Thank you to the lovely ladies who joined me for my Stamp-a-Stack events in September and October. We had a great time and made so many lovely cards.
All the projects were Christmas themed, in my opinion you can never start too early….. There were 5 tables with 2 cards designs on each table, the ladies made 2 of each card giving them a total of 20 cards.
On arrival each lady was given a bag containing a pack of Merry Little Christmas dsp, 20 card bases in co-ordinating colours – Whisper White, Old Olive and Real Red, a spool of ⅛” Real Red ribbon, 20 Whisper White Envelopes and packets of pre-cut card stock layers to make each card. I prepped the packs for the second Stamp-a-Stack when I was in the grip of a migraine and managed to miss-label some of the packs which caused some hilarity. Luckily I always bring spare cardstock and was able to rectify the mix up with no problems.
www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – ladies enjoying a Christmas themed Stamp-a-Stack
As always the day whizzed by so quickly. Here is a picture of some of the ladies hard at work and of some of the projects they made.
www.crafty-rootes.com – cards for a Christmas themed Stamp-a-Stack event
Thanks for stopping by my blog today, if you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and you would like one, please let me know and I will send one to you. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
Details of the products I used for this project can be found below. Please visit my blog again soon.
Mo x
Supplies used: Stamp sets
Good Tidings, Carols of Christmas, Feeling Of Christmas, Season Like Christmas, Hearts Come Home Dies
Card Front Builder framelits, Lots of Labels dies & Hometown framelits Embossing Folder
Oh My Stars Cardstock
Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Real Red, Old Olive & Basic Black DSP
Merry Little Christmas dsp Ink Pads and/or Marker
Old Olive, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Always Artichoke, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Crushed Curry, Sofft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Early Espresso, Basic Grey, Basic Black, Momento Tuxedo Black & Versamark Tools
Big Shots, Multipurpose Platform + 2 cutting pads, Standard Platform + 2 cutting pads, Heat Guns, Paper Trimmers, Stampin Scrubs and Stampin Mist, Bone folders and Scissors Acrylic Blocks – multiples
A, B, C, D, E, G & H Adhesives
Tombow Liquid Adhesive, Mini Glue Dots & Stampin’ Dimensionals Accessories
Grid Paper, Embossing Buddy, Silver Embossing Powder, ⅛” Real Red Ribbon & Whisper White Envelopes
I have been using the Banners For You stamp set today to make a good luck card for a friend.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Banners For You stamp set by Stampin’ Up!
I started with a piece of Very Vanilla card stock 4 ½” by 3” which I die cut using the Big Shot and the 2nd largest die from the Lots of Labels framelits. I then took 2 of the leaf images from the Banners For You stamp set and the smallest leaf from the Colorful Seasons stamp set and randomly stamped them onto the die cut label using Old Olive, Crushed Curry and Cherry Cobbler inks. To get a depth of colour I used 1st & 2nd generation stamping. To fill in some of the gaps I used the dotty image from the Banners For You stamp set and Pumpkin Pie ink. I die cut a 2nd label in the same size from Crushed Curry cardstock, cut it across the middle with my Paper Trimmer and glued it to the stamped piece using Tombow Liquid Adhesive with the some of the colour showing at the top and the bottom.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Banners For You stamp set by Stampin’ Up!
I ran a panel of Very Vanilla cardstock 5⅜” by 3⅝” through the Big Shot with the Layered Leaves Textured Embossing Folder before adhering the piece to the front of an Old Olive card base.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Banners For You stamp set by Stampin’ Up!
I stamped the banner from the Banners For You Stamp set in Old Olive ink onto a scrap piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and die cut it out using the Bunch of Banners framelits. I then stamped the greeting from the same stamp set in Cherry Cobbler ink onto the die cut banner. I die cut the banner again from a scrap of Old Olive cardstock and glued the 2 together slightly off set. The banner was then added to the stamped label using Stampin’ Dimensionals before the whole piece was added to the card front using Tombow. To finish the card of I added a scattering of Glitter Enamel Dots.
Love the Autumn colours of this card. I hope my friend likes it and that it brings her luck.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today, if you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and you would like one, please let me know and I will send one to you. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you. If you are local please check out my classes and events using the button at the top of the page or leave me a comment.
Details of the products I used for this project can be found below. Please visit my blog again soon.
Mo x
Supplies used: Stamp sets
Banners for You & Colorful Seasons Cardstock
Old Olive, Very Vanilla & Crushed Curry Ink Pads
Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Cherry Cobbler and Pumpkin Pie Dies
Lots of Labels & Bunch of Banners Embossing Folder
Layered Leaves Tools
Big Shot , Stampin’ Trimmer, Stampin Scrub and Stampin Mist, Bone Folder and Scissors Acrylic Blocks
A, B, B, B, H & H Adhesives
Tombow Liquid Adhesive & Stampin’ Dimensionals Accessories
Glitter Enamel Dots, Grid Paper & Very Vanilla Envelope
I saw a fantastic video on Youtube recently by Brandy Cox, a fab American demonstrator, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOn6qnSxLpg showing some cards she had made using the quirky Christmas Sweaters stamp set. I loved them all but my favourite was the Santa jumper. Here is my take on it.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Christmas Sweater by Stampin’ Up!
