Nutz about Stamping

Hello Card Map

One of my New Year's resolutions is to get more organized on my laptop and to trash files that are no longer needed. One idea I had was to move all my card maps over to my Pinterest Card Map board and go there when I want some inspiration.

While I was transferring some of the card maps I have stored for years, I came across this map and decided to give it a try:

I struggled a bit for the sentiment that would look right on my card and then got a creative flash and pulled out my new Hello You thinlits. Here's the result:

 

This set of ah-mazing thinlits will be available for you to purchase on January 6th and are found on page 31 of the Occasions catalog. If you have puchased Stampin' Up! products from me in the past six months I requested Stampin' Up! to mail you an Occasions catalog to you free of charge! If not, email me at: [email protected] and I will put in a request now.

 

A Crafty New Year's Resolution

Have you promised yourself that you will take more time for crafting in 2015? Or that you will get to using up all those crafting supplies and photos gathering dust in your closets? I have the perfect solution to help you out with TONS of ideas for card making and scrapbooking!

 

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I send out two newsletters by email every month - the first contains several articles and sample ideas. The second monthly newsletter is shorter and features upcoming class deadlines and is sprinkled with project ideas other than cards.

For my scrapbooking customers, I send out a third newsletter on scrapbooking and you must choose to subscribe to this newsletter when signing up. This edition contains lots of different scrapbook page ideas and for you digital crafters, watch for digital page ideas too!

***And until December 19th I have a fourth FREE set of newsletters that email weekly - you won't want to miss my 12 Weeks of Christmas series, featuring Christmas cards, gift ideas, bags and tags!

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Sundays with Sizzix: Fancy Fan embossing folder

Need a Happy New Year's card to take to a party on December 31st? I have the perfect (and easy!) card for you to create to take along, using your Happy Hour stamp set, Big Shot and Fancy Fan embossing folder:

Happy Hour New Year's Card

Stamp set: Happy Hour

Ink: Night of Navy, Rose Red

Card stock: Whisper White: (5 1/2 x 8 1/2"; 1 3/4 x 5 1/2"; three pieces 1 3/4" square), Night of Navy (5 1/2 x 1")

Accessories: Big Shot, Platform, Fancy Fan embossing folder, Silicone Sheet, 2-Way glue pen, Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch, Snail Adhesive, Clear Block B, Simply Scored

And now for the video tutorial: enjoy!

 

To place an order for the products used to make this cute card, click on any of the images below to head on over to my Online Store. Happy New Year!

Happy Hour Clear Stamp Set
$21.95

Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch
$15.95

Fancy Fan Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
$7.95

 

Elegant Butterfly Punch Card

Black and white card stock can make beautiful cards, especially when paired with Washi Tape. Today I have an Elegant Butterfly card for you created using my Big Shot and Butterflies Thinlits:

 

This amazing card was so easy to create using my Big Shot and Butterflies thinlits - a brand new product appearing in the Occasions Catalog, lauching on January 6, 2015! And that phrase you are wondering about? It's a new stamp set in the same catalog: Crazy about You!

If you have placed an order with me in the past six months I have placed you on my customer loyalty mailing list and the Occasions catalog should be arriving in your mailbox any day now. If not, come on back here on January 6th and you will be able to download your personal copy from my website!

 

Sheltering Tree

Introducing a brand new stamp set available in the Occasions Catalog: Sheltering Tree. This stamp set was first on my pre-order list and I am sure you can figure out why!

And here's how you make this beautiful card!

