Hello and welcome to our November Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop using Plaid as our inspiration! There are so many options for plaid in both the Holiday and the Annual catalogues.

For my pocket page I created my own plaid using the Buffalo Check background stamp and a Stampin' Write Marker. Stamp the Buffalo Check first and then use a ruler to finish off the look of the plaid. I started with a piece of Whisper White card stock 5" x 4" and cut it up for both pockets so that the design would be the same.

The pockets were finished off with a bit of silver foil and Crumb Cake card stock die cut using the Frosted Frames die set.

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Thank you for stopping by! Click the Next button below to be taken to Libby's blog to see her wonderful project.
~ Amanda
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Happy Halloween! It's a very frightful here today with heavy rain and strong winds. We will be handing out Play-doh and Twizzlers to about 100 kids tonight, if they decide to brave the weather! This scrapbook page is my take on a sketch provided by Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine last month (above photo).

One of the Facebook groups I belong to - The Joy of Sets - held a Halloween card swap! I knew the Monster Mash designer series paper would be perfect for this project. And it made it easier to create this card. The spooky lady was circle die cut and put onto a scalloped bronze foil sheet cut out. Both were cut using the Layering Circle dies. The bronze stars were a perfect finishing touch!

This Wicked card was created by Petra, my swap partner from the same Facebook group. Love how she used the eyes in the tree!

Thank you for stopping by! ~ Amanda

This card is so fun and easy to make! The snowmen are already decorated and ready to attach to a card! You can find these designs in the Let It Snow specialty designer series paper. The designer series paper was cut at 2-3/4" in height and then at 5-1/2" wide. You can get 8 cards from each 12"x12" sheet for a total of 16 cards using this snowman design.

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~ Amanda

It was fun to create this card on World Card Making Day a few weeks ago.

Watch the Facebook Live below and join me on Thu Oct 17th at 7pm EDT for my next one:

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Thank you for stopping by! ~ Amanda

I used a pocket page layout from September's Crop Kingston all-day crop for inspiration to create this card. You can find inspiration anywhere! But I like sharing alternatives to my pocket pages as it shows that even if someone might not like making pocket pages they can still use my projects for inspiration. This card is a CASE of the one 4" x 6" pocket made to fit a 4.25" x 5.5" Early Espresso card base.

Watch the Facebook Live below and join me on Thu Oct 17th at 7pm EDT for my next one:

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Thank you for stopping by!
~ Amanda

I think my favourite stamp set in the Holiday Catalogue is this one - the Nature's Beauty stamp set. It doesn't have any sentiments but the images work for any occasion! The best part is $4 from every sale will go towards the Center for Addiction and Mental Health here in Canada. I love that Stampin' Up! is being a difference maker and we can help contribute to mental health by purchasing the stamp set. If you missed seeing it - check out page 63 of the Holiday Catalogue.

My card today was created for a team swap. Many different dies were used to create this card - the Stitched Labels dies, Stitched Shapes dies, and the Frosted Bouquet dies.

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~ Amanda

One of my nephews love penguins! I don't own this set and had over looked it in the Holiday Catalogue. That is until I was at a recent Crop Kingston all day crop that I run with Lisa Henderson. She was using the Playful Penguins stamp set for a swap card. Upon seeing the stamp set I knew it would be perfect for my nephew's birthday! His mom let me know recently that he jumped for joy when he received this card in the mail - both for it having a penguin on it and the birthday money inside! Fills my heart to hear how much he enjoyed receiving his card.

The penguin was stamped in Black Memento ink and then fussy cut. The bow tie was stamped using the new Golden Glitz Delicata Metallic Ink. The metallic ink does take a little longer to dry before you can cut out the image but I love the shine, the perfect touch for this cool penguin!

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~ Amanda 

I've created these mini curvy boxes using the Monster Bash designer series paper. It uses a 5.25" x 5.25" piece of designer series paper so you can make 4 boxes from one 12"x12" sheet.

The window on these boxes was cut out using the teardrop shape die that comes with the Mini Curvy Keepsake dies. Use a piece of Window Sheet to cover the hole from the inside before putting the box together. The Lace Trim was coloured using a Basic Black Dark Stampin' Blend and adhered with glue dots once the box was assembled. I wrote the boo greeting using the Basic Black blend.

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Thank you for stopping by today, click the Next button below to visit June Olsen's blog.
~ Amanda

The Brightly Gleaming Specialty designer series paper is beautiful with the Copper foil accents. This card has very little stamping and takes advantage of the beautiful designer series paper and the Gleaming Ornaments punch pack. The Stitched Rectangle dies were used to cut out the Whisper White main panel - the stitching gives this panel a little pop.

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~ Amanda

A lovely day spent crafting this past Saturday! I completed a few projects that were on my to-do list. And yes, I make a to-do list for crop day or I either forget what I was supposed to make or forget something at home!

Today's card is one I made on Thursday evening during my Facebook live. I saw the idea of using one of the splatters from the Artisan Textures stamp set from a card created by Rochelle Laird-Smith. Although I couldn't remember which splatter it was! I had 3 different splatters on blocks by the time I finally realized that it was the largest splatter that would get the effect I wanted. The splatters are stamped off onto my grid paper before stamping over the birds. This way it lightens up the ink to allow the bird image to pop. The next step was to cut out the image using the Nested Label dies and then to assemble the card. To embellish the card a bit I added 3 pearls and some Clear Wink of Stella to the birdies. The sparkle doesn't show well in the picture above but its there!

