Fun Summer Sampler Project You Can Make

I love Home Decor pieces, especially Samplers. I enjoyed designing this Summer Sampler for my customers who are participating in our Year of Samplers classes.

It's a blast to be able to dive into my stamp/die/punch collection to find just the right pieces needed for this sampler. 

I thought about the following things that happen in the summer: blowing pinwheels in the wind, visits to Grandma's house, baseball games (youth or professional), licking dripping popsicles, outdoor barbecues, sunny weather for the most part, visiting the beach and celebrating 4th of July.  My list of ideas was actually longer, but these images had the best scale of size to work together in this piece.  

Do some of these squares resonate with you?

Here's three of the ladies who took the class - (L to R) - Mary Ann, Barbara and Beth. They kept saying "This is so cute!" as they were creating their samplers. They will be putting their sampler into a shadow box frame that has already held the Valentines and Spring samplers we have made together.

The "Craftermath" when the class was finished.  Lots of Stamps, Ink and Paper!

The Current & Retired Products used were:

Each Basic White cardstock block was 2-3/4" and the Summer one was 2-3/4" x 6-1/4".

Bermuda Bay cardstock was the main color throughout. Those blocks were 3" square and 3" x 6-1/2".

Provided a variety of 12" x 12" "Summery" Designer Series Paper sheets that the ladies could select from to mount their finished blocks on.

SUMMER block - Sophisticated Serifs stamp set, Waterfront stamp set, Balmy Blue ink put on with a blending brush, Bermuda Bay ink, Pool Party ink, Gray Granite ink, Crushed Curry ink, Soft Suede ink, Old Olive ink, Melon Mambo ink, Memento ink and April 2018 Paper Pumpkin stamps " Seagulls".

Patriotic block - Kite Delight stamp set, Star dies, Red- White-Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper, Cloudy Day embossing folder, Real Red ink, Pacific Point ink, and non SU shiny star embellishment attached with glue dot.

Hello Sunshine block - Sharing Sunshine stamp set, June 2020 Paper Pumpkin stamps - "Hello", Sunshine & Rainbows Designer Series Paper, Cloud Punch, Daffodil Delight ink, Melon Mambo ink, and Glossy Dots embellishments.

Barbecue block - Apron of Love, Apron Builder Dies, Wrapped in Text embossing folder, Memento Ink, Sunshine & Rainbows Designer Series Paper, Black and Silver Foil, and Basic White cardstock. 

Popsicle block - Sweet Ice Cream stamp set (dots), April 2021 Paper Pumpkin stamp set (popsicle), Ice Cream Corner Designer Series Paper, Daffodil Delight ink, and Bronze Stampin' Blends pen.

Baseball block - hand ruled "Base" with Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker, sponge dauber with Crumb Cake ink for base edges, Baked Brown Sugar ink for bat from May 2021 Paper Pumpkin stamp set, Real Red Stampin' Write Marker, Very Vanilla cardstock, 1/2" Circle punch, Bermuda Bay cardstock and Hat Builder Die.

Going to Grandma's block - Grandma's House stamp set, Memento ink, Driving By stamp set, scrap of Basic White cardstock for car, Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends, Tahitian Tide Stampin' Blends, Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends, Real Red Stampin' Blends, SU500 Stampin' Blends, and Basic Black Stampin' Blends.

Pinwheels - 2" square of Melon Mambo and Bermuda Bay Designer Series Papers (your choice of patterns), Glue Dots, Candy Dot on top, and non SU drinking straws in coordinating colors. Hint- I used a glue dot with each blade of the pinwheel to secure it.

Watermelon accents - April 21 Paper Pumpkin stamp set, Memento ink, Real Red Stampin' Blends, Just Jade Stampin' Blends, and mounted with dimensionals.

Other Tools Used - Paper Trimmer, Paper Snips, Cut and Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick tool, Stampin' Seal, dimensionals, glue dots, and liquid glue.

(Forgive me if I've forgotten anything on the list above. As you can see there was a lot to keep track of.)

If you want to make something similar for your home, you have the basic ingredients used listed above. Feel free to be creative and substitute other summer favorites of yours. If there is anything unclear please ask a question in the comment box below.

June 21 is Summer Solstice so be sure to hang up your Summer Sampler on that day!

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.

Spring Sampler Home Decor Idea

Here's a fun home decor piece that you can make with your crafty friends. 

