Abigail Rose