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Halloween · Holiday Mini Catalog

Woodland Fright

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We made it to the weekend — whew! Yesterday turned out to be a bit busier than anticipated. The kiddo participated in the first round of basketball tryouts, and let’s just say it got off to a bumpy start. Quite literally. He’s got quite the nasty bump & bruise on his knee that we spent the evening nursing. Hoping it looks better after a good night’s rest!

As promised though, we’re strolling through Sleepy Hollow today. And look who we rustled up — Casper and friends! The new Frightfully Fun suite is so fun and we’re dazzling it up with some shimmery touches for the perfect pops of fun!

We get started with a base of black cardstock. A sheet of the swirling stars paper from the new Frightfully Fun paper pack gives us our spooky backdrop. And we wrap it with some black shiny ribbon before adhering to the card front. The Everyday Arches dies help us create our matted focal panel with a combo of orange Autumn Woodland glimmer paper and Frightfully Fun scary woods paper. Our cute little ghosties are diecut with the Oh My Fright dies and I added some detailing to each with a white chalk pen. Our dies also help us create the rest of our scene. The moon is a sheet of the pale yellow pastel shimmer paper with the clouds from a sheet of the blue Sunset shimmer vellum. Our bats are cut from Secret Sea glimmer paper and I added some detailing around the eyes with the chalk pen. Our sentiment from the Oh My Fright stamps is heat embossed in white on black paper and then cut into a banner shape before being adhered to the bottom corner of our card front. We finish things off with some dots and ghosts and bats from the Ghosts and Dots embellishments pack.

It’s a busy one today but I’m hoping to get some crafty playtime this afternoon to work on some 3D projects for an upcoming craft show.

Products used in today’s card:
Basic Black CS
Frightfully Fun, Autumn Woodland glimmer (coming in Sept), Peaceful Garden glimmer, pastels shimmer, Sunset shimmer vellum DSP
Everyday Archie’s dies
Oh My Fright bundle (coming in Sept)
Versamark
Black & clear EP
Ghosts & dots (coming in Sept)
Black shiny ribbon (coming in Sept)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Holiday Mini Catalog · L2S Group Instahop

Tidings of Home

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Howdy, friends! Welcome back. It’s hard to believe it’s already Thursday, although Monday & Tuesday definitely felt like Thursday & Friday. *chuckle*

I had some grand plans for a 3D project for today but ultimately figured out that I needed to devote more time to it in order to get it just right. So I hope to bring that to you over the weekend. Today, we’re getting another look at the Neutral Noel suite of products to include the awesome dies and embossing folder. And to add that touch of razzle dazzle in line with our design theme this week, we’re also using some of the new holiday hot foil products. So let’s dive in and see how this beauty comes together.

To start, I have to give props to the inspiration behind this card design. I’m CASEing a catalog CASE by Stamping Beauty NZ (follow her over on Insta!). Honestly, the catalog sample did not stand out to me like her card did. I love the neutral color palette and the overall feel of the card. But as I usually do when (theoretically) CASEing a card, it’s never truly a copy and stamp exactly situation. I always take liberties from the inspiration.

So we stick to the (mostly) neutral color palette here with a base of white cardstock. And our background panel of white is machine embossed with the new Soft Linen embossing folder. I punched things up a bit with the backdrop panel for the focal section by using a sheet of the All Wrapped Up foiled paper and cut it with the oval die from the Welcome Noel set. And the focal elements is where things get creative.

I paper pieced several houses diecut with the Welcome Noel dies from a combination of Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Golden Glow pearlized paper. I just love the soft glow in the windows provided by that pearlized paper! We dress up our houses with some holiday greenery cut from Peaceful Pine paper using the evergreen deco pieces in the Welcome Noel die set and add some peppermints and rhinestones. Next up, we prepare our large spruce tree by stamping tone-on-tone on Peaceful Pine cardstock and diecutting using the Welcome Noel bundle. Our little deer comes from the new Graceful Evergreen Deer hot foil bundle. The deer is foiled in copper and then diecut with the coordinating die. Using all of these elements, we build our scene on our focal panel with dimensionals to create depth of scene.

