Here’s a Product Premier card to celebrate the Adoring Hearts Bundle in the new January – April 2024 Mini Catalog. The catalog launched toady, along with the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. You can see the catalog in the virtual download at the end of this post.
The Adoring Hearts Bundle features a photopolymer stamp set filled with mixed font sentiments and delicate floarl images. It’s pretty. Along with the stamp set, the Adoring Hearts Dies include a Hybrid Embossing Folder. The Embossing Folder can emboss and die cut at the same time. The embossed hearts produced from the folder are stunning. You can see the Adoring Hearts Bundle in use by watching the video below.
Card Parts & Pieces
The Boho Blue cardstock card base is 4 1/4″ x 11″.
The Basic White mat layer is 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″.
The Flight And Airy Designer Series Paper layer is 4″ x 5 1/4″.
I cut the Vellum strip 1 3/4″ x 4″.
The element cluster inclused die cuts from the Adoring Hearts and Hooray For Surprises dies.
My inspiration for this card came from the new Mini Catalog. The Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper is in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure and is free with a $50 product purchase.
This card design is easy. Once you have your card layers in place, the element cluster is constructed by working from the center of the card. Attach the vellum strip directly across the center of your card, and work from the center to assemble the rest. Try it with some products you already have.
Click the video link below and create this card along with me, and enjoy the Adoring Hearts Bundle.
You can click on the button below to download the PDF Tutorial for this caard. Enjoy your crafty time!
Here’s a look at the inside of the card. The writing layer is 3 3/4″ x 5″, and the patterned paper strip is 1/4″ x 4″. The sentiment is from the Adoring Hearts stamp set.
So, fall in love with the Adoring Hearts Bundle, cut and emboss two beautiful hearts, and send love to someone special.
Now that you’ve seen the amazing new products in the Mini Catalog, take a look at the Sale-A-Bration Brochure and get even more crafty inspiration. All of the products in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure are free with a qualifying product purchase.
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Now that you’ve had a chance to see both the Mini Catalog and the Sale-A-Bration Brochure, you can plan some of your personal card making projects for birthdays, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Weddings, and much more using inspiration from both catalogs and the products that inspire.
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I was doing more otganizing in my craft room yesterday and decided to take a break. The Regency Park Designer Series Paper happened to be on my workspace. I opened it, spread out the patterns, and my eye went to this design. Okay, this would be the start of my card. Because I wanted to showcase the pattern, I needed a simple something for my focal point. The Kind And Sincere stamp set was definitely the one.
The Question Is…
What do I do with these stamps? The font in the large “kind” stamp is so on trend now, I wanted to use it. Of course, the colors in the patterned paper gave me my color palette, so I stamped the images on some Basic White cardstock. Now what? I thought to cut a piece of Mango Melody cardstock and create off-set layers. I laid my design … It looked okay.
Not totally happy with the outsome, I looked at my Stitched Rectangle Dies which were right behind my Deckled Rectangle Dies. I chose the Deckled Rectangle Dies for a little more interest. My card still looked okay.
Do I embellish with a few gems, a ribbon, or a few stamped elements. The stamped flowers from the Petal Park stamp set were perfect. They coordinate with the Designer Series Paper beautifully! I should have known that from the start!
I scattered a few stamped Night of Navy and Calypso Coral flowers on my sentiment layers and I was very happy with the outcome.
I’m sharing this story with you today because I’m sure you’ve found yourself in the same situation. You want to stamp and cut paper. You want to create something new. But, sometimes you just don’t know how to get started.
My Advice
Start with one piece of the puzzle. My first piece in today’s card was the Designer Series Paper (which it usually is). Match some cardstock, create a focal point center and go from there.
Find an easy template, and make that your “go to”. The same applies to a fun card sketch. Keep both nearby on your workspace.
Trust me, you’d be amazed at what can evolve from there!
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It’s been one of those weeks! I was finding it hard to get my creative mojo going. When I experience this, I go to the catalog for inspiration. This time, I turned pages. With all the beautiful projects in the catalog, I was feeling nothing. This is unusual, but it happens. I’ve always been a fan of sketches. Over the years, I kept a binder of copied sketches. Rather than going down the internet rabbit hole, I looked through my card sketch binder. I found a sketch that is my inspiration today.
When I first saw the circle focal point, I imagined the teacup from the Tea Boutique Suite inside the circle. This is how it usually begins for me. It’s that little something that takes me exactly where I need to be. The rest of the card came together easily. I hope sharing my lack of inspiration story with you helps if you have one of those “lack of mojo” periods!
