Canal Street Class October 22, 2020

 

 These first 2 cards Nancy taught the group. The first one is embossed vellum cardstock. The reindeer card uses a great postage punch.

I was using up some leftover supplies from this Spring when we weren't able to have classes. I love this cute koala bear cut with matching dies from the designer paper. The bottom card uses Poinsettia Petals bundle and Pointsettia Place designer paper.  This is my absolute favorite bundle in the holiday mini catalog. The card front is embossed with Winter Snow embossing folder. The center and berries are cut from gold foil paper to add some sparkle.

Canal Street Class from August 27,2020

These top 2 cards were taught by Nancy. The card below I copied(cased) the idea for the look of a make up compact from Pinterest.  The front design is my own.  I used leftover DSP from the Spring Mini catalog.  The die on the front is the new Hippo and friends dies found in the Annual Catalog.  It is becoming one of my favorite die sets.  The next card is a different fold called Double Flap Fold that I cased from Leann Greff.  I made a few changes with a punched instead of stamped jar and also an extra stamped piece on the inside right of flap.  Scan to the bottom of page to see her Youtube. You can shop by clicking on the sun at right of this page.

See Leann's card and Youtube below.

Cherish the Season

This is one of the first cards I made with my preordered products from the Holiday Mini catalog using Cherish The Season Bundle#155154 for the reasonable price of $35.  I cut the bells from silver foil.  The cardstock is Real Red and garden Green.  Order your products and get an early start on your Christmas and Holiday cards.  Click on the sun to shop my online store.  If you need help designing a card, I am happy to meet with you to discuss and plan your card and order.

Evergreen Festive Corners Card

Here's another card using the reasonably priced Festive Corners Stamp set for $17.  Same as yesterday's card.  The Shaded Spruce background in the shaker card is embossed using Evergreen Forest 3D Embossing Folder.  This stamp set has elements for Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine's Day cards.  The Sequins For Everything #153556 $12 comes in 4 colors red, green, gold, orange. The Real Red sheer ribbon is 3/8" thick# 3153535  Don't forget to order window sheets and Foam Strips found in the annual catalog to make these shaker cards.  Shop all these products by clicking the sun at the right of this page.

Festive Corners Meets Snowman Season

I loved creating this shaker card to showcase a new stamp set in the Holiday catalog called Festive Corners #153462 for $17 and I paired it with the snowman stamped from Snowman Season #150458 for $18 found in the Annual Catalog.  I colored with the Blends and added some snow from leftover fake snow from a past catalog.  The Tasteful Label die was used to create the window.  That is the same dies I used on yesterday's card.  I hope you liked it?  Need any of these cute products shop by clicking the sun at right of the page.  Also used on this card Winter Snow embossing Folder #153577 and Blue Adhesive-backed Gems #153547 and Snowflake Splendor 1/4' Ribbon #153548.

Tasteful Touches Window Card

Version 1

Version 2

I have been seeing lots of window cards on Pinterest so I decided it give one a try for my Stampin' Club this month.  I love the pretty stitched line that the Tasteful Labels dies leave behind when cutting out the card.  The card base is cut 11"x 4 1/4" of Misty Moonlight cardstock.  The greeting is stamped on a scrap cut from Seaside Spray cardstock. Do you see the fine embossed detail on the edge of this die.  It's so pretty.  The DSP on the front is In Good Taste cut 4"x 5 1/4" .  Inside Whisper White cardstock is 4"x 5 1/4". Butterfly and sprig is Daffodil Delight cardstock using Butterfly Beauty dies.  Inks used were Misty Moonlight and Daffodil Delight.  Check out the In Good Taste Suite Collection #154147 for $85.  Shop my online store by clicking the sun on the right of this page.  Want to make 4 beautiful cards per month for free with a $25 or more order, contact me to join my Stampin' Club for 6 months.

You Are My Missing Piece

This is another card I designed for class on January 24.  They had 2 options for this card. This one was only chosen by a few but it was my favorite.  The stamp set is called Love You to Pieces.  Thanks for looking today.  

Needle &Thread Stampin' Fun

After returning from Orlando On Stage event, some of my team met to "play" with our new stuff from the Occasions preorder.  Doris wanted to use the Needle & Thread set.  She is an avid quilter, watercolor painter, and rubberstamper. The card you see above was created by her.  I love the new Gingham Gala paper that we received for attending On Stage along with many other goodies.  This new stamp set is a Distinktive set.   It's amazing how it looks like stitching.  It has wonderful matching dies.  One of the dies makes a beautiful stitched looking design seen on the card below.

This card I made using a new butterfly punch and the Gingham DSP.  The butterflies were cut out of DSP available with a $50 purchase January 3 through March. The other 2 stitched cards were made by Rona and Carolyn.  See the Stampin' Up video below about this new product.  We learned a great tip at On Stage about distinctive stamps and very inky stamp pads.  If a pad is brand new or just reinked it may be too inky for the distinctive stamps and you may not see the detail.  All you need to do is use a plastic spoon or bone folder to push the ink away in a spot on the pad.  Brilliant!  Then you have an area that is just right.

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Canal Class December 13 2018

 This is Nancy's card using sponging technique instead of coloring with markers. Many people have overlooked this great stamp set in the annual catalog page 59, Peaceful Place. It looks great stamped in one color, sponged, or colored in.

This is Nancy's second card using Still Night, retiring soon with matching dies. It comes with 2 great greetings wishing you a season filled with beauty and sending warm wishes your way.