We finish off our card design with our holiday sentiment panel. It combines two ephemera banners from the Season of Celebration pack and the hot foil sentiment from the new Twinkling Tidings bundle foiled in red. Adhere them at the top of our scene with a bow of the new holiday baker’s twine, add a few sequins, and voila!

Today’s card is a part of the Luv 2 Stamp Group Instagram Hop, which goes live at 9 AM Pacific Time (PST).  Click here to head over to my Instagram feed at 9 AM Pacific/11 AM Central and check out what the other demos in our L2S Group have created for you today! 

Tomorrow things will be getting spooky as we continue our tour of the new products launching next week! I hope you’ll drop by!

Products used in today’s card:
Basic White, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Peaceful Pine CS
In Color pearlized SP, All Wrapped Up (coming in Sept) DSP
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Noel Tidings, Graceful Evergreen Deer, Welcome Noel, Twinkling Tidings dies (coming in Sept)
Twinkling Tidings, Graceful Evergreen Deer hot foil bundle (coming in Sept)
Copper & red foil (coming in Sept)
Softly Woven EF (coming in Sept)
Rhinestone basic jewels, Real Red peppermints, sparkle sequins
Seasonal baker’s twine (coming in Sept)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Coming Soon · Holiday Mini Catalog

A Beautiful Christmas

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Howdy, folks! Welcome back. Have you melted into a puddle yet? Man, the heat this summer is something else. I know, I know. We Texans are used to summers being extra when it comes to heat. But this particular summer is EXTRA extra. Maybe it feels particularly bad because the last couple of summers have been mild by comparison. Not sure, but I’m placing my vote for an early fall! Anybody else?

On the upside, I guess you could say that the heat is forcing us all to find productive things to do inside, which is magic words in the ears of any paper crafter! So as we’re dreaming of cooler weather, I’m pulling out the Christmas sparkles. There are SO many good things hitting the store next week. And today’s razzle dazzle card has a little bit of it all — Neutral Noel foiled paper, Season of Celebration ephemera, and the Twinkling Tidings hot foil bundle.

We keep things pretty simple so that our focal panel takes center stage here and get started with a base of white cardstock. The background panel is a sheet of the beautiful Neutral Noel foiled paper. Our focal panel starts with the Twinkling Tidings image hot foiled in green. We add the tree image by stamping over the tree with Peaceful Pine ink and then cut out our panel with the arched die from the coordinating Twinkling Tidings dies. A larger arch is cut from textured gold specialty paper using the Everyday Arches dies. A beautiful sprig of evergreen and poinsettia is added to the bottom corner of the panel with dimensionals. And then we finish things off with a few rhinestone jewels.

This one is sooo beautiful in person. It’s difficult to capture all of the glints of light you see from the foiled elements. Tomorrow I’ll be taking a little crafty break to get ready for the team blog hop on Thursday where I have grand plans for a bigger 3D project to share. We have a busy day slated for the office tomorrow also, so we shall see if my grand plans come to light. I hope you’ll drop by because I’ll have something to share either way.

Products used in today’s card:
Basic White CS
Textured Gold & Neutral Noel (coming in Sept) DSP
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Everyday Arches dies
Twinkling Tidings hot foil bundle (coming in Sept)
Green foil (coming in Sept)
Peaceful Pine ink
Rhinestone basic jewels
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Coming Soon · Product of the Month

Hey There, Friend

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Welcome to Monday, where here in North Texas we’re starting to look like the Thanksgiving dinner rolls when no one remembers to set the timer. Needless to say, we’re extra crispy with a side of char over here. Send rain and cool temps stat!

This week, we’re continuing our razzle dazzle design theme because there is still so much good sparkly stuff from my new stash of goodies that I want to show you. And in keeping with thoughts of cooler weather ahead, we’re getting another look at the August Product of the Month. The Glow of Harvest paper is absolutely stunning and pairs beautifully with the new Buffalo Plaid hot foil plate and several of the new papers.

