It’s A Beautiful Day – Pals February 2018 Blog Hop

by Shannon Jaramillo // February 14, 2018 // 10 Comments

Welcome to the Pals Feburary 2018 Blog Hop! Our theme this month is “Case the Catty”. The Stampin’ Pretty Pals will copy or remake projects from any of the current Stampin’ Up! catalogs and brochures. After all, who doesn’t CASE (Copy and Share Everything) once in a while. You may be just starting or hopped over from another Pal. In either case you’ll find the line-up toward the end of my post to help you move along.

There are so many pretty projects in the Stampin’ Up! Catalogs that the hardest part of this challenge was trying to narrow it down to just one! I finally decided on this project because a. it’s gorgeous and b. the colors are ones I would never think to pair up!

Measurements:

Card Base 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, scored at 4 1/4″
1st Layer 4 1/2″ x 3 1/2″
2nd Layer 4″ x 3″

Details:

The first step for me was to figure out the measurements of the layers, which I’ve included so you don’t have to!
Then I jumped right in and stamped the butterfly image from Stampin’ Up!’s Beautiful Day stamp set in Pool Party. The coloring with the Stampin’ Blends took a few tries (okay, more than a few) to work out. There are four colors of blue used, Light and Dark Pool Party and Light and Dark Coastal Cabana. I followed the example one the cover of the Occasions Catalog closely and discovered a few tips:
- They didn’t really blend the layers, they just laid them down one on top of the other, lightest to darkest.
- Let each layer of color dry before applying the next layer to keep that definition between the shades.
- I was hesitant to really put the ink down at first as it seemed so dark and contrasted so much…it doesn’t look that way when the ink dries and it looks much better if you are liberal with the ink. So really lay those colors down!

Once the butterfly was colored, I moved on to stamp all the little flowers in Berry Burst. I’ve never thought to stamp around the edges of my card base before but WOW! I love the effect! One teeny tiny stamp sure can pack a punch!
I had a discussion recently with a stamping friend who didn’t own either a Stamparatus or any other type of stamp positioning tool and the merits of both the Stamparatus and the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig. I believe that both tools are valuable to have. The Stamparatus is perfect for making sure you get a great stamped image and perfect placement but it doesn’t work well in applications like stamping this border of flowers around the edges of the card stock. The reason? You can’t turn the stamp to mix up the placement. With the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, you can. You can turn the plastic sheet that the image is stamped on all different ways to come up with a fun pattern and still get perfect placement.

A tiny hand cut banner topped off with a Whisper White Baker’s Twine bow and a stamped and snipped sentiment banner layered with a pretty piece of Lemon Lime Twist 3/8″ Mini Striped Ribbon finish off this project beautifully.
Today I left the inside blank for a personalized message, just added some color and a few flowers.

Thank you so much for hopping with the Stampin’ Pretty Pals today. Please take a minute to mark your calendar for our next hop on March 14, 2018. Now hop along using the Blog Hop Line-up below. Don’t forget to leave us a comment. We really like that.

Blog Hop Line-up:

Blessings!

Supplies:

Card Stock: Berry Burst, Night of Navy and Whisper White by Stampin’ Up!

Pattern Paper: Tutti Fruitti 6 x 6 Designer Series Paper by Stampin’ Up!

Ink: Pool Party and Berry Burst by Stampin’ Up!

Stamps: Beautiful Day by Stampin’ Up!

Dies: None

Tools: Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and Stampin’ Trimmer by Stampin’ Up!

Embellishments: Lemon Lime Twist 3/8″ Mini Striped Ribbon and Whisper White Baker’s Twine by Stampin’ Up!

Other: Medium Whisper White Envelope by Stampin’ Up!

It’s a Pattern Party! – July Pals Blog Hop

by Shannon Jaramillo // July 13, 2016 // 9 Comments

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for July 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes. This month we are featuring projects using our favorite Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper as well as coordinating embellishments. What we love about Stampin’ Up! is they make it so easy to mix and match colors. And, the amazing selection of embellishments provides a wonderful finished look to our projects. We hope to provide you with lots of ideas and that you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below. The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

A quick post today so you can continue hopping along…but really, I’m not sure I could find a theme more suited to me than Stampin’ Up!’s coordinated products! I absolutely LOVE to mix the patterns!

I chose to showcase the Festive Birthday Designer Series Papers. Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, YUM!!

And Stampin’ Up! takes all the guesswork out of the design by having coordinating card stock, ribbons, and embellishments!

