World Card Making Day Blog Hop

World Card Making Blog Hop

To celebrate World Card Making Day, I am participating in Kathryn's World Card Making  Day Blog Hop of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from All Around the World to share a card. 

Kathryn challenged demos to post our cards within a week to someone special, as we all forget sometimes to send cards that we make and they just sit in a box. 

As an avid card maker and enjoyer of papercrafts, I was happy to join such a wonderful group of blog hoppers to celebrate World Card Making Day. 

To go to Kathryn's Blog and the start of the hop Click Here:

Here is my card! 

I'm continuing to make cards with the Hues of Happiness 12 x 12 Designer Paper, which I totally love.  Originally I just bought the paper, but I decided to purchase the stamp set last week and I can't wait to get busy with it when it arrives.  

Supplies Used:

Stamp Sets: 

• Perennial Birthday (Retired) 

Card Stock:  

• Coastal Cabana card base 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" and scored at 5 1/4"
• Night of Navy mat for cover 5 1/4" x 4"
• Whisper White sentiment mat front cover 1" x 3 7/8" and inside mat 4 x 5 1/4"

DSP:             

• Hues of Happiness 3 7/8" x 5" 

Accessories: 

• Flowers fussy cut from Hues of Happiness Paper for card front and interior.
• Basic Jewels Rhinestones coloured with Starry Night Blends
• This card is being sent to my good Aussie friend Cheryl in Brisbane. A little late but hope to post this afternoon.

How about you want to join in a fun event?  If so Stampin' Up! is hosting a Happy World Card Making Day crafting event.  Here's the details.  

Click Here to go to go to Kathryn Mangelsdorf's blog

If you get lost on the Kathryn's World Card Making Day Blog Hop or one of the links are broken here are a list of the participates, they would love to receive some stampin' love, so if you have time please leave a comment that you have visited.  Thanks for dropping by:

1.   Kathryn Mangelsdorf 

2.   Andrea Sargent

3.   Rachel Palmieri

4.   Tina Gillespie

5.   Elizabeth Gross

6.   Bronwyn Eastley

7.   Julia Quinn

8.   Sharon Davern

9.   Kathryn Ruddick

10. Penny Hanuszak - you are here

Stampin' Up!s 2022

WORLD CARD MAKING DAY CRAFTING EVENT 

Who can attend:     Anyone!

When:                     1 October from 2:00–5:00 p.m. (MT)

Where:                     Online

Price of Event:         Free

Registration Dates*: 11 August–1 October (Registration is not required)

Language of Event:  Most of the event will be presented in English with language interpretation voiceover and subtitles in English, French, German, and Dutch. One bundle presentation will take place in your market’s language.

*You can always participate in the event without registering. Registration is encouraged because it’s the best way to stay up to date regarding event details.

Click here to register.  

Everyone is invited and welcome to attend this FREE event! There will be three cardmaking presentations and we’d love to have you craft along with us. If you don’t want to craft along, join us anyway! It’s the perfect opportunity to hang out, watch, and be

HAPPY STAMPING!

Penny Tokens Stampin' Spot! 

Penny Hanuszak, CDN Independent Stampin' Up! Demo 

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World Card Making Day 2020

World Card Making Day is an international event held every year on October 3rd.  It's a great day to get together with your card making friends and share the fun of creativity.  

Receiving snail mail should never become a thing of the past.  Receiving a beautiful handmade card in the mail is one of the most wonderful feelings.  Your card can really brighten someone's day and your thoughtfulness for sending a card is something that will be remembered for some time. You don't get that from a facebook message.   

Today I'd like to share some Stampin' Up! videos to give you inspiration.  I know you'll enjoy them and learn a few cool tricks to make your stamping experiences enjoyable and fun.  

One Card Three Ways:

Making Multiples In Minutes: 

One Kit Three Ways:

Here are my World Card Making Day Cards:

I love using up my scraps so these two cards were made with that in mind.  I hope you enjoy them and they inspire you to get creative. 

I'd love to hear from you and whether you got an opportunity to do some card making today.  Leave me a comment and you could receive one of these two cards in the mail along with a PDF on how to make them.  Cheers! 