We get started with a neutral base of Pecan Pie cardstock for this easy fun fold card. I used the leftover piece of Cherry Cobbler paper with Buffalo Plaid foil for the left-side panel and then a small strip of a sheet of the POTM Glow of Harvest paper for the smaller panel on the right. The small focal image is from the diecut sheet from the Autumn Opulence paper pack and then our sparkly leaves are diecut from a sheet of the new Woodland Glimmer paper using the Sweet Words & Labels leaf dies. Our sentiment is from the Sincerely Noted ephemera pack. And we put all of our image and sentiment elements together on a backdrop of white shimmer vellum from the sunset shimmer pack that is cut with the Sweet Words & Labels die and adhere it just to our right panel with some dimensionals. A few pearlized faceted circles are carefully placed around our focal panel and really help our sentiment pop.

I can’t wait to show you one of the new Christmas foil bundles tomorrow. It is simply stunning. I hope you’ll drop in and check it out!

Products used in today’s card:
Pecan Pie, Cherry Cobbler CS
Glow of Harvest, Autumn Opulence (coming soon), Sunset shimmer vellum, Autumn Woodland glimmer (coming soon) DSP
Sincerely Noted ephemera
Sweet Words & Labels dies
Buffalo Plaid hot foil plate (coming soon)
Red foil (coming soon)
Pearlized faceted circles
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Coming Soon · Product of the Month

Glow of Thankfulness

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Welcome to the weekend! It’s a busy one around here as I play catchup in all the ways. From music planning to house chores to crafting, I’m working to squeeze in time for all of it.

I’ve taken a couple of hours to get all the new crafty goodies unpackaged and have played around with a few things. I just don’t even know where to start, you guys! The new hot foil products that will drop in a few weeks are just fab and I’m in love with this month’s Product of the Month. Have you checked out the Glow of Harvest paper? It’s pearlized so it’s got this perfect pearly glow. So I’m combining several of the new lovelies for today’s card — the Buffalo Plaid hot foil die, the Glow of Harvest paper, and the Framed & Fabulous stamp set.

Since the card base will not show on the card front, you can choose any complimentary color you wish. I went very neutral with Very Vanilla. The foiled buffalo plaid panel is a sheet of Cherry Cobbler that is hot foiled with the new Buffalo Plaid die and new red foil. And next to it we put a sheet of the gorgeous Glow of Harvest paper. The focal image is a diecut included with the new Autumn Opulence paper pack. Underneath our image we’ve tucked in the sentiment panel. Our sentiment is from the new Framed & Fabulous stamp set and is heat embossed in gold and then diecut with the Stylish Shapes large banner die. A few red sequins give us a pop of sparkle to draw the eye across the card front.

We’re going to be continuing our razzle dazzle card series next week because….well, I have lots of sparkly things to show you! I hope you’ll drop in and check out what’s going to be coming your way SOON!

Products used in today’s card:
Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler CS
Glow of Harvest, Autumn Opulence (coming soon) DSP
Framed & Fabulous stamps (coming soon)
Buffalo Plaid hot foil plate (coming soon)
Red foil (coming soon)
Stylish Shapes dies
Versamark
Gold EP
Sparkle sequins (coming soon)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Coming Soon · Masculine Designs

Better Coworkers

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Howdy, friends! Thanks for dropping by. I’ve been a little under the weather this week and haven’t felt like doing much the last couple of days.

To be honest, I just wanted to drop into bed when I got home from work today, but it’s my co-worker’s last day tomorrow and I needed to whip up a special card for him to wish him luck on his next grand adventure. And in the spirit of this razzle dazzle week, we’re making a masculine card that has some pizzazz with a combination of the new Tile Garden dies, the retired Dream Team stamp set, and the Shimmering Stripes specialty paper.

