Tuesday Tutorial # 111 Hug in a Mug

Anyone ready for a spot of tea? I used the new Hug in a Mug stamp set along with the sentiments from Balloon Celebration to create this card. I liked the delicate flowers on the Petal Garden Designer Series paper, so I thought I would pair it up with the tea cup. It would make a great invitation to a tea party. High Tea anyone?

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Scrapbook Sunday- Birthday Blossoms

Are you all done with weddings for the summer? Amazingly, I didn't have any to attend this year. I do have some from years past that I haven't scrapbooked.

This page could be used as a wedding page, it could also be used for a birthday or a new baby. I'm sure there is a celebration that you could use this page for.

Products I used on this page:

Birthday Blossoms stamp set
Leaf Punch
Pansy Punch
Wisteria Wonder Classic Stampin' ink pad
Berry Burst In-Color Stampin' ink pad
12" x 12" Pink Pirouette cardstock
5 1/2" x 7 1/2" Vellum
Always Artichoke cardstock 2" x 11"
Mini Dimensionals
rhinestones
Letraset Graphic tape

Friday Friend Share- Floral Greeting

Today's Friday Friend Share comes from my friend Candace.

The card background has stenciled embossing paste for interest and is wrapped with a hand spun piece of yarn. Sweet.

Have a blessed day,
Trude

Friday Friend Share- Birthday Card

Betty made this card for my birthday. She said she used a premade card base and added the flowers and sentiment.

Good job Betty. Good luck with some of the other wilder graphics in the set! I'm not sure it would be easy for me to put a card together with bold chevrons and stripes in the background either.

Have a blessed day,
Trude

Friday Friend Share

Stampin' Up! has had quite a bit of "Coloring" paper lately. Paper that you can color with markers, ink pads, sponges, and spray bottles were the first to come out. Now there is paper that you can color with crayons and colored pencils in addition to the other techniques.

Here's a card that Kim made with the colorable Sale-A-Bration paper. Love it! Thanks for sharing. She filled in the background too!

Have a blessed day,
Trude

Throwback Thursday - Flower of the Month

The Flower of the Month set has a flower from each month and was sold by Stampin' Up! in 2001. 
I used the August flower stamp which is a Gladiola.

Other products I used:
Fresh Fruit stamp set (sentiment)
Mossy Meadows cardstock
Brights Designer Series paper stack - Daffodil Delight stripe
Calypso Coral cardstock
Whisper White cardstock
Layering Ovals framelits
Stitched Shapes framelits
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' ink pad
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' ink pad
Old Olive Classic Stampin' ink pad
Basic Black Archival Stampin' ink pad
Peridot rhinestone

Tuesday Tutorial #102

Hi again!

Did you miss me? I took a week off over the 4th of July. I was at a family reunion at Silver Falls State Park. We rented the New Ranch Lodge. We are looking forward to doing that again! It was so fun.

Here's the Tuesday Tutorial for this week-

You can get the tutorial now by using this link. 
 Have a blessed day,
 Trude 

Scrapbook Sunday Artistically Asian

Hello,

This page is an 8" x 8" page. I don't have a fancy studio so it was a little bit tricky to photograph this page. The bright areas on the page are gold embossing and gold foil cardstock.

Products I used:

Gold embossing powder
VersaMark ink pad
Artistically Asian stamp set
Basic Black cardstock
Gold cardstock

Tuesday Tutorial 98 Daisy Delight

Hello Crafting Friends!

Today's tutorial uses my favorite stamp set from the catalog...so far. I'm sure as I use more stamp sets from the new catalog I will have many more favorites! This stamp set is called Daisy Delight.

You can get the tutorial now by using this link.
  Have a blessed day,  
Trude

Friday Friend Share

Here's a card that speaks of spring. It is from Jeannie. She used the twisted paper technique to create a flower to embellish this card. Have you tried this technique yet? I have not tried it. I think it would be cute for a special scrapbook page.

Jeannie also distressed the edges of the leaves and crumpled them for some added interest and texture. The white box on the upper right could also be used for a sentiment.

