Vertical Wiper Card

Today I am participating in the Stamping with Friends Blog Hop group and our theme this week is “Wiper Cards.” I’ve only seen wiper cards on the horizontal, but this version of a wiper card is vertical. Be sure to check out the Roll Call at the bottom of this post so you can carry through and see the other creations of my talented stamping friends!

First, let’s check in because it’s been a hot minute. Who’s suffering from whiplash from this fast fall calendar? It’s December! I’m actually almost finished with my Christmas shopping and decorating, but behind in sharing Christmas projects with my crafting friends. Alas…if only we could craft all day and all night long. I love participating in Blog Hops (in case you haven’t noticed 😊) because they give me a reason to prioritize my Blog. I post projects on Instagram more regularly, so if you haven’t already, be sure to follow me there. That said, sometimes I feel like a card needs a little more attention, explanation, and directions — so I’ll post on here. I also pin my projects on Pinterest and share to my Facebook page. Lots of content everywhere, and no matter where you go to look to be inspired, I hope you follow me to add to your inspiration.

Here’s my Vertical Wiper Card:

This is the card closed. Then when you open, the “wiper” is activated and another bear pops up!

Do you see the polar bear in the sweater pop up!? SO cute! Here’s a look from above so you can see the mechanism:

To add a place to write a message and sign the card, I decorated the back.

The images are all cut from the Beary Christmas 12 x 12 designer series paper.

Measurements:

Colored Card Stock:

  • 1 @ 5-1/2 x 6-3/4, Score long edge @ 4-1/4 + 5-1/2
  • 1 @ 3 x 6-3/4 , core long edge @ 4-1/4 + 5-1/2
  • 1 @ 1 x 2-5/8

Designer Series Paper (same or different designs)

  • 1 @ 4 wide x 5-1/4 tall
  • 1 @ 2 wide x 2-3/4 tall Cut in half short side… 2 @ 1 x 2-3/4
  • 1 @ 2 wide x 2-1/4 tall Cut in half short side… 2 @ 1 x 2-1/4

White Cardstock

  • 1 @ 2-3/4 x 4
  • 1 @ 4 x 5-1/4

Assembly instructions:

I made this card during my demo friend Nancy Legate’s biweekly Zoom. She is the best! Love how this turned out, and will be making more with the other products in this suite.

Be sure to hop along using the links below. Thanks for looking today, and happy stamping!

Kelly


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I’ll Have a Pink Christmas

Happy Sunday Friends! It’s the last Sunday of the month, and I’m hopping tonight with my NC Demos group. The theme for this month’s NC Demos’ Blog Hop is “I’ll Have a Pink Christmas.” And extra bonus points if we used a non-Christmas stamp set. As always with a blog hop, you’ll want to “hop along” to the next Demonstrator to see her amazing projects. Click the Next Button below to see a project from the talented Tracie Langley  or follow along using the Roll Call below.

For my Pink Christmas card, I used a new product coming out the Jan-Apr 2024 Mini Catalog called Bee Mine Suite.  I’ve been using this suite for a swap I am in, to get ready for a Christmas stamping event I’m having in December, and just to have fun and take a break from holiday projects. So, I thought “why not?” when I was thinking of what to use for this Blog Hop.

Let’s Bee Pink…and Merry!

Let’s take a look at my very non-traditional, and whimsy, Pink Christmas card:

Is this the cutest!? As mentioned, I am LOVING the Bee My Valentine stamp set and Bee Builder Punch. It’s making the cutest cards (can’t wait to show you them!) I added a Santa hat to make him a Christmas bee — so he can spread Christmas cheer with his “Bee Merry” message!

The Santa hat came from the Sending Cheer dies. I used the smaller of the two dies that make white fluff, the little fluff ball, and the hat:

These dies are amazing and are retiring soon, and on sale for only $21! A steal for 18 dies. The also coordinate with the Sending Cheer stamp set — also retiring and on sale for $14…Shop my store today to get these for your collection.

The hat was a little too big for my bee, so I simply traced 1/8″ line inside the edge and cut it out — it fit perfectly!

