Fabulous Florets

I am so glad this set is not retiring. It is one of my favorites. The only tricky part to this card is stamping and cutting out four flowers. I cut out one solid and mounted it with dimensionals. Then I cut out the middle of another flower and mounted that on the first one with another dimensional. I did this twice, of course. I used En Francais for a background (River Rock) but I masked part of the card with a piece of paper so it wouldn't stamp in the top right. I sponged around all layers with Pear Pizzazz. I will miss Sincere Salutations. I can't wait to see what it will be replaced with!

Sets:
Fabulous Florets  123027
En Francais  109521
Sincere Salutations  115068 (retiring)

Ink:
Pear Pizzazz  119784 (retiring)
Rose Red  101778
River Rock  109010

Paper:
Very Vanilla  101650
Pear Pizzazz  119795 (retiring)

Accessories:
Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding  122330 (retiring)
Dimensionals  104430
Sponge  101610

Beautiful Wings

So pretty! I just love the bright colors on the new Summer Smooch Designer Paper. If you have a Big Shot this card is simple to make. Don't forget to stamp the words then run it through the Big Shot. The wings on the butterflies are not taped down so they have a 3-D effect.

Sets:
Sincere Salutations   115068

Paper:
Tempting Turquoise   102067
Daffodil Delight   119683
Melon Mambo   115320
Pumpkin Pie   105117
Whisper White   100730

Ink:
Black Stazon   101406

Accessories:
Rhinestones   119246
Scallop Trim Punch   118402
Summer Smooch DSP   125409
Big Shot   113439
Dotted Embossing Folder   117335
Beautiful Wings 118138

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Chris

Faith In Nature

Faith in Nature is a beautiful hostess stamp set that will be retiring at the end of May. I used a blender pen and ink pads to make this amazing card.

Sets:

Faith In Nature

Sincere Salutations

Paper:

Basic Black

Very Vanilla

Lucky Limeade

Ink:

Black Stazon

So Saffron

Tangerine Tango

Real Red

Old

Olive Lucky Limeade

Accessories:

Blender Pen

Sponge

Black Stazon

Chocolate Chip Marker

Big Shot

Lattice Embossing Folder

Dimensionals

On the Grow

I am doing the marker technique with Stampin' Up markers again to get shading, shadows, and depth.  I have discovered this process only works with small spaces but look at the results! I promise I know nothing about shading and making shadows. You can't tell me to pretend to shine a light from one direction and color darker in the places the light hits because I have no idea what that means. If I can do it YOU can do it. All you need are markers in the same color family that go from light to dark. The great thing about Stampin' Up markers is that you know they will match each other as well as our cardstock, ribbon, designer series paper, brads, buttons, the list goes on. The white gel pen is a must to add depth. A sahara sand marker gives shadow and even more depth.

Remember to start with you lightest color, add the next color over that, then add a dot of the deepest color. For this card I found it easier to color the leaves first so I knew which ones they were. The ground is a bit of of celery and wasabi markers with sahara around it. For the water I used the white gel pen and scribbled back and forth over bashful blue where the water should be then I colored over the gel pen with bashful blue.

Sets: on the grow, sincere salutations
Cardstock: whisper white, marina mist
Ink: black stazon, marina mist
Accessories: big shot, lattice embossing folder, scallop square duo die, 21/2 circle punch, neutral brads, mat pack and poker, white ribbon, marina mist designer paper (subtles collection), sponge, dimensionals, white gel pen, markers in pink pirouette, pretty in pink, melon mambo, certainly celery, wild wasabi, bashful blue, marina mist, and saharah sand

This card is for SU Only Challenges. Come and play along!

Scallop Circle Card

I cannot take credit for this beautiful card. Dawn Olchefske at Do Stamping With Dawn created it. She even has a great video on how to cut the circle scallops. I added the butterfly so we could make it in the Beautiful Butterflies class coming up July 5th (see my calendar of events above for details). You need to use your big shot and the circle scallop die. I included a picture to help you see what to do. The first scallop is a single, the second one is a double. When I cut it I put the fold under four scallops. The score line is on the sixth scallop from the fold. The single then attaches to the folded up piece. I used the Circle Scissors Plus to make the 3 and 31/2 circles. We sell a big shot die that makes these, too. You will be surprised at how easy this card is to make. I want to play with the scallop square now. Stay tuned!

