Stamp Club Class

Tonight's class was all about the Envelope Punch Board!  All the ladies loved using the punch board, it's simple and quick and the results are great every time!  We warmed up by making envelopes for this card:

The card is on a Pumpkin Pie base, the stripes on the white layer are made using the masking tape technique in Crumb Cake and Soft Suede. The leaves are die cut with the Autumn Accents Bigz Die and the Big Shot, then stamped with the Wonderfall stamp set in Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso and Soft Suede. The thank u is cut with the Expressions Thinlits in Red Glimmer Paper (cut down from the word Thankful). 

Our next project used the Envelope Punch Board to make a file folder card:

 

We glued the hexagon pattern of Epic Day Designer Series Paper onto the card front and the lined paper pattern to the edge of the inside, then we used the punch on the punch board to get the curved shape for the file folder tabs (like in the video from this post). To finish the card we stamped you make me happy from Hello Lovely in Calypso Coral and mounted it on the front, and we stamped XOXO from Oh, Goodie!, also in Calypso Coral on the tab. Cute!!  Stamping with friends is so much fun, do you have someone to stamp with?  You are always welcome to come and join us!

Go stamp something!

Diane

Thankful Wonderfall

Do you love the Wonderfall stamp set as much as I do?  It just makes me happy every time I  pull it off the shelf!

I have to say, I would love it even more if there were framelits that coordinated, but it came out before Stampin' Up! started to carry them, so I guess we'll have to make due with the Autumn Accents Bigz Die. Since you can't stamp your image and then line it up to cut it out like you can with your framelits, we have to do things a little differently. For this set, run your cardstock through the big shot first to cut out your leaf shapes, then stamp them. If your image is a bit crooked it's okay, because once you sponge the edges, which makes them look more realistic and beautiful anyway, you can't tell!  I got the basic idea for this layout from a project I saw on Pinterest made by Dani Dziama. 

For those of you wondering if it's tricky to work with the Expressions Thinlits Dies, the answer is yes, unless you put a little piece of wax paper I between the die and the cardstock:

A feature of these framelits that can be really helpful is that it has some tiny holes on the back of the die.  If you poke a toothpick through those tiny holes, your cardstock pops right out. Then all you need to do is add a bit of Tombo liquid glue and you're set!  

What stamp set makes you happy every time you see it?

Go stamp something!

Diane

Stamping 101

Hi Stampers!

Tonight was Stamping 101!  We made two cards, one all occasion and one Christmas:

We started with this Merry card in Cherry Cobbler.  We used the Expressions Thinlits Dies and the Big Shot to cut out the word Merry, and the Argyle Embossing Folder on the Cherry card stock. We finished off our card with a few little pieces of Season of Style Designer Series Paper.  Cute!

Expressions Thinlits Dies

 

Our second card uses the stamp sets Gorgeous Grunge and Yippee-Skippee!  The card base is pool party, and the next layer is Crisp Cantaloupe.  We used the same colours of ink along with Basic Gray, the 1-3/4" circle punch, 2-3/8 scallop circle punch and presto zesto, we had an all occasion card ready to go!  It only took about 30 minutes to complete both cards!

Deciding is the most time consuming part!  Choose a clean and simple design and see if you can find 30 minutes to craft. I found these ideas on Pinterest and adapted them slightly to suit the supplies I had on hand. It's a great place to find some simple ideas (and some not so simple ones--don't get carried away unless you have lots of time!)

Go stamp something!

Diane