Winter Woods in Fall

I have always loved Winter Woods but today I loved turning it into a Fall Card!  I stamped the trees in Soft Suede and then took fall colour markers and tapped them on the trees to make them look like Fall trees!

Same card - Different Colours

I did this card the same way as yesterday only I didn’t have to sponge first as I wanted my trees to be white.  I sponged a little gray under the Pool Party to make a little hill sort of.

Joseph Coat Technique

I did this technique tonite in my Live.  You start by sponging Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, and Mango Melody in little circles all over the little piece.  Then I added a little circle of Pear Pizzaz.   Stamp the trees over that with Versemark, emboss 

and then sponge over all of it with Early Espresso!

World Cardmaking Day

This is my desk after completing my World Cardmaking Day class on Zoom.  Love of Leaves is becoming one of my favourite sets.

Gift from a friend

Getting cards in the mail is fun but getting a lot of cards in the mail is a great deal of fun! Jacqueline Laburda made all these and sent them to me as a prize!

Christmas Watercolour Tags

Did my Facebook Live on how to watercolour and make some cute tags with the Nested Label dies!

Brightly Gleaming Swaps

I thought I would continue showcasing Brightly Gleaming cards.  I bought this set last year and am still using it a lot.  The card at the top was made by Liz Corpus and the o e at the bottom was made by Tonia Townsend.  I got their cards by participating in a swap.

Brightly Gleaming

This is another card I made inking up my stamps with Frost White Shimmer Paint!this time I stamped on Night of Navy!!  Gorgeous effect!!  

Christmas Gleaming with Shimmer Paint

Tonite I did my Facebook Live on how to use a sponge with Frost White Shimmer Paint and ink your stamps with it to make these beautiful ornaments!  I stamped onto Merry Merlot and think it looks just great!!

Last two Leaves I Love

Just cut lots of leaves and arrange them!

Love More Leaves

When you put drops of reinkers: orange, yellow, and Cajun Craze, onto a block and spritz a little water - the result is stunning.  I did this for the feature leaf.

Fall Wreath

I wanted to make a nice fall sympathy card for a friend.  I did my Live on how to make some nice Fall leaves with great fall colours!

World of Good Suite

Specialty Fold Cards

I did my Facebook Live on these tonight!  I used the Pointsettia DSP and my Gnome Stamp set!  Head over to Shanda’s Stampin’ Spot to see how to make it!

Beautiful Pointsettias

The cards were designed by Gail Ellis and so gorgeous I had to case them!  I designed the box to match the cards.  It will be a great gift!  I would never have used Pear Pizazz for Christmas but it sure looks great!

TOC Tac Toe Challenge

I designed this card for our Westcoast Creator challenge.  I had never done a Tic Tac Toe challenge before!  You had to choose three things in a row so I chose Sequins, pumpkin and orange!

Changes to World Cardmaking Day Class

I decided to add a box to my class so you give it as a gift if you wanted to.   The little box can be made into a Halloween treat box.  $25 for four cards and three boxes!    If you purchase the Love of Leaves Bundle the whole package would be $80.

Beautiful Card!!

Don’t you love getting cards in the mail?  Ann Driscoll made this card and sent it!!   Thanks Ann!

West Coast Creator Blog Hop Fall Card

Welcome to our West Coast Blog Hop for September!   We are all making fall cards using materials from our August-December 2020 Mini Catalogue.    I hope you enjoy all the amazing creations of our team!

I am using the Love of Leaves Bundle.  I just love the stitching on these leaves.  I am trying to make some cards for kits where I do the cutting out and my customers just have to apply their own sentiment.    I also used the Ornate Layers Dies to put behind my leaves and I embossed that with the Seabed 3D Embossing Folder.     The sentiment is from the Peaceful Moments stamp sets - a great sentiment especially for times like these.  There are great sentiments in the Love of Leaves stamp set too but I had used a lot of them in the set below.

These are other cards I have made with the Love of Leaves Bundle and am offering this for class in October.   These leaves are great fun to make cards with.

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Paper: 

  Cinnamon Cider, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Honeybee
Stamp Sets:  Peaceful Moments
Tools:  Big Shot , Ornate Layers Dies
Inks: Cinnamon Cider
Adhesives: Seal

Wink of Stella and Reinkers

The three pictures on this card have all been coloured by dipping my Wink of Stella brush into a drop of reinker and then colouring what you desire!  I coloured the car with Shaded Spruce and the gas can with Real Red.  

World Cardmaking Day

World Making Card Day is Oct 3 - I am planning a Zoom Class where you can make every item in this picture for $20 plus get enough extra pieces to make more cards at your own leisure!   Invite a new friend and earn a prize!

Love Love of Leaves

I just love the stitching on these leaves!

Host Code and Free Class

Just a reminder that these cards are the free class for any order over $60 this month!   Use this host code for your orders! 

Pop Up Panel Card with Freezin Fun

I did my Facebook Live showing how to make this pop Up card.  They are so fun to make!!   The inside piece is a little tricky easy enuff once you are shown how!

Forever Fern

These three cards were designed by Gail Ellis.   They are so lovely I had to case them.   My friend and I spent a Saturday making these gorgeous cards!

