Today I would like to share a post from August of 2014 … It’s still as relevant as it was two years ago. This is a sweet and simple birthday card that will bring a smile to anyone who receives it. I used the new “Flower Patch” stamp set! This is one of our Photopolymer sets, and makes the two-step stamping super simple because of the clear images.
I have a video for you to view that highlights the “Flower Patch” stamp set …
My card base color is the new In-Color Mossy Meadow along with the Whisper White which truly highlights to ink colors we will be using on our card.
The flower was created by stamping our largest image first, in the lightest color: Crisp Cantaloupe. I then layers the Calypso Coral next, and completed the flower with the Cajun Craze… and topped it off with a pearl.
STAMPIN’ TIP: The leaves were added behind the flower by creating a mask. Stamp the largest flower image on a piece of scrap paper and cut it out. I always cut inside the line. Then place it over the flower and stamp your leaves … it gives the appearance they are behind the flower!
It’s been a while since I’ve used a two-step stamping set and forgot how fast you can create a beautifully layered, colorful card. I added the Daffodil Delight flowers in the background to create another pop of color.
There is no longer a bundle available as this was an earlier post.
Today is a cute -n- simple card created with the Floral Affection Embossing Folder and the “Better Together stamp set, choosing the “forever friends” stamp.
The color pallet for this card is Crumb Cake and Early Espresso.
The flower we used for this card has been discontinued but many of my club stampers have this one, so I decided to us it. Miss all the little flower punches!
Each little flower is embellished with one of our Pearls – it adds such a nice touch.
Monday’s can be tough so we’re keepin’ it simple and wishing you a simple and joyful day.
Today’s card is yet another beautiful sample from the “Flourishing Phrases” stamp set. As you have seen the past few days, this stamp set and coordinating thinlit dies are very versatile.
My color pallet today is Island Indigo and Whisper White. I created the background by simply stamping the leaves in Island Indigo onto Island Indigo.
The large flower really commands your attention on this card, was also stamped in Island Indigo and then popped up using our Stampin’ Dimensionals. A simple bow at the bottom completes the card.
Did you know that this amazing bundle can save you 10% now, and it qualifies you for the Bonus Day Coupon of $5 which you can spend in August!
Yesterday I shared with you my Alternative Paper Pumpkin project and I used the beautiful “Flourish” Framelits with it. Today I’d like to share a card that highlights the “Flourishing Phrases” stamp set that coordinates with the Framelits.
The color pallet for today’s card is a simple Night of Navy and Whisper White, and works well with the “Floral Boutique” Designer Series Paper which we used on the bottom half of our card.
The floral stamp as I said comes from the “Flourishing Phrases” and was stamped in Night of Navy and matted with Night of Navy … this was popped up with our Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The cute little “Hello” comes from the “Jar of Love” stamp set and cut out using the “Layering Ovals” framelits.
It really is a simple card to create but beautiful … you can even change up the look of the card, just by changing the greeting! Try it, it’s amazing what a simple font change will do to a card.
Don’t forget to stamp the inside of your card and your envelope. It looks so cool when everything matches.
Today I want to share with you an alternative project that I created using my amazingly “Many Manly Occasions” Paper Pumpkin kit! Here is what the kit looked like …
And here is what I created using the kit …
It is amazing what you can do with the Paper Pumpkin kits! As if the “Many Manly Occasions” wasn’t awesome all by itself, you can see there are always alternatives to your kits.
I have decided to create a special FACEBOOK page for my Paper Pumpkin Pals … I have been working on this for a while and it will be up and running shortly.
I will be inviting all of my current Paper Pumpkin Pals and will my past Paper Pumpkin Pals will also get a peek at our page. I’ve decided this Facebook page is easier to share ideas, and best of all … YOU can all interact with the post and each other! How fun is that. In fact, you will be able to share your creations if you want.
You have until the 10th of each Month to sign up for Paper Pumpkin … Give it a test run with a 1-month subscription, or better yet, get the 3-month subscription and qualify for the Bonus Days promotion I shared with you yesterday! Just click link below …
You can CLICK HERE to go to my website and check out the Paper Pumpkin further.
The kits are fun and everything you need to create your projects are included (except adhesive / scissors) and comes with full color instructions.
Today I just wanted to post a recap of all the cards that I created so far, using the NEW My Hero Stamp Set. I will share all 7 with you today …
Ronald McDonald House Charities®
Stampin’ Up! partnered with Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC). Each year, we design an exclusive stamp set to promote the partnership with RMHC, and donate a portion of the proceeds from the each sale of that set. To date, more than $1,000,000 has been donated from RMHC stamp set sales.
Stampin’ Up!’s demonstrators are also encouraged to volunteer their time teaching local Ronald McDonald House guests the creative art of rubber stamping through the Making a Difference program. Demonstrators also create cards at training events which are donated to Ronald McDonald Houses. Those staying at the Houses then use the cards to keep in touch with loved ones while they are away from home.
How you can help!
You can help us make a difference. Purchase this year’s set, My Hero, and we’ll donate $3 to Ronald McDonald House Charities for each set purchased.
