Stampin' Up! Take to the Sky SU Demos Fun Fold Monthly Blog Hop

 Hello my FB peeps! Welcome to our monthly Stampin' Up! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop! I made this fun fold August 1 but did it in a larger size. You can see it here. Here's the scaled down version for the hop today...

The participating demonstrators are listed at the end of my post. I hope you will choose to hop along. Let me show you the larger photo of my card...

My card basis is Starry Sky card stock (retired) 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4".

The inside Designer Series is 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" cut from retired  2022-2024 In Color (Starry Sky).

I cut the front of the base from the center (2 3/4") diagonally to the bottom corners.

Next I cut a piece of Take to the Sky DSP (retired) 5 1/4" x 4", marked the center at 2 10/16" and cut diagonally to the bottom corners. I adhered the smaller triangles to the card front triangles. 

For the inside...

I cut a piece of Basic White card stock at 5 1/4" x 4", marked the center at 2 10/16" and cut diagonally to the bottom corners. I adhered the big triangle upside down to the base after stamping it with the sentiment from Unbounded Love. 

Then I took another piece of Take to the Sky DSP (5 1/4" x 4") and cut diagonally to the corners from the 2 10/16" center mark. I adhered the big triangle to the back of the front. Be sure to have your DSP going directionally when you cut. I lucked out cuz I wasn't even paying attention to the direction that the planes would be on the inside!

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

1. Debbie Mageed
2. Maria Mench
3. Karen Finkle
4. Su Mohr
5. Rae Burnet
6. Michele Deschenes
7. Beth McCullough
8. Tarabeth Carpenter
9. Mary Deatherage
10. Lisa Ann Bernard

 

Stampin' Up! The Right Words Thinking of You Card

Hello my stamping friends. I've got another Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper card for you today. I hope you aren't tired of seeing this paper...obviously, I'm not! For once I am not hoarding...lol!

 

My card base is Mossy Meadow 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored and folded at 4 1/4".

The Darling Duckling layer is 4" x 5 1/4".

The DSP is 3 3/4" x 5".

The ribbon is Mossy Meadow & Gold 1/4" trim. I just love that ribbon, don't you?

The sentiment is from The Right Words Stamp Set, stamped in Mossy Meadow ink. It's punched with the retired Double Oval punch and edged with a Mossy Meadow Stamp N Write Marker. 

For the inside...

another greeting from The Right Words and image from the Perfectly Pears Stamp Set.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll be back tomorrow for our monthly SU Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop.
 

Stampin' Up! Calming Camellia Friendship Card

Good Sunday morning, stamping friends. I never thought I would love this Designer Series Paper so much. The stamp set in the title is one I had in my inventory and I had not used any of the sentiments. The Calming Camellia set retired in 2022! I'm entering my card in the NBUS Challenge #77. I haven't played there in forever! Thank you for stopping by today. 

 

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Calming Camellia (retired) for all sentiments; Perfectly Pears for inside flowers
Card stock & Papers	Petal Pink; Secret Sea; Very Vanilla; Painterly Pears DSP
Ink	Secret Sea; Darling Duckling
Accessories	The Robert Stanley Collection Ribbon 2007 from Hobby Lobby; Liquid Pearls
Tools	Stitched So Sweetly Dies (retired); Detailed Trio Punch (retired)

Stampin' Up! Unbounded Love Encouragement Card

Hello my stamping friends! Today's card is brought to you by the Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper. This has become my favorite DSP. 

 

I like this design because it shows off both sides of the DSP...you'll see in a minute.

My card base is Secret Sea card stock and measures 5 1/4" x 5 1/2", scored and folded at 1" on the 5 1/4" side; embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D folder.

The front panel of DSP measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".

The Modern Oval Punch was used for the front sentiment and the dots are done free hand.

The ribbon is Secret Sea Faux Linen 3/8".

The inside panel measures 4" x 5 1/4" and the DSP strip measures 4" x  1".

The sentiments are from the retired Unbounded Love Stamp Set stamped in Secret Sea.

Thank you for stopping by today. I appreciate your visits AND your comments! 

Stampin' Up! Beautiful Butterflies Birthday Card

Good Monday Morning Makeover to you, my stamping friends! Here's my makeover...

 Remember the original card?

 

Today's card just has different measurements so the flaps are square rather than rectangular. 

 

• Card Base: 4 1/4" x 11", scored and folded at 5 1/2"
• DSP Panel: 4" x 5 1/4"
• Flaps: 3 3/4" x 3 1/2"; 3 2/4" x 3", scored and folded 1/4" from edge to make a square (long sides)
• DSP for flaps 3 1/4" x 3 1/4" and 2 3/4" x 2 3/4"
• Inside Panel: 4" x 5 1/4"

For the insides...

