more color mondays – flirty flamingo, melon mambo and granny apple green

more color mondays – flirty flamingo, melon mambo and granny apple green

More Color Mondays are here once more – this time it’s Flirty Flamingo, Mambo Melon, and Granny Apple Green and a great new technique the Blackout Technique.

Measurements:
BASE: Melon Mambo CS 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
scored at 4 1/4″
Basic White layer: 4″ x 5 1/4″
scrap for sentiment

Run the Basic White layer through the Layered Florals embossing folder.
Turn to the debossed side and using a blending brush color the larger flowers in Mambo Melon ink.

Color the smaller flowers with a smaller blending brush in Flirty Flamingo ink.
Color the leaves in Granny Apple Green ink – do not worry about coloring outside the lines.
Pull a Memento Black ink pad over the top of the debossed images do not push down but drag across the paper.
Cut the layer down to 4″ x 5 1/4″ and wrap black and white gingham ribbon around the basic white layer. Adhere the layer to the base.
Die cut the scrap of Basic White with the second smallest rectangle from the Detailed Essentials die set. Stamp the “Thank you so much” sentiment in Mambo Melon ink. Brush Mambo Melon ink with a blending brush around the die edges. Pop the sentiment up on Stampin’ Dimensionals over the ribbon.
I adhered the inside layer with a cut piece of the blackout technique.
The black ink covers the flat surfaces and allows the debossed coloring to pop!

Try this new technique to increase your 3D embossing folder usefulness – the Blackout technique is pretty awesome and I cannot wait to see what you make. Go and create some artwork of your very own – one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie

extended z-fold card

extended z-fold card

Today’s blog post is all about a fun fold called the extended z fold. It’s a great card that shows off the beautiful Sale-a-bration Designer Series Paper called Most Adorned 12″ x 12″ DSP.

Measurements:
BASE: Flirty Flamingo CS 4 1/4″ x 11″
scored at 1 1/4″ and 5 1/2″
DSP: 1″ x 4″, 1 1/2″ x 4″, 4″ square
scrap for sentiments

Fold card in half at 5 1/2″ score line. Fold the score line backwards at the 1 1/2″ score line.
Adhere the 1″ DSP to the 1 1/4″ flap.
In the first sample I used the brayer and colored the foiled side of the 1″ DSP.
Adhere the 1 1/2″ DSP to the left hand edge of the card leaving an even border around the top bottom and right hand edge.
Place tape on the inside of the front flap. Place the 4″ square of DSP on the left side of the score line – close the flap adhering the 4″ square to the backside of the flap.
Stamp a 1/4″ strip with the sentiment in Real Red ink. Rub the strip with a Blending Brush. Adhere it to the circle die from the Everyday Essentials and add Real Red card stock heart dies to the circle.
Adhere the sentiment piece hanging over the flap.
Adhere three Adhesive-Backed Milky Dots to the sentiment piece.
The DSP piece attached to the underside of the flap extends the card while it is open to over 14 inches but it still fits into a regular envelope when closed.

The Most Adorned DSP is FREE with every order of $50 subtotal – it contains a foiled side of gold and white and the other side features patterns of hearts and plaids in Flirty Flamingo and Real Red. So many possibilities in using every side! Here is a second version!

Try this extended z-fold soon and create some artwork of your very own – one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie

most adored square explosion fun fold

most adored square explosion fun fold

Do you love interactive cards – if so you are going to LOVE today’s post!

Today’s card is a square explosion card – pull on these tabs and the square opens up like a flower and reveals a message on the inside – what a cool surprise!

Measurements:
BASE: Flirty Flamingo 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″
Basic White layer 4″ x 5 1/4″
Flirty Flamingo layer 3 1/4″ square
DSP layer 6″ x 6″ folded and cut
inside white layer 2 3/4″ square

Score the 6″ x 6″ DSP at 1 1/2″ on all sides.
Cut the 4 corners out.
Fold the outside point of the edges cut inward towards the score line to create a triangle, do this on each side.
Starting with the bottom edge fold upwards towards the middle and proceeding clockwaise fold at each score line inward until you get to the last and fourth fold and tuck inside the first fold, creating the explosion square.
Stamp on the inside Basic White square piece in Flirty Flamingo for th Stippled Rose and Sweet Sorbet for the sentiment for a little contrast!
Open up the explosion square and adhere the inside layer to the center square.
Emboss the Basic White 4″ x 5 1/4″ layer in the Layered Florals 3D embossing folder and adhere to the Flirty Flamingo outer layer.
Adhere the explosion square to the Flirty Flamingo layer and adhere with Tear & Tape to the upper center of the card front.
Add Rainbow Adhesive-backed dots to the card. This is what the card looks like closed…
…and opened!

