Cottage Lane Stamper

 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. For this card I used a base of Basic White, a background layer of Night of Navy and DSP from "Beauty of the Earth" ...

 Sometimes I right before I wake up I am inspired by an idea.  This morning was one of those mornings. Wouldn't a small bakery box be a cute gift idea for a cupcake?   So I asked my son if he would stop by the store and pick out the cupcake of his choice and I would use it for my idea.  Unfortunately, he was leaving for work in 30 minutes and we are down to one car.  His broke down during the blizzard last Wednesday on his way home, so he's using mine.  Well, not to be deterred, I decided to send in my grocery order that I had waiting and have my groceries delivered.  I wasn't able to order one of their gourmet cupcakes, but they did have these adorable mini cupcakes, so I added them to my list.  So my idea was revised. One day I may get one of the gourmet ones and make this box for a regular sized cupcake. This box was CASE'd, basically, from Stamping with Amore.  I just downsized her box, which was for 4 mini cupcakes.  If you'd l...

 I couldn't wait to create this card!    I've had the Red Velvet paper and the Plush Poinsettia vellum since this summer and as soon as I saw the dies from the Poinsettia Place Suite and the Red Velvet cardstock I knew I wanted to make poinsettias with it.  Love the rich feel of the flowers and plush vellum! As difficult as it looks it is a pretty simple card to make.  It's all die cutting and putting together with glue dots and Stampin' Seal! Your friends will think you spent a mint on this card! The Poinsettia die set has five different poinsettia dies in it!  I love that there are two sets of dies that are different sizes that cut and emboss, so they can be layered, as in this card.  There are also outline dies to die cut the other sheets of the Plush Vellum with the poinsettias and holly leaves.  The holly leaves also emboss!  And, and.... you can die cut the DSP poinsettias. We'll get into that more later on another video. ...

 After a few stumbles and technical difficulties we got off to our card making class.  The first one was for the more avid card maker.  The other two were a bit simpler.   I call the first card Harvest Hoop and I CASE'd it from Mary Deathrage It uses the DSP "Gilded Autumn" as a background layer and also to punch out leaves and acorns; Metallic Foil cardstock, linen thread, In Color enamel dots, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla cardstock to stamp additional images. We also used the stamps from the Beautiful Autumn stamp set and the bundled acorn, maple and oak leaf stamps.   Card #2 also uses the Gilded Autumn DSP.  I love the beautiful foiling on the paper.  The cardstock is Very Vanilla and Early Espresso.  We punched out leaves from another sheet of the DSP!  Love when we can use our dies and punches to cut out images from the DSP!  This card was CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) from Jaimie Barbarczy. The 3rd c...

 I must confess, when preparing for today's Facebook Live "Tuesdays At Ten" I didn't feel well and had no energy so almost cancelled.  But as I lay awake in bed Monday night I asked God for guidance, and He answered me.  I had volunteered to make cards for every family in our congregation to send out so we could still feel connected during these unsettling times during Covid19.  He reminded me that I had most of the preparation done.   The shipment of stunning Gold Foil cards & Gold envelopes, that I ordered, came a day earlier than expected - yesterday.  It wasn't supposed to arrive until today. It also came a day earlier than an order I had placed two days before this one.  Must have been God's intervention.  I had chosen this card off of Pinterest because it was simple in design and I could mass produce 35 to 50 of them in a short period of time.  It's CASE'd from Diane Dimich. Thank you Diane for your perfect idea! See how quickl...