Unfrogettable Stamping!

Fabulous Friday Simply Paper Design Challenge #6 for June 2013

  Happy Friday!  This week on the Sisters in Stamping blog I chose all things "Red, White and Blue" for our project theme in honor of the Fourth of July/Independence Day celebration in the U.S. next week.  In addition, my sister Cindy featured a great card layout for her Simply Paper Design challenge #6 for June which includes the color combination of midnight muse, raspberry ripple and whisper white so I decided to combine the two - I love it when I can kill two birds with one stone, which is what I did to make my card above.

   Although the sunlight washed my colors out a bit, my card does feature midnight muse designer paper from the new stack, raspberry ripple card stock that was textured with the Stripes impressions folder and lots of whisper white card stock.  I pulled out my old-timey bicycle image from the Timeless Talk stamp set and used the birthday sentiment from it as well since it is for America's birthday (and I can use it later for someone!).  I wanted to feature another color, so pulled in crumb cake as an additional neutral.  I don't have any current star images or punches so left those off my card but stuck pretty close to the layout, don't you think?

  For even more red, white and blue inspiration, be sure and hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog after Noon EST today to check out what Karla and Rachel came up with this week.  Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the rest of your weekend!  Hope you find some time to stamp... I am getting together with my team for our annual Summer Shoe Box Swap meeting tomorrow and am so excited!!  I'll be sure to share pics of those projects with you over the next couple of weeks.

Products used with today's project include:

Stamp set:  Timeless Talk

Paper:  2013-2015 In Color designer paper stack (midnight muse), raspberry ripple, whisper white, crumb cake

Ink:  raspberry ripple, midnight muse, crumb cake

Accessories:  Big Shot, Labels Collection framelits, Striped textured impressions folder, crumb cake 1/2" seam binding ribbon, paper snips, stampin' sponge, stampin' dimensionals, Tombow multipurpose adhesive

  To order any of the products used with today's project or any other Stampin' Up! product, please visit my online store or contact me for assistance with your order.  Thanks!!!

 

My birthday button bracelet

  Guess what is in this box?  My good friend and fellow Sisters in Stamping designer Karla Anders sent me a super-fun button bracelet for my birthday and she even created this gift box to match... how fun is that?!?!?!  Below you'll see the box opened up - isn't she clever?!  I am definitely going to be making some of these!

  Here is my daughter Kelsey modeling it for me... it was too hard to grab a photo of it on my own wrist. 

Thanks so much, Karla!!!  I love it!!!

 

Video: Quick and Easy Gingham Garden card tutorial

 

   Here's a video tutorial that I created to show you how to make this quick and easy (QE) card featuring the Gingham Garden designer paper pack and coordinating designer washi paper that I shared with you yesterday.

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  You will find the complete supply list below to recreate this card.  You can purchase these products in my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order.

Supply list

Stamp sets:  A Round Array (Wood Mount #129087, $18.95, Clear Mount #129090, $14.95) and Label Love (Wood Mount #130619, $24.95 or Clear Mount #130622, $17.95) or purchase the bundle which includes the stamp set AND artisan label punch at a 15% savings (Wood Mount #132723, $34.75 or Clear Mount #132722, $28.75)

Paper:  Gingham Garden DSP (four of 1-1/4" x 1-1/4"), melon mambo (5" x 3-1/2" mat and scrap piece for punches), whisper white (2" x 4" for punches), scraps of night of navy, daffodil delight and island indigo for punches

Ink:  daffodil delight and island indigo

Accessories: Note card & envelope set (#131527, $5.95), Artisan Label punch (#130920, $15.95), 7/8" scallop circle punch (#129404, $12.95), Punch Pack punch set (#118309, $16.95), 1" circle punch (119868, $12.95), 3/16" corner punch (#119871, $6.95), Basic pearl jewels (#119247, $4.95), stampin' dimensionals (#104430, $3.95), paper snips (#103579, $9.95), bone folder (#102300, $6.95), Tombow multipurpose adhesive (#110755, $3.95), glue dots (#103683, $4.95), Gingham Garden designer washi tape (#129314, $4.95), stampin' trimmer (#126889, $29.95), piercing tool (#126189, $3.95) and stampin' pierce mat (#126199, $4.95)

   Thanks for stopping by today - I appreciate you taking a little bit of your day to spend some time with me here!!  Don't forget to visit my online store to place your order or contact me if you need assistance. 

