Sneak Peek Sand and Sea Suite

 I am loving this suite you can die cut and then take the piece and put it through the embossing folder.  I did it once on DSP and then on white and colored it with the amazing new blending brushes. 

December 2020 NC Demos Blog Hop

 

Welcome to this months blog hop the last one for 2020.  Wishing and hoping 2021 is a wonderful year for all of us.  Thank you so much for being here and for following all of us we greatly appreciate it.  

This month's theme with the holidays over is going back to the annual catalog and picking out our favorite Designer Series Paper and making a card with it.  Stampin' Up has the most gorgeous DSP and it is really hard to pick just one but as most of you know I am a green person so I had to go with the Forever Greenery DSP and had to do a card that would showcase this paper.  So I did a Flip Up. Flip Out Fun Fold Card, it's easier than it sounds and I did not come up with this idea myself I cased it from Heidi Collins and I loved hers when I saw it and new I would one day need it and so here it is.

The Card is not hard to make at all.  It takes an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet if cardstock.  Score it on the 11" side at 5 1/2 turn it to the 8 1/2" side and score at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8. then with a paper trimmer cut on the score lines for the short sides cut below the score line so you card will fold right.

Inside center DSP is 5 1/4 x 4 for center and end flaps 2 x 5 1/4 and you will need two.  You will also need a piece of White 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 to write on. When you close this section and you have two more flaps that need a different DSP design and cut them 2 x 5 1/4 and then we have the top piece with the DSP being 5 1/4 x 4. This card has just DSP and little stamping and some vellum and that's it.

So I made another one

Thank you so much for stopping by this month and make sure to visit each of the sites for some wonderful ideas.  Till next month and Happy New Year.

NC Demos December Blog Hoppers
Toni Campana
Tina Lesson
Amy Kinler
Laurie Meier
Dawn Colby
Jo Anne Hewins
Tracie Evans Langley


Toni Campana - https://wp.me/p4tAAw-yN
Tina Lesson - https://stampingkz.blogspot.com/2020/12/december-2020-nc-demos-blog-hop.html
Amy Kinler - https://stampinwithaheart.com/true-love-in-the-new-2021-mini-catalog/
Larie Meier - https://stampedgreetings.com/nc-demos-blog-hop-fun-fold-card-for-dsp/
Dawn Colby - https://dawnsearlyinkings.com/nc-demos-december-2020-blog-hop
Jo Anne Hewins - https://luv2create.typepad.com/my_blog/2020/12/nc-demo-blog-hop-for-december-2020-designer-series-paper.html
Tracie Evans Langley - https://wp.me/pbuEpC-if

SAB Sneak Peek

 The SAB brochure for January and February is awesome one gift you can receive for a $50 purchase is the Flower and Field DSP the florals and colors are amazing here are two examples I made its a fun fold card designed by Kay from Stamping to Share

Circle Template

My friend Carol gave me an awesome template to help you make a wreath or keep things in a perfect circle I tried it and loved it here are my samples

Another Sneak Peek

 This past weekend I was to get together with several friends to stamp that did not pan out one of the girls got hurt.  So I made the cards I had planned for them to make using the new Dragonfly Garden stamp set.  For the background used the new blending brushes love them.

Sneak Peek Fine Arts Floral Suite December 2020

 The new January-June mini is amazing especially loving the Fine Arts Floral Suite here is a sneak peek of 2 cards I made with this suite

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December 2020 Class Cards

 These are the cards we would have made if I could of had a class the last of Christmas

November 2020 NC Demos Blog Hop

Welcome to the NC Demos Blog Hop we are here the last Sunday of each month and thank you so much for joining me this evening.  The theme for this months hop is our favorite color combinations and the Christmas song that inspires this.  My favorite color is green and for Christmas I usually go with green, silver and white and it goes along with my favorite Christmas song "Silent Night".  But that is where it takes a turn.  I have loved this song since I was a child and that third verse really gets me and the true meaning of Christmas but it is so much more,  Take the first 4 words of the song "Silent Night Holy Night" means so much more to me and the beauty of the night.  I lived most of my life on Long Island NY but my place of escape was Maine and not on the coast.  I lived on a island I didn't want the beach I wanted the mountains and peace and silence that I found in Maine.  Have you ever walked in a forest at night after a snowfall.  The snow crunching beneath your boots and the moonlight making the new fallen snow glisten like diamonds, and the quite and peacefulness of the scene "Silent Night Holy Night" is right in front of you.  So my card is based on all of this.

My card is very simple but it reminds me of my song and the woods of Maine.  Card base is Grey Granite cut 4 1/4 x 11 and scored at 5 1/2.  Shaded Spruce cut 5 1/4 x 4 and put on card base.  Then White cut 5 x 3 3/4 and on the background stamped the trees from the Winter Woods stamp set in Gray Granite across the background and without re-inking stamped several times again.  Then take a scrap of Whisper White the same size  and stamp salutation in Shaded Spruce and tear it leaving a rim of distressed paper.  Cover that rim with Wink of Stella to represent the moon shining on the snow.

Add this piece to the bottom of the white with the trees stamped on it then  put on the card front.  On another piece of Whisper White stamp the tree in Shaded Spruce and cut out add this piece to the card with dimensionals.  To finish the card front I added 5 very small pearls around to represent those stray snowflakes that like to fall.  The inside of the card is very simple just stamped in Grey Granite the birch trees and the card is done.

My card is done in my favorite colors representing my favorite song.

Thank you so much for stopping by this month and make sure you go onto the next person on the list I am sure they have done something fantastic for you to see and to make.  So till next month happy stamping.

November Blog Hoppers
Joanne Hewins
Tina Lessons
Laurie Meier
Tracie Evans Langley


Jo Anne Hewins - https://luv2create.typepad.com/my_blog/2020/11/nc-demo-blog-hop-for-november-celebrating-christmas.html
Tina Lesson - https://stampingkz.blogspot.com/2020/11/november-2020-nc-demos-blog-hop.html
Laurie Meier - https://stampedgreetings.com/nc-demos-blog-hop-mini-bendi-christmas-card/
Tracie Evans Langley - https://wp.me/pbuEpC-hX

 

NC Demos Stamp A Long Cased Card

 On Saturday the NC Demos group had a Stamp A Long one of the presenters JoAnne Hewins did a side tab pull card.  I tried it and it didn't work.  I didn't have the same punches she used so I had to rethink it using the punches I had and this is my card.  Thanks for the idea JoAnne 

Sneak Peek November 2020

 I have been playing with some of the new items from the January-June Mini Catalog and some different techniques not sure which color I like best.

Shaker Card

There is a new way to make a shaker card using Stampin' Up clear envelopes.  It's quick and easy

November 2020 Sneak Peak

 OnStage  was awesome and I was lucky enough to play with some new product that will be in the new January-June mini catty

November 2020 Cards

 These are my cards for November Christmas is the theme for these cards

OnStage at Home November 2020

This year OnStage (convention) is at Home.  All due to the virus. Today my swag box arrived and I am all set for November 5,6 and 7th.