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This card was designed by my downline Suzy Halford.  See the unique "embossed" star background?  Suzy gave me the following instructions to make your own custom Star "Texturz Plate" (shown to the right of the card above).

To make the pseudo "Texturz plate" for the Not Quite Navy base card: 1) Punch lots of large and small stars out of scrap cardstock 2) glue three stars together to make a thick star-repeat until you have at least 6 stacks of large and 10 stacks of the small stars 3) Glue these stacked stars on a sheet of cardstock (I used 5" x 7").  You now have a custom Texturz plate!

How to use the custom Star Texturz plate: Run your base cardstock through the Big Shot using the multipurpose platform by stacking in the following order 1) Standard Cutting Pad 2) "Star Texturz Plate" that you just made 3)Standard Texturz Impressions Pad 4)another Standard Cutting Pad.

CASE of a card made by demonstrator Tina Dyck.  This will be one of the cards featured at my May Stamp-a-Stack class.

Elements of Style Stamp set;  Night of Navy, Riding Hood Red inkpads & cardstock; Very Vanilla and Kraft cardstocks; SU! Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing folder; 1" and 1-1/4" circle punches; silver brads.

A card designed by my downline-Dee Velasco for our recent demonstrator meeting.

Blissful Bride, Kind & Caring Thoughts stamp sets; Bashful Blue and Whisper White cardstocks; Bashful Blue inkpad and Satin ribbon; SU! Backgrounds #1 Texturz plate; Large Oval and Scallop Oval punches.

This is a card that my downline Erica Alvarado designed for our recent meeting.

Elements of Style stamp set (from the new Summer Mini Catalog); Basic Brown stamp pad; Kraft, Vanilla and Rose Red cardstocks; Watercolor pencils and blender pen; Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon;  Gold Glow Smooch Spritz.

This card was made with a couple of new items from the Summer Mini Catalog that will be available May 1st.

Watercolor Trio stamp set; Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede and Old Olive markers; Old Olive and Soft Suede cardstocks; Top Note Die; Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder; Melon Mambo Grosgrain ribbon; Wide Oval and Designer Label punches.

I CASEd a card and ribbon flower technique from fellow demonstrator Jenni Ingerick.  Thanks for the inspiration Jenni!!

Vintage Vogue, Sincere Salutations and All Holidays stamp sets; Naturals Ivory, Always Artichoke and Pumpkin Pie Cardstocks; Always Artichoke and So Saffron inkpads; Top Note Die; Pumpkin Pie 1-1/4" Striped Grosgrain ribbon; Linen thread; 5/16" Neutrals Jumbo brads; Sponge Dauber.

Cut a 6" piece of the ribbon, fold in 1/2 lengthwise and put a running stitch very close along the folded edge using the linen thread.  Snip the ribbon at 1/8-1/4" intervals along the non-stitched edge (see example on bottom right of photo).  Pull the ends of the thread so the ribbon gathers into a "flower" shape and tie a knot.  Shape the flower as desired and add a brad in the middle. Note: you can run the thread along the non folded edge and then cut the folded edge for the look on the right.

Another version of my Top Note Box & Cards class using the Upsy Daisy Stamp Set.

I CASEd these cards from a post on Splitcoaststampers (Chris Smith).  I used Sweet Pea DSP.

Yet another version of my new Top Note Box & Cards class.

Sweet Pea DSP; Pumpkin PIe, Old Olive, Rose Red and So Saffron cardstocks; Top Note, Flower Daisy #2, SU! Two Tags dies; SU! Little Leaves Embosslit & Perfect Details Texturz plate; Chocolate Chip Corduroy Button; Buid-a-Brad, Whisper White Organza Ribbon.

A new class project using the Top Note die.  Attendees will learn how to make the 5 quilt cards with matching envelopes and a box to put them in using 2 sheets of DSP.

I used a "retired" color that will be returning in July- Pink Pirouette.