Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration Ends in Two Weeks!

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Can you believe Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration is coming to an end only two weeks from today?! It always seems like a long time when it begins and then before we know it, it comes to an end. Fortunately, we still have some time left to make Stampin’ Up! purchases and earn FREE products!

In case you are new, Sale-A-Bration is an annual promotion that Stampin’ Up! has held for many, many years and is a favorite because it involves earning free products! With every $50 purchase, you may earn a free Sale-A-Bration product. There are no limits to how much you can earn. Spending $100, for example, gives you the choice to choose two free products at the $50 Level, but there are additional special choices at the $100 Level if you prefer. Having an order of $150 or more also earns Stampin’ Rewards of 10% more in current Stampin’ Up! products plus Sale-A-Bration.

Here is the main Sale-A-Bration brochure for choosing FREE rewards:

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Recently Stampin’ Up! added some additional choices!

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If you like Paper Pumpkin, you might like to consider adding a Paper Pumpkin Prepaid Subscription to your order and earning Sale-A-Bration rewards with that subscription. Even if you are already getting the monthly subscription, you can purchase a prepaid subscription that will override the monthly subscription until it runs out, and then your account will automatically revert to your monthly subscription. You still can skip a month if you need to with a prepaid subscription.

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You can add the 1-month Prepaid Subscription to your order to reach $50 or whatever amount you want to reach. If you purchase the 3-month Prepaid Subscription for $69.50 you will earn a free Sale-A-Bration product at the $50 Level. (You will pay the minimum shipping on that amount for the Sale-A-Bration product if that is all you order.) Not only can you earn Sale-A-Bration rewards but you will get a Paper Pumpkin Kit in your mailbox each month!

Another benefit during Sale-A-Bration is the opportunity to JOIN Stampin’ Up! as a Demonstrator and receive an extra bonus!

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Check over all these options going on during Sale-A-Bration in the next two weeks and decide if you want to take advantage of any of them! Sale-A-Bration ends February 29, 2024! We get an extra day this year to Sale-A-Brate!

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Bee Mine Bees Valentine Card

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Bee Mine Bees Valentine Card Jan

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!

If you are looking for one last card idea for Valentine’s Day, here is a card I got from my very dear friend! She always makes beautiful cards! I called this the Bee Mine Bees Valentine Card! It is made with the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper. I didn’t think I was into bees, but as soon as I started working with this paper it was just so cute! I loved cutting out the medium-sized bees on one of the papers and using them for embellishments! And the paper is not just for Valentine’s Day. The patterns will mix and match and not all of them have hearts. But hearts are for any time so don’t be afraid to use the cute bees with hearts!

This card uses several of the products in the Bee Mine Suite Collection in the Spring Mini Catalog. If you want to use just one item number for ordering all the products in the Suite, you will get the Bundle price on the stamp set and punch. Otherwise, just order the products individually that you want and/or the Bee Mine Bundle. Remember to think in terms of spending increments of $50 so you can earn FREE Sale-A-Bration products until February 29th!

This card uses the Petal Pink honeycomb pattern for the card front and then two other papers layered on diagonals. The Sweet Sorbet paper with the squiggly bee flight lines is layered on Basic White and the paper with the little bees is layered on Basic Black. The large heart on the front has a greeting embossed in white from the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set. That’s such a cute saying I think! There is one of the cute little flower embellishments in the Suite, the Adhesive-Backed Hearts & Flowers, on the heart. Wrapped around the bee paper and under the popped-up heart is the Sweet Sorbet 1/4″ Bordered Ribbon. And of course, we have a cute Valentine bee, stamped and then cut out with the Bee Builder Punch which cuts out the bee body and the wings which could also be hearts plus a little bitty heart, which could also be little bitty wings. It’s really a more versatile punch than it looks like!

Are you doing something special for Valentine’s Day today?