I stamped the jumper using Momento Tuxedo Black ink onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock and die cut it out using the Stitched Shapes framelits and the Big Shot. I coloured the jumper in using an Old Olive marker, the hat with the Real Red Marker, Santa’s face with the Pink Pirouette Marker, Santa’s glasses with the Sahara Sand Marker and the ribbed area around the neck, cuffs and bottom of the jumper with the Soft Sky Marker.
I followed Brandy’s tip and covered the beard, moustache, eyebrows, rim of the hat and the pompom in Tombow Liquid Adhesive and spread it around using a cotton bud taking care to stay away from the stamped black edge. I then covered the image with Dazzling Diamonds Glitter and it looked fabulous, so sparkly. I added this piece to a scalloped square which had been die cut using the Layering Squares dies and Old Olive cardstock.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Christmas Sweater by Stampin’ Up!
I took a layer of Real Red cardstock and ran it through the Big Shot with the Winter Wonder embossing folder on the right hand side of the panel. I really love the effect this gives. I stamped the sentiment from the Merry Patterns stamp set in Momento Tuxedo Black ink onto a scrap of Whisper White cardstock and punched it out using the Everyday Label punch. I punched again using a scrap of Old Olive cardstock and mounted the stamped piece on top and slightly offset so that the colour peeked out the bottom.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Christmas Sweater by Stampin’ Up!
I added the sentiment to the lower left hand corner of the Real Red panel using Tombow Liquid Adhesive and added the Santa sweater image over the top using Stampin Dimensionals. The whole panel was then added to a Thick Whisper White card base using Tombow.
I love how sparkly and festive this card is, love it. Thanks for the inspiration Brandy.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today, if you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and you would like one, please let me know and I will send one to you. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you. If you are local please check out my classes and events using the button at the top of the page or leave me a comment.
Details of the products I used for this project can be found below. Please visit my blog again soon.
Mo x
Supplies used: Stamp sets
Christmas Sweaters & Merry Patterns Cardstock
Thick Whisper White, Real Red, Old Olive & Whisper White Ink Pads
Momento Tuxedo Black Markers
Old Olive, Real Red, Sahara Sand, Pink Pirouette & Soft Sky Dies
Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Squares dies Punches
Everyday Label Embossing Folder
Winter Wonder Tools
Big Shot , Stampin’ Trimmer, Stampin Scrub and Stampin Mist, Bone Folder and Scissors Acrylic Block
D & G Adhesives
Tombow Liquid Adhesive & Stampin’ Dimensionals Accessories
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Grid Paper & Whisper White Envelope
Painted Harvest Class – Thank you to all the lovely ladies who came to classes this week, we had a ball using the Painted Harvest stamp set to make 3 beautiful projects
www.carfty-rootes.com – Painted Harvest by Stampin’ Up!
The first card was very simple and started with us randomly stamping the ‘solid flower image’ in Crushed Curry ink onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock. We added the more ‘detailed flower’ image over the top of the first image in Cajun Craze ink, love how the 2 step stamping brings the flower to life.
We then stamped the sentiment from the Banners for You stamp set in Chocolate Chip ink and at this point we decided whether we were doing a landscape or portrait version of the card. We then stamped the ‘flower centre’ using Chocolate Chip ink and filled in the white spaces using the ‘fern like leaf image’ and Pear Pizzazz ink.
We wrapped a piece of ⅛” Copper Trim around the stamped piece and tied it in a bow………..always a challenge….. We added a thin strip of Chocolate Chip cardstock along one edge with Tombow Liquid Adhesive and added the whole panel using the same glue to the front of a Thick Whisper White card base. To finish off we stamped the flower again on the inside of the card and the front of the envelope.
www.carfty-rootes.com – Painted Harvest by Stampin’ Up!
With the 2nd card we started by embossing a piece of Whisper White cardstock using the Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured Impressions Folder and the Big Shot. We added the embossed panel to a slightly larger piece of Crushed Curry cardstock using Tombow Liquid Adhesive and used the same glue to adhere the panel to a Cajun Craze card base.
We stamped the flower in exactly the same way as for the first card onto a scrap of Whisper White and die cut it using a circle die from the Stitched Shapes framelits. We also die cut a slightly larger scalloped circle from Cajun Craze cardstock using one of the Layering Circle dies. We then glued the 2 circles together with Tombow.
We stamped one of the leaf images in Always Artichoke ink onto Pear Pizzazz cardstock and punched them out using the Leaf Punch. These were added to the back of the Cajun Craze scalloped circle with Tombow.
We stamped the banner and the sentiment from the ThoughtfulBanners stamp set using Chocolate Chip ink onto Whisper White cardstock and punched the banner out using the Duet Banner punch. This was added to the front of the stamped piece using Tombow. We added the whole piece to the embossed panel using Stampin’ Dimensionals. Again to finish we stamped the flower onto the envelope and onto a layer of Whisper White cardstock which we added to the inside of the card using Tombow.
www.carfty-rootes.com – Painted Harvest by Stampin’ Up!
