Stamp & Camp with Mary There's A Card Thursday - February 20, 2020 - Snow Front Cabin Scene Stepped Up

I had done a #simplestamping card a bit back and wanted to do a stepped up version.  I love the Snow Front set to do scenes. This item is carried over so you can still order it.  Just click on the photos below for all the items.

So here is the #simplestamping card

This is the Stepped up Card

I love scene cards and being able to do a stepped up version well 2 for the price of one.

We have so many great stamp sets to make scenes and this is just one of them.

So many cards you can make with this set.

Let's see how to make just this one card.

tams# 39537

Product List

Snow Front Photopolymer Stamp Set [150483]	Itty Bitty Greetings Cling-Mount Stamp Set [151331]	Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad [147118]	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad [147105]
Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111]	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115]	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114]	Merry Merlot Classic Stampin' Pad [147112]
Merry Merlot 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146979]	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100867]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101650]	Linen Thread [104199]
Mini Glue Dots [103683]

Stampin’ Up! Snow Front Cabin Scene Stepped up.

Mary Trautner

NOTE:  We did a #simplestamping note card and this time we are stepping it up for the Casual Stamper.

Supplies: Stamp Sets - Snow Front [150483], Itty Bitty Greetings [151331]; Ink - Gray Granite [147118], Balmy Blue [147105], Mossy Meadow [147111], Soft Suede [147115], Early Espresso [147114] Merry Merlot [147112]; Card Stock - Merry Merlot 8 ½ x 5 ½  [146979], Night Of Navy 5 ¼ x 4 [100867], Very Vanilla 5 x 3 ¾  [101650]; Accessories - Linen Thread [104199], Mini Glue Dots [103683].

Instructions:

1. With Gray Granite Stamp the mountains up to ward the top of the card.
2. With Balmy Blue Stamp the Lake about midway between the bottom of the mountains and the bottom of the card.
3. With Mossy Meadow stamp  some of the medium pine trees around the back side of the lake leaving a space to stamp the cabin.
4. With Soft Suede stamp the cabin at the back of the lake.
5. With Early Espresso Stamp some trees around the front of the lake, ink up stamp once then stamp 1 or 2 more times.  Create a forest.
6. With Merry Merlot stamp your saying at the top.
7. Wrap Linen Thread 3 or 4 times around the top of the Very Vanilla  attach to the back.
8. Attach the Very Vanilla Card Front to the Night of Navy and then to the Merry Merlot.

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Tips & Techniques Tuesday - March 12, 2019 - Ink Pour Technique

Today I want to teach you a new technique, I call it the Ink Pour Technique.  Have you the great Acrylic Pour Technique that is taking over the internet and crafters? 

This is where you semi layer paint and then pour it over a canvas.  I thought maybe we could do something like it with ink.  Well I tried and mainly what I got was a brown yuk. I kept trying.  I had done 1 pour and in the class we did a pour and then spun it on a lazy Suzanne, so I tried that.  Worked OK but left a hole in the middle of the card stock.  didn't cover like the above but still made a nice background.  So I tried it again on Glossy Card Stock and just dripped the ink and moved the card stock so it would swirl and move.  I think using something like a tooth pick or something similar that you could really do a full back ground.  Instead of mixing the ink you have to put it on 1 at a time and then make sure it is dried between ink.  I tried to let it dry on it's own and even after 48 hours it was not dry.  I blotted between each ink application and that gave me another piece of card stock to use for back ground. 

Here is what I got.  This is the Glossy Card Stock.

This is the blotted card stock.

The blotted one bleeds since it is not dry between application so you have different coloring look.

Would you all like to see the video?

Instructions:

1. Drip your first color on the glossy card stock.  You can tip it to run it or use a toothpick to make photos.  TIP if your re inker is to thick add a little water.
2. With the Whisper White Card Stock blot, the ink dry.  Make sure your colors are dry before you continue.
3. Continue with other colors until you reach the design you like. 

On There's A Card Thursday I will show you a card made with this technique so don't miss it.

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#simplestamping Stamp & Camp with Mary - December 19, 2018 - #simplestamping WInter Woods and Masking

Today on simple stamping I would like to do something a little different.  It still is pretty simple but just upping it a bit.  We are doing a simple technique called masking.  I think you will enjoy this very much.

 I really liked this one.  With the Gold Foil Edged Cards and Envelopes it also steps it up.  In fact I liked this one so much I gave it to my husband for our 30th Anniversary this week.

