Stamping 411 Sketch Challenge 229

I am really gearing up my Christmas Card making now. Every challenge is going to be Christmas. I can hardly believe next week is Thanksgiving so times a tickin'. This is the season for the paper crafter. We live for the holidays because we send so many cards at this time of year. I used to make one design of card but now I have a tendency to make a variety of them. It's fun and there are so many possibilities.

This card features Mrs. Claus. She is very easy to make and I dressed her up with her red pearl earrings, sending a cheery sentiment from the stamp set Seasonal Sentiments. If you are interested in how to Mrs. Claus see below.  

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Supplies:

Stamps: Seasonal Sentiments

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Blushing Bride, Early Espresso markers

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper white, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Jolly Holiday dsp

Tools: 1 3/4", 1 3/8", 3/4" circle punches, scallop circle punch, Scallop border punch, ticket corner punch, basic pearls

Update on Mrs. Claus. Here is the link to the youtube video on how to make her from create with De. Thanks to De for such good instructions

A Thank You Quilt

A woman I met at quilt group, Marcia, asked me to go along with her to Mad City Quilt group, Well, of course I said yes, and we went on Tuesday. I had a good time and saw about 50 quilts, mostly from the speaker but they had show and tell so there were about 15 women that shared projects that they have been working on, what fun.

It just inspired me to make more quilt cards. Here's a thank you for Marcia for inviting me and picking me up to take me along. I appreciate it so much.

If you have any questions let me know. If you want any of the supplies used to make this card or any other you see here on my blog just email me your phone number and I will call you and be happy to help you.

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Supplies:

Stamps: Tagtastic

Paper: So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Tea Party dsp (retired),

Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Pretty in Pink

Tools: Bigz Lattice die, Scallop Trim border punch, Scallop Circle punch, Finial Press Embossing Folder sponge, paper piercer, blender pen

Stamping 411 challenge 209

Here is another stamping 411 challenge. This one was harder for me than the others I have done but I'm glad I stuck with it. I think it turned out okay. I got to use several new (to me) items on this one. The Printed Petals and the Flower Garden embossing folders.

I cut all my pieces of card stock then ran them through the Big Shot with the respective ef and then sponged the image with like ink to make it stand out a little bit more.

Supplies:

Stamps: Printed Petals

Ink:Pretty in Pink, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White

Tools: 2 3/8" scallop circle punch, Scallop circle punch, Itty Bitty Shape punch pak, Framed Tulips ef, Flower Garden ef, petals a plenty ef

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Stamping 411 challenge 207

Hello to everyone. It's time for another 411 challenge and this one came together fairly easy. I reached for my favorite colors, Pretty in Pink and Concord Crush, always has to be a purple in the mix.

 Used a retiring dsp. bye bye Lap of Luxury, I have really enjoyed having you around. Used Baroque Motifs stamp set, the large and small scallop circle punch, the flower from Itty Bitty punch pak, and the Dotted Ribbon border punch, which makes any card stock into a neat little ribbon. I also crimped it for some added dimension. And bling, I love bling, the Basic Rhinestone in the middle of the flower should have a sparkle coming out of it. It does in real life.

If you have never tried making a card from a sketch you should. It's like cooking with a recipe or sewing with a pattern. Just add the fabric you want and viola a card comes out in no time. They even give you the dimensions of each layer. It's a lot of fun.

If you have any questions or want to order anything you can always leave a comment or email me.

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Printed Petals Once Again

One more card made with the Printed Petals Stamp set that is on sale this month for 30% off. You can get this set for $13.97 wood mount and $10.47 for the clear mount. Unbelieveable to me. I love this set and that is a great price. It's 5 stamps in the set and you can take a look at it on page 106 of the 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog. If you don't have a copy just breeze over to my side bar and you can download it right now. There are other sets for sale also, check them out here.

• For the card it was combined with Flight of the Butterfly set to make the adorable stem of the flower and also the butterfly.
• The colors are Certainly Celery and Tempting Turquiose. 
• It's all done on Whisper White and tied up neatly with the 1/8" taffeta ribbon.

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Printed Petals Again

Another Printed Petals card. This is a nice look.

