Technique Squad Blog Hop – Pull Tab

This month’s technique is the Pull Tab. I watched a Jennifer McGuire’s video on this but since I didn’t have the die set she used, I made my own way to do it. I ended up making two cards because I was sad the dragonfly’s wings were hidden behind the hill and because I came up with an idea on hiding a gnome behind the mushroom house.

Now, head over and see what Carole Garrison came up with.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – February 2017 Paper Pumpkin (for the PULL), Art Gallery, Dragonfly Garden, Happy Hedgehogs, Kindest Gnomes,
Die Cutting & Embossing – Basic Borders, Floral Gallery, Gnomes, & Stitched Rectangles dies
Punches – Dragonflies punch
Ink – Balmy Blue, Garden Green, Pacific Point, & Memento Tuxedo Black stamp pads
Paper – Storybook Gnomes Designer Series Paper; Basic White Thick & Balmy Blue cardstock; Window Sheets
Accents & Embellishments – Fine Sparkle Adhesive-Backed Gems
Coloring Tools – Blending Brushes, clear Wink of Stella
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick, Paper Snips
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue

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Celebrating Susan’s 25th Stampaversary

Today we are celebrating Susan Campfield’s 25th Anniversary of joining Stampin’ Up! as a demonstrator. There are a number of us hopping along and showing our version of her recent Pop-out Bendy fun fold card. She did a video for it so if you would like to make your own I recommend watching it.

For mine, I used the Sale-a-bration FREE Rings of Love patterned paper, a couple of stamp sets, and a few inks.

I love the sheet of paper with the mushrooms on it so my card was based around that. I pulled out my Happy Hedgehogs stamp set for the tree, butterfly, and grass and colored it in with my Stampin’ Blends. Then I used a blending brush to add Balmy Blue ink for the sky. The die cut mushrooms on the inside were cut from white cardstock and colored with a sponge dauber and Poppy Parade ink before covering with Wink of Stella.

Both my front panel on the belly band and my pop-up inside were inspired by Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Sketch 568.

Blog Hop Roll
Vy Tran
Rachel Tessman
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Carole Huber Garrison
Sheila Chyu
Carole Baumgartner
Nancy Forsberg

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Art Gallery, Happy Hedgehogs, Whale Done
Die Cutting & Embossing – Gnomes dies, Stitched Rectangle dies, Stylish Shapes dies
Ink – Balmy Blue, Evening Evergreen, Poppy Parade, Soft Suede, Tuxedo Black Memento stamp pads
Paper – Rings of Love Designer Series Paper, Basic White cardstock, Basic White Thick cardstock, Evening Evergreen cardstock, Parakeet Party cardstock, Soft Suede cardstock
Coloring Tools – Clear Wink of Stella; Color Lifter, Basic Black, Evening Everygreen, Poppy Parade, & Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends; Blending Brush; Sponge Daubers
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #HappyHedgehogsStampinUp #HappyHedgehogsStampSet #HappyHedgehogs #25StampaversaryForSusan

Playing with Lots of Pun

I’m a bit behind in my Paper Pumpkin kits but I got a chance recently to play with one. I pulled out the Lots of Pun Paper Pumpkin kit from December 2021 and made all the cards mostly as instructed but I had a few extra pieces when I was done. I created these cards with those extra pieces and I recreated the cards with current supplies that I have. What made me want to create more cards was the fun water color wash I created in the background. I touched my Granny Apple Green stamp pad to a clear block and used a water painter to create these fun backgrounds on Shimmery White cardstock. On most of them I stamped speckle images randomly, the Lots of Pun stamp set had a speckle image and for the two using current supplies only the speckle image is from the Color & Contour stamp set.

This first card was inspired by one on the Paper Pumpkin Facebook Live. For most of these, I’m using up some old supplies.

For the flower card, I’m using the Wonderful World Sale-a-bration stamp set and the image was colored using sponge daubers on the Stamparatus.

