Stampin' Up! Painted Patch Birthday

Good morning, peeps! Fall is in the air...at least on my card if not in the weather. Take a look see... 

My card base is Cajun Craze cut at 6 3/4" x 4 1/4". I scored it at 1 1/4". I sponged Cajun Craze ink on the flap using one of the Painted Pumpkins Decorative Masks.

Then I cut a piece of Painted Patch DSP to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4", put a tick mark at 1 1/4" on the top left and cut it on the diagonal.

Using the Painted Pumpkins Dies and Painted Patch DSP, I cut out five pumpkins/gourds. I also cut the leaves and tendril from Old Olive cardstock. I adhered them as seen in the photo (with one being on the inside Pool Party panel that measures 5 1/4" x 4).

I stamped the sentiment from the retired Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set in Cajun Craze ink and added embellishments from the Painted Patch Adhesive-Backed Dots.

Thank you for stopping by today
 

 

Stampin' Up! Painted Pumpkin Birthday or Friendship Card

Good Monday morning, peeps. My card today is one that was inspired by Stamping Before Anything Else on You Tube.

 

 

 My card base is 4 1/4 x 11, scored at 5 1/2. My mat is 4 1/8 x 5 3/8. The squares are 1 1/4 x 1 1/4. The sentiment square is 2 7/16 x 2 7/16 and the mat is 2 9/16 x 2 9/16. Everything I used is in the chart at the end of my post.

 

For the inside... 

The inner liner is 4 x 5 1/4.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll be back tomorrow for our monthly AIK blog hop. 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Painted Pumpkins
Card stock & Papers	Secret Sea; Pool Party; Basic White; Painted Patch DSP
Ink	Calypso Coral; Secret Sea; Cajun Craze; Pool Party
Accessories	2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls
Tools	Trimmer and Liquid Glue

Stampin' Up! Happy Place Birthday Card

Today I really went back into the archives for the color...Certainly Celery. I would be so happy if they brought it back! My photo doesn't do the color justice. Take a look see...

It's prettier IRL. The embossing folder I used is the retired Twigs & Sprigs and I used my Blending Brush to add some Certainly Celery ink. The ribbon is also retired grosgrain Certainly Celery. 

I cut a piece of retired Certainly Celery DSP with a retired die from Tasteful Labels and stamped the sentiment from the Happy Place Stamp Set on a scrap of Basic White cut with a smaller die from the same die set. 3 Granny Apple Green Shimmering Dots were added at the end.

For the inside...

 

more stamps from the Happy Place set (thank you Sharon Armstrong!) and a strip of Certainly Celery DSP. I used a tad of Lost Lagoon on the happy, along with Lemon Lolly and Certainly Celery inks.

You can still find all of the retired products on Ebay but Happy Place is current! I really do think it's time for SU to bring this color back home. Let's see if I'm prophetic in 2027...LOL.

Thank you for stopping by today. 

Stampin' Up! Fern & Flora Birthday for Amy's Inkin' Krew Blog Hop

Welcome to the AIK monthly blog hop. Our theme for this month is "Fun Fold" and we can  use any product we wish.  The list of hoppers is at the end of my post. I hope you'll hop along. Here's a thumbnail of my creation...

 

 Let's take a closer look...

 

This is another card design/fun fold that Alyson Mayo taught me how to make. If you join her group, you can watch the video and get the pdf. I hope you'll do that.

I'm using up some items from my stash that I found when I participated in the Papercrafters Get Organized Summit. I have so many pre-cut butterflies and flowers it's pathetic! 

Thank you for stopping by today. Clicking on the "Next" button will take you to Christie King . Clicking on the individual names below will take you directly to each member's post. Trust me, you're in for a treat! 

 

Terry Lynn Bright

Ann Louise Fodgaard

Charlene Tackvic

Tara Carpenter

Karen Ksenzakovic

Karen Finkle- that's me!

Christie King

Mary Deatherage

Amy Koenders

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Year of Flowers (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Berry Burst; Fern & Flora; Basic White; Old Olive; Color Theory DSP (ret.)
Ink	Berry Burst; Light Old Olive and Light Berry Bursts Blends
Accessories	butterflies and florals from my stash
Tools

Stampin' Up! Lily of the Valley Birthday Card for the Creative Creases Challenge - Anything Goes with a Fun Fold

 Welcome to our Anything Goes With a Fun Fold Challenge. I'd like to welcome our new Design Team Mate, Sue Jackson! She played a lot at CCC. If you haven't played at Creative Creases Challenge before, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to Challenge #115. We'd love to see your fun fold creation. Here's mine...

 

I made this fold last month for the CCC and today I CASE'd my Design Team Mate AND upline, Mary Deatherage. I hope I did Mary proud! Her instructions and measurements were spot on and easier. These are "rough" shots of  front, open, back and measurements. Let's take a closer look, shall we? 

 

 

Mary has a great video for making this card and I do hope you'll check it out because I'm not going to "reinvent the wheel" :-)

Thank you for stopping by today and I can't wait to see all the creativity from the team.  Be sure to check us out at CCC#115 ... we hope to see your entry there!  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Phrases & Frames (available 5/5/26)
Card stock & Papers	Granny Apple Green; Coastal Cabana; Basic White; Garden Green; Valley in Bloom (available 5/5/26)
Ink	Coastal Cabana
Accessories	Shimmering Dots (available 5/5/26)
Tools	Lily of the Valley Dies (available 5/5/26); Everyday Arches Dies (smallest)

Stampin' Up! Dainty Flowers Birthday Card

Good mid-week morning, peeps! Over the weekend I participated in a PaperCrafters Get Organized Summit. WOW, I decluttered, sorted and organized a lot of drawers but my main goal was to clean up my pre-cut sentiments, images, card stock and DSP. Today's card represents some of that. Take a look see...

