Happy Birthday America
Happy Birthday, America! Happy 4th of July! May you feel triumphant on this wonderful day of freedom! Happy Birthday, America! Supplies Used: Stamp Set: Circle Sayings Ink: Night of Navy, Real Red Night of Navy Stampin’ Blend Background: Scribble a clear block with a Stampin’ Blend (Night of Navy) Add a drop of 91% or […]
Coloring with Stampin’ Blends-Rustic Harvest
Coloring with Stampin’ Blends It’s easy to add color to black-and-white designer paper using the alcohol-based Blends from Stampin’ Up! While this black and white leaf design found in the Rustic Harvest paper pack is beautiful and dramatic, adding color using Blends makes it pop. Here’s How: Cut a piece of designer paper to the […]
Alcohol Ink Smooshing Technique-Better Days
Alcohol Ink Smooshing Technique for card making using Better Days stamp set Use your Stampin’ Blends or other alcohol inks to create interesting backgrounds. Here’s How: You will need a window or transparency sheet, 91% isopropyl alcohol, and alcohol-based ink or markers. This technique works best if you use 91% isopropyl alcohol. Scribble the […]
How to Add Color to Black and White Cards
How to Add Color to Black and White Cards using the new Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up! and Stampin’ Blends or Stampin’ Write Markers I’m here to help with this quick and easy card using Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper. Sometimes a simple black-and-white print is the touch of elegance a paper […]
Peaceful Place Designer Series Paper and Stampin’ Blends
Peaceful Place DSP The Peaceful Place DSP is gorgeous on its own, but it is easy to add a little pop of color using Stampin’ Blends. You can see more of my Peaceful Place card creations here Here’s How: Cut Peaceful Place Designer Paper to measure 3 3/4″ x 4″. Color using a variety of […]
Stampin’ Blends Alcohol Technique-Dragonfly Garden Vellum
Stampin’ Blends Alcohol Technique! Create pretty backgrounds using the Stampin’ Blends Alcohol Technique. (You can see more of my Stampin’ Blends Creations HERE) For these three cards, I paired the background technique with heat embossed vellum card stock. Here’s How: On a piece of transparency or window sheet, scribble splotches using Stampin’ Blends. For […]
Stampin’ Blends-Color Your Own Glimmer Paper
Stampin’ Blends! How to Color Your Own Glimmer Paper! Sometimes, you just need a custom-colored piece of Glimmer Paper. You know, a glimmery piece of paper to exactly match the project you’re working on. Adding your own colors to glimmer paper is easy when using Stampin’ Blends. You can see more of my Stampin’ Blends […]
Woodland Wonder Valentine’s Day Card
Woodland Wonder Valentine’s Day Card closed Woodland Wonder Valentine’s Day Card opened One of the nice things about having grandchildren is looking through the Stampin’ Up! catalogs and contemplating stamp sets that I would have barely noticed before. That was certainly the case with the Woodland Wonder stamp set found in the Jan-June Mini Catalog. […]
Blends and Blossoms in Bloom Puzzle Card
Puzzle Cards are featured projects found in my August newsletter. This card features the Blossoms in Bloom Bundle which includes the Blossoms in Bloom stamp set and coordinating Many Layered Blossoms Dies. I colored the flowers using an assortment of Stampin’ Blends. This card is so pretty in person. Puzzle Cards can be a little […]
Country Home and Buffalo Check
Country Home with Basic Gray and Night of Navy Buffalo Check Country Home with Mint Macaron and Smoky Slate Buffalo Check Here are two more cards I created using the stamp set Country Home. For these, I paired them with the background stamp, Buffalo Check. To create the background, I used the Stamparatus to get […]
Jar of Flowers Sympathy Card
Sympathy Card Using Jar of Flowers stamp set Unfortunately, I needed to send another sympathy card. A long-time resident of our small community passed away recently. I wanted to send flowers, but instead, decided to make a jar of flowers in a card using the stamp set Jar of Flowers and coordinating Jar Punch. The […]
Merry Christmas-Tri-Fold Snow Front Card
Tri-Fold Snow Front Card Closed Tri-Fold Snow Front Card Opened Tri-Fold Snow Front Card Inside This card was inspired by an idea I saw from Michelle Last. It is an easy tri-fold card using Snow Front, one of my favorite stamp sets found in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog. This stamp set is perfect for […]
Snow Globe Mercury Acetate and Blends Background
Have you seen the Mercury Glass Designer Acetate in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog? I overlooked it a few times as it really isn’t prominent in the samples. But, it is really cool stuff! I provides easy backgrounds that add that WOW factor! So, what is it? According to Wikipedia, “Mercury glass (or silvered glass) […]
Tie-Dye using Pigment Sprinkles
Disinfectant Wipes Pigment Sprinkles Tie-Dye Background My August Fresh Ideas Newsletter featured the Pigment Sprinkles Tie-Dye Background Technique using everyday household items such as tissue paper and disinfectant wipes. Baby wipes would also work, but I like the texture of the disinfectant wipes. Looks like honeycomb! Here’s another tie-dye background that I paired with the […]
Blends Ombre Bee Thankful Part 2
Pool Party, Night of Navy Blends Ombre Mint Macaron, Bermuda Bay Blends Ombre Create happy, colorful (and quick), ombre thank you cards using Stampin’ Blends and the cute stamp set Bee Thankful. All you need are 3 colors of coordinating Stampin’ Blends. Light, medium, and dark. Stamp the image on a piece of Whisper White […]