Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace Christmas Card

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Beverly

Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace Christmas Card

I am so enjoying making Christmas cards with Spellbinders dies, and today I have for you a Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace Christmas Card.

I think it is beautiful! This year I am enjoying making Christmas cards in pink. I created this Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace Christmas Card with the Stampin’ Up! Pink Pirouette Card Stock (11135), Stampin’ Up! Whisper White Card Stock (100730), and Stampin’ Up! Baja Breeze Card Stock (retired).

The above is a closeup of the beautiful angel created with the Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace (S2-185) die. The angel is the primary element on the card; therefore, I gave the card the title of Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace Christmas Card. Also featured on the card is the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame (S6-040) dies as well as Spellbinders Holiday Holly Tags (S4-559) dies (on the inside of the card).

I created the angel’s wings with Whisper White Card Stock, and then I added Martha Stewart’s Crystal Tinsel Glitter. I added some metallic gold ink on the bottom portion of the angel, as well as on several areas of the holly frame die cuts.

I love the dove that I made with one of the dies from Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace dies. I added metallic gold ink to the wings and tail of the dove. And to spotlight the dove, I added a circular piece of Baja Breeze Card Stock.

Have you noticed the “bling” on the card? I enhanced the poinsettias on the holly frame die cuts with rhinestones that I colored pink using a Copic light pink alcohol marker (RV21).

The inside of the card has a die cut made with the Spellbinders Holiday Holly Tags. Weaved through the die cut is a piece of Stampin’ Up! Pink Pirouette Ribbon.

Below are pictures of the Spellbinders dies that I used.

Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace_1 Spellbinders Holiday Holly Tags Spellbinders 5x7 Holly Frame

Click HERE to see my other pink Christmas Card.

Butterfly

God’s Blessings!

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Beverly Polen

Spellbinders Holiday Angel of Peace Christmas Card

Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper Blue Poinsettia

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Beverly

It is a delight to share with you my Stampin’ Up! Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper Blue Poinsettia Christmas card.

Stampin’ Up! Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper:

Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper Blue Poinsettia Have you seen blue poinsettias? Here’s a picture of a group of them. Aren’t they pretty? They are beautiful to me, but maybe that is because I love the color blue. I guess there are a lot of colors of poinsettias.

blue_poinsettia

Back to my card! The card measures 4-3/4″ x 5-1/2″ which is an odd size. I made it this size so I could get on the card the elements I wanted. Besides the Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper, the card also features Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia dies and Spellbinders Curved Borders Two dies. For the left side of the card, I used the mistletoe design from the Stampin’ Up! Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper, Spellbinders Curved Borders Two Dies, and Stampin’ Up! Pacific Point Card Stock.

This picture is a closeup of the poinsettia that I created with the Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia dies. I embossed the poinsettia with Stampin’ Up!’s Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder (101930). I added a small amount of yellow and green glitter glue (i.e., Ranger Stickels) onto the center of the flower. To further enhance the poinsettia, I added some “branches” behind the flower. I used Martha Stewart’s Branch Medium Punch to create the branches. The poinsettia sits upon an oval floral die cut from the Spellbinders Oval Floral dies.

I used the Spellbinders Curved Borders Two dies also for the inside of the card. Instead of using the Pacific Point Card Stock, as I did on the card front, I used the mistletoe design from the Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper when using the Curved Borders dies.

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Beverly Polen

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Beverly

The Home for Christmas DSP from Stampin’ Up! is so nostalgic and takes me back to my childhood. I love the designs of the paper which are shown below:

For my card, I chose the poinsettias design. And to enhance the design from the Home for Christmas DSP, I used the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame Template to die cut my gate fold card.

Isn’t it beautiful?

The holly and poinsettia die cuts from the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame match the Home for Christmas DSP perfectly. The picture to the left is of the Spellbinders dies.

