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CASE-Out Thursdays ~ Happy Poppies!

Hello Fellow Stampers ~

Well my goodnes ~ another fast and frenetic week!  Busy Busy Busy!  Better to be busy than bored, right??  LOL  And another round of cold and snow overnight.  We had another 3-1/2" on the ground by this morning.  Seems like Winter has come late, and is here to stay!!

 

It's time for this week's CASE-Out.  And in keeping with our Peaceful Poppies theme, I'm casing a Stampin' Up! design from the front cover of our gorgeous Stampin' Up! 2020 Spring Mini Catalog.  Ready to play??

 

 

Design Colorology . . .

Sahara Sand

Whisper White

Basic Black

Gorgeous Grape

Rich Razzleberry

Blackberry Bliss

 

Stamps, and Ink, and Paper . . . Oh, My! 

Stamps: Painted Poppies cling stamp set** [Item #151599]; Peaceful Moments cling stamp set*** [Item #151595]
Paper:  Sahara Sand (or Crumb Cake) cardstock (5-1/2" x 8-1/2" - card base; 4" x 5-1/4" background); Whisper White cardstock (3" x 5" for nested label); Shimmery White cardstock (5" x 6" for stamped images, watercoloring & fussycutting); Basic Black cardstock (2-5/8" x 3/4")
Inks:  Versamark [Item 102283]; Staz-On Jet Black Ink [Item 101406]; Old Olive classic ink [Item 147090]; Mossy Meadow classic ink [Item 147111]; Gorgeous Grape classic ink [Item 147099]; Rich Razzleberry classic ink [Item 147091]; Blackberry Bliss classic ink [Item 147092]; Craft Stampin' Refill [Item 101780]
Other: Painted Labels Dies** [Item #151605]; Poppy Moments Dies*** [Item #151594]; Stitched Nested Labels Dies [Item #149638]; Peaceful Poppies Elements [Item #151327]; Peaceful Poppies Sequins [Item #151325]; AquaPainter [Item #103954]; White Stampin' Emboss Powder [Item 109132]

**Purchase this in the bundle to save 10% - Item #153827

***Purchase this in the bundle to save 10% - Item #153824

 

"CASE-Out" Design Guide

1. Score your 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Sahara Sand cardstock base at 4-1/4"; gently fold and burnish with your bone folder.  Reminder:  The "raised bump" of your score line goes to the inside to create that beautiful professional fold.

2.  Using the "detailed cutout" from the Poppy Moments Dies, randomly make three cut outs across the 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Sahara Sand (or Crumb Cake - I used Crumb Cake for this card) cardstock.

 

3.  Put several drops of Craft Stampin' Refill ink on a clear block; pick up the ink with an AquaPainter and "spritz" across the front of the die cut cardstock piece.

4.  Attach to the front of the card base.

5.  Cut the largest die from the Stitched Nested Label Dies from Whisper White cardstock.  Attach to the center of the front of the card with dimensionals.

6.  On a piece of Shimmery White cardstock, stamp the poppy images (2 full size; 1 small), and 5 smaller leaves; and 2 leaf sprays using Staz-On Jet Black ink.  Using your AquaPainter, and using Rich Razzleberry, Gorgeous Grape, and Blackberry Bliss classic ink, watercolor your poppies and leaves.

7.  Use the leaf die from the Painted Labels Dies to die cut the smaller leaves; fussy cut the leaf sprays; and use the poppy frames to die cut the flowers.

8.  Arrange across the front of the Stitched Nested Die using Snail, Dimensonals, and glue dots to arrange and secure in place.

9.  On the piece of Basic Black cardstock, stamp the "Congratulations" from the Peaceful Moments stamp set in Versamark, and emboss with White Emboss Powder and your heat tool.

10.  From the Peaceful Poppies Elements, grab a "scallop edge" from the black elements; attach to the edge of the Basic Black sentiment; snip to size.  Pop with dimensionals on the front of the card.

11.  Add back sequins from the Peaceful Poppies Sequins on the card front.

12.  Give to your best BFF!  😉

 

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A Little Cutie for the Paper Players

 

Good Morning Fellow Stampers :-)

Happy Monday!  We're kicking off the third week of March -- although here in the Denver area of Colorado, it feels more like June!  And I'm getting Spring Fever!!  :-)  Definitely ready to put away the drab clothes of winter and pull out pretty springy things.  I hope I'm not jumping the gun!

 

It's time to play with the Paper Players [PP336] this week. And I have to say I'm just a little bit excited.  I have, for the first time ever, purchased two cute "baby" stamp sets into my inventory this year.  And so, I'm actually inking up the first one for the first time!!  How fun is that :-)  We have some adorable sets to choose from right now and you really should check them out!!  Turns out, we all need baby cards, right?!? :-)

 

Whisper White

Wild Wasabi

Pink Pirouette

 

 I've chosen a pretty little color palate today; and one, I guess, would lend to a girl baby.  I was thinking the Wild Wasabi would also look nice with a yellow, like Daffodil Delight.  Somehow, the pink just happened - LOL.

