Playing with Paper - Coloring with Stampin' Blends

Today I needed a quick card for a birthday that I didn't know was coming.  

I wanted to do something different, so I chose papers from Botanical Textures DSP (discontinued) - a black and white design, and added color using a Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends marker.  

Next, I chose Soft Sea Foam cardstock for the card base and Basic Black and Basic White cardstocks for mats & such.  Because it was a special birthday, I wanted to spell that out.  I had two die sets that I thought I could combine to create the focal message.  Both were discontinued, but there are some newer dies that would work. The first was the Wanted to Say dies - where I got a matted "Happy Birthday".  There's a lovely new set coming out the 5th or so of May that would work as a replacement - it's called Words and Wishes.  The 2nd was called Birthday Celebration - and had numbers dies.  These could be replaced by the Alphabet A La Mode dies.

Because the "Happy Birthday" was composed of the words stacked together, I had to die cut them carefully and then fussy cut to cut them apart.  (You won't need to do that with the newer dies as they're made separately.) I then also used the "Birthday" part to get the extra "th" I needed - fussy cutting them apart as well.  After cutting the "60", I glued it to black cardstock and fussy cut a mat around it, since the number dies didn't have a associated mat die.  Oh yes, you can probably see that I used Soft Sea Foam cardstock for the letters/numbers, and Basic Black for the mats.

I created these words and numbers, added them to a rectangle of white cardstock, then matted that with black before adding it to the card front using Dimensionals.

The final piece was to add some embellishments made using Extraordinary Flora Washi Tape on white cardstock cut with Extraordinary Flora dies. 

Inside: 

The sentiment inside was created with the Hybrid Embossing folder called Thoughtful Moments.  I inked the folder with Memento Tuxedo Black ink - and then colored it with the same Stampin' Blends I used to color the paper.  The rest is made using the same things I used on the card front.

Memories in Bloom - 3rd project

Today's two-page scrapbook spread started with the Memories In Bloom Scrapbooking Workshop kit.  This is the second kit I've worked with, and this time I decided that instead of making the whole kit, I'd focus on one project.  I started with Project #3 because I thought it would work best with my photos.  I made the background pretty much as directed, but changed up the photos, embellishments, and title. 

 

Here's the process video for this scrapbook layout.

 

 

Or you can look for the process video on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CheringLOP 

Notes and Totes

I've done something different for our 2nd class this month.  Instead of continuing to explore Z-fold cards, we're exploring a fun stamp and die set called Notes & Totes.  In the process, we're answering these questions: How do I start with a new set?  How can I use it with patterned paper?  How do we make a 3-D version of this "tote"?  This blog shows the resulting projects.  If you'd like to see how they're done, check out the video here:

 

Weekend Adventures Kit - A Third Extra Page

Today I have another EXTRA scrapbook page from the Weekend Adventures Scrapbooking Workshop kit. 

Here's a short video about making this page:

 

Everyday You and Me

I just realized that I never got this layout posted - and it's one of my favorites!  I made it in the middle of February.  

I think this was the first scrapbooking layout I've made using Stampin' Up! products.  Oh, wow!  So much easier than the HOURS I used to spend looking through papers and cardstock in my stash trying to find things that went together well and worked with my photos!  I had purchased the Everyday You and Me papers with sticker sheet, and the coordinating set of 12 x 12 cardstock (unfortunately no longer available), and it was so easy to pull together what I needed!

A2-sized Z-fold cards - March Class 1

Today's class was about making true Z-fold cards in an A2 size - NOT fold-back cards, but cards where all three panels are the same width.  To make the card bases, I needed cardstock that was larger than 12".  You can see what I did - including how to cut something that's a bit longer than 12 x 12 - in this video. 

These projects were made using the Florals in Bloom designer series paper (DSP), as well as a couple of retired papers from packs we’ve used previously (Floral Impressions, Otterly Adorable)

You can see closeups of the cards we made below.

Modifying a Scrapbooking Workshop Kit

Today I've got several scrapbook spreads that started with this Scrapbooking Workshop Kit from Stampin' Up! called Weekend Adventures.  It includes instructions for creating these three double-page spreads about being in the "great outdoors":

I chose to adapt this kit to create several pages with different themes.  I have two videos that show what I did.  Weekend Adventures Part 1 covers the basic modifications I made and why - along with cutting the papers and arranging the layouts.  Weekend Adventures Part 2 covers embellishing and finishing.  This includes a bit at the end of the video about how to add brochures or other large memorabilia to your page without taking up a bunch of space.

 

 

This post shows my finished pages.