Stampin' Up!s Amazing Silhouettes Stamp Set Makes the Prettiest Happy Birthday Card When Paired with Hand-Penned Petals Designer Series Paper. Give This a Try!

Us cardmakers never have enough ideas to create from and we are always looking for more ideas to try. So today I'm bringing you two versions of a "Window" or "Peek a Boo" Card. 

You will be able to make a bunch of these cards easily. They are quite simple.

CARD DIRECTIONS:

Cut Cardstock Base - 8-1/2" x 5-1/2", score at 4-1/4", top fold

Basic White for inner layer 4" x 5-1/4" and glue inside

Cut your choice of Designer Series Paper 3-1/4" x 5-1/2" along with 

another piece 3/4" x 5 1/2" for the inner card layer (go ahead and glue this strip inside)

3" x 3" Basic White to stamp the butterfly image on in your choice of matching ink

To make the window, decide if you are using a punch or a die. Pay attention to the amount of space you have on your left edge. (When you look at my two cards, you'll see the heart punch has more room on the left side than my circle die does.)

After you cut or punch your window, you will place your butterfly image in the window to see how it looks. You will be attaching your butterfly with dimensionals to the back of the patterned paper before applying it to the card front. You may find you'll need to trim some of the excess from the 3" square so it won't show in spots. After you have the butterfly attached, then add dimensionals to the patterned paper on each side of the butterfly and close to the corners, so when that section is applied to the card front the layer will be one consistent height.

3/4" x 3" Basic White for greeting of choice from the Go To Greetings Stamp set. Stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Banner ends of tag were cut by hand with paper snips.

Finish with embellishing your butterfly with Pearl Basic Jewels.

I hope your card turned out beautifully!

At the link below I have compiled an extensive shopping list for this card and the needed tools. You have several options when you use this shopping list. You can add all to the cart if you want everything. But if you already have some of the items in your stamping collection, just uncheck each box by the items you have, and the rest of the items you need will go to your shopping cart when you click the "add to cart" button. Once in the online store you can set up a free account or check out as a guest. Either way this link goes to my store and I appreciate your business so much! Thank YOU!

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One Retired Item is the Hand Penned Designer Series Paper but you can substitute any other patterne paper you already own.

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My Blog Top Twelve Cards from the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog

 Today is the last day that the 2021-22 Annual Catalog is active, so I thought it might be fun to revisit some of my favorite cards made in the last year. I will admit some of the cards also came from the July to December 2021 Mini Catalog and the January to June 2022 Mini Catalog, but they fall within this time frame so I am letting them count too.

The link to each blog post about the cards are below each photo.

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/04/a-lovely-card-idea-with-beautiful.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/05/try-nothings-better-than-stamp-set.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/06/corner-latch-fun-fold.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/06/hand-penned-spanner-card.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/08/sweet-strawberry-summertime-card.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/08/august-stamp-and-chat-class-cards-2.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/09/extra-sweet-cookie-cooling-rack-card.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/10/try-triple-fold-fun-fold.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2021/11/delectable-sweet-and-treats-holiday-card.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2022/01/hello-ladybug-valentine-to-melt-for.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2022/02/catching-love-with-chasing-butterflies.html

https://www.homemadewithheart.net/2022/03/ladybug-hello-card-and-hope-decor.html

Thanks for taking a walk down memory lane with me. I'd love to know in the comments which card or project is your favorite of this collection.

What's Cookin'? Blondie Bars and a Beary Lovely Valentines Card

What's Cookin' for Valentine's Day in your house? I've cooked up a "beary" cute card and tried a new bar cookie recipe last night.

I made some Valentine Blondies Bars that I found on Pinterest from https://ahelicoptermom.com/valentine-blondie-bars-recipe

for my Valentine Sampler Class tonight and tomorrow morning. I'll be posting about the Sampler with the next week.

