Oceanfront - Featuring Faux Sea Glass Shapes

 This stamp set has sure been a hit with me! It makes a quick and easy card and it's beautiful! The Faux Sea Glass Shapes give such a lovely touch to finish off these cards.

After cutting the beach houses from the Horizon dies, I colored them with Stampin' Blends, and a thin black Sharpie for a bit of outline. I inked the beach stamp in Crumb Cake, then used a Sponge Dauber to apply a bit of Soft suede to the straighter side of the stamp.

Stamps	Oceanfront
Paper	Pool Party, Balmy Blue, Basic White
Ink	Balmy Blue, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Basic Gray, Night of Navy, Stampin' Blends
Embellishments	Faux Beach Glass Shapes, Linen Thread, Stampin' Dimensionals
Tools	Bark Embossing Folder, Horizon Dies, Sponge Dauber

Sand stamped in Crumb Cake (stamped off) edge is Soft Suede on a sponge dauber. Grass stamped in Early Espresso, birds in Basic Gray

Stamps	Oceanfront
Paper	Thick Basic White, Balmy Blue, Pool Party
Ink	Balmy Blue, Pool Party, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Basic Gray
Embellishments	Faux Sea Glass Shapes. Linen Thread, Stampin' Dimensionals
Tools	1-1/4" Circle Punch, Sponge Dauber

Faux Sea Glass Shapes #158139 p. 33 January to June Mini Catalog

Valentines Without Valentine Stamps

How do you make a Valentine's Day card with no Valentine stamps? Easy, you improvise. Think about it, any floral stamp can work, just use a Valentine greeting. But what if you want to make a Valentine for a man? Lots of Masculine stamps would work, just use appropriate colors and a greeting stamp that you have on hand, or type your greeting on a word processing document.

CHALLENGE: Look through your stamps and papers and come up with an un-Valentine Valentine's Day card. 

Need a little nudge of inspiration? Below, I used the SALE-A-BRATION stamp set Driving By. I thought a black and red combo would be good for a masculine card, so I colored the cute little sports car red. Then I looked at all my DSP for a print in black and white. I found one in the Daffodil Afternoon DSP from the SALE-A-BRATION catalog. The cool thing about our DSP, is that is is printed on both sides, so you get the double the patterns. This particular package of papers has daffodil prints on one side and more subdued patterns and colors on the other. I especially liked those sides. The stamp used in the greeting said, "Driving By just to say Hi." I used a piece of post-it note to cover up the word HI. Happy Valentine's Day, and some punched out hearts to make my card.

For the second card, I used the same DSP, Flirty Flamingo, Pale Papaya and Basic White cardstock, along with Oval Dies and Heart Dies.

For this last card, I used the Harvest Meadow DSP, and Poppy Parade cardstock.

Treat Packaging

 Here's another treat package. These are Archway cookies. Windmill shaped cookies... How could you not package them with our beautiful windmill stamps and dies? I happened to have some food safe treat bags leftover from Christmas time. I got them at Walmart. They are 5 in, wide and about 10 in. long.

 

• I cut about 2 in off of the length of the bag and inserted two windmill cookies in each one.

• For the topper, I cut a piece of poppy parade cardstock 5" x 5-3/4," scored it in the middle at 2-1/4."  

• For the backing piece, I cut another piece of cardstock 5" x 5-3/4." 

• After folding the top of the cellophane bag down, I put the topper over the bag and the backing piece and stapled it.

• The Flowering Fields DSP was cut to 2” x 5” and adhere to each side of the topper.

• For the front, I stamped and colored a windmill with Stampin' Blends and adhered it to the topper.

• For the Back, I stamped the message from the Beauty of Friendship stamp set and punched it out with the Story Label punch.

• The windmill die was cut from Petal Pink and Poppy Parade and adhered to the bottom portion.

Stamps	Tulip Fields, Beauty of Friendship
Paper	Petal Pink, Poppy Parade, Basic White, Flowering Fields Designer Series Paper
Ink	Poppy Parade, Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends
Tools	Windmill Fields Dies, Story Label Punch

Windmill Treat Holder

 Here is a new treat holder. It's a small box with the windmill diecut on the short side. I put candy in a treat bag and tied it up with coordinating color ribbon. If you don't have a matching color ribbon, you can color the White crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon #151326 easily with any color Stampin' Blend alcohol ink marker. I tried it and just one swipe with a marker and you get beautiful coverage that dries instantly. 

• Cardstock measuring 5-1/2 x 6-1/2

• On the long side score at 2 in and 4-1/2 in

• On the short side score at 2 in and 3-1/2 in

• Use a bone folder to reinforce score lines and on both long sides

• Miter the edges and cut in to first score lines on the long sides

• Glue the box together, and glue the windmill die cut to the short side

Stampin' News and New Horizons DSP

 Would you like the news first or the samples? Okay, great news it is!  

We’ve been blown away by your response to last year’s release of our very own Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machines. We worked tirelessly to design a die-cutting and embossing machine that would not only meet your expectations, but exceed them! We hope you continue to enjoy all of the amazing options you can find in our Stampin’ Cut & Emboss line of products.

We have an exciting update to share about the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss product line’s new magnetic plates! We are moving forward with our efforts to finalize the development and production of the new magnetic plates for both machines. We anticipate these plates to be available as early as the release of the 2022–2023 Annual Catalog! The exact timing is still unknown, but we will continue to provide updates as they’re available. Thank you for your patience throughout this process.

For tips, tricks, and additional information about the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss line of products, visit stampinup.com/cut&emboss! 

I LOVE my Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine and I'm so excited for the magnetic plate to come my way!!!

Now, here are some cards made using the New Horizons Designer Series Paper. I'm telling you this Designer Series Paper is the    MOST VERSATILE EVER!!

Stamps	On the Horizons
Paper	New Horizons DSP, Misty Moonlight, Very Vanilla In Good Taste DSP
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Old Olive,
Embellishments	Pebbles Enamel Shapes, Linen Thread, Stampin' Dimensionals
Tools	Horizon Dies

We all have those tiny strips of DSP that seem too small to save, but don't throw them away! If the paper strips are pretty use them to decorate the inside of your cards.

Stamps	On the Horizons
Paper	New Horizons DSP, Thick Basic white, Evening Evergreen, In Good Taste DSP
Ink	Evening Evergreen, Basic Gray
Embellishments	Pebbles Enamel Shapes
Tools	Horizon Dies

Stamps	On the Horizons
Paper	New Horizons DSP, Thick Basic White, Night of Navy
Ink	Night of Navy
Embellishments
Tools	Horizon Dies

Stamps	On the Horizons, Sailing Home
Paper	New Horizons DSP, Night of Navy, Basic White
Ink	Rich Razzleberry, Basic Gray, Memento Tuxedo Black, Crumb Cake, Night of Navy,  Stampin' Blends
Embellishments
Tools	Smooth Sailing Dies

 

More On the Horizon

 I love it when stamp sets and bundles pair so beautifully together! The first card below was made using the On the Horizon bundle along with the New Horizons Designer Series Paper. 

I am sooooo crazy in love with this DSP, that I have ordered three packages!! Why so many you ask? First of all it's beautiful, secondly it is such fun to build scenes with, and lastly, it can be used with so many stamp sets, it's the MOST versatile paper ever! Besides the On the Horizon bundle, I've been using it with Grassy Grove, and Wildlife Wonder. I just ordered the Oceanfront stamp set and can't wait to use it with this DSP and coordinate it with the On the Horizon bundle as well.

The second card uses On the Horizon, the trees from the Majestic Mountain Dies, the DSP of course.... oh and the Pebbles Enamel Shapes which are so cool!!

Majestic Mountain Dies

Quick and Easy Masculine

This has got to be the quickest, easiest card I've ever made... AND I love it! I I used the Wildlife Wonder stamp set, New Horizons Designer Paper, and the Pebbles Enamel Shapes. The card base is Thick Basic White 4-1/8 x 5-3/8 DSP layer Stamp greeting and shadow/grass in Evening Evergreen right on the DSP Stamp bear in Memento Tuxedo Black on Basic White cardstock, and cut it out Adhere to card front with Stampin' Dimensionals and place three self-adhesive pebbles on the ground Voila! Quick and Easy Awesome looking card!!!

Inside Card