Hello stamping friends, Today I created this fun background for the beautiful butterfly image from the popular Spotlight on Nature stamp set from Stampin’ Up! I used the easy plastic wrap te…
You can make these Sketched Butterflies Bundle In The 2024-2026 In Colors Cards with the measurements and supply list included here.
I've been creating with the versatile Stampin' Up! Round We Go stamp & die bundle. I made this slimline card with the bundle and the Wanted to Say die set. Here's a close-up of the rosettes on the card. It's easy to create smaller rosettes too. Simply cut the rosette diecut in half and assemble in the same way as the standard sized rosette. You do need to diecut two rosette pieces and adhere them together to form the rosette. You can also choose which outer edge you like to have on the rosette: scallop, zigzag or straight. This bundle, along with other stamp & die bundles and machines, will be discounted from this Wednesday, 5 June, with an 10% off the price. The current Stampin' Up! products used on the project can be purchased from my online store if you live in Australia. Thanks for visiting.
I’m super stoked to share 4 easy DIY thank you cards that feature Stampin’ Up’s! New ‘Spotlight on Nature’ bundle! The bundle includes a stamp set and coordinating craft dies. The greetings in the stamp set are perfect for Thank You or Friendship cards, and the greenery, butterfly, and floral stamps have a soft and feminine look. The cards I made today focus on the beautiful floral image.
I used the Stampin’ Up! Spotlight On Nature stamp set bundle to create my project for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop. We’ve got a sketch challenge this week and this is what I made for it.…
Your Creative Connection is a group of demonstrators who share card themes. For today's theme I give you my thoughts on "BLING" on cards!
Today's 21 paper crafting projects were designed by the talented members of my Stampin' Pretty Pals Virtual Community. They offer you a range of styles from clean and simple to lusciously layered! Links to blogs or Pinterest have been provided (when available) for more details. Peggy Noe - blog details
Hello friends!! Popping in with a card that I managed to put together for a few challenges. It has been tough (again) lately to find the time and the energy to create. I am so ready for the cold, wind and rain to be gone and for some nice warm weather to show up!! Initially I was just going to enter this into the current Color Throwdown challenge, as well as the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge, but I think I will also enter this in the current Less is More challenge to use texture. My card isn't super CAS, but I hopefully it will pass muster with the ladies at LIM! I die cut the solid butterfly and then stamped it with coordinating images from the SU! set Watercolor Wings using Cherry Cobbler ink. The second butterfly was die cut from light grey cardstock and then adhered to the first butterfly. I added in the texture by coloring some embossing paste using SU!'s Smoky Slate and then applying it to my card using a Memory Box stencil called Chic Chevrons. A strip of Cherry Cobbler cardstock was punched on one side with a scalloped border punch and adhered to the panel with the texture paste. Added the butterfly and a sentiment from Altenew's Label Love and I was done. Pretty simple, but it took me the better part of a day to complete! Wow...I am sure getting slow at card making, lol!! Thanks for stopping by today... Supplies: Cardstock: SSS fog, white, SU! Cherry Cobbler; Stamps: SU! Watercolor Wings, Altenew Label Love; Inks: SU! Smoky Slate, Cherry Cobbler, SU! border punch, Memory Box stencil; SU! butterfly dies; embossing paste
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In my first month on the Dirty Dozen the challenge was Diamonds and Pearls. This is one of the cards I made for it and it showcases one of the in colours that is staying Wisteria Wonder. Yay! For the background I scored a diamond pattern and then used the very vintage wheel over the top. I then sponged crumb cake over the piece to highlight the diamonds. The butterflies are stamped with stazon onto vellum, coloured from behind and cut out. Ingredients : Stamps : Very Vintage wheel, Kindness Matters, Field Flowers Card : crumb cake, vanilla, vellum card Ink : stazon, wisteria, crumb cake Other : big shot, framed tulips ef, two tags die, crumb cake seam binding, square punch, cropadile, jumbo brad, pearls, crumb cake marker Kathy
Welcome to May! You can finally order from the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog, and the Spotlight On Nature Bundle is a favorite. The TWELVE circle dies in this bundle are a "must-have," featuring
The lovely Stampin' Up! Spotlight on Nature bundle is a joy to create with! To make these cards sparkle I coloured one of them using a Wink of Stella pen.
Kristie created this card for our recent class to showcase the new colors for this year. She used the 2024-2026 In Color patterned paper and the Spotlight on Nature stamps & dies. The strips ar…
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I made this card with the new Oh So Eclectic bundle! You can get this stamp and die set for 10% off with this bundle! Its a fun set and even has matching DSP! I have also used the Stitched Shapes Framelits for the greeting and the Oval shapes to frame it. The yellow in the background is from the Color Theory DSP. Lots of fun stuff in this new catty! Have I mentioned its my favorite ever??!! Happy Stamping! Stamper Gyrl!
