Sketch Saturday - Honey Bee

One of my favorite products right now is the Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper and its FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration. I absolutely love it and had to use it for this sketch.

The sketch is another CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge from Splitcoaststampers. These are so much fun to do.

Here’s a closer look at the Designer Series Paper. It’s black and white with gold foil. Some of the dies will cut out the bees in the paper, so cool!

The Honey Bee Stamp set has some sweet sentiments and great coordinating dies. Save 10% when you purchase this as a bundle.

Tips & Instructions

• Basic Black Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Gold Foil Layer - 5 3/8 x 4 1/8 (I used a piece that I cut out shapes in the center. It’s covered by the next layer so you can save on your gold foil and no one is the wiser)

• Daffodil Delight Layer - 5 1/4 x 4

• Golden Honey Designer Series Paper - User a 6” length and then cut 3/4 at the top to 2 3/4 at the bottom. I eyeballed it to get this shape. It will hang over but you will cut the excess.

• Adhere layers and then adhere the Designer Series Paper diagonally across the card. From the back, cut off the excess.

• Stamp Sentiment with Black Ink on Whisper White Cardstock and cut with scalloped rectangle from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies and adhere using Dimensionals

• Cut larger Bee from the Designer Series Paper using coordinating die and fussy cut 2 smaller bees and beehive and adhere as shown on the card

Using Daffodil Delight and Old Olive Stampin’ Write Markers, color leaves and flowers and stamp on the inside layer. (NOTE: do not color your markers with Stampin’ Blends as they are alcohol based and will dry out your stamps.)

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You Make Me Happy - Valentine's Day Card

Crooked is not my style!!! But, I wanted to try this look and I’m really happy with how it turned out. The pretty From My Heart Designer Series Paper and the Vellum sheet are offset (crooked).

The Stamp Set is called Meant To Be and the coordinating coordinating Stitched Be Mine Dies has so many great options for cutting out hearts.

Watch the video to see how I made this card. I didn’t show that I added that tiny heart that I put aside in the video. Just glue it below the sentiment on the heart.

Tips & Instructions:

• Real Red Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Flirty Flamingo Layer - 5 1/4 x 4

• Vellum Layer - 4 1/2 x 3 1/4

• From My Heart Designer Series Paper - 4 1/2 x 3 1/4, adhere to vellum, offsetting a little bit

• Wrap piece of Real Red Ribbon around layers and adhere to the back, adhere layers to card

• Cut Real Red Heart Frame and Whisper White Heart

• Stamp sentiment on white heart with Real Red Ink and adhere red heart frame over it (use very small dots of liquid glue to just the inside border of the red heart as shown in the video)

• Adhere heart using Dimensionals

• Tie bow with ribbon and adhere using Mini Glue Dots

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Pretty Valentine Card with Heart To Heart

I love all the flower images in the Heart To Heart Stamp Set. It was so easy to create this pretty background for my card.

This card is for Valentine’s Day but you can use just about any sentiment to make a birthday, thinking of you or thank you card. Just change it up!

Tips & Instructions

• Highland Heather Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Granny Apple Green Layer - 5 1/4 x 4

• Whisper White Layer - 5 1/8 x 3 7/8

• Create a background on the Whisper White Layer by stamping the leaf images with Granny Apple Green (leave plenty of space between each image), largest flower image with Highland Heather Ink, medium flower image with Flirty Flamingo Ink and smallest flower image with Daffodil Delight Ink. Add some of the smaller leaf images to fill in open spaces.

• Adhere flower layer to Granny Apple Green Layer

• Wrap piece of Granny Apple Green Textured Weave Ribbon around layers and adhere to card base

• Stamp frame and sentiment on Whisper White Scrap with Gorgeous Grape Ink and punch with Story Label Punch. Adhere over ribbon using Dimensionals

• Tie two strands of Whisper White Bakers Twine into a bow and adhere with Mini Glue Dot

• Adhere pearls to label

On the inside stamp sentiment with Gorgeous Grape Ink. Stamp leave images with Granny Apple Green Ink and flowers with Flirty Flamingo Ink.

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Sending Healing Hugs with the So Sentimental Bundle

This is a beautiful card to send someone who needs some cheering up! The So Sentimental Bundle and the Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper make it so easy!

In the video, I’ll show you how to cut a slit in the label to feed some ribbon through!

