OSAT Blog Hop - Designers Choice

Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for September - Designers Choice!  I hope you enjoyed the great projects from Amanda. I am excited to have a number of new paper crafters for this month's blog hop!  

At first I was really stumped at what to do for my card and project this month.  I then went into my happy place with stamps, ink, and paper and came up with my creations.  I decided to use one of my new favorite stamp sets from Stampin' Up! - Vintage Leaves!  

The card started with making the leaves.  Very Vanilla is the card base that is embossed in gold.  I used sponge daubers with Tip Top Taupe, Chocolate Chip, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, and Cherry Cobbler inks to create various Fall leaves.  These are emboss resisted by then wiping ink off with a tissue.  The Crumb Cake card base is stamped with Tip Top Taupe, Crushed Curry, and Cajun Craze to create a leaves background.  The SU 1 1/4" burlap was trimmed to fray on all 4 sides and adhered to the card base with tear & tape adhesive.  The sentiment comes from the For All Things stamp set and is stamped on Very Vanilla in Early Espresso ink. The banner triple punch was used to create the ends on the sentiment piece. The leaves are attached with snail and dimensionals. 

Here is a video to show how I made the leaves.
 

I wanted to create a coordinating project with the card, so I used more of the leaves.  The leaves were done as mentioned above for the card.  I cut out Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze using the Banner framelits.  The Larger Than Life letters were stamped in Early Espresso ink on Crumb Cake cardstock and also cut out with the Banner framelits.  The Crumb Cake cardstock is popped up on the background colors using dimensionals.  At the top of the project is a book ring that you can find at any office or big box store.  I folded over a bit of the burlap and then hot glued it on the back to create a clean look at top and bottom of the project.  The layered banner pieces and leaves are all glued to the burlap with hot glue.

Here's a detailed look at the banner and leaf.

I hope you have enjoyed my card and project as I look forward to the coming of Fall!  Thanks for stopping by and check out the next blog in our hop, Wynne!

    Eva

    Ginger

    Martie

    Elizabeth

    Amanda

    You are here ----> Megan

    Wynne

    Lori

    Dena

    Renee

    Tina

    Diane

    Maria

    Raquelle

    Jeanna

    Terri

    Kim

    Maggie

    Marisa

    Holly

    Andrea P.

    Andrea T.

Here are the details for the card....

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Here are the details for the project (also you will need hot glue and a book ring).....

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SIP Challenge #12 - Black and White with a Pop of Color

Happy Thursday!  Today is a good day as I have a Christmas card class tonight and college football starts!  I spent a little time this afternoon doing the SIP challenge.  I'm excited to try out the Stamp, Ink, and Paper challenge again this week.  It is black, white, and a pop of color!

I recently ordered the new SU Vintage Leaves and Framelits and LOVE them!  This was my first, but definitely not my last card I will make with them.  I have a good friend that has a birthday next week so I decided to make her birthday card for this challenge.

Rather than doing triple stamping I decided to do just double stamping.  To do this you slightly adhere the Whisper White cardstock pieces together and stamp your images.  After that you very carefully un-adhere them and adhere them to their background pieces (in this case Basic Black).  My pop of color was Melon Mambo.  Did you notice the little bit of Whisper White Bakers Twine wrapped around the leaves?  One of my favorite parts of the card!  Happy stamping!

Here are the details.....

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ICS Blog Hop Introducing the Holiday Catalog

 

I am excited to join this ICS (Inspire Create & Share) blog hop this month!  I am an avid paper crafter, and I have loved to start blogging & utilizing my IT (computer) background.  I reside in the St Louis area and am an Independent Demonstrator for Stampin' Up!  Besides paper crafting I love spending time outside in the gardens (both flower & vegetable) and sports!!  Diane and Anna are also new to the blog hop this month and great paper crafters!  If you are hopping along in order of our hop you have just come from Joni's wonderful blog!

