St. Patty's Day

Almost everywhere I see a St. Patrick's Day card I hear "I don't have any or many St. Patrick's Day stamps". Well, it never has been a huge sending cards kind of holiday. But if you have a heart punch you can make a 3 or 4 leaf clover.

• I used Garden Green card stock for the base of the card which took a trip through the Big Shot riding inside the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder. They make the best impressions.
• To make the clover I punched out 4 hearts using the Full Heart Punch. I also punched out a 1 1/4" circle, covered it with Multipurpose Liquid Glue then stuck the hearts to that to give it somewhere to sit. Then pierced a hole with paper piercer for the Jumbo White Brad and adhered it to the card with a glue dot. Those little dudes are strong.
• Used the Wide Oval Punch on Whisper White cs after stamping Good Luck in Garden Green ink from the stamp set Sincere Salutations.

Remember, until the end of March Sale-a-bration is going on so get on over to my Stampin' Up website and place your order so you can get your FREE items. For every $50 you order you'll get one FREE item of your choice out of the Sale-a-bration catalog.

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Build a Blossom TOY

Build a Blossom stamp set and Blossom Petal punch is turning into a favorite of mine. It's so easy to use and the results are dramatic.

• Here I have started out with whisper white card stock and stamped the base blossom in pretty in pink 
• then rich razzleberry on top of that for the details in the petals.
• Old Olive card stock was run through the big shot with the perfect polka dots embossing folder.
• Photo corner punch in pretty in pink and rich razzleberry
• the 2 x 1 3/8 oval punch in rich razzleberry
• Stamp Thinking of You in rich razzleberry and punched it out with the scallop oval punch.
• The center of the flower was stamped in white craft ink on rich razzleberry card stock then punched out with the 3/4" circle punch.

If you order everything you need to make this card you will get 5 FREE sale a bration items of your choice. And if you were to find say about $10 more worth of items that you liked and wanted to order you could add 2 more FREE  items to that list. Because when you have a $300 order or workshop you get another FREE item. That makes 7 all together. WOW  Call me, email me or go to my Stampin' Up website right now and place your order and everything could be coming right to your door soon. Then I will send you a hand stamped thank you card by me as a thank you. You can use it to send to someone else or just enjoy it your self.

Stamps:

Sincere Salutations

Build a Blossom

Paper:

Whisper white card stock

Rich razzleberry card stock

Pretty in pink card stock

Old olive card stock

Ink:

Rich Razzleberry

Pretty in Pink

White Craft

Tools:

Blossom Petals Punch

 2 x 1 3/8 oval punch

scallop oval punch

3/4" circle punch

Photo Corners punch

Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder

Big Shot Machine

Bone Folder

adhesive

If you have all these items you can enjoy making this card right now. If there is anything you need please let me know I would be happy to answer any questions.

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Workshop Goodies

Monday night a group of ladies gathered and madly stamped for over three hours. Some of them were brand new to stamping and some of them were old hands at it. (I'm not sure they would be appreciative of me calling them that) but we all had a good time. And produced 3 cards. One I have already shown you which is here. This is the next one I want to show you. We started with this card because of it's simplicity. It is probably self explanatory but when you start describing how to make a project it always seems like it takes more words then ever.Here is the directions:

• The base of the card is a standard A2 card of perfect plum. 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 folded
• Then use the scallop square punch and punch 3 out of certainly celery
• On a piece of whisper white card stock, stamp, in certainly celery, one each of the 3 flowers from pocket silhouettes and punch each out with the 1 1/4" square punch.
  
• Then on another piece of whisper white 5 x 2 3/4 stamp the leaves at the bottom and without re-inking stamp it again to the right. Ink again and stamp off on a scrap piece of paper then to the left of the original one.
  
• Stamp the sentiment from Sincere Salutations at the top in Perfect Plum and put the card together referring to the picture.
  

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Supplies:
Stamp Set: Pocket Silhouettes 111726, Sincere Salutations 115068
Paper:Whisper White cs 100730, Certainly Celery cs 105125, Perfect Plum cs 101889
Tools: Scallop square punch 112081, 1-1/4 Inch Square Punch 104400
Ink: Certainly Celery 105217, Perfect Plum 101437

The Medallion

It's finally here. The Medallion stamp is the #1 seller at Stampin' Up right now. It is listed as a background stamp but how could this not be a focal point. It has such a wow factor. If you look at the front cover of the new catalog this card, or a similar version, is there.

This is what I did.

• I took a piece of naturals white cs 8 1/2 x 4 1/4, scored it at 4 1/4 and folded it in half.
• Then I inked up that beautiful Medallion stamp with More Mustard ink and stamped it right on the front of that cs.
• I took more mustard cs 4 1/4 x 1 and put the scallop edge punch to it. Adhered that to the right edge of the card.
• Then added a piece of brown dsp 1/4 x 4 1/4, and real red cs the same size along the right side.
  
• Stamped Thanks so much from Sincere Salutations right on the front in choc. chip.
  
• I used the spritzer tool with more mustard marker to give the entire card a speckled appearance.
  
• Then right in the center I attached a silver brad from hodgepodge hardware.

That's it and you have a great card to brighten someone's day.
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Supplies:
Stamp Set: Sincere Salutations 115068, Medallion 115223
Paper: More Mustard cs 100946, Real Red 102482, Naturals White 102316, brown dsp (retired)
Tools: Mat Pack 105826, paper piercer 116631, Scallop Edge Punch 112091, Color Spritzer Tool 107066
Ink: More Mustard 103162 , More Mustard marker 100076, chocolate chip 100908,
Embellishments: Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware 111325