The pinks used are Petal Pink (card base), Flirty Flamingo (bee lines and layer behind the words) and Sweet Sorbet (kinda pink?) merry letters and hat. Let’s take another look at this card:

As I was making this card I was inspired to make a similar card design, but this time saying “Oh Christmas Bee” instead of “Oh Christmas Tree!” Take a look:

I love these cards, and love the bee. You’ll be seeing more of this in the coming weeks. Hope you like my non-traditional Christmas cards.

Now, let’s Hop!

As always, I’m so grateful to you for stopping by. Now, let’s see what the others have done with this challenge! Click the next arrow to hop over to Tracie Evans Langley’s blog!

Happy Stamping! Kelly


Roll Call:

November Blog Hoppers

Tina Lesson 
Jo Anne Hewins
Laurie Meier
Toni Campana –
Kelly Taranto – The Late Night Stamper
Tracie Evans Langley, the Sassy Stamper


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**Note: This card uses the upcoming Bee My Valentine Bundle which is a stamp set and a punch. This bundle will be available January 4th to customers and is available now to Demonstrators.

Stamping With Friends Blog Hop – Anything Christmas

Happy Saturday friends! Thanksgiving week is upon us, and my craft room is switching over to Christmas full-time and I’m loving it! Today I’m blog hopping with my Stamping With Friends group and the theme is “Anything Christmas.” You may have arrived here from the talented blog of Jana Secord. Enjoy my post, and click click the Next Blog button at the bottom of the post to keep “hopping” along the roll call.

I chose the Merriest Trees bundle (which is a new favorite):

For inspiration used this card sketch:

Here is my first card:

The DSP was an online exclusive called Shining Christmas and has a little glare, so here’s another view:

I decided to make the same card, but in green!

And, here’s another view of this card:

The best part about these cards? They came together super quickly. Every year I say in June “I’m going to start now on Christmas projects!” But, alas…reality is I really can’t work on Christmas projects until it’s closer to the holiday. So, if you’re like me and time is short to get things done, quick projects are a necessity.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Be sure to click on the image below to “hop” along to the talented Tricia Butt’s blog next on the blog hop!

Happy Stamping! Kelly


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Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop – Color Challenge

The AWOW team and I are hopping today — here on our blogs, and on Instagram — and this month’s challenge is a color challenge. Grab a cup of coffee, and take a trip around the world with me to see what all of my global stamping friends have done with this challenge!

For this color challenge, all we were given was this image:

Such a pretty photo, and I love Paris… These colors reminded me of the 2023-2025 In-Colors. I see all 5 of the new In-Colors in this — Copper Clay (the leaves), Pebbled Path (the Eiffel), Wild Wheat (the leaves), and Moody Mauve and Boho Blue as part of the group of houses/train station at the bottom. Here are those colors:

I could have taken a more literal route and chosen the beautiful DSP from the All About Autumn Suite. When I first saw this photo, these papers are the very first thing I thought of:

The only thing is, this paper is not currently available and I wanted to go into my stash and see what I had / could come up with. I immediate found the Ringed With Nature bundle and thought that would do well – mainly because the mushrooms look very “french!”

Here is my card:

I used Pebbled Path as my base, and a Pebbled Path piece of DSP that reminded me of the lines on the Eiffel Tower. I like how this turned out – simple, not too involved, so a quick and easy card with just stamps, ink, and paper. And, I like how I pushed myself out of the obvious!

Let’s see what my new Around the World on Wednesday friends did. Next up in the Hop is Shel Anderson from Canada.

Happy Stamping friends! Kelly


Roll Call

Jan Clothier – NZ

Leonie Stuart – AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith – AU

Cazz Boylan – AU

Cheryll Miller – AU

Danielle Kassing – NL

Aurélie Fabre – FR

Mikaela Titheridge – UK

Annette Ball – CA

Kelly Taranto – USYOU ARE HERE!

