Hexagon Quilt Card

Here's a card that I created because I haven't played with these items much. I have had the hexagon embossing folder, punch and stamp sets that go with them, but just haven't pulled them out to play with.
My mom makes a lot of quilts and it is her birthday next week, so I thought this would be a good theme for a card. Plus she has too many flowers to count, so it is a perfect fit; flowers and quilts.

I thought it would look pretty with a butterfly, so I added the Butterfly Basics stamp set butterfly and layered it on the die cut butterfly from the new Butterfly framelit set.

I used a brayer to apply Crushed Curry ink to the embossing folder before I ran it through the Big Shot. That's why you can see the embossed lines on the background paper.

I used Designer Series paper and the hexagon punch for the flowers and leaves. But if you want to you can use the Six-Sided Sampler stamp set and stamp and punch the flowers and leaves.

The sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set and I punched it out with the Word Window punch and matted it with the modern label punch.

Holiday Home Christmas Card

Stampin' Up! Holiday Home Christmas Card

The children are back in school and it's time to think about making Christmas cards. Are you ready for the cooler weather and looking forward to the coming holidays?

Here's another Holiday Home card, but this one is switched up for Christmas. That is one of the great things about this set, it covers 3 holidays!

The background paper is All is Calm Specialty Designer Series paper. I also Used Lost Lagoon and Whisper White card stocks.

I stamped the tree and wreath in Wild Wasabi ink. The houses were stamped with Coastal Cabana, Lost Lagoon and Basic Gray inks.

The circle is cut with a circle collection framelit and the houses are cut with the Holiday Home's matching framelits, Homemade Holiday framelits dies.

The ribbon is Old Olive 1/8" Taffeta ribbon.

Thanks for checking out my blog today.

Have a Blessed Day!
Trude

Holiday Home Halloween Card

Have you checked out the new Stampin' Up! Holiday catalog yet? So many wonderful stamps and products! You can click on the catalog tab above to view/download a pdf of the new catalog.

Did you miss my post yesterday? Happy Stampers had a Blog Hop that included Blog candy. There's still time to get in on the fun, check it out here.

Here's another project that I created with products from the new catalog.

The stamp set is called Holiday Home. It has houses and accessories for several holidays.
I used the Back to Black Designer Series Paper from the New Annual Catalog for the background paper on this piece. I used an aqua painter and ink to add Pumpkin Pie and Blackberry Bliss color washes to the DSP.
After you stamp the black paper with white craft ink and let it dry (very important!) you can use the new Stampin' Up! Blendabilities to color over any of the white that you want to add color to.

Have a crafty day!
Trude

Something for Baby Card

Stampin' Up! Something for Baby baby card 

This is a quick card. It should take under 10 minutes. Cut and fold a Whisper White card base. Adhere 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" chocolate chip card stock to the front. Cut a 3" x 5 1/2" Whisper White card stock piece and use an aqua painter to apply a stripe of Coastal Cabana ink (either use a drop of reinker or squish the lid on the ink pad and pick up the color from the inside of the lid).

Use the small grunge splatter stamp to stamp some splatter across the card. I think I may have stamped it off one time before stamping to decrease the intensity. Stamp the baby buggy with chocolate chip ink and the hello baby also.

Adhere to card front about 1/2" from top, there should be about 3/4" remaining at the bottom. Apply the Washi tape across the bottom and a strip above the buggy and you are done! Wasn't that easy?!

Thank you for joining me in my craft room today!
Happy Day, 
Trude

By the Seashore Father's Day Card HSSSC186

Just as I promised, here is another masculine card. I used it for a Father's Day card but it would work great for a birthday or general Thinking of You card.

I used this Hand Stamped Sentiment Sketch Challenge (HSSSC186) but turned it upside down.

 

 

Just as in yesterday's card, I used a piece of sandpaper to embellish this card. It gives it texture and adds the 'feel' of being on a beach (plus many men can relate to sandpaper! *smile*) The Stamp sets I used are By the Seashore and Teeny Tiny Wishes.

I would love to have been at the Oregon Coast this weekend. A couple of my friends that did go said that there were orca within sight of the beach. I guess the weather was great too!

I will just have to settle for my beachy cards for now.

