Greetings of the Season – Carol Payne Stamps

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Stampin’Up! Winter Serene Silhouettes!

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Carol Payne

Hey there! Today I have a card to show you I CASED and adapted from Penny Thomas and Patty Bennett. I needed a more "winter" themed card for a workshop I'm doing tomorrow. I will bring a "thinking of you" and a "happy birthday" stamp to the party so this can be adapted from the Christmas theme it has right now:

Super-duper easy to make! Here's why:

It's all one color of cardstock – Crumb Cake! The base is left plain, the next layer(4" x 5 1/4") is Square Lattice embossed and sponged with Crumb Cake ink. The next layer (3" x 4") is left plain, then the final layer (2 3/4" x 3 3/4") is stamped with Early Espresso and sponged with Crumb Cake!
The Crumb Cake card base is from a package of Cut & Ready Card Bases. A package of 20 card-ready, cut-to-size (8 1/2" x 5 1/2"), scored (at 4 1/4") for $4.95! A great value when you need to make a card quick or alot of cards at once!
Only two colors of ink – Crumb Cake and Early Espresso
Only two stamp sets – Serene Silhouettes & Greetings of the Season
Only three embellishments – Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Stampin' Sponge, and Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details!

After you put the Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details on the little birds there is a bit of drying time for the glue before you can mail it, but it's really not that long if you don't put the details on too thick!

Here's the info for the Cut & Ready Card Bases (only available until December 31st!)

Whisper White Cut & Ready Card Bases #135804 $4.95

Very Vanilla Cut & Ready Card Bases #135805 $4.95

Crumb Cake Cut & Ready Card Bases #135806 $4.95

Smoky Slate Cut & Ready Card Bases #135807 $4.95

Cherry Cobbler Cut & Ready Card Bases #135808 $4.95

Old Olive Cut & Ready Card Bases #135809 $4.95

Pool Party Cut & Ready Card Bases #134810 $4.95

Here's why these card bases will help you relax and enjoy the season:

You'll save work and time not having to cut and score cards-even if you're simply making a card or two.
You'll be able to make multiples in no time.
There's no trimmer required unless you need to cut layers!

You can order your Cut & Ready Card Bases in my Online Store:

www.carolpayne.stampinup.net

Today is not a Liam day. Instead I'm going to Jessica's to babysit Cohen and Jaxon. Jessica has a full day of photo sessions, including a newborn! yay!

Until tomorrow, have a Stampingrox! day!

All products used are ©Stampin'Up!™1990-2013

Stampin’Up! Remembering Christmas!

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Carol Payne

Hello! I'm back with a couple of swaps I've received using the Holiday Catalog set, Remembering Christmas!

When I first saw this set in the catalog, I thought, "I don't need this set! That's at least ONE set I won't buy!"

Well, I was WRONG!

First, here's what you might consider the "traditional" use of the deer head in this set:

The deer has been stamped on Night of Navy with Whisper White Craft ink( just found out she used the Illuminate Glimmer Pad. There are no recipes on our swap cards so sometimes I just have to guess), then cut out with one of the Apothecary Accents Framelits. A Smokey Slate Apothecary Accents Framelit was cut in half and layered behind it. Merry Christmas from More Merry Messages (on the Carryover List) was stamped on a strip of Winter Frost Designer Specialty Paper, then snipped on one end to create the banner look. A tiny snippet of Silver 1/8" Ribbon was tied on the other end for a little sparkle. The Whisper White layer was embossed with the Stylish Striped Textured Impressions Folder to complete the classic look.

It was a nice card, but still not enough to make me buy this set. My husband doesn't hunt, but one of my SIL's is an avid hunter. Imagine my surprise when I opened my swap envelope last month and found this:

This swap was created by Meg Wheeler. She used the Woodgrain Textured Impressions Folder for her card base. She inked the negative side of the folder with Basic Black ink before running through the Big Shot. Meg used one of the Clear-Mount Perfectly Placed Guides on her copier to print the "bulls-eye" and grid on the Very Vanilla cardstock. She stamped the deer head and the bullet-hole-resembling splotches from Gorgeous Grunge in Jet Black StazOn before adding "Greetings of the Season" from the Greetings of the Season stamp set to a Window Sheet.The adhesive to hold the window sheet on the card are Glue Dots and are located on the splotches in order to camoflage them.

To tell you how neat this card is, when I showed it to my husband, even HE was impressed, and I think "greetings of the season" is a great play on words for hunting season, yes?

This second card would make a perfect card for any reason for the hunter in your life!

Well, I'd better get going! Lots to do today!

To place an order, just click on the "shop now" button to go to my online store, then follow the prompts after you click the "Products" tab and then the "Shop Now" tab.

Until tomrrow, have a Stampgingrox! day!

All products used are ©Stampin'Up!™1990-2013

Stampin’ Up! Silver Glimmer Christmas Tree!

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Carol Payne

Good morning! We are in full Liam-mode around here! Nothing is safe from a 12-month-old! He makes me realize how far my house has come from being toddler-proofed! Needless to say, it's rapidly getting more "proofed" all the time!

I spent most of yesterday before Liam arrived running errands, helping Ben select his first i-phone, and getting groceries. I realized I hadn't done a serious supermarket run since before Oakley was born 3 weeks ago!

Today's card is one I created on Monday for my Christmas Card Class this coming Saturday. It's a pretty simple card, just some Pewter heat-embossing for the greeting from the Carryover List set Greetings of the Season and Silver Glimmer Paper strips. The addition of the Red Glimmer Paper Itty Bitty Shapes circles and the Silver Merry Minis Punch Pack star make it really festive!