Supplies: 

• Stamp Sets – Sheltering Tree (137163)
• Card Stock – Real Red #102482, Pink Pirouette #111351, Whisper White #100730
• Stamp Pads- Real Red #126949, Marina Mist #126962, Memento Tuxedo Black #132708 
• Misc. – Red Glimmer Paper #121790, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack #133787, Big Shot Machine #113439, Woodgrain Embossing Folder #127821, Real Red ¼” Cotton Ribbon #134563, Dimensionals #104430, SNAIL #104332

 

Measurements:  

• Real Red Card Base - 5 ½” x 8 ½”, scored at 4 ¼” 
• Pink Pirouette Panel - 4” x 5 ¼”, Real Red Panel 3 1/8” x 3 7/8”
• Whisper White Panel - 3” x 3 ¾”  

   

Instructions:

1. Stamp the swoosh of snow in Marina Mist at the bottom of the Whisper White panel. 
2. Stamp the tree with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.
3. Layer onto the panel of Real Read card stock and set aside. 
4. Insert the Pink Pirouette panel ¾ of the way into the Woodgrain Embossing Folder and run it through the Big Shot Machine. Stamp the sentiment at the base of this panel.   
5. Wrap a piece of Real Red Ribbon around the Pink Pirouette panel as shown and secure to the back of the panel. Adhere this panel to the front of your card base. 
6. Punch out a heart from a scrap of Red Glimmer paper and adhere to the stamped panel as shown with part of a Dimensional. 
7. Adhere the stamped panel to your card as shown with Dimensionals.

Want to make this card too? Come on back here on January 6th - the first day you can place your Occasions Catalog order! Or....join my team and put Sheltering Tree on your Starter Kit order!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you! Today I am taking my son on an amazing Christmas adventure in Berlin, Germany but in case you took the time to drop by my blog I have an equally amazing project idea to share with you, created by one of Stampin' Up!s staff writers. 

Here's what she writes about this super cool Gingerbread House:

I’ve been admiring papier-mâché houses in craft stores for some time; whenever I walk by one, I think: “I could make something with that.” Then I lose my nerve. Finally I just decided to go for it . . . and it wasn’t hard at all!

First, I covered the house with Kraft Paper—which I adhered using Sticky Strip. Then I covered the roof with Nordic Noel Designer Series Paper and folded punched circles in half to decorate the eaves and rooftop. (You could also make cute “candy wafer” roof tiles in pastel shades using punched cardstock circles.)  I made the door using the Ovals Collection Framelits and the Big Shot.

Those of you who have been with Stampin’ Up! for awhile might recognize the beautiful  pine tree images in front of the gingerbread house—they’re from our extremely popular Lovely as a Tree Stamp Set. You can find the jolly little Santa image in our new Get Your Santa On Stamp Set, and the vintage greeting is from Watercolor Winter Too.

If you decide to make one of these houses, you might give this embellishment idea a try: create cardstock gumdrops to put around the base of the house . . . but first give them a little sparkle using Multipurpose Liquid Glue and Dazzling Diamonds! Or create some icicles to hang from the roof using Silver Glimmer Paper.

Bottom line—this project is easy to put together and takes about two hours. And it would be a super-fun family activity for a snowy December evening!

Once I finished the gingerbread house, I still had some creative energy left and looked around to see what else I could make. I discovered a Stampin’ Up! product I haven’t used yet this year—the adorable Trim the Tree Designer Series Paper Stack. The designs and colors are so much fun! The paper stars on the following three projects were made with it (and with the fabulous Stars Framelits Dies). The last project would also be really cute for Independence Day (minus the “Season’s Greetings,” of course)!

Come on back tomorrow as I have some sneak peek cards using new Occasions Catalog products (did you get your catalog in the mail yet?)

 

Project Life Virtual Club!

Have you heard about my Project Life Virtual Club?

Do you have memories that you want to preserve forever but you don’t have the time to scrapbook?

Do you have piles of photos gathering dust at the back of a closet and you don’t know what to do with them?

Are you new to Project Life by Stampin’ Up! and you want support to get started?

This is the perfect time to join my Project Life Virtual Club!

• Six months of fun and creative project ideas
• BONUS video tutorials showing you amazing pocket ideas to match your photos!
• Join any month that works for you - start at month one and work forward
• BONUS: Join now and you can earn  FREE product in January, February and March! 

Here's a sneak peek or two from my club:

Want to learn more? Click here to see each month's club details and a sign-up box to join our club!

