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Monochromatic Amber Autumn Acorn Card

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Monochromatic Amber Autumn Acorn Card

It’s been a couple of rough days so I think it’s time to get back to stamping. Stamping is good for the soul! Stamping, creating, sewing, painting, scrapbooking, cross-stitching, knitting, crocheting….whatever it is that you love to do and takes your mind off the rest of the world for a little while.

I made this Monochromatic Amber Autumn Acorn Card as an example of a card you could make if you wanted a quick and easy card and one that doesn’t require coloring! I love to do coloring with my Stampin’ Blends, but sometimes you might not want to take the time. And that’s okay! Look at the nice card you can make with no coloring! When I think of monochromatic I think of one color, but it can also be different shades or hues of that color, lighter or darker variations.

This card uses the new Amber Autumn Stamp Set. I think this is a beautiful stamp set with nice greetings. I almost wish there were more images in this same style because the artwork is so beautiful. For this card I chose the acorns and leaves image.

The card base is Early Espresso cardstock. I intended to use Pecan Pie but I saw that Early Espresso was one of the coordinating colors of the designer paper I chose. Usually I play around with a couple of colors if I’m not positive and see which one works the best. That’s how I decided to use Early Espresso. I was afraid it might be too dark for the look I wanted but I like the finished card just fine.

The layer on the card base is a brownish diagonal plaid in the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I think this paper is great to use for fall cards. The focal point of the card is made with the new Branching Out Dies. These dies come with six nested frame dies, plus some pine branches, sprigs, even an acorn. I like the shapes of these frames and the little stitched perforations around the borders. I bought these dies for the cute frames which we always seem to need more of, especially ones we can layer in the right size, plus I can use the extra little dies as well. You can get the stamp set along with the dies in the Branching Out Bundle. After stamping the acorn and leaves on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock with Early Espresso ink and diecuting it with one of the Branching Out Dies, I layered it on the next larger frame in Early Espresso. The whole piece is popped up on Stampin’ Up! Dimensionals.

To embellish the card I little bit, I added a bow at the top with a double piece of Linen Thread that is adhered with a couple of rolled up Mini Glue Dots. I think of Linen Thread as one of my main staples to have on hand in my stamping products because you can use it for so many projects. I also added a few of the Iridescent Foil Gems. They are very pretty with a little sparkle and completely neutral. They have been one of my favorite and most used gems since they came out.

Next I will try a card with this same stamp but not monochromatic and see how that turns out!

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Storybook Moments Best Wishes Card

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Storybook Moments Best Wishes Card

This Storybook Moments Best Wishes Card is easy to make with this delightful designer series paper! This card could be made for many different occasions. Even with this greeting it could be for different occasions and situations….marriage, anniversary, new home, new job…whatever you are sending good wishes for!

The card base is Old Olive cardstock. I used a strip of the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper along the side. It measures 5 1/4″ x 1 3/4″. This paper is so versatile and the colors great! I didn’t order it at first but I am happy that I finally did on the next order. It is in the Spring Mini Catalog in the Storybook Moments Suite Collection.

The focal point of the card has one of those “panels” as I call them in the Storybook Moments Designer Series Paper. It is a page with these panels that you cut apart and can use them separately on cards or in scrapbooking. Some are frames, some are background prints, some have characters on them. This one had this fancy frame. I cut out the center by hand and layered it over a picture of one of the cottages in the paper to look like this cute little home was framed. Then the panel was layered on a piece of Mossy Meadow cardstock cut at 3 1/4″ x 3 3/4″.

The greeting is in the Greetings For All Ephemera Pack in the Spring Mini Catalog. I sponged around the edges with Old Olive ink to take the bright white off of it a little bit to match the more subtle colors of the cottage. I love using these greetings in the ephemera packs! Makes it so easy! The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

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Storybook Moments Circles Easter Card

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Storybook Moments Circles Easter Card

This Storybook Moments Circles Easter Card is one I came up with all by myself and I like it! I absolutely love this Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper, especially for Easter coming up with the bunnies, but for lots of other occasions as well!

When I was looking at the sheet of the paper with lots of bunnies on it, I decided to diecut several with circle dies and make a card somehow with those circles. Of course, you have to cut up the paper to be able to diecut particular portions with the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine. As I’m sure we all understand, It’s almost illegal to cut up your paper in that way, maybe just digging in to some center area of the whole sheet of paper! I tried to find the images I liked as close to the edges of the paper. Then I chose which circle die in the Stylish Shapes Dies I would use and placed it over the image I wanted to diecut and carefully trimmed with my Paper Snips to cut up the least amount of the paper that I needed to. It worked out!

To make the card, I chose Boho Blue cardstock for the card base. I wasn’t sure exactly how to do the circles, with no room for layers, but with the darker background paper they stand out well enough. I chose this paper with the strawberries because it is so pretty and different. Somehow I thought to place it in the center of the card base with margins on each side. It is cut at 4″ x 5 1/2″. For a little something with the circles, I used the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I looked at my little scraps and decided to just add a strip of the plaid under each circle. These are cut at 2 3/4″ x 3/4″. I centered the circles on the strips and placed them so one end was up against the edge of the card on the left or right. The center one goes to the right. The plaid paper matches the Storybook Moments DSP pretty well!

