October Stamp Club Cards

For this month's Stamp Club card, I concentrated on fall and the holidays. 

If you would like to order any of the items to make these cards, please order online using my October code: 6G7GE4YW   Your order will be mailed directly to you.  You can also check out the Clearance items and include them with your order.

I used the following stamps for this card: Cookie Cutter Halloween; Goulish Grunge; Happy Scenes; Timeless Textures

l  Stamp the Brick Wall (from Ghoulish Grunge) on the white card with Smoky Slate ink.  Use the little splatter stamp (Timeless Textures) and stamp with Pumpkin Pie ink. 

l  Stamp Spider Web in corner with black ink.  

  Next the trick was to find a spider!  Finally found one on a retired set from last year, Happy Scenes.  Probably just as easy to use a marker and draw him in! 

The 3 black squares are 1 3/4" each. The Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizazz & Wisteria Wonder square were die cut with the Squares Thinlits.

l  Next stamp creatures onto white paper & punch out w/Cookie Cutter Punch; color and adhere to the black squares.  Stamp the sentiment (again, I used a retired set called And Many More.

 The Ugly Christmas Sweater card was a big hit!  I had others to choose from but everyone picked the Christmas one.   If you Google Cable Knit Sweater Card, you will find a bunch of different sweaters with instructions.  It's really pretty simple.  Run your card stock through the Big Shot using the Cable Knit Embossing Folder.  This is a really thick folder and I found it helpful to mist the card stock with a little water before embossing.  For the white shirt underneath, this is the white card base.  I used the Circle Thinlits (or a 2" Circle Punch) to punch a circle.  The ribbing is made using a Crimper but if you do not have one of those, you can use your Score Board and score on every line.  This is a fun card to play with and come up with lots of different ideas as I did below.

 The next card uses the beautiful Petals and Paisleys!  I love the DSP, the stamp set and the framelits!  Here are my directions:

Emboss the Rich Razzleberry card stock with the Petal Burst embossing folder.

Adhere DSP to top of Razzleberry card stock.

Tie knot in Mint Macaron ribbon and adhere around Razzleberry card.

Adhere Razzleberry card to Night of Navy card.

Stamp sentiment onto Vanilla card stock and cut out.  Matte onto Night of Navy and adhere to Razzleberry card stock.

Stamp scallop circles in different colored inks; die cut with Paisley thinlits; adhere them together with dimensionals.  Adhere Candy Dot to center.

Die cut large Paisley from Copper paper and the floral pieces from Mint Macaron and Night of Navy; arrange all onto card.

 Next is the cute little scarecrow from Cookie Cutter Halloween.

Use a sponge or dauber & sponge So Saffron on bottom of white card

Sponge Soft Sky on top (use a cloud template)

Stamp wheat from Wetlands w/Delightful Dijon on bottom of card.

On scrap white, stamp Scarecrow & color.  Use Cookie Cutter Punch & punch out.

Stamp sentiment w/Dijon ink.

Cable Knit Folder

I absolutely love the Cable Knit embossing folder.  It makes such a great dimensional impression.  I like to sprinkle a little water on it before running it through the Big Shot to make sure I get a really deep impression.

For this card, I used the Cable Knit embossing folder on a piece of Whisper White card stock and adhered it to the Garden Green card base.  I punched the two trees out of the Warmth and Cheer Paper Stack (pg. 13) with the Perfect Pines dies.  Very simple but I love it.  I used some dark green buttons that I had in my button jar and some twine and bakers twine threaded through.  The sentiment is from Cookie Cutter Christmas.

When I first looked at this paper stack, I wasn't sold on it.  But what I like about it is that it can be used for other cards, not just Christmas.  It's a great stack of paper for masculine cards.

Fun Fold Hallowwen

I've got another Halloween card to share with you.  This one uses Cookie Cutter Halloween.  There are several characters in this stamp set and with the coordinating punch, it's super easy to cut out.  This card is  tri-fold card.  I used the Circles thinlits to die cut the circle.

The DSP I used is retired but you can easily use  Halloween the DSP that is in the Holiday Catty.

I have a little tip for you.  The Cookie Cutter Punch is a builder punch meaning while you punch the vampire man, you are also punching other smaller items - heart, bow tie, etc. at the same time and it can make a mess on your desk with all those little pieces going everywhere.  There are several builder punches - Owl Punch, Tree Punch, etc. and you can use this tip for all of them too.  I bought a shallow plastic container at the Dollar Store and when I punch, I punch (upside down) over the container so all the little pieces can fall into it.  I recently punched about 15 images using the Cookie Cutter Punch and my plastic container and clean up was so much easier.

Itsie Bitsie Spider

I've had a little bit of time this weekend to make a few cards.  Yay!!  I decided to make a few Halloween cards.  This is the first one using one of my favorite stamps, Jar of Love.  My sister would not like this card as she hates spiders!!  Can't you just imagine all these itty bitty spiders crawling out of the little jar??!! 

After taking the picture of the card, I decided it needed just a little bit of color.  So, I pulled out my dauber and put a little red ink on the brick wall.

I used Jar of Love and Goulish Grounge for this card.  When it came to the spiders though, I was stumped.  I didn't buy Jar of Haunts (should have!) which has a little spider so I went in search of a spider.  I finally found one in a retired set, Happy Scenes (from last year) and used it.  But, if you have Jar of Haunts, Mr. Funny Bones, OR Spooky Fun, you are in luck!  All three have a spider in them!  I don't usually do many Halloween cards so only bought one set, Cookie Cutter Halloween and mainly for the scarecrow.

Sonny and I went to the movies yesterday and saw Deepwater Horizon.  It was really good.  It is a dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.  If you get a chance, go see it.

Sunday was football Sunday and we went to Big Al's in Mooresville to watch the Steelers beat the NY Jets.  I think this might have been our last time to watch football at Big Al's.  We have been going there for 10+ years on Sunday.  They moved this summer to a bigger and much nicer facility but it is like pulling teeth to get them to put the Steeler game on a TV that is easy for us to see.  There are 5 TVs on the wall that our table faces.  Today 2 of them were on the Steeler game.  When we got there, they had 3 of the TVs tuned to the game.  When we asked them to put it on the larger screen, they did but took the game off the other two TVs (that no one cared about watching!)   When you look around the bar, there may be a couple of table who do not have Steeler gear on but the rest of the restaurant is in black and gold.  They advertise themselves as a Steelers bar and have big signs inside and outside for the Steelers, but they aren't willing to accommodate the fans who come in there.

Well, gonna tune in to the debate and see what crazy things come out of Hilary and Donald's mouths tonight!  Should be interesting.

Paper Pumpkin BOGO

This is the September Paper Pumpkin kit.  It was a great one!  The kit included:

Supplies for 16 treat tubes
• 3 sheets of adhesive banners
• 3 sheets of printed die-cut labels
• 16 plastic food-safe tubes
• 5 yds of linen thread
• 35 adhesive dots

PLUS a photopolymer stamp set that not only has Halloween images but also that cute sunflower image seen in the card below.

The refill kit has already gone on sale so by purchasing it (includes all the above except the stamp set), you would have supplies for 32 treats!
 
For the FIRST time ever, FIRST-time subscribers can buy their FIRST month and get their second month FREE!  This BOGO sale is only available until Oct. 10.  You would pay for the October kit and get the November kit for free.  If you are interested in subscribing, click on Paper Pumpkin at the top of my blog.

Stampin' Up SALE!

 


To celebrate World Card Making Day (which was yesterday, Oct. 1) Stampin' Up is putting a few items on sale - BUT for just 5 days!  That's right - this sale will only be available from Oct. 1 - 5.

Item #	Description	Discount	Retail Price	Sale Price
138339	2015-2017 In Color Card stock	15%	$8 USD	$6.80 USD
141413	2016-2018 In Color Card stock	15%	$8 USD	$6.80 USD
141697	2015-2017 In Color Envelope Paper	25%	$11 USD	$8.25 USD
141698	2016-2018 In Color Envelope Paper	25%	$11 USD	$8.25 USD
133774	Envelope Punch Board	25%	$20 USD	$15 USD
141651	Designer Tin of Cards Project Kit	25%	$27 USD	$20.25 USD
129027	Fast Fuse Adhesive Refill – Buy a Fast Fuse Adhesive (item 129026) and get a Refill for FREE!		$7.50 USD	FREE with purchase of Fast Fuse Adhesive

THE HOSTESS CODE FOR OCTOBER IS     6G7GE4YW

Please use this code in placing your online order.

Another sale that is going on for the whole month of October is the Designer Series Paper SALE!  Specialty Designer Series Paper and Designer Series Paper Stacks do not qualify for this promotion and cannot be redeemed through this offer.

What Happened?

Just to let you know I do not know what happened to the blog listings that were on the left side.  I am looking into it and will either start a new blog or re-create the links!

UPDATE:  Google took over Blogger which is the forum I use for my blog.  Anyway, in an update, they deleted everyone's blog lists.  Supposedly, they are working on it.  We'll see!  So, it wasn't anything I did!

I have started adding a few blogs back but I can't remember them all.  If you have a favorite that you want me to add, just let me know!

Fall Scarecrow

I just got the Cookie Cutter Halloween (and Christmas bundle) last Friday so I had to use the cute little scarecrow.  He is the main reason I purchased this particular stamp set!  I sponged the background in Soft Sky on the top and Daffodil Delight and Delightful Dijon on the bottom.  The grass is from Wetlands stamped in Dijon and Sahara Sand.  I colored the scarecrow with markers and used the punch to punch him out and adhered to the card with dimensionals.  The sentiment is from Tin of Cards stamped in Dijon.

Touches of Texture for Fall

We are getting some much needed rain here today.  I love to hear the rain coming down on the roof at night.  I'm headed to a luncheon and tour of Daveste Winery so I do hope the rain lets up by lunch time!  Plus, Sonny plans on playing golf today with a friend.  He tells me thought that it never rains on the golf course!  He may be right.  He had a tee time yesterday with another friend and his friend canceled.  Sonny went by himself and played - with no rain to stop him.  His buddy just missed out.

The limited time stamp, Thoughtful Branches Bundle, is still available while supplies last.  If you are interested in this bundle, check it out HERE.  Once the inventory is depleted, it will no longer be available.

Another attempt at a fall card was to use Touches of Texture.  This is a great stamp set for backgrounds, two step stamping, and flowers.  I stamped the flower in Early Espresso and then filled them in with Delightful Dijon, Pumpkin Pie, and Cajun Craze.  I stamped the "filler" part of the flower twice turning it just a bit each time.  It's hard to tell but I put Wink of Stella on the dragonfly and the center of the flowers.  Again another hidden element on this card is that I used the background stamp, Watercolor Wash in Crumb Cake on the background along with the splatter stamp from Touches of Texture (stamped in Cajun Craze.)  The Watercolor Wash is pretty subtle but just adds a little background color to the Vanilla card.