Merriest Moments

 

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I was out of town until Wednesday afternoon, so my card did not get made until today (Friday). Here is what I made to share with you today. Here we go…

Merriest moments stamps #156353, mini catalog

Merriest frames #156385, mini catalog

Real red card-stock, cut at 5 1/2x 8 1/2, scored at 4 1/4 #1102482

Real red ink #147084

Shaded spruce ink #147088

Daffodil delight ink #147094

Brushed metallic card-stock, cut at 5 1/2x 4 1/4, #153524

Basic white card-stock, cut at 5 1/4x 4 and a scrap piece for the sentiment in the center #159276

Dimenionals #104430

Stampin’ seal #152813

Cut and emboss machine #149653

Paper trimmer #152392

Mono glue #1

I used a retired designer series paper as my base card front. You can use any paper that you have to match the card you want to make. It’s cut at 5 1/4x 4”. So to start you will be folding your real red card base in half and adhere your DSP to the front of it. Using the cut and emboss machine and the gold metallic paper you will use the embossing folder and the die that fits inside of it to cut and emboss at the same time. This is such a quick and easy way to make a big wow on your projects. Now we are going to do some stamping. With te real red ink, stamp out the large and small poinsettias, stamp both twice. Next stamp four of the small holly leaves with the shaded spruce ink and stamp two of the centers in the daffodil delight ink. Then you are going to cut all of those pieces out using the matching dies and the cut & emboss machine. One last cut using the basic white and the rectangle die for the sentiment. Now stamp your sentiment with real red ink. 

 For the rest of your assembly, adhere your gold piece to the center of your card. Adhere your sentiment in the center of the gold piece. Put your flowers together using your stampin’ seal tape or mono glue. Then with dimenionals pop up the poinsettias in opposite corners. On the inside, stamp a sentiment in real red ink on the basic white, 5 1/4x 4. Adhere that piece to the inside. If you want, you can stamp and cut one of the small poinsettias and holly leaves. Then adhere it to the right bottom corner of the inside piece. Done and done. You’re ready to send off your first card. 

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Thank you for stopping by, God bless you,

Ruth Gonzales, Stampin’ Up demonstrator

Christmas season

 

Good evening crafty friends, so today I found a beautiful card on Pinterest inspired by Pat Fairless. I loved the color combo she used on this card. I didn’t have all of the elements she used so I found something that worked. I also used pear pizzazz instead of soft seafoam for my green. Here we go…

The bundle used today was “Christmas season” stamp set #156293

Seasonal labels dies #156299

Sentiment was from “Christmas to remember” #156300

The card base is Smokey slate card-stock #131202 cut at 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, scored at 4 1/4 then folded in half. 

Pool party card-stock #122924, cut at 4 x 5 1/4, and scrap for sentiment strip. 

Basic white card-stock #159276, cut at 5 x 3 3/4 (2) and a scrap to stamp two pine cones

Pear pizzazz ink #147104

Pool party ink #147107

Smokey slate ink #147113

Basic gray ink #121044

Pool Party stampin’ blends #1154894

Silver foil specialty pack #156457

White crinkle seam binding ribbon #151326

Paper trimmer #152392

Mini stampin’ cut & emboss machine #150673

Pearl basics Jewels #144219

Stampin’ seal #152813

Mini glue dots #103683

Stampin’ dimenionals #104430

Stampin’ emboss powders/ white #155554

Heat tool #129053

Versa mark ink #102283

Fold card base in half and adhere the pool party piece to the front of your card. On one of the basic white pieces you are going to stamp the rounded leaf bunch in pool party ink three times. Two near the top sides and one at the bottom. Then with the pear pizzazz ink, stamp the pointed leafs three times next to the other leaves. Now on the piece of basic white scrap and the basic gray and Smokey slate ink, stamp out two pinecones. Cut those out using the mini cut & emboss machine. The silver leaves are cut from the framed florets dies, or any vine type leaf die you might have and cut two of those. From the “Christmas to remember” stamp set take the “Tis the season” sentiment and stamp it with versa mark ink on the scrap piece of pool party. With a piece of paper on your table pour the embossing powder on the versa mark sentiment piece then tap off excess, bent the scrap paper and return excess powder back into the jar. Heat up the heat tool a little before you start to melt your embossing powder on your sentiment strip. Next take the smallest tag die from “seasonal label” dies and cut out your sentiment. Adhere the silver pieces in two opposite, upper and lower corners. Using dimenionals place the two pine cones in the middle of the basic white piece. Adhere the sentiment piece with dimenionals near the right bottom of card front rear pine cones. Using the dots stamp and Smokey slate ink, stamp off and then stamp the dots in the empty areas of the card front. Adhere this piece to the pool party on the front of the card. On the inside of the card using the other basic white card-stock, stamp three pine needle bunches in two of the opposite corners and stamp the “Merry Christmas” sentiment in Smokey slate in the middle. Adhere this piece to the inside of your card. DONE!