Square Pillow Treat Box For Valentine’s Day

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Square Pillow Treat Box For Valentine's Day

Here’s another way to decorate one of the Square Pillow Boxes in the Spring Mini Catalog! Decorating this Square Pillow Treat Box For Valentine’s Day was the first time I tried this method of decorating the box. You can stamp on these boxes, leave them plain, color them with ink, or cover them with designer series paper! Just remember to put your treat inside! It’s a little bit of a different shape for a gift box or treat box so it will definitely grab someone’s attention when they see it!

I covered this Square Pillow Box with one of the bees-patterned papers in the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper. How did I do that? I cut a full sheet in half at 6″. That leaves just a sliver of one of the sides not covered but no one will notice. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere the paper to the box while it is flat, not assembled, of course. Be sure NOT to adhere it to the side of the box that has the adhesive already applied. You want to be able to use that adhesive on those sides, not have it covered up with designer paper. After you adhere the designer paper, trim around the edge of the box to cut off the excess designer paper.

Now you are ready to fold along the score lines to form the box. It is a little more difficult with the paper on it, but just keep working with it. I used my Bone Folder just to rub along the creases to help it all come together.

To decorate the box, I stamped the greeting in Sweet Sorbet ink on Basic White and cut out with one of the circle dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The Bee is stamped in Daffodil Delight ink on Basic White and then the stripes are stamped in Memento Black ink for his body. I used the Bee Builder Punch to cut his body and then added wings and antennae.

The greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the bee. I put the Dimensionals only at the top and bottom of the greeting so I could run the Sweet Sorbet ribbon around the box underneath the greeting. I added one of the tiny punched-out hearts and a few Iridescent Rhinestones Jewels.

If you have the box with the opening at the top, then the ribbon or bellyband doesn’t have to be removed to open the box and get out the treats inside. It holds together really well so you don’t have to use adhesive on the top flaps.

You might like having some of these Square Pillow Boxes on hand because you can decorate them for any occasion!

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Beautiful March 2024 Paper Pumpkin Kit

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Paper Pumpkin Mar 2024 Kit Memorable Meadows

The February Paper Pumpkin Kits have gone out in the mail and now it’s time to introduce the Paper Pumpkin Kit for March, Memorable Meadows. If you haven’t been a subscriber before, you have plenty of time to sign up and receive this kit in your mailbox in mid-March. You must sign up by March 10, but don’t wait that long! Do it today and check that box off your list of Things to Do!

MARCH KIT: Memorable Meadows
Subscribe: February 11– March 10, 2024
Share nature’s beauty with lovely all-occasion cards!
• Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 coordinating envelopes
• Precut vellum pieces & wood embellishments
• Coordinates with the Meandering Meadows Suite Collection (item 162745)
• Coordinating colors: Granny Apple Green, Garden Green (Classic Stampin’ Spot), Balmy Blue, Night of Navy, Gorgeous Grape, Fresh Freesia
Includes a FREE stamp set

If you haven’t looked at the Meandering Meadows Suite in the Online Exclusives, please take a look at it today on page 2! The Meandering Meadows 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper is gorgeous if nothing else! You could frame those papers for some pretty home decor! You will be hard-pressed to cut up those papers! However, it will be very easy to make cards with that paper alone, not to mention using all the elements in the Suite.

Whether you are a beginning crafter, a non-crafter, or a very experienced crafter, I think this Meandering Meadows Kit, since it coordinates with the Meandering Meadows Kit in the Online Exclusives, holds promise of being a kit with which to make beautiful cards!

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Sour Cream Container Birds

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Sour Cream Bird

Here’s a fun idea you might like to try for a Valentine treat or a fun little bird! The other day I saw a reel on Instagram of someone using short toilet paper rolls and forming them into a little bird shape. I thought it was very cute, but then I realized it looked like what most of us in stamping have made before, a sour cream container! I don’t know if real sour cream containers exist in this shape but I think they used to. It was kind of a twisted container, crimped at both ends. For years, we have made “sour cream containers” to hold candy for a holiday or party favor. After watching this reel of making this bird with a toilet paper roll, I thought why not use designer paper instead? Of course, you could also use cardstock and decorate that.

