Thinking of You and a Video, Too

It’s Sunday, and time to play with The Paper Players! This week we are serving up a delicious helping of yummy colors for our color challenge! My card is a nostalgic design, combining curves and texture. It is a style I like to call  “Clean and Vintage”.  In today’s tips, I will give you a mini-lesson on how to achieve this look.  Plus, I have prepared a “Down Home” video to go along with it.  Enjoy today’s card…I was “thinking of you” when I created it!


The Stampin’ Schach Design Tips:  Clean and Vintage

The finished card measures 4-1/4″ wide by 5-1/2″ long.

  • Vintage through color! This card screams “1920’s”, with its muted tones of Poppy Parade and Pool Party.  Keep in mind that it isn’t necessarily the colors that characterize a vintage card…it is the “softness” of the colors!
  • Vintage through embellishments! Vintage cards are often a tactile delight!  Ribbons and pearls add to the experience. 
A bow with softly pleated tails adds a sweetly feminine touch,
while the Scalloped Edge cries out for Basic Pearls.
  • Vintage through texture! The “Floral Image” from the Sale-A-Bration set, Fresh Vintage, was inked using Poppy Parade and Soft Suede Stampin’ Write Markers. It was used to randomly stamp a Very Vanilla panel. Zipping the panel through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder softened the colors.
  • The finishing touch! The “Thinking of You” sentiment from Sincere Salutations was stamped directly onto the designer paper.  Tip:  For perfect placement, use a Stamp-a-ma-jig!

Ready to hear more about this Clean and Vintage card? Check out the “Down Home” video. Warning:  Be prepared for Brady Schach’s trumpet intro.  It is an eye-opening experience for sure!  Sorry Brady…I know Mom asked for it, but I think for the next video, we will just go without music!

I hope you enjoyed today’s card!  Won’t you leave me a comment and let me know?  Your comments are important to me, and I do read each and every one of them.  As always, if you ever have a question about the cards that I create or the techniques that I use, I am only an email away.  Until next time…

Stamp Sets:  Fresh Vintage (W 125115, C  125117  SAB), Sincere Salutations (115068);  Inks: Soft Suede (115657), Crumb Cake (121030); Stampin’ Write Markers:  Soft Suede (120973), Poppy Parade (119801—2010-2012 In Color Assortment); Designer Series Paper:  Everyday Enchantment (126154  SAB); Card Stock:  Soft Suede (115318), Poppy Parade (119793), Pool Party (122924); Tools:  Big Shot (113439), Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (119976), Adorning Accents Edgelits Die (125595), Sponge Dauber (102892), Stamp-a-ma-jig (101049);  Glitz and Glam:  Basic Pearls (119247), Pool Party Seam Binding (125582)

A Peek at The Players

It’s great to be back with a peek at this week’s The Paper Players card.  It’s fairly quick and easy to create, since it relies on the Big Shot to do most of the work.  I hope you will join me Sunday for the reveal!

It has been busy here at The Stampin’ Schach, with Sale-A-Bration in full swing.  Plus, I have been working with one of my new recruits on stamping basics. From basic skills to advanced techniques, I love working with members of my downline.  If you would like to take advantage of the training I have to offer as a member of The Schach Pack, my downline group…please email me! I would love to chat with you.  Live at a distance? Don’t worry…I offer long distance training, too.  I want to help you become the best paper artist you can be.  Now is the perfect time to join!

Here’s the scoop!

  • The Starter Kit is available for $125.  This is $50 off of the regular price of $175.  As always, shipping of the Starter Kit is FREE!
  • Special Bonus!  Get your choice of either a FREE pack of Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper (excluding Specialty Paper)  EVERY month (February through December, 2012, 11 total packs) OR a FREE My Digital Studio download EVERY month (February through December, 2012, 11 total downloads).  And you can mix and match…paper one month, download the next!  This is a value of $120!  It is almost like getting the kit for Free!
  • Of course, all of the usual demonstrator perks (20% discount, Stampin’ Success, Stampin’ Connection) still apply!  This is a perfect way to experience being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, with no penalty to drop.  If you sell $300 by June 30 either by placing your own orders or by getting outside orders, your benefits renew until September 30th.

To join, please click HERE.  Your perks and benefits start immediately, including your ability to order!  What are you waiting for??? I would love to have you join my group!  Let the Stampin’ Up! fun begin.  If you have ANY questions, don’t hesitate to EMAIL me.  Until next time…

Vintage Birthday

One of the things I love about Stampin’ Up! is its gorgeous Designer Series Paper, especially the Everyday Enchantment collection from the Sale-A-Bration brochure.  It reminds me so much of my grandmother’s aprons from many, many years ago. For today’s card,  I decided to pair this paper up with the large flowers from the Attic Boutique Designer Series Paper collection.  I hope you enjoy my vintage creation!

The Stampin’ Schach Design Tips:  Vintage and Feminine

This card measures 4-1/4″ wide by 5-1/2″ long.

  • Label! I selectively inked the lined image from Apothecary Art in order to delete the lines. I then fussy-cut it out. Because I thought it needed something larger for balance, I created mini-blossoms using the Flower Punch from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack. This resulted in covering the stamped flowers. Oh, well!  Because the So Saffron label looked too plain, I used the Waterspot stamp from French Foliage for a little aging and added a few swirls with the Elegance Wheel.  Tip:  Notice how the bottom margin is wider than the top margin? This helps to anchor the sentiment label.  And yes, there is  wee bit of sparkle, courtesy of Vanilla Shimmer Smooch!
  • It’s the bow, don’t you know! After creating this double-looped bow from Very Vanilla and Pool Party Seam Binding, I smooched it with Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz and crinkled it up. It is stamped with the Waterspot stamp! (Coming Soon:  Double Loop Bows Video)
  • Flower Power! So Saffron paper curls add a touch of whimsy to the popped up blossom snipped from Attic Boutique paper.  Of course, I couldn’t resist adding a circle of Pearls!

Did You Win This Card?

You did if you are Kathi! Here is what Kathi said:


What a beautiful, romantic card! I love the pretty colors, all the pearls, and how you added the little flowers to the banner! What an honor it would be to win this beauty!


Kathi, just send me your address and I will mail your card out to you! Thanks to all of you who left comments.


So what do you think of today’s card?  It will be heading out in the mail tomorrow to one of my very talented downline members as a belated birthday card.  Did I hit the mark with feminine and vintage?  Your comments are always important to me, and I do read each and every one of them.  So please, won’t you leave me a comment.  Of course, if you ever have a question about the cards that I create or the techniques I use, I am only an email away!  Until next time…

***Linda, here is the link for which you are looking:   Seam Binding Roses Pictorial
***And to all of you who asked, I will make a video on how to use the Doily Die to make a border.

Stamp Sets:  Apothecary Art, French Foliage, Elegance Wheel;  Inks:  Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker; Designer Series Paper:  Everyday Enchantment, Attic Boutique; Card Stock:  So Saffron, Poppy Parade; Tools:  Big Shot, Labels Collection Framelits, Paper Snips, Sponge Daubers,  Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Bird Builder Punch; Glitz and Glam:  Chantilly Crochet Lace Trim, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Pool Party Seam Binding, Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz, Basic Pearls