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Sweet Jar Happy Birthday Card

Create this card in May when you get the new Sweet Jar Bundle! You will find it in the Online Exclusives coming May 6th! Can you believe it will be May 6th next week already?! This is going to be fun set to be very creative with, I believe!

In the Sweet Jar Bundle, you get the Sweet Jar Stamp Set and the Sweet Jar Builder Punch. The Punch punches out the jar and the lid. You can stamp them first and then punch or just punch plain paper and jazz it up if you want.

For this slimline card, the card base is Peach Pie cardstock with a layer of a pinkish/peachish paper in the Full of Life 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. One of the “other sides” of this very colorful pack of paper! Start with a 6″ x 6″ piece of cardstock, score at 3″ and you have a slimline card, as we call it. You can vary the measurements if you have a larger envelope that your card will fit in.

The jars are punched from Basic White cardstock and the candies inside are stamped on there. It’s easy to ink up the stamp to make all the candies the same color. If you want to make them different colors you have to use a Stampin’ Write Marker for each candy. Since my photopolymer stamp was new, it wasn’t working great with the marker on another card I made no matter what I tried. So this method is easier. You can even imagine these candies being something else in the jar. Use your imagination! I also took a Pool Party Stampin’ Blend marker and just lightly let the brush tip run along the edge, ON the edge, of the jar just to put a hint of color to make it look like a glass jar, with a few little highlight streaks. Hold the jar in your hand when you apply the ink to the edge so you’re not really drawing it on. You could probably use a gray marker as well. The lids I punched out of Gold Foil scraps. All three jars luckily fit on this slimline card with a couple of them tilted a little bit. It makes them fit and looks a little more fun! The greeting is in the set and is stamped in Peach Pie ink. I cut the ends to make a little banner out of it and made the strip narrow to fit on the card. Everything is glued down flat to the card. Not one to leave off some embellishment, I had to add three little Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems, also coming in the Online Exclusives.

This Sweet Jar Bundle will also allow you to make shaker cards for fun! Start thinking of ideas of what you will want to make!

Storybook Moments Z-Fold Bunnies Card

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I think this Storybook Moments Z-Fold Bunnies Card turned out so sweet, not because I made it, but because the paper and the bunnies are just irresistible. I didn’t even add a greeting because this was not meant to be an Easter card (although it could be!) and I wasn’t sure for what occasion I would send it or to whom I would send it. And I could have no sentiment and just write a personal message inside.

This is a Z-Fold card which I think always looks special and yet is simple to make. It is just the front of the card folded back on a center score line. The only tricky part is adhering the center panel on the front, centered properly, so that if you have a stamped greeting on the inside, it is completely hidden from the front because of how you place it.

This card starts with a base of Boho Blue cardstock. Cut the usual card size, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Score at 2 1/8″ and 4 1/4″. Or score the card at 4 1/4″ as usual, then score the card front in half. Half of 4 1/4″ is 2 1/8″. Or just fold the card front in half lining it up with the card fold. Then decorate however you like.

I used the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper for this card. I have liked this paper so much I have almost used all of it and that doesn’t usually happen! I just love the patterns with the strawberries and I got to use both on this card! One has a pinkish background and one has blue. My friend said she’d like to have the blue one for wallpaper! That would take a lot of packages of paper!

I adhered a piece of the pink strawberry pattern to the front panel. It is cut at 5 3/8″ x 2″. The main thing to think about is keeping margins the same wherever you place paper on the card. This measurement gave a teeny tiny margin around the edges. If you want the usual margin, then cut the designer paper a little narrower and shorter. But then so that with the inside layer and the strip on the right-hand edge of the card, IF you are doing those. The inside of my card has a Basic White piece cut at 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″. I played and played trying to decide on the paper design for the edge of the card and finally the blue background strawberry pattern looked perfect.

The Basic White paper on the inside of the card (for a stamped or written message or note) looked too stark white against the other papers so I used a Small Blending Brush (or you could use a sponge) to apply just a very light shade of Crumb Cake ink just around the edges and even a bit in the center. Very light! It’s just enough to match the background of the paper with the bunnies instead of looking so white.

