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Driving By With Beauty of the Earth Paper Card

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Driving By With Beauty of the Earth Paper

This Driving By With Beauty of the Earth Paper Card is one that surprised me when I got finished. As I worked on it, with what I first thought was a good idea, I didn’t really think it was going to turn out well and I thought I would have to work on it and rework it to make it into a good card. But when the card was finished, I really liked it! And it’s probably the first time I ever colored in cars! This stamp set, Driving By, is one that you can earn FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase IF you hurry and order before the end of the month. February 28th is the last day! Can you believe we are at the end of Sale-A-Bration already (almosts!)?!

I just got this Driving By Stamp Set recently with my last order but even then I didn’t get to play with it right away. I suppose all the days of making Valentines leading up to Valentine’s Day took away time from some other stamps and cardmaking. Finally I got a chance and made this card.

I thought maybe the Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper would have a paper with trees that I could use as a background for my cars. Most of them had very heavy-duty trees and colors and I thought it might overwhelm the little cars. But then I came across this sheet which has a light-colored design that seemed perfect for a little road scene! It reminds me of when you are driving along a highway and see all the trees off the side of the road or maybe even a bit of a haze off in the distance in the trees. When I got the card finished, thought the background paper was perfect for my little scene!

The van and the car (Volkswagon??) are stamped in Memento ink and then colored with Stampin’ Blends. You can choose whatever colors you like. My van is colored with Old Olive (light and dark) Stampin’ Blends and the car with Night of Navy (light and dark). I used one of the light grays for the bumpers and then a darker gray or maybe even the Light Basic Black for the tired. For the windows I colored in lightly with the Light Balmy Blue Marker. I just cut the cars out by hand.

For the roadway, I used a strip of a light gray (I get my grays mixed up!) and just made a hand-drawn divider line with a black marker and a ruler. The van is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. The car is adhered flat to the card. The card base is Thick Basic White just because I thought I wasn’t going to have layers on my card at first. Then a layer of a dark gray and then the Designer Paper.

The greeting is in the stamp set and is die cut with one of the Tailor Made Tags. I used a piece of the Misty Moonlight ribbon in the 1/8″ Cotton Ribbon Combo Pack because I thought the blue ribbon goes well with the blue car and the duller colors of the trees.

Don’t forget about Sale-A-Bration ending on February 28 and it’s alreaday February 16th! Time flies during a Pandemic! It’s also a good time to stock up on adhesives or cardstock and earn some free products while you’re at it!

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Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card For Fall

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Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card For Fall

Somehow I didn’t get around to acknowledging the first day of fall last week, so now I have made a card for the glorious fall season! We were even lucky enough here in Houston to experience some fall weather with cooler temperatures, but not colored leaves yet like this Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card For Fall. I actually had a physical reaction the other day when I walked out the back door and my body was stunned to not feel like I had just opened the oven door! It was cool outside!! We won’t get colored leaves here until probably December, but I’m amazed to see photos on the internet of places way north that do have colored leaves already!

This card uses the Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper to make a fall card. This paper is really quite interesting, different than what Stampin’ Up! usually has. You can use the paper as is in many ways, or you can even die-cut it to look like the leaves on the trees that you stamp or diecut. You can be very creative with this paper. This Suite also has the Beautiful Trees Dies which I think you really need to get the most use out of this set.

The card base is Cinnamon Cider, one of the In Colors. The layer on the card is Very Vanilla but since I actually covered it with ink it could have been Basic White! My idea was to have a strip of the Beauty of the Earth Designer Paper along the side and a fall tree on the Vanilla overlapping the designer paper. I thought the background needed to be colored in so I used Granny Apple Green ink (I think!) for the grass and Pool Party for the sky. The Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set had a little stamp in it that I used for some splotches of grass or shadows or whatever at the bottom of the card to give it a little texture and look more like a grassy area. I stamped that with Pear Pizzazz I think that I had out.

I adhered a strip of the more greenish designer paper sheet to the inked Very Vanilla piece and wrapped a piece of Linen Thread around the strip. Then I adhered the diecut tree in Cinnamon Cider covered with a diecut piece of the designer paper in the reds and golds. Again, it would have been handy to remember to use Adhesive Sheets before cutting out the tree especially but since the tree was getting mostly covered up anyway, I didn’t have to be super careful with the Multipurpose Liquid Glue because it was going to get covered with the designer paper. The leafy piece was easier to glue down because there were some larger areas to apply the glue.

The greeting is in the Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set. It is stamped in Cinnamon Cider Ink and die cut with the rectangle dies in the Beautiful Trees Dies. And because we have seen some blue jays around here (not to mention hawks!) I added two bluebirds in the tree. I love that little die that cuts out two birds at once! I added just a tiny dot of white for each bird’s eye with a white gel pen that we used to sell. Here’s another card I made in July that is very similar.

