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Two Tone Circles Let’s Celebrate Card

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Two Tone Circles Let's Celebrate Card

Last year Stampin’ Up! released the new Two-Tone cardstock, which we had years and years ago. I got several packages of it and have just now tried it! I guess it got lost in the shuffle and I forgot about it! But it is current in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on pages 76-77 if you want to learn more about it and see all the colors. It is sold in packages of 12″ x 12″ paper, 12 sheets in a package. When Stampin’ Up! introduced it, it came in scrapbooking kits in an assortment of several colors. This card is made with the Two-Tone Granny Apple Green.

The big deal about the Two-Tone cardstock is that one side of the paper has a light shade and one side has a darker shade both of the same color! So you can do all sorts of things with just one sheet and two shades of colors! PLUS, the paper has a “white core” which means that you can emboss the paper and sand it lightly and expose the white underneath the color. Or if you tear the paper, the white inside will show.

For this card, I chose Granny Apple Green and went off a sample I saw in the Stampin’ Up! catalog on page 79. The card base is Basic White with a layer of the darker shaded side of the Two-Tone Granny Apple Green as the layer on the front of the card. Next I took another piece of the same paper and diecut smaller and larger circles using the Stylish Shapes Dies and the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.

Before adhering the Granny Apple Green layer to the card base, I glued these circles on to the front of the paper. Since the layer on the card is the darker shade of green, adhere the circles with the lighter shade facing up. You can play around with their placement or only use on size. Allow some to go off the sides of the paper, then trim along the edge when they are all glued down.

Next, either stamp a floral image or some focal point you like and adhere that to the card. I chose some yellow flowers in the Fully Flowering Ephemera Pack on page 29 in the Annual Catalog. This piece is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is stamped in Granny Apple Green Ink using the Simply Said Stamp Set. I wanted something narrow that I could place over the flower stem. I used Dimensionals on each end of the greeting so it would be even with the popped up flowers. I also added my last three Iridescent Foil Gems to the card. These were some of my favorite gems to use out of my whole collection.

That’s all there is to the card! You can definitely see the difference in the lighter and darker shades of the Granny Apple Green two-tone cardstock on this card, having the lighter side of the circles facing up against the darker side of the card background layer. I’ll be playing around more with the things you can do with the two-tone cardstock! Check it out in the catalog!

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Real Red Card For a Friend

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Real Red Card For a Friend

This Real Red Card For a Friend was made to demonstrate how you can make a card out of Christmas paper for another occasion! The red and white striped designer paper on this card is in the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper. It’s on the Last Chance List now, discounted 30%! It is called a specialty paper because it has lots of precut images and frames to use for making Christmas cards, plus three sheets of designer paper. The good thing is, the “other side” of the holiday design papers are all-purpose designs like this stripe that you can use any time! If you didn’t use up all the Christmas paper in this package, turn it over and check out the designs you can use right now!

I love Real Red so this card was fun to make with a Real Red card base to go with the Real Red and White striped designer paper. Real Red has probably always been my favorite Stampin’ Up! color because it’s the perfect red!

The central panel is made with the Countryside Corners Dies. Basic White is layered on a larger diecut of Real Red. The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink from the Mixed Labels Stamp Set, one of the new stamp sets released this week in the Online Exclusives. I stamped it up a little high so I would have room to add some flowers on the bottom half.

I found these flowers and foliage in the Fully Flowering Ephemera Pack. You will find this on page 19 in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. The flowers are just a black outline piece so I colored it with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I used Real Red on the flowers and Old Olive and Granny Apple Green on the leaves. The other two foliage pieces are in the ephemera pack. The flowers are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a little embellishment, I used a retired Real Red ribbon and Iridescent Pearls.

Check out the “other sides” of some of your designer series papers and see what else you can use!

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Fully Flowering Ephemera Card

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Fully Flowering Ephemera Card

Something new in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog are these Ephemera Packs! I decided to use a couple of the precut pieces to make this Fully Flowering Ephemera Card. It only takes a few minutes, and you can still add your personalization to the card. There are four different package choices to make cardmaking or scrapbooking quick and easy! Check them out on page 19 in the Annual Catalog or online.

If you want to make cardmaking very easy you can purchase a set of five cards and five envelopes. There are two different styles and will go with any of the ephemera packs. With these cards, you don’t even have to choose which colors of cardstock to use. They are ready to go and the envelopes are decorated and match the cards.

For my card today, I chose these flower images from the Fully Flowering Ephemera Pack. The front image of two pink flowers, leaves, and green strawberries is one image and the extra pink flower at the top is another one. These floral elements in this pack are laser-cut to look like die-cut pieces. Just punch them out and adhere to your card or project. You get 8 sheets, 2 each of 4 different designs. Each sheet is 5″ x 7″. There are over a dozen colors that coordinate with this Fully Flowering Pack. A few of the images are not colored in so you can use those as they are or color them in yourself.

I chose a Pretty In Pink Cardstock card base with a layer of Basic White cut a little smaller than usual at 3 3/4″ x 5″. I thought the background needed “something” so I chose to “splatter” some Pretty In Pink ink on the Basic White. My splattering skills needed a little practice but really, you can’t go wrong with splattering! I just added some Pretty In Pink reinker into the lid of the ink pad and picked it up with some water using the Water Painter. Then I tapped the Water Painter against my Take Your Pick Tool to make the ink splatter.

The large image of the two pink flowers is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the extra pink flower is just adhered flat on the card with Stampin’ Seal. The greeting is in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack. I also added a few Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels, which are retired, but I am going to use mine anyway. They are good for adding a little sparkle without showing off too much with color. If you want to use something in the Annual Catalog I would suggest the Iridescent Foil Gems or the Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

Both of these ephemera packs that I used on this card are back ordered but will be in stock again soon! the Saying Something Pack is due the week of July 1 and the Fully Flowering Pack is due the week of July 8. You can always check sooner because some things come in a little ahead of the date.

Don’t think these Ephemera Packs are limited to cardmaking! They can be used for scrapbook pages, too, or even other projects such as home decor, maybe in a framed piece. The sky is the limit!

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