I hope you enjoyed making this card as much as I did. It was an easy but elegant card to make. I will be making more with different sentiments. If you need any of the products used today you can purchase them at…

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Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a great rest of your week and God bless,

Ruth Gonzales, Stampin’ Up demonstrator

Fitting florets bundle

 Hello crafty friends, today I made another card for a card challenge. This one was an easy challenge all we had to do was make a christmas card. I have been having fun making different cards with this set. I will show a couple more at the end. Right now this is what I used.

Fitting florets bundle #162407

Fitting closets DSP 12x12 #161814, cut at 2 7/16 x 4 (2)

Soft succulent card stock #155776, Cut at 11 x 4 1/4, scored at 2 3/4 on either side. Another piece to die cut the frame.

Poppy parade card stock #119793, cut at 2 9/16 x 4 1/16 (2)

Basic white card stock #159276, cut at 4 x 3 1/2 for inside, scraps for the oval and to stamp flowers on.

Poppy parade blends #154958

Soft succulent blends #155521

Memento bleach ink #132708

Poppy parade ink #155778

Mini cut & emboss machine #150673

Dimenionals #104430

Red rhinestone basic jewels #146924

Stampin seal #152813

Paper trimmer #152392

Wink of Stella #141897

Fold the two sides of your card base to the center. Adhere the poppy parade card stock and the DSP to each side of the front panels. Stamp, color and cut out the flowers. Using your mini cut & emboss machine cut out the oval frame from basic white and soft succulent card stock. Using the soft succulent frame and the basic white oval stamp your sentiment on the right side of your oval. I used a sentiment from the merriest moments stamp set #156353. Using stampin seal tape runner, adhere only the left side of the oval and frame to the left panel of your card. With dimenionals adhere the flowers to the left upper side of the frame and oval. Place three of the red jewels to the front f the card. Adhere the basic white piece to the inside of your card. And there you go, a beautiful christmas card. 

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you all enjoyed the card we made today. If you need any of these items you can go to…

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One last thing here are two other cards I CASEd from another demonstrator

Have a great rest of your week and God bless you all,

Ruth Gonzales, Stampin’ Up Demonstrator 

Celebrate With Tags Dies

 

Hello, hello, today I am just using the dies from this bundle. I made these tags for a color challenge. This die set has so many pieces that can be used for any occasion. As you can see I made a Christmas birthday gift card holder and a birthday tag card. You have room inside to write a note. The gift card holder would make great Christmas tree ornaments to hang on your tree. I used these colors because they were the ones chosen for us to use. But you can use any colors you want.  I used I used the white crinkle ribbon and stampin’ blends to get te colors I needed for the challenge.There is no limit with this set of dies. You can go to my shopping page to order the

 “Celebrate With Tags” dies #159866 from the mini catalog. Don’t forget to use this months host code when placing your order. The host code for November is VBH3PPXC

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Thank you for stopping by today, have a great rest of your week.

God bless, Ruth

November Paper Pumpkin

Don’t miss out on all the fun. Paper Pumpkin kits are a great way to try your hand at a new and satisfying crafting experience. November’s kit will include 12 gift tags and all of the elements to decorate them. Each kit includes one ink spot, this month Cherry Cobbler, and a special stamp set made for the paper pumpkin kits only. Your first kit will include a stamp block. This is a subscription but you can suspend or cancel at any time there is no obligation. To subscribe just go to…

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Than you and happy crafting!

Ruth

Hello Harvest bundle

 Hello friends, I hope everyone is enjoying te cooler fall weather. Our card today reflects the fall vibe. I enjoyed the coloring part of this card. Here we go.

Hello Harvest Bundle #159644

Card base is early espresso card stock cut at 5 1/2 x 7, scored at 4 1/4. Another piece cut at 2 7/8 x 3 1/8, for mat #119686

Mint macaron card stock cut at 2 3/4 x 5 1/4. #138337

Basic white card stock 2 3/4 x 3 and a scrap for the pumpkin and flowers. Another basic white card stock cut at 5 1/4 x 4, for the inside of card. #159276