I'm just starting to try my hand with alcohol markers. I used them to color the shells. I used watercolor paper on which to stamp and color. I tried the Whisper White card stock first, which is recommended, but think I will continue to use the watercolor paper until I have had some more practice.
I hope you had a great Memorial day weekend!
Trude

St. Patrick's Day Card

Hello,
Today I am sharing a St. Patrick's Day card that my friend, Susie, created and ask me to share. She created it with the Stampin' Up! owl builder punch. Isn't it cute?
I could also see it switched out to be a congratulation card or a graduation card.

Products she used:
Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set
Early Espresso card stock
Old Olive card stock
Lucky Limeade card stock
Whisper White card stock
Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper- FREE Sale-A-Bration item
Scallop Oval punch
Rhinestone basic jewels
Snail Tape

Have a Crafty weekend!
Trude 

Teeny Tiny Wishes #PPA189

You may be making your Valentines today, but I am already thinking ahead to next month! Here's the first St. Pat's day card that I have created for this year. I made it for my entry to Pals Paper Arts Sketch challenge #189.

 Have you tried this tissue paper flower technique with your Big shot?
The tissue paper flower was created with the Stampin' Up! pansy punch and the Floral Frames Collection dies.
I folded tissue paper so that there were 8 layers then punched it out with the pansy punch. Then I folded the tissue into 8 layers and put it through the Big Shot with the 2nd from the smallest flower. Then I layered the 2 sets, punched a hole in the center, inserted a brad and scrunched the tissue layers.

Here's the list of supplies I used for this card:
Gumball Green card stock #126840
Whisper White card stock #100730
Garden Green card stock #102584
Designer Series Paper stack- Regals #130139
I Am Me Designer Series paper #130138
Garden Green Classic Stampin' ink #126973
Arrows embossing folder #132187
Decor Label Collection dies #130102
Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch #119275
Circle card thinlits die #133480
Hearts Framelits die #125599
Floral Frames Collection dies #127012
Pansy punch #130698
Glimmer brad #121006
Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set- Wood #128748, Clear #127802
Stampin' Sponge #101610

Friend to Friend Card Sunday Stamps Challenge

This is my entry for the color challenge at Sunday Stamps!
The colors are quite bright for this challenge, so to tone them down I used a lot of white space. I think this qualifies for a Clean and Simple card.
Check out Sunday Stamps' blog to see more examples of this color combination.
Supply List
Basic White card stock- 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", 6" x 1 1/2", 4" x 5 1/4", 2 3/4" x 1"
So Saffron card stock- 2 3/4" x 1"
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' ink pad
So Saffron Classic Stampin' ink pad
Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' ink pad
Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder
Modern label punch
Word Window punch
Elegant Butterfly punch
Papillon Potpourri stamp set
Basic Rhinestones
Dimensionals
Sharpie markers, yellow, orange and purple
Instructions
1. Fold white card base
2. Emboss white card and adhere to card base
3. Stamp the butterfly 3 times on the 1 1/2" x 6" white card strip. One of each of the ink colors listed.
4. Punch out butterflies with Elegant butterfly punch
5. Adhere along right edge of card base with Dimensionals
6. Use Sharpie markers to color the rhinestones and adhere the rhinestones to the butterflies
7.Use Rich Razzleberry ink to stamp sentiment on white strip. Punch with Word Window punch
8. Use Modern Label to punch So Saffron card stock. Lightly ink edges of sentiment and adhere to So Saffron label.
9. Adhere label to card front (lower left) with Dimensionals

St. Patrick's Day Card

 Are you looking for cards to make for St. Patty's Day? Here's one that will get you started.

I used the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set from Stampin' Up! to stamp the greeting for this card. That is the only stamping but the other products are Stampin' Up! too.
Supplies:
Basic White card stock
Garden Green card stock
Heart framelits
Stitched Satin ribbon- Gumball Green
Scalloped oval punch
Large scallop punch
Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder
Elegant Bouquet embossing folder
Garden Green Classic Stampin' ink
Stampin' Cut and Emboss Machine
Glue Dots

If you would like the instruction sheet for this card, it is available on my tutorial page.  Look for the St. Patricks Day Shamrock card file.

Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsakes stamp set

click on the photo to see the details

This double pop-up card is made with the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set by Stampin' Up! This card is made with the same template as the previous card. When you pull up the message in back the center "Merry Christmas" pops up. The "Merry Christmas" stamp is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set by Stampin' Up! The stamps in that set are perfect to fit in small places.

I used Garden Green cardstock and printed paper from the Be of Good Cheer Designer Series Paper set.

 

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