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AAA cards orange CAS challenge

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I happened to check the AAA cards blogspot yesterday and saw that they have a new challenge out there – very CAS and some orange. Sounds like some fun after all the pink and red lately. My new boho blossoms punch was sitting on the table and just begging to be used. One tip – don’t get your little finger in the way when you’re punching. Ouch!

I got a bit off track and started making a really funky background piece in orange with clear embossing. It was definitely orange, but not exactly CAS. So that will be used later on in the week!

Stampin' Up! Boho blossom punch and Painted Petals

This is a very straight forward card – as pretty much demanded by a very CAS style card – but here are the details just in case. I used the boho blossoms punch, which cuts out all three flower shapes at once, on a piece of very vanilla card stock. After I forgot what the goal was and started playing with melon mambo card stock and coloured rhinestones, I got back on track again and grabbed a piece of pumpkin pie. I chose this orange of the three available because it’s the only one with coordinating blendabilities and I wanted to colour the jewel. I used the thank you from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals stamp set and stamped it in pumpkin pie. I really like the typeface. After gluing the very vanilla card to a base of pumpkin pie, I stuck one of the flowers onto the base and then a pumpkin pie coloured rhinestone on top. Use the brush tip of the pen but be gentle – the rhinestones can really abuse the tip.

I also used my new embossing folder – the spring flowers – on the envelope flap. I thought it coordinated with the boho blossoms.

Stampin' Up! Spring Flowers TIEF

Here’s the banner for the challenge.

Stop back and see the stepped up a notch melon mambo version of this card in the next day or so.

Stampin’ Up! Hello You Thinlit Dies

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The Stampin’ Up! Hello You thinlit dies are one of my favourite things, (okay, there are many favourites) from the new occasions catalogue. I wanted to make a card for Gail, the third member of the Walk Club who achieved the annual challenge (details of the challenge are on the first of these posts about Karen’s card) and out came the Hello You thinlit dies.

Stampin' Up! Hello You thinlit dies

It was definitely a day to be playing with new things because this card also uses both the Painted Petals and the Crazy about you stamp sets. They look good together don’t they?! I started with the leaves in garden green – it looks a trifle intimidating with the leaves and stems broken up so much but it’s all one stamp and then the flowers are all on another stamp and fit the gaps easily. I like to focus on the single flower on the left to help with the placement. The flowers were stamped in rose red.

Then I cut out the word happy with the thinlit dies, also in rose red. The tip on the thinlit packaging, to run the die through the big shot multiple times really seems to work well. I’ve also found that I can leave the wax paper on the die itself after it’s cut out and that works multiple times. So far I’ve cut out a word three times using the same wax paper. I figured out where I wanted the “For You” from the Crazy About You stamp set and stamped it in garden green before sticking the word happy – I didn’t want to be using my stamp-a-ma-jig on an angle. I used the tombow glue to adhere the word to the card – if you leave the glue to set a little before sticking it down, it doesn’t ooze. I finished off the envelope with the backgrounds DSP in rose red from the regals collection. I am now incapable of leaving an envelope untouched and either line it, put the paper on the outside flap, dry emboss the flap or stamp on the envelope to coordinate with the card. It really finishes the card off in my opinion.

Stampin’ Up! Lotus Blossom

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I think that that the Stampin’ Up! Lotus Blossom set is going to be the most popular of the Sale-a-bration free items. There are a lot of good things in the brochure, but the Lotus Blossom is awesome! The detail created by the 3 step stamp process is amazing.

Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom

I belong to a small online step club where we have competitions and try to encourage each other to step more. For the last 3 years, I’ve run a year long challenge where the goal is to end the year with an annual average higher than the previous one. This year hasn’t been so good for a lot of people – injuries, illness and so forth – and only four of the dozen or so members achieved the goal. I decided to send a card to each of the people who met the challenge.

Karen is amazing. She’s a walker which means that she can get a maximum of around 6,000 steps per hour; runners can get closer to 9,000. So the fact that Karen is our highest stepper in a club that contains runners, most of whom do marathons, is quite outstanding. She has averaged over 22,000 steps per day; to do that consistently is quite a feat.

So the sentiment from the Painted Petals seems apt. And I was still trying to make happy lotus blossoms and finally succeeded. I thought I was using the colours from the All is Calm paper but today discovered that this DSP has Soft Sky, not Pool Party. However I really love the combination of lost lagoon, pear pizzazz and pool party. I stamped the first (smallest) petals in lost lagoon and then the second stamp in lost lagoon after stamping off once. The final flower image was done in pool party. For the stem I did the first image in full strength pear pizzazz and the second one after stamping off once. I matted my very vanilla in pool party and mounted it on a square of lost lagoon.

Thanks for a work of art

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I’ve been trying not to neglect my stamp sets from the annual catalogue and so I was rather pleased with this card which combines sets all three of the last catalogues – Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals, Papillon Potpourri and Work of Art.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals, Work of Art, Papillon Potpourri

I started by stamping the swoosh from Work of Art in crumb cake on a crumb cake card stock. Then I rubbed the embossing buddy over the card and stamped the butterfly in versamark. It’s not obvious from the photo, but it’s embossed in gold. The sentiment from Painted Petals is stamped in early espresso. I had half thought of matting this in gold foil but the early espresso looked better. I decided on having a large outside crumb cake frame rather than my usual 1/4 inch frames.

 

Happy Painted Petals

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I made this card on a bitterly cold but sunny day in NJ when I needed some colour. I used the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals set, stamping the stems of the flowers in garden green on very vanilla. I found (after messing up the first attempt!) that it was best to stamp one set of stems and then stamp the flowers for those stems. Otherwise, I ended up with overlapping flowers, which was not the look that I was planning. I varied the heights and angles to make it more realistic.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

I stamped most of the flowers in melon mambo and masked off a few which I later stamped in so saffron. I then mounted the very vanilla piece on a base of melon mambo.