Welcome to the May 2024 Edition of the Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop! You'll see projects in our hop from Stampin' Up! demonstrators around the world--I'm in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Note: I can only sell to customers in the US, so any prices mentioned are in USD)
We generally hop the first Friday of each month, and our theme for today is Fresh & New! We'll be sharing projects with products from the NEW 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog. My project features our five NEW 2024-2026 In Colors: Summer Splash, Pretty in Pink, Peach Pie, Petunia Pop, and Shy Shamrock. {you can find all Product Purchase Links below the Blog Roll near the bottom of the post}
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The 2024-2026 In Color 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (DSP) really carries this card. The playfulness of the Hearts & Hugs BUNDLE (stamp set + dies) makes the perfect pairing. Here's a nice view of the 2024-2026 In Colors together...those of you who have been using Stampin' Up! colors for a good while might recognize Pretty in Pink. It's a returning color.
The easiest way to make a card like mine is to take your 2024-2026 In Color 6"x6" Designer Series Paper and pull out one sheet of each color in the same design, make sure all the sheets are in the same orientation, and cut them to 4"x5". You can cut the sheets individually to that size with our Paper Trimmer, but for the next step, a guillotine-type trimmer is going to do the job the fastest and easiest, without having to use any kind of template. Keeping your 5 sheets of 4"x5" paper stacked neatly, cut 5 strips out. I did mine with a guillotine-type cutter, so I just skewed the paper differently for each cut. If you don't have a guillotine-type cutter then I think you'll just have to cut the first sheet, then use those pieces to make light pencil marks as cutting guides on the rest of the pieces. Anyway, the picture below shows how my cuts came out.
Each of those piles of strips is 5 sheets, so I just went through and took one color from each pile to put my card together. The great thing about cutting them this way is that you have enough pieces to make FIVE cards! To adhere them to the card base, I first laid all the pieces out on the card to get an idea of spacing. Then, I adhered the one on the left side, and the one on the right side, and finally I placed the 3 in the center. It's not perfect - I just eyeballed it - but I think it's fine. If you use our Multipurpose Liquid Glue for adhering these strips, and just set them lightly in place, you should have some time before the glue sets to sort of slide them over a bit if you need to adjust your spacing. Once they are where you want them, then burnish them down in place.
I used our NEW Basic Beige Cardstock for the badgers, because I wanted my layer to be light enough for using the Stampin' Blends, but a little less stark than a white or vanilla. This does mean that I had to actually color the white parts of the badgers' faces and tails for those parts to stand out like I wanted. I used a white gel pen I had on hand, but you could use our Blender Pens to pick up a little bit of White Craft Ink Refill, and sort of "marker" that white where you want it. For the badger's bodies, I used the Light Basic Black Stampin' Blends marker to outline, then I actually used the Dark Pebbled Path Stampin' Blends marker to add more color in the center. Then I went back over it in places with the Color Lifter marker to pull out some of the color where it was too dense. Again, it's not perfect, but I think they turned out okay. You could make their noses black, but I used the Pretty in Pink Stampin' Blends marker to give them a softer look.
Here's a last closeup of the whole card put together. The center of each of those die cut flowers has a different color of the 2024-2026 In Color Shimmer Gems.
Stampin' Supplies: Hearts & Hugs BUNDLE (stamp set + dies), Crumb Cake Cardstock, Basic Beige Cardstock, 2024-2026 In Color 6"x6" Designer Series Paper, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad, Basic Black Stampin' Blends Combo Pack, Pebbled Path Stampin' Blends Combo Pack, Pretty in Pink Stampin' Blends Combo Pack, Color Lifter Blends Pen, Blender Pens & Craft White Ink (for faces and tails), 2024-2026 In Color Shimmer Gems, Linen Thread, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, Stampin' Mist & Stampin' Scrub (to clean red rubber stamps), Paper Snips, Bone Folder, Stampin' Trimmer, Grid Paper. You will want the Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine for the dies - the Mini machine should work fine for this project. And don't forget Medium Basic White Envelopes for mailing!
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Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop MAY 2024 Blog Roll
1. Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE!
2. Tricia Butts
3. Jan Musselman
1. Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE!
2. Tricia Butts
3. Jan Musselman
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