Sunday, October 13, 2019

Case the Catalog: First Frost meets Feels Like Frost for a Fun Wedding Gift Card Holder

Hello and welcome to my blog; for this weeks CASE the catalog I am casing a card from the Feels Like Frost Suite in the Holiday Catalog.  We went to friends from churches engagement party last night and we needed a gift card holder.  So I created a fun gift card holder in their wedding colors.  I just happened to ask last week at church what their wedding colors were so it worked out wonderfully.  No, I didn't have any idea I was going to be making a gift card holder for them.  LOL!  Here's a look at the cute little gift card holder that I came up with.


And here's the card that I drew my inspiration from. My inspiration came from the small square card in the middle of this image.  This image can be found on page 40 of the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog.  
image by Stampin' Up! 

Their colors are gray and navy so I just happened to have Night of Navy and Basic Gray cardstock.  
Since the back side of the designer series paper has silver and white I pulled in those two colors as well with Smoky Slate and Whisper White to round everything out.
To make this card into a gift card holder wasn't two hard.  I used one piece of cardstock.  I cut it at 5 1/2 x 11 instead of the normal 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.  I did this because I wanted a pocket on the inside for the gift card to sit in.  And I didn't want to glue in another piece of cardstock when I could just cut it to size.  Here's a look at the inside of the card.

I decorated the inside of the card and pocket with the left over designer series paper from the Feels like Frost DSP that I used on the front with a little Night of Navy mat.  I also added some left over stamped images from the First Frost Stamp set that is also on the front of the card.  I made a little notch in the pocket with my 1" circle punch so that the gift card would slide in and out easily.
To finish off the card and the presentation for the couple I stamped the flap of the envelope in the same colors that I used on the card.  Night of Navy, Basic Gray and Smoky Slate.  That finishes my card, I hope that you like it and that you may give this a try when you need a card for your next gift card.  Thanks for dropping by I will see you again on Monday for another fun project.

Happy Stampin' 
Rick Adkins 

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Saturday, October 12, 2019

Toile Christmas Simple Saturday Stamping Card

Hello and welcome to my blog and this week's episode of Saturday Simple Stamping.  This week we are making a Thank you card using the Toile Christmas Stamp Set.  Even with the holidays approaching we still need things like Birthday, Thinking of you, and Thank you Cards.  So this is not the time of the year to stop making those types of cards, why not when you're using those Christmas and Holiday Stamps not make a few cards for these occasions as well.  That's just what I did with today's Simple Stamping Card.  Here's a look at today's project.

Tips & Tricks: 

Most of you know that Simple Stamping was started last November by Stampin' Up! as a way to help crafters that are just getting started or have never stamped before to learn.  It's back to the basics with just stamps, ink, and paper, and maybe sometimes a punch or something else thrown in for fun.  I try to keep my versions of #simplestamping just at the basics.  I like to share cards that can be easily recreated by someone just starting out.  
For this weeks card I started out with a piece of Thick Very Vanilla Cardstock cut in half at 4 1/4 x 11 scored at 5 1/2.  I stamped the cardinal from the Toile Christmas Stamp Set in Real Red ink on the front of the card.  And then added a scrap of the matching Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper I had left over from my Facebook Live project from Wednesday night.  I just attached that with a little snail adhesive and trimmed it to size afterwards.  
For the sentiment I used a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock also left over from Wednesday nights Facebook Live, and stamped the thanks from one of my favorite sentiment sets Here's a Card in Garden Green ink.  I then used the Timeless Label Punch and punched it out.  At this point it was looking a little plain so I added some of the small scrolls from the Toile Christmas Stamp Set to dress the punch out up just a little bit.  I added the label to my card with a couple stampin' dimensionals to finish it off.  
To finish the presentation of my cards I always like to dress up the envelopes.  And with my simple stamping cards it's no different.  For this weeks envelope I just stamped the top half of the cardinal on the flap of the envelope in Real Red Ink.  

Video Tutorial:



Happy Stampin' 
Rick Adkins 
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Friday, October 11, 2019

Playful Penguins Sunset Silhouette Card

Hello and welcome to my blog:  Today I am going to share with you a fun technique that will stretch your stamp collection and allow you to make some fun unexpected cards as well.  Sometimes there's nothing more attractive then a sunset on a cold winter day.  Then you add to that a bold graphic figure in silhouette and your heart will start to go pitter pat.  There's just something about those beautiful bold colors in the sky either as the sun is raising or starting to set paired with the dark image in front of it that is just so very striking.   That's exactly what I did for my card today, I brought both of these wonderful things into my card today.  Let's have a look at my project shall we.

Tips & Tricks: 

Creating this look isn't as hard as you may think; as long as you have the right mind set and tools to create it.  Anytime I create one of these types of cards I always start with Masking off anything that needs to be the white of the paper.  Next comes my sunset area.  Because, it's one of the main draws to the card and one of the most crucial parts.  If you don't have your sky right people will be drawn to it.  The trick to ink blending is to just keep going until you're happy with the way it looks.  Sometimes it may take up to 30 minutes or longer to get the ink to blend jsut right.  But, if you keep going back and forth between the colors it will start to blend out.  My go to sunset colors are Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, and either a little Blackberry Bliss or Night of Navy.  
After the sky is nice and blended I can peel off my snow mound masks and start stamping my silhouette images.  The most common way of stamping these images are with solid image stamps, but you can do it the way I did today with regular plain stamps.  It just adds in an extra step, but what's one more step to getting a beautiful card, right? 
Once I had the penguins stamped out on the card front I then came back and simply colored them in with my Basic Black Stampin' Blends.  Yep, that was all I had to do to get these bold images to appear they were in silhouette.  So, What stamps do you already own can you do this technique with to get a new look from your stamp collection?  I bet you can think of about 10 sets you haven't touched in a long time.  I highly encourage you to give both of these techniques a try and breath a little new life into your stamp collection.  Thanks for dropping by today, I hope that you have a great day and I will see you again tomorrow with this week's episode of Rick's Saturday Simple Stamping.  Until then Happy Stampin'!
Happy Stampin' 
Rick Adkins 
If you live in the US.  I would love you to choose me as your demonstrator.  If you would like to purchase any of these products you can click on the Shop Now Button or by clicking on any of the images below.  Alternatively, you can also contact me by email to place your order.  Please be sure to use the monthly host code and I’ll send a little something out to you the following month to say Thank You!  

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