This Spring Sampler project was a swap organized by Debbie Henderson from Maine on Facebook. I was in Group F and eight other people besides myself signed up to make 9 identical squares with a spring theme using the colors Highland Heather, Daffodil Delight, and Basic White. By the set deadline, we agreed to mail the 8 squares to each person on the list along with keeping one for ourselves.

The Daffodil Delight was 3-1/4" square, the Highland Heather 3" square, and Basic White  2-3/4" square are your building squares. The margin around the edges was 1" so that is why the squares fit tightly on the background paper.

When all the squares were received then you could organize them however you thought best and mount them on a 12" x 12" piece of Designer Series Paper. The photo above is my finished result. I put my sunny square in the middle, with the swapped 8 arranged around mine. I love how it turned out.

So if you wanted to get a group of 8 friends plus yourself together, you could get a Spring Sampler of your own design made in a couple of hours. Each person brings their supplies and makes one square design then swaps them around the table. Pretty fun!

Use my sampler as inspiration for your own! 

Happy first Monday of Spring!

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Easy Card Idea With Sharing Sunshine Meeting Happy & Heartfelt

Happy Friday Friends! Here's the last of the three card occasions I am sharing this week. (Baby, St. Patrick's Day/Friendship and Encouragement/Cheer.) I hope I've excited you to give these simple card layouts a try.

The Sharing Sunshine stamp set is so fun and really easy to use. The best tip I can give on the first card is with the sun rays. I stamped Daffodil Delight ink first on a piece of Basic White, then clean the stamp and reink with Mango Melody, but rotate the rays a bit trying to keep the circle lined up and you'll end up with three different colors of rays. So cool!

Both suns and the tag in the lower card are raised with Dimensionals.

The extra Coastal Cabana cardstock behind the sun was fussy cut with paper snips, just to have the sun "pop" off the card front above.

Products Used in these Cards and available to order in my online store at the link below:

Basic White Cardstock cut 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", scored at 4-1/4"

Bermuda Bay or Coastal Cabana Cardstock layer cut at 3-7/8" x 5-1/8"

Sunshine and Rainbows Designer Series Paper (DSP) cut at 3-3/4" x 5"

Sharing Sunshine Stamp Set

Mango Melody, Magenta Madness, and Daffodil Delight Inks

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

1-1/4" and 2" Circle Punch

Happy and Heartfelt Stamp Set and a clear stamp block

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Additional scraps of Basic White and Coastal Cabana cardstock will be needed for the tag. Banner ends are fussy cut with paper snips.

Embellishments are from previous Paper Pumpkin kit leftovers - you use whatever looks good to you.

Basic White Envelopes with a 2-3/8" x 6" piece of matching Designer Series Paper, adhered to the exterior of the flap and trimmed with paper snips.

Adhesives of your choice, Dimensionals, Take Your Pick Tool, Paper Trimmer

So what do you think? Drop me a comment about which card today is your favorite.

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August Stamp and Chat Class Cards #2

Today brings in the end of the six Sharing Sunshine stamp set cards I've shared over the last couple weeks. It was so fun to create multiple card designs from one stamp set at one time. Yes, my stamp room got very messy in the process, but it was worth it! This stamp set has a lot of value in it because you can make such a variety of cards with it. Give it a try!

The basic layout idea was cased from Deb Joy Smeak, but I made it my own.

Here's the products used to make this card:

Sharing Sunshine Stamp Set

Polished Pink Card base 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", scored at 4-1/4"

Daffodil Delight Layer 4" x 5-1/4"

Basic White Layer 3-3/4" x 5"

Blending Brush with Daffodil Delight Ink to place a circle of color behind the die cut sunflower.

Polished Pink 4" square for die cutting the sunflower

Sunflower Dies with Die Cut machine of your choice

Basic White for Tag 3/4" x 4"

Stamp Happy Birthday greeting with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Blending Brush with Daffodil Delight Ink to lightly color the tag

Tailored Tag Punch for the banner ends

Basic White 1-1/2" square for face

Basic White 3" square for rays

Daffodil Delight Ink for rays and face

Circle Punch or Circle Die to layer face and ray pieces

Memento Tuxedo Black  and Polished Pink Ink for face details

Dimensionals to raise face/rays up from sunflower die cut

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This card makes sending a birthday card to a friend far away easy because it is flat, no bumpy embellishments on this one.

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Have a lovely day!

