never realized it was so hard to weave small pieces of paper.  Just an FYI, the candy striped frame was left over from my first card!  I got a lot of mileage out of the 4” x 6” piece of DSP.

 

Next stop on the Hop is Kelly Kent where she'll

wow you with her beautiful design skills.

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