The Brightly Gleaming suite in the 2019 Stampin' Up! holiday catalog is so beautiful! On this card, I used colors that I haven't used together in a while, Merry Merlot and Crumb Cake.
To make this project you will need the following paper. For a complete list of all the products I used, please see the end of this post.
Cardstock:
Merry Merlot
cut at 4 1/4" x 11" score at 5 1/2"
cut at 1" x 5 1/2"
Whisper White
cut 2 at 4" x 5 1/4"
cut at 2" x 3" for ornament
This card is another great card to make when you need to make duplicates. It is fast and easy!
Today I am in Lansing, Michigan at a retreat given by a fellow demonstrator. Later tonight I will be attending Stampin' Up! Center Stage (this is for demonstrators who are Silver Elite and above). Then tomorrow it will be the big event for all demonstrators. I can't wait!
I know I have been showing you a lot of Christmas projects lately, so I thought I would share with you a birthday card using a stamp set, Perennial Birthday, from the Stampin' Up! annual catalog. I did use the Gathered Leaves dies from the holiday catalog too.
I want to thank Doris Schneider for sharing her card online with all of us. I liked it so much, I didn't change anything on it. That is one thing that I absolutely love about Stampin' Up! Everyone is so willing to share their creations with others. When someone wants to make one of my cards, I always tell them, that is the best compliment you can give me.
To make this project you will need the following paper. For a complete list of all the products I used, please see the end of this post.
Cardstock:
Whisper White Thick
cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" score at 4 1/4"
Mint Macaron
cut at 2" x 2"
Pretty Peacock
cut at 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
cut at 1 3/8" x 4"
Whisper White
cut at 1 1/4" x 4"
cut at 4" x 5 1/4"
Come To Gather Designer Series Paper
cut at 3" x 3"
I love the simplicity of this card and how just by changing the designer series paper and colors you can have a total different look.
Thank you for stopping by today. I really appreciate it!
Happy Stampin and
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Mr. Wonderful loves penguins, so when I saw the Playful Penguins stamp set in the Stampin' Up! holiday catalog, I knew I had to order it. I have to admit, when I saw them in the catalog I thought they were cute. However, when I saw them in person, I was so wrong. They are so stinkin' cute!
I knew I was going to make a card with this stamp set for Mr. Wonderful for our anniversary; I just wasn't sure which one. He loved his card, so I must have made the right one!
To make this project you will need the following paper. For a complete list of all the products I used, please see the end of this post.
Cardstock:
Night of Navy
cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" score at 4 1/4"
Seaside Spray
cut at 4" x 5 1/4"
Whisper White
cut at 3 1/5" x 5 1/2" for the penguins and scarves
cut at 4" x 5 1/4" for inside the card
Silver Foil Sheets
cut at 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
Sparkle Glimmer Paper
cut at 2" x 5 1/4"
I used the die from the In The Woods die set to cut the snow bank. The snowflakes on the Seaside Spray cardstock are stamped with silver metallic ink. I also stamped the snowflakes on the bottom of the inside Whisper White panel and on the bottom of the envelope. The penguins and the scarves I fussy cut them using our awesome Paper Snips.
Happy Hump Day!!! Thank you for stopping in today. I really appreciate it.
Happy Stampin and
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Oh my goodness! The Stampin' Up! October Paper Pumpkin is absolutely gorgeous! I can't wait to make more of them. I usually don't make more than one or two of the projects the way they are suppose to be made. I am always changing them or creating something totally different. Not this time! I want to make them just like the kit says to do it.
There are three different layers on this Christmas card that really make this card. You have the base of the card with the two trees and the background colors. Your next layer, popped up with Stampin Dimensionals, is the snow and birch trees. The third layer is the sentiment, also popped up with Stampin Dimensionals.
I had so much fun creating my alternative project, a shadow box. It has been quite a while ago since I created one. I had to go back and read my old blog post to see how to make it. LO If you would like to see it go to Shadow Box.