Midnight Muse is the card base and focal image layer. I added the 1/2" wide Silver Glimmer "tree branch" strips with Tombow glue, as well as 1/2" Silver Glimmer strips around the edges of the Midnight Muse layer with the same adhesive. I wanted give the look of a solid mat of Silver Glimmmer paper behind the Midnight Muse layer without cutting full layers of the glimmer paper, so opted for the 1/2" strips. I think it looks pretty good, what do you think?

The inside verse is from another Carryover List set, More Merry Messages, stamped in Midnight Muse ink.

That's all for now! If you are planning to come to class on Saturday, please RSVP soon!

Until tomorrow, have a Stampingrox! day!

All products used are ©Stampin'Up!™1990-2013

Stampin’ Up! Silver Glimmer Christmas Tree!

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Carol Payne

The inside verse is from another Carryover List set, More Merry Messages, stamped in Midnight Muse ink.

That's all for now! If you are planning to come to class on Saturday, please RSVP soon!

Until tomorrow, have a Stampingrox! day!

All products used are ©Stampin'Up!™1990-2013

Stampin’Up! Greetings of the Season and More Merry Messages!

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Carol Payne

Just a quick post today, my blog is finally back up and running! Although the projects I had posted prior to November 10th were still here, ALL the posts I had tried to posts since then were repeatedly lost! Everytime I tried to post, my blog platform (I don't totally understand it either) was throwing me out, back to my login, and the post would be gone! SO FRUSTRATING! I finally gave up for awhile, then emailed the blog people who told me I probably had a CORRUPT COOKIE???? WHAT are THOSE? Well, I had to wait for my son, Logan, to come home from college for Thanksgiving to show me how to FIND this cookie so we could delete it. Once we did that, voila! I am back to blogging!

Fun stuff going on with Stampin'Up! right now too, so I was really anxious about not being able to post! Check my side bars, my facebook page for all the details:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Payne-Stamps

and my Stampin' Up! Online Store:

www.carolpayne.stampinup.net (click on the Shop Now Button at the bottom, then click on the "Online Extravaganza"!)

Here's a card from my Holiday Card Bonanza earlier this week using the Greetings of the Season stamp set and the Snow Flurry Bigz Die. The new Lacy Brocade Textured Impressions Folder was used on the card base.

©Stampin'Up!™1990-2012

We used designer paper from the Snow Festival Designer Series Paper on the front and a verse from "More Merry Messages" (a stamp set from the Annual Catalog which is on sale right now for 25% off!)

©Stampin'Up!™1990-2012

The Mitten Punch finished off the inside. Demonstrators just received our Occasions Catalog beginning January 3, 2013 and it includes a list of Holiday Catalog products that are being carried over, which means you will still be able to order them after the Holiday catalog is over and the Mitten Punch IS NOT ON THE CARRY OVER LIST! So if you were waiting to order this punch, don't, it could be gone before the Holiday Catalog is over, you never know!

That's all for today. Hopefully I will be back tomorrow with another post (as long as my cookies don't get corrupted again! lol!)

Have a Stampingrox! day!

Mitten Builder Punch	Item #127824
Price: $15.95

Stampin’Up! Greetings of the Season and More Merry Messages!

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Carol Payne

Fun stuff going on with Stampin'Up! right now too, so I was really anxious about not being able to post! Check my side bars, my facebook page for all the details:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Payne-Stamps

and my Stampin' Up! Online Store:

www.carolpayne.stampinup.net (click on the Shop Now Button at the bottom, then click on the "Online Extravaganza"!)

That's all for today. Hopefully I will be back tomorrow with another post (as long as my cookies don't get corrupted again! lol!)

Have a Stampingrox! day!

Mitten Builder Punch	Item #127824
Price: $15.95

Stampin’Up! Blossom Punch Bold Snowflake!

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Carol Payne

Here's a new card I just created last night for my Saturday Stamp-a-Stack hostess, Cindy Lisk!

It's a CASE of a card I created back in March of this year. You can view it HERE.

Instead of the Boho Blossom Punch used last time I stamped the new, limited-edition Bold Snowflake stamp in Versamark watermark ink on the Island Indigo cardstock. The Blossom Punch will punch out the Bold Snowflake perfectly, but I didn't need to for this card.

I embossed the "Merry Christmas" from Greetings of the Season with White Embossing Powder. The neutral stripe color in the Festival of Prints Designer Paper piece is actually Very Vanilla, but we don't carry Vanilla embossing powder anymore, so I substituted White instead. I think it blends in and makes you think it's Vanillla, don't you?

I added the smallest snowflake from the Snow Flurry Bigz Die in the center of the negative space left from punching. A tiny scalloped flower punched with one of the Itty Bitty Shapes Punches and a few Rhinestones finish it off perfectly!

For the inside, I used the pieces I punched out from the front along with another small snowflake, scalloped circle flower, and rhinestone! The verse is from Beautiful Season!

That's all for today! See you tomorrow for another Stampingrox! day!

products used:

Blossom Punch

Item #125603

Price: $16.95

Bold Snowflake Clear-Mount Stamp NOT available in Wood-mount	Item #132338

$5.95

Greetings Of The Season Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Item 3128033

Also available in Wood-mount

$11.95

Set Quantity: 4

Festival Of Prints Designer Series Paper Stack	Item #126904

$6.95

Snow Flurry Bigz Die

Item #127813

$21.95

Beautiful Season – Clear-Mount Stamp also available in Wood-mount	Item #122682

$16.95

Set Quantity: 4