Stampin' Up! Rustic Harvest Fun Fold

It's another fun fold Friday for my stamping friends. This one came along quite by accident. I had cut my base incorrectly so I had to improvise. I can't give you measurements because I was flying by the seat of my pants and kept making mistakes! Here goes...

 What I can tell you is what I used to make this "M"istake fold! Here's a look at the "M"...

  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	In the City (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Mossy Meadow; Basic White; Merry Merlot (retired); Rustic Harvest DSP (retired)
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories
Tools	unknown die for the "hello"

Stampin' Up! New Home Card

Good Saturday morning, peeps. My card today is one I created for my daughter and son-in-love. They just moved from upstate NY to eastern TN and had a brand new house built. The moving van just arrived yesterday so they will be quite busy settling in. They have already made memories since living in the house with no bed and no sofa. The moving company lost their sofa! At least my card arrived on time and the post office didn't lose it!!

I used Gorgeous Grape cardstock for my base, Very Vanilla cardstock and the retired Tin Tile 3D Embossing Folder for the front panel. The Designer Series Paper is the retired Botanical Butterflies.

For the inside, I used a die from the Scalloped Contours Dies to create the frame (more Botanical Butterflies DSP) for the computer printed greeting. That is also cut with the same die package.

I'm entering my card in the Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge and  Inkspirational Challenge #273.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you will be having a great weekend and that you will become one of my followers. I'm still trying to get that number from 85 to 100 by the end of the year!

Stampin' Up! Abstract Beauty Cut, Stack & Shuffle

Good Sunday morning, peeps! I'm back with more of the cut, stack and shuffle technique for my cards today. This is such a great technique when you want to use up Designer Series Paper (a/k/a patterned paper) AND create the same but different cards to use in a gift pack. Take a look see how I used the retired Abstract Beauty DSP for various occasions.

I am displaying it in collage form as I made 8 cards for assorted occasions. Have you tried this technique yet? One of the gals in my card group has and she is making 40 for the deacons at church to send to members who are not well. She was thrilled when I demonstrated this technique.

It was brought to my attention again that some of you are not receiving emails from me any longer about when I post. In July the Mail Chimp link was not working for some people so I switched to Follow It. That means you will have to resubscribe. Thus, if you aren't receiving emails but want to, just click on the Subscribe button and enter your email address. You will receive an email from Follow It asking you to confirm that you want to subscribe. If you don't see that email, check your spam folder. Clicking on the follow button just shows that you are following me but I don't think you get notifications that I've posted. Let me know if I'm wrong on that.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll be back for my M & M's tomorrow.

Stampin' Up! Garden Birdhouses

Good Sunday morning, peeps. Today's card is another that I created awhile back and forgot to post...mainly because I had forgotten to take a picture of it, just like I did yesterday's card! I'm in such a hurry to get cards out in the snail mail...lol! So, I had my friend take a picture of the outside only because the inside was personalized.

My friends moved into a new home and they have cardinals and butterflies flittering about. There is nothing I can remember about the coloring except for the fact that I used Light and Dark Stampin' Blends and the Garden Birdhouses Stamp Set for the images. The "Congratulations!" is from the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set.  I love the Brushed Brass Butterfly and the cardinal was something I had in my stash.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having a great weekend!

Stampin' Up! Welcoming Window New Home Card

TGIF, happy Christmas Eve Day and can you believe tomorrow is Christmas! My card today is one I made for my son-in-love's parents. It's what they gave each other for Christmas.

I stamped the sentiment from the retired Well Scripted Stamp Set on Basic White with VersaMark ink. I sprinkled it with silver embossing powder and heat set it. (I'm entering my card at the Alphabet Challenge Blog S is for Silver) Then I cut it out with a die from the Ornate Frames Dies. I adhered it with Stampin' Dimensionals to the photo of their new home in TN, then mounted it on a mat of Basic Gray. The card base is a CTMH product, which was gifted to me.

For the inside, I stamped the window from the Welcoming Window Photopolymer Stamp Set in Gray Granite, 2nd generation. I had already printed the greeting from my computer. I cut it out with a die from the Ornate Layers Dies and adhered it to a mat of Basic Black.

