All Occasion

Touches of Texture

I told you Robin Myren stopped by last month to stamp with me. We had a great time! Well, during my Paper Pumpkin class recently, the mailman came and for some reason I decided to run out and get the mail. In the mailbox was a Paper Pumpkin box, which threw me for a loop, because I had already received my Paper Pumpkin for the month. I opened it up and inside was this gorgeous thank you card and note card set from Robin! Wow Robin! I LOVE this thank you card and note card set! So did the ladies at my Paper Pumpkin class. They loved these so much, they insisted we have a class and make these cards.

Robin stamped everything in black and colored in the flowers with a blender pen. Wouldn’t you love to receive this sweet card in the mail?!

Look at all the pretty colors she used. Wisteria Wonder, Perfect Plum, Sweet Sugarplum, Blushing Bride and Pink Pirouette. Can you see the tiny pearls in the center of the flowers?

What a lovely and thoughtful gift. Sometimes when we CASE cards ( Copy and Share Everything) we tweak it and make it our own. In this case I want to make cards exactly like Robin did! Thanks Robin for the beautiful cards and for being my sweet stamping friend.

Anyone who lives or visits the Des Moines area and wants to come to a class and make these cards, please leave a comment or send me an email to Beth@StampingMom.com

You can visit Robin’s blog and see more beautiful cards at http://songbirddesignsbyrobin.blogspot.com/

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Garden in Bloom

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for August 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes. This month we are featuring projects using our favorite Stampin’ Up! cutting tools. There are so many wonderful punches, framelits and edgelits available that help make paper crafting more detailed and fun! We hope to provide you with lots of ideas and that you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below. The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

When it comes to Stampin’ Up! products, I find the punches and framelits the hardest to resist. Please keep this between us, but I may own almost every punch Stampin’ Up! has made since 2003. This is information we don’t need to share with Superman. I would tell him if he asked, but fortunately, he’s never asked. 🙂

Anyway, I made this card with the brand new Layering Ovals Framelits. The flowers are from the Garden in Bloom stamp set. The flower is raised on dimensionals and splattered with the black marker. Both these things make the card really pretty in real life. Do you like the matching envelope? When I send a card, I want the recipient to be excited about it from the moment they pull it out of the mailbox.

Since the envelope is cute, the inside of the card needs to be cute too. The flowers are all embossed using Versamark, black ink and Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder. I colored them in with using ink pressed into the lid of the stamp pad and an aqua painter. Who needs adult coloring books? If you color on a card instead, you actually get to send it to someone and brighten their day.

I almost always make my cards with someone in mind to receive them. This card has no recipient, so if you would like to receive this card in the mail, please comment at the top of this post. I’ll randomly pick someone and hopefully brighten their day!

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