THE RONALD McDONALD HOUSE
Our homes are filled with more than help, they’re filled with hope
Many families travel far from home and spend several weeks or months to get treatment for their seriously ill or injured children – a long time to be away or to divide a family. And, for children facing a serious medical crisis, nothing seems scarier than not having mom and dad close by for love and support. A Ronald McDonald House is that “home-away-from-home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost.
Our Houses are built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on the health of
their child – not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head at night to rest. We believe that when a child is hospitalized the love and support of family is as powerful as the strongest medicine prescribed.
You can help us make a difference. Purchase this year’s set, My Hero, and we’ll donate $3 to Ronald McDonald House Charities for each set purchased.
I appreciate you staying with me to learn more about the Ronald McDonald House Charities. It’s a foundation that touches my heart, as our children are our future. I’m proud that Stampin’ Up! is a RMHC partner.
Today is the final card from my series of cards created with the My Hero stamp set. It will be a bit sad to day goodbye to this set for now … I’m sure I’ll have more samples to share in the future – It’s a great stamp set and easy to work with.
Today’s card for those “under the weather” … a cute Get Well card and quiet easy to make.
My color pallet for this card is Whisper White, Island Indigo and Pool Party. I’ve always liked this combination and it works well with the “weather” theme of the card.
Once you’ve stamped the umbrella image in Island Indigo, the handle in Going Gray … you will cut them out with the Umbrella Weather Framelits. I then popped them up with our Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I also used the Umbrella Weather Framelits to cut out the clouds and raindrops out of the Pool Party cardstock. The easiest way to adhere the raindrops is to put a touch of glue onto the cardfront and then just place the raindrops on the glue.
Sweet and simple to cheer someone up when they are not feeling well … the inside says “Hope tomorrow finds you feeling better”. This is included in the stamp set as well.
Yesterday was Christmas in July … Today I have “Easter” for you!! You’re getting a whole years worth of cards in one week!! I will have one more from our “My Hero” stamp set tomorrow.
I couldn’t resist using the New Oval Framelits to help me create my Easter eggs, you will notice however that I trimmed them down a bit and tucked them into the “Garden Green” grass. The grass is super simple to create with our “Fringe Scissors”.
Our greeting for the “My Hero” stamp set was stamped in the NEW “Sweet Sugarplum” in, which coordinates with the Sweet Sugarplum egg. You’ll also find Flirty Flamingo, So Saffron, Soft Sky, and Peakaboo Peach! I highlighted some of the eggs with the “Playful Palette” Washi Tape.
The greeting is backed with So Saffron as well, tying all the colors together. The card is wrapped with the Crushed Curry Bakers Twine which draws your eye right to the greeting, creating a fun focal point to the card.
Oh yes … the greeting was cut out with the NEW “Layering Squares” Framelits. I love how these create awesome layers for your cards and projects.
Hope you enjoyed today’s card, I’ll have the last of seven cards created with the “My Hero” stamp set.
Today I’m going to share another card designed with the “My Hero” stamp set. As you recall … the “My Hero” stamp set is the Ronald McDonald House Charity Stamp set and Stampin’ Up! will donate $3.00 for each stamp set sold.
Because of this, I want to share with you several ideas with this stamp set … Today is number 3 that I’m sharing (more to come!) It’s a card with heart, my feelings as I share with you my Kick Off party as well.
This card is super simple to make and really cute! I started out with the “Pop of Pink” Designer Series paper as my background and continued it with the hearts. Of course, the stamped image comes from our featured set.
As for our Kick Off party, I’d like to THANK all of the lovely ladies that joined us. We had a great time …
Oh yes … and the snacks weren’t too bad either! lol
We made 10 wonderful cards, plus we had display boards that highlighted the stamp sets that we used during our Make & Takes. We had 6 boards to raffle off at the end of the evening … Here are the WINNERS …
I also want to share the WINNERS of the 2 “Floral Affection” boards …
The board that was embossed with the flower was one by … Cindy B.
And the one with the “wreath” and words was WON BY … Beth Detloff!
Hope you my winners enjoyed the surprise ~ I will be calling you soon to confirm.
It was as a great night … again, Thank You ladies for joining us, stamping your 10 Make & Takes and just have a great night out.
JUST A REMINDER …
Today is the last day to take advantage of these two great opportunities!
Squeezing in a quick post from my phone (again) as my Charter internet service was down again last night! But as promised …I have another cute card from our “My Hero” stamp set.
I created this one using the “pumpkin” from the stamp set and the wave pattern from the Swirly Scribbles Framelit dies! My color pallet is Early Espresso, Tangerine Tango and Very Vanilla.
I curled two of the pieces to add some fun dimension to the card … and it reminded me of pumpkin vines. The little spots come from the Swirly Bird stamp set. It just all coordinated so nicely together.
My greeting comes from the “Watercolor Words” stamp set. The bold font of this set fits right in with the whimsical feel of today’s card.
Thanks so much for taking a part of your day to visit my blog, stop back tomorrow to, as I will be sharing another “My Hero” card and some of the fun we had at our Kick Off Party on Monday.
