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Favorite New Stamp Set? Choices, choices!

Aloha, all!

     It's Tuesday morning here in Hawaii (already afternoon on the east coast!) and it's time for another biweekly edition of the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge blog!  Today's challenge is to make something with my favorite new stamp set.  Oh my, how do I choose?  I have over a dozen from which to make that choice, and believe me I wouldn't have bought any of them if I didn't just have to have them!  But I'm a member of the SU-Only Challenge Design Team, so I had to choose.

     Actually, I cheated.  There's not just one, but TWO new stamp sets featured in today's card:  Raining Flowers and Petite Pairs.  On top of that, there's a new color – Wisteria Wonder – and some new ribbon – 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon.

     Those of you who've been following my blog over the past few years know that Two-Step Stamping ismy favorite stamping technique.  Raining Flowers is just the latest of Stampin' Up!'s great two-step stamping sets, and it already has almost a permanent spot out on my craft table. 

     Two-Step Stamping works this way – for each image, there are two stamps.  One stamp is the outline of the image and the other is the filler or colored-in part of the image.  There are no rules about how to play with these two stamps, and you can use them effectively no matter how closely you align the two stamps.  In this card you'll notice that the flower on the right has the images almost perfectly aligned, so the image is completely colored in.  But the leaves off to the left have the outline offset from the filler stamp.  If I were a child, you'd say I colored outside the lines.  But what's wrong with that?  This is art, not real life!  It's not like I stamped one part at the top of the card and the other on the bottom!  (Hmmm, might have to try that some day.)  I just like the overall effect of the two-step no matter how perfectly it's done.

     There are a few other techniques in this card (can you believe "Ms. Measure-the-pieces-and-layer-them-up" has used the word technique more than once in a blog post???)  I added some texture to the two round flowers by stamping the larger stamp several times and cutting sections out of two of them, sponging around the cut part, and then adhering it to the middle of a larger flower with glue dots. I also added some visual interest to the layering by cutting the rectangle inside of my stamped image allowing the flower on the right and the leaf in the upper left corner to hang over the edge.  This is why I'll never give up my Fiskars Paper Cutter.  This is not something you can do with the Table Top Cutter.

     Quick tutorial:

1. Lay the edge that has the image you want to leave hanging over the edge over the cutting line on the Paper Cutter. 
2. While holding the paper/card stock firmly, fold the clear ruler down over it. 
3. Note the point on the ruler where you want the cutting blade to stop so you don't cut through the image.  If it's not exactly on a measurement line, you may want to adjust the placement of your paper so that it is.
4. Start cutting from the top of the paper, stopping when the arrow in the middle of the cutting blade reaches the mark you've chosen.  In this case, I wanted the cut to stop at the 3" mark.
5. Then note the ruler mark where you want to start cutting again.  Lift the clear ruler and slide the blade down until the arrow on the blade points to that mark. 
6. Lay the ruler down and continue cutting to the end of the paper.

7.  Once you've finished with the paper cutter, trim the part of the flower that's outside your cut.

As a final note, look at the stamped image that I used for this tutorial.  It's just ONE stamp that's part of this set.  Notice how it's been designed with the filler offset a bit from the outline.

     I'm finally back to having some fun in my craft room.  Lots of work still to do to catch up with what I didn't get done during my July travels.  BUT I'm now using card-making as an excuse to procrastinate.  Gotta love having fun!  I hope you'll have fun with some paper crafting today, too!

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Finally some room to craft!

Aloha, all!

     I think it will be a long time before I leave home for a 3-week stint!  I can't believe it's taken me over a week to get my act back together, and I'm not sure I'm quite there yet.

     BUT, there is now room in my craft room to start being creative with my stamps and papers and stuff again, although Cholla, the cat, has decided that it's nice my crafting table is cleared off again so she has a place to curl up and sleep.  So I'm having to pull cat hairs off adhesive and pick up stuff she's pushed off so she can be comfortable.  If she wasn't such an old cat who may not be around that much longer, I'd just throw her out into the living room.  As it is, she's got me wrapped around her little paws.

