I’ve been meaning to use this stamp set, Wonderful Year, for a while but it’s another that just hasn’t happened. Until today! Here’s a fun, clean and simple, easily mass produced card.
I adore the textured impression embossing folder, pine bough. It’s really versatile and adds beautiful texture to cards. I used it to dry emboss my background of whisper white which I adhered to a real red card base. The sentiment is from the Wonderful Year set and I stamped it in real red, cutting the piece down and creating a mat out of real red. The matted sentiment is popped up with stamping dimensionals so that I didn’t have to be concerned about gluing it to an uneven layer.
I hope you enjoy your weekend, and have some time to get creative. I’m going to be at my local Onstage – a day of partying with Stampin’ Up! and demonstrators. I’ve never been before and I’m really looking forward to this.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RMÂ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.
There’s less than a week to sign up for this month’s Paper Pumpkin and this month, they have released a picture of the outside of the box promising that if you like the outside, you’ll LOVE the inside.
Well I definitely like the outside! I love the colour of the box too. And the little Christmas trees. I can’t wait. 🙂
I also can’t wait for my stitched dies which have shipped and will be delivered on Tuesday. Tomorrow I’m off to the Onstage Local, my first event where I’ll get to see the new catalogue and who knows what else!
In case you don’t know what Paper Pumpkin is about, here are the details:
Each month you receive a unique, surprise kit with a project. It’s colour-coordinated and everything is pre-cut
Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, accessories and instructions.
Each kit gives you about 30 minutes of fun
Your Paper Pumpkin ships around the 15th of the month.
You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month’s kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month.
A Paper Pumpkin subscription is just $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!) There’s no commitment, you can cancel or put your subscription on hold at any time. You can also prepay 1, 3, 6 or 12 months at a time (great gift idea) and save money with the latter 2 options.
Once you’re a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can buy previous kits as supplies last.
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I have a stack of Christmas related stamp sets on my desk and I’ve been meaning to use this one for a while but for some reason, it’s remained uninked. The other night I finally corrected that. Rather than use Joyful Nativity in a more traditional way for its first outing, I decided to mix it up with Cozy Critters, one of the sets available only for free.
I started by embossing the large sentiment image from Joyful Nativity in gold on whisper white and then added the little ornaments from the Cozy Critters set in cherry cobbler. Since Cozy Critters is a photopolymer set, it was really easy to see through them to line up the placement. I then glued the piece of whisper white to a cherry cobbler base and I was done. I have a feeling that this is going to be one of my Christmas cards that I mass produce this year. Quick, simple and effective. I used the carried over Flurry of Wishes set for the sentiment on the inside.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RMÂ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.
Today’s project is another massive card – our recruiter at work has taken a job elsewhere and we’re going to miss her and I knew that a regular sized card would not be enough to hold all the good wishes from the IT department. So it’s a complete sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 inches folded in half.
Tara is quite a fan of my baking; she can frequently be found in my cube checking to see if the red box that contains my baking is there and complaining if it is missing for too long. So the sweet cupcake bundle seemed the perfect set for her card.
For the top of the cakes I used blushing bride stamped off once for the first image – the one that covers pretty much the entire cake. Then I used blushing bride for the next detailed image and sweet sugarplum stamped off once for the most detailed. I made all three cake tops the same and then cut them out with the cupcake cutouts framelits. The bases are from the 2015-2017 Â in colour DSP stack in tip top taupe again cut out with the framelits. The sweet word is also part of the framelits and of course I cut it out in both sweet sugarplum and blushing bride before deciding on the latter for the card. Then it was simply a matter of sticking everything down and raising a couple of the cakes up with dimensionals. I also added a very skinny tip top taupe mat to the card.
I saw a tip on Facebook yesterday from Simply Simple Stamping (although it didn’t originate there) about how to glue intricate die cuts, including words. The key is the silicone craft sheet. You place your die cut onto the craft sheet and also squirt some tombow onto the sheet. You pick up the glue with a sponge dauber (Connie used a sponge but I didn’t have a clean one handy) and, holding the die cut still, dab the glue onto the it. Actually you could do this on paper because you don’t want the diecut to move (or you’ll likely get glue on the front) but this is more forgiving – and easier to clean up. I marked my sponge dauber as “glue” so it’s always ready for service. This gives a much better result – there’s no oozing or issue with it not sticking really firmly. It’s a fabulous tip – this is the first time I’ve tried it and it’s a keeper.
I finished the card with enamel shapes in blushing bride and sweet sugarplum. And I made an envelope using the envelope punchboard using almost a sheet of the Subtles DSP stack in blushing bride.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RMÂ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.
I recently shared that I was making gift packaging for the gifts that my class customers can select when they place a qualifying order. I wanted to share a box that I recently made which features the Tin of Tags photopolymer set which is on sale at $15.75 (25% off) this month. This is to go along with the new Stitched Shapes framelits dies which are debuting early starting today – I already ordered my set this morning!
So to the box. I already had the contents so I measured them adding a quarter of an inch to the size to give me 5 1/4″ by 3 5/8″. Measuring the height of the contents, with a little wiggle room, gave me 3/4 inch so I cut my base piece of retired DSP to 1 1/2 inches (to make the sides at opposing ends) plus the base of the box – 6 3/4″ by 5 1/8″. Although the diagram below shows the scoring at 3/4″ (the height of the base) and 6 inches for the other side of the box, it’s simplest to just take the height that you want and score that on all 4 sides, so 3/4″ on each side.
You then cut up the red score lines (after folding and burnishing) and use glue dots, fuse or even snail to make the box. For the lid, you first decide how much of the base that you want to show. If you want none, just make the paper a smidge larger – just 1/16 inch bigger in both directions and proceed as for the base, scoring at 3/4 all the way around. That extra 1/16″ on the top will enable you to get the lid on. If you want some of the base to show as in this  example, figure out how much you want to show, double that amount and reduce the paper for the lid by that amount. So say you have a 1 inch deep box and you want to show 3/4 inch of the base,  you need to reduce the paper that you cut by twice 3/4″, i.e. 1 1/2 inches. But please do let me know if you have questions!
For my project today. I made a melon mambo lid and tied it on with delightful dijon ribbon. I used the Tin of Tags set to make my tag, along with the layering ovals framelits dies. A few enamel dots finished it off. Here’s a shot of the top of the box
Making boxes is a lot of fun – and it helps use up DSP that you may (you know you do!) have around.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RMÂ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.
