My favorite card to make is a Thank You one. I have shared on more than one occasion how important I think saying thank you is and having a handmade card to do that is even better!
Today I have paired up the pretty Butterfly Gala Stamp Set with Mango Melody, a very bright and happy color and kept it very simple with a couple of punched butterflies and Gold Metallic Pearls
Today’s card comes with a video sharing a technique using Blender Pens and Watercolor Pencils. I made the card for a friend of mine who celebrated a birthday in August.
A perk of being a demonstrator is being about to get my hands on goodies about a month before the 2019 Holiday Catalog goes live and I had just received a delivery from Stampin’ UP! with my pre-order . One of the new Halloween Designer Series Papers – Monster Bash – has a strong Halloween theme BUT if you flip the paper over it has more general theme – perfect for a bunch of other occasions – so that was the starting point for this card, which you might not have thought would have gone with the Free as a Bird Stamp Set.
It is a couple of weeks since the 2019 Holiday Catalog was released with lots of different holiday themed goodies for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and a little Valentine. To be honest I have focused mainly on Halloween but not yet started on Christmas.
I thought I would share one of Stampin’ UP!’s video’s featuring the Still Scenes Bundle which allows your to create cards with a snow globe – amongst other things – I am so excited to see the Snow Globe Scenes Dies which has a great tree scene, polar bear AND reindeer.
Today’s card is a very simple design – using the beautiful Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set. I try to use just one stamp set on a card and I particularly liked that this set has 3 great greetings that will fit into the punch I wanted to use as well as smaller flowers and leaves for decorating my envelope and the inside of the card.
I chose to use the ‘thinking of you’ sentiment, perfect for almost any occasion, the ‘hello’ sentiment would be perfect for a birthday and the ‘thank you’……. just speaks for itself 🙂
Most crafters do more than one craft, papercrafting is my first love closely followed by embroidery – mainly counted cross-stitch these days although I used to do a lot of free-form embroidery back in the day!
My great-niece turned 6 at the beginning of this month so I decided to marry my two favorite crafts together by stitching a small piece then building a card base to fit it in – it was a lot of fun I might try it again sometime!
I love fancy folds and have shared many on my blog – some of them with video tutorials – today I have a really super fold and have designed it for the fellas in our lives!
By making it a guy card I was able to use one of my favorite suites from the 2019 – 2020 Stampin’ UP! annual catalog – Come Sail Away – stamp set, dies, designer series paper and embellishments that all compliment one another beautifully making my designing so much easier!
Tucked away on page 168 of the 2019 – 2020 Annual Catalog are some of the cutest notecards – they have a dainty scalloped edge to the card as well as the envelope. The Scalloped Notecards and Envelope pack contains 20 cards with envelopes – 5 each of 4 different colors.
I chose to use these along with the Magnolia Blooms Stamp Set and some water color pencils to make the Thank You cards for my lovely customers who shopped with me for their Stampin’ UP! supplies in July.
It is so lovely to hear that someone is retiring – how wonderful to be able to get to that stage in your life when your time is your own to do with what you want – when you want to do it! So when a dear friend’s husband announced he was retiring in August it was the perfect occasion to celebrate with a card for him.
Today’s card has a tiny bit of stamping using the Well Said stamp set then some die cutting with the coordinating Well Written Dies.
Woop, Woop!!! – the 2019 holiday catalog is here, and it’s time to answer the call of creativity ~ 63 pages of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and yes a little Valentine’s as well – great ideas for your holiday cards and gifts.
If you have shopped with me this last year you will already have received your copy or it is here waiting for you – there is a link a little further down for you to download the PDF. If you would like your very own copy fill in the form to request one and I will send it to your FREE 🙂
It is no secret I just love punches – when an new catalog comes out it is the second thing I look for after ribbons!
However sometimes there is not a punch that will fit the greeting or the shape I want to use and I am not a great fan of fussy cutting – although I will do that from time to time!
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