Well Dressed with Umbrellas in a Stand & Tutorial

This is the 3rd card of the three masculine birthday cards I made using the Well Dressed stamp set.

A Nesting Label die was die cut and the focal images were adhered to them.

The three umbrellas, stamped in colours I picked from the DSP, were fussy cut and set aside.

One end of a Story Book Label punch cut off  to make the umbrella stamd. To decorate the vase, some DSP was adhered near the top.  The edges of this DSP was trimmed along the edges of the vase then sponged with Night of Navy .  A larger pattern was cut out from another DSP and added to the  middle of the vase.

After colouring the handle of the umbrella with a Soft Suede marker, they were placed in the stand.  Two were adhered directly to the Nesting Label die but the third was added with dimensionals.

The Night of Navy card base was layered with Crushed Curry cardstock.  At the left side is adhered some Country Club  DSP (multicoloured argyle pattern)  The Nesing Label focal point was added  to the card front using dimensionals.

Below the  Nesting Label focal point a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthday stamp and also adhered to the card front using dimensionals.

There is a free downloadable tutorial here


Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Well Dressing , Itty Birthday Birthdays
Inks:Night of Navy, Garden Green, Daffodil Delight, Real Red
Papers:  Night of Navy, Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Country Club DSP
Accessories:  Nesting Label dies, Story Book Label punch, Dimensionals

Below is a picture of all three cards

The post of the first card can be found here; the second card here.  Both posts have links to tutorials.

First card 

Second Card

Happy Birthday

I have a number of birthdays coming up this month, so I use the Happy Birthday SAB stamp to make a couple of cards. In this card, I included some new products from the Mini Catalogue which sent live yesterday. That's one thing wonderful about Stampin' Up - everything coordinates so nicely.

I wanted to use the Birthday Bonanza DSP from the Mini Catalogue, so I picked the colours for this card using this paper. Although this is a paper for children, some of the designs are age neutral like the striped DSP I selected.

The image was stamped on Whisper White and coloured with flowers with Stampin' Blends (Coastal Cabana, Mango Melody and Granny Apple Green. Rhinestones were placed in the flower centers and Glitter Crystal Effects applied to the petal edges,

 I wanted the flowers to be the focal point, so the cake and stand were coloured a very light neutral Smokey Slate colour.  To make the image pop the background was coloured  lightly with a watercolour pencil  and blended with a blender pen.

The image was die cut using the new Sweetly Stitched Label die, and matted with a piece of Coastal Cabana cardstock before adding it to the card front with dimensionals.

The card base is Coastal Cabana layered with Whisper White. A strip of Birthday Bonanza DSP is added in the middle and on the left edge is a piece of Coastal Cabana card stock punched with the new Braided Edge punch.  Some 1/4" Whisper White crinkled seam binding is woven in this punched piece before it is added to the card front.

The sentiment, from Itty Bitty Birthdays is added below the birthday cake.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Happy Birthday to You, Itty Bitty Birthdays

Inks:  Black Memento, Stampin' Blends (Coastal Cabana, Mango Melody, Granny Apply Green, Smokey Slate) Watercolor pencil (Coastal Cabana)

Papers: Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Birthday Bonanza DSP

Accessories:  Sweet Stitched Label dies, 1/4" Whisper White crinkled seam binding, Braided Edge punch, Glitter Crystal Effects, Rhinestones

Below is another birthday card with flowers coloured with Mango Melody

Poppy Parade Birthday - Freshly Made Sketches #416 - a sneak peak Mini Catalogue

The new Mini Catalogue goes live on January 3rd, 2020 and then you'll be able to order this gorgeous DSP yourself.

This card, made for the sketch challenge with Freshly Made Sketches, features the new Peaceful Poppy DSP. 

The DSP is so gorgeous it needed to be the star of the show.  After cutting it to 3 3/4 by 5" ( I hated to cut it), it was matted in an off set manner with a similar size piece of  Rich Razzelberry card stock. This was added to a top fold Thick Whisper White card stock card base.

The sentiment, from "Itty Bitty Birthday" was stamped with Rich Razzelberry ink on a piece of Whisper White cardstock, the corners of which were punched with a 3/4" circle punch  After matting it with Rich Razzelberry card stock, it was adhered to a folded piece of 3/8" silver edged Rich Razzelberry ribbon using dimensionals.

