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Under the Moon Quick & Easy

July 24, 2024

In each month’s class, we make a Quick & Easy card. This month, we used the Under the Moon stamp set. This stamp set has images, but no words, so we used the Simply Said stamp set for our greeting.

Under the Moon Stamp Set

With this stamp set, you can build your own scene. If you click on the image above, you can see other cards made with the set. My card is called a SIP card because it’s only Stamps, Inks and Papers. We didn’t use any dies, punches or special tools for this one.

Simply Said Stamp Set

This is a great greeting set with ten different sayings in two different fonts – a little something for everything. You can see several samples using this set by clicking on the picture above.

Under the Moon Quick & Easy

How It’s Made

Cut 5 ½” x 8 ½” Balmy Blue cardstock. Score at 4 ¼” on the long side and fold for cardbase.
Cut 4” x 5 ¼” Night of Navy panel. Adhere to front of cardbase.
Cut 3 ¾” x 5” Basic White panel. Stamp sunset in Daffodil Delight just above center of white panel. Stamp water in Balmy Blue aligning top of stamp with bottom of sunset. Stamp sailboat in Night of Navy.
Tie a knot in a doubled piece of Linen Thread, wrap across the lower left corner of the white panel and secure with Stampin’ Seal on the back. Attach white panel to Night of Navy panel on cardfront.
Cut 5/8” x 3” strip of Basic White and ½” x 3” strip of Night of Navy. Stamp greeting on white strip in Night of Navy and attach to navy strip with Multipurpose Glue. Adhere to card with Dimensionals.
Cut 4” x 5 ¼” panel of Basic White for inside of card. Stamp partial water in lower right corner in Balmy Blue and dolphin in Night of Navy. Adhere to inside of cardbase.

The Inside

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Artistic Mix Decorative Masks

July 23, 2023

If you have not crafted with the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks, then you must give them a try! These Masks will help you create advanced designs and add a wow factor to all your cards.

Gold Medals!!

If you saw my last post, you know that my husband, Steve, took his mother to bowl in the Senior Olympics in Pittsburgh last week.

My Mother-in-law, Bev (90), and her friend, Rose (94), earned Gold medals in the Doubles event. What an amazing achievement!

Artistic Mix Decorative Masks

The Artistic Mix Decorative Masks set includes stencils with stripe and tile patterns that you can place singly or together; you can layer the masks to create advanced designs, such as checkered, Moroccan, and more.

Try creating textured backgrounds with the masks and our Embossing Paste. The masks are versatile enough for crafting all year long and for many occasions and you can pair with your favorite stamp sets for even more versatility.

Artistic Mix with Quiet Meadow

Here’s one idea to try.

Measurements:

Mossy Meadow: 8 ½” x 5 ½”, ¼” x 5” (x2), ¼” x 2”
Basic White: 5” x 3 ¾”, 2” x 5”, ½” x 2”

Instructions:

Fold Mossy Meadow card stock in half and score to create card base.
Lay Artistic Mix mask on top of Basic White layer and secure in place (using, for example, washi tape).
Ink Blending Brush using Copper Clay ink and apply ink over mask in a circular motion. Remove mask and adhere layer to card front.
Ink flower image using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and stamp onto smaller Basic White layer. Color using Mossy Meadow and Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends.
Ink phrase using Copper Clay ink and stamp onto Basic White strip. Adhere Mossy Meadow strip under phrase using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
Adhere 2 Mossy Meadow strips under flower layer and then adhere to the card front.
Adhere phrase layer to card front above flower.
Add 3 Copper Clay dots to card front to complete card.

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Layering Leaves in Petal Pink

July 18, 2023

Today I’m showing you a variation of a card we are making in Stamp Club this month. I had some pretty foil DSP I wanted to use, and I had the stamps out, so I decided to make a card using Layering Leaves in Petal Pink.

Weeds or Wildflowers?

My husband took his 90-year-old mother to Pittsburg, PA to bowl in the Senior Olympics this week. They left a week ago today, and we’d just returned from our camping trip to the Smoky Mountains, so our yard did not get mowed before he left.

I looked out one day and all those tall spindly weeds had bloomed into pretty little yellow wildflowers. Steve always keeps the yard nicely mowed, so they’d never had the chance to bloom before. Steve is on his way home, so I know they’ll be gone by tonight or tomorrow, but they were kinda pretty for a couple of days.

Layering Leaves in Petal Pink

My card uses the Layering Leaves Stamp Set and the coordinating Bough Punch. You’ll also find step-by-step instructions below.

Instructions:

Cut a piece of Petal Pink cardstock 5 ½” x 8 1/2”. Score at 4 1/4” and fold for card base.
Cut a panel of Basic White 4”x5 ¼”. Stamp sprinkles across panel using Petal Pink ink, then emboss panel with Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder. Attach to card base.
Cut a ½”x4” strip of Brushed Metallic Specialty DSP and attach across white embossed panel.
Stamp greeting in Petal Pink ink on white scrap and cut with Something Fancy die. Adhere to DSP strip with single Dimensional.
Stamp solid leaves and outline leaves on white scraps with Granny Apple Green ink. Color outline leaves with filler stamp in Soft Sea Foam and punch with coordinating Bough Punch.
Stamp flowers in Petal Pink on white scrap and punch with Bough Punch. Attach leaves and flowers to card with glue, tucking them under the sentiment.

Embellish with rhinestones colored with Calypso Coral Blends.

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