Tuesday Tutorial # 96 One Big Meaning

One Big Meaning Thank You card

Have you noticed that I haven't been sharing all the new stuff that I have been getting during the demonstrator pre-order? Well, that's because I haven't had time to create any new projects. I had to schedule all my blog posts before my son and his girlfriend came for a visit. And then I was too busy doing sightseeing trips and other fun stuff.

I promise that now that I am back to the routine (but still trying to catch up on everything) I will start to share some fun new products.

You can get the tutorial now by using this link.
Have a blessed day,  

Trude

Friday Friend Share

Okay, I know you must be wondering why I am sharing Betty's Autumn greeting card today. Well, I am getting really sick of all the rain we have had this spring and when I looked at this card I saw a big sun shining. I thought, "That would be really easy to switch out and create a spring themed card."

Use green on the leaves instead of the fall colors and switch the sentiment to say, "Hello Spring!"

Betty used the Kinda Eclectic stamp set. This stamp set is on the retiring list and will only be available through May 31, 2017.

 

Tuesday Tutorial # 94 Thoughts and Prayers

Thoughts and Prayers Encouragement Card

This uses the Baby Wipe Technique. I like it for this stamp set. I added a twist to the basic technique that I shared in my Wednesday 101 tutorial about the Baby Wipe Technique. In that tutorial the dots of ink were random. For this card the ink is placed in specific spots.

You can get the tutorial now by using this link.

Have a blessed day,  

Trude

Friday Friend Share

Love the colors of this card and the die cuts from a Tim Holtz die set.

Jeannie has an old hymnal that she uses for background papers. I think that's a great idea. It wouldn't be an archival paper but most people don't keep cards forever anyway.

Stampin' Up!s Wild About Flower stamp set could be used to create a similar card to this.

Wild about Flowers

Tuesday Tutorial # 91 Wild About Flowers

Wild about Flowers- Tuesday Tutorial #91

You can get the tutorial now by using this link.

Have a blessed day,
Trude
 

Friday Friend Share

This pretty floral arrangement was created by my friend, Betty. She likes to create punch art cards. 

I don't know the manufacture of the punches or dies she used.

Have a blessed day,
Trude

Flourishing Phrases Floral Card

Have you figured out that the Flourishing Phrases bundle is a must have from the new Annual Stampin' Up! catalog? So many ways to use it!

Supplies I used:

• Cucumber Crush cardstock
• Seaside embossing folder
• Metallics sequins assortment 
• Floral Phrases stamp set and thinlits bundle
• Stamp-n-Write markers- Perfect plum, Wisteria Wonder and Blushing Bride
• Banner Triple punch
• Perfect Plum Classic Stampin ink pad
• Big Shot

 

Birthday Blossoms Birthday Card

This is a lovely floral Stampin' Up! stamp set called Birthday Blossoms. The sentiments are in a beautiful font to go with the lovely florals. It makes for the perfect set. The sentiment is stamped on vellum to compliment the soft effect of the water colored flowers on the card.

Birthday Blossoms stamp set

Tuesday Tutorial # 44 Timeless Love Anniversary Card

A day late, but in the ballpark! 

Do you have one of those lives? Not enough hours to do everything you need to do let alone do the things you want to do?

Sometimes things crowd out my blogging. Some things in life just can't be put off. So, here it is, late again but I think it is worth the wait. This card is my take on a card that is in the annual catalog. Can you find the original? 

This is the Timeless Love stamp set. It is in the 2016 annual catalog and is also in the new 2017 catalog.

You can get the tutorial now by using this link.  

Have a blessed day, 

Trude 

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Throwback Thursday # 30

Another Episode of Throwback Thursday!

I have had too many other things to keep me distracted and busy and I haven't had the opportunity to pull out a retired stamp set and create a card, so today I decided to go for it!

Here is my creation...

I used a set called Botanical Garden.

It is always tricky to photograph shiny materials. There are multiple shiny surfaces on this card. The Panel with the iris is glossy white paper that Stampin' Up! used to carry. The frame behind it is silver foil paper and is still available. The background is also embossed and inked on glossy white paper. The silver satin ribbon is still available.

I used the Elegant Dots embossing folder to emboss the background. Then I used a Happy Pattern stencil over the top and spritzed it with Wisteria Wonder reinker mixed with rubbing alcohol in a Stampin' Spritzer. I like the way it turned out and the technique is real easy!

Happy Patterns stencils