 

 

Doggone Delightful Stampin' Design Tips:

• Layerothology.  In keeping with our CAS challenge today, this card layering is simple and sweet.  A mat layer of Wild Wasabi, overlaid with Pink Pirouette embossed with the Sparkle TIEF; and a sweet little doily laid for a background to my focal point.

 

• Perfect for Watercoloring.  The adorable rocking horse image in the Little Cuties stamp set is perfect for watercoloring.  I used my aquapainter and a combination of Soft Suede, Wild Wasabi and Melon Mambo (for the halter and saddle) inks.  Isn't this guy just adorable?  He's (or she) the reason I bought this set.  I originally attemped to cut this image out with our Layering Circles Framelits, but we just don't quite have a circle big enough right now (I'd have to reach back to our retired circles I think).  So I ended up with the Lots of Labels Framelits, and punched a hole on either end with my 1/8" Handheld Punch so I could pull a cute loop through.  Do you recognize that soft and pretty baker's twine?  It was part of the Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky, and Whisper White set in last year's Spring Occasions -- it's a soft baker's twine unlike anything else we have right now.  So glad I hung onto it!!

 

• A Little Label.  I cut a cute little double-layered label with this sweet sentiment from the stamp set.  It's tied with the same baker's twine and popped with dimensionals.  The entire piece is finished with rows of pearls that I pulled from the artistic set in last year's Spring Occasions.  Thank goodness I hold onto all these little items :-)  LOL  I have a stash, I admit it!!!

 

What you don't see well in these pictures is that I used Shimmery White cardstock for the rocking horse; and then added some Clear Wink of Stella to little areas on the horse, like the hooves, tail, and harness.  It's sweet and shimmery, and a sweet little baby card.

I didn't finish out the inside yet.  I've left it so I can pick out the perfect sentiment later when I'm ready to use it :-)

 

That's a wrap folks!!  Time to head off to work for the day.  Hopefully it will not be as bad a Monday as last week was.  It would be nice to have a somewhat quiet week - ha!  We'll see.  Remember -- we're counting down the final days of Sale-A-Bration, and now is the time to take advantage of those Free Products!!  Place your minimum $50 orders and snap up those goodies before it's too late!!

 

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Thursday Change-Up - A Cool Treat Birthday!

 

Good Morning Fellow Stampers ~

 Happy Thursday.  It's time for my next installment of the "sneak peak" of the birthday cards my group will be making this coming Saturday at the Annual Birthday Stamp-a-Stack.  We're going to take a turn from yesterday's masculine birthday and we're going to create some fun, summery and just for the kids!

 

Today's card design is a little simple, and geared for a young tween or teenager.

 

I played a little bit, and discovered that that our Layering Ovals framelits fit PERFECTLY inside the oval created with the Confetti textured impressions embossing folder.

Isn't that "cool"!!  (LOL - pun intended!)

I took some of the extra layering out of this design that I might normally do, and cut one 4-1/4" x 5-3/8" piece for my embossing folder and am allowing the ice cream sundae to be the focal point of this card with the simple fun background to set it off.

Stitched Shape Framelits and a scalloped Layering Oval make the perfect background for my cute sundae.

 

I used a Pool Party card base; and Tangerine Tango for the background oval.

The ice cream bowl is cut from Early Espresso; and my cute ice cream scoops are Cucumber Crush, Flirty Flamingo and Daffodil Delight, with a Chocolate Chip chocolate coating (mmmmmm - almost good enough to eat).

A few rhinestones for "sprinkles", a silver foil spoon, and a strip of Party Animal Washi Tape on the bowl - look how cute this is!!!

I knew when I started playing with this set I was going to love it!!!

 

Now the neat thing about the sentiment on the front of this card is that it's really pretty "generic."

You could use this card as a note of encouragement for your child, or to congratulate them on a job well done (how about that "A" in math class ?)

Or, as in this case, it's a birthday card!

How fun is this?

I used the sprinkles image in the Cool Treats stamp set to create some "fun" around the sentiment inside the card.

Using the different images in your stamp sets can help you create a fun and easy look to the inside of your cards.

They don't need to be bland or boring -- remember that!  Kind of like my mantra for envelopes ("no naked envelopes").

 

 

Well, there you go!!!  This really is a fun, simple card to put together.  I think I had the most fun creating my ice cream sundae.  You could really go "traditional" and make vanilla ice cream scoops with the chocolate drippings.  Wouldn't that be cute?  OMG!  There is so much you can do with this Cool Treats bundle - I'm going to be playing with this down the road, so come back and visit!  And remember, buy the bundle, reach your minimum $50, and you can order a FREE Sale-A-Bration product!  Hop on over to my Online Store and place your order today!  And for those who want to know and are trying to help me out, I need $335 more dollars in order this month to reach my goals.  Thank you all for being loyal customers!!

