Ruth's Stamping Escape

St. Patrick's Day Pop-Up and Spring Butterfly Card

Here are 2 cards we made for club last night.  The ladies loved them.  The St Patrick's Day is from the Occasions Mini Catalog and the inside 'Celebrate' is from the Outline Occasions set in the Sale-a-brations(SAB) catalog.  The butterfly card is from the Fresh Vintage set in the Sale-a-bration catalog. 

One of these days I'm going to get into the video/tutorial world and then I could just send you to my video to watch me make my cards.  But I'm just not there YET. 

If you're coming to my Stamp Camp on Saturday, Feb 25th, we'll be making a similar pop-up card.  You'll get hands-on how to make this type of fun card.If you're local to Northern VA, and are not on my EVITE list for stamp camps, just send an email to me and I'll happily add you.

The Square Lattice Embossing folder was used with the Big Shot Machine to create the textured background and it's done with a piece of 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 piece of Vellum Cardstock.  It's such a cool affect when it turns the raised portion of the vellum to white.  We heat embossed the St. Patrick's Day by stamping with Garden Green Craft ink and then covering with Clear Embossing Powder and then heat seting with our heat gun. Then flip it over and use our coordinating Stamin' Write Markers to color inside the outlined words.  It looks messy when you're coloring but when you flip it back to the right side, it's beautiful.  This technique of coloring is called Stained Glass.  After coloring the vellum, we used the Labels Collection Framelits and the Big Shot to cut out the St. Patrick's Day image and the next size up for the mat behind it.  We used the Crop-a-dile to punch holes in the vellum to weave the new 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon through.  The colors used on this card are Lucky Limeade (new In-color) and Garden Green.

Simply Scored, Window Sheets, Sticky Strip, and Heart to Heart punch were used to pop the hearts up.

side view so you can see the hearts popped up

The colors for the butterfly card are inspired from the flowers blooming in my front yard this week!  Last night snow....not much but the flowers are confused.  The daffodils are budding and the tulips are coming up.  We are having crazy weather.  

This card layout is inspired from my sister Donna.  Thanks sis.  As demonstrators and sisters, we love sharing ideas with each other and, it keeps us close even though we're hundreds of miles apart.

Wonderful Wings Embosslit, Big Shot, Fresh Vintage stamp set. Pearls for the big butterfly. Daffodil Delight Stampin' Write Marker.  It's hard to see that we colored in the flowers and dots with the marker, which pulls the colors together nicely.  Concord Crush is an in-color that will be going away in a few months.  I will miss it.

Stamp Camp Projects

Oh my gosh, I had been doing so well.  I think I got so caught up in the Stampin' Birthday Party preparations and Stamp Camp prep, that I forgot to post on Friday night.  Then, the party and Stamp Camp on Saturday and time just got away from me.  So...you get all of my stamp camp projects today :-)  Hope you like them...let me know by commenting :-)

First, a cool picture of the sun as we were leaving the river last weekend.  Isn't it pretty.

 
Okay, now the samples from Stamp Camp.  Oh wait!  I need to show you some Baubles first.  Here is one on my zipper pull of my Stampin' Up! jacket.  I love it.

 

And here is one on my friend Jean's purse...LOVE it.  Thanks for the idea Jean.

 
 
Okay, REALLY, here are the Stamp Camp photos

I had the Stamp Camp in my home so I had my camera and took pictures.  Usually, it's not at my house and I never seem to have my camera.

Here's Jo, Elizabeth, Joyce and Tina having a good time stampin'.

 

Here's Beryl, Aleithe, Matt (special guest) and girlfriend Rachael.  It was Matt's first time stamping and he had a blast.  Stampin' is not just for girls!
 

Here's Matt after he has stamped his first card.  He is such a sweetie pie.
 

Aleithe and Linda(Linda will kill me for this picture)
 
And here are the projects that everyone made.  This one is from the FREE SAB set "Punch Bunch."  The white accents are from the Shimmer Paint.  The entire Stamp Camp was either Shimmer Paper, Shimmer Paint, Glitter or some kind of BLING.  woo hoo.  You can't really tell here but the white dots were very pearly and shiny when dry.  We used the Big Shot and the Elegant Bouquet Textured Embossing Folder.

 

This one uses the 'Flower Fancy' stamp set and the Champagne Glitter Glass.  This is a 2-step stampin' set.  It's one of my favorites.  Sentiment is from 'Teeny Tiny Wishes.'  Also used: Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch.
 

Love this brigh color...Poppy Parade.  This fabulous stamp set is from the Occasions Mini Catalog and it's got a matching punch.  Stamp set is "Build a Blossom" and the punch is "Build a Blossom Punch."  LOVE both of these and the possibilities are endless of what can be done with them.  Oval and Large Oval Punch and Glimmer Brad accessories are also used.  Sentiments is from "Teeny Tiny Wishes."
 

Recognize the flower punch?  It's the Circle Scallop Punch and each petal is cut to the middle of the circle to creat the 3-d look of a real flower.  Cool huh?  This set is the "Bold Blossom" set of 4 from the Occasions Mini catlaog.  The buttons are the Designer Big Buttons 'Sweet Stitches' from the Occasions Mini also.  I sure am going to miss this mini catalog after April.  The sentiment is part of the set of 4.
 

The last project was a 3-d coaster calendar with magnets applied to the back to put on a file cabinet or fridge.  The DSP here is retired (GASP) but everyone last night used the Springtime Vintage DSP from the Occasions Mini catalog and they were beautiful.  I forgot to snap some photos of those.  sorry
 

Hope you enjoyed the post today....it was rather lengthy.  See you tomorrow.

Ornament Punch for Vase

This is a card I designed this morning.  I love these colors.  They are all new In-colors and I think they're so fallish.  This set is "For All You Do" and is one of my favorites in the catalog. This card was made for Joan Kertz, one of my downline team members in St. Louis, MO.  Hope she likes it.

Do you recognize the vase?  It's the Ornament Punch from the new Holiday Mini Catalog with just the bottom tip cut off.  Creative huh...I saw it somewhere.  Not my original idea.