Happy Stamping!

Penny Tokens Stampin' Spot

Penny Hanuszak, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator 

Visit my website at: http://pennyhanuszak.stampinup.net

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World Card Making Day - BOO

Did you remember that today is World Card Making Day, a day celebrated throughout the world by stampers and scrapbookers.  It's a day for remembering those you love with a card.  A day for relaxing with friends and being creative.  Hope you get your card on today!  

Here's Mine:

Happy Halloween!   Love this fun background paper I designed.

I used Foam Adhesive Strips to pop up the lettering because they're a tad higher than Dimensionals. 

The Crushed Curry moon is the large surface circle (not quite) image from the Swirly Bird Photopolymer Stamp set.  I covered the entire surface of the moon with Wink of Stella.  Although this is the inside of the card, it could easily be a card front.  What do you think?

 

Swirly Bird

I've been wanting to try the eclipse technique for a while now, but I didn't have the large alphabet dies that everyone's using so I put it off.  But a friend was visiting the other day and she brought an alphabet die set with her (Non-SU), and I thought what the heck!  

The background paper for the front of my card was created with the Spooky Cat stamp set.  I stamped randomly all over a piece of Whisper White card stock until I had a pattern I loved and then I cut it down to fit my card. 

I love those owls.  What fun to stamp.  You can't see it but there's lots of shimmer on this card from my Wink of Stella.

This stamp set is part of the Spooky Night Suite in the new Holiday Catalogue.  It's a very reasonably priced Photopolymer stamp set on it's on or it can be purchased as part of a bundle with the fantastic Cat Punch.

 

Enjoy!

Happy Stamping!
Penny Tokens Stampin' Spot

World Card Making Day Open House Projects

Wow, my World Card Making Day Open House on Sunday was a blast!  

I was delighted to open my doors to the twelve great ladies who came. We had ate, chatted, looked at new products, met new friends, talked about classes, made some make n' takes and watched some demos.  

I also had out of town customers participating in my World Card Making day and supplied them with the same make n' takes and access to the Hostess Code for the specials and prize draws.  That's the great thing about being a Stampin' Up! demo, your customers can be anywhere and still participate.

Note:  Due to privacy issues, I'm not including pictures of my guests during the party, only my down line besties.  

How The Day Went:
Speaking of "besties" here are my two, Ethel and Sheri.  These gals are not only great paper crafters and demos themselves, but they just add so much to my team, because of their fun loving nature and thoughtfulness.  

Both arrived before everyone else to help with final setup and food. I was really relaxed before my guests arrived because they gave me time to work through some last minute details while they tried out the make n' takes table and made sure everything I needed was there.  

What a big help!  I must say, I couldn't have made it through the Open House without them!  So take a bow ladies, you certainly deserve it! You did an outstanding job and it was so much fun having you participate.

Make N' Takes: 
 

The card base is Soft Suede topped with a 51/4" x 4" piece of Soft Sky.  The 2nd layer is a 3 3/4" x 5" piece of Whisper White that has been embossed with the Large dot Embossing Folder.  To add some depth to this card face, I used the 3" circle framelit to remove a circle from this piece.  I then cut a 2 3/4" circle from Soft Suede and punched out a a 2 1/2" piece of Soft Sky with the 2 1/2" circle punch.  The Soft Sky circle was stamped with the "Merry and Bright" sentiment from the "Christmas Bliss" photopolymer  stamp set in Soft Suede ink and a few snow flakes were added from a retired stamp set called Snow Flurries.  Some Basic Rhinestones were added to the snow flakes and then this circle was mounted with dimensionals to the Soft Suede piece. 

For the inside of the card I added a Whisper White layer that was stamped with the sentiment "Wishing you a Bright &........" from the Bright and Beautiful stamp set from the Holiday Catalogue.  Two clusters of snowflakes were stamped in Soft Sky ink in the corners.  

We also made a Christmas tag using the new Tree Punch and the On Point Embossing Folder.  How cute is this:

The tree images were embossed with the Fancy Fan Embossing Folder. The beautiful glimmer stars were punched out with the Itty Bitty Accents star punch from the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer paper.  Luv, luv, luv that stuff!

