procrastistamper: March 2018

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Less Than 10 HOURS LEFT to Sale-a-Brate and get FREE STAMPS!

You're running out of time!!! These FABULOUS Deals are GONE on March 31st at 11:50pm MT!

Check out my Sale-a-Bration post HERE for details...
you still have time to get FREE STUFF when you SHOP, or JOIN!

CHECK OUT THE FREE STUFF YOU CAN GET!!!
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Check out this Livestream I did yesterday on my Facebook Business Page...see how easy it is to CRAFT WITH PANDAS!

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop - May Good Things Grow

This month is our 12th #APaperPumpkinThing Blog Hop. Our kit this month is called May Good Things Grow. It came with supplies to make 8 cards, 4 each of 2 designs, with some fancy top-flap string closure coordinating floral envelopes. The picture below shows how the cards would look if you made them according to the kit instructions:

As usual, I tried to stick closely to the Paper Pumpkin kit supplies, though I chose to add some Crumb Cake Card Stock, Powder Pink Card Stock, and a wee bit of the Myths & Magic Washi Tape and some 2" x 8" Cello Bags for some of the items inside the box (though you might have different contents in mind, so you may not need those). Everything else, including the adhesives, came from the kit! I made a box for a birthday gift, as well as a Mother's Day card.

Oh, and just a note on the plastic test tube I used for the bath salts inside the package...those actually came from a Paper Pumpkin kit from a long time ago. But right now, you can actually still get SIXTEEN of them in either the Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Good to Eat FULL KIT or the REFILL KIT (includes consumables only), if you are registered as a Paper Pumpkin Subscriber.

I'm really not the "vintage" stamping type, but this kit made it SUPER easy! For my card, I assembled one of the string closure envelopes according to the kit directions, but I made my own card base to fit inside. And my card has a little treat in it--a packet of my favorite Tulsi Sweet Rose Tea!

The May Good Things Grow Refill Kit can now be purchased the on the PAST KITS page in my Online Store. There are sometimes full Kits available on that page, but many are just Refill Kits which include the consumables only...meaning everything but the stamp set & ink pad. By the way, you're gonna have to be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber to buy whatever's available on that PAST KITS page, so go ahead and sign up HERE to get your email address in the system first!

Stampin' Supplies: May Good Things Grow Paper Pumpkin Kit, Crumb Cake card stock, Powder Pink card stock, Myths & Magic Washi Tape, 2" x 8" Cello Bags (for some of the packaging inside the box), Paper Snips, Stampin' Trimmer (for trimming and scoring).

NEXT UP: Click the Next button below to see Melissa's fantastic projects!

MARCH 2018 A PAPER PUMPKIN THING BLOG HOP ROLL

You still have TWO MORE DAYS to qualify to earn FREE STAMPS (and other select items) with Sale-a-Bration when you shop my Online Store through March 31st...that includes Paper Pumpkin Prepaid Subscriptions!

And don't forget to join me March 30th on my Facebook Business Page for my SIX Hour Sale-a-Bration Party!!! It's going to be a BLAST! I'll be giving away some past Paper Pumpkin Kits for participation at the event! (US only, sorry)

'Til next time...Happy Stampin'!

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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Versatile Greeting Bunny Card

I had a card class at my local library branch yesterday...was free for patrons...and we made 4 different cards. I'm sharing this one first since it's so close to Easter, although this card can be made with a variety of greetings, via the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set (available in wood-mount, clear-mount English, or clear-mount French) and coordinating Classic Label Punch.

In my class, I offered 4 different greetings for this card: Happy Easter, Hello Baby, Thinking of You, and Friend to Friend. They are included amongst the 24 greetings in the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set, and all the greetings in that stamp set fit in the Classic Label Punch. We stamped the greeting with the Soft Suede ink pad, onto Crumb Cake card stock, to match the card base. The green layer is Pear Pizzazz card stock, which was run through the Big Shot with the Petal Burst embossing folder.

The bunny was punched out of Whisper White card stock with the 1-1/2" Circle Punch for the body, the 1" Circle Punch for the head, and the 1/2" Circle Punch for the tail. The bunny ears are the "tail" piece from the Fox Builder Punch. A wee little brushing of Clear Wink of Stella added just the right amount of glisten to the bunny tail, which was popped up with a Stampin' Dimensional. And the tiny bow was made from the delicate but sturdy Whisper White 1/8" Sheer Ribbon.

I also offered two different colors for the card stock strips at the bottom. The color pictured is Soft Sky card stock, and the other color I offered was Pirouette Pink card stock. A couple of my class attendees chose one strip of each color. So Saffron card stock would also be a lovely soft color you could choose for those strips.