With the dies and the designer paper, this is a pretty easy card to make and it looks much more complicated. I don’t think it is going to stay cool here but at least we had a much needed cool break for a few days and will look forward to the next one! In the meantime, I’ll pretend it’s really fall here by making cards like this Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card For Fall.

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Don’t forget! Sale-A-Bration ends Thursday, September 30!! Don’t miss it!

Beauty of the Earth Fall Card For a Friend

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Beauty of the Earth Fall Card for a Friend

Continuing with a fall card to mitigate the summer heat (!), this Beauty of the Earth Fall Card for a Friend is easy because of the designer paper. The other day when I was making another fall card, I saw this paper in the package and wanted to use it next.

This designer paper, Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper, is very interesting and different. You can do so much with it. This particular sheet of paper is like a reflection, with the images strongest at the top and bottom and more white space in between. So I just cut the sheet in half at 6″ x 12″, then at 4″ wide, and then trimmed it down to 5 1/4″ long to fit on my card. You can trim off a little of the white area or a little off the bottom leafy area, depending on the look you want for your card. I trimmed off some of the white at the top. You can see on my card how the coloring fades at the top and is darker at the very bottom. Very interesting to use.

The card base is Merry Merlot. I could have chosen from a lot of colors, but I rarely use Merry Merlot so thought this was a good chance! I just adhered the designer paper to the card base and added the greeting. So easy!

Now I did make a little fancier greeting, but I could have just stamped on a rectangle and been done. The greeting is in the Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set. I stamped on Basic White with Merry Merlot ink and die cut it and a piece of Merry Merlot with dies in the Tasteful Labels Dies and layered them. Just for something different, I took two pieces of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon and frayed them at the ends to put underneath the greeting. And then I couldn’t resist adding some Genial Gems to the greeting.

Here is the card I made the other day with some other paper patterns in this Beauty of the Earth DSP. It didn’t work to cool me off, but I liked it anyway, especially the red birds, just as we were seeing cardinals in our backyard!

Remember that this paper is on sale through Monday, August 2 along with eight other select papers at 15% off in the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale! I hope you will be inspired to make something like my Beauty of the Earth Fall Card For a Friend.

Beauty of the Earth Fall Trees

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Beauty of the Earth Fall Trees

It is SO hot here in Houston today, I thought if I made a card with the look of fall, like this Beauty of the Earth Fall Trees card, it would cool me off! No such luck, but I still like the card! This is actually pretty much a copy of a card sample in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on page 10, showing off the Beauty of the Earth Suite of products.

Another reason for using this beautiful paper on this card was to remind you that the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale is going on just for this week, until August 2. If you want to stock up on papers you love or get some you don’t have yet, be sure to take advantage of the nine select papers discounted 15%. Don’t miss the Christmas paper, the Tidings of Christmas 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper if you would like a good Christmas paper pretty quick!

I chose Sahara Sand for the card base just because I don’t use it very much! It’s a great neutral color to use. I just have to think of it more often! The catalog sample probably uses Crumb Cake Cardstock. It’s a little darker. I cut a piece of Basic White at 4 1/4″ x 4″ for the background, although after I decided to use a piece of Cajun Craze underneath as a narrow border, I cut the Cajun Craze at 4 1/4″ x 4″ and cut the White down 1/8″ on two sides.

For the sky background on the Basic White, I used my Blending Brush with Pool Party Ink and also Balmy Blue Ink. I wanted the sky to look a little varied in color and I’m happy with the way it turned out. I didn’t want it too dark. Be sure to blend a little on scrap paper or your Grid Paper just before you apply it to the cardstock.

The two trees are diecut out of Soft Suede Cardstock with the Beautiful Trees Dies. The “leaves” on the trees are cut from two different sheets of the Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper. I wanted to use one that was colored leaves and one that was mostly green as if the leaves hadn’t all turned color yet. The die was great for cutting these out!

Since these trees are actually pretty large, I could see on the catalog sample that they would each hang off the side of the card. It’s a little tricky because you want to adhere the tree trunks to the sky background piece but it will also hang off that onto the bottom Sahara Sand card base. So I just saw where I wanted the tree trunk placed on the sky piece and so it would be properly placed on the Sahara Sand and glued it down only to the sky piece (which wasn’t adhered to the card base yet). Then I cut off the overhanging branches on the side. Then I added the leafy piece. Decide which tree you want overlapping the other one so you get them placed properly! This was another time I should have used the Adhesive Sheets so I didn’t have to use teeny tiny drops of Multipurpose Glue carefully on the trees! However, the leafy part has larger areas for applying glue!

I also added a stamped image of dirt or a shadow along the bottom of the card. It’s best to stamp this under each tree before you glue them down, as long as you know where you want the stamping to go. I stamped more than the catalog sample because I liked the look. I used Crumb Cake Ink.

