Cottage Lane Stamper

 We've been treated to an early release of an adorable bundle "Curvy Celebrations" .  It will be available to our customers on November 3.  I couldn't wait to play with it. It will appear in our Jan - June Mini Catalog coming out the 1st part of the new year.    Since I'm still obsessed with the sumptuous Red Velvet card stock and the Poinsettia dies I created this card last night.  I embossed the bottom part of the card with my Script 3D embossing folder, the DSP is from "Trimming the Town" pack.  The leaves are from the Curvy Celebrations dies.  Love how it turned out!   The Quite Curvy bundle will include two stamps sets, one a Christmas set, another with sentiments for Christmas, Valentines, birthday and thinking of you, 6" x 6" DSP, 48 sheets, four sheets of 12 patterns, some Christmas some you can use all year round! And of course when you bundle you save 10%.   Now since the weather is so nasty out today, rain, sleet, ...

 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. ...

Today's Facebook live "Tuesdays At Ten" was a technological challenge.  First my FB live video stopped midstream, unbeknownst to me.  Then I went to use my camcorder to redo the video and my SD card wouldn't work or format, either in the camcorder or on my computer and I couldn't find another card!!!! So I went back to my phone and redid the card and the audio is almost non-existent.  So crank up your audio!   This bundle is a returning favorite from last year's holiday catalog, "Gather Together"  . It pairs beautifully with the Gilded Autumn Suite.   Currently the DSP from the suite is on backorder. Check with your demonstrator or me :-) for status.   I also give a couple tips on die cutting DSP and how to save this beautiful Metallic Foil and on using square or rectangle dies.   Here is the card,  I hope you like it!  I love the beautiful foil, embossed, die cut leaves!    Supplies:  ...

 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...