Happy Saturday Peeps!! It is time for another new challenge at Our Creative Corner. Our hostess this week is the uber talented Anne Marie Hile and she has a fun color challenge for us: I went Clean and Simple with my card. The base of my card is Crumb Cake card stock and then I followed that up with some Daffodil Delight card stock and then the DSP is from the Stampin Up "Summer Smooches" paper pack. I made a big ol Gerber style Daisy for my center panel. I used Daffodil Delight card stock and the Daises Die. I cut a few of each the three sizes of daisies on the die. I ran each daisy through my big shot using the dots EF. I used a small circle punch for the center in white and embossed this piece with the square lattice EF. The sentiment is from the Stampin Up "Friendly Phrases" stamp set. I stamped this with black stazon ink. I added some silver pearls to the corners and it is done. Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun challenge. I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it! Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!! Vicki
Well, it's week 2 of my guest designer time at Just Add Ink and, as always, another beautiful challenge. This time, a colour challenge, using some of my favourite colours from the Stampin' Up Subtles and Neutrals collections. Since I'm still in love with my Dictionary Background stamp, despite its imminent retirement, and I'm still besotted with my last minute purchase of Butterfly Basics, both of them make an appearance in today's card. I do love playing with the effects you get when you spotlight part of a stamp by framing it and/or raising it up and keep coming back to experimenting with that idea. First I tried cutting the butterfly and sponging it after, but I got better results when I sponged the white card with Pool Party and Calypso Coral and then cut out the butterfly. Another favourite of mine is the linen thread and I think that technically speaking, it's Crumb Cake coloured! So I used it on the butterfly and the ribbon. Ingredients Card: Pool Party, Whisper White, Calypso Coral for the under-butterfly Stamps: SU Dictionary, SU Butterfly Basics, Clearly Besotted Fabulous Fuchsia for the sentiment. Inks: Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Calpyso Coral, Pear Pizzazz, Black for sentiment Other: Butterfly thinlit die, Pool Party seam binding, Brad base, Calypso Coral candy dots, linen twine, oval framelits, dimensionals.
I'm sharing a sneak peek at the beautiful new Beauty Abounds stamp set and coordinating Butterfly Beauty framelits as I participate in the Stampers Dozen Blog Hop. This stamp and framelit duo will be available starting January 3rd when the 2019 Occasions catalog goes live. It will be a must have on your wish list!
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WHEW - I am back! I had to take some time off between the holidays because we were a bit busy with pet sitting... got sick... car died... got it fixed and traded in. All is back to good and we can get our crafting back on track... The new occasions catalog has sooooo many neat things that I really am going to be in deep trouble. Here is my first creation for you guys: This is bit more artsy and very easily achieved with the help of the Stamparatus. I stamped the ginkgo first in black StazOn ink onto watercolor paper, then I applied a water wash over it and stamped (almost slapped) the image down onto the wet paper in Mossy Meadow ink... that makes it splatter a bit or at the very least run... it's lots of fun! Product List Beautifully Braided Bundle (English) [153821] $36.00 Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100702] $8.75 Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper [149612] $9.00 Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00 Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090] $7.50 Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad [101406] $10.00 Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111] $7.50 Aqua Painters [103954] $17.00 Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels [151193] $6.00 Stamparatus [146276] $49.00 Thank you for stopping by! And don't hesitate to contact me if you have not gotten your copy of the 2 new catalogs yet...I'd be glad to get them to you!
CASE: Copy And Share with Everyone! Today’s thank you card is a CASE of a card (below) I made previously using the Celebrate You Thinlits Dies the from the 2018-2019 Annual Catalog. View the orig
The lovely Stampin' Up! Spotlight on Nature bundle is a joy to create with! To make these cards sparkle I coloured one of them using a Wink of Stella pen.
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The Butterfly Brilliance Collection is the latest product offering from Stampin’ Up! and it’s ready to flutter right into your craft room. With beautiful Designer Series Paper, a coordinating wood-look, Natural Touch Specialty Paper, stamps and dies, this collection will just make you want to start crafting right away. Of course, if you are a […]
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For this card I used Watercolor Wonder DSP for the background along with some pleated some Bermuda Bay DSP from the Geometrical collection. A pleated doiley, some white baker's twine, and a die cut butterfly give the perfect finishing touches...