You can vary the size of your bird. Cut a paper rectangle about 4 1/2″ x 6″ or maybe a little smaller at 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. You can experiment with the size you want in the end. Apply Tear & Tape or Stampin’ Seal on one short side and one long size.

Sour Cream Bird Paper

It’s a little easier to roll the paper up if you have a curved surface or edge of a table or something just to get it loosened up to roll up easier. Remove the liner on the tape on both sides and make a roll to adhere to the other short side. You can overlap the edges however much you want. Then squeeze together the end that has the adhesive on it. Fold that adhered end up to make the bird’s tail feathers!

Sour Cream Bird Paper roll

Then squeeze the other end together but going in the opposite direction of the tail. If you are putting candy inside, put it in there now. When we made these as just a candy holder, we would adhere and/or crimp the edge. But for the bird, we still have some work to do. In the photo above, instead of squeezing the top and bottom of the open end together, you will push the sides together so that the end is going in a different direction than the top.

Before you adhere that end, cut along the edge in a curve. Then cut a little beak out of scrap paper. Cut a triangle out of Daffodil Delight and then fold in half to make a beak. Glue the inside and then glue the beak into that curved edge.

Punch out some black dots for eyes or just draw them on with a black marker. If you have a white gel pen, put a dot for the “whites of his eyes”.

For the wings, just punch out, diecut, or cut out by hand two hearts. Fold those in half and glue a folded wing onto each side of the bird. Don’t adhere the two sides together as you did for the beak.

Add a little glue to the inside edge after getting the bird all made, although it will be adhered at the point where the beak is.

That’s all there is to it to make these cute little birds! Just kind of a silly little project you can try on a Saturday afternoon!

Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat

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Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat

Wondering what to do with the Square Pillow Boxes in the Spring Mini Catalog? You can do many things with them, including decorating one for specific holidays such as this Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat. It is a little bit differently shaped box but holds a fair amount of candy or a small gift. These are easy to put together and already come with the adhesive on the sides. All you have to do is crease on all the score lines, and then in more of a squeezing kind of way, push it into the pillow shape, and then remove the adhesive covers making sure the sides are lined up properly.

Before assembling this box, you may want to color it with ink using Blending Brushes or stamp on it, as I did on this box. You do want to make sure the ink is dry. I found that mine dried very quickly, but immediately you don’t want to smear it. I think this is applicable if your ink pad is very juicy and the layer of ink is wetter and thicker.

I used the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set to stamp various images over the front and sides of the box. I didn’t do the back side of the pillow box but you could. Also, if you wrap around a belly band, it will cover some of the stamping. I stamped the honeycomb in Daffodil Delight, the hearts in Sweet Sorbet, and the flowers in Pool Party, Petal Pink, and Fresh Freesia. You can see in the photo below how I chose to stamp so as not to stamp on the sides that would be hidden on the inside of the box or the back of the box which I did not want to stamp.

Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat Stamping

The strip of Bee Mine Designer Series Paper I chose for the belly band is 9 1/2″ long. Originally I cut the one in the photo at 2″ wide but later cut it narrower at 1 1/4″. You don’t even have to have a belly band to decorate the box.

When I watched a Facebook Live with Sara Douglass, CEO of Stampin’ Up! the other day when she made some Valentine pillow boxes, she placed her belly band around the box so that the opening was at the top of the box and not blocked by the belly band. This way the box can be opened without removing the belly band. However, you can run the belly band the other way if you feel you want the opening of the box to have that extra security to keep it closed.