 The base, mat, DSP, butterfly and banner were just thrown in a drawer. The sentiment is new (5/5/26) from the Lily of the Valley Photopolymer Stamp Set. It fit perfectly in the pre-cut banner. I didn't have to declutter, sort or organize my ribbon because I have always done that. The base is either Fresh Freesia or Purple Posy. I know the mat is Highland Heather but I have no idea what the die cut was. The DSP is the Dainty Flowers which was offered through Sale-A-Bration but I don't remember what year (no reference in my UpNote inventory). The ribbon had no name on it so it must have come in a bundle. The butterfly was in with all my pre-cut insects so I have no clue where that came from or it may have been punched. In any event, I had fun putting the odds and ends together. The inside is the same find...

There was a piece of Highland Heather card stock and the flower image with the sentiment in a box. It was stamped in black so I colored it with various Blends. The three stamped little flowers are from the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set (on the Last Chance List).

You will be seeing more of my sorted stash in the future. I have yet to being sorting my unfinished projects bin. This is exhausting, peeps, BUT it is so rewarding. I felt like I had really accomplished something during and after the seminars and I plan to keep it going.

Thanks for stopping by today and let me know if you attended the Summit. 

Stampin' Up! Bendy Birthday Card for the Stampin' Up! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop

 Hello my stamping friends.  Welcome to our monthly Stampin' Up! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop!! The participating demonstrators are listed at the end of my post. I hope you will choose to hop along. Here's a thumbnail of what I created for the hop today...

                                             
 Let's take a closer look...

My inspiration came from Dawn Griffith.

Early Espresso Card Stock:

·        Base – 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”

·        Mat – 3 1/4” x 5”, scored at 1/2” on both sides of 5” side

·        Bendy – 1” x 6”, scored at 1/4” on 6” side

Petal Pink Card Stock:

·        Front Mat: 3” x 3 3/4”

·        Back Mats: 2 1/2” x 4” (2) (not shown in post)

·        Scrap for Sentiments

DSP:

·        Share What You Love – 5 1/4” x 4”

·        Beautiful Gallery – scrap for hash (2)

·        Painterly Pears – cut outs for pears, stems/leaves

Inks:

·        Early Espresso

·        Old Olive

·        Mossy Meadow

·        Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools:

·        Perfectly Pears Stamp Set and Dies

·        Stylish Shapes Dies

Accessories:

·        Adhesive-Backed Swirl Dots

·        Dimensionals

Instructions:

Adhere  5 1/4” x 4” DSP to card base, score at 2 3/4” on the back side of base. Bend back and forth with fingers ending up with a valley fold.

Stamp a pear image in center of 3” x 3 3/4” Petal Pink Mat; adhere to 3 1/4’ x 5” Early Espresso Mat that has been scored previously on the edges. With the scored sides folded in and down, score at 2”. Fold back and forth with fingers ending up with mountain fold.

Add cut out two pears and adhere with dimensionals. Cut and adhere 3 stems/leaves. Put liquid glue only on stems and mini dimensionals on leaves.  Adhere hash marks.

Line up center fold with center fold of base and adhere with Tear & Tape on folded edges, make sure it’s high enough that “bendy” doesn’t cover the bottom of pears.

Stamp splatters on the 1” x 6” bendy piece. Tear & Tape on the ¼” folds and butt up against edges of base. Stamp splatters on the banner sentiment (optional).

Add sentiments…one dimensional on banner center. 2 mini dimensionals on the “hello”. Add 3 embellishments. 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you will hop along with the list of demos below. 

Rae Burnet

Karen Finkle - that's me!

Debbie Mageed

Su Mohr

Lisa Ann Bernard

Mary Deatherage

Michele Deschenes

Sue Jackson

Beth McCullough

 

 

Stampin' Up! Painted Illusions Birthday Card for the Creative Creases Challenge - Anything Goes with a Fun Fold

Welcome to our Anything Goes With a Fun Fold Challenge. If you haven't played at Creative Creases Challenge before, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to Challenge #114. We'd love to see your fun fold creation. Here's mine... 

 Let's take a closer look... 

Misty Moonlight Card Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"; score at 2 1/8", 4 1/4", 6 3/8" (mountain, valley, mountain) 

DSP Front Panels: 1 7/8" x 5 1/4" (2)

Misty Moonlight Decorative Panel: 4" x 5 1/4" cut with Countryside Label Die

Basic White for "30" Panel: 4" x 5 1/4" cut with Countryside Label Die and embossed with Subtle 3D EF. I decorated it with a retired Paper Accent Butterfly (sponged with Granny Apple Green Ink). I stamped and punched the "30" with the retired Alphabest Bundle. I used scraps of the DSP and Misty Moonlight Ink.

Misty Moonlight Mechanism for Pop Out: 1 3/4" x 8", score at 2, 3, 5 and 6 inches; fold into a T and glue bottom of  T in the center fold of the card. Terry Gaines has a great video of how to do this. 

I used scraps of Misty Moonlight and Basic White for the birthday sentiment from the current BBQ Master Stamp Set. I cut the mat and sentiment with a die from the retired Grow with Love Dies. I offset them, which I thought gave it a little more interest.

For the back of the card:

 

 Basic White  Back Panel: 1 7/8" x 5 1/4" ; scrap for sentiment on the DSP Panel: 1 7/8" x 5 1/4" . The sentiments are from the retired Hooray for Surprises and Something Fancy stamp sets. I used Misty Moonlight  and Granny Apple Green inks. I fussy cut the "belated" sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by today and I can't wait to see all the creativity from the team.  Be sure to check us out at CCC#114 ... we hope to see your entry there!