Happy Labor Day weekend y’all! Before I turn the page on a new week (since I have an extra day this weekend) I wanted to share one more project using the Harvest Meadow Suite Collection. With this post I’m also starting a new series: Case the Catalog Sunday.
Stampin’ Up!’s catalogs are chock full of beautiful projects and I often start right with the catalog for inspiration. CASE stands for Copy And Share Everything or I’ve also heard Copy And Slightly Edit (because if you didn’t change it a little bit it would just be “copy” right?) Anyway, I cased the card on page 54 of the new catalog:
It isn’t really the same…but I loved the idea of the using the Diamond Weave Ribbon on a slant. I also like that you can use refills to dye that ribbon any color you wish. I was short on time, so rather than using refills and “dyeing” the ribbon, I used Misty Moonlight Blends to color the ribbon. I also used two pieces of DSP scraps rather than a full quarter sheet.
The cone flower was die cut in Basic White and I used blends to color it. And, of course, there is more of the Cork 12 x 12 Specialty paper! Love it…
Get creative this weekend and happy Stamping! Kelly
I hope you enjoyed my blog hop last weekend. The group of Demonstrators I “hopped” with the past three months are so talented. If you haven’t already, please click through the whole Hop so you can see all the amazing projects.
You saw that my card in the Hop featured the Harvest Meadow suite, highlighting the Cork paper. This suite is so pretty, and the cork paper makes for a really special card.
Here’s another project using this beautiful set.
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Supplies:
Nature’s Harvest Bundle
Card Stock and DSP: Crumb Cake, Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper, Early Espresso, Misty Moonlight, Basic White, Harvest Meadow 12 x 12 DSP, Cork 12 x 12 Specialty Paper
Other Dies, Embellishments, and Tools: Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dots, Water Painters, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Mini Glue Dots
Measurements:
Crumb Cake Base: 4 ¼” x 11”, score at 5 ½”
Harvest Meadow DSP: 3 strips measuring 1 ¼” x 5 ¼” each
Cork Specialty Paper: 3” x 4”
Scrap of Early Espresso, Misty Moonlight, Basic White
Instructions:
Prep your watercolored pieces: Using your water painters (I used the broadest tip) wet your Fluid 100 Watercolor paper with water, only getting about 2 ½” x 5” wet. Dip your water painter into Cajun Craze ink refill and go back over the 2 ½” x 5” section of the watercolor paper to make a watercolored Cajun Craze rectangle. Clean your water painter and repeat that process using Just Jade ink refill. Set aside to dry. Once dry, cut out the wildflower silhouettes using the Harvest Dies. See photo—note: I took two pieces of watercolor paper and made a bunch of wildflowers in different colors. The Bumblebee Cone Flower negative you see in the photo was used for another card (but wanted you to see what I did). You’ll want a total of two wildflowers cut out of the watercolored paper
Cut your other die pieces out:
Twig – Early Espresso
Larger label – Misty Moonlight
Inside label – Basic White
Stamp Thank You on inside white label
Assemble your card:
Fold card in half and burnish with bone folder.
Add three strips of DSP
Adhere Cork layer
Adhere Early Espresso Stick and one of your wildflowers with adhesive – I used Tombow multipurpose glue
Adhere the 2nd wildflower (in this sample it’s the Cajun Craze piece) with Mini Glue Dots
Adhere the inside Basic White layer onto the Misty Moonlight Layer and adhere to your card front using dimensionals.
Hello, welcome to the Journey to Silver Elite Blog Hop – month #3! We are a group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators with a common goal to support each other as we build our businesses. This month our theme is “New Holiday Mini / Sale-A-Bration.” If you’re following the blog hop, you arrived here from Amanda Howard’s blog — aren’t her projects amazing? Enjoy my post, and click the arrow at the bottom of the post to keep “hopping” along to Nedine DuPree’s Blog (and the full line-up of all the projects can be found at the bottom of this post as well). –
My projects feature the Harvest Meadow Suite of products in the July-Dec 2021 Mini Catalog. This suite collection features the Nature Harvest Bundle (Nature’s Harvest stamp set + Harvest Dies):
The suite also features a 3D Embossing Folder called Timeworn Type, beautiful 12 x 12 DSP called Harvest Meadow, Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Baked Dots that come in 3 metallic colors: bronze, copper, and gold, 3/8″ Diamond Weave ribbon, and the star of the suite, 12 x 12 Cork Specialty Paper. Holy! This Cork paper is so so cool!
I made two cards using this beautiful suite of products:
I made a Cork frame using the Stitched Rectangle Dies and used the cutout to make a 2nd card using the same products. The Bumblebee die in the background is made by die cutting the DSP. Colors used: Misty Moonlight, Cajun Craze, Just Jade. I finished off both using the weave ribbon and the metallic dots.
