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Christmas

Peace of the Season

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Have you enjoyed the sneak peek at the Magical Meadow designer series paper that launched this week in Stampin’ Up!’s Holiday Mini catalog? These watercolor designs are beautiful. Today’s focal pattern from the paper pack is one of those sheets of designer paper that you almost hate to cut! But with just the right design, you can showcase those really stunning sheets of designer paper and not feel quite so guilty about cutting them up.

Because I wanted the designer paper to be the show-stopping focal point of this design, I chose a cardstock color that complimented the DSP but basically disappeared into the background of the design. Lost Lagoon was just the ticket to help this beautiful sheet of paper really stand out. I chose the peek-through fun fold design again because it allowed the greatest use of the sheet of paper but also added a lot of visual interest to the overall card design. The sentiment is heat embossed on vellum and mounted atop a complimentary-shaped Lost Lagoon mat. A few carefully placed shimmery gems and the ribbon add a touch of sparkle.

TIP: When you want to color match a heat embossed element but don’t have the exact color embossing powder, you can make your own. Surprised? Wondering how? Before you ink your stamp, apply a heavy layer of Versamark and then cover the stamp with your preferred ink color before stamping. Then coat with clear embossing powder before heat embossing. This allows your ink color to shine through as your embossing color. Voila! Color-matched!

Products used:
Lost Lagoon, vellum cardstock
Winter Meadow DSP
Ornamental Pine stamps (retired)
Rose Garden (retired), Window Frames (retired) dies
Clear embossing powder
Fine sparkle gems
Silver & White shimmer ribbon
Dimensionals
Adhesive

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Christmas · Fun Folds · Tutorials

Oh Deer

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We’re taking another tour of the One Horse Open Sleigh designer series paper pack. There are so many beautiful winter scenes in this 6×6 paper pack. I’ll be making a variety of fun fold cards to show you how you can take beautiful paper that you’re hesitant to use and turn it into gorgeous cards that really allow the paper designs to shine.

Today’s design focuses on the sheet of paper with the deer in the grove of snowy trees. The gate fold is the perfect design to allow you to look through the trees.

In this video, you’ll learn how to make this card design and how easily you can adapt it to showcase other vignette paper designs. So grab a cup of tea and let’s make a card!

Products used:
Balmy Blue, vellum cardstock
One Horse Open Sleigh DSP
All That dies
Magical Meadow stamps
Silver & white ribbon
Faceted gems
Adhesive-backed sequins
Adhesives

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Christmas

Beautiful Season

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Today we continue our tour of the Winter Meadow designer series paper pack. Many of the designs remind me of snowy mountains. The two patterns included in this design are a perfect example. Don’t you feel like you’re in the winter woods when you see these patterns together?

Lost Lagoon cardstock serves as the base for this card design. It coordinates well with the designer paper and brings out the finer details in each sheet. This is a peek-through fun fold design, where the card front is just a touch short allowing you to see through to the pattern inside the card. The overall design for this card is quite simple with the paper doing the heavy lifting. Just a few special details with the sprigs of greenery and shimmery ribbon underneath the simple sentiment panel bring it all together for a stunning design with a real WOW factor.

Products used:
Lost Lagoon, Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Soft Seafoam cardstock
Winter Meadow DSP
Peaceful Cabin stamps (retired)
All That, Magical Meadow dies
Fine sparkle gems
Silver & White sheer ribbon
Dimensionals
Adhesive

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Christmas · Fun Folds · Tutorials

Winter Cabin Fun Fold

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Have you seen the One Horse Open Sleigh designer series paper that is currently available in the Online Exclusives section of my online store? Every single sheet of paper in this 6×6 pack is gorgeous! It makes them so hard to cut and use! So I’m designing cards that use as much of each sheet in one card design as possible.

And I’m going to be bringing you a series of videos that show you how you can make stunning cards with the One Horse Open Sleigh paper pack, and your supply list will be pretty simple for each design because we’re going to have this beautiful paper take center stage in each design.

First up is this cozy cottage scene. We’ll be making a single panel z-fold card together using this sheet of designer paper. Won’t you join me?

