RainyDay Stamper

A Special card

for a special friend.  It was my dear friend Sherryl's birthday and here is the card I made for her.  My favourite type of card to make, lots of layers.

I just love this set, Field Flowers such beautiful flowers and with Two Step stamping, they certainly have a very realistic look. I used two different paper packs for this card, Paisley Petals for the background pale green and then Pocketful of Posies  for the light purple piece.  Can't find that in the pack? I used the sheet with the raindroppy things and just managed to get just enough without any large images on it.  The flowers I stamped in Perfect Plum and then the outline stamp is done in Elegant Eggplant  then I cut them out and added them to the card with dimensionals.

 The sentiment is from a retired hostess set, and again stamped in Elegant Eggplant.  

Happy Stamping,

How do you describe

our Mocha Morning Specialty Designer Series Paper pack? Boy that by itself is a mouthful but if you haven't purchased this paper pack, you don't know what you are missing.  The paper in this pack is gorgeous, rich, beautiful to use just a few words.  For today's card I mixed two pieces from the pack

 

 

Isn't this a rich colour combination and don't  you love the sheen on the paper, they used Metallic inks in this pack.  The sentiment from Full of Life is stamped on Very Vanilla in Early Expresso and matted in Early Expresso.  The two Brushed Gold cardstock hearts are covered with our Bitty Buttons and the button holes covered with a Basic Rhinestone.  I used our Scalloped Edge Border punch to add the scallop to the bottom of the center strip to add even more texture.

What do you think-beautiful wedding card?

Happy Stamping,

Perfect Plum and Basic Black

Black can make any colour pop and Perfect Plum is no exception.  I love the font on the Happy Birthday from Happiest Birthday Wishes, I certainly wish I could write like that!  The card base is Whisper White and then I used Basic Black for the mats.  The DSP is from Pocketful of Posies and yes, Perfect Plum is not one of the colours in the pack but for this small print with the Basic Black matting, it is hard to tell the "real" colour of the print.  The flower is from Flower Fest, stamped on Perfect Plum twice using Perfect Plum ink so we have tone on tone. I punched out the main flower using frm 2 3/8" Scallop Circle punch and then hand cut the second layer popping it up on dimensionals.  The Pretty in Pink flower shaped button makes the perfect center.  

The leaves also from Flower Fest are stamped using Always Artichoke onto Old Olive to give a bit more definition to the leaves.  

Happy Stamping,

Best things come in small packages

and the packaging should be as lovely as the gift.  It is so easy to create beautiful packages with a few scores you have a box and add a stamped image for the front and you have a winner.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Stamping,

Mission Organization

Your Big Shot dies, how do you organize them?  Stampin' Up has beautiful storage boxes for the dies that come in small, medium and large.  I love the large ones, you can use them for either the Bigz SL dies, Bigz L dies or the Original dies.  They hold 10 of the large dies or 20 of the smaller dies.

They come with the plastic inserts to hold the dies

I have two sitting on my rolling Ikea cabinet along with my Big Shot.  Inside

Large dies in the back one and the front one holds the standard size dies and a couple of the larger ones.  Now for the tiny sizzlits, the best box ever

it holds 57 dies ( I have alot of room in this box) and it is so compact 9 x 5 3/8 x 3 1/8 it fits nicely into the drawer

with the cutting pads, spacer platforms and the mover and shapers dies.

Happy  Stamping,

Having trouble using little stamps?

I love the little stamps in Every Little Bit, Jolly Bingo Bits and Spooky Bingo Bits.  These small stamps make great focal points like on these tags

Isn't he a happy little snowman surrounded by a Island Indigo scallop. I ran Pool Party cardstock through the Big Shot using the larger tag on the Two Tags die.  A strip of Domestic Goddess (isn't it perfect on this tag) with strips of Island Indigo for highlights.  Some of our gorgeous ruffled Island Indigo ribbon is used to attach the tag to the package.

And here they are attached to the orders from my last party, a nice way to close up the bags.

 

Happy Stamping,

 

Red and Green

traditional colours for Christmas and Garden Green with the glittery dots of Real Red from Holly Berry Bouquet Designer Series paper certainly makes a bright card.

 

  

My happy snowman is back sporting  Garden Green and Pacific Point for his wardrobe today.  Simple layout, great card.

Happy Stamping,

More Marshmallows Please

Sometimes, just one of these cute marshmallow snowman isn't enough.

I punched him out using our 1 1/4" square punch and then rounded the corners with our Corner Rounder punch and then layered onto a Bashful Blue square punched with our 1 3/8" square punch. To make the white background have some pop, I embossed it using Snow Burst embossing folder.  Simple, quick card, just what you need when you have several to make.

Happy Stamping,

Tags, Tags and More Tags

I don't know about you but I never seem to have enough and with our Two Tags die and our Big Shot, tags are so quick and easy to make

I used the Stocking Accents die to cut the candy canes and the tree.  To make the tree 3D I simply cut three of them, scoring down the center and glueing them together

And for these two I used our punches for the embellishments

Add some bling with our Self adhesive Rhinestones.  So quick and easy

Happy Stamping,

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I don't know about you but I have a hard time finding the edge of my Big Shot dies, what I mean is where the cutting lines are so that I don't end up with half a circle etc. Here is a die

Now this one is the Big XL Flower Folds die that has four different flowers that you can cut.  Now if you wanted to cut all four out of the same paper no problem, just put on a 6 x 12 piece of paper, and you are good to go.  Now what if you just want one of the flowers, that is where my problem begins.  It is hard to see the edges of where each flower is.  So what I used to do is use my White Gel Pen and put marks on the edges  so I could line things up, just like this Scallop Envelope Die.

 Now it worked but then a fellow demo, Kay Kalthoff shared a tip that she learned at leadership.  

Now those stand out!  Use Avery self adhesive full sheets, cut to size, remove backing and attach to the die.  Run the die through the Big  Shot and using your paper piecer, remove the cut pieces.  Now the edges of each piece can clearly be seen and I also measured and wrote on the size of cardstock required for each individual die cut.  Is this the best tip or what?

Happy Stamping,