You’ll love these products! I hope you are inspired by my projects and those of my fellow Demonstrators. At the end of this post, you will find the full line-up to help you “hop” along from blog to blog, or you can click the arrow below to move to the Nedine’s blog.
Be sure to check my blog the rest of this week too — I’ll be posting a few more projects using this beautiful suite throughout the week.
Before the week is out, I wanted to post one more entry about the Sweets & Treats stamp set. I am not done playing with this adorable set, and while I didn’t use the Cloche dies in these samples, it still goes with Cloche week!
For these samples, I used a similar layout and the Penguin Playmates 12 x 12 DSP that is free with a $50 order through Sale-A-Bration. This paper is adorable.
You might be wondering where the penguins are in my samples? Well, the best part of this paper, in my humble opinion is the B side. It’s all fun and playful patterns and I love the color combination: Calypso Coral, Fresh Freesia, Just Jade, Misty Moonlight, Soft Sea Foam.
Here’s a closer look at each of my cards:
Other Products Used:
Cardstock: Misty Moonlight, Just Jade, Crumb Cake, Fresh Freesia, Night of Navy, Real Red, Basic White
Inks: Momento Black, Misty Moonlight, Just Jade, Fresh Freesia and coordinating blends
Be sure to check out my blog tomorrow–a Blog Hop I’m participating in goes live at 9am and it will launch a week of samples using the Harvest Meadow Suite!
In my last post I teased there was another stamp set that coordinates with the Classic Cloche products. Here it is! Sweet & Treats is an adorable whimsy set that coordinates with the Cloche Dies.
This stamp set has 12 stamps: 7 line-art images that are perfect for coloring, especially using your Blends, and 5 adorable greetings in a whimsy casual font. I love “Bring on Christmas” and also love the pie stamp and the greeting about being thankful–perfect for Thanksgiving! While some of the images (the candy apple and Christmas cake) are seasonal, you can definitely use this set all year. The cupcake is so sweet, as is the whimsy heart.
Here’s a card I made with this set and Cloche dies — and of course, it’s perfectly paired with the Be Dazzling Sale-A-Bration paper!
This week’s blog posts will feature the Cloche products from the July-December 2021 Mini Catalog. This line of products might get overlooked because there are so many beautiful things in the Mini (plus it’s Sale-A-Bration!), but anytime Stampin’ Up! offers a stamp set (or two–see Thursday’s post for more on that), plus coordinating dies, PLUS, an item like a shaker dome that fits in the shape of the main image…well, sign me up.
Cloche Shaker Domes
The Cloche shaker domes put the final touch on your project. They are $7.50 for a pack of 10. Fill them with images from the stamp set, or really anything? Flowers, trees, panoramas, and more– your imagination is the only limit.
Here’s a card I made using the Classic Cloche bundle (stamps and dies), Misty Moonlight cardstock and Misty Moonlight patterned paper from the Whimsy & Wonder 12 x 12 Specialty DSP. The back of my Cloche snowy scene uses Garden Green snow pattern, also from Whimsy & Wonder.
a glass or plastic cover used to protect small outdoor plants from frost.
Also: a similar cover used indoors to display or protect ornamental objects
a woman’s close-fitting hat usually with deep rounded crown and narrow brim
Yes, I had to look this up…mainly to learn how to pronounce it. The definition was obvious, but I didn’t know it was also a hat. How fun! Putting the dictionary aside, let’s take a couple of days to look at this group of products.
The Classic Cloche stamp set is a set of 13 with two- (or three-) step stamping to fill in a winter scene or wintery bird scene. There are three sentiments that are beautifully designed. And of course, a glass dome stamp, bottom, knob, and snow. Love it!
Pair this stamp set with the Cloche dies and it takes it to a new level. The dies are a set of 12, but cut out a total of 22 images: a bell-shaped cover, some pieces to create a snowy scene (including one that outlines the house stamp), two birds to cut out the birds from the stamp, and tree limbs and Christmas trees.
Here’s a card I made with this bundle. LOVE!
Product Used in Samples:
Classic Cloche stamp set, Cloche Dies
Cardstock: Sahara Sand, Cherry Cobbler, Basic White, and coordinating inks, and Garden Green Ink
Peaceful Prints 12 x 12 (from Sale-A-Bration offering)
Linen Thread
More ideas and coordinating products coming tomorrow!
Happy Launch Day y’all! Today is launches the new July-December Mini Catalog offered by Stampin’ Up! For the past few days I’ve been showing sneak peaks of products from the new Sale-A-Bration catalog that is also being offered, and for the next couple of days I’ll be sharing some cards featuring new products from the new J-D Mini Catalog, otherwise known as the Holiday Mini.
First up – pumpkins! This gorgeous bundle is called Pretty Pumpkins and includes a stamp set and set of 10 dies. The dies are what sold me–especially the tall lacey one. So pretty!