Products used:
Early Espresso cardstock
One Horse Open Sleigh DSP
Magical Meadow stamps
Misty Moonlight ribbon
Wink of Stella
Adhesive-backed sequins
Adhesives

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Christmas

Season of Joy

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This week we are focusing on the additional design offerings in A Walk in the Forest designer series paper pack offered by Stampin’ Up! in the next Holiday Mini catalog which goes live next week. All of the designs are festive, but I especially love the holiday greenery designs because they are so versatile. I saw this fun fold design using a different designer paper and was inspired to create this card.

After seeing this fun z-fold design, I felt like it lent itself well to making a card that felt like a beautiful double door with a holiday wreath hanging on the front. A sheet of Crumb Cake serves as the card base and helps the lighter elements of the paper, like the branches and music notes, really stand out. The gold glimmer vellum keeps things festive and draws out the gold embossing and foiling on the outer portion of the card. I kept the interior of the card light and bright with a sheet of the white foiled holly design from the Joyful specialty paper pack.

This z-fold design also works really with designer series paper sheets that I like to call story sheets. They’re the designs that really look best when you can use larger portions because they have a scene that encompasses a much larger footprint of the sheet of paper. I’ll be showcasing a story sheet design with this fun fold in a few days and that post will include a video tutorial.

Products used:
Crumb Cake, Basic White cardstock
Shimmer vellum (retired)
A Walk in the Forest, Joyful DSP
Welcome Christmas (retired), Christmas Messages (retired) stamps
Magical Meadow, Seasonal Labels (retired) dies
Gold embossing powder
Adhesive-backed sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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birthday

Birthday Blitz

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The end of August presents many opportunities for new birthday designs as we have lots of friends celebrating birthdays. So this week I cranked out several cards for friends with birthdays in the next week.

First up is this cute fella buzzing in to bring some birthday cheer. This design is for one of my son’s friends. They’re in those awkward preteen years so it’s always hard to know which way to go with card themes, but something whimsical really fits this particular kiddo’s personality. So I pulled out the Zoo Crew designer paper and fussy cut this scootering fox as the focal image. I added a little color and some Wink of Stella here and there on the image from the DSP to add more color and realism to the image. I thought it would be cute to have foxy motoring in the birthday balloons, so I diecut a set from various shades of cardstock and added a little Wink of Stella for some added pizzazz. The whole scene sits atop a piece of embossed cardstock matted on Pretty Peacock cardstock to really help the whole scene stand out nicely.

Products used: Basic White, Pretty Peacock, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Granny Apple Green cardstock; vellum; Zoo Crew DSP; So Many Stars (retired), Bunch of Banners (retired), Zany Zoo dies; Sizzix embossing plate; PTI sentiment; glitter sequins; dimensionals

I had a lot of fun building this cute birthday scene. Once again, I pulled out my Zoo Crew designer paper for this adorable croc pedaling in some flowers. I kicked up the color by adding some to the bike and flowers and also added a bundle of balloons to punch up the birthday theme here. To help it feel as though the croc is trekking to a party, I added some simple trees and a cloud as background scenery.

Products used: Pretty Peacock, Lost Lagoon, Granny Apple Green cardstock; Bright & Beautiful DSP; vellum; Zoo Crew DSP; PTI scalloped circle (retired), Zany Zoo dies; adhesive-backed discs; twine (retired); dimensionals; adhesives

Have any adventure types in your circle of friends or family? There’s a terrific sheet of Zoo Crew DSP for that! And I pulled it out and started working on a scene for my outdoorsy friend. I used a circle punch to cut out the scene with the lion roasting a marshmallow. I used the Zany Zoo dies to cut the adorable birdwatching skunk and then fussy cut the mountains and trees. I filled in with a lot of color using the Stampin’ Blends markers to really help the scene come to life. On a scale of 1 to 10, I rank my coloring skills about a 4, but I’m pretty pleased with how things came out for this design.

Products used: Shaded Spruce, Basic White cardstock; Zoo Crew, Bright & Beautiful DSP; PTI stamps; tinsel gems; adhesives

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Christmas

Holy Night

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The papers included in the O Holy Night designer series paper pack are jaw-droppingly stunning. This diagonal Z fun fold card design affords the opportunity to highlight several patterns while also telling a story through the design, and I just love that.