Quick and easy Gingham Garden notecard

  My quick and easy (QE) card this week for my video tutorial is one that I CASE'd from my team member Julia Miller.  She created a similar card for our new catalog swap this month (don't worry - I'll be sharing those soon!).  I loved the layout and scaled it down for this notecard sized card (5" x 3-1/2").  It features the Gingham Garden designer paper pack along with the coordinating washi tape, images from the Label Love and A Round Array stamp sets and a variety of different punches.  The color palette includes melon mambo, island indigo, daffodil delight, night of navy and whisper white - all taken from the Gingham Garden designer paper.  Don't you just love being able to pull color ideas from your designer paper?!

 Thanks for stopping by today... don't forget that my video will be available to view tomorrow.  I'll have a list all of the dimensions and the supplies used in my blog post, so please check back.  Have a wonderful day!

Extreme birthday card...

  My 11 year old son Brandon recently attended a birthday party for his friend Noah who just turned 12.  What kind of card do you make a preteen boy?  I pulled out some favorite retired stamps - Extreme Elements and Extreme Skateboard - and created this card above which Brandon approved of, so I think I did okay.  I created the splat with daffodil delight and midnight muse ink rock-n-rolled around the edges which I then spritzed with water.  I triple-stamped it, huffing each time to re-moisten the ink, and added additional splatter with my color spritzer tool and the gumball green stampin' write marker.  The birthday sentiment is from the Itty Bitty Banners stamp set. 

  I like the way this card turned out and will have to remember it for future cards for Brandon's friends.  Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!

Another Eastern Elegance designer paper project

  So I am totally loving the new Eastern Elegance designer series paper... maybe that is because coastal cabana is my favorite new In Color! Who knew pairing it with crushed curry and smoky slate would be so beautiful?!

  I chose to use a monochromatic coastal cabana piece of the designer paper for my project, pairing it with whisper white and melon mambo.  Really reminds me of the 80's!!

  Here is a close-up of the sentiment - if it looks familiar, that is because I CASE'd my QE birthday card from earlier this week.  I used a stamp from the Label Love stamp set and the coordinating artisan label punch (LOVE this and you can buy both in a BUNDLE and save 15%!).

  Thanks for stopping by today - if you'd like to purchase any of the product used with today's project, please visit my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order. 

 

My Fabulous Eastern Elegance designer paper project

  Happy Friday and happy first day of summer!!  It is gorgeous and sunny here in Central Virginia - how about where you are?  This week on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are focusing on the gorgeous new designer paper in the Stampin' Up! catalog and I used the Eastern Elegance package for my altered composition notebook above.  This paper is beautiful and features the new colors of smoky slate, coastal cabana and the returning crushed curry along with whisper white.  I also pulled out my Big Shot and used several framelits plus some punches and pearls to complete my project.  I added texture to the basic gray card stock on the spine of the notebook by using water in my Stampin' Spritzer and crinkling it up when damp.

  Here is a close-up of the focal image on my notebook... I love the Dress-Up framelits and used them to cut out my smoky slate dressform and dress from the designer paper.  I embellished it with a piece of the coastal cabana ruffled stretch trim and some pearls.  The crushed curry and whisper white ovals were cut out using the Ovals collection framelits and I added texture to the whisper white cardstock with the Perfect Polka Dots impressions folder.  Easy-peasy and oh so pretty!

  Here is a close-up of the sentiment piece - I used a stamp from the Feel Goods set with coastal cabana ink and cut it out using the Deco Labels framelits.  The flowers were cut using the Boho Blossoms punch and the small scallop circle from the Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack and embellshed with pearls.  I also added a few tiny pearls to my sentiment. I really love how this notebook turned out and don't think I can part with it... I think I will use it as an inspiration journal.

  Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have been inspired and will use your designer paper to alter an everyday item and make it fabulous!  For even more inspiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what Rachel created this week.  For a complete supply list, please see below.  Place an order via my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order.  Have a great rest of your weekend!!!

Supplies used with today's project include:

Stamp set:  Feel Goods

Paper:  Eastern Elegance DSP, whisper white, crushed curry, coastal cabana, smoky slate, basic gray

Ink:  coastal cabana

Accessories:  Big Shot, Ovals collection framelits, Dress Up framelits, Deco Label framelits, Perfect Polka Dot impressions folder, Boho Blossoms punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Basic pearl jewels, coastal cabana ruffled stretch trim, stampin' dimensionals, Tombow multipurpose adhesive, sticky strip

 

Video: Quick and Easy "Label Love" birthday card

I'm not sure why the video never finished processing on YouTube yesterday, but I have re-uploaded it and you can now view it.  Sorry for the delay!

  Here's a video tutorial that I created to show you how to make this quick and easy (QE) birthday card featuring the new Label Love stamp set that I shared with you yesterday.

If you are viewing this post in a reader or email, click HERE

to hop over to YouTube to view the video.

  You will find the complete supply list below to recreate this card.  You can purchase these products in my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order.

Supply list

Stamp set:  Label Love (Wood Mount #130619, $24.95 or Clear Mount #130622, $17.95) or purchase the bundle which includes the stamp set AND artisan label punch at a 15% savings (Wood Mount #132723, $34.75 or Clear Mount #132722, $28.75)

Paper:  Polka Dot Parade DSP (4-3/4" x 3-1/4"), whisper white (4-1/2" x 3" panel and 3" x 2" scrap), daffodil delight (1/2" x 2-1/2"), real red (2" x 2" scrap)

Ink:  real red

Accessories: Note card & envelope set (#131527, $5.95), Artisan Label punch (#130920, $15.95), Boho Blossoms punch (#119858, $16.95), Punch Pack punch set (#118309, $16.95), Blossom punch (#125603, $16.95), Basic rhinestone jewels (#119246, $4.95), stampin' dimensionals (#104430, $3.95), paper snips (#103579, $9.95), bone folder (#102300, $6.95), Tombow multipurpose adhesive (#110755, $3.95)

   Thanks for stopping by today - I appreciate you taking a little bit of your day to spend some time with me here!!  Don't forget to visit my online store to place your order or contact me if you need assistance. 

Quick & Easy birthday card featuring the Label Love stamp set

  I designed this Quick and Easy (QE) birthday card featuring the new Label Love stamp set and coordinating artisan label punch for my video tutorial this week.  Be sure and check that out tomorrow when it goes live!!  This set is one of my favorites in the new Stampin' Up! catalog - I have plenty in stock so let me know if you want one.  It is chock full of fabulous card and papercrafting projects sure to inspire you and there are plenty of wonderful stamp sets, embellishments and tools to help you achieve "unfrogettable" projects!

  Thanks for stopping by today... don't forget that my video will be available to view tomorrow.  I'll have a list all of the dimensions and the supplies used in tomorrow's blog post so please check back.  Have a wonderful day!

A few more Father's Day cards to share...

  I wanted to share the cards that my kids made for my husband because I'm so proud of their work!!  But first, above is the card I made for my Dad... he is an Eagle Scout so I love to make him cards with eagle images.  This card features the recently retired In Wilderness stamp set along with the new Art Deco framelits, Square Lattice impressions folder, natural trim and silver brads.

Here is my son Brandon's card - we love the When I Grow Up set that retired a few years ago!!

And this is the card that Kelsey came up with featuring the retired Power Up stamp set.

Last but not least is the card created by Amanda - she knows how much her Daddy loves wolves and this retired Wolf set is one I will never part with!

  Thanks for stopping by... we are headed to a summer league swim meet this evening -  I'm really hoping the thunderstorms they are calling for don't happen or it will be a very long night!  Have a great rest of your day!