Retirement Wishes
This week in my Facebook Live, I shared the Trees For Sale stamp set which you can find in the July to December Mini Catalogue and the Tree Lot Dies which you can have FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a qualifying order. For today’s card I am once more using these items. I began by embossing Basic White card using the Timber 3D Embossing Folder which I attached to scored and folded Mossy meadow card. I cut Shimmer White card using one of the Scalloped Contour Dies. I stamped the “sand” image from the Oceanfront stamp set twice across the bottom of the die cut panel using Crumb Cake ink. I used a Watercolour Brush to move the ink around to give complete cover over the bottom half of the die.
I used the “sky” image from the Oceanfront stamp set to add Coastal Cabana ink to the remaining half of the die cut and once more used a Watercolour Brush to move the ink to give a little more coverage of the die. I attached the die to the upper right hand corner of the card front. I die cut the caravan image twice using the Tree Lot Dies, once from Smoky Slate card and once from Basic Black card. I trimmed around the wheel on the Smoky Slate image and cut off the jockey wheel. I trimmed down the Basic Black image and attached it to the back of the Smoky Slate image. I die cut the second caravan image from Basic Black card using the Tree Lot Dies and attached the images to the Smoky Slate die before attaching the whole piece to the stamped Shimmery White rectangle. I cut the caravan image once more from Basic White card and attached the two window pieces into the image on the card front.
I stamped the three solid trees from the Trees For Sale stamp set onto Basic White card using Mossy Meadow ink which I stamped first onto scrap paper. I stamped the three detailed tree images over the solid images using Mossy Meadow ink before cutting out the trees using the co-ordinating Tree Lot Dies. I attached the trees to the left hand side of the card front. I stamped “retirement wishes” from the Paradise Palms stamp set onto Basic White card using Mossy Meadow ink and punched out the greeting using the Double Oval Punch. I attached the greeting to a Mossy Meadow scalloped oval punched using the same die and then the card front. To decorate the inside of the card, I stamped another greeting from the Paradise Palms stamp set onto Basic White card using Mossy Meadow ink. I stamped the large solid tree onto the lower left hand corner of the stamped Basic White card using Mossy Meadow ink which I stamped onto scrap paper first. I stamped the detailed tree image also using Mossy Meadow ink.
The Trees For Sale stamp set is presented as a Christmas card stamp set but I hope I have convinced you that you can use it for almost any occasion.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Hello Daffodil
Today’s card once more uses the Fabulous Frames Dies which I showcased on my Facebook Live this week. I cut Old Olive and Basic White card using the large rectangle frame from the Fabulous Frames Dies. I attached the outside Old Olive frame to a Basic White panel before attaching a strip of Design A Daydream 12″ x 12″ Designer Series paper over the left hand side. I stamped the image from the Daffodil Daydream stamp set onto the smaller Basic White rectangle using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.
I coloured the image using Daffodil Delight and Old Olive Stampin’ Blends. I attached the stamped panel inside the Old Olive frame, partially covering the Designer Series Paper. I inked the “hello” part of a greeting from the Eden’s Garden stamp set using Old Olive ink and stamped onto Basic White card.
I cut out the greeting using the banner die from the Fabulous Frames Dies. This die cuts with a score line around the inside of the frame and I used my Paper Snips to cut along the score line to create a smaller banner. I attached the trimmed greeting to an Old Olive banner cut using the same die. The greeting is attached to the image panel over the end of the daffodil image. I added two small Basic Rhinestones to the banner and one large one to the image panel. To decorate the inside of the card, I stamped the smaller daffodil image from the Daffodil Daydream stamp set onto the lower left hand corner of Basic White card using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I coloured the image using Daffodil Delight and Old Olive Stampin’ Blends. I am having fun playing with the Fabulous Frame Dies and hope that I have inspired you to take a look at these dies when you receive you new catalogue. Don’t have a new catalogue! Don’t have a demonstrator but live in Australia! Send me a message and I will organise to get one to you.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Turning 4
Today’s pages show off some photos from when my youngest granddaughter turned 4. We had a great day with lots of fun and lots of cake. I began by attaching strips of Petal Pink and Sahara Sand card across the bottom of two Basic White 12″ x 12″ pages. I trimmed the edges of the strips on the left hand page to create a banner effect. I attached my photos to Basic Black card before attaching them to the pages. I stamped the title using the Alphabest stamp set and punched out the letters using the Best Label Punch.
