Thursday, July 31, 2014

CAS Spring Solitude


I've been gone a few weeks. I've missed stamping! I only had time for a quick card this week. I drew inspiration from day 2 of an online card class I signed up for, clean and simple card making. The instructor used large floral stamps to make "a visual triangle." This was my attempt to do something similar (though the end product is quite different...). 

My card started off perfectly flat, but looked a little too flat. So I stamped the flowers and fussy cut them, and popped them up with dimensionals...Much better!

I used the retired Spring Solitude and lil inkers stitched rectangles die. And of course, a splattering of rhinestones. The ink is the retired Baja Breeze. 

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Monday, July 28, 2014

Buy 3 Get 1 free DSP share - a piece of all current DSP's for $17!

Want to take advantage of the buy 3 get 1 free sale on DSP, but don't need a whole pack?! 
Get one 6x12 sheet of each pattern of the 8 DSP's (NOT including the two specialty DSP's, unless specifically requested...): flower pot, flash back sweet taffy, confetti celebration, park lane, maritime, lullaby, back to black
$17 + $5.50 shipping in a flat rate legal envelope (my shares are all carefully packaged to ensure the paper gets to you perfect!). Or $23.50! (if you're local to LA, you can come pick the DSP up and save on the shipping).
Need to fill this is up by tomorrow! So I can order buy the 31st. This is a great price for dsp!! Email me now to save your spot!


Also make sure to check out this week's Weekly Deals.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

One Layer Thank You, plus new items to Clearance Rack AND free shipping!


My craft supplies have been calling to me, but it's been HOT in Los Angeles, so a bit hard to make my usually, pretty involved style of a card...So I went with this clean and simple one layer card. 

I stamped the dotty angles confetti once in Night of Navy, and then a second time in silver. The sentiment is from the Celebrate Baby set. Very fast and easy card!

Tomorrow, July 10, the Stampin' Up! Clearance Rack will be updated with new items. It's been a while since they added any new items, so I'm guessing there will be some goodies! The clearance should be updated as early as 10 pm Mountain time. Check in early, since the good stuff tends to go FAST!. 

As an extra perk, I will offer FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $70! To get your free shipping, you can do one of two things. 

1. Place your order direct from my shop here, then email me with your total and address, and I'll send you a check for your shipping charges.
2. Email me or call me (718-916-2550) with your order, and I'll pay your shipping directly.

My free shipping offer is good through the end of the weekend. Expires July 13, at 7 pm PST.

Other great deals going on right now are, BUY 3 DSP get 1 FREE, and check out this week's Weekly Deals.

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Moving Whale Card Tutorial



Back in March, I made a moving whale card (see the original here), and I got a bunch of requests to post the directions. Life got busy, and I don't like making the same card twice...But I finally got around to making another moving whale card this week! I was inspired by the Muse Challenge #74:


Like the inspiration card, my card is full of sun, surf, and sea!


Here's the inside of my card:  


And the matching envelope. 


And finally, now for the directions! 


Here are the basic supplies you need, a sliver of window sheet, a brad, a scallop circle punch (I used the 1 1/4 inch one here) The Happy Whale framelits (on the clearance rack, click here to get them while you can), and waves (I was lazy and used diecut waves, but last time I used an oval punch and the simply scored borders plate to create waves. You could also use the Large Scallop Edgelits Die) .

My card base was the standard, 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch. and the top white layer was 3 3/4 by 5 inches

Start by making a small hole in the center of your scallop circle. 


Center your layer of white cardstock on your base (do not adhere yet!!). Then line up the bottom of the scallop circle with the base of your card, center it (I used a ruler by you could eyeball it too) and put your pencil through the hole of your scallop circle and make a mark on your layer. Separate all the pieces and make a hole in your layer of cardstock at the pencil mark. 

If you want to emboss your layer with the cloudy day embossing folder, do it NOW. I completely forgot about this step until it was too late.


Put your brad through the back of your white layer (hopefully you embossed it!), then place the scallop circle on top, place your window sheet on top of that, and then the whale. Move the whale around to determine how long your sliver of window sheet should be to get the range of motion your want from the whale. Cut the window sheet to the desired length (I think mine was 1/4 inch by 2 1/4 inches).



Glue the window sheet to your scallop circle and then carefully to the back of the whale. Wait for it to dry.



Now, begin assembling your card. Glue one layer of waves on (put all your waves on to determine where this should go). Then push your brad through the back of your layer, place the scallop circle (with the window sheet) on top, secure your brad. Turn your whale all the way to the left most side of the card, and then place dimensionals there such that they do not interfere with the whales motion.



Next, move the whale all the way to the right side, and place more dimensionals down. Place the rest of your waves on top of the these dimensionals. Do NOT put dimensionals anywhere else, or your whale will get stuck!

 

Finally, assemble the rest of your card and embellish as desired. I made the sun with the boho blossoms punch and a 1/2 inch circle punch. Since I forgot to emboss my layer, I glued die cut clouds down instead of the embossing (you could use a cupcake punch to get similar results).

Thanks for visiting. Hope my directions were clear. Let me know if you have any questions!

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

A Unique use of Dotty Angles


I made this along with the little vellum cut out goodie boxes 2 posts ago last night at a stamping workshop. I used crystal effects on the spiders to make them pop. 

Are you local to West Hollywood? Want to join my Stampin' Club and get free stuff? Comment here or send me an email. Only a couple spots open.


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