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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Beautiful Butterflies - and fixing them when they're not!

 

Today I have several cards made by exploring using the Beautiful Butterflies Hybrid Embossing Folder and coordinating Stamp Set.  The patterned paper used was from the Beautiful Bokeh set of 6 x 6 papers.    

Hybrid EF (embossing folder): I have two examples of using the basic Hybrid EF from this set.  They were made in a similar way, though one is vertical and the other horizontal.  I’ll first describe the vertical one – and then add any differences for the horizontal one.

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Dual Side Stepper

Today I made one of these Dual Side Stepper cards - calculating measurements for an A2-sized card.  Here are the measurements I used:

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Hybrid Embossing

Today I have 4 sample cards, again mostly using Stampin' Up! products.  They all made use of a hybrid embossing folder called Thoughtful Moments.  In class, we will discuss several ways to use such an embossing folder, but for these cards, I used Tuxedo Black Momento ink direct to the folder before embossing/die cutting the sentiments.  Then I used Stampin' Blends (Calypso Coral, Balmy Blue, Lemon Lolly, Highland Heather) to color inside the lines, using the darker color on the lower half of the letters and the lighter on the upper:

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Kintsugi Class & Club

 

This month we were learning about cutting dies and embossing folders.  Today I have eight makes to share with you, using the lovely Kintsugi Inspirations Suite from Stampin' Up!  I LOVE this set of papers and coordinating supplies/tools!  In addition to the papers (I used a 4" x 6" piece of each of 5 double-sided papers plus some of the patterned paper used with cutting dies I used A2 sized cardstock panels in the following colors: Misty Moonlight, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Lost Lagoon, Cloud Cover, and Basic Beige).