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The fun fold card I made this week features items from the 2024-2025 Annual catalog - the Legendary Ride stamp set and coordinating dies which I paired with the Winter Meadow designer series paper (DSP).
Legendary Ride stamp set #160754
Legendary Ride Dies #160762
With these stamps and dies I created this fun Double Z-Fold card.
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I'm in a challenge to grow my YouTube channel by uploading a card tutorial every week. I hope you'll join me each week as I make progress toward my goal!
The fun fold card I made this week features items from the 2024-2025 Annual catalog - the Unbounded Love stamp set and coordinating dies which I paired with the coordinating Unbounded Beauty designer series paper (DSP) and 2024-2025 In Color Resisn dots.
Unbounded Love Stamp & Die Bundle #163384
Unbounded Beauty DSP #163372
With the products in the Unbounded Beauty suite, I made this Criss Cross fun fold card.
If you do not already have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, I would be happy to be yours and help you plan fun stamping projects.
I reward my customers who place minimum $30 orders with an Inspiring Pretty Paper Projects pdf (new pdf each month with project photos and supply lists with measurements).
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Welcome to our monthly Paper Crafting Blog Hop! This month our theme is masculine projects.
Each hop participant, talented Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from around the world, has created a paper craft project with a masculine theme to inspire you. You may have arrived from Julia Quinn's blog. What an inspiring project she shared!
My project features the Legendary Ride stamp set and coordinating Dies. I paired these stamps and dies with the Country Woods designer series paper (DSP).
Legendary Ride stamp set #160754
Legendary Ride dies #160762
Country Woods DSP #163393
I took these products and created a masculine birthday card with ombre motorcycles. The motorcycle images were stamped with Basic Gray, Pebbled Path, and Smoky Slate inks on coordinating cardstock, then die cut with the coordinating Legendary Ride dies. I put the motorcycles on a multi-colored background of Country Woods designer series paper (DSP) that I jazzed up by stamping the small ground image from the stamp set in Wild Wheat. I added a birthday greeting on a label die cut from the Unbounded Love die set. And there you have it, an ombre masculine birthday card!
Ombre Masculine birthday card
I never thought I'd use the word ombre with masculine card. What do you think? Hit or a miss?
Leave me a comment letting me know your thoughts on this ombre masculine card.
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Legendary Ride with Country Woods DSP Card Misty Moonlight cardstock (cs) 5½ x 8½" (14.9 x 21 cm) scored at 4¼" (10.5 cm) Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Pebbled Path and Smoky Slate cs scraps for die cuts Country Woods DSP 4 x 5 ¼ in (10 x 14.4 cm) Ink: Basic Gray, Pebbled Path, Pecan Pie, Smoky Slate and Wild Wheat Legendary Woods stamp set
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This week I'm making a keepsake for my new granddaughter. It's a nursery decor item that includes the names of the guests who attended her mom's baby shower tea party in back May.
When I decided to throw a baby shower for my daughter, I wanted to keep it simple as we were in the midst of a home renovation that had our house in a state where hosting it was out of the question. I planned to invite just a few close friends and family to a local restuarant to hold the party. Then I had the idea of holding the shower at the historic Reynold's Tavern in Annapolis, which is my favorite place to enjoy afternoon tea.
Being a paper crafter and a lover of teas parties, the preparations proceeded! I ordered baby shower tea invitations from Amazon. Since I didn't plan to invite too many people, I opted to hand address the invitations, saving on having them printed. The invitations were printed on a coat cardstock that would have caused ball point pen ink to smudge, so I used an ultra fine point black Sharpie.
For the favors, I bought clear party favor bags at the local Dollar Tree (much cheaper than Amazon!). I filled the bags with goodies appropriate for a tea party - biscotti (from BJs, my favorite local big box store), chocolates, a small candle tin, and a small draw-string muslin bag with tea bags and and a mini honey pack (Nature Nate's from Amazon). I placed these items in the favor bag on top of a little paper shred.