Until Next Time . . .

 

 

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Falling for Dragonfly Dreams~

 

Good Morning Fellow Stampers ~

TGIF as they say!!  And it is an off-Friday for me which is a relief.  I'll go into the office for just a few hours of overtime this morning; while my car is in getting an oil change and check-up!  :-)  It will be a busy afternoon as I prepare for my "Up, Up and Away" class tomorrow afternoon.  It's supposed to be 75 degrees here today!!!  Unheard of for February.  Somehow we've gotten "caught" in a bubble as the cold winter weather swirls north and south around us.  Very strange indeed!  Being it's February, I'll be glad when Winter returns.  75 is for April :)

 

 

It's time to play with Mojo Monday [MOJO483] challenge this week :-)  I have to tell you that when I looked at this week's sketch earlier in the week, I had far different plans for this card.  But by last evening, everything changed; not sure why, other than I just didn't feel inspired by the original thoughts and ideas I had and the stamp set I thought I was going to use.  So today I have pulled out a stamp set/die bundle that it's long overdue to open up and play with.  And oh am I excited about this bundle!

 

 

Sahara Sand

Very Vanilla

Blushing Bride

Copper Foil

 

Today's color palette is a lovely soft and sweet combination that really pops together.  I think you'll agree that this card is just beautiful!

 

Doggone Delightful Stampin' Design Tips:

• Layerothology.  This card base is cut from Sahara Sand cardstock, 8-1/2" x 5-1/2", scored at 4-1/4"; a side-fold standard card.  This card features the beautiful Falling In Love DSP, with a Copper Foil matting for a nice elegant "pop" of color.

 

 

• Careful Strategies.  What you don't know is that I cut this piece of designer series paper specifically the way I did because I wanted the "trails" of hearts sort of whisping toward the top of the sheet, with the majority congregated at the bottom.  If you look at this paper in the package, you can see that you can "fussy cut" different sections and get different effects.  What I didn't like about this sketch is that the vertical strip in the sketch would have immediately covered up the focal point of my paper I liked so much, and I was not happy.  But then inspiration hit!  My vertical piece to emulate the sketch is a piece of Copper Foil measuring 3-1/2" x 1-1/4"; and then keeping a 1/4" border, the middle has been cut out, and then the piece adhered directly to the DSP, basically framing the floating hearts I wanted to keep in view!  Perfect, don't you think?  I adore how this turned out!!  Sometimes perseverance and ingenuity are worth it :-)
  

 

 

• Dragonfly Dreams.  This beautiful dragonfly is cut using the Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits dies!  I adore this set of dies, and I know you will too if you haven't tried them out yet.  Using the smaller framed dragonfly in the set, I cut the solid body from Blushing Bride; then used the coordinated thinlit cutout and cut an overlay of Copper Foil.  Some proper pearls down the tail (you'll see when you cut it out where the notches are that these fit right into), and this sweet dragonfly is set to flutter across the front of my card.
  

 

 

 

Here is a slightly different angle and look.  Don't you love how pretty this card is?  You'll notice that I "turned" one element on this sketch for the same reason as I "opened" up the vertical piece on the sketch; I put the ribbon element horizontal so that it wouldn't cover up the area on the card I wanted to show.  The nice thing about sketches is you can turn and manipulate elements of the sketch to create a design that is all your own.  Much in the same way, the Dragonfly represents the "circle" in the sketch rather than a real live circle.  The sentiment, from the Dragonfly Dreams stamp set, has been embossed with Copper embossing powder.

 

 

• Turn to the Inside.  The inside of this card is simple but created to coordinate with and emulate the front of the card.  A Blushing Bride mat with a Very Vanilla Overlay brings the color scheme together; and these gorgeous "bokeh" dots are from the stamp set, stamped in Blushing Bride ink.  Now this card is all ready for a sentiment of choice, or a special handwritten message!
  

 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed today's card as much as I loved creating it.  You can purchase all the supplies for today's card design in my Online Store from the comfort of your couch :-)  You can easily click on any of the items on the Product Carousel below and it will take you straight to the store for that item.  Don't forget to pick out your Free Sale-A-Bration items with each $50 in product order your place :-)   Enjoy your day and weekend everyone!

 

Until Next Time . . .