• Stamp on Whisper White and then run it through the Big Shot and and embossing folder. In this case the Vintage Wallpaper ef was used, one of my favorites.
• The bright and fresh colors are Poppy Parade and Baja Breeze along with So Saffron.

If you would like to get this set for a 30% discount you have eleven days left to do that. Email me or call me with your order and I'll be happy to help you get this set or a number of other stamping and scrapbooking items on the way to your house. But hurry, this special ends May 31.

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Punch Potpourri

Here is a completely different type of card then I have been posting lately. This is from the regular 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catlog and uses one of the Hostess Sets, Punch Potpourri. With this set you get a butterfly, a bird and a heart and also 3 cute little flowers and all of these coordinate with Stampin' Up's punches. I love the look of stamping and then punching them out. Mary Fish made a similar card to the one pictured here which used  the Bird stamp and then was punched out with the large oval punch and trimmed on each end to form the vase. I love the modern look of this. I also used Just Believe stamp set for the flowers in the vase and the Retro Remix wheel for the background. Night of Navy card stock and ink was used for a monochromatic look. Although in the picture the ribbon looks like a different color it is navy ribbon, 1/4" grosgain.

Here is a picture of the inside of the card. I like to decorate the insides of all my cards but it is imperative when dark colored card stock is used for the base of the card.

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For You in Poppy

 

As we get closer to the end of  March you may be thinking more and more about those FREE items that you can get with just a $50 order of Stampin' Up products. There are over 50 stamp sets that you can choose from and Designer Series Paper pack and there is even a Button and Ribbon package that you can choose. This card is just one of many that you can make with the Punch Bunch set, one of the FREE sets that you can choose for SAB. 

• It uses So Saffron card stock along with Basic Black, Poppy Parade and Bashful Blue
• The card stock inside the Black rectangle was stamped with a little background stamp using Versamark ink which leaves a watermark on any color card stock. 
• The Scallop Circle For You stamp was inked with Bashful Blue then the stem was colored with the Old Olive marker, as well as the flowers with Poppy Parade marker and the For You with Basic Black marker
• Then the flowers were stamped again in Poppy on Whisper White and cut out and popped up with demensionals. 
• A pretty Poppy ribbon tied around the rectangle finished it off. 

Any questions let me know. If you want to order right now head over to my Stampin' Up website and thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place

For You, Clean and Simple

This card is very easy to make but it is really pretty and if you wanted to add some ribbon to doll it up a bit more you could certainly do that very easily.

• I just started with a piece of Old Olive cs 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 and folded it in half.
• ran a piece of 1 3/4 x 4 7/8 Tempting Turquoise cs through the Big Shot inside the Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder then rounded the corners. Backed it with another piece of 2 x 5 1/4 Tempting Turquoise cs.
• Used Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise and Rich Razzleberry markers to ink up the stamp and then punched it out with the Scallop circle punch and popped it on the card using dimensionals
• Tip: Lightly sponge the polka dots with Tempting Turquoise ink to give them more definition

This was made using the set Punch Bunch stamp set, which is available for FREE with a $50 order from Stampin' Up

Hop on over to my Stampin' Up website to place your order and get your choice of a Sale-a-bration item for FREE.

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Owls of Blue

Here is another card made with the Punch Bunch set. It's one of the items you can choose for FREE with a $50 purchase of Stampin' Up products this month. This set has 5 stamps and they all coordinate with one of the punches SU has to offer.

As you can see here the true friend button on this card is another stamp in the set  that is easily punched out with the 1" circle punch. This card was made with the woodland dsp and pacific point and melon mambo card stock and ink. The 2 step bird punch provides the branch the owls are perched on.

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Any questions email me and I will be happy to help you.

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Scallop Circle Flower

A quick update. Here is the link on how to make these scallop circle flowers. Please come back and let me know if this helped by leaving me a comment. I would love to hear from you.

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Scallop Trim Border Square Valentine

Here is the next project we completed at class on Jan 6. If you missed it you missed a lot of fun. I promised I would post the link to the instructions on how to make this card. The Scallop Trim Border punch square can be done a couple different ways. Here is the pre measured way. And here is Julie Buhler's video tutorial on how to punch any size rectangle using the scallop trim border punch. I hope these are helpful and please leave me a comment and let me know.