Shel Anderson – CA

Chris Smith – US

Tricia Butts – US

Theresa McEntee – US

Lori Willcox – CA

Teri West – US

Cheryl Hamilton – US


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CTCS – Festive & Fun meets pg 46

Happy Sunday friends! After a very busy weekend, I’m ending today in my craft room — and it’s only 9:14pm, but was 10:14pm yesterday. Who loves Daylight Savings ending like me!? I also love the extra hour in the morning. My favorite day of the year.

Today’s CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge (CTC#444) was to CASE a project on page 46 of the Annual Catalog from the Zoo Crew Suite. Well, I have been itching to use the Festive & Fun stamp set and figured it would work well case-ing this card:

Here is my card:

The Beary Christmas 12 x 12 DSP was perfect to pair with the crisp white background and the fine line images of the Festive & Fun stamp set. I love how this turned out — and love this card sketch!

Have a great week, and happy stamping! Kelly


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Merriest Trees Balcony Card

Happy Saturday! Today I’m Stamping with Friends and the challenge was to make a balcony card. I have never made this fun fold before, and it is super fun! I will be trying it again with another set of products.

Be sure after reading through my post today to click through the Roll Call at the bottom of this post.

This card was so much fun to make. So first, the outside / card front is so pretty using products from the Joy of Christmas suite of products:

That suite of products makes it so simple to use to make an elegant card front.

But wait….there’s more! Because then, you open the card — and WOW!

That’s pretty too, and makes a lovely card, but then pop out the inner steps and BAM! There it is!

Love this fun fold to make this scene! I used the Merriest Trees Bundle and since the middle tree is on the fold, I scored that as well. Here’s a look from the top:

Isn’t this adorable? For all the products used, be sure to look below to shop the supplies.

For directions to make this Fun Fold, download this attached project sheet from Lisa Curcio.

Lisa is another Demonstrator, and she has wonderful tutorials for all kinds of Fun Folds. Check out this pattern, and make it your own!

Blog Hop time!

Looking forward to seeing what products my friends are working with in their projects today, and how they all used this Fun Fold! Be sure to click “Next Blog” below in the Roll Call!

Happy Stamping! Kelly


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Tricks & Treats!

Happy Halloween! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve been able to blog, but I couldn’t let Halloween pass us by without posting something. I love the Tricks & Treats bundle in the mini catalog, and you will too! The dies comes with a die cut to make this adorable little treat bag. If it’s not in your collection, add it now…and you can start making treat bags for Thanksgiving!

Here’s my Halloween version:

That candy corn die is why I actually bought the whole bundle…I know…I have a problem. But, it is a great size – 1″ x 1 1/2″ and is simply perfect for this time of year. I also used the Delightful Doily Hybrid die set in the Annual Catalog to make the black doily and the white label for the greeting. Here’s another look:

And yes, those are peanut M&M’s – 3 packets fit in here just fine. I will be using this die for Thanksgiving in Christmas projects, so stay tuned!

Because it’s Halloween, and you’ve asked for Tricks & Treats….I went through my card stash and found these oldie but goodie ideas. All of these were made by me over the years (some are made with VERY old product–you may even have some of this in your stash!) But, wanted to share some more “treats” with you on this fun holiday!

So many of these cards can be remade with current product today — the first two show other great uses of a black doily. There is a new crate die in the catalog to remake the one with the cats in crates, and the very bottom on was an old Paper Pumpkin kit that had Crackers — you could use the current Cracker & Treat Box dies to remake something like that.

Thanks for looking, and happy Halloween!

Kelly

Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop – Sketch Challenge – Sketch 104

Good Wednesday morning from the Eastern Time Zone! Today I’m hopping with my Around the World on Wednesday (AWOW) friends.

Grab a cup of coffee and take a trip around the World with me! This month’s challenge is to use this card sketch for inspiration:

Since it is starting to feel like Fall here in eastern North Carolina in the US, I decided to stick with products from the All About Autumn Suite.

I love how this designer series paper does all the work here. I followed along with the sketch and came up with this! Let’s take a closer look.

