Friday, May 9, 2025

SKETCH-Y AWESOME TURTLES

As promised on my Learning with Friends Video yesterday, this is the post with all the information on the card we made.

This card was made using my Fairless Stampin' Flair Sketch #3.

Sketch #3 has 4 basic elements - two rectangles and two elements that can be any shape you like.  For my Sketch-Y Turtle card, I used Around it All dies to create my two additional elements.


The Basic White layer on the card front was embossed with the Turtle Textures embossing folder, but the layer does not need to be embossed.  It's your choice.  You can even eliminate the layer completely.

Remember, the greatest benefit of sketches is to provide inspiration.  They do not need to be followed exactly!

The turtle on today's card was colored with a unique color variety of Stampin' Blends--probably not colors you would choose for a turtle, but I wanted my turtle to coordinate with the Balmy Blue theme of the card base.  


To learn how I colored him and to see other card ideas based on this sketch watch my Template Time Learning with Friends video.  To save time I only colored a portion of the turtle in the video, but it will show you how I used unusual colors for my turtle.


I left the inside of the card very clean and sentiment free.


I simply used a strip of the same DSP as I used on the card front.  By not adding a sentiment I increase the potential purposes that I can use this card for later.

After a slow start and some uncertainty with this Turtle-Y Cute Suite, I'm now Turtle-Y in love with it.  However, I strongly recommend that if you only purchase the stamp set and die bundle rather than the full suite that you also get the Turtle-Y Cute Designer Series Paper (DSP).  It is not only adorable, but it is a great source of inspiration for color selection and ideas for your projects.

Use this link to download a free tutorial for today's card.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

IT'S A TURTLE BIRTHDAY PARTY

The majority of today's card is made with the Turtle-Y Cute Designer Series Paper (DSP).  There is very little stamping on this card.


The card is a Center Surprise Pop Out Fun Fold.  Remove the belly band and the surprise panel pops out to wish you a happy birthday.


These turtles are ready for a birthday party.  One baked a cake and the other is bringing the music.  The third turtle has already had too much celebrating and is ready for a nap on the belly band.


Maybe it was more difficult than I thought to hold the card closed!  😀

It may be a little difficult to see, but the Circle on the Belly Band was first cut with a Stylish Shapes die and then embossed with the Turtle Textures embossing folder.  This is a great embossing folder than can definitely be used with more than just turtles!

If you would like to make this Center Surprise Pop Out Fun Fold, it is really much easier than it looks.  Use this link to download a tutorial with all the dimensions and step-by-step directions.  You can get your pieces ready and follow along with the Learning With Friends Video to see how easy it really is.


All the images except for the banjo were either die cut with coordinating dies or fussy cut from the DSP.

Even the banjo was made with die cuts from 3 different cardstock colors.  No stamping required!

Only the sentiments were stamped.  I heat embossed both the sentiment on the Pop Out and the belly band with White embossing powder.


Since there is no room to write a message on the Pop Out, I added panels on the back of the card for a hand written note.


I did stamp the cake and the ice cream and color them with Stampin' Blends, but there was definitely very little stamping on this card.

What do you think?  Is this a step (or two) up from Monday's card?

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Monday, May 5, 2025

INTRODUCTING TURTLE-Y CUTE

This week I am featuring the Turtle-Y Cute Suite from the new 2025-2026 Annual Catalog that goes LIVE tomorrow, May 6.  When I attended OnStage (my first ever) in March, there was one evening called "Afterhours".  If we wanted to participate in that extra event, we could choose from two different bundles.  The Turtle-Y Awesome Bundle was one of the choices and was the one I selected.  Today, I thought I would share the two designs that Stampin' Up! created for us to make.

These two cards are SIP cards (Stamps, Ink & Paper).  The only supplies we had been told to bring with a Trimmer and Paper Snips.  Stampin' Up! provided everything else.

This was the first card we made.  The card base was made from the new Cloud Cover In-Color.  The background layer was made with Garden Green Two-Tone cardstock.  The darker side for the top and the bottom from the lighter shade.

We were provided ink pads and a Blender Pen, so our turtles were colored with a Blender Pen and ink squeezed on the ink pad cover.  Blender Pens are great for some applications, but, in my opinion, they are not the best choice for coloring large areas.  I was really missing my Stampin' Blends!

The second card was made from another new 2025 - 2027 In-Color, Strawberry Slush.  Strawberry Slush is actually a returning color from a few years ago.

For this card I was forced to go a bit rouge because I didn't read the instructions very well.  I thought I knew what to do just by looking at the pictures.  Well, I didn't because once I stamped the bottom turtle, I couldn't cut the cardstock the way I was supposed to.  The intent was that we cut the white cardstock into three pieces and then stamp the turtles on each piece.  The three pieces would have been laid on the card front slightly separated into a 3-piece grid pattern


If I had cut the cardstock like it was supposed to have been cut, I would have cut my turtle in half!  😕  So, rather than cutting the white cardstock, I cut a few strips of Strawberry Slush and made my grid a different way.

I also decided to use a few of the "accessories" from the stamp set and add them to the card front.

If I'm totally honest, I was not very satisfied with my cards.  I came home and didn't look at these turtles again for a while.  I wasn't sure I was going to like this bundle.

But then when my preorder came -- which included the rest of the products in the suite -- I pulled it out again and started playing with the Designer Series Paper (DSP).  The DSP became my inspiration.  The rest of this week, you are going to see  what a little DSP can do!

I decided to show you my first two disappointing cards to remind you -- even if you make a purchase you initially regret -- don't give up on it!  

Since OnStage, I have been having a lot of fun making cards with this suite.  You'll see additional cards this week that I am not embarrassed to share with you so I hope you come back and see how cute these turtles really can be!

Since these cards were designed by Stampin' Up! I did not create tutorials.  However, there will be Free Tutorials  and Videos for the rest of the cards this week.

New Products we used were the following:

  • Turtle-Y Awesome Stamp Set:  Item #
  • Cloud Cover  8-1/2" x 11" Cardstock:  Item #165622
  • Strawberry Slush 8-1/2" x 11" Cardstock:  Item #165286
  • Strawberry Slush Classic Stampin' Pad:  Item #165286
  • 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls:  Item #165266
  • Timid Tiger Classic Stampin' Pad:  Item #165278
  • Darling Duckling Classic Stampin' Pad:  Item #165277

The above products will be available May 6, 2025

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