Meeting Ethan
Today’s page shows off some more photos from my box on the shelf. Unfortunately my printer hasn’t been playing nice, so I am unable to print more recent photos. I began by attached Basic Black card to two Basic White 12″ x 12″ pages. For those of you who are memory keepers, 12″ x 12″ Basic Black card is available in the next Mini Catalogue beginning July 1, Yay.
I coloured a sheet of Perfectly Pencilled 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper using Dark Balmy Blue and Dark Mint Macaron Stampin Blends. I cut a 1/2″ strip of the panel and then cut off a 3″ wide piece. I attached the largest piece to the left hand page and the narrow strip to the right hand page.
I attached the photos to Basic White card before attaching them to the pages. I printed “meeting Ethan” onto Basic White card and used the largest banner from the Stylish Shapes Dies to cut it out. I punched Basic White card using the scalloped heart from the Heart Punch Pack and attached one to each page. I punched Basic Black card and Basic White card using the smaller heart from the Heart Punch Pack and embossed each one using the Pretty Flowers Embossing Folder. I attached one to each of the scalloped hearts. I printed my journaling onto Basic White card and used the smaller banner from the Stylish Shapes Dies to cut it out. I attached the banner across the heart on the left hand page.
Seems like only yesterday we were meeting Ethan and now he has turned 16 – my how the years go by!
Bye for now,
Kris
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Thinking of You
Today’s card uses the Pretty Birds Bundle and the Go To Greetings stamp set. I wanted to show off all the bird images and tried to colour them to look like a bunch of Lorikeets – not sure if I pulled that one off! I attached narrow strips of Starry Night, Daffodil Delight and Real Red card across a piece of Basic White card. I embossed the panel using the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder before attaching it to scored and folded Gray Granite card. I cut Basic White using one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies. I cut a bow from Old Olive card using the Birdhouse Dies and attached the hanging die which I cut from Gray Granite card using the same dies.
I attached the bow to the top of the Basic White rectangle and the hanging die so that it looks like it hangs from the bow. I stamped all three of the single bird images from the Pretty Birds stamp set onto Basic White card using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I coloured the birds using a combination of Light Starry Night, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Real Red and Light Old Olive Stampin’ Blends. I cut out the birds using the co-ordinating Birdhouse Die and attached them to the Basic White rectangle.
I attached the image panel to a Gray Granite rectangle cut using the Stitched Rectangle Dies. The whole piece is attached to the card front using dimensionals. I stamped the greeting from the Go To Greeting stamp set onto a narrow strip of Basic White card using Starry Night ink. The greeting is attached to Gray Granite card and then the card front. To decorate the inside of the card, I stamped the multi-bird image from the Pretty Birds stamp set onto Basic White card using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I coloured the image using Light Starry Night, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Real Red, Light Soft Suede and Light Old Olive Stampin’ Blends. I cut out the image using the co-ordinating Birdhouse Die and attached the image to Basic White card.
I love how bright and happy this card is, don’t you? I’d love to hear what you think.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Perfectly Penciled Birthday
For today’s card, I coloured in one of the floral bouquets from the Perfectly Pencilled 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. I used Flirty Flamingo, Dark Melon Mambo, Dark Daffodil Delight and Dark Old Olive Stampin’ Blends to colour the flowers and leaves before trimming out the two bouquets. I embossed Basic White card using the splatter folder from the Stripes and Splatters 3D Embossing Folders and attached it to scored and folded Old Olive card.
I attached one floral bouquet to the top of the embossed panel and one floral bouquet to the bottom of the embossed panel. I stamped “happy birthday” from the Artistically Inked stamp set onto a narrow strip of Basic White card using Melon Mambo ink and attached it to a slightly wider strip of Old Olive card.
