Very Simply Susan

This card was done as a challenge for a Demonstrator group.  We are a small group of Demonstrators who meet once a month, have dinner and talk shop. We set a theme for a card swap and we all leave with great new card ideas to share with customers! There is nothing better than having actual samples on hand for customers. I know myself, I get a much better idea of a stamp set or product when I see how it is used. The Stampin’ Up! catalog is great for all the samples showing those ideas, but an actual sample is something everyone always gets excited about seeing.

This month’s theme was birthdays. And being in “fall mode”, I had to do something with a fall theme as well as a birthday. Of course I waited until the last minute to do this card. And I wasn’t feeling very creative. So, I went through my Pinterest file of card layouts and found this square and rectangle design. I used the Come to Gather DSP. The Birthday sentiment is one I love from Beautiful You.

And while I love my leaves from the Gather Together stamp set in the Holiday Catalog, I wanted something like a Paper Pumpkin leaf we had a couple of years ago. This leaf from Seasonal Layers Dies was perfect! I embossed the Cajun Craze layer with Pinewood Planks 3D embossing folder. I also embossed all the Mint Macaron layers too, but that was a mistake. I don’t recommend an embossed layer under an embossed layer, but I went with it! It wasn’t a terrible mistake.  The Come to Gather Ribbon Combo pack was just the thing to dress it up. And this easy, simple card was done in no time!

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November comes and its all about the holidays…in hyper speed! And how much more holiday can you get than Perfectly Plaid? With the Wrapped in Plaid Specialty DSP and its gold highlights plus the beautiful Shaded Spruce and Gold Ribbon, this is holiday!

Today’s card was a challenge from a Demonstrator who had cut a lot of oval frames from Gold Foil paper using the Heirloom Frames Die. This left her with a lot of oval shapes from the middle of the die cut and lots of 4″X 5.25″ pieces with a big oval cut out of the middle. While we were at a crop, she gave me a piece and asked me to figure out something to do with it. And the card above is the result!

While the die cut out the oval frame she needed for a Stamp Camp perfectly fine, the leftover pieces had some cut marks that marred the gold foil. No problem! I embossed all those with the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder to add beautiful texture which covered up the cut marks. The Subtle 3D folder on the gold foils makes the paper look like true metal. And adding the texture had the added benefit of matching the texture in the ribbon! I am only sorry I couldn’t photograph it well enough to show how beautiful the textured foil looks with the Perfectly Plaid Paper.

After getting the gold foil pieces embossed,  it was a matter of placing the Perfectly Paid paper so the cut out oval did not show. For the small oval, a punched out tree was the obvious choice which was layered on a piece of Shaded Spruce that had been embossed with the retired Quilt Embossing Folder. I forgot that it was retired, but you could easily use the Tufted or the Tin Tile Embossing folders. The Winter Knit Embossing Folder would be a good choice too.

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Hey there Pumpkins! Happy Halloween! Its that spooky time of year! So, just eat drink and be scary today! ITs the one time of year you can get away with eating all the candy you want! This card was made just for the blog to wish everyone a very fun Halloween. Halloween is one of those holidays that you can just be silly and enjoy yourself. Who doesn’t like to dress up and pretend they are someone else?

This card was pretty fast and simple thanks to the Harvest Hellos stamp set and matching punch.The papers are from the Monster Bash DSP, one of Stampin’ Up’s! best Halloween paper sets ever! It features my two favorite patterns from the set. I just kept it simple with Pumpkin Pie as the focal color. I mean, what else would I use today?

I had stamped and punched out the leaves and stems stamped in black on Pumpkin Pie, but it did not have the pop I wanted. So, I just punched them out of Basics Black card stock and that gave me the pop I needed. The sentiment was die cut using an Ornate Frames die. And a few Monster Bash Enamel Shapes in black finished everything off.

Can you believe today is Halloween? This is kinda like the kick off for the big holiday season coming up! I can’t wait to start making more things for November and December! More fun on the way. And guess what? With this stamp set, I can go right into card making for Thanksgiving….not to mention teacher’s gifts and a get well card. This is one versatile set! Check out all the sentiments it has.

Enjoy your Halloween and have fun!

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