Tips & Instructions

• Blackberry Bliss Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper - 5 1/4 x 4

• Cut large label from Blackberry Bliss Cardstock using the largest label die from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies

• Cut coordinating label from Whisper White Cardstock and stamp sentiment with Blackberry Bliss Ink

• Using the Label Me Fancy Punch, cut slit on each side of the Blackberry Bliss Ink

• Feed 1/2 x 4 strip and Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon through the slits on the Blackberry Bliss label and adhere to Designer Series Paper Layer, adhere to card base

• Adhere sentiment label to card using Dimensionals

• Add 3 Rhinestones

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Positive Thoughts - Hugs, Prayers, Love

This is one of those stamp sets you might overlook, but take a second look!!! It is really beautiful and has great sentiments.

I created my own background paper by stamping the leaf and feather images randomly. I love this sentiment and the pretty flowers surrounding it.

Tips & Instructions

• Old Olive Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Whisper White Layer - 5 1/4 x 4, stamp leaf image with Old Olive Ink and feather image with Smoky Slate Ink randomly on the layer

• Cut largest rectangle from Stitched So Sweetly Dies using Old Olive Cardstock

• Cut 2nd largest rectangle from Stitched So Sweetly Dies using Whisper White Cardstock

• Stamp sentiment with Old Olive Ink and flowers with Rococo Rose Ink on white rectangle

• Wrap piece of Rococo Scalloped Linen Ribbon around and adhere to back of white layer

• Adhere layer to card base

• Adhere rectangles together and then adhere to card using Dimensionals

• Cut 3 strands of Linen Thread and make a bow, then adhere to card with Mini Glue Dot

On the inside, stamp sentiment with Old Olive Ink. Stamp the leaf image with Old Olive Ink, stamping multiple times without re-inking.

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Sketch Saturday - Happy Birthday To You

Isn’t this a pretty birthday card? I love the Purple Posy Cardstock and the soft colors on the Vellum.

Here’s the sketch I used from a Splitcoaststampers Challenge.

This stamp set is FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. The sentiments are so pretty and that cake!!! Perfect for a birthday or a wedding card.

Tips & Instructions

• Purple Posy Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Purple Posy Layer - 5 1/4 x 4, emboss with Subtle Embossing Folder and adhere to card base

• 2 7/8 x 3 1/2 Vellum Layer, stamp cake image with Black Memento Ink (I stamped on a larger piece and just cut to the size I wanted so it doesn’t have to be this exact measurement.)

• You can wait for the ink to dry or turn the vellum over and color on the back side. You can also dry with the heat tool but I find that it warps it some.

• Color image with Stampin’ Blends (Purple Posy combo for the flowers, Dark So Saffron for flower centers, Old Olive combo for the leaves, Light So Saffron for the cake, Dark Rich Razzleberry for the berries, Dark Granny Apple Green for smaller leaves, Dark Smoky Slate for the cake plate)

• Carefully adhere the vellum piece to the card, sparingly putting adhesive where the image is stamped. You don’t want it to show thru. I used the Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue.

• 5/8 x 2 1/2 strip of Whisper White - stamp sentiment with Highland Heather Ink and banner each end. I used the Banner Triple Punch to cut the banner ends. Adhere using Dimensionals

• Adhere some pearls randomly on the card

On the inside, stamp the sentiments with Highland Heather Ink. Stamp the dots on both sides of the sentiment.

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Kerchief Card Kit - So Simple!!!!

The Kerchief Card Kit has EVERYTHING you need to make 8 pretty cards. It couldn’t be easier AND it’s FREE!!!

Here’s what you get, you don’t even need to stamp if you don’t want to. This kit is free with a $50 purchase. You can’t beat it!

Watch the video to see everything up close and watch me make one of each of these cards.

Coastal Cabana is such a pretty color. I love how delicate the flowers are and the gold polka dotted velum is gorgeous.

Poppy Parade is such a bright and cheerful color. Who wouldn’t love to receive a Thinking of You card like this?

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Gorgeous Grape Valentine's Day Card

This was a fun card to make using the Detailed Hearts Die. I die cut the entire heart image and then cut the pieces I wanted to use. The colors are Gorgeous Grape and Purple Posy.

I’ll show you how I made these in the video below. Which do you like better, the diagonal or the horizontal grouping of hearts?