I started this project with an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of Night of Navy cardstock.
Mary Ann Rossiter, a fellow demonstrator, had put the directions on Facebook on how to make a shadow box. Here is the picture Mary Ann put on Facebook.
Here is the video I made during my Facebook Live on Monday. I shared how to put the kit together and how to make the frame for the shadow box.
I have a tip for you on how you can get more out of your Paper Pumpkin kit.
If you have the In The Woods dies, you can cut out two more trees from the section that is left over from the birch trees in the kit. You now can make more Christmas cards or cards for other occasions using the trees. I love that they have glitter on them.
In November Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin will have Christmas tags that coordinate with the October kit. Each kit is all inclusive, so you can get one without the other. I have to say, I can't wait to see what the kit is going to be. I bet it is going to be just as beautiful as this one. This kit will have 24 holiday-themed gift tags of 4 various sizes and designs.
Click on the link below by November 10th to start getting your Paper Pumpkin each month in your mailbox.
The final kit the attendees at my Holiday Extravaganza made was from the Brightly Gleaming suite in the Stampin' Up! Holiday catalog. The Brightly Gleaming designer series paper is so beautiful, so we used it on each project.
Did you know you can color the Very Vanilla/Copper 1/2" Classic Weave Ribbon with any of the Blends markers. On this card they used the Night of Navy Blend marker.
Have you seen the Copper Metallic Ink? It is so pretty. You can really make it shine when you stamp your image and then put clear embossing powder on it and heat set it.
We saw this card online and knew we wanted to include it in our kit. This is a really fun card to make. The ornaments look like they are floating.
The Tufted embossing folder makes any card or project prettier. I love how embossing folders take any project and makes them even more special.
With this kit the attendees also made 3 Christmas tags. These were fast and easy to make.
You can't make tags and not have a holder for them.
On Friday I will have the rest of the pictures from our Holiday Extravaganza. We are already planning our next retreat for next fall. When we get all the details figured out, I will let all of you.
Tonight I will be sharing with you how to make the Christmas cards from the October Paper Pumpkin and an alternative project. I absolutely love how my alternative project turned out and can't wait to show you. Join me on my Stampin Scrapper Facebook page at 7:00pm EST
Next Monday I will be starting my Merry Christmas Monday series. I will be creating Christmas projects to share with all of you. Then, on Monday night I will be creating the same project that will be on here on my Facebook Live. I can't wait to share with you projects that I have already created for this series.
Thank you for stopping by today! I really appreciate it.
Happy Stampin and
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You all know how I love snowmen, so of course, we were going to do the Let It Snow suite! Aren't they cute?! With this kit they made 6 projects, 4 cards, a gift card holder and a note holder.
I have made these before and they were always a big hit. We had a local copy shop make the note pads for us. It was so much cheaper than trying to buy them already done, plus we supported a local small business.
This little guy makes me smile. Have you seen the beautiful Let It Snow Specialty designer series paper? It is beautiful! Some of the pages have glitter on them, which makes them sparkle! Snowmen and sparkles! Yay!
I saw this card online and fell in love with it. I don't know who created it, but thank you for sharing it. I have really been drawn to red and white lately for snowmen.
Do you a cute holder for a coffee gift card? This is a great one and they are easy to make. The gift card goes in the band that has the sentiment on it. You can fill the cup with anything. We put Hershey kisses in ours.
This little snowman is from one of the sheets of paper that has the sparkle on it. There are different snowman on the page and they are all sparkly. The snowflake was cut out using a die from the Frosted Frames dies.
When we were creating this card, I didn't want to do the classic fold. I wanted to do something different. I have done this layout before, but it has been a long time.
On Monday night on my Facebook live, I showed how to do the Retiform Technique. I made one of these cards a couple years ago when I was on the Stampin' Up! Creative Crew Design Team on Splitcoaststampers. If you haven't seen that post, check it out at SCS Creative Crew September 2017.
