Paper Pumpkin Kits-Next 3 Months

 Hey Everybody,

Here's a sneak peek of the July Paper Pumpkin Kit.

The kit contains all the supplies you need to make 9 birthday easel cards.

They look so pretty!

If you're not a subscriber yet, you can get started here with a month-to-month subscription or pre-pay ahead of time for 3, 6, or 12 months. (shipping is included)

It's so fun to get a new kit in the mail every month!

These kits also make great gifts.

NEW Add-On available while supplies last:

The Detailed Flora Dies coordinate with the July, August, and September Paper Pumpkin kits, but they will also work well on their own or mixed with other supplies you already have.

A circle die with stitching around the edges is always one of my favorites.

Current subscribers can also shop past kits & refills here.

Here's a sneak peek at the next three months of Paper Pumpkin.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Blessings,

Sue

June Class Follow-Up and July Classes

 

 Hey Everybody,

Thank you once again for another fun-filled and learning-filled week of classes.

I love spending time with you and learning from your experiences. You are such a creative bunch of friends.

Blessings,

Sue

 Class Follow-Up

On=Online Exclusives found here

Stampin’ Up now has a blog full of great information and ideas. Here is the link.

We now have opportunities to donate cards to three different facilities

Stamping Opportunities:

●     1. Southwest General Hospital -Cards are placed on meal trays. 

 Types of Cards Needed: You're in my thoughts, I've been thinking about you, I'm sending you positive thoughts, Thinking of You, Hang in there. 

They still can use Baby and Holiday cards.

(No envelope is needed. Stamp something on the inside please.) 

2. Broadview Multi-Care Facility- Cards for residents and staff to use.

(Envelopes needed and stamp something on the inside please.)

Birthday for adults and kids, Get Well, Sympathy, Thinking of you, Holiday

3.  Hillcrest Hospital Cancer Floor

Encouragement, Birthday and Sympathy   envelopes needed cards blank inside

Thanks so much for your continued support of these ministries.

             Thank you to those who made cards this month. They are so grateful to you for sharing your talents and love with them.

 

Card 1  Seaside Chair-Video Sue Craig

Stamps- Relaxing Waterside

Paper – Secret Sea card base 5 ½” x 8 ½”

Waterside Retreat designer paper 1 ½” x 4”

White- 4” x 5 ¼”

White- 2 ½” x 3 ¾”

Secret Sea- 2 ¾” x 4”

Chair pecan pie cardstock

Book-white cardstock

Arms of chair-Secret Sea

White and Secret Sea for sentiment-I used Key tag punch-retired  

Ink-Secret Sea

Old Olive

Balmy Blue

Crumb Cake

Accessories- Key Tag Punch

Relaxing Waterside Dies

 

 

Card 2 Arched Lighthouse-video Sue Craig

 

Stamps- none

Paper – Melon Mambo cardbase 5 ½” x 8 ½” score a 4 ¼”

Cut off 1 ½” from front. Score the cut off piece at 2 ½”

Night of Navy 4” x 5 ¼”-inside

Night of Navy arch- 3 ¼” x 4 ½”

Night of Navy lighthouse-3” x 3”

White Arch-2 ½” x 5 ¼”

White-inside 3 ¾” x 5”

Scenic Coast designer paper- 2 ¼” x 5”

Scenic Coast designer paper inside ½” x 5”

Scenic Coast designer paper arch 2 ¾” x 4”

Ink- Night of Navy

Accessories- Sunset Coast Dies-Lighthouse

Arches dies

Card 3   Blue Chair on the Beach-videoSue Craig

Stamps-  Rolling Waves

Relaxing Waterside

Paper – Coastal Cabana base 5 /12” x 8 ½” score at 4 ¼”

Azure Afternoon- 3 ¾” x 5” outside (optional add another piece inside)

