Stampin’ Friends: For Dog Moms
Welcome to the April Stampin' Friends Blog Hop where I'm featuring a card for dog moms. Thanks for joining us on this hop. Be sure to visit all of the blogs and leave a comment. Follow along using the links at the bottom of this post. It's a great lineup of cards and projects. We're celebrating moms for Mother's Day. I know there are a lot of dog moms out there, so I decided to have a little fun with Stampin' Up! products. I've created a card for moms of our furry friends! For Dog Moms Card I used a variety of products to create this card. Look for them in Stampin' Up!'s Annual Catalog and the January-June 2020 Mini Catalog: Dog Builder...
2018-2020 In Colors Set to Retire
Stampin' Up!'s 2018-2020 In Colors retire soon! This card achieves three of today's objectives: Call attention to Stampin' Up!'s retiring In Colors: Call Me Clover, Lovely Lipstick, Pineapple Punch. Grapefruit Grove, and Blueberry Bushel Use Stampin' Up!'s Stampartus Create with my newest stamp set: Positive Thoughts. Retiring In Colors: Call Me Clover, Lovely Lipstick, Pineapple Punch. Grapefruit Grove, and Blueberry Bushel We've been able to work with these colors for almost two years. I'm always sad to see the In Colors retire, but I look forward to the new ones. Stampin' Up! announces its list of retiring products soon, and we know it...
How To: Masking Technique Video
I'm sharing a new how-to video showing the masking technique with Stampin' Up!'s Timeless Tulips stamp set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzR2YG9axY I hope you enjoy this quick video I recorded demonstrating how to use a Post It Note and rubber stamps, ink, and paper to create lifelike images for your card making. This technique works with a variety of stamps and images. Be creative and see what you can do. Here's the tulip card I demonstrated. See this blog post for details. Here is another card I created using one of Stampin' Up!'s 2020 Sale-A-Bration stamp sets, The Gang's All Meer. It shows how I used a mask with the...
#simplestamping: Stamps, Ink, Paper
Today, I'm sharing a #simplestamping card using just rubber stamps, ink, and paper. This past year, Stampin' Up! focused on #simplestamping: the art of creating a handmade card with just stamps, ink, and paper. After all, these provide the underpinnings of paper crafting. It allows us to focus on the basics of the craft and realize we can make beautiful projects with a handful of supplies. It's a great place to start for beginning stampers, and it challenges seasoned stampers to step away from the extras. Each month, Stampin' Up! challenges demonstrators to practice #simplestamping. It presents different themes - and an extra product now...
Bloom & Grow Card Samples
I'm sharing some card samples using Stampin' Up!'s Bloom & Grow stamp set! Is anyone out there like me? You see a card or idea, run to the computer, purchase the supplies, and then don't actually make anything. I have a few of those buys in my stash and decided to dust them off, take them out of the package, and use them. The Bloom & Grow stamp set and its coordinating Budding Blooms Dies, featured on page 180 of Stampin' Up!'s Annual Catalog, was brand-new in the package this last weekend. Without even first consulting Pinterest, this is the design I created. I got so carried away, I made four different color versions: Mango...