Sets: fabulous florets, sincere salutations

Cardstock: melon mambo, basic black, whisper white

Ink: black stazon, versamark, melon mambo, tangerine tango, wild wasabi

Accessories: new colored embossing powder in wild wasabi, tangerine tang, and melon mambo, daubers, stripe black ribbon, clear brad, glue dots, butterfly punch, 5 petal punch, 11/4 circle punch

The flowers are cut with the circle punch then trimmed the rest of the way. The leaves are cut from the five star flower with the punch then cut apart. The butterfly body is hand cut, but his wings are punched out. To add color over the embossed areas simply use your dauber and swirl the color on. Color out of the lines so when you punch you don't get stark white edges.

Lovely As A Tree

This is a classic set. I have made sympathy cards, Christmas cards, men's cards, women's cards, and even used one of the trees as a pine branch on a scrapbook page. I added the woody background to help make it look more manly. These two colors together are wonderful. You need to order all the wide grosgrain ribbon you can afford because it is all going. It is my favorite go to ribbon. What's a stamper to do? Buy the new ribbon, of course. And wait until you see it. New designs and new colors!

Sets: Lovely As a Tree, Woodgrain background, Sincere Salutations

Ink: chocolate chip, very vanilla

Accessories: chocolate chip wide grosgrain ribbon (retiring), sponge

This is one of the cards we are making on June 14th. We will make 6 masculine cards for $15. I hope you can come! Contact me for directions to my Memphis house.

Bird House Card

Is this cute or what? I found the pattern at Create With Dee. She has a video and the pattern. I revamped it a bit. I just embossed the cover rather than adding a whole new piece and I made the top a little wider. It really is a normal size card. Come to my stamping class on June 18th and make one yourself!

Stamps: Sincere Salutations
Ink: pacific point, cajun craze, basic black
Cardstock: confetti white, real red, whisper white, soft suede, certainly celery
Accessories: Big Shot with the lattice embossing folder, 13/4 circle punch, small scallop circle punch, triple heart punch, bird punch, black marker, daubers, dimensionals, crimper

The tricky part is to remember not to cut the left fold off. The second picture shows how I left it. The wings are on with dimensionals. If you would to order the supplies to make this card please feel free to order them from my site. If you don't have the bird punch yet you need it now! You can really do a lot with it,  not just birds.

Season of Friendship

I think I am going daffodil crazy. All of a sudden it is my favorite color. The base of this card is a fun fold. You start with a regular card size. Score it at 1 and 61/2 from the bottom edge. Then cut  between these two score lines at 1 from each side edge. Just above the bottom score line score again at 2 but only on the two outside pieces. Then score the inside piece at 51/2 from the bottom. When you fold it up it fits into a regular envelope. I cut some strips out of daffodil DSP for the outside edges. For the inside I cut certainly celery to fit (4x21/4), then I cut white at 33/4x2. I stamped the tree off to the side in chocolate chip. Then I stamped the celery leaves. I made the flowers using the boho punch. I placed them in the palm of my hand and pushed down the center using the eraser end of a pencil to get them to pop up. I added small pearl to the center of each flower. The ribbon is the wide daffodil stripe. The frame is from a new set available only this month then not again until July called Four Frames. I stamped it in chocolate chip, added thinking of you from sincere salutations (use s stampin' jig to get it straight).Then I colored the bird with sahara sand regal rose markers.

Easter Blossoms

When I first saw this set I didn't think I would like it. Then I started playing with it. Wow! I hope it makes it into the new July catalog! It is wonderful! For this card I started with pretty and pink and basic gray. I cut the largest  gray out of a 3 13/16 x 3 13/16 square. Then I used the corner border followed by the straight border. You really have to use the marking on the punch to get this to work (and a good light). Slow and steady wins the race. I used a white gel pen to color in the flowers then I put a little mono glue over that and added the glitter. The fold is at the top so I could tie on the black ribbon. The black taffeta actually looks gray so it is great. The words are from sincere salutations.

French Foliage

I used French Foliage and Sincere Salutations to make this card. The colors are elegant eggplant, more mustard, very vanilla, garden green, and cherry cobbler. The inside has an insert of leaves stamped at the bottom on vanilla because it is so hard to write on dark colors. The saying is attached with dimensionals.