2 White cardstock 3 ½” x 4 ¾”

Ink-Coastal Cabana or Pool Party

Crumb Cake

Azure Afternoon

Pretty In Pink

Accessories- Relaxing Waterside dies-Adirondack Chair

 

Card 4 Fern Card-Blackout Technique-video Sue Craig

 

Stamps-  Scalloped Blooms

Paper – Peaceful Pine cardbase 5 ½” x 8 ½”

Peaceful Pine tag 1 ¼” x 2 ¼”  (this is a die)

Old Olive tag 1” x 1 7/8” (this is a die)

Peaceful Pine fern inside 1 ½” x 3”  

 Ink-Peaceful Pine

Old Olive

Pretty Peacock

Secret Sea or Navy or Memento Black 

Accessories- Fern & Flora 3D embossing folder

3 blending brushes

4” white ribbon

Stampin’ Up In-Color Butterflies

Alcohol marker-pretty peacock

Fern Die

 

 July  Classes

Monday July 13   1 spot

Tuesday July 14 3 spots

Thursday July 16  2 spots

Friday July 17- Filled

 

 

 

Inspired Dragonfly

 Hey Everybody,

Linda's challenge is to check out Abigail's gallery. check out her challenge here.  

This is the inspiration for my card from Abigail's gallery. This is one of the prettiest dragonflies I've seen on a card. It really caught my eye.

   

Here's my card.

I took a print that I made on my gelli printing plate and dry embossed it with the Modern wallpaper embossing folder. I pulled highland heather and old olive inks over the embossing. I stamped, colored and die cut the dragonflies from an old Divinity Designs stamp set called, Friend to Friend. I added clear wink of stella to the wings and added them to my background with dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment from Unity Stamps called Gretchen Girl and brushed olive ink over it then ran it through with the embossing folder to help it blend in with the background. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.

Keywords: FS1007

Stamps: Divinity Designs-Friend to Friend, Unity Stamps-Gretchen Girl

Paper: white, old olive

Paper Size: A2

Ink: memento tuxedo black, highland heather, old olive, assorted distress oxide inks

Accessories: Friend to Friend dragonfly dies, Cricut-Modern Wallpaper embossing folder, Copic Markers, clear wink of stella

Techniques: Gelli plate printing, dry embossing, direct to paper inking

What would you use from Abigail's gallery?  She has such a variety of things there.

Go through your stamps, papers, embossing folders and dies to see what you have that is similar to a card in her gallery.

You don't have to use the dragonfly, maybe you like the colors she used so you make a stained glass card or use a quilt die with different colored pieces. It's up to you and that's a freeing thing! Have fun with it.

I spent all day Friday and Saturday at Great Northern Mall helping my son sell his sport cards at the show in the mall. It was two long days. The mall is open 11-8 and we were there by 9 on Friday and 10:30 on Saturday. We could come in later Saturday because all we had to do was uncover the displays and set up some things which took about 30 minutes.

I had so many proud mom moments watching and listening to my son with young kids and dads who were getting started with collecting. He showed one kid how to check to see what to ask for a card he was selling by showing him a card he was selling.  That way he and his dad would be able to check prices for cards from other vendors they wanted to buy from or sell to.

One young boy of about 10 was shown how to negotiate a price on a card. My so walked him through the steps of making an offer, hearing the dealers counter-offer and making another offer himself. He did well with Ben's coaching. He came to a good deal for both parties.

I enjoy doing shows with Ben. It gives us time together as mom and son or friend to friend. It's not often that happens in the day to day interactions, so I look forward to card shows with Ben. I'm tired from  the shows, but oh so proud and happy!

Thanks for stopping by today. I'll see you again tomorrow.