After cutting a piece of 10″ x 71/4″ Very Vanilla Card Stock (Stampin’ Up! item #101650), I scored and folded the card stock to form a gate fold card. I scored the piece of card stock at the 3″, 4″, 6″ and 7″ marks.

I folded the card stock in this order: 3″ score line is a mountain fold, 4″ valley fold, 6″ valley fold, and 7″ mountain fold. Using my Big Shot and cutting plates, I laid the 5″ x 7″ holly frame onto my magnetic plate and cutting plate, folded the card stock into a gate fold, laid the card on top the holly frame, laid another cutting plate on top of the gate fold card, and run it through the big shot. Leaving the cut gate fold card within the frame, I used green and red inks to emboss along the edges. This picture below gives you a better idea.

For the two sides of the inside of the card, I felt that the back side of the poinsettias design of the Home For Christmas DSP just would not look good. This is the back side of the poinsettias design:

The holly design within the Home for Christmas DSP is too bold to me for this purpose. Therefore, I decided to dig into my stash of retired designer series paper for something that would better fit the poinsettias. I found the holy design of the old Stampin’ Up! Berry Bouquet Specialty Designer Series Paper that is more muted. That was it! It matched perfectly! Thus, you’ll see it on the inside of the card.

I added to my gate fold card two sentiments from the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set (Item #139730). The picture to the right shows one and the second one can be seen on the card’s inside in the above pictures.

I embellished the outside sentiment with Stampin’ Up! Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder (Item #101930) and a poinsettia made with a couple dies from the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame die cuts. I used Stampin’ Up! Crystal Effects on the poinsettia.

I hope you enjoyed the card as much as I did making it! Don’t forget to leave a comment!

God’s Blessings!

Stamping With Guneaux Designs

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Beverly Polen

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

Sunset Scene with Happy Scenes Stamp Set

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Beverly

I have for you today a Sunset Scene featuring the Stampin’ Up! Happy Scenes Stamp Set. I used the sponging technique to create my “Happy Scene”.

UPDATE: This card was chosen as one of Splitcoaststampers’ FAVORITES for the week ending on November 8, 2015! Splitcoaststamper’s comment:

“Congratulations! In the General Stamping forum, you’re in the FAVORITES for the week ending November 8, 2015.”

Using the sponging technique, I created the sunset scene first before using the two stamps from the Stampin’ Up! Happy Scenes Stamp Set to complete the scene. I love using the Stampin’ Up! Sponges for “sponging”. I have tried other brands of sponges and I do not get the same result.

What is the sponging technique, you ask? For the purpose of a greeting card, it is the art Sof using a small portion of a sponge to apply ink in a circular motion onto a piece of card stock. Sponging is used to achieve a scene, background, or other art form. When applying the sponging technique for my card, I used several Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink Pads. The inks I used are: So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Wisteria Wonder, Pink Pirouette, Concord Crush (old ink pad), Marina Mist, Pacific Point, and Early Espresso (used in this order – hope you can read the light text :-)).

After achieving my scene, I applied ink to two of the stamps from the Stampin’ Up! Happy Scenes Stamp Set and strategically stamped them onto the scene. The two stamps are of trees.

If you have used the Stampin’ Up! Happy Scenes Stamp Set, what do you think about the birds on the tree stamp that is shown on the left of my card? Personally, I think whoever designed the stamp did not have a good sense of proportions. When I stamped the image onto the card, I covered my stamp to prevent the two birds at the bottom from showing. Just my spin on the stamp!!!

Stampin’ Up! Happy Scenes Stamp Set Item #139821

I hope you enjoy my card! Make my day and give me feedback or ask questions on this card or other Guneaux Designs artwork!

God’s Blessings!

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Beverly Polen

Stampin’ Up! Happy Scenes Stamp Set

Day of Gratitude Stamp Set

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Beverly

The Stampin’ Up! (SU) Day of Gratitude Stamp Set is one of my favorite SU stamp sets for the Autumn. And the beautiful Autumn Spice Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP) that goes with the stamp set is one of my favorite SU DSP. Although both are retired products, I decided to use them to create my gratitude gate fold card.