The focal point of the card uses the Storybook Moments DSP pattern with the larger images of bunnies in a variety of poses and actions. I used the largest circle die in the Stylish Shapes Dies because that was the size I needed to get every bit of the bunnies in the die. That left me with nothing larger for the layer. After looking through my dies, I chose the Memorable Blooms Dies (which were on the Last Chance List and now must be discontinued). The octagon shape fit the bunny diecut very well and the Old Olive cardstock helped it stand out from the background.

The strip on the side of the card is 1″ x 5 3/8″, again, matching the same length of the other papers and margins on the card. You can vary this size or not even add it. For a finishing touch, I added a small bow under the bunny piece. I haven’t gone through my ribbons in awhile so this one may be retired as well. It was a Granny Apple Green in a Ribbon Duo Combo Pack. Use whatever you have. Linen Thread would look perfect on this card as well. Another important tip is to only put glue or adhesive on the half of the focal point panel so that it only is sticky on the side going on the Z-Fold and not sticking to the inside of the card!

Here is a photo of the card opened up so you can see how the Z-Fold looks.

Storybook Moments Z-Fold Bunnies Card Open

As much as I like to add bling or sparkles, I felt this card was fine without anything else, just the bow!

Don’t forget about the Last Chance List! Some items are discounted but not all and once they are gone from there, they are gone. The Last Chance List of retiring products has now taken the place of the Clearance Rack. If a product in any retiring catalog is carrying over, if you don’t see it in the new catalog it is in the Online Exclusives category in the Online Store!

Also, remember that now you get Stampin’ Rewards in your account to spend on a future order any time you place an order of $20 or more in merchandise! In fact, I noticed that when you view a product in the Online Store, it will tell you what your rewards would be for that product!

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Wildflower Birthday Cupcake Birthday Card

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Make this Wildflower Birthday Cupcake Birthday Card easily with the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog. It’s not “just” for birthdays (as you can see with the floral paper in the background) but you will have some fun options for making birthday cards or birthday scrapbook pages.

This card is made with a card base of Blueberry Bushel Cardstock. It coordinates with some of the flowers in the background paper. The pretty floral paper in the background has gold foil accents which makes almost anything look fancier!

The extra special feature of the Wildflower Birthday Designer Paper is that it comes with two sheets of diecut images. These are great to use on cards and scrapbook pages and make designing the project quick and easy, not to mention fun! For this card, I used three cupcake diecuts on these sheets on the front of the card. They are popped up on three layers of paper underneath to help them stand out. The green paper with white dots underneath the cupcakes is cut at 4″ x 1 1/2″ and is in the Wildflower Birthday DSP. The layer underneath that paper is Blueberry Bushel cardstock cut at 4 1/4″ x 1 3/4″. The layer underneath that is Gold Foil to match the gold foil accents and is cut at 4 1/2″ x 2″.

The greeting is stamped on a scrap strip of Basic White cardstock and layered on Gold Foil with the ends flagged like banners. I just cut these by hand. Just for a little extra embellishment on this card, I added some Shiny Sequins (retired) from the Flowering Zinnias Suite on the top of the cupcakes using the different colors. You can use anything sparkly that you have!

Since the card base is a dark color, add a Basic White layer inside the card on which to stamp or write a personal message. Make it extra nice with either a strip of the designer paper along the bottom and/or a diecut or two!

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With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card

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This With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card uses some rather new products and a soon-to-be-new product! The plaid paper and the colors make it a great masculine card that we often have difficulty coming up with.

I wanted to use the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper for a card and this is what I came up with. You’ll find it in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog. This plaid has brown and blues in it. I chose Crumb Cake cardstock for the card base and then the plaid designer paper.

