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...

  Hello, everyone, welcome to March...the month of St. Patrick's Day and March Madness... 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 who share our love of card-making through monthly blog hops with various themes. If you are following the hop, then you'll have just popped over from  Helen Jennings' (UK) Love-a-Duckie 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! I really fell in love with this card layout and couldn't resist sharing it with you for my anything-goes blog post today.   It's another great way to use your DSP 2" strips that you may have laying around.  I used the template during my Mystery Stamping event on March 15, 2023... Here are t...

  Hello Stampin friends!  It's time for episode 12...yes, 12...of Roll of the Die.  We've been doing them for a whole year now...go us!  What is "roll of the die" you may ask?  Well, I purchased these stamping dies from Tada Moments on Etsy.  There are five (5) dies in the set and each die has different stamping elements on them such as color family, technique, theme, etc. Tamra is a Stampin' Up! demonstrator so the dies have some Stampin' Up! specific references. So here goes... At the end of last month's video when I rolled the die, the elements were: Monochromatic Subtles Sponging Ribbon/Twine "Thank You" Measurements used in today's card can be found in the free tutorial : Click the video below to see how I created today's cards and the links to the other hoppers. New Colorful Kaleidoscope Kit The Colorful Kaleidoscope Kit ($23) is an all-inclusive kit filled with geometric shapes, and layering the peek-through laser cuts on your ...

Are you enjoying my weekly CAS the Catty videos on YouTube?  I know I am! I had so much fun last night CASing the Stampin' Up! July - December 2022 Mini Catalog...I had been wanting to play with this set for a while...and I think the results were amazing!  I took some poetic licenses but pretty much stuck to the cards created by the artists. This was the first card we made ( I actually made a second one).  Measurements: Base: standard A2 (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") scored at 4 1/4" Panel: 4" x 5 1/4" Basic white panel (inside): 4" x 5 1/4", and scrap for sentiment Watercolor paper (6" x 6") should be enough to stamp and die-cut the images. Emboss the panel using the Leaf Fall 3D Embossing Folder Watercolor the bird and the branch For the leaves, on a scrap of watercolor paper; use the watercolor wash technique to apply colors; then die-cut with the leafy die. Stamp and punch the sentiment, then use a sponge dauber or blending brush to apply color ...