     One of my online challenge teams this week has a challenge to use my favorite new stamp set from the 2011-2012 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog.  As I've not bought that many new stamp sets, you'd think I could say that one is my favorite.  But I've been waffling back and forth about that.  I think I've finally figured it out, though, and I'll be posting that card on Tuesday for the SUO (Stampin' Up! Only) challenge.

     For today, though, I'll share one of my other favorites.

     I'll bet that a lot of you who've looked through the new catalog haven't even noticed this one.  But I spotted it my first time through.  The stamp set is called, "Borderlines," and has three long and thin stamps that coordinate with the Hostess Designer Series Paper Set, Cheerful Treat.  The images on the stamps are 6" long, which makes them perfect for stamping just once on most greeting card sizes.  They're also great as a border for scrap layouts.

     For this card, I used two of the stamped images to accent the piece of the Cheerful Treat paper that I used for the top layer of the card.  The paper colors are Melon Mambo, Concord Crush, and Lucky Limeade.  I wanted to provide an accent for all three colors, so I stamped in both Lucky Limeade and Concord Crush and then added a bow using the brand new 1/2" Scallop Dots Ribbon in Melon Mambo.  I accented the card with some Melon Mambo and Concord Crush Card Stock, with a teeny "thank you" greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

     I hope that those of you who have a copy of the newest Stampin' Up! catalog have noticed that the whole Hostess Rewards program for Stampin' Up! has changed.  Now it's more in line with how many other direct sales companies operate their purchase rewards programs.  When you have a workshop – or even spend enough yourself to qualify for workshop rewards! – you can choose some products that are available ONLY to hostesses at a special price.  For example, while other Designer Series Paper sets sell for $10.95, if you have a $150 order, you qualify to use only $8 of your $25 hostess dollars for the set I used today !  And you'll still have 17 free $$$ left to spend, either on hostess products or on ANY OTHER PRODUCT IN THE CATALOG!  I am so in favor of this program because I tend to spend a bit myself on Stampin' Up! products (maybe you've noticed?).  By January or February of any other year I'd have all the hostess stamp sets and just have to get duplicates.  No more – and no more having to select a stamp set that's not really your style, either!

     OK – off the sales kick and back to what I like most – making designs for you to enjoy and, hopefully, copy!  Here's the layout for today's card.  It really is fun to make with all those horizontal shapes!  I hope you have fun with it, too!

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Quick and Easy!

Aloha, all!

     Earlier this week I needed something REALLY quick and easy when I decided that I would, after all, take some swap cards to the Stampin' Up! convention, which is going on as you read this.  What got me started (or re-started) on the swap kick was my receipt of the stamp set, "Button Buddies."  I'd received that free from Stampin' Up! as a result of my sales during this year's Sale-A-Bration catalog period.  Nice!  But I really wanted to do something with it, and swaps seemed to be the thing to do.

     But what to do?

     For one thing, I've not done a general order of some Stampin' Up! essentials in quite some time (waiting for the new catalog, of course!) so my stash of buttons is a bit on the sparse side.  And for the other, what did I have in my repertoire that was just, well, simple? 

     This is what I ended up with.  I actually had some ribbon and some Sizzix Die Cuts out on my work table.  But once I got this far with the card, I realized that it was nice just by itself.  Nice and simple, quick and easy!  Hard to argue with that!! 

     The catalog sample using this particular stamp from the Button Buddies set shows the use of 3 buttons, one on each flower.  Being low on buttons, I just left it to one in the center.  I actually think that this is more effective, making that one flower stand out and drawing our attention to it. 

     The colors of these cards are (front) Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight; (back) Marina Mist and Real Red.  Why did I pick these colors?  Because I also had some 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in those colors (only!) and my original intent was to add ribbon and a knot.  As I write this I might still have some time to make some other cards, and I'll only be limited by the number of buttons that I have, not the number of ribbon colors, too!  The printed paper that I used for the cards is from the Patterns Stack of Designer Series Papers that come in each color family.  Marina Mist is in the Subtles Stack and the others are in the Brights Stack.  One note of caution about this design:  Make sure that you cut this paper straight so that the little polka dots are all in a straight line.  If you don't, no matter how straight you put the stamped layers on top of it, it's going to look crooked.  Guess how I know this??

     Here's the sketch for this card.  You'll be able to turn out a dozen in half an hour or less (depending on how much you get interrupted; you might well ask me how I know this, too!)

