Rick Adkins

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Creative Stampers October Blog Hop - Coming Home

Hello and welcome to this months Creative Stampers Blog Hop. This month we are featuring the Trimming the Town Suite in from the August-December 2020 Mini Catalog. This is a cute little suite and when you purchase of the Coming Home Stamp Set or the Coming Home Bundle Stampin' Up! is donating a portion of the sales to charity. Here's a look at my alternative card for my October 2020 Creative Stampers Tutorial Project.

Creative Stampers October 2020 Blog Hop - Coming Home - Rick Adkins

I created a card today using the Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper (which by the way is currently part of the October Designer Series Paper Sale going on now! Click here for details.) I wanted to showcase just how easy this designer series paper is to create cards with. So, my card has no stamping whatsoever. I know right! Everything that you see on my card today came from the Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper except I did use a few of the Trimming the Town embellishments.

I started out by cutting my card base (Thick Whisper White) to 4 1/4" x 11" and scored it at 5 1/2". I folded it in half and then cut two mats from Misty Moonlight Cardstock. One 4" x 5 1/4" and one that was 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". I cut the designer series paper to 3 3/4" x 5" and 3" x 4". My little sentiment strips come from the Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper also I just found the sentiment strips that I wanted from one of the sheets and cut them out and attached them to the card front.

I can see how some people may be intimidated by this pack of DSP and may not think to use it. But it actually is quite versatile. You have a couple sheets that you can create scene cards with, and some that are just patterns. I used both on my card today. When I started cutting my paper this image with the church just spoke to me. So, I wanted to showcase it on my card today. Each month the Creative Stampers Tutorial Bundle Group creates a set of tutorials around a suite of products, stamp set, Bundle or theme that we give away to our customers that make any size purchase each month. We also sale the tutorial bundle for $22.00 US to anyone that would like to purchase it.

Thanks for dropping by today and hopping along with us for this month's blog hop. Below you will find the blog roll with all the hoppers. You will also find the Stampin' Up! Shopping list below that if you need any of the products you have seen today. I highly suggest you grab a pack or two of this designer series paper while it's on sale and other products from the Trimming the Town Suite. The Trimming the Town Suite captures the feel of a Hometown Christmas with it's whimsical imagery and coordinating trimmings. Customize a scene; it's easy to make each one unique. Here's a sneak peek of my project in this month's tutorial bundle, I can not show you the actual project but I can give you a little peek at what I created.

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Happy Stampin'

Rick Adkins

Out with the Old and In with the New!

New Year New Customer Rewards Program. It's a new Stampin' Up! Year and it's time to update a few things and I have started with my Customer Loyalty Program. You can read all about the new program by clicking here. You will also find the new Crafty Rewards Tracker Sheet there as well. All past rewards points have now expired for previous years with this new program.

If you place any size order with me during the month of October you will receive the October Creative Stampers Tutorial Bundle from me as a little thank you. This month's tutorial bundle is a Mega Tutorial Bundle featuring projects for both Fall & Halloween. There are 20 tutorials featured this month. The Creative Stampers Tutorial Bundle can either be earned for FREE with any size order or Can be purchased for $22 from me. As a bonus for ordering during the month of October you will also get the Coming Home Tutorial Bundle as well.

The month of October Stampin' Up! has a Designer Series Paper Sale going on on 15 select Designer Series Papers. Each pack of paper is 15% off so it's a perfect time to stock up. You can find out all the details and my ordering special for this sale by clicking here. This wonderful sale ends on October 31, 2020 so don't miss out!

Stampin' Up! Shopping List:

Trimming The Town Designer Series Paper - 153491

Sale: $9.78

Price: $11.50

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock - 140272

Price: $8.25

Misty Moonlight 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 153081

Price: $8.75

Multipurpose Liquid Glue - 110755

Price: $4.00

All The Trimmings Embellishments - 153540

Price: $8.00

Paper Trimmer - 152392

Price: $25.00

Stampin' Dimensionals - 104430

Price: $4.00

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

The Spot Creative Challenge #131 - CASE the Designer Challenge

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you my card for this week's Creative Challenge over at the Spot. This weeks challenge is a CASE the Designer Challenge and we are CASEing the work of Sara Levin the Artful Inker. To play along with this challenge you just have to pick one of her projects and CASE it. Case means to copy and share everything or Copy and selectively edit. I picked a beautiful Fall themed card that Sara had design to CASE today. I will share the card that was my inspiration and the challenge image just a little later in this post. But first here is the card that I cam up with.

Below you will find the inspiration that I picked for my card today as well as this week's challenge image. You can click on the challenge image to play along with us this week. I also linked to Sara's blog post for the card that I picked to CASE.

Sara created this beautiful card using the Forever Fern Stamp Set and some wonderful Fall colors as well as a few other Fall themed product from both the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog and the August-December Mini Catalog. On my version of Sara's lovely Fall card I used the Love of Leaves Stamp Set as my background images in the same colors that she used. I used Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Pretty Peacock, Mint Macaron, Crumb Cake, and Mossy Meadow inks the same way that Sara did.

I did change the format of my card to a portrait style card. I stamped the leaves in the colors listed above minus Crumb Cake, and Mint Macaron going around my 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Whisper White Cardstock. I keep the Gold Hoop Embellishments that Sara used on her card also and two of the pumpkins that she watercolored and die cut using the Autumn Essentials Dies but instead of using the large pumpkin from Harvest Hellos I choice to add the large leaf image from the Gather Together Stamp Set instead. I attached the Gold Hoop Embellishments with Mini Glue Dots before adding the pumpkins and the leaf that I watercolored using Mint Macaron Crumb Cake and Pretty Peacock Inks with my Water Papers with Stampin' Dimensionals.

I matted the card front onto a Pretty Peacock mat cut at 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" to my Crumb Cake card base.. I then heat embossed my hello sentiment in Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder onto a strip of Pretty Peacock Cardstock the same as Sara. I also added the Metallic Ribbon from the Basket Weave and Metallic Ribbon Combo Pack under the heat embossed sentiment. I hope that you will play along with us this week over at the Spot. I love Sara's card and I think you will have fun CASEing her this week as well. If you need any of the supplies that I used today you can find them im my online store by clicking on the item in the shopping list below.

Happy Stampin'

Rick Adkins