If you've been following me here, thank you so much! I appreciate that. I've moved to another website, with my own domain https://cottagelanestamper.com
There I will not only have my blog, but a store where I will be selling my completed cards, crafts and retired card making supplies. There is also a link to my Stampin' Up!© website. I hope you will check it out!
Sharon
What is Stampin' Surprise Saturday you ask? Well, the 1st Saturday of the month we get together, via Zoom. I love being able to craft with my friends near and far, no matter the weather. There is not a class fee. When you have signed up, by the previous Sunday, I will send out a list of supplies needed & the Zoom link on Monday. You have a week to gather your supplies together, cut and score etc. and then we meet on Zoom that next Saturday. You choose your colors, embellishments, DSP, stamp sets etc. I will give a suggestion as to what I'm using and when get meet on Zoom, we put them together.
Today's Stampin' Surprise Saturday is a fun fold. I love to do fun folds for Saturdays, because stamping and Saturdays should be fun!!!! And the surprise is you don't know what your card will look like when you are done.
I love this fun fold. Is it because I'm Dutch? Maybe..... or because I always loved the doors that opened on the top and the bottom stayed closed? Do I love those because I'm Dutch? Maybe.... LOL.
The label for the sentiment is cut from Stitched So Sweetly #151690. I used a 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" reverse side of the DSP, from the clouds, and cut a frame using the same die. Then used it as a background. The die cut piece I cut in half and used it on the bottom, just for a little sumpin, sumpin. Waste not, want not.
Here's a few photos on how it was made:
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Hope you'll join me next month for Stampin' Surprise Saturday! Check my calendar of events on my Stampin' Up!© website for the next Stampin' Up! Saturday as well as my other in person and virtual events: https://sharonbrennan.stampinup.net
Thank you for taking time out of your day to spend with me. I hope you enjoyed this project. If you did, please subscribe and share.
Happy stamping!
Sharon
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I absolutely love the papers in the Hydrangea Haven Suite! I love Hydrangea and last year, when I saw our HOA was replacing our bedraggled shrubs with new planting and some of them were Hydrangeas I was thrilled. Well the thrill didn't last long because the people across the street got Hydrangeas, and next to me, but in the little garden in front of my house I got some kind of Sedum. However, they did plant a Hydrangea behind my townhouse, by my deck, which I can't see unless I go down my steps and walk around the little deck wall to look at it. SIGH. I even thought about, secretly at night, switching the two around. But I knew that wasn't the right thing to do so I abandoned that thought.
I found this card on Pinterest by bluerosepapertreasures. I do like a lot of her work.
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| Hydrangea Haven stamp set #154470 |
I actually made this second card for last weeks "welcome back" class a while ago. It uses the Dandy Garden Memories & More Cards and Envelopes. It turns out this is a benefit to you! It is being retired and you can now get all the cards and envelopes for $5!!!!! That's a pretty good deal.
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I must admit when I saw the "Expressions In Ink" DSP I fell in love with the look of it. So beautiful with the melding of colors in a beautiful alcohol wash and then accented with the gold foiling! I hope I can bear to cut it up and not hoard it. LOL
I started to do a little poking around on YouTube and found a few demonstrators who showed how to do something similar with some rubbing alcohol, vellum, our Stampin' Blend markers, a paint brush and something to blow the alcohol around. I used an empty travel bottle
So yesterday, for my "Tuesdays At Two" Facebook Live, I demonstrated how to do this, using the things I had around the house.
You will need, at least, 91% rubbing alcohol. I had some 70% and it didn't work as well. I also used an empty travel bottle, that was fairly soft to squeeze, a pliable chopping mat from the Dollar Store, and an inexpensive paint brush. The paint brush I used had a fairly narrow brush, I would use one with a broad brush next time to apply more alcohol to the vellum.
Here's my video: (if it does not show up on your mobile device click here)
You want to use a strong adhesive, like Stampin' Seal+ to adhere the vellum to the cardstock, once you are done, because it does curl. And use the darker blend of the Stampin' Up!© Blender Pens.
The colors used in the video are Bermuda Bay and Granny Apple Green.
The pink and yellow card colors are Melon Mambo & Mango Melody.
I also made a couple other color combinations:
This one is Light Night of Navy and Gorgeous Grape.
And lastly, Granny Apple Green & Mango Melody.
Which is your favorite?
Non Stampin' Up!© supplies:
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| Granny Apple Green Combo #154885 |
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| Bermuda Bay Combo #154878 |
Thank you
for taking time out of your day to spend with me. I hope you enjoyed this
project. If you did, please subscribe and share.
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Not being organized makes me go in a tizzy! I like to be able to put my hands on a stamp set when I'm creating a card. Looking for a ...