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Card for a Special Person!

Aloha, all!

     It's only 10 more days until some of my favorite Stampin' Up! stamp sets will be retiring.  It's not that I use them all the time, it's just that I know that they're there in a pinch  They're so easy to use when I just can't think of how to use the newer or more popular sets to make a quick card.

     One of these sets is Tart and Tangy, a set with four images of fruit that are a lot of fun to use with different colors.  I have a friend to whom I wanted to give a "Thank You" card and I knew for sure that I wanted to use this sentiment from a set in this year's Summer Mini Catalog, Bold Blossom.  I had seen (and even made!) cards before where the same image was stamped in one color several times, then once in a different color to make it stand out.  Since I've been going through my retiring sets to get them all organized, Tart and Tangy came right to mind.

     I wasn't sure what the layout was going to be, but to get started I stamped the four apple slices arranged in a line to fit on a 5" high strip of Very Vanilla Card Stock.  Once I saw how they stacked up, I trimmed the strip to be 1-1/2" wide and the rest of the card design developed from there.  To get the apple slices lined up, I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig  and started by stamping the red apple slice so that the tippy top of the stem was at the 2-1/2" mark.  I then stamped one green slice above it, and then arranged the other green two slices about the same distance apart from the first two as the first two were from each other.  Those measurements aren't perfect, but the whole layout works well so that really doesn't matter.

     The colors that I used for this are Read Red and Wild Wasabi.  I texturized the Real Red layer with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder.  As I've mentioned before, I think that, in this case, the embossing acts as an embellishment by filling up all that empty space in the upper right quadrant of this card.  I didn't want to add anything there because I wanted the apple slices to be the focal point.

     This was the second card I made with this stamp set and layout and I think I like it even better.  For one thing, it's not obvious what those slices are.  Are they green oranges and the orange one is ripe and perfect?  Or are those lime slices and the orange stands out as the sweetest one of the group.  Either way, I love the sentiment with the design!  And the colors here are the Wild Wasabi (again) and Peach Parfait.

     Enough with the thought-y stuff!  I had fun making this card, and I hope that you can use this layout for a card for some special person in your life! 

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I {Heart} Sketch Challenges!

Aloha, all!

     It seems that a lot of cards and projects that are being made right now feature Stampin' Up! stamp sets that are retiring.  But today I found myself using two stamp sets and a Stampin' Wheel that are in the current Stampin' Up! catalog AND are going to be continued on into the new catalog that will be effective July 1st of this year. 

     The whole project all started as I've been studying the new catalog (available to my customers on June 20th) for samples that I could use to make card swaps that I'll be sharing with my stampin' friends at the Stampin' Up! Convention next month.  It ended with a fab card sketch challenge at Create with Connie and Mary (CCMC-SUM04).  I combined the idea I got from browsing the new catalog with the sketch and ended up with this fun card! 

     My objective with this card was to use lots of different types of Stampin' Up! products that we, as demonstrators, could show off at a workshop without there being too much hard work.  Of course, it also means that those of you who are NOT demonstrators can also make the same type of card easily, too!   Believe me, if this wasn't an easy project, I wouldn't be making FIFTY of them for swaps!

     The easy part about the scalloped circle and all but one of those hearts is that they're either stamped or punched (the large circle with a Sizzix Die using the Sizzix Big Shot).  How easy is that!?  The stamp sets are I {Heart} Hearts and Heard from the Heart (Stamped with Concord Crush Ink), and the Wheel is called Very Vintage (stamped with one of the new colors being introduced in the next catalog, Wisteria Wonder).  The card stock shades for this card are Confetti Cream, Regal Rose and the new colors Lucky Limeade and Wisteria Wonder.  The Regal Rose Designer Series Paper pattern is from the Brights Patterns Stack, which is in both the current and new catalogs.

     The Very Vintage Stampin' Wheel is one of the Jumbo Wheels, and I cut its piece of Confetti Cream card stock to be 1-7/8" wide which is just at either edge of the stamped image.  For the strip with the sentiment on it I started with a piece of card stock that was 4-1/4" wide x 1-1/4" high.  I first punched one long edge with the Eyelet Border Punch, then stamped just above the punched area, and finally trimmed the strip to just above the stamped sentiment.

