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In The Country | Heat Emboss with Blends

Hello my stamping friends.

It’s Friday and I have a fun project to share that showcases the In The Country stamp set from the Sale-a-bration promotion and a technique where we color an embossed image with the Blends markers!

In The Country      160828

This set is available during the promotion with a $50 qualifying order.

 

So the technique is just like it sounds.  Heat emboss the image first, then color over the top with Blend Alcohol Markers.  I crafted this project for a demo swap for the Jan-Feb promotion and now I’m sharing it with all of you.  If you love coloring with Blends as much as I do, give this a try.

Here are some photos to take you through the process.

After all my coloring was done, I decided to dress up the image by making it into a tag! And added a festive ribbon and thread bow for embellishment.

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In The Country      160828	Timeworn Type EF 156505
Design A Daydream HOST DSP      159161	Stylish Shapes Dies 159183
Real Red & Garden Green Ribbon   159577	Linen Thread                      104199

Ink: Versamark, White Emboss Powder

Blends: Crumb Cake, Bronz, Real Red, Old Olive 

Paper: Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Basic White, Design A Daydream DSP

Tools: Simply Scored Tool, Stampin’ Trimmer, Bone Folder, Paper Snips, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Pencil, Grid Sheet or Ruler

Adhesive: Multipurpose Glue, Dimensionals

Check out my MONTHLY FUN FOLD CLASS!

Here are a couple of projects that might interest you.  These have been featured in my Fun Fold Template Class.  Each will take you to the project post.  Or visit the Mo Fun Fold Template Class page for more information.  You are welcome to join us anytime.

Leave me a comment, ask a question or subscribe to my newsletter to see more of my projects.  Thanks for visiting my project today.

Happy Stampin,

Susan

 

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It’s Paper Pumpkin’s 10-year anniversary and we want to celebrate how much we’ve grown! This month’s kit is all about happy greetings, organic and botanical designs digitally painted by our in-house artists, along with all-occasion sentiments to celebrate the happy moments in life and recognize the people around you who help you grow! 

And as part of our anniversary celebration, the March Paper Pumpkin Kit includes a FREE GIFT featuring a plant and pot builder to make all your projects plant-astic!

ABOUT THE KIT

Name: Ten Years of Growth

This kit includes:

• All the supplies you need to create 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs; and coordinating envelopes.

• An all-occasion stamp set to recognize the people in your life who help you grow with greetings and beautiful botanical images.

• 1 Polished Pink Classic Stampin’ Spot

• Paper pieces and embellishments with digitally-painted designs and images.

• Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.

• 1 FREE additional stamp set, which includes a plant and pot builder to make plant-astic projects!

• Completed card size: 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" (14 x 10.8  cm)

• Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Shaded Spruce, Garden Green, Coastal Cabana, Orchid Oasis, Fresh Freesia, Polished Pink, Crumb Cake

 

 

Note: Supplies may be limited toward the end of the subscription period.

SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Subscribe to this Paper Pumpkin Kit between February 11, 2022 and March 10, 2023 at https://www.paperpumpkin.com/en-us/sign-up/?demoid=98562

Love Cats

Color Challenge

Inkspirations Blog Hop February 2023

Hello my stamping friends.

So this month Angie challenged us with a Color Challenge!  And to be honest I had a hard time deciding what to do for today’s project.  First I looked through all my DSP for papers with these colors - guess what I didn’t find any!  So then I started to think about paper piecing and decided to go with that method.  Here is the challenge photo shared to inspire us with the colors!

So Saffron | Sweet Sorbet | Tahitian Tide | Orchid Oasis | Shaded Spruce

Okay, so I pulled lots of photos while I was crafting and thinking through my project.  And I put them all together in a Show & Tell SHORT.  So you can watch and follow along with my process for this card project.

YOUTUBE LINK

So I hope you enjoyed my project today.  Please leave me a comment down below and then use this link to hop along to the next crafter in our hop today.  

Happy Stamping,

Susan

 

Angie McKenzie  ●  Aurélie Fabre  ● 

Tricia Butts  ●  Jan Musselman  ●  Mo Rootes

Rochelle Laird-Smith  ●  Susan Webster  ●  Karen Henderson

Judith Patterson  ●  Shel Anderson  ●  Leonie Stuart

Danielle Kassing  ●  Ann Krucek  ●  Vickie Littlewood  ●  Annette Ball

 

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LOVE CATS            160410	Stamparatus Tool     146276
Tahitian Tide Ribbon    159197	Stylish Shapes Dies 159183

Ink: Tahitian Tide

Blend: Sweet Sorbet

Paper: Basic White, So Saffron, Shaded Spruce, Sweet Sorbet, Orchid Oasis, Tahitian Tide

Tools: Simply Scored Tool, Stampin’ Trimmer, Bone Folder, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss, Paper Snips, Stamparatus

Adhesive: Multipurpose Glue, Dimensionals, Fine Tip Glue

Check out my MONTHLY FUN FOLD CLASS!