The greeting is stamped in Boho Blue ink on Basic White with the With You In Mind Stamp Set. This stamp set is also in the Spring Mini. I really like this stamp set! It has rather large greetings in a fun font and are ones everyone will use, plus some small images like the stars and cupcake you see on this card. This greeting was then diecut using new dies “coming” on March 4th in the Online Exclusives! Demonstrators were able to preorder. These are the Textured Notes Dies. These are all rectangles with different diecut border designs. They will be very useful dies to use for layering or cutting frames to use. For this card I added an extra plain Boho Blue layer under the Basic White greeting, just cut with the Paper Trimmer, and then the whole greeting piece is layered on top of a Textured Note diecut piece of Crumb Cake. For this card I really liked the extra Boho Blue color layered under the white. I popped up the whole greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For some embellishments, I stamped two stars, one in Boho Blue ink and one in Crumb Cake ink, plus a cupcake. To stamp the cupcake, I inked up just the cupcake bottom with Crumb Cake ink, stamped that, then inked up just the frosting in Lost Lagoon ink, and stamped that right above the cupcake bottom. It happened to work out perfectly! You could also use Stampin’ Write markers to color both areas, breathe on the stamp, then stamp. It might turn out a little light but it would probably be fine. Then I just cut out the stars and cupcake with my Paper Snips. I felt like the card still needed a little sparkle or something so I added two gold dots in the Low Profile Dots. I really like these dots which are really “low profile” because they don’t add bumpy lumps to the envelope when mailing!

Although I labeled this card as masculine, it could be for anyone as is because the colors are so pretty together in the plaid, but you could change the plaid paper to other colors and brighten up the whole card a little bit. Be sure to check out these Textured Note Dies when they come out next week.

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Wildflower Birthday Slice of Cake Card

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This Wildflower Birthday Slice of Cake Card is the first one I made with this package of paper and a couple other products. My order came the other day and I’ve been trying to organize some of my older (retired?) papers and my new ones. It’s a never-ending battle, right?! I think the products in this Wildflower Birthday Suite will make it real easy for you to make all the birthday cards and others that you can think of! So pretty, festive, and very “useable”.

The card base is Pool Party cardstock, one of the many pretty colors that go with this Suite. I chose one of the papers in the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper for the background layer of this card. It was a tough choice to start because all the papers are so festive and pretty! I chose the one with lots of pretty small decorated cakes and it also has gold foil accents.

The center focal point of the card started as one of the tags on two of the sheets that can be cut apart. It had an Old Olive top edge on the tag, and although I started to work with that, I finally realized I just didn’t like it on this card but I wanted the cake slice, so I just got off the top Old Olive edge of the tag! Then I even trimmed it to be a little shorter. I layered it on a piece of Pool Party to match the card base and then I was happy. The cake slice piece is 3 1/4″ x 2 3/8″. The Pool Party layer is 3 1/2″ x 2 5/8″. I adhered that flat on the card but I almost popped it up. Instead I popped up the greeting, which I found in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack in the Annual Catalog. The color and size were fine, although I did snip off bits on the ends to make it look like a banner shape.

To embellish the card I added some Party Dots around the cake slice. I used all three colors of dots – Pretty in Pink, Pool Party, and Peach Pie – and they all go together with the cake image. The ribbon is new and coming in the next Online Exclusives in March. It is the White 1/4″ Ribbon.

This is a pretty simple card yet the birthday-themed paper with the pretty cakes and gold foil on each one make it stunning. Also included in the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Paper are two sheets of diecuts which will be fun to use on cards, scrapbook pages, and other projects. You will find this Wildflower Birthday Suite Collection in the Spring Mini Catalog. Get it all or choose which products you want the most!

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New Year! New Products Galore at Stampin’ Up! Today!

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Spring Mini 2025 and Sale A Bration Catalogs

New Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog Is LIVE TODAY….

Plus It is Sale-A-Bration Time!….And More!

Today is like Christmas or your birthday at Stampin’ Up! So many new things! And what do we stampers like better than NEW PRODUCTS! Not only do we have the new January-April 2025 Mini Catalog (I like to call it the Spring Mini for short!) but Sale-A-Bration has started! Sale-A-Bration is a big promotion Stampin’ Up! has held “forever” almost and we love it because we get to earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure with every $60 purchase (before shipping and tax, of course).

New Scrapbooking Brochure for January 2025!

This Scrapbooking Brochure for January 2025 incorporates new scrapbooking products available without waiting for a new catalog! You will have to scroll through the brochure online to take in all the new products available! Read the description of each. You’ll find 12″ x 12″ cardstock, designer series paper, sticker sheets and diecut images, and more! This is great for starting your New Year getting into Memory Keeping that we all just put off!

SU Online Exclusives January 2025 Partial Flyer

New Online Exclusives For January!

Check out this Flyer of new Online Exclusives for January!

SHOP HERE for ALL the Online Exclusives! Remember, these are available as long as supplies last and as long as Stampin’ Up! can restock anything that sells out.

There are 3 new Kits released today in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection!!

The Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection makes it easy for ANYONE to craft and make beautiful creations! Each Kit contains all the supplies you will need except maybe a scissors, if that! Follow the directions for the project OR change it up however you like! There will be information in the instructions of where to go for more help with the kit, if you need it.

Brightest Birthday Kit

Thank You Kindly Kit

Birthday Bash Kit

Just check out the Stampin’ Up! website, click all around, and you’ll get caught up with all the new products! I know after the Christmas holidays it is difficult for me to take in all the new information but I hope this post and links will be helpful to get you started! Remember, anything you REALLY want, be sure to order early just in case certain things sell out quickly. You never know what the most popular things will be!

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With You In Mind Birthday Card

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Now that the Christmas holidays are over, we are getting real close to the new year. That brings thoughts of getting organized and getting birthday cards ready like this With You In Mind Birthday Card. Especially if you have birthdays coming up in January after the busy-ness of the holidays, you need to get on the ball and get cards ready to send right away in the New Year!

This With You In Mind Stamp Set is one that is coming January 7th in the new Spring Mini Catalog (officially known as the January – April 2025 Mini Catalog). This stamp set appealed to me because it has four all-occasion greetings with one of the words in a rather large font. You get “Thinking of You”, “Happy Birthday”, “Best Wishes”, and “Thank You” plus a small flower, star, heart, cupcake, and leafy sprig.

To try to get back into create mode after being very busy with Christmas and children home, I started off making up a card beginning with copying a sample from the new mini catalog. I thought the “Happy Birthday” tag with cupcakes was pretty cute and could be made into a card. To choose colors for the card, I tried out the Color Coach. I’m not a real expert using the Color wheel but I decided to choose three colors next to each other on the wheel. I chose Pool Party, Balmy Blue, and Azure Afternoon. I really wasn’t sure how that combination was going to work, but I think it did!

The card base is Basic White and on top of that I used two of the cardstock colors I mentioned above. I used two panels of Pool Party with a panel of Balmy Blue in the middle. These are cut at 1 3/4″ x 4″. I adhered them right next to each other with no space in between. After I adhered them to the Basic White card base, I stamped stars around the background using the star in the stamp set with Versamark ink to give it that light, watermarked image.

As I said, the tag in the middle of the card is like the sample in the mini catalog. It is a piece of Basic White cardstock cut at 2 1/4″ x 4 1/2″. The greeting is stamped in Azure Afternoon ink ( one of the three colors next to each other on the Color Wheel). The three cupcakes are stamped with Daffodil Delight ink for the frosting and Pool Party ink for the cupcake holder. I inked up just the frosting top portion with the ink pad and stamped that three times for the three cupcakes. Then I went back and inked up just the bottom portion of the cupcake and stamped it underneath the frosting. This worked better than using Stampin’ Write Markers because these stamps were brand-new and not cooperating with trying to color on with a marker. The ink pads worked much better.

The end of the greeting was cut in a flagged end and a small 2 1/4″ x 1″ piece of Azure Afternoon card stock was adhered to the left side of the tag. I had also stamped it with a few Versamark stars. I tied around some Balmy Blue twine in the Baker’s Twine Three Color Pack and made the strands spread out just for a fun look. Then I took three pieces of the same twine and tied a knot in the center. The whole greeting was then popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

This is an easy card to make! The only thing that took time for me was deciding the best way to do the cupcakes and what colors to make them. I love the new stamped greeting and love seeing something big but not huge. The greetings in this With You In Mind Stamp Set will get a lot of use!

Remember, Sale-A-Bration also begins on January 7, 2025 and runs through February 28 during which time when you make a qualifying purchase, you get to choose a product from the special Sale-A-Bration brochure for FREE! This year the qualifying amount is $60 in product (before tax and shipping).The products include stamp sets, designer series paper, embellishments, an embossing folder, and more. And if you choose to join Stampin’ Up! and become a Demonstrator, with your purchase of the Starter Kit (stamping products you choose yourself plus business supplies to get your business started), you can either choose from certain free items or an additional amount to add to your Starter Kit. It’s all in the last pages in the Sale-A-Bration brochure!

It all begins a week from tomorrow!!

So Much New At Stampin’ Up! Today!

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Stampin’ Up! has taken these designer series papers we have had previously and changed the colors to fresher, updated ones! You will find these papers in the Online Exclusives category and are available while supplies last!

Refreshed Beauty (#166259) is the previous Blackberry Beauty DSP. This paper is 12″ x 12″.

Serene Love (#166261) is the previous True Love DSP. This paper is 12″ x 12″.

Shades & Hues (#166260) is the previous Color Theory DSP. This paper is 6″ x 6″.

Watch this video to see the papers a little closer:

NEW LAST CHANCE LIST

This is a new way to present the retiring products from catalogs, which beginning today are products in the September – December 2024 Mini Catalog (or Holiday Mini Catalog as we know it!). But from now on, this list will contain any retiring products from any catalogs and from Online Exclusives and Kits in the Kits Collection. (This does not include Paper Pumpkin kits.). Some products will be discounted and product discounts may change over time. This will take the place of the Clearance Rack.

The good thing is that everything is in one place and instead of, for example, a stamp set retiring from the Holiday Mini Catalog, will not go away at the end of the catalog, but instead will be in the Last Chance list for however long, until it sells out and is then discontinued. So you will have access to all those products “while supplies last” once they are on the Last Chance list. You can sort for “Discount Applied” in the Online Store for the Last Chance List if you want to see the sale items without scrolling through everything.

What this means is that the “retirement list” for the Holiday Mini is out today but it is in the Last Chance category and those products will remain there until they sell out, whether one day or whether two months. Go check it out!

NEW KITS IN THE KITS COLLECTION!

There are new Kits in the Kits Collection today!

You will want the Perpetual Beauty Calendar Kit here at the beginning of the New Year to have your list of birthdays and anniversaries and other occasions all in one list for each month!

The Cherry Blossom Treat Boxes Kit will make beautiful favors for parties, showers, weddings, or birthdays, even just small gift boxes. The boxes are already printed, you just need to assemble and stamp the greeting on the tag.

That’s a lot for one day! There might even be more that I missed but it’s time to get this post out!

Check out the LAST CHANCE LIST right away!

Meandering Meadows Happy Birthday Card

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This is the Meandering Meadows Happy Birthday Card which I made for my son, in kind of a hurry since it became really a “belated” birthday card! At least I mailed it on his birthday, I think! I actually did make this card for him because he loves to go hiking in the mountains where he lives. I thought this beautiful scene on this designer paper looked like a trail he might find when he goes hiking. Maybe it looks more like a trail I would like since it looks flat and there are no drop-offs on the side!

This card has a Basic White cardstock card base with a little wider than usual margin before we get to the card layers. Your layer colors will be determined by which of the papers you choose from the Meandering Meadows 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I don’t have the card in front of me as I write this, but I believe for this pattern I chose Shaded Spruce and Lemon Lime Twist cardstock for the layers. I almost always play around with a couple different colors as I work on a card to see which ones look best together on the card.

The greeting is stamped with two different stamps in the Choose Happy Stamp Set. You can make up many different greetings with this set. It also has a lot of cute little images that might be fun to use in your cardmaking and other projects. It is diecut with one of the small banner dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I cut off the left side of the banner, lined it up with the edge of the designer paper, and adhered a bow made with a double layer of the Garden Green Natural Tones Linen Thread. You get three colors in this pack of this linen thread!

And if you want to decorate the inside, this is what I added to the inside of this card:

Meandering Meadows Happy Birthday Card Inside

That’s how easy this card is because you just have to let the Meandering Meadows Designer Series Paper show off its beauty! Add a greeting and maybe an embellishment and you have a beautiful card.

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Unbounded Beauty Split Birthday Card

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This is one of the quickest cards I have made lately! I had the card idea in my head from one I saw online so all I had to do was choose paper and make it! I didn’t even stop to find another card like it to see how to make it. I just had to get it done and out came this Unbounded Beauty Split Birthday Card! I don’t even know what this card design would be called, but that’s what I am calling it.

The card base is Petunia Pop, one of the new In Colors. It coordinates with the pretty Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper. The patterns you see on this card are the two colors on one sheet of paper. I guess my geometry skills were lacking because I thought I would just cut this 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of designer in half diagonally and flip one piece over to show the other side. But that didn’t work! so I cut another piece from the same designer paper at 4″ x 5 1/4″, cut it on my Paper Trimmer diagonally, but this time I cut it from the opposite top corner of the paper than I did the first time. Here is a photo of how to lay your paper on the Paper Trimmer:

When I swapped out one of the halves from each piece of paper, then they lined up properly! You could even have another layer on the card base and adhere the designer paper to that, but I put mine right on the card. Also, you can have the space in between the two pieces or you can push them together. I liked having that diagonal line going through the middle.

For the greeting, I diecut two circles with the Deckled Circles Dies in the Online Exclusives. One is Basic White cardstock and the larger one is Summer Splash cardstock. At first, I was going to use Petunia Pop cardstock, but I liked using the Summer Splash better for a little more color. I stamped the greeting on the Basic White circle in Summer Splash ink. The stamp is in the Unbounded Love Stamp Set. The birthday greeting seemed like just the right size for the look of this card. After stamping, I adhered the white circle layered on the Summer Splash circle.

I had even forgotten I had the ribbon in the new In Colors, so when I saw I had those, I used the Summer Splash 3/8″ Bordered Ribbon. The texture and feel of this ribbon is really nice! I applied Stampin’ Seal adhesive on the back of the Summer Splash circle and applied the ribbon back and forth behind that piece. When I popped up that greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals, those Dimensionals helped hold the ribbon in place even more.

And why not apply a few embellishments to this card for a little more pizzazz? I used the 2024-2025 In Color Resin Dots for a little bling on the greeting in Pretty in Pink, Petunia Pop and Summer Splash to represent all the colors on this designer paper.

I just realized this is the first day of August and I made a birthday card….and it’s my birthday month! I didn’t even have that in my head! I was probably thinking of a friend whose birthday is the day after mine so I could send her this card. And there probably are other August birthdays I will need cards for!

Remember, now you can redeem your Bonus Days coupon codes!

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Have You Seen the Circus Celebration Kit in the Kits Collection?

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If you or someone you know loves the circus, this Circus Celebration Kit in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection is the kit for you or them! I think this is one of the cutest circus themes I have seen! What child (or adult!) could not be super-excited to receive this card in the mail for their birthday or whatever occasion you want it to be? Years ago Stampin’ Up! sold circus-themed designer series paper, maybe a stamp set, that was very cute. I remember my daughter being home for a visit and made a scrapbook page for a friend with the paper. We no longer have that, but now you can purchase this Circus Celebration Kit and think about circus days while you make the cards!

Make magical birthday cards with the Circus Celebrations Kit! This DIY card-making kit has all the pieces you need to create four birthday cards in two circus-themed designs with adorable animals doing tricks for your audience. The playful designs are perfect to celebrate birthdays for all ages. This stamp-free kit makes it even easier to craft than most, so it’s great for beginners!

Kit includes:
* Predesigned projects
* Step-by-step instructions
* Precut pieces (No prep work! Get right to crafting)
* Makes 8 cards: 4 each of 2 designs
* Folded card size: 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″
* 8 preprinted envelopes
* Enough adhesive to complete projects
* Printed die cuts
* A 9-7/8″ x 6-1/2″ x 2-3/4″ printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go

Product colors: Copper Clay, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Night of Navy, Poppy Parade

If you need some cards for children or want some easy-to-make cards that children would be able to make with you, this is really a cute kit for any of those reasons! No stamping involved, so just punch out the diecut pieces and design your cards. If you want to make something else besides cards, the supplies are yours to do with what you want!

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Zoo Crew Musical Birthday Card

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As I looked for a card idea to make with a stamp set that was retiring from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog, I had a difficult time finding a set I had that wasn’t already sold out! This is the one I came up with and made this fun Zoo Crew Musical Birthday Card with this retiring designer series paper that I love! I wish this whole stamp set, dies, and designer series paper were sticking around another year! These little animals, doing various things from camping to crafting to playing instruments are just so cute and fun! It may be Tax Day, but these little guys will put a smile on your face!

For this card, I started with the Zoo Crew Designer Series Paper in the Zoo Crew Suite Collection. It was tough deciding which characters to use, but I decided on the musical guys. I used my Paper Trimmer to cut out each animal without getting too much other background. You could use a punch or rectangle die or whatever you like but I find just using the Paper Trimmer to be the easiest. Then I layered each animal on colored cardstock and then onto a narrow piece of black. You could do just one layer. I won’t put all the exact measurements because your cut-out animal might be a different size than mine.

The frog was already colored in, but I did decide to color in the bear and the first animal, whatever he is. Maybe he is a wild boar. I used Stampin’ Blends. Their instruments were already colored, I just colored the animal body. You could use Watercolor Pencils or some ink and a Blender Pen or even leave them blank. I didn’t think about how they weren’t colored at first.

The card base is Basic Black with a layer of Lemon Lime Twist. The background designer paper is in the Zoo Crew paper. You could choose from several different patterns.

Fitting these three musicians on the card was a little tricky, but I finally was satisfied with how I have them placed. I decided to pop all three of them up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Where the corners overlapped, I did not put a Dimensional.

For the greeting, I chose one in the Zany Zoo Stamp Set and stamped it on a scrap strip of Basic White. I have a lot of these scrap strips of cardstock, and they are often handy for a narrow greeting. Rather than making banner ends on my greeting, I added some Iridescent Adhesive-Backed Discs to each end. These are great because they are flat and didn’t add any more bulkiness to the card.

As I am writing this, you can still get the retiring Zany Crew Suite Collection or the individual products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store! Let me know if you have any questions about what is available or not available during this Last Chance retirement time!

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Two New Kits in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection

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Today is almost like Christmas at Stampin’ Up! Lots of new things coming! Two new Kits in the Kits Collection which are available TODAY! What a great way to start off a new month!

This is the Birthday Sparkle Kit! Looks very pretty and sparkly to me! Make six glittery birthday cards and six gift tags with this kit. Besides the stamp set, you get diecut paper pieces, glittery stickers, twine, and envelopes. Use the contents exactly as designed or make up your own designs. If you don’t need tags, make them into cards, for example.

Kit includes:
*Birthday Sparkle Photopolymer Stamp Set
*Clear Stamp Block
*Early Espresso Stampin’ Spot
*Predesigned projects
*Step-by-step instructions
*Precut pieces (No prep work! Get right to crafting)
*Make 6 cards and 6 gift tags
*Cards: 3 each of 2 designs; folded card 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″
*Gift tags: 3 each of 2 designs; largest tag 2-1/4″ x 3-1/2″

6 preprinted envelopes
*Enough adhesive to complete projects
*Gold glitter stickers and pressed wood picks.
*Baker’s Twine in Early Espresso and White
*A 9-7/8″ x 6-1/2″ x 2-3/4″ printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go

Product colors: Basic White, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, gold glitter

For something a little different, here is the Happy Houseplants Kit. If you love houseplants but don’t necessarily have a green thumb, this home decor kit might be just the thing! This kit comes with four 6″ x 6″ frames to hold the plant diecut pieces that you can make look almost 3D! You don’t even have to shop for frames when you make the plants!

Kit includes:
* Predesigned projects
* Step-by-step instructions
* Precut pieces (No prep work! Get right to crafting)
* 4 white frames
* Frame size: 7-1/8″ x 7-1/8″ x 7/16″
* Enough adhesive to complete projects
* A 7-3/4″ x 7-1/2″ x 3″ printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go

Product colors: Calypso Coral, Garden Green, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lime Twist, Pecan Pie

Check out these two new kits in the Kits Collection as well as all the other choices! Kits by Stampin’ Up! are perfect for new crafters, busy crafters, or crafters who want quick and easy projects. All-inclusive project kits have everything you need in one box! Give them as a gift or try them yourself. Kits are while supplies last.

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Lighter Than Air Suite in Spring Mini

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Lighter Than Air Suite SU Photo — Image © Stampin’ Up! 2024

One of the popular Suites in the new Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog is this Lighter Than Air Suite! You will find this Suite on pages 32-34. If you like hot air balloons, you will love this Suite! I might like looking at hot air balloons, but I don’t think I want to ride in one so high up! I remember when we were first married, there was some event with several hot air balloons on the ground in a field and we could walk up and see them up close. There was one that you could get into the basket and just be lifted up a little bit, still anchored to the ground. Just a tiny little ride not far off the ground! I wish we would have tried that! It was a pretty safe way to test out a hot air balloon ride, just a little bit! One time, years ago, a hot air balloon landed in my parents’ neighborhood, right out on the street! Fortunately, it was a neighborhood street, not a heavily trafficked one, but I guess that is where the balloon needed to land. They certainly are pretty floating across the sky!

I love the soft colors in this Suite, especially in the Lighter Than Air 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is pretty to use for many cards for many occasions or projects. There’s only one pattern with hot air balloons on it but the other patterns are very generic. There are stripes, dots, and many other patterns you can use for general cards, baby cards, birthday cards, and more!

I suggest getting this designer paper, Rainbow Dots, and Baker’s Twine if nothing else! Here is a card I made recently using the Lighter Than Air 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper and the Rainbow Dots. The pastel colors are so pretty, you can’t go wrong! Of course, there is a stamp set and dies to really indulge your love of hot air balloons. You can see lots of design ideas on pages 32 and 34.

Enjoy this Stampin’ Up! video telling you all about the Suite!

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Bright & Beautiful Gate Fold Birthday Card

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It has been a while since I have thought of using this Bright & Beautiful 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper! But when I got the idea of this Bright & Beautiful Gate Fold Birthday Card I was so happy to get this paper back out and pick which papers I wanted to use on this card! We get so caught up in the newest products that we sometimes forget what we already have!

This birthday card is easy and can be for many other occasions with just a change of greeting and maybe colors or papers. To make this gatefold card, start with a card base of 11″ x 4″. Cut a sheet of cardstock lengthwise instead of horizontally the way we usually do it. I used Blueberry Bushel for this card.

Score the card at 2 3/4″ from each end. Or you can score at 2 3/4″ and then 8 1/4″. Crease and fold the score lines, making sure the flaps meet evenly in the center.

To decorate, cut two panels of designer paper for the front that are 2 1/2″ x 4″. Adhere to each of the two front panels. Or you can stamp on the panels.

On the inside, you could just put a Basic White layer of cardstock to stamp or write a greeting or message, but I decided to use another pattern in the same designer paper that has yellow stripes. I also stamped the circle greeting and cupcake in the Circle Sayings Bundle. I colored in the cupcake with Stampin’ Blends and stamped “Celebrate” in Blueberry Bushel ink and then punched it out with the circle punch. On the cupcake, I added some Adhesive-Backed Glitter Sequins in Old Olive. I also added some punched stars to the inside after I finally found my little retired star punch!

On the front of the card, I die-cut a Blueberry Bushel rectangle with the Radiating Stitches Die. For the center, I just measured and cut out a rectangle to fit inside out of Basic White cardstock with my Paper Trimmer. The birthday greeting is from the Biggest Wish Stamp Set and is stamped in Berry Burst ink.

To go along with the star paper, I dug out some retired dies, So Many Stars to diecut some interesting stars to use on this card. There is also a star die in the Merriest Trees Dies that I used. Use whatever you have!

When you adhere this greeting piece to the front of the gatefold card, find the midpoint and make sure you only apply adhesive to the side that attaches to the left side of the card. It, of course, does not get glued down all the way across so make sure you don’t have any glue in the wrong place that is going to make something else sticky!

This is the kind of easy card that you can change up in different ways and make something that looks completely new!

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