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TODAY IS MONDAY & IT’S TIME TO SHARE A MEMORY KEEPING IDEA

Mondays are for memories and memory keeping. I haven’t chosen photos for this layout yet, but I do have some ideas.

My layout today features the Gumball Greetings Bundle, along with some of the Sweet Talk 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper.

The base layer is Highland Heather. I cut a 4-1/2″ strip of this DSP design and centred it on the base layer.

Then I added two Basic White photo matts – one is for a 6″x 4″ photo and the other is for a 4″x 4″ photo.

The title for this layout may be the last time I use my favourite Playful Alphabet Dies. Adding Adhesive Sheets to the back of the cardstock makes it so easy to secure the title to the page.

I stamped and die cut several large and small gumball machines. One large machine and three smaller ones were added to the first page.

The second page is close to being a mirror image.

This page has the same base layer, a 4-1/2″ strip of DSP and two Basic White photo matts.

I added a second layer of coordinating DSP measuring 9-1/2″x 4-1/2″.

Finally, I added the remaining gumball machines.

Now I just need to find some gorgeous photos of my daughters or nieces to place on the matt layers.

I love the Gumball Greetings Bundle. It is so much fun. It would work well with the Your Biggest Fan Collection.

The Gumball Greetings Bundle and the Sweet Talk DSP worked so well together. Another reason I love creating with Stampin’ Up!® products is that coordination across product bundles and collections is endless.

Tomorrow is Technique Tuesday and I will sharing some ideas using layering and a new product.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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STEPPING UP THE STAMPING THIS SUNDAY

As promised I have two stepped up gumball machine cards to share today.

This card was stepped up with some more colouring and the addition of the Gumball Machine Shaker Dome filled with Frosted Beads Assortment.

The turning mechanism to feed the 5 cent piece into the machine was die cut from a piece of Crushed Curry cardstock. If I could find my Round & Square Brads, I would have used one to attach the turner. Instead I used a Matte Black Dot.

For the final stepped up version, I stamped the gumball machine and then die cut the layers for the machine in Pool Party, Granny Apple Green and Silver Foil.

For the shaker dome, I cut out the place the dome would go. I filled the dome with some of the Frosted Beads Assortment and secured a piece of Window Sheet across the back. Then I took the DSP covered dome cut leftover and carefully positioned it behind the Window Sheet to align the stripes. Inside the card, I covered the lefthand side with a panel of Basic White cardstock that is slightly smaller than the card front.

Finally, I tied a double bow using some silver trim from the Simply Elegant Trim pack.

Tomorrow is my Memories on Monday day. Now to think of a way to use this bundle for scrapbooking and to find some photos that will suit it. Hmmmmm.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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HELLO, IT’S SATURDAY & TIME FOR SOME #simplestamping

This week I have chosen the Gumball Greetings Bundle to feature for my schedule of projects.

My pre-order, from the upcoming 2022 – 2023 Annual Catalogue, arrived yesterday afternoon! I’ll try to do an unboxing Facebook Live over the weekend to give you a bit of a sneak peek.

Both boxes weighed a total of 35 kilograms – thank goodness we have a trolley in our apartment building.

Okay – let’s see some #simplestamping projects using stamps, ink and cardstock.

The gumball machine is made up of three seperate images. Fortunately, the stamps are photopolymer. This means that it is easy to see exactly where you are stamping and each image can be aligned accurately.

I used the Tuxedo Black Memento and Flirty Flamingo inks to stamp the images for this super simple cards.

For this card I simply added the Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Write Marker to colour some of the areas of the gumball machine.

For the next card, I added some Designer Series Paper and dies.

The striped paper is from the Pattern Party DSP.

After stamping the gumball machine elements, I used the Gumball Machine Dies to cut each of them. Then I connected them using Stampin’ Dimensionals to have it pop up off the card front.

The sentiment was stamped on a small piece of Basic White cardstock.

Tomorrow I will share two stepped up versions of this card with you.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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