Scrape of So saffron for sentiment piece. #105118

Mint macaron ink #147106

Early espresso ink #147114

Memento black ink #132708

So saffron blends #154905

Mint macaron blends #154889

Gingham cottage DSP cut at 5 1/4 x 1 1/2 #159651

Brushed metallic dots #156506

Mini cut & emboss machine #150673

Paper trimmer #152392

Dimenionals #104430

Stampin seal #152813

Stamp block F #118483

On the mint macaron card stock and ink stamp the pumpkin all over the card stock. Adhere that piece to the front flap of the card base. Adhere the large piece of white card stock to the inside of the card, then adhere the so saffron DSP to the right side of the white piece. On the scrap piece of white card stock, using  te black ink and stamp a pumpkin and flowers. Color the pumpkin with the mint macaron blends. Color the flowers with the so saffron and mint macaron blends. Cut out the flowers and pumpkin using the dies from the bundle, using the mini cut & emboss machine. Adhere the small white card stock to the early espresso card stock. Using dimenionals pop up the pumpkin and flowers and adhere to the middle of the white piece. On the small scrap of so saffron and early espresso ink stamp “Hello”. Cut around the edge of the “Hello” and make a banner cut at the end. On the left side of the sentiment piece place a dimenionals and stampin seal on the other side and adhere to the lower left side of the pumpkin. Lastly place three of the brushed metal dots on your card. 

There you are a beautiful fall card to share with family or friends. I hope you enjoyed making this card with me today. You can purchase any of the supplies used at…

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Thank you and God bless,

Ruth Gonzales, Stampin’ Up Demonstrator

Cottage Wreaths

 

Hello friends, today’s card was made with “cottage wreaths” Bundle. Let’s get started…

Crumb cake cardstock, cut at 5 1/2x 8 1/2 for the card base, scored at 4 1/4. Crumb cake cardstock cut at 4 x 5 1/4. Emboss this piece using the timber 3D embossing folder. Cut a piece of Abigail Rose DSP at 2 x 5 1/4.  Adhere this DSP to the left side of the embossed crumb cake  piece. Then adhere that part to the front of the card base. Now on a piece of basic white cardstock and old olive ink stamp the leafy wreath. Then with early espresso ink stamp the twig wreath on top of the old olive wreath. Then with crumb cake ink stamp 5 acorns and with pumpkin pie ink stamp a bow. When you are finished stamping use the coordinating dies to cut out all of the pieces. I used some DSP that was from the sale-a-bration catalog. You can use what ever you have, to make the center of your wreath. Using mini dimenionals to adhere the acorns and the bow to the wreath. If you have something to put in the center of the wreath do that now. Using some more dimenionals adhere the wreath to the front of your card. Using the double oval punch and basic white cardstock punch out the oval shape. Punch out the scalloped piece from gold paper. I used pacific point ink to stamp my sentiment. You can use any sentiment you would like. Adhere the oval to the scalloped oval. Using the brushed metal dots to embellish the rest of your card. 

Things you will need:

Cottage wreaths Bundle #160238

Double oval punch #154242

Crumb cake cardstock #120953

Basic white cardstock #159276

Abigail rose DSP #159037

Gold specialty paper #159139

Old olive ink #147090

Early espresso ink #147114

Pumpkin pie ink #147086

Crumb cake ink #147115

Pacific point ink #147098

Timber 3D embossing folder #156406

Stampin’ cut & emboss machine #149653

Mini dimenionals #144108

Stampin’ seal #152813

paper trimmer #152392

If there is anything you need to make this project you can go to my online store at…

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Thank you for visiting today. I hope you have a great weekend.

God Bless, Ruth

Bewitching bundle

 Hello friends, happy October. Just look at this cute card and so easy to make. Here we go…

   Black card stock cut at 11x 4 1/4, scored at 5 1/2 for your card base.  Cut a piece of In color glimmer paper, parakeet party, die cut using the largest deckled rectangle dies. Gorgeous grape card stock die cut using the next largest deckled rectangle. On a piece of basic white card stock, stamp 3 witches hats and one set of legs. To get a darker image it’s best to use the stamparatus. This helps you stamp multiple times in the same place allowing for a crisper image. Using stampin’ blends, color in the images. I used parakeet party, Tahitian tide, melon mambo. Using the punch from the bundle punch out the hats and with scissors, cut out the legs. On Tahitian tide card stock and using the alphabest bundle, stamp and punch out the word “BOO!”. 

   Time to assemble. Adhere the glimmer paper to the front of your card base and the gorgeous grape on top of that. Adhere the legs near the bottom right of the card front. Glue down the first hat just above the legs. Using dimenionals adhere the other two hats, tilted at an angle to the left. With black ink stamp on the spider dangling from the top hat. Using more dimenionals adhere your “BOO!” Sentiment on the lower left side of your card. For the inside cut a 5x 4 piece of basic white card stock and adhere that to the inside of your card and stamp your sentiment. Happy Halloween!

Here are the things that were used to make this cute card…

Bewitching Bundle #159857

Alphabest Bundle #158886

Basic black cardstock #121045

Basic white cardstock #159276

Gorgeous grape cardstock #146987

In color glimmer paper #159246

Deckled rectangle dies #159173

Stampin’ blends…

Parakeet party #159220

Tahitian tide #159221

Melon Mambo #153112

Memento black ink #132708

Dimenionals #14430

Multipurpose glue #110755

Stampin’ seal #152813

Stamparatus #146276

Paper trimmer #152392

You can purchase any of the items you might need from my stampin’ up website

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Thank you all for visiting today. I hope you enjoyed this card. 