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August Stamp and Chat Class Cards #1

Two weeks ago I shared here on my blog, four cards made with the Sharing Sunshine stamp set. (Check out those posts, too.) Today's and tomorrow's posts are the final two cards I made using this stamp set. 

Today's card was one of six I offered at this past weekend's Stamp and Chat classes that I have monthly in my home. We had a blast with 10 ladies spread over three sessions. I'll be sharing the other cards this week here.

This card's layout was cased from Hammond and Penny, but I changed it up a bit to be able to use the Stamparatus for the Biggest Wish stamp set words and changed up the color scheme. It is so awesome to be able to switch out the plates of the Stamparatus and set your stamps wherever you want them to go! My customers love the ease of getting precise stamping every time!

Here's my sunflowers in my garden, so no wonder I wanted to make some cards like sunflowers!

Here's the materials you need to make this card:

Sharing Sunshine Stamp Set

Pale Papaya Card base 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", scored at 4-1/4"

Polished Pink layer 4" x 5-1/4"

Basic White Layer 3-3/4" x 5"

Stamparatus with Biggest Wish stamp set

Polished Pink and Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Retired Art Gallery Designer Series Paper (but you can us whatever orangy paper you have)

Large Daisy Punch - punch two, attach together with glue dots 

Old Olive cardstock cut twice with retired Lily Pad Dies, use glue dots to stick the two stems together and trim the upper set of leaves to fit behind the sun face

Basic White 1-1/2" square for face

Daffodil Delight Ink

1-1/4" Circle Punch or Circle Die

Polished Pink and Memento Tuxedo Black Ink for face

Dimensionals to raise face from petals

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Give this card a try, it is so cheery and you can change up the words in the Biggest Wish stamp set for a wide variety of occasions that you may need. 

I'd love to read your comments about this card, just click below.

Have a fabulous SUNNY day!

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Sharing Sunshine Stamp Set Cards #4

Hello Sunshine! Here's the last of my four card collection I've made with the casual stamper in mind. This is my favorite out of the four cards I've showed you this week. I saved the best for last! I hope you like it too! I'd love to know in the comments!

The Sharing Sunshine stamp set has been so fun to create with. So many combinations and possibilities for designing the cutest cards ever!

One thing I realized I neglected to mention until now, is when you are stamping the rays, you will do two-step stamping. Step 1 - fully inked image, Step -2 rotate a little bit and stamp again, will give you the light and darker rays that makes Mr. Sun so darling.

This card design is an original because I've used the "Hello Sunshine" stamps from the June 2020 Paper Pumpkin kit, the retired Sunburst Die, and current cardstock - Polished Pink, Daffodil Delight, Basic White, and the Rainbow Glimmer Paper. You can't see in the photo but I dry embossed the Daffodil Delight with the retired Subtle embossing folder. Inks used were Daffodil Delight, Polished Pink, and Memento Tuxedo Black. The greeting was fussy cut out and raised on mini dimensionals.

If you have all these supplies in your collection, along with purchasing the current stamp set from my online store, you'll be all set to make this card in multiple quantities!  It is also an easy to mail card because there are no additional embellishments. Only one stamp will be needed to surprise your friends with this cheerful card. The Glimmer paper does all the work providing lots of bling too!

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Sharing Sunshine Stamp Set Cards #3

Is it hot where you are? It's currently 92 degrees here in the Pacific Northwest!  That is HOT! Yes, it got hotter at the end of June - up to 105 degrees, but it isn't usually that hot until this year! How can the Northwest be as HOT as the Southwest? I wish I knew!

That's why I chose sunny cards here this week! The weather forecaster made their prediction so I had to follow their forecast didn't I. Here's another fun card to make with the Sharing Sunshine set today! You might still need your sunglasses however! Mr. Sunshine isn't quite as bright as the first two cards I've shared this week, but he's still darling with his extra large fussy cut super-duper rays!

I was inspired by Hammond & Penny for the great sun rays idea, but the rest of the card is my design.

Why not give this card a shot? Check out these directions to recreate this card:

Start with Daffodil Delight card base 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", scored at 4-1/4"

Pattern Party Designer Series Paper (DSP) 4" x 5-1/2"

Coastal Cabana 2-1/2" x 5-1/4" strip, embossed with the Painted Texture Embossing Folder

Using a 1/8" hole punch, punch two holes in the top of the banner, and with paper snips cut your own banner edge as shown in the photo.

