Month: March 2023

Sea Turtle Card Class

Sea Turtle Stamp Set

Sea Turtle Card Class

Welcome to your Sea Turtle Card Class! This week, I am using the Sea Turtle Stamp Set by Stampin’ Up!. This stamp set is a stand alone item, as there are no dies or a punch to go with it.

But, there is a really cool feature to this one! The stamps in the Sea Turtle Stamp Set are Reversible Stamps. Wondering what that means?

These stamps are meant to work both on the front to get a detailed image, and flipped over to the back (or smooth side) to get a shadow image. It is really awesome to play with these, and you can check out my live demo where I did just that by clicking here.

Want to see another card class featuring critters? Check out last week’s class featuring the Easter Bunny Bundle.

The Sea Turtle Stamp Set

The Sea Turtle Stamp Set claims to have 8 stamps in it…and it does. But it also doubles in value because of the Reversible style, making it16 stamped images.

Reversible stamps are very similar to two-step stamping. However, instead of using 2 different stamps to create an image, you are able to use just one stamp, front and back!

The only downside to this feature is that you have to clean your stamp off between flipping it back and forth to use both sides. I find the Simply Shammy is the best way to do this! Make sure you have one (or two!) in your craft room.

Bigger Than Expected Stamps

While the front cover of the Sea Turtle Stamp Set shows smaller images of both the front and back of each stamp, inside the stamp case there is another story! When you flip this stamp set open, you may be surprised to see the real size of each stamp! I just love the big turtle!

Live Card Making Class On Monday

Every Monday at 8pm EST, I am live with your weekly card making class on my FaceBook page, The Maine Stamper. I create 3 beautiful cards and share tips and techniques along the way. This class serves as your tutorial when you receive your card kits in the mail and need to put them together.

Get Your Card Kits For Free

Yes, FREE. You will receive 2 each of 3 card designs (for a total of 6 card kits!) when you place an order of $35+ (before tax and shipping) in my online stamping store using Host Code N9CGDQQW thru March 31, 2023. I will mail the card kits on the Monday following the live class.

Want more details about what is in these kits? Check my blog post here for more info.

Get A Bonus Gift For FREE Too!

When you bump your order to $50 (before tax and shipping), I will send you the card kits AND a full pack of the Rustic Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots that I used on my sample cards, for FREE. These great embellishments will come in handy for lots of different projects you have going on.

Your Card Class From ME Awaits

I hope you enjoy the Sea Turtle Card Class with my FaceBook Live Event on Monday, March 27 at 8pm EST. Please join me to see how easy it is to put your card kits together. If you miss the live, catch the replay on FaceBook or my YouTube Channel, The Maine Stamper.

I look forward to getting your weekly card kits from Maine in the mail to you. And I know you will be looking forward to receiving them and creating gorgeous works of paper crafted art!

Easter Bunny Little Moments Card

Easter Bunny Card Class, Card 3

Easter Bunny Little Moments Card

We are on to the last card from my Weekly Card Class From ME, featuring the Easter Bunny Bundle by Stampin’ Up!. I have had so much fun creating sweet bunny cards this week and sharing them with you!

And perhaps this is the best card for last, it was certainly very popular with my crafty friends. Want to see another bunny card that features the color purple? Click here. I would love to know which card is your favorite!

Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather & Sahara Sand

Once again, I have paired purple and brown to great success. This time, I chose softer versions of each, to make my Easter Bunny Little Moments Card more serene. While the Gorgeous Grape pops with brightness, the complimentary colors of Highland Heather and Sahara Sand blend in so well.

The Tools of the Trade

You will notice that this card has a lot of very easy to cut rectangles and squares. And layers…my favorite!

So to break all of that up (and to give my bunny a spotlight feature), I chose a handful of items to give this card some depth and decor.

The bunny featured in this card is just 1 of 3 bunny images in the Easter Bunny Stamp Set. I stamped my bunny in Memento Black Ink and colored him in with an assortment of Stampin’ Blends. I shared my coloring tips in my cardmaking demo. See the video here.

Color Swap Easter Bunny Card

Every Wednesday, on my FaceBook Group Page, Positive PaperCrafters, I have a feature called ‘Who Wore It Better Wednesday’. And I take a card that I recently made and create the same recipe, but in different colors. Then, everyone gets to vote for their favorite, or who they think “wore it better”.