     Here's the whole layout of the card, shown a little differently today so that you can see where I used all of the Stampin' Up! products that are in this project. 

     This week, whether you make a card with 2 or 3 products or with all 17 products that I used for this project, be sure to have fun doing it!

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Punches Make It So Easy!

Aloha, all!

     I finally have my craft room all in order!  And I'm so happy to be making a mess with three projects going on at once because it will be SOOO much easier to pick up afterwards.  Everything has its place!

     One of the projects on which I'm working today is for a swap in which I'm participating with one of my online Demonstrator groups, SUDSOL (if you're a demonstrator and interested in trying it out for free, just click here).  Anyway, the swap is for products that are featured in the brand new Stampin' Up! 2011 Summer Mini Catalog.  This catalog is a bit smaller than most of the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogs – but that's because there will be a whole brand new catalog right in the middle of this mini's promotional period.  So that will get LOTS of attention from those of us who love to use Stampin' Up! products!

     This particular card uses two products from the new mini – the stamp set and the colored Stampin' Emboss Powder.  The stamp set is Flower Fest, and coordinates with a whole bunch of Stampin' Up!'s punches.  This flower is the same size as the 1-1/4" Circle Punch.  You might notice that the mini says the 1-3/8" circle punch.  But if you use the 1-1/4" punch, you cut right up to the stamped lines (in this case the embossed lines) of the flower.  Punch and then just clip those four little indentations between the petals and you have a perfectly cut out flower!  Both the flowers and the leaves, as well as the greeting in the punched oval shape, use one of Stampin' Up!'s newest products, Custom Colored Stampin' Emboss Powder.  The flowers and greeting use the Tangerine Tango powder, and the leaves use the Pear Pizzazz powder.  The other green accents on this card, including the 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon, are Old Olive.  When I embossed the leaves on that Tangerine Tango Card Stock, they seemed closer in color to the Old Olive.  The color matches the Pear Pizzazz card stock perfectly when it's used on Whisper White, so it must just be the way that it interacts with my eye next to the orange (color has a habit of doing that!).

     I stamped the flowers on a piece of Designer Series Paper from the paper set, Pawsitively Prints II (one of the Build A Bear Workshop products in the Stampin' Up! catalog).  I just love the white polka dots on the So Saffron background!  And so I used the Perfect Polka Dots Sizzix Embossing Folder on the So Saffron Card Stock layer to help highlight the polka dots.  To set the flowers off nicely, I adhered them to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals.  Nice card, I think!  I hope the rest of the swappers will like it! 

     Here's the sketch for today's card – not too complicated at all, but I know it helps to have those measurements right out front when it's time to make duplicates (that's what happens with swaps!)

I hope you have a great week stamping!  Whatever you do, have fun with it!

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An Early Spring Challenge!

Aloha, all!

     Have you recovered from the "Spring Forward" time change of the past weekend?  Here in Hawaii it's not something about which I have to worry – except everyone I know on the U. S. Mainland had their time changed, so I have to adjust to that.  And I do mean that I have to!  I have 5 clocks that I need to change twice a year!  I'm probably the only one within miles that has to change so many clocks when Daylight Savings Time comes and goes!  Here's what I see above the doorway to our office every day:

     So I definitely am aware of when the time changes.  Behind every clock there is a scrap page that shows something about the time zone and the particular place within that time zone where we're likely to have an interest.

     But I digress from the challenge of the day!  A stamping group to which I belong – Late Night Stampers and not limited to Stampin' Up! demonstrators, I might add; so you're eligible to participate! – has a weekly challenge, and the challenge this week was to made a card or other paper-crafting project related to Spring.   A few weeks ago I finally broke down and bought the Build a Blossom Stamp set and the coordinating Blossom Petal Punch.  I say, "broke down," because there were so many other products in the 2011 Occasions Mini Catalog that I've wanted to buy.  This was way on down my list – and I finally got to that part of my list!

     While I've not had this set of products in my own possession, I nonetheless have been watching what people have been doing with it.  So I knew what steps I wanted to take for my first try. 

