East Coast Stamping with Mary Louise

Good day, folks. We are a few days into fall officially and three months until Christmas!  Two of my favourite times of the year.  Today's project will be fall based and one I can't wait to try.  I am featuring the Leaf Collection background stamp using some fall colours and then heat embossing.   Using the Real Red, Daffodil Delight and Cajun Craze ink pads and the Blending Brushes, apply ink where you want the colours to be.  I start off the paper and in a circular motion.  You can see that I layered, red, then cajun and daffodil last.  Then I stamped using Versamark, sprinkled on the White Embossing Powder and heat set with my Stampin' Heat tool. It needed to be trimmed just a bit and then adhered to the card front.  I also added a bit of the Cajun Craze to the insert using a Blending Brush, then stamped the sentiment using Memento and finally added to the inside of the card base. Next, I punched my scrap of Crushed Curry cardstock, stampe...

Good day folks!  I am here with another card created for my recent Stampin' Up! gathering this past weekend.  We had a day long activity where we focused on building up our Stampin' Up! business, watched several Atlantic Demos create some beautiful projects and then participated in a show box swap.  This was my shoe box swap offering. I have used this fancy fold layout several times and thought it was the perfect opportunity to showcase some of the beautiful Nests of Winter dsp in the latest mini catalogue! My cardbase is Grey Granite which was cut and scored, the die cut square behind the image and the strip to hold the card together are all Gray Granite too.  The dsp is from Nests of Winter and they are adhered to the front and the inside of the cardbase.  There is a small piece of Basic White for the insert and fits beside the piece of dsp.  The strip of Gray Granite,  is scored is secured next.  Starting at the far left edge of the card front,...

Today's card was inspired by a sketch seen on facebook from an American Demonstrator.  I was intrigued by the cool way to use some of our beautiful designer series paper and the best part is, you don't need a huge piece! I am attending a Stampin' Up! event this weekend and we were asked to bring a few projects to share and this is one of my projects. Fall isn't officially here yet, but once school starts up and the leaves start to fall off the trees, it's pretty close.  The Splendid Autumn designer series paper is gorgeous, the beautiful rich colours are simply stunning.   The cardbase and matte layer are Wild Wheat and the cardstock that the dsp is mounted on is Crushed Curry.  Simply cut the pieces and adhere together and then adhere to the card front.  I stamped using Memento onto a strip of Basic White cardstock which was then mounted on to another piece of Crushed Curry.  This was then popped up using Stampin' Dimensionals after the length of 2023...