My Easter Bunny Little Moments Card is my Color Swap Card. And this time, my color choices were So Saffron, Smoky Slate and Basic Gray. I also changed my bunny’s color from brown to gray. If you look closely, you will see the other changes I made too!

Get Your Easter Bunny Card Class From ME

This Easter Bunny Little Moments Card is the last one in my featured class this week. If you would like to see the video from my online class, click this link. For more details on what is in this week’s class from Maine and how to get yours, click here.

I have enjoyed sharing cards from the Easter Bunny Card Class, as well as my bonus cards, during this week. Be sure to check back here or follow me, The Maine Stamper, on FaceBook, for more cardmaking inspiration and ideas. Another great card class is right around the corner!

Easter Bunny Friend Card

Easter Bunny Card Class, Card 2

Easter Bunny Friend Card

We are on to the next card from my Weekly Card Class From ME. And this week features the Easter Bunny Bundle by Stampin’ Up!. Even though the name of the stamp set is “Easter Bunny”, this card is not Easter themed! Instead, it is bunny themed.

No Easter Bunny Punch? No problem! While the Easter Bunny Punch remains on backorder, this card doesn’t even require the use of the punch. Instead, we are framing our bunny friend.

Want to see our first card that used the Easter Bunny Punch 3 times on 1 card? Click here.

Easter Bunny Hues of Happiness

This bright and cheerful card starts out with the color Melon Mambo. Now, that is one happy color!

And to make this Easter Bunny Friend Card even more gorgeous, I chose the Hues of Happiness DSP to use on it. This paper is full of colorful flower imagery. Most of the 12 x 12 sheets have a rainbow of color on them.

How to choose from all those colors? I got creative and cut a strip 12″ long to capture every color hue. Then, I cut that 12″ strip into 3 sections to use on my card front. Crafty and clever!

Easter Bunny Fabulous Frames

I chose the Fabulous Frames to showcase my bunny for this card from my Weekly Card Class From ME. These dies are in the Annual Catalog, but because they are a stand alone product (not part of a bundle) they are easy to miss.

When you die cut the frames, you will get both an outer frame and the inner section separately. This gives you lots of options! You can use them together, or die cut different colors like I did, and use them that way.

Colorful Easter Bunnies

One of my favorite ways to color stamped images is to use Stampin’ Blends. For this Easter Bunny Friend Card, I chose the gray color palette. I shared my best coloring tips during my live demonstration. You will find that video here.

Something else that make my bunny extra sweet is the addition of stamps from the Easter Bunny Stamp Set. Not only did I have room for the bunny in my chosen frame, I also added in some grass and a butterfly softly landing on my bunny’s upturned face.

Get Your Easter Bunny Card Class From ME

This Easter Bunny Friend Card is just one card in my featured class this week. If you would like to see the video from my online class, click this link. For more details on what is in this week’s class from Maine and how to get yours, click here.

I will be sharing more cards from the Easter Bunny Card Class, as well as my bonus cards, as this week goes on. Be sure to check back here or follow me, The Maine Stamper, on FaceBook, for more cardmaking inspiration and ideas.

Chocolate Easter Bunny Card

Easter Bunny Card Class, Card 1

Chocolate Easter Bunny Card

Spring is in the air and it is time to get ready for Easter. My Weekly Card Class From ME will help with that, by sharing ways to use the Easter Bunny Bundle, by Stampin’ Up!. Need more info on this class? Click here.

And with Easter on my mind, chocolate is not far behind.

I love chocolate. A lot. And so, I decided to take a fun spin on my first card and create a Chocolate Easter Bunny Card.

Chocolate Wrapped Rabbit

Easter Bunny Punch in use.

Since I am no stranger to chocolate, it made sense that I would need a foil wrapper for my bunny. I grabbed some aluminum foil for this job. The Easter Bunny Punch actually benefits from punching foil, I recommend punching this common kitchen product whenever your punch gets dull.

I also wanted a cute purple wrapper along with the foil liner for my chocolate bunny. Fresh Freesia is one of the sweetest purple tones! I had some retired Sale-A-Bration Designer Series Paper, Dainty Delight, that had the cutest polka dot pattern. So, I incorporated it into my Chocolate Easter Bunny Card!

When you use the Easter Bunny Punch without the coordinating stamp, you have the option to have your bunny face right or left. Sometimes you have to punch the “back” of your designer paper. Want to see how I put all these layers of bunny together? Check out my card class video here.

Elegant Borders Dies

Elegant Borders Dies.

