Stampin Up, GDP#052, Copper Ornament card

It's Case the Designer at GDP this week.  Very cute card from Teneale Williams, here it is:

I do love playing with these designers! They are from all over the globe and very talented.
I reached back to last year for this Ornament set, it's in the Annual catalog this year, but it was just what I needed for my idea, which was to be very simple, but hopefully elegant.

I used the new copper embossing powder and the new embossed DSP. I haven't tried coloring it yet, but I will.  I also backed the sentiment with copper foil and used the Cherry cobbler ribbon in the Silky ribbon combo set.

Thanks for stopping by, and happy stamping!

Fancy Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper

$13.00

Embellished Ornaments Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Tags & Labels Framelits Dies

$27.00

3/8" (1 Cm) Ribbon Silky Taffeta Combo Pack

$9.00

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Santa's Sleigh card

There were so many wonderful stamps, dies and bundles in this years Holiday catalog it was very hard to know what to get first.   Since I'd decided that this was the year I was going to get some Fall/halloween sets, this one had to wait a bit, but it was very hard!

I've sized this card to fit in a #10 envelope. I happen to have some from a purchase I made after Christmas a few years ago and this set is just perfect for them.

I started with a base that is 9 1/4"x 8". Score so you have a card base of9 1/4"x4". This size will leave just a bit of room on the edges for the envelope.   I cut my top layer down 1/4" on two sides leaving a little red showing.

I then stamped and embossed my stars, and sponged on Night of Navy lightly.  I tore 2 narrow pieces of white and layered across the bottom for snow.  Then started adding my sleigh, raindeer and tree. The sleigh is Copper foil with red glimmer paper over top.  Crumb cake was used for the raindeer, but CS and ink, then Always Artichoke for the tree, again both CS and ink.

I popped up my sleigh with Dimentials making sure there was room to place my packages.   Lead raindeer got a red nose and bow on his wreath.

I hope you enjoy. Thanks for coming by, happy stamping.

Santa's Sleigh Photopolymer Bundle

$45.75

Copper Foil Sheets

$4.00

Candy Cane Lane Baker's Twine

$6.00

Versamark Pad

$8.50

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

$5.00

Red Glimmer Paper

$5.00

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Merry Monday Challenge #212

I happened to check out the Merry Monday challenge for this week. They are just coming back from summer break and I could not help myself. I mean, White, Black and Gold? You just can't do anything wrong with those colors!
I don't think I've played here before, and honestly I go gung ho as soon as the Holiday catalog hits, but after Christmas I don't want to even think about another Christmas card until the next Holiday catalog!

Anyway, this set, Christmas Pine bundle is so much fun to play with!!! It is very popular already just among the demo's.  Although it's billed as a Christmas set, it could be used all year long, especially in the fall with all the branches and pine cones and such.

I made my black card base 4 1/4" x 5 1/2 ".  Cut your CS the long way, measuring 4 1/4", then turn and score at 5 1/2".  I cute my striped DSP from the Neutrals DSP stack at 4x5 1/2" and the while piece at 3 3/4 x 5 1/2".

Besides pieces from the Christmas Pines bundle, I only used the Gold satin ribbon and the Neutral stack. So, if you are looking for a card for Christmas that doesn't use too much this is it.
BTW, the neutrals stack used to have Very Vanilla and Whisper white in it, but those were taken out, and now there are gold and silver instead.

I hope you enjoy this card and thank you for stopping by.

Christmas Pines Photopolymer Bundle

$54.75

Gold 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Satin Ribbon

$7.00

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Stampin Up spinner card for class

Yup, this was one of our cards we did in class. I had left the sentiment off as lots of times they like to choose their own.  I honestly didn't think it was my kind of card, I had to borrow the die set from one of my customers.  However, after making it up, I can see me using the quite a lot, and it was so much fun to make up.  I did made a square card, the die for the opening was too large for a card in Portrait.  And I didn't think there would be room for what I wanted under it in landscape. But I know now it would have worked fine in landscape. Just so you know.

I used the Weather Together set in the new annual catalog.  You have lots of pieces you can use including 3 different umbrellas.  The clouds are included too.   I cut out the clouds, one each of small and larger and inked the edges before putting my penny on the back with a dimential.  Make sure to cut the little tips off the ends of it so it doesn't stop the movement.

I tried to stamp the rain so it looked like the embrella was protecting that spot, then stamped in flowers and the bird.  Stampin Up and a you tube video for the spinner effect and they say it way better then I can.

If you are wondering what size this is, I made it 5 1/2 " square cutting the front piece at 1/4" smaller on two sides.
I hope you enjoy, thanks for coming by.

Weather Together Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Weather Together Photopolymer Bundle

$41.25

Sliding Star Framelits Dies

$27.00

Shooting Star Clear-Mount Bundle

$40.50

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Pals Paper Arts Sketch #316

I'm having so much fun with all my new goodies from the 2016 Holiday Catalog!  I still have a few things I want, but there is just so much and only so much money. But we all know how that goes.  One of my favorite things about the new Holiday catalog is that they used a punch or framelit set from one set and make more sets that use them.

This set used the Everyday Jar framelits. You can buy the annual catalog bundle set, then get just the Jar of Cheer and/or the Jar of Haunts that use the same framelit set.

So, this is the Jar of cheer set, many beautiful ways to use the parts for the jar or in any other way!  You'll see the set below.

For colors we have:  Crumb cake Real Red, Whisper White and Crushed Curry.