Here is what we did with the inside of the card. Stamped the scallop circle from Love you much stamp set on real red cs in real red ink and punched it out with the scallop circle punch. Then we stamped it again on certainly celery dsp and punched out just the center using the 1 1/4" circle punch and adhered them both to the inside of the card. Plenty of room left for any other sentiment or message you would like to include.

If you want to learn how to make the big green flower go here.

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Greeting Card Kid at Christmas

Here's a quick Christmas project for you. This really features the Big Shot in several ways.

• I used Real Red card stock, which is a staple in my workshop, and ran it through on the scallop square Bigz Die making sure the top was pulled down as not to get cut on the fold.
• Then I ran it through again with the front of the card in the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.
• It got sponged in white craft ink
• The Garden Green Scallop Circle is cut using the Circle #2 Bigz die and paper pierced each scallop.
• I used the Circle Scissors to cut the 2 3/4" Whisper White circle
• Then the cute little Christmas girl was stamped with Basic Black from Greeting Card Kids  and colored with markers. The sky was sponged with Bashful Blue and I used a scallop circle of card stock punched out of a scrap to mask her from getting the sponging and to form some clouds.
• Mono adhesive was used to add Dazzling Diamonds glitter to her fur and scarf.

Cute for sure and fun to make. Any questions let me know. Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place.

Tomorrow starts the Filled With Love Bundle special.

From December 17, 2010, through January 24, 2011, receive a FREE package of Bitty Buttons (a $4.95 value) when you purchase a Stampin' Up! Filled with Love Bundle. The Filled with Love Bundle contains the Filled with Love Stamp Set (in wood-mount or clear-mount) and the exclusive Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack.

Celery Tree

Here is another card that we did at my technique class. If you are in the Madison, WI area contact me and I would love to have you as my guest at one of those up coming classes.

This is a great card, but aren't they all.

Uses the rich razzleberry card stock for the base of the card. That is the perfect name for it because it is rich in color.

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  Rich Razzleberry card stock 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 folded in half.


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  I ran it through the Big Shot and the square lattice Embossing folder.


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  The tree is cut out of Whisper White, 1/4 sheet then it took a trip through the Big Shot with the Petals a Plenty Embossing Folder. And got it's bottom fancied up with the scallop border punch.


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  Then sponged with Certainly Celery ink and each circle inside each flower was touched with the rich razzleberry marker.


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  Tie a ribbon around the middle and add a Glimmer Brad at the top.


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  The sentiment is from Perfect Punches.

Supplies:

Stamps: Perfect Punches (WM 117022, CM 120516) Clear Mount Block D (118485) you really should have this whole set (118491)

Paper: Rich Razzleberry cs (115316), Whisper White (100730)

Ink: Rich Razzleberry pad (115658) and marker (120970), Certainly Celery (105217)

Tools: Big Shot (113439). Petals a Plenty Embossing Folder (116824), Square Lattice EF(119976), 1 3/4" Scallop Circle punch (119854). Scallop Border Punch (119882), Stamping Sponges (101610)

Accessories: Certainly Celery 1/8" taffeta ribbon (119255), dimensionals (104430), Glimmer Brads Basics (121003) Holiday Mini Catalog

Any questions let me know. Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place

Birthday Cupcake with a Cherry

Isn't this a cute card for a ten year old's birthday. I gave it to my grandniece and she loved it. The sentiment cracks me up. So much you can do with that, I had to make something with a cherry on top. It was so easy:

• I punched out the large scallop circle 2 3/8" in pink, I used a retired color but it could be Pretty in Pink or Melon Mambo. A cherry cobler marker touched here and there gave some depth to the frosting and I cut 5 of the scallops off for a nice even bottom and added with dimensionals.
  

• Then I cut a 2"square out of Soft Suede and ran it through my crimper at a slight angle. The cherry was punched out of Cherry Cobbler, what else, using the 1/2" circle punch and I just got a sliver of Choc Chip cs for the stem

• I used the mat pack and paper piercer on the corners of the Green layer and put that on with dimensionals onto the So Saffron card.

• Stamped the sentiment in Cherry Cobbler ink.

