The Crafty Thinker: Stephanie Fischer - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator: August 2017

Wednesday, 30 August 2017

70 Years of Cheers

I recently made two special birthday cards for a friend - one for me to give her and one commissioned by her husband to give her.

This is the one I gave her. I added a piece of the gorgeous Year of Cheer Specialty Designer Series Paper from the Holiday Catalogue (available from 1 September 2017 to 2 January 2018) to a Whisper White base card (I used the thick Whisper White cardstock).

The foliage fronds are cut in Basic Black using one of the Flourish thinlits to which I added flowers cut in Basic Black and Copper Foil Sheet using dies from the Bloomin' Heart set with Basic Rhinestone centres.

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Year of Cheer Specialty Designer Series Paper is for so much more than Christmas!

I cut some Basic Black cardstock with one of the Layering Circles framelits and another with one of the scalloped dies from the same set with Silver Foil Sheet. The Whisper White circle is cut with one of the Stitched Shapes framelits.

The shiny copper and silver in the Year of Cheer paper is beautiful!

Unfortunately the dies I used for the little numbers are now retired but I do used them from time for special birthdays because they tend to be the perfect size for my cards!

There are 5 different, & equally gorgeous, metallic designs in the Year of Cheer Washi Tape

To decorate the inside of the card, I edged a piece of Whisper White cardstock with some Year of Cheer Specialty Washi Tape. This will be available from 1st September in the new Holiday Catalogue.

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'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Monday, 28 August 2017

Layered Leaves Tarnished Foil Sympathy Card

This is what happened to the other half of yesterday's tarnished foil sheet.

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Just love the Tarnished Foil technique combined with the Layered Leaves 3D embossing folder

The label stamp is from the new Labels To Love set in the Holiday Catalogue, punched out with the coordinating Everyday Label Punch. The sentiment is from Rose Wonder.

The gorgeous flourish die is part of the Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits in the new Holiday Catalogue

This is the Tarnished Foil sheet in progress.

Layered leaves with Silver Foil Sheet and Basic Black ink

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'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Sunday, 27 August 2017

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Special Guest Debbie Henderson

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Welcome to the Crazy Crafters' Blog Hop with our Special Guest stamper, Debbie Henderson - we are thrilled to have Debbie join us this month and so excited to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) any project that has been created by her .

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Looking through all of Debbie's lovely cards, I ended up with a very long "short list" but eventually chose this card to CASE because I've been promising myself that I'd try the Tarnished Foil Technique for quite some time. I'm so glad I did, because it was enormous fun - so much so that you'll be seeing more of it from me in the days to come!

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The Tarnished Foil Technique works so well with the Layered Leaves 3D Embossing Folder

Using Debbie's instructions, I started out by using the Layered Leaves 3D Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder on a piece of Silver Foil Sheet. I swiped a Basic Black Archival ink pad over it and left it to dry.

Then I randomly patted the sheet with a Versamark pad and sprinkled it with gold embossing powder. I used a dry paintbrush to soften any hard edges in the embossing powder and then set it with the heat tool. I repeated this process with copper embossing powder and when I was happy with the metallics, I lightly added a bit more black with the ink pad.

At this point, I cut my piece in half and used half for this card and half on another card that I'll show you tomorrow.

Basic Black and Very Vanilla create such an elegant card combined with the
metallics of the Tarnished Foil Technique

I adhered my decorative piece to a Very Vanilla panel and added some ribbon (the 7/8" Striped Ribbon is a new product in the Holiday Catalogue and will be generally available from 1st September). This panel is attached to the Basic Black card with Adhesive Foam Strips.

I stamped the "flower" design from the Eastern Beauty stamp set in Basic Black onto Very Vanilla and then cut it out with the coordinating die from the Eastern medallions thinlits (available as a bundle for a saving of 10%). Having used my bone folder and ball tool to add some movement to the flower, I attached it with a Stampin' Dimensional. I also put some Mini Dimensionals behind each petal so that they'll maintain their shape through the postal system.

Using some Copper Foil Sheet, I cut some leaves with the new Leaf Punch from the Holiday Catalogue (also generally available from 1st September) and gave them a little dimension with a ball tool before adhering them to the card with some mini glue dots.

The finishing touches were some of the Gold Faceted Gems.

I hope you've enjoyed this card and I welcome your comments.

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Stephanie

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Friday, 25 August 2017

Ink It! Stamp It! Design Team Blog Hop - 3D

Welcome to the Ink It! Stamp It! Design Team Blog Hop - we hop every month so be sure to pop back and visit us again! Today our theme is 3D - always a challenge for me!

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A simple exterior in Basic Gray and Crushed Curry

The front of the card is quite simple. I used Smoky Slate Embossing Paste with the Pattern Party mask on Basic Gray card. Then I simply added a few bits of ribbon, a bow and some Glitter Enamel Dots.

The inside of the card is another story altogether!

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A double pop up card with traffic-laden streets!

The idea for this card came to me when I first saw the new Holiday Catalogue - specifically the Hometown Greetings edgelits. However, since 3D is not in my comfort zone, I wanted to get started straight away. So rather than wait until I could get those products, I used something I already had - the In The City stamp set. I'll probably make another card with my original idea later.

I used Basic Gray cardstock for the roads and drew the lines with my Chalk Marker and a ruler.

I stamped two rows of buildings, coloured and fussy cut them in two strips.

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the vehicles and attached them to the road with pieces of Window Sheet (attached to the back of the vehicle and under the road through a slit).

The side view gives a better idea of the dimension and the pop up mechanism

The base card is Basic Gray and the Double Pop Up mechanism is made with Soft Sky cardstock. I added a strip of Emerald Green to hide the pop up mechanism. I could have placed the first row of houses at that level but I wanted to maximise writing space.

Double Pop Up Mechanism:

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Step 1

Step 2

Finished and opened up. Adhere to inside of card.

I hope you've enjoyed this this technique and these cards and I welcome your comments.

Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you'll join us again next month for our Holiday Catalogue projects! I'm Stephanie Fischer and to keep hopping around see the list below to see who is up next with another great project.

Thanks for visiting
'Til next time
Stephanie