• First I stamped some Whisper White paper with the solid medium size petal stamp using Pretty in Pink classic ink.
• Then, using the Stamp-a-ma-jig stamp positioner, I stamped over those stamped images with Melon Mambo.  So now I had a two-color flower petal.
• I punched these petals using the Blossoms Petals Punch.
• I repeated this process with the smaller petal stamps, again using Pretty in Pink and Melon Mambo.
• I punched a 1" circle out of card stock (I used Whisper White, but any color will do as it will be hidden) and covered it in SNAIL mono adhesive. 
• I then applied the tip of each of the large petals to the circle.
• When that was done, I used my paper piercer and curled the petals slightly to make them appear more natural.
• I applied some snail adhesive to the center of the circled petals and then applied the small petals the same as the larger petals.
• I used my paper piercer to punch a hole in the middle and used one of the Sweet Stitches Fabric Designer Brads for the flower's center.

     Once my flower was done, I had to decide what to do with it – it couldn't just sit there on my craft table, after all!  At the same time that I'd ordered these new products, I'd also ordered the First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper, also from the Occasions Mini Catalog.  I have a recollection of having wrapped flower bouquest in newspaper from my younger years, and that paper seemed just the thing to wrap a bouquet with this flower!  So I added some leaves to the flower, and trimmed a few pieces of Old Olive Card stock to look like stems and wrapped the whole thing together into a bouquet.  Just darling if I say so my self.

     To complete the card, I made a card base of Old Olive Card Stock and layered it up with a piece of paper from the 2011 Sale-A-Bration Catalog – part of a set of FREE DESIGNER SERIES PAPER offered this year to anyone who purchases $50 worth of Stampin' Up! products!  Is that a deal, or what?!  Then I tied it all together with a bow made of Pretty in Pink 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon.  A darling bouquet for a Thank You note!

     Don't forget that Sale-A-Bration is over in just two weeks!  If you've been thinking about purchasing something that would allow you to get your free products, don't delay!  You can call or e-mail me, or even order online anytime 24/7!  www.RobinStamps.StampinUp.net!  If you order the Build A Blossom Stamp set (either in wood (121923) or clear mount (121994)), the Blossom Petals Punch (121808),  the 1" Circle Punch (119868), the Sweet Stitches Fabric Designer Brads (121880) and some Snail Adhesive (104332), you'll have more than enough to get that free paper set – or a stamp set or anything else in the Sale-A-Bration Catalog!

     And you definitely can have a lot of fun with all those wonderful Stampin' Up! products!

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A Cheery “Thank You” Card!

Aloha, all!

     I spent quite a bit of time this weekend catching up on projects I needed to make.  One thing I needed to do was to make Thank You cards for some lovely Birthday gifts I received last week.  Do you recall that I showed off a card I made for my friend and downline, Marcie?  She and I have the same birthday!  I had a group over for a party unrelated to paper crafting on Saturday, and people brought us birthday cards made with Stampin' Up! products.  How much fun was that?  Lots!

     So on to the Thank You cards.  Today's card is so bright and cheerful that any of you who have been dealing with winter lately should get a bit of a pick-me-up just from looking at all the colors.

     I have to tell you that the Stampin' Up! Sew Suite set of products initially resulted in my saying (to myself), "huh."  Yup, lower case, no emphasis (unusual for me).  What was with all the sewing stuff?  But it's all grown on me and I can see how much fun this whole line is to use.  I especially wanted to make sure that I didn't waste the decorated corners of the Designer Paper that I'm showing with this card.  The paper set is Sweet Stitches, and the stitching and needle and thread are just the perfect size for the corner of a card, too.  I'm still not sure that I'll be using the sides of the Designer Paper that have dressmaking patterns on them.  But the other sides definitely have possibilities.  For example, the Button Paper shown in the upper and lower elements on this card are the front of a piece of paper printed with dress pattern pieces.  Forget the pattern pieces, I'll take the buttons!

     The stamped image in the center element is from the Stamp Set, Sew Suite, and it's one of several that I'll be showing off this week and next.  I wanted all 3 of the layered elements to be the same size, so I had to trim the stamped image VERY close to get it to fit the mat (you can see the sizes in the layout sketch, below).  The Embossed Buttons are made with the Stampin' Up! Exclusive Embosslit Die, Sweet Buttons.  I was going to make a jumble of buttons on the center element, but ended up with two straight rows, and that seems to complement the whole card a lot better.  I made the buttons the same Melon Mambo and Tempting Turquoise as the mats for the upper left and lower right elements.