For the belly band, I used this pattern with the tiny white flowers at 9 1/2″ x 1 1/4″. You can just cut the whole strip across the 12″ width of the designer paper and then shorten it after you see how much you want on your box. But 9 1/2″ seems to have plenty of overlap. Rather than scoring it ahead of time, just wrap it around the box and crease the band with your fingers at each edge. It won’t be a “perfect” fit since there are curves but it is very close.

To decorate my box and belly band, I stamped a greeting in the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set and die cut with a stitched circle in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I made the bee by using the Bee Builder Punch, punching out the bee body shape out of Daffodil Delight, and stamping the stripes and face with Memento ink. The wings were stamped on Petal Pink cardstock and with Petal Pink ink. The antennae are stamped in Memento black on Basic White. Then I used the Bee Builder Punch for the antennae (the heart shape), the wings, and some Sweet Sorbet and Petal Pink hearts.

There are lots of ways to decorate these boxes! Just play with them and see what you come up with. The boxes feel very sturdy. In my January stamping newsletter, I made a box that was embossed with the new Layered Florals 3D Embossing Folder first and then decorated with stamps and die cuts in the Painted Lavender Bundle in the Spring Mini.

Hopefully, you already own some of these Pillow Boxes so you can make some Valentine’s treat boxes, but you will have plenty of opportunities to use them in your papercrafting and gift-giving in the future if you order them now.

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Bee My Valentine Hearts Valentine Card

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Country Bouquet Hearts Valentine Card

Are you making Valentines? Here is a fun one, the Country Bouquet Hearts Valentine Card, with lots of stamped hearts! Sometimes I like to just stamp randomly all over the card. It just feels good and the simplicity is nice!

For this card, I used the solid heart in the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set in the Spring Mini Catalog. I started by stamping three Sweet Sorbet hearts. Then I just chose several other colors and mostly stamped three hearts of each color. You can use whatever color theme you like! I think I used Fresh Freesia, Balmy Blue, Highland Heather, Daffodil Delight, Soft Sea Foam, and Calypso Coral. I crammed them in there! Be sure to turn the stamp or paper so they are all going in slightly different directions. Not to be one to know when to stop, I also added some really small hearts stamped in Melon Mambo ink.

Before adhering the hearts card front, I wrapped around a piece of Silver & White 1/2″ Sheer Ribbon down the side. After adhering the front layer to the Sweet Sorbet card base, I tied a bow around that piece of ribbon. I liked this ribbon because you could still see through it to see the colored hearts.

For the greeting, I chose “With Love” in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set. I wanted to stamp it on the heart punched out of the Country Bouquet Punch but it was too long so I had to stamp each word by carefully inking up only one word at a time. It was risky but I did it! I could have done it a more careful way but I took a chance! I popped up the stamped heart over a diecut rectangle in the Timeless Arrangements Dies. Then I scattered around some Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels.

Have fun making some Valentines!

Planted Paradise Just For You Card

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Planted Paradise Just For You Card

I’ve had this stamp set for a while now but finally made a card with it, the Planted Paradise Just For You Card. I got this stamp set FREE when I “attended” a virtual Stampin’ Up! Event for Demonstrators called OnStage@Home. It’s been a while since that event so I’ve finally tried it! It might not have been a stamp set that I would order from the Spring Mini Catalog on page 47, but as it turned out, I really enjoyed playing with it and making this card!

This Planted Paradise stamp set would be perfect for a plant lover! It is a stamp set with SO many different leaves, foliage, and pots. It’s one of those stamp sets that you can just play with and see what you come up with!

For this card, my first card, I used a sample card in the Spring Mini as my inspiration. It doesn’t match exactly but the focal point is similar to the hanging potted plants. The card base is Garden Green cardstock. The designer paper on each side is the “backside” of one of the very scenic papers in the Meandering Meadows 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I just looked at some of the designer papers I have for one with a green background. At this point, I wasn’t even sure what card design I was going to make. I had a 2″ wide strip of this green background paper, but got the idea to put it on each side of the card so I cut it in half at 1″ x 5 1/4″ Then I adhered each strip to each side of the card front.

