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