Paper Sunshine Project: Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder

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Friday, September 27, 2019

Birch Background Technique with Detailed Deer Dies

For the September North Carolina Stampin' Up! Demonstrators meeting, I signed up for a second (and a third and a fourth and a fifth!) display board for the event. I just love, love, love the Birch Background stamp and after being limited by the artwork of the other sets, I thought a background would free me up creatively, so my friend Tracy & I decided to split the 6 cards we had to make. Tracy travels full time & does not have a demonstrator group home base and she is always up for a challenge, so she gladly wanted to play along!

~Enjoy!

I started out with another color combo for this card, black, white and red which came out beautiful & I will post it shorty, but I only used the Smokey Slate with the Birch Background Stamp, but I wanted to give it a little more drama. So I decided on another color combo of Merry Merlot, Melon Mambo, Blushing Bride and Crumb Cake. The banner is embossed with the Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder. The reindeer is cut from the Detailed Deer Dies and Silver Glimmer Paper and the background is embossed using the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder. The sentiment is from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set and is hand trimmed. The reindeer has a little extra bling with a rhinestone collar colored with Cherry Cobbler Blends Markers. The whole thing is topped off with White Bakers Twine, Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon and Silver Metallic Thread.

So here is where the magic is! I picked up my stamp & inked it with Melon Mambo, since the banner was Merry Merlot and the background was Crumb Cake. Then I wanted more. So I inked up my stamp again in Merry Merlot and turned my stamp 180 degrees from the first stamp, since I wanted to fill in the spaces & not stamp again over what I had done before. It was looking pretty good and then I decided it still needed more! So I grabbed Blushing Bride and inked it up & then moved my stamp 50% off the page (top half no stamp, bottom half stamp). Then I repeated this technique and stamped the top half. I love, love, love how this came out! I even shared this technique with Tracy & she used it on her card too! I tried this with a few other color combos & I will post the results soon.

Make sure to hop on over to Tracy's blog to see what she did with this technique and the Let it Ride Stamp Set. She also did a beautiful card using the Nature's Beauty Stamp Set and the fox. Also see my inspiration card!

Stampin' Up! products used:

Birch Background Stamp Set
Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set
Detailed Deer Dies
Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder
Scripty 3D Embossing Folder
Cherry Cobbler Blends Markers
Merry Merlot
Melon Mambo
Blushing Bride
Crumb Cake
Whisper White
Silver Glimmer Paper
Rhinestones
White Bakers Twine
Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon
Silver Metallic Thread

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Birch Background meets Details Deer Dies #2

For the North Carolina Stampin Up Demos meeting, I signed up for some display boards. This card was created for the board that used the Birch Background Stamp. I was to make 6 cards and focus on the Fall and winter holidays. My friend Tracy agred to make 3 of the 6 cards needed. Here is the first one I made.

~Enjoy!

This was a "template" I have made several times before & comes out nice every time I make it. This one uses the Birch Background Stamp in Smokey Slate, Real Red embossed with Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder and the Detailed Deer Dies cut from Silver Glimmer Paper. The sentiment is stamped with Itty Bitty Christmas. I colored the rhinestones with a Real Red Blends Marker and the whole thing is topped off with a bow made with White Polka Dot Tulle, White Bakers Twine and Silver thread. The envelope is decorated with a stamp from the Dashing Deer Stamp Set. This one is beautiful, but I decided to go with an alternate version that had a little more technique, make sure to see the final version here!

Stampin' Up! products used:

Birch Background Stamp
Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set
Dashing Deer Stamp Set
Detailed Deer Dies
Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder
Silver Glimmer Paper
Real Red Blends Marker
White Polka Dot Tulle
White Bakers Twine
Silver Thread
Smokey Slate
Real Red
Whisper White
Basic Black

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Monday, September 16, 2019

Bone Appetit Paper Pumpkin Alternatives Hands

The elements in the August 2019 Paper Pumpkin Bone Appetit were super cute! I wish the hands would have come in a right/left combination, so here is what I did to try to disguise them so they looked like a pair.

~Enjoy!

As I was cutting apart the little boxes to use as background paper or shapes, the flap where you tie the boxes closed kept reminding me of a package lid - or a box lid! So the receiver of this card is going to get a box of spooky hands! For the background I inked up the Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder with Pumpkin Pie & ran Pumpkin Pie cardstock through the embossing machine, when that was done, I ran a second piece through with the leftover ink, this card represents the second pass of color. I like how it is softer & a little speckly. Almost everything is popped up with Dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped with Memento Black. Topping it off is a bow made with Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon. Make sure to see the skeleton version of this card!