I am the guest designer on the super fun Cut It Up Challenge Blog today. I encourage you to join us for this challenge, #356. This round’s theme is flowers. I decided to go with a hot foil glimmer plate from Spellbinders called Glimmering Peonies. It is a giant image that exceeds the bounds of an A2 card. I used the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil Roll in Polished Brass to foil this onto Secret Sea colored cardstock from Stampin’ Up! I initially die cut it with Spellbinders Essential Modern Ovals. As I played with it, I realized I wanted it to fit on an A2 card, so I cut off about an inch of the oval at the bottom, leaving me with an arch. Naturally, you could use an arch die to do this, such as the Essential Arches from Spellbinders.

Next, I used Ink On 3 Gold embossing powder along with the Mini Messages Stamp Set from Honey Bee Stamps to heat emboss the sentiment onto a strip of the Secret Sea cardstock. I used Spellbinders Sentiment Labels dies to cut a piece of brushed gold cardstock, the sentiment, and the “string” which is simply paper.

I took one more A2 sized piece of Secret Sea cardstock and dry embossed it with Simon Says Stamp Tiny Tufts 3D embossing folder. I just love the delicate botanical image this folder creates.

I adhered all the elements with either foam tape or my favorite glue.

So what florals can you use to join us in the Flowers challenge on the Cut It Up Challenge?

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Next, I used the Papertrey Ink Into the Blooms: Cherry Blossom Die Set along with Neenah Classic Crest 110 white cardstock, and Stampin’ Up! cardstock colors including Lost Lagoon, Rich Razzleberry, and Sweet Sugarplum to build the flowers. I ink blended a little Sweet Sugarplum ink onto the white flower pieces.

I used Versa Clair black ink to stamp the Papertrey Ink Reflections Number 6 stamp (my favorite Bible verse) onto the largest Reflections Number 6 die, also by Papertrey Ink. I assembled the flowers as shown and then glued everything onto the background, and then onto a Rich Razzleberry piece of cardstock to make the cardfront.

I am entering this card into 2 challenges. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for May 4, and the Paper Players #784 challenge. 

When do you make sympathy cards? As you need them? Or before you need them?

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Today I’m honored to be guest designer at the Try It On Tuesday Card Challenge Blog.

Since today’s challenge theme is Numbers, I considered making a birthday card, but then decided to go for an anniversary card. My daughter’s first wedding anniversary is in August. I knew from the get-go that I’d use the Tim Holtz Bulletin Alphanumeric set of dies. They’re my favorite set of alphas.

I chose the green Palette Paper Collection and hunted through the beautiful green patterns until I’d found my ideal cut outs. I had seen a card by Tina Smith for Simon Says Stamp where she used vellum layers over parts of the squares. I thought it was genius. I took some heavyweight vellum paper and stamped on it with two different stamps from the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Everyday set in order to get the Happy Anniversary and the word Years. I heat embossed these onto the vellum using Ink On 3 Gold Rush embossing powder and then die cut them with the Artful Palette dies. I carefully ripped them and then adhered them to the other elements like this: The piece with Year on it allowed me to easily hide liquid adhesive under the planned placement of the giant 1. The Happy Anniversary piece needed an adhesive hiding spot so I added 2 tiny little hearts from another die I had (can’t remember which one) and hid the adhesive here. I also took a toothpick and hid a little glue under the letters (that was hard and took my strongest eye glasses).

I used Tim Holtz’s Bulletin Alphabet to cut out the 1 from thick black cardstock. I also cut the number one from matte gold cardstock and used just the inner portion to adhere to the center of the black one. 

I also cut a heart and a butterfly from the gold, and a larger butterfly from the black and adhered all this as shown. I splattered a piece of 4 x 5.25” Basic Beige Stampin’ Up! cardstock with Tim Holtz Black Distress Paint using a tiny paint brush and his Splat Box. I mounted all this on an A2 piece of black cardstock.

What number will you choose for your Try It On Tuesday project? Look forward to seeing how you play along with us.