I have to tell you, we have had the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set in our catalog for a LONNNGGG time, and we have a new catalog debuting at the beginning of June. Sometime next month we'll be getting a list of Retiring Items from this catalog, and it's always a surprise as to what's on it. Generally, a lot of the oldest stamp sets tend to drop off, so I would be sad--but not surprised--to see this set leave.

Now, you should also know that once that Retiring List comes out, the items on it start selling out fast...so right now is a great time to go through the current catalogs (2017-18 Annual Catalog and 2018 Occasions Catalog) and make sure you get the items you really want.

ONE item that has the tendency to sell out lightning fast, is ink--especially reinkers. We already know that all five of the 2016-2018 In Colors are scheduled to retire: Dapper Denim, Emerald Envy, Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo, and Sweet Sugarplum. If you are interested in any of those colors, I strongly urge you to BUY THEM NOW...get the ink pads, reinkers, the marker set, and the coordinating card stock. You can browse all the 2016-2018 In Color items HERE in my Online Store.

With Sale-a-Bration ENDING March 31st, THIS WEEK is actually the BEST time of the year to stock up on the products you've been eyeing for a while. You get to pick from a bunch of Level 1 Rewards for every $50 spend, or you can bank up and get Level 2 Rewards for each $100 spend! (you can also mix and match the levels with qualifying amounts) AND, if you're ready to stock up on a bunch of stuff so you can craft away the summer, keep in mind that with a $250 order you not only get to pick FIVE Level 1 Sale-a-Bration Items, you ALSO get an extra $25 in Stampin' Rewards, which would give you a total of $55 in FREE merchandise of your choice plus approximately $100 in FREE Sale-a-Bration Items!

Seriously, if you're going to stock up and take advantage of that approximately $150 value for a $250 order, CONTACT ME. I can help you find what you really want, and get the most bang for your buck!

And don't forget to join me March 30th on my Facebook Business Page for my SIX Hour Sale-a-Bration Party!!! It's going to be a BLAST!

'Til next time...Happy Stampin'!

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(if your order total equals or exceeds $150, please do NOT use the Monthly Perks Host Code...you will have earned Stampin' Rewards of your own!)

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Sale-a-Bration: Only 2 Weeks Left to Get FREE STUFF!

You still have two weeks to take advantage of all the FABULOUS Deals! Check out my Sale-a-Bration post HERE for details...but the gist of it is that you get FREE STUFF when you SHOP, HOST, or JOIN!

(TIP: it's running pretty late to Host your own party, but you can still qualify for some fun prizes, and watch some great LIVE demonstrations at my SIX Hour Sale-a-Bration Party on Facebook, on March 30th!)

And finally, if you're a video lover, you can enjoy a playlist Stampin' Up! created, featuring several of the Sale-a-Bration FREE items, HERE.

If you want ALL OF THE THINGS...you might just want to...

JOIN MY TEAM and Get (2) FREE STAMP SETS*!!!
plus, 20% OFF Your FUTURE ORDERS

MARCH Monthly Perks Code: VY4HE7DB
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Friday, March 2, 2018

Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop - Colour Challenge

Welcome to the 19th Edition of the
Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop! You'll see projects from stampers from around the world--I'm in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Note: I can only sell to customers in the US, so any prices you see are in USD)

This month the theme is a Colour Challenge!!! We will be working with Lemon Lime Twist, Island Indigo, and Early Espresso. This project marks my first inking up of the FREE Sale-a-Bration stamp set, Beautiful Peacock--and it really is beautiful!!!

GSFBH #19 Colour Challenge

The Beautiful Peacock stamp set features a two-step peacock as the focal point, with the body of the peacock, and the feathers, as two separate stamps. There are also several little flourish and accent images, and a couple of greetings. You'll need at least a $50 USD order to choose this set for FREE--if you'd like to make this card, check out the Stampin' Supplies listed at the bottom of the post and grab what you'll need!

Now, let me share some deTAILs...lol. The picture below highlights a special peacock "tail" spray of feathers, which was created with threads frayed off from a short strip of Lemon Lime Twist Finely Woven Ribbon. I also stamped one of the stamp set flourishes on the bottom layer of the card, with an Island Indigo ink pad. I stamped it once in full strength, and then once again off to the side, for a lighter image. I did the same dark/light stamping with the top flourish image, but with the Lemon Lime Twist ink pad.

