cardmaking - Right as Rain

The Cutting Edge Challenge #13

It’s time for the another Cutting Edge Challenge! Our inspiration this week is an amazing card created by Design Team member Kay Miller.

After staring at Kay’s lovely creation and realizing that there was nothing I could do to improve upon her design, I decided to create a card with a fall/autumn theme using the Paper Smooches Seasonal Tree die set.

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I adhered the tree to the light blue panel and popped the leaves up with dimensional adhesive.

Supplies: Lil’ Inker stitched rectangle die set; dimensional adhesive; Stampin’ Up sentiment; Paper Smooches Seasonal Tree

Trendy Holiday 2.0

A Very Trendy Holiday 2.0 is now open to everyone. StampNation members save $10 on the registration fee, but you don’t need to be a member to enroll in the class.

Here’s a peek at a few of the cards I contributed to the class:

ClassCloseUps

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Trendy Holiday 2.0 Registration + Giveaway

I am thrilled to be one of the contributors to A Very Trendy Holiday 2.0 – the newest online card class with Catherine Pooler and 9 other amazing designers.

The doors to A Very Trendy Holiday 2.0 are open to StampNation Members with a $10 off coupon code.

Through video tutorials, written tutorials, and more than 50 samples to inspire you, you’ll learn: creative uses for dies, faux watercoloring with Distress Markers, inlaid die cutting techniques, advanced stenciling techniques and more!

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Penny Black CAS Halloween

Playing along with colourQ #264 challenge which is another perfect color combination for a Halloween card.

I combined die cuts from the Penny Blacks sets – 51-077 eeek! (the sentiment), 51-073 haunted hollow (the house) and 51-076 spider’s internet (the spider webs) for my CAS card.

Penny Black CAS Halloween

Penny Black Inlaid Word Art

Today, I’m sharing a holiday card using the Penny Black 51-089 Tree of Joy word art die.

Word Art Holiday

I cut the Tree of Joy out of a brushed silver cardstock and inlaid it into a square red cardstock panel. I secured the inlaid pieces on the back with tape. The panel was adhered to a white cardstock panel that I had misted with silver spray using the Penny Black 25-009 Snow Dance stencil. The card base, measuring 5 1/4″ is also brushed silver cardstock.