Stamping Sunday Blog Hop – CASE & Switch

Welcome to the July 2025 Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. We have another fun theme this month! The designers are picking a favorite project from the Annual Catalog for inspiration, and then switching it up by designing a completely different type of project. So for example, I found a card on the cover (lower right) but my challenge was to make anything but a card. So, I decided to make a party banner for my daughter’s engagement party!

This banner is BIG … over 6 feet long, so it was really hard to get a full-sized photo. I had to lay it out on my dining room floor! I don’t think the big photo does it much justice.

Here’s a closer look. My daughter picked the colors and I think it turned out quite elegant. She wanted vanilla, gold, and solf greens. I had to look through my stash of retired ribbons (and I have A LOT), but I found the perfect ones!

The banner is two-sided as it will hang between two pillars. I dry embossed the smaller layer and Very Vanilla letters with the Pressed Flowers Embossing Folder.

I cut the smaller banners from Nature’s Sweetness Specialty Designer Series Paper. Then, I staggered the letters over Gold Foil ones.

The leaves are die-cut using the Beautiful Motifs and Thankful Gardens Dies. I pre-painted Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper with Garden Green, Old Olive, and Soft Sea Foam ink.

Here are a few hints if you’d like to make a banner of your own. I found it easier to mark my holes with a ruler after I had adhered my main layers and then used a 1/8″ hold punch to go through all the layers at once. Then, I used the Party Banner Dies to cut all the hole reinforcers and added three small dots of liquid glue to each one. I let them all dry until they were tacky and then I adhered them. This makes it so easy to adjust those teeny tiny circles to the right place.

I used a similar method to adhere all the ferns and leaves. That way, it’s very neat with no oozing glue.

Be sure to follow along the rest of the Stamping Sunday Blog Hop for even more inspiration with this month’s theme. Click on the links below. (If you’re seeing this via email, you may need to click on my header to switch over to my blog in order to see the links.)

Stamping Sunday Blog Hop Designers:

Best wishes for a wonderful Sunday!

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