The greeting is in the Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set and was die cut with a die in the Beautiful Trees Dies. It is popped up with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals. You can purchase the Beauty of Friendship Bundle at a 10% discount if you want the stamp set and dies together!

And to finish off the card, I die cut the two red birds. One die cuts both birds at one time which is great! I think they are the perfect finishing touch for this card! We have some cardinals flying in our backyard. I think they have a nest in the tree in the yard behind us. One was caught in the netting around our tomato plants in the backyard, which is supposed to keep birds and squirrels away from our homegrown tomatoes! My husband lifted up the net and he eventually found his way out!

Remember to check out the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper sale! You may want this paper when fall arrives so you may as well save some money while you can! The sale ends on August 2.

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Beauty of the Earth Friendship Card

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Beauty of the Earth Friendship Card

Another beautiful paper on the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale is the Beauty of the Earth Paper as you see in this Beauty of the Earth Friendship Card. You have nine select papers to choose from in this sale, all 15% off! One of the packages is the In Good Taste DSP which has 24 sheets in it! There are two each of twelve designs, all great designs for texture and background for cardmaking and scrapbooking. The rest of the papers are the usual size, 12 sheets, two each of six designs.

For this card, I copied the design I saw on Instagram from an Artisan Design Team member where she used horizontal strips of designer paper for the card front. I used a different paper and greeting, but used the same strip method. This is a great way to use up scraps of designer paper or you can even use regular cardstock too. You can stamp the cardstock first and cut it into strips. Lots of possibilities

I used the Beauty of the Earth Designer Paper, on sale now, for my strips. To match, I used Mossy Meadow Cardstock for the card base and then a layer of Cajun Craze. I tried out several different colors but I liked these the best at the time. I didn’t have measurements for the card so I just played around until I got something that worked. If you want wider strips, just use five strips or even four. Here is a card I made using three vertical panels of designer paper.

My designer paper strips on this card are 3/4″ x 3 3/4″. If you only had the card base, then you might make the length of the strip 4″ wide. I just eyeballed the placement of the strips, no measuring! You could also place them touching each other, not with a space in between. Do what you like!

The greeting is in the Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set. I think it’s a great sentiment and certainly true! I stamped it in Mossy Meadow Ink and die cut with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. Then I played around with various dies in the same set and colors of cardstock, finally settling on Mossy Meadow diecut with one of the long dies to go behind the greeting to help it stand out. And a couple of Gilded Gems on each end for a little pizzazz!

Try your hand at this paper technique! It’s fun and easy! Just eyeball everything and make minor adjustments if needed. Have fun!

Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card

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Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card

There are many different designs in this designer paper, but this Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card with the bluish leaves and branches in it really caught my eye. You might think it has colors for fall, but I think it can be for any time. I just really love these colors all together!

I have trees on my mind because yesterday on our walk, we saw a tree at someone’s house that had broken off from the trunk and fell toward the street. Luckily it didn’t fall on their house or hurt someone walking by! Apparently it is a kind of tree that was past its age limit and should have been cut down way earlier. Since we had the big freeze in February, a lot of plants and trees have come back, surprisingly, but the advice was to wait awhile and see what would come back in the spring rather than just cut down everything that looked dead from the spring. But this big tree needed to go sooner!

This designer paper, Beauty of the Earth, has very different patterns in it and many colors! Many will be beautiful when we think of fall trees, but many you can use any time. You can use the dies to cut out the patterned paper to be the leaves on the trees. So many possibilities!

The card base is Misty Moonlight, with a layer of Old Olive Cardstock. I thought about adding one of the tree images one way or another on the front of the card, but I loved the paper so much I didn’t want to cover it up in any way.

The greeting is stamped in Old Olive and is in the Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set on Basic White Cardstock, then die-cut with a rectangle in the Beautiful Trees Dies. There are some nice sentiments in this stamp set which is always good! The greeting is layered on a piece of Old Olive and underneath I added a strip of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon and frayed the ends just a little bit! This is a beautiful ribbon and I think it added a little something to the front of this card.

Save money and purchase the Beauty of Friendship Bundle with the stamp set and dies together for a 10% discount! And if you want to get “everything” – the Bundle, the Designer Series Paper, and the Bark 3D Embossing Folder, just order the whole Beauty of the Earth Suite (155843). The Bundle price is included in that.

Since the inside of the card, Misty Moonlight Cardstock, is dark, I added a Basic White layer and just stamped a tree off to the side to decorate the inside a bit and still leave room to write a message! I don’t always think to do that when I am making a card and then when I go to use the card, I have to pull out the paper and everything to add it later! Just do it when you make the card if you want a decorated inside or if the cardstock is too dark to write or stamp on.

If you like this Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card, be sure to check out the Beauty of the Earth Suite in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog!

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