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Season of Chic

September 11, 2023

If you’re looking for a stamp set with dies that’s good for every season, look no further than Season of Chic Stamp Set and Chic Dies. This combo has stamps and dies for Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

Amazing Beyond Measure

My Team is called the Red White and Blue Stampers, and they are all Amazing Beyond Measure. I made these cards to send to them. On our bi-weekly Zoom, I demonstrated how to make the stamped leaf using our watercolor pencils and water painter. I also demonstrated some bow making tips, so this card was perfect to send to them, as it incorporated both!

Season of Chic

With seven sentiments and images for four seasons, Season of Chic is a very versatile Stamp Set.

Chic Dies

This set has dies to cut out the stamped images from Season of Chic, but also dies to cut out details to layer on those images and other coordinating detailed dies.

How It’s Made

Cut Cajun Craze cardstock to 5 ½ x 8 ½ and score at 4 ¼ on the long side. Fold for card base.
Cut a 4 ¼ x 5 ½ panel of Very Vanilla. Cut a piece of scrap paper to 4 ¼ x 5 ½. Cut out the center of scrap paper using the fifth largest Deckled Rectangle Die.
Layer scrap paper (with deckled hole in center) over vanilla panel and secure together (I used a paper clip on the edge). Holding the scrap paper securely, use Blending Brush and Crushed Curry Ink Pad to add color to vanilla panel through the scrap paper’s hole. Remove scrap paper and discard or save for another project. Stamp sentiment on Vanilla panel with Cajun Craze ink.
Cut Very Vanilla panel (with blended center) with largest die from Deckled Rectangles Dies. Attach to card base.
Cut a detailed leaf from Cajun Craze cardstock scrap. Attach to card with glue.
Stamp leaf in Cajun Craze on Watercolor Paper. Color center of leaf with Pumpkin Pie Watercolor Pencil and outer edges with Daffodil Delight Watercolor Pencil. Use Water Painter to blend colors. Cut with coordinating die and attach to card with Dimensionals.
Add a small linen thread bow to leaf with mini glue dot. Color three small rhinestones with Dark Pumpkin Pie Blend and adhere to card.

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Two-Tone Flora Cut Out

August 21, 2023

At one of my recent classes, we made this pretty Two-Tone Flora Cut Out card. Class members all had the same supplies, but they were given options. They had different sentiments to choose from, they could make their card horizontal or vertical, and they could choose whether or not to emboss the back white layer.

Every one of their cards turned out beautifully!

How We Made It

Before class, I cut a piece of scrap cardstock the same size as their Basic White panel with the die from Something Fancy centered. They could then lay this template over their white panel so see where to stamp their Sentiment.

Next, we moved the template and added the large flower (two-step with Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape) and two sets of leaves (Garden Green) to the white panel. We also stamped the smaller flower and another set of leaves onto a scrap of Basic White cardstock and cut them out with the coordinating dies. The flower centers were colored with the Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Write Marker.

We cut our stamped white panel with the Something Fancy Die and chose whether or not to emboss the outer piece of the white panel.

The white panel was then adhered to a Gorgeous Grape card base and the Die Cut was adhered back in its original place with Dimensionals which allowed the purple to peek around the edges.

Finally, we added the die cut flower and leaves and Rhinestone Basic Jewels colored with the Dark Highland Heather Blend.

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Free Video Tutorials with Purchase

April 5, 2023

We made three great projects in March Stamp Club. It’s great fun and the class is FREE with purchase. Several people have asked for directions for these projects, so I thought I’d share these Free Video Tutorials with you!

Place an order of $50 or more during April 2023 and receive both Project Sheets (complete list of supplies and measurements) and Video Tutorials for all three projects sent directly to your inbox.

Lighting the Way Tea Light Lantern

In this video, I’ll show you how to use vellum to create a lantern that really lights up!

Irresistible Blooms Watercolor

I’ll show you how to watercolor using the ink from your stamped image in this video.

Textured Chic Suite DSP

We’re using Designer Series Paper strips to create a frame on this card.

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Lighting The Way Bundle (English)

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Lighting The Way Bundle (English)

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Hello, Irresistible Suite Collection (English)

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Irresistible Blooms Bundle (English)

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Texture Chic Suite Collection (English)

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Season Of Chic Bundle (English)

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