I love this sketch! I might try it again this weekend, and this time with a bow. A sub-challenge to this challenge was “To Bow or not to Bow!”

You should try it out to, and send me a pic of your creation!

Let’s see what my new Around the World on Wednesday friends did. Next up in the Hop is Shel Anderson from Canada.

Happy Stamping friends! Kelly


Roll Call

Jan Clothier – NZ

Leonie Stuart – AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith – AU

Cheryll Miller – AU

Danielle Kassing – NL

Ximena Morales – DE

Aurélie Fabre – FR

Mikaela Titheridge – UK

TIna Zinck – CA

Annette Ball – CA

Angie McKenzie – US

Kelly Taranto – US You are here!

Shel Anderson – CA

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert – US

Chris Smith – US

Brenda Nelson – CA

Tricia Butts – US

Theresa McEntee – US

Bree Renwick – US

Lori Willcox – CA

Teri West – US

Cheryl Hamilton – US


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CTCS – All About Autumn meets Joy of Christmas

Happy Sunday! Today’s CASEing the Catty Sunday challenge (CTC439) was to CASE the Joy of Christmas suite, pages 28-31 of the September – December 2023 Mini Catalog. I chose to CASE this card from page 28:

Here is my version using the products from the All About Autumn Suite:

Thanks for looking, and here’s to a crafty week! Kelly


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CTCS – Two of A Kind

Happy Sunday Friends! Today I’m bringing back the “CASEing the Catty Sunday” series as it’s been a while. And, because it’s the last Sunday of the month, I’m also hopping along tonight with my NC Demos group so you’ll get even MORE inspiration tonight! The theme for this month’s NC Demos’ Blog Hop is “Two of a Kind.” It’s a simple challenge: create one card layout, then make two cards using this layout with two different stamp sets and color combos. I’m following along with my CASEing the Catty Sunday group as well to get me going, and the challenge for that was to CASE a card from the O Holy Night suite, pages 14-17 of the September – December 2023 Mini Catalog.  As always with a blog hop, you’ll want to “hop along” to the next Demonstrator to see her amazing projects. Click the Next Button below to see a project from the talented Tracie Langley  or follow along using the Roll Call below.

Two of a Kind:

As a reminder – this post is doing double-duty: reintroducting CASEing the Catty Sunday challenges, AND I’m participating in the NC Demos monthly challenge. Here’s the CASEing the Catty challenge:

As I got going though, all I was thinking of was my favorite Stampin’ Up product: the Designer Series Paper. And, I didn’t even end up using any products from this suite, or a sketch from this Suite either. That’s what I love about CASEing…you never know where the inspiration will lead. Here are my cards:

Not at all like any projects on pages 14-17, but, I was inspired nonetheless. The designer series paper packs in the Mini Catalog are simply gorgeous, especially those in the O’ Holy Night Suite, and I love that those pages inspired me to use papers from the All About Autumn Suite and the Garden Walk Suite.

Tutorial:

Here are the measurements/directions for my sketch:

  • Card Base: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, score at 4 1/4. Cut from the card front @ 2 1/8″.
  • Flap Layers: solid cardstock – 2 x 5 3/8″; DSP – 1 7/8 x 5 1/4
  • Front rectangle layers: solid cardstock – 3 3/8 x 4 5/8; DSP – 3 1/4 x 4 1/2
  • Scallop front: I used the scallop rectangle from the Scalloped Contours Dies and the vanilla/white piece measures 2 1/8 x 3 1/2

Here’s a closer look at each:

Hope you like this simple, yet beautiful card sketch!

Now, let’s Hop!

Thanks for stopping by, and hope you take this card sketch and try it out. Now, let’s see what the others have done with this challenge! Click the next arrow to hop over to Tracie Evans Langley’s blog!

Happy Stamping! Kelly


Roll Call:

September Blog Hoppers
Toni Campana 
Tina Lesson
Kristine Vicente
Ronnie Johnson 
Laurie Meier
Kelly Taranto – The Late Night StamperYou Are Here!
Tracie Evans Langley, the Sassy Stamper


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