It's time for another Mystery Stamping event.    So grab a beverage and your supplies and join the fun! Click the link to Join us on YouTube   Clue #1 Base: 5 1/2 x 8 ½ DSP: (1) 3 ¼” x 3" DSP (2nd pattern): (1) 2 ¾” x 4 ⅛” Basic White or Very Vanilla: 4 ⅛” x 5 ⅜” - 3 ¼” X 4 ½” Coordinating CS: - 3 ½” x 4 ¾” Nesting Dies  7” of Ribbon Stamp Set Sentiment should be no “taller” than 2” Embossing Folder

  Creative Inspiration with a Sketch We can all use a little inspiration every now and again. When that happens, I seek out templates/layouts or sketches that inspire me. Here's this month's sketch: And here's the project it inspired: The simple sentiment on this card means it can be used for so many different occasions. It uses Copper Clay, one of the colors in our new 2023-25 In Color™ Collection, but it could easily be made with any of our In Colors. Using the 2 ⅜" Circle Punch, two semicircles were cut from the top and bottom of a Copper Clay Cardstock layer. A Copper Clay patterned paper strip, cut from a sheet of Designer Series Paper from the In Color 6" x 6" DSP pack, was adhered across the center of the cardstock layer. This panel was then attached to the Basic White Cardstock base using Stampin' Dimensionals. A circle was cut from the same DSP sheet using the 2" Circle Punch and cut in half. Each half was adhered directly to the Bas...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to May...the month of Mother's Day and Memorial Day... and thank you for joining us!   If you are new to my blog, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world (Canada, UK, and USA) who share our love of card-making through monthly blog hops with various themes. If you are following the hop, you'll have just popped over  from Lorraine Tierney of ChatnCraft with Lorraine's blog.  I hope you took a minute to leave a comment for her as I'm sure she'll appreciate it just as much as I will. If you are starting the hop with me, thank you so much and I hope you enjoy what I and the other hoppers have prepared for you today! For this hop, we are focusing on a technique...creating embossed panels with dies--thinlets or framelits. This is the first time I've tackled this particular technique...not sure why...but for sure I'll be incorporating it more in my bag of tricks.  I decided to make a ver...