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Fabulous Friday: Joy Fold Christmas card with a twist

  Hello and Happy Friday! As we approach the final week leading up to Christmas, I wanted to share one last Christmas card with you.  Our Fabulous Friday theme for this week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog is Fun Fold cards.  I came across a Joy Fold card on Pinterest that also incorporated a Z-Fold (see that pin here) and wanted to make a card just like it. Once again I had to pull out my Gnome for the Holidays stamp set along with the Snowflake Splendor DSP to create this card.

 

 

  Here you can see how the card opens up - it is both a Z-fold and a Joy Fold card. I love it!

 

 

  How stinkin' cute is this gnome? Don't you just want to reach out and give him a hug??  I don't know if you can see it, but I "colored" his beard and  mustache with a clear Wink of Stella glimmer brush.  Balmy Blue, Ivory, Night of Navy, Smoky Slate and Soft Suede stampin' blends were used to color the rest of him.

 

 

  For the inside of the card I grabbed the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Tag Buffet stamp set - I really think the font is so pretty and festive.

  

 

  Here is one last view of my Gnome Christmas card.  For even more fabulous fun fold card ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

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Fabulous Friday: Quick & Easy Snowman Soup gift idea

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! I hope you have been enjoying my Countdown to Christmas projects so far this month (find them all here).  I am taking a break today to share this Quick & Easy gift idea that I designed as my Fabulous Friday project for the Sisters in Stamping blog.  This is my version of "homemade" Snowman Soup mix, packaged in a fun way using my stampin' stash.

 

 

  Have you ever heard of Snowman Soup? It's a fancy name for hot cocoa, made extra special with chocolate, crushed candy canes and mini marshmallows!  I pulled out one of my decorative pint size mason jars, and filled it with premade hot cocoa mix, dark chocolate chips, crushed candy canes and mini marshmallows. If you really wanted to make it special you could whip up a homemade batch of cocoa mix.  Who wouldn't love to get this gift?? 

 

 

 And to add my Stampin' Up! touch, I added my favorite Snowflake Splendor DSP to the lid and topped it with a snowman.  The Snowman Builder punch made it super easy - the hard part was gluing the tiny stick arms and carrot nose to the piece. Check out the "coal" eyes and "buttons" - can you guess what I did there?  I used a dark smoky slate stampin' blends marker and colored my rhinestone basic jewels. I love that stampin' blends can give you a variety of colors of rhinestones and pearls.  

 

 

  And since there is no stamp with the words "snowman soup", I pulled out my pacific point stampin' write marker and hand-lettered my tag. I used two of the ribbon options from the Flowers for Every Season pack to hang the tag and embellish the mason jar even more with a bow.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my Snowman Soup quick & easy gift.  For even more fabulous Christmas gift ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

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Fabulous Friday: 'Tis the Season Christmas Ornament

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! I hope you have been enjoying my Countdown to Christmas projects so far this month (find them all here).  I am taking a break today to share this Christmas ornament that I designed as my Fabulous Friday project for the Sisters in Stamping blog. It was inspired by a project shared on the blog Positively Splendid by Amy Bell. I will share a Project Sheet tutorial for this tomorrow in my email newsletter for those of you who are subscribers.

 

 

  Like my Gift Tags project that I shared yesterday, today's ornament features the 'Tis the Season 6" x 6" DSP. I love these papers - there's a great variety in the pack and the patterns all work so well together.  

 

 

 Here is a side view of the ornament - this took a while to make, definitely NOT a quick and easy project, but I LOVE the way it turned out!  There are 13 paper cones on the bottom layer and 12 on top. I added two medium daisy punches and a small bloom punch cut from the DSP to embellish the center of the ornament.

 

 

  To hide the whisper white circle that I glued all of the paper cones to and to have a place to put the ends of the ribbon, I added this sentiment to the back of the ornament. This way, no matter how you looked at it you only see the pretty DSP.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my ornament on my tree.  For even more fabulous Christmas ornament ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

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Fabulous Friday: Red and Green Ornamental Envelopes Christmas Card

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends yesterday and stuffed yourself with turkey!!  With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas just 4 short weeks away, we're sharing Red and Green Christmas cards for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog to give you more ideas and inspiration to get those handstamped cards made and in the mail soon.  