The 3rd card was a CHRISTMAS card……..I know, couldn’t resist sneaking one in. I got the idea for this card from Pinterest but I haven’t been able to identify who originally came up with the idea but I have put my own spin on it.
We stamped the ‘solid flower image’ randomly in Pear Pizzazz ink onto Pear Pizzazz cardstock and added the panel to a Thick Whisper White card base. We then stamped the solid flower onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock using Pear Pizzazz ink. We stamped the detailed layer in Always Artichoke ink and added the ‘berries’ in Cajun Craze ink. We stamped the sentiment from the Star of Light stamp set in Cajun Craze ink and then flagged the end of the Whisper White piece using scissors. We added some Gold Glimmer paper behind and sneakily we used a short piece, cut into two and stuck on at the top and the bottom with Tear & Tape….. no- one will ever know……..
We added the whole panel to the card front on Stampin’ Dimensionals and added a bow made from the ⅛” Copper Trim with a Mini Glue Dot before decorating the inside of the card and the envelope.
I hope you like the projects as much as the ladies did.
www.carfty-rootes.com – Painted Harvest by Stampin’ Up!
We had Thanks for stopping by my blog today, if you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and you would like one, please let me know and I will send one to you. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you. If you are local please check out my classes and events using the button at the top of the page or leave me a comment.
This is a peak at the table gifts I made for my ladies.
www.carfty-rootes.com – Painted Harvest by Stampin’ Up!
Details of the products I used for this project can be found below. Please visit my blog again soon.
Mo x
Supplies used: Stamp sets
Painted Harvest, Thoughtful Banners, Star of Light Cardstock
Thick Whisper White, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White & Pear Pizzazz Ink Pads
Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke & Pear Pizzazz Dies
Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Circle Framelits Punches
Duet Banner & Leaf Embossing Folder
Layered Leaves Tools
Big Shot, Stampin’ Trimmer, Stampin Scrub and Stampin Mist, Bone Folder and Scissors Acrylic Blocks
A, C, C, D, D & G Adhesives
Tombow Liquid Adhesive, Mini Glue Dots, Tear & Tape & Stampin’ Dimensionals Accessories
⅛” Copper Trim ribbon, Grid Paper & Whisper White Envelopes
I was lucky enough to be invited to 2 weddings over the last few days, how fortunate am I, love a wedding. Both couples had a rustic theme, kraft cardstock, very vanilla and a pop of colour. With that ‘natural look’ in mind I made a wedding card for each couple.
Both cards are very similar and start with a Crumb Cake card base. Next I took a Crumb Cake panel 5” by 3¼”and stamped randomly all over the upper two thirds in Crumb Cake ink using many of the small images from the Bloomin’ Love stamp set to create the effect I wanted and I was really happy with the result.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Bloomin’ Love by Stampin’ Up!
I took a small piece of Very Vanilla cardstock 3¼” by 2”and ran it through the Big Shot using the Ruffled Dynamic Textured Embossing Folder, love the effect this gives, and added it to the lower third of the panel with Tombow Liquid Adhesive. I added the whole piece to a Very Vanilla panel 5⅛” by 3⅜” then to a piece of Night of Navy cardstock 5¼” by 3½” to match the colours the bride had chosen for her theme. I used some of the lovely soft Very Vanilla Lace Ribbon to tie into a bow around the topper which gives the card a more finished look, tying the top and the bottom together.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Bloomin’ Love by Stampin’ Up!
The whole piece was added to the Crumb Cake card base using Stampin’ Dimensionals. The sentiment from the Dragonfly Dreams stamp set was stamped in Night of Navy ink onto a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock and trimmed with scissors. It was added to the card front using Tombow Liquid Adhesive.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Bloomin’ Love by Stampin’ Up!
For the second card I substituted Old Olive ink and cardstock instead of the Night of Navy and added an extra Very Vanilla cardstock panel between the topper and the Crumb Cake card base.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Bloomin’ Love by Stampin’ Up!
I was really happy with the way the cards turned out, I hope you like them.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today, if you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and you would like one, please let me know and I will send one to you. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you. If you are local please check out my classes and events using the button at the top of the page or leave me a comment.
Details of the products I used for this project can be found below. Please visit my blog again soon.
Mo x
Supplies used: Stamp sets
Bloomin’ Love Dragonfly Dreams & Beautiful You Cardstock
Card 1 – Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Very Vanilla
Card 2 – Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Very Vanilla Ink Pads
Card 1 – Crumb Cake & Night of Navy
Card 2 – Crumb Cake & Old Olive Embossing Folder
Ruffled Tools
Stampin’ Trimmer, Stampin Scrub and Stampin Mist, Big Shot, Bone Folder, Paper Piercer and Scissors Acrylic Block
A, A, A, B & D Adhesives
Tombow Liquid Adhesive Accessories
Very Vanilla Lace Ribbon & Very Vanilla Envelopes
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