I attached the greeting to the card front using dimensionals. To decorate the inside of the card, I stamped a greeting from the Peaceful Moments stamp set using Melon Mambo ink. I attached a small floral bouquet beside the greeting which I coloured using Flirty Flamingo and Dark Old Olive Stampin’ Blends. The opportunities to create your own floral bouquets using whatever colours you love the most are endless with this beautiful Perfectly Pencilled Designer Series Paper. If you haven’t already added it to your wish list, you might need to take another look.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Ron & Sarah
Today’s page shows off a photo I found in my box on the shelf (I don’t seem to be making much of a dent in it!) from way back in late 1981 or early 1982. I began by adding some splatter to the upper left and lower right hand corners of a Very Vanilla 12″ x 12″ page using the stamp from the Color & Contour stamp set and Gray Granite ink. I used some really old retired Stampin’ Up Dies – Project Life Cards & Labels Dies – to cut out the photo as well as Mint Macaron, Blushing Bride & Pool Party card.
I embossed the card pieces using the splatter from the Stripes & Splatter 3D Embossing Folders. The circles hearts and scalloped circles were cut using the Give It A Whirl Dies – from Gray Granite, Basic White & Blushing Bride card. I layered all of the pieces onto the Very Vanilla page, making sure to attach the pieces behind the photo and the Blushing Bride panel. The title was cut from Gray Granite card using the retired Playful Alphabet Dies. I hand wrote a little more info for future reference. I know I have used a couple of retired products on this page but I do not get rid of anything I think will be useful in my memory keeping. I bet if you love to create pages of your memories you do that too! As usual not a very complicated page but I think it is kind of sweet, don’t you?
Best Day
Today’s card shows off the Framed Occasions Stamp Set. This stamp set co-ordinates with the Beautiful Shapes Dies but is not a bundle. I began my card by attached a piece of Design A Daydream 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper to Mint Macaron card. The whole panel is attached to scored and folded Thick Basic White card. I cut two hexagons from Basic White card using the Beautiful Shapes Dies. I embossed the smaller hexagon using the Pretty Flowers Embossing Folder.
I attached the two hexagons together before attaching them to the card front. I cut a smaller hexagon from Mint Macaron card and embossed it using the same embossing folder before attaching it to the card front.
I stamped the greeting from the Framed Occasions stamp set onto Basic White card using Mint Macaron ink and cut it out using another of the hexagon dies from the Beautiful Shapes Dies. The greeting is attached to the card front using dimensionals. To decorate the inside of the card, I attached a narrow strip of Mint Macaron card behind one long edge of Design A Daydream Designer Series Paper. The Designer Series Paper panel is attached across the bottom of Basic White card. I did not add a greeting to the inside of the card.
This card is so soft and pretty, don’t you think?
Bye for now,
Kris
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Happiness Abounds
The card I am sharing with you today is the first card I made using the Happiness Abounds Bundle. I also thought is was about time I shared a card with you that didn’t have the flowers cut from the Designer Series Paper! Such beautiful flowers and great sentiments in the Happiness Abounds stamp set and the co-ordinating Blossoming Happiness Dies are amazing too. I began by cutting Basic White card using the floral background die from the Blossoming Happiness Dies which I attached to scored and folded Sweet Sorbet card. I embossed a panel of Smoky Slate card using the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder and attached it across the bottom of the Basic White card. I stamped three of the flowers from the Happiness Abounds stamp set onto Basic White card using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.
I coloured the flowers, one using Sweet Sorbet Stampin’ Blends, one using Tahitian Tide Stampin’ Blends and one using Orchid Oasis Stampin’ Blends. I also stamped the two different sets of leaves from the Happiness Abounds stamp set onto Basic White card using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I coloured the leaves using the Parakeet Party Stampin’ Blends. I cut out all of the images using the co-ordinating Blossoming Happiness Dies. I layered the flowers and leaves onto the card front with dimensionals underneath the Tahitian Tide flower. I stamped “happy birthday” from the Happiness Abounds stamp set onto Basic White card using Sweet Sorbet ink and cut it out using the long banner from the Harvest Dies.
