Tis The Season Blog Hop

Welcome to the Tis The Season Blog Hop as our Design Team showcases their holiday projects and ideas to help you get in the spirit of the season. With Christmas fast approaching, now is the perfect time to create your own handmade cards to send out to family and friends. 

For my Christmas card, I wanted to showcase an elegant, clean and simple design that works well for a masculine card. I chose to use the black and white design from the Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper for my card front and added a tint of color using Blending Brushes and classic inks. I was inspired by the technique used to color black and white photos and I love the way it transformed this beautiful design. 

Products Used:

Greetings of the Season stamp set (item #164325)

Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper (item #162133)

Thick Basic White Cardstock (item #159229)

Shaded Spruce Classic Ink Pad (item #147088)

Misty Moonlight Classic Ink Pad (item #153118)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165678)

Blending Brushes (item #153611)

Measurements:

Thick Basic White Cardstock

Card Base - 4 1/4" x 11" (Scored at 5 1/2")

Winter Meadows Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

This clean and simple Christmas card is simple to create and is perfect for mailing. I chose to use Shaded Spruce and Misty Moonlight Classic inks to add a touch of color to the trees and sky of the black and white design, to give it a pale, frosty feeling. The hint of color helps make the deer image in the foreground stand out while still giving the card a wonderful wintery look. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image directly onto the card front with Silver embossing powder to add a touch of elegance. I decided not to add any embellishments to the design, choosing to keep the design as simple as possible. The contrast between the pale colors of the card front and the Thick Basic White card base gives the card an almost photographic quality that I love. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my Christmas card will help put you in the mood to create your own beautiful holiday projects to share with family and friends. Using designer series paper to create clean and simple cards can open up so many possibilities to explore your creativity and a wonderful way to show the people in your life how much you love them. 

Please take the time to visit with our amazing Design Team and see all their incredible holiday projects to help you get into the spirit of the season. Just click on the links in the Roll Call List below to visit their blogs. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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Stamping With Friends July Online Exclusives Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends July Online Exclusives Blog Hop as we showcase the amazing products available online only in the Online Exclusives including new products just released this month. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help spark your creativity to create your own beautiful creations.

For today's card design, I decided to showcase the new Greetings of the Season stamp set with the coordinating Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper to create an elegant Christmas card design. Instead of using green and gold for my color combination, I chose to use Night of Navy, Very Vanilla and Gold to show how you can customize the beautiful paper to create your own unique designs. For the sentiment, I used the Spotlight on Nature Dies to create the focal design and I just love the intricate detail around the edge of the circle die cut. In addition, I used several of the Gold Adhesive Snowflakes, which can also be found in the Online Exclusives, to help finish off the card design. 

Products Used:

Greetings of the Season stamp set (item #164325)*

Spotlight on Nature Dies (item #163580)

Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper 

(item #164324)*

Night of Navy Cardstock (item #100867)

Very Vanilla Cardstock (item #101650)

Boho Blue Classic Ink Pad (item #161650)

Night of Navy Classic Ink Pad (item #147110)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165678)

Night of Navy Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #154891)

Blending Brushes (item #153611)

Adhesive Backed Snowflake Assortment (item #162129)*

Rhinestone Basic Jewels (item #144220)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

*Online Exclusive Products

Measurements:

Night of Navy Cardstock 

Card Base - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Large Detailed Circle die cut with the Spotlight on Nature Dies

Very Vanilla Cardstock

Layer 1 - 5 1/4" x 4"

Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 3 3/4" x 5"

I love using designer series paper to make beautiful clean and simple card designs, especially when I can color it to create my own special backgrounds. For this card design, I chose to transform it by first applying Boho Blue Classic ink using a Blending Brush to add a soft, even coverage of color. Next, I added Night of Navy Classic ink with a blending brush to create a subtle two tone look to the background and then used a tissue to wipe off the excess ink from the gold embossed background. For the focal image, I heat embossed the sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set with Gold embossing powder onto the Night of Navy detailed circle die cut and added it to the center of the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals. I attached the card front to the Very Vanilla cardstock layer and then attached it to the Night of Navy card base with Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up. To complete the card design, I added several Gold Adhesive Backed Snowflakes to the card front. I then colored several Basic Jewels using the Dark Night of Navy Stampin' Blends Marker and added them to the centers of the Gold Snowflakes. I love the simple elegance of this card design and how the blended color changes the look of the designer series paper. Just think of all the wonderful options available to you with this fun technique. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore the wonderful products available in the Online Exclusives. There are so many great ways to mix and match different products to come up with your own unique projects.

Please take the time to check out the amazing projects created by our Design Team members by clicking on the links in the Roll Call List. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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ICS July Blog Hop Let's Get Punchy

 
Welcome to the ICS July Blog Hop as we showcase punches with our theme "Let's Get Punchy". Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their ideas and projects to help you get creative with your punches. There are so many options to explore to help you create your own beautiful creations. 

For my card, I chose to create a pretty Christmas card design for Christmas in July, focusing on the 2" & 2 3/8" Circle Punches to show how versatile they are for creating sentiments. In addition, I chose to use the Bough Punch to add some foliage to the sentiment to step it up. I paired these punches with the new Online Exclusive products, Greetings of the Season stamp set and coordinating Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper to create a stepped up clean and simple design. I love how the Gold accents and Gold embossing take this design to the next level.

Products Used:

Greetings of the Season stamp set (item #164325)

2" Circle Punch (item #133782)

2 3/8" Circle Punch (item #16354)

Bough Punch (item #157711)

Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper 

(item #164324)

Mossy Meadow Cardstock (item #133676)

Garden Green Cardstock (item #102584)

Old Olive Cardstock (item #100702)

Gold Foil Sheets (item #132622)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165678)

Pecan Pie 3/8" Center Stripe Ribbon (item #162744)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Mini Glue Dots (item #103683)

Measurements:

Mossy Meadow Cardstock

Card Base - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Sentiment Circle punched out with the 2" Circle Punch

Garden Green Cardstock

2 Large Leaves punched out with the Bough Punch

Old Olive Cardstock

3 Small Sprigs punched out with the Bough Punch

Gold Foil Sheets

Medium Circle punched out with the 2 3/8" Circle Punch

Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

I love making Christmas cards in July because there is no pressure or stress like there is around the holidays. With the new products just added to the Online Exclusives this month, it was a perfect opportunity to showcase a couple of them while showing how punches can help to create fun clean and simple card designs. The card front was created using one of the designs from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper and I just love how there are hints of Gold that give the card an elegant feel. I used the 2" Circle Punch for the sentiment and heat embossed the image from the new Greetings of the Season stamp set with Gold embossing powder onto the Mossy Meadow cardstock to make it pop. I layered it onto a larger circle of Gold Foil punched out using the 2 3/8" Circle Punch and I love how this creates a beautiful frame for the sentiment. I added two pieces of the Pecan Pie Center Striped Ribbon to the center of the card front using Mini Glue Dots and added the focal circles to the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals. I arranged the Old Olive and Garden Green foliage pieces that I punched out using the Bough Punch, tucking them underneath the circles to hide the stem. I love how this beautiful Christmas card turned out and I can't wait to try some of the other designs and sentiments to create a stack ready for the holidays. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore using punches to create your own wonderful projects. One of my favorite things about punches is how quick and easy it is to create projects using them. As you can see from my card design, it is a great way to mix and match to create your own beautiful designs. 

Now it's time to visit Janey's blog and see what she has to share with us. Just click on the Next button to visit her blog. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you like about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop. 

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Like What You See? Visit My Online Store Here

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