To keep things on the masculine side, we’re starting with a base of Pool Party cardstock and then a sheet of the narrow striped paper from the Everyday Essentials paper. I used the new Tile Garden dies to cut two squares of the Shimmering Stripes paper to serve as the backdrop for our focal elements. They’re mounted askew on our card front for some visual interest and movement. We use the Dream Team stamp set to stamp our images — the coffee cup, computer, and desk plant — and then fussy cut them. Stampin’ Blends help give us some additional color on our plant. The sentiment from the set is stamped and then diecut with one of the smaller Branching Out banner dies. They’re all adhered with dimensionals in varying layers to give us some depth of scene. A few riverside irregular pearls finish things off with a glimmery sheen across our card front.

I really love how this turned out. The playful sentiment and arrangement of images is very fitting for the recipient of this card who is full of zest and character. And I think that’s one of my favorite things about being a paper crafter — having the ability to make something that is perfect in every way for the intended recipient!

I’m sooooo excited to play with the new hot foil goodies that arrived this week. I hope I’m feeling up to making a few previews tomorrow evening!

Products used in today’s card:
Pool Party, Basic White CS
Everyday Essentials, Shimmering Stripes DSP
Tile Garden (coming soon), Branching Out dies
Dream Team stamps (retired)
Pool Party, Gray Granite, Cajun Craze, Secret Sea, Peaceful Pine ink
Shaded Spruce Stampin’ Blends
Riverside irregular pearls (retired)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Holiday Mini Catalog

Noel to You

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Happy Monday, friends! Glad you’ve stopped by. We had a busy weekend. What about you? And with it being so hot (welcome to August in Texas!), it meant some creative changes in plans too. But we had no shortage of things to do inside so it kinda worked out.

We’re still working through the new stash of holiday products that will be releasing in a few weeks and this week is all about the razzle dazzle. If there’s something sparkly, shiny, or otherwise blingy, it usually comes to join my stash. But this catalog has some particular nice razzle dazzle things! And today we’re pulling out some of the Neutral Noel products to build this scene.

We get started with a base of Peaceful Pine cardstock. A sheet of the foiled filagree paper from the Neutral Noel paper pack serves as our backdrop. And it’s wrapped in a nice bow of festive baker’s twine before getting adhered to our card front. Special note: I really should adhered the background panel with dimensionals to provide some relief from the wrapping of twine. It works okay directly adhered to the card front, but I think I would have liked a flatter look.

Our focal panel begins with a sheet of foiled plaid from the All Wrapped Up paper pack that’s cut with the new Scalloped Christmas Cheer dies. We cut a piece of white velveteen paper with the Branching Out dies to create our snowy scene that’s built with the Welcome Noel stamp & die bundle. The trees are stamped tone-on-tone on Peaceful Pine and cut with the coordinating dies, while the houses are paper pieced with a combination of Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Golden Glow pearlized paper to create a warm glow in the windows. The deer is cut from Pecan Pie cardstock and placed in our scene with dimensionals for depth of scene. We finish things off with a sentiment from the Greetings for You ephemera pack and a few red sequins from the new sparkle pack.

We continue rolling through the dazzle dazzle tomorrow. I hope you’ll drop in!

Products used in today’s card:
Peaceful Pine, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake CS
Velveteen SP, Pearlized SP, *Neutral Noel, *All Wrapped Up DSP
*Welcome Noel bundle
Branching Out, *Scalloped Christmas Cheer dies
Greetings for You ephemera (retired)
*Festive twine
*Sparkle sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives
*coming in Sept

Holiday Mini Catalog · Winter

Wonderful Snowflakes

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TGIF, everybody! We have made it to the weekend, and I don’t know about you but I’m ready. After surviving the first week of school schedule change, downtime is required and stat!

And speaking of downtime, I got to put an idea into action in the studio this evening as I put this card together. I put the latest SU! sketch into action and had fun adding a few twists to meet our them this week. We’re letting the new Dreamy Snowflakes bundle take center stage today.

We get started with a base of Cloud Cover cardstock. To capture the twinkle of freshly falling snow, I decided to have our focal panel backdrop be a sheet of blue shimmer vellum. I picked a coordinating piece of the Velvet Meadow patterned paper to create the corner circle elements. Before cutting them out, the full panel is run through the Dreamy Snowflakes embossing folder to give us our background flakes in each corner. The three snowflakes in the center are created with a combination of shimmer vellum and white velvet specialty paper using the Dreamy Snowflakes dies. After glueing the vellum and velvet together, they’re adhered to our card front with dimensionals. The sentiment from the Season of Celebration ephemera pack is stacked on some gold and white baker’s twine and then adhered over the snowflakes with dimensionals. A few adhesive snowflakes finish things off with the perfect amount of twinkle.

