Christmas Cards

Christmas time is coming and I decided to do a Stamp-a-stack at home by myself case-ing two designs. One from Vanessa and one from Kelly.

From Go to Whoa (aka How to mount your stamps)

Mounting stamps with the new die cut stamps is really easy.

Everything comes in the stamp storage box. Pull out your die cut stamps and begin separating them. I find it best before I mount them to separate them all and check which stamp goes on which block to ensure I get the right sizes.

Once you have matched the stamps to their correct blocks, take off the baking paper and attach to the block in the position you want. You don’t have to put them in the middle, but you could put them to one side to help you when lining up stamping later.

You can trim the stamps closer if you like. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.

Now times to put the labels on.

I try and match the label with the position of the stamp on the other side.

Now last but not least don’t forget to label the box

And now the card…. I {heart} heart is from the summer mini and it has a punch that coordinates with it.

I made this card for my husband’s birthday and then since I had the card stock already cut up I experimented with another one. I CASED ideas from the mini catalogue and also the ribbon weaving from Expressions – the stampin’ up magazine.

Card Stock: Pacific Point, Baja Breeze; Whisper White
Ink: Pacific Point, Riding Hood Red
Stamp Set: I {heart} Heart; Birthday Wish
Accessories: Full Heart Punch, Heart to Heart Punch; 3/4″ Polka-Dot Grosgrain Real Red Ribbon; Riding Hood Red Grosgrain Ribbon, SNAIL, scissors

More from the new catalogue

Here is another use of the sweet cups. A bit harder to scan in. I made a little pouch and put jelly babies in the pouch but used blue jelly bellys in the sweet cups for she had a little boy.

My other favourite new item from the summer catalogue is a butterfly punch which coordinates nicely with the stamp set butterfly prints.

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This was a very easy card to make and I enjoyed using my vintage brads so the butterfly floats on the card and the crop-a-dile makes it so easy to punch the holes in the butterfly and the card.

Stamp Set: Fifth Avenue Floral; Butterfly Prints
Ink: Riding Hood Red
Card Stock: Kiwi Kiss
Accessories: Butterfly Punch; Vintage Brads, Crop-a-dile

New Summer Mini Catalogue

The spring catalogue is coming to an end but fear not the new summer mini is about to start. Orders finish the end of November for the spring but here is a sneak preview of what you can look forward to in the summer catalogue.

I had fun making these two cards with the new sweet treat cups. I tried jelly beans first but they are a little big. Next time I will try jelly bellys which I almost bought but decided not to but I think they will fit better.

So then my husband went out and bought mini m&ms for me and they work much better but not sure how they will go in the post.

Stamp Set: Something Sweet
Ink: Riding Hood Red
Card Stock: Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette
Accessories: 1 3/4″ Punch, Sweet Treat Cups, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Choo Choo

I love this year’s In Color colours and I have been enjoying mixing and matching them with each other and with other Stampin’ Up Colours.

I also love the spring mini and combining the colours and the new stamp sets has been lots of fun.

This is a card I have been working on. I have wanted a train stamp set for … well since I had a baby son and his first birthday was spent at the trains. Finally it is here!!!!

Card: Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point; Basic Black
Stamp Set: Choo Choo; Right On Track Stampin’ Standard Wheel
Accessories: Stampin’ Around Standard Handle; Paper Snips; Stampin’ Dimensionals
Technique:
I rolled the Right on Track diagonally along the card (there is a Stampin’ Around Wheel Guide if one needs to or wants it straight but I didn’t mind if this wasn’t straight along the page)
I then stamped the carriages and engine in different colours, cut them out and used stampin’ dimensionals to place them along the track. I stamped one puff of smoke on the card and then layered the next two with stampin’ dimensinals.

Lots of fun..

Ooops I realised I never published this page… Here is something added to one of the carriages.

Good Friend

This is a new stamp set in the idea book and catalogue which is quite versatile. It can be a birdie or a whale.

Card:Riding Hood Red; Baja Breeze; Whisper White; Pacific Point
Ink: Baja Breeze; Pacfic Point
stamp sets: Good Friend
Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch; Paper Snips; SNAIL.

Turn it the other direction and add a beak and legs and you have a bird.

Card: Summer Sun, Whisper White
Ink: Kiwi Kiss; Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette (Part of this year’s In Color series), stampin’ write markers (bold brights), versamark
stamp sets: Bitty Birthday; Good Friend
Accessories: Paper Snips, SNAIL

Two simple cards… Just stamp, cut and attach to the card. In the case of the bird I tried to stamp the legs onto card and cut them out but they didn’t give me the look I wanted so I just stamped straight onto the card and layered the bird’s body on top.

I CASED the idea of the bird saying Happy Birthday from the idea book.

Spring Mini

There’s a new spring mini starting August 1st.

Here’s a sneak peak at “Great Friend” stamp set

Christmas in July

The theme for this month was Christmas Cards so I had fun experimenting with reverse embossing…

Stamp Set: Season of Joy

Ink: baja breeze, versamark

Card Stock: riding hood red, whisper white

Accessories: brayer, crop-a-dile, Power Pals, Embossing Buddy and Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, SNAIL

Technique: I stamped the image in versamark and covered in embossing powder. I then used the heat gun until the image became solid. I then covered the brayer in ink and rolled repeatedly over the embossed image so the card became blue and the image was the only thing white.

I used the crop-a-dile on the corners of the image and on the card.

Alexander’s Birthday

Ink: Riding Hood Red, Tangerine Tango, Summer Sun, More Mustard; Whisper White
Stamp Set: Nursery Necessities; Bitty Birthday
Card: Pacific Point; Whisper White
Accessories: Scissors; Hodgepodge Hardware; Dimensionals; SNAIL

I love this set. It was lent to me by Kelly and I had great fun creating Alexander’s Birthday Card and another one which unfortunately I gave away before scanning.

I tore the bottom edge of the front of the card and stamped a line of stars below it. I stamped the stars in different colours and the moon in Summer Sun on Whisper White. I cut out the moon and stars and layered them over the card front. I then placed the brad and voila all done.

I needed to do a card for my niece’s christening and I decided to use the fresh cut notes from the new catalogue. Devoid of inspiration I even used the ideas they had in the catalogue for my design – just used different colour scheme and instead of a button used a flower brad in the middle. Nice, pretty quick and easy (slowest/ hardest bit was cutting out the little flower in kiwi kiss) .

Ink: Pixie Pink, Kiwi Kiss
Stamp Set: Fresh Cuts
Accessories: Crop a dile, Fresh-Cut Notes, Flower Brads