This is the card that I created on my Facebook live. I used the Gather Together, To Every Season and Colorful Seasons stamp sets. I wanted to use fall stamps, so I looked through my stamps and found them in three of my sets.
Would you like to try out this technique? I have the video I made on Monday night for you to see how it is done.
To make this project, you will need the following products:
Cardstock:
Early Espresso
cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" score at 4 1/4"
Whisper White
cut 2 at 4" x 5 1/4"
I used the following inks for this project:
Cajun Craze
Cherry Cobbler
Crumb Cake
Crushed Curry
Early Espresso
Mossy Meadow
Pumpkin Pie
The card on the left is the one I made during my Facebook live and the one on the right is the one I made before taping.
One thing that you want to make sure if you are going to try this technique, you need to have post it notes or post it note tape. You want something you can take off and move that won't rip your paper.
Thank you for stopping by today! Stop back on Friday to see my latest project for my Fall Friday series.
Happy Stampin and
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The second kit we did at our Holiday Extravaganza retreat was the Come To Gather suite from the Stampin' Up! 2019 Holiday catalog. I really like how this kit came out. I have made extras of these cards to use for my personal use, especially the gift card holder.
In this kit there were 4 cards and 1 gift card holder. The first card they made was a simple but pretty card. I think using the Pinewood Plank on the Terracotta Tile cardstock really made this card.
The designer series paper on this card is from the Come To Gather designer series pack. With each kit the attendees got a little gift and with this kit they got the Linen Thread as we used it on a lot of our projects.
One of the colors that coordinate with the Come To Gather suite is Pretty Peacock. It is such a pretty rich color and is perfect for Fall or with some of our Christmas designer series paper. We used another piece of paper from the Come To Gather designer series paper pack. One this that I really like about the dies from this suite is that the small leaves cut and emboss at the same time.
I like this card as it uses different colors, Pretty Peacock and a grayish/brown tint, than most Fall cards. The colors that coordinate with this paper are Early Espresso and Pretty Peacock.
The final project for this kit was a gift card holder. This holder is very easy to make and can be used for any occasion. All you would have to do is change the colors and designer series paper. You could make one for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentines Day or birthday. So many possibilities.
Please note: Some of the projects from Holiday Extravaganza were from Pinterest and/or YouTube. We used them for inspiration or we might have case'd (create and share everything) them. Then there were some that we designed exclusively for our Holiday Extravaganza. Since they were created special for the attendees, I will not be sharing the measurements or instructions.
For each of our kits, we picked a suite and used that for all of our projects, with the exception of sometimes using an additional stamp set.
Here are all the products we used for this kit. If you would like to purchase any of the supplies I used for any of the projects, just click on the picture below.
Here is a list of supplies that we used for this kit:
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Tonight I am going to be showing you a fun technique called, Retiform, on a card. I haven't made one in a long time, so this will be fun to show you this technique tonight. I will be live on my Facebook page Stampin Scrapper at 7:00pm EST. I hope you can join me!
Robin and I had 5 different kits for the attendees to create at our Holiday Extravaganza. The first one was Halloween themed and we used the Wonderfully Wicked stamp set and Wicked dies. We also used the Monster Bash designer series paper all from the Stampin' Up! 2019 holiday catalog.
The first project they made was the adorable pumpkin with the clear boxes. We got inspiration from a lot of different places for our projects. Some we created, some we took bits and pieces from projects we saw on line and came up with our own and some we made just like the original creator. This is one of the projects that we made just like the creator, but changed the sentiment.
In this treat holder Mentos fit perfectly inside of it. With all of our treat holders, we gave them the candy to put in them, so they didn't have to go get it themselves. Also, with each kit, they got a surprise from us. With this kit the got the beautiful Glittered Organdy Ribbon from the annual catalog.
I think it was a couple of years ago that Stampin' Up! had the test tubes in one of their catalogs. Well, for some reason I thought I needed to buy boxes and boxes of them. This was a perfect time to use them! I still have a bunch left. LOL
Robin designed this card and I love how it turned out. I am not a person big on Halloween, I am more of a Fall type of girl. However, after using this set, I really like how the projects came out.