 

Ornamental Envelopes Photopolymer Stamp Set, #153434  $17.00   www.debbienylor.stampinup.net

I decided to use the Ornamental Envelopes stamp set along with the Tag Buffet set that I used in last week's project.  I really like these stamp sets and think they work well together. I like that they're both sets that offer versatility and can be used to embellish your envelopes and make tags.  

 

 

 Here is another view of my card. I decided to use a piece of crumb cake card stock for my background stamped panel since I knew I would be using a whisper white card base. I used the foliage pieces to form a wreath using garden green ink with the larger leaves image and shaded spruce ink with the smaller leaves image. I figured out that a 2-3/4" diameter circle works best and thankfully found a jar with a lid that size that I used as a guide. I outlined it lightly with a pencil and you can't even see it under the ink.  After stamping the foliage (I inked full strength and without re-inking to get variation in color), I went back over it wih the berries image and real red ink.

 

 

  I used the corner image with soft suede ink to embellish the corners of the stamped panel and added a tiny pearl jewel in each. The Merry Christmas sentiment (from the Tag Buffet stamp set) was added to a 1" strip of whisper white card stock that I cut using the Lovely Labels Pick-a-Punch. And you must know by now how much I love the Plaid Tidings DSP pack - I had to add a strip to my card.  And check out that cute bow!  It's made from the Real Red Braided Linen Trim that is available in the Holiday catalog.

 

 

  For the inside, I stamped a sentiment from the Tag Buffet stamp set using shaded spruce ink and then embellished in the upper right corner using the leaf foliage image from the Ornamental Envelopes stamp set with garden green ink. Once that was done I added a hanging ornament stamped with real red ink.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my card.  For even more fabulous red & green Christmas card ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

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Fabulous Friday: Quick & Easy Tag Buffet Christmas Card

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! This week we're sharing quick & easy Christmas cards for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog. I can't even believe that Thanksgiving is next week and Christmas is only 5 weeks away. 

 

Tag Buffet stamp set: Item #153612 $18.00

  I decided to use the Tag Buffet stamp set that I recently ordered. This stamp set coordinates with a tag kit, but I thought it would also be fantastic to make a quick & easy Christmas card when paired with the Plaid Tidings DSP pack.

 

  As you can see, I pulled the color palette for my card from the DSP: basic black, cherry cobbler, garden green and shaded spruce. Cutting the strip 4" x 1-1/2" wide means I get 4 pieces plus a 6" x 2" piece left over from a single sheet of 6" x 6" DSP. This also fits perfectly into the Triple Banner punch to notch the end nicely for the banner.

 

 

  I colored the stocking with my cherry cobbler dark and light Stampin' Blends markers and cut the stocking out and mounted it to my whisper white circle. I then stamped the holly leaves (garden green) and berries (real red) separately on a piece of scrap whisper white card stock and used a blender pen to spread the color lightly.  I cut these out and mounted them on the stocking.  I'm not sure if you can see it in this photo, but the white parts of the stocking were "colored" using the clear Wink of Stella glimmer brush. It adds just the right amount of glimmer and sparkle to the card, perfect for a Christmas card!

 

 

  Here is one last view of my card.  For even more fabulous quick & easy Christmas card ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

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Fabulous Friday Scraped Paint CAS Butterfly card

  Hello and Happy Monday (yikes, I thought I had published this post on Friday but once again I did not)! This week we're sharing cards featuring the Scrape Painting technique for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog. I kept my card very simple, so the beautiful background would stand out on the card.  You can read more about this Scrape Painting Technique HERE and I am including the steps below in how I used my reinkers and white acrylic paint to make it...

 

1. I used basic liquid white acrylic paint, 3 ink refills (bermuda bay, pacific point and pool party), a plastic spoon, a large straight edge (mine is a mini piercing mat), watercolor paper cut to 5" x 3-3/4" and a piece of scrap paper. 

