Tag: Occasions Mini

Birthday Blooms

Birthday, Birthday Blooms, Occasions Mini, SAB, Sale a bration, Timeless Textures, Tin of Cards
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Birthday Blooms and Timeless Textures – both in the upcoming mini catalog – are so pretty together!  I used Smokey Slate, Basic Gray and Archival Black to create the background.  The flower was stamped in Stazon on watercolor paper and watercolored with an aquapainter and ink pads in Blushing Bride and Garden Green.  After it dried, I used my Wink Of Stella clear to sparkle the entire flower.  I got carried away and added Dazzling Details in the center of the flower and around the highlights 🙂  These stamps will be available on the 5th!  Hugs, Fran

Loving You

Build a Bouquet, Cards, Occasions Mini, Oval Accordion, Spring Mini
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This Pop It Ups Oval Accordion card uses Saturated Canary’s Secrets digital stamp.  I sized it to fit my card and then cut the image apart so I could use part on the front and part on the back.  I used the Lattice die on the front – first in Pink Pirouette (which was too dark) and then in Whisper White – leaving just a bit of the underneath showing.

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The sentiment in the middle is one of my absolute favorites from the Spring Catalog called Build a Bouquet.  I’m using it all over the place!  I replace the drawn line on the image with Baker’s Twine and added some hearts. The flower paper is unknown – very old from my stash, and the pink is from the Subtles Paper Pack. I colored the images with my Copic Markers.

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Berry Basket

Big Shot berry Basket, Butterfly Basics, Easter, Occasions Mini, SAB, Sale a bration, Spring Mini
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This is a new die in the Mini Catalog called Berry Basket.  It’s a Bigz die and makes a lovely basket that is a nice size for all kinds of things.  To do this basket I adhered a 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 piece of Whisper White and Best Year Ever Designer Series paper together and run it through the Big Shot Whisper White side down.  You need to do this twice so you have 2 pieces.  Assembly is simple and the basket is very sturdy when assembled.  I added half a Doily, a Coastal Cabana butterfly from the Butterfly Framelits and a Calypso Coral stamped from the Butterfly Basics set and die cut.  The center is a Calypso Coral pom-pom.  I assembled my basket using the hand-held stapler.

Still snowed in with more snow coming tomorrow.  Going. Stir. Crazy.  Hugs, Fran

Celebrating Birthdays

Birthday, Cards, Celebrate Today, Occasions Mini, SAB, Sale a bration, Thinlit
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We stamped a lot of birthday cards yesterday!  This one was inspired by one done by MandyPandy on Splitcoast.  I loved the angle on her card – and though I changed quite a bit about it – I kept the general layout.  And for yesterday we changed the Candy Dots to Salebration buttons!  Hugs, Fran

Balloon Bash

Balloon Bash, Birthday, Cards, Occasions Mini
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We all need birthday cards! This is one of the cards we will be making tomorrow at my Birthday Stamp a Stack.  The stamp set is Balloon Bash and the Designer series paper is Birthday Bash – both from the Occasions Mini. I really like the “HB” image!  It’s stamped twice – once on the card and then once fussy cut and popped up.  Hugs, Fran

 

Sweet Valentine

Blendabilities, Cards, Hey Valentine, Occasions Mini, Rectangular Pull Card, SAB, Sale a bration, Valentines
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I love this Valentine set from the Occasions Mini – Hey Valentine!  For this card, I colored the fish with my Blendabilities and used Karen Burniston’s new Rectangular Pull Card for the card.  The “wave” edge is her new Beach Edges. The glasses on the yellow fish are filled with Crystal Effects 🙂

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As you open the card, there is a mechanism (optional) that pops up so your card becomes even more interactive!  Too cute!

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The paper is from the Saleabration pack – Best Year Ever.  Perfect for water, snow or sky. You need some!!  Hugs, Fran

Mother’s Love Accordion

Cards, Katie Label Accordion, Mother's Day, Mother's Love, Occasions Mini
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Lot’s of new things here!  The stamp set is Mother’s Love and is in the Occasions Mini.  It has great sentiments – and some beautiful flowers.  The paper is the Something Borrowed Designer Series paper (also in the Occasions Mini – page 42 – check it out!  It’s beautiful!)  AND the Katie Label die from Karen Burniston is a wonderful die to showcase all these pretty products!

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I even added some of the Sahara Sand Lace Trim – just because it all goes together so well.  Hugs, Fran

Happy Times

Eifel Tower, Framelit Dies, Hello Life, Occasions Mini, Paris Edges, Valentines
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This stamp comes from the Occasions Mini set Hello Life.  My card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 and the heart on the sentiment is filled with Dazzling Details.  It sparkles!  But then you open it up and….

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It’s Karen Burniston’s new Pop It Ups Eiffel Tower die!  This die has a “stand” that die cuts directly into the card.  The doily is another new Pop It Ups – Paris Edges.  Perfect!

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I hope You have a happy day today!  Hugs, Fran

     

Guy Greetings

Father's Day, Guy Greetings, Occasions Mini
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One of the Splitcoast Creative Crew challenges this month is to take a frame and repurpose it with stuff from a guy’s garage.  Funny – because my garage contains cars and stamps!  I decided to play along and created this framed piece using stamps from Guy Greetings and the Typeset DSP.  Here are some close ups –

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I sponged the squares with Crumb Cake and added some Real Red to just a few places to highlight some of the details.  You can play along too using the key word CCREW0115SF

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Cheerful Critters

Birthday, Cards, Cheerful Critters, Happy Birthday Pop It Up, Occasions Mini, Sneak Peek
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My brother recently had a birthday and this is the card I made for him using the upcoming set Cheerful Critters.  I colored the images using Blendabilities and fussy cut them out.  On the middle banner I stamped a sentiment from Something to Say.  On the inside I used the Happy Birthday Pop It Up from Karen Burniston and spelled out his name with SU’s Little Letters. The DSP is coming up in the Occasions Mini – Birthday Bash Specialty DSP.

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This was a fun card to make!  Hugs, Fran