Tips & Instructions

• Gorgeous Grape Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Purple Posy Layer - 5 1/4 x 4, adhere to card base

• Piece of Gorgeous Grape - cut with Detailed Hearts Die, cut piece you want, diagonal or horizontal and adhere to card

• Scrap of Whisper White - Stamp frame and sentiment with Gorgeous Grape Ink and punch with Story Label Punch and adhere to card with Dimensionals

• Adhere hearts randomly

• Add Wink Of Stella to solid hearts

You can used different parts of the die by cutting it. The one above was a diagonal grouping of hearts and the one below is a horizontal grouping of hearts.

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Pretty Happy Birthday Card

Isn’t this such a pretty card? I used the Best Dressed Designer Series Paper for the background which makes the card.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Layered With Kindness Stamp Set. I punched it out with the Label Me Lovely and Label Me Fancy Punches. These are going to be great punches to have on hand, they work so well together.

Tips & Instructions

• Blackberry Bliss Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Best Dressed Designer Series Paper - 5 1/4 x 4, adhere to card base

• Blackberry Bliss Strip - 1 x 4 1/4, adhere to card

• Scrap of Whisper White - Stamp sentiment with flourish with Mint Macaron and punch with Label Me Lovely Punch

• Using the Label Me Fancy Punch, punch slit on right side, thread piece of Mint Macaron ribbon and tie bow, adhere label to strip

• Scrap of Whisper White - Stamp sentiment with flourish with Blackberry Bliss and punch just the sentiment with the Label Me Fancy Punch, adhere over label using Dimensionals

• Add Pearls and Rhinestones randomly on card

On the inside, stamp sentiment from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set with Blackberry Bliss Ink. Stamp floral images with Mint Macaron Ink.

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Tropical Oasis Suite

Are you ready for some warmer weather? I’ve been up in NY for the holidays and can’t wait to get back to Florida where it’s warmer. This Tropical Oasis Suite it calling me!!!

The Designer Series Paper in this suite is so vibrant and gorgeous. I love the pineapple die and the Memories & More cards….you can do so much with them.

Here’s a look at what’s available in this suite!

These are some samples from Stampin’ Up! I can’t wait to get back to my craft room in Florida and start playing.

I can help you figure out what you want to order. Just email me patti@pspapercrafts.com or text me 845-803-1068 and I’ll get your order in, or click the Shop Now Button to order yourself.

From My Heart Suite

If you want to make some cute Valentine’s Day cards or sweet little treat holders, the From My Heart Suite is just what you need.

The video below will show you all the goodies in this suite.

Look at these great projects you can make. The heart punches will punch out some of the heart images on the Designer Series Paper.

Let me know if I can help you place an order for any of these products. You can email me patti@pspapercrafts.com or text me 845-803-1068. I’m happy to help.

Sale-A-Bration Begins Today!!!

Let the Sale-A-Bration Begin!!!

Stampin’ Up! has kicked off Sale-A-Bration. This means that for every $50 or $100 you spend, you get a FREE qualifying product from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. Click on the picture on the sidebar to view an online Brochure.

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Stampin’ Up! has also launched the 2020 Spring Mini Catalog!!!

This catalog has so many beautiful products that I think you will just love.  Some of my favorites are the Peaceful Poppies Suite, the Honey Bee Bundle and the Tropical Oasis Suite.  There are stamp sets for Valentine's Day, Easter, Father's Day and Mother's Day.  

Click on the catalog icon on the right to see an online catalog. I’ll be showing videos of these new products over the next week.

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I saved the best for last!!!  The very best deal is to purchase the Starter Kit.   The cost is $99 and you get:

• $125 worth of product, your choice

• Mini Paper Cutter6 x 6 Designer Series Paper sample

• Your Choice of Stamp Set (Host stamp sets and Sale-A-Bration stamp sets not included)

• Free Shipping

• 20% discount on future orders

• Access to team FaceBook pages, challenges, wonderful crafting community

  What's stopping you?  You can become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and just enjoy the discount and community or make it a business.  No pressure, just lots of fun!!!

Just click the JOIN Button at the top or email me to get more info. patti@pspapercrafts.com

Peaceful Poppies Suite

Don’t you just love Poppies? They are so pretty and are a remembrance symbol for veterans.

The Peaceful Poppies Suite delivers a ton of beautiful images, sentiments and coordinating products to create beautiful cards. Watch the video to find out more.

