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August International Blog Highlights

Hello Stampin' friends! Today I am participating in Kylie Buertucci's Monthly International Blog Highlights. Each month Kylie offers Stampin' Up! Demonstrators the opportunity to join and share our projects. This month I am sharing a Hand-Penned inspired card created for an online challenge from The Crafty Carrot Co. for this week.

My card uses the Hand-Penned stamp and die bundle, and to change it up a bit, I chose the You're A Peach designer series paper. I love the colors in the fun stripe paper and the pretty blue dot. I also love the contrast with combining these two colors.

In addition to the white base card, Petal Pink is the other cardstock used. I used the Hand-Penned dies to cut out the **GORGEOUS** white floral bouquet and the single white flower. The bouquet background was cut in vellum with another die from Hand-Penned. I hand cut a vellum background for the single flower because there was not a die for that. I felt that for continuity I needed a vellum background there also.

One of my favorite elements on this card is the double scalloped embellishment. I love the way the blue pops against all of the light pink. I also really like the fun angled cut sentiment tag.

If you would like to vote for my card please visit Kylie's blog and choose my card.

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Hand Penned Petals Bundle (English)

[155492]

$46.75

You're A Peach 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[155686]

$11.50

Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146985]

$8.75

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[159229]

$8.25

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

$9.75

Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[101856]

$10.00

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

[147101]

$7.50

Elegant Faceted Gems

[152464]

$7.50

Blushing Bride 3/8'' (1 Cm) Frayed Grosgrain Ribbon

[156341]

$8.00

Baker's Twine Essentials Pack

[155475]

$11.00

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At The Zoo With Wild Cats

Scrapbook Pages · Stampin' Up! · Wild Cats Bundle

Hello Stampin' friends. Once again I have been attempting to tackle the never ending pile of family photos and events to be scrapbooked. Today's double page layout features images from several years ago with my daughter, son-in-law, and older two grandchildren at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC.

To create today's layouts I used the Wild Cats bundle and designer series paper. I accented the dsp with Evening Evergreen cardstock, Bumblebee cardstock, and Cajun Craze cardstock.

The first page features words cut with Stampin' Up!'s Playful Alphabet Dies: Lions & Tigers & Bears! This page also includes a stamped fringe of greenery at the top of the page, and border die cut zig zags. I love this large focal image on this page.

The second page features more border die cuts, as well as a stamped tag and the amazing big cats stamped and cut with the coordinating dies. I also stamped and cut a couple of accent plants. The ink colors used are Bumblebee and Cajun Craze, as well as black. I have left myself lots of room under the top cat to insert a journaling block.

I added a touch of twine to the layouts by applying a bow to the tag and punching holes between the Os in Zoo.

I used the Tasteful Label dies for the layered tag along with Evening Evergreen ink.

Below you will find a list of supplies used. Thanks for stopping by today.

Product List

Wild Cats Bundle (English)

[155507]

$38.50

Into The Woods Designer Series Paper

[139586]

$11.00

Evening Evergreen 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[155574]

$8.75

Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119684]

$8.75

Bumblebee 8-1/2X11 Cardstock

[153077]

$8.75

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

$9.75

Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad

[101406]

$10.00

Bumblebee Classic Stampin' Pad

[153116]

$7.50

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

[147085]

$7.50

Soft Succulent Classic Stampin' Pad

[155778]

$7.50

Playful Alphabet Dies

[152706]

$34.00

Tasteful Labels Dies

[152886]

$31.00

Baker's Twine Essentials Pack

[155475]

$11.00

Add All to Cart

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Great Tiding Step-fold Card

Christmas Card · Great Tidings · Stampin' Up!

Hello Stampin' friends. Today I have a special Step-fold card to share with you, one I created using the *NEW TODAY* bundle, Great Tidings. In case you are unaware, today is the first day of Stampin' Up!'s new mini catalog, the August - December mini. Or as I like to call it, the fall and holiday mini catalog. There are a plethora of gorgeous stamps, papers, trims, etc. in the new catalog, and one of those is this bundle.

To create my card you will need:

Blackberry Bliss Cardstock – 2 pieces

1. 10 ½ inches x 4 ¼ inches

Score the long side at ½ inch, 1 ¾ inches, 3 ¾ inches, and 5 inches

2. 4 5/8 inches x 3 ½ inches

Score the longer side at ½ inch and 1 ¾ inches

Rainbow Glimmer Paper – 3 pieces

1. 4 x 3 ¼ inches

2. 4 x 1 ¾ inches

3. 4 x 3 ½ inches

Gold Specialty Paper

1. Cut out the Moroccan doorway - 4 x 3 ½ inches

2. Cut three of the three petal leaves - scrap

3. Cut out the Bethlehem star - scrap

Directions:

1. Stamp, color, and cut out your Magi. Set them aside.

2. Glue the Moroccan doorway cut to the front of the 4 x 3 ½ inch glimmer paper. Use scissors and your paper trimmer to trim the gold to fit the 3 ½ inch wide glimmer paper. Use your scissors to trim the top of the doorway and the glimmer paper, leaving a border the same width as the sides.

3. Glue the 4 x 3 ¼ inch glimmer paper ¼ inch down from the top edge of the unscored end of the 10 ½ inch piece of blackberry bliss.

4. Burnish the score lines on the long piece. Glue the ½ inch scored tab to the back of the card.

5. Glue the 4 x 1 ¾ inch strip of Glimmer paper to the front of the folded box.

6. Glue the Moroccan doorway to the bottom edge of the smaller piece of Blackberry Bliss, placing the bottom of the doorway even with the bottom edge of the paper.

7. Glue the bottom edge of the smaller piece of blackberry bliss (with the doorway) to the front of the card, 3/8 inches up from the fold line.

8. Apply glue to the ½ inch flap on the smaller piece of blackberry bliss. Flatten the card and glue down the edge where it rests against the card when flattened.

9. Apply the Magi and the gold leaves. Stamp your sentiment – I used versamark ink on black cardstock with gold embossing powder.

I hope my tutorial made sense to you. I will tell you that the shorter piece of Blackberry bliss cardstock has a unique measurement for this version of the card. That is because of the doorway.

I hope this was inspirational for you. Thanks for stopping by today.

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