That is fun! try this easy card with some of your papers and show me what you have created – one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie

ice cream swirl twisted easel bookfold card

ice cream swirl twisted easel bookfold card

This Ice Cream Swirl is such a fun whimsical bundle! I really love the playfulness of it and this card is just built for the whimsy of this set!

I recently received a Twisted Easel Bookfold card in my swap this month and so i decided to rework it with my own style and blog it for you with all the directions and photos so you will be able to recreate it!

Measurements:
BASE: Flirty Flamingo 4 1/4″ x 11″
scored at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″
Basic White layer: 4″ square
scrap of Crumb cake for the cone
scraps of white for the sentiments and base of
the ice cream
scrap of Flirty Flamingo for the swirl and the
inside sentiment matte
DSP: 1″ x 4″

Score the base card at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″ and crease well with a bone folder. Place Tear & Tape in between the two score lines and fold the card closed sealing the book binding fold.
Fold the square upwards so the bottom right hand point matches up to the top right hand point – using your bone folder crease the diagonal fold well matching on the top edge.
Bend backwards so the score line is a mountain fold.
Add the 4″ Basic White layer to the inside of the card.
Die cut the swirl in Flirty Flamingo, the ice cream base in Basic White and the cone in Crumb Cake cardstock and add the embossing for the cone as well.
Adhere the swirl to the ice cream Basic White base and adhere the ice cream to the cone.

The cone plus ice cream will be too tall so you willwant to place the tip of the ice cream at the top of the card and adhere the cone to the bottom triangle below the diagonal score line only. Cut cone that is hanging below the bottom edge of the card.

Stamp the Make a Wish and Yum Yum sentiments in both Flirty Flamingo and Crumb Cake inks. Fussy cut in straight lines around each Yum you will need two of each color. Cut the A out in the Crumb cake and adhere over the A in the Flirty Flamingo Make a Wish sentiment cut into a square and matte onto Flirty Flamingo. Adhere the Yum Yums above and below the diagonal score line on the card front.
Add the Make a wish with Stampin’ Dimensionals to the lower right hand corner of the inside of the card. This will serve as the easel holder for the Twisted Easel fun fold.
I added 5 Iridescent Pastel gems to the card front to finish it off.
Try this fun and whimsical card today with some of your own supplies and create some art work of your very own – one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie

heartfelt hexagon window card

heartfelt hexagon window card

Today will be a very fun day and this is one of the fun projects you will be able to do if you are local and coming to visit me between 1-3pm at my New Catalog Open House. This bundle was made available early on-line because it was used in an on-line stamping day but it is one of the new bundles available in the January to April 2024 Mini Catalog! (and there is a FREE set you can earn during Sale-a-bration that coordinates with the punch HOW FUN IS THAT!!)
One of the best things I like about punches is that they can do so many fun things and cutting out a peek through window is one of those things and the one use I will be highlighting in this blog post!

Measurements:
Orchid Oasis: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″
1/2″ strips of:
Bubble Bath
Flirty Flamingo
Lemon Lime Twist
Coastal Cabana
Orchid Oasis
Basic White layer: 4″ x 5 1/4″ embossed and
punched

Slide the Hexagon punch onto the Basic White layer from the top of the 4 1/4″ side and punch out the hexagon shape.
Place the punched layer into the Painted Posies 3D embossing folder and emboss the image around the punched window.
Cut at least one 1/2″ strip of each of the colored cardstock in Bubble Bath, Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist, Coastal Cabana, and Orchid Oasis.
Place adhesive closely around the punched out window on the back side.
Layer one strip butting up next to the next strip and lay down onto the adhesive above and below the punched out window opening.

Place the Basic White layer embossing side up on a Stampin’ Pierce mat and stamp in Tuxedo Black Memento ink, one of the sentiments from the Heartfelt Hexagon Bundle. Press firmly as you are stamping on multiple pieces of cardstock layered next to one another and not a single sheet of cardstock.

Tie a length of Orchid Oasis Metallic Woven ribbon in a knot around the Basic White embossed layer. Pop up this layer on Stampin’ Dimensionals and adhere to the Orchid Oasis cardstock base.

One of the coolest things about this Metallic Woven ribbon is you can pull it gently to create a pattern within the ribbon or pull it all the way to create loose singular threads at the end – I used both techniques on the edges of this ribbon. I placed a small patch of adhesive down under the ribbon to keep the pulled design intact!
I added five 2022-2024 In Color Pearls in coordinating Orchid Oasis to complete the card with a little coordinating bling – LOVE that about Stampin’ Up!

Hope to see you this afternoon and help you make this card! Come and create a little artwork of your very own – one new stamp at a time!!!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie

P.S: If you are one of my out of town customers be sure to leave me a comment on today’s Facebook post to be entered into a Open House Prize drawing for those that cannot make it today!