Monthly Archives: April 2020

Happy Happy Hawwmp Day!!  And this is a SPECIAL Hawwmp Day, indeed!!

My friend Angie McKenzie asked me if I’d like to join her fun new Blog Hop group called the Around the World Wednesday Blog Hop.  The idea is that – regardless of where in the WORLD a hopper is – all the blogs will be live at the exact same time!  How.  Fun.  Is.  That??

Of course, I said yes!  And this is the FIRST of our monthly blog hops!  Whoo-hoo!  We’ve got hoppers from Austria to Australia….Japan to New Zealand!  I hope you’ll sit down and spend a little time with us – regardless of where you’re at in the world – I know you’re going to see some awesome projects!

Now – each month we’ll have a theme for the hop – this one is All Things Crafty – Must Haves For Your Creativity!  Which is kind of wide open.  So…I decided to keep it simple and go with things/styles I couldn’t live without.  If you know me at all – you know Dimensionals would be on that list!  And my reverse tweezers.  And…collage cards.  I pulled all that together and used the Positive Thoughts stamp set along with a little help from the new Ornate Thanks stamp set and Ornate Layers Dies.  And – sorry – I also used the not-available-right-now-but-will-be-back-in-the-next-Annual-Catalog Nature’s Thoughts die set.  Take a look-see!

The idea for this one came from a card that we made at Sandra Hernandez’s Spring STAMPede last month…

I love that card – it is SO right in my wheelhouse – and I just notched it up a level or two!

To begin, I cut an Ornate Layers frame from a piece of Crumb Cake.  Then I used some re-positionable adhesive – these are little dots on a tape runner – to adhere the frame over a Crumb Cake panel.

I used my Stamparatus to stamp the Positive Thoughts leaves (in Mossy Meadow and stamped-off-once Mossy Meadow), the flower (in Blackberry Bliss), the butterfly (in Night of Navy) and the little fluer-de-do (in Crumb Cake) all over the two panels.  Here’s how – I stamped an image with both pieces in place – then lifted the frame off – stamped the image again in the exact same place (thanks to the Stamparatus) – replaced the frame – moved the stamp – and repeated.  That eliminated the “gap” that you get when you stamp onto two layers!

Next, I ran the bottom panel thru the die cutting/embossing machine in the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder.  Then I matted the panel on Night of Navy.

I popped the frame onto the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals – making sure to line up all the images!

On another piece of Crumb Cake card stock, I stamped the sentiment from Positive Thoughts in Blackberry Bliss.  Then I cut it with a label die in the Stitched So Sweetly Die set.  I added a stamped-off-once Mossy Meadow leaf and a stamped-off-once Blackberry Bliss flower and popped it onto the card front with more Dimensionals.

I stamped the butterfly in Night of Navy on Crumb Cake and cut it with the die from Nature’s Thoughts.  If you have this die set from when it was available as part of the Coordination Product Release – that’s awesome!  If not – you’ll be able to get it again when the new 2020-2021 Annual Catalog comes out in June!

I adhered the butterfly with a Stampin’ Dimensional onto the card front – letting it overlap the sentiment.  With the Nature’s Thoughts dies, I cut two of the larger leaves in Mossy Meadow and adhered them to the bottom right corner of the sentiment with Liquid Glue.

Using those reverse tweezers, I tied a Linen Thread double-loop bow and adhered it over the die-cut leaves with a Glue Dot.  Then I added a few Night of Navy Holiday Rhinestone Basic jewels and the card front was done!

On the inside, I used Ornate Thanks and stamped a large sentiment in Blackberry Bliss on a Very Vanilla panel.  The smaller sentiment is in Night of Navy.  I added some leaves (in stamped-off-once Mossy Meadow), a couple of flowers (in stamped-off-once Blackberry Bliss) and some full-strength Night of Navy butterflies.

I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to a Night of Navy mat and into my Crumb Cake card base, adhered the card front with more Liquid Glue – and the card was done!

My very Vanilla Medium Envelope got more Positive Thoughts leaves, flowers and butterflies on the front…

…and another leaf on the envelope flap.

Et Voila!  I love this Positive Thoughts stamp set so much – and hope the fact that the Nature’s Thoughts dies are carrying over into the Annual Catalog menas that the stamp set is, too! 🙂  And – Ornate Thanks….how useful can one stamp set be?!?  I think this card is going to go to the Stamp-N-Storage Bee a Blessing Card Drive (you can read about that down below!) and this stamp set was perfectly perfect for the job.  I hope you like!

Now that you’ve seen my card, take a minute to hop thru all our projects today.  As I said earlier – we’ve got folks from across the globe…

If you click on the Next Blog button, you’ll go right to Shell Anderson’e page.  Or – you can click on the names below to go direct to all the blogs!

Angela Meiritz-Reid  – NZ
Tatiana Tobin – AU
Rochelle Laird-Smith – AU
Cheryll Miller – AU
Satomi Wellard – JA
Melissa Gifford – AU
Danielle Kassing – NL
Manuela Geiswinkler – AT
Ximena Morales – DE
Aurélie Fabre – FR
Mikaela Titheridge – UK
Tina Zinck – CA
Annette Ball – CA
Angie McKenzie – US
Mary Deatherage – US – YOU ARE HERE!
Shel Anderson – CA
Chris Smith – US
Anne Marie Hile – US
Brenda Nelson – CA
Tricia Butts – US
Elaine de Montmorency – CA
Sharon Burkert – US
Teri West – US
Cheryl Hamilton – US

Have fun on the Hop!!

TTFN

M

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Let’s spread some kindness and joy! Send us your encouragement cards and thank you cards and we’ll send them to those in need. This will include health workers and medical staff on the front-lines caring for patients, and senior living facilities.

Don’t forget to write a special note in your card! This is also a great project if you have kids home from school.

Mail Cards To:

Michelle Donahe
Stamp-n-Storage
150 Michigan Street SE
Hutchinson, MN 55350

Please Note: Only send your cards with a special message, envelopes are not required.

Stamp-n-Storage will gather cards and send in bulk to locations across the U.S. Follow us on Facebook for updates on the Bee A Blessing Card Drive!

*Please note:
The United States Postal Service said there’s currently no evidence COVID-19 is being spread through the mail, pointing to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and the Surgeon General.

SNS has set up a Facebook page to promote this card drive.  You can find it here:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/652305522277932/