Working with sketches is always inspires me and helps me quickly get inky without a lot of thought and effort, so for Thursday's Live at 7:30 PM on my Facebook page, I used this sketch as my inspiration.
My great guy deserves a Valentine, so I made this card for him today using the #GDP534 sketch as my inspiration.
I crossed out the "like" in the sentiment and wrote in LOVE to fit today- and honestly every day! My guy isn't a hearts and flowers kind of guy so hopefully he will love this card as much as I loved making it for him.
The Everyday Arches dies made this card sketch come together quickly.
Happy Valentine's Day! 💕 I hope you have a special day!
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It's always a win when I work smarter than rather harder, so I love recreating a card sketch in different ways. I had fun doing just that on a recent Facebook Live (Thursdays at 7:30 PM EST) on my Facebook page with the Nature's Symphony suite.
My first card only uses Very Vanilla, Pretty Peacock, and Old Olive cardstock, Pretty Peacock and Old Olive ink; and the Nature's Walk stamp set (plus some faux bronze pentagons).
The second card has the addition of the coordinating DSP.
The third card adds in coordinating die cuts.
I created two more in a different color scheme (Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, and Old Olive.
Do you prefer simple or more advanced?
Today is my sister's birthday, so I made this fun fold birthday card for her.
I used scraps from the Memories in Bloom Scrapbooking Workshop Kit paired with Lemon Lolly, Basic White, and Pretty in Pink cardstock. I stamped the front with the Arched Wishes stamp set in Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly, and Black inks. I fussy cut the balloon from Pretty in Pink cardstock and the cupcake with scraps from the scrapbooking workshop kit and some Lemon Lolly DSP.
The front panel and Peach Pie glimmer paper arches were cut with the Everyday Arches dies.
The Party Dots and Tinsel Gems embellishments add some fun!
How fun is the easel fold? I stamped the inside sentiment from the With You in Mind stamp set in Peach Pie and added a few more Party Dots. Both the stamped arched panel and the inside panel were raised with Dimensionals. I really love this fun fold and how this card turned out!
On another note, earlier this week would have been my 26th anniversary with Close To My Heart! I'm sharing here because some of you have been with me from the beginning. I'm grateful for this chapter with Stampin' Up! We have a great demonstrator join offer this month, so if you'd like to know more about the benefits of being a demonstrator, reach out please.
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This beautiful tri-fold card uses two pieces of DSP (designer series paper) and some Berry Burst Two-Tone cardstock.
It was fun to use a blending brush to color the flowers and stamps to "color" the leaves. The white matte dots were colored with Darling Duckling Stampin' Blend to turn them yellow.
I love all the stamped flowers! We even added little dots with the Darling Duckling Stampin' Blend.
The Stampin’ Up! Virtual Card Making Retreat was incredible! I was able to complete a few of the 15 cards this weekend, and I learned so many things. I can’t wait to share in upcoming classes and events!
It's important to remember to stamp the inside of your cards and your envelopes! This card also uses Cloud Cover DSP and Secret Sea (ink and Two-Tone cardstock) plus some white embossing for the sentiment.
I'm looking forward to sharing the card designs and techniques I've learned at future stamping classes/events. Did you know that the retreat bundle is still available and that the videos will also be available for at least a year?
Usually, we think of sentiment stamps as the focal image on a card, but they make really great backgrounds also!
I made this card on my Thursday Facebook Live at 7:30 PM. I love the January product of the month, Fabulous Sayings stamp set, and I paired with a piece of Nature Walk DSP and the lovely details of the Nature’s Symphony dies. This first card uses Shaded Spruce, Pretty Peacock, and Secret Sea.
It is always fun to take a card design and reimagine it with different colors! My second card uses Flirty Flamingo and Strawberry Slush. I used the first and second generation stamping technique to get an ombre effect on the card. Two-Tone Strawberry Slush cardstock also helped contribute to an ombre effect.
Who should I send these birthday cards to? Are you on my birthday card mailing list yet?
While the name isn't very creative, it sums up this card quite nicely in my opinion! I made this on last week's Thursday 7:30 PM EST Facebook Live, complete with measurements, etc. (My VIP customers also get typed instructions, so if you'd like to join us, just place an order of any size HERE. Thank you!)
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