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Butterflies "Time to Celebrate"; Nature's Harvest and Harvest Dies (retired) for coneflowers; Coneflower Celebrations (inside sentiment)
Card stock & Papers	Mossy Meadow; Basic White; Bokeh DSP; Splendid Autumn DSP
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black; Pecan Pie, Daffodil Delight and Mossy Meadow Blends
Accessories	Brushed Brass Butterflies
Tools	Well Written Dies ("Happy Birthday"); Beautiful Butterflies Hybrid EF

Stampin' Up! Painterly Pears Encouragement Cards

Good morning, my stamping friends. Hope you are having a great weekend. I have a couple of church friends who are having a really rough time of it so I made a couple of cards using the  Perfectly Pears Stamp Set.

My card base is Secret Sea card stock, the mat is Darling Duckling card stock and the art panel is Painterly Pears DSP. The sentiment is stamped in Mossy Meadow ink and I added three Low Profile Sparkle Dots.

For the second card, I used the same sheet of DSP, stamped the sentiment in Secret Sea ink and added a Brushed Brass Butterfly.

 

The inside of each card is the same sentiment and image.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll be back tomorrow for my Makeover Monday.
 

 

Stampin' Up! Anniversary Card

Happy mid-week, my stamping friends. It's almost mid-month as well. I made my card today for a challenge. Let me show you... 

Now for the challenge... 

 

For Thing 1's challenge I had to use 3 colors (neutrals not included), 2 layers or more (card base not included) and 1 spotlight technique. So, I used Darling Duckling card stock for the base, black cardstock for a mat and the Basic White layer for my art panel. In addition to the Darling Duckling color, the butterflies are gold. I used Light & Dark Lemon Lolly Blends to color the flowers, Light & Dark Old Olive Blends for the leaves and Dark Timid Tiger Blend for the ring around the center of the flower.  The center of the flower is colored with a Dark Crumb Cake Blend but that didn't count. I fussy cut the image from the Blessings of Home Stamp Set (retired) and adhered to the whole bouquet image. I haven't done the spotlight technique in 4 years!

I'm playing with Thing 3's challenge of including butterflies and blooms but I have no birds. The alternate challenge is Triple B so I'm playing there as well.

Thing 2 wants us to play along with the sketch at TSOT #676. I interpreted the sketch in a mirror image and a totally different shape. What do you think? 

 

Can you see it? I can!!

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll play along with the Double Trouble #197 challenge. They are so much fun and have a fantastic design team. 

Project Details—All Products Current SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Layers of Beauty; Blessings of Home (retired); Petal Path (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Darling Duck; Basic Black; Basic White
Ink	Lemon Lolly; Old Olive; Timid Tiger; Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Brushed Brass Butterflies
Tools	Paper Snips; Paper Trimmer; Dimensionals; Liquid Glue

Stampin' Up! Splendid Autumn Birthday Card for Amy's Inkin' Krew Blog Hop

Hello my stamping friends! Welcome to our monthly Amy's Inkin' Krew hop. Our theme for this month is "Autumn Frenzy" and we can  use any product we wish. Here is what I created for it using the Splendid Autumn DSP.

 

Let's take a closer look, shall we?

My card is a CASE of Cindy Brumbaugh and she has an excellent video on the measurements and how to's here. Product I used is in the chart below the names of hoppers.

A couple of views of the inside... 

 

Thank you for stopping by today. Clicking on the "Previous" button will take you to Amy K., and clicking on the "Next" button will take you to Tara Beth. Clicking on the individual names will take you directly to each member's post. Trust me, you're in for a treat no matter what direction you hop! 

 

 List of Hoppers:

Karen Finkle - that's me!
Tara Carpenter
Christie King
Karen Ksenzakovic
Nicole Bloxom
Mary Deatherage
Ann Louise Fodgaard
Akiko Sudano
Terry Lynn Bright
Amy Koenders

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love; The Right Words; Spotlight on Nature (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Cherry Cobbler; Very Vanilla; Splendid Autumn DSP
Ink	Cherry Cobbler; Balmy Blue
Accessories	Adhesive-Backed Dragonflies & Birds
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies; Spotlight on Nature Dies; Iconic Dies (retired); Fern 3D EF (Last Chance)

Stampin' Up! Wildflower Birthday Card

Good Monday morning, stamping friends. Hope you had a marvelous weekend. My card today was inspired by Creative Moments with G. I changed it up a bit with different measurements but I hope to CASE hers and mine next week. The reason I changed from squares (G's shape) to a rectangle was because I was cutting up ephemera from the Wildflower Birthday DSP and I had scored on the wrong edges for the flaps...lol! Take a look see...

The "dear friend" is from the retired Spotlight on Nature Stamp Set and is stamped in retired Starry Sky Ink. The card base is also Starry Sky Card Stock (retired).