Other products used:
Paper: Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight, and Basic White Cardstock; Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper.
Ink: Cajun Craze
Other: 3/8″ Fine Art Gold Ribbon
Such a simple card, but oh, so pretty!!
If you don’t have a catalog, contact me and I’ll pop one in the mail to you. Happy to pop one in the mail. In the meantime, you can start viewing both immediately on my online store:
Tomorrow’s the big day! The new July-December Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini) goes live and I cannot WAIT. Once again, Stampin’ Up! has created an amazing book for us with beautiful products as well as pages and pages of inspiration.
Also going live tomorrow is the new Sale-A-Bration (SAB) brochure. This used to be a once-a-year sale, but for the first time SU is offering SAB a 2nd time with the release of the Holiday Mini. I love SAB time — spend $50 (or $100) and you get something additional. You’ll be spending anyway, especially gearing up for holiday projects, so I’m so thankful for the 2nd SAB offering this year.
Today’s post focuses on the some of the paper offerings in the Sale-A-Bration brochure. Y’all KNOW I love love love SU’s paper. Well, here we go! Christmas paper that is perfect for all of your holiday cards and handmade items, and GORGEOUS chucky sparkly paper. Holy. So I will tell you off the bat that this 6 x 6 glittery gorgeousness is another product that has limited quantities. NOTE: I should have included in yesterday’s Sheep post that the Sheep Dies are also limited.
What does that mean? Well, since SAB is only two months long, during this round of Sale-A-Bration, some products will only be available while supplies last. This means that once they’re gone, they’re gone for good! The Sale-A-Bration products with limited supply include:
156629 Be Dazzling 6″ x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Specialty Paper
156600 Sheep Dies
156618 Summer Shadows Dies
Okay, I know, get to the samples….These cards use the SAB paper called Peaceful Prints.
It is 12 x 12 in size and you’ll see tomorrow it coordinates with the Peaceful Deer Bundle coming out in the Mini. You don’t need the bundle though to make quick, beautiful Christmas cards.
You can see on this card I simply used the DSP as a background, used a strip of the Be Dazzling DSP, the more of the Peaceful Prints DSP, and finished it off with a sentiment. There is a stamp set in the Mini coming out called Encircled in Warmth, which coordinates with the Encircled in Beauty Dies in the Annual Catalog. Here’s the full set I made using each of the designs:
The cards came together so quickly thanks to this gorgeous paper! Be sure to add them to your wish list as you get ready for ordering tomorrow! You can place an order any time through my online store. Remember, use my August Host code if your order is under $150: PKSW7T4D. Many thanks!
It’s August 1st! That means only two more days until we Sale-A-Brate. Today’s sneak peak is a card made with the Counting Sheep stamp set and the coordinating Sheep Dies. Every Sale-A-Bration there is usually a cute animal set. Last spring it was the Donkeys, and I wasn’t a huge fan, but these sheep are pretty cute. And I am a sucker for coordinating dies and these dies are terrific. They have a great fence, adorable sun and clouds (that could also be used for grass), and cute birthday things. Each item is free with a $50 order starting August 3rd.
I paired these items with the Give it a Whirl Dies that you may have missed in the Annual Catalog. This was my first time playing with these dies so I will be doing some more cards later to keep practicing. They aren’t hard to use, but I’ve learned a few tricks even with this first card. More on all that in a future post.
In addition to getting these Sheep for free, there’s another huge promotion going on during Sale-A-Bration.
If you look through the mini catalog, you may think “oh man, I have a huge wish list.” Well, we have you covered there too. Sign-up to be a discount shopper under me during Sale-A-Bration and not only will you receive $125 in free product (you only pay $99 for your kit, plus tax), but you also get free shipping on your kit, AND you get to pick a free bundle! Here’s the list of bundles to choose from:
JOIN BUNDLE OPTIONS
BUNDLE TITLE
REG. PRICE
156795
Arctic Bears Bundle
$47.50 USD
156819
Beauty Of Tomorrow Bundle
$50.25 USD
156801
Christmas Season Bundle
$54.00 USD
156806
Christmas To Remember Bundle
$60.25 USD
156807
Frosted Gingerbread Bundle
$48.50 USD
158609
Gorgeous Leaves Bundle
$44.00 USD
156813
Nature’s Harvest Bundle
$53.00 USD
156816
Peaceful Cabin Bundle
$54.00 USD
156391
Peaceful Deer Bundle
$36.00 USD
156789
Penguin Place Bundle
$31.50 USD
156798
Sweet Little Stockings Bundle
$47.50 USD
156810
Whimsical Trees Bundle
$51.25 USD
With this Free Bundle offer, you will receive up to $108.28 in free product — even more than what you’re paying for your starter kit.
