Category: Mini Catalogs

All Ye Faithful

All Ye Faithful 01

 

This is a new set in the Holiday Mini called All Ye Faithful.  I saw several cards using the image in a an ornament – all beautiful – and using this piece of vellum from the  Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack.   Using Night of Navy, I made things a bit more “stream line” since we will be doing this card in the September Stamp and Stack.  Hugs, Fran

Halloween Gift Bag

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And last but not least, my Halloween version of this bag!  I used the Witch’s Night stamp set and Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper.  The image and matting were cut with the Lots of Labels Framelit die.  This one is my favorite 🙂  Hugs, Fran

Little Christmas Gift Bags

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Continuing on from yesterday!  This gift bag uses the new Cup of Cheer stamp set and the Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper.  The image was inked with Stampin Write Markers.

Cup of Cheer 01

 

And this one got a big “thumbs down” from my youngest – the critic!  Ha!  But here it is, in case it inspires you to do something else!  Hugs, Fran

Acorny Thank You Bag

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I saw this little bag on Too Cool Stamping – who got it from Dannie Graves!  This is what makes the stamping world go ’round!  This uses Acorny Thank You from the Holiday mini – cute – and the Gift Bag Punch Board.

Acorny Thank You 01 side

 

It’s a two piece gift bag.

Acorny Thank You 01 open

 

Cute!  Tomorrow I’ll show you where I went with this little gem 🙂  Hugs, Fran

Dashing Through the Vellum

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This is a case of a card in the back of the Holiday Mini,  Fun to do – but I had to do some “figuring” to get the look I wanted.  The new Sleigh Ride Edgelit Dies are cut in Vellum card stock.  With the way the card ended up – I think I’d use the Holiday Fancy Foil Designer Vellum that is the first mat on the card.  But……Then I cut the Edgelit dies in Whisper White and just cut off the small images and adhered the to the card behind each image.  Does that make any sense?  I used Versatile Christmas for the sentiment. This will be my “go-to” set this season!  The little embellishment is small and light.  You’ll love them!  Hugs, Fran

Embellished Ornaments

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Here’s my Holiday catalog case of Embellished Ornaments.  I used Mossy Meadow and Red Foil to make the ornaments – and the new Precision Base Plate.  Wow!  It’s amazing!  Just a forward and back pass through my Big Shot and all those tiny pieces in the ornament die cut clean.  The bottom piece on the card is the new Holidays Fancy Foil Vellum.  Hint – it’s thin.  Be careful to only have one sheet in your hand when you cut it!

Crafting today will be at a minimum so I can clean out the garage for our upcoming Rubber Stamp Garage Sale!  Once a year my garage gets a good cleaning 🙂  Hugs, Fran

Pop It Ups Halloween

Is it too early for Halloween?

EDC front

1. Cut a piece of black card stock 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 and fold it in half to create your base.

2. Cut 2 pieces of Happy Haunting DSP Halloween paper (Holiday Mini catalog!) 3 3/8 x 5 1/4 and adhere to the inside.

Step 01

3. Place your Rectangular Pull Card die, matching the alignment tab, and cut out.

Step 02

4. Die cut and assemble Poppy the Owl making him as cute or scary as you’d like. Die cut 2 All Seasons Trees from black card stock.  Cut two 2″ circles from white or vanilla.

5. Trim off most of the branches from the trees (do them at the same time so they match) and adhere one to the front of the card to create a branch.  Add the circle as the moon and place Poppy on the branch.

6. Make 5 “bats” from the bow tie die in Props 2. Die cut the bow ties and use a hand held punch to punch the bottom of the wings.  Karen also has a little tutorial on creating bats from Cocoa the Horse’s hair!

Bats

7. Match up the second branch to the inside left of your card. Adhere a moon to the spinner on the inside and decorate with bats and die cut words using Alphabet 1 or Peel Off stickers!

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Cute or scary, it’s fun!  Hugs, Fran

 

Party ’til the Cows Come Home

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Today is day one for Karen Burniston’s Design Team May Challenge – Barns, Barns, Barns!  And I bring you Brownie the Cow getting ready to party 🙂  The stamp is from Life’s Adventure (a Stampin Up hostess set that’s getting ready to retire!) on some very fun Birthday Bash Designer Series paper.

PIU Brownie 02 detail

The cake was colored with Copic markers and the party hat is from Karen’s Props 2 die set.

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And here’s the herd at the barn- what a celebration!  The barn Pop It Ups stand fits perfectly into the fold – holding up the barn (which is holding up the cows!) The word bubble is computer generated and the sentiment is from Sassy Salutations.  The balloons (from the Spiral Pull Card die) are on fishing line.  You can easily face the cows in any direction by simply flipping the die cuts over.

PIU Brownie 03 open

I added 1 3/4″ to my barn to make it higher by simply gluing an extra piece of yardstick on the bottom of the front and back barn. You can check out all the other cards on Karen’s Facebook page!  Hugs, Fran

 

Sweet Laughter

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Sweet Laughter is a Mini Catalog stamp set with some little line drawn images and cute sentiments. I chose to do a clean and simple card for this one using only Whisper White, some Sweet Sadie washi tape and a button.  The image was colored with Blender pens and ink.  I’ve kind of overlooked this set up until now so you might see a few more before Mother’s Day – it’s really cute!  Hugs, Fran

Pop It Up From the Herd

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Karen Burniston has come out with a new line of Pop It Ups – and they fit perfectly with the stamp set From the Herd!  One the dies is the Barn Pop Stand (1021).  I used it on the front of this card!  And the doors slide open and closed!

PIU From the Herd 02 open

Inside is Cheepers the Chicken (1023), Brownie the Cow (1022), and Virgil the Pig (1024)!  And they are all celebrating 🙂

PIU From the Herd 02 detail

The party hat is from Props 2 and the balloons are from the Spiral Pull Card.  What a fun, fun set of dies!