I Like You

I have been posting so my holiday card ideas lately that I decided it was time for a break and so today I have a beautiful I Like You card for you to try at home:

 

The strip of Back to Black designer series paper makes a cool background layer. I stamped the I Like You image and colored it with my Blendabilities, die-cut using my Oval framlits, stamped the And Many More phrase, die-cut it using my Banner framelits and put the card together. The final touch was the Basic Metal Button and Whisper White Baker's Twine. 

Want to make this card at home? Gather your friends together to place a collective qualifying order to earn the I Like You stamp set for free. Then get togther and have a girl's crafty day in to make several different card ideas using I Like You, including the one I posted here!

And Many More Clear-Mount Stamp Set
$26.95

I Like You Clear-Mount Stamp Set
$10.00

 

 

Paper Pumpkin in a Tree

Are you still casting around for an amazing gift idea? I have the perfect solution: Paper Pumpkin!

 

What more do I need to say? Click here to hop on over to my Paper Pumpkin page and choose your gift subscription now. This gift idea will make someone (or two or three!) very, very happy!

Sundays with Sizzix: Project Life Cards & Labels framelits

This week I have one final Christmas card idea to share with you, easy to create thanks to my Big Shot and Project Life Cards & Labels framelits. After you have a look, hop on over to my Facebook Business Page today to see this card with an added element. 

 

December Wonder Christmas Card

Stamp sets: Bright & Beatiful, December Wonder, Holiday Cheer, Personalized Name Stamp

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Baked Brown Sugar, Versamark

Paper: Under the Tree designer series paper (1 3/4 x 4", scrap for punching), Whisper White (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"; scrap 4 x 1 1/4"), Cherry Cobbler (4 x 5 1/4")

Accessories: Big Shot, Magnetic Platform, Project Life Cards & Labels framelits, Snail Adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals, Tree punch, Clear Blocks A, G, H, D, envelope

And now for the video tutorial: enjoy!

If you want to place an order for the products I used to make this card, click on any of the product photos below to head on over to my Online Store. And don't forget that many of these products retire on January 5th. 

Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits
$24.95

Project Life December Wonder Photopolymer Stamp Set
$11.96

Bright & Beautiful Clear-Mount Stamp Set
$24.95

Project Life Holiday Cheer Photopolymer Stamp Set
$15.95

 

Lovely as a Tree Christmas Card

Yes Lovely as a Tree is one of the most popular stamp sets EVER and you can certainly see why!

 

 

Lovely as a Tree makes absolutely beautiful cards, Christmas or otherwise. And here's how to make the card featured today:

Supplies: 

• Stamp Sets – Lovely as a Tree (wood #128655; clear #127793); Ornamental Pine (wood #135104; clear #135107)
• Cardstock – Lost Lagoon (#133679); Night of Navy (#100867); Whisper White (#100730)
• Stamp Pads – Lost Lagoon (#133644); Night of Navy (#126970)
• Misc. – Lost Lagoon Silky Taffeta Ribbon (#135841); Stamping Sponges (#101610)

 

Measurements:  

• Lost Lagoon – 8-1/2” x 11”
• Night of Navy – 4” x 5-1/4”
• Whisper White – 3-3/4” x 5”
• Lost Lagoon Ribbon – 12”

 

Instructions:

1. Fold Lost Lagoon cardstock in half.
2. Using Night of Navy ink, stamp words on lower portion of white cardstock.
3. Place scrap paper along lower portion of white cardstock...creating a mask.
4. Using Night of Navy ink, stamp trees on white cardstock. Stamp one tree with full ink, then stamp 2nd tree without re-inking. Repeat for remaining trees.
5. Sponge Lost Lagoon ink around trees and edge of white cardstock. Sponge heavier along the edges.
6. Attach stamped white cardstock to Night of Navy cardstock.
7. Wrap ribbon around matted cardstock; tie knot.  Attach to card front.

Want to purchase Lovely as a Tree? Click on the image of the stamp set below:

Lovely As A Tree Clear-Mount Stamp Set
$19.95

 

Bright & Beautiful Christmas Card

Last night our office team had a holiday party and I realized that this event would be my last with them before I took my Christmas vacation. I decided to give each team member a Christmas card and of course I wanted each card to be completely different. As I was running out of time I grabbed my Bright & Beautiful stamp set and Star framelits and made this Christmas card:

This card tool only seconds to make and I can tell you today that the team member that received it, LOVED it!