Happy Friday Stamping Friends! It's time for another Just Add Ink Challenge and this week's theme has been chosen by yours truly, Just Add Embossing. Embossing is one of my favourite techniques and I use some sort of embossing technique on nearly most of my cards. Whether it be Heat Embossing or Embossing with an Embossing Folder but what I've done today is something I haven't done much of, using the Big Shot Embossing Mats to turn the beautiful, intricate Stampin' Up! Dies to embossing dies instead of cutting dies. And now thinking about it I don't know why I haven't done more of it. It's so effective! These Butterfly Beauty Thinlits Dies teamed with the Big Shot Embossing Mats are perfect to create the maximum 'WOW' with minimum effort. To create the embossed background layer I attached the die lightly in place on the cardstock with washi tape so that it was positioned perfectly in place. To then emboss the cardstock and not cut it I created the Big Shot 'sandwich' which is, all layered on top of each other, starting with; 1. Big Shot Platform, 2. Cutting Pad, 3. Die facing up, 4. Cardstock on top of the die, 5. Thin Silicone Rubber Mat (Blue one) and then lastly 6. White Impressions Pad. Run all that through together in the Big Shot and 'Hey presto' you've embossed with your die. How much more versatile do the embossing mats make your Framelits, Thinlits and Edgelits? Because I wanted to keep the Butterfly embossed layer as the main focus to my card today I really didn't want to add to much to the card front to 'take over'. Just a few bits of ribbon, trim, and embellishments to coordinate. Just enough. Finish off the card I heat embossed the 'Hello Beautiful' sentiment with White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat embossed the little butterfly with Black Stmapin' Emboss Powder to add the the Just Add Embossing challenge for this week. I'm so loving how the embossed die turned out on the card front. I think I might try it in other colours and see how that turns out. The possibilities are endless. Check out the rest of the embossed creations from the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team over at the JAI blog. Lots of fabulous creations! While you're there check out all the details for the challenge and then come and play along! If you need a refresher on using the Big Shot Embossing Mats check out this You Tube Clip from Stampin' Up! It shows you how to layer your Big Shot 'sandwich' and which silicone mat to use with which dies. Well worth the watch! Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy Stamping! Live in Australia? Shop for Stampin' Up! with me 24/7 Recreate this card at home using the following Stampin' Up! products. Click on the images below to see the product information and to shop from my online store. Tweet
Today we are focusing on the super cute Snuggles and Smooches stamp set over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration. This is by far one of my most favorite photopolymer stamp sets...I have used the heck out of it! I just love those scribbled circles! Today's card is a CASE of the fabulous Kimberly Van Diepen's Leadership swap....I fell in love with her card and just had to recreate it! I used this weeks Freshly Made Sketches challenge and used KVD's water colored scribbled circles as part of the sketch. Supplies Used: Paper ~ Whisper White, Watercolor Paper, Best Day Ever DSP Ink ~ Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral Stamp Sets ~ Snuggles and Smooches, Hello Life Other Supplies ~ Whisper White Bakers Twine, Coastal Cabana Thick Bakers Twine, 2013-2015 In-Color Sequins Happy Stamping!
This is the 3rd page we made at Scrapbook Class last month. If you'd like to see the other 2 pages we made at class, you can check them out here. We start our page with a Mint Macaron base, then added lots of Tip Top Taupe accents. These are just 2 of our new In Colors - if you love these colors (along with Cucumber Crush, Watermelon Wonder and Delightful Dijon), you might want to consider joining the In Color Club. It's a great way to get all of our products in the In Colors (ink pad, ink refill, marker, paper and ribbon!) on a budget each month!! 2015-17 In Color 12x12 Card Stock 138340 $10.00 Next, we added a couple of strips of the Tip Top Taupe printed Designer Series Paper (from the 2015-17 In Color Designer Series Paper Stack). I love all of the patterns in these new DSP Stacks - aren't those flowers and polka dots so cute?? We also added some of that gorgeous Tip Top Taupe 1" Dotted Lace Trim along the bottom of our page. This ribbon is so much fun to play with!! Then, we stamped our flower (from the Best Thoughts Hostess Stamp Set) in Mint Macaron ink and fussy-cut it out with our Paper Snips. You, too, can own this beautiful Hostess Stamp set - either by joining the Inky Hands Stamp Club or Memory Keepers Club or by becoming an Inkspired Stamper. 2015-17 In Color Designer Series Paper Stack 138432 $22.00 Tip Top Taupe 1" Dotted Lace Trim 138422 $6.00 Best Thoughts Hostess Stamp Set wood-mount 139234 $14.00 Hostess Best Thoughts Hostess Stamp Set clear-mount 138700 $10.00 Hostess Paper Snips 103579 $10.00 Finally, we stamped "The best is yet to come" (also from the Best Thoughts Hostess Stamp Set) and die-cut that piece with our new Lots of Labels Framelits. This piece was layered on top of another Tip Top Taupe piece also die-cut with the Lots of Labels Framelits. Lots of Labels Framelits 138281 $27.00 If you'd like to join us at our next Scrapbook Class, we meet the last Tuesday of every month anytime from 4-9pm. The next class is on Tuesday, August 25. We make 3 pages each month (a 2 page spread and then a single page spread that will coordinate with the single page spread for next month). You can either pay a flat $15 fee, or your class is FREE with an order! Just let me know if you'd like to attend the next class! Better yet, join the Scrapbook Club and make a 36 page album - learn about all of the details on this club here!! I hope you were Inkspired!
