Category: Holidays

Corner Garden

Blendabilities, Cards, Corner Garden, Love & Sympathy, Papillon Potpourri, Sympathy
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Corner Garden 01

I bought this stamp – Corner Garden (134045/134048) just to color with the new Blendabilities!  I used the most of the colors currently available as of today –

  • Cherry Cobbler   (Item #130995 – $11.95)
  • Coastal Cabana  (Item #131000 – $11.95)
  • Daffodil Delight   (Item #130998 – $11.95)
  • Old Olive   (Item #130999 – $11.95)
  • Pumpkin Pie  (Item #130997 – $11.95)
  • Rich Razzleberry  (Item #131003 – $11.95)
  • Skin Tone Assortment (Item #129370 – $22.95)
  • Memento Ink Pad (Item 132708 – $5.95 )
  • Memento Ink Refill (Item 133456 – $4.95 )
  • Color Lifter  (Item 129369 – $4.95 )

I just stamped the Corner Garden stamp on a 4 x 5 1/4 piece of Whisper White using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and started coloring. Fun, fun, fun!  Here’s a close up –

Corner Garden 01 detail

 

Supplies

Stamp Sets – Corner Garden, Love & Sympathy, Papillon Potpourri

Card stock – Old Olive, Whisper White

Ink – Memento Tux Black, Daffodil Delight

Blendabilities – Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry, Cherry Cobbler

Etc – small butterfly punch

This is a great stamp for practicing your coloring!  Also today – buy 3 get 1 free on all DSP!  What a great chance to get your hands on the new Designer Series papers ! Hugs, Fran

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Mr and Mrs Chilly

Cards, Chilly, Lorna Label, Something to Say, Wedding
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Chilly 02 front

The front of this 5 x 5 card features the new Back to Black Designer Series Paper and the set Something to Say.  The inside has Mr and Mrs Chilly in their bridal splendor sitting on top of Karen Burniston’s new Lorna Label Pop it Ups die.  If you look closely, you’ll see that she is sporting a bridal veil and he is wearing his glitter glasses!  To get the different paper on the Lorna Label, I simply cut the DSP off of the label, flipped it over and used the reverse side! To make the writing surface for the inside, just die cut a large heart to carry out the theme.

Chilly 02 open

 

Supplies

Stamp sets – Something to Say, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card stock – Basic Black, Whisper White, Tangerine Tango, Real Red, Old Olive, Glimmer paper, Back to Black DSP

Ink – Memento Tux Black

Etc – Lorna Label die, Chilly and Props #1 dies, Heart framelits, Itty Bitty punches, Bird punch, tulle

 

Snapshot

Birthday, Cards, Hip Notes, On Film Framelit, Snapshot
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Snapshot 01

Snapshot (133812) is a single stamp on page 167 of the catalog.  I paired it up with the On Film framelit and some of the Essential Wooden Elements.  I used Stazon to stamp on the word bubble.  Hint – use a tiny bit of adhesive to stick the wooden element to your grid paper.  Then you can use your Stamp a Ma Jig to place the words on it without it moving.

Snapshot 01 side

I stamped the camera twice and fussy cut the center piece to pop it up.

Supplies

Stamp Sets – Snapshot, Hip Notes

Card stock – Strawberry Slush, Bermuda Bay, Basic Black, Whisper White, Confetti Celebration

Ink – Jet Black Stazon, Memento Tux Black

Etc – On Film Framelit, Essential Wooden Embellishments, Brights Candy Dots

Great card for a belated birthday!  (I need lots of these!)  Hugs, Fran

Chilly

Big Shot, Cards, Christmas, Christmas Messages, Holidays, Pop It Up, Stamp Sets
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This is Chilly – one of Karen Burniston’s new Character dies – on an Oval Accordion die.  You can see all the dies here. He’s decked out to play in the snow with his snappy scarf.  The sentiment is from Christmas Messages (131790/131793)which is still available!  It’s a great sentiment for this card


Supplies
Stamp Set – Christmas Messages
Cardstock – Whisper White, Pool Party, Basic Black, Tangerine Tango
Ink – Real Red
Etc – Chilly die, Oval Accordion die, Oval Dot Frame Edges, circle punch, Real Red stitched ribbon

The thing I like best about these characters is that they are SO EASY to use!  Hugs, Fran

HBD2U

Age Awareness, Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Embossing Folder, Framelit Dies, Holidays, Punch, Stamp Sets
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It’s bright, isn’t it?  I used the new Sizzix Thinlit dies, Little Letters, and the numbers from the File Tab Edgelit die to create this card.  File Tab Edgelits only has the numbers 1-3, so if you can use that combo you can combine it with the letters.  The Word bubble is from Age Awareness. 