8" piece of Coastal Cabana Ribbon comes from retired Play with Patterns Ribbon Combo Pack

Raise the Banner up with Dimensionals

Three scrappy pieces of Basic White - 1) for you own fussy cut cloud, then stamp the birthday wishes from the Garden Birdhouses stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink,  2) to stamp the face of the sun, and 3) to stamp the stamped rays image

1-1/4" and 2" Circle Punches

Piece of Daffodil Delight cut with 2-5/8" Layering Circle Die, then fussy cut into rays only 1/2" deep so you still have something to adhere to the other rays.

Glue the layers of the sun together and glue to banner. 

The Cloud uses mini dimensionals to adhere to the card base and banner.

Embellished with some iridescent sequins I had in my collection

I hope you have fun with this design. 

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Sharing Sunshine Stamp Set Cards #2

Got your sunglasses back on? Today's clean and simple card is one of the most cheery Birthday cards I've made in a long time. 

I was inspired by a similar layout from Anne Marie Hile, but I made it my own in several ways. I participate in a Facebook Random Acts of Kindness Birthday Card Club so some lucky person will be receiving this card soon! I hope it brightens their day!

If you want to make this card here's what you'll need:

Today's color scheme is Daffodil Delight, Polished Pink, Coastal Cabana and Basic White. Using the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper (DSP) as a layer just brightens up this card so much! 

Card base:

Daffodil Delight card base 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" - scored at 4-1/4"

Polished Pink layer 4 x 5-1/4"

Pattern Party DSP 3-3/4" x 5"

Middle Layers:

Daffodil Delight layer 3" x 4"

Coastal Cabana piece  1-1/4" x 3-3/4"

Basic White piece to begin with 2-3/4 x 3-3/4" then trimmed down with your hand drawn puffy clouds. Fussy cut the clouds out and adjust the Coastal Cabana and Basic White clouds until they measure 2-3/4" total in height. Use your favorite adhesive to connect them together.

With small pieces of Basic White, stamp the face and rays images. Sun face - Daffodil Delight ink. Memento Tuxedo Black ink for facial features, and Polished Pink ink for the rosy cheeks and sun rays. Mr. Sunshine again used the trick of punching out the stamped face with a 1-1/4" circle punch and layering it on the fussy cut Polished Pink rays. He's so cute! 

A piece of Polished Pink 3/8" organza ribbon was wrapped around the Polished Pink and Designer Series Paper layers, then adhered to the Daffodil Delight card base.

Mr. Sun was raised with dimensionals for a bit of POP!  The It's My Party Enameled Dots are retired but you can use any embellishment you like. I liked the Coastal Cabana color as a nice match.

I was thinking this card design would also make a fun birthday card for a child or grandchild. Do you agree? Let me know in the comments. 

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Sharing Sunshine Stamp Set Cards #1

Put on your sunglasses! Over the weekend I had so much fun making six different cards from the Sharing Sunshine stamp set. I hadn't done that in a very long time. It's gonna be hard deciding who to send these beauties to! But send I must!

 This stamp set is perfect for summertime! Where I live it has been unseasonably warm with very little rain. I am very grateful for the Air conditioning we got installed last year, that's for sure!

Four of the cards I'll be sharing this week and the other two will be revealed later in the month. This design is my original.

What I think is so creative about this stamp set is the possibilities you can create with the "rays" of the sun.  You get so much value with this set. Today's card is a fun one, because as you can see on the cover of the stamp set, the rays I used today were only half a circle, so getting the two halves lined up was a little tricky, but turned out fine. 

After making the six cards I also have a hint to share - stamp the face on a separate scrap of basic white, so you can be sure to align it well inside the "rays." I used a retired 1-1/4" circle punch, but a similar sized circle die would would fine for cutting out the face, or if you must fussy cutting is always a last resort.

Technique Used - Stamping directly on the Designer Series Paper -You have to make sure your stamp is WELL inked and you hold it in place for a few seconds to let the ink absorb into the paper. Give it a try, you'll be glad you did!

Products used in this Card:

Sharing Sunshine Stamp Set

Biggest Wish Stamp Set

Coastal Cabana, Basic White, and Melon Mambo cardstock

Pattern Party Designer Series Paper

1-1/4" circle punch

2" circle punch for rays 

2-1/4" Scalloped Circle Die from Layering Circle Dies

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Polished Pink Ink

Daffodil Delight Ink

Polished Pink 3/8" 

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Have a sunny day!

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