"You Are Remarkable" Birthday Card PDF

Hi everyone. It's a beautiful day to learn how to create a PDF. There is still a lot to learn, but this is a good start. Enjoy my PDF.  I would love to see what you make using it. Enjoy! 

You Are Remarkable Birthday Card

Thinking of You Card

Today I am posting a card that I created late last night when I should have long been in bed. It's crazy how your mind picks the oddest time to throw creative images at you. No choice but to get crafty. Our Holiday Mini Catalog was just released and we have tons of new stuff to play with. I thought I needed to dig through some of my current product before I got distracted with all of the new goodies. 

For this card I used an image from our adorable "Tender Hearted" set and a verse from the "Simply Zinnia" stamp sets. Along with these two stamp sets, I chose the "Mediterranean Blooms" DSP and the "Soda Pop" paper collection from Close To My Heart. I used a variety of our Stampin Blends to color the stamped image. I also used our Deckled Rectangles Dies, the Stylish Shapes Dies, and Happy Little Things Dies for my paper layers. My three embellishments are from our Pecan Pie & Clear Ribboned Adhesive Backed Dots. 

Thank you for stopping by. If you have any questions or if I can help you, please let me know. 

cherylarbo.stampinup.net

Happy Scrappin! 

• A2 Side fold card base
• 3 1/2" x 4 7/8" Soda Pop #166475 layer
• (2) 1 1/2" x 4 1/4" Mediterranean Blooms #163287 layer
• 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" Basic White #159276 card stock
• 1/2" x 2 1/4" Basic White # 159276 card stock
• Stampin Up Tender Hearted #163744 
• Stampin Up Simply Zinnia #163472
• Pecan Pie & Clear Ribboned Adhesive Backed Dots #164204
• Deckled Rectangles Dies #159173
• Stylish Shapes Dies #159183
• Happy Little Things Dies #163709

I am so excited to finally sit down and play with our latest "Halloween Memories" Stampin Up collection. I used both the DSP (designer series paper) and the coordinating stamp set. I also added our Playful Ghosts stamp set along with the Stylish Shapes Dies and several of our Stampin Blends all on a layer of Gorgeous Grape. 

In May I transitioned to Stampin Up after being a Maker with Close To My Heart for almost thirteen years. These last four months have flown by. It has been a fun and exciting journey. I am looking forward to my first year with Stampin Up.

I hope you enjoy my card. 

Happy crafting!

Cheryl 

Stampin Up "Layers of Beauty" Stamps and Masks

Here it is, the middle of May and school is winding down for the year. We now have a granddaughter going into Kindergarten and a grandson to the second grade in August. For my Grands three wonderful teachers, I thought they would appreciate having a few pretty cards to send out to their friends and family.

When I bought Stampin Up's "Layer's of Beauty" stamp set and coordinating masks earlier this month, I thought they would make some beautiful cards for my Grands end of the year gift for their teachers. I thoroughly enjoyed making these. They look so detailed. Anyone would think it would take someone hours to color each card. Don't tell anyone, but it took just minutes to layer the ink colors using the masks. They actually did all of the work for me! I am very happy on how they turned out. I am new to Stampin Up and when I created these cards I did not have many colors of our ink pads so I was limited in my color choices. I decided to experiment using just one color of ink to color each flower. I ended up using Pool Party, Melon Mambo, Real Red, and Night of Navy inks. I used a very light pressure using the first mask, a more firm pressure for the second mask, and a full strength color for the third mask. It worked out perfect. I lucked up having both Soft Sea Foam and Granny Apple Green for the leaves using the fourth and fifth masks. I also used our Deckled Rectangles Dies to cut my card stock layers. In the end, I was very happy with my cards. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog. If you have any questions, please reach out to me. Here is a link for my Stampin Up website. 

Happy stampin! 

Cheryl 

Up Coming Blog Changes

Hi everyone. I hope you are doing great.  As most of you know, Close To My Heart is closing their doors. Because of this I signed up to be a Stampin Up demonstrator on May 1st. My intentions are to knock the dust off this poor old blog and get active here instead of everything being on Facebook. We will see how this works out. I am also currently starting the process of changing my blog from Blogspot to WordPress. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hoping all of my old posts found on here will easily transfer to my new blog once everything is completed. I just wanted to jump on here real quick and give you a heads up! 

While I am here, I wanted to post two quick and easy cards that I made using our so pretty Thoughtful Journey 6x6 DSP. It is available in our new May 2024-April 2025 annual catalog, but is now on the “low inventory” list. If this is on your wish list, I would advise you to order it before it goes on backorder. This collection has 48 sheets of beautiful designer papers. Along with the DSP, I used my favorite Deckled Rectangles Dies. I hope you like my cards. 

If you would like to look through the new catalog, here is a Stampin Up Catalog link for you. 

If I can be of assistance to you, please just let me know.  

Happy crafting!

Cheryl

   

Catalog Delivery Schedule

"As a measure to help minimize the effects of the ongoing supply chain difficulties, CTMH will be transitioning back to a three-month catalog schedule beginning with the July catalog release.

The upcoming May–June catalog will be the final two-month catalog before the change, giving us time to make the necessary adjustments. After that, the catalog releases will follow this schedule:

July/September, October/December, January/March and April/June"

What do you think ladies? I myself LOVE it! More time to use our products that we LOVE! This announcement has MADE MY DAY!

Let's Make A Christmas Card

It is almost mid November.... time to get thinking about making some Christmas Cards. I typically mail out around seventy five cards each year. My Mom always had her cards written out, addressed, stamped, and  ready to be mailed the day after Thanksgiving. I have desired to do this my whole adult life, but I think I only pulled it off once in my forty-five years of marriage, but I keep dreaming and trying. Never giving up. 

I knew the first minute I first saw this stamp set that I wanted to make it appear that the Angel was placing a beautiful star on top of a Christmas Tree. My card went together quickly....until I got to coloring the Angel. I think I colored the Angel four to five times in several different shades, but nothing clicked. When my daughter came over I asked her opinion on it and she suggested a gold gown. Initially I thought the gold was too much with the two gold glittery stars and a piece of gold foil used on the strip of designer papers, but in the end I went with it. I stamped the image on card stock and then paper pieced the Angel over a white base layer using the coordinating die. 

I am a Close To My Heart Maker. If I can be of service to you, please don't hesitate to contact me. Here is a link to my website. cherylarbo.closetomyheart.com

Happy Scrappin and card making!

Cheryl