Tag: Stampin Up

Beautiful Day Dreams

Beautiful Day
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I was playing with the butterfly in the Beautiful Day set and came up with these backgrounds. Starting with watercolor paper, I stamped an old background in Soft Suede and then stamped the butterfly with water only. The magic happens when you sprinkle Brusho over the water stamped images. Do this slowly – meaning add a color, let it “do it’s thing” and then add your next color. Then I tilted the paper to the side to let the Brushos run and spread the colors around. Because I used blue and orange on this piece (and blue and orange make brown) I did one butterfly, let it dry, and then did the next one. I added a beautiful, but retired, sentiment from Verve.

For this card I started with the new Crackle background on watercolor paper. I stamped the butterflies in water and added blue and yellow Brushos. This is really addicting 🙂 Hugs, Fran

Florentine Filigree

Florentine Filigree, Occasions Mini, Spring Mini
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This was one of the new sets in the Spring Catalog that I had to have! Florentine Filigree is a bundle that includes the die and stamp set. A Stamparatus is very helpful with this bundle because it’s already set up to stamp with the correct spacing by moving the stamp down hinge, by hinge. I did mine in Pool Party and stamped the larger image in Versamark and white heat embossed, and the smaller image in Pool Party. So pretty! Hugs, Fran

Butterfly Gala Ornament

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So here’s something different – a butterfly ornament! This was easy to do. You need a craft style ornament, an old book or light weight paper, Mod Podge, and a butterfly punched from the Saleabration paper, Botanical Butterfly. Tear the book pages into small -ish strips and dip them into the Mod Podge. Cove the ornament with them, smoothing as you go. Get your butterfly covered with Mod Podge and adhere it to the ornament. Let dry. I went around the edge of the butterfly with Stickles to make sure the edges stayed put. Add a ribbon and display or gift! Hugs, Fran

Meant to Be Treats

Big Shot Petite Treat, Meant to Be, Occasions Mini, Valentines
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How about some treat packaging for Valentines Day? I started with the new All My Love DSP and die cut it using the Petite Treats die with the heart topper. Then I stamped the heart from Meant to Be, added some color and a cute sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings. There’s a frame heart that I die cut and added around the heart and glued it to the treat.

It’s super cute and holds quite a bit! And it’s easy to make up so you can make lots of them. Hugs, Fran

More Personalized Cards

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This is the personalized card for the little brother of the Fairy Celebrations cards. I dug way, way, way back in my “stash” to find the very old Sporting Goods” stamp set to make this one.

The letters are die cut in black and the stamped paper and inlaid. The basketballs were colored with Copics. So much fun to color! Hugs, Fran

Personalized Cards

Fairy Celebrations
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I was asked to make some personalized cards for a young lady as a gift from her grandmother. Using Fairy Celebrations, I colored the images and personalized the greeting on my computer. The background paper is the SAB butterfly paper!

I made them up in a few color schemes and added some Nuvo Crystal drops to the backgrounds.

It was fun to sit and color these cute images.

Tomorrow I’ll share the ones I made for her brother. Hugs, Fran

Let’s Have Tea

Occasions Mini, SAB, Sale a bration, Spring Mini, Tea Together
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This set is called Tea Together and the stamp set is in the Spring Catalog while the dies are in the Saleabration Catalog! I cased the card shown on page 49 of the Spring catalog, using my Stampin Blends to color the teapot and the Delicate Lace paper for the background. What a fun set to color!

For this card I colored the teapot with Stampin Blends in stripes and used another piece of the Lace paper for the background. The bottom of the teapot is tucked under the opening and the rest is popped up with Dimensionals.

FYI – I am having website issues. Big issues and they are my fault! So if things look wonky, that’s what’s going on! Sheesh! Hugs, Fran

All That You Are

All That You Are, Occasions Mini, Spring Mini
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It’s almost time for the Occasions Catalog to go live (Jan 3rd) and here’s a sample cased (sort of) from the catalog. The stamp set is All That You Are and I simply used a different a different Designer Series paper- Happiness Blooms – for my card, making it very bright! You can check out the card on page 3 of the catalog and see the differences. Hugs, Fran

Snow is Glistening

Snow is Glistening
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This set is Snow is Glistening and it’s a one month only promotion from Stampin Up.  The tree is my favorite!  This set also have a 20 piece die set full of beautiful snowflakes – a must have!  I created a card and tag to show you today.

I actually created the tag first.  Using the tag die from Karen Burniston’s Tag Book die set, I heat embossed the tree in white embossing powder and went over it with Crumb Cake ink and a sponge dauber.  Then I stamped the snowflakes in Crumb Cake.  The bottom piece is a retired edge die – and edge die or plain piece would work – and adhered it to the bottom.  The little tree trunk is stamped in Early Espresso.  The finishing touch are the Frosted Epoxy Droplets.

For the card, I embossed the background with the Petals embossing folder and created the front the same way as the tag – simply switching the Crumb Cake snowflakes for some heat embossed ones and adding a JOY sentiment.  I just love this set!