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Chocolate Easter Bunny

By Amy · Comments (1)
Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Ah, those three beautiful words every woman wants to hear… ‘chocolate Easter bunny’!

The fabulous ‘single’ stamp ‘Chocolate Bunny’ (#116980, $7.95) is available for a limited time while the Occasions Mini Catalog is available… don’t miss it!

I made a simple ‘treat sleeve’ with a 2 1/2 x 10 inch piece of Mellow Moss cardstock and folded it back up on itself to form a pocket.

The best part is the ‘chocolate’ on the bunny! I stamped the bunny in Chocolate Chip (how appropriate!) Crafter’s Ink (#101816) and heat set with Crystal Clear embossing powder (#109130, $4.75) on Creamy Caramel cardstock.

The floral stamp in Blush Blossom on Blush Blossom paper is from ‘Razzle Dazzle’ (#116714, $18.95) set.  The pocket is held together with Moss brads from the Soft Subtles brads assortment.

One important thing to remember about the ‘handle’, punch out the jumbo circle and THEN punch out the flower… it is close to impossible the other way around, LOL!

Materials & Dimensions:

2 ½ x 10 inch Mellow Moss cardstock
(scored at 6 ½  inches)
2 ¼ x 3 Blush Blossom cardstock (for front panel)
2 ¼ x 3 Creamy Caramel (for the bunny)
2 ½ x 2 ¾ Close to Cocoa (for the flower punch)
2 ½ x 2 ¾ Blush Blossom (for the scallop circle punch)
Blush Blossom dye ink
Chocolate Chip Crafters Ink
Crystal Clear embossing powder & Heat Tool
1 ¼ inch jumbo circle punch
Scallop Circle Punch
Extra Large Fancy Flower punch (118073)
Earth Elements brads (Olive)
1 1/16th inch circle punch
Dimensionals™, Chocolate Chip narrow grosgrain ribbon

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Abundant Hope 3D Easter Card

By Amy · Comments (3)
Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Abundant Hope Easter Card

This card gets me thinking about how beautiful my daffodils are going to be when they finally bloom–they are growing bigger with every sunny day!

And I am going to miss this set when it expires on April 18th.  ‘Abundant Hope’ is a limited edition set in our Occasions Mini Catalog which retires on April 30th.

It took me two days to make this card and finally ‘like’ the layout.  I knew I wanted the black & yellow combination… and ended up with this very simple card.  So simple that I decided the ‘pop up’ two of the daffodils or it wouldn’t satisfy me.  You can’t see the glitter… it does improve it.

Accessories include:
Basic Black & So Saffron cardstock
Black StazOn
Earth Elements Watercolor Crayons
Aquapainters
#107590 Designer Label Punch
#116630 Modern Label Punch
#118402 Scallop Trim Border
(SAB FREE with $50 order)
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter & 2 Way glue pen

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Abundant Hope Easter Card

By Amy · Comments (0)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

My daffodils are starting to come up (seems like winter was forever this year)! I included an up-close shot of the beautiful detail of the stamp.   You can click on the card for a close up as well.

The card is Vanilla and the Saffron designer paper.  The flower was colored in with the Summer Sun and Old Olive Watercolor Crayons and an Aquapainter.  This was a very quick card!  The vanilla satin ribbon gave it a richness and don’t you just LOVE the Scallop Trim Border Punch (#118402) which is a FREE Sale-A-Bration gift with your $50 order and available only until the end of this month.

This limited edition set ‘Abundant Hope’ (click on thumbnail below to see full sized set), is available until April 30th.

Materials:
Vanilla cardstock
4 x 3 inch Certainly Celery Cardstock
3 ¾ x 2 ¾ Very Vanilla cardstock
2 x 4 So Saffron Designer Paper
Vanilla Satin Ribbon
Scallop Trim Border Punch #118402 (FREE SAB)
Black StazOn
Earth Element Watercolor Crayons
Aquapainters

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5th Avenue Floral Easter Card

By Amy · Comments (3)
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

This beautiful 3D Easter Card is made with Stampin’ Up!’s ’5th Avenue Floral’ stamp set and the (leftover from the Stamp Festival projects) designer series paper ‘Cottage Wall.’

The flower heads were cut out and petals bent with a bone folder and then attached with Dimensionals®.  I love the colors Celery and Plum together anyway.

UPDATE: I bought a new Nikon D3000 SLR camera and I took a new photo… way bolder color! The thumbnail photo lower is with the old camera and you can see how washed out the color is.

It doesn’t help that I also have a terrible case of ‘photography envy’ from looking at the superior photography of Jon Haverstick and his photography of his wife’s Stampin’ Up! creations.  Oh well, I must embrace my mediocrity for now (but you can run out and buy, buy, buy more Stampin’ Up! products from me so that I can afford some better equipment…).

