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Posted by Patty Bennett on August 30, 2011 at 01:13 AM in Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Floral Stamp A Stack cards - part 2

June 29, 2011

Continuing with samples from my June Stamp A Stack class with a floral theme... here is another one of the 4 cards everyone made.

This card just makes me HAPPY!! :)

We made our own floral background paper by stamping the FLOWER FEST stamp set (#122278 / 122280), pg 20 Summer Mini) in the following colors on Whisper White cardstock:

Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo & Tangerine Tango

For the focal point flower, the stem comes from the set called Bold Blossom (#123232 / 122232, pg 7 Summer mini) using the NEW LUCKY LIMEADE green In Color (available July 1) then punching out 3 flower images form the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch (#122464, pg 6 Summer mini) and adhering them together with a Rhinestone brad.

Everything is mounted onto a folded Tangerine Tango card.

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Posted by Patty Bennett on June 29, 2011 at 02:18 AM in Class Samples, Flower Projects, Stamp A Stack class, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Triple Layer Punches

June 26, 2011

Have you used the fun new Triple Layer Punches from Stampin' Up! in the Summer Mini catalog!!??

Wow.. what fun they are! Such a cool concept to get 3 punch designs from one punch.

Here is a card I made using both of the new punches:

After adhering all the punch pieces to a White Notecard with Dotto adhesive, I ran the card front through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing folder :)

Doily Triple Layer Punch, #122465, pg 6 Summer Mini catalog

Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, #122464, pg 6 Summer Mini catalog

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Posted by Patty Bennett on June 26, 2011 at 01:25 AM in Big Shot - Embossing Folders, Punches, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Another Beyond the Garden Quilt Card

June 21, 2011

Awhile back I shared one of my Quilt Cards with you .. thank you for your very kind comments... here is another "quilt card" I made using the BEYOND THE GARDEN DSP from the Stampin' Up! Summer Mini catalog (pg 23) and the new BLOSSOM BOUQUET TRIPLE LAYER PUNCH, also found in the Summer Mini (pg 6).

On Whisper White Cardstock I drew a dashed line with the Peach Parfait Stampin' Write Marker, and added the punched out shapes with Dotto. Then snailed it to the Beyond the Garden piece of DSP and then put those 2 layers into the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder. Those are layered onto a folded Peach Parfait card.

These are the 2 punches I used on this card.

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Posted by Patty Bennett on June 21, 2011 at 12:32 AM in Quilt Cards, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Playful Polka Dots Card Holder Kit & Tutorial offer

June 14, 2011

I'm excited to offer you a darling

CARD HOLDER kit & Tutorial

designed by Sharon Howard! She and I have collaborated on projects before and I know you will love this one, too!

Tutorial Only $4.95 (to any email address world-wide)

SUPPLIES included in the kit:

1/2 Pack Playful Polka Dots Simply Scrappin' Kit

(4) Note Cards & Envelopes

Paper Dasies, assorted colored Rhinestone brads & ribbon for embellishing

(2) CD Folders

7 page .pdf tutorial with over 25 photos emailed to you upon payment receipt

BONUS: tutorial includes designs for 6 more cards designed by Sharon!

SUPPLIES you will need, not included in kit:

Extra Note Cards if you wish to make more than 4 cards #107311

Snail #104332

Scissors #108360

Bone Folder #102300

12" Fiskars Cutter & blades #104152 & #104154

Hole punch or Crop a Dile #108362

US orders only for the Kit. Kits will be mailed USPS Priority Mail within 10 days after payment is received. Tutorial info will be emailed within 24 hours of purchase.

The $4.95 Tutorial may be emailed to any email address in the world.

If you have not heard from me within 36 hours of your tutorial or kit purchase, please email me with your email address AND a phone number in case I need to contact you. Sometimes emailed files get lost in cyberspace or go into a spam box.

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Nautical "Open Sea" cards, continued

June 10, 2011

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I previously posted a couple of my Nautical Design cards that i took on the Stampin' Up! Cruise with me... here are 2 more designs... FOR MORE DESIGNS CLICK HERE.

Here are the supplies I used... pieces of printed designs from My Digital STudio, Cardstock and the "map" design from the Newsprint DSP.

