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Tag: Teeny Tiny Wishes

  • Orchard Harvest Thinking of You Card

    Orchard Harvest was one of those designer papers that I loved as soon as I saw it in the catalog and so I had to get some.  But then my fear of using things up kicked in and I just looked at it and couldn’t bring myself to cut it up.

    Well… as I look at my box of retired designer papers that I also couldn’t bear to use up… I am trying to get better and actually enjoy the papers and share them with others. 🙂  So, here is the first step – a fun fall card!

     

    I tried to mix up a few textures and dimension with this card.  We have the patterned paper, embossed Lucky Limeade paper using the Stripes embossing folder, some Stitched Satin ribbon, and then the smallest sized Labels framelit for the sentiment.

    I have to admit though, my favorite thing about this card is that I used the colors that were found in the Orchard Harvest paper to pick the other elements of the card.  And so because of that, I discovered that More Mustard and Raspberry Ripple can actually go together!  I would never have thought those colors could go together but they totally do!

     

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    Orchard Harvest Card Recipe
    Stamps:     Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink: Early Espresso, More Mustard
    Paper: More Mustard, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White, Orchard Harvest dsp
    Accessories: Big Shot, Labels Framelit, Stripes embossing folder, Sponge Daubers, Basic Rhinestones, Stitched Satin Ribbon (Raspberry Ripple), Stampin’ Dimensionals

  • Peek-a-boo Emboss Resist with Raining Flowers

    Oops, I was so focused on getting the first week of my 12 weeks of Christmas newsletter ready that I totally got behind and forgot to get this post up! Well, I’m fixing that now.  (and if you want to get exclusive holiday ideas sent to your inbox, just make sure you are on my mailing list and you will be all set!  And can I just say I LOVE the first project…. soooo elegant. Smile)

    This is another fun idea for how to use your clear embossing powders.  I don’t know what the “official” name for this technique is called – so I’m going to call it Peek-a-boo Emboss Resist.

     

    imageTo get this effect, you want to find some fun pattern of designer paper and stamp your SOLID stamp image (like this flower from the Raining Flowers stamp set) onto the paper with Versamark ink.  Cover with clear embossing powder and heat with your heat gun.

    Now, use your brayer to run a dark color over your designer paper until you can’t see the paper’s pattern any more.  The embossed areas will resist the ink (you can take a tissue and wipe off any extra ink that is trying to stick around).  So, your pattern will show through the inked area and “peek-a-boo” through!

    I will say, the hardest part is picking what pattern to show under your stamped image… at least for me. Smile  I had to hold up paper patterns and stamp images to my mom to decide what to try out for this card and so, thanks to her for this card!

    This was one of the cards we made for my Awesome Embossing class.  I’m thinking of putting this class together as an online class.  So, let me know if you would like to see this as an online class and I’ll make sure to put it together to share!

     

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    Raining Flowers Emboss Resist Card Recipe
    Stamps:     Raining Flowers, Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink: Island Indigo, Versamark
    Paper: Whisper White, Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight, River Rock cardstock, Summer Smooches designer series paper
    Accessories: heat gun, clear embossing powder, embossing buddy, modern label punch, word window punch, mini silver brads, paper piercer, brayer

  • Scentsational Gingerbread Man Christmas Card

    Last night was the monthly team meeting for my group of fabulous Fun n’ Crafty folks on my Stampin’ Up! team.  I love having the chance to chat and stamp with some amazing crafters from across the US!  If you have been thinking of joining Stampin’ Up!, I’d love to have you join our fun group!

    Well, I wanted to share some stamping tips and ideas and so I put together this card to share.  Its one of my first playings with the new Scentsational Season stamp set.

    Now this Gingerbread man begs to be used with the oh so yummy Sugar and Spice scented embossing powder.  Oh man, I love opening that jar of embossing powder. 🙂

    Anyway, the point of this card was to show how you can do embossing with a colored image without needing to stamp first in the color and then use the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up your image in versamark.  Yes, that way totally works, but I’m lazy sometimes.  So, I showed how you can do the following steps to some great embossing:

    1. Ink your stamp using Versamark ink
    2. Ink your stamp using your color of choice (notice that I didn’t say “stamp” in between step 1 and 2!)
    3. Stamp your image
    4. Sprinkle on your embossing powder
    5. Heat emboss and enjoy!

    Because the versamark is layered on first when you are inking up your stamp, that means it is exposed last when you stamp on your paper – so the versamark is the top layer of ink on your paper.  That makes the sticky Versamark available to grab and hold the embossing powder.