2. I put down 3 quarter-sized amounts of white acrylic paint and added 5 drops from the ink refills in each on my scrap paper.

 

3. I used the back of a plastic spoon to mix all three pretty well. These dry much lighter, so if you are happy with the color of the paint as is you may want to add more ink to darken the color. 

 

4. Use the spoon to drop random drops of pain all over the watercolor paper as shown.

 

5. Take the large straight-edge and put it in the center of your watercolor paper and rotate it with one hand while holding the paper in place with the other. Warning - this is a MESSY technique, you might want to wear gloves!  I walked around all weekend with blue fingertips.

 

 

  As you can see, the pattern on the watercolor paper is much lighter once it fully dried.  I wanted to keep the card super clean and simple so this beautiful background paper would be the star. I included stamped images from the Butterfly Gala stamp set and the coordinating Butterfly Duet punch along with the Label Me Lovely punch.

 

 

  I colored the butterfly and sentiment images with my bermuda bay and pacific point stampin' write markers and the butterfly body is stamped in basic black ink.  I popped up the butterfly with a dimensional and did the same with the sentiment piece.  I matted the watercolor paper with a small basic black piece of cardstock cut to 5-1/8" x 3-7/8" and popped up that piece also with dimensionals.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my card.  For even more fabulous Scrape Painting technique ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

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Fabulous Friday Banner Year Fall card

 

  Hello and Happy Sunday (yikes, I thought I had published this post on Friday but alas I did not)! This week we're sharing cards celebrating all things Fall for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog. My card features the Banner Year stamp set and Plaid Tidings DSP from the Holiday catalog. 

 

 

  These are some of my favorite products in the Holiday catalog. The Banner Year stamp set works for so many different holidays/occasions and the Plaid Tidings DSP is so versatile because of the many different patterns/color combinations in this pack.  I have certainly used these papers for so many projects the last few months.

 

 

  My card design is a simple layout, focusing on the pretty Plaid Tidings DSP and texture from the Greenery texture folder. I pulled my colors from the DSP: crushed curry, pumpkin pie and basic black.

 

 

  Do you recognize the punches I used for my stamped panel? The bottom layer is cut from the basic black card stock mat using the Label Me Lovely punch.  The stamped panel was cut using the Timeless Label punch, but I was able to extend the size of it by feeding my 1-3/16" strip of whisper white card stock as shown in the photo above. I love how that gives you more versatility with our punches! 

 

 

  In this photo you can see the texture a little better on the pumpkin pie card stock panel. In addition, you can see how I used the Braided Linen Trim to add some additional texture. I did attach the trim and then tied the bow separately and glued it to the piece using Tombow glue (so much easier!).  And I kept the stamping super simple - I love solid images for that reason! And with photopolymer stamps it is so easy to line things up on a cut out panel.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my card.  For even more fabulous fall card ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

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Fabulous Friday: Shaving Cream-Reinker Marbled card stock technique

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! This week we're sharing cards created using a technique featuring ink refills for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog.  Ink Refills are such a fabulous product - inexpensive (just $3.75/bottle) and so versatile!  I had a hard time choosing which one to use, but in the end picked an oldie but a goodie. The Shaving Cream technique is certainly messy, but always provides such interesting backgrounds. I was able to make 4 unique "marbled" panels that I used to create 4 quick and easy birthday cards.  All four cards feature the same colors (cajun craze, crushed curry, terracotta tile and whisper white), punches (Label Me Lovely, Small Bloom and Timeless Label), sentiments from the Itty Bitty Birthday stamp set and bling from the Holiday Rhinestones pack.  I'll be sharing step-by-step instructions on my blog over the weekend on how to create these fun backgrounds, so be sure to check back or subscribe if you want it coming to your Inbox when published. 

