Summer Smooches Stencil-Quick How to Use Stencils
This was a quick and easy card made using the Summer Smooches Stencil from Stampin’ Up! How to Use Stencils -Stampin’ Up! offers several stencil designs on page 234 of the main catalog. (The stencils are retiring and are only available through May 31!) -The stencils include stencil and mask images to create a variety […]
Abundant Beauty Stenciled Leaves
Abundant Beauty Stenciled Leaves I created circle stencils, then stenciled leaves from the Abundant Beauty Decorative Mask set for this fall-themed card. Abundant Beauty Stenciled Leaves How To: Create a circle stencil by die-cutting or punching a circle out of copy paper or a post-it note. I used my 2″ circle punch punched out of […]
Embossing Folder Resist Technique with Peekaboo Farm
Embossing Folder Resist Technique paired with Peekaboo Farm for a fun birthday card for our granddaughter. Our granddaughter just turned six, loves horses and wants to be a “horsey rider” growing up. She’s been anxiously waiting for her 6th birthday so she can take horseback riding lessons at a local stable. This is the […]
Double Stencil Technique-Butterflies and Flowers
Double Stencil Technique Let me show you how to do the fun Double Stencil Technique using Butterflies and Flowers Decorative Layering Masks from Stampin’ Up! Your images will really pop when you layer the detailed masks over the backgrounds to get even more depth and dimension. I created these cards for a clean and simple […]
Welcoming Woods Fall Card
Welcoming Woods Fall Card The new Holiday Mini Catalog from Stampin’ Up! is Here! One of my favorite stamp sets found in this catalog is Welcoming Woods. Believe it or not, Fall is not far away with winter/Christmas right on its heels! With the Welcoming Woods Stamp Set, you can make cards for all of […]
Botanical Builder Stenciled Happy Birthday
I recently cut a number of ferns out of Wild Wasabi card stock using the Botanical Builder Framelites for an upcoming Botanical Blooms class. I was left with this sheet of potential “stencils.” I decided to use one of them to stencil a collection of ferns on the card above. I used sponge daubers inked […]
Bokeh Christmas Tree-CASology Triangle Challenge
“Triangle” is our cue word this week over at CASology. Update: I guess this card is using the photography “bokeh” effect. I did not know it had a name, so thanks to commenters from the CASology group who have enlightened me. According to Wikipedia,” the bokeh is the blur or aesthetic quality of the blur […]
Embossing Paste Snowflakes
Happy Day after Christmas! For this card, I used a fun product called embossing paste by Dreamweaver Stencils. This has been in my crafting stash for quite awhile. I was cleaning out my crafting cabinet recently and came across it. It’s fun and easy to work with, so I decided to do a quick project. […]
Joy Card-Nacho Average Sketch Challenge #25
Check out this week’s sketch over at the Nacho Average site. Here’s my contribution: This card actually started out as this gift bag shown below which was one of the projects at my recent Wrap It Up! Class. The stencils of the the JOY pieces were sitting in my scrap pile, and I just couldn’t […]
Stenciled Ornament Tea Towels
Need a last minute gift idea? Stenciled tea towels are quick and easy. For detailed instructions, please visit this posting Supplies Used: Vintage Ornaments (#118141, $14.95) and Elegant Trio (#118262, $9.95) Decor Stencils, fabric paint, stipple brushes, flour sack tea towels (purchased at ***mart-5 for 5.95) After letting the fabric paint dry over night, I […]
Stencil
I needed a quick birthday card recently. I got out one of my favorite Decor Stencils and Color Coach. I always seem to be drawn to the color combination of Poppy Parade, Not Quite Navy and Crumb Cake! This was one of those 5 minute cards, and most of that was deciding which stencil and […]
Faux Suede-Stenciled Newsprint
This was my swap card for the July Stamp Clubs. It combines two of my favorite Stampin’ Up! products: stencils and Designer Series Paper. I also used one my favorite techniques: faux suede for bottom part of the card.I then over-stamped the floral image from the stamp set Essence of Love using Riding Hood Red […]
Stenciled Tea Towels-500th Post!
Woo Hoo, this is my 500th blog post! Thanks for sharing this blogging adventure with me! For my 500th post, I decided I would feature one of my favorite gift ideas: stenciled tea towels. Every kitchen needs at least one tea towel! And a specially decorated tea towel is even better! I used bleached cotton […]
Mostly Vintage Stencil and Log Cabin Smooch Spritz
I think my favorite Stampin’ Up! product is Decor Stencils. They make such quick and easy projects. For this card, I used the mask that comes in the Mostly Vintage Decor Stencils. This is found in the Summer Occasions Catalog from Stampin’ Up! I laid it on the card stock and spritzed Log Cabin Smooch […]