God Bless, Ruth

     Today I made a super easy card. All I used were the gnomes dies and storybook gnomes designer series paper. What’s so wonderful about the DSP from stampin’ up is that you don’t always need to buy a bundle to make great cards. Here is an example of that. 

   We will start with Pale papaya card stock cut 4 1/4 x 11, scored at 5 1/2 for your card base. Cut a piece of calypso coral at 5 1/4 x 4 this will be used for matting your DSP. Find the piece of DSP that has the mushrooms all over it. Cut that piece at 5 x 3 3/4. This will be adhered to the top of your calypso coral piece. Now here is where it gets easy. Find the designer series paper that has the gnomes on it. The dies can be used to cut out the gnomes on this page. The ones I used for this card were the ones with the pale papaya and calypso coral hats. Now find the paper with the large mushrooms on it. Same thing here take the mushroom die and cut out the one with the calypso coral top. But here is the really good part you don’t even need the dies, if you don’t mind fussy cutting. Now place dimensionals on the back of the mushroom and gnomes. Adhere the mushroom near the top middle of the piece of DSP and the gnomes on either side of the mushroom just slightly lower. On a piece of  basic white card stock and calypso coral ink stamp the “warn wishes” sentiment. Die cut label using the label from the quiet meadow set, or any sentiment strip you have. With dimensionals adhere this to the bottom of your card front. If you haven’t done so yet adhere this panel to your calypso coral card stock. Then adhere this to your card front. 

Supplies need:

Calypso coral card stock #122925

Pale papaya card stock #155668

Calypso coral ink #147101

Storybook gnomes designer series paper #159615

Gnomes dies #159625

Dimenionals  #104430

Stampin’in seal #152813

Paper trimmer #152392

Mini stampin’ cut & emboss machine #150673

To purchase any of the items listed above you can just got…

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Sorry for the inconvenience with no picture today. Hopefully it won’t happen again next week. Have a great rest of your week. God bless, 

Ruth Gonzales, your stampin’ up demonstrator

 

Art Gallery

  

 Instructions

* petal blushing bride base- 5 1/2 x 81/2, score at 4 1/4

* basic white layer- 5 1/4 x 4, die cut using split card textures die

* stamp one bunch of flowers using petal pink and pear pizzazz add ink to the stamp using sponge daubers. Using matching die cut out flowers

* cut out the words “just wanted to say” from gold card stock

* stamp sentiment on basic white and die cut it out

* adhere words using liquid glue. Adhere flowers and sentiment using dimenionals

* add some rhinestone basic jewels

Supplies needed

Art gallery bundle #158201

Blushing bride card stock #131198

Blushing bride ink #147100

Pear pizzazz ink #14104

Basic white card stock #159276

Memento black ink #132708

Rhinestone basics #144220

Liquid glue #110755

Stampin’ seal #152813

Dimenionals #104430

Stampin’ cut & emboss machine #149653

Sponge daubers #133773

To place an order for the supplies needed you can go to ruthgonzales.stampinup.net. Don’t forget to use this months host code GMH6UVHJ. 

God bless and have a great weekend, Ruth

September Card Class 2022 

We had another great card class. We were using the “Bewitching” bundle. We made goodie bags and cards. These ladies are becoming so confident of their abilities they just do their own thing. They are enjoying using the different products. This month I put the supplies out on another table and they went to get the supplies they needed. We used an embossing folder on the peek a boo treat bags. Then they used the bewitching stamps and punch to decorate. The new tool I introduced this month was the stamparatus. Because of the images being solid I wanted to show how it could improve their images. I love to hear the oooos and ahs when they see what the different tools can do. All in all we had another wonderful time together , as always We were down two people this month. We missed having them. See you next month ladies. What a wonderful group and I am so proud of them. God bless, until next month. 

Happiness Abounds

Today’s card was made with the “Happiness Abounds” bundle. Here is what you will need to complete this card…

*Happiness Abounds Bundle #158824

*Pool Party Card stock #122924

*Basic white Card stock #159276

*Hues of Happiness DSP #158822

*Pool Party Ink #147107

*Starry Night Ink #159212

*Timeworn Type Embossing folder #156505

*Stylish shapes dies #159183

*white crinkle seam binding #151326

*basics embossing powder (white) #155554

*heat tool #12905

*versa mark ink #102283

*stampin’ cut & emboss machine #149653

*paper trimmer #152392

*stampin’ seal #152813

*multipurpose glue #110755

*stampin’ dimensionals #104430

*mini glue dots #103683

Now lets get to work:

With your paper trimmer cut your Pool party card stock at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, then score at 4 1/4. Fold this in half to make your card base. With the other half of the card stock cut it to 5 x 3 3/4. Emboss the piece of card stock with the cut& emboss machine and the timeworn type embossing folder. Set those pieces aside. Find the designer series paper that has the more solid side to it. Cut one at 5 x 1 1/2 and another piece that will fit two smaller flowers and two of the middle sized flowers and two leaves. Make sure part of it has some green on it. Now we are going to stamp using the versa mark ink and stamp the pieces mentioned above. Pour the embossing powder over the areas you just stamped, you should be able to see the powder stick to the ink. Take your heal tool and hover over the embossed images until the powder melts and become shiny. Cut out the flowers and leaves you just embossed. Find the circle shapes from the stylish shapes dies and and the smaller thinner banner die and cut them out of the basic white card stock. To make the circles take two of the circles and place one inside the other to cut out the centers. Take the piece of 5x3 3/4 piece of DSP and adhere it to the left side of your embossed card stock but not all the way to the edge. Using the glue adhere the circles in the middle of the card stock. Arrange your flowers and leaves as shown. Make a double ribbon and adhere under the flowers. Stamp best wishes with the starry night ink on your banner, pop up using dimensionals. Cut a piece of basic white 5 x 4 and stamp a flower in the corner. Adhere to the inside of your card. You can also stamp some flowers to the outside of your envelope. I hope you enjoyed making this card. 

You can order any of the supplies listed above at ruthgonzales.stampinup.net. Thank you for stopping by have a great rest of your week and weekend. See you next week, God bless

Season of Chic

Good evening everyone. So tonight I am posting a card I found on YouTube. Thank you Leena Girsa for letting me CASE your beautiful card. Mine is just a little different. Okay lets get busy, here are the things you will be needing to make this beautiful card. 

What you will need…

“Season of chic bundle” #158816

“Natural prints” dies #158800, for the sentiment label

Petal pink card stock #146985

Smoky slate card stock #131202

Petal pink ink #147108

Smoky slate ink #147113

Basic white card stock #159276

Foil sheets gold #132622

Texture chic DSP #15808

Linen thread #104199

Opal rounds #154289

Stampin seal #152813

Mini glue dots #103683

Dimensionals #104430

Mini stamp & emboss machine #150673

Paper trimmer #152392

Stamp block C #118486

Here we go, lets put it together. Cut the Petal pink card stock in half on the long side using your paper trimmer at 4 1/4x 11. Then score it at 5 1/2 fold in half. Cut your textured chic DSP to 4x6. Lets do some die cutting. First we need a scrap of smoky slate and petal pink card stock. Using the large solid shell shape and your mini cutting machine cut out one gray and one pink shell. Next the gold paper and one large detailed shell die, one small detailed shell die and the pointy shell shape and cut them out. Next get the label die from Natures Prints and cut it out of basic white. Next lets do our stamping. Stamp the gray and pink shells with corresponding inks. Stamp your sentiment with the smoky slate ink and the textured stamp with petal pink on your label. Now we get to put it all together.

Take your DSP and rip it in half about 1/3 of the way down. Flip one piece over. Put the bigger piece at the top, don’t glue it down yet. Lay it on top of your card base to measure where to adhere the two pieces together. Adhere the smoky slate shell on the upper left side of the piece you just adhered together. Next adhere the large gold shell near the bottom of the gray shell. Take your linen thread and measure enough so you can fold it in half and tape each end to the back of your DSP just a little bit under the ripped line. Place dimensionals on the back of the pink shell and place it at the bottom of the gold shell. Adhere the small gold shell under the thread, next to the pink shell. With some more thread make a double bow adhere it with glue dots next to the pink shell over the double thread going across.  Adhere the pointy shell to the back of the label. Place three dimensionals to the back of the label and adhere it just above the thread. Adhere the whole panel to the front of your card base. Place three opal rounds on your your card. 

Cut a piece of basic white to 4x3 stamp some shells on the bottom just off the end. Adhere it to the inside of your card. Stamp some shells on the bottom front of your envelope. Tada we are done. Now you just need to send it off.

I hope you enjoyed making todays card. You can go to ruthgonzales.stampinup.net to order any of the supplies you might need to make this beautiful card. Thank you for stopping by. Happy crafting everyone.

