Notes From Patience

  Using Spotlighting Technique with Stampin'Up! Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper Today I want to show you the card I made Using Spotlighting Technique with Stampin'Up! Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper . When I spotted this paper in the catalog, It was perfect to color! The traditional technique uses a well defined area to "spotlight" using a circle pattern, but I just used a less defined "spot".  I chose the grouping of flowers and sprigs to color with the 2022-2024 In Color Blends for the focal point. Now a bit closer.  It is not perfectly colored and it just shows that you do not have to be perfect to make a wonderfully beautiful card. Notice the shading of the color on the flowers---that's all accomplished with the designer paper.  After coloring the selected image--I decided to include the small cluster of flowers on the right side with different colors.    This gorgeous set of papers offers you so many choices and each one is totally

Hello and Welcome Back.  Today I needed a card to send some Cheer and I had the perfect stamp set in mind.  I chose to use our gorgeous new 2022-2024 In Colors and the Bottled Happiness stamp set.  The Vintage Bottle punch also has shaker domes that can be used to make a shaker card.  I plan to try this soon. Colors used in this project are: Basic White   Tahitian Tide   Orchid Oasis   Starry Sky   Parakeet Party   Sweet Sorbet To recreate the In Color Bottled Happiness card, you will need: Tahitian Tide card base – 8-1/2” by 5-1/2” scored and folded at 4-1/4” Orchid Oasis card – 4-3/4” by 3-1/2” first layer Basic White card – 4-1/2” by 3-1/4” for stamped front Basic White card – 5 ½” by 3 ¾” for the inside Scrap Basic White card stock to stamp and punch bottles Linen thread Vintage Bottle Punch Teacup Dies (heart & tag)  Cracker & Treat box dies (sentiment label)  Inks are Sweet Sorbet, Starry Sky, Parakeet Party & Tahitian Tide  Sweet Sorbet, Orchid Oasis and Starry Sky S

Shop OR Join When you join Stampin’ UP!, you need to purchase a Starter Kit to join the Stampin’ UP! family The Stampin’ Up! Starter Kit includes $125 in product Of Your Choice, business supplies AND the 4 products shown below all included for only $99 + tax Enjoy the 2022-2024 In Color Cardstock assortment pack, the 6×6 Designer Paper stack, all 5 of the new In Color Ink Pads, AND a brand new pack of grid paper featuring the 5 In Colors!  WOW!! Click to  read more   //  click to  join   //    email  me with questions. Shop Online Anytime  and Earn  FREE STAMPS SHOP and SAVE:  Clearance Rack Join my Notables Team of demonstrators –  click for info See Calendar of Events:  https://tinyurl.com/2p9xxhah Shop the Clearance Rack:  https://tinyurl.com/yc6yaeru Sign up for Newsletter:    https://tinyurl.com/y5xd8752 Join    me on Facebook:   https://tinyurl.com/y5zcvr47 Follow me on Instagram:   https://instagram.com/notesfrompatience/ Shop 24/7:  https://tinyurl.com/y6nckr6a Follow Me on You

  Stampin’ Up! Notes Of Cheer Card Kit If you haven’t heard, Stampin’ Up! has a line of all-inclusive card kits!  They’ve currently have over 12 kits  Kit Collection  and they’re awesome!  This kit is the  Notes Of Cheer Card Kit  and it’s available while supplies last and that means, if you love it, order soon! This kit creates nine cards (six A2 cards and three butterfly shaped cards) with decorated coordinating envelopes and it’s super fast to put together!  It took me less than 45 minutes.   The Kit Collection kits all arrive packaged in this awesome box so that the contents are protected.  The box gives you a great way to store your completed cards in until you’re ready to send them! The kits all include the adhesives needed to put them together, so these would be great for someone new to crafting who doesn’t have a bunch of supplies or for the seasoned crafter that is short on time!   The card kits are neatly packaged inside the box and ready to be put together!  This kit did not

Biggest Wish Birthday Card Idea Biggest Wish Stamp set carried over to the 2022-23 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog, and I am so very happy about this!.  This has been a GO TO birthday card stamp and thank you card stamp set.  Here are just a couple of examples.  I sat down to make 3 different cards for birthday to send out this next week.  They are not that different from each other, yet they are not the same either.    I combined several different color combos here to create a cute, sweet, quick and easy birthday card idea that is easy to duplicate. Here you will se that I put the following colors together.  Fresh Freesia & Gorgeous Grape.  Pale Papaya & Calypso Coral.  Flirty Flamingo & Polished Pink! I stamped directly on Basic White paper.  I used two different Die sets to create different looks.  Deckled Rectangle Dies and Scalloped Contours Die.  They are so easy to use and add wonder detail to a simple card.  I also used Iridesent Rhinestones Basic Jewels for that po