Jolly Shaker - Stampin' Up! Ornamental Christmas

   I had so much fun showing my customers this fairly simply shaker card at my last class.  You can easily switch out the paper and shape to do any theme you like with the same basic layout.  The Ornamental Christmas bundle is perfect for a nice seasonal shaker and a red/green combo can't be beat.

  We started this one with a Garden Green card base.  Then using the Ornamental Christmas dies cut the tree out of the Christmas Tags & More DSP.   Using the opening in the DSP, line up a piece of Basic White behind the DSP and stamp the tree in Garden Green.

  Next, adhere the window sheet to the back of the DSP being careful if you use glue to not let it seep out the edges.  Use the foam adhesive strips to make an outline around the tree opening giving about a 1/4" space from the opening. Add some double layered dimensionals around the edges so that when you adhere the shaker to the card front everything is even; the foam strips are taller than dimensionals so you need them stacked to reach the same height.

  To add a fun element to the shaker pieces we used gold foil and the adorable A Little Cheer mini punches for some nice Christmas shapes to go along with the loose gold sequins.  Gather the shaker pieces on the center of the stamped Christmas and adhered the DSP/window sheet lining up the stamped image in the window.  Then adhere the whole panel to the card front.

  The sentiment is simply stamped and punched out and layered on a Garden Green label from the Traditional Label dies with a Real Red ribbon loop sandwiched in between.

  A few more Little Cheer gold foil punches to finish it off; star on top of the tree and a Christmas tree on the sentiment.

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Ornamental Christmas (Online Exclusive)

Ink: Garden Green, Real Red

Paper: Garden Green, Basic White, Christmas Tags & More DSP, Gold Foil

Accessories: Window sheets, dimensionals, foam strips, A Little Cheer mini punch pack (Online Exclusives), loos gold sequins, Traditional Labels dies, Real Red ribbon (retired)

Striped Ornament - Stampin' Up! Ornamental Christmas

   I made this card yesterday on my Facebook Live and had fun showing how to use narrow strips of cardstock to make the striped ornament.  You can watch the replay on Facebook for 30 days or head to the YouTube video below to see it all come together, ink goofs and all!

  The colors are from the now closed Just Add Ink challenge as I couldn't remember where I got the colors from while I was making it.  Fresh Freesia, Powder Pink & Highland Heather make for a bit of a non-traditional Christmas color combo but looks sweet on this ornament!

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Ornamental Christmas (Online Exclusive), Wishing You Joy

Ink: Highland Heather, Fresh Freesia

Paper: Beautiful Bokeh DSP, Fresh Freesia, Powder Pink, Highland Heather, Basic White, Peaceful Garden Glimmer paper

Accessories: Ornamental Christmas dies (Online Exclusive), Textured Notes dies, dimensionals, baker's twine

Fall Gathering Cracked Panel - Stampin' Up! Gathering Moments

   Just a quick card to share with you all today!  I found this one buried at the bottom of the "to be blogged" card file.  I made this one last month and it's an easy design that lets the DSP do all the heavy lifting!

 This is a really great design if you want to show off a large panel of patterned paper.  All you do is cut a panel across on the diagonal and then down on the diagonal and adhere the pieces to the corners of your card base leaving the nice cracked look but keeping the pattern.  I cut my DSP 1/4" smaller than the card front.  For a larger gap cut the paper even smaller.

  This one I used a piece of the Gathering Together DSP and a piece of Early Espresso for the card base.

  The sentiment is from the Blooming Phrases stamp set and is popped on dimensionals and then a few stamped leaves and berries from the Gathering Moments stamp set are added to the side.

  A bit of Old Olive linen thread, gold Wink of Stella accents on the leaves and a few gold Low Profile Dots finishes up this quick and easy card!

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Gathering Moments (Online Exclusive), Blooming Phrases

Ink: Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry

Paper: Early Espresso, Basic White, Gathering Together Specialty DSP (Online Exclusive)

Accessories: Gathering Moments dies (Online Exclusive), dimensionals, linen thread, Low Profile Dots

Squirrely Noel - Stampin' Up!® Fluffy Squirrel

   I'm not sure that squirrels are ever considered a "Christmas animal" but I'm going for it with today's card.  Maybe it will start of trend of merry little squirrels singing jingle bells along with penguins and polar bears! Or maybe not lol!  I was late getting this card made, photographed and blogged so I missed the deadline for the Sunday Stamps challenge where the colors came from but I wanted to give credit where it's due.

 I started with a Secret Sea card base, then a layer of Basic White topped with a Cloud Cover panel embossed with Soft Waves embossing folder and die cut with the Perennial Postage dies.

  Using the Snowy Delights dies I cut a large snowflake out of Basic White and then a few small ones from Peaceful Gardens Glimmer Paper.

  Fluffy the squirrel is stamped in Early Espresso and colored in with Stampin' Blends markers.  He's fussy cut and then popped on dimensionals.

  The little gift is stamped in Secret Sea and colored in.  I fussy cut it and adhered it to Fluffy's hands.

  The sentiment from Wishing You Joy is stamped in Secret Sea and is popped on dimensionals.  A few 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls in Cloud Cover are added near the small snowflakes for the final touch.

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Fluffy Squirrel, Wishing You Joy

Ink: Early Espresso, Secret Sea

Blends: Pecan Pie light & dark, Ivory, Secret Sea light, Cloud Cover light & dark

Paper: Secret Sea, Basic White, Cloud Cover, Peaceful Gardens DSP

Accessories: Soft Waves embossing folder, Perennial Postage dies, Snow Delights dies, dimensionals, 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls

Pumpkin Patch - Stampin' Up!® Choose Happy

   Sometimes I think I should clean out my retired paper collection and then there is a challenge and I need to have all of that paper to choose from!  Last week's Inspired By challenge had a fun inspiration photo of pumpkins of all different colors lined up in a grid pattern.  And while I didn't get my card made before the challenge ended I had a ton of fun making not one but two cards.  The Choose Happy set is the only one I have that has a pumpkin image and it was just perfect!  And since I used up a (tiny) bit of retired Designer Series Paper that just confirmed to me that I should never get rid of any paper. Ever. Lol!

  I went through all of my current and retired bits of DSP and pulled out the browns, oranges, and yellows and then stamped the pumpkin using either Early Espresso or Pecan Pie ink then fussy cut them.

  The pumpkins are popped up on dimensionals onto a piece of Very Vanilla that is cut with the Textured Notes dies. I left space in the center for the sentiment from Blooming Phrases which is stamped in Early Espresso.  

  Early Espresso is used for the backing layer and Crumb Cake for the card base.  For one card I used a Streaked Dot embellishment by the sentiment and the other has a Cajun Craze and Gold dot.

  This was such a fun design to put together and I really enjoyed taking a walk down memory lane with all the different papers from years past.  

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All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Choose Happy, Blooming Phrases (Online Exclusive)

Ink: Early Espresso, Pecan Pie

Paper: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, various DSP (most retired)

Accessories: Textured Notes dies, dimensionals, Cajun Craze & gold dots, Streaked Dots

CAS Watercolor Leaves - Stampin' Up!® Beautiful Motifs Dies

   I've been on a clean and simple kick this week!  It was very much not intentional but the inspiration lately just happened to be CAS challenges.  And even though there aren't a lot of layers or supplies used it can be harder to create a CAS card; having to be choosy with design elements sometimes makes you just want to use more of them!  I was inspired by 2 challenges for this one; The Paper Players with their CAS Watercolor theme and the Addicted to CAS team with the prompt of "leaves".  A leafy die from the Beautiful Motifs die set is the perfect focal point for both challenges.

  I started with a  Basic White thick card base, then a layer of Floral Impressions DSP in a nice subtle Old Olive pattern.  

  I used the die on a piece of watercolor paper popping the leaves up since the die doesn't cut out the whole image which is a cool look and then watercoloring them with my water painter (available again in the Stampin' Up!® online store!).

  The sentiment from the Beautiful Motifs stamp set is stamped in Old Olive to stick with a monochromatic scheme which keeps it clean and simple.  No ribbon or embellishments for the same reason.

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  All of the supplies used to create this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Beautiful Motifs

Ink: Old Olive

Paper: Basic White thick, Floral Impressions DSP (Online Exclusive), watercolor paper

Accessories: Beautiful Motifs dies, waterpainter

Jolly Christmas - Stampin' Up!® Jolly Delivery

  I'm getting a little Christmas-y with my card today!  I made this one yesterday on my Facebook Live and you can watch on replay below on YouTube.  The Jolly Delivery bundle is really cute and I always love a good critter card.  

  Aren't they cuties?  I have lots of layering and a bit of coloring with Stampin' Blends to create this design.  See how it all comes together.

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Jolly Delivery

Ink: Memento Black, Shaded Spruce, Real Red

Blends: Shaded Spruce light & dark, Pool Party light, Real Red light & dark, Pecan Pie light & dark, Timid Tiger light & dark, Basic Black light

Paper: Real Red, Basic White, Shaded Spruce, North Pole Delivery DSP

Accessories: Jolly Delivery Dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Soft Waves embossing folder, dimensionals, baker's twine, Traditional Sparkling Sequins

Flamingo Rose - Stampin' Up!® Along These Lines

 It must be the week for CAS (clean and simple) cards because I've got another one for you!  This time I'm using the layout from CAS on Friday.  I have to admit I was a bit stumped with this one as the long skinny design element didn't give much room for an image but after scanning my stamps the Along These Lines set seemed to fit the bill!

 I started with stamping the rose image along a skinny strip of Basic White.  I extended the long line at the top and bottom with the plain line stamp in the set. 

 I used Blends to color the image and then fussy cut just the one side.  I added a piece of Flirty Flamingo cardstock on the fussy cut side then popped the layers up on dimensionals.

 The sentiment from The Right Words is stamped in Memento black on the card front then a few Strawberry Slush & Pretty in Pink gems are added for a tiny bit of sparkle.  They are a great match to Flirty Flamingo even though they are listed as a different pink.

 And that's it for this clean and simple card!

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Along These Lines, The Right Words (Online Exclusive)

Ink: Memento Black

Blends: Flirty Flamingo light & dark, Granny Apple Green light & dark

Paper: Basic White thick, Basic White, Flirty Flamingo

Accessories: Strawberry Slush & Pretty in Pink gems, dimensionals