All good things must come to an end. I can tell from your comments and enthusiasm for the first four days for my Spring One-for-One Swap posts that you love the inspiration from these fun and beautiful cards. Today, sadly, is the last day of the swap - the conclusion
I Cased my own for a recent class and a technology challenged VIDEO as some of the limited products sold out!! I have used the Stampin' Up! Butterfly Brilliance stamp set and matching Brilliant Wings dies, Happy Thoughts sentiment along with the limited edition Natural Touch Speciality Paper and Fine Art Floral Paper which substituted perfectly and coloured using Stampin' Blends. Click on the Photo below for a List of Supplies or visit my Shop To watch the replay of creating this card in a LIVE Video on You Tube SHOP NOW - go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order RIGHT NOW! It's time to say Goodbye to some of our 2020-2021 Annual Catalogue products to make way for the new in our upcoming Annual. Get deep discounts on your favourite products from the Catalogue—and as an extra bonus—you’ll get a peek at the items carrying over to the other catalogues. Stampin' Up! Butterfly Bouquet Early Release 2nd March - 3rd May Butterfly Bouquet an amazing Butterfly Brilliance stamp and Brilliant Wings die bundle which will also be available in the 21-22 Annual Catalogue along with exclusive and limited release Butterfly Bijou and Natural Touch papers which are available while stocks last. __________________________________________________ Be sure to check out my CLASSES below or consider Hosting a Party and share your love of Stampin' Up! and the NEW Catalogue with your friends. My Classes are mostly monthly on a Sunday exact times and dates are in the Classes Tab above. April Card Class 18th April 1pm $20 We will be making projects using and January-June 2021 Mini and COMING SOON BOUQUET OF HOPE PAPER PUMPKIN CLASS In Person Class at my house in Narara numbers LIMITED RSVP to me on 0421074703 to RESERVE your spot. Enjoy Ellen xx
This week’s Finishing Up Friday uses leftover items from two previous Card & (Your) Cuppa projects. The previous projects are here and here. I chose to create a monochrome project with Mint Macaron and Basic White using the leftover pieces. First, I stamped my sentiment from the Art Gallery Stamp Set in the top right […]
Hello there stamping friends! Welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenge #462. This week Kim has a fabulous sketch for you to sink your creative teeth into. How fabulous are the stripes? I'm such a sucker for stripes and this time was no exception. I've actually made two cards today just using some strips of card stock and then layering some dies over top. The colours for my cards today have been inspired by the colours that I saw in a card on Instagram, a while back, HERE. I just love the colours used in the original card and thought they would be perfect for today's sketch! While the colours in the cards I was inspired by aren't Stampin' Up!, I've tried my best to get as close to the colours as I could with Stampin' Up! cardstock. I did have to pull out one retired colour, Lemon Lime Twist, but it hasn't been gone that long so I'm sure that you all have a little bit of it left in your stash, if you wanted to recreate the colours that I've used today. Both cards are the same, but just swapped out the cardstock for each to change the colours. I started the cards with a Crumb Cake card base, added a few layers of Whisper White card stock and then added the strips of coloured cardstock down the card. Once all the cardstock strips were added I then embossed the Stitched Rectangle Die into the cardstock. The embossing still gives the look of die cutting without actually die cutting. Because there is a lot of colour on the cards I thought that all the card really needed was the Butterfly Beauty die cut in Whisper White and 'painted' with Clear Wink of Stella and then the Happy Birthday in embossed in White Stampin' Emboss Powder on Basic Black Cardstock. The colours from top to bottom - Blackberry Bliss, Highland Heather, Lemon Lime Twist (Retired), Granny Apple Green, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Balmy Blue. Pacific Point and Night of Navy The colours from top to bottom - Lovely Lipstick, Melon Mambo, Flirty Flamingo, Blushing Bride, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, Grapefruit Grove, Daffodil Delight and So Saffron. Which one is your favourite? While I love them both and they look even more fabulous in real life, I'm leaning more towards the Purple/Blue card as my favourite. We hope you’ll join us and create your own card using the sketch! We love to see what you make as we browse the gallery each week to see your fabulous projects. Be sure to stop by the Just Add Ink Blog to see what the design team has created for your inspiration. Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy Stamping! Live in Australia? Shop for Stampin' Up! with me 24/7 Recreate these projects at home using the following Stampin' Up! products. Click on the images below to see the product information and to shop from my online store. Tweet
I used the Stampin’ Up! Positive Thoughts stamp set to create my card to share with you today. I also used the upcoming Nature’s Thoughts Dies from the Coordination Products release that wil…