It's not too late to place an order for the Bright & Beautiful stamp set which will be retiring on January 5, 2015. Then you can tuck it way to use for next year or use it during 2015 for all sorts of other occasions, like birthdays, graduation, congratulations, etc! Just change the colors to match the occasion.

To place your order, click on the images below to head on over to my Online Store! And if you want to see one of the other Christmas cards I made, check it out today on my Facebook Business Page. 

Bright & Beautiful Clear-Mount Stamp Set
$24.95

Stars Framelits Dies
$26.95

 

Two Tone Christmas Cards

Christmas cards don't have to be complicated to be absoutely stunning - take this Two Tone Christmas Card:

 

 

And here's how you make this card:

Supplies: 

• Stamp Sets – Endless Wishes #136829 $15.95, White Christmas #135767 $15.95
• Card Stock – Whisper White #100730, Glimmer Paper Silver #135314 #135314, Champagne Glimmer Paper #127885 both $4.95
• Stamp Pads – Versamark #102283 $7.50
• Misc. – Gold Embossing Powder #109129 $4.95, Silver Embossing Powder #109131. Dazzling Diamonds #133751, Embossing Buddy #103083 $5.95 

 

Measurements:  

• Whisper White 4 ¼ x 11, Image Mat 3 ½ x 4, Greeting Mat 1/1/2 x 4
• Glimmer Papers Champagne and Silver 1 x 2 1/8

 

Instructions: 

1. Mix Embossing Powder and Dazzling Diamond in small quantities. 1 t. Embossing powder to ¼ t. Dazzling Diamonds or more if you’d like. You don’t need a lot.
2. Rub Embossing Buddy over you image pieces to avoid static and powders sticking where they shouldn’t.
3. Ink Image in Versamark and sprinkle one color with a little spoon (don’t cover the whole thing), tap off excess, then sprinkle the other color on. Heat Set with Heat Tool.
4. I did the Greeting in the Gold Mixture
5. I corner Rounded my pieces on the top right for the Image Piece and the bottom left for the Greeting Piece.
6. Attach your glitter paper to your card base and then add your image piece and greeting piece with Dimensionals. 

Want to place an order for these products? Click on the photos below to hop on over to my Online Store:

White Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set
$15.95

Endless Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set
$15.95

 

 

Festival of Trees Christmas card

Today I have another Festival of Trees Christmas card to share with you - one that is simple to make but very eye-catching too:

I started with the strip of Under the Tree designer paper and matched colors to the strip, for the tree and the layer. I added the Champagne Glimmer Paper star and then looked around for a phrase I liked. 

I decided on the 'hello December' phrase from the December Wonder stamp set - Project Life stamps aren't just for scrapbooking!

To add one final detail I used my Stampin' Dimeonsionals for under the tree and star. 

Christmas cards don't have to be complicated to be eye-catching!

Festival Of Trees Photopolymer Stamp Set
$15.95

Project Life December Wonder Photopolymer Stamp Set
$11.96

Under The Tree Specialty Designer Series Paper
$12.95

 

 

 

Sundays with Sizzix: Northern Flurry embossing folder

This week I have a super easy but beautiful card for you to try, using your Big Shot, Northern Flurry embossing folder and Little Letters thinlits. And no stamping is needed:

 

Little Letters Christmas card

Paper: Whisper White (8 1/2 x 5 1/2", 5 x 3 3/4", scrap pieces for "JOY"), Silver Glimmer paper (5 1/4 x 4", 3 x 2)

Accessories: Big Shot, Northern Flurry embossing folder, Little Letters thinlits, Sticky Strip, Snail Adhesive

And now for the video tutorial - enjoy!

 

If you want to purchase the supplies used to make this sparkly card, click any of the images below:

Silver Glimmer Paper
$4.95

Northern Flurry Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
$7.95

Little Letters Thinlits Die
$28.95