5 Sheet Wonder

Here are examples of five of the (10) designs found in the Stampin Up Five Sheet Wonder packet designed by Lee Ann Greff.  I also have her  Four Sheet  Wonder pack.  These well-designed packets minimize paper waste, and create some wonderful variations in design.  These cards were all created with  Stampin Up products.   For more information on these techniques and to order supplies, my SU demonstrator is Kathy Legan.

Over the Top

This card was made following the dimensions and instructions at Joan's Touch, and created exclusively for this week's Challenge #15.  We were to use cardstock for color, a stamp that stuck above the folded stand-up card, and add a sentiment. I used the red cardstock as a base embossed with a bubbles EF, and die cut the digi-stamp Little Miss with the wonderful perforated edge of one of the dies in the Radiant Rectangles Spellbinders S5-161 set.  The sentiment is stamped with Congratulations from the Just Right Large Fancy Sentiments Stampset.  It is die cut with Just Rite Custom Dies Vintage Labels 4  JB4300.  These products are available at Joan's Gardens.  

Die-Stenciling

I followed a fun tutorial written by Korin Sutherland at Split Coast Stampers called Die Cut Stencils.  The Die I used was Spellbinders Borderabilities S5-180.  After I sponged and shaded the stencil's mask, I cut out the diecuts, and adhered them over the color for a  twist on this idea.  The  Stamps I used for this Card are from  SU Simple Stems and Petite Pairs.  MANY many possibilities with this technique for someone who owns VERYfe stencils!

Thinking of You

I used one of Elizabeth Bell's digital graphics for this black and white card created exclusively for the Joan's Touch  Challenge #14.  We were to use black and white, a die, and embellishments.  The  die I used for the card front is Spellbinders S4-409, Gold Majesty Circles.  And the Thinking of You stamp is by Just  Rite  Stamps in their Large Fancy Sentiments collection (that has some teeny fancy sentiments in it too!)  The SU rhinestones and black satin bow finish the front.  The dies and stamps I used for this card can be purchased at At Joan's Gardens.

You Make Me Smile

A Thank You, or a birthday, or just for fun...this You Make Me Smile card is created with Recollections (Michaels) Washi Tape, SU's flower border sticker embellishment, the  Bitty Banners banner framelits die (SU 129267), and the A Round Array stamp (SU# 129090) "you make me smile."  My SU demonstrator is Kathy Legan.  The adorable little party animal is Henry Mouse,  by  Whiff of Joy Graphics.  He is colored with pencils and finished in Gamsol. This was a VERY quick and easy --almost instant--card.  Sweet and simple and uncluttered.

Butterfly Blacks

This card was created exclusively for the Joan's  Touch  Challenge #14.  We are to use a die, embellishments and use black on the card.  For this card I used Spellbinders S4-409 Gold Majesty  Circle dies, the beautiful FRA9155 Monarch Butterfly by Frantic Stamper Dies, and a Graphic 45 stamp from the Sweet Sentiments (Spring) stampset.  "The gifts of  Spring cause much delight, warm sun shines over your pathway bright."
  The card front is also die cut from the  Gold Majesty set, and the black cut is slightly off-set to border the die with white. The inside of the card is faced with gray paper and the sentiment on the   Gold Majesty Circle is cut  with a Marvy Uchida tag punch accented with a square rhinestone.  Inside a border accent was added, a Martha Stewart Butterfly Border punch. The Dies, papers and Graphic 45 supplies are available at Joan's Gardens, and the beautiful butterfly die was my gift from  Terri at the Gardens for being the lucky winner of Challenge #8.  It is embellished, or burnished lightly with Gold Inka  Gold paint.  Thank you Joan and Terri for the fun, and for this black and die challenge this week.

This card is really white, black and gray, but the color didn't come out true on the butterfly which I reposted when I realized I hadn't put on the gold rhinestones!

Just Rite Irises

I really love this beautiful Just Rite Stamp, "Irises" (and the accompanying Vintage Labels 4 (JB04300) dies that match them).  For this card I colored the stamp with Staedtler Ergo Soft Aquarell watercolor pencils.  It is layered above Cheery Lynn  Designs  Frame  Die  French Lattice Small  Frame (FRM132).  The stamp is very lightly outlined with Clear Star Gelly Roll pen.  

Graduation Day, 2014

Our cousin's grand-daughter is graduating soon from Ayala HS in  So Cal.  This is the card, and gift card holder I made for her.  The graduate is a digitally painted graphic designed by  Sassy  Studio Designs and cut with  Spellbinders S5-59 Gold Labels 4. The Sentiment Circle follows a Photoshop tutorial by Jen White in the Feb Premier at Scrappers Guide and includes another circular sentiment with a mortar board on it designed by  Tracy  Wray.  The gift card holder follows a tutorial written in 2008 by PatStamps.

The sentiment in the gift card holder is the Ari  Pencovici quotation:   "Graduation is only a concept.  In real life every day you graduate.  Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life.  If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference."  And the sentiment inside the card includes the Thoreau quotation, "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. 

Stamping and Punching!

These three cards are made with Stampin Up products.  The  Birthday Mouse graphic is by Whiff of Joy Graphics. He is embossed with  SU's Iridescent Ice EP.  The Birthday banner on that card is from Itty  Bitty  Banners stamp and die set at  SU and the EF for that card is the Chevron folder.  
The Congratulations Card is watermark stamped paper and then punched with the Pansy Punch.  The little flowers and pearl centers are by SU from Petite Petals punch and stampset.  The Congratulations Banner is from Sassy Salutations stampset.   
The "hello" card is mounted on paper embossed with SU   Fancy Fan EF, stamped and punched (with 2 scalloped circle punches) from the Polka Dot Pieces stampset.  All papers are from the various SU paper collections in the 2013-2014 regular SU  Catalog.  My SU demonstrator is Kathy Legan  and these cards were started as she trained one of her newest downline demonstrators at that demonstrators first party.The decorative corner on the birthday card is punched with the deco corner on the We R Memory Keepers Crop-a-Dile Deco and  Stub punch.

Standing Shapes for Lorraine

This fun card follows a  Split Coast Stampers Tutorial by Laura Lipe for Standing Shapes.  The floating cupcakes were designed by Maurine Stettler (Digital Scrapbooking Studio, February 2013 Recipe Starter kit).  I used Spellbinders S5-030 die to cut out SU Stamp "Celebrate" from Seasonal Sayings collection. The glitter cupcakes on the card, front and gold bead-trim inside are Stickers from Pop-Ups Etc.  The embossing folder Happy Birthday is by Cuttlebug.  I distressed the edges with Tim Holtz Distressing tool.  The card insert edges are cut with shaping scissors.