     And I tied the whole thing together with the Daffodil Delight 1/4" Taffeta Ribbon, which complements the Daffodil Delight mat on the center element.

     Here's the sketch – and I hope you'll think about buying some of the products from the Sew Suite Collection!  These are products that are all fun!

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Colorful Card for the Diva’s Sketch!

Aloha, all!

     This week is a sketch challenge over at the Diva Coffee Break Design Team blog.  What a different kind of sketch this week, and so much fun to try out!  I try my best not to be influenced by the actual shapes on the sketches, but this time I couldn't get those little tags over at the left out of my creative brain.  So use them I did.

     Here's the sketch, and then my take on the sketch.

     I just love this Designer Series Paper Set – it's called Sweet and Sour, and is a Specialty Paper Set.  The "specialty" part of this is that each sheet has some glossy accents on one side of the paper.  Truly luscious!  And I am amazed at how much I like the color combination – Rose Red and Pumpkin Pie.  Add a bit of Very Vanilla to it, and you've got some gorgeous papers!

     The fan-like elements on the left of the card are all made from the Jewelry Tag Punch, and the greeting is from the Stamp Set Tiny Tags.  I also used another image from the Tiny Tags Stamp Set to make the floral design in the smaller of the two Oval Punched Images.  As I am frequently known to do, I tied the whole project together with some Stampin' Up! Ribbon, in this case Pumpkin Pie 5/8" Satin Ribbon. 

     Now to send out this lovely Thank You note!  I've received a couple of nice gifts this week, and this will go out to one of the senders!  Now I just have to find another Thank You card to make!

     Whether you're making a Thank You card or any other kind of paper-crafted gift, think about using Stampin' Up! products for your project!  They're the best, and you can always have fun with them!

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A Challenge to Help with Thank You Notes!

Aloha, all!

     We're finally back from a whirlwind trip to visit all our kids and grandkids (one set on the east coast, one on the west), two cousins (one for me, one for my darling husband), one great aunt (husband's), and several couples whom we've not seen in quite some time.  Whew!!! 

     Of course, with all the wonderful hospitality we were offered throughout our trip, there will be Thank You cards to be sent.  And, when you're a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, the cards must always be handmade.  Now that's not a chore – it's fun to get into my Craft Room and start playing around with paper and ink and ribbons and whatever else happens to catch my fancy on any particular day.

     Today, though, is also a Divas Coffee Break Design Team color challenge, so this first Thank You note was definitely going to be different from anything else I've ever made.  The color challenge included one brand new color (Concord Crush), one color that's kind of new, though not this year (Tangerine Tango), and one that's been around for awhile (Old Olive).  This is how it was presented to the design team:

     These colors really aren't too bad when it comes to colors I probably wouldn't have ever put together myself.  I especially liked having one of the colors – Tangerine Tango – be light enough on which to write a note.  So that became the color for the card base.  After that, I went looking in the closet to which I have banished all non-holiday stamp sets and came up with Eastern Blooms, and everything else fell nicely into place.

     This is a fairly quick layered card to make, as you can see in the sketch, below.  I added some interest by punching out one of the small flowers from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack and adding the flowers and some Old Olive Brads to the center of three of the flowers that I stamped using the Eastern Blooms Stamp Set.  Before I attached the small matted strip to the large piece of Concord Crush, I stamped the sentiment from the Heard from the Heart Stamp Set using Versamark and then embossing using White Stampin' Emboss Powder.  I punched the bottom edge of the Concord Crush layer with the Scallop Trim Border Punch, and texturized the front of the Tangerine Tango card using the Square Lattice Embossing Folder.  The final touch was some Old Olive 5/8" Satin Ribbon. 

     OK – I'm still a bit jet-lagged.  But I'll be back later in the week and show off some more new projects, some of which will be from the class I'm holding tomorrow.  Hmmmm.  Hope I'm not too jet-lagged for that!!

     Oh, and here's the sketch for today's card.  Have fun with it!

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