USING UP DESIGNER PAPER #1

As I mentioned last week, I am taking a break from making cards for a while.  I have so many right now and I have another "craft" calling my name.  In the meantime, I will be posting pictures of the cards I made up using this designer series paper (sorry I can't remember the name of it).  If you have questions, please leave a comment and I will respond.

I have two knitting machines that have had no attention for two years.  Only one is set up but I am going to concentrate on making stocking hats for the homeless and baby stocking hats for Birthright which is what I did two years ago but when Covid hit, my life changed.  Once I get a lot of the yarn used up, I will be selling the machines.  So far I have made 20 stocking hats and around 2 dozen baby  hats (which includes the 4 that I have done in the last few days).

Here is a picture of my knitting machine with one of the hats in process.

It takes approximately 45 minutes to get one hat completed with all of the steps on the machine but then it has to be sewn up by hand......not my favorite part but I can do it while watching TV.  I'll post pictures of the hats later on when I have more finished.

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HAND-PENNED DSP

I think this card is pretty easy to figure out how to make but I wanted to end the week with this card.

Next week, I will begin showing cards that I made using up dsp from one of the retired Stampin' Up! paper packages. All of the cards will be Night of Navy and White.

Right now I have SO MANY cards made up that I need to take a break from making more......even though I have SO MANY dies and stamps that I am really dying to use.  For the next few days or more, I am turning to another craft project.  I have two knitting machines.  Only one is set up and has not been used since the Summer/Fall of 2018.  I was making stocking hats for a homeless shelter and "baby" sized hats for Birthright.  I'm not sure why, but when Covid hit, I stopped using the knitter and hadn't gotten back to using the machine..  A few days ago I decided that I needed to get back to it!  I have a lot of yarn on cones for the machine.  I'm concentrating on using up a great deal of the yarn so that I can then sell the machines, accessories and books.

On a really good day I can knit 2 adult hats in the morning and 2 in the afternoon.  If everything goes right they can be knitted in 45 minutes each but then they need to be stitched up.  Truthfully, I wish I knew of someone who would sew them up for me.  I have also learned NOT to make any that are mostly black......very hard to stitch up!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  You will still be seeing cards here and I might even post a picture of some of the hats eventually.

FINISHED A CARD FROM CARD CLASS

The end of August, I posted this card but hadn't finished it and wasn't sure what I wanted to use in the light colored area.  I simply added the sentiment and called it "finished."

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STAMPIN' UP! - Hand-Penned dsp and stamps

This was my third card this week that was based on a video I had watched on YouTube.  The square on the front was matted with Crumb Cake and narrow strips f the dsp were added above and below the square.  The floral design was stamped, colored and die cut to place on the white layer.

The picture shows a vertical strip of the paper along the right side of the picture.  That strip is actually on the inside edge of the card.

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STAMPIN' UP! - Beauty of the Earth dsp

 Once again I used the beautiful papers from the dsp paper pack.  It makes such a great card for Autumn. The coordinating die for the tree and leaves made it really easy.

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STAMPIN' UP! - Beauty of the Earth dsp

This was a super easy card!   I had watched a YouTube video for it and since I had the paper and stamps, I knew it was one I'd make too.

A 4" x 5 1/4" piece of the dsp was added to a Misty Moonlight card base. I stamped the tree three times using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  The sentiment was added using Misty Moonlight ink.

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TRICK OR TREAT

October 1st!!!  Soon the little gremlins will be knocking on our door so I thought I'd start off the month with a Halloween card.  My friends and I made 140 of these (so far) to distribute to 3 different facilities for the staff members to sign and hand out to residents.  I had a lot of Halloween Washi tape and decided to use a bunch of it.  There are three different combinations that we used.  This is just one of them.  

The white layer is 2 3/4" x 5".  Before we got together I wrapped all of the pieces with the tapes.  I wanted to make sure I had enough tape to do all of the pieces.  These were mounted on to black card stock that I had left over from Lasting Impressions.   All that remained was to do the stamping outside and inside and add it to the white card base.

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