 

Perched in a Tree Bundle

Hello everyone, todays card is from the stampin’ up mini catalog. I was feeling like I needed a little coolness as right now it’s a warm 92 degrees. I made a small error on this card. I used DSP, designer series paper we no longer sell. But you could use paper from the “storybook gnomes” or “splendid day” paper pack. You could even make your own background paper using basic white, a blending brush and a dark blue, light blue ink. I’m so sorry for the mistake. But it gives you an idea of what you could do with this bundle. Okay lets get on to what you will need to make this simple card.
Here is what you will need…
Perched in a Tree bundle #159799 ,from the mini catalog
Deckled rectangles #159173, for label
Basic white cad stock #159276
Smoky slate ink #147113
Balmy Blue ink #147105
Stampin’ blends markers…
Balmy blue #154830
Crumb cake #154882
Wink of stella #141897
Paper trimmer #152392
Stamp blocks H #118490 and C #118486
Stampin’ cut & emboss machine #149653
Stampin’ dimensionals minis #144108
Any DSP (designer series paper) for background
Opal rounds #154289
Multipurpose liquid glue #110755
Let’s get to work. Take a piece of basic white card stock, 8 1/2 x 11, and cut it at 5 1/2 on the 11” side. Score it at 4 1/4. This will be your card base, set aside for now. Cut the other half of the white card stock to 4x 5 1/4. Then with the trees outline die from the bundle place the die in the middle of the white and run it through your die cutting machine. Cut you DSP just slightly smaller than the white piece you just cut out. Take your mini dimensionals and adhere them around the outside of the cut out tree piece and a few on some of the branches. Remove the backings from your dimensionals and very carefully lay it on the DSP paper. After you do that adhere it to the front of your card. Now with whats left over from the white card stock stamp the bird and branch with the smoky slate ink. Color the bird then cut both pieces out on the cutting machine using the coordinating dies. With the glue adhere the branch across the other branches about 2/3 of the way down. Now place a few dimensionals behind the bird trying to place them where the tree branches are, adhere the bird on the branch close to the left side. Now using the smallest deckled rectangle and hopefully you have a small piece of white left, cut out your banner. With the Balmy blue ink and a sponge dauber or what ever you’d like ink the edges of your banner. Then choose a sentiment to fit your banner and stamp it with smoky slate ink. Glue the banner to your card. Take your wink of stella and use some on the edges of the branches to make it look frosty. Then place you opal rounds on your card. All done! You might want do a little stamping on your envelope to give your recipient a sneak peek of whats inside. I hope you enjoy making this simple card. 
You can purchase any of the items you may need on my website at, ruthgonzales.stampinup.net 
Thank you for stopping by I hope you enjoy making this card, 
Ruth Gonzales your Stampin’ up demonstrator 
 

Blessings of Home

Todays card was inspired by Jillibling.com on Pinterest. I did change up a couple of things. So lets get started.

Stuff you will need…

“Blessings of Home” bundle #157939

“Season of Chic” #158810, for the sentiment

Smoky slate card stock #131202 cut at 8 1/2x 5 1/5, scored at 1 1/2 and 5 3/4 and a scrap for the tag

Petal pink card stock #146985, one piece cut at 5 1/4x 2 1/2 and one cut at 1 5/16x5 1/4 

Basic white card stock #159276 cut at 2 1/8x 5 1/8 and 1x 5 1/8 and a scrap for the flower stamp and another panel for the inside cut at 5 1/4x 4

 Bricks & mortar #149643

Pale Papapa stampin’ blends #155519

Mossy Meadow stampin’ blends #154890

Memento black ink #132708

Pale Papaya ink #1155619

Stamp block E #118484

Taylor made tags dies #155563 smallest one

Stampin’ cut & emboss machine #149653

Pearl basic jewels #144219

Linen thread #104199

Stampin’ dimenionals #104430

Paper trimmer #152393

Stampin’ seal #152814

Wink of Stella #141897

Now  lets put it together:

Fold your card base to make a gate fold card. Adhere the Petal Pink panels to each side of the card front, (it was supposed to be pale papaya #155668).  Emboss your two white panels using the Brinks & Mortar embossing folder and the embossing machine. Adhere the white panels on top of the petal pink panels. Now stamp and color your flowers using the blender pens. Take the coordinating die and cutting machine and cut out the flowers. Using the dimenionals pop up the left side of the flower cut out, make sure not to place any on the right side or your card will not open and adhere it in the middle of your card. On the scrap of smoky slate card stock, the sentiment from season of chic and the black ink, stamp your sentiment. Using the smallest tag die cut out your sentiment. Cut some of the linen twine and loop it through the hole in the tag. Adhere the tag to the front of the card above the flowers. Color three of the pearls with your papaya stampin’ blends and adhere to your card front. With the wink of Stella color the flowers. On the bottom of the inside white panel and pale papaya ink stamp the smaller flowers in the corner of panel and adhere to the inside of your card. If you would like you can also stamp the front of your envelope. And you are done with your card. I hope you enjoyed making the beautiful card. 

To order any of the supplies listed above just go to…

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Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed this card inspired by Jillibean.com. Have a great rest of your week and enjoy your long weekend. Ruth Gonzales, your independent Stampin’ Up demonstrator. 