I used an older set for the snowflakes, it's in the annual catalog and was held over from last year. I just used the punch and some Silver glimmer paper.   And I am loving all the neat twine this year. Check out Candy Cane Lane set of 2, I used the real red on this, but there is a really pretty white/red with silver.

Here then is the sketch for this week.  Thanks to team member Patti MacLeith.

Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper

$11.00

Everyday Jars Framelits Dies

$33.00

Jar Of Cheer Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Snow Flurry Punch

$18.00

Metallic Foil Doilies

$4.00

Candy Cane Lane Baker's Twine

$6.00

Silver Glimmer Paper

$5.00

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Spooky class card

I usually only do 3 cards for class, we tend to do a lot of visiting and chatting and playing so class gets a bit long, but this month there were so many fabulous sets in the new 2016 Holiday catalog, I just had to do 4.  This is from one bundle, Spooky fun bundle on page 52.  I stamped the bats, but there are 2 dies for them as well.

I stamped the moon on daffodil delight and then sponged on a bit of Crushed Curry and Tangerine Tango to make it look more like a moon.   The tree, witch and gravestones are all dies as well in the Halloween scenes edgelits dies.    I cut my tree out of Sahara Sand and sponged on brown and Rich Razzleberry, but one of my ladies used black and it turned out great.   So many options.

I have never really been a halloween person, I normally don't send cards for it, but decided a did need a few things this year finally, and I pick the best year ever to do that!   The really neat thing is that some Christmas/fall and halloween sets match up with punches or framelits in the annual catalog.

I hope you enjoyed, thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping.

Spooky Fun Photopolymer Bundle

$36.75

1-3/8" (3.5 Cm) Circle Punch

$16.00

Ribbon 3/8" (1 Cm) Trio Pack

$11.00

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Stampin Up Pals Paper Arts challenge #315, Sneak Peek Holiday 2016

Isn't this embossing folder awesome?  I just love it, can't wait to see what more people do with it.  We have a color challeng this week.  Old Olive, Dapper Denim and So Saffron.

The Denim had me going for a bit but I think I have it covered now. This weeks colors come to you from Michelle Gleeson.

Besides the embossing folder, I just used one stamp set. It was first on my list when I saw the new catalog, although there are no dies for this one.  My favorite stamp in the set isn't on this card, I'm saving it for later, it's a Christmas train, just too beautiful!

I did a bit of watercoloring so I used Watercolor paper, but you can use your blender pen or markers or?  I also put some sparkle on, but I never seem to be able to capture that on camera.

Feel free to come on over and play with us.

Christmas Magic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Pine Bough Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.50

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They say it's your Birthday, GDP#050

Today I'm playing with the GDP challenge. I hope you'll consider playing along. Be sure to remember that when doing sketch challenges, the sketch is usually more of a suggestion. This is always true with the GDP site, they love when you excercise creativity.  Having said that, I pretty much followed the sketch this week, just flowed that way, nothing fantastic here, just a pretty, usable Birthday card.

I do love this set, I've wanted die cuts for flourishes for a long time and boy did SU come through this year!

To purchase or just check out the sets, click on any image below.  Thanks so much for stopping by, Happy Stamping.

Colors today are: Dapper Denim, Mint Macaron and Whisper White.

Flourish Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Tags & Labels Framelits Dies

$27.00

Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper

$11.00

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Stampin Up, Halloween sneak peek

Shhhhhhh, don't tell my class that meets this coming week about this card. I do not usually post class cards before class. But hey, Halloween season is pretty short and I've got more to make.

This was make using the framelits from the Jar Of Love set in the annual catalog. There is also a Christmas set for this framelit set.   I combined the jar set Spooky Fun and the Ghoulish Grunge stamps to make this. I think it's really a fun card. This is one that is going out to a grandson.

I used Silver foil on the jar lid, it doesn't show well in the photo as the light didn't hit it right, you can also stamp the lid and die cut, smoky slate would work well.

The brick is stamped 3 times across and I love how it looks old and crumbling, with the jar in the middle it looks like one long fence.
Colors:
Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Peekaboo Peach, So Saffron.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Happy Stamping. This is our season.

Spooky Fun Photopolymer Stamps

$16.00

Ghoulish Grunge Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Jar Of Haunts Photopolymer Stamp Set

$17.00

Halloween Night Baker's Twine

$6.00

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Pals paper arts sketch challenge 314

Today we are doing sketch challenge by Amy Lazzell. 

So, it seems pretty simple, but I really had to think about it.  I wanted something different.  Also, the die set I choose is a bit harder to find ways to use that everyone else hasn't done.   When I'm just doing a card to send to a friend I don't worry about that, but for a challenge I try to do something a bit different.

The Sunshine Sayings bundle is awesome! Such gorgeous dies with a few stamps and lots and lots of mix and match sayings. That's a great combo.

For my colors I choose:  Melon Mambo, Whisper White and Basic Black.

I first cute a narrow piece of  paper from the Pop Of Pink DSP, and put black on either side popped up a bit. Cut my 2 pieces of the sunshine flower and put them down. Added the little tiny banner with You Are My, then cut out the Big Sunshine out of Silver Glimmer paper. Added in some pearls and done.   I used Whisper white for my card base.

The tiny banner is from Bunch of Banners set.

To order or just check out anything in the catalog, Click on any image below.

Sunshine Sayings Clear-Mount Bundle

$45.00

Pop Of Pink Specialty Designer Series Paper

$13.00

Silver Glimmer Paper

$5.00

Pearl Basic Jewels

$5.00

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