Ink. Stamp. Share. January Showcase Blog Hop

Welcome to the start of a New Year with the Ink. Stamp. Share. January Showcase Blog Hop. Our amazing Design Team will be sharing their wonderful projects and ideas to help spark your creativity as well as share products from the new January-April 2023 Mini Catalog and 2023 Sale-a-bration Catalog. There are so many great new products available for you to explore. 

One of my favorite things to do is to create pretty clean and simple cards with designer series paper. I have fallen in love with the beautiful Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper, which is a Level 1 Sale-a-bration Reward and I have been exploring ways to use it with products from the 2022-2023 Annual Catalog. I recently bought the Sending Smiles Bundle and I decided to pair it with one of the designs from this paper pack, using Gold accents to help step up the design. The wonderful thing about the Sending Smiles Bundle is that it is full of beautiful sentiments and coordinating dies to cut them out, which makes creating clean and simple cards so much easier. I chose to create a birthday card but you really can use any of the sentiments in this bundle with this pretty paper to create a variety of cards. 

Products Used:

Sending Smiles Bundle (item #158707)

Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper (item #160834) Sale-a-bration Level 1 Reward 

Blackberry Bliss Cardstock (item #133675)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Gold Foil Sheets (item #132622)

Fresh Freesia Classic Ink Pad (item #155611)

Versamark Pad (item #102283) 

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Brushed Brass Butterflies (item #158136)

Basic Rhinestone Jewels (item #144220)

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (item #144108)

Blending Brushes (item #153611)

Measurements:

Blackberry Cardstock

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

Sentiment Label die cut with the Sending Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Sending sentiment heat embossed & die cut with the Sending Dies

Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Gold Foil Sheets

3 Small flowers die cut with the Sending Dies

This pretty card design is so simple to create and uses one of my favorite techniques, heat embossing, to help take it to the next level. This particular designer series paper has a lovely pale lavender color for the background, so when I heat embossed the Sending sentiment with Gold embossing powder onto the Basic White cardstock, it seemed a bit out of place. My solution was to take a Blending Brush and gently sponge Fresh Freesia Classic ink over the embossed sentiment to transform the Basic White background into a similar light purple color that coordinates with the designer series paper. With a tissue, I gently wiped off the embossed sentiment to remove any excess ink and bring the shine back to the Gold embossing. For the smaller sentiment, I heat embossed the image onto a piece of Blackberry Bliss cardstock and used the coordinating die to die cut it out. I attached the Sending sentiment to the card front with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up and then added the narrow Blackberry Bliss sentiment below it with adhesive, centering under the larger sentiment. To embellish the card, I die cut several small Gold flowers using one of the dies from the Sending dies and attached them to the card front. I added small Basic Rhinestone Jewels to the centers for a touch of bling. To finish off the design, I added two of the Brushed Brass Butterflies to the card front, near either end of the large sentiment. I really love how the sentiments dress up this pretty paper to create a soft and pretty birthday card.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to create your own wonderful projects to send to family and friends. There are so many amazing new products in the January-April 2023 Mini Catalog and 2023 Sale-a-bration Catalog to help spark your creativity.

Please take the time to visit with my fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrators by clicking on 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. 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

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Tricia Butts
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Around The World On Wednesday January Blog Hop CASe The Mini Duo

Welcome to the Around The World On Wednesday January Blog Hop as we start off the New Year CASEing the new January-April 2023 Mini Catalog and 2023 Sale-a-bration Catalog. What is CASEing? It stands for Copy And Share Everything or Copy And Selectively Edit and basically means that you take a project sample from one of the catalogs and create your own version of it, either by copying it exactly or taking parts of the design to provide inspiration for your own project. Our wonderful Design Team members will be sharing their amazing projects and ideas to help inspire you to get creative in 2023. I hope you will take the time to join us and create your own beautiful projects.

For my CASE, I decided to use the layout from the top Thanks Friend card on page 45 of the new January-April 2023 Mini Catalog. I changed the colors and decided to create a full size card instead of the square card design in the catalog. The clean and simple design really appealed to me and I thought it would be fun to create my own version of this card design. I hope you like what I created using products from the new mini catalog.

