Cascading card.....Stampin Up Tutorial # 8

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Easter Sunday!!! Let's finish it out with a great spring time card! We have had wonderful weather here and the flowers are starting to blossom, so you could say they are my inspiration! Let's get stamping......

Supply List:
Crumb Cake 12x12 card stock - item # 124274
So saffron 8 1/2x11 card stock - item # 105118
Pink Pirouette  8 1/2x11 card stock - item # 111351
More Mustard  8 1/2x11 card stock - item # 100946
Heat Tool - item # 129053
Stampin Emboss Powder Whisper White - item # 109132
Snail adhesive - item # 104332
Sticky Strip - item # 104294
Big Shot - item # 113439
Labels Collection framelits - item # 125598
Simply Scored scoring tool - item # 122334
Spring Catalog Secret Garden Bundle - item # 131099(clear)

 So to get started you want to use a 12x12 piece of crumb cake and cut it to 8x12. Now you want to put this piece on your Simply Scored Scoring tool on with the 12" side of the paper towards the top. Score at 2, 4, 8, and 10, scoring pretty heavy and a lite score on the 6".

 Now lightly  mark your crumb cake card stock on the 8" at the top at 5 1/2 and on the bottom 2 1/2. Now we need to cut on a diagonal from the 5 1/2 to the 2 1/2.

On the small end you want to lightly mark at 1 1/4

                                                     On the wide end lightly mark at 2 3/4

 Now you want hold the ruler parallel to the 12" length of the crumb cake card stock and lightly mark a dash on the 1st, middle and last score line. You will do this on both pieces you have cut. Make sure they are both facing the same direction and match. With one of the pieces you want to cut from the bottom up to the score lines that you just put a dash mark on. ONLY cut up to the dash and no further.

 On the next piece that has the same dash marks as the first you are going to cut down to the dash mark on the 1st, middle and last score line as shown below.

 Now you are going to slide them together, so they fit together like a puzzle piece. Where you cut should slide together to fit together as shown below. It opens like an accordion.

 Now you can set that a side and lets work on some flowers to attach. First I used the label collection to cut out the front piece to cover up slits on the paper. I used So Saffron with the 3rd smallest framelit.

 Now for the fun embossing part. I used White craft ink stampin pad to stamp the images from secret garden on the selected card stock of choice and then I put Whisper White embossing powder on the image and then heated it up with the heat tool. The image will go from dull to shiny when finished. It's like magic!!!!!!

 Stamp as many or as little at you like. Then you want to cut them out using the framelits from the secret garden bundle using the big shot as you did the label framelit.

 Time to assemble!!!! I placed the flowers on the card prior to gluing them down so I could get the placement just right. I used sticky strip to adhere the label framelit to the front of the card as it needs a little extra stick than the flowers. I adhered the flowers with snail adhesive.

 I sure hope you enjoyed today's tutorial and check back with me soon! Check out my website for all of your supplies to make this wonderful card and many more cards just like it and weekly specials for all your card needs and don't forget to sign up on here for my newsletter and become a member! Until next time, happy stamping!!!!!

Stampin with Katherine
http://katherinelepiane.stampinup.net

This and That......

 I have some exciting news!  Stampin' Up! has announced a brand-new product line called This and That.  Similar to the Smashbooks that are so hot right now, This and That offers a collection of coordinating products such as Washi tape, stickers, a cool new rotary stamp and more for creating your own scrapbook/journal/organizer/memorybook.  There really is no limit to the possibilities for these fantastic products!  Click HERE to view a PDF of the first round of products in this new line.  The best part is that for a limited time you can get the entire bundle of This and That products bundled for 15% off!  This deal is only good until April 30th, so place your order today!

As if a new product line weren't exciting enough, Stampin' Up is also giving away a free trip for two to San Diego!!

Visit Stampin' Up's Facebook page to learn more and to enter and while you're there check out more details about our new products!

Stampin with Katherine
http://katherinelepiane.stampinup.net 

Butterfly place card - Stampin Tutorial #7

This is so cute, I think this would be perfect for a mother's day tea place setting. So let's get started.