Let's take a look at how to do this #simplestamping Card.

tams# 28202

Product List

147661	147658	147088	147115
147901	146276

Supplies: Stamp Set - Winter Woods [Clear 147661, Wood 147658]; Ink - Shaded Spruce [147088], Soft Suede [147115], Card Stock - Gold Foil-Edged Cards & Envelopes [147901]; Accessories - Stamparatus [146276], Post it notes large.

Instructions:

1. On the Large Post it Note Stamp the Pine Tree and cut out.  Making sure that some of the sticky is on the tree part.
2. Set up the Stamparatus or large block. ( If using Stamparatus make sure your tree will be right side up when stamped).
3. With Shaded Spruce Stamp the Pine Tree.
4. Place the Post it note tree over what you have just stamped covering the tree you just stamped.
5. Place the bare trees where you want them and pick up with the Stamparatus.
6. With Soft Suede Stamp the trees over the Post it note.
7. Remove the post it note tree and you will have your card.

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Tips & Techniques Tuesday - Dec 4, 2018 - Make your Own Shimmer Paper

Who thinks that the Frosted Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper is  the best paper Stampin' Up! has ever made?  I do I love it.

I love the shimmer and I wish that there was more of them.  I decided to try to make my own and I was very successful.  So now I am making all my Designer Series Paper Shimmer Paper.

It really is easy to make this paper and not hard at all.  I fact I bet you will have a ton of shimmer paper when you learn how to do it.

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Product List

146921

147046

126185

So now you can make your own beautiful Shimmer Designer Series Paper.  On #simplestamping you will see a great card I made with this paper.  I would love to see your cards made with your shimmer Paper.

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Stamp & Camp with Mary - November 19, 2018 - On the move, what we did in Florida.

Today we are leaving our home of 2 weeks the Bee's RV Resort.  It has been a good place and the area is great.  People are really friendly and there was a lot to do at the resort along with the area.  This area would be high on our list to return to.

WE got here on Monday the 5th of November the place we go for our camper had a concrete patio slab but was a tight fit and today as we pulled out we realized how tight it was. WE are still in one piece but it was tight and short on temper to pull out. So we are heading to the KOA in Perry right now.

Tuesday morning we got up and headed to find a body shop that could help us with our little Shreveport booboo to the truck.  Found a Cleiber not far from the campground and a long the way discovered a winery.  The Stampin' Up! On-Stage Convention was starting on Wednesday so Don dropped me off at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Orlando and I left him to take care of the repairs.  WE did have to extend the  time at the park to a full 2 weeks just to make sure that they could fix it in time.   No problem we picked it up the following Monday but we just didn't know as they said it might be a few extra days to get parts. He did have a rental truck so he went exploring while I went stamping.

  You can see my last blog post to see all fun I had at the convention and all the new stamping items I got.  I also have a live video or two on my Facebook group Mary's Stamping Happenings Group you can see all the new things coming out and also see the new cling stamps.

So Don dropped of the truck on Wednesday and just hung around the campground.  Then on Thursday he  went to the War Bird Air Museum and had a good time.  Then I got this very disturbing text on Friday.  I am glad I don't buy anything big unless you are with me.  All the time coming down from GA we were seeing advertisements for LoveOTOW the great 55+ Active Living Community.  Well since I had nothing better to do I googled it and discovered it was in Ocala FL not that far from where we were staying and it sounded interesting.  WE had never explored a 55 + Community before So On Top of The World sounded like a fun place.  We were going to see if we could visit it after the convention but Don had nothing to do so he said so he went up one day and fell in love.  Some of the places were in our price range around $160K to $240K and he loved that there was so much to do.  He only took a short tour but wanted me to head up for a longer one when I got back.  So I said why not.

Sunday Don picked me u and we went to Universal Studios for Harry Potter.  Expensive to do a 2 park one day pass fore each of us.  Don is not a very big Harry fan so I know he did it for me.  We had a great time, at least I did, and then had supper at Margueritaville, expensive, but fun day.

Monday was spent just taking naps and catching up on things I had to do at the trailer.  I thought Don would have rearranged everything in the trailer but he didn't do much.  WE did get to pick up the truck on Monday and had to drop off the rental but that was about the only thing we did.  Don did arrange that we would go see On Top of the World for Wednesday. 

Tuesday we went to the Lakeridge Winery and had a tour  it is the biggest winery in Florida.

