Sailing Home Faux Embossing

Since I moved to North Carolina, I found a great group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators to have the great privilege to hang out with twice a year where about 150 or so demonstrators from across North Carolina meet, craft & network. For the September meeting, they were looking for volunteers to make display boards for the event. At the time, I was heavily crafting with the Sailing Home Stamp Set since it was new to the catalog AND it coordinated with the July Paper Pumpkin "On My Mind". So I signed up to make 6 cards for the display board showcasing the stamps with a fall/winter theme. Here is the first card I made in the collection.

~Enjoy!

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This card was sparked from a #simplestamping card I made. I started by adding a background layer of Pretty Peacock and a strip of Soft Suede embossed with the Corrugated Embossing Folder. The colors on the card are Pretty Peacock, Night of Navy and Soft Suede. The net and seaweed is from Sea of Textures and the sentiment is from Seaside Notions. For the net, I only stamped around the edges of the net so the center stayed white to highlight the anchor.

I was trying to find something to spruce up the background and I already added an embossing folder layer and I did not want to stamp the seaweed a million times, so I thought it would be cool if I die cut the seaweed from Smooth Sailing Dies but left the pieces in tact. I cut the background in half to make this a little easier, then added 3 strips of Tear & Tape along the backside to hold all of the piece in place, then ran them through my die cut machine. It turned out really cool! The tape did cut in a few places and was a little tricky to get off, but it worked! I added some Silver Glimmer Paper, a bow made from Silver and White Baker's Twine and Silver Sequins. I love it!

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Stampin' Up! products used:

• Sailing Home Stamp Set
• Sea of Textures Stamp Set
• Seaside Notions Stamp Set
• Smooth Sailing Dies
• Corrugated Embossing Folder
• Pretty Peacock
• Night of Navy
• Soft Suede
• Whisper White
• Silver Glimmer Paper
• Silver & White Baker's Twine
• Sequins

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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!

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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! 

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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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Seaside Notions for Christmas

For the September North Carolina Stampin' Up! Demonstrators meeting, I signed up for a third display board for the event. I just fell in love with Seaside Notions before I even even got a chance to play with it. For the event, the challenge was to use items from the annual catalog and change the theme for fall and winter. How do you make a cute loveable little seahorse fall or winter? I started off thinking this would be a great card for our friends in Australia or the southern US states.

~Enjoy!

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This card uses Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce, Night of Navy, Soft Suede and Coastal Cabana. I started out with just the seahorse and to CASE myself from a #simplestamping project I had done a few weeks back. Once I added the background strip stamped in Shaded Spruce, I was looking at the shape & thought it would make cute little antlers for my seahorse! The antlers are colored with Cajun Craze from Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2 and since I used the real estate for my bow for the antlers, I struggled with what to put at the top (at think at this point my sentiment from the Making Christmas Bright Stamp Set was already stamped). After a good little while, I noticed that the sand dollar would make a cute wreath! Why wouldn't the seahorse have a sand dollar wreath? The wreath is layered with Silver Metallic Thread and a bow from White Bakers Twine inked with Cherry Cobbler Blends Markers.

And what Christmas card does not need more bling!? I layered the pieces with some Silver Glimmer Paper corners. I added a few rhinestones at the bottom and wanted to play with the Ice Stampin' Glitter. I adhered a few flakes with the Shimmery Crystal Effects. And any reindeer/seahorse worth his weight in gold, MUST have a red nose! So I added a rhinestone colored with a Cherry Cobbler Blends Marker. He is so super cute!

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Stampin' Up! products used:

• Seaside Notions Stamp Set
• Making Christmas Bright Stamp Set
• Cajun Craze / Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2
• Cherry Cobbler
• Shaded Spruce
• Night of Navy
• Crumb Cake
• Coastal Cabana
• Whisper White
• Silver Glimmer Paper
• Cherry Cobbler Blends Markers
• White Bakers Twine
• Silver Metallic Thread
• Ice Stampin' Glitter
• Shimmery Crystal Effects
• Rhinestones

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