 This is a card I cased from a swap I received during November Stampin' Up On Stage event. It uses Artistically Asian stamp set and stripes EF.  I used Basic Black and Cherry Cobbler cardstock. I taught the group how to use the stamparatus and markers to stamp the floral image. If it's to light, it is so easy to do another coat or add ink to one spot. Because the lower part of the image is all leaves we used the Mossy Meadow ink spot to do that part for quicker stamping . The background strip uses versamark ink and gold embossing powder.

This card was my design. The stamp set is Alpine Adventure and matching dies, retiring soon. Order yours today. I also used Bokeh Dots with Balmy Blue ink on the stamparatus to create one panel. The other panel is embossed with Cable Knit EF. The mat is embossed with Softly Falling EF. I hope you liked my wintery card. The only snow I see here in Florida is on the cards I make. I like it that way!

Canal Class November 29, 2018

These are the two versions of my Farmhouse Christmas card made at class November 29.  I used Garage Gears dies available on January 3, 2019 on the birthday version. The dsp is called Festive Farmhouse.

I cased this card from Amy Koenders.  I used Winter Woods bundle.  We placed glitter on the tips of the branches. The greeting is heated embossed with white embossing powder.  These next 2 cards were taught by Nancy.

                                       

Projects Made at On Stage

 Here's a cute pizza box we decorated with the new Geared Up Garage stamp set available on Jan. 3.

            Forever Lovely Card

                                                               Bloom by Bloom Card

                                                              Needle & Thread Card

This is the goodie bag my team members received from Nancy and I for attending On Stage.  It was a note pad, post it note holder, Tic Tac mint gum holder, folder with a wish list, candy bar and pen.  All the items had the new SU logo flowers on them.

I Love What I Do

I am so lucky to do something I enjoy so much, teaching card classes and being a Stampin' Up independent demonstrator.  I love going to Stampin' Up events twice a year.  It is a great opportunity to be with 7000 like minded crafty people!  The excitement at these events keep me motivated and excited about what I do.  While I am at On Stage in Orlando this week with my team we will be having a shoe box swap with each other.  So during our free time we have all prepared the supplies in a shoe box so that we can make each others cards.  This is the card I have designed and prepared for my team to make at On Stage.  I used Love What You Do Stamp set, Flourish thinlits, Stitched All Around thinlits, Mint Macaron Ink and Frosted Floral Specialty Paper.  The paper is the focal point.  This pearlized paper was designed by Stampin' Up this year to celebrate their 30 year anniversary.  Pearl is the gem for 30 years so I thought it was fitting to use this paper on my shoe box swap card.  It is a pretty fast and simple card to make.  The silver edged satin ribbon brings some nice bling to the card.

You're a Blessing Swap Card for On Stage

This is the card I will be swapping at On Stage November 7-10.  I'm not sure how many I will have time to complete this week.  I have a Christmas Class on Tuesday and Club on Friday just before flying to Wisconsin for the weekend for my nieces wedding.  I was inspired by a card made by Melissa Davies.  See her card by clicking here. https://www.rubberfunatics.blogspot.com.  It reminded me of my grandma's china.  My sister now has that china.  I never noticed this hostess set until I saw her card.  The set is such a good complement to Tea for Two stamps set and dies in the annual catalog.  I have seen so many wonderful cards made with this set.  You must have a workshop or order of $150 or more to get this set.  I used Blueberry Bushel ink and ribbon.  I also embossed the mat with Climbing Vines embossing folder.  I heat embossed the cup and doily with white embossing powder then cut it out with the dies.  I think I will use my stamparatus to complete the rest of the cards so I can quickly die cut and then stamp them.  It may be a little tricky pulling the cut cup out without touching the Versa Mark ink.  Thanks for checking out my card today.  Give me a call to order your set.

Timeless Tidings Christmas Card Class October 4, 2018

This class will cost $25 to make 20 cards.  I will purchase the kit for you and you will use my ink and my stamp set.  If you want to do the kit on your own you will need to purchase Timeless Tidings stamp set #148939 for $20 and the Timeless Tidings Project Kit #148028 for $20 plus shipping and tax on both.  You will also need ink.  The kit suggests Jet Black StazOn.  I used Mossy Meadow and Cherry Cobbler.  This kit is truly one of the most beautiful kits they have designed.  The cards have a beautiful foil edge as well as the envelopes.  Watch the video below to see more details.  I will have the class at both 9 am and 1 pm.  Contact me ASAP so I can order the kits before they go on back order.

Canal Class July 26, 2018

The top 2 cards Nancy taught and the bottom 2 were mine.  We used the Stamparatus to stamp the die cuts on the tea card.  Boy I love that tool!

Asian Screen Card

This is the first card I made with All Good Things stamp set.  When I saw this set in the catalog, I new I had to have it to make Asian Screen cards.  I made a triple fold to fit in a standard A 2 envelope by folding over one section.  I knew something was just not right with the card.  I think it was the small size.  Then I found the card idea below on Pinterest ,so it is cased.  I made mine with glimmer paper instead of gold foil.  I new after making it that it had to be modified for class because it took to much time to cut that border.  I had to cut apart the greeting from the large goldfish image.  I used Granite Gray ink and colored with Pumpkin Pie Blends.  The card stock colors are Granite Gray and Pumpkin Pie. 

This is the card I ended up making for class.  I hope they like it.  The class is Thursday July 26 at both 9 am and 1 pm.  If you haven't signed up yet there is room.  Contact me today to reserve your spot.  It is a four panel screen card.  It needs to be folded in 4 to fit in a A 2 envelope.  The images are heated embossed with gold embossing powder.  The card stock colors are Cherry Cobbler and Basic Black.  Other products needed are  1 1/4" circle punch or die, Decorative Ribbon punch, Everyday Label punch, Eastern Medallions framelits/dies and Lakeside framelits.  I colored the rhinstones with Cherry Cobbler Blends.