Pumpkin of Strips

Here is the second project we made for stamp club this month.  It uses one sheet of cardstock and a few scraps for the topper.  The pumpkin is about 7" wide and 5-1/2" tall.  The straw is a bunch of left over Crumb Cake strips I crumpled up.

The leaves were cut with the Autumn Accents Bigz Die and then stamped with the Wonderfall Stamp Set.  The little curls were made with thin strips of cardstock.  You know the ones.....you have a bunch of them left over from cutting down you cardstock for a smaller mat.  Use your Bone Folder and pull on the strip like you are trying to curl ribbon.  This will not actually curl the cardstock, but it will break up the fibers so it will curl better.  Then wrap the strip tightly around a pencil and slide off the end.  The leaves and curls were attached with some two way glue pen.
The main part of the pumpkin is made with 1" x 8-1/2" stips of Pumpkin Pie Cardstock.  I used 10 of them.  The 11th strip put too much stress on the brad to hold them together.  Each strip is embossed with different embossing folders.  The stem is a rolled up piece of Early Espresso with tiny cut fringe.  The stem holds on best with some glue dots.  You could also use hot glue gun. I didn't have mine handy.

Products Used:

Stamps:  Wonderfall (wm#128084, cm#128087)

Colors:  Pumpkin Pie, Gumball Green cardstock, Early Espresso and Garden Green Ink

Accessories:  Autumn Accents Bigz Die (#127812), Big Shot (#113474), Various Embossing Folders, Bone Folder (#102300)

Googly Ghouls Club Card

Last night was great.  I love meeting new ladies and the start of a new Stamp Club.  Here is the card we made.  It features several items from the current Holiday Mini Catalog: Googly Ghouls Stamp Set, Howlstooth & Scaringbone Designer Series Paper, Googlies, and the Basic Gray1/2" Striped Satin Ribbon.

All of the characters in the stamp set "Googly Ghouls" have places you can put googly eyes.  Stampin' Up! also has googlies with adhesive on the back of them for easy adhesion to your projects.

TIP:  To easily remove the googlie (also works for rhinstones and pearls) from the sheet, use the Piercing Tool.  Put the tip just under the eye.  Use the tool to the put the eye on your project hold in place with your finger and pull the tool out.

Products Used:

Stamps: Googly Ghouls (wm#128060, cm#128063)

Colors:  Basic Grey, Whisper White, Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Pear Pizzaz (marker), Howlstooth & Scraingbone DSP (#126906)

Accessories:  1/2" Basic Gray Striped Satin Ribbon (#127837), Googlies (#127539), Spider Web Embossing Folder (#120889), Big Shot (#113439), Modern Label Punch (#119849)

Googly Ghouls Stamp Set (wm#128060, cm#128063)

Basic Gray 1/2" Striped Satin Ribbon (#127837)

Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP (#126906)

Simply Scored--Just the Right Touch

Have you ever made a card and just sat there thinking, "This needs something, but I don't know what."  Pull out your Simply Scored for just the right touch to add that "something" your card needs to make it complete.

Here is a card I made recently using a must have stamp set, "Lovely as a Tree".  We all have made similar cards. A basic area in the middle for the focal image and a bunch of space around it to fill in with something.  While we have many options, Designer Series Paper or background stamp, just to name a couple, they are not what we are looking for.  I wanted to keep the focus on the tree area in this card.  A few simple scores on the Simply Scored tool and it gave this card, just the right touch.


Stampin' Up! has also come out with a Diagonal Score Plate to make your Simply Scored even more useful. More on that another time.  The tree is stamped in Early Espresso and then colored in with Blender Pens.  I used swirling motions of Gumball Green, Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake.



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Products Used:

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree (WM#115026, CM#127793)

Colors: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Gumball Green, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Square Lattice Embossing Folder (#119976), Big Shot (#113439), Simply Scored (#122334), Blender Pens (#102845), Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon (#122332)

Simply Scored (#122334)

Stampin' Up! September Special

Promotion Details: While the kids are heading back to school, Stampin' Up! is going back to 'spool'! For the month of September, get a FREE package of 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon-an $8.95 value-for every $40 (before tax & shipping) you spend!  There is no limit to the number of FREE spools of ribbon you can get.  Order $200 in product and get all 5.

Item	Description	Retail Value
126848	Gumball Green 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon	$ 8.95
126847	Midnight Muse 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon	$ 8.95
126844	Primrose Petals 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon	$ 8.95
126845	Raspberry Ripple 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon	$ 8.95
126846	Summer Starfruit 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon	$ 8.95

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Papillon Potpourri

These butterflies are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!  Some are realistic, some are just decorative, and some of them have my favorite feature in a stamp......they have a matching punch.

