Welcome back to another Make My Monday challenge! Caz chose the theme of (es)cape for #160. I hope you will hop over the the challenge blog and check out the wide variety of cards from the other design team members! What kind of (e)scape will you create! Post your project to the blog at Make My Monday for all to see.
My card is a double (es)cape card. I created a land(scape) Christmas shaker card because I would love to e(scape) to see a white Christmas this year.
Here’s my card:
Measurements:
The Night of Navy card base measures 8-1/2 inches by 5-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches to create a tent fold card.
The DSP (designer series paper) for the front of the card comes from the Beauty of the Earth DSP pack. This piece measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
I used another DSP pattern from Beauty of the Earth for the envelope flap. This piece measures 2-1/2 inches by 6 inches.
The white cardstock for the front of the shaker card measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
The white cardstock for the inside panel of the card measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
I stamped the sentiment for the outside on scrap white cardstock. Then, I cropped it using a stitched rectangle die.
How I Made the Card:
I made a video while creating the second version of this card. I thought that would be easier than trying to explain the process of making the shaker part of the card.
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This Love, Santa Tag Kit is adorable and an easy way to make your own gift tags! Take a look at this video!
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Welcome to another Make My Monday challenge! For this two week challenge, Caz chose the theme of outdoor sports. I hope you will pop over to the challenge blog and check out all the other projects by the design team members.
Here’s my card:
Penguins sliding down hills counts as outdoor sports, right? I think so!
For this card, I used the Playful Penguins bundle now available in the mini-catalog. Aren’t they adorable? I also used a piece of the penguins DSP from the recent Sale-a-bration catalog for the background. I cropped the DSP (designer series paper) and the Soft Seafoam border using the diaroma die set. The white cardstock also got a bit of texture by way of the Subtles 3D embossing folder. I cropped the curved “snow” drifts using the Curvy Christmas die set. To finish the whole thing off, I add some of the current sequins and a piece of the shimmery ribbon.
I know this isn’t my normal type of blog post. However, I am in northern California visiting my daughter and I forgot to do this blog post before I left home. So, for now, this is it. The view of a mountain out her back wall of windows is stunning! Since it’s dark, the lights from the homes built on the mountainside are beautiful! Florida is so FLAT, and humid. There’s foothills, mountains, and no. humidity here. It’s wonderful!
Thanks for stopping by my (very short and uncharacteristic) blog today!
Welcome to the Make My Monday challenge #157. Pamela chose an autumn/fall theme for the challenge starting today, September 13, 2021. I’ve seen the design team projects and they are phenomenal! I hope you will pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team created. We all look forward to seeing what you create posted in our gallery!
Here’s my card:
When I first chose this DSP (designer series paper), I thought that I might just let the DSP do all the work. I pulled out some Misty Moonlight, Merry Merlot, and Cinnamon Cider cardstock just to play around with the colors and DSP. I knew I needed a “Thinking of You” card, and when I started looking for sentiments that would match what I wanted to do, I came across the Nature’s Harvest stamp set. While I knew I wouldn’t be using any of those sentiments, I thought I could use the dies. With that, finding a layout that worked just fell into place.
Measurements:
I chose Cinnamon Cider for the base. It measures 5-1/2 inches by 8-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
The Misty Moonlight base measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches. You can’t see it, but I cropped the wheat kind of die diagonally from this mat.
The DSP top layer measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches. I also cut a piece of DSP to 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap.
The white cardstock for the inside panel measures 5-1/4 inches by 4 inches.
The Cinnamon Cider and Merry Merlot stalks were cropped from scraps. I also cropped the sentiment panel and Misty Moonlight mat from scraps.
What I Did:
First, I adhered the DSP to the Misty Moonlight mat.
Then, I started working on the bow using Early Espresso faux suede trim. I don’t put any adhesive down to hold ribbon in place when I am trying to create a bow. Since I am bow-challenged about 50% of the time. Maybe it’s because I am left-handed, but my bows wind up coming out upside down, so I need to be able to take the ribbon off and turn it around. I know I should just tie it starting from the upside down position, but that doesn’t seem to work for me. This time, I tied a pretty decent bow on the third try. Yeah, me!
I used liquid adhesive to adhere all three stalks on the DSP, slipping them under the ribbon one at a time.