I hope you love this mix of colors and patterns!!

Thanks for visiting. To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month’s Pals Blog Hop!

Blog Hop Line-up:

February Pals Blog Hop – Sharing What We Love

by Shannon Jaramillo // February 11, 2015 // 14 Comments

Welcome to the February Pals Blog Hop. This month we are sharing what we love – our favorite Stampin’ Up! products and our favorite crafting techniques.

You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Michelle Gleason at Stampin Mojo. Use the full lineup below to move along from blog to blog so you see all of the new projects.

Sharing what we love is the Stampin’ Up!’s motto as well as a beautiful theme for a February blog hop. I decided to share what I love most about Stampin’ Up! products, and have from the first moment I laid my eyes on a catalog over four years ago: Coordination.

You don’t even have to think about it, it’s so simple to do. Just use one suite of products and be assured that all your projects will turn out beautifully coordinated. Today I wanted to showcase products from Sale-A-Bration. You can’t buy these products, you earn one of them with every $50 purchase. I plan my yearly budget so I can stock up on basic supplies during Sale-A-Bration to ensure I get every one of the extra goodies!!

Today’s project is a box of thank you cards for someone who has really stepped up and helped me out these past two weeks while I was sick. Aren’t the colors delightful? Paper, stamps, ink colors, ribbon and buttons, all beautifully coordinated thanks to Stampin’ Up!’s design team!

I kept the design of the cards simple, using the same format for every card and just changing up the inks and accessory colors. These cards would be fun to make in a class setting or at a Stamp-a-Stack as well.

Six cards and six lined envelopes all housed in their own custom box! The box is very easy to make, I just followed Sam Donald’s tutorial. If you aren’t familiar with her work, she is AMAZING at creating boxes of all shapes and sizes, she’s so very talented!

I did modify the dimensions of my box for two reasons. One, I needed it to be taller and two, I didn’t have enough tulip DSP left to make my lid from DSP so I made it from card stock instead and then covered it with DSP. (I should have planned better!) Please let me know if you are interested in my alterations and I will be happy to work up a short tutorial when I am feeling a bit better.

I don’t want to overwhelm you with photos, but would like to show each card up close so I’ll show one close up here and post another post tomorrow with more individual photos:

This is my favorite paper of Sale-A-Bration! The tulips are SO beautiful!! I would love to have seen a stamp for the tulip, in two different sizes…sigh…maybe in the new Annual Catalog 🙂

And one more of the completed project:

I hope you have enjoyed my post, please let me know what you think!!

The next stop is the very talented Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards on the Pals Blog Hop!

Thanks for visiting and I’ll see you next month!

January Pals Blog Hop – Hello Occasions!

by Shannon Jaramillo // January 14, 2015 // 15 Comments

Welcome to the first Pals Blog Hop of 2015. We hope your new year is off to a great creative start. To celebrate the start of a new Stampin’ Up! year, we are showcasing products from our newest catalog this month – the Occasions catalog. You may also see new Sale-a-bration products too. If you don’t know how to earn free Sale-a-bration products – contact your Stampin’ Up! demonstrator to learn more.

You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Lynn Kolcun at Stamping with Avery’s Owlery.

Use the full lineup below to move along from blog to blog so you see all of the new projects.

I wanted to start a new tradition and create some simple seasonal decor for my office at work so I pulled out a frame I had picked up at IKEA some months ago and started stamping:

What do you think?!? Today’s project features the new stamp set Sheltering Tree from Stampin’ Up!. It’s a fantastic set with lots of different elements that can be added to the tree for different occasions.

I wanted something Valentine-y so I chose a background of Blushing Bride cardstock. I stamped the tree in Crumb Cake and then stamped all the other images with Versamark. I then heat embossed all the different elements (separately) with white embossing powder and finished it all off with a pop of Real Red.

The frame is so clean and simple that I decided not to add any more elements. I love the soft effect!

I’m keeping it short and sweet today because I know you lots more blogs to hop off to…

The next stop is Liz Gautreaux at Kind Deeds Stampin on the Pals Blog Hop!

Thanks for visiting and I’ll see you next month.

Wishing you joy and blessings!

Products Used:

Cardstock: Blushing bride by Stampin’ Up!

Pattern Paper: None

Ink: Crumb Cake, Real Red by Stampin’ Up! and Versamark Ink

Stamps: Sheltering Tree and And Many More by Stampin’ Up!

Dies: None

Tools: None

Embellishments: None