Underneath the flaps is more of the DSP and a sentiment I had in my stash. It coordinated with the pinks in the paper so I went with it...no idea from where it came!

 Opening up the main part of the card, you see this...

 I will eventually stamp it with a stamp from the Coneflower Celebrations... 

 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll be back tomorrow for our monthly Amy's Inkin' Krew Blog Hop. You'll be in for a treat and it might possibly cool you down from this blasted summer heat!

 

 

Stampin' Up! Prairie Grass Shaker Card

Good morning, stamping friends. Today's card is a CASE of my upline, Mary Deatherage. I am not a shaker card fan but when I saw Mary make this yesterday, I just had to dive in. I won't go into details here because she has a pdf and video for it here. I am happy with the way mine turned out...thank you, Mary!

and for the inside... 

I'm entering my card at Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge 2531.

Thank you for stopping by today and I do hope you will check out Mary's blog post for this card. 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Prairie Grass (available 9/3/25)
Card stock & Papers	Copper Clay (Last Chance); Basic White; Beautiful Gallery DSP; window sheets
Ink	VersaMark; Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories	Itty Bitty Bokeh Mix (discontinued)
Tools	Textured Note Dies; Foam Strips; WOW black embossing powder

Stampin' Up! City Sights Birthday

Good morning my stamping friends. My grandson has a birthday coming up and he lives in Manhattan. He also has access to the Hudson River on his walks or bike rides so I created this note-size card for him. I was inspired by Pat Fairless.  

I'm entering it in The Paper Players challenge PP749 as Stef has decided on a theme of water for this week.

 

I used the City Sights Kit as it is almost perfect for the skyline of Manhattan. I started out by masking the top and watercoloring the bottom with various Stamp N Write Markers for the reflections of the buildings on the water. When that was dry, I stamped the sentiment from Unbounded Love in Versafine Onyx Black. Then I watercolored the top using Boho Blue Ink. I stamped the birds in the Versafine. The birds are from the retired Sailing Home Stamp Set.

I stamped the images with the stamp from the kit in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them with Light and Dark Stampin' Blends. I fussy cut them and glued one to the left and the other I adhered with Dimensionals.

The art panel is adhered to a mat of Boho Blue Card Stock, which is retired. That is mounted on the note card.

Since my grandson likes simplicity, I stamped the inside with additional sentiments from Unbounded Love and just added a narrow strip of corrugated Boho Blue card stock from the kit to carry on the water theme.

Thank you for stopping by today. 

Stampin' Up! Otterly Adorable for the Creative Creases Challenge #106 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 #106. We'd love to see your fun fold creation. Here's a snapshot of mine...

 

  

 I watched a video by Alyson Mayo and she calls this an M-Fold Card. It's a 6" x 6" card. Let me show you a larger photo...

 

My base is a piece of 12" x 12" Lemon Lime Twist card stock (retired) and is cut at 12" x 6", scored at 6". The center, of course, is at the 3" mark and you cut from that point down to the corners, diagonally. 

The DSP (Otterly Adorable - Last Chance List) on the two triangles that result from those cuts are formed by cutting a piece 5 3/4" x 5 3/4", cut from 2 7/8" center to the corners diagonally. Adhere with liquid glue.

For the inside, you will need a piece of DSP that measures 5 7/8" x 5 7/8". Adhere that with liquid glue.

For the triangle that shows on the back side of the front, you will need a piece of colored card stock that measures 5 7/8" x 5 7/8" . Find the center (2 15/16"?) and cut diagonally from there to each bottom corner. The two resulting triangles can be saved for another project. The big triangle can be embossed (Seaside - retired) and adhered with liquid glue.

I stamped the sentiment from Unbounded Love in Early Espresso before I embossed it.

After the fact, I adhered some embellishments but I didn't take another photo. I also turned this into an A2 card, which I will post on August 26th with directions.
 

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#106 and we hope to see your entry there! Remember, you have a month to participate. .

Stampin' Up! Geared Up Garage Masculine Birthday Card

Good morning my stamping friends. Can you believe we have arrived at the end of July already? My card today was created for my 17 year old Godson who now owns a red muscle car. For the focal point on my card, I used the Geared Up Garage for a likeness of his car.

 

It's a CASE of my card that I created back in August 2022! Believe it or not, I had all the parts cut and they were inside the stamp case!

I haven't entered a challenge in awhile so I've decided to play at I Spy with My Little Eye Challenge #28. 

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Geared Up Garage (retired); Day to Remember (retired);
Card stock & Papers	Basic White; Basic Black; Basic Gray;  Brushed Silver Foil; Cherry Cobbler; Pattern Party DSP (retired); Black Foil (retired)
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories
Tools	Garage Gears Dies (retired)

Stampin' Up! Painterly Pears Thank You Card

 Sunday morning my stamping friends. Today's card is for my pastor just to encourage him. He wears the greatest plaid ties so I used a pattern from the Painterly Pears DSP and just added white lines with a white gel pen. I think I need a new one cuz this one was a little blobby. Anyone have a suggestion what brand to order?