August card class 2022

 

 August Card Class 2022

Another fun day. First we eat the food we all brought to share. Then we get down to business, haha. It’s always such a good time with these sweet ladies. After we made our cards we played a quick game of BINGO for some awesome prizes. This month some of us made the “Cozy and Bright” card kit and the others were working hard on the “Hello Friend” kit. We had one new person this month. Welcome Laurie to the group. I’m glad you got to join us this month. We also celebrated another birthday this month, happy birthday to Dawnie. I can’t wait for next months class. See you all then. ❤

                                      Stylish Sketches

Todays card is a very simple one, stamped using the free stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration catalog, “stylish sketches” The free stuff will be ending on August 31st. But there are still lots of items in the mini catalog. Here is what you will need to make this simple card. Let us get started.

*Stylish Sketches #159937 (free stamp set)

*Season of Chic stamp set #158810 (sentiment)

*Card base smoky slate card stock #131202

cut at 8 1/2x 5 1/2, scored at 4 1/4

And one cut at 5 1/4x4”

*Abigail Rose 12x12 DSP #159037, 2 x5 1/4

*basic white card stock #159276

*smoky slate ink #147113

*deckled rectangles, use the third largest cut from basic white

*timeworn type embossing folder #156505

*timber embossing folder #156406

*classic matte dots #158146

*stamp block C #118486

*stampin’ dimenionals #

*paper trimmer #152392

*stampin’ cut & emboss machine #149653

*stampin’ seal #152813

Time to assemble our card…

Place the Smoky slate card stock, 5 1/4x 4 in the timeworn embossing folder and run it through the Stampin’ cut & emboss machine folded side goes in first. Then take the DSP Abigail Rose and place it inside the timber embossing folder and run it through the stampin’ cut & emboss machine. Now take your basic white card stock and the deckled rectangle and cut out the shape by using the stampin’ cut machine one last time. Take the geese stamp and place it on your clear stamp block and using the smoky slate ink, stamp the image in the left bottom corner of the basic white rectangle. Get your greeting and stamp it in the upper right corner of the basic white rectangle. Take the embossed smoky slate piece and adhere it to the front of the card base. Now take the embossed DSP piece and adhere that to the middle of the embossed piece you just adhered to your card. Place five dimensionals under the basic white stamped piece and place it to the left side of your card base. Take three of your gray classic matte dots and adhere them to the right side of your card. Done and done, now you just have to send it to someone your’e thinking about. You can purchase any or all of these items on my Stampin’ up website at…

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Have a great week and weekend. More to come next week. God Bless 

 

Hippest Hippos

 

What you’ll need to make these cute cards:

Hippest Hippos stamp set and dies free with $100.00 order #159921/159928

Pool Party card stock #122924

Basic white card stock #159276

DSP Awash In Beauty #158973

DSP Silver & Gold free with $50.00 order #159941

Inks:

Tuxedo black #132708

Pool party #147107

Stampin’ blends:

Gray granite #154886

Pool party #154894

Flirty flamingo #154884

Pale Papaya #155519

Opal pearl rounds #154289

Pool Party ribbon #15262

Linen thread #104199

Stylish shapes Dies #159183

Split card textures #159162

Blending brush #153611

Stampin’ dimentionals #104430

Stampin’ cut & emboss #149653

Paper trimmer #152392

Stampin’ seal #152813

Think of you stamp is from the sentimental rose card kit #156972

Cut the pool Party card stock in half at 5 1/2. Score score one at 4 1/4, then score the other one at 4 1/4 and 2 1/8.

Cut the “awash in beauty” DSP at 4 x 5 1/4, then cut again at 2” on 4” side. Cut the “gold and silver” DSP at 4 1/8 x 5 1/4. Then take the split card die and die cut “Gold & Silver” DSP as shown.

Cut two circles using the “stylish shapes” largest circle. 

On basic white card stock, stamp, color and cut the two Hippos.

On the Z fold card tape the two pieces of flora DSP to the top fold and the side. Cut a piece of basic white at 2 x 5 1/4. Tape to the inside of the Z fold card. 

On the other card tape the DSP gold and silver cut DSP to he front of the card.

With the blending brush and the pool party ink color the middle of the two circles. Taking the thinking of you stamp and a stamp block from the kit bend the stamp to make it fit on the bottom of the circle. Use the tuxedo black ink. 

Take a piece of the linen thread and make a couple of loops and glue to the center of one of the circles. Pop up one of the hippos and place it over the linen thread. Take the other hippo and pop it up on the other circle. Make a bow with the pool party ribbon. Tape it to the circle. 

With some stampin’ seal tape half of one of the circles and tape it to the front of the Z fold card. With the other circle pop it up with dimentionals and place it on the front center of the other card.

Now place the opal rounds anywhere you would like on your cards. 

Cut two white pieces of card stock at 4 x 4 1/2 for the insides of the cards.

Now you are ready to share them with your favorite people. You can purchase all the items needed to complete the cards at …ruthgonzales.stampinup.net.

