Everything Old is New Again…Just a Line

by Shannon Jaramillo // January 17, 2019 // 5 Comments

This darling stamp is Stampin’ Up!, circa 1997. Isn’t it sweet? I found this set on-line a few weeks back and had to give it some love…it’s probably been sitting unused for quite awhile 🙁

As the stamps are wood mount, I used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to stamp two images in Memento Tuxedo Black and then added color with my Stampin’ Blends. Here are a few things that I wanted to share:

I had a few choices here. I could have just stamped the clothesline and left it empty, or I could have used the darling baby images at the top of the photo, or I could use the pinafores image (which obviously is what I did). There is also an image of a quilt which I forgot to add to my photo 🙂
Isn’t this Stampin’ Blends color chart AMAZING??? Sadly, it is not my creation. It was created by Diane Barnes and you can download a free copy here for yourself, if you would like. I really like seeing all of the colors like this, it makes it SO much easier to choose colors.

I also discovered that if you would like to use three colors to shade, you can! Light Calypso Coral is a wonderful darker shade for Light and Dark Petal Pink, and Light Bermuda Bay works well with Light and Dark Pool Party!
I used Light and Dark Daffodil Delight to color the daffodils and to color two of the birdies, and used Light and Dark Mango Melody for the third birdie.
I also discovered that coloring leaves with Daffodil Delight (quite by accident, I assure you) and then covering it with Granny Apple Green makes a unique shade of green! I then used Light Old Olive as an accent color for the leaves of the low flowers. The leaves of the daffodils were colored with both Light and Dark Old Olive.

The pinafores were colored (left to right) with Pool Park and Flirty Flamingo; Petal Pink; and Balmy Blue.
The laundry poles are Smoky Slate because I decided they were metal poles, and the laundry in the basket is Pirouette Pink; Pumpkin Pie; and Calypso Coral. The basket itself is Crumb Cake.
Mr. Kitty is colored after my own Buster…white with Light Pumpkin Pie stripes 🙂
I used the Rectangle Dies to trim my stamped panel out and then backed it with Grapefruit Grove Gingham Gala DSP. It’s funny to me that the Grapefruit Grove really compliments the Petal Pink pinafore nicely, when it isn’t even a color the I used!! I have no idea….

This cute little sentiment was a sweet addition to the inside of the card while still leaving ample room for a personal note.

I hope you liked my card today! Please let me know if this set is new to you, or if you have it and my post was a walk down memory lane… I love that Stampin’ Up! stamps never really go away, they just keep changing hands!

Blessings to you!

Vibrant Vases in Highland Heather

by Shannon Jaramillo // January 9, 2019 // 9 Comments

Hello Friends and Happy Hump Day to You!! I whipped up this little card last night after having let the color combination sit on my craft table for almost a week! When moving into a new house or redecorating a room, I like to tell my husband that I have to let the walls “talk” to me before I can hang anything up. Do you do that too? It’s the same with this color combination, it had to percolate a little!

Measurements:

Highland Heather Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
Balmy Blue Stitched Layer 3 3/4″ x 5 1/8″
Gray Granite Stitched Layer 3 3/8″ x 4 3/4″
Gingham Gala Stitched Circle Layer 2 7/8″
Stamped White Card Stock 2 1/4″ x 3 1/2″

Details:

I knew when I sat down to create that I wanted to use the new Vibrant Vases stamp set and the Gingham Gala 6″ x 6″ DSP, both of which are in the new Occasions Catalog and are available now. And purple was a foregone conclusion as it is my favorite color. I don’t decorate with it or wear it, but when choosing plants or flowers, I always seem to pick purple!! Definitely a child of the 80’s and influenced by Prince, lol
I stamped the vase and flower posy in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink because I knew I wanted to color it in with Stampin’ Blends. I used both Light and Dark Highland Heather to color and shade the flowers, then Light and Dark Old Olive for the leaves, and then I added Light and Dark Balmy Blue to the mix for the vase. Note: This set does have coordinated stamps to color the flower and vase outline, I just wanted to play with my markers 🙂

I used my Gorgeous Grape Stampin’ Write Marker to add a bit of detail to the flower centers, as well as a bit of Wink of Stella.
I’m really enjoying playing with all of Stampin’ Up’s stitched dies, they add such a nice touch, but this card can easily be made without them (I’ve provided the measurements above) and would still look beautiful.
I just played around with the colors and layers to come up with my layout and couldn’t decide if I should use Balmy Blue or Highland Heather ribbon, so…used both!! These adorable ribbons are available as a free gift with any $50 purchase. The Organdy Ribbon Combo Pack includes 5 spools of ribbon: Balmy Blue, Daffodil Delight, Grapefruit Grove, Highland Heather and Lemon Lime Twist.
Retired Old Olive Glittery Enamel Dots add a nice detail (love them) and after sleeping overnight, I came back in and added the Old Olive Banner die cut with a banner die from the just retired Farmhouse Framelits Dies. I trimmed the banner in half and then trimmed quite a bit off to leave just a bit peeking out.

The interior is quite simple today, just a trio of Mary’s tulips to brighten it up!

For those who don’t “know” who “Mary” is, she is Mary Fish, my Stampin’ Up! up-line, mentor, and friend. For reaching the $1,000,000 sales goal, she was invited to participate and influence the creation of a stamp set, which is Varied Vases in the Annual Catalog. It coordinates with the Vase Builder Punch as well as this new set from the Occasions Catalog, Vibrant Vases. The tulip is her signature logo so I can never see one without thinking of her 🙂

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing a prelude to Spring with my card today!

Blessings to You!

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Balmy Blue, Gray Granite, Highland Heather and Old Olive; and Stamper’s Select White by Papertrey Ink

DSP: Gingham Gala 6″ x 6″

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento

Stamps: Vibrant Vases

Dies: Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies, Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies; Farmhouse Framelits Dies (retired)

Tools: Big Shot; Stampin’ Blends; Gorgeous Grape Stampin’ Write Marker

Embellishments: Organdy Ribbon Combo Pack (SAB Freebie); Glitter Enamel Dots (retired); Wink of Stella

Other: Whisper White Envelope

Wishing You Well in the New Year

by Shannon Jaramillo // January 1, 2019 // 5 Comments

Hello and Happy New Year!! I hope the new year is everything you wish it to be!! As I’m sure you can relate to if you are reading this, I love shopping for craft supplies. I ALSO love organizing those crafting supplies (!), but I feel that last year I dedicated too much time to those other two pursuits and not enough time to the actual creation of projects snd certainly not enough time sending out handmade kindness so here’s to a new year and a new focus!!

Measurements:

Night of Navy Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
DSP Layer 4″ x 5 1/4″
Smaller Night of Navy Layer 2 3/4″ x 4 1/8″
Stamped White Card Stock 2 5/8″ x 4″

Details:

Today’s project is a direct CASE of a card designed by a UK demonstrator, Sam Hammond. I thought this card was drop dead gorgeous and had to sit down and re-create it immediately.
In Sam’s photo, the card stock looked to me to be the new Blueberry Bushel, but, is in fact Night of Navy, picking up on the colors from the also drop dead gorgeous Frosted Floral Designer DSP. I LOVE that she used a holiday design for a non-holiday card!

This delightful bouquet and bow are from the Wishing You Well stamp set in the 2018 Holiday catalog. You can still purchase it through tomorrow January 2, 2019, so if you haven’t snapped this one up, you still have time!! It’s a fabulous year round stamp set! And that bow!!!!! It is not a two-step stamp, it stamps JUST like that on the first try!
The shimmery dots are actually from my retired Enamel Dots collection. They started out as a different color (pale yellow I believe) and I colored them with my Night of Navy Stampin’ Blends! How cool is that!!

A peek at the inside and the envelope – quick, easy and gorgeous!! (I’ve used that word a lot today with this card, lol) What a great card to have on hand!!

The benefits of CASEing other designer’s work are three-fold for me. One, I get to make a card without any design work just because it’s gorgeous and it gives me a mental break. Two, I try things that I wouldn’t normally do and that helps to increase my skill level as a card maker. And three, because often times, CASEing someone else’s work sparks my own creativity! That is what happened with this card and I will share what it inspired with my next post.

Until then, stay warm, happy and healthy in this squeaky new year!

Blessings,

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Night of Navy and Stamper’s Select White by Papertrey Ink

DSP: Frosted Floral Specialty

Ink: Night of Navy and Mossy Meadow

Stamps: Wishing You Well

Dies: None

Tools: Stampin’ Trimmer

Embellishments: Glitter Enamel Dots, retired

Other: Whisper White Envelope

Fresh Foliage Thank You – The Paper Players 413

by Shannon Jaramillo // October 10, 2018 // 3 Comments

Hello my stampin’ friends! I hope your week is going well! Today I wanted to incorporate two challenges into one card: The Paper Players theme challenge of trees or leaves and my FSJ team color challenge.

Measurements:

Lemongrass Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
Citrus Cooler Layer 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″
Butter Cream Layer 3 3/4″ x 5″

Details:

The color challenge was to use 3 of 5 colors and I used 4 of the 5: Butter Cream, Citrus Cooler, Sweet Pear (my fav color) and Lemongrass.

I was quite literal with the leaves or tree challenge and chose to use FSJ’s Fresh Foliage stamp set. Coordinating dies are available but today I just used the stamps. Isn’t the way they have built the shading into the stamp set amazing?

The first image stamped was this gorgeous thank you sentiment from the ATS set ‘Many Thanks’ on to Butter Cream card stock. Such a gorgeous font!

I inked up two mirror image stamps in Sweet Pear and stamped them around the sentiment, using my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig as my placement guide.
I then pulled out my Lemongrass ink pad and a blender pen. I used the blender pen to pick up the ink directly from the ink pad and then colored each leaf on the stamp, staying toward the bottom of each leaf. I also inked up all of the stems. Then I used a dauber to pounce on the inked stamp, pulling some of the color back up. I then stamped directly over my Sweet Pear stamped images, creating soft shading of the leaves and stems.

I needed to add Citrus Cooler to my design but wasn’t satisfied with the options I had in the ‘Fresh Foliage’ stamp set so I pulled out ‘Harvest Wreath’ and found this itty bitty dotted stamp. I played around with full color stamping and then stamping off once, but first the color was too dark, and then it was too light (Goldilocks here) but then I found a combination that was JUST right. lol. I inked up the little stamp in Citrus Cooler and then stamped it into the dauber sponge before stamping on to my card front. Perfect!!

I layered the card front onto Citrus Cooler card stock, added a 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″ piece of white craft foam to pop it up, and adhered the card front to the Lemongrass card base.
I wanted to add more to my design but every embellishment I chose overwhelmed the design. I finally added Wink of Stella to the Citrus Cooler dot images and then went over that with Journey Glaze. It is SUCH good stuff…I can’t believe I stamped for eight years without it!!
I left the card to dry overnight and came back but it still wasn’t enough so I colored all of the Lemongrass parts of the leaves with Wink of Stella. THAT was the perfect finishing touch. I can see just a bit of the shine in the photo but in person, the whole card sparkles. So happy!

I stamped another stamp from the ‘Many Thanks’ ATS set on the inside and called it good.
Since I didn’t have any FSJ pattern paper that used these colors, I just went through my pattern paper stash until I found one that matches amazing well and used that to line the envelope.

This was such fun to create and I thank The Paper Players design team for giving me the inspiration!

Have a great day! I hope you get to do something crafty today! P.S. I love to hear from you so please leave a comment if you can! Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Fresh Foliage Stamp Set – SS-0559

Price: $18.95

Fresh Foliage Bundle – BD-0394

Price: $36.80

Many Thanks ATS – AT-0280

Price: $8.95

Harvest Wreath Stamp Set – SS-0492

Price: $21.95

Lemongrass 8.5 x 11 Cardstock – CS-0019

Price: $6.95

Citrus Cooler 8.5×11 Cardstock – CS-0089

Price: $6.95

Buttercream 8.5 x 11 Cardstock – CS-0006

Price: $6.95

Lemongrass True Color Fusion Ink Pad – IP-0022

Price: $7.95

Sweet Pear True Color Fusion Ink Pad – IP-0054

Price: $7.95

Citrus Cooler True Color Fusion Ink Pad – IP-0048

Price: $7.95

Black Licorice True Color Fusion Ink Pad – IP-0041

Price: $7.95

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Humble & Kind

by Shannon Jaramillo // July 11, 2018 // 3 Comments

Hello my stamping friends! I’m back today with another sampling of goodies from The Good Life collection. Today’s card is actually a Frankenstein card, meaning it was made from cast offs of other projects that didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to! The sentiment I’m using here turned out to be too big for my original idea, so I rearranged my thoughts and used this week’s team challenge sketch to make the sentiment a focal point!

Measurements:

Raspberry Berry Card Base 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, scored at 4 1/4″
Rustic Rose Card Stock Layer 3 1/4″ x 3 3/4″
Pattern Paper Background Layer 3″ x 3 1/2″
Raspberry Berry Card Stock Layer 2 3/4″ x 3 1/4″
Rustic Rose Card Stock Layer 4″ x 3″
Whip Cream Layer 3 3/4″ x 2 3/4″

Details:

I love how layers of color really turn up the volume on an otherwise pretty simplistic card. If you look closely at the Whip Cream rectangle, it is frames by Rustic Rose and Raspberry Berry on the left side, but as you slide over to the right side of that layer you can see that I ended the Raspberry Berry layer right where it butts up against the card base. Doing this creates an optical illusion and keeps the top layer highlighted perfectly.

Being creative is easy when you have access to such beautiful stamps! I adore all of the images in this set but just had to focus on the wonderful font of the ‘Home Sweet Home’ sentiment. I think it evokes our fondest memories of home, even if they didn’t involve rolling fields, barns or farm animals! I stamped the sentiment with Black Licorice ink and then die cut it with the Journey Circles dies.

I popped my sentiment up and added the beautiful Detailed Foliage die cut in Rustic Rose to help frame the sentiment and just HAD to add a messy bow! I then went a little wild with these yummy sequins from the new Sunrise Mix sequins, aren’t they pretty and they match the Raspberry Berry card stock so well!

The sketch called for a small banner in the upper right hand corner so I snipped it out of a piece of the same lovely floral pattern from the Good Life pattern paper pack that I used in the background. But it was too plain compared to my fussy bow and sequins, so I dressed it up with this amazing Clear Blooms Accent! It’s a curved, not flat, bloom button and is the real deal! I’m not usually a fan of accents that require extra postage, but this card can be a hand delivered kind of card, enclosed in a hand crafted Envelo-Box – which is a die that FSJ sells to create an envelope that has depth to it. I’m obviously going to need to order it! lol
But really, it’s a sweet sentiment and all, but what kind of card is this?? Yes, I can hear you thinking that, so let me show me show you what kind of card that sentiment would work on:

Yep, love and friendship. What a great way to show that someone special that they have a special piece of your heart.

Here’s the sketch challenge photo that inspired today’s card! What a fun inspiration it is and I actually think I played along with this sketch challenge when it was used the first time over at Sweet Sunday!

That’s all for today folks! I hope you are inspired to pull out your stamps and inks and maybe create your own unique interpretation of this sketch! Or maybe to do some shopping…lol! Speaking of shopping, I want to let you all know that catalogs went out in the mail today so if you requested one and received an email stating that a package was coming but you didn’t know what it was, now you do! I have two people who requested catalogs but didn’t leave me their address or respond to my emails. Please let me know if you are still interested!

If you are interested in receiving a clog of all the yummy FSJ products, please email me to order yours for only $6, which goes toward the cost of shipping the catalog to you. Hurry, the sooner you order, the sooner you can be inspired!