 Of course we bought a couple of bottles for ourselves.  Not bad wine  more traditional rather than the small mom and pop ones, as Don said no cute names. I was hoping for a citrus wine and thought that would be good. I loved the Citrus beer the Moosehead Radler I had at Epcot and thought that a grapefruit or orange wine would be good but no fruity wines there. 

Went touring the area and discovered a few more RV resorts and 55+ Communities.  Had to do some shopping for groceries and just a laid back day  got some packages out in the mail.  Meigan is staying at school over Thanksgiving and the dinning halls are closed so we sent her a few things to tide her over.  Though they do have a Thanksgiving dinner for kids that stay and then one on Friday for left over I guess. 

Wednesday we went to On Top of the World and I do say I was impressed.  But would we really like to live in Florida.  I am still leaning toward Michigan only because of family but sure was a nice area.  They had about 4 neighborhoods  Each neighbor hood had a set of houses for that area, they each had a recreation area, fitness center and pool.  Then there was a a big Recreation Center with classrooms, there was an Life Long Learning Center, a huge and I mean huge fitness enter and  pools. They also had a place for Concerts and dance halls, a lot of places to eat and paths for golf carts, bikes and walking.  You could get a neighborhood which was attached to one of the 3 golf courses (we don't golf so not really interested in that one)  they have a solar powered neighborhood but I think you can outfit all their house with solar.  I was hoping the solar powered neighborhood was more innovative and that the roofing tiles incorporated solar but no just solar panels attached though they were all out fitted for collection and distribution. There were 10,000 people living there are they had about another 1000 houses to go but they were not going super fast so build out time was like 20 years. I loved the life long learning and all the classes you could attend, even say a class in stamping while I was looking around not Stampin' Up! but another company.  You could use the recreation center and classrooms for what you wanted if something was not scheduled.  This will be high on our list in the future.

We got back to the trailer and I searched for Tea Rooms and found one in Clermont and set up a serving for Saturday. Thursday was a stay at home day but we did have a few visitors to the site.

Well on Friday we decided to head to the 55+ community across the road  called Triology ( they have some in a lot of states).  Was a nice community, was really smaller and I thought a lot better in the community feeling.  The houses were more expensive and you could not really customize it as you would like they just had themes which was OK.  The houses were not as nice as the Top of the World but we cold manage.  The one thing was they did not have as many amenities as the other.  The big thing was no Life Long Learning.  I think we could live here I do like the area.

We did drive around and went down to Clermont and scoped out Erika's Tea Room.  Nice downtown and surrounded by lakes  I guess that is why it is called Lake County.

Saturday  we had a reservation for Noon for tea and it was a very nice tea room.  The staff very friendly and the food very good.  Though we still like RX Tea Time Scones better.  We also got to pick out our tea and the list was so large, we needed an hour to just do it justice.  They also gave choices of  Scones, Salad or Soup, and 4 different types of sandwiches.  The sandwiches were more like regular sandwiches rather than tea but they were very good.  Here are a few of the photos from there.

We walked around downtown and then to the lake and around a nice little historical village.  We really loved this downtown and the area.  So we went looking for places to live and shockingly found out it is very affordable for smaller homes.  We even found one on the Main downtown road just 3 block from downtown and 4 blocks from the Catholic Church.  It was not the best looking house and since it went from $250K to $140  we assumed there is some major structural problems.  We are leaving this on our we could live here list.

Sunday I got to attend church and felt so good and the sermon was what I really needed one of the last things the priest said - we should never fear the Lord and the end of time.  Huge church very beautiful.  I don't think there was another Catholic Church for about 20 miles so it was a large area.

Sunday Afternoon I had my Facebook Live Stamping event and then we had to get the camper ready to leave. 
Here are some of the photos from the campground.

 The Lake and Pagoda.

 The Main Office

 Just one of the Streets

 Another Street

This is on their Nature Trail.

I really liked the area and the campground was alright.

All in all the two weeks were great.  Stamping, Harry, Wine, Tea and possible place to stay.

Did you catch that  am doing a  new Video series Simple Stamping.  Check out here on the blog  http://marysstampinghappenings.blogspot.com/2018/11/simple-stamping-november-14-2018-winter.html
 Or catch it here on You Tube. https://youtu.be/ZfqB3T33epQ

Here is the first card.

We are now in Perry FL at another KOA I will up date you on Wednesday.