Isn’t the name of the DSP so appropriate for this time of the year? What comes to your mind when you think, “Autumn Spice”? I think of fall apples and the products that are made with them. For example, spicy apple butter, spicy apple cider, apple pie, and other yummy products. The “spice of autumn” brings to my mind leaves turning to beautiful colors, leaves falling from the trees, and children playing in piles of leaves. OK, so much for that!!

I created the Day of Gratitude gate fold card by using the SU’s Floral Frames Framelits. In 2012, I first published the method for folding card stock and using SU framelits to create a gate fold card. Click HERE and you’ll find a tutorial on using the SU framelits to create a gate fold card.

Day of Gratitude Stamp Set

The above pictures are closeups of the sentiment which is part of the Day of Gratitude Stamp Set. I really like the medallion that I fussy cut from the DSP, covered it with Stampin’ Up! Crystal Effect, and added a drop of Ranger Yellow Stickels.

As you can see in the following picture, I added foam adhesive dots to the layers of the sentiment to give the card so dimensions.

Tell me, what is your favorite Stampin’ Up! autumn stamp set!!

Products Used for the Gate Fold Card featuring the Day of Gratitude Stamp Set:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up! Day of Gratitude Stamp Set

Paper: Stampin’ Up! Autumn Spice Specialty Designer Series Paper and Whisper White Card Stock

Ink: Stampin’ Up! Wild Wasabi Classic Ink (for sentiment)

Accessories: Stampin’ Up! Floral Frames Framelits, Sizzix Big Shot, Stampin’ Up! Crystal Effects, Foam Adhesive Dots, and Sticky Strip

Day of Gratitude Stamp Set Stampin' Up! Floral Frames Framelits

Day of Gratitude Stamp Set SU Floral Frames Framelits

God’s Blessings!

Stamping With Guneaux Designs

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Beverly Polen

DAY OF GRATITUDE STAMP SET GATE FOLD CARD

Reason for the Season Pink Poinsettia

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Beverly

Hi, Stampers! I have for you today a Pink Poinsettia card featuring the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set. Do you like pink poinsettias? I think they are very pretty. Therefore, the color pink was my driving force when creating this card. Plus, I like thinking outside the box and not going with the “normal”. It’s more exciting!

The card’s primary layer is a piece of Stampin’ Up!’s Whisper White Card Stock (100730) on which I stamped the poinsettia stamp from the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season stamp set. I covered the poinsettia stamp with Versamark Ink, stamped it randomly around the card stock, and heat embossed the images using white embossing power.

Using Rose Red, Wild Wasabi, and So Saffron Stampin’ Up! Classic Inks, I sponged the inks over the embossed poinsettias. I used the Festive Flower Builder Punch to make the pink poinsettia that sits at the bottom left of the card. (NOTE: You can get the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set and the Festive Flower Builder Punch as a “bundle” and save 15% on the cost.) I embellished the poinsettia with yellow beads and a piece of gold elastic cord.

For the card’s sentiment, I ran a piece of whisper white card stock and a Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval Floral template (S6-028) through my Big Shot to produce the oval cutout. Using Wild Wasabi Classic Ink, I stamped the sentiment, “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” (from the Reason for the Season stamp set) onto the oval.

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Supplies Used for the Reason for the Season Pink Poinsettia project:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set (139730)

Paper: Stampin’ Up! Card Stock – Whisper White (100730), Wild Wasabi (108641), and Pink Pirouette (111351)

Ink: Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink – Rose Red (126954), Wild Wasabi (109014), So Saffron (126957), and Versamark

Accessories: Stampin’ Up! Festive Flower Builder Punch (139682), Sizzix Big Shot, Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval Floral Template, Yellow Beads, Gold Elastic Cord, and White Embossing Powder