The greeting is in the Greetings For All Ephemera Pack in the Spring Mini. To make it smaller, I cut the two words apart and cut close to the letters. This is a good technique to use! I couldn’t resist using some embellishments if I had something that worked. I decided on the retired Adhesive Backed Hearts & Flowers because I had some left. I just used the smallest flowers for a little something, but you barely see them on the circles.

We never know for sure what we will create when we start making a card! Even if we have a design in mind, it could change at any moment, so just play! See what turns up!

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Storybook Moments Garden Card

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Storybook Moments Garden Card

This Storybook Moments Garden Card was a fun card to make! Since the Spring Mini Catalog came out in January, I have loved the sample card on page 23, the slimline card with the flowerpots, sprinkling can, and bunnies! I used that sample card for the inspiration for this card.

One of the special things about the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper is that it has two sheets of diecut images that coordinate with the paper. Everything about this paper is delightful! The images are so cute and sweet, and it can be used for spring, Easter, babies, or any kind of special card. Sometimes you might use just one diecut for an embellishment on a card with other stamping or you might just have fun creating a card with several or lots of these diecuts as I did on this card.

The card base is Lost Lagoon cardstock with a layer of a blue plaid in the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, also in the Spring Mini Catalog. As I worked with the diecut pieces to design my card, I decided to add some green plaid paper at the bottom. I just took a strip of green plaid and cut the top with scissors in a little curvy design like hilly ground would be, although it is mostly hidden on this card. Even though the background “sky” is plaid and the “grass” is plaid, it all looks good together. I love this Timeless Plaid DSP! It’s very versatile.

I had already punched out all the diecut images and put them in a plastic pouch to keep them together so I dumped those all out on the table so I could see what all my choices were to use for this card. How fun does this look?!

Storybook Moments Diecuts

I simply played around with the pieces until I was happy with the placement on my card. Here is a tip when you are laying out things and then have to remove them to adhere each piece, sometimes overlapping, to the card. Take a picture with your phone after you have everything arranged how you want it! Then you can take the pieces off and using the photo on your phone, put everything back how you planned it. I popped up the wheelbarrow and dirt and plant piece on Stampin’ Dimensionals and adhered the rest with Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

For the wheelbarrow, I thought it would look good to have the radishes and carrots appear to be “in” the wheelbarrow so I cut a slit along the inside edge of the wheelbarrow and slipped the vegetables into that slit just a little bit. Since I was popping up the wheelbarrow anyway, the Dimensionals on the back held in the vegetables at the same time they were popping up the whole piece.

The greeting is from the Playing in the Rain Stamp Set. As I looked through my ephemera packs and stamp sets, this greeting in this stamp set is the one I decided on. Don’t forget to look through your stamp sets sometimes to maybe use something you wouldn’t think of or to refresh your memory on what you have to use. The greeting is stamped in Lost Lagoon ink and cut out with a rectangular die in the Nested Essentials Dies.

Here is another card using the Storybook Moments diecuts to make an easy card!

If you like this Storybook Moments paper, it is Low Inventory as I write this, so order it right away if you are interested. You still have time to get it and make Easter cards if you want to use it partly for that!

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With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card

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With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card

This With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card uses some rather new products and a soon-to-be-new product! The plaid paper and the colors make it a great masculine card that we often have difficulty coming up with.

I wanted to use the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper for a card and this is what I came up with. You’ll find it in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog. This plaid has brown and blues in it. I chose Crumb Cake cardstock for the card base and then the plaid designer paper.

The greeting is stamped in Boho Blue ink on Basic White with the With You In Mind Stamp Set. This stamp set is also in the Spring Mini. I really like this stamp set! It has rather large greetings in a fun font and are ones everyone will use, plus some small images like the stars and cupcake you see on this card. This greeting was then diecut using new dies “coming” on March 4th in the Online Exclusives! Demonstrators were able to preorder. These are the Textured Notes Dies. These are all rectangles with different diecut border designs. They will be very useful dies to use for layering or cutting frames to use. For this card I added an extra plain Boho Blue layer under the Basic White greeting, just cut with the Paper Trimmer, and then the whole greeting piece is layered on top of a Textured Note diecut piece of Crumb Cake. For this card I really liked the extra Boho Blue color layered under the white. I popped up the whole greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For some embellishments, I stamped two stars, one in Boho Blue ink and one in Crumb Cake ink, plus a cupcake. To stamp the cupcake, I inked up just the cupcake bottom with Crumb Cake ink, stamped that, then inked up just the frosting in Lost Lagoon ink, and stamped that right above the cupcake bottom. It happened to work out perfectly! You could also use Stampin’ Write markers to color both areas, breathe on the stamp, then stamp. It might turn out a little light but it would probably be fine. Then I just cut out the stars and cupcake with my Paper Snips. I felt like the card still needed a little sparkle or something so I added two gold dots in the Low Profile Dots. I really like these dots which are really “low profile” because they don’t add bumpy lumps to the envelope when mailing!

Although I labeled this card as masculine, it could be for anyone as is because the colors are so pretty together in the plaid, but you could change the plaid paper to other colors and brighten up the whole card a little bit. Be sure to check out these Textured Note Dies when they come out next week.

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