True confession time! I made one mistake and accidentally added 1 teaspoon of baking soda instead of the 1/4 teaspoon, so my bars are more "poofy" than the bars in the recipe photo. The other thing I did was I only had Valentine Peanut M&Ms instead of just the Milk Chocolate Valentine M&Ms. But the good news is you can hardly taste the peanuts, the chocolate chips cover them up nicely. Of course, I had to try a couple to make sure they were edible for my guests. I give them 4.5 out of 5 stars due to my baking soda boo-boo.

I had so much fun creating this What's Cookin' Beary Lovely Valentine's Card for you! This card uses a wide variety of current and retired products, but I think it turned out so cute.

Do you get the greeting? A dash of kindness relates to the salt and pepper shaker. A spoonful of love relates to the spoon in the bowl. I thought that greeting went so well with my original card design.

The Baby Bear Stamp Set (Spring 2017) is retired. The set has three stamps to build the bear, but I only used two of the stamps. Crumb Cake ink for the base layer, and Soft Suede for the facial features.  I wanted to show some fur so I dusted off my very old Fiskars Deckle Edged Scissors to fussy cut around him. What do you think? Does he look furry?

To get that bowl full of hearts and the spoon "in" the bowl, I carefully cut about 3/4 of the way across the bowl just above the front stamped rim edge. After I added the spoon and a few hearts, I scotch taped on the back side of the bowl to hold it all together. Raised the bowl up with dimensionals as I set the bowl in front of the bear, then continued to add the mini hearts with mini dimensionals until I had a pleasant amount.

Here are the products I used to create this card:

CURRENT Products:

Basic White Thick cardstock for card base

Hand Penned Designer Series Paper for card front 

Stitched with Whimsy Dies

Tasteful Label Dies

Shimmery White cardstock for tag

What's Cookin' Stamp Set

Real Red Ink - bowl and tag

Cajun Craze Ink - salt and pepper shakers

Crumb Cake Ink - first layer of bear and spoon

Soft Suede Ink - facial features on bear

Die Cutting Machine

Paper Trimmer

Glue Dots

Dimensionals

Mini Dimensionals

RETIRED Products:

Baby Bear Stamp Set

Triple Heart Punch, use the smallest heart to fill the bowl

So Saffron striped Designer Series Paper

Love You Always Foil set

Real Red Foil

1/8" Whisper White Sheer Ribbon

Not a Stampin' Up Products:

Fiskars Deckle Edged Scissors (photo to help) originally from big box craft store long ago

The current products are available at my online store by clicking the yellow box link below. The retired products might be able to be found on eBay, Etsy, or other selling sites.

I'd love to read your comments about the bear card or if you tried the recipe. 

What do you think about both or either?

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OnStage at Home Make and Take Alternate Ideas

Here are three ideas to inspire you! I used the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper, Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set, and Penned Flower Dies for my OnStage at Home make and take cards last month.

The card above uses an inlaid technique for the flower bunch. You just die-cut out the images twice and build the bouquet the way you want it. I did put some scotch tape on the back for security.

This card used sponge daubers and ink pads to lightly color the flower image. I had not done this technique before and it took a little practice to keep the ink light and airy. 

I am also the type of person who likes even borders, but I went out of my comfort zone and put the papers at interesting angles. It didn't hurt too much LOL!

This card used also used sponge daubers and ink pads to lightly color the flower image.  I think this card is my favorite of the three shared with you today!

Give these ideas a try! Thanks for looking today!

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Special Blog Hop Highlighting a Fun Fold Card

Welcome! A group of Silver level Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from across the globe have combined their incredible talents to share some Fun Folds for today's blog hop! We also are working on building our businesses by making connections with each other. It's a great group of very creative ladies. You probably know that by now since you're about half-way through the hop when you've arrived here.

However you have arrived here, either from Tricia's Stamping Creations or from one of my social media links, I'm very glad you are here to enjoy my creation! Don't forget to leave a comment, I'd love to read your thoughts about today's fun fold card.

Vertical Center Step Card

Color Theme - Misty Moonlight, Pale Papaya, Pear Pizzazz and Basic White.

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Start with the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set and matching Penned Flower Dies plus the Hand Penned Designer Series Paper. I make my own storage for my dies in case you were wondering.