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Posted by Patty Bennett on June 10, 2011 at 02:20 AM in Designer Series Papers, My Digital Studio, My Digital Studio Cards, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Patty's Quilt and a Quilt Card

June 09, 2011

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One thing I have treasured since I was a little girl is this quilt that my grandma and great-grandma made for me (completed about 1965) .. they both called me "Peaches & Cream" and this quilt was supposed to remind me of that.

I decided to try using some of our Stampin' Up! punches to make some quilt cards.. I came up with a couple and wanted to share one with you today.. .

While this is not supposed to duplicate my quilt, the quilt very loosly influenced my card design.

here is a bit of a close up

HOW I DID IT:

I punched out different designs with 3 punch images from the BEYOND THE GARDEN Designer Paper pack (#122342) in the Summer Mini catalog (pg 23). Here are the 2 paper designs from that pack that I used:

Punch used for paper #1 for the squares: Postage Stamp Punch, #122344, pg 10 Summer Mini Catalog

Punch used for paper #1 and #2 for large and small flower: Boho Blossoms Extra large punch, #119858, pg 200 Stampin' Up! catalog

After punching the postage stamp squares I used a Poppy Parade marker and drew stitching lines around the edges.

I sponged the edges of each flower with Poppy Parade ink and a sponge dauber and used a pencil eraser to "stamp" the flower centers.

I layered the small flower on the large flower and then onto the postage stamp piece using Snail adhesive.

All of the pieces are layered onto a So Saffron panel, then onto a Peach Parfait panel and onto a Poppy Parade folded card.

Hope you like it! Have a fab day!

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Posted by Patty Bennett on June 09, 2011 at 01:48 AM in Punches, Quilt Cards, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (15)

Fabulous Florets and Dotted Spring

June 07, 2011

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Have you checked out the list of RETIRING STAMP SETS from Stampin' Up!?? I'm sad that this background stamp - Dotted Spring - is on the list of stamps retiring this month .. I really like this one!

I stamped the DOTTED SPRING background stamp (#117134) in Pumpkin Pie ink on a Daffodil Delight folded card for the background... fun, springy and whimsical.. don't you think? On top of the Daffodil card, I layered a tag from the TWO TAGS DIE (#115954), and a piece of vellum printed with the words from the STRENGTH & HOPE SET (pg 27 Summer Mini catalog), (you can do this with ink and the stamp or like I did, with My Digital Studio).

SEE THIS POST for how I made the flowers in My Digital Studio. Don't have MDS? just stamp your own flowers with the FABULOUS FLORETS SET :)

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Posted by Patty Bennett on June 07, 2011 at 02:24 AM in My Digital Studio, My Digital Studio Cards, Retiring Lists from Stampin' Up!, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Nautical "Open Sea" cards - Hybrid MDS cards

June 06, 2011

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You know I love to use My Digital Studio from Stampin' Up! .... I printed out some "card supplies" in My Digital Studio to make up some Nautical Cards to take on the Stampin' Up! Cruise ..

I printed all these pieces in My DIgital Studio, then sponged, punched, scrunched, antiqued, added brads & twine.... these are truly hybrid cards! :)

You can find both the stamp sets, and the MDS downloads on pgs 8, 9 and 10 in the Summer Mini catalog from Stampin' Up! These products are available as a LIMITED TIME OFFERING .. SO DON'T WAIT... get these items while they are still available!

We gave these cards to our waiters, cabin stewards, etc., with their extra tips on the cruise... I hope they liked them!

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Posted by Patty Bennett on June 06, 2011 at 02:33 AM in My Digital Studio, My Digital Studio Cards, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Nautical Open Sea Thank You cards

June 02, 2011

I always take Hand Stamped Thank You cards on every Stampin' Up! cruise, and this year I used the new Nautical Expedition DSP and "The Open Sea" stamp set from Stampin' UP! to make my cards:

I will have close ups and details in a future post ...

here is Jorge our waiter and Minguel our asst. waiter on the cruise... they each received one of the cards with their tips.

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Posted by Patty Bennett on June 02, 2011 at 02:14 AM in Cruise 2011 Alaska, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Fabulous Florets - Hybrid MDS card

May 24, 2011

You may have heard me speak of "Hybrid MDS" cards before... that simply means that I do some of the work in My Digital Studio (MDS) and the rest of the project is done with Stampin' Up! catalog products.