With Stampin’ Up!’s new Online Exclusives products, there are a lot of great products to check out. Not to be missed are the Elegant Borders Dies. There are 4 amazing dies that will help you make gorgeous borders.

Of course I used one of them for my Chocolate Easter Bunny Card! I die cut White Cardstock to overlay against my purple print DSP. This way, the lacy details really show off their beauty!

Easter Bunny Stamp Set

While I relied on the Easter Bunny Punch for my Chocolate Easter Bunny focal point, I also got to do a little stamping using the Easter Bunny Stamp Set. I chose one of the sentiments from the stamp set and used it for some background stamping. To help me line up my words and keep them in the framework, I also used Masking Paper.

When I stamped the flower stamp, I linked 3 of the same image together in Memento Black Ink. Next, I used an assortment of Stampin’ Blends to do some quick coloring. The flowers add a nice touch to the top of this Chocolate Easter Bunny Card, don’t you think?

An Easter Treat For You

Just like the sentiment background says on the front of this card, there are treats here! While the Chocolate Easter Bunny on the outside implies a sweet treat, the inside of this card has a special gift card (or money) pocket within.

Get Your Easter Bunny Card Class From ME

This Chocolate Easter Bunny Card is just one card in my featured class this week. If you would like to see the video from my online class, click this link. For more details on what is in this week’s class from Maine and how to get yours, click here.

I will be sharing more cards from the Easter Bunny Card Class, as well as my bonus cards, as this week goes on. Be sure to check back here or follow me, The Maine Stamper, on FaceBook, for more cardmaking inspiration and ideas.

Easter Bunny Card Class

Easter Bunny Bundle

Your Weekly Card Class From ME

Welcome to your Easter Bunny Card Class! This week, I am using the Easter Bunny Bundle by Stampin’ Up!. This bundle is currently unavailable to purchase, because the Easter Bunny Punch is on backorder.

So why am I holding a weekly class based on product you can’t currently buy? First of all, it is the first day of spring. Bunnies seemed like the perfect subject.

And secondly, the Easter Bunny Bundle is making a come-back. It is scheduled to hop back in stock on May 15, which means it will also be a carry-over item from the January-April Mini Catalog into the new 2023-2024 Annual Catalog.

Sad we aren’t covering flowers this week? Check here to see my last class, which featured the Sentimental Park Bundle.

The Easter Bunny Stamp Set

The Easter Bunny Stamp Set is made up of 15 photopolymer stamps. But the best part about this stamp set really is the bunnies themselves. You get 3 of them, all in different adorable poses. One of the bunnies coordinates perfectly with the Easter Bunny Punch.

The Easter Bunny Punch

While the Easter Bunny Punch remains on backorder, there will be a day in the future for its return. In the meantime, you can always fussy cut the bunny image if you prefer. The lines of the stamp are simple ones without too many odd angles.

During my live card class, I shared how you can use the bunny punch so that the bunny faces in different directions when punching cardstock or designer series paper. You just need to punch the back of your DSP to get a bunny who faces left. Otherwise, stamp and punch (or just punch) to get a bunny that faces the right.

Live Card Making Class On Monday

Every Monday at 8pm EST, I am live with your weekly card making class on my FaceBook page, The Maine Stamper. I create 3 beautiful cards and share tips and techniques along the way. This class serves as your tutorial when you receive your card kits in the mail and need to put them together.

Get Your Card Kits For Free

Yes, FREE. You will receive 2 each of 3 card designs (for a total of 6 card kits!) when you place an order of $35+ (before tax and shipping) in my online stamping store using Host Code N9CGDQQW thru March 24, 2023. I will mail the card kits on the Monday following the live class.

Want more details about what is in these kits? Check my blog post here for more info.

Get A Bonus Gift For FREE Too!

When you bump your order to $50 (before tax and shipping), I will send you the card kits AND a full pack of the Opaque Adhesive Backed Gems that I used on my sample cards, for FREE. These great embellishments come in White. Fresh Freesia, Melon Mambo and Gorgeous Grape.

Your Card Class From ME Awaits

I hope you enjoy the Easter Bunny Card Class with my FaceBook Live Event on Monday, March 20 at 8pm EST. Please join me to see how easy it is to put your card kits together. If you miss the live, catch the replay on FaceBook or my YouTube Channel, The Maine Stamper.

I look forward to getting your weekly card kits from Maine in the mail to you. And I know you will be looking forward to receiving them and creating gorgeous works of paper crafted art!