Hello everyone and happy Friday! We are back with a FULL second day of exciting projects using the newly released March products. We have some fun things for you so sit back and enjoy!
Inflate & Celebrate is available for purchase HERE, along with the coordinating All Tied Up die HERE.
See more from Betsy Veldman HERE.
- Trim a 4-1/4” x 5-1/2” panel of Smokey Shadow cardstock and emboss with the woodgrain metal stencil
- Diecut the Mix & Mat frame as well as the Fun Frame from Rustic White cardstock.
- Stamp the sentiments and berries onto the Mix & Match Flourish diecut. Adhere to front of embossed panel.
- Stamp the invitation information onto the Fun Frames diecut and adhere to backside of embossed panel.
- STAMPS: Inflate & Celebrate, Beautiful Berries: Spring, By Invitation
- INK: Ocean Tides, Stormy Sea, Saffron Spice, Olive Twist, True Black
- PAPER: Rustic White, Smokey Shadow
- DIES: Mix & Mat: Flourish, Fun Frames
- OTHER: Woodgrain Metal Stencil, Corner rounder
See more from Heather Nichols HERE.
- Die cut the scalloped circles from Smokey Shadow cardstock to use for the tags.
- Stamp the balloons and strings with Fresh Snow ink and let dry.
- Stamp over the balloons with Raspberry Fizz and Hawaiian Shores inks.
- Stamp the circle emblem image in True Black ink next to the balloon and add the sentiment in Fresh Snow ink.
- Add a few clear sequins scattered around the tag. Add an eyelet at the top of the tag and add twine through it.
- STAMPS: Inflate & Celebrate, Invitation Basics
- INK: True Black, Fresh Snow, Hawaiian Shores, Raspberry Fizz
- PAPER: Smokey Shadow
- OTHER: Scene It: Basic Backer die, eyelets (Recollections), twine (Stampin’ Up!), sequins
See more from Keeway Tsao HERE.
- Stamp flowers across the top and bottom of your A2 sized white cardstock. Use colors that match for layering. Then stamp the ampersand sign in the center of the card in a matching ink.
- Emboss the sentiments in silver above and below the ampersand sign, just slightly overlapping the stamped image.
- Trim down the stamped card by 0.25” on each side.
- Adhere to A2 base card over craft foam.
- STAMPS: Year of Psams: February, Inflate & Celebrate
- INK: Sweet Blush, Lovely Lady, Vintage Jadeite, Mint Julep
- PAPER: Stamper’s Select White
- OTHER: Craft foam, Versamark Ink Pad, Silver Embossing Powder
See more from Laurie Schmidlin HERE.
- Cut a piece of Fine Linen cardstock. Stamp branches, leaves, and berries all over.
- Mat Fine Linen cardstock with a piece of white cardstock.
- Die cut holes and tie on balloon. Score edges of Kraft card base to create a frame.
- Mount stamped layer onto card base using dimensional foam.
- Die cut banner dies and stamp sentiment. Adhere to card using dimensional foam.
- STAMPS: Inflate & Celebrate, Beautiful Berries: Spring
- DIES: All Tied Up, Banner Style
- PAPER: Kraft, Stamper’s Select White, Fine Linen
- INK: Fresh Snow, Mint Julep, Blueberry Sky, Dark Indigo, Fine Linen
- OTHER: Rustic Jute Button Twine, Balloon, Scoring stylus
- Create 4×4.5 kraft card base, score horizontally at ½’ increments.
- Cut two tags, one orange, one in Dotty Biscotti orange/kraft pp.
- Emboss (with polka dots) solid orange tag.
- Stamp pp tag, die cut small circle for ampersand stamp and adhere with dimensional tape to pp tag.
- Die cut two small holes on right side of tag and attach balloon with twine.
- Glue two tags together at an angle, attach to card front with dimensional tape.
- Adhere enamel dot over hole in tag.
- STAMPS: Inflate and Celebrate
- DIES: Tag Sale #5
- INK: Dark Chocolate
- PAPER: PTI Kraft, Orange Zest, Dotty Biscotti pp
See the original release countdown post for Inflate & Celebrate HERE.
Offbeat Birthday is available for purchase HERE.
See more from Laurie Schmidlin HERE.
- Die cut stitched rectangle out of Fresh Snow Linen cardstock. Emboss sentiment onto rectangle.
- Die cut numbers three times using three different colors of cardstock. Adhere numbers onto piece of soft stone cardstock.
- Mount rectangle onto background layer using dimensional foam.
- Die cut star and adhere to the top of rectangle.
- STAMPS: Offbeat Birthday
- DIES: By the Numbers Mats, Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical, Seeing Stars
- PAPER: Fresh Snow Linen cardstock, Soft Stone, Kraft, Tropical Teal, Dark Indigo, Canyon Clay
- INK: Versafine ink
- OTHER: Clear embossing powder
See more from Melissa Phillips HERE.
- Create a card base from white cardstock. Cut a block of patterned paper to fit across bottom of card, adhere, and round bottom corners.
- Cut Mix & Mat Flourishes from Sweet Blush and white cardstock.
- Stamp white mat with streamers and sentiment and adhere over Sweet Blush mat, with the two slightly offset one from another.
- Stamp cake on die cut tag and embellish with die cut flowers and leaves from the Cover Plate: Nesting die.