    I also thought I would show off some of the cool Core’dinations cardstock in Cherry Cobbler.  Its just a cute way to easily add some flair to your paper edges.

     

    Well, I hope you enjoyed this card and stamping idea!  If you have any questions about it or the benefits of becoming a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, just drop me a line and I’d love to chat!

     

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    Scentsational Christmas Card Recipe
    Stamps:     Scentsational Season, Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink: Soft Suede, Versamark, Cherry Cobbler
    Paper: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler Core’dinations cardstock, Festival of Prints designer series paper stack
    Accessories: Heat Tool, Sugar and Spice embossing powder, sponge dauber, stampin’ dimensionals

  • Merry Minis Clean & Simple Christmas Card

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    Ok, so I’m finally getting some of my favorite swap cards from convention photographed and edited to be able to share them with you.  (I know, I’m only a month behind the curve on this! 🙂 )  I love how I get a variety of style and design ideas from the super talented other ladies and guys I meet at Convention.

    In this case, I was super impressed by the simplicity of this card but it still packed a Wow! punch for me.  Get it… punch… ha ha.  Ok, I’m probably the only one laughing.  🙂  But I loved this idea for how to use the new Merry Minis punch pack.

    Card design by Kristen Little

    All you need is a Whisper White card base, wrap some Gumball Green stitched satin ribbon around the front (ps – starting tomorrow, you can get a spool of the stitched satin ribbon free with every $40 order), and add your die cut to the center.  To make the center piece, she cut out a piece of Whisper White paper using the Scallop Rectangle clearlit die for the Big Shot.  Then punch out three trees using the tree punch from the Merry Minis punch pack.  Add a piece of Gumball Green cardstock behind the punched shapes and top each tree with a rhinestone.  Adhere to the front of your card and stamp your sentiment on the front and your are done!

    Easy peasy!

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    Merry Minis Christmas Card Recipe
    Stamps:     Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink: Gumball Green
    Paper: Whisper White, Gumball Green
    Accessories: Basic Rhinestones, Big Shot, Scallop Rectangle clearlit, Merry Minis punch pack, Gumball Green stitched satin ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals

  • Scallop Edged Reason to Smile

    As I was working on cards for this month, I decided to grab my new Reason to Smile stamp set and start playing around again.  I was inspired by how the edgelits were used in the latest catalog and some ribbon I had on my shelf and found this new-to-me color combination:  Early Espresso, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, and River Rock.  LOVE!

    I love how this card looks in real life and so I decided to use it, not only for my class on Friday, but this will be one of the cards in this month’s Cards to Go program. 

     

    I’ll admit, this is my first time breaking out my scalloped edgelits.  However, I love the subtle lacy look they give the bottom of this card.  I also, started out without the extra layer of Whisper White (with the 3 flower images) and had a single flower image on the White cardstock below.  But it just needed something and after playing around with a scrap piece of paper, I thought the sponged edge gave the card an interesting look.

    I wanted to leave you with one last tip about ordering your Reason to Smile stamp set (for only $5!).  If you are shopping online, you will need to look in the special offers box to add it to your order.  So, make sure you have selected $50 in product into your shopping cart and then you should see a link to select whether you want to add in the Reason to smile stamp set and in wood or clear mount.

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    Reason to Smile Edgelits Card Recipe
    Stamps: Reason to Smile, Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink: Calypso Coral marker, Lucky Limeade marker, Early Espresso, Soft Suede
    Paper: Whisper White, River Rock, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade
    Accessories: Big Shot, Adorning Accents edgelits, Early Espresso stitched grosgrain ribbon, sponge daubers

  • Reason To Smile for only $5!

     

    It’s a new month and for July, Stampin’ Up! has a new promotion starting up.  For July only, you can get the Reason to Smile stamp set for only $5 with a $50 purchase.  This set is only available this month and with 3 different flower images to do 2-step stamping with, there are lots of project options.  For example, this is a card I made with it last night:

     

    I switched it up from using it in the traditional 2-step stamping style (stamping the outline and then laying in the filled colored image) and used the “background” images for the daisies on the left and then used the outlines for the images on the right.  And because I wanted to get a super bright coloring for the stemmed flowers, I ended up using my blender pens and ink pads to color them in.  For some reason, my markers on the “background” image for that flower were stamping darker than I wanted.  But, that is why we have multiple options for coloring stamped images, right?!

    So, just the details on this stamp set:

    –  It is only going to be available in July.  It won’t be in the catalog or available later.