 

 

 

So In Love With So Detailed Thinlits ~

 

 

 

Good Morning Fellow Stampers ~

Thursday here we are!!  With a change in the beautiful weather we've having on the horizon.  Guess it will be a cooler weekend ahead.  That's alright -- the Colorado Garden & Home Show kicks off this weekend and I plan to spend it with my honey sniffing the Tulips and getting a little bit of an early shot of Spring :-) 

 

It's my Change-Up Thursday time of the week, and today I'm going to share with you a very special card that was supposed to have been the "bonus" card for my class attendees last Saturday; but none of them got their projects done in time!  LOL  That's okay!  I keep these stampers quite busy when they are here!  And we had a full and fun Valentine-themed class for sure!  I think you will enjoy this card today.  It's different; and it's really pretty!

 

 

Sahara Sand

Soft Suede

Whisper White

Blushing Bride

 

 Looking for a soft and sweet palate? This would be it!!  And perfect for a Springtime "in love" kind of design.  It also mimics the colors you will find in the Falling In Love designer series paper collection - one of my top picks for this catalog!!

 

 

 

Doggone Delightful Stampin' Design Tips:

• Layerothology.   As I said, this is a very "different" sort of card.  Nothing standard going on here.  The main part of this card sits on a base of Sahara Sand cardstock, cut 5 1/2" x 4 1/4".  Period -- that's it!  It's not a folded base, or anything like that.  You cut one piece of cardstock as your base.  Then we are going to layer on top of that and create a "partial" folded card on top!   So - Sahara Sand, cut 5-1/2" x 4-1/4"; next layer is Soft Suede, cut 4" x 5-1/4". 

 

 

 

On top of those two layers we are going to place a piece of Whisper White cardstock that is cut 5-3/4" x 5-1/8" - and the score ends up at 3-7/8"; but I'm going to teach you how to do this a better way . . . .  ready?  Cut a typical piece of Whisper White cardstock - 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", and place the score at 4-1/4" like normal.  Fold on your score line and burnish.  Place your score line at the top (like you were creating a top-fold horizontal card), and place the left edge of the folded cardstock on the 5-1/8" mark, and trim off the right-hand side in your Stampin' Trimmer.  Now, open up the card, and placing one end at the 2" mark, trim. 

 

 

You will be left with a piece of cardstock that has a "short" front side (just shy of 2" should remain up to your score line).  Now the fun begins :-)  Before you adhere that to your base layers we just created, we're going to add the pretty "delicate" strip.

 

 

 

 

• So Detailed In Blushing Bride.   The beautiful So Detailed Thinlits are a set you don't want to miss in this Occasions Catalog.  There are 3 different pieces to this set, and each one is unique and really beautiful.  I used the curved floral detail thinlit in this set.  When you cut this out, you will notice that you get a thin "bar" on one end.  Use this to your advantage for this card.  Glue this straight edge strip of the die to the front edge of your cut Whisper White cardstock.  I then laid a 1/4" x 5-1/8" strip of Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper over this edge; and then a second strip the same length and width is laid right where the flowers start curving (use your multi-purpose tombow glue for all this adhering).  Then I trimmed off the remaining cutout that stuck beyond my Blushing Bride strip.  A piece of Window Sheet cut 1-3/8" x 5-1/8" was glued on the backside.  Now when you are finished you have what I'm calling a "half-front" card design.  There's about 3/4" between the bottom of the thinlit strip and the bottom of the Whisper White cardstock.  When this is attached to the layered base we created earlier, it's a really cool and different effect.  The window sheet/cutout just gives you a glimpse of what is stamped or written behind it.  And you can write below too; it's okay!!  I give you permission :-)  LOL
  

 

 

 

• So In Love.   You'll notice that I have stamped just above the top Blushing Bride strip.  In Sahara Sand, stamped off once first, is the floral image from the set; and then stamped over it in full strength Soft Suede is the simple sentiment "Congratulations."  Add a few pearls, and the front of this card is complete.

 

 

• Turn to the Inside.   The sentiment on the inside of this card is from the Love Sparkles stamp set - another fabulous set with a really cool font and some wonderful sentiments.  I stamped in Versamark and embossed with Blushing Bride embossing powder (another retired item I'm glad I held onto!).  It's the perfect coordinated look for the front of this card.  You'll notice that because of how this card is put together, I don't have to add any extra "matting" for the inside of the card as it's already set against the matted base we created.

 

 

• Don't Forget the Envelope.  No naked envelopes as I say!  The flap of this envelope has a piece of Falling In Love designer series paper on it to coordinate beautifully with the card; and the front of the card was stamped and embossed to match the card with another wonderful sentiment set from the Love Sparkles stamp set.  Just perfection!!  Don't you love it?

 

 

 

This has been so much fun to share with you today; and I'm hoping I've given enough detail and instruction that you could go off and make the card yourself if you wanted to.  Give it a try; I think you'll love this very different card and card front.  Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions about my designs or Stampin' Up! products.  I'll get back with you as soon as I can.

 

Happy Thursday everyone!

 

Until Next Time . . .