This month our theme is to introduce the Holiday Catalog to you! Hopefully by now you all have your own personal copies of this catalog...if not please contact your demonstrator to get one because it is fabulous!  If you don't have a demonstrator let me know I would be happy to get one to you!

The moment I saw this stamp set at convention and in the Holiday catalog I knew I had to have it.  If you know anything about the St Louis area it is known as "Cardinals Nation!"  I love this set both for baseball and the holidays!

My card has a Whisper White thick cardstock (which I love!) base layered with Mossy Meadow cardstock, and DSP from the Season of Cheer pack.  The Joyful greeting is heat embossed with silver.  The cardinal outline is stamped in Memento Black and two step stamped with the body in Real Red (twice), eye area in Memento Black, and beak in Pumpkin Pie.  I used a little white ink pen to bring out the eye.  I fuzzy cut the cardinal out!  The branch is stamped on Soft Sky in Early Espresso ink, and the cardinal feet are in Memento Black.  I adhered the cardinal with dimensionals and added some dazzling details to look like snow.  I accented the cardinal and background with the new silver cording trim which I absolutely love!!

 

Thanks for stopping by my first post in the ICS blog hop and I look forward to it for many months to come!  The next stop in your hop is the fantastic, Andrea!  Happy hopping!!

Here are the supplies I used:

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The 2015 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog is here for customers!!!

Check out the marvelous new 2015 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog!!  Click on the image below to see the PDF version.  If you would like an actual copy of the catalog contact me.

 

Sprinkles of Life Cards

My August stamp class featured the Sprinkles of Life stamp set by Stampin' Up!  Each participant that came to the class made 2 of each of these cards.  Here they are.....

The ice cream card as I am calling it is great for any occasions like birthdays!!  Here are the details I wrote up for the class:

Stamp sentiment in Crumb Cake on large Whisper White piece.
Stamp ice cream cone in So Saffron on So Saffron cardstock.
Stamp ice cream in Crumb Cake ink on Chocolate Chip, Melon Mambo, and Whisper White cardstock pieces.
Cut out with scissors the ice cream cone.
Punch all 3 of the ice creams out with Tree Builder bunch.
Punch from Real Red cardstock the cherry (apple) from the Tree Builder Punch.
Adhere cone to large Whisper White piece.
Adhere 3 ice creams with dimensionals.
Adhere with snail the cherry on ice cream.
Adhere large Whisper White to Chocolate Chip, Melon Mambo, and then Crumb Cake card base all using snail.  Done!

The thankful card is one of my favorites right now and here are the details:

Stamp Hardwood in Early Espresso on Soft Suede. Hint – use bone folder to make sure it stamps completely and wrap your grid paper around.
Stamp tree in Early Espresso on Whisper White.
Use Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, and Tangerine Tango markers to color leaves & pile of leaves to stamp on Whisper White.
Stamp sentiment on small Whisper White.  Punch out with Washi Label punch.
Sponge Early Espressso around tree piece and sentiment.
Adhere 2 pearls to sentiment.
Adhere with snail the Whisper White tree piece to Pumpkin Pie.
Adhere with dimensionals the sentiment to Whisper White tree piece.
Adhere all these pieces now put together to Hardwood Soft Suede using dimensionals.
Adhere using snail everything to Whisper White Thick cardstock.  Done!

Additional details - ice cream card:

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Additional details - thankful card: 

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SIP #10 Inspiration Challenge

I decided to try out the SIP (Stamp, Ink, Paper) Inspiration challenge http://stampinkpaper.com/2015/08/sip-challenge-10-inspiration/ this week.  There are lots of very talented card designers in their group!

I love, love, love Ball jars whether it is for decorating or canning!  I thought I would take this inspiration more literally as I have an awesome old stamp set with Ball jars and additional stamps.  Here's what I came up with (thanks to One Stamp at a Time fellow admin, Lisa Altman, for my new "M".....

