Oh Holly Night – Live with Michele

Published on August 23, 2023September 23, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Last night on ‘Live with Michele’ I created this Fun Fold – Faux Step Card, using the ‘O Holy Night Suite’. This suite you will find in the Sept – Dec Mini Catalogue by Stampin’ Up!®.

I saw this card created by Mary Deatherage, Mary used the Trucking Along Bundle to create her fun card. Which you can see HERE. Mary has great diagrams on the scoring lines, other wise you will see on my attached video, below.

O Holy Night is a BIG suite of products, for this card I have only used half of it. For me it really depicts what Christmas is all about with the Nativity scene depicting the birth of Jesus.

The Designer Series Paper, O Holy Night, has 3 sheets of scenes depicting desert, towns and night sky. They are 12 x 12″ (30 x 30cm), great for both cards and scapbooking. The only thing is you need to plan out what sections you want to use on your card and cut wisely. With my card below I used half a sheet, which left me with a few off cuts I will try to use on other projects.

O Holy Night Suite by Stampin' Up! from the 2023 Sept - Dec Mini Catalogue. This is a Faux Side Step Card

Measurements Used…

These measurements may have changed from original, I’m sorry about that. Went to fix a small error and lost the lot, so had to rewrite these. Sorry for any inconvenience.

	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Night of Navy	5 ½” x 8”, score along long edge @ 1”, 2”, 5”	14.9 x 20cm, score along long edge @2.5, 5,12.5cm
Card Base Front	DSP	⅝ x 5¼”	2.2 x 14.6cm
Card Base Back	DSP	2⅝ x 5¼”	7.2 x 14.6cm
Card Front	Night of Navy	3 x 6”, scored at 4¼”	8.5 x 15.5cm, score at 10.5cm
Card Front	DSP	2⅝ x 4⅛”	8.2 x 10.2cm
Sentiment	Very Vanilla	2½ x 2½”	6 x 6cm
Back Panel	Very Vanilla	2⅝ x 5¼”	7.2 x 14.6cm
Strip	DSP	½ x 5¼”	1.3 x 14.6cm
Nativity Scene & Camel	Basic Black	4¼ x 3¼”	8.5 x 10.5

How to…

Cut all cardstock and score
Designer Series Paper – All pieces are cut from a half sheet of DSP 15 x 30cm (6 x 12″), you need to plan out were you will be cutting first. Cut each piece in order as below, see video.
1. Cut the Card Base Strip DSP first – this is so you can cut in one strip.
2. Card Front Panel – Decide how much ground to sky you want to use. Cut your depth 10.2cm (4⅛”) and then work out the width for star placement on your card front.
3. Remaining DSP- cut Card Base and writing panel strip
Stamp sentiment onto Very Vanilla using Night of Navy Ink Pad and die cut using stitched square from Stylish Shapes
Adhere the Card Base DSP strip to the small mountain fold and Card Base DSP to larger mountain fold
Adhere the Card Front DSP to Card Front.
Add glue to the back of the card front…ONLY on the bottom 2cm ( 1″), height of the small mountain.
Fold card and adhere the back section of the Card Front to the back of the Card Base, again only approx 1cm (½”)
Add sentiment to card base.
Attach Nativity Scene with mini dimensionals
Writing panel
- Attach DSP strip along the bottom
- Adhere the camel, being careful on the amount of glue used.
- Attach to the back of the Card Base.
Add Wink of Stella to star.

Back View - O Holy Night Suite by Stampin' Up! from the 2023 Sept - Dec Mini Catalogue. This is a Faux Side Step Card

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Product List

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

Stylish Shapes Dies

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

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Colour & Contour – Live with Michele

Published on August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Today I’m taking part in the Just Add Ink ‘Clean & Simple’ Challenge and I am using Stampin’ Up!® Colour & Contour Stamps and Scalloped Contours Dies from the Annual Catalogue.

Just Add Ink #665

What is Clean & Simple?…Below is the definition by Just Add Ink, for some it’s just “Stamps, Paper, Ink”

What is “Clean & Simple”…Minimal accents and layers, clean colour pallets, nothing overly fussy…Basically the less is more concept!

Others say…there must be ‘White Space, Minimal layers, clean lines and shapes, few embellishments and they must be small, Patterned, Designer, textured, glittered and metallic paper to be kept to an absolute minimum’

Make sure you head over to Just Add Ink and check what the Design Team have created, make sure you also look at the other entries….better still create a project and add it to the challenge, have fun!

Colour & Contour

This card I used a very simple design to keep in with the ‘Clean & Simple’ theme….I have a Card Base and a Card front, both in white. The Card Front I added texture by using a mask from the New Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks (available in September to Order) with Smoky Slate.

The card front is adhere to the card base with multi purpose glue, making the two layers as one. You could very easily make this card with out the card front.

The flower image from Colours & Contours is a very simple design but has a beautiful flow to it with the curves lines of the flowers and stem. It is a two step stamp where there is a second stamp to fill in the petals of the flower heads and bud. I used Memento Tuxedo Black to stamp my image and Bubble Bath to colour the petals and bud.