Here are a couple of projects that might interest you.  These have been featured in my Fun Fold Template Class.  Each will take you to the project post.  Or visit the Mo Fun Fold Template Class page for more information.  You are welcome to join us anytime.

Leave me a comment, ask a question or subscribe to my newsletter to see more of my projects.  Thanks for visiting my project today.

Happy Stampin,

Susan

Pumpkin Hill Stampers

EMAIL: susan@pumpkinhillstampers.com

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Love Cats - Valentine

Hello my stamping friends.

Check out this fun fold Valentine featuring the Love Cats stamp set.  This one I created for a demo swap with my BZB Team.  So I made a dozen copies of this at the time. This project is also one of the fun fold templates I am sharing in my monthly class in the mail this month!

This fold is really easy, as you are simply cutting the front of a standard card down into three panels.  The center panel then gets twisted and used as a focal point on the card. This also reveals the center liner of the card.

Here are the basic measures for this project.

Since I was creating multiples of this card for my swap I used my Stampartus to help me with placement and ink coverage.  For placement I decided where my cat image could be on my front focal panel.  Then I set up the stamp on the clear arm and marked my grid sheet to position my multiple pieces of cardstock in the same location each time.

Now for ink coverage, I sometimes find that with solid image stamps, getting even ink coverage can be tricky.  And sometimes I am more apt to rock and rock my block and end up with edges I don’t want.  So the Stampartus helps resolve both of these issues.  For better ink coverage, you can stamp the image with more than one layer of ink!  Yep, because the stamp doesn’t move and the paper doesn’t move, you can re-stamp the image with as many layers of ink as you desire.  It of course depends on how well inked your stamp pad is to start, but we all like them differently.  And the Stamparatus eliminates the rocked edges we sometimes get with handheld blocks.

After I stamped all my kitties, I used my Blend to add color to the heart!  Then with my Fine Tip Glue I coated the heart to make it like a gem! It does take a while to dry so be patient.  The sentiment was stamped and then each word was trimmed out to add back to the card.

So, isn’t this cute? If you want a full tutorial and template for this type of fun fold check out my monthly Fun Fun Template class.  Leave me a comment, let me know what you think of this project.

 

Happy Stamping,

Susan

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LOVE CATS            160410	Country Floral 12x12 DSP    160375
Fine Tip Glue                    138309	Stamparatus Tool     146276

Ink: Soft Suede

Blend: Blushing Bride

Paper: Blushing Bride, Basic White, Country Floral DSP

Tools: Simply Scored Tool, Stampin’ Trimmer, Bone Folder, Paper Snips

Adhesive: Multipurpose Glue

Check out my MONTHLY FUN FOLD CLASS!

Here are a couple of projects that might interest you.  These have been featured in my Fun Fold Template Class.  Each will take you to the project post.  Or visit the Mo Fun Fold Template Class page for more information.  You are welcome to join us anytime.

Remember to leave me a comment, ask a question or subscribe to my newsletter to see more of my projects.  Thanks for visiting my project today.

Susan Webster

Pumpkin Hill Stampers

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Your Creative Coach since 2005

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Sun Prints DSP with Meadows Dies | Pinwheel Card

Hello my stamping friends.

Today for the Stamping with Friends Blog Hop our theme is pop out cards!  So that’s always exciting and maybe a little bit challenging.  But as I went scrolling through PINTEREST to find a fun pop out card, I came across the PinWheel cards.  I had never made one before this project, so it was new to me.  But I’ve been wanting to make one for a couple of years.  So today is the day.

I started out looking at other blog posts and youtube videos to see how others had crafted theirs.  Then I got busy and made my own.  I decided to use the Sun Prints DSP and then embellish with the Meadows Dies.  I also used the Sending Support stamp set from the Sale-a-bration catalog.

So I had so many photos from my project that I put them all together into a YouTube Short.  So not my usual Show & Tell video demonstration, but a quick review of the parts & pieces and steps I followed.  But I will say this will definitely be one of my Fun Fold Template class projects in the coming months.  Here is the video.

YOUTUBE LINK

As always my supplies are listed below, and please leave me a comment let me know what you think!  Then hop on along the crafting trail of our BLOG HOP today.  Hopefully we will inspire you to try something new. Enjoy all our projects.