    –  You can pick clear mount OR wood mount for $5 with your $50 order

    –  Only one stamp per order

    Check out all the images in this set in this flyer

    If you are ready to get it, shop the online store or let me know and I’ll get you hooked up!

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    Reason to Smile Just For You Card Recipe
    Stamps: Reason to Smile, Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink: Stazon black, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, More Mustard
    Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight prints dsp
    Accessories: Blender Pen, Word Window punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig, stampin’ dimensionals, basic rhinestones

  • Happy Father’s Day Card

    In case you haven’t heard, today is Father’s Day. 🙂  I’m lucky enough to have my dad a short 90 minute drive away so this weekend the kids and I are headed to Bellingham to spend some time with him.  So, hopefully you are able to spend some quality time (or quality phone time) with some of the wonderful guys in your life.

    At a recent card class, I was able to get my Father’s Day cards done early by holding a Dads and Grads class.  This was one of the cards we created for it:

    I was inspired by a non-Stampin’ Up! card I saw on Splitcoast Stampers that had a cool vintage look.  So, I grabbed some of the new World’s Greatest designer series paper and a sponge wedge and got to work creating a vintage card for Dad.

    See, this just proves that you can use the Quint-Essential flower for a guy card too.  I used more “manly” colors – Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, and Midnight Muse for the flower and sponged the edges of the card and the Very Vanilla cardstock with Soft Suede.  And of course, gave it dimension by popping up the different layers with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

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    Quint-Essential Birthday Card Recipe
    Stamps:     Teeny Tiny Wishes, Quint-Essential Flower
    Ink: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, Midnight Muse
    Paper: Crumb Cake cs, Very Vanilla cs, Soft Suede cs, World’s Greatest dsp
    Accessories: 2 3/8” Scallop Circle punch, 1 3/4” Scallop Circle punch, 1” circle punch, sponge, Stampin’ Dimensionals

  • Betsy’s Blossom with Some Glitter and Bling!

    Every year, Stampin’ Up! holds an Artisan Award contest where demonstrators from across the US and Canada can send in their best work in the hopes to be select to win free product and a chance to be on the Stampin’ Up! design team for the next year. I sooo wanted to apply this year but having a baby that doesn’t go to bed until midnight and a toddler who is up by 8 didn’t give me as much time as I hoped to get the 5 cards, 3 scrapbook pages, and 2 3D projects done. So, I missed the deadline this year but that just means I can show you some of the projects I was experimenting with when I thought I might still enter. 🙂

     

    This was one of the first cards where I started playing with a bunch of my new goodies!  I had the new Besty’s Blossom stamp set and the new Gumball Green stitched satin ribbon highlighted in the card (get your sample of this ribbon in my ribbon share!).

    But then I took the big flower image and got a bit fancy with it!  I covered it with glitter but then decided I needed to accent the center, so I used my Boho Blossom punch to punch out a flower shape out of the center of a second stamped image of the flower.  I glued that to the center of the glittery flower and then added one of the new faceted buttons as the center point.

     

    It was hard to try to get a pic of the faceted button. 🙂

    I’ll be back tomorrow with more cards to share!

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    Glittery Betsy’s Blossom Card Recipe:

    Stamps: Betsy’s Blossom, Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green
    Paper: Textured Whisper White cs, Whisper white cs, Primrose Petals cs, Basic Grey cs
    Accessories: Big Shot Adhesive Sheets, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, 2 1/2” circle punch, Boho Blossom punch, Gumball Green Stitched Satin Ribbon, Faceted Buttons

  • An Everyday Enchantment Valentine

    Hopefully you had a chance to enjoy the blog tour earlier this week.  I loved playing with the new Sale-a-Bration items for my projects and so I reached for them again when I was working on a card for a long-distance workshop I have coming up.

    I was working within the constraints of what stamps, ink, and tools my hostess had; but since I was providing the paper and embellishments – I knew I really wanted to work in the Everyday Enchantment designer paper and Calypso Coral Organdy ribbon.

    I also was excited to use the Fun Flowers Bigz L die for the Big Shot. I don’t use mine nearly enough but I started playing with a Very Vanilla flower and thought it really went with the vintage look when I sponged the edges. Then I was told that the scallop circle punch from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack fit perfectly in the scallop circle from the Fun Flowers die, and that gave it just the right amount of Pop!

    This is one of those cards that looks complicated but is actually really easy to pull together.  So hopefully the girls getting together for the workshop will have a lot of fun making their own copies!

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    I’m happy to work with you to put together a long-distance workshop so that you can earn all your hostess benefits at your own convenience.  Email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com for more details!