- Adhere to center of card and embellish with Stickles glitter and button to finish.
- STAMPS: Offbeat Birthday, Just Desserts, and Birthday Style
- INK: Sweet Blush, Pale Peony, Hibiscus Burst, Spring Moss, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold
- PAPER: Fresh Snow Linen, Sweet Blush
- DIES: Mix & Mat Flourishes Dies, Cover Plate: Nesting dies, Tag Sale #4 dies
- OTHER: Harvest Gold button, Shakers + Sprinkles: Sequins
- Create card base using Stampers Select White cardstock in A2 size.
- Cover the front of the card with Polka Dot paper in Bright Buttercup paper.
- Layer a sheet of black cardstock and then cut a sheet of white cardstock for the main stamped portion.
- Using the Courage & Kindness floral stamps, stamp your images in yellow, green, red and black.
- Stamp the sentiment onto a strip of white paper and cut it into a banner. Layer the sentiment on top of the card using foam tape.
- Add clear rhinestones as accents.
- STAMPS: Offbeat Birthday, Courage and Kindness
- INK: True Black, Bright Buttercup, Pure Poppy, New Leaf
- PAPER: Stampers Select White, True Black, Bright Buttercup bitty dot paper
- OTHER: Clear rhinestones
See the original release countdown post for Offbeat Birthday HERE.
Shadowed Sentiments is available for purchase HERE, along with the coordinating dies HERE.
See more from Heather Nichols HERE.
- Stamp the “hello” three times in a row vertically on a kraft cardstock strip: Orange Zest with a Summer Sunrise Shadow, Pure Poppy with a Berry Sorbet Shadow, and Ripe Avocado with a Simply Chartreuse Shadow.
- Stamp the striped shadow on each “hello” with Fresh Snow ink.
- Add stitching on the left side of the strip with a sewing machine. Attach the strip to a white card base.
- Attach small wooden stars scattered around the “hello” words.
- STAMPS: Shadowed Sentiments
- INK: Fresh Snow, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Pure Poppy, Berry Sorbet, Ripe Avocado, Simply Chartreuse
- PAPER: white, kraft
- OTHER: wooden stars
See more from Lizzie Jones HERE.
- Stamp sentiment onto white cardstock and trim out by hand.
- Stamp Shine starburst onto white panel, sponging edges in a darker color. Attach panel to an Aqua Mist card base using foam tape.
- Sponge white cardstock with Harvest Gold ink and die cut stars.
- Embellish stars with glitter and adhere to card front.
- Mount sentiment over top with foam tape.
- STAMPS: Shadowed Sentiments, Shine – Papertrey Ink
- PAPER: Aqua Mist – Papertrey Ink; white
- INK: Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy, Berry Sorbet, Pale Peony, Tropical Teal, Harvest Gold – Papertrey Ink
- OTHER: Small Sketched Stars Die – Papertrey Ink; Crystal Glitter – Martha Stewart Crafts; Foam Tape – Scotch
- Stamp Shadowed Sentiments on small rectangle and layer in black.
- Line up Multiply die vertically on 4×5.25” white cs and cut 7 rows, then trim down.
- Adhere white layer to Green Parakeet A2 card. Add dimensional tape to layered sentiment
- and center on card. Add B/W twine as accent.
- STAMPS: Shadowed Sentiments
- DIES: Multiply
- PAPER: PTI Green Parakeet, True Black, Stamper’s Select White
- INK: PTI Green Parakeet, PTI Spring Moss, Versafine Onyx Black
- OTHER: Spritz B/S twine (Target)
See more from Stephanie Gold HERE.
- Die cut a panel of Limeade Ice cardstock using the Stitched Cover Plate. Adhere to white card base.
- Die cut one of the ready made floral arrangements in the Make It Market Mini Kit: Bloom & Grow and adhere to the top right of the card base.
- Die cut the large Fun Frames die from white cardstock. Stamp the 2 shadow stamps from the “hello” Shadowed Sentiment in the top center of the Frame die cut.
- Using one of the solid floral vine stamps, stamp the bottom left and top right using Soft Stone ink.
- Die cut 2 of the ready made flowers and adhere on the right side of the “hello” sentiment.
- Tie a bow using natural twine around the bottom of the “hello” sentiment on the frame. Adhere frame on top of card base using dimensional adhesive.
- STAMPS: Shadowed Sentiments
- INK: Limeade Ice, Soft Stone
- PAPER: White, Limeade Ice
- DIES: Fun Frames, Stitched Cover Plate
- OTHER: Natural Twine, Make It Market Mini: Bloom & Grow
See the original release countdown post for Shadowed Sentiments HERE.
Didn't the team do a fabulous job with these sets? Did any of these end up in your cart yesterday? Do you think the may help you to make those challenging masculine cards? Do you have a favorite project from day that really left you inspired? It's been another great day of projects, and we hope to see you back here tomorrow as we have even more to share!
jan metcalf says
Loving it all! The designers have so many styles and great color choices, wish I had seen these great designs before I ordered….
Helen F. says
What fun birthday cards! Lovin’ all the additional design ideas after the “release” week!
Loly Borda says
I love, love the Shadowed Sentiments and how the DT have used them! Thanks for the inspiration!
Kathy J in Ellicott City says
I love it all!
Holly Saveur says
Gorgeous cards!