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  • Eggplant and Gold Banner with Banner Blast

    Eggplant and Gold Banner with Banner Blast

    Right now, everyone is LOVING the Banner Blast stamp set and punch from the Sale-a-Bration catalog and so I wanted to sit down and play around with my supplies to see what I could come up with.  Turns out, it is really quick to come up with something cute and fun – this is what I came up with:

    Apparently, I had the University of Washington Huskies on the brain as I was inspired by Elegant Eggplant and had to pair it with Gold!  (Which just so happens to be the school colors.)  So, I picked out a few complimentary colors and started stamping and punching. 

    For the banners I ended up using:

    • Smoky Slate
    • Elegant Eggplant
    • Soft Suede
    • Wisteria Wonder
    • Crushed Curry

    Pretty combo, right?

    Each banner piece was popped up on a dimensional and then I tucked some of the Gold baker’s twine behind each one and then just tied a knot at the end for my banner string.  I love the subtle shine of the gold – for a girl who has always been about silver, I think gold is growing on me!

    Finally, I wanted to use the banner punch in a different way and so I used it to create the sentiment piece as well.  I cut a strip of cardstock that was the same width as the punch shape of the banner.  Then I could tuck in the ends to the punch…. yes, I realize I should have taken a picture to better explain this, so watch for a photo or video to come soon! – so that I could make the sentiment as long as I needed and have a banner point at each end.

    Oh, last note… isn’t this sentiment great?  I wanted to mention it because you may be like me and once Stampin’ Up switched the way they do hostess benefits and now they make it so that you can use your freebies on anything in the catalog…. I stopped paying much attention to the hostess stamp sets!  So, it is easy to overlook some of the great stamps in the back of the catalog!  This was one of the first stamps I got with hostess benefits and thought it deserved a little spotlight. Smile

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    Express Yourself – Hostess Stamp set

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    Virtual Stamp Club Hostess Code – BNDDMDVU
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    Stampin’ Up! Supplies Used
    Stamps – Express Yourself (hostess), Banner Blast (FREE with a $50 order)
    Ink – Smoky Slate, Elegant Eggplant, Soft Suede, Wisteria Wonder, Crushed Curry
    Paper – Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant
    Accessories – Big Shot, Decorative Dots embossing folder (FREE with a $50 order), Banner punch (FREE with a $50 order), Gold baker’s twine, corner rounder punch

  • A Little Bit of This and That for a Fun Thank You Card

    I have a “matchy-matchy” mind I’m learning.  When I have product kits or coordinating suites, I tend to make projects that use all the stuff from that one collection.  So, that makes today’s share a bit more impressive for me since I pretty much used a little bit of this and that of things lying around my craft table to create this fun thank you card for a friend.

    Greeting Card Kids Designer Brad thank you

     

    I was playing with a few of my favorite new things (the Oh Hello stamp set and Tea for Two designer paper), but then I wanted to give the new Designer Brads a try.

    I used my Pink Pirouette cardstock to make the small pink circle in the middle of the brad (you use the circle from the Itty Bitty Punch pack to easily punch this out).  Then I loosely formed a bow with the new Two Tone ribbon and then wrapped my designer brad around the center of the bow to pinch it together and make a cute accent.  The wrapping the brad tines around the bow did use up most of the metal from the brad tines, and so I ended up adhering my bow to my card with glue dots.

    But all together, it was fun putting this card together and hopefully my friend liked it. Smile

    And for those of you scrapbookers out there, stop by my blog tomorrow for another installment of Scrapbooking Sunday!  See you then!

     

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    Greeting Card Kids Thank You Recipe:
    Stamps:     Teeny Tiny Wishes, Oh Hello, Greeting Card Kids
    Ink: River Rock, Basic Grey, Pink Pirouette marker
    Paper: Whisper White cs, Pink Pirouette cs, River Rock cs, Tea For Two designer paper
    Accessories: Two-Tone Ribbon (Basic Grey), Designer Brads, Itty Bitty Punch pack, Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals