Friday, July 20, 2018

Home Life For A New Home

Last year, when my daughter started talking about buying a house, I purchased the Home Life Bundle, just waiting for the moment when I could create a card to celebrate their purchase. Finally, they found the perfect house this spring and they moved in on the 14th!

Because I was using a retired product, I decided to update it by using new Stampin' Up colors.

I started by using the house die framelit to die cut the house. I kept both the house piece and the negative of the cut and placed them in my Stamparatus, placing the magnets on the negative piece. By doing this, I was easily able to line up the three separate house stamps on the house die cut.

Each stamp was positioned on a separate side or plate of the Stamparatus, allowing me to easily stamp the three different stamps, one after the other. However, they do take some lining up so it is best to stamp and then line up the next stamp on another side of the Stamparatus. The house is held in place by the "frame" created with the negative space from the house die.

I stamped on Thick Whisper White, using Blueberry Bushel, Granny Apple Green, and Lovely Lipstick. I stamped a second time on another piece using the Blueberry Bushel so that I could die cut some of the flowers to pop up on the house.

After removing the stamps, I used the Stamparatus again to stamp first the banner and then the sentiment on the banner using Lovely Lipstick. This was then die cut using the matching die.

A Granny Apple Green matte was cut and then embossed using the Tufted Embossing Folder. It was adhered to a very thin Blueberry Bushel matte. This was then adhered with Dimensionals to a 4.75 x 6" Granny Apple Green card front.

The flowers on the house were die cut and popped up on the house using Dimensionals and then the house itself was adhered to the card front using Dimensionals. The sentiment was adhered over top of the house.

A sentiment for inside the card was stamped on Thick Whisper White using Lovely Lipstick and then the edges were sponged with the same ink. The matte was then adhered with liquid adhesive.

The flower pot was die cut from Blueberry Bushel and sponged and detailed using both Night of Navy ink and the matching marker. The flowers were die cut from Whisper White and colored using markers and then glued behind the pot. The pot was then adhered inside the card to complete it.

I hope my daughter likes it! I'm planning to mail it to her so that it will be the first mail she gets at the new house!

If you like the color scheme, be sure to save it for your own projects!

Product List

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

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Granny Apple Green 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Blueberry Bushel 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad

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Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Pad

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Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad

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Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

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In Color 2018–2020 Stampin' Write Markers

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Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers

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Stampin' Write Markers New Color Assortment

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Stamping Sponges

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Tufted Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

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Big Shot

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Big Shot Magnetic Platform

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Liquid Multipurpose Glue

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Stampin' Dimensionals

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Saturday, July 14, 2018

Abstract Impressions Thank You Card

Have you tried embossing using the new Big Shot Embossing Mats?

Some of the new dies from Stampin' Up are made only for embossing, like some of the leaves in the Nature's Roots Framelits Dies, but you can emboss with regular cutting dies as well. Talk about increasing the versatility of your dies and getting more bang for your buck!

Stampin' Up has a video that details how to use the Big Shot Embossing Mats. The video explains how to create the proper "sandwich" for embossing with dies.

I found the Stampin' Up recommended sandwich a little cumbersome because it involves placing the die face up with the paper to be embossed on top. To me, this annoys me because I can't see where my die is! Luckily I found a video by Rachel Tessman where she shows how she flips the sandwich so that the die is placed on top of the paper with the cutting side down.

Rachel's method will be used with my card today.

I started by cutting a standard card base from Pacific Point and I also cut a matte of the same color. While I had my trimmer handy, I also cut a piece of the gorgeous Garden Impressions DSP and a thin Calypso Coral matte.

Next, I took my Pacific Point matte and the large flowered die from the Springtime Impressions Thinlits. My Big Shot sandwich was like this:

TOP
Big Shot Clear Cutting Pad
Die, cutting side down
Pacific Point matte (or whatever paper you are embossing)
Thin Blue Silicone Mat
White Pad from the Big Shot Embossing Mats
Big Shot Platform
BOTTOM

Now, because every Big Shot is a little different, I found that part of my embossing was very well defined and part wasn't so I made sure to reposition my die on top of my card stock and then turned the whole sandwich 180 degrees around (not over) before rolling it through my Big Shot.

After running it through this second time, my embossing looked great all over! When I emboss again in the future, I will run through, turn 180 degrees and run it through again just to be sure everything is good!

After embossing, I adhered the matte to the card front using liquid adhesive. The DSP was also matted on the Calypso Coral. A faux bow was added (run a strip of Tear & Tape and top with a length of ribbon and then attach a bow on top with a Glue Dot) using the now retired Shimmer Ribbon Combo Pack. The matte was then adhered to the card front using Dimensionals.

The sentiment, from the Abstract Impressions Stamp Set, was stamped on Calypso Coral with Pacific Point and then cut with the Tailored Tag Punch. It was attached with Dimensionals.

Three tiny flowers were die cut from Pacific Point and adhered using liquid adhesive. Rhinestones were added to their centres to complete the card.

I hope you will try embossing with your dies—it opens up even more possibilities for card making!

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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Follow Your Dreams Joy Fold Card

For this joy fold card, I started with a standard card base in Early Espresso but then trimmed the front piece to 2.125 x 5.5".

The little card on top, also Early Espresso, is 4 x 5.5" folded in half. The front flap and inside back section of the main card was topped with Wood Textures DSP.

For the little card, a piece of Wood Textures DSP was cut in strips and each sponged with Early Espresso and then adhered to the card front. Very Vanilla mattes ,for the inside, were sponged with Soft Suede and the sentiment stamped and embossed with gold as well as Early Espreso.

The dreamcatcher was stamped with Versamark on Early Espresso and heat embossed with gold and then die cut. A ring of Early Espresso was die cut to lay over top of the dreamcatcher and then finally a smaller dreamcatcher was die cut from Gold Foil and adhered on top.

The smaller card was adhered to the card front with the dreamcatcher adhered on top with Dimensionals. The word "dream" was cut out 4X from Early Espresso and once from Gold Foil. They were stacked and adhered and then glued to the front left of the card.

A smaller feather was die cut from foil and adhered to the inside to complete the card.