Sneak Peek of the card inside and how the center step fun fold works.

Let's Begin Creating this Card:

Step 1: Use the template above to cut and score your 4-1/4" x 11" piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock.

Step 2: Cut your Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper as follows:

Center Piece - 2-1/8" x 4-1/2" and glue that down first.

Bottom Horizontal Piece - 7/8" x 4-1/8" glue that down next.

Two Vertical Pieces both cut 7/8" x 4-1/4" and glue those down.

Basic White Cardstock for inside card - 4" x 4-1/4" and glue down.

Step 3: With a 3/4" x 4-1/2" piece of Misty Moonlight, die cut the scallop edge treatment. Hint! Line up the straight edge with the straight edge of the 4-1/2" side. Run through die cutting machine. Affix as shown in photo.

Step 4: Using either circle punches or circle dies, select 1-1/4" and 1-3/8" circles. Stamp the get well greeting on a scrap of Basic White Cardstock. Then cut your Basic White circle, followed by a scrap of Misty Moonlight and cut that circle. Affix those two circles together. Use mini-dimensionals to affix to card front as shown.

Step 5: Cut a 12" piece of Pale Papaya 3/8" Open Weave Ribbon and wrap around center section and tie a bow as shown near the greeting.

Step 6: Making the Focal Point Floral image (Don't give up - you're almost finished!)

• You will need small pieces of Pale Papaya, Pear Pizzazz and Basic White cardstock, plus Cardstock Vellum.  
• Using the outline largest floral die cut the Pale Papaya piece. 
• With scraps of Pear Pizzazz you will cut the leaf portions again with the same die. 
• Die cut the floral image in Basic White. 
• Using the Basic White die cut, you will fit and trim the Pear Pizzazz leaf pieces into position then glue them down.  Let dry. 
• Using a Fine Tip Glue Pen, glue your Basic White floral frame to a larger piece of Vellum Cardstock. Let glue dry. When dry, carefully fussy cut around the flower edges and expose the leaves so the Pear Pizzazz will show through when you glue the layers together next. 
• Using the Fine Tip Glue Pen again glue the white and vellum layer to the papaya and pear layer. Weight with a clear stamp block to dry.

Step 7: When flower focal point is all dry. Put several mini-dimensionals on the back and attach to the center of the card as shown in the photo. Embellish with Champagne Rhinestones to complete the card.

Step 8: Cut a 2-3/8" x 6" matching piece of the Hand Penned Designer Series Paper for your envelope flap. Glue down and trim with paper snips.

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Or if you want to hop around here's the whole list!

1. Janice Piechowiak	Creating Treasures with Janice
2. Linda Moore	Moore Fun Stamping and Creating with Linda
3. Nedine Hunter DuPree	Craft Lounge Creations
4. Libby Fens	libbystamps
5. Kelly Taranto	The Late Night Stamper
6. Karen Egan	Crafty Karen Designs
7. Tricia Butts	Tricia's Stamping Creations
8. Eva Dietz	Homemade with Heart - Stampin' with Eva
9. Diane Marie	Creative Stamper
10. Cathy Rocca	FromTheStampStudio
11. Sue Kremer	NorthStarStamper
12. Tracy Byers	Cards, Crafts and Stamps with Tracy
13. Laurie Bradshaw	Craft Coach Laurie
14. Nancy Reynolds	Stampin' With Nutsy
15. Xenia Stanford	Heritage Stamp Arts

Hand Penned and Foil Butterfly Card

Yesterday I shared my tent/top fold version of my original card design. Today is the side fold/vertical version. Now you have two designs to make or chose between. They both are stunning in my biased opinion. 

This card has a blank basic white liner to write your own message on.

Here's the Products I used that are available at my online store (click below).