I decided from the inspiration photo to use Stampin' Up! inks....Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, and Smoky Slate!  There is an old Cannery set and matching framelits from Stampin' Up! that I used for the jars, stems, leaves, and flowers.  The sentiment is out of the For All Things set that I am so glad carried over from the holiday catalog into the annual catalog.  It's background is a small wood background piece out of the Choose Happiness set.  This was really a lot of fun to take part in this challenge and I would challenge you to make a card too!

More card details (Note....I used the Perfectly Preserved stamp set not the downloads it mentions below)......

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OSAT Blog Hop - Back to School

 
Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for August - Back to School!  I love this group of paper crafters that get to together for this hop every month!  If you haven't seen the previous blog hops by this group I would encourage to go back and check them out.  I hope you enjoyed the marvelous projects in the previous blog.

I cannot believe it is already back to school time!  In our area the kids actually go back to school today.  We don't have any kids in our house, so my niece & nephew going back to school inspired me this month.  I decided to make a card & project that could be used by a teacher, to give to a teacher, or even at home.

The Stampin' Up! Whisper White craft ink was used to mimic chalk on a chalkboard on the card.  The letters are from the Larger Than Life Stampin' Up! stamp set.  They are my favorite letters to use for cards and banners.  The new & marvelous tree builder punch was used for the apples after stamping them from the new Stampin' Up! fundraising stamp set for Ronald McDonald House called Sprinkles of Life. The sentiment is from the Endless Thanks stamp set and fussy cut out to adhere to the card.  Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red, and Daffodil Delight were the color scheme for both the card & large clothespin project.

 Further detail of the apples in Real Red.

I have recently really had a fun time making these large clothespins.  You can find them at most any big box large craft store for just a few bucks.  They are simple to make with just a bit of mod podge to adhere the paper to the wooden clothespin.  I then put a layer of the mod podge over the paper, let it dry, and repeated to have three layers.  My idea was to make one for each of the kids in a classroom, home, etc. as these can be personalized with the Stampin' Up! alphabet rotary stamp.  These can be used to display a school photo of the child.  Enjoy my college graduation photo!  :) 

I hope you have enjoyed my back to school card & project!  I hope you have fun continuing through the rest of the blogs on our hop!  The next one up is my friend, Tina! 

James Weber -- http://stampinstud.blogspot.com/2015/08/OSAT-Aug.html
Holly Stene -- http://hollyshobbs.blogspot.com/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school.html
Ginger Pelfrey -- http://wp.me/p4rPB3-1x
Elizabeth Jeanne -- http://craftsbyhappystamper.com/2015/08/13/back-to-school-osat-blog-hop/
Wynne Grob -- http://cropsscissorspaper.blogspot.com/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school.html
Marisa Gunn -- http://dzinesbymeg.typepad.com/dzines_by_meg/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school-in-august.html
Kim Smith -- http://craftingbuddy.blogspot.com/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school.html
Lori Mueller -- http://www.stampindreams.com/my-blog/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-its-back-to-school-in-august.html
You are here ----> Megan Thompson -- http://meganttstamps.blogspot.com/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school.html
Tina Riddle -- http://www.tinascropshop.com/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school.html
Andrea Pancrazio -- http://www.andreascardshop.com/new-blog-avenue/osatbloghopbacktoschool
Andrea Tracy-Tucker -- http://onestampinmothertucker.blogspot.com/2015/08/osat-blog-hoppers-back-to-school.html
Martie Pollard -- https://martie-pollard.squarespace.com/welcome/2015/8/11/osat-back-to-school
Diane Squires -- http://stampandembellish.com/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school/ 
Maggie Mata -- http://www.maggiemadecards.com/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school/
Eva Bussom - http://evascardsandthings.evabussom.com/2015/08/osat-blog-hop-back-to-school.html
Justin Krieger -- http://jkcardsonline.com/

Here's more details for the card....

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Here's more details for the large clothespin project (non-SU: large clothespin, mod podge, foam brush)....

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