God Bless and have a great rest of your week.

Ruth Gonzales your stampin’ up demonstrator  

Elephant Parade Bundle

 

This is one of my favorite bundles from the new catalog. Here are the things you will need to make this cute card.

Supply list;

Elephant Parade Bundle #158697

Momento Black ink #132708

Balmy Blue #147105

Stampin blends:

Flirty flamingo dark/light #154884

Gray Granite dark/light #154886

Granny Apple dark/light #154885

Pale Papaya light #155519

Card stock;

Basic white for all of the stamping #159276

Smoky slate #131202, (one for card base, one for top)

DSP Design a Daydream #159161

Split card textures die #159162

Stylish shapes dies #159183

Blending brush #153611

Stamp, cut and emboss Machine #149653

Paper trimmer #152392

Stampin dimenstionals #104430

Liquid glue #110755

 Cut the smoky slate card stock in half at 41/4 x11, score at 51/2. Cut the other half of gray at 5 1/4x 4. Cut the DSP at 5 1/4x 4. Using the split card texture dies and the smoky slate card stock, place the die in the upper left corner and run it through the cut and emboss machine. Glue the DSP and the smoky slate cut out together. On the basic white card stock, stamp the elephant, 3 of the leaves, balloon, mouse and butterfly. Color with the stampin’ blends markers. Cut out using the cut and emboss machine and the dies from the bundle. Cut out the two circles from the stylish shapes dies. Take the blending brush and the balmy blue ink and brush the blue in the middle of the largest circle. On the small circle stamp a sentiment. Glue the large circle to the lower right side of cut out smoky slate card topper. Glue on the elephant, two of the leaves and the balloon. With dimentionioals pop up the last set of leaves, the mouse and the butterfly and place on card front. Glue down the small circle. Then stamp the last sentiment on basic white and cut close to the edges and pop up on dimentionals. On the back of the card front place dimentionals around the edges and middle and place the card front to the card base. If you want you can also stamp an elephant to the corner of the envelope. You can also cut a piece of basic white at 3 3/4x 5 for the inside of the card. 

I hope you enjoy using this bundle as much as I have. You can find all the products in my on line store at ruthgonzales.stampinup.net

 I hope you have a great rest of your week, God Bless, Ruth 

   

Sending Smiles bundle

Today’s card “Sending Smiles”   

            What you will need:

Sending smiles bundle #158707

Card stock- sweet sorbet #159268

                    Starry night #159263

                     Basic white #159276

Ink- sweet sorbet #159216

        Starry night #159212

        Parakeet party #159208

        Daffodil delight #147094

Dies: dots & spots #159164

          Stylish shapes #159183

Cut and emboss machine #149653

Paper trimmer #152392

Dimentionals #104430

Multipurpose glue #110755

Designer Series Paper (DSP)- in color 6x6 2022-2024 #159253

Card bases sweet sorbet and starry night cut at 5 1/2x8 1/2, scored at 4 1/4. Basic white card stock and DSP cut at 5 1/4x4. Using the cut and emboss machine and the dots & spots die cut the DSP. Glue the DSP to the basic white card stock. From the stylish shapes dies cut out the largest circle. On a scrap piece of basic white using the sweet sorbet, parakeet party, daffodil delight and starry sky ink, and the sending smile bundle, stamp and die cut the flowers and stems. Cut out the word “sending” from the starry sky and  sweet sorbet. Cut the outline from basic white, glue the two pieces together. Cut and stamp out the sentiment strip. Glue the dots and spots piece to the card front. Glue the circle to the center of the card, glue stem on the circle. Using dimensionals pop up the flowers on the stem. With dimentionals pop up the word “sending” and the sentiment strip. For the inside cut a piece of basic white 4x4 1/2 and glue to inside of card. With extra DSP cut a piece 4x 1/2 and glue tat the bottom of the inside. I hope you enjoy making these cards.

All of these items can be purchased at my on line Stampin’ up store- ruthgonzales.stampinup.net

Thank you for stopping by, have a great rest of your week. Ruth Gonzales, your independent Stampin’ up demonstrator.

         

Hey friends just 10 more days to jump on board and get this special Paper Pumpkin. Use this months host code JMUSU9BF, when ordering at…

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ABOUT THE KIT

Name: Sweet Sunflowers

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 express words of gratitude, friendship, greetings and beautiful wildflower designed images.
• Specialty Vellum honeycomb shape pre-cut pieces.
• 2 Classic Stampin’ Spots (Crushed Curry and Soft Suede) for a Two-Step stamping experience with a twist!
• Paper pieces and embellishments with watercolor designs and images.
• Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.
• FREE GIFT: 8 Gold Foil Honeycomb Sheets

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

Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Blackberry Bliss, Crushed Curry, Evening Evergreen, Melon Mambo, Mossy Meadow, Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede