Floating Frames with Groovy Stampers

When I joined Stampin' Up! 15 years ago, I was a downline under my sister.  These days, my sister is back to being a demonstrator with me as her upline!  Today we had our Groovy Stampers meeting and I was able to walk two of my favorite crafting friends and teammates (Kathy and Tammi) through the Floating Frame technique using the stamps from the April Paper Pumpkin kit, Sentimental Rose.

Now you can look up a bunch of videos on how to do this technique on YouTube.  I learned from this one.  And once I had it all designed for our meeting, I found this sample by Rachel Tessman so I switched from the Healing Hugs set to the Paper Pumpkin one.  

For my card, I started by giving them each two 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 pieces of Whisper White cardstock scored in half.  Then a 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 piece that isn't scored to use for the stamping.  Finally, I gave them a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 piece to use at a matting template for the images.

The first step is to stamp the images on the 5 1/2  x 8 1/2 piece of white cardstock.  I used Gorgeous Grape for the Rose and Granny Apple Green for the leaves.  Then you cut them out and arrange them on the 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 piece of Whisper White.

Next you take a piece of Press and Seal and lay it over your images.  Press firmly enough for it to grip the images. Cut around the template and remove the cardstock from the back.  Lay on the Big Shot and cut out the 4th largest rectangle from the center.

Remove from the Big Shot and pop out the center.  Turn them over and add dimensionals to the white side of the images on both pieces. 

Remove the backings of the dimensionals and add to the folded Whisper White card.  You can do this best by lining up the corners.

Turn your card over and carefully pull off the Press and Seal wrap.  Go slow - this may remove a small amount of ink or tear the paper if you go too fast.

Stamp the saying on the inside of your frame.  Stamp on the scrap of white (that you used for stamping) and cut out that saying with the rectangle and add to the card with dimensionals. I added some rhinestones to fill in the holes.

Cool, eh?  Yet again, Paper Pumpkin provides me with what I need to be successful in stamping!

Next month's kit was designed by Shelli and screams her personal style.  The kit includes 12 mailable cards (3 cards of 4 designs), plus ink and stamps, for only 19.95 (plus tax).  That is an incredible deal.  Plus subscribers will get their alternative ideas from me and can get a free 2019-2020 catalog.  If you'd like a sneak peek in to the kit, click the video below!

If you want to sign up for next month's kit, please sign up by May 10th using this link:   https://mypaperpumpkin.com/en/?demoid=80380 

We are getting ready to close out the current catalog so many of our products are on the way out.  If there are designer papers or stamp sets that you want to make sure you get, please visit my Online Store.  Products listed on the Last Chance section are available while supplies last, though stamp sets are guaranteed through May 26th.  

Have a craftastic day,

Stacy

April 2019 Alternative Paper Pumpkin Ideas - Sentimental Rose

I am always telling people that Paper Pumpkin is how I keep my creativity going when my life is full of kid commitments.  We get so busy running them from activity to activity, all while making sure that we have the fundamentals for food, clothing, and shelter taken care of as well.  It's the wonderful and exhausting part of parenting.  So when this month's Paper Pumpkin showed up yesterday, I opened it and immediately started working on it. While my kids designed riddles for their make-believe escape room, I went ahead and escaped into this kit.

The samples that came with the kit were beautiful and fun. I love it when they aren't hard to do as it lets me feel productive without having a lot of time!  This kit included a stamp set with the big rose and leaves plus every sentiment we need for card making (happy birthday, best wishes, thinking of you, thank you, congratulations, and even happy mother's day).  There is also a mystery stamp - I'm still not sure what it's for!  The ink was Gray Granite, one of my favorite neutrals, and the kit came with supplies to make 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs, plus a gift box for them.

If my mother and mother-in-law didn't already subscribe, I would have made this one and given them to them as a gift. I also could have used it for Teacher Appreciation Day but I'm keeping this one.

Here are the samples from the kit using the instructions provided by Stampin' Up!

Now my subscribers get alternative ideas from me with step by step instructions.  I had so much fun making the notecards that I only brought out my paper trimmer and scissors and a few extra notecards from my stash so I could cut up the cards from the kit.  Sorry for the bad photography on some of these!

Then I expanded and brought some coordinating ink pads.

Finally, I cut a few Whisper White standard cards, a little extra cardstock, a dauber, and my Mint Macaron and Calypso Coral Blends.

This was my favorite kit to date because it let me PLAY and was very forgiving.  I loved how you could stamp the rose in a color and then re-ink lightly in the Gray Granite ink and make it pop off the paper.  I loved that you could stamp it lightly in Gray Granite and then color with Blends or a water color look.  And I love that you could make so many different cards using a single stamp set.

If you want to sign up for next month's kit, please do so here:  https://mypaperpumpkin.com/en/?demoid=80380 

Next month's kit was designed by Shelli and screams her personal style.  The kit includes 12 mailable cards (3 cards of 4 designs), plus ink and stamps, for only 19.95 (plus tax).  That is an incredible deal.  Plus subscribers will get their alternative ideas from me and can get a free 2019-2020 catalog.  If you'd like a sneak peek in to the kit, click the video below!

I hope the season brings a Spring to your step, a smile to your heart, and time to stop and stamp the flowers.

Take care,
Stacy

March 2019 Paper Pumpkin Alternative Ideas - Poppin' Birthday

March was a month of birthdays, anniversaries, vacations and very little crafting, which explains why I am finally getting around to posting my March Paper Pumpkin samples from Poppin' Birthday!  This kit was tied to the company's celebration for SIX YEARS of Paper Pumpkin and included a bonus number stamp set that works for all occasions (birthdays, anniversaries, coach thank yous, teacher gifts, you name it!  I hope you enjoy and thanks to fellow demonstrators Rachel Tessman and Dawn Olchefke who inspired me with their alternative creations!

Here is the original project from the kit - 4 cards for each of the 2 designs.  So cute!

Here are my alternative ideas for my customers!  Which one do you like most?

Thanks for taking a look at my alternative projects! I hope something spoke to you in them!

Paper Pumpkin is a kit in the mail product line from Stampin' Up! that contains a project with all the pieces, an exclusive photopolymer stamp set, ink spot, adhesive, and step by step instructions.  It's only $19.95 a month (includes shipping) when you are billed monthly. Subscribers with me get a project sheet full of ideas using the kit and step by step instructions to make my projects.  If you are interested in joining up, please visit the Web site below to be billed monthly or purchase prepaid kits to keep or give away.

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You will not want to miss the DistINKtive stamp sets in our April Paper Pumpkin card kit.  This kit will include supplies to make 9 cards (3 each of 3 designs) plus a gift box for them and will feature our exclusive DistINKtive stamps which give the impression of multi-stepped stamping with a single stamp and ink color.  They are awesome and I'm excited for so many of you to try them out.  I really hope they include the flowers in the image above!

Take care and have a craftastic day!
Stacy