Feb 14, 2014 | 2014, Valentines |
The first stamp set I ordered from the 2014 Spring Mini catalog was So Very Grateful. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing around with the stamps and came up with this card – I liked it so well, it became part of my Valentine’s Day Class!
I started with a card base of Very Vanilla. I layered Blushing Bride cardstock over Cherry Cobbler and ran them through my Big Shot with the second smallest die from the Hearts Collection Framelits. The sandwich left an impression on the Blushing Bride layer that I used as a template to lay down a fine line of glitter glue then sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds over that.
I stamped the corner floral image from So Very Grateful in Versamark and heat embossed it with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. The Flower centers were accented with Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details. The Cherry Cobbler/Blushing Bride panels were adhered together and popped up with Dimensionals. The stamp in the center of the hearts is from the Best Of Love set. The card was finished off with a rhinestone in the center image.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you – tell someone you love them today!!
Nov 14, 2013 | Christmas, Endless Wishes |
Endless Wishes is one of the new Photopolymer stamp sets that are being offered by Stampin’ Up! (#133455) After getting to play with it a bit, I can honestly say this one is going to get lots of use this Holiday season. I love the simple lines in this set!!
This is one of the first cards I made with it. I started with a base of Soft Sky cardstock (#131203) Stamped the ‘merry’ in Versamark and heat embossed with Silver embossing powder. Then stamped the ‘& bright’ with Versamark and heat embossed with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. Stamped the large snowflake in Silver Metallic Encore ink (#132142) and the medium snowflakes in Versamark – sprinkled Iridescent Ice embossing powder over all and heat embossed. The small snowflakes were stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink. For a finishing touch, I added several Rhinestones. So quick and easy – even with all the steps, this card was finished in under 10 minutes! Sure wish it wasn’t so darned hard to photograph sparkle as this card really had a lot of personality…
Nov 11, 2013 | Christmas, Joyful Christmas |
Joyful Christmas (#131805) was one of the first sets from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog that I just HAD to have. I got a chance to play with it this week and here’s the first card I came up with. The simple color combination of Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White sets the stage for the beautiful poinsettia which was stamped twice in Versamark ink on White Vellum Cardstock (#101856) I made a custom mix of White embossing powder (#109132) and Silver Stampin’ Glitter (#132205) and heat embossed the poinsettia. I then cut out one full flower, and one with the smaller flower petals and layered them over two panels of Whisper White cardstock – the top one was embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots folder (#117335). The bottom panel was stamped with the greeting from Joyful Christmas (#131805) and stamped in Illuminate Glimmer Watermark Ink (#126857) with a snowflake from the Endless Wishes Photopolymer set (#133455). A piece of Cherry Cobbler seam binding (#120992) was used to conceal the seams in the panels. The last touch was to add some Champagne Glass Glitter (#120997) to the center of the flower.
Sure wish the camera could capture how pretty the silver glitter on the poinsettia actually is. It kind of looks like dark speckles in the photos, but believe me when I tell you it is stunning in real life! Oh, and did I mention how much I love the soft shimmer of the Illuminate ink on almost any color cardstock?!
Alrighty then – now that I’ve had some quality play time in my studio, I get to go figure out what’s clogging my vacuum cleaner – I really need to deglitterfy (yes, that is a word…) the desk and floor!
Have a great week! I’ll have some more Christmas cards for you in a day or two using the Endless Wishes Photopolymer stamp set.
The first stamp set I ordered from the 2014 Spring Mini catalog was So Very Grateful. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing around with the stamps and came up with this card – I liked it so well, it became part of my Valentine’s Day Class!
