Category: Holidays

Midnight the Bat

Halloween, Labels and Circles, Midnight the Bat, Stage It Stencils
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Karen Burniston has a new Pop It Ups release Coming Soon and it includes some very cute Halloween dies!  This is Midnight the bat and the new Bat Stencil – LOVE!  To make this card, I used the stencil with embossing paste and Stampin Up’s black ink refill to color it.  I stenciled on some retired Stampin Up Halloween patterned paper.  The moon is a punch with some Smoky Slate ink sponged across it.  Midnight the Bat is done in Basic Gray card stock with a red glitter bow tie.  And the stamp is die cut with Karen’s new Labels and Circles dies.

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The best part of this card?  Midnight the Bat is on an action wobbler!  He’s so cute wobbling on the front!  There are a lot of fun dies in this release!  Pop over to Karen’s blog or Facebook page to see what else is coming!  Hugs, Fran

Washi Tape

Birthday
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I might has a washi tape hoarding problem – so I thought I’d better USE some of this wonderful tape before it gets out of hand!  I put the tape on some Whisper White card stock and punched it out with various circle punches and added some Candy Dots.  Of course I couldn’t leave it alone so I added Crystal Effects over all the circles!

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And keep adding Washi Tape!  Hugs, Fran

For Your Shower

Cards, Hanging Charm Pull Card, Wedding
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Here’s a 6 x 6 Shower card made with Karen Burniston’s Stage It Stencils – Rain, and Baby Charms.    The Night of Navy base was cut 6 x 11 and scored at 6″.  This leaves you a 1″ area at the bottom for your sentiment.  The rain was done in a Micorbead Embossing paste and Wisteria Wonder ink.

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This is the inside (and kind of the outside too!)  The sentiment is computer generated.  Hugs, Fran

Karen Burniston Design Challenge Day 2 – Busy Baker

Baker Beaver, Birthday, Cards, Challenges, Stage It Stencils
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This month’s challenge is stencils!  I used Karen Burniston’s new Stage It Stencil – Cherries Layering.  This fun stencil has the cherries on one end and the stems on the other.  Put them together and this is what you get!  This card is 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 and the cherries are stenciled with pearlescent embossing paste colored with Real Red ink.  Can you see the shine?

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The stems are done in Garden Green ink.  It makes such a pretty background.  Baker the Beaver is celebrating with cherry cupcakes while on an action wobble!  The cupcake is part of Baker’s die and the cherry is from Stampin Up’s Cupcake builder punch. (retiring)

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Make sure to check Karen’s blog to see all the wonderful ideas using stencils!  Hugs, Fran

Watercolored Marquee Sneak Peek

Birthday, Marque Messages, Sneak Peek
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Coming soon to a stamp room near you!

Stamped in Stazon on watercolor paper and watercolored with an aqua painter and ink – it’s a catalog case of the new set Marquee Messages.  An easy background on the base of the card, I simply stamped in Crumb Cake with Crumb Cake ink.  Add a little washi tape – and you’ve got a great card!  I bet you can’t wait to get this set!  Hugs, Fran

 

Graduating Poppy

Big Shot Large Numbers, Cards, Graduation, Number of Years, Poppy
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It’s graduation time and I have a few to send out.  Karen Burniston’s Poppy the Owl seemed like the perfect character to grace a graduation card!  The numbers are the Stampin Up’s Number of Year stamp set with matching die.  One of my graduates had blue and white as their school colors.  I used the Schoolhouse Designer Series paper for this one.

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Poppy’s cap is made from the bowler hat in Props 1.  Karen has a diagram on her blog showing how to cut it to make it a cap.  The hassle and diploma are hand cut.

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Another graduate’s school colors are red and gray.  I simply copied the same design and changed up the colors.  These card are large – 4 1/4 x 9 – and will easily accommodate a check 🙂

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Here he is in Smoky Slate.  He looks so smart!  The Number of Years set makes this a easy card to put together.  Hugs, Fran

Wedding Wishes Pop It Ups

Cards, Hanging Charm Pull Card, Wedding
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It’s almost the wedding season and these new new bride and groom Hanging Charms from Karen Burniston for the Pop It Ups Hanging Charms Pull cards are perfect!

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This card is 6 x 6 and  the middle square is edged in pearls.  The bride and groom are separate charms, so you can use them as you need them!  The sentiments are from Karen’s new Best Wishes Clear stamp. I kept my card “postcard style” – with a white back so I can write a nice message.

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The card stock is the beautiful Irresistibly Yours from Stampin Up! and it has beautiful patterns embossed on them – hard to see.  It’s all tied off with white satin ribbon.  Hope you’ll find lots of uses for these darling charms.  I will!  (hint, hint!)  Hugs, Fran