Every year we can find the Halloween mini popcorn bags, but not this year. We looked every where, even online, and couldn't find them. I know as soon as we go out shopping again, we are going to find them everywhere. Who doesn't like sweet and salty together?! So, we added a small packet of M & M's to add to the popcorn when they pop it. Yummy!
For each of our kits, we picked a suite and used that for all of our projects, with the exception of sometimes using an additional stamp set.
Here are all the products we used for this kit. If you would like to purchase any of the supplies I used for any of the projects, just click on the picture below.
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Thank you for stopping by today! Come back on Friday for my Fall Friday series. I will have more projects and pictures from my Holiday Extravaganza next week. Have an awesome Wednesday!
I love this kit so much I ordered 4 of them! I am not a person who likes skeletons, skulls or any of the other types of scary Halloween items. I go towards the scarecrows and pumpkins. I think it is from working with children for almost 31 years, but even as a kid I wasn't into it.
When I saw this kit I thought I wouldn't like it, but was I wrong! I love it! I had so much fun playing with it and creating these cards. You know how I love how Stampin' Up! demonstrators share their creations with each other, which was what I needed for this kit. Not that I couldn't have created my own designs (I did on one card) I just didn't have the time this week. My Holiday Extravaganza is on Saturday, so my stampin studio has just been a little busy and hectic. I found two of the cards online and changed them up a little bit to fit my style.
The first card was originally created by Dana McClelland and this is my take on it.
The measurements for this card are:
Cardstock:
Gorgeous Grape
cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" score at 4 1/4"
Black
cut at 4" x 5 1/4"
scrap for cat
Smoky Slate
cut at 3 3/4" x 5"
Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede and Old Olive
scraps for pumpkin
Whisper White
cut at 4" x 5 1/4"
The other card that caught my eye right away was created by Linda Sterling.
The measurements for this card are:
Cardstock:
Black
cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" score at 4 1/4"
cut at 4" x 5 1/4"
Granny Apple Green
cut at 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
cut at 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Gorgeous Grape
cut at 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Pumpkin Pie
cut at 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Whisper White
cut at 4" x 5 1/4"
The last card I did create myself. When I saw the skeletons in the Paper Pumpkin stamp set the first thing I thought of was them dancing across the card.
The measurements for this card are:
Cardstock:
Granny Apple Green
cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" score at 4 1/4"
Gorgeous Grape
2 3/4" x 5 1/2"
Whisper White
cut at 2 1/2" x 5 1/2"
cut at 4" x 5 1/2"
Here is the video from my Facebook live on how to put the September Paper Pumpkin kit together and how to create the above cards.
How cute are those treat boxes. I am going to make 62 of them for Beckett, Brielle and Blysse to take to their Halloween parties at school.
If you would like to get a fun creative box in your mailbox each month, check out the details below about the October and November Paper Pumpkin kits.
Stampin' Up! knows how we love to create beautiful cards and tags for our Christmas gifts. This year they have coordinated October and November's Paper Pumpkin to make it easy for all of us. Yay! Put them together and you have everything you need to make handmade and heartwarming projects.
October’s kit includes 10 traditional cards
holiday card size: 4 1/4" x 5-1/2"
November’s kit features 24 can’t- miss tags.
holiday-themed gift tags of 4 various sizes and designs.
Coordinating colors: Early Espresso, Pool Party, Poppy Parade, and Shaded Spruce
Supplies may be limited toward the end of the subscription period.
NOTE: the October and November kits coordinate; however, each kit is all-inclusive and can stand alone.
Each month I will be doing a Facebook live showing you how to put the kit together and how to make alternative projects . Join me on my Stampin Scrapper Facebook page on
October 28th at 7:00pm
November 25th at 7:00pm
Come back on Friday to see what fun project I have created for you!
Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!
Happy Stampin and
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