Stamp It Group Christmas Blog Hop

Thank you for joining me this evening for our Christmas Theme Blog Hop! I am excited to have you here!

My name is Mikki Winebrenner and today I have an adorable Slim Line Christmas card for you using Stampin Up Yuletide Village and Falling Snow Stamp Sets.

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I wanted to keep this Christmas Card in line with our current Christmas event here at PaperTales. Yuletide Village and Falling Snow are the stand alone sets for the week. Since we are running waaay behind because of life, I thought it would be a great idea to use those for all of you to see how these two sets in a unique way.

This card is messy and has some pretty odd techniques (not sure if they could be called techniques or just Mikki’s crazy method) using 2 products that we don’t hear much about. Those items are Stampin Up Embossing Paste and Pearlized Enamel Effects.

I will NOT have a PDF file this time but I do have a walk through for you including pictures of some of the process.

Measurements for the paper are:

Lost Lagoon 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock: 7” x 8-1/2” score at 3-1/2”

Basic White: 3-3/8” x 8-3/8” (x 2), 3-1/2” x 7” and scraps for stamping the trees.

The envelope is custom made and the measurements are:

Basic White 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock: 8-1/4” x 9-1/2” score short side at 2” and 5-1/2”, long side at 1/2” and 9”.

Ink colors that I used in this one are: Lost Lagoon, Poppy Parade and Memento Tuxedo Black. For the detail coloring I used Lost Lagoon, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate, Lemon Lolly and Poppy Parade Stampin Blends Combo Packs.

THERE IS A FULL LIST OF PRODUCTS BELOW WITH LINKS AND PRODUCT NUMBERS

Let’s take a quick look at how this card came together. Please keep in mind this card will require lots of dry time for the enamel and paste to set up!

Stamp your village scene out, keeping the page at around 7”, Stamp 3-4 trees on a scrap piece. Use Memento Ink.

Color in your village and trees with Stampin Blends and stamp your sentiment under the Church in Poppy Parade.

Everywhere there is snow, including the trees apply Pearlized Enamel Effects – White and dab with a dry paint brush. Dabbing with the brush gives the enamel texture.

Fussy cut out all the trees and the entire top portion of your village.

On the 2 Basic White pieces, stamp the Falling Snow twice with Lost Lagoon ink. Stamp full ink on one and second generation on the other. On the darker piece, I blended Lost Lagoon Ink with a Blending Brush to give the white more color of a sky look. I also added dots of White Enamel onto the snow flakes to make them pop. Attach the trees you cut onto the colored piece with liquid glue and the village over the trees with Stampin Dimensionals.

This is where things are gonna get messy! On the sides of the village you should have about 3/4” of space. Grab your paste and form a little ball with it. Press the paste onto the edge of the village piece and smooth over the edge down to the colored white piece. Do this on both sides! Again using a dry paint brush, dab the paste (very gently, this stuff is easily manipulated) to create more of a snow look. When the paste is mostly dry, preferably completely dry, paint White Enamel over the paste to give it the same shine as the other snow.

After everything is dry (mostly dry in my case) Attach the piece to the Lost Lagoon base with liquid glue. You could use Stampin’ Seal or Tear and Tape for a stronger hold.

While things are drying, make your envelope to kill time. The scored white piece cut the 4 corners at the score lines. Fold the 1/2” sides in and fold the longer piece up and attach that to the 1/2” flaps. I added some old snowflake paper to the outside of the envelope for color.

Attach the remaining white to the inside of the card and thats all there is! Now you have a unique 3D card to share with a loved one!

I hope this cards gives you some fun Christmas Card inspiration! I’ve enjoyed creating this one for all of you.

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Head on over to the next blog by clicking “Next Blog” below to find more Christmas Inspiration!

Happy Hopping!!

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Lost Lagoon 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [133679]

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Ribbon & Trim

Paper Trimmer [152392]

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Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430]

November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

6 Weeks of Christmas Week 1 Wrap Up

Welcome everyone to our final night of 6 weeks of Christmas Week 1! Thank you to everyone who has buckled up and enjoyed the ride this week as I smoothed out all the wrinkles in the plan. I appreciate you all very much!

Before I get into the final 3 cards for the week (oddly enough none of them are Christmas!), I wanted to cover a few changes in the schedule.

Posting will be done as follows: Saturday Evening: New Feature with video, Monday, Wednesday and Friday I will do regular posts with some cards/crafts and maybe a few tutorials. All posts will be scheduled for 7pm CST.

Weekly Prize Patrol Drawing will be done Saturday Evening to give everyone a chance to comment (like, share…) on the Friday posting. Remember, each week is saved and all names go in or the final Grand Prize drawing in December. This will give you up to 6 chances to win.

Speaking of Prize Patrol, Tomorrow evening I will draw for Week 1 Prize Patrol which is a set of 12 cards that where made through the week!

As I mentioned earlier the 3 cards I have tonight are actually not Christmas. Odd… this is 6 Weeks of Christmas right?

Yes it is! However, I feel it’s important for you to see how you can use our stamps, bundles and suites in different ways then they may be intended for.

