Category Archives: Stampin Up

Wheely Grateful

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This card is for mom’s November camp. I’m really happy with how this card turned out!

I inked the wheel with Pool Party, then went back over the sentiment I wanted using the Espresso marker. Now, my wheel in unmounted, so I ended up having to stamp this in stages, but for camp, they’ll just roll it out making sure the sentiment is about 1″ up from the bottom.

Then I cleaned the wheel and, using the Mustard marker, inked up the leaf I wanted. Stamped on scrap and cut it out.

Just finish it up with a strip of pattern paper and some twine.

Easy peasy 🙂

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Gratitude
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Bright Blessings jumbo wheel;
Colors: More Mustard, Pool Party, Espresso, Vanilla;
Other: Spice Cake DSP, Hemp twine;

Playing with Fabric

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Back in September I put together a few cards for my mom’s newsletter on stitching. On this card I decided to use the StampinUp fabric as well as stitching.

I die cut about four butterflies and machine stitched them to the Crumb Cake layer. My little machine doesn’t like tight curves, so I did part of it manually moving the needle up and down. Not fun!

To do the ruffled border, I ran a long straight stitch down the center of the fabric. Then I pulled one of the threads and gathered the fabric as I went.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Grateful Greetings
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Creative Elements, Grateful Greetings;
Colors: Black, Crumb;
Other: First Edition DSP, Timeless Portrait Fabric; machine stitching

Magical Birthday

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I love this pony image (I grew up in the 80’s, so yeah, it only makes sense, lol).

The card has lots of colors, so I kept everything else very limited…not a lot of textures/patterns or other accents.

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Magical Birthday Wishes
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Pony Party;
Colors: Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, White;
Other: Tropical Party DSP; Lemon ribbon (PTI); markers (Copic);

Happy Halloween

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I neglected to send Halloween cards last year, so I didn’t need to make any this year. But as I was checking my list I realized I needed one more – quick and flat. I checked out SplitCoast and found this lovely by Dawn using Haunted Forest. CASE!

I changed just a bit (like removing the bling since I wanted easy mailing) and one less layer. I also used Brushed Silver for my layer behind the Haunted Forest. I really like the shine that gave it.

Oh, and her main image is stamped on grey, but I wanted to use vellum. So I needed to get creative when adhering the vellum. The image has a few tiny black spots (the animals), so I used those to my advantage and applied tiny dots of liquid glue to those spots. I got lucky and they didn’t even mush out 🙂

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Happy Halloween
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Haunted Forest;
Ink: Stazon;
Paper: Black, Brushed Silver, White, Vellum, old retired DSP;
Other: circle punch;

Autumn Birthday

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I created this card for InkUp’s October camp. Mom wanted a masculine card. I’m so glad they came out with the set Best Dad Ever – the fonts are perfect for masculine cards.

The focal panel (the newsprint paper) is stamped with the different foliage images – each with their own color. You can click the image to see it in more detail.

You can’t tell in the photo, but the card base is stamped with the Woodgrain background in Espresso.

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happy birthday
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Autumn Days, Best Dad Ever, Woodgrain Background;
Colors: Espresso, Cajun, Mustard, Artichoke, Vanilla, River Rock;
Other: First Edition DSP;

Strawberry Love

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I created this card over the summer for one of mom’s stamp camps. I love Tart & Tangy and was sad to see it retire.

I’m pretty sure mom added glitter to the strawberry for the final card 😀

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love you
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Tart & Tangy, Short & Sweet;
Colors: Pear, Poppy, Chocolate, White;
Other: Sunny Garden DSP, Saffron ribbon, Scallop Circle punch, Circle punch, Corner Rounder punch;

Golden Anniversary

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I created this card for my in-laws who celebrated 50 years together this year! I am very lucky that I adore my in-laws – they really are great people!

I really wanted an elegant card and since this was their golden anniversary, I kept it to just gold and white.

The flower is a die from MFT. I had a really hard time getting it to roll, but I think I was just trying too hard. Once I relaxed about it, it came together much easier.

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Congratulations
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Perfect Punches;
Colors: White, Gold;
Other: Elegant Lines embossing folder, Leafy die, Lots of Tags die, Modern Label punch; gold pearl (forget brand, got it at Hobby Lobby); Rolled Flower die (MFT);

Halloween Stitches

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During the month of September I put together a 5 week newsletter that involved “stitching” (for my mom’s SU group). Two of the cards were Halloween themed, so I’m posting them together. I’ll post the other cards in the future.

First up is a hand-stitched web – done with clear filament. To create the web, I started by drawing the lines on the back-side and then pierced the places the lines intersected.

The rest of the card is pretty simple. I used markers to color the candelabra and then cut it out. The sentiment is actually a little of both sentiments from the Wicked Cool set. Again I used markers to selectively color the parts I wanted to use. I don’t bother with a stamp-a-ma-jig…which is why ‘halloween’ is a bit crooked, oh well 🙂



The next card was meant to be a funny card. I have no idea who I would send this too – but thankfully I don’t have to worry about it, the card is in the safety of mom’s stamp room.

The foot was hand drawn, but I’ve conveniently included it here as a download, if you so desire, lol.

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All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Spooky Halloween
Stamps: Wicked Cool;
Colors: Black, Pumpkin, Razzleberry;
Other: Lots of Tags die; clear filament;
Smell My Feet
Stamps: Batty for You, Baroque Motifs;
Colors: Saffron, Peach, Olive (or was it Limeade?), Black;
Other: Scallop punch;

Fall Anniversary

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My brother and his wife will be celebrating 5 years together next week. She loves fall colors and I recently purchased the Spice Cake paper from Stampin Up so I used that as my starting point. I thought today’s sketch by Iwona (ssc32) was a perfect fit.

It is hard to see in the photo, but the flower petals have glitter on the edges.

Oh, and the little swirlys on the tag are a perfect fit for this die, even though they are a PTI stamp (Boxes Bags & Tags).

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Happy Anniversary
Stamps: Fabulous Florets (SU); Fillable Frames 4 (PTI);
Colors: Suede, Pool Party, More Mustard, Pear (SU);
Other: doily die (PTI); label die (SU); rhinestones (Kaiser);

Index Cards

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These cards are all ones that started their lives as index cards for the SCS gallery. It was fun to try to create an index card that I could “finish” as a real card.

The first card is actually the index card. I thought it could stand on its own fairly well. Since the image is the sentiment I didn’t need to add anything else. I kept the theme of stars and stripes when picking the pattern paper and ribbon.

The machine stitching was originally just on the layers, but it got lost in the patterns, so I extended it to the full horizontal. I probably will eventually add a couple vertical stitch lines on the edges, but the back is so horribly done with all the starts and stops I’m not even sure the needle would make it through, lol.



 
This next card is what I had in mind when I created the index. For the index, I could only use the ball and the “Home Run” sentiment since that is all that is part of the stamp set.

After taking the photo for the index, I went back and added the rest of the sentiment. Of course I had to do it word by word so I could squeeze it all in, and so it isn’t as straight as I would have liked.

The ball is hand-cut to have that “crack” graphic (comic-book) look.



 
This final one is another a la carte image, so the index card is sans the greeting, but also without the leaf die cut – mostly because I didn’t want to obscure the image.

The bird image is watercolored. The background is embossed with the Elegant Bouquet folder from SU. The ribbon, I’m not sure about the ribbon, but I think it is an old retired SU color – Cranberry (one of the first InColors).

Thanks for taking a peek!