Here is an example of one of my recent MDS Hybrid cards featuring the digital Fabulous Florets image, # 124110, from the Summer Mini catalog combined with the Flower Garden Embossing Folder, #123113, Beyond the Garden Designer Paper, #122342, and the new Postage stamp punch, #122344, with the Pretty Postage Stamp set, #123097, on a Daffodil Delight card.

Here is a closer look at the Top Note Die embossed with the Flower Garden embossing folder:

and here is how I did the colored in Fabulous Floret images in My Digital Studio:

If you want to see a video on this technique, leave me a comment.. I'll work on that when I get back from the Stampin' Up! Cruise.

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Posted by Patty Bennett on May 24, 2011 at 02:26 AM in My Digital Studio, My Digital Studio Cards, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (17)

Playful Polka Dots Simply Scrappin' Kit Class

May 16, 2011

We had a great time with this new Playful Polka Dots Simply Scrappin' Kit from Stampin' Up! at our Stamp A Stack Class. You can find it on pg 15 of the Summer Mini catalog. If you need a Summer Mini Catalog, please let me know.

SEE BELOW FOR FREE .pdf FILE WITH CUTTING DIMENSIONS FOR THESE CARDS.

Each class participant received a 1/2 pack of the Simply Scrappin' Kit and 8 envelopes. Each person made 8 cards and had quite a bit of cardstock and paper left over, so you could EASILY make at least 20 cards out of one pack.

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Supplies also provided at the class needed for samples above:

Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, pg 6 summer mini, #122464
Pumpkin Pie 3/8" Taffeta, #119765, pg 191
Old Olive 1/8" Taffeta, #119255, pg 191
Postage Stamp Punch, #122344, pg 10 summer mini
Pretty Postage set, #123097, pg 11 summer mini
Happy Greeting set, #123313, pg 26 Summer mini
Decorative label punch, #120907
Whisper White cardstock, #100730, pg 169
Medium Whisper White Env., #107301, pg 171
Small open end env., #107286, pg 171

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Posted by Patty Bennett on May 16, 2011 at 01:43 AM in Class Samples, Stamp A Stack class, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Stamp a Rama - April 2011 - part 3

May 14, 2011

If you'd like to see the other cards from our event, click HERE and HERE.

Below are the remaining cards we made at our Luv 2 Stamp Group Stamp A Rama shoebox event in April.

Below: Telescoping Circle Hello Blossoms card by Kim Wong

idea from Lisa Zwolonek and video tutorial available from Barb Mulikin

Below: Triple Layer Punch card by Joy Perryman

Below: Fabulous Florets Card by Patty Bennett

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Posted by Patty Bennett on May 14, 2011 at 05:35 AM in Luv 2 Stamp Group events, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Stamp a Rama - April 2011 - part 2

May 13, 2011

I previously posted some fabulous cards from my Luv 2 Stamp Group Stamp A Rama event in April.. here are a few more cards by my wonderful gals.. if you'd like to join our Luv 2 Stamp group, please drop me a note!

Below: Emboss Resist Sponge Technique by Cindee

Below: Strength & Hope card by Sharon Lim

Below: A Touch of Kindness card by Barbara Rambow

Below: The Open Sea card by Vinnie Cespedes

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Posted by Patty Bennett on May 13, 2011 at 01:51 AM in Embossing, Luv 2 Stamp Group events, Summer Mini Catalog 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Watercolor Technique - Fabulous Florets Card

May 12, 2011

I combined a watercolor technique, some MDS and some new Stampin' Up! Designer paper here on this Fabulous Florets card.. details below..

I saw the pretty watercolor idea somewhere online.. if it was your card, please email me! :)

First I cut a circle of the Stampin' Up! Watercolor Paper (#105019, pg 170) with the 3-1/2" Circle Big Shot die (#121811), then stamped the 2 images from Just Believe (#120453, pg 109) with Very Vanilla Craft Ink (#104308, pg 169), heat embossed them with Clear Embossing Powder (#109130, pg 196) and the Heat tool (#100005, pg 196), let it cool. Then wet the circle with a spray bottle or a brush and water, and then using reinker ink, and a wet watercolor brush, I brushed 3 colors on the wet paper: Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Melon Mambo... let them "spread" together and let the piece dry before adding it to the card.

The larger flowers are printed with My Digital Studio and the Fabulous Florets download (pg 24, item #124110, Summer Mini) and added with stampin' dimensionals. (see this post for more info).

The background paper is the new Beyond the Garden DSP, #122342, on pg 23 of the Summer Mini catalog.

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