I also cut Sahara Sand card using one of the dies from the Sentiment Silhouette Dies and attached them beside the “4”. I stamped the greeting from the A Grand Kid stamp set onto Sahara Sand card using Memento Tuedo Black ink and punched it out using one of the punches from the Heart Punch Pack. I attached the greeting to a Petal Pink scalloped heart before attaching it to the left hand page. To decorate the right hand page I cut Sahara Sand, Petal Pink and Daffodil Delight using the Sentiment Silhouette Dies to create four candles. I cut Basic Black card using one of the Fabulous Frames Dies and attached it to the lower right hand corner of the second page. I cut Basic White using the same die and temporarily attached the panel to the inside of the Basic Black frame.
My printer is out of action at the moment so I will add the journaling at a later time. Simple pages but full of amazing memories. I can’t believe that 8 years have passed since that day – time flies!
Bye for now,
Kris
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Penciled Birthday
This week in my Facebook Live, I shared some cards I made using the stand along Fabulous Frames Dies. These dies do not co-ordinate specifically with any stamp set but with just about any stamp set you may already own. Today’s card also uses the new (to this catalogue) Perfectly Penciled 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. I cut three pieces from different patterns of the Designer Series Paper including one that I could colour. I used Dark Sweet Sorbet, Dark Daffodil Delight and Dark Parakeet Party Stampin’ Blends. The three panels of Designer Series Paper are attached across the bottom of Basic White card.
I attached a narrow strip of Sweet Sorbet card across the top of the Designer Series Paper panels before attaching it to scored and folded Basic Black card.
I stamped “happy birthday” from the Peaceful Moments stamp set onto Basic White card using Sweet Sorbet ink and cut it out using the oval frame from the Fabulous Frames Dies. I cut the same die from Sweet Sorbet card as well. I attached the Sweet Sorbet oval frame to the card front and attached the stamped Basic White oval inside the frame. I coloured one of the flowers from the Designer Series Paper as before and cut it out. I attached the flower to the greeting panel. To decorate the inside of the card, I coloured a strip of the same floral pattern from the Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper using the Dark Sweet Sorbet, Dark Daffodil Delight and Dark Parakeet Party Stampin’ Blends. I attached the panel to the left hand side of Basic White card. I also added a very narrow strip of Sweet Sorbet card alongside the Designer Series Paper.
I love how pretty the colours look on this card, don’t you?
Bye for now,
Kris
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Penciled Sympathy
Today’s card was created with left over pieces from this card I shared with you on Tuesday last week. I embossed Basic White card using the Bricks & Mortar 3D Embossing Folder. I cut Basic White card using the Layering Circle Dies. I stamped the greeting from the Peaceful Moments stamp set onto the Basic White die cut using Highland Heather ink.
I cut a scalloped circle from Highland Heather card using the Layering Circle Dies and attached the greeting. The greeting panel is attached to the card front using dimensionals. I had coloured the floral images using the Light Highland Heather and Dark Old Olive Stampin’ Blends.
I cut out the floral images and attached one to the top left hand corner and one to the bottom right hand corner of the greeting panel. To decorate the inside of the card I stamped another greeting from the Peaceful Moments stamp set using Highland Heather ink. I attached a smaller floral bouquet previously coloured using the Dark Highland Heather and Dark Old Olive Stampin’ Blends. Sympathy cards are always hard to make when you really need one, so it’s always easier to have some on hand.
Bye for now,
Kris
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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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Stamping with Kris 