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    Fun Flowers Valentine’s Day Card Recipe:
    Stamps:  French Foliage, Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink:  Crumb Cake, Early Espresso
    Paper: Everyday Enchantment designer paper**, Lucky Limeade cardstock, Very Vanilla cs, Calypso Coral cs
    Accessories:  Big Shot, Fun Flowers Bigz L die, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Adhesive Backed Pearls, 1/8” Calypso Coral Organdy ribbon**, Sponge Daubers

    ** FREE items as part of the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration promotion

  • Clean and Simple Fall Card

    What do you do when you stamp an image for a card and you decide it isn’t quite right for what you were doing?  I often find myself saving the image because “it’s a perfectly good image that will be great on another project” aka I’m a pack rat!  But, here is an example when I took a bunch of scraps (the image, the ribbon, the embossed cardstock, and the brown cardstock base) and put them together into a new card that actually works!

    I don’t think I would have come up with this layout on my own if I didn’t have the pieces lying around but now I’m so glad I did (plus I finally used up some of my scrap stash – yay!). So, back when I was stamping this image, I used the pine image from Lovely as a Tree and stamped the center tree with Always Artichoke ink, then before I cleaned my stamp, I stamped two more times (one on each side of the initial image) for the more faded images.  Other than that, it was just laying different pieces I had on hand and mounting it all on an Always Artichoke cardbase. 

    This would be a super quick card you could make yourself for any occasion.  Just swap out the colors or image and it could be holiday, birthday, sympathy, anything!  Who knows, maybe you have some perfect scraps lying around waiting to be put together like this. 

     

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    Thinking of You Tree Card Recipe:
    Stamps:      Lovely as a Tree, Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink:  Always Artichoke classic, Soft Suede classic
    Paper: Always Artichoke cardstock, Soft Suede cs, Whisper White cs,Crumb Cake cs
    Accessories:  So Saffron 5/8” Grosgrain ribbon, BigShot, Lattice embossing folder

  • Happy Halloween To You

    Well, the calendar says it’s October 31st and so that means it is officially Halloween!  And so whether today holds parties, trick-or-treating, pumpkins, or just hanging out at home; I wanted to wish you a happy and safe Halloween!

    For today’s card, I wanted to get some good time in with this Frightful Sight designer series paper.  See, this is one of those paper packs that I thought was super cute and just my style for Halloween – and then I let it sit on my shelf for months!  Can anyone relate to that?  (Please, someone say yes!)

    Anyway, I realized that Halloween was almost here and so I grabbed my paper and started playing around.  The basic layout of this card was from a sketch my mom shared with me years ago but I think it still holds up.  I sponged the edges of just about everything with Basic Grey ink to help give it a dirty/spooky feel and I especially love how it turned out on the cat.  The pumpkin was made by taking a 1” circle punch and punching out two circles.  I trimmed one down into an oval and then cut the second in half to glue behind the first “circle”.  I finished it off with some scrap Always Artichoke cardstock to make the stem.  Pop a few pieces up on dimensionals and add a Basic Grey corduroy button (currently available for a steal on the clearance rack) and there you go!

    So from our house to yours:

    Have a Spooky, Fun, and Happy Halloween!

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    Halloween Pumpkin Card Recipe:
    Stamps:      Teeny Tiny Wishes
    Ink:  Cajun Craze, Basic Grey, Basic Black marker
    Paper: Cajun Craze cardstock, Basic Grey cs, Whisper White cs,  Always Artichoke cs, Frightful Sight designer paper
    Accessories:  1” circle punch, Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, Basic Grey corduroy buttons, Sponge Daubers, Stampin’ Dimensionals

  • A Happy Halloween Owl!

    Halloween is almost here and since I’m so behind on posting, I wanted to hurry up and share a card I made this month using the holiday hostess set called Warmest of Wishes.  I normally don’t get halloween stamps but since this adorable trick or treating owl was a part of the set, I knew this year I had to make at least one Halloween card!

    Trick or Treat Halloween Owl

    I actually got the card layout idea from the October issue of Stampin’ Success (the free monthly magazine sent to all SU demos – see another fun perk of being a demo!)  But I had to play with it and add my own touches.  The trick or treat bag held by the owl is actually stamped in black on Pumpkin Pie cardstock and cut out to add some extra dimension and color.  And with the Rich Razzleberry designer button, I tied linen thread around the Pumpkin Pie ribbon and through the button holes to help gather the PP ribbon.  Then I just used glue dots to hold it in place. 

    This card was fun to make; I may just have to try it for other holidays too!

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