I finished of this card with just 3 Classic Matt Dots.

Measurements Used…

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Product List

Color & Contour Photopolymer Stamp Set

Scalloped Contours Dies

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad

Bubble Bath Classic Stampin' Pad

Classic Matte Dots

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Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks – Live with Michele

Published on August 9, 2023August 9, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

The wonderful thing about being a Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrator is that you get to play with product before it’s released…Yesterday I received my box of products that I ordered – my Pre-Order.

In my video I go through some of these products, sharing why I purchased them. One of these products is the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks. This pack of masks has 7 masks in it, 3 stand alone masks and 4 that work together to create a simple card front. Each mask is numbered and has a notch above the number making it easy to line up the masks.

In the video I showed the first card I made with these masks, the card below was made with some extra details being….

Adding more than one colour on each mask
Adding texture or detail behind the flowers
Adding extra leaves to fill in some of the white space
Bring the flowers slightly closer

I also used 2 other new products

So Sincere Stamp set – 11 sentiment stamps
Deckled Circles Dies – 14 circle dies the largest being 14.6cm diameter

Measurements Used…

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Trucking Along Bundle – Live with Michele

Published on August 6, 2023August 5, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

On Friday I created this fun card with the Trucking Along Bundle… creating scene’s like this is fun because your telling a story.

Trucking Along stamp set is a 2 step stamp – Outline and Fill. Besides the truck there are stamps that give you different options of what to put inside the truck tray, trees, ground, also sentiments….including ‘Farm Fresh’ – you can stamp on the truck door.

Also with the Trucking Along Building Punch you can punch out the stamped truck or build your truck from the punched out pieces – ‘Punch Art’

Measurements Used…

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Layering Leaves & Bough Punch – Live with Michele

Published on August 5, 2023August 5, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Tuesday Night on my ‘Live with Michele’, we rolled the dice to decide what type of card I would make.

In-Colors
Standard Card
Sympathy
Die-Cut
Two-step Stamping

I decided to use the Layering Leaves as I had only received in my latest order. The Layering Leaves was created to go with the Bough Punch that we have had in our Catalogue for a while. Layering Leaves is also a Two- Step Stamp, the leaves was stamped with full strength ink and the fill stamped was stamped off so the colour would be lighter.

Measurements Used…

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Waves of Inspiration – Live with Michele

Published on July 28, 2023July 28, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Today on my ‘Live’ I created a card using the Stampin’ Up!® Waves of Inspiration Stamp and Waves Dies. I haven’t used this stamp for a long time so it was fun to go back and revisit it.

I used this card as my entry for the Global Design Project #404

Global Design Project #404 | Case the Designer

This week, we are CASEing a card by Susan Wong, our talented team member from New Zealand.
CASE = Copy And Selectively Edit
Remember that when you CASE a project you can take what you like from the design and make it your own. It might be the stamp set – the colors, the layout, the theme, the images – whatever you like that has inspired you to make a card of your own.

Why don’t you go to Global Design Project site and check out the other projects completed by the Design Team …. also the other entries.

How to make this card….

Mask – Rub the back of the mask along stitching lines to close up holes, so that the colour doesn’t bleed through.
Masked of area coloured with Starry Sky and Azure Afternoon Stampin’ Pads and Blending Brushes
Water Splater – use a paint brush to get smaller splaters
Embossing folder – used reverse side as card front
Pelican – Stamped with Pebble Path and stamped off. Why? New ink pad which is very juicy, by removing some of the ink you get a clearer image.
Watercolour Pencils Used – Basic Black, Basic Gray, Basic White, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Balmy Blue and Coastal Cabana
Watercolour pencils – use Blender Colour Lifter to blend colours, this allows you to use Basic White cardstock and Stampin’ Pads (water base ink)
Pebble Path Jute – Separate strands and bring back together to reduce bulk and give a fuller look.

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Crumb Cake	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	DSP	4 x 3”	10 x 8.5cm
Card Front	Basic White	3 ⅞ x 5 ⅛”	7.5 x 14.9cm
Stamping	Basic White	4 ¼ x 5½”	10.5 x 14.9cm
Card Insert	Basic White	4 x 5¼”	10 x 14.1cm
Card Insert Strip	DSP	4 x ½”	1.5 x 10cm

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Cheerful Daisies – Live with Michele

Published on July 27, 2023July 27, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

For my ‘Live’ on Tuesday night I used the Cheerful Daisies Bundle by Stampin’ Up!® to create my card & to help decide the style/products I would used we rolled the DICE to leave it up too chance.

Brights
Slim Line
Embossed
Bling
For You

Brights – Berry Burst, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight

Slim Line – Long Narrow Card

Emboss – I used two embossing techniques

1 – Emboss Resist Technique – this is where you stamp the image with VersaMark ink and emboss with embossing powder. I used white embossing powder and with a Blending Brush, brushed Berry Burst Ink over the flower petals. The ink will resist the embossed areas and can be wiped away with a soft cloth or paper towel.