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Sunprints DSP                             158790	Meadow Dies                                      155852
Sending Support       160822	Stitched Rectangle Dies 151820

Ink: Night of Navy

Paper: Basic White, Sun Prints DSP

Tools: Stampin’ Trimmer, Bone Folder, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine

Adhesive: Multipurpose Glue

Check out my MONTHLY FUN FOLD CLASS!

Here are a couple of projects that might interest you.  These have been featured in my Fun Fold Template Class.  Each will take you to the project post.  Or visit the Mo Fun Fold Template Class page for more information.  You are welcome to join us anytime.

Leave me a comment, ask a question or subscribe to my newsletter to see more of my projects.  Thanks for visiting my project today.

Happy Stampin,

Susan

 

Pumpkin Hill Stampers

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Playing In The Rain | Open Front Fun Fold

Hello my stamping friends.

Today I am sharing my second fun fold project of February.  I am crafting with the Playing In The Rain suite again, but this time with the bunny!   I think all three of these three main characters of this stamp set are really adorable.  

Okay I refer to this fun fold as the Open Front Fold.  It only takes half a sheet of cardstock at 11 x 4 ¼ inches and some DSP or stamped panels to complete.  The focal section on the front is the cardstock that is removed from the front of the card, just turned sideways and put back together.  HEre are the basic measures of the project.

Now each of my monthly fun fold templates comes with a step by step video tutorial.  I refer to my video tutorials as Show & Tell.  So here is the Show & Tell Video for this project.  I will take you through the whole project from start to finish. I share the template, and then take you through the preparations for the card project. Enjoy the video.

YOUTUBE LINK

As you can see from my video, things don’t always go as planned. Or we make mistakes, like my cutting error on the Stampin’ Trimmer when my paper slipped. But I just made an adjustment and completed the project. Please don’t feel like you have to start all over again.  Use what you have, make adjustments and as I always tell my stamping friends… “It’s your card, make it your way!” 

Here is the project, both the front and the inside.  I opted to line my project with the DSP panel and then add the Basic White panel to show off the sentiment.  Also, to tuck that sentiment behind the open front flap!

Would you like to receive this template in the mail, along with a sample kit to practice one of your own?  That’s exactly what I offer in my Class In The Mail option.  Be sure to contact me if you would like to join the fun.

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Playing In The Rain     160551

Rain or Shine DSP       160540

Ink: Memento

Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Basic White, Rain or Shine DSP

Tools:  Stampin’ Trimmer, Bone Folder, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine

Adhesive: Multipurpose Glue, Dimensionals

Check out my MONTHLY FUN FOLD CLASS!

Here are a couple of projects that might interest you.  These have been featured in my Fun Fold Template Class.  Each will take you to the project post.  Or visit the Mo Fun Fold Template Class page for more information.  You are welcome to join us anytime.

Leave me a comment, ask a question or subscribe to my newsletter to see more of my projects.  Thanks for visiting my project today.

Happy Stampin,

Susan

 

Pumpkin Hill Stampers

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Playing In The Rain | Double Front Fun Fold

Hello my stamping friends.

It’s time for another Fun Fold project today for the month of February.  I just received the Playing In The Rain suite of items from the Spring Mini Catalog, so I just had to put them to use.  The DSP in the suite is extra special, as some of the images have a pre-heat embossed shine to them.  It’s really cool to craft with.

Okay, for this fun fold we are making a card with two front panels that overlap.  One of the features a like about this design is you have two panels in the front to showcase patterned papers that coordinate, but don’t necessarily have to be matching!

Here is the Show & Tell Video to see the whole project from start to finish. I share the template, and then take you through the preparations for the card project. Enjoy the video.

YOUTUBE LINK

Would you like to receive this template in the mail, along with a sample kit to practice one of your own?  That’s exactly what I offer in my Class In The Mail option.  Be sure to contact me if you would like to join the fun.

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Playing In The Rain     160551	Rain or Shine DSP       160540
Meadow Dies                                      155852

Ink: Memento

Paper: Balmy Blue, Basic White, Rain or Shine DSP

Tools: Simply Scored Tool, Stampin’ Trimmer, Bone Folder, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine

Adhesive: Multipurpose Glue, Dimensionals

Check out my MONTHLY FUN FOLD CLASS!

Here are a couple of projects that might interest you.  These have been featured in my Fun Fold Template Class.  Each will take you to the project post.  Or visit the Mo Fun Fold Template Class page for more information.  You are welcome to join us anytime.

Leave me a comment, ask a question or subscribe to my newsletter to see more of my projects.  Thanks for visiting my project today.

Happy Stampin,

Susan

Pumpkin Hill Stampers

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