For the center, I used Basic White cardstock. When I was all finished with it, I noticed it was cut shorter than I intended! It was supposed to be the same length as the green strips on the sides! What to do? Maybe add a layer underneath? Well, when I placed it centered on the card, even though it was shorter than I planned, I thought it looked fine! A little different! Maybe a little modern! So I kept it that way and used it the length it was cut!

The large pot is stamped with Cajun Craze ink and cut out by hand with Paper Snips. The leaves were stamped in Garden Green ink and others in Soft Sea Foam ink. Some were stamped on Soft Sea Foam cardstock with Soft Sea Foam ink. I cut these out by hand, even some extras so I could play around with them in the pot. I wanted a variety of leaves. I popped up the pot with Stampin’ Dimensionals but I only placed them at the bottom of the pot so I had room to stick in the leaves at the top wherever I wanted them. Then I could add more Dimensionals under the top after the leaves were in place.

Before adhering the plants and pot, I stamped the chain holding the pot. I didn’t have to be really precise because I knew the plants and pot were going to cover the “chain”.

For some finishing touches, I stamped a butterfly in the stamp set in Gorgeous Grape ink and a greeting in Cajun Craze. The greeting is in the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set. Then I remembered that the stamp set had dies so I cut out the greeting with the appropriate Sentiment Silhouettes Die. I also decided to use the new little Adhesive-Backed Cork Rounds on the card front. Not sure I like them on this card but they seemed like something that would go with plants. I like sparkle better I think!

Although I wasn’t all that thrilled with this stamp set, when I looked back at this card the next day I found that I liked it a lot! I think the Gorgeous Grape butterfly really adds a pop of interest. You could even make the leafy plants look more 3D by folding them lengthwise a little bit or curling the tips a little bit or stamping the butterfly and cutting it out with the wings bent a little bit.

I’m ready to make some more cards with this Planted Paradise Stamp Set! Check it out in the January-April 2024 Mini Catalog!

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Valentine Stamping and Watercoloring

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Country Bouquet Watercolored Valentine

I seem to be getting a lot of watercoloring accounts popping up on my social media and some of them look so fun and simple! I don’t own a set of watercolor paints, but I knew I could use our Stampin’ Up! ink and the Stampin’ Up! Water Painters. I saw a card design a little bit like this card but made with cardstock hearts in kind of an ombre effect. I got the idea to use the Country Bouquet Stamp Set in the Annual Catalog for stamping hearts and then I watercolored them!

This Valentine only uses Real Red ink! The card base is Real Red. The hearts are stamped with Stazon black ink on Stampin’ Up! watercolor paper, Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper (149612). You need to use Stazon ink since it is waterproof. You don’t want any ink to smear when you apply the watercolor. Basic White cardstock doesn’t stand up well to water so watercolor paper is a lot better. If you still have some Shimmery White cardstock that unfortunately is retired now, it works fairly well with water.

To make this card, stamp hearts on the watercolor paper. If you already have some ink in the lid of the Real Red ink pad, you can start with that. Squeeze water out of the Water Painter to make a very light color with the ink. I had a scrap piece of watercolor paper that I tested my colors on. When you feel you have the shade you want, color in the top three hearts. Then add a little bit more reinker to the lid (don’t let all the water get onto your ink pad!), stir it up with the Water Painter, perhaps adding more water. When you get a medium shade with the ink and water, fill in the next row of hearts. For the last row of hearts, add more reinker and see what shade you have or add more water if it is way too dark. You want three different shades of colored hearts just using Real Red reinkers and water. See my photo below of what I was using.

Valentine Watercoloring

Either let the watercolor paper dry or hit it with your Heat Tool for a short time. It doesn’t take very long at all to dry with the Heat Tool. Then you can adhere it to the card base of Real Red. I used a LOT of Stampin’ Seal+ since the watercolor paper is heavier and possibly warped a little bit. I wanted to be sure it was going to hold on the card.

I tried to figure out what to do for a greeting and in the end stamped “For You” randomly in the empty spaces on the card. Not one to leave well enough alone, I also added some Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins in Petal Pink scattered on the front of the card.

On the inside of the card, I added a Basic White layer and stamped both greetings “Just wanted to say” and “Happy Valentine’s Day in Real Red ink.

IMPORTANT: Before you just close up that ink pad, take a paper towel and dab out all that water. You don’t want that all soaking into your ink pad and it would probably make a mess anyway just closing the lid!

This was a fun way to do something a little different but still use Stampin’ Up! products. Sometimes we may forget how versatile many of our products are, the reinkers being one of them. Try a little watercoloring with your reinkers and Water Painters or whatever small brush you have. If you don’t have the Stazon ink, I’d suggest just paint the hearts and omit the stamping. Make all the hearts different colors if you like. Just play!

February is here so this is the last month for Sale-A-Bration. It’s a good time to pick up a few things at Stampin’ Up!, thinking of reaching that $50 level or $100 level or more to choose a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure and the newly released products on this flyer.

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More to Sale-A-Brate New Products Feb 2024

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As if there weren’t enough good products to choose from in the Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration Brochure, Stampin’ Up! has added some additional choices! If you haven’t heard, Sale-A-Bration is a special promotion (a favorite promotion!) that Stampin’ Up! offers every year. With every $50 purchase, you can choose one product from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure (and now these extra products) for FREE! No limit! If you spend $100, you may choose from a couple of special $100 Level items or choose two $50 Level products. If you spend $150, then you have those aforementioned choices PLUS you earn Stampin’ Rewards of 10% more product!

Notice that the last two products on the flyer, the Core Colors Markers, and the Dragonflies Punch, are products available with a $100 purchase.

Click HERE or on the flyer above to see the added Sale-A-Bration products you can choose from!

These products are from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog: Beside Me Stamp Set, Botanical Layers Stamp Set, Delightfully Eclectic Designer Series Paper, Stripes and Splatters 3D Embossing Folders, 2023 New Core Colors Stampin’ Write Markers, and Dragonflies Punch.

These products are in the Spring Mini Catalog: Just Kiddin’ Designer Series Paper and Sweet Thoughts Memories & More Cards & Envelopes

These products are Online in the Kits Collection: Love This Memory Notebook Kit and Robot Buddies Kids Card Kit

NOTE:

The item numbers in this flyer above MUST BE USED to redeem these products as Sale-A-Bration items. These products have different item numbers in the catalog, which won’t register as part of Sale-A-Bration.

Sale-A-Bration ENDS February 29th! Don’t delay!!

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Two New Kits in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection

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Kits Collection Birthday Sparkle Kit

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

Kits Collection Happy Houseplants Kit

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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Flight & Airy Thank You Card With Birds

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Flight & Airy Thank You Card With Birds

Continuing with my cardmaking with one of the beautiful Sale-A-Bration papers, I am showing you this Flight & Airy Thank You Card With Birds. I really like this Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper that I got FREE with my $50 purchase at Stampin’ Up! If you haven’t taken advantage of Sale-A-Bration yet, you have one more month to go! Sale-A-Bration ends February 29!

This card uses two different patterns of the Flight & Airy Designer Paper. The background design is just a floral pattern. It actually reminds me of years ago when maybe you would see a pattern like this on bedsheets or a bedspread. I think the soft pink in the background of the flowers is so pretty. The birds sitting on the flowery branch come from another paper in the package with medium size birds that can be cut out with Paper Snips by hand.

The card base is Boho Blue, but you could choose another coordinating color easily. I used the Radiating Stitches Dies to cut out the two rectangles on the center front of the card. I used Boho Blue and Basic White. If you do not own these dies, you can just cut rectangles out of cardstock to whatever size you want or maybe use one of the tag dies or something else in your die collection. The greeting is stamped in Boho Blue ink and is in the Go To Greetings Stamp Set.

The birds on the front of the card must be cut out by hand unless you want to use a circle die or something. It is not difficult to cut out. You do not need to cut deeply in between all the leaves or flowers. Just cut easily around the edges and it will be fine. It works best to turn the paper rather than the scissors. Don’t worry about perfection. You could pop up these birds with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but I glued them flat on the card. Then I added three colored Rainbow Dots for a little embellishment. I love these Rainbow Dots! They are flatter than some jewels and things so they are not a worry about mailing.

If you missed my card the other day using the Flight & Airy DSP, click HERE.

If you wanted to add a little something to the inside of the card, you could add a Basic White layer for a stamped greeting or personal message and cut out some other birds to adhere in the corner or a scrap strip of the flowered paper.

Don’t wait too long to take advantage of Sale-A-Bration! But stay tuned for February 1st when there might be something new for Sale-A-Bration!

Flight & Airy Just a Note Card in Fresh Freesia

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Flight & Airy Just a Note Card in Fresh Freesia

I enjoyed making this Flight & Airy Just a Note Card in Fresh Freesia so much yesterday! It just came together very easily. If you already have this Sale-A-Bration paper, you know how beautiful it is. And if you don’t have it yet, you should get it!

If you haven’t heard of Sale-A-Bration, with every $50 order or more at Stampin’ Up!, you can choose a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. Spend $100 and choose between two free products or one special product for the $100 level. We all love to get new stamping supplies and FREE makes it lots of fun!

This Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper is one of the Sale-A-Bration choices on page 6 of the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. It has watercolor images of birds and branches, birds and flowers, watercolor wash backgrounds, and floral patterns. The papers are all so pretty! I’m sure you will love them too! There is a long list of coordinating colors with these papers.

This card has a card base of Fresh Freesia. The designer paper layer I chose has smaller birds and branches so you might not want to be fussy cutting these birds from the paper, but you certainly can from some of the other patterns. I like the look of the numerous bluebirds and flowers on this paper.

For the focal point of the card, I used the Radiating Stitches Dies to cut out one Basic White rectangle and one larger Fresh Freesia rectangle. The bird on the flowery branch is cut out by hand from another sheet of the Flight & Airy Designer Paper. You might think that fussy cutting a design like this would be really difficult but it is not! Just cut around the edges, wiggling your scissors in and out. As you can see, since this whole image is very “dense” you’re not really going to cut way into it at all. Just cut around the edges of the flowers and leaves and then around the little bird. I glued everything flat to the card, but you could pop up the cutout bird and branch with Stampin’ Dimensionals. For an embellishment, I simply tied a bow out of two strands of Linen Thread and adhered it will a Mini Glue Dot.

The greeting is stamped with the Go To Greetings Stamp Set. You could use almost any greeting with this card, from a happy occasion like a birthday to a greeting expressing sympathy. It is stamped in Fresh Freesia ink.

If you don’t own the Radiating Stitches Dies, just choose another die that would work or cut out your rectangles with the Paper Trimmer. The edges of these two rectangles are very pretty, but plain rectangles would look nice as well. You could even add a few pearls or jewels of some kind to this card, but I think it is fine as is!

When you shop at Stampin’ Up! during Sale-A-Bration, think in terms of $50 increments so you can get a free Sale-A-Bration product. If you are just a little bit short, check the Clearance Rack for something that might put you over the top.

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Bee Mine Book Fold Valentine Card

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Bee Mine Book Fold Valentine Card

February is coming soon so it’s time to get those Valentines ready to send and give! This is one of those fun book fold cards but the fold is at the top instead of on the side. Try this Bee Mine Book Fold Valentine Card for a fun card Valentine to send to someone!

