Today’s video is a quick one. I demonstrate how to create your own designer series paper using a clean and simple stamping technique using criss cross stamping. It’s easy!
Using an 8-1/2″ x 11″ piece of white card stock, cut 1″ off one short and one long edge so you will have a piece that measures 10″ x 7-12″. Using the stamp and colors of your choice, begin stamping randomly across and down the center of the card stock. Add a sentiment and when you are finished, cut the stamped piece in half at 5″ on the long edge and at 3-3/4″. Adhere to a coordinating colored card base. Cut the card base at 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″. Use the adhesive of your choice. Embellish as desired and you have 4 totally different cards that you can use.
I chose to use the Beautiful Balloons stamp set and several different coordinating colors for the card bases.
I would love it if you would share your creations with me.
I’m back after another short break, but it is my goal this year to provide you with a video tutorial each month. It’s one of the things I’ve set out to do. And, if there isn’t one each month, then by the end of this year, by golly, there will be 12. Some months just might have two, especially if I skip a month. Sometimes time just gets away from me.
My original intent was to start the year with a tutorial using different stamp sets, but I decided since it is so late in the month, I might as well start by celebrating Valentine’s Day. I’m presenting to you a video that I have done in which I create a Valentine Pop-Up card I’ve designed. So I’ll show you two cards in the video and I will provide you with a list a supplies for both cards at the end of this post; however, I will only decorate the Valentine card in the video. The second card is self explanatory as far as decorating is concerned. So is the Valentine card, but I know that beginning stampers like to see things done, and that is completely understandable. If I chose to decorate both cards in the video it would just be way too long. I don’t want to put anyone to sleep. You can use the basic pop-up card for any occasion. Have fun decorating it any way you want.
I apologize in advance for some of the bloopers in the video. I am way out of practice, which is another sign that I need to do this more often. Also, if anything could go wrong while making this video, IT. DID.! From running out of disk space on my camera, to a camera battery dying in the middle of filming, to my phone ringing…to sloppy stamping…you name it and it happened. 🙂 I also had to drag out my old, slow laptop to edit the film, because I didn’t realize windows no longer provides downloads for Movie Maker for Windows 10. So in the process, I thought I’d learn a new movie maker software, but realized very late last night that wasn’t going to happen!
Here are photos of the Valentine Pop-Up!
And this one I call Painted Poppies Honey Bee Pop-Up!
So here you go with the video. Let me know if you have questions. Also, the link for the printed tutorial on how to make the pop-up mechanism for the inside of the card can be found here.
A week ago, our new Occasions Catalog went active along with this year’s Sale-a-bration. That’s me…usually a day late and a dollar short! You don’t know what Sale-a-bration is? Well, let me tell you…for every $50.00 you spend in regular product from any of our active catalogs, you can get an item in our Sale-a-bration catalog FREE! Now that’s a deal, if you ask me.
You say you don’t have TIME to stamp? Well the cards I’m sharing today took me less than thirty minutes…NOT EACH…but for ALL THREE! That’s right, they are simple but still beautiful. it just goes to show you don’t have to spend a lot of money to make a nice card and you don’t have to have all day to create one; just thirty minutes and you can make three!
The first two cards are for Valentine’s Day and are made with sets that are in the current Occasions Catalog. The last card is made with a set that I got for free which is in Sale-a-bration. And if you know me, if there is a rooster set available, it is the first one I will choose because I am a chicken lover! In October my sister took a count of how many rooster/chickens I have in my home in some form or another and I think she stopped counting at around 97. I know…it’s a sickness.
So here are the cards that I created with plain white paper, ink and a stamp set. Hope you like them.
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