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Stampin' Up! Perennial Lavender Fun Fold Birthday Card

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 Good Day!  Here is the second project made for my club gals for this month.  Super easy and so effective of a fun fold.  It is a great way to use up those lost strips of dsp, you could also use dsp you make yourself or even a coordinating colour of cardstock and dry emboss.  Oh the possibilities are endless. I used Gorgeous Grape for my cardbase-not gonna lie...it's a very pretty colour but for whatever reason I rarely reach for it.  Paired with the Perennial Lavender dsp and it's fabulous!  So your cardbase is scored, in half and in half again. Be sure to run your bone folder over the folds a couple of times.  So the strip of dsp is going to be adhered to the first section on the left hand side.  If you open the card in full, the dsp will go on the first scored section on the left.  Next, stamp a greeting on the Basic White piece (if you want one), adhere your strip of dsp and then adhere to the inside of the card.  Phew, almost there!  (super easy, told ya!). Next, stamp you
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Stampin' Up! Wanted to Say Dies Birthday Card

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 Hey!  It's me, it's been a minute since I did my last post but I just had to share this super cute card I made recently for my club gals. I really haven't made a big "new annual catty" purchase yet but I knew I needed some of the new in colors cardstock and coordinating dsp.  In prepping all of the cards, I really got to appreciate the new colours and decide which ones I really really liked and which ones I just liked.  Have you made a decision yet? Using the Wanted to Say dies, I die cut out the "full" sentiment from Basic White cardstock.  The defined letters die was used to cut the Petunia Pop cardstock after I attached it to a piece of Adhesive Sheets.  After peeling the backing, you can attach to the Basic White piece.  Next, adhere the sentiment to the die cut using Something Fancy Dies of Petunia Pop. The cardbase of Petunia Pop has a layer of Basic White cardstock and then another layer of the 2024-2026 In Color DSP.  Then you can add the sentim
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Stampin' Up! In The Moment Card

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 Todays card is not only based on a sketch (loosely) but also on a technique that I have tried before a long time ago and wanted to revisit. I like how it turned out, however I think I would prefer to have a different sized image to stamp that would be taller than the circle.  But it's still cool! Using a scrap of cardstock that had a circle die cut in it, I laid it on a piece of Basic White and used my Gray Granite ink and a blending brush to colour in the circle.  When I had the desired amount of colour, I lifted the scrap piece and then stamped my image, again using Gray Granite. The image is off to the side of the circle, giving a bit of a different look.  Then I stamped the sentiment below the circle.  I did take a Balmy Blue Stampin' Blend and coloured her hair clip because I thought it needed a little pop of colour.  The stamps are from the In the Moment stamp set.  This layer is adhered to the Gray Granite cardbase, with a little bow from the Baker's Twine pack and
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Stampin' Up! Rock and Roll Birthday Card

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Hey everyone!  Today's sketch is super cool and I really love the card I made using it.  This was so easy to put together since I used three different dsp designs.  All I stamped was the sentiments.  So if you were looking for a great design to mass produce, this is it! The first layer of dsp goes directly onto the cardbase, then I cut the second piece of dsp (I cut it on a diagonal, now there's no right or wrong to the size of this piece so do what works for you) and it is adhered to the first.  See, simple!  The third piece of dsp is adhered to the Basic Black panel with Stampin' Seal, then popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals and placed slightly askew on the cardfront.  Almost done!  Next I stamped the sentiment from Sweet Songbirds onto a scrap of Basic White using Memento ink.  That is then trimmed down to the size I want and popped up with Stampin Dimensionals.   For the inside, I stamped a sentiment and added a few music notes from the same stamp set, added a scr
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Stampin' Up! Gilded Leafing Birthday Card

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Have you ever noticed the offerings of cardbases and envelopes in the catalogue?  Even better when the designs are super pretty.  Today's project is using the Gold Foiled Flowers Cards & Envelopes.  I actually cut one of the card bases in two and will make two cards with it. Using Very Vanilla as my cardbase, I trimmed down the card front from the cards and envelopes pack.  This is then adhered to the cardbase using Stampin' Seal.  Almost done! :) I then stamped a sentiment on a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock, punched out using the Hexagon Punch.  Adding a strip of tear and tape all the way around the punched edge, I then dipped it into the Gilded Leafing.  Using my hands and a blending brush to shake off the excess leafing, I worked the loose stuff off.  I adhered a bit of Stampin' Seal to the front of my card where I wanted to add my ribbon, then placed a length of the Gold Faux Leather Trim to the front of my card.  My sentiment piece will now fit over the ribbon si
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Stampin' UP! Gold Embossed Zinnia Birthday Card

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 Oh if you could only see this card in person!  It is gorgeous and simple to make and I just can't wait to give it away and make more! This was created by inking my embossing folder with Versamark, embossing a piece of cardstock, then sprinkling some embossing powder on the cardstock and finally applying heat via our heat tool.  Place it onto a cardbase, add a few embellishments and done! Add your versamark to either side, depending on what you want your end result to be.  I put mine on the right hand side or the indented side.  Then I added my Basic White cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot (yup, it's still going strong!).  Then I quickly added my Gold Embossing Powder to it and heat set it with my heat tool.   A strip of ribbon was added across the front, just long enough to tuck around the back and secured with stampin Seal!.  Then the entire embossed layer was added to the cardbase.  Another small piece of ribbon was tied to make a small knot off to the side.  My senti
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Stampin Up Fresh as a Daisy Thank You card

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Today turned out to be a beautiful day here in Nova Scotia.  Started frosty but now I have some windows open and the sun is shining bright!  Great to help dry up all of the recent rain we've had and it's great for our mental health.   Todays project is based on a sketch from Andrea and created during a facebook live.  My card is reversed from the sketch but otherwise pretty much bang on! It's really just a matter of cutting and pasting.  I added the Early Espresso layer onto the cardfront, then added the three pieces of dsp around the edges.  I tried my very very best (lol) to keep the same amount of space between each piece, and then I added the bigger piece.  The sentiment is stamped using Early Espresso onto a piece of Basic White, then punched using the Hexagon punch.  I adhered a length of the textured ribbon to the card front using Stampin' Seal, then popped up my sentiment on Stampin' Dimensionals to fit right over the ribbon.  Great effect!  A few of the Rhi
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