Tips & Instructions

• Basic Black Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Poppy Parade Layer - 5 3/8 x 4 1/8, adhere to card base

• Flirty Flamingo Layer - 5 1/4 x 4, cut bottom corner with die from Poppy Moments

• Stamp 3 poppies with Black Memento Ink on Poppy Parade Cardstock and cut with coordinating die, adhere to card

• Color outer edges of poppies with Dark Poppy Parade Blender Pen and color center with Wink Of Stella

• Stamp 3 leaves with Old Olive Ink on Old Olive Cardstock and cut with coordinating die

• Stamp sentiment with Black Memento Ink on Whisper White and cut with label die

• Adhere flowers and leaves as shown and the sentiment label using Dimensionals

The card above is a sympathy card and the one below is a birthday card. I love the mixed fonts on the sentiments.

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Beautiful Poppies & Blackberry Bliss

The Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper is just gorgeous! And to pair it with Blackberry Bliss, amazing!!!

The colors are so rich in this Designer Series Paper. When I was in Israel last March, there were poppies everywhere and I loved seeing them.

There are two stamp sets in this suite that go great together.

Tips & Instructions

• Blackberry Bliss Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper - 5 1/4 x 4, adhere to card base

• 3/4 x 4 Whisper White Strip - stamp sentiment with Blackberry Bliss Ink and punch each end with Banner Triple Punch

• Adhere sentiment label to card with Dimensionals

• Adhere some Rhinestones randomly on the card

On the inside stamp sentiment with Blackberry Bliss Ink and flower with Black Memento Ink. Color flower with Blackberry Bliss and Old Olive Stampin’ Blend Markers.

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Sketch Saturday - Heart to Heart

Christmas is over, time for Valentine’s Day and the Heart to Heart Stamp Set is just perfect!

Here’s the sketch I found on Pinterest for this week’s Sketch Saturday card.

Tips & Instructions

• Real Red Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Flirty Flamingo Layer - 5 1/4 x 4

• From My Heart Designer Series Paper Strip - 1 1/2 x 4, adhere to Flirty Flamingo Layer

• Wrap Ribbon and Baker’s Twine around layer and adhere in the back, then adhere layer to card base

• Cut heart from Real Red Cardstock and Designer Series Paper using the Be Mine Stitched Dies

• Stamp sentiment on 1/2” strip of Whisper White and punch both ends with the Banner Triple Punch

• Adhere hearts and sentiment using Dimensionals

• Tie bow with Baker’s Twine and adhere with Mini Glue Dot

• Adhere From My Heart Faceted Gems

On the inside stamp sentiment and heart image with Real Red Ink.

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Sketch Saturday - Dressed To Impress

Isn’t this a fun card? Be as bold as your lipstick! I love that!

I found this sketch on Pinterest. I just search on card sketches and find tons of them out there. I love that crafters share their ideas.

The Dressed to Impress Stamp set is really fun. I love the images and the sentiments. There’s a whole suite that goes with this stamp set that you can purchase beginning January 3, 2019. Let me know if you want a catalog.

Tips & Instructions

• Lovely Lipstick Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Whisper White Layer - 3 1/2 x 4

• Best Dressed Designer Series Paper 2 x 5 1/2, punch banner on one end with Banner Triple Punch and cut to size you want

• Whisper White Circle - cut with largest Layering Circles Die

• Stamp sentiment on circle with Lovely Lipstick Ink and lipstick with Black Memento Ink.

• Color lipstick with Lovely Lipstick and Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blends and color the lipstick end with Wink Of Stella

• Adhere layers to card base using Dimensionals on the circle

• Color Metallic Edged Ribbon with Lovely Lipstick Stampin’ Blends and make a bow, adhere with Mini Glue Dot

• Add some From My Heart Gems

I didn’t put a sentiment on the inside because I want to write a personal note. I couldn’t leave it blank thought so I cut a strip of the Designer Series Paper and adhered it along the side.

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Masculine Birthday Card using the Mountain Air Bundle

I am loving this bundle. You can create beautiful mountain scenes which is great for guy cards.

I have so much to share with you about this bundle so watch the video and get all the details.

Bet you can’t wait to get this one. It will be available starting January 3, 2019 during our Mini Catalog launch.

Tips & Instructions

• Early Espresso Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4 (horizontal, top folding)

• Whisper White Layer - 5 1/4 x 4, lightly sponge top part using a Sponge Brayer and Balmy Blue Ink.

• Sahara Sand Layer - 5 1/4 x about 3 1/2, stamp trees and cut with coordinating die as shown on the video. Cut the length to fit the area as you layer.

