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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New At SU July Blog Hop Make It Metallic Greetings of the Season

Welcome to the New At SU July Blog Hop and this month's theme is all about Metallics. It's amazing how a little Gold, Silver, Copper etc. can step up even the simplest design to take it to the next level. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their ideas and projects to help inspire you to explore adding a metallic touch to your projects.

I love using metallics to add a touch of elegance to my card designs. For today's card design, I chose to create a stepped up clean and simple Christmas card using Gold accents with a variety of products. The new Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper is perfect for this style of card, with the beautiful gold elements incorporated into the holiday themed designs in this pretty pack of paper. I chose to use one of the foliage patterned designs with touches of gold to give it a classically elegant look. In addition, I used Gold Foil sheets, Gold Trim and Gold Sequins as well as Gold embossing to create a beautiful card that is quick and simple to put together. It is a great example of how you can create simply beautiful cards for the holidays.

Products Used:

Greetings of the Season Bundle (item #164113)

Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper 

(item #164324)

Garden Green Cardstock (item #102584)

Thick Basic White Cardstock (item #159229)

Gold Foil Sheets (item #132622)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165678)

Neutrals Adhesive Backed Sequins (item #161627)

Gold & Silver 1/8" Trim (item #161633)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Thick Basic White Cardstock

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

Garden Green Cardstock 

Layer 1 - 5 1/4" x 4"

Sentiment Oval stamped & die cut with the Greetings of the Season Bundle

Season of Gold & Green Specialty Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5" x 3 3/4"

Gold Foil Sheets

Large Label die cut with the Greetings of the Season Dies

For today's card design, I wanted the designer series paper to be the star of the show and have the other gold elements coordinate to bring out the gold detail in the background design. I chose to use Gold Foil to create the large label to frame the sentiment and I heat embossed the sentiment onto the Garden Green label. I used a piece of Gold Trim to thread through the tag hole and tie a knot to create a simple accent. I used Stampin' Dimensionals to pop up the Garden Green cardstock label onto the larger label, making sure to center it on the larger label. I attached the labels to the center of the designer series paper card front and then adhered it to the Garden Green cardstock layer. To complete the assembly of the card, I attached the card front layers to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up. To finish up the design, I added several Gold Sequins for a touch of bling that fits with the classically elegant design. As you can see, Stampin' Up! offers a wonderful range of coordinating products that helps take the stress out of creating while adding that Wow factor to your projects.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore adding metallics to your projects to help step up your designs. Stampin' Up! has so many options to help you create beautiful designs using your choice of metallics. 

Please take time to visit our Design Team to see their amazing projects by using the links in the Roll Call List below. We would love 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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