more color mondays – petal pink, fresh freesia and pool party

more color mondays – petal pink, fresh freesia and pool party

I don’t know about you but for me my mind starts to daydream about Spring about this time in January! So today’s More Color Monday is all about blue skies and the Happy Hellos of Springtime with Petal Pink, Fresh Freesia and Pool Party with a healthy splash of Blueberry Bushel for contrast!

Measurements:
BASE: Blueberry Bushel 4 1/4″ x 11″
scored at 5 1/2″
Sunny Days DSP 2″ x 4 1/4″
Basic White scrap for sentiment die and mail
box
Pool Party scrap for grass die
Petal Pink scrap for envelope die
Fresh Freesia scrap for heart die

Gather the pieces for this fast and easy color challenge card.
Die cut and emboss the Hello from the Thoughtful Moments Hybrid Embossing Folder in Basic White.
Die cut the grass in Pool Party.
Die cut the heart in Fresh Freesia, and the envelope stamp in Tuxedo Black Memento ink on Petal Pink CS and die cut with smaller envelope die.

Using Stampin’ Blends color the mail box in light Petal Pink, the mailbox base in Blueberry Bushel light blend. Using a water painter color the grass in Pool Party ink.

Adhere the 2″ strip of Sale-a-bration Sunny Days DSP to the top edge of the card base.
Pop up the Hello die from the Thoughtful Moments Hybrid embossing folder with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals and adhere to the middle right hand side of the card base.
Adhere the grass die in Pool Party CS to the bottom edge of the card front.
Using the edge of your Paper Snips and slice at the left inside outline of the mailbox opening creating a slit for the envelope to tuck into before adhering it to the card (do not put adhesive to the left of the slit mark so you have wiggle room to insert the envelope die into the slit.)
Adhere the colored mail box die cut to the left hand side of the card tucking the bottom just under the grass die so that the stamped grass sticks out in a tuft.
I stamped the I miss you sentiment in the upper right hand corner of the DSP.
And I finished the card off with the very “Springtime” Rainbow Adhesive-Backed Dots in Fresh freesia and Pool Party!

Try making a card today and bring a little springtime color to your winter world! Now go and create some artwork of your veery own – one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie
If you make a card with these colors post it today in the comment section of my Facebook post so we can all see your lovely artwork and you can inspire others to do the same!

more color mondays – berry burst, highland heather and gorgeous grape

more color mondays – berry burst, highland heather and gorgeous grape

I cannot believe how fast the weeks go by! Hard to believe that the first month of the new year is more than 3/4 of the way gone! I am loving our new catalogs and getting to show you all fun samples of cards using all the new materials!

Today is another More Color Monday and it features an array of purples to play with! Berry Burst, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape are three of the fabulous shades of purple in the new Perennial Lavender Designer Series paper that makes this card an easy WOW card!

Measurements:
BASE: Highland Heather CS 4 1/4″ x 11″
scored at 5 1/2″
DSP: (2) 2″ x 5 1/4″ (2) 2″ x 3/4″
Basic White: 4″ x 5 1/4″ for inside
scrap for Heartfelt Hexagon punch and dies
Berry Burst strip scrap 1/4″ x 5 1/4″

Take a scrap piece of Basic White cardstock and stamp the double lined outline of the Heartfelt Hexagon image in Gorgeous Grape ink.
Choose a sentiment from the Heartfelt Hexagon stamp set and stamp it inside the Gorgeous grape hexagon in the Berry burst ink color.
Using the Heartfelt Hexagon punch, punch out the hexagon.
Score the Highland Heather base card at 5 1/2″ and fold with a bone folder for a nice crisp fold.
Adhere the Basic White 4″ x 5 1/4″ layer to the inside of the card.
Adhere the two small pieces of DSP left over from cutting the DSP down to 5 1/4 in length and adhere a 1/4″ x 4″ strip of Berry Burst across the bottom and over that adhere one of the 2″ x 3/4″ rectangle pieces of DSP.
Adhere the other small rectangular DSP piece to the opposite corner of the Basic White layer.
On the card front, adhere the 2″ x 5 1/4″ piece of DSP to the left side, leaving an even border on the top, bottom and left edge of the cardstock.
Flip over the other piece of 2″ x 5 1/4″ DSP to the other pattern and adhere to the right side of the card front leaving an even border around the outside edges.
Adhere the 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ Berry burst strip to the middle where the edges meet from the two pieces of DSP.
Pop up the Heartfelt Hexagon punch out onto Stampin’ Dimensionals and place in the upper middle above the Berry Burst strip.
Punch out the two lavender sprigs in Basic White scrap cardstock and using a blending brush in Gorgeous Grape and Berry Burst inks color each stem in a separate color.
Adhere diagonally under the hexagon punch.
In the Perennial Lavender Suite are these stunning Shimmer Gems called Purple Fine Shimmer Gems and up close they are amazing! The catalog does not do them justice!
These gems come in the three colors for today’s challenge so I used each color on the card!
The shimmer Gems finish off this bright and cheerful card! Hope you enjoyed this easy DSP card and try it with some of your own stash today! Now go and create some artwork of your very own – one piece of DSP or 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

making your own designer paper

making your own designer paper

Sale-a-bration is HERE!!!

