Fun card ideas using Tune In Stampin’ Up!® stamp set

If you know me, you’ll know I love everything retro. Retro music, retro colours, retro homewares, retro Stampin’ Up!® designs. So the new Stampin’ Up!® set Tune In went straight to the top of my shopping list. 

I love the retro TV image and the groovy stars and couldn’t wait to show off this fun stamp set at my Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue launch party at the weekend.

Dandelion Wishes - CAS card in retro Pool Party and Poppy Parade

Seriously, it took me longer to photograph this project than it did to make it. It’s clean and simple all right... and no less effective for it.

All I did was stamp on a piece of Whisper White in this lovely retro combo of Pool Party and Poppy Parade, add a strip of Poppy Parade cardstock and pop it up onto a notecard, with some bling to finish it off.

Yes, I have done a U-turn on Poppy Parade, which I was never keen on last time around. And with a brand new Pool Party ink pad to play with, I think you’ll be seeing a lot of this combo.

Retro colour combo for Rooted in Nature

It’s weird but whenever a new catalogue comes along and I have loads of lovely new products to play with, for some reason I always lose my mojo. You’d think the opposite would apply but I suspect I am overwhelmed by too much choice!

Pinterest came to the rescue; specifically this project by Aussie demo Kate Morgan, which was sent to me by my friend Donna.

I modified it by laying the leaves (from Rooted in Nature) on the diagonal, and used a retro and slightly autumnal colour combination.

Some copper trim and a copper leaf finishes it off nicely, I think. But more importantly, what do YOU think?

Marquee Messages - It's Your Birthday

I had chance to play with the rather wonderful Marquee Messages at the weekend. I love the retro styling of this stamp set but wasn’t sure I’d make full use of all the words so have resisted getting it so far. Not sure I’ll be able to resist much longer as it’s a really fun set although, as I found, it does lean towards paper piecing… and I’m not a fan of fussy cutting. 

As my starting point, I Googled ‘retro Americana sign’ and came up with a fantastic array of signs which gave me the inspiration for the colour combination. Next I checked out what other people have been making with this stamp set and then CASEd the idea of the distressed brick wall from US demonstrator Amy Koenders.  To create this look, I inked up the raised sections of the embossing folder before adding the cardstock and running it through the Big Shot. This inked up the cracks in the wall (as well as a bit extra, giving it a nicely distressed look).

I coloured the lights and greeting using my chalk marker, added a little distressing using a Crumb Cake ink pad and then popped it all up on the wall. I do love it – and I kind of want to emboss the whole thing so it looks like metal. Maybe the next one…

Marquee Messages Photopolymer Stamp Set [141727] £19.00	Brick Wall Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [138288] £7.75	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] £5.50	Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock [121681] £7.25	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock [138344] £7.25
Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock [138345] £7.25	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £8.25	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] £6.50	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975] £6.00	White Stampin Chalk Marker [132133] £3.25

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Sale-a-Bration retro pop-up card

I wanted to make a card with a retro vibe, so searched “retro colour combinations” on the internet. I came up with something like this: Pool Party, Delightful Dijon and Watermelon Wonder. It’s a combination that could have come straight from my In Color charts and, to be honest, it’s such a good one that I wish I had thought of it. 

Circle punches are perfect for creating a retro vibe, so out they came, too. And eventually, with a bit of playing around, I came up with this card. Pretty clean and simple, but there’s more…

Open it up and you have this fabulous pop-up greeting, which I absolutely love. It’s so simple to create with the new Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies. Check out the Stampin’ Up! video below.

Behind the pop-out greeting is some retired paper (it wasn’t retired when I made the card!) which helps the greeting to stand out even more.

If you’d like to see a demonstration of these dies, do get in touch to book a party... but hurry – my calendar is filling fast!

Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies [140620] £27.00	Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141303] £0.00	Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141237] £0.00	2015-2017 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [138333] £13.50
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] £5.50	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] £6.50	Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock [138345] £6.50
Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] £6.50	Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock [138341] £6.50

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Mix It Up Monday with a retro vibe

It’s Mix It Up Monday and, once again, I’m pushing the deadline right into the day. One day, when the house is straight again, I’ll get back to more efficient service, honest!

Today’s colour combo has quite a retro vibe so out came my “You’re So Vintage” stamp set as a starting point. As you can see, it didn’t make the final cut!

I tried to create the look of a vintage print using the Summer Silhouettes stamp set. I needed something tiny to put in the gaps and ended up doodling some little dots with my marker pens; very simple, but quite effective I think. 

I scrunched up a strip of cotton paper was very tightly, then opened it out for a nice creased effect, then created rough pleats along the back of the stamped strip, using Tear and Tape to hold it in place. 

You’re So Vintage was just too big for this card in the end, so I resorted to Tin of Cards; a really useful stamp set to have, even if you don’t have the tin kit. So there you have it… there would have been some white dots on the scallop circle, too, if I’d been able to find my chalk marker!

Summer Silhouettes Clear Stamp Set [126447]	Tin Of Cards Photopolymer Stamp Set [138946]	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments [119247]	Punch Corner Project Life [135346]	Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack [133787]
2-3/8" Circle Scallop Punch [118874]	1-3/4" Circle Punch [119850]	Pool Party 1/4" Cotton Ribbon [134568]	2015-2017 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [138333]	Pool Party Stampin' Write Marker [131904]
Wild Wasabi Classic Stampin' Pad [126959]	Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad [138323]	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [126982]	Cherry On Top Cotton Paper Assortment [138308]	Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock [138341]
Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550]	Wild Wasabi A4 Card Stock [111850]	Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391]

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