A number of gals said they passed over this embossing folder in the holiday catalogue, because they thought it was just a bunch of geometrics or triangles.  But guess what, along with triangles there are a whole forest of trees lurking in this design.  This just might be an embossing folder for all seasons!

Sheri and Ethel completed the make n' takes themselves so they could ensure all the equipment and supplies needed were there and ready for the first wave of stampers. They were and we were all ready to go when our first guests arrived.

This was my Make N' Take table and guests were able to make both a card and gift tag using the new Tree punch that coordinates with the Festival of Trees stamp set and the Christmas Bliss stamp set.

Everyone got to try out the Envelope Punch Board with Ethel's excellent assistance.  It must have been a hit, several people purchased one. 

Displays: For my Open House, I used the entire basement in my home for displays, make n' takes and refreshment set up.   It made it so much more comfortable than trying to cram into a smaller space.  

My guests were able to browse the catties in comfort and relax and chat.  My Pool table came in handy for a huge display that everyone could walk around and check out.  Here are some pictures of the set up and displays I used.  

The Holiday catalogue is chalk full of wonderful stamp sets and products so this area of the display shows off some of the stamp sets and some samples of what could be made with them.

Paper Pumpkin, Project Life and Clearance Rack items on display.

Here's my cozy "sit a while" area.  It was well used. 

As my guests arrived they each received a goodie bag.

There were some awesome specials offered in October including the one for World Card Making Day  and I wanted to make sure everyone knew all about them, so I made up this display board.

No Open House would be complete without a "clearance table", and in this case it's a table and some stools.  But hey, whatever works!

Along with my sale items we had some of Sheri's fabulous Infiniti scarves on display.  For every scarf sold she donates a percentage to the Run for the Cure.

This is my card making space, all cleaned up for taking orders.

And finally, here are some of my favourite cards on display that I made over the summer months.  Wow did I have fun.  Most of these were made for challenges or for my Stampin' On Tuesday get-togethers. 

PRIZE DRAW WINNERS:
What's a party without door prizes?  Congratulations to Christine H. and to Betty Lee who each won $55.00 in Hostess prizes from my special draw.  Both these gals were very excited when I notified them and have submitted their wish list items, which are now on the way.

Additional winners were:
Jennifer - Stamp Set
Sue J. - Gift card Sampler
Corrine - Stamp set
Arlene - Paper Pack
Nancy -  Dimensionals Pack

Well that's it for my World Card Making day.  I want to thank once again all the great ladies who attended my party and contributed to its fun and success!  You're all so wonderful.  Keep the first Saturday in October marked in your calendar for next year, because I think I'm going to make this an annual event.  
Happy Stampin'
Penny Tokens

World Card Making Day Event- Sunday October 5, 2014

Although WORLD CARD MAKING DAY is on October 4th, I’m celebrating by holding a Drop-In Open House with my friends on Sunday October 5th.  

I’m looking forward to a fun filled time from 10:00am to 1:00pm and would LOVE for you to join me.

This is a great opportunity to see what’s new in the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue, as well as to try out some new stamps and tools.   

I have great samples to share with you and you’ll create a fun and fast Christmas card, matching envelope and tag at my Make N’ Take table. Oh, did I mention there are deals on used stamp sets and products, snacks, beverages, prizes and more.  See, I told you it would be fun.

So drop me a note or give me a call and reserve your spot. 
RSVP at this link:  http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/pennyhanuszak/events?id=1022234
Phone:  778-880-1296

World Card Making Day Contest and Events - 2013

Today is a very special day.  It's a time when card makers around the world have an opportunity to gather together, take paper and ink in hand and demonstrate and celebrate their creative passion for card making.  I hope you're one of them.  

Not sure how to take part in this special day.  Well you can look for events in your neighborhood, join a card making challenge at some of the sites I've listed below, or simply invite some friends in to your home and share this day. 

To help you celebrate and kick off the card making season Stampin’ Up is having a contest . . . to inspire you even further! There are two ways to enter.

