Quick & Easy Tuesdays

Hello! Welcome to another week of Quick and Easy. Today I'm sharing several cards I made with one of the new Memories & More suites from Stampin' Up!. I used the Colour Theory Pack. It includes over 70 double-sided cards in 3x4 and 4x6, plus some acetate sheets and sticker sheets. What's awesome about this line is that there are also several coordinating products (something Stampin' Up! does so well) that include paper, stamps, dies and embellishments.

Above is the first card. I simply used two of the 3x4 cards, some twine and one of the stickers from the kit. Quick & easy, right?! No stamping required!

For card two, I again used one of the included cards and some stickers, but then also stamped the sentiment with the coordinating stamp set - Colourful Seasons.To give the camera some dimension, I punched the white circle out with a 2" Circle Punch, glued that flat on the card base and then popped the rest up.

Card three builds on one of the printed cards. I simply cut one of the 4x6 cards down and stamped the sentiment on it. To add some dimension, I cut some cherry blossoms using the coordinating Thinlits, Seasonal Layers.

For card four, I created a shaker card. Did you see that one coming when I told you above that the kit includes acetate sheets? ;) Again using one of the 4x6 cards (that happened to have a blank square on it), I carefully cut it and glued my acetate sheet to it. The snowflakes are cut from the same Thinlits as above - you get 17 dies in that set! Not only did I add a few of the snowflakes in the shaker compartment, but I also layered them together on the front of the card.

Hope you liked today's samples... I feel a class coming soon with this kit. You really can do so much with it. I've only begun to explore (and used a mere 6 pieces from it!).

Until next time, stay crafty!
Steph

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Gingerbread Cookies!

Here's another post using my favourite new bundle in the upcoming Holiday Catalogue (available September 1st!). As promised in yesterday's post, I'm sharing some projects with you all week using this awesome new bundle. ;)

Clearly I didn't make a card... but a little home decor piece with some new DSP (a new 6x6 Paper Stack!) and some Crumb Cake punched Gingerbread people. I opted not to use the stamp for this one, just the punch and then "iced" them up using a White Gel Pen. I wanted them to look like traditional cookies and was inspired by the real cookies over at Gimme Some Oven.

I wrapped them around one of my LED flickering candles & I think these would look so pretty as part of my Christmas/Winter decor - imagine the reindeer, Santa, bear & Eskimo too. Super cute!!

 

By-the-way, did I mention there was a Fall/Halloween set for this punch also? ;) More on that another day... ;)

Until next time, stay crafty!
Steph


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Punched Snowman

Happy Wednesday! Sorry I missed ya on Monday, I was busy eating turkey and celebrating with my family (Canadian Thanksgiving). Today I've got another quickie project for you. One you can easily make during your busy week. Check it out:

The snowman was created with circle punches and the hat was made with a square punch. Quick and easy! You could leave the snowman as is, but I opted for a little stamping, using the Holly Jolly Greetings set. I really love this set because it's a nice mix of images and text. I also used "jolly" and "peace" from the same set to create a couple of banners. The "Merry Christmas" is from the stamp set Petite Pairs.

I adhered my snowman on some Home for Christmas DSP and then mounted that on some Silver Foil and Basic Black mats. Before adhering that down, I ran my card layer through the Big Shot using the Softly Falling TIEF. This one gives such lovely texture!

On the inside, I added a few more tiny snowflakes and punched stars... and a little room for writing. ;)

Until next time, stay crafty!
Steph

Crumb Cake & Gold

Happy "hump day"! Hope you're having a great week so far. Today's post is a quickie... a card you can make in under 10 minutes.

For this card, I used one stamp set - Flurry of Wishes - as it has both images and sentiments. Love that! I started with a Crumb Cake base, stamping my snowflake image in the same colour. On a scrap of Very Vanilla, I heat embossed the double snowflake image twice and one of the sentiments in gold. The snowflakes were punched using the coordinating punch and the sentiment was cut using the Circle Framelits and then matted on some Gold Foil with the 1-3/4" Circle Punch. Before popping up my sentiment, I added a couple strips of Washi Tape.

On the inside, I kept the same feel with the stamped snowflake & Washi and then popped up that last snowflake. This will be one of three designs we'll be making at one of my upcoming classes. ;)

Until next time, stay crafty!
Steph

Revamping

Happy Friday!! Are you excited for the weekend? I plan to be in my studio working away, preparing for my upcoming classes and shows! I wrote a while back about how I came across a bin full of last years card kits and other goodies and this was one kit I revamped for this years' selection. The DSP is now retired, but it works well with some of this years' Holiday Catalogue product. Plus, you can easily adapt the layout for any paper or product. Check it out...

All the images are from the awesome Flurry of Wishes stamp set. It coordinates beautifully with two punches, one of which can be bundled to save yourself an extra 15%!

I started by stamping a snowflake in a similar colour tone on my card base and then layered by two DSP pieces (3" x 4", I believe) on top. Before doing that though, I punched all the corners with the Curvy Corner Trio Punch - so versatile!

It's hard to tell in the photo, but there are four snowflakes that are both heat embossed and punched using the snowflake punch. The best part about this is that the two snowflakes line up perfectly for the double-snowflake punch!

The sentiment is from the same set and punched out with the Note Tag Punch and then accented with a bow and tiny wooden snowflake.

Until next time, stay crafty!
Steph