Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for August 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes. This month we are featuring projects using our favorite Stampin’ Up! cutting tools. There are so many wonderful punches, framelits and edgelits available that help make papercrafting more detailed and fun! We hope to provide you with lots of ideas and that you enjoy our creations.
You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below. The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.
We have so many great punches, thinlits, framelits, and edgelits it’s difficult to choose just one! This card is a diagonal easel-style card on a base of Whisper White cardstock; a design inspired by a homemade card I received last week from my mother.
To create this card, I used paper from the Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper pack along with Rich Razzleberry cardstock. Don’t let this card fool you! It was quick and easy to make. For the sentiment and shaker, I used the You’re So Sweet and Mini Treat Bag Thinlits. For the butterfly embelishment, I used the Watercolor Wings stamp sets along with the Butterflies thinlits, using Rich Razzellberry, Sweet Sugarplum and Blushing Bride Classic Ink Pads. For the shaker material I used Clear Mica Flakes, which I am pleased to share will be returning in the new Holiday catalog (a little sneak peek, for you).
When you open this card, it folds into an easel as shown in the picture below.
The Rich Razzleberry sentiment on the inside of the card and the outline around the sentiment are from the Rose Wonder stamp set and the frame was cut from the Rose Garden Thinlits. If you don’t have the Rose Wonder stamp set, I encourage you to add it to your collection of card-making supplies; this set has many great sentiments in beautiful fonts.
Well, what do you think of today’s “Cut It Up!” card? Please leave me some feedback. If you liked this card, wait until you see the alternate versions I created using this same design to show off some of our other SU! Designer Series Papers. Follow my blog by clicking on the Follow Me Now button to the right, so you don’t miss out on my future posts. Hope you’ll visit again soon.
Thanks for visiting today. To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month’s Pals Blog Hop!
Blog Hop Line-up:
- Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
- Rae Harper Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
- Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
- Jeanie Stark at Just Stampin’
- Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
- Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
- Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
- Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
- Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
- Lynn Tague at Beyond Beaches & Blessings
- Brian King at Stamp with Brian
- Amy Hoptay at Craft Carnivore
- Debra Simonis at Deb’s Stampin’ Grounds
- Jackie Diediker at Stampin Jackie
- Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
- Karen Zaring Browning at Stamp With Me KZB
- Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
- Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
- Pam Dotts at Clearly Southern Stampin’
- Susan Itell at Simple Stampin’
- Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
- Becky Volpp at Inkblossomwithbecky
- Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
- Sherrie Gross at Stampin’ Sunshine
Supplies used for making this card:
Beyond Beaches & Blessings 
What a stunner! Love everything about this.
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Thank you so much! Watch for my post of a couple alternate versions later this week.
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Beautiful card Lymn!
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Thanks, Beth!
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What a cool card! Love your shaker element and the easel. A very inspiring card!
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Glad this inspires you! Thanks for participating in the Blog Hop today!
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I love the fold on this card!!!! Can’t wait to try it! THanks so much for sharing!
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Hi Jeanie, I let scoring and cutting instructions in comment section of my post this morning. Thanks for leaving feedback!
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Great looking card!! I don’t think I’ve seen this particular type of easel card, lovely. Will have to add this to my “to do” list. Thanks for great inspiration ideas.
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Thrilled you find it inspiring! Enjoy creating your version! You’ll have to share it with me when it’s done. Thanks, Karen!
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Beautiful card when closed and FANTASTIC when open. Love it!
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Thanks for the feedback, Rae!
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Love your card. At first look, it looks like a straight forward pretty but traditional card. Then on opening it, it becomes a butterfly from a cocoon. I have seen these designs before, but have never made one. Now I’ll have to try it. I’ve signed up for your blog to get your alternate color combos of this design and other creations you make. Glad I found you. TFS
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Glad you found my blog as well! It’s been great having you stop by and I’ve enjoyed your feedback!
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FANTASTIC… I love the card design & your color combos!
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Thank you, Karen!
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I love making this type of fun fold card and your choice of papers and images are absolutely gorgeous. Great card!
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Such a sweet card, Lynn! I love that you combined a shaker card and an easel-style card into a fun fold card!
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Thanks for your feedback and for stopping by, Pam! I thought combining the two would be fun and that much more special for the recipient, too!
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Lynn, this card is amazing!! I can’t stop looking at it, you’ve got so many wonderful details! Thank you for your inspiration!
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You’ll have to pin to your Pinterest board if you have one. Glad you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to stop back and see the other two versions. Thanks, Peggy!
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Love this easel card! Beautiful colors and a nice surprise with the shaker element too. Great blog hop project!!
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Thanks, Katy! Hope you’ll check out the other two versions.
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Love all your versions of this easel card. Do you have the directions to recreate this style? It’s a perfect fun fold idea to show my Hostess club. Thanks in advance.
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You can find instructions in this post. Thanks, Heidi! Enjoy!
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