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I adore typography. I even took a class in typography at my local community college back in the early 90s. I love to collect fun fonts and I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to typography. When I found this cool Floral & and Sentiment Press Plate at Spellbinders, I had to have it. One of the nicest things about this set is that the Happy Birthday and the Many More are separate pieces. This means I can foil my heart out with just the birthday plate and nothing else.

For this card, I decided to experiment with the A6 size that Jennifer keeps promoting on her YouTube lives. It IS a really fun size. That means you are looking at a card that is 4.5” x 6.25”.

I started with using the ampersand and sentiment press plates on Stampin’ Up! Crumb Cake cardstock. I chose the Spellbinders Copper Glimmer foil because I just love all things copper. Copper is so unexpected and warm. I used the Spellbinders Modern Ovals nested die set to cut out the ampersand and the coordinating dies to cut the sentiments.

I used Tim Holtz’s Distress Watercolor Pencils in Broken China and Bundled Sage (both in Set 6) to color in the flowers and leaves on the ampersand. I used the gorgeous Oceanside cardstock from Spellbinders for the larger oval and the A6 base of the card. The textured and patterned paper in the background is unique. It is printed as you see it. I have not done anything to it except cut it to 4.25” x 6”. I picked up this paper in the “giveaways” pile at a crafting event with friends. Lucky me. There is a high chance it is from Club Scrap.Finally, the hole-less sequins are from Pink & Main. They are called Peaches and Cream.

Tell me - have you made any A6 cards?

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If I were ever stuck on a desert island with only a select number of craft supplies, the Waffle Flower Postage Collage (PC) collection would be at the top of my list. One of the most viral stamp/die/stencil collections ever made, I never get tired of using it and trying more and more ways to combine them all.

Today’s card using the original Postage Collage A2 Die, the PC Envelope Die, the PC Envelope Stencil, the PC Collage Mini Seals Die and the original Postage Collage Stamp Set.

I started with the stencil and ink blended using Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans, and Stampin’ Up!’s Crumb Cake ink.

I colored in the tiny hearts formed by the die with a Uni-ball Signo Gold Gel pen.

Next, I used the original Postage Collage A2 die and cut the stenciled panel to make it look like a sheet of stamps. Using Gina K’s Amalgam black inkpad, I stamped with the PC stamp set in 3 places.

Now that my background was done, I die cut an envelope, an envelope liner, a little paper note, and a tiny seal all with the PC Mini Seals die set and scraps of cardstock. I inked the edges of the letter, and I stamped a tiny little heart-circle in Versamark inside the little seal using the Simon Says Stamp Easter Greetings Stamp set (I was so happy to discover this little stamp in my stamp collection). I assembled everything as shown and added a Gold foiled Happy Birthday sentiment from the Spellbinders You Are Everything Press Plate and Die set with foam tape. I backed the panel with Stampin’ Up!’s Crumb Cake cardstock and then with Spellbinders Malibu cardstock.

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Spring and the color lavendar go together like the finest pairing of cheese and wine. They simply belong together. I made this card for my youngest daughter on the completion of her medical assistant certification. She loves lavendar. I used the Spellbinders Colorwheel Lavender cardstock along with Neenah Classic Crest 110lb cardstock. I dry embossed a 4” x 5.25” piece of lavender with the Simon Says Stamp Boho Flowers Embossing Folder. It’s an ideal floral pattern for almost any time of year.

Next, I matted that to a cardbase 4.25" x 5.5". I used the middle-size circle from the Pink Fresh Studios Elegant Circles die set and cut it (and kept the center) from the white cardstock. I used the Spellbinders Betterpress You Are Everything Letterpress inking plate and matching die along with their gold foil to create the sentiment on my Spellbinders Glimmer machine. The flowers are from Pinkfresh Studios Breezy Blossoms where I used their matching stamps, stencils and dies. The ink is Lavender Glaze from Taylored Expressions.

I assembled everything as shown and added Clear Iridescent sequins from This Calls for Confetti (such a cool business name.)

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