They were quite pleased with it! So was I!! I hope you are too!!! Thanks for stopping by today and I wish you a very merry Christmas.

Matthew 1:23

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). ESV

Stampin' Up! New Home November 2020 Paper Pumpkin

 Good Saturday morning my stamping friends. My card today was inspired by Sara Levin. 

Here is what I used:

Card Base: Coastal Cabana

Blushing Bride Mat

Whisper White art panel

November 2020 Paper Pumpkin Kit Stamps for sentiment, houses and filigree

Cardstock for houses: Coastal Cabana, Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz

Scrap Coastal Cabana for sentiment and Coastal Cabana Ink

White Embossing Powder, embossing buddy, heat tool

Timeless Tropical Stamp Set for palm trees

I'm entering my card at Inkspirational: Challenge #229 Something in your home. 

This picture is of the palm tree inside our home. It has a long history with the Jamaican monkey in it, a couple of Christmas ornaments and Christmas lights. It stays in the living room year round.

I created the inside using a computer printed sentiment and cut it out with a die from Stitched So Sweetly. 

My DSP is from the retired Tropical Oasis Series from last year.

Waterfront Stamp Set for palm trees on envelope front

I'm entering my card at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper January 2021 and NBUS Challenge #22. I had never used anything from this Paper Pumpkin Kit before.

I'm experimenting with a new font and the way I explain my cards for the purpose of saving time and being able to post every day. Let me know what you think, positive or negative! Thanks for stopping by today and I'll be back tomorrow...hope you will be too!

Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

It's Silly Saturday today and I hope you are enjoying your day and that you will enjoy my card. There's a little story behind it.

Our friends, Bob and Kim, just moved into a new home. We had looked at the same community and would have been their attached neighbors. You will see the villa on the front of my card. Not only would we have been close neighbors, but there is a pasture in the back yard. I love cows and just happened to have a cow stamp. These two friends are characters so I knew they would enjoy a funny card to welcome them to their new home. 

Remember I told you in an earlier post that I would try to play at the Alphabet Challenge site every time this year? Well I've made it to the second letter of the alphabet: Alphabet Challenge Blog: B is for Buildings!

I went to the Tuscany Isles web site and downloaded a model picture and printed it on Very Vanilla cardstock. This is an exact replica of the villa they bought. I penned in their address number on their garage and also penned in the sentiment. My son and I couldn't be their neighbors because we have two vehicles and a golf cart, none of which we want to part with...plus we have more space and windows in our current home. I'm not so sure I want cows for neighbors even though I love their sweet faces! Something else is not so sweet!

Here's what I mean...yes, something about methane gas!

I used stamps from Sheltering Tree to stamp the pasture,  a die from Lakeside Framelits to cut the stamped sentiment from Fabulous Flamingo, and the retired Word Bubbles dies for the cow "talk"! I wrote in the talk before mounting it with Dimensionals. You can see how it goes off the edge, right? Well, that's because of this challenge...Just Us Girls Trend Week #183 - Off the Edge

Hopefully I didn't put you over the edge with my sense of humor! In any event continue on with a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by.

Stampin' Up! Enjoy Life, Bouquet Bunch, Stained Glass,Botanical Bliss, Well Said, In the City

Wow, the title of this post is a mouthful! With that out of the way, welcome to 

Our monthly Inkin' Krew team blog hop is always themed based. This month Amy has given us "Celebrate Spring" for our theme. We can interpret that any way we want and we can use any products we want.

Spring...what better time to sell a house in southwest Florida! Northeners are tired of the cold, snow, ice, sleet and rain! Our Canadian neighbors are selling their home in back of us and I created this card for the new people when they move in. We don't want our neighbors to leave but we totally understand the difference between the Canadian dollar and the USA dollar! Once they sell, they will rent in our community.  

I am CASEing a card that we made at Meg's last Thursday. It uses quite an array of Stampin' Up! products. The original card was created by Su Mohr and Meg's CASE is shown below.