This project is made with the gorgeous new Level Two Sale-a-bration set called Detailed Dogwood. It is a collage set with beautiful images and perfect for the application I am using for today’s blog post – making your own designer paper!

There are actually two techniques for this post!
When you have a stamp set like this one – which you can earn for FREE with a $100 purchase! – with a lot of smaller images it lends itself well to background paper stamping.

Measurements:
BASE: Pebbled Path 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
Pebbled Path layer 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″
scrap for sentiment piece
Basic White 4″ x 5 1/4″ for inside

Start with the Pebbled Path layer and stamp one of the medium images in the upper and lower diagonal corners.

Continue stamping until the entire surface of this layer is filled and designed to your liking.

I wanted to give it more texture so i embossed it with the hatchmark design from the Basics 3D folders pack.

Cut this in half and now you have background paper for two cards.
Adhere the paper to the base. (I later decided to add a small matte to this in Lemon Lolly to tie in the color of the post bleached flowers.)
I stamped the larger dogwood flowers from this set in Versamark and sprinkled the black embossing powder from the Basics embossing powders pack and heat set with our Heat Tool.
Using an old brush or a dried out Blender Pen, I diped the old Blender pen in Gel Bleach and painted the bleach inside the embossed flower lines. Each dyed paper bleaches a different color – I always love watching the color develop! It reminds me of the old days when we used to develop film and you would be able to see the image appear – the color developing is a similar experience! Who would have guessed that Pebbled Path bleaches out to Lemon Lolly?
After I fussy cut the dogwood flowers out I popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and placed it on the upper right hand section of the card.
I added the Pebbled Path Textured ribbon to the lower part of the card.
I stamped a sentiment from the Wonderful Thoughts stamp set in Pebbled Path ink on the same color cardstock. I stamped off twice the dotted pattern and stamped over the sentiment and then cut it out using the Nested Essentials dies.
I moved the flowers and the ribbon up to accommodate the banner die and the sentiment.
I added some Gold Brushed Metallic Dots to highlight the flowers bleached areas.
I added a lemon Lolly matte to further accentuate the bleached color of the flowers I thought it was so pretty I wanted to call attention to it even more!

Try bleach or making your own paper today with the stamps you have! Go and create some artwork of your very own – one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie

sale-a-bration is here – check out watercolor melon

sale-a-bration is here – check out watercolor melon

This Level One Sale-a-bration set that you can EARN for FREE in January and February just screams summertime doesn’t it?!

This is a simple stamps, ink paper kind of card with a simple fun fold!

Measurements:
BASE: Sweet Sorbet 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored
at 4 1/4″ and 1″
Basic White layer: 4″ x 5 1/4″
scrap for Heartfelt Hexagon Punch

Score the Sweet Sorbet base card at 4 1/4″ and 1″. Folding the 1″ score into a mountain fold and the 4 1/4″ into a valley fold.

On the inside panel of the 1″, stamp the watermelon seeds in a random pattern with Tuxedo Black memento ink. Fold backwards so the stamped side is now on the outside of the card.
Punch a Heartfelt Hexagon out of a scrap of Basic White cardstock and stamp the half watermelon image in Sweet Sorbet ink in the lower right hand corner. Then stamp the rind in Parakeet Party ink around the watermelon pulp stamped in sweet sorbet. (I think it is easier to line up the rind image after stamping the pulp but you can stamp in any order you choose)
Stamp the hello sentiment on the upper left hand corner in Tuxedo Black Memento ink from the Wonderful Thoughts stamp set.
Using a blending brush color the edges in Sweet Sorbet ink, by brushing in downward strokes off the edge of the punched cardstock.
Adhere to the stamped side of the 1″ panel.
Stamp the thinking of you stamp in Memento ink in the center of the Basic White layer, then stamp a watermelon slice to the sentiment’s right side, using sweet sorbet ink for the pulp, parakeet party for the rind and memento ink for the seeds.
Adhere to the inside of the card.
You can pull on the 1″ panel to open up this easy fun fold!

Try this with a stamp set you already own or if you love this one, place an order with the current hostess code of $50 subtotal and earn this stamp set for FREE!

Go and create some artwork of your very own – one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie