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Thursday, July 9, 2015

OSAT Blog Hop - Christmas in July

Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for July - Christmas in July! I hope you enjoyed the marvelous projects in the previous blog .

These were interesting to work on as its humid and 90 degrees outside with a chance of thunderstorm. I had to think back to winter & to our upcoming winter of cold, snowy, and blue.

Stampin' Up! changed things with this year's annual catalog and included a few Christmas sets to tide us over until the Holiday Catalog. This gave me a few stamp sets to choose from for this blog. I decided to got away from the traditional green & red for Christmas which was fun & something I don't do often. Without further delay here is my card & project for this month.

This card was a fun one to make as I combined a number of techniques/styles.....embossing resist, sponging, and surprise fold.

The card base is Marina Mist and I cut on an oval with the Oval Framelits. The surprise fold is made with a layer of Whisper White. The Lovely as a Tree evergreen was stamped in Memento Black. I used one of the Gorgeous Grunge background stamps to create snow in this scene and embossed in white embossing powder. Below is a few photos to show all the pieces of the card. The sponging for the card was done in 3 blue inks...Pacific Point, Marina Mist, and Soft Sky. I'm loving the new Washi Label punch to use with the go-to stamp set of Teeny Tiny Wishes.

This shows an alternate ink combination for sponging of: Night of Navy, Marina Mist, and Soft Sky.

The Curvy Keepsake thinlet has become one of my favorites by Stampin' Up! and is a must have for Christmas projects! I decided to make a luminary out of vellum paper embossed with white embossing powder. The Festival of Trees stamp set was used and again featured the Gorgeous Grunge background stamp as snow. I used some Whisper White cardstock to reinforce the bottom of it as I put a battery operated tea light in it.

The next blog in our Christmas and July hop is the very, very talented Holly!

http://hollyshobbs.blogspot.com/2015/07/osat-blog-hop-christmas-in-july.html

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List of materials for the project (also battery operated tea lights from any store - I found mine at Home Goods).....

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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

July's Card Class

Here are the full views of the cards from my July class!

These are the cards in more detail.

This is inspired by Captain America and is great for a teen boy's birthday. It uses the Circle and Star Framelits. The color combination used is Pacific Point, Real Read, and Whisper White. The stamp sets featured are Gorgeous Grunge and Guy Greetings. The new Washi Label punch is used to cut out the sentiment.

This card features the technique of emboss resist where I used a background stamp from Gorgeous Grunge with VersaMark and white embossing powder. The card base is in Melon Mambo. Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, and Daffodil Delight were sponged and then the ink was wiped off with a paper towel. The sentiment was Teeny Tiny Wishes cut out in the Washi Label punch.

The quarter fold technique used for this card was a new one for me. The Pacific Point and Basic Grey are the featured colors and a new Stampin' Up! paper stack - Pretty Petals creates a nice accent.

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

July Class - Sneak Peek

Here's a sneak peek for my July class that is tomorrow......

Stay tuned.....I will be posting the full cards later in the week.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

OSAT Blog Hop - Happy Father's Day

Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for June - Father's Day! I hope you enjoyed the marvelous projects by the wonderful, Darla, who just happens to be my upline & friend and enjoy the rest of the blogs along the hop!

My Dad was my inspiration for my projects this month! He loves trees, green, and he likes to read. I incorporated all these into my card and project!

Here is the card I created for Father's Day.....

I used the new in color from Stampin' Up! called Tip Top Taupe as the card base. The background is Mossy Meadow stamped on the same color cardstock and is accented with a little burlapy ribbon. I stamped the Lovely as a Tree image on watercolor paper in Memento Black ink followed by watercoloring in Mossy Meadow and Early Espresso. I wanted the Happy Father's Day a little different than it actually stamps, so after stamping I just cut out the words and adhered with Stampin Dimensionals. I think my Dad will love this card!

The project is always a challenge to come up with every month, but I was inspired by James doing a bookmark gift set last month. I decided to do something similar, but yet different with my own design.

Mine is a set of three bookmarks because my Dad is never ever reading just one book! I wanted to tie the bookmarks into the card, so I used Lovely as a Tree stamps again and I love the "Dad" stamp from the Guy Greetings stamp set. Tip Top Taupe and Mossy Meadow were also used again with an accent of Early Espresso ribbon. There's a sleeve to package the bookmarks that was made out of Whisper White that you can see in the photo below.

Happy Father's Day card, Dad bookmarks & sleeve

I had a lot of fun coming up with the card and bookmarks this month and am looking forward to giving them to my Dad for Father's Day!

The next stop in our blog hop is the very talented Elizabeth!

http://craftsbyhappystamper.com/2015/06/11/osat-fathers-day-masculine-themed-blog-hop

List of materials for the card.....

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List of materials for the bookmarks and sleeve.....

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Monday, June 1, 2015

Elegant Butterfly Birthday Cards

I recently received an Etsy order for some butterfly birthday cards, and they were interested in a variety of colors as they wanted 6 cards. It is amazing to me how much just a color change will make the cards look different and fun! I don't make the same card in different colors enough, but I think this will be a goal going forward. These aren't the greatest photos, but it was dark outside by the time I finished them and needed to get them packaged up.

Here's the basic supplies I used on the cards. The butterflies, base cardstock, and honeycomb are in the colors below. The fern was stamped in Old Olive.

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Thursday, May 14, 2015

OSAT Blog Hop - Monochromatic

Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for May - Monochromatic! I hope you enjoyed the marvelous projects by Tina and enjoy the rest of the blogs along the hop!

This month I struggled a bit for what to do for my card and project. The thought eventually came to mind to make a card and coordinating bookmark for a good friend.

My card is a little different than a normal card this month. It is your normal 4.25"x5.5," but the front has two panels that are 2 1/8"x5.5" and opens in the middle. I embossed the two front panels (Real Red cardstock) with the spring flowers embossing folder by Stampin' Up!. I then used my circle framelits and cut out a piece of Melon Mambo and Whisper White cardstocks. The Melon Mambo is stamped with Real Red ink using the Stampin' Up! Choose Happiness stamp set. I haven't used this stamp set very often, so I thought it would be a great one for the blog hop this month. The Whisper White is stamped with Melon Mambo ink from the same stamp set. These layers are put together and adhered to the card base with dimensionals.

Here is an upclose look at the top layers.

I added a bit of stamping to the inside panel.

To coordinate with this card I made a bookmark.

This bookmark was made using the same Choose Happiness stamp set by Stampin' Up!. Again I stamped on the Melon Mambo layer and the Whisper White layer adding a different sentiment. I used a tag topper punch and Melon Mambo ribbon to finish it off with an elegant touch.

Thanks for visiting and hop on over to Martie's for the next stop in our One Stamp at a Time blog hop!

http://martie-pollard.squarespace.com/welcome/2015/5/11/osat-blog-hop-monochromatic

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Materials for Bookmark:

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Monday, May 11, 2015

CYCI 69 Sketch Challenge

I'm trying my first Can You Case It challenge and am super excited to do so! I love the Adventure Bound paper from Stampin' Up! as it is great for masculine cards, so I thought I would use it in this card. Here is my card based on the above sketch!

The card base is a normal 4.25"x5.5" size using Whisper White cardstock. The designer paper layer is 4"x5.25" and has a couple small banners on it from the same paper stack. Happy Birthday is from the marvelous Guy Greetings stamp set accented with Island Indigo candy dots on a layer of Basic Gray. This was a lot of fun doing this sketch challenge, and I look forward to doing many more!!