Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Baptism Card

I needed a very special card for a Baptism.
White on white with a touch of silver.
I also used the velveteen paper we had for a very short time. 



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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Kid's Birthday Card - A VERY Special Kiddo

I have to admit I was being a little lazy with this.  I should have but didn't get out my Cricut. 
This stamp set is just the cutest!  Cute As A Bug!  It's called Wiggle Worm.  I wasn't impressed with my first try at it, but this time I colored in the bugs with my alcohol markers, then stamped the design on the bug.
That's definitely the way to go with these!
This card is for a very special little boy.  We love him so very much! 


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Saturday, June 13, 2020

June 6th 2020 Club Cards Part 2

We made an Easel Card and a Window card.  This Tulip card was more of a show and tell because my club already has the tulip punch.  With the card we made in class, they can then make this very pretty card!

Here's the side view.  I stamped the tulips in Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Highland Heather, and Gorgeous Grape.

This is the card we made for club.  I used the new Ornate Garden Suite.  Some of the colors aren't to my personal taste.  I decided I need to stretch my crafting and work in colors I usually don't use.  The card base is Old Olive!  I'm not a fan, but it definitely works with the Designer Paper!
This card was the first foray.
It uses the DSP, the stamps, the dies, and ribbon all from the Ornate Garden Suite.  Contact me if you'd like the directions for the easel fold.  True it takes a bit more paper than regular cards - but this one is a mantelpiece card!  Definitely for show.

Here is the window card we made.  I used the Birds & Blooms bundle for this card.  I made a prototype using measurements from another demonstrator, but it was just too small.  I readjusted these and even though it looks large, it still fits in a regular A2 envelope. 

The colors used to stamp this card were Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Soft Seafoam, and Basic Black (Memento).  We also used the sponge dauber to ink the edges to give a shadow on the inside of the card.



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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

June 6th 2020 Club Cards Part 1

Here are the first 2 cards from our Card Club meeting.
They are fairly simple - The other two were much more involved and I had a purpose with these 2 very simple cards.

 They are from a DSP pack called Flowers for Every Season.  The top card used one panel of each of our new In-Colors (shown in 2 previous posts).  I also cut a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of the DSP as a panel.  We compared how the DSP looked on each piece of new cardstock and found some looked better than others.  It's how color works!
This piece used some Thick Whisper White as the card base (which I rarely do), Poppy Parade as the mat and a piece of the Flowers for Every Season poinsettias as background and the cut flowers at the front.


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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Split Card Design - New Technique

I saw this technique on Pinterest and watched a couple of You Tube videos.  It's a really easy technique!  Really Easy!
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 Here you can see the colors I used.  The first thing I did was stamp all the flowers and leaves.  I used the stamp set To a Wild Rose.  It's a 2 step stamp though it's actually 3 steps to stamp the entire flower.  I just used the outline and detail.  I didn't stamp the entire background piece.
 After each piece was die cut, I took a piece of Whisper White and cut it to 5 1/4 inches by 8 1/2 inches.  The video I watched said to draw a line down the center of this piece.  I scored it so I wouldn't have pencil on my background piece.
Overlapping this center line, using the Tombow Mono Liquid glue, adhere the flowers and leaves in a collage type look.   When you have a well-covered piece, use a guillotine cutter (a slide cutter won't work here) to slice the design in half.  Cut the "empty" edge so that the card is 4 inches wide.
 Here you can see the mounted and finished cards placed together they way I had them glued up.  Below it shows them split to make 2 cards.
 Ultimately I glued up two pieces of cardstock and because of the Split Card technique, I ended up with 4 cards which is what I needed.
 We'll be doing this at my next club meeting.  I'm actually using these as Thank you cards for my club members!  I always mean to make Thank You notes to go with their orders, and then I get busy and forget.  This time I'm ready!





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Saturday, June 6, 2020

Stampin' Up! RGB and Hex Codes for the In-Colors 2020-2022


It's already a few days after we can start using and ordering the new In-Colors 2020 - 2022
Searching online, I couldn't find any documents that had the RGB codes for our new (really beautiful) In Colors!  SO, I got into my Photoshop program, and extracted them myself.

Please feel free to download the file, but please don't remove my makers mark at the bottom.  It took me quite awhile to figure out how to convert the numbers.  All we got from Stampin' Up! were the Hex codes.

Click on the photo to take a look.  Click HERE to download a .pdf file that's clean.

Below you can see the new cardstock colors and ink pads.  Click on the link to order!



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