Favor Tag from Invitation
Back of Tag with stamped Thank You
I used leftover invitations to make tags for the favors by cutting off the top and stamping Thank You on the back in Memento Tuxedo Black ink using Stampin' Up's Go To Greeting stamp set. I added a piece of patterned paper from my craft stash (my Stampin' Up friends may recognize it as Softly Stippled DSP) along the bottom of the backside to cover a bit of wording visible. I'm pretty proud of myself for having paper in a coordinating color!
Inside the favor bag I included a mini muslin bag (long retired Stampin' Up product from my stash) filled with 2 tea bags and a mini honey packet. I created a tag on Canva for these small bags; I printed them on my home printer and cut out.
Mini Muslin Bag with Canva-Created Tag
As I planned to have several shower games, I needed prizes and decided to give StarBucks gift cards to the winners. To package them, I used the Februrary 2024 Sweet Springtime Paper Pumpkin kit for three treat boxes with a stamped Thank You tag. I also decorated two small glassine bags with leftover kit die cuts and tags. I love the bunny and chick imagery from the Paper Pumkin kit!
Shower Game Prizes
I googled free shower printables and found Aspen Jay's website offered just what I was looking for! I was able to download shower games, labels and a guest book that doubles as a nursery decor piece.
Aspen Jay recommended printing the guest book bunny piece as 11 x 17" then cutting it down to 11 x 14" to fit a photo frame that size. I wanted it printed on matte cardstock which Office Depot offered, so I had it printed there. As we didn't know if my daughter was having a girl or a boy, I had guests write their name on both pink and blue balloons. Now that my granddaughter is here, I can adhere the pink balloons! Click here for the bunny guest book printable.
Of course, we had to have Thank You notes, too. I ordered them from Amazon but didn't realize that they were postcards; my daughter preferred thank you cards. So I trimmed the postcards so they could be glued to the front of a white cardstock base.
Since I love throwing tea parties, I have several tea pots and I wanted to use them as decorations for the shower.
Tea Pots
My youngest daughter volunteered to create floral arrangements. I picked up two rose bouquets from Sam's Club and a bunch of baby's breath and greenery from Safeway for the arrangements. I think the arrangements turned out beautifully!! The only thing I would change is to not use floral oasis inside the tea pots. I thought it would make the flower arrangements last longer but they barely lasted a week. The mom-to-be enjoyed looking at them in her office while they lasted though.
Pink Roses in Bunny Tea Pot
Yellow Roses in Tea Pot on Prize Table
Shower Gifts with Balloons
It was a lovely day as we enjoyed tea and showered my daughter and grandbaby-to-be with love!
Have you hosted a tea party? Leave me a comment with your thoughts on tea parties.
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This week I have two projects but neither needs any stamping. The first is a gift bag made from two pieces of 12 x 12" designer series paper (DSP) and the other is a gift tag created with Stampin' Up's Ice Cream Swirl dies.
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I'm participating in another Bundle Bonus that goes live today. Stampin' Up's Encore Bundles from the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog are the focus this month.
Are you wondering what the Bundle Bonus is? Let me tell you about this inspiring program! When you purchase the featured bundle from me, I provide a bonus - all the inspiration you need to create with your new bundle. You get a pdf with lots of inspiring projects my demonstrator friends and I have created using the bundle - and many of them come with video tutorials. The pdf includes project photos, supply lists and measurements for each project.
My project features the Adoring Hearts stamp set and hybrid embossing folder that comes with coordinating dies.
Adoring Hearts Stamp Set #162563
Adoring Hearts Hybrid Embossing Folder #162569
With these products I made a wedding card using the emboss-resist technique.
If you do not already have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, I would be happy to be yours and help you plan fun stamping projects.
I reward my customers who place minimum $30 orders with an Inspiring Pretty Paper Projects pdf (new pdf each month with project photos and supply lists with measurements).
Idea PDF File
For orders over $50, I say thank you with a fun fold tutorial pdf (new tutorial each month with supply list and photos of 12 different versions). Or purchase the Fantastic Fun Folds subscription for just $25 to receive a new fun fold pdf tutorial each month for 12 months. Hit me up for the details.
Fun Folds
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