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12 Feb 26

Beauty in Layers

This card is just so gorgeous with all the patterned paper layers! I love how the three different patterns tie all the colors together. The suite I am using this month for my class has the most beautiful florals in it and the B side has a lot of wonderful colored paper. I'm so thrilled to get to showcase most of them in the class.
You could use any patterned paper for this card, even the bits you have saved because you couldn't part with them. Those too small for backgrounds, but too big to toss, pieces!! This could quite possibly be the time to use them. If you want to make these cards and can't come to class, sign up for the class in the mail. You'll get all the supplies and pretty papers to create your own!! You can view this card on my YouTube channel, here.

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Jill- The Green Thumb Stamper

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10 Feb 26

Words of Beauty

I started showing the cards I'll be offering in the February class. I think it will help you guys decide if you want to come to class if you can see the cards and how they come together. They are not hard, but I know it is easy to be intimidated if you aren't sure about how to do something. Rest assured, class is low key and certainly not set up to stress you out. This suite is so pretty and the paper is just wonderful. The designs are gorgeous on their own. I use the paper a lot this month! This card is very easy to create on it's own or you can run the layer through your cut & emobss machine and give it some texture. You can see the how to video on YouTube, here.
You may also notice that I'm chaning up my YouTube videos. I am not going to be posting my weekly live video there anymore, just a short how to for making the card. It adds in another video and a tad more work for me, but I think in the long run it will be more enjoyable for the YouTube watchers. So, wish me luck as I change up another thing!! LOL.

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1 Feb 26

January Paper Pumpkin Alternates

I got my alternates done for the January kit just in the nick of time! I needed to get my one for the group I'm in submitted by the 31st. I was down to the wire! I can't believe I forgot to update my PP subscription page when I got my new credit card. I updated everything I could think of before I left and forgot that and Netflix. We are all squared away now and I can put this kit to rest. I believe I used up most of the pieces. I'll make a couple random cards with the rest today. I need to make a couple of quilt cards too so YAY! Another crafting day calls.
You can see the videos on my Facebook page in the album I created, here. If you'd rather see them on YouTube, you can find them in my Paper Pumpkin Alternates playlist, here.
The scrapbook page was made with the box the kit came in. It was a shift from another card idea I had when I ruined part of the box trying to get the paper off.

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29 Jan 26

Friendly Foliage Luminaire

I wanted to do a little something different this week, so I did!! I came up with this luminaire option and it was pretty easy to design really. Take a peek at the video to see just how easy it is!! You can see it here, on YouTube.

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25 Jan 26

January Class to go cards

These are the three cards that were the class of the month for January. I didn't have an in person class because I was gone on vacation but I had a couple of options for getting this class. I just wanted to show you the finished cards. I used the Friendly Foliage bundle as the main stamp set.

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25 Jan 26

Merry Christmas for January

Tonight was my Christmas video, I try to always have a Christmas card video on the 25th of each month. January brings a sweet card using the Jar of Joy stamp set. It's a quick card that is easily mass produced. It is good to help use up some of those DSP scraps too. You can see the YouTube video here.

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23 Jan 26

Friendly Foliage used this week

Well I'm back after my vacation. Seems like I've been gone a long time. I guess 22ish days is long enough to feel that way. After I returned from my vacation it was just slow going to get the wheels turning again. I thought I was all straightened out with the time change but lately I have been waking up at 3am like clock work. I'll get there, just going to take a little more time. I am feeling tip top though, headache hasn't come back and my stuffiness is gone. Mike did get a cold from who knows where so I'm doing my best to steer clear of catching that! Now if the weather would come out of the deep freeze life will be awesome. I have a crafting day tomorrow that I hope will not get canceled. It's going to be negative tempertures tomorrow and that won't cancel it, just hope the roads are good to get there.

Anyway.....you are here to see the cards I made this week, not to hear about me! I did three cards, stepped each up a little bit to show a variety of different things you can do to have a nice card without a lot of effort. My class for January used the Friendly Foliage so I continued with that for my cards this week. My new plan of attack for classes is to use one set and then through the month I'll show the cards and some extra ideas, so this was kinda following that idea. We'll see how long I can do that. It seems so limiting. You can see the video for these cards on YouTube here.

This is the first card I did. It uses limited supplies and if you didn't want to cut out the leaves you could just use one of the stamps in the set. Cutting the rectangles and stamping would eliminate the need for the dies and a embossing machine for anyone that doesn't purchase it all.

This one steps it up a little bit with the use of the dies and a little technique for making the pattern. Our new stamp positioner tool that was just announced will help with this style of stamping for sure.

This card is pretty simple too but looks much fancier with all of the layers it has. It uses dry embossing with the folder on the vanilla piece and heat embossing with the sentiment and flower piece.

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1 Jan 26

Aspen Grove

Tonight I inked up the Aspen Grove stamps and used them for my weekly live. It was the first I've played with this set and boy was I surprised to see the trees were separate stamps! For some reason I thought it was one set with all the trunks and you just added extra branches!! I like the versatility of it. I did some watercoloring with this design and really like how it came out. I hope you can give it a try. You can see the video on YouTube if you click here.

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