Beth's Paper Cuts: Ornate Thanks

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Monday, August 23, 2021

Gorgeous Leaves and Intricate Leaves Dies from Stampin' Up!

Hi Everyone!
Today I am working on Team Swap cards. Our theme this month is Fall Leaves. There are a few very nice leaf sets in the annual Catalog, Forever Evergreen and Love of Leaves sets are some of my favorites. The new mini catalog has introduced another pretty leaf set called Gorgeous Leaves. I seem to get all the leaf sets. I truly love fall most of all, and so I think that's why I am drawn to all things with leaves :)

The Gorgeous Leaves set is very pretty for it's leaves, but also for the fun background stamps that are in the set. Do you remember 'Gorgeous Grunge'? That was a super popular set a few years back and it was all about backgrounds. This new 'Gorgeous Leaves' has similar great backgrounds with some added leaves thrown in! What could be more perfect?

For this card I used Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry and Old Olive, with some accents in Early Espresso. For a touch of shine I also added some leaves cut with Copper Foil paper.

The dies that go with this set have dies to cut the stamped leaves, but then they took it a step further with some intricate leaf cut outs and even a nice twig.

As this set is all image and no word stamps, I added a greeting from the Banner Year stamp set. If you don't have that one, take a close look at it, there are some great greetings and it will carry through a few holidays.

I added some Linen Thread to tie it all together.

Take a look at my how to video for a step by step and to learn about how to get this stamp and die set FREE (or one of 11 other choices) when you join Stampin' Up! now through September 31st.

I made another simpler card to show that you don't have to just use fall colors. You could even go with non-organic colors like pink or purple for a pretty leaf card. Here I used Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent with some Silver Foil.

The greeting is from the Ornate Thanks stamp set.

And one more because really the fall colors are my absolute favorite!

Shop with me! I would love to be your demonstrator. I always send a hand stamped thank you card and sometimes more with a larger order, and I share my Stampin' Rewards with you through my Frequent Buyer Rewards! Earn FREE STAMPS! Click on the Frequent buyer tab to download the tracking sheet.

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Product List

Gorgeous Leaves Bundle

[158609]

$44.00

Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119684]

$8.75

Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119686]

$8.75

Copper Foil Sheets

[142020]

$5.00

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[101650]

$9.75

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

[147085]

$7.50

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

$7.50

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

$7.50

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

[147114]

$7.50

Banner Year Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[153464]

$17.00

Linen Thread

[104199]

$5.00

Saturday, May 2, 2020

Three Cards with the Stamparatus and the Ornate Garden Suite

Hi Everyone! Today I took out the Stamparatus to make some swap cards and I thought I would play around with it since it was on my desk. I came up with these three cards to show off ways to use the Stamparatus. They are a lot of fun and they show off a new collection of products from the Ornate Garden suite, which will be featured in the new Catalog that comes out in June! These products are an early release, so you can get them right now!

I created this column of Thanks sentiments by using the 'Hinge Step' technique. The Stamparatus is perfect for lining up images, but with Stampin' Up's exclusive hinges, you can even move the plates up and down to get rows or columns of images.

Watch this video to see the 'Hinge Step' in action.

In the video I mentioned that I would add the cardstock sizes, so here you go.
Card Base Terracotta Tile: 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 scored down the
                  center.
Designer Series Paper Ornate Garden
                  5 1/2 by 4 1/4 (outside)
                  3/4 by 4 (inside strip)
Whisper white 2 by 5 (outside image panel)
                  4 by 5 1/4 (inside panel)
Early Espresso 2 1/2 by 51/2 then cut with the die from
   the Ornate Layers collection

This card also use the ' Hinge Step' technique, but this time to line the images up in a nice row.
Card Base Crushed Curry: 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 scored down
               the center.
Embossed layer 4 by 5 1/4, Embossed with the Ornate
                Floral 3D embossing folder.
Watercolor paper 2 1/4 by 3 1/5 main image panel
               3/4 by 2 1/4 for the sentiment.
Early Espresso 2 1/4 by 4 1/4 then cut with then
                Ornate Layers dies.
Shimmery white inside layer 4 by 5 1/4
Designer Series Paper strip 5 1/4 by 3/4

This last card uses the Stamparatus to stamp in multiple color layers without having to worry about lining them up.
Card Base Terracotta Tile 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 scored down
the center.
Designer Series Paper Ornate Garden
5 1/4 by 3 (outside)
1 by 5 1/4 (inside)
Whisper White cardstock 4 by 5 1/4 inside
1 by 4 cut out with the Ornate Layers dies
Early Espresso 2 by 5 cut out with the Ornate Layers dies

Purchase a Stamparatus and get a Free card kit. Make the cards shown or use the kit to create your own one of a kind cards. You will need to use your own stamps, ink and adhesives. Kit comes with envelopes.

Stamparatus

[146276]

$49.00

Stamparatus® Magnets

[148213]

$12.00

Stamparatus® Foam Mat

[150081]

$3.00

Craft & Carry Stamparatus® Bag

[149695]

$29.00

Stamparatus Deluxe Foam Mat (Imperial)

[150866]

$6.00

Small Grid Paper

[149621]

$6.50

Stamparatus® Plates

[149693]

$15.00

Ornate Thanks Bundle (English)

[154115]

$46.75

Ornate Style Bundle

[154119]

$52.00

Ornate Garden Specialty Designer Series Paper

[152488]

$15.00

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Playing around with the Ornate Garden suite

Hi everyone! Today I decided to just spend the afternoon with the Ornate Garden suite. I really like this collection of products, and it is a really big collection. There are TWO stamp sets, TWO die sets, Designer series paper, embellishments, an embossing folder and TWO colors of ribbon. You can check out the whole collection here.

The paper in this collection has a nice little sneak peek in it, a new color! Bumble Bee! The new InColors will come out with the new catalog in June, so this is a little taste of one of the five. I am really looking forward to seeing the new colors. Demonstrators will get to view the new catalog online in just a couple weeks! Yay!
This paper also features gold foil accents on one side of most of the papers, so pretty!

I made a video with an up close look at the whole product line, as well as some tips to use just some or all the products on your spring projects. There is also a step by step tutorial on a card made with this suite. Check it out!

This card uses Terracotta Tile as a base, with accents of Early Espresso. The new ornate Floral Embossing folder is used on the background.

The main image on this card was colored in with Stampin' Blends and cut out. I am sure that I will be doing a lot of different coloring techniques with this stamp!

This card uses Crushed Curry paper and ink. The flowers were stamped in a neat row with the Stamparatus and colored in with Aqua Painters.

On this card I opted to just use the new paper and stamps, no dies, to show that you can still get some of that new product feel with out the more expensive die collections.

On this version I added the die around the Thank you..

I wanted to make a third version so that I could try out the smaller frame die and mix up my sentiments a bit.

This card features one of the new Ornate Border dies. I paired the Crushed Curry cardstock with the Designer Series Paper which features the new "Bumblebee" color. I think it's pretty close.

Here again I am just using the paper with some stamp sets I already own. It is nice to see that you can add some fresh new products to your collection without having to get it all. I did use the new ribbon. The ribbon comes in a pack. I really like this because normally you get one roll of 10 yard for $7, but here you get 2 rolls with 5 yards each for that same $7, but you have 2 colors. I personally would easily use the whole 10 yards of one color because I do classes, but I think most people would rather have 5 yards of two different colors. Good thinking Stampin' Up!