To finish the card, some floral self adhesive sequins were randomly added, and some Clear Wink of Stella applied to the flowers in the background. (Not evident in the picture)

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Itty Bitty Birthday
Ink:  Rich Razzelberry
Papers:  Thick Whisper White, Rich Razzelberry, Peaceful Poppy DSP, Whisper White
Accessories:  3/8" metallic edged Rich Razzelberry ribbon, Dimensionals, 3/4" circle punch, Clear Wink of Stella, self adhesive sequins.

Nature's Beauty Trifold Acorn Card

One of my team members brought me a card with a different and very unique fold.  She kindly wrote down the measurements for the card as well as instructions on how to put it together.  Thank you Marci.

Never one to back away from a challenge, I proceeded to make my own card.  But first I tracked down the original designer, Jan Brown.  She has made a video featuring this card fold, so between my friend's directions and this video made my own card.

Front of card.  Image die cut with Layering Oval dies.

Close up of focal image

Back of card showing 'grab' handle

Side view

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Nature's Beauty, Itty Bitty Birthday

Inks:  Black Memento, Watercolour pencils, Garden Green

Papers:  Garden Green, Whisper White, Toile Tidings DSP

Accessories:  Layering Oval dies, Blender pen.

A Foxy Birthday

My nephew was born on Christmas Day.
My sister always had a difficult time finding a birthday card for him.  I used to hear the same story when I was doing craft shows.  Family members would come to my booth asking me in a resigned sort of way if I had any birthday cards for a family member sharing a birthday with Christmas.

This card is for all those special people who share a birthday with/or around Christmas

The base card of this card is Blueberry Bliss card stock.  Usually if I am using a dark blue I select Night of Navy, but for some reason I chose Blueberry Bliss instead.  And I'm happy I did because I like this brighter  blue better.'

Next I die cut a frame in Basic Black card stock,  using the second and fourth largest stitched rectangle dies.

Finally, I die cut the Whisper White art piece using the fourth largest of the Stitched Rectangle dies.

On this art piece, I first stamped the birch trees and then the Fox.  The Fox is from the "Nature's Beauty" stamp set.

I painted the birch trees with white acrylic paint and then used a Stampin' Smokey Slate marker to shade the left side.  The markings on the trees were highlighted with a fine tipped marker.

Colouring the fox was a bit  trickier, but after looking a few pictures I was able to figure it out. Using my watercolour pencils, I first coloured the fox with Crushed Curry, following by Cajun Craze, leaving the cheeks and chest area, as well as the tip of the tail, white.

The sky was coloured with various shades of blue - Balmy Blue followed by Blueberry Bliss and finally Pacific Point. All were blended together using a blender pen.  The snowflakes were painted with white acrylic paint on the end of a paint brush.

The sentiment is from "Itty Bitty Birthdays"

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Nature's Beauty, Itty Bitty Birthdays
Inks:  Black Memento, Crushed Cutty, Cajun Craze, Old Olive, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bliss, Pacific Point water colour pencils,  and Smokey Slate, Basic Black Blends
Papers:  Blueberry Bliss, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangle Dies, White acrylic paint, Blender Pen

Let's Celebrate You- Try Stampin' on Tuesday #415

Challenge #415 is either a sketch challenge or an inspiration challenge, or both.  I selected to do the sketch challenge only.

I've been wanting to make the flower using the new Pressed Petal Washi tape, so that is what I used to make the flower in the card below.

Merry Merlot card stock was used as the card base, with a piece of Very Vanilla card stock embossed with the Scripty 3D embossing folder adhered to it.

On top of that was added two different patterns of different sizes of Pressed Petal DSP.

The Washi flowers were added to a 2 1/2" punched circle.  Each flower was made using 5 petals of the Pressed Petal Washi tape (the roll of tape is actually a roll of flower petals which can be peeled off to make flowers) and a Perennial Essence floral center was added to the middle (not in the picture).  The leaves were cut freehand using Mossy Meadow card stock. Because it is Washi tape, the resultant flower feels a bit sticky.  Just dab the Embossing buddy over it.

Below the flowers I added a sentiment from "Itty Bitty Birthdays.  It was stamped with Merry Merlot ink on Very Vanilla and matted with Mossy Meadow card stock.

This art piece circle was added to the card front overlapping the two pieces of DSP.  A bow made with retired Mossy Meadow Baker's Twine was added above the sentiment on the left, and three (retired) Mossy Meadow enamel dots were added randomly on the right.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Itty Bitty Birthday

Ink:  Merry Merlot

Papers;  Merry Merlot, Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Pressed Petal DSP

Accessories:  Scripty 3D Embossing Folder, 1 1/2" circle punch, Pressed Petal Washi Tape, Perennial Essence Floral Centers, Retired Mossy Meadow Baker's twine and enamel dots.