As a cat lover, I just couldn't resist the cute Love Cats stamp set from the new January-April 2023 Mini Catalog. I combined it with the new Country Gingham 6"x6" Designer Series Paper to create a sweet Valentine's Day card that is sure to melt any cat lover's heart. In addition to the original layout from the CASEd card design, I decided to add some fun heart die cuts and some Heart Pearls to step up my card. 

Products Used:

Love Cats stamp set (item #160410)

Stitched Rectangles Dies (item #151820)

Give It A Whirl Dies (item #154336)

Country Gingham 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #160388)

Blushing Bride Cardstock (item #131198)

Sweet Sorbet Cardstock (item #159268)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Memento Tuxedo Black Pad (item #132708)

Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush (item #141897)

Heart Pearls (item #159190)

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (item #144108)

Measurements:

Blushing Bride Cardstock

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

3 Hearts die cut with the Give It A Whirl Dies 

Sweet Sorbet Cardstock

3 Hearts die cut with the Give It a Whirl Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Stitched Rectangle die cut with the Stitched Rectangles Dies

Stamped and fussy cut cat image from the Love Cats stamp set

Country Gingham Designer Series Paper (Sweet Sorbet)

Background Strip - 2 1/2" x 4 1/4"

This fun card design was created on a full size card, so I adjusted the size of the background designer series paper piece to fit in with the larger card design and adhered it to the card base. For the sentiment label, I used one of the Stitched Rectangles Dies and stamped the sentiment with Tuxedo Black ink and then adhered the label to the card base with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, centering it over the designer series paper, about 3/4" from the top of the card. For the cat, I stamped the image with Tuxedo Black ink onto a scrap of Basic White cardstock and fussy cut it out with Paper Snips. I adhered the cat so that it lined up with the bottom of the sentiment label with the paws and tie hanging over the edge. For the Blushing Bride hearts, I colored them with Clear Wink of Stella. I added the largest Blushing Bride heart underneath the paws of the cat using Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, so that it looks like the cat is holding onto it. For a touch of bling, I added several Heart Pearls to the card front to complete the design. I just love how this card turned out and I how I was able to adapt the original card to create my design.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to take a look at the wonderful project ideas in the new catalogs to help you create your own beautiful designs. There are so many wonderful possibilities to explore. 

Now it's time to visit Teri's blog and see what she has CASEd for our challenge. Just click the Next button below to visit her blog or use the Roll Call List to find your way. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know how our projects inspired you. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop. 

Roll Call List

Jan Clothier - NZ

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cazz Boylan - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Melissa Gifford - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Ximena Morales - DE

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Tina Zinck-MacDonald - CA

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Wendy Lee - US

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert - US

Chris Smith - US

Tricia Butts - US

Teri West - US

Cheryl Hamilton - US

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

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Tricia Butts
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ICS January Blog Hop Introducing Sale-a-Bration

 

It's time to hop a long with the ICS January Blog Hop as we showcase products in the 2023 Sale-a-bration Catalog. Sale-a-bration is one of my favorite times of the year, with the opportunity to earn free products with a qualifying order. This year there are so many wonderful products to choose from and our wonderful Design Team members will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you. 

For my card design today, I thought I would share the Beautifully Happy stamp set, which is a Level 2 Sale-a-bration Reward that you can earn free with a qualifying order. This pretty two step stamp set has a wonderful assortment of images and sentiments to help you create beautiful cards for a variety of occasions. Now if you are like me and struggle with two step stamping, I recommend that you use the Stamparatus to help take the stress out of creating with this versatile stamp set. I was able to line up and stamp all my images and restamp when necessary, to create a the focal design. I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink to stamp the outline and Soft Succulent and Polished Pink to stamp the leaves and flowers.

Products Used:

Beautifully Happy stamp set (item #160804) Level 2 Sale-a-bration Reward

Deckled Rectangles Dies (item #159173)

Double Oval Punch (item #154242)

Stamparatus (item #146276)

Soft Succulent Cardstock (item #155776)

Very Vanilla Cardstock (item #101650)

Thick Very Vanilla Cardstock (item #144237)

Memento Tuxedo Black Pad (item #132708)

Polished Pink Classic Ink Pad (item #155712)

Soft Succulent Classic Ink Pad (item #155778)

2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds (item #159185)

Polished Pink 3/8" Open Weave Ribbon (item #155714)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Mini Glue Dots (item #103683)

Measurements:

Thick Very Vanilla Cardstock

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

Very Vanilla Cardstock

Focal Layer die cut with the Deckled Rectangles Dies

Sentiment Label punched out with the Double Oval Punch

Soft Succulent Cardstock

Matte Layer die cut with the Deckled Rectangles Dies

This pretty card design works well for a variety of occasions and is a great layout for creating multiple cards to restock your card stash. Using the Stamparatus also makes it a smoother and more efficient experience, because once you have set up the stamps, you can stamp multiple cards with the same design. The Stamparatus is a wonderful tool for helping to line up images for two step stamping and giving you the ability to restamp and image if you are not happy with it the first time around. I love how the stamps in this stamp set give the images the appearance of highlights and shading and it is perfect for people who don't like to color. The stamps really do all the work for you. To create the layers for the card design, I used the Deckled Rectangles Dies to cut a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock for the focal layer and a piece of Soft Succulent cardstock for the matte layer. I used the beautiful Polished Pink Open Weave Ribbon to create a loop for the top of the card and the tails at the bottom and attached them to the card base using Mini Glue Dots. I adhered the layered focal image over the top of the ribbon using Stampin' Dimensionals to add dimension to the design. For the sentiment, I stamped the sentiment image with Soft Succulent Classic ink and punched it out with the Double Oval Punch. I then attached it to the focal layer with Stampin' Dimensionals. To finish off the card design, I added one of the Pale Papaya Opal Rounds to the center of the large flower and several of the Polished Pink Opal Rounds to embellish the card front, for a touch of bling. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore the wonderful new products in the 2023 Sale-a-bration Catalog. It's a great way to spark your creativity for the New Year. Just a quick reminder that the 2021-2023 In Colors will be retiring soon, so if you love them as much as I do, I recommend stocking up on your favorite products before they disappear. 

Now it's time to visit Janey's blog and see what she has to share with us. Just click the Next button below to visit her blog. We would appreciate it if you would be leave us a comment and let us know what you liked 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
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Kylie Bertucci's Monthly International Blog Highlights January 2023

 

I am so excited to be participating in Kylie Bertucci's Monthly International Blog Highlights to start off 2023. Our theme is Thank You cards and at this time of the year and you will have the opportunity to visit with talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from around the world as they share their projects and ideas to help inspire you. I hope that we can help spark your creativity to help you create your own beautiful projects to start off the New Year. 

One of my favorite stamp sets in the new January-April 2023 Mini Catalog, is the whimsical Silly Goose stamp set. I just love the adorable images and fun sentiments that work for so many occasions. I wanted my card design to be fun and lighthearted, so I chose to create the background using one of the beautiful floral designs from the Dandy Designs Designer Series Paper, which is a Level 2 Sale-a-bration Reward you can earn free with a qualifying order. This wonderful pack of paper has 48 sheets filled with beautiful designs and pretty color combinations, perfect for Spring and beyond. I thought the color combination for this particular design fit perfectly with the colors I chose to color the goose and the floral pattern doesn't feel to heavy for the design, if that makes sense. I chose to use my favorite Framed Florets Dies to create the frame for my goose and I created the flowers to embellish the frame using the Two Tone Flora Bundle to tie in with the background design. 

Products Used:

Silly Goose stamp set (item #160866)

Framed Florets Dies (item #160623)

Two Tone Flora Bundle (item #160414)

Dandy Designs Designer Series Paper (item #160836) Sale-a-bration Level 2 Reward

Calypso Coral Cardstock (item #122925)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Pale Papaya Classic Ink Pad (item #155670)

Calypso Coral Classic Ink Pad (item #147101)

Pear Pizzazz Classic Ink Pad (item #147104)

Memento Tuxedo Black Pad (item #132708)

Pale Papaya Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #155519)

Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #154886)

Color Lifter (item #144608)

Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush (item #141897)

Basic Pearl Jewels (item #144219)

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (item #144108)

Measurements:

Calypso Coral Cardstock

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

Oval Frame die cut with the Framed Florets Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Oval die cut with Framed Florets Dies