Card base: Mossy Meadow 4 1/4" x 11", scored at 5 1/2"

Night of Navy Mat: 4" x 5 1/4"

Painterly Pears DSP: 3 3/8" x 4 7/8"

Sentiment: from Banner Blessings (retired); Scrap white, stamped in Night of Navy, sponged with Mossy Meadow; cut with Deco Label Die (retired)

Embellishments: Adhesive-Backed Dragonflies & Birds

For the inside...

 Basic White Card Stock: 4" x 5 1/4"

Stamp Sets: Forever Grapevine (retired image stamped in Mossy Meadow); Bamboo Beauty (retired sentiment stamped in Night of Navy)

Scrap from DSP: 4" x 1/4"

Rich Razzleberry Marker (retired) to color grapes

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you'll leave a comment about the gel pen.
 

Stampin' Up! Spendid Autumn Birthday Card

Good morning stamping friends. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Can you believe we are going into our last week of July tomorrow? I smell autumn coming on but maybe it's wishful thinking caused by my card today!

Take a look see...

 Measurements:

Very Vanilla 4 1/4" x 11, scored at 5 1/2" for Base; 1" x 4" for sentiment; 4" x 5 1/4" for inside

Crushed Curry Embossed Panel 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"

Balmy Blue Mats 2 5/8" x 3 7/8"; 1 7/8" x 3 1/8"

Splendid Autumn DSP one pattern 2 1/2" x 3 3/4"; second pattern 1 3/4" x 3"

Instructions:

• Emboss the Crushed Curry card stock with Birch Wood 3D EF and adhere to card front
• Adhere Splendid Autumn DSP panels to Balmy Blue Mats and adhere to card front as shown
• Stamp sentiment from Artistic Leaves on the 1" x 4" piece of Very Vanilla in Cajun Craze Ink. Cut out with die that fits it (I used a Spellbinders Die). Punch ends with SU Treasured Tag Pick A Punch (retired)
• Adhere 3 Woven Golden Leaves (retired)
• Adhere Sentiment with Dimensionals and embellish. I used retired Cajun Craze Dots.

For the inside...

 Using the Artistic Leaves Stamp Set, I stamped the sentiment in Cajun Craze and the image in Cajun Craze and Pumpkin Pie Inks then cut the panel out with the largest die from Textured Notes. (I thought I was using Very Vanilla card stock but the camera did not agree!)

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope the temps will cool off a bit. I still feel like I'm in Florida! 

 

 

Stampin' Up! One Wild Ride Anniversary Card

Good morning, stamping friends. Today is my daughter and son-in-love's wedding anniversary. They own a Harley so I decided to have that image play into the anniversary card for them. Hope they enjoy it and I hope you do too! Thank you for stopping by. Have a great weekend.

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Mixed Labels (retired); One Wild Ride (retired); This Birthday Piggy (retired); Sip Sip Hooray (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Smoky Slate; Basic Black; Basic White
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black; Smoky Slate; Crumb Cake; Catherine Pooler Silver Metallic Pigment Ink; Textured Metallic Specialty Paper
Accessories	Silver Embossing Powder
Tools	EK Heart Punch; Textured Notes Dies; Mixed Labels Dies

Stampin' Up! Sunflower Sympathy Card

Good morning my stamping friends. I needed four sympathy cards this week and two baby cards. I finished one sympathy card yesterday and decided to post it today. My inspiration came from The Pampered Stamper (Jackie vanderSar-Boot).

Here's my card...

 

I think the inside could be used as the outside minus the second sentiment!

• Basic White Cardstock for Card Base: 7" x 8 1/4", scored at 3 1/2"
• Basic White Cardstock for Panel: 3 1/4" x 8", scored at 3/4", 7/8", 1 1/4", 2", 2 3/8", 2 1/2"; sponged with Soft Sky Ink (retired)
• Basic White Cardstock 3" x 5" for Perennial Postage Squares: die cut 3 using the largest square; embossed with Sunflower 3D embossing folder; sponged with Crushed Curry; Pecan Pie and Old Olive Inks
• Crushed Curry Cardstock scrap:  punched with Double Oval Punch (retired); stamped with Mossy Meadow Ink using Unbounded Love Stamp Set
• Painted Autumn DSP (retired) for inside: 3 1/4" x 8"
• Soft Sky Cardstock  (retired): 4" x 5" inside sentiment die cut with Layering Ovals Framelits (retired) stamped with Early Espresso Ink using The Right Words Stamp Set
• Embellishment from Adhesive-Backed Dragonflies & Birds  

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed my card. It was fun to create even though it was for a difficult occasion.