We will finish off this week’s trek in the woods tomorrow. I hope you’ll drop by!

Products used in today’s card:
Cloud Cover CS
Velvet Meadow, Velveteen, Sunset Shimmer vellum DSP
Dream Snowflakes dies & EF (coming in Sept)
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Gold & white baker’s twine
Adhesive snowflakes (coming in Sept)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Coming Soon · Holiday Mini Catalog

Christmas Joy

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Welcome back, everybody! As I’m sure you could tell, yesterday didn’t exactly go as planned. By the time I had the free time to craft, my giddy up had gone and went! Alas, that’s the way it goes sometimes.

But I got some inspiration and a little time today and pulled out the new Neutral Noel suite and a few other new releases to pull this one together as we continue our outdoor frollicks.

So for this one, we get started with a base of Peaceful Pine cardstock. The backdrop is a sheet of the red plaid paper from the Creative Celebrations paper pack and then we finish it off with strips of the gorgeous gold trefoil from the Neutral Noel pack. We wrap the whole caboodle with some festive tricolor twine. Our focal panel starts with a large white oval panel that’s cut with the Noel Tidings dies and then machine embossed with the new Dreamy Snowflakes embossing folder, we affix to that two evergreen wreaths also cut with the Noel Tidings dies. To that we add a sprig of evergreen and poinsettias from the Season of Celebration ephemera pack and top it all off with our sentiment banner, also from the ephemera pack. We finish everything off with a pop of sparkle with a scattering of red sequins.

Tomorrow we’re going to trek along with Mr. Frost. I hope you’ll drop by!

Products used in today’s card:
Peaceful Pine, Basic White CS
Creative Celebrations & Neutral Noel (coming in Sept) DSP
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Noel Tidings bundle (coming in Sept)
Dreamy Snowflakes EF (coming in Sept)
Sparkle sequins & gold dots (coming in Sept)
Holiday baker’s twine (coming in Sept)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Coming Soon · Holiday Mini Catalog

Christmas Magic

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Howdy, friends! Welcome to the nest. I’m glad you’ve stopped by today. This week, we’re designing around the great outdoors. And today is one of the cards where you have an idea but you have to pivot. I had this grand idea using one of the new holiday sets that will launch in September but then didn’t have quite enough time or brain power to pull it all together. But I had enough pieces to make a variation of yesterday’s layout with a little holiday magic from the Season of Celebration ephemera pack.

So we get started with a base of white cardstock and then use a sheet of the gorgeous Shimmering Stripes glitter paper as the backdrop. I pulled the gorgeous Christmas plaid paper from the new All Wrapped Up paper pack. HINT: if you decide to use the new foiled paper, it’s much thicker paper and the foil bit do not tear easily since they’re more stretchy than fibrous, but I used the paper snips here and there to help keep the tearing going. I adhered my two sparkly panels together with tear and tape for added adhesiveness. The panel is then wrapped in silver-edged sheer ribbon before adhering it to the card front with dimensionals. Our focal section uses a couple of images from the Season of Celebration ephemera pack and then a couple of stamped evergreen branches using the new Noel Tidings stamp & die bundle. It’s adhered to our card front with several layers of dimensionals so it stands nice and proud above our ribbon. We finish things off with a few of the new sparkle sequins.

We’re continuing our trek in the great outdoors tomorrow. Who knows — maybe I can get that card in my head out on paper! You’ll have to drop by to see. *wink*

Products used in today’s card:
White CS
Shimmering Stripes, All Wrapped Up (coming in Sept) DSP
Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept)
Noel Tidings bundle (coming in Sept)
Sparkle sequins (coming in Sept)
Silver-edged sheer ribbon
Dimensionals
Adhesives