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Jun
28
Beautiful Beach
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Beautiful Beaches & the terrific “Cheesecloth” background stamp are both retiring this Saturday with the retirement of the 2006-07 Idea Book & Catalog.
This is one of the best seashell sets we’ve had in awhile and I am sad to report that there isn’t a comperable set to this one in the 2007 Fall/Winter Collection (duh, it’s Fall/Winter!)… you’ll have to wait until January or April of next year!
This card is a sample from my “Retiring Sets” Stamp a Stack of Stuff that I am hosting this evening for the last time. The colors are Creamy Caramel, Bashful blue & Brocade. The main shell is embossed in white, cut out, and tucked in and the other stamping is with white crafters ink (but the saying is in Close to Cocoa).
Jun
26
Seaside Sketches (Retiring Set)
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I will very much miss the Seaside Sketches set!
This is one of the cards that I am doing at my Stamp a Stack of Stuff this month (my Wilmington, DE class still has openings this Thursday). All projects (cards & 3d project) will feature sets and accessories that are retiring.
To give you a bit more background on this card, it is a vellum cardstock overlay that has the girls stamped in Basic Black and colored in with our Stampin’ Write markers on the front. The greeting is also stamped on the front.
Under the vellum, I tore Creamy Caramel and Brocade blue strips for sand and waves. I made the clouds with 
a sponge dauber on Bashful Blue ink.
The vellum overlay is adhered with black brads from our Vintage Brads pack.
I love this card with the two little girls, it reminds me of my neices in North Carolina!!! I may have to stamp them some cards like this… although I am lucky to get them birthday cards in the month that they are born, LOL!
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Jun
16
Yet another set of stationery!
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Okay, so I broke my own promise–for two reasons–I was told not to stop sharing them, LOL, and I wanted to share the one that I would be featuring at my Stamp-A-Stack of stuff next week!
I have always loved this set (not as much as DD Grapevine which is long gone but not forgotten). I think my downline love it as well since I am sad to report I can only find ONE sample of the many nice cards I’ve made with it so I had to start from scratch on this… I’ve got to stop lending my samples out!!!
I usually start a gift bag & stationery holder from inspiration from a card. You can see the card in the bottom left hand corner. I did 3D it with the 3rd bunch of grapes. I think making one bunch of grapes 3D is more effective on this than masking.
The gift bag has one bunch of grapes popped up as well as the large grape leaf (at 5:00) and the smaller grape leaf (at 11:00). The gift tag is a large grape leaf stamped on a folded piece of cardstock to make a “card”.
I used an “oatmeal” colored tissue (you can find wonderful shades of tissue at party stores) for the stamped matching tissue paper. The bag is kraft colored and there is sponging of More Mustard (hence the mustard stripe in the gift bag top & bottom) to give it an “earthy” feel. The grapes are stamped on vanilla rather than white as well.
Okay, I will start sharing other cards & projects as the week goes on!
Jun
12
Yet another gift bag… promise it’s my last!
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Okay, okay, this will be my last, I promise! These were done with the “Mixed Bouquet” set of stamps and matching jumbo roller wheel (discontinuing 6/30/07).
I don’t know if you can tell that the roses were embossed in gold and sponged in with daubers in So Saffron and Rose Red, the green is Mellow Moss and the accent color is Chocolate Chip.
The pocket “postcard” was a last minute addition and I really like it! I just folded up and then folded down (and tore the edge) of a strip of cardstock. It is held closed on the sides by brads.
The tissue would have been too much work to emboss, so I stamped it in Chocolate Chip and then sponged it the same as I did the embossed ones on the cards & bag.
There is a matching set of stationery in the bag
, but I figured you got the idea already.
Well, I gave one of them to a teacher today, and she asked my husbnad about whether I made the gift myself and my husband said “oh yeah, this is what she does” (meaning, for a living).
Then she spoke to me about it (and told me what my husband said to her) and I told her that ‘yes, I do classes’ and she could come to one if she wanted to… and she just laughed, like I was joking or something.
Hmm… this job doesn’t get a lot of respect a lot of times, but that takes the cake this week.
Oh well… maybe just knowing she could take a class made her happy? I’ll just think that!
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Jun
11
Another Set of Stationery!
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Here is my second set of stationery “ensemble” this time made with Serene Sunflower Set in Always Artichoke, More Mustard & Chocolate Chip.
The background stamp is “Cheesecloth” which is retiring this June and I don’t agree with that decision.
We have so many “fabric” type backgrounds but we need this one because “Aida Cloth” & “Linen” & “Canvas” are redundant but the uniqueness of this background stamp makes it stand out. I love how the edges “unweave” and I have used it for Halloween backgrounds as well.
Oh well, you know they really should call me before they make these types of decisions, don’t you!?
Jun
9
Teacher’s Gift Sets of Stationery
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This is one of the two sets of stationery that I have made so far for teachers gifts this year.
I took a small 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 3 inch Kraft handle bag and put a ‘false front’ and stamped the vanilla tissue.
The bag matches the card and stationery container all made with cardstock. I have the stationery holder standing at far left and shown open at the bottom. The card is standing up.
I am sorry to see French Script go, it is the background script used in the card. The main set used is “A Touch of Nature” on Pg. 133 of the 2006-07 Idea Book & Catalog. The colors are Always Artichoke, So Saffron (sponged with More Mustard) and Black.
I got the inspiration for the entire ensemble from the card (which I got in a swap but didn’t have a name on it–gotta put your name on stuff!). The center of the flower is a brown pom-pom… the 3D look is priceless.
I will be sharing the other bags over the next few days. My June Stamp A Stack will feature a matching card/portfolio/bag as a project, so don’t miss this class…
Jun
4
Roses In Winter Accordion Card
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This card is a bit different.
The accordion part is hidden inside the flowerpot shaped card. I did this for a Mother’s Day class two years ago and I will dearly miss “Rose In Winter” stamp set!
Fold a card in half and trace a “flowerpot” shape (with the crease being the bottom of the pot). The inside was the same pattern, only slightly smaller (shown in white). The “accordion” is just a strip of colored cardstock (Pretty In Pink) scored for 3 “mountain” folds and 3 “valley” folds (and I tore the edges). The roses were cut out and glued on the folds.
The roses were stamped in Blush Blossom, Pretty in Pink “stamped off” and Pretty in Pink heavy for the inside. The petals are mellow moss (stamped off first for lighter shade and then stamped full strength for detail shading.
Over the next few weeks, I will feature my favorite projects and cards done with sets that are going away. I will most likely be featuring them in my “going away” Stamp-A-Stack class in June.
Jun
3
Accordion Card - Father’s Day
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This is the Accordion card that I made my husband last year for Father’s Day. The papers used are called “Weathered” from Stampin’ Up!’s “Timeworn Collection” of background papers. They are different wood grain textured papers that are *very* realistic!
The “card” itself is a 12 x12 sheet scored in half to make it 6 inches high and scored at 3 inch intervals for 4 panels. The link to my project gallery for this project in more detail is here.
What I did for the one I made for my husband (top) is have each panel feature one child, three photos total each child… the two on the front of the panel are of them at approx. 2 years old and then 5 years old and then current age on the pull out bookmark. They each wrote a message to their dad on the back of the bookmark.
We made one for our Grads & Dads class this month (see second sample). It was a bit plainer to allow for more journaling.
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