April Stamp Camp

This first card isn't something we did at camp, but I wanted to show it to you anyway. It's one of the first times I inked up the Of the Earth hostess stamp set. I brought this card to the TOPICS project share meeting (shoebox swap). It uses the Poppin' Pastels technique. The flowers are stamped using Versamark on Whisper White cardstock. Then, using the Stampin' Pastels and a cotton swab, the pastels is dabbed onto the Versamark and sticks to the image. The Pastels are very forgiving too because they can be erased using a regular old eraser! I like that! The squares were punched using the 1-1/4" square punch and then layered on Pretty in Pink punched using the 1-3/8" square punch and attached to the card with dimensionals. The ribbon is the new satin ribbon in Pretty in Pink. The ribbon is wrapped around and taped to the back of the layer. Then, I tied a bow and adhered it to the line of ribbon with Glue Dots. It's a trick I like to use to get neat bows on my cards!

In April, we used several products that were available in the Occasions Mini Catalog. The idea for this card was given to me by my friend, Kirsteen Gill. I believe it was a sample she saw at a Leadership event. It is a single layer of Very Vanilla stamped with the Vintage Vogue stamp set in Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, and Apricot Appeal. The flower with a silver brad in the center is punched with a circle punch and attached with dimensionals. The ribbon is 1/4" Apricot Appeal (retiring at the end of June as part of the Color Renovation) and it is adhered using a line of Sticky Strip. It's so simple, but I really love it!

This card is 3X6 and fits inside the small open-end envelopes. I got this idea from my upline, Penny Thomas, and I believe she got the idea from Stampin' Connection, the online community for Stampin' Up! demonstrators. The card uses Blush Blossom (another retiring color) and Very Vanilla. The border is punched with the scallop trim border punch and the vanilla piece has been run through the Big Shot with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder. A Filigree Brad is centered on a 3/4" circle of Blush Blossom. We used both the large and small Filigree Brads on this project and both look great! The greeting is stamped using Basic Gray ink and Well Scripted stamp set. This set has been one of my favorites of all time!

The idea for this Blush Blossom card also came from Penny by way of Stampin' Connection. The layer is run through the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder and popped up on the card base with dimensionals. The image from the Birthday Bliss stamp set is stamped in Blush Blossom ink on Whisper White cardstock and punched out using the Wide Oval punch. Then stamp the greeting again on scrap white using Chocolate Chip ink and trim the rectangle out using snips and attach to the oval with dimensionals. It is tied onto the organza ribbon with linen thread. It's a quick and simple card to put together, but it looks so nice.

This card was CASEd from a card I saw on Stampin' Connection that was done by Diana Gibbs. I changed the colors to fit the supplies I had available. The designer paper is from the Sweet Pea paper stack. I used it and used it during the Occasions Mini Catalog, but I still have a ton of it left. It went a loooooong way. The card uses the XL Two-Step Bird Punch. The colors are So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, and Whisper White. The greeting is from Thank You Kindly and is stamped with Chocolate Chip ink.

This card is CASEd exactly from one by Elaine Schader. It uses another pattern from the Sweet Pea DSP and the Trendy Trees stamp set.

May and June have been super busy so no camps were held. We're all gearing up for the launch of the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog release in July!