To get the two-toned peacock body (pic below), I first inked up the body with an Island Indigo ink pad. Then, I grabbed a Sponge Dauber, tapped it into an Early Espresso ink pad, and then dabbed that color onto the ends of the head feathers and tail feathers on the image. After that, I exhaled onto the image to revitalize the inks, and stamped the body. I actually stamped it on a separate scrap of Whisper White Card Stock, so I could cut it out with my Paper Snips, and pop it up using Mini Stampin' Dimensionals.

For the fan of feathers behind the body, I inked up the whole image in a Lemon Lime Twist ink pad and stamped it down first. Then, I didn't clean off the image--I took a Sponge Dauber and inked it up in an Island Indigo ink pad, and dabbed that ONLY on the scalloped ends of the fan of feathers. Because the stamps are photopolymer, I was able to look through the inked image to line it up right over the top of where I had already stamped.

You can totally do the fan of feathers in one step like I did with the body...but I actually forgot the Island Indigo ink when I first stamped it down, so stamping over the top was a recovery move! If you look closely at the body coloring versus the fan of feathers, you can see that if you do the "overstamping" like I did in my recovery move, you actually preserve more of a speckled transition with the second color. So, it's pretty cool...will be a great Stamparatus technique!

One last bit on the above picture...I used the small tip of an Early Espresso Marker to add the dark "eye" details in the empty circles of the fan of feathers image. The markers are only sold in color families right now, so if you are on a budget, don't sweat it, because the stamp set contains an image with a bunch of dots that you can use as a background, which will also work. You could use your Early Espresso ink pad to ink up just ONE of those dots at the very end of that image, and plop that right down in each of those spaces where I used the marker! I was just too lazy to mount another stamp, so I grabbed my coordinating marker instead ;-)

In the picture below, you can see the layers of the card. The base is Early Espresso Card Stock, then there is a layer of Lemon Lime Twist Card Stock, then a layer of Island Indigo Card Stock, and finally, the stamped layer of Whisper White Card Stock. The little banner is also Lemon Lime Twist Card Stock, with the saying stamped in Early Espresso ink. I think the banner is 5/8" tall, and I just eyeballed the length. I cut the notch at one end of the banner with Paper Snips, again just eyeballing it.

One final TIP: the blue background circular images were inked up on an Island Indigo ink pad, then stamped off onto scratch paper (Grid Paper) before stamping onto the card. This makes them lighter, so they don't compete with the focal point for attention.

Stampin' Supplies: Beautiful Peacock FREE Sale-a-Bration stamp set, Whisper White card stock, Lemon Lime Twist card stock & ink, Island Indigo card stock & ink, Early Espresso card stock & ink, Sponge Daubers, Lemon Lime Twist Finely Woven Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones, Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, SNAIL Adhesive, Paper Snips, Stampin' Trimmer (to cut and score card stock), Grid Paper.

Click the Next arrow below to see Marieke's marvelous creations!
(or check out the Blog Roll below the arrow for navigation)

2018 FEBRUARY BLOG ROLL

1. Jan Musselman

2. Karie Beglau

3. Libby Dyson

4. Lisa Ann Bernard

5. Anastasia Radloff

6. Tricia Butts

7. Amanda Bates

8. Mary Ann Kay Rossiter

9. Claudia Perry

10. Jenn Curtis Charles

11. Amanda Farlinger

12. Courtenay Heuston

13. Angélique Stempelkeuken

14. Kimberley Anne Morris YOU ARE HERE!

15. Marieke Bart

16. Georgia Missy Aubrey-Gaydos

17. Amber Thompson

18. Sarah Mcdermott

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop - Wildflower Wishes

This month is our 11th #APaperPumpkinThing Blog Hop. Our kit this month is called Wildflower Wishes. It came with supplies to make 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs, with pretty floral printed-liner coordinating envelopes. The picture below shows how the cards would look if you made them according to the kit instructions:

I tried to stick closely to the Paper Pumpkin kit supplies, but I'm not a huge fan of flowers, so I allowed myself not to use many of those. I also set aside the Garden Green ink that came in the kit, and opted for a Basic Black Archival Ink Pad instead.

For the card, I backed the die cut word with some of the tissue paper that comes in the Paper Pumpkin kit. I folded it over onto itself about 3 times, so it would be more solid than translucent. The white layer just on top of the base of the card is the front of one of the envelopes. I just felt like it needed a little bit of contrast.

There was an image of a line in the stamp set, which I stamped around like an asterisk, to look like fireworks. The little pearls in the center of the fireworks also came in the kit, as did the little vellum leaves and banner. I wasn't going to put any flora on the card, but the leaves reminded me of a laurel wreath, which I thought was perfect for a 'celebrate' card!

