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November 2023 Inspiration Challenge feat. Nathalie DeSousa!

Happy Sunday! Not much to let you know about this evening. If you watched last week’s live, you know the fun Live is going to be this Wednesday!! Mark your calendars, the Live crafting with me is on Wednesdays on the Facebook page Stamp the Fun Up at 7:30 pm EST. We smash out crafty smash and this week we are finishing our seasonal cards!!

Also, my Stampin’ Up! shop is temporarily down. I may re-instate it in December, or at the latest January, so stay tuned.

I am so excited!! I recently got the Canon brand Pixma Ts9521c crafting printer and tonight I printed my first photos!! I’ll be doing a You Tube this week showing how I finish the Halloween album (catch the past Live shows on Facebook to see how I made this album) with the photos I printed!! So excited to be printing my own photos again!! Make you subscribe to Stamp the Fun Up on YouTube and hit the notification bell, so you get notified as soon as this and other future videos go up!!!

That’s it for now!! I am exhausted…. this weekend was house chore weekend, and business chore weekend…. But I did get a few hours out with my girlfriends Saturday night and that was awesome!!! I hope you all had a tolerable weekend, lol, see you around social media!!

Yeay, it’s November crafty time!! This month’s inspiration photo just has all the fall feels…

My project this month is set on a 5 x 7″ cardstock base in Very Vanilla cardstock from Stampin’ Up!.

I used some good ol’ fashioned wood block stamps in my Stampin’ Up! ink pads to stamp around the area of the card base that will be exposed from shifting the layers to the bottom right. I will never get rid of my wood block stamps–still love them so much!!

I knew I wanted to use layers on this card, but I thought, layers don’t always have to be in the middle of the card. I absolutely love how setting these layers down into the lower right corner gives so much more structure to this card. The layers are also from Stampin’ Up!

Now, I try not to show retired Stampin’ Up! products, but when it comes to holiday crafting, I don’t hold back, because there are so many sets out there and it’s a shame, they retire every year. So, keep in mind, brand doesn’t matter, you can re-create this leaf design with any leave die-set. I, however, did use a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp and die set. So, to create the feel of falling and piled up leaves, I first chose cardstock and matching inks that recalled the colors from the inspiration photo. I then stamped and die-cut as many leaves as I could handle, because, even if I don’t use them all on this project, I can use them on another.

I really wanted to balance the shiny gold dots with leaves on this card, so I chose to run the pile of leaves alongside left of the layers and placed them so a bit of the dark orange layer showed. First, I laid down the solid leaves and used press and seal to help me keep them in place for glueing.

Once i removed the press and seal, I tucked in the cut-out smaller leaves to bulk up the pile of leaves. I loved this!!

With the leaves set, all that was left was to center the sentiment in coordinating dye ink on the right-side f the card face to give some finishing balance.

I hope you were inspired by this project! And I hope you join in the Inspiration Station Blog challenge this month! You can hit the blog here to check it out and all the other monthly projects:

https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/

Good luck on this month’s challenge, and I can’t wait to see you for December!

Hey crafty peeps! Happy Monday! I hope you’ve been following the crafty shenanigans of my weekly Facebook live and can’t wait to see how I finish up the Halloween disc-bound flip scrapbook. That was a fun project! If you missed it, head over to the Facebook page and catch up, all previous videos are up. You can get to the Facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/ScrappyEvie/

‘Tis the season! The Pinterest page has been stocked up with all kinds of inspiration for the upcoming holiday season. Great color palettes, smart new designs, great for decorating too, head over and check out the Winter 2023 folder:

Check out the sales going on with Altenew this week!

Stock up now at:

https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=888816&u=2976214&m=66850&urllink=&afftrack=

And check out what’s going on at Stampin’ Up!

So many great kits available if you are still a bit shy of what to get for your projects.

New designer series paper! They are amazing!!

While you’re shopping, check out how your purchases can give back!

Now is a great time to get started on your holiday shopping, whether it’s for yourself or someone else! You can shop through the link below:

https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2232332

Have fun shopping, and I’ll see you this Wednesday at 7:30 pm EST on the Facebook page–I have my holiday Stampin’ Up! goodies arriving!!!

Woo hoo!! Going to be finishing that cool Halloween flip book tonight!! Grab your scrap stash and join me over on the Facebook page Stamp The Fun Up tonight at 7:30 pm EST!!!