This book fold card starts with a card base of Sweet Sorbet. The card base is cut at 11″ x 4 1/4″, then scored at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″. The 5 1/2″ score line is the center fold of the card. The 4 1/4″ score line makes the “binding” on the top of the card. Glue that area to the card base so that only the 4 1/4″ portion of the card opens. Once you have the book fold card base made, you can decorate the card for Valentine’s Day or for any occasion you need.

I used the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper in the Spring Mini Catalog. It is part of a big collection of products, the Bee Mine Suite Collection. You can purchase all of it or just some of it. The Bee Mine DSP is cute and is not exclusively for Valentine’s Day but you can use it for Valentine’s Day! Even if you exclude the obvious hearts papers, there are still plenty of patterns you can use for any occasion!

To decorate the card, I adhered a strip of 1″ x 4″ to the top book fold area. I chose the pattern with the little bees flying around. For the larger front of the card, I adhered a tiny heart pattern cut at 4″ x 4″. The three little white circles are die-cut from the Deckled Circles Dies. I cut out the larger bees with hearts on one pattern of paper and adhered each to one of the white circles. I glued them flat to the card but you could pop up the circle and bee or just the bee. For the greeting, I stamped one from the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set in Sweet Sorbet ink. There wasn’t one good place to put a greeting so I just made three and placed them around on the card.

I really like the Sweet Sorbet Ribbon that comes in the Suite, but to go with the black on the bees and for something different, I added a bow at the top with the Black & White 1/4″ Gingham Ribbon.

On the inside of the card, I added a 4″ x 4″ piece of Basic White and cut out another bee to put in the corner.

Here is another card I made in the book fold style with the fold on the side of the card and also using the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper.

Remember that Sale-A-Bration is still going on and will continue through January. With every $50 purchase, you may choose one FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. There are some great choices from stamp sets, to paper, to embellishments. And what’s better than getting stamping products FREE?!

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Softly Stippled Thanks Card

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Softly Stippled Thanks Card

Remember, Sale-A-Bration is going on at Stampin’ Up! this month and next month! With a $50 purchase, you can choose this Softly Stippled 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper FREE! This paper is very versatile with stippled florals, earthy colors, and textured-looking designs. You will be able to use this paper for many cards and projects.

The card base is Melon Mambo with a layer of the Softly Stippled paper. This pattern is a Pool Party pastel-colored texture that looks like a woven fabric! Just looking at the card, you would think the paper is embossed or has a physical texture on it, but it’s just the look of the paper.

Another sheet of the Softly Stippled paper has black and white flowers all over. They can be left as is or they can be colored. I chose a few of the flowers to color and then fussy cut with my Paper Snips out of the sheet of paper. For this card, I used Watercolor Pencils and then softened the coloring with a Blender Pen. Stampin’ Up! sells two different boxes of Watercolor Pencils, Assortment 1 and Assortment 2. Back when I became a Demonstrator, coloring with Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen was my favorite way to color! I used Melon Mambo for the pink flowers and Daffodil Delight for the yellow ones. The leaves are Granny Apple Green and Mossy Meadow and also some Old Olive. On the yellow flowers, I added a tiny bit of Calypso Coral too. You can combine colors and then blend them with the Blender Pen. The yellow flowers are adhered directly to the card. The pink flowers are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is in the Artistically Inked Stamp Set. It is stamped in Melon Mambo ink and die cut with one of the label dies in the Something Fancy Dies. There is even a matching larger die that you can use for a layer in Melon Mambo.

To finish off the card, I added two Melon Mambo Glossy Dots to the greeting. But I couldn’t stop there! It just seemed like I should also add some Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels down by the flowers. Sometimes you have to know when to stop…but I went ahead anyway on this card! I don’t think it’s too overdone!

Here is another card I made with two other patterns of the Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper.

Go shop at Stampin’ Up! and put in an order of $50 or more so you can choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration product!