For my 3D project, I made a box to hold some sweets. I wanted so badly to say something specifically about Spring or Easter, but I didn't want to pull out any other stamps. I think the little flowers probably convey that theme well enough, though. If I were doing it over again, I might pop a white layer (from an envelope) between the box top and the same colored layer on top of it, for added contrast.

Below is the box from a side view. It's made from one of the 9 card bases in the kit. I have a Video Tutorial for making the box HERE. It's super simple, and works with any standard size prescored card bases like the ones in this Paper Pumpkin kit.

And now we get to the big reveal...CHOCOLATE EASTER EGGS! You can see I used a little piece of one of the floral backing layers for the inside of the lid, and that Paper Pumpkin tissue paper is making another appearance as a "bed" for the sweets.

Stampin' Supplies: Wildflower Wishes Paper Pumpkin Kit, Basic Black Archival Ink Pad, 1/2" Circle Punch (for thumb notch on box), Tombow Liquid Multipurpose Adhesive (for box assembly), Paper Snips, Stampin' Trimmer (for trimming and scoring).

The Wildflower Wishes Refill Kit can now be purchased the on the PAST KITS page in my Online Store. There are sometimes full Kits available on that page, but many are just Refill Kits which include the consumables only...meaning everything but the stamp set & ink pad. By the way, you're gonna have to be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber to buy whatever's available on that PAST KITS page, so go ahead and sign up HERE to get your email address in the system first!

And don't forget, you can qualify to earn FREE STAMPS (and other select items) with Sale-a-Bration when you shop my Online Store through March 31st...that includes Paper Pumpkin Prepaid Subscriptions!

NEXT UP: Click the Next button below to see Melissa's fantastic projects!

FEBRUARY 2018 A PAPER PUMPKIN THING BLOG HOP ROLL
Sara Levin
Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE!
Melissa Thomas
Kelly Acheson
Candy Ford
Jenny Hall
Melissa Davies
Dena Rekow
Pam Staples
Andrea Tracy-Tucker
Lori Mueller
Tina Riddle
Monika Davis
Rachel Tessman
Maria Willis
Jennifer Hill

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Party Panda - Step It Up Blog Hop

Welcome to the March 2018 Edition of the We Create Bloggers Step It Up Blog Hop! I'm sticking with our traditional theme for this post, which is to inspire stampers with a basic design, and at least one alternate "stepped up" version of that same design. My projects this month feature the Party Panda stamp set, which you can get FREE with a qualifying order during Sale-a-Bration.

I've coordinated with a couple items from the Picture Perfect Party Suite, including the Picture Perfect Party Designer Series Paper, which I used on both my cards. I also used the Watercolor Pencils on both cards. On this card I used the pencils dry, to add color to the panda's party hat, cheeks, and to add shading.

TIP: To get the "lime" color that matches the patterned paper, I lightly colored with the Old Olive pencil, then went over that with the Daffodil Delight pencil.

Stampin' Supplies: Party Panda stamp set, Whisper White card stock, Whisper White Notecards & Envelopes, Basic Black Archival ink pad, Watercolor Pencils, Picture Perfect Designer Series Paper, SNAIL Adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals, Paper Snips, Stampin' Trimmer (to cut and score).

Below is my Stepped Up version of this card, with just a couple of simple changes. First, I added a layer of Bermuda Bay Card Stock, from the Picture Perfect Party Card Stock Pack, and also used it for the greeting banner. Second, I used Blender Pens to smooth and blend the Watercolor Pencil coloring.

Stampin' Supplies: Party Panda stamp set, Whisper White card stock, Picture Perfect Card Stock Pack (Bermuda Bay), Whisper White Notecards & Envelopes, Basic Black Archival ink pad, Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens, Picture Perfect Designer Series Paper, SNAIL Adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals, Paper Snips, Stampin' Trimmer (to cut and score).

As I mentioned before, you can get the Party Panda stamp set (and/or other select items) FREE with a qualifying order during Sale-a-Bration when you shop my Online Store through March 31st!

NOTE: Check out my previous post HERE, to see a different look with the Party Panda stamp set using these same supplies, but choosing different paper designs, and omitting certain features on a couple of images. I used the phrase "Happy Love Day" for Valentine's Day, but you could just use the "Love You" phrase from the stamp set instead, and create anytime love notes to tuck in a lunch or briefcase.

Click the image below to hop to Libby's blog next, and see what nifty creations she's sharing...

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