Just got to finally playing with last month’s Altenew Mini-Delight subscription set. There’s a new video up on the You Tube channel showing a super cool ink kissing technique using this set. It’s also my first official spliced and set to music You Tube video, so, show it some love 🙂

SHOP HERE: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=888816&u=2976214&m=66850&urllink=&afftrack=

Ok, stay tuned…. dropping a “golden” nugget from Altenew in a couple days, so check back soon. I’ll post any new retailer info on the 17th.

Also, I am proud to say I have been working and learning to make condensed videos with voiceovers!! So, stay tuned to the You Tube channel…. fingers crossed I can nail it this week, because I have a handful of super cool videos of techniques to share!!

Happy Sunday! Another weekend gone in a flash, and I hope you all took part in World Card Making Day in some form or another!! If you did any projects for this day, tag me on IG @scrapptstampthefunup, I’d love to see your projects! I did not have time to participate in the festivities on Saturday as we attended a family Oktoberfest party that was absolutely phenomenal!!

So, let’s get ready for a crafty week! I’m posting updates, promo’s sales info, etc… for Altenew, Tombow and Stampin’ Up!

ALTENEW WEEKLY SALE INFO

Shop via the link below 🙂

https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=888816&u=2976214&m=66850&urllink=&afftrack=

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT STAMPIN UP!

FREE SHIPPING on minimum orders of $75 US or $100 Canadian, online only.

STARTER KIT SPECIAL: choose 35% off the cost of the starter kit or 35% more product! (FYI, demonstrators get perks like pre-ordering specials, and right now until 11/07/2023 there are some sweet online exclusives for demonstrator pre-order!)

CLEARANCE RACK, don’t forget to peek into the Clearance Rack while you’re shopping!

Current Online Exclusive is all new Designer Series Paper! Check it out in the Online Exclusives area of the online store

Shop here:

https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2232332

TOMBOW USA is now offering workshops!

https://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=607503&m=67805&u=2976214

Head over to the Inspiration Station blog to follow along! https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/

Gah!!! This card was so fun to make!!! (tutorial photos are pending a technical error and will be up later today, fingers crossed, but in the meantime, I will still walk you through the steps to make this card).

This is a 5 x 7 pop up card. I cut a 5″ wide strip off of a sheet of 12″ purple cardstock and scored and folded it in half at 7″. This made a top folding easel card with one side at 7″ and the other side at 5″.

I then cut a 5 x 7″ panel from some purple Halloween cardstock that had a picture of a wrought iron fence on it.

Taking inspiration from, believe it or not, the white pegboard behind the people in the inspiration photo, I adhered some black on white polka dot cardstock to the “inside” of the card base on the 5 x 7″ side. I mean, it’s a Halloween card, so there has to be something unexpected lol.

I folded the 5″ length of the panel in half and glued that portion to the back of the Halloween cardstock.

This allows the decorative Halloween layer to lay flat, but also pop up because it’s not glued down completely to the top of the card base.

The cluster of pumpkins that acts as a brake for the pop-up is from an old 1960’s learning toy and it actually already had foam on the back.

I stamped the “HAPPY HALLOWEEN” on top of it with Stampin’ Up! ink in Blackberry Bliss. You can head over to the Stampin’ Up! store by clicking on “shopping links” at the top of this page–this color ink is my new gothic, spooky go-too color, it’s fabulous! It’s the new black as far as I’m concerned. The couple on the card are from Tim Holtz’s paper dolls. I used some Jack-o-lantern head stickers over their own faces. Pro tip: because the Jack-o-lantern faces are stickers and I didn’t want them sticking to everything-just the heads of the paper dolls, I used my static bag for embossing over the backs of them, after I had stuck them to the paper dolls. This takes down the sticky backs. The black cat was from the same sticker pack as the Jack-o-lantern faces.

The bats are stamped in Staz-On black ink, and they are just a super old wood block stamp I have. “night of fright” is also stamped with the Blackberry Bliss ink. The two sentiments on this card are from an old Stamper’s Anonymous stamp set.

I hope you like this card!! I love pop-ups!! If you are inspired to create your own pop-up card with this theme, don’t forget to tag me @scrappystampthefunup and leave me a comment here on the blog. I would love to see your creations!