Next, I stamped the sentiment, from the Peaceful Moments stamp set, on a scrap of white cardstock in Merry Merlot. Then, I cropped the sentiment using a stitched rectangle die.
The Misty Moonlight sentiment mat was trimmed to size. I used dimensionals under the sentiment, but adhered the mat directly to the DSP. I also put dimensionals under the Misty Moonlight mat under the DSP to accomodate the width of the faux suede ribbon.
The Inside:
Here’s the inside of the card:
This sentiment comes from the In Your Words host set. It’s a beautiful sentiment, isn’t it? I stamped it in Merry Merlot.
Those five little, tiny white stars come from the Frightfully Cute die set. I had no idea what that die was supposed to match, so I tested it on a scrap of white cardstock. Adhering them was a bit tricky. First, I put a drop of glue on a dimensional cover, only because it was sitting on my desk Using my opposable tweezers, I was able to just touch the star into the glue and then adhere it to the inside of the card. Those stars are really, really tiny, but they fit so well with this sentiment.
Finally, it was time to finish up. I adhered and trimmed the DSP on the envelope flap. Then, I punched a 1 inch circle from coordinating DSP and ran it through my XYRON create-a-sticker for an envelope seal.
With that, this coordinated card/envelope/seal set was done.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this card.
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Welcome to the Make My Monday challenge #156. I am hosting this challenge and chose a Fun Fold theme for the challenge starting today, August 30, 2021. I’ve seen the design team projects and they are phenomenal! I hope you will pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team created. We all look forward to seeing what you create in our gallery!
I needed a special thank you card using black and gold with “hornets.” (Yes, I know these are bees, but I am taking creative license, so hornets they are.)
Here’s the front of my card:
Now for the WOW! part of this card:
The Video Makes It Easier Than It Looks!
Please don’t be intimidated when you see my card! I used a video tutorial from Connie Stewart for this fold. If you’ve seen any of her videos, you already know she loves quick cards that really WOW the recipient. This card is the same kind of card ~ truly! You will know how relatively easy it was when you follow along with the video. I’d suggest watching the 13 minute video first. Then you can go back and follow the directions for the measurements, which I’ve also included below:
Gold foil backing piece measures 4-1/4 inches by 5-1/2 inches
Black cardstock pieces:
Base measures 5-1/4 inches by 11 inches. Score at 1-3/4 inches, 3-1/2 inches, 5-1/4 inches, and 7 inches.
DSP (designer series paper): if you follow the video, you will see Connie starts with a 6 x 6 inch piece of DSP. She will walk you through the cuts needed. When you are finished, you will have:
2 @ 1-1/2 inches by 5 inches,
2 @ 1/2 x 3-3/4 inches,
4@ 1-1/4 by 2-1/4 inches
1@ 1-1/2 inches by 2 inches (I used the gold polka dot DSP)
I used the gold polka-dot DSP for the front sentiment panel base. This piece measures 2-1/2 inches x 2-1/2 inches.
The white cardstock pieces:
2-14 inches by 2-1/4 inches
5 inches by 7-1/2 inches, scored at 3-3/4 inches.
Assembly:
After all the pieces are cut, you simply assemble. I found the assembly just fell into place because I had everything precut.
I used the Golden Honey DSP, gold foil specialty DSP, and the Bees dies for the accents.
The Peaceful Moments stamp set provided the first two sentiments. Both sentiments inside the white cardstock come from the Best Year cling stamp set.
Please do try this! Connie Stewart’s video really walks you through it step-by-step. I know I will use this fun fold again and again. It’s fabulous!
After you try this, please don’t forget to upload it to the Make My Monday challenge blog! This card also qualifies for the Creative Creases challenge, so post it there as well. I can’t wait to see your creations in both challenges!
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this card.
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Welcome to the Make My Monday challenge #155. Mary V. chose a n Anything But a Card theme for the challenge starting today, August 16, 2021. I hope you will pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team created as well. We all look forward to seeing what you create in our gallery!
My great-niece just had her 5th mermaid themed birthday party. I made 16 mermaid thank you tags and a matching birthday card.
Here’s one of my tags:
Here’s the coordinating card:
Both of these projects were inspired by fellow Pal, Tricia Chuba Neild.