Christmas Swap Card

This is a card I made for a swap with my Pointsettia Dies.

Basic card

I did my Facebook Live today on how to make more simple cards.   You just cut your cardstock in half the long way or at 5 1/2.   Then you cut a piece of DSP 4” X  3 1/4”.  That goes at the top and a 4” X2” piece at the bottom.  Then you just decorate - kind of like making a pizza!

Embossing Technique

My friend Shirley made this card after watching my Live featuring a technique using white and clear embossing powder.  You emboss with clear first and then another Stamp with white and sponge over everything!  Isn’t it lovely!

Forever Fern Easy Cards

I did my Facebook Live on how to make these simple cards using my Forever Fern Bundle!  A few stamps and a couple of die cuts and voila!!

Paper Pumpkin

August Paper Pumpkin is great and helpful to celebrate all those who do meAningful work among us.

Sunflower Class

This is a class I am offering for free with a $60 order in September!  I will have all the pieces cut for you and you just put them together!  PDF instructions will also be sent to you!

Product Share

I sent this product share out to a friend who just wanted a sample of the new in colours paper.  It was  9 sheets of cardstock,  4 yards of ribbon and some enamel dots.   It was $10 which included the shipping.   If you would like a share with some cardstock and ribbon - just let me know!  

Time for Sunflowers!!

I love our team meetings!  Each month we get sent a package of cards to make and we have a great meeting by Zoom!   This month we used the Sunflower Dies and stamps!  This card and little box designed by Ronda Wade were part of the set for this month!

Scribble and Spritz

I could not get a Facebook Live to work so just did a video on how to make these lovely cards.  You colour a block with Stampin’ Write markers, spritz with water and put the block on the paper and it turns out so lovely!

Love of Leaves

If you love leaves you are going to love Love of Leaves!    The dies cut and emboss!  The leaves are so pretty!   This is the last set of cards from Creative Convention.  I am not a plaid person but I have really enjoyed making all the designs by those who ran the Creative Convention!

Plaid Gift Cards

This was another set of cards we were taught how to make during the Creative Convention I went to last weekend online.   These cute little gift cards all fit into this pizza box you can get now from Stampin’ Up! 

Each one of these cards holds a gift card you can give for various occasions!   I can make this into a class if you would like to make one of these!

Embossing with Dies

You can emboss with any die in your collection!  Use your Big Shot Platform, a regular plate, a Silicone Craft sheet, paper, your die and a shim, and 1 more plate. 

Then you can make these lovely cards.  These are all dies which I used to emboss instead of cut!

Creative Plaid Convention

I recently attended an online convention full of great ideas and cards classes!  We were given a lot of product and cut cards all ready for us to turn into cards.  These cards are great for many occasions and the box is big enough for quite a few treats!!

Peaceful Poppies and Ornate Frames

I was doing my research on Pinterest and found a card design I liked and made it my own.  Pinterest is great for ideas.  I used  my Ornate Layers Dies and my Poppy Moments Dies to make both of these cards.   I used a texture stamp from Painted Poppies to Stamp a background on the So Saffron Card.  I didn’t use it on the Soft Sea Foam Card.  Not sure which I like better.  What do you think?

In the Pines Beauty

I joined the Creative Convention and it was so amazing!  We had great business lessons and made lots of great cards!   I changed a few things on this one as I am going to make a card class with it.  In the Pines is a lovely bundle.  You can stamp trees and then cut them out with the dies or even use the dies alone.  I probably wouldn’t have ordered the Plaid Tidings DSP but it came with our package and I am enjoying using it. 

West Coast Creator August Blog Hop

        Welcome to our West Coast Creator Blog Hop for August!!  There are so many great new sets in the new mini catalogue that it was hard to choose.    I hope you get some great ideas

from all the creations from our wonderful team!

    I chose the Gift Wrapped Bundle as my feature from the new mini catalogue on Page 12.    I tried to make cards from this bundle that were not only for Christmas but could be used as general birthday as well - cards for men too!!

This is a Christmas card which I kind of cased from the catalogue itself on page 72.   You will find all kinds of great card ideas in Stampin' Up catalogues.    They had made a box and I took their idea but made  a card using Garden Green and the Pointsettia PLace DSP on page 15.

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I thought this was a neat way to use the ribbon for a birthday card.   I just punched one out of the DSP and then one out of Mossy Meadow to go behind it.    I like to be able to use what I purchase all year round.   The DSP is from the Ornate Garden DSP on Page 65 in the main catalogue.    I thought the Dandelions 3D embossing folder looked nice in the middle.

There are lovely stamps in the Gift Wrapped stamp set that comes with this bundle.  They make a nice background instead of using DSP.    The sentiment is from that stamp set as well.  I coloured the bow using my Highland Heather Stampin' Blends.  I punched out some sprigs with vellum to put behind the bow with my Sprig punch.  The gold metallic trim is from the Forever Greenery Trim Combo Pack.

I hope I have inspired you take a closer look at this bundle.   Now you can click on the links below to be inspired by the other team members!  Thanks for stopping by!!!