ICS Blog Hop - Join the Fold - Coffee Cafe

Welcome to a special Inspire, Create, and Share blog hop! We recently attended OnStage in Salt Lake City with 2,700 demonstrators to see new products, hear training, and connect with friends. Our team met for dinner and to swap cards designed with fancy folds. Meeting together is the best. Of course now we want to share the fancy fold card designs with you!

Being a demonstrator means you meet people from all over the world, get to travel for events, we get the first peek at new products. Only demonstrators get the opportunity to attend Stampin’ Up! events to see the new catalog in hand, use the products, and the perk of bringing home new stamp sets, projects, and sometimes more! You can join one of our teams and receive all of these demonstrator perks. You select your starter kit, it is $125 in product but you only pay $99 and includes free shipping. Just ask your demonstrator where to get started to sign up, or if that is me click here. 

Here is my card: 

I decided to make a shelf card, with one of my favorite suites form the catalog, Coffee Cafe.  I have featured four different patterns from the designer series paper pack, the stamp set, and even the corrugated embellishments.

Next up on the hop, is Karie - I know you are going to love her card!

SSInkspiration: Technique Challenge - Eclipse Cards

Hey there everyone!  Today we are starting a new challenge over at Stylin' Stampin' Inkspiration.  This time, it is a technique challege : Eclipse Cards.

I had never made an Eclipse Cards are super popular right now, but I had never made one before this challenge came up on my "to do" list.  I chose to use the Night in Bethlehem bundle, featured on page 26 of the Holiday Catalog.  This is one of my favorite bundles, ever!

Here is my card:

I decided to go with a very natural / neutral color scheme for my card.  My rolling city was done in Crumb Cake, inked once and stamped three times.  My star, and people were stamped in Soft Suede.  When I was done stamping, I used my Large Letter framelits to cut out the word JOY.  I matted my Very Vanilla cardstock with Crumb Cake before putting it on a Soft Suede card base.  I put my letters back in the holes using Foam Adhesive Strips.  Then,  I used some Very Vanilla baker's twine for my embellishment, and used the tie ends to make a tassel with a little bit of lace and linen thread.   I also accented my letters with some clear Wink of Stella. 

Be sure to head over to Stylin' Stampin' Inkspiration and check out what the other design team members made, and enter our challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

~Nichole

Product List

Night In Bethlehem Clear-Mount Bundle [146044] $47.50	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [126978] $6.50	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975] $6.50	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650] $9.00
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $8.00	Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115318] $8.00	Very Vanilla Solid Baker's Twine [144224] $3.00	Linen Thread [104199] $4.50
Very Vanilla 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Lace Trim [141672] $7.00	Large Letters Framelits Dies [141712] $99.00