• E-mail a photo of a card (or of you making a card) on World Card Making Day to wcmd2013@stampinup.com. 

• Post a photo of a card (or of you making a card) on Instagram on World Card Making Day. Mention us by typing @stampinup and use the hashtag: #wcmd2013 in the description.

This contest is open to everyone—demonstrators, customers, friends, spouses, children . . . you get the idea! However, there are a few conditions:

• You must be over the age of 18 to win a prize.
• You must use Stampin’ Up! products to create your project.
• You may enter as many times as you wish, but each entry must feature a different card.
• The contest will last all day on October 5, from midnight to midnight.
• We will randomly select 100 winners from our English-speaking North American markets to receive a Paper Pumpkin kit.

A selection of pictures will be posted to our World Card Making Day Pinterest board and the winners will be announced in a current update.


Challenge Sites:

Need some card making inspiration.  Just visit any of these sites for current sketches and ideas:

Tis the Season Stamping a new Christmas Card challenge blog, that's posted it's first challenge.  They'll be posting a new challenge every other week, that will rotate between Sketches and Color Combos with a Optional Trimming. Challenges will run for two weeks so lots of time to play along. Check out their first sketch here: tistheseasonstamping.blogspot.com

SU Only Challenge #80 - Welcome Baby.  Their current challenge is to make a card – or other paper crafted project! – for a baby.  This challenge closes in two days time, but there's still time to play with it today.  Check out some of the entries so far and see what the design team has come up with just click here: http://suochallenges.com/

Created by Deanna Boos of http://www.myhomegrownart.com/

Just Us Girls blog site has a World Card Making Day Challenge going on for the next week.  There are prizes being offered. Check it out here:  http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.ca/    And here's their current sketch:

Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge for October is happening this week.  Their color challenge experts have chosen Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzazz and Baked Brown Sugar (or similar colors) to play with. Check out the samples by their uber talented resident artist's who've created some beautiful designs. occasions to inspire you.  Check out their site here:    http://www.palspaperarts.com/

Paper Craft Crew Challenge Sketches 
The Paper Craft Crew design team has come up with some fun card samples using this week's card sketch. PCCCS #61: Card Sketch which closes on October Check out their site at:  http://www.papercraftcrew.com/

World Card Making Day - October 6th, 2012

What are your plans for World Card Making Day?  Are you getting together with friends or family to make cards? Are you and your stamping group getting together to make cards for a charity like Ronald McDonald House?  

Are you joining a Blog Hop for World Card Making Day or holding your own?

Whatever is going on in your life today, I hope you'll have the opportunity to do something you love for someone you love. 

Today I'm making a sympathy card for my nephew who's dad just passed away. I'm also working on making two birthday cards and an anniversary card for friends whose special occasions happen next week.  I'll post my cards tomorrow.  Have a good one!



 

World Card Making Day - October 6, 2012

Hard to believe, I know, but October is just around the corner and you know what that means.  Along with designing your Thanks Giving Projects and Halloween goodies it's just three weeks away from Paper Craft Magazine's seventh annual World Card Making Day!

You can join your fellow card makers as the holiday card-making season officially kicks off on Saturday, Oct. 6.   Visit www.WorldCardMakingDay.com for participating retailers, exclusive projects from their sponsors, a gallery to upload your creations, and fun ideas for celebrating with your friends.  

While you're there, don't forget to enter their 2012 World Card Making Day Card Contest! This year 20 winners will be awarded a prize package valued at more than $400, and an opportunity to be published in the March/April 2013 Paper Crafts issue.   For submission details, including the five card categories, click HERE. Deadline: Monday, Oct. 15.

World Card Making Day - Fall Birthday Cards

Birthday Cards made with Autumn Spice Designer Series Paper - Holiday Mini Catalogue Pg. 13 #120808

Inside view of Gatefold Birthday Card

Detail for the front of the Gatefold Card

Inside View of Acorn Birthday Card.

The acorns are embossed wih Gold EP and add a bright touch to this plain card.

Hope you enjoy these two cards. Leave a comment and come back to visit again.