Stamp Club!

Hi Stampers!

I've been away from the blog for a while.  We've had a string of bad news for people who are close to us and I've spent a lot of time and energy dealing with the various situations. Thankfully we haven't had any news for the past couple of weeks, and I'm hopeful that the bad news is done!

The following projects are from the December stamp club class.  We made a Christmas card, a birthday card, and a fun gold gift card holder. 

All about the framelits!  I had seen a few cards around the web using the dress framelits to make a Mrs Claus dress, and since a few people have bought framelits lately with the weekly sales, I knew we had to make this card!  It came together really fast too, once you run the card stock through your big shot you're almost done!  The sentiment is from Joyful Christmas.  I just love how the C in Christmas echoed Mrs Claus' cute little waist line!

Next up, Birthday card!

This card is for all those December birthdays!!  We haven't forgotten about you in the hustle and bustle.  This card is also all about framelits!  We used one of the square framelits to cut the opening in the 'polaroid' and one of the circle framelits for the balloons. The little tied part of the balloon is owls foot from the owl builder punch, we glued it to the back if the circle. The sentiment is from Itty Bitty Banners and cut out with the Bitty Banners framelits. Whew, my Big Shot really earned it's place on my craft shelf tonight!

Last, our gift card holder:

Pretty cute!  This project is all about the punches. I got this idea from another blogger who posted a video of how to make them. Unfortunately, since I'm so delayed in posting this I'm having trouble finding the video for you. I'm going to keep looking. Hopefully I'll find it and come back to add the link. I love this template because by switching out the stamp set you can use it for a birthday or thank you, or anything you need. 

Go stamp something!

Diane

Stamp Club

Hi Stampers!

At stamp club class tonight we focused on seasonal projects. The first project we made used the stunning Festive Flurry stamp set embossed in white on Island Indigo card stock:

I know you're thinking, "it's cute"  but wait for the wow when you open it:

We used the --- framelits to die cut the Island Indigo piece and the white frame around it. The die cut pieces are glued to the Pool Party card base which is layered with --- DSP. 

We used the leftover piece from the white frame inside our card to have a cute place to write a message. 

Our second project is a Halloween treat box:

I saw this box on Pinterest and knew we had to make it!  The box is made with a 4-1/4 x 7-1/4 Pumpkin Pie card stock scored at 1" along both long sides, and 2,3,5 & 7 the short way. A little sticky strip and the box is assembled. To decorate we added some Witches Brew washi tape and the Trick or Treat image from Tags 4 You adhered with Stampin' Dimensionals acts as a closure for the box. 

Our last project was super quick since we used the Merry Little Christmas Card Simply Created Kit:

It comes with all of the paper and bakers twine precut and ready to stamp and adhere. The only other things you need are stamps and ink. We used the recommended Merry Little Christmas stamp set. 

What a fun night, thanks ladies!!

Go stamp something!

Diane

PS: I"ll be back later to add the links to the products used and a tutorial for the treat box

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

Stamp Club

The stamp club ladies have just gone home, and I thought you'd like to see what we made tonight:

A card with moving parts!  Pull the ribbon and...

Cute right!  The Garden Green layer is from the Peekaboo Frames die for the Big Shot, and the navy layer is attached with a little bit of washi tape.  We used three different stamp set on this card; the sentiment is from Yippee Skippy, the cake is made with Make a Cake and the speckles are Gorgeous Grunge.

Then we made this mini album:

It measures 3 x 6 and the inside pieces are each 2 x 5.  We decorated the front with the angled lines from Gorgeous Grunge in Crumb Cake, the little medallion is from Lacy & Lovely in Strawberry Slush, and the For You image is from Itty Bitty Banners in Midnight Muse, cut out with the coordinating framelits and the Big Shot Die-Cut Machine.  They're all stamped on Whisper White, mounted on Summer Starfruit, and the front and back covers are made with Confetti White Cardstock.
 

 

You could add tiny pictures, or make a cute coupon book, or journal things you're grateful for...so many options!  That great ribbon is Summer Starfruit 3/8" stitched satin ribbon, and it's tied on with linen thread.  The inside pockets are made with a 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 sheet of vellum cardstock.  Since Vellum is transparent we used glue dots to put our mini scrapbook together, since adhesive does show through, this is the tidiest option.  What would you put into this little beauty?

Go stamp something!
Diane

Stamp Club Class

Hi Stampers,

It was stamp club night tonight!  While everyone was catching up, the ladies enjoyed looking through all of my loot from Convention.  New stamping products always get everyone excited!  Some people started thinking and planning, and taking pictures of ideas for Christmas projects, since many of my new goodies are from the upcoming Christmas catalogue which will go live August 1st.

Then it was time to get stamping!  Since we spent a lot of time looking through swaps, make and take projects and new products, we made two clean and simple cards tonight.  The first card was one of the cards I made to swap at Convention:

This card uses the Betsy's Blossom stamp set.  The blossom is stamped in Strawberry Slush and the stem is stamped in Pistachio Pudding.   The sentiment, from Itty Bitty Banners, is stamped in Early Espresso and cut out on the Big Shot using the Bitty Banners Framelits.

The second card we made is a CASE of a card I received while swapping at convention from Katie Brandt of St. Remy, New York.  We changed the colours to use the new in-colors and we used a different sentiment:

Sorry this picture is so huge, I don't know how to edit it here, though I did figure out how to make this text smaller!

This card uses a 1/4" strip of each of the five new in-colors: Pistachio Pudding, Strawberry Slush, Crisp Cantaloupe, Baked Brown Sugar and Coastal Cabana, all glued onto a piece of Whisper White.  Next we punched out a 1 3/4" circle of Whisper White and glued it onto a Basic Gray 2 3/8" Scallop circle and punched an Elegant Butterfly out of the centre.  Then we mounted the scallop circle over the stripes ensuring that all of the colours showed through the butterfly window.  Finally we inked up our greeting of choice, Itty Bitty Banners again and cut it out with our Bitty Banners Framelits and the Big Shot.  Thanks for the great layout, Katie!

Everyone's cards turned out great, and Alessandra's son even decided he wanted to give one of them to his girlfriend!  (He's going into Grade Two or Three, so cute!)

Thanks for coming out to stamp with me girls!  It was fun, even though some of the crew couldn't join us since they're off having fun in the sun.  Until next time...

Go stamp something!
Diane