Visiting the Scenic Coast

I've been a Stampin Up demonstrator for 23 years!  And I have loved the creativity that it brings to my life.  From the time that I was a girl, I have enjoyed making pretty things out of paper.  :)

This summer's catalog is filled with beautiful new stamps, dies and papers.  For this card class, I chose the Scenic Coast to work with.  The papers are amazing and the the cut outs are easy to use to make beautiful cards.  

This card features a lighthouse cut out with one of the sunset papers in the background.  A version of this card is in the SU catalog.  

I know that I don't share what's in the catalogs very often, but this set is so scenic.  LOL

 

For this card, I cut out the "sunrise" die from the blue cardstock and then glued it back in.  I cut a strip of the sunset paper and adhered it along the front side of the card.  Then I cut out the sailboat and added it to the scene with dimensionals.  I love the seagull cut outs and everything about this card.  It's one of my all-time favs.  I could make it all day.  

This card has a large strip of the sunset papers glued to one side.  I did some stamping on the purple side and then added the "sunset" die cut from patterned vellum that I had.  As the girls were making the card, we called it the "age of aquarius," like the old song.  I got the idea from Cheri's Cards and I like the addition of the yellow strip for the saying.  

I hope to make more cards and projects using this set.  Thank you, Stampin Up and my stamping friends for two decades + of crafting bliss.  I hope there will be many more.  

The Grassy Grove

This week I took out the set, Grassy Grove and made some fun cards with it.  For my first card, I used the cut out as the front of the card.  The designer papers are placed on the inside and the deer are peeking through.  I got the idea for this card from Sherry Roth.  She has a video on how to do the inside of the card.  You can watch it here if you'd like to learn more.  

All of the ladies (including me) loved making this card.  I used Winter Meadows papers for my cards this week.  

I got the idea for this next card from Brian King.  I cut out part of the die cut image using a circle and then added the scalloped background to it.  This really give the dies a lot more versatility!  I stamped a moon and stars to make it look like night time and added a small silver deer.  

This paper with the trees is one of my favorites!  It's great for outside, wintry and scenery cards.  Alhouth this card is pretty simple, I just love the look of it.  

For my third card in this series, we sponged some Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron inks onto a white background paper using a rectangular mask.  Then I added the grass, trees and birds in the sky.  I used sayings from the Hills of Tuscany stamp set because I liked the sweet sayings and font.

After I stamped the saying, I ran the piece through the emboss machine using the Subtle folder.  Then I added it to a blank scalloped rectangle, and added the two deer.  This idea was from Diane Vander Galien.  

After playing around with the Grassy Grove set, I decided that it can be used in so many different ways. You may even see the deer family again in a Christmas card.  :)