Here's my card...

I chose the colors of Lovely Lipstick, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party and Mango Melody because of this challenge: SUOC 218 Color Challenge.  SUO allows neutrals in their color challenge. 

My die cut flowers (using the Bouquet Bunch Framelits) are Pool Party, Lovely Lipstick and Mango Melody. My Basic Black fence is cut with a die from Stained Glass Framelits. Meg used part of a die in the Botanical Tags Thinlits for her bird but I used retired dies from Beautiful Branches to make two birds facing each other. The Botanical Bliss Bundle will be on my next order! (Update: I attended our team meeting Sunday via Zoom and was able to get this bundle in the Prize Patrol...thank you, Amy!)

For the grass, "weeds" and butterflies, I used the Enjoy Life stamp set. For the grass, I stamped Granny Apple Green full strength and the weeds are second generation.

The "Welcome" comes from the Well Said stamp set and it's stamped in Pool Party.

For the inside I used sentiments from Well Said and In the City. The little house is from Hearts Come Home.

Thanks for stopping by today. Clicking on the "next" button will take you to Shirley Gentry. Clicking on the "previous" button will take you to Mary Deatherage. If you like, you can also click on each name on the list below. Have fun hopping!

1. Karen Ksenzakovic
2. Connie Troyer
3. Jaimie Babarczy
4. Sue Prather
5. Julie Johnston
6. Mary Deatherage
7. Karen Finkle - you are here!
8. Shirley Gentry
9. Amy Koenders

Partial List of Products Used in the photos above:

Enjoy Life Photopolymer Stamp Set [148190] $25.00	Well Said Cling Bundle [150609] $76.50	Botanical Bliss Clear-Mount Bundle [148333] $41.25
Stained Glass Thinlits Dies [146347] $29.00	Bouquet Bunch Framelits Dies [143659] $30.00

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Stampin' Up! Heartland

I love it when you can get double mileage out of a stamp set, have fun with your team AND enter a challenge that is fun. There is a story behind this card and I worked it into the challenge at SoSS #102 - F is for Farm Life. This is my second entry for their challenge but totally different from yesterday!

Our "Krew" has been identifying colors they are not fond of and our leader did not want to see any of the colors together so I made a "snarky" card for all who named colors! Then, Edna at Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers left the city for the farm so I just had to turn this into a card to welcome her!"

My card base is Whisper White, standard 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I cut a piece of "Just Add Color" Designer Series Paper and started coloring with my Blender Pens. One person detests Lemon Lime Twist (my favorite); another abhors Wisteria Wonder, Perfect Plum, and Elegant Eggplant. I owned up to disliking Peekaboo Peach and Tranquil Tide. Lastly, another would not miss Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango and Tempting Turquoise. So those are all the colors on the card front. I had to write my own sentiments. 

For the inside, I printed out the words to Fred Rogers' song, "Won't You Be My Neighbor" and used the RGB codes for each color on each line. I stamped the barn in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.

I hope you had as much fun viewing my card and post as I had with it and converting it to fit Edna. I am hoping to make converts in my group so that they will like Lemon Lime Twist, all the purples and blues. Who knows, I may convert to liking the oranges. There is no doubt that I like anything grape related!

Thanks for visiting!

Just Add Color Specialty Designer Series Paper [144180] $13.00	Elegant Eggplant Classic Stampin' Pad [126969] $6.50	Perfect Plum Classic Stampin' Pad [126963] $6.50
Wisteria Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad [126985] $6.50	Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [144086] $6.50	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945] $6.50
Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Pad [126952] $6.50	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [144085] $6.50	Peekaboo Peach Classic Stampin' Pad [141398] $6.50
Tangerine Tango Classic Stampin' Pad [126946] $6.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Blender Pens [102845] $12.00
Heartland Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143892] $17.00

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Stampin' Up! In the City

This is a very simple card but couldn't we use it at Tara Woods for the welcoming committee? Who from Tara Woods wants to make this card with me?

Thanks for looking!

In The City Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143771]

$16.00

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

$16.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100730]

$9.00

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