Trimming the Town Suite featured September 13th on Facebook Live

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This week on September 13th, I featured the following projects on my Facebook Live.  These projects feature the Trimming the Town Suite of products.  This suite also contains the Coming Home Bundle.  This bundle is Stampin' Up!s Making a Difference Stamp Set.  Whether you purchase the stamp set as part of the Suite or the Bundle with the dies, $3 will be donated to charities devoted to adoption, infertility and foster care.  What a wonderful way to help these charities!!! Here are the two projects I featured:

Trick or Treat Card 

Supplies:

 

Stamps: Coming Home, Itty Bitty Greetings

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Stampin’ Blends: Dark Mango Melody, Dark Pumpkin Pie, Light and Dark Basic Black

Cardstock:  Basic Black – three pieces; one cut 8 ½ x 11” and scored at 4 ¼” (for card base), one cut 3 ½” x 3 ½” and one cut ¾” x 4”

Smoky Slate – one piece 4” x 3”

Very Vanilla – one piece 4” x 5 ¼”

Plaid Tidings Designer Paper – two pieces; one 4” x 5 ¼” and one cut ¾” x 5 ¼” (see photo for pattern used)

Accessories: Cobweb Embossing Folder, Wink of Stella, Home Together Dies and Ornate Frames dies, Black Stampin’ Dimensionals, Rhinestones

 

Directions:

 

Stamp the House image and the Trick or Treat sentiment on the Smoky Slate cardstock being sure to leave enough room around the sentiment for the die.  Use the coordinating house die from the Home Together Dies and use the Ornate Frames Dies to cut out the sentiment (see photo for which house and dies were used).  Color the roof of the house and the cap of the chimney using the Light Basic Black Blends, color the windows with the Dark Mango Melody Blends and the door and the base of the chimney with the Pumpkin Pie Blends.  Use the Cobweb embossing folder to emboss the 3 ½” x 3 ½” and ¾” x 4” pieces of Basic Black.  Adhere the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper to the front of the Basic Black card base.  Adhere the 3 ½” x 3 ½” and the ¾” x 4” pieces of embossed Basic Black onto the card front (use photo for placement).   In the upper left corner of the 3 ½” x 3 ½” piece of embossed Basic Black use Wink of Stella to highlight the cobwebs.  Adhere the house to the bottom right corner of this piece using black Stampin’ Dimensionals.   Using the Dark Basic Blends, color three rhinestones.  Place two of the colored rhinestones onto the die cut sentiment piece (see photo) and adhere the sentiment piece to the ¾” x 4” piece of embossed Basic Black using Black Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Adhere the ¾” x 5 ¼” piece of Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper to the left side of the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of Very Vanilla and then adhere to the inside of the card.  Enjoy!

 

 

From Our Home to Yours Card

 

Template created by Sue Erickson

Stamps: None J

Inks: Stampin’ Blends – Dark Old Olive and Dark Soft Suede

Smoky Slate Stampin’ Write Marker

Cardstock: Night of Navy – One piece cut 5 ½” x 10 7/8”

Whisper White – Two pieces – one cut to 3 ½” x 5 ¼” and one piece cut to 3 1/8” x 5 ¼”

Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper – two pieces; one cut 3 3/8” x 5 ¼” and one cut 3 1/8” x 5 ¼”. The designer series paper with Houses and Trees the same size as the dies and the one that has all the sentiments. (See photo for patterns used)

Accessories: Stitched Rectangle and Home Together Dies, Tear & Tape Adhesive, Blender Pen, Wink of Stella

 

Directions:

 

Score the 5 ½” x 10 7/8” piece of Night of Navy cardstock at 3 5/8”, 6 7/8”, 7 ¼” and 10 ½”.  Adhere the 3 1/8” x 5 ¼” piece of Designer Series paper to the panel between the 7 ¼” score line and the 10 ½” score line.  Use a Stitched Rectangle die to cut through both layers.  DO NOT DISCARD the cut out portion.    Cut one large house, two trees and one medium house from the Trimming the Town designer series paper (see photo for the ones I used).  Cut two sentiments from the Trimming the Town designers series paper with all the sentiments. Cut the 3 ½” x 5 ¼” piece of Whisper White using the tree and snow slope die from the Home Together dies.  Use the Dark Old Olive and Dark Soft Suede markers to color the trees. Adhere this piece to the 3 3/8” x 5 ¼” piece of Trimming the Town designer series paper. Adhere the largest house to this piece.  Pick up ink from the Smoky Slate Stampin’ Write marker with a Blender Pen and color shadows under the trees, the corners of the house and the front door (see photo). Adhere a sentiment to the top left portion of this piece (this will be the card front)   Set this piece aside.  Establish all the folds on the card base using a bone folder. Apply Tear & Tape adhesive to the 3/8” section above where you have cut the rectangle. Remove the liner, fold to where the edge with the Tear & Tape is aligned with the center score mark of the card.  Close the card front and smooth with a bone folder to be sure the Tear & Tape is securely adhered.  Open the card and you will see you have created a shadow box.  Decorate the leftover piece from when you cut the rectangle with the medium house and a sentiment.  With the “shadow box” fully open, adhere the cut piece to the back of the card so it is positioned in the center of the cut rectangle (see photo). 

Close the card and adhere the card front.  Adhere the 3 1/8” x 5 ¼” piece of Whisper White to the back of the card for writing any personal note desired.   Enjoy!

Here are a couple of other projects I created with this suite:

Cute little Treat Boxes

A slimline card inspired by Leonie Schroeder

I hope you enjoy these projects!  If you would like to purchase any of the items featured, just click on my "Shop Now" button and please use the September Host Code (at the top of this post) if your order is under $150 (if it's over $150 you get host benefits from Stampin' Up)  I hope you will tune into my Facebook Live every Sunday at 2:00pm on my Stampin' Up! Facebook Page.

Have a wonderful week!