Show and Tell with Michelle

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Paper Pumpkin July 2025

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Extraordinary Flora Card ~ Team Challenge

Here's another card for the Team Challenge Bingo I'm doing. This one is for the theme of Summer. When I think of Summer one of the things that comes to mind is flowers. I LOVE seeing flowers all over. Since I'm a terrible gardener I create my garden with my crafting supplies.

This Washi Tape is amazing!!! You can put it on white CS like I did here or put it on a variety of other bases. How about Vellum, Window Plastic, CS colors and the list keeps going! It all depends on the look you want for your project.

The embossing folder works well with this floral theme. I also inked the stamp set and stamped the edges of the card base. After that I die cut the flowers and placed them around the card front. The sentiment is popped up as are some of the flowers. I placed Rhinetones in the flower centers for a bit of sparkle.

Extraordinary Flora Bundle

The roll of Washi Tape is 3-1/4" wide by 10 yards long! The flowers are painted in sections that match the die from the bundle. One section has pink flowers and the other has purple flowers. Whatever flowers I don't use I put in a craft jar for future use.

Extraordinary Flora Washi Tape

What a fun stamp this is! It just ONE stamp with all these sentiments. You can stamp them all at once or isolate just the one you want. The die matches the stamp so you die cut all at once.

More Messages Bundle

What a fun bundle this embossing folder pair is! Two distinct looks in the patterns and they are so versatile! Trust me, you want this set!

Glass & Gardens Embossing Folder

A few more products used:

Cardstock: Basic White, Coastal Cabana, Bubble Bath
Ink: Coastal Cabana
Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Mini Stampin Dimensionals

I love the soft colors of this card. What do you think?

Michelle Locnar

Independent Stampin' Up ® Demonstrator

Images© Stampinup

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Dramatic Card for Team Challenge

Here is another card in our Team Bingo Challenge for June. I love our team challenges because they get met creating and sharing more often and in new ways. The more you use your supplies the more economical they become!

The other night as I was falling asleep I was thinking about this last Bingo challenge with the theme of using an Online Exclusives Set or Bundle. I love the Impressions Abloom Bundle and it came to mind to go dramatic with the colors. Secret Sea and Cloud Cover is what I settled on. The photo just doesn't do it justice at all. What looks more white is really the Cloud Cover which has more of a blue tint to it.

I embossed just the front of the card base with the Damask folder. This is a great embossing folder!

Next I stamp the detail image of the flowers on Secret Sea CS and die cut them with the coordinating dies.

The flower centers are in Cloud Cover stamped with the same ink for detail. I also die cut the tiny flowers to scatter around, too.

I die cut the oval from the Bundle and used it as a background to give some light and separation for the flowers and background.

After assembling the flowers I laid them out on the card front to see how it looked. Take your time to adjust and think about your design. I moved things around a bit before settling on this look. I popped up the large middle flower then glued the rest down. A few of the small flowers are also popped up, too.

I added some Rhinestones to flower centers and used my journal pen to details the flower centers. Sometimes it the tiniest details that really bring it all together!

Impressisons Abloom Bundle

Damask Designs Embossing Folder

The Take Your Pick Tool is a must have item in my opinion. What you see in the photo is what you get when you buy the tool. Two putty tips for picking up and placing gems, small pieces, etc. I used it for placing the flower centers, tiny flowers and gems. You also get a spatula type tip the has a pointer tip on it's other end. The tip with two different sized scoring tips. It's a great tool and you can buy other tips to use with it!

Take Your Pick Tool

A few more products I used:

Cardstock: Secret Sea, Cloud Cover
Ink: Secret Sea, Cloud Cover
Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Tools: Journal Pen, Stampin' Dimensionals, Fine Tip Glue

I hope you like this look and all the other cards I made for the Team Bingo Challenge. Come back often for more ideas.

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up® Demonstrator

Images© Stampinup

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Kintsugi Card ~ Team Challenge

Still working on the Team Challenge Bingo. This card is using a new embossing folder.

I chose to use the embossing folder from the Kintsugi Inspirations Suite. This beautiful suite has potential for amazing variety and versatility.

Do you know what Kintsugi means? It's a traditional Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer. The mended gold veins become a celebration of imperfection instead of hiding it. What a wonderful way to view life!

The design was embossed on dark cardstock then ink applied with a blending brush to make the pattern stand out a bit more. I added pieces of gold foil CS for the Kintsugi look. Y9u can also see a couple of flower clusters and gold gems. I love this look!