Basic White and Pale Papaya cardstocks

Scalloped Contour Dies

Tasteful Textures Embossing Folder

Cut and Emboss Machine for Dies and Embossing Folder

Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper

Double Oval Punch

Champagne Foil

Butterfly Brilliance Bundle

Dragonfly Garden stamp set for greeting

Genial Gems for spine of butterfly

Dimensionals

Today also happens to be FREE SHIPPING DAY with Stampin' Up! so you could save a minimum of $6.95 with a $50 qualifying order USD at my online store link below.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

  

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Hand-Penned Spanner Card

Spanner Card anyone? I had never seen one before Lisa's Stamp Studio shared their design online. I had to make one for myself. As always, I changed it up a bit using a different color of card base. The Misty Moonlight really goes well in this design I think. I also used a different pattern of the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper (DSP).

In the closed position you really can't see the spanner part.

Still can't see it.

Now you get the idea. The piece of window sheet created the span between the two narrow side pieces, or one could say it "bridged the gap"!

The innermost layers.

SPANNER CARD CUTTING DIMENSIONS:

BASE:

·        Misty Moonlight cardstock, cut at 5-1/2” x 8-1/2”, scored at 4-1/4”. Then measure from the outside edge of at 1-1/4” on each side. Using your paper trimmer, cut from the score line (crease) to the open edge for both sides.

FRONT SIDES:  

·        Basic Black – cut 2 pieces 1-1/8” x 4-1/8”. 

·        DSP – cut 2 pieces 1” x 4”

CENTER FRONT:  

·        Basic Black – cut 2-7/8” x 4-1/8” plus a 1” wide x 4” scrap for the scalloped edge.

·        DSP – 2-3/4” x 4”

·        Basic White Greeting strip – ¾” x 2-3/4”

·        Window Sheet (bridge) 1-1/4” x 5-1/4”

INSIDE:

·        Basic White 4-1/2” x 5-3/8”

·        Basic Black – cut 2 pieces 1-1/8” x 4-1/8” 

·        DSP – cut 2 pieces 1” x 4”

FOR FLORAL DIE CUT IMAGE:

·        Thick Basic White 2-3/4” x 3-1/4”

·        Stamp floral image from Hand-Penned Petals in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Using Pale Papaya and Mint Macaron ink stamp interior shading of flowers and leaves. Using Stampin’ Blends in Dark Mint Macaron and Light Calypso Coral hand color accent portions.

FOR ENVELOPE FLAP:

·        DSP – 2-3/8” X 6”

SPANNER CARD BUILDING STEPS

1.     Fold card on score line.

Inside of card

2.     Adhere Basic White to inside solid half of card base.

3.     Adhere each Polka Dot DSP strip to each Basic Black Strip.

4.     Adhere each Polka Dot/Black strip to each side of Basic White piece.

Moving to the two front side panels

5.     Adhere each Green Stripe DSP strip to each Basic Black Strip.

6.     Adhere Window Sheet strip to the front of the two side panels with small pieces of tear and tape, so bottom edge of window sheet is 1/16” from bottom of card front.

7.     Then adhere each Green Stripe/Black strip to each front side, so it encloses the window sheet.

Center Panel of Front

8.     Adhere floral DSP to Basic Black cardstock.

9.     Go die cut the scallop edge on strip of Basic Black. The strips are in a bag by the big shot.

10. On the narrow piece of Basic White – stamp “Anything is Possible” in Tuxedo Black about ¼” away from the left edge and close to the top edge about 1/16” down.

11. Glue stamped white strip with top edge at 1-1/4” away from bottom edge of center card base panel. It is supposed to fit on the DSP only.

12. Take Black Scalloped Border piece and adhere it just below “possible” so there is black cardstock hanging over both side edges. Trim to fit flush with side edge of black cardstock.

13. Adhere multi-layered center piece to card base center panel.

Floral Image

14.      Die cut out colored flower image with die cutting machine.

15.      Affix flower using 4 mini dimensionals, with 3 going to adhere to the green stripe right side panel and one mini dimensional on the lower leaf to the window sheet.

Envelope

16.      Attach and trim DSP piece on Envelope Flap.

Please let me know in the comments, if there was anything unclear in my directions. I want them to be as accurate as possible.

Have fun making this card. It is gorgeous when you are all finished!

  

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