Flowers & Leaves die cut with the Two Tone Flora Dies

Dandy Designs Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

There is so much to love about this cute card design that I don't know where to start. The designer series paper gives this card such a cheerful feeling to it and I think it fits with the cute goose and his banner of thanks. I stamped the goose with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto the Basic White oval and colored it in with the Dark Pale Papaya Stampin' Blends Marker. To give the goose a bit of dimension, I used the Light Gray Granite to add some color and then used the Color Lifter to lighten it so that there is the slightest hint of gray to its feathers. For the banner, I used the Pale Papaya Stampin' Blends Combo Pack to tie it in with the designer series paper. To help step up the card design, I decided to add some small flowers that I created using the Two Tone Flora Bundle. I stamped the flowers using Pale Papaya and Calypso Coral Classic inks and for the leaves I used Pear Pizzazz Classic ink. I die cut the images using the coordinating dies and added them to the bottom of the oval on either side of the goose image. For a touch of bling, I added small Basic Pearls to the centers of the flowers to complete the design. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my Thank You card will inspire you to explore the wonderful new products in the January-April 2023 Mini Catalog and 2023 Sale-a-bration Catalog. There are so many wonderful ways to mix and match these products to help you get creative. 

I would love it if you would take the time to vote for my card design as part of January's International Blog Highlights. Simply click the Vote for me button below and click on the heart for my card design (#23). Please take the time to click on the other amazing cards in this month's highlights and share the love with my fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrators. You can vote for up to 5 cards a day for the next week, so I encourage you to visit each day and vote for your favorites. 

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
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Stamping With Friends Emboss Resist Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends Blog Hop as we start off the New Year with a fun technique. This month we have been challenged to create a project using the Emboss Resist technique and I can't wait to see what my fellow Design Team members have to share with us this month. This is one of my favorite techniques and I can't wait to share my project with you.

For my card design, I chose to use the new Watercolor World stamp from the new January-April 2023 Mini Catalog to create my background. My emboss resist has a twist to it, as I stamped the image first with ink and then heat embossed the image with Clear embossing powder to create the resist as I sponged on the ink for the oceans. I love how it turned out and it makes a great masculine card for a variety of occasions.

Products Used:

Watercolor World stamp set (item #160708)

Something Fancy Bundle (item #160425)

Starry Sky Cardstock (item #159263)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Crumb Cake Classic Ink Pad (item #147116)

Old Olive Classic Ink Pad (item #147090)

Tahitian Tide Classic Ink Pad (item #159210)

Orchid Oasis Classic Ink Pad (item #159214)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Basics Embossing Powders (item #155554)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Rustic Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots (item #159082)

Stamparatus (item #146276)

Sponge Daubers (item #133773)

Blending Brushes (item #153611)

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (item #144108)

Measurements:

Starry Sky Cardstock

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

Sentiment Label die cut with the Something Fancy Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

To create the background for this card, I stamped the world image several times to create the emboss resist. I used the Stamparatus so that I could stamp the image multiple times in the same position, using different inks, to create the design. First, I stamped the image using Crumb Cake Classic ink and then I sponged some Old Olive Classic ink onto the lighter areas using a Sponge Dauber, to create more depth and dimension. Next, I stamped the image over the top of the existing Crumb Cake stamped image using Versamark ink and then heat embossed the image with Clear embossing powder. This creates a clear coating over the original stamped image so that it will resist the ink when I sponge the oceans. To create the oceans, I gently sponged some Old Olive ink around the edges of some of the continents to create some contrast. Next, I sponged the card front with Tahitian Tide Classic ink using a Blending Brush, building up layers of color over the embossed image. To finish off the background, I gently sponged some Orchid Oasis Classic ink around the edges of the card front and gently over the embossed area to deepen the color of the oceans. Using a tissue, I wiped the card front to remove the excess ink from the embossed image to make it pop. To create the sentiment, I used my new favorite bundle, Something Fancy, and stamped the sentiment with Versamark onto a scrap of Starry Sky cardstock and then heat embossed it with Gold embossing powder. I die cut the sentiment using the coordinating die from the Something Fancy Dies from the bundle, and attached it to the card front with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals. To complete the card design, I added two small Rustic Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots to embellish the sentiment label. I love how the Starry Sky cardstock makes the card front pop and the Gold embossing for the sentiment just helps step up the design to the next level. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to give this fun technique a try and create your own beautiful projects. There are so many wonderful possibilities to explore. 

Please take the time to visit with my fellow Design Team members and share some love by leaving them a comment, letting them know what you love about their projects. Just click on the links in the Roll Call List to visit their blogs. 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

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