What I Did:
Sadly, I gave the tags to my niece before I measured anything or even took pictures. I can tell you that the size of the Balmy Blue tag was based on the height of the second largest Stitched with Whimsy die. I adjusted the width so that I would have more of a tag size.
The mermaid tail started out with a piece of white cardstock. I used one of the Adorning Designs Decorative Masks and a blending brush. First, I used the blending brush and Magenta Madness ink with the mask. Then, I used the blending brush to lightly swirl Magenta Madness over the whole area. This process took the longest and I used 3 pieces of white cardstock for the 16 tails. I did have a hand-drawn template for the tail, and then I needed to do quite a bit of fussy cutting.
The Highland Heather “shell” comes from the In Symmetry stamp set. Thankfully there’s a die in the In Symmetry bundle for this “shell” so I didn’t have to fussy cut them.
The seaweed in the background of the tag is from a Smooth Sailing die in Soft Seafoam and Granny Apple Green.
After adhering all the layers down with multipurpose glue, I used the Label Me Fancy punch to punch out the space for the Gorgeous Grape ribbon.
Finally, I stamped the sentiment, again from In Symmetry, in Gorgeous Grape on white cardstock. Then, I just used one of the (retired) Stitched Shapes oval dies. The only dimensionals used on the tags are under the sentiment.
HINT: When mass-producing projects, it is much easier to create one element at a time. When you have individual piles of elements, assembly takes much less time.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this card.
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Welcome to the Make My Monday challenge #154. Wei chose a slimline theme for the challenge starting today, August 2, 2021. I hope you will pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team created as well. We all look forward to seeing what you create in our gallery!
Here’s my card:
Before I begin, I need to let you know that this blog post will be very short, but hopefully sweet. As I’ve said before, I live in Central Florida, about halfway between Orlando and Daytona Beach. We have been having heat index temperatures between 98-102 for quite a while. Saturday our air conditioning went out and my blue room, aka craft studio, is already the warmest room in the house. I feel like the Wicked Witch in that I am melting. So, short and sweet, I hope.
Measurements:
The Pear Pizazz base measures 9 inches by 8 inches, scored at 4 inches to create a tent card.
The white cardstock on the front of the card measures 3-7/8 inches by 8-7/8 inches.
The white cardstock for the inside panel measures 3-3/4 inches by 8-3/4 inches.
Everything else on the front of the card comes from scraps.
One day I need to explain how I keep my scraps. I always say I am using scraps, but without an explanation of how they are stored, it might not make sense.
What I Did:
I colored the white cardstock for the front using my blending brushes. Balmy Blue provides a nice color for the sky and lets the white clouds pop. I used Pear Pizazz for the grassy area.
Everything else, right down to the grass stamp, comes from the Sale-a-Bration catalog! You know what that means: FREE STUFF with a qualifying purchase.
The Counting Sheep stamp set is FREE with a $50 purchase, and the Sheep Dies are FREE with a $50 purchase. So, with a $100 purchase, you get the stamp set and dies FREE. FREE is good!
Since sheep are not always pure white, I used a blending brush and smoky slate ink to give all three sheep some color. The stamping blends made coloring their legs, ears, and faces a breeze.
Their adorable little party hats, also found in the stamp set and die set, are colored with Balmy Blue and Old Ol
Thank you very much for stopping by my blog. I appreciate every visit and comment.
Have a Peachy Day! Sue
The Mini-Catalog AND Sale-a-Bration start tomorrow, August 3, 2021!!
Catalog Cover Images for a Sneak Peek:
I already have this set and LOVE it! Check my sheep slimline card on Make My Monday challenge, August 02,2021!
Do you live in the U.S. and need a demonstrator? If so, I’d love to talk to you!
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If you are ordering less than $150.00, please use the host code shown. If you are ordering more than $150.00, please contact me first so you can get your stamping rewards! Any order over $50 will earn a little surprise from me.
The HOST CODE through August 31, 2021 is CJQW69XN.
Again, thank you for stopping by my blog today! I appreciate your comments and your time.
Welcome to Just Peachy Stamping by Sue Jackson: an independent Stampin' Up demonstrator.
Through Stampin' Up!, I happily share my love of papercrafting through sales, classes, small stamping group meet-ups and workshops. I think that being a teacher in my "real life", I have a unique approach to sharing my fantastic hobby. I look forward to connecting with you!