The greeting is attached to the card front using dimensionals. I also added three Basic Rhinestones to the card front. To decorate the inside of the card, I stamped another greeting from the Happiness Abounds stamp set onto Basic White card using Sweet Sorbet ink. I stamped one of the flowers from the Happiness Abounds stamp set beside the greeting using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I coloured the flower using Tahitian Tide Stampin’ Blends before attaching the panel to the inside of the card.
Pretty don’t you think?
Bye for now,
Kris
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5 Generations
Today’s page shows off a photo that I found in my box of photos waiting to be scrapped. Although the photo is not a great one, it shows the five generations of my family and was taken not long before my grandmother passed away. I attached three pieces of the beautiful but now retired In Good Taste Designer Series Paper to the right hand side of a Basic White 12″ x 12″ page. I cut the floral image from Basic White card using the Artistic Die. I coloured the image using Dark Petal Pink and Dark Soft Sea Foam Stampin’ Blends.
The image is attached to the top left hand side of the page. I attached the photo to Early Espresso card before attaching it to the page. I stamped the title onto Soft Sea Foam card using the Alphabest stamp set and Early Espresso ink. The letters are punched out using the Best Label Punch before being attached to the page. Simple but pretty, don’t you think?
Bye for now,
Kris
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Best Day
For today’s card I attached a piece of the Design A Daydream 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper to scored and folded Thick Basic White card. I stamped the outline leaf image from the Framed Occasions stamp set twice onto Basic White card using Shaded Spruce ink. I stamped the leaf fill image onto the outline image using Shaded Spruce ink which I stamped onto scrap paper first. I stamped the greeting from the Framed Occasions stamp set onto Basic White card using Blackberry Bliss ink. I cut the leaves and the greeting using the same hexagon die from the Beautiful Shapes Dies and attached them to the card front.
I stamped the single flower from the Framed Occasions stamp set onto Basic White card using Blackberry Bliss ink and used my paper snips to cut it out. The flower is attached over the stamped hexagons.
Lastly I added three Classic Matte Dots to the card front, including one onto the centre of the flower. To decorate the inside of the card, I stamped the outline leaf and the fill leaf images from the Framed Occasions stamp set onto the lower left hand corner of Basic White card using Shaded Spruce ink. I attached a narrow strip of the same pattern from the Design A Daydream Designer Series Paper across the bottom of the stamped Basic White card, covering the end of the leaf image.
Another simple card using this great stamp set. Hope you like it.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Happiness Birthday
Today I am sharing the card I made for my youngest daughter’s birthday. I attached a piece of Hues of Happiness 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper to scored and folded Thick Basic White card. I embossed a strip of Starry Sky card using one of the Stripes & Splatters 3D Embossing Folders. I attached the embossed card across the card front. I embossed a piece of Basic White card using the other folder from the Stripes & Splatters 3D Embossing Folders and attached it to the card front using dimensionals.
I attached four flowers which I cut from the Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper using the co-ordinating Blossoming Happiness Dies. I also added three sets of leaves which were also cut from the Designer Series Paper using the co-ordinating Blossoming Happiness Dies.
I stamped the greeting from the Peaceful Moments stamp set onto Basic White card using Starry Sky ink and punched it out using the Double Oval Punch. I attached the greeting to a Starry Sky scalloped oval and then the card front using dimensionals where necessary. To decorate the inside of the card, I stamped another greeting from the Peaceful Moments stamp set using Starry Sky ink. I attached another die cut flower and leaf beside the greeting. This card is so pretty and I love that the Designer Series Paper co-ordinates perfectly with the Blossoming Happiness Dies. I hope you have had a good look at the Hues of Happiness Product Suite because it is truly beautiful.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Free Shipping
Hello everyone, just popping in to let you know that Stampin’ Up! is offering free shipping on any orders over $65.00 for tomorrow the 21st June only. This would be a great time to stock up on your favourite accessories, adhesives, paper and ink. Just remember it is for the 21st only, that’s tomorrow. Happy Shopping!
Bye for now,
Kris
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