Stampin' Up! 5th Avenue Floral DetailMaterials Used:
Set(s): 5th Avenue Floral,
Well Scripted (#118601)
Accessories:
5 ½ x 8 ½ Perfect Plum cardstock
4 ¼ x 3 inch Certainly Celery cardstock
4 x 2 ¾ inch Whisper White cardstock
4 ¼ x 2 ½ inch Whisper White
For stamping and cutting flowers out
5 ¼ x 2 inch ‘Cottage Wall’ DSP (#115671)
Dimensionals®, Celery Satin Ribbon
Black StazOn ink, Bone folder
Certainly Celery Watercolor Crayon
Perfect Plum watercolor Crayon
Aquapainters

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SAB Stamp Festival is Postponed

By Amy · Comments (2)
Friday, February 26th, 2010

**UPDATE** The Impress Me! Team SAB Stamp Festival‘s snowdate  is Saturday, March 20th.

All registrants are being contacted directly and updates will be posted on my team site where there is a link to sign up for the wait list.

Meanwhile I will flagrantly torture you with the gorgeous projects we will be making including this unique stationery box (top right), Explosion Card (bottom right) and Flowerpot card (bottom left).

All projects were made with Stampin’ Up!’s Vintage Vogue stamp set (#117690 Wood, #118598 clear mount) from the Occasions Mini Catalog, as well as the ‘Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper’ and lots and lots of Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive cardstock.  Festival included the Vintage Vogue stamp set in wood or clear mount (with a clear block).  Details on the festival are here.

All projects will be featured in the next few weeks on my blog… don’t worry!

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Birthday Gift Bag Card

By Amy · Comments (14)
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

This is a fun birthday card idea that I saw similarly done a few years ago.

It incorporates quite a few punches and the colors are taken from Stampin’ Up!’s  psychedelic looking designer paper ‘Kaleidoscope’.

The ‘gift bags’ were made from the coordinating 1 1/4 inch jumbo square punch and the 1 3/8 inch jumbo square punch, the handles are natural hemp.  I used a tiny square of white tissue paper for the tissue inside the gift bags.

I like to use the Modern Label punch over the Designer Label punch for the greetings.  The ‘On Your Birthday’ set is FULL of greetings including ‘belated’ greetings, and many of them fit on our punches.

Kaleidoscope Designer Paper Bermuda Bay cardstock
Pumpkin Pie cardstock  
Bermuda Bay ink pad
Whisper White cardstock
Kraft cardstock
Natural hemp
white tissue paper
1 ¼ inch Jumbo Square punch
1 3/8 inch Jumbo Square punch
Designer Label punch (#107590)
Modern Label punch (#116630)Sticky Strip, Dimensionals™
Eyelet Border punch (#113692)

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Valentine Ideas summed up!

By Amy · Comments (1)
Monday, February 8th, 2010

Valentine Button - Push for Ideas!I know that I haven’t set the world on fire this year with my Valentine ideas… but I have an idea that may help you (in the days before Valentine’s day!)

Click on the ‘Valentine Button’ that I made and view all my past posts and projects with the ‘Valentine’ theme.

You probably don’t know it but my middle name is Valentine and my favorite aunt has always given me heart shaped gifts (and jewelry).  I still do LOVE hearts.  And I really DO like Valentine’s Day.

Happy Heart ValentineThis was a Valentine that we made at my last Stamp a Stack (and it was one of the Occasions class cards).  It really is a postcard with a smaller card on top, but it squeaked by as a card.

Materials Used:

A Happy Heart set (#111758)
5 ½ x 4 ¼ Basic Black Cardstock
5 ¼ x 4 Real Red Cardstock
5 ½ x 2 ¾ inch Basic Black cardstock
Two 2 ½ x 2 ½ Whisper White cardstock
Two 5 ½ x 4 ¼ pcs. White cardstock
This is for embossing and punching hearts
strip of White cardstock (for stamping red)
Real Red Ink pad, StazOn Black pad
Full Heart Punch (#113693)

Heart to Heart Punch (#113694)
Small Heart Punch (#117193)
½ inch circle punch
Finial Press textured impressions pad
Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine, Multipurpose Tray, Two standard cutting pads

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2 Tags Sizzix Die Valentine

By Amy · Comments (2)
Monday, February 1st, 2010

Two Tags Sizzix Die 'Valentine'I received several samples of  ‘candy holders’ at Leadership and realized a new and adorable use for Stampin’ Up!’s exclusive Sizzix Bigz Die ‘Two Tags.’

The tags are just under 6 inches long, so they are not very big, but they are very versatile (see the screenshot of the die below)!

I used the new Occasions Mini set ‘I[Heart]Hearts’ (see below) of which $2 from the sale of each set will go to Haiti to benefit the survivors.

One of the things that I love about the ‘I[Heart]Hearts’ set, is that  they have a ‘trio’ of hearts that coordinate with the ‘Heart To Heart’ 3 heart punch (which you must purchase!).

Two Tag Treat HolderMaterials:

2 ¾ x 5 ½ inch Very Vanilla (to stamp the hearts)
3 inch x 6 inch ‘Sending Love’ Specialty DSP
Real Red ink pad
Close to Cocoa Ink pad
Full Heart Punch (#113693)
Heart to Heart Punch (113694)
Sticky Strip
Treat (mini Hershey Bar)
Stampin’ Up! Two Tag Sizzix die (#115954)
Two standard cutting pads
Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine
10 inches 5/8 inch Wide Grosgrain ribbon Red
7 inches narrow grosgrain ribbon Chocolate Chip
½ inch circle punch

I[Heart]Hearts set from Stampin' Up!

Stampin' Up! exclusive Bigz Die 'Two Tags'

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