 

 

  As you can see in this photo, I got four very different backgrounds using this technique. I mixed and matched the cardstock in order to create the cards, using 3/4 of a sheet of the four colors of card stock for the cards. Each sheet was cut in half length-wise to make my 11" x 4-1/4" card base, then I used half of the remaining piece to cut my 5-1/4" x 4" mat pieces. From that piece I punched the Label Me Lovely punch and the Small Bloom flowers since it was sandwiched between the marbled panel and the card base (nice way to take maximize your card stock use!).  Close-ups of each card can be seen below...

 

 

  This card was made from the first generation of the marbling so has the most depth of color.  I really like the striations of color.

 

 

  This card was made using the second generation - you can see that the colors are starting to blend and become more muted.

 

 

  This card is from the third generation of the marbling and I love how swirly and muted the colors are.

 

 

  Here is the last card - I'm not sure why there is that dark streak at the top but kind of like how it stands out on the background.  For even more ink refill stamping technique ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

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Fabulous Friday: Masculine Waterfront Birthday Card

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! This week we're featuring masculine cards for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog.  I always have a hard time with these, so appreciate the challenge.  I tend to use nature-themed stamp sets and texture when creating masculine cards.  This week's project features the Waterfront set along with the Greenery Embossing Folders. I also pulled out my Itty Bitty Birthday stamp set for the sentiment as I wanted to make a birthday card.   

 

 

Waterfront Photopolymer Stamp Set, #146386 $17.00

 Here are the images in this stamp set - they don't look like much, but there are some fabulous card creations out there on Pinterest using this stamp set. I must admit, even I feel artistic after using it!  Did you happen to pick up this set when it was on sale last month? 

 

 

 

  As you can see in these photos, I used lots of blues and greens for my card. The card base is night of navy card stock that I embellished with a strip of embossed balmy blue card stock and a mat of mint macaron card stock for the stamped panel.  For the "lake" I used balmy blue ink that I stamped multiple times using the larger triangle image which gives the illusion of depth in the water and also helped to fill in the space.  The mountain range is stamped with early espresso ink.  The trees as well as the sentiment are stamped with shaded spruce ink and the forest ground with soft suede ink.  I am really happy with how easily this came together!

 

 

  Here is a close-up of the stamped panel.  You can see more clearly how I stamped multiple generations of the same inking to give the illusion of depth of the trees, which also filled in the white space and from a distance looks like grass.  Win-win!

 

 

  Here you can see the texture added from the embossing folder.  It looks like leaves, so worked well with the nature theme and also isn't too girly.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my masculine birthday card.  For more ideas and inspiration, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what my fellow designers created this week. 

 

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Fabulous Friday Bling-y Gnome Christmas card

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! This week we're featuring BLING in our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog.  I decided to use the super cute Gnome for the Holidays set again along with the fabulous Holiday and Basic Rhinestone jewels for the bling.  I thought the little ornaments on her tree hat would be perfect for the Holiday Rhinestones. Not sure if that worked out or if it gives me the heebie-jeebies... what do you think? 

 

 

 Here is a different view of my card. The score line is where the card opens - I had this piece of card stock already in my stash with the score line there so just decided to use it this way. I can't even remember what card I had done that for earlier, but it made for a fun opening on this card.  Can you see all the rhinestones?

 

 

  From these photos with different viewpoints I can think you can better see all the rhinestones that I added to this card.  Overkill, maybe?  But fun!  The first photo shows the coloring that I did using various Stampin' Blends. I admit, it was fun!  And then for the little gnomes beard I used my Clear Wink of Stella glimmer brush but I don't think you can really see it in the photos, sadly.  For the sentiment, I used my Classic Label punch and then cut two more from the real red card stock mat and offset them behind to make it pop off the stamped panel.

 

 

  For the inside of the card, I added the other gnome image from the set and sentiment. Left this super simple and didn't spend time coloring it as I think it works without it since the front of the card has so much going on already.

 

 

 

  Here you can see a strip of the fun DSP from the 'Tis the Season stack that I recently got in an order. I added a piece of the Braided Linen trim and frayed the ends for added texture.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my fun and Bling-y gnome Christmas card.  For more ideas and inspiration to add bling to your cards, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what my fellow designers created this week. 

 

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