The base of this card is Night of Navy cardstock. I selected various patterns of the O Holy Night designer paper that felt as though they moved through the Bethlehem story — from the starry sky to the dessert to the village of Nazareth in the distance. O Holy Night is embossed in gold in the starry sky, while the Star of Bethlehem is cut from Smoky Slate using the Stars at Night hybrid embossing folder and dies. A touch of Wink of Stella on the star really makes it sparkle. Can you picture yourself here on that holy night?

Check out the complete O Holy Night card collection now available in the Etsy shoppe!

Products used:
Night of Navy, Smoky Slate, shimmer white, Basic White cardstock
O Holy Night DSP
Night Divine stamps
Stars at Night dies
Stars at Night hybrid embossing folder
Gold embossing powder
Adhesive-backed sequins
Wink of Stella
Adhesives

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Trucking Along

Birthday Delivery

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Today’s design was super fun to create. A fellow demonstrator (if I can remember who, I will update with a link) posted a design with a truck and trailer, which I thought was brilliant! Because this is a personal design going to a friend, I dug into my stash of some of my favorite retired product, as well as using some fun current products, to make this card pop with lots of flashy flare!

I decided to make this a diagonal split fold to incorporate some of my favorite Bright & Beautiful designer paper patterns and to really make the center image panel stand out. I stamped the background scene on a piece of white cardstock before I diecut using the Nested Essentials die. I then stamped and punched the tuck separately to add depth to the scene and allow the truck and numbers to stand out. To make the trailer, I first stamped the entire truck and then punched out just the back portion. The numbers were cut using a retired set of dies called Number of Years and I gave them an extra layer of dimensionals to allow them to stand up taller than anything else on the image panel. This design is even cuter in person and I’m really hoping that the recipient loves it!

Products used:
Night of Navy, Basic White cardstock
Bright & Beautiful DSP
Glimmer vellum (retired)
Glitter paper (retired)
Kaiserkraft glitter cardstock (retired)
Trucking Along stamps & punch
Nested Essentials dies
Papertrey Ink dies (front sentiments) (retired)
Curvy Keepsakes dies (stars) (retired)
Number of Years dies (retired)
Adhesive-backed sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Card Sets · Fun Folds · Hello Irresistible

Irresistible Center Barn Fold

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Today’s card design is the fourth in the Irresistible Birthday card pack series. This designer series paper has been so fun to work with because it lends itself to so many possibilities. And this card leans much more feminine in both palette and overall feel.

I really have a hard time working with shades of orange. Believe it or not, this card base is a shade of coral, and this card came together easily. Hello Irresistible has really been a delight to work with for that very reason.

This design plays to the feminine vibes with all of the sparkle. From the gold-laced ribbon to pops of gold in sequins to the tiniest sparkle around the sentiment panel with Wink of Stella, this card really shines!

This fun fold reminds me of a barn door with the card opening in the center. Don’t you think? If you’re interested in how this design came together, go check it out over on Instagram!

Products used:
Hello, Irresistible DSP
Calypso Coral, Basic White cardstock
Bold Bouquet stamps
Deckled Rectangles dies
Flirty Flamingo ribbon
Adhesive-backed sequins
Wink of Stella
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Download the tutorial here!

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Card Sets · Fun Folds · Hello Irresistible

Irresistible Birthday Garden

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Today we’re taking a look at the third design in the new birthday pack called Irresistible Birthday that will be up in the Etsy shoppe later this week. This design is based on a new fun fold I learned from Sharon Armstrong. The original design has been adapted to exclude a few layers in order to lighten up the design, but it does not lose any of the drama of this unique fun fold.

This showcases yet another sampling of the SU! Hello, Irresistible designer paper. One of the things I really loved about this design was the ability to use every scrap of the gorgeous paper on both the inside and outside panels of the card. And who says a masculine card can’t have a little sparkle? This design is punched up with a few eye-catching features — silver pearls, iridescent sequins, and the touch of Wink of Stella around the edges of the sentiment elements.

Products used:
Hello, Irresistible DSP
Lost Lagoon, Pretty Peacock, Basic White, vellum cardstock
Pansy Patch stamps
Nested Essentials, All That dies
Adhesive-backed pearls
Adhesive-backed sequins
Wink of Stella
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Download the tutorial here!

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