Blessings,

Sue

Using Rub-Ons

 Hey Everybody,

Here's our challenge for today. I went to the Pinterest site for my inspiration. When I saw the dress, I thought of the gold rub-ons I had. As I was posting this, I noticed that the dress is no longer online. I used a black card base and added the gold rub-ons. I stamped my sentiment and punched it out with the Labeled With Love punch. I punched another in gold and cut it horizontally to go behind the sentiment. I added a rub-on the the sentiment piece then added it to the card with dimensionals. The gold rub-ons are no longer available or I would post a link to them on the Stampin' Up website. I will tell you that this card was difficult for me as it was very abstract with the shapes and sizes of the rub-ons.  I placed all of the gold designs in front of me and held different pieces in places to see what would look good. I like how this turned out.  It will go in my birthday card stash and be sent out to some lucky Birthday Random Act of Kindness member. (BRAK) Have you worked with rub-ons before? I found a video which shows you how Stampin' Up's rub-ons worked. It's quick and easy. Thanks for stopping  by today.  I hope you have a lovely Sunday. Blessings, Sue

A Green Trio of Colors and the Black Out Technique

 Hey Everybody,

Dini's challenge is to make a card using the letters in Grads to make your card. 
G-green, gold, glue dot
R-rectangles, rubber stamps
A-Air Fern, adhesive
D-Distressing, dimensionals
S-silver, scallops

I inked up white cardstock with peaceful pine, pretty peacock and old olive with blending brushes. Then I dry embossed it on the debossed side. I used the black-out technique and pulled secret sea over the ferns. I added the scalloped rectangle and the tag with silver thread. Then the sentiment was stamped and added with dimensionals. I backed the image panel with gold then added it to a card base.

Keywords: MIX695

Stamps: Scalloped Blooms

Paper: white, gold, olive, peaceful pine

Paper Size: A2

Ink: perfect pine, old olive, pretty peacock, secret sea, distress oxide peeled paint

Accessories: Stampin' Up!-Fern & Glora 3D embossing folder, scalloped blooms dies, silver thread, glue dot, dimensionals, blending brushes

Techniques: blackout technique, dry embossing

This is a card we're doing in classes this week, so soon I will have a video to show the process.

This week we  tried several inks on top of the greens and found that secret sea and black worked best to give a good contrast. We tried pretty peacock, which goes on dark, but dries lighter and of course more blue green. It didn't have the same degree of contrast and didn't show off the other colors as well. It still looked pretty, but not fantastic like black and secret sea.

Well, I'm off to Day 2 of a sports card show with my son at Great Northern Mall. See you for another challenge tomorrow.

Blessings,

Sue

The Challenge is, Use Paint

 Hey Everybody,

Our challenge is to use paint. You can find the challenge here.  

This is the first time I've used a gelli plate. I wanted muted colors for water so I used small amounts of color on the background. The stamps I used were, Sunny Studio-Best Fishes, Unity Stamps-Windowsill Woodlands.  Then I stamped my scene in Stazon black ink. I colored with Copic Markers being careful not to touch the lines of the ink. I also used Karin brushmarkers. I stamped the sentiment in versafine black ink. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.

Keywords: F4A848

Stamps: Sunny Studio-Best Fishes, Unity Stamps-Windowsill Woodlands

Paper: glossy white, black glimmer

Ink: stazon black, versafine black

Accessories: gel press, brayer, assorted paints, Copic Markers, Karin brushmarker pro markers

Techniques: gel press printing

I found a great video to show you what a gelli plate is and how to use it.

You don't need to use a gelli plate for this challenge. You can use paint any way you'd like. 

Here are a few ideas from the gallery for this challenge.

As you can see there are a lot of interpretations of 'use paint' for your card here in the samples. There are so many creative and artistic people who post their cards in the galleries here. It is an amazing community.

I hope you give this challenge a try. Maybe paint like acrylic paint, isn't your thing. You could use watercolor crayons or even watercolors. Do you remember using watercolors in school?  Like I've said before, I can't draw a straight line, but I can stamp and put a card together. LOL

Thanks for stopping by. Give your stamps, papers and supplies a look to see what you can use for this challenge.

Blessings,

Sue