This was one of my September card class projects. I thought the trees from the Rinds of Love Designer Series Paper resembled sunflower stalks so I thought “what the heck”! The monochromatic background really makes the sunflowers pop! This was so easy to do with Stampin’ Blends. The Rings of Love Designer Series Paper was from the July-August Sale-a-bration catalog.
Stampin’ UP! Boughs of Holly Designer Series Paper
It's the fifth Monday of August 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 Trees For Sale. You have likely come from Cindy Elam’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 so cool. It reminds me of growing up in Michigan. Dad, mom and I would go to Christmas Tree lots a few weeks before Christmas to pick out our tree. The Christmas season didn’t begin until out tree was up and decorated. As a child the lots seemed to go on forever with fresh trees and the warming scent of pine. As an adult I have moved to an artificial tree for the environments’ sake. But every year I look forward to wandering through the tree lots to remind me of home.
It's the third Monday of August 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 Bottled Happiness. You have likely come from Nikki Spencer 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 wanted to do something other than the obvious. Or should I say in ADDITION to the obvious. So I decided to create a background “designer series paper” of my own. This is where my Stamparatus came in handy.
Here’s a tip in coloring the flower cluster. Originally I tried Stampin’ Write Markers. But the ink didn’t perform well and looked blotchy. So I used Sponge Daubers to apply the ink. The sentiment and flower bouquet were fussy cut and popped up using Dimensionals.
When I saw this stamp set, I immediately knew I had to own it. As you can see by the image below, the detail is extraordinary! And having a Stamparatus made the 2-step stamping a breeze. The blossoms are a combination of Flirty Flamingo and Real Red Classic Ink. The leaves are Old Olive. The leaves were stamped first and then the stems were stamped on top. The buds were colored with a Red Stampin’ Write Marker. The pot is Smoky Slate Classic Ink. The background is cut from the Sun Prints Designer Series Paper. The sentiment is from a stamp set in the new July-August Mini Catalog called Soft Seedlings.
It's the third Monday of June 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 background Rays of Light. You have likely come from Heidi Baks’ 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 background stamp, at first glance, doesn’t seem very flexible. I know when I first saw it I thought it would not be a very useful stamp with a singular purpose of depicting “Rays of Light!” But I bought it so I could participate in this hop, and I’m so glad I did. I was determined to show some versatility that you might not have thought of. The team of the Stamp Review Crew is very creative in our goal to present ideas you might not have thought of, so the bar was set pretty high for this one.
My first card, Happy Birthday, happened by accident. I inked the stamp with ink and then used the “kiss” technique to transfer the pattern to another solid stamp. When I stamped off I accidentally created the overlap design. It became the “technique” I used. I inked the stamp with Sweet Sorbet and laid it on my work surface face up. I carefully laid a 4” x 5.25” piece of Polished Pink cardstock on it, laid a piece of printer paper on top of that, and pressed evenly over the stamp to get a perfect impression. Then I turned the card stock 180° and repeated the process. The result is the kaleidoscope effect that I immediately fell in love with.
My second card was also an accident. Initially I was going to stamp the image on the Designer Series Paper using VersaMark and then heat emboss it using gold embossing powder. But the watermark effect on the Designer Series Paper was so amazing that I just stopped and left it as is. It REALLY looked like rays of light coming through clouds! I cut out the roses from the Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper using the Blossoming Happiness dies and arranged them over the watermark image. I’m already thinking of other ways to use this single stamp!
Happy Birthday Card
Many Thanks Card
It's the first Monday of June 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 Quiet Meadow. You have likely come from Kristie Wilson’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 fell in love with Sun Prints Designer Series Paper in the new 2022-23 Annual Catalog so I thought I’d feature it in the card and card background along with the Quiet Meadow stamp and die set. The leaves of the fern in the Designer Series Paper is a perfect pair with the die cut in the Quiet Meadow Bundle. And the flower sprig let’s the match shine through. And I love the subtle effect of the text stamp on the Designer Series Paper. It looks like it’s part of the original design. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!
It's the last Monday of May 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 He’s All That. 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.
The set we are featuring this Monday is one of the very VERY few masculine stamp sets in the 2022-23 Annual Catalog. It’s part of a suite of products called He’s The Man and it’s a sweet suite! (I couldn’t help myself!) It includes a Specialty Designer Series Paper also called He’s The Man that has two die cut sheets. For folks who are new to stamping, it gives you the ability to embellish your products with coordinating images the are pre-cut so you don’t need a Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine to get those professional looking images.
For my project I decided to use some retired Specialty Designer Series Paper that includes amazing foil accents. Although the color palette includes colors like a hot pink Melon Mambo, the graphics are bold enough to create a perfectly masculine modern card. Enjoy!
It’s the last day of my Sending Smiles series. And in my humble opinion I’ve saved the best for last. This card uses the die cuts for the flowers and the handwritten Sending Die. Although both “Smiles” are cut from Whisper White card stock, I blended Polished Pink, Pale Papaya, and Soft Succulent together before I cut out the word. In fact, those are the three colors I used for the flower. The Designer Series Paper is a beautiful subtle print in Gray Granite with handwriting. I used Iridescent Rhinestones to embellish the sentiment frame and for that elusive “i” dot. See Wednesday’s post.