Hope you enjoyed yesterday’s “Celebrate” card I made from the “My Hero” stamp set, the Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set. This is an awesome stamp set and a great way to treat yourself while helping a wonderful cause.
On that note … I’m going to share a card with you each day this week for the “My Hero” stamp set. Today’s card is a nod to the 4th of July or to celebrate our service men and women.
I used the “You are my Hero” stamp from the set and punched it out with the coordinating Badge punch. You can bundle these items and save 10%. The stars are punched out to highlight and draw your eye to the focal point.
The banners are created with our Triple banner punch … the Whisper White is embossed with the Star’s Embossing Folder and the Night of Navy banner comes from the Floral Boutique Designer Paper.
If you take a close look on the inside, you will see that I punched a star out of the white to allow the Night of Navy to show through. This angle also shows all of the dimension and texture on this card.
A fun and simple card to celebrate the Hero’s in our lives.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another card from the “My Hero” stamp set and some pics from the Kick Off party!
I’m really excited as I pack up all the Make & Takes, Displays, Snacks and more for our Catalog Kick-Off party tonight. I’ll share pictures with you, but today you’re going to get a sneak peak at one of the special cards created for our “My Hero” stamp set board.
The My Hero stamp set is this years Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set. Stampin’ Up! donates $3 for each stamp set we sell, so I created 7 really cute cards to showcase how versatile this set is … two of which are Make & Takes, the other 5 will be raffled off at the end of the night!
Today’s card is the “Celebrate” card and I teamed it up with the totally fun “Festive Birthday” Designer Series Paper and Festive Impression Embossing Folder …
The designer paper and the Crushed Curry and Tempting Turquoise cardstock just scream … Fun! Fun! Fun! I turned them into banners using our “Triple Banner” punch, then I added the new “Enamel Shapes” to anchor the end of the banner.
This card is just waiting for the party! Are you ready?
Today’s card is featured in the Stampin’ Up! Annual catalog on page 96. Had to take a double take on this one … then I thought “How cute is that! I would have never thought of doing that”. Isn’t that how we all got hooked on stamping and scrapbooking!!
This sweet and simple card was created with the “leaves” … now dots, from the “Sheltering Tree” stamp set! It’s stamped once on the card front and then again on another sheet of cardstock and cut out with our Hearts framelits.
The greeting is included in the stamp set, and all they did here was create as simple banner as the focal point … genius! To top it off … a simple bow made with our Thick Bakers Twine.
This card was picked today because it fits my Simply Sunday theme and because it was created with “outside the box” thinking! Next time I look at a stamp set, I’ll be thinking a whole different way.
Today I want to share a simple, affordable system for organizing your photos into albums … it’s called Project Life, by Stampin’ Up!
All you need to get started is a few basic products, and then you’ll just slip your photos into project pocket pages … we’ll let me show you!
Here’s a quick video to show you how quick and easy it is to use …
Here is our newest Project Life card collection that I just fell in love with. I not only use my card collections and accessory packs for my scrapbooking … I also use them to make quick and beautiful cards!
See how it helps your Memory keeping super simple and super beautiful with Project Life card collections. Just slip these designed cards into Photo Pocket Pages for instant color, design, and journaling space.
* 100 cards in 3 sizes: 4″ x 6″, 4″ x 4″, 3″ x 4″ (10.2 x 15.2 cm, 10.2 x 10.2 cm, 7.6 x 10.2 cm)
* Double-sided
Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Peekaboo Peach, Soft Sky, Soft Suede,
Tangerine Tango, Very Vanilla, white
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Dress up your Project Life pages with the accessories in this pack. They’re also great for more than just Project Life; use on cards or traditional scrapbook pages too.
Pack includes …
* Exclusive set of 12 photopolymer stamps
* 4 die-cut specialty cards, 3″ x 4″ (7.6 x 10.2 cm)
* 2 acetate specialty cards, 4″ x 6″ (10.2 x 15.2 cm)
* 11 double-sided specialty cards, 2″ x 2″ (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
* 6 single-sided die-cut specialty cards, 2″ x 2″ (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
* 2 alphabet sticker sheets
* 1 element sticker sheet
* 1 acetate sticker sheet
* 12 wood shapes
* 12 enamel stickers
* 150 sequins
* 1 roll washi tape, 5 yards (4.6 m)
Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Crumb Cake, gold, Old Olive, Peekaboo Peach, Soft Sky, Soft Suede,
Tangerine Tango, Very Vanilla, white
It truly is a simple, affordable system for organizing your photos into albums and for your card making!
Hope you enjoyed today’s post, and I thank you for stopping by.
Today I’d like to introduce to you a few friends … they’re a bit punchy but they are a lot of fun! Besides, who wouldn’t love to get a handmade card stamped with a fox, a kitten, a deer, or other tiny critters?
Mix and match the images in this stamp set to create your own wilderness menagerie, then cut them out in a flash with the Fox Builder Punch. Watch and see how easy it is!
Aren’t they just the cutest! And so easy to make … I have the links below, just click on them for more details or to purchase. Remember, save 10% when you bundle the stamp set and punch together.
Linda's Stampin' Escape 