2 – Splatters 3D Embossing Folder, folder not long enough for card length, run through twice from each end. The area where the two ends of folder meets is not noticeable and covered with flowers.

Bling – Matt Black Dots, Deleted…Alternative Classic Matte Dots

For You – Sentimental Park Stamps along with Stylish Shapes Dies

Card Insert – I used to decorate inside left over flowers 1 large Daisy, I smaller Daisy and 1 green leaf

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Berry Burst	8½ x 8”, score @ 4″	20 x 21cm, score @ 10cm
Card Mat	Basic White	8 x 3½”	20 x 9cm
Card Front	Berry Burst	7¾ x 3¼	19.5 x 8.5cm
Card Insert	Basic White	8 x 3½”	20 x 9cm
Sentiment	Basic White	2 x 2″ cut Die 1½” square (size)	5 x 5cm
Flowers	Basic White	1/2 sheet of cardstock , Stamped 2 Large Daisies, 3 small Daisies, 3 half Daisies
Leaves	Granny Apple Green	Approx ¼ sheet of cardstock to die 5 Leaves
Leaves	Basic White	3 Leaves cut from large flower die – left over scraps

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Paper Florist Dies – Live with Michele

Published on July 21, 2023July 21, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Today on my ‘Live’ I created a card using the Paper Florist Dies and Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper. This was a fun card to make, keeping it simple using the Daisy Dies, leaves and bud dies.

To give the background some interest I used the Lemon Lolly Strips from the Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper. This also fulfilled the requirements for the Global Design Project Theme Challenge #403. It’s been a while since I’ve entered the GDP challenge and it fills good to be back.

My other inspiration for this card was the sentiment – ‘Hey, there!’. Cleaning my desk I found the Charming Sentiments stamps, which is a bunch of sentiments for any occasion.

Global Design Project #403 | Theme challenge

This week’s Global Design Project theme challenge is stripes. What a fun challenge!

Why don’t you go to Global Design Project site and check out the other projects completed by the Design Team …. also the other entries.

How to make this card…

Using Sm Blending Brush, brush Old Olive ink lightly onto the Soft Sea Foam leaves.
Using Sm. Blending Brush, brush Bubble Bath ink onto flower petal and buds.

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Bubble Bath	8½ x 5½”, score @ 4¼”	14.9 x 29.9cm, score @ 10.5cm
Card Mat	Basic White	3¾ x 5″	8 x 13.4cm
Card Front	DSP	3½ x 4¾”	8.5 x 12.9cm
Sentiment	Basic White	2 x 2″	5 x 5cm
Leaves, stems	Soft Sea Foam, Old Olive
Flowers	Basic White
Card Insert	Basic White	4 x 5¼”	10 x 14.4cm

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Zoo Crew – Live with Michele

Published on July 17, 2023July 17, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Today my card I have created to give to friend that has just become a first time Grandmother.

I thought the Lama from the Zoo Crew Suite was a must for this card, with her sitting there busy knitting away….maybe creating something fun for a new baby.

I stamped the Lama with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and coloured it using Stampin’ Up! Blends.

When layering the Designer series Paper I felt it needed a bit of a lift, the two pieces of DSP with a white background was just too similar and needed to be a little different. A good way to change this with out completely changing the paper is to colour it. There are many ways you can colour your DSP and for this card I used the Lemon Lolly Blends. By using the Brush Nib end of your blend, colour the DSP – making sure you use the side of the brush not the point.

How to make this card…

If you get lost for ideas on card layouts, check out places like Pinterest. Here you can find lots of ideas by searching ‘Card Templates’ or ‘Card Sketches’. CardMaps and MojoSketch on Pinterest. I have a board on my Pinterest site called ‘Card Templates’ were I have saved card ideas. Sometimes I use these ideas when I’m feeling a bit lost for an idea or need some inspiration. When you do use an idea that not your own and share on Social Media (etc), then give credit to Where or Who inspired you.

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Boho Blue	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	Basic White	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Front	Boho Blue	3⅞ x 5⅛”	9.7 x 14.1cm
DSP		1¼ x 4¼”	3 x 11cm
DSP		¾ x 4″	2 x 11cm
DSP		2 x 2	5 x 5cm
Circle 2½”	Vellum	3 x 3″	7.5 x 7.5cm
Sentiment	basic White	2 x 4″ (scrap)	5 x 10cm 9Scrap)

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Zoo Crew -Live with Michele

Published on June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

How cute is this card!

I love it when an idea works out better than I thought it would and it was so simple. Using the Designer Series Paper, Zoo Crew images be the ‘Hero’ of the card. There are 6 images, one on each sheet of DSP that match with a die that you can easily die cut out. Change the colours to coordinate with the image and you can create 6 cards all different. By fussy cutting you can add more animals and more cards.

PDF – Zoo Crew Tutorial

I have written up this tutorial for you to use. There is a link for you to down load.

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