I hope you like it.
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Punch Flowers

Today I am sad because yesterday my husband and I took my daughter, Cindy and her husband to O'Hare airport. They left for Germany and plan to stay over there until January so I won't see her until then. Then they will return to Germany for another seven months. That's probably going to be worse. At least this is only five months.

Cindy's birthday is at the end of the month and because we don't know where they will be I gave her this card when they were here. She really liked it and said "Oh my" when she saw it and I am going to take that as pleasantly surprised. It is striking IRL.
Cindy, I hope you have a great birthday.

This was made with a retired set from Sale-a-bration last year. It's called Polka Dot Punches, why do I doubt myself. I just ran all the way down to my stamping room to make sure that is what it was called, and it is. I'm good. I also used By Design, which is the middle of the flower on the left.

I think it's pretty self explanatory to make this card. Eyelets set down the left hand side, Cameo Coral card base, green galore next layer and green galore ink for the "stems" which are not SU. Rose Red and Almost Amethyst are the other inks.

I do not have the photo corner punch but I do have the 1 1/4" square punch and you can make the photo corners with that. Punch a square into cs, then punch about 1/2" higher to form the corner. Then just trim with scissors to make them as long as you like. Voila' a photo corner. Then I put 2 way glue all over them and dipped them in glitter. I used almost amethyst cs and dazzling diamonds glitter. Beautiful, sparkly, what more could a girl want.

Any questions, leave a comment or email me.
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Upsy Daisy Circle

Today I am so excited to share with you a card that looks like I used Nestabilities to make but I didn't. I do not have the circle scissors or Nestabilities. So I got my Colluzle out, you remember that don't you, and cut a circle. Then look what I did.

• The first thing was to cut a circle out big enough to stamp the Upsy Daisy flowers inside. Then I inked and stamped them in Lovely Lilac and sponged around the edges.
• I punched out 2 - 1 1/4" circles in garden green making sure to leave enough area around the outside for another punch.
  
• Then I centered the hole in the scallop circle punch and punched out 2 scallop circles.Then cut between two of the scallops on each one.
• I carefully opened them up and spread them apart and worked with them until they fit around that circle. I adhered them to the outside of the circle. Then attached that to the card with stamping dimensionals.
  
• I assembled the rest of the card using a strip of lovely lilac cs stock and garden green cs which I had taken the scallop edge punch too.
• I stamped the sentiment

It took just a few minutes to put this together. Well worth the $$ I saved by not buying the nestabilities. What do you think?

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Supplies:
Stamp Set: Upsy Daisy 111710
Paper:Whisper White cs 100730, Lovely Lilac cs 100427, Garden Green cs 102584
Tools: Stamp-A-Ma-Jig 101049, Coluzzle (retired), Scallop edge punch 112091, scallop circle punch 109043
Ink: Lovely Lilac 102874, Garden green 102272
Embellishments: Stamping Dimensionals 104430

Gift for Hostess

Next Monday night I will be having a workshop and this is the gift I will give to the hostess. I always like to keep a small notebook in my purse for those occasions when I need a piece of paper. Usually my husband asking for one, and this fits the bill. I hope she likes it. You can make one as the supplies are readily available. Do you grocery shop? Yeah, don't we all ? I got these little notebooks at the grocery store for $1.09 for 8 of them. Pretty good huh?So here is the inside of the notebook holder.

And here is how I did it, and you can too.

• Take a piece of not quite navy cs 6 3/8" x 5"
• Score at 3 and 3 1/4. (Putting the long side up against the top of the paper cutter). Fold the cs at the score lines.
  
• Decorate the front. I used 2 scallop circle punched pieces, one in orchard and one in white cs. Then centered another piece of orchard punched with the 1 1/4" circle punch.
• Use the boho blossoms punch, or any other small flower punches, to make several in orchard and at least one in not quite navy to go in the center of the circle.
  
• Attach two flowers to the circle with a brad and assemble. Adhere a couple of flowers to the front in a random pattern and touch the center of each with the white gel pen.
• Paper pierce the stem using the plastic grid from the mat pack as your guide to keep it straight.
• Adhere the notebook to the inside right side and you are done.

These are so cute and the assembling of them go so fast. You can click on any picture to enlarge it.
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Any questions let me know. I would love to hear what you think of this. What it helpful? Did you make one?