Aloha, all!
Yesterday was a "stamp-a-stack" session in Robin’s Craft Room. The whole premise behind "stamp-a-stack" is that you can get a lot of cards done in a short time period. The idea is to have cards for the special holiday and not have to stress over them! So last week and this week, we completed a stack of Valentine’s Day cards done so we’d have a bunch to send out. We got ten done last week, and ten more done this week.
Now, that’s not 10 different cards. But I did have 2 different cards for the group to make, with each person making 5 of each. So the boredom level stayed reasonable. Actually, last week, Lucy managed to get creative with the small number of elements I had cut and ready for her, and she had quite a few different designs. See, creativity abounds even when you’re trying to keep things on simple! That’s what Stampin’ Up!’s all about, after all–being creative!
This week I decided to go ahead with the two set designs, but to give each person a bit more material just in case they had time be be creative – and wanted to be creative. This first card is a fun, although fairly simple, card. I promised that this week I’d use punches. This card uses three of them: The Full Heart Punch, the Heart to Heart Punch, and the Modern Label Punch. We used the Full Heart Punch to make a window in the Real Red Card stock that was adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals and "looked" through to the glittery paper from the Sending Love Designer Series Paper. We used the Heart to Heart punch to punch images we had stamped using Real Red Classic Ink with one of the stamps from the set, Love You Much. Those are the hearts on the right edge of the Full Heart Punched window. Finally, we used the Modern Label PUnch at the bottom as a window through to some Very Vanilla card stock stamped with a greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes.
Top it off with some 1/4" Pretty In Pink grosgrain ribbon, attach it to a Pretty In Pink greeting card, and you have a Valentine’s Card. And it’s quick!
But then I was thinking that maybe the ladies would like a bit more. So I included some extra Very Vanilla Card stock and had the new Clear Mount Rubber Stamp Set, I {Heart} Hearts, available if they wanted to use it. With this, some of us stamped an image with some Pretty in Pink Classic Ink, and punched it out with the Heart to Heart punch. So there are some extra hearts to kick the card up a notch and balance everything out a bit. Nice!
Tomorrow, I’m going to add even some more to this card to make the card that I’m going to send out to a very special person! It might even be YOU!!
