SHARING THE ART OF HANDCRAFTED CARDS...BY LORI PINTO
This Beauty & Joy stamp set is so beautiful I just had to use it as my featured stamp set for our October Monthly Club! It probably wasn’t one of those ‘pop-out-at-you’ stamp sets when you first saw the 2019 Holiday Catalog, but trust me… once I opened it and started to design with it, …
This stamp set, Inspiring Iris is on page 111 of the Annual Catalog. I am not sure why, but this set brings back fond childhood memories! It is has 2-step stamping images and is strikingly realistic. Here is a closeup of the stamps… I embossed the top layer of the card (after stamping the images) …
This was another card project from my September Holiday Bundle Series where we featured the Gather Together Bundle! This was a little different for me to use such dark colors, but I really wanted to showcase the beautifully embossed leaf die cuts and also pick up the color from the Come To Gather DSP print. …
This card was one of the five card projects that were part of the September Holiday Bundle Class Series. It is from the Gather Together Bundle from the new Holiday Catalog. The Come To Gather DSP is so beautiful and most of the prints can be used year round… not just Autumn. Take a peek… …
If you didn’t know by now… the Bird Ballad Suite was the #1 Top Seller according to Stampin’ Up! The Free As a Bird Stamp Set, the Bird Ballad DSP and the Stitched Nested Label Dies were the TOP sellers from the Annual Catalog so far. And why not… the images, the sentiments, the fonts, …
There are so many result variables when you use 2-3 step stamping. This beautiful stamp set and bundle called ‘To A Wild Rose’ is the perfect example to prove my point! You can see from these projects that it just takes one set of stamps to produce several shades of the same image. I did …
As soon as I saw this Scripty 3D Embossing Folder, I knew I had to pair it up with the new Woven Heirlooms Stamp Set! As you can see, I used the sentiment with the gorgeous font style from the stamp set along with a beautiful background stamp and they all worked perfectly to create …
Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set This stamp set is so pretty! Top of my list for stand-alone stamp sets in the new Annual Catalog! Pair it up with the beautiful Designer Series Paper, Garden Lane… and it’s a match made in heaven! Here is what the stamp set looks like! And it is a Distinktive stamp, …
Have you seen all the beautiful background stamps that are in the new Annual Catalog! This one is my hands-down favorite! It is called ‘Birch’ and just look at the realistic image it produces! The background stamps are on page 156! Of course, you always need a focal image for these background stamps and …
This adorable stamp set may be a little overlooked in the new Annual Catalog. Understandable considering all the fabulous new stamp sets and bundles in there! This stamp set is called Seaside Notions. It was actually the sentiment fonts that drew me in right away. Take a look…. Balmy Blue and Sahara Sand make for …
This is from the beautiful stamp set To A Wild Rose! If you purchase the bundle which includes the Wild Rose Dies, there is always a 10% discount advantage as opposed to purchasing them separately! The set has beautiful 3-step stamping images. I have found that when using multiple step stamping, using the Stamparatus allows …
This Sailing Home stamp set and bundle just called out for some watercoloring! And it was so easy to do! For the first card, I simply used a clear block to transfer ink from the Balmy Blue ink pad. Once I stamped the background onto the Whisper White layer, I used my Aqua Painter …