• Tropical Oasis Designer Series Paper - cut mountains

• Mossy Meadow Cardstock - back piece with Adhesive Sheet and then cut 2 trees

• Scrap of Whisper White - stamp moon (stamp off first) with Smoky Slate Ink and punch with 1” Circle Punch

• Scrap of Whisper White - stamp sentiment (from Peaceful Moments) with Early Espresso Ink and punch with Label Me Fancy Punch. Punch the slits on both ends.

• Place all your pieces on card to get placement and stamp birds with Pacific Point Ink

• Adhere layers and trees to card base and adhere moon using a Dimensional

• Feed piece of Braided Burlap Trim through label and adhere to card using Dimensionals

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Mountain Air - Simple Hello Card

This tree is my favorite die in this bundle. There’s something about it that I just love; it’s simple and delicate.

The stamps in this set are reversible, meaning you can stamp on both sides. It’s really cool. One side has the detail and the other provides a background shadow. The dies can be used along with the stamps or on their own. This is such a versatile bundle.

You can order this from the new 2020 Mini-Catalog starting January 3, 2019.

Tips & Instructions

• Mossy Meadow Card Base - 4 1/4 x 11, score 5 1/2 (top folding)

• Whisper White Layer - 5 1/4 x 4

• Nested Stitched Label cut from Whisper White Cardstock

• Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper - cut tree from green paper and adhere to label

• Stamp tree images with Mossy Meadow Ink on white layer, stamping as second time before re-inking

• Stamp hello sentiment (from Timeless Tropical Stamp Set)

• Adhere layer to card base

• Adhere label with tree to card using Dimensionals

On the inside stamp the trees in the bottom corner. I didn’t put a sentiment inside; I’m not sure who I will give this card to and what I want to write.

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Sketch Saturday - Honey Bee

I’m starting to play with the new products from the 2020 Mini Catalog and this is one of my favorites…so far! I thought of a beehive when I saw the sketch and went to work with the new Honey Bee products.

This is the sketch I used for a challenge from Splitcoaststampers.

The Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper is absolutely gorgeous. Its FREE during Sale-A-Bration! It’s black, white and gold foil. The Honey Bee Dies will cut some of the bee images….love that! If you purchase the bundle and some cardstock and you can get this paper for free starting January 3.

Tips & Instructions

• Basic Black Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Whisper White Layer 5 1/4 x 4, stamp sentiment with Black Memento and adhere to card base

• Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper 4 1/4 x about 3. Find an object to use to trace an oval and cut it. I used the top to a casserole dish. Do the same with a piece of Basic Black.

• Adhere the Designer Series Paper over the Basic Black leaving a very small edge of black and then adhere to the card

• Cut the bees from the Designer Series Paper using the coordinating dies and adhere using Dimensionals

On the inside, stamp sentiment with Black Memento Ink and cut another bee and adhere to bottom corner.

If you want any of the products I used on this project, just click on the item below or the Shop Now button and it will bring you to my Online Store. Please use the current Host Code when you go to checkout your order. You can also click directly on an item to order. 

Seaside Notions Birthday Card

This was a fun card to make and can be sent to just about anyone, a guy, a gal or a kid! The Seaside Notions Stamp Set has such great images.

Watch my video to see how I made that background. It was easy to do with an embossing folder and an ink pad.

Tips & Techniques

• Night Of Navy Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

• Balmy Blue Layer - 5 1/4 x 4, emboss with Hammered Metal 3D Embossing Folder (be sure to use the Embossing Plate with it)

• Lightly drag a Night Of Navy Ink Pad over the back (debossed side) of the embossed layer to ink just the high points of the layer

• Night Of Navy - cut with largest Stitched Nested Label Die

• Whisper White - cut with 2nd largest Stitched Nested Label Die, stamp sentiment with Night Of Navy, seahorse with Crumb Cake and seaweed with Granny Apple Green Inks and adhere to navy label

• Adhere label to card with Dimensionals

Here’s the inside I made after the video :) I stamped the sentiment and bubbles with Night Of Navy Ink and the shells and sand dollar with Gray Granite, Crumb Cake and Smoky Slate Inks.

If you want any of the products I used on this project, just click on the item below or the Shop Now button and it will bring you to my Online Store. Please use the current Host Code when you go to checkout your order. You can also click directly on an item to order.