In this close-up you can see how the raised design picked up the ink. This highlights the different designs from the embossing folder. When using the blending brush I tapped it on the stamp pad then on some scrap paper. Start applying the ink off the cardstock and gently move in circles onto the cardstock. This helps prevent splotches of ink on your project.

Kintsugi Inspirations Suite

A few more products:

Cardstock: Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Gold Foil
Ink: Misty Moonlight
Stampin Blend: Flirty Flamingo
Drusy Embellishments
Blending Brush

What do you think? Do you love the Kintsugi style of design?

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up® Demonstrator

Images © Stampinup

#showandtellwithmichelle #stampinup #cardmaking #teamchallenge #kintsugi

Friday, June 13, 2025

Catalog Layout Pattern ~ Color Dare #656

I'm so far behind on my scrapbooking! I decided my next project HAD to be a layout. I also decided to use one of the sketches in our current annual catalog. The project I needed to work on is this Color Dare Challenge. So putting all this together is how I ended up with this layout!

For our Color Dare Challenge you must use all 3 colors shown in the graphic. See the graphic for the fine print rules. Created any paper project you like. If you combine more than one challenge be sure our colors fit the other challenge(s), too. Do not add any extra colors. When you're ready to join our challenge use the direct link below the graphic.

Following the design in the pattern I kept my use of our colors simple for the pattern papers. They are the boldest shade of the colors. I used 2nd generation stamping for the images to soften the look a bit and reduce all the white space.

Direct link to Color Dare #656

Pattern from page 28 of the 2025-2026 Annual Catalog

Layered Thoughts Stamp Set

Elements of Text Stamp Set

Season of Elegance DSP

Beautiful Bokeh DSP

A few more products I used:

Cardstock: White Willow
Ink: Pretty Peacock, Berry Burst, Calypso Coral
Circle Punches: 1-3/4", 2"
Adhesive-Backed Pearl Trio

Thanks for stopping by! I hope our Color Dare Challenge inspires you to create a project to share. We love seeing what you do with our colors!

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up® Demonstrator

#showandtellwithmichelle #scrapbooking #scrapbookpatterns #stampinup #colordarechallenge

Monday, June 9, 2025

Kintsugi Card ~ Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 633

Welcome to our Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! Every Monday we go live with a new sketch to inspire you. Our blog opens for entries on Wednesday. Use the sketch however you like. We just need to be able to see it in your project. Most of all, have fun!

This time I stayed true to the sketch as it worked really well with my idea. I got out our new Kintsugi products and got busy. The papers are beautiful as well as the images. There is so much you can do with this product line.

I kept it simple and used a piece of pattern paper for my background. The vase and flower we die cut from a piece of pattern paper. The only stamping I did was for the sentiment layer. I also stamped and colored the tiny flowers.

There are so many details but very little I had to do to create them!

Inspiring Imperfections Bundle

A few more products used:

Cardstock: Misty Moonlight, Petal Pink
Ink: Misty Moonlight
Stamp' N Write Markers: 2025-2027 In Colors (Cloud Cover)
Low Profile Dots
Stampin' Dimensionals

How does our sketch inspire you? Go ahead and give it a try. We can't wait to see your project!

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up® Demonstrator

#showandtellwithmichelle #cardmaking #kintsugi #atlanticheartssketchchallenge

Friday, June 6, 2025

Peaceful View ~ Color Dare #655

This card was made because I wanted to tryout the new Peaceful View stamp. It's one beautiful, large stamp that I know I'll be having fun with in many ways!

Today I paired it with a piece of DSP from the Thoughtful Journey pack. It makes a pretty sunset look, don't you think? It's as if you're looking out over a valley in the middle of a lovely sunset. I love sunsets. I love sunrises, too, but they take place at a time of day that is just inconvenient for someone that is not a morning person. 😁

Because this is such a large stamp I turned it over and applied the ink to the stamp. Give it a good inking to make sure all of the image is well inked. The DSP is 6" x 6" and I didn't trim it down first. I positioned the stamp in the area I wanted and stamped. Now is when I trimmed down the DSP to the size I wanted (3-3/4" x 5").

The pink mat is cut to 3-7/8" x 5-1/8". The card base is the dark blue and has a left edge fold. When it came to the sentiment I wanted to keep it on the smaller size. I tried using a separate layer for the sentiment but found it took up too much space and didn't go well with the design. So I ended up stamping it directly on the DSP. I added a few gems to help draw the eye to the sentiment.

After while I realized this card also fit the Color Dare #655 rules for our Color Dare Challenge you must use colors shown in the graphic. See the graphic for the fine print rules. Use as many or as few of the colors in the graphic as you like. Make any paper craft you like. When you're ready to join our challenge use the direct link under the graphic.