Finally, the last card is using the Happy Hedgehogs stamp set because it feels more playful than the flower did. The hedgehog was stamped using Early Espresso and then I used a water painter to smear the color around.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Lots of Pun Paper Pumpkin December 2021, Art Gallery, Color & Contour, Happy Hedgehogs, Wonderful World (Sale-a-bration)
Die Cutting & Embossing – Beautiful Shapes dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Timeworn Type 3D embossing folder
Punches – Banners pick-a-punch, Hedgehog Builder punch, 1 3/4″ circle punch (retired)
Ink – Early Espresso stamp pad, Granny Apple Green stamp pad, Highland Heather stamp pad
Paper – Basic White Thick cardstock, Granny Apple Green cardstock, Pool Party cardstock, Shimmery White cardstock, Vellum cardstock
Accents & Embellishments – Brushed Brass Butterflies, Elegant Faceted Gems, Pearlized Doilies (retired), Square Vellum Doilies (retired), Holiday Rhinestones Basic Jewels (retired)
Coloring Tools – Water Painters, Sponge Daubers
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals

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Gnome Birthday

There are loads of people in my family with July birthdays so I needed another card so out came the gnomes again. This is almost a one layer card, it could have been if I didn’t use the Stampin’ Blends to color in the images. I started by stamping the gnome then I created a mask to cover him before stamping the mushroom house. For the background, I masked both images before using ink and blending brushes to create the background. I die cut a piece of basic white cardstock with the rounded Basic Border and used it to mask off the areas I didn’t want to color. Then I stamped some grass and colored in the images.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Art Gallery, Happy Hedgehogs, Kindest Gnomes
Die Cutting & Embossing – Basic Borders dies
Ink – Balmy Blue stamp pad, Granny Apple Green stamp pad, Memento Tuxedo Black stamp pad
Paper – Basic White cardstock, Night of Navy cardstock
Coloring Tools – Balmy Blue Light, Bronze, Cherry Cobbler Dark, Crumb Cake Light & Dark, Ivory, Night of Navy Light & Dark, and Smoky Slate Light & Dark Stampin’ Blends; Blending Brushes
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #KindestGnomesStampinUp #KindestGnomesStampSet #KindestGnomes

Bookbinding Diagonal Easel Fold Card

Kristie created this Bookbinding Diagonal Easel Fold card for our last class. I love that she and I always choose different color combinations and that this time I went for a simple card and she had a fun fold.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Happy Hedgehogs
Die Cutting & Embossing – Potted Succulents dies, Stylish Shapes dies
Ink – Early Espresso stamp pad, Blackberry Bliss stamp pad
Paper – Design a Daydream Designer Series Paper, Petal Pink cardstock, Pool Party cardstock, Basic White thick cardstock, Daffodil Delight cardstock
Coloring Tools – Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends, Mint Macaron Stampin’ Blends, Blender pen
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals

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More Happy Hedgehogs

I think this may be the flattest card I’ve ever made. I pretty much used every stamp in the set for this scene and lots of markers to color it. I started by stamping all of the images (I chose not to overlap them so I didn’t have to create masks) then I used a blending brush and ink to create the sky and grass colors. After inking the background (over the stamped images), I used my Stampin’ Blends to quickly color them in. I don’t often use my Stampin’ Blends because I’m awful at shading but I decided just coloring them in is good enough.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Happy Hedgehogs
Ink – Balmy Blue stamp pad, Old Olive stamp pad, Memento Tuxedo Black stamp pad
Paper – Basic White cardstock, Basic White Thick cardstock
Coloring Tools – Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blends, Bronze Stampin’ Blend, Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends, Old Olive Stampin’ Blends, Real Red Stampin’ Blends, So Saffron Stampin’ Blends,
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #HappyHedgehogsStampinUp #HappyHedgehogsStampSet #HappyHedgehogs