Watch the Facebook Live below and join me on Thu Oct 3rd at 7pm EDT for my next one:

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Thank you for stopping by!
~ Amanda

Swap cards are fun to make! The hardest part is choosing which product from the Holiday Catalogue I was going to use. Decided that for this swap I would do a fall theme as my other swap card was Christmas.  Did you n now the label on each pack of designer series paper lists the colours? I chose Pretty Peacock, Crushed Curry and Early Espresso from the colours listed.

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~ Amanda

This pocket page uses the same pack of designer series paper as my last pocket page I shared on Sep 17 - the First Frost Specialty designer series paper but it has a different look and feel to it. This designer series paper is very versatile and I love the silver foil. Although if you watch me colouring in the snowflakes in the video you can tell that bright lights and silver foil make it hard to keep the colour between the lines!

This was one of the cards we made at this month's Cards & Chocolate class. Although this particular card is sympathy you could change the sentiment for any occasion! I may make a few more of this card for Christmas! For card classes I try to show different sentiments but then have a few different ones on hand so that class attendees can choose which would work best for their own cards. The Here's A Card stamp set has come wonderful sentiments for year-round use!

After embossing the Crumb Cake layer with the Woodlands embossing folder we sponged the raised part using a Sponge Dauber and Crumb Cake Ink. We also sponged around the edge of the oval to give it some dimension as well. The Copper Foil piece was glued into the oval and then popped up on dimensionals. A piece of Linen Thread tied in a bow completed the card.

I would love to see you at the next Cards & Chocolate class on Wednesday October 9th. Check out the details on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/446114642920993/

List of products used in today's project:
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Thank you for stopping by!
~ Amanda

These random photos taken in Manitoba, where we lived for a few years, are the perfect match for the Feels Like Frost specialty designer series paper. One side of the designer series paper has photographic images on one side and designs with silver foil on the other.

This moose is so adorable! Our team had an in-person holiday card swap at the team meeting on Sunday and I created this card for the swap. Now I have 7 cards for inspiration from team members that I will share them on social media soon.

For this card I decided to use the Let It Snow Specialty Designer Series Paper. The picture above doesn't do the paper justice! It has sparkle on one side of some of the designs and coordinates with the Snowman Season stamp set and the Let It Snow Suite. But the sheet I used was perfect to give the feel of snow on the ground or falling snow. Both the moose filled image and the tree are stamped off first to give a lighter look to both. And if you saw my post last month about needing some Real Red ribbon it was for this card! I didn't have any matching ribbon so I used the Real Red Dark Blend to colour the Scalloped Lace Trim before adhering it to my card.

Supplies
Stamps: Merry Moose
Colours: Real Red, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Sahara Sand
Accessories: Moose Punch, Let It Snow Specialty Designer Series Paper, Pine Wood Plank embossing folder, Real Red Dark Stampin' Blend, Stitched Labels die, Scalloped Lace Trim, Red rhinestones Basic Jewels, Vellum cardstock

~ Amanda

The Nature's Beauty stamp set has some very realistic stamps that are perfect for any occasion!
Today's card is one we created at the Cards & Chocolate class in August. Since the Nature's Beauty stamp set does not have any sentiments I paired it with the Here's a Card stamp set from the Annual Catalogue but you could use any sentiment with these images. After stamping the deer we used the light and dark versions of the Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends to make the deer stand out.

Supplies
Stamps: Nature's Beauty, Here's a Card
Colours: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake  Very Vanilla
Accessories: Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends, Layering Ovals dies, Pine wood Plank embossing folder, Subtle Embossing Folder, Stampin' Dimensionals

~ Amanda

Welcome to our September Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop and our theme of Bundles! So much excitement with the new 2019 Holiday catalogue products being available this week. There are 25 new bundles in this new catalogue! And the best thing about bundles is the 10% savings when you purchase the items together using one item number! I decided to create a pocket page layout using the Perfectly Plaid bundle - a photopolymer stamp set and punch.

Under the sea with an octopus! When creating the watercoloured background for this card all I could think of was the Little Mermaid and Sebastien singing Under the Sea! Is it in your head yet like it is mine?

The background panel was created easily by using watercolour paper, the water stamp from Under the Sea stamp set and an Aqua painter. Stamp the water stamp using Bermuda Bay, inked once but stamped twice on the top of the watercolour paper and repeat at the bottom. Right away use your Aqua Painter to smear the ink around. If you need more water, gently squeeze the Aqua Painter.

Supplies
Stamps: Sea of Textures
Colours: Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Smokey Slate
Accessories: Watercolor Paper, Under the Sea dies, Aqua Painter, Tailored Tag Punch

~ Amanda

I had fun sharing what was included in the Lots of Happy Card Kit and creating this beautiful card.

Below is a picture of what is included in this kit:
You may wish to have Blender Pens or an Aqua Painter to change the look of the watercolour pencils but they are not required to complete the Lots of Happy Card kit.

You can watch me show what is included in this kit and create one of the cards:

I will be back for my regular Thursday night Facebook lives starting September 12th over at www.Facebook.com/FromWhereIStamp

~ Amanda

Another card that makes me think of summer down by the beach! The coral and shells are stamped with Pool Party ink onto Pool Party cardstock. Then the seahorse is embossed in white. A nice simple but summer feelin' card!

Supplies
Stamps: Seaside Notions, Here's A Card
Colours: Soft Suede, Pool Party, Thick Whisper White
Accessories: Linen Thread, White Embossing Powder, Versamark, 5/8" Burlap Ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals

~ Amanda

 Join me for the next Cards & Chocolate evening event on Wednesday September 11. You will create a total of 8 cards. Cost is $20. Please RSVP by Sep 10th. Check out the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2378173045782130/



Are you a crafter looking for some time to get away to work on your projects? Join us Oct. 25-27th at the Four Points Sheraton in Kingston for our annual fall crafting retreat! Click the link for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/290602808288112/