Supplies:
Any Embossing folder on pg 189 in 2012-2013 catalog
Beautiful butterflies bigz - item # 114507
Snail adhesive - item # 104332
Stampin Dimensionals - item # 104430
Antique Brads - item # 117273
Pretty in pink card stock - item # 100459
Pretty in pink Classic Stampin pad - item # 126955
Word Window punch - item # 119857
Sponge Daubers - item # 102892
Bone Folder - item #102300
Big shot - item #113439

Cut  a piece of Pretty in Pink card stock to run through the big shot with the beautiful butterflies bigz. 

You want to fold the Pretty in pink card stock in half. You don't want to cut out the whole butterfly to start, so you want to stay below the cut line in the bigz die to get a connected folded butterfly.

This is what it will look like when cut out.

Now you want to fold back the top butterfly half way as shown below.

Now you want to cut out a single full size butterfly using the same template you just used and a small butterfly using the Pretty in pink card stock.

 Now run the single butterfly's through the big shot using the embossing folder of your choice. I used a retired embossing folder because I like it, sorry!

Next you want to use the sponge dauber in the Pretty in Pink to ink the edges of both butterflies.

Now you want to glue the large butterfly to the butterfly you folded in half earlier using the snail adhesive. Line it up to match.

Now take the small butterfly and using the piercing tool, pierce the center and insert an antique brad.

Now you want to place a stampin dimensional on the back of the brad before placing it on the large butterfly.

Now use the window punch with the Pretty in Pink card stock and cut it out to place on the butterfly. This will hold the butterfly in place.You can stamp a name or a small saying on the word window piece or leave blank.

This is so easy and fun to make. This will still the show at every party. Happy stamping.... stampin with Katherine.
http://katherinelepiane.stampinup.net

Technique Tuesday - Stampin Up tutorial #6

Hello stampers, hope your having a great week so far. Are you ready for a super fun technique today? It is so much fun to play with and different every time you do it. So let's get started...

Supply list:
Whisper White card stock - item #100730
Summer Starfruit card stock - item # 126839
Midnight Muse card stock - item # 126843
Daffodil delight Classic stampin pad - item # 126944
Old Olive Classic Stampin Pad - item # 126953
Lucky Limeade Classic Stampin pad - item # 126984
Tempting Turquoise Classic stampin pad - Item # 126952
Rich Razzleberry classic Stampin pad - item #126950
Night of Navy Classic Stampin pad - item # 126970
Basic black Classic Stampin pad - item # 126980
Stampin sponges - item # 101610
Lovely as a tree - item # W -115026  C- 127793
Uni-ball Signo Gel Pen - item # 105021
Post it notes
We are going for the aurora borealis look. Let's get started........

Start with a a piece of Whisper White card stock and mask it off with a sticky note to create a mountain effect.

 The first color we are going to start with is Daffodil Delight and a sponge wedge. The best way to describe how to create the look is to rub not dab. Be random....

 The next color is Old Olive, follow the same pattern as you did with the Daffodil delight. Then use the Lucky Limeade to high light the areas you just touched on to brighten it up.

 Then you want to use Tempting Turquoise in the same pattern as before but cover more of the white up.

 Our next color is Rich Razzleberry. You want to fill in almost all of the white area remaining.

 Next you want to use Night of Navy, you want to cover up all of the remaining white areas and gently cover up the other colors leaving areas exposed.

 Follow the same pattern with basic black but don't cover up all of the night of navy.

 I then removed the sticky note and stamped with lovely as a tree stamp on the remaining white area.

 I then sponged basic black on the remaining Whisper White card stock. I used a the uni-ball Signo gel pen to create the stars.

 Then I used Snail adhesive to adhere the Whisper White card stock to the Summer starfruit and that to the Midnight muse.

I hope you give this technique a try. I got this technique from a fellow stampin up Demonstrator, Melissa Banbury and you can check out her blog at http://porchswingcreations.blogspot.ca She is amazing.
Until next time happy stamping. Get all your supplies at http://katherinelepiane.stampinup.net

Stampin with Katherine