mmm...Stampin' Time

As promised I have two stepped up gumball machine cards to share today.

This card was stepped up with some more colouring and the addition of the Gumball Machine Shaker Dome filled with Frosted Beads Assortment.

The turning mechanism to feed the 5 cent piece into the machine was die cut from a piece of Crushed Curry cardstock. If I could find my Round & Square Brads, I would have used one to attach the turner. Instead I used a Matte Black Dot.

For the final stepped up version, I stamped the gumball machine and then die cut the layers for the machine in Pool Party, Granny Apple Green and Silver Foil.

For the shaker dome, I cut out the place the dome would go. I filled the dome with some of the Frosted Beads Assortment and secured a piece of Window Sheet across the back. Then I took the DSP covered dome cut leftover and carefully positioned it behind the Window Sheet to align the stripes. Inside the card, I covered the lefthand side with a panel of Basic White cardstock that is slightly smaller than the card front.

Finally, I tied a double bow using some silver trim from the Simply Elegant Trim pack.

Tomorrow is my Memories on Monday day. Now to think of a way to use this bundle for scrapbooking and to find some photos that will suit it. Hmmmmm.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Gumball Greetings Bundle [157648] $72.25	Gumball Greetings Photopolymer Stamp Set [157646] $32.00	Gumball Machine Dies [157647] $49.00	Basic White Note Cards & Envelopes [159232] $12.25	Gumball Machine Shaker Domes [158131] $12.25
Frosted Beads Assortment [158132] $13.00	Simply Elegant Trim [155766] $13.00	Pattern Party 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Host Designer Series Paper [155426] $31.00	Card Stock A4 Crushed Curry [131288] $15.25	Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock [147014] $15.25
Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] $15.25	Silver Foil 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Pack [156457] $17.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.00	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $13.00	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $13.00
Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [147107] $13.00	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [147157] $52.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Tear & Tape Adhesive [154031] $12.25
Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00	Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00

This week I have chosen the Gumball Greetings Bundle to feature for my schedule of projects.

My pre-order, from the upcoming 2022 – 2023 Annual Catalogue, arrived yesterday afternoon! I’ll try to do an unboxing Facebook Live over the weekend to give you a bit of a sneak peek.

Both boxes weighed a total of 35 kilograms – thank goodness we have a trolley in our apartment building.

Okay – let’s see some #simplestamping projects using stamps, ink and cardstock.

The gumball machine is made up of three seperate images. Fortunately, the stamps are photopolymer. This means that it is easy to see exactly where you are stamping and each image can be aligned accurately.

I used the Tuxedo Black Memento and Flirty Flamingo inks to stamp the images for this super simple cards.

For this card I simply added the Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Write Marker™ to colour some of the areas of the gumball machine.

For the next card, I added some Designer Series Paper and dies.

The striped paper is from the Pattern Party DSP.

After stamping the gumball machine elements, I used the Gumball Machine Dies to cut each of them. Then I connected them using Stampin’ Dimensionals to have it pop up off the card front.

The sentiment was stamped on a small piece of Basic White cardstock.

Tomorrow I will share two stepped up versions of this card with you.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Gumball Greetings Bundle [157648] $72.25	Gumball Greetings Photopolymer Stamp Set [157646] $32.00	Gumball Machine Dies [157647] $49.00	Basic White Note Cards & Envelopes [159232] $12.25	Pattern Party 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Host Designer Series Paper [155426] $31.00
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.00	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $13.00	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $13.00	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [147157] $52.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00

For today’s Friday Fun Fold card I decided to use the same colours that were from the #GDP337 Challenge this week.

The fun fold today is a waterfall card. I thought it would be perfect for the pot and cactus image sizes.

For the background I used the Stacked Stone Stamp and my Stamparatus. I used all three colours to stamp this image. After I stamped each colour, the stamp was cleaned and the Basic White panel moved slightly to fill the white spaces.

The next step was to create the waterfall mechanism. I cut a piece of Blushing Bride cardstock 8-3/4″x 2-1/2″ and scored it at 2-1/2″, 3″, 3-1/2″ and 4″

I cut four Blushing Bride 2-1/2″ squares and one rectangle measuring 4-1/2″x 2-1/2″. Then I cut four Basic White 2-3/8″ squares and one rectangle 4-3/8″x 3-7/8″.

I stamped a variety of pot and cactus images to adhere to the Blushing Bride squares.

To add these squares to the waterfall mechanism, I added strips of Tear & Tape to each of the 1/2″ scored spaces.

The rectangular stamped piece was added last.

The bottom section of the ‘just a note’ square was glued to a 1″ strip of Soft Sea Foam cardstock. To fix the mechanism in place, I added Stampin’ Seal+ to the Soft Sea Foam strip either side of the Blushing Bride squares.

During my Facebook Live today (07/04/22), I made another waterfall card.

Tomorrow is #simplestamping – I hope that you can join me.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Cactus Cuties Bundle [158058] $54.75	Cactus Cuties Photopolymer Stamp Set [158056] $30.00	Stacked Stone Cling Background Stamp [152556] $30.00	Whisper White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon [151326] $13.00	Opal Rounds [154289] $13.00
Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride [131287] $15.25	Soft Sea Foam A4 Cardstock [147012] $15.25	So Saffron A4 Card Stock [108611] $15.25	Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad [147100] $13.00
Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $13.00	So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad [147109] $13.00	Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154902] $15.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Seal+ [149699] $21.00
Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Basic White C6 Envelopes [159235] $13.00