Today’s Card Pieces And Parts
There are a lot of pieces and parts that make up today’s card, but don’t let that stop you from trying it. It really is fun to piece it all together.
It starts with a Basic White A-2 card base and ends with a tiny Champagne Rhinestone.
I include everything in between in the PDF Tutorial you can download and print by clicking the button at the end of this post.
I also include a few Design Tips that are illustrated on this card.
So, download the PDF, start from the bottom, add one piece at a time, and create something with lots of layers!
Today’s post features a “stamps, paper and ink” card. For fun, I added some pretty Designer Series Paper. This is a fun card design and very easy to put together. I’ve used it before with a completely different set of elements. You can too!
Today’s Card Parts & Pieces
Cut a standard A-2 Basic White card base cut at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″. Score at 4 1/4″.
The Basic Black layer is 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″.
The patterned paper layer is 4″ x 5 1/4″.
The Basic Black center layer is 4 1/8″ x 2 7/8″.
The Basic White top layer is slightly smaller. It’s 4″ x 2 3/4″.
I used the Color & Contour stamp set for all the stamped images.
The flower is die cut with a matching die from the Scalloped Contours Dies.
Tuxedo Black Memento, Calypso Coral and Granny Apple Green ink are my color choices.
I stamped the leaf and ink splatter before I attached the flower.
I shade the center of the flower with a Light So Saffron Blend.
A Few Design Tips
If you cut the bottom offset layer slightly larger than the top, you’ll be able to angle your layers more evenly. It works!
Using a dark, thin layer under the patterned paper layer gives the patterned paper some dimension.
I added a Calypso Coral resin dot under the sentiment. Adding a little Calypso Coral to the top corner of the focal point layer gives the design color balance. It’s more appealing to the eye.
So, ink up a favorite stamp, add a few offset layers and a colorful resin dot and create something amazing!
Hello Friends! I Hope you’re enjoying your week. The weather here in NJ is crazy! We were at 70 degrees over the weekend and this morning, we were back in the 30’s. I’m ready for some warmer weather and more daylight. Looking forward to our Spring Ahead clock change this coming weekend. It’ll take a week or so to get used to our new clock, but the change is welcomed by me.
Here’s Today’s Stampin’ Story
I had this post ready to go. When I went to post my pictures, I notices the back of a Stampin’ Dimensional right in the middle of my Pale Papaya die cut. I took the pictures, added my watermark, brought them into my picture file and never noticed it! A picture re-take fixed all that and I’m off to a fresh start.
Card Pieces And Parts
Isn’t this Bundle fabulous? It’s the Artfully Layered Bundle on page 34 in the Mini Catalog.
Because I’m such a patterned paper fan, it was the coordinating Artfully Composed DSPthat originally caught my eye.
I relented and got the Bundle because I didn’t have anything like it in my stash. I’m happy I did. I’ve used it over and over.
This is a 5″ square card. The Basic White card layer is 5″ x 10″, scored at 5″.
I used one of the patterns in the Artfully Composed DSP. Since I wanted to add die cuts to this design, I needed a low profile background. This Calypso Coral, distressed design worked for a card front layer.
As I was putting the card together, I changed my design. The patterned paper distressing inspired me to add texture to it.
Now, I know this sounds “out there”, but I did it and, to me it looks great! Included in the Tropical Layers Dies are two “texture dies” . They pierce the paper so you can create a detailed, texture design.
I took one of the dies and colored the back with my White Chalk Marker before running it through my cutting machine.
It pierced the DSP and added more color to the already textured pattern. The die cut leaves are bold enough to work together with the texture.
I like the result. A small detail that added that extra something.
By the way, I cleaned my die with alcohol and a paper towel and it’s as good as new!
The Basic White layer is a 4″ square and the top patterned paper layer with the added texture is a 3 3/4″ square.
Tips & Tricks
I suppose you could say that chalking the back of a die is a tip and trick… it worked for this design.
I wanted to shadow cut the white embossed sentiment but my eyes aren’t what they used to be. This is a cling red rubber stamp. I used the backing on the stamp as a guide to fussy cut the embossed sentiment. Take a look at the photo below. So easy! I will save these little tools from now on.
So, add some fun texture to a distressed patterned paper, die cut some strong, bold elements, emboss a sentiment and create something square!
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