Supplies
Stamps – Age Awareness
Cardstock – Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, Strawberry Slush, Rich Razzleberry, Delightful Daffodil, Whisper White, Sweet Taffy DSP
Ink – Memento Tuxedo Black
Etc – Little Letters and File Tab Edgelit dies, retired arrow punch, Dotty embossing Folder, Strawberry Slush cotton ribbon, 1 3/4 circle punch, Word Bubble Framelit

I keep forgetting to order the new arrow punch!  Hugs, Fran

Here Comes the Bride

Big Shot, Big Shot Pop N Cuts, Cards, Framelit Dies, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Occasions Mini, Wedding
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This card is a case of one of my own ballerina dress cards – altered to work for a bride.  I used Celebrate With Us from the Occasions Mini and a spray of small, silk flowers on the front of the exclusive – and soon to be retired!- Pop Up Card die.

Instead of a tutu, I made a long train of tulle.  You can see it better from the side –

I will sorely miss this die – but it will remain in my “stash” forever  

Stamp Set – Celebrate With Us
Cardstock – Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Brushed Silver, Pink Pirouette DSP\
Ink – Rose Red
Etc – Dress Form die and framelits, Pink Pirouette ribbon, tulle, pearls, small flowers, Dazzling Details

This was made for a sweet bride -to- be’s shower – who’s big day is tomorrow!  Hugs, Fran

Fly Away

A Dozen Thoughts, Big Shot, Cards, Graduation, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Occasions Mini, Pop It Up, Really Good Greetings, Stamp Sets
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There are lots of things to celebrate at this time of year!  The Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Team was challenged this month to use the word “fly” as their inspiration.  I started with the inspirational sentiment from Really Good Greetings – thinking “graduation” – and did this card.  

I paper pieced a hot air balloon and added it to the Lucy Label insert.  I love this insert because you can use it for anything!  The “bravo” is from  A Dozen Thoughts.  The Lace tape is retiring – hurry!  Then I added a little line of flags to help celebrate the big event.  Here’s a look at the “mechanics” of the card –

Supplies
Stamp Sets – A Dozen Thoughts, Really Good Greetings
Cardstock – Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Watercolor Wonder DSP
Ink – Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango
Etc – Lucy Label die, 1 3/4″ circle punch, Candy Dots, Doily tape, flag punch

Celebrating is a lot of fun!  Hugs, Fran

Zoo Babies

Birthday, Cards, Holidays, Remembering Your Birthday, Stamp Sets, Zoo Babies
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This card is a combination of several baby cards I’ve seen using this stamp set.  I chose to make it into a birthday card – a belated birthday card!  Unfortunately, I need lots of these.  This is an easy card – and an easy layout.  It’s great for show casing all kinds of images.

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Zoo Babies, Remembering Your Birthday
Card stock – Basic Gray, Neutral DSP, Smokey Slate, Pool Party
Ink – Smokey Slate
Etc – Pennant die, 2 1/2 circle punch, ABC embossing folder, button, baker’s twine

I’m cleaning up my office today.  Between old and new – it’s a mess!  Hugs, Fran

Sneak Peek What’s Your Type Christmas

Cards, Christmas, Holidays, Petite Pairs, Punch, Stamp Sets, What's Your Type
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A Christmas idea is May!  This is What’s Your Type (available June 2nd) I used the small circle images and embossed the solid in gold and the stripes in silver.  (Do this one color at a time)  I embossed a piece of Brushed Gold using Petite Pairs and silver embossing powder.  Rhinestones and sequins finish it off. The ornament is a 1 3/8″ circle with the little scalloped square punch in Brushed Silver on top.

Supplies
Stamp Sets – What’s Your Type?, Petite Pairs
Cardstock – Brushed Silver, Brushed Gold, Whisper White
Ink – Versamark
Etc – Sequins, Rhinestones, 1 3/8 circle punch, Itty Bitty punch pack

Today is suppose to be our warmest yet – making it an odd day to show a Christmas card!  You might want to consider other colors   Hugs, Fran

Field Flowers

Birthday, Cards, Field Flowers, Holidays, Retiring Lists, Stamp Sets
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I’ve got several retiring set cards that I want to show you before the curtain goes down on these wonderful stamp sets.   This Field Flower card has several layers on the flowers and lots of Dazzling Details.  I should have taken a picture from the side – but each flower is stamped twice and cut apart.  The flowers are done in Crumb Cake and when I added the Dazzling Details the color became almost golden.

Supplies
Stamp Set – Field Flowers
Cardstock – Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Neutral DSP
Ink – Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso
Etc – Lace ribbon, Dazzling Details

Here are this week’s deals – and don’t forget Free Shipping through the 25th!  Hugs, Fran