Cottage Lane Stamper

This month in class we did a product class where we made 3 cards from the same suite, Peaceful Poppies in the 2020 Mini catalog. I just haven't been able to put it away yet!  This suite has so many beautiful elements to it the options are endless.  So this morning at 3:00 a.m. and unable to sleep I wandered into my craft room, as I often do when I can't sleep, everything was still laying out on my table and decided to play around with the suite some more. Don't you love sweet and simple cards?  This one uses just some DSP, I also used the left over strips from Wednesday's card class and stamped the sentiment on it.  It's the center strip in the middle when I cut the DSP into 4" x 5 1/4" pieces for our simple DSP card.  I also used a left over strip of Old Olive where the 2 pieces come together. I ran it through my die cutting machine with the Subtles 3D embossing folder, to give it a little texture. Wednesday's class card ...

When I saw this next card, by Diane Hughes, I fell in love with it!  So elegant.  It takes a little bit of die cutting but well worth the result.  I am absolutely in love with everything in this suite. Especially the little poppy sequins! The back of the flowers are vellum from the Perennial Essence suite in the Annual catalog.  I love this vellum, since I don't have to color it.  The DSP vellum package comes with Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Petal Pink.  We used both the Old Olive and the Daffodil Delight vellum in this card.  If you don't have the colored vellum you can use regular vellum and color the background with Stampin' Blend alcohol markers.  I prefer these over the Stampin' Write markers since they dry faster and tend to streak less. You could also sponge the backs, just make sure that you wipe off the excess ink with a tissue.  This card is probably for the more avid stamper.  For class I had the dies for th...

Our second card for the January product class is pretty easy also. The Peaceful Poppies Suite has 2 stamp sets, one with images and another with sentiments and 2 die sets that are give you a mind boggling amount of options for card designs! Take a look at this suite!   Peaceful Poppies Suite .  I absolutely adore everything in this suite!  Including the "Peaceful Poppies Elements " that we are featuring in this suite, the flowers at the bottom of the wreath. They are die cut from heavy cardstock and you get 8 of them in the kit.  You also get two sheets of embossed water color sheets, two sheets of embossed vellum sheets, two black sheets of embossed labels and two sheets of die cut images. The card we made has a tone on tone (stamping the image with the same color ink as the cardstock) background layer.  Die cutting the wreath, punching a 2" circle, stamped with the sentiment and a little bit of linen thread.  Very quick and easy to put t...

For December's class my customers wanted to not do Christmas cards.  I think stampers, by the time the middle of December arrives, are a little Christmas'd out.  Personally I was looking forward to playing with some of the new things I got in my preorder for the new Stampin' Up!® Mini catalog that debuts January 3, 2020. One of the sets is from the Annual catalog, "Young At Heart".  I love this set! I paired it with a  sentiment from one of the new sets in the Mini catalog, "Thanks for the Laughs"  which says "No one is as entertained by us as us,"  It reminds me a couple of friends and I and also my sister cousins.   It's a great set for friends and family.  I'm sure a lot of people can identify with this sentiment!  Haha!  Below is the card we made. It uses some DSP from  also from the new catalog.  The DSP is from the Painted Poppies Suite.   All of the supplies and instructions for the three card...