This card has many elements new to the 2012-2013 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog.  First, of course, is the stamp set.  It has 6 butterflies in various styles and 2 different sizes.  This is one of the large ones.  I stamped the image in Basic Black and then colored in the wings with my Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Write Markers.  The coordinating punch does fit this stamp, but I wanted to keep his little antenna on.  The butterfly is up on a dimensional also.  If you want to, you can punch out the butterfly and put him directly on the images stamped so the antenna show behind him.  The flowers in the row are from the stamp set Bordering on Romance.  I inked just enough flowers from the row to go across my frame area.  

Speaking of the frame area, don't you just love the NEW Apothecary Accents Framelits shapes.  So do I, but I have a small confession here.  I don't own them yet.  I bought the NEW Essentials Paper Piercing Pack to work on some other projects.  I used the shape that coordinates with the Apothecary Accents and my piercing tool to pierce this shape on my cardstock.  I then used my paper snips to carefully cut around outside the holes.  One of my new go to sentiment sets Loving Thoughts, a couple quick punches for highlighting under the butterfly and viola.  

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Products Used:

Stamps:  Papillon Potpourri (WM#123757 , CM#123759), Bordering on Romance (WM#125480, CM#125482, Digital #125619 ), Loving Thoughts (WM#125843, CM#125845)

Colors:  Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Basic Black Ink

Accessories: Essentials Paper Piercing Pack (#126187), Paper Pierce Mat (#126199), Paper Piercing Tool (#126189), Dimensionals (#104430), 2-3/8" Scallop Circle Punch (#118874), 1-3/8" Circle Punch (#119860), Paper Snips (#103579)

Papillon Potpourri (WM#123757, CM#123759)

Essentials Paper Piercing Pack (#126187) 

Highlights with Bleach

I came across the cutest card in my stash.  It had this wonderful zebra image from the stamp set "Zoo Review" that had the stripes bleached out.  I loved the look of the black and white card with just a little color in the middle. So I looked through my stamp collection and pulled out "Crosses of Hope".

The main image is embossed with Black Embossing Powder.  I then took a small paint brush and lightly brushed on some bleach.  Each color of cardstock will react differently to the bleach.  Sometimes it turns a lighter shade, sometimes it turns close to white and other times it turns a completely different color shade.  I suggest testing a small scrap before doing this on your project.

I also dressed up the inside of the card with the same cross and sentiment from the stamp set.  This would be a wonderful card for any number of religious occasions.

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PRODUCTS USED:

Stamps:  Crosses of Hope (WM#117136, CM#120567, Digital #129595)

Colors: Basic Black, Whisper White, Certainly Celery

Accessories: Black Embossing Powder (#109133), Heat Tool (#129053), Versamark Ink Pad (#102283), Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch (#119275) 

Crosses of Hope (WM#117136, CM#120567, Digital #129595)

Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch (#119275) 

Heat Tool (#129053)

Original stamp set mentioned above--Zoo Review (WM#122197, CM#122199)

Double Take

One of my favorite places to get inspiration for new cards is from old cards.  I was going through some old swaps I have had in a box for, well, we'll just say "a long time".  The stamp set has been long retired and some of the cardstock colors are even gone.  I LOVED the layout though, so it was a prime candidate for an update.  I liked it so much, I made two.

The first card features the Aviary stamp set.  This stamp set comes with 4 bird cages, 4 birds and what is commonly used as the stand to put the cages on.  I didn't want to have my cages hanging in mid-air, but also wanted the decorative part of the stand to show.  I turned it sideways and love how the cages can hang from the base of the stand.  It's hard to see in the photo, but I spritzed the main area with my Gold Glow Smooch Spritz.  Inside the card I have a bird cage also.  The torn edge was inked with a direct to paper technique. It is a little heavy for my taste, so next time I think I will use a spounge for lighter coverage.

The second card features the stamp set Reason to Smile.  SU! offered this stamp set as a special during the month of July.  Though this stamp set was only offered for the one month, it is still a great stamp set for this layout.  I encourage you to look through your older, dusty stamp sets and see if you have a retired or "forgotten" (gasp) stamp set that would work great for you.  I colored the image with ink from the lid and a blender pen.  The accessories are part of the new In Color collection for 2012-2014.  3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon in Raspberry Ripple and the In Color Dahlias (Gumball Green).

The sentiments for the two cards come from current stamp sets, Perfect Punches and Loving Thoughts.

PRODUCTS USED:

Card 1:  Aviary (WM #116956, CM#120462, Digital #124476), Perfect Punches (WM#117022, CM#120516), Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Basic Black, Gold Glow Smooch (#118770), Scallop Oval Punch (#119856), Melon Mambo Scallop Dots Ribbon (#122985)

Card 2:  Reason to Smile, Loving Thoughts (CM#125843, CM#125845), Raspberry Ripple, Midnight Muse, Shimmer Paper (#101910), Scallop Oval Punch (119856), Raspberry Ripple Stitched Satin Ribbon (#126845), In Color Dahlias (#127556), Blender Pen (#102845)

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Aviary (WM#116956, CM#120462, Digital #124476)

Perfect Punches (WM#117022, CM#120516)   

In Color Dahlias #127556