If you haven’t watched my recent videos you may not know that we have moved from Minot, ND to Bismarck, ND this month. It’s been a super busy time of downsizing, selling excess, packing and moving.
Why did we move? Well, there are many reasons but mostly my husband retired and we moved to be closer to our son and other family. It was very difficult to leave our beautiful home but we will love our new home too. Here’s a picture of my office/craft room before I was able to unpack. I’ll share new photos once I’m settled.
In that back doorway is a walk in closet; that will help with storage! I did find a nice L shaped desk and hope to get that set up today; then I can really set up my room.
This is why I’ve been missing in action lately; it’s hard to do both stamping/business and moving/getting settled. So I’m taking a bit of a break in August. Have patience with me; I’ll be back to blogging and videos soon!
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More Specialty Paper swaps for you.
From easy to complex I think you’ll find inspiration among these three swap card samples.
First is Candy’s card. She kept is clean and simple and made the die-cut leaf the star of her card.
She chose to use Secret Sea as her card base and Vanilla as her textured layer. That pretty leaf die-cut is from the Nature’s Symphony bundle and is cut from our Earthen Metallic specialty paper seen here.
The embossing folder is the Birch Wood 3D; the greeting is from the Perennial Postage dies.
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Next is a beautiful, serene card scene made by Deloris. She did a neat framing technique!
What she did was to use the smaller frame die-cut on the DSP scene and then flip over that frame to reveal the opposite side as a contrast to the main scene. She popped this frame up on Dimensionals too. The greeting is from the Beautiful Motifs stamp set. The leaf die-cut is also from the Gallery Blooms dies using the Earthen Metallic specialty DSP. Gorgeous and so smart!!
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Lastly is a neat fun fold card made by Lori who used a brand new suite just released in our Online Exclusives.
Isn’t this fold fabulous?! She has a base layer of DSP under the scored layers. The scored layers are 1 1/2″ X 5 1/4″ tall. She scored from the top or bottom at 3/4″ from the edge up to the middle and folded it outwards. Super cool!
This technique starts with a large piece of designer paper. Then add the diagonal square layer. Next you simply start adding the thin strips of DSP around the edges of the square piece; trimming off the excess on the outer edges. So easy!
She chose the Lovely & Beautiful DSP for the main piece and the strips are the Season of Elegance specialty DSP found in the Annual Catalog. The greeting is from Blessed Beginnings stamp set. I love the thin layer of gold on the outer edge!
The main circle dies are from the brand new Springtime Scenes bundle which is currently out of stock. The greeting circle is from the Spotlight on Nature dies. Her colors are Blackberry Bliss, Crushed Curry & Basic Beige.
Card base is 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″. DSP is 4″ X 5 1/4″
More swaps are coming tomorrow!
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March Specials!
March Product of the Month is the Notes of Spring stamp set!
She also used the Three Banner bundle for her greeting. Love that saying! See thispunch bundle here. The stitched square die-cut from Stylish Shapes dies hides the inside panel perfectly.
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