Throughout the week we have been using Stampin Up Season of Green & Gold Suite Collection and we’ve stayed pretty close to just Christmas for this. Tonight I want to show you how you can use this to make a different kind of card.

It looks nothing like Christmas but I have used the Season of Green & Gold DSP. I simply colored the Gold and Very Vanilla piece with Calypso Coral ink using my Blending Brush! It changes the entire perspective of the suite!

I will get a PDF posted over the weekend for more detials on how I made this card.

More Than Autumn Bundle I have tried mixing up Christmas and Fall this week. Now this bundle could go a million different ways. Tonight I have a sample of how you can use it for celebrating.

With the bright colors and really who doesn’t like donughts! I did not make this event specific as there are many ways to “Celebrate You” and I wanted to leave that open for the perfect occasion.

This card is fairly simple and I will also have a PDF of the details posted for you over the weeken. Possibly tonight if things stay as calm as they have been!

My favorite card of the evening is the Love & Strength card using the Love & Strength Stamp Set.

The Love & Strength set has actually been a bit of struggle for me to use and come up with ideas for. I saw a similar card to this one on Pinterest and I fell in love with the ombré effect of the hearts.

I will give you all the details for this one!

Paper Dimensions:

Peach Pie 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock: 5-1/2” x 8-1/2” and 3-1/8” x 4-3/8”

Basic White 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock: 4” x 5-1/4”, 3-1/4” x 4-1/2” and 3” x 4-1/4

Simply Irresistible 6” x 6” DSP: 4-1/8” x 5-3/8” and 5/8” x 1-3/4”

Cut your paper and score the Peach Pie base at 4-1/4”

Stamp hearts in even rows on the 3” white with Peach Pie Ink. Fade the color down as you go by stamping off before stamping. Also stamp the DSP with your sentiment in Peach Pie.

I stamped hearts using the same method on my envelope and the 4” Basic White piece which I attached to the inside of the card base.

Attach the stamped 3” white to the 3-1/8” Peach Pie piece with liquid glue. Attach a piece of Peach Pie Ribbon to those wrapping around the sides. I have it placed at around 1” from the bottom.

Attach your sentiment in the center of the ribbon with Stampin Dimensionals.

Attach the large DSP piece to the card base with liquid glue. Attach the Peach Pie/White piece to the remaining white with liquid glue and attach that to the center of the card base with Stampin Dimensionals.

You can play with colors and see what other ombré cards you can create!

I will admit that I cheated just a little bit on the main 3” x 4-1/4” Basic White stamping. I pulled out the old Stampuratus to try and get them to line up perfectly. While I succeeded, mostly, it did take a bit of time to do. Then again anyone who knows me knows I have a love/hate relationship with that thing.

Point of the story there is you can definitely use that to help get things placed exactly where you want them. I did do the inside piece and envelop by hand just to see if I could do it (personal challenge).

I will get a PDF of this card up as well for you all with more details on how I used the Stampuratus to get things in rows.

That wraps up our first week of 6 Weeks of Christmas! Join me tomorrow night as we draw for our weekly prize patrol and watch the exciting new creations I have for you using Stampin Up Reindeer Days Suite Collection!

Happy Stamping!!

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Paper Trimmer [152392]

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Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430]

November 7, 2024November 7, 2024

6 Weeks of Christmas- Week 1 Fun Fold Calls for Hot Cocoa

Hey everyone! Welcome back to our 6 Weeks of Christmas Event. I have some more fun projects for you this evening.

I do want to share quick that I had intended on posting these yesterday evening but the post didn’t schedule correctly. Going forward Wednesday will be our 2nd day of the week postings which I will have 3 samples and one of them will have a walk through.

Thanks for being super patient as I figure out the scheduling and timing. I will always try to do a 7pm post from here on out. If that time is an issue please reach out to me!

Let’s get to the fun stuff!! I have some pretty cute cards to share with you this evening.

First I have a simple yet elegant card using the Suite of the week, Season of Green and Gold.

The card uses both the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP and the Graceful GreeneryVellum.

Cheerful Celebration tag is from the Greetings of the Season Bundle , stamped in Garden Green and tied off with White Frayed Grosgrain Ribbon and Gold Trim.

Next up I have a unique card using the Love & Strength stamp set.

This card uses Season of Elegance 12” x 12” DSP. This is a new style or technique for me. This is called a drapery fold. I wanted to make it look cascadeing. To do that I centered piece at the edge of the DSP and cut angles on both the top and bottom.

I stamped the mountains on the fold with StazOn Jet Black Ink, I used this ink to prevent any smudging. I also stamped mountains on the DSP behind the fold with Crumb Cake to give a depth to the background. I stamped the sentiment in Jet Black . I added some iridescent foil gems.

Final card for the evening is a fun fold that is super cute using More Than Autumn Bundle.

Going to show you a fun little technique with this card using the DSP on the cup. I will have a walk through for you on how to do this particular card. It looks hard but honestly its super simple!

Paper Measurements are:

Pecan Pie 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock: 5-1/2” x 6-3/8” score at 4-1/4”, 3-3/4” x 5” and scrap piece for lettering.

Basic White 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock: 3-1/2” x 4-3/4” (x2) and scraps for stamping and sentiment.

Sentimental Christmas DSP (Pecan Pie Snowflake): 4-1/8” x 5-3/8”, 2” x 5-3/8” and scrap piece for the cup.

Here are all the details…

Stamp marshmallows with Gray Granite ink onto a scrap piece of white (I did 2). Stamp marshmallow’s on both the Basic White pieces randomly all over on one (the Front Piece) and and on the bottom only on the second, stamping off to get different shades. Stamp the cup (again, I did 2 as I always need a backup for coloring errrors!) onto a piece of Basic White and again onto the scrap piece of the DSP using Pecan Pie Ink. Stamp your sentiment in Pecan Pie as well.

Color the cup with Pecan Pie Stampin Blends Combo Pack. Cut out the cut, marshmallows and the works Hot Cocoa with the coordinating dies. Fussy cut the label of the cut on the DSP and the sentiment.

Attach the label and marshmallows to the cup with liquid glue.

Attach the sentiment and Hot Cocoa to the front white piece with liquid glue. Attach the Cup with dimensionals.

Attach the 2” DSP piece to the front flap of the card base with liquid glue. Attach the 4-1/8” piece to the inside of the card with liquid glue.

Attach the Front white to the 3-3/4” Pecan Pie piece. Attach that to the front flap of the base with liquid glue.

Place some Swirll Dots on the card front. I used both the Vanilla and Pecan Pie swirls.

Attach the remaining white piece on the inside of the card. Place this so it is fully hidden by the front flap.

Don’t forget to add a little something to your envelope!

And that is all for this really cute Hot Cocoa fun fold. If you guys would like a written PDF for this let me know in the comments and I will get one up for you! There is also a full list of products used for all three cards below with links to them in my online store.

Come on back tomorrow for more fun and our Final projects for the week. I will have 3 super cute cards for you with instructions on ALL of them! I will also talk briefly about some changes in the schedule.

Be sure to comment on any posts (Here, Facebook, Instagram…) to get your name in for the weekly drawing!

Happy Stamping!!

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Ink

Card Stock

Garden Green 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [102584]

Tools & Adhesive

Ribbon & Trim

Paper Trimmer [152392]

Accessory

Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430]

November 4, 2024November 7, 2024

6 Weeks of Christmas – Week 1 Samples

Yesterday I posted 3 cards on Facebook and forgot to upload them here! Let me remedy that!!

First we have the Season of Green and Gold Suite Card. This card I used the DSP from the suite and the Greetings of the Season Bundle also in the Suite.

The ribbon used is Stampin Up’s White 3/8” Frayed Grosgrain Ribbon and I also applied a few Iridescent Foil Gems for some pop.

The second card I have uses the More Than Autumn Bundle. This one I wanted to something non-Christmas for our Pumpkin Spice lovers!

I used Peach Pie, Beige, White and Pecan Pie cardstock for this card, also a Pumpkin Pie scrap piece for the word Pumpkin.

I added some Pecan Pie Dots to the card to add a little something to the finished piece.

The last card I have for you is using the Love & Strength stamp set.

This one I had a little trouble with but I am very happy with the final product. The DSP used for this card is from the Full of Life 6” x 6” DSP. I used Night of Navy cardstock and Ink, as well as some Basic white for the flower and sentiment.

The twine used behind the flower is from the Natural Tones Linen Thread set available online.

I hope these help inspire you with any creations you are currently working on. I know we are to be focusing on Christmas but we need to have a variance here and there!

If you would like instructions to any of these cards please let me know.

I will see you later this week with more cards and ideas for you!

Happy Stamping!

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November 2, 2024November 7, 2024

6 Weeks of Christmas Kickoff Week 1

Welcome all to the Kickoff party for 6 weeks of Christmas!

**Update! PDF file now available**

Before I share the video link I want to share with you a couple of photos. These are images of the Schedule for the next 6 weeks that include all the planned Suite’s, Bundle’s and Stamp Set’s I plan to use for each week. This will give you a chance to prepare before we get there.

The second photo is just some brief information that I will share in the video but wanted to give you guys access to look back at easily. I’m very much a visual person so I can guarantee you I will be referencing both!!

Now let’s get to the fun stuff!!

You can watch the kickoff video right here on YouTube. No I was not live so you didn’t miss much. It’s easier for me to do recordings and edit out any interruptions. It’s still a bit crazy but thats just me!

Enjoy! Come back when your done for a PDF File on how to create the Season of Green and Gold SIPS Card!!

Welcome Back!! I hope you enjoyed that little bit of bonkers in my craft room. I apologize for the audio issues. Not sure why the mic was in and out like that.

Details for the SIPS card.

* For those who are new and have no idea what SIP’s cards are they are simply Stamps, Ink and Paper. Some of the easiest cards but the most beautiful creations!

I have or will have the instructions for this card right here. The instructions will include a list of all the products used.

Most Wonderfull Time – Season of Green & Gold

I hope you have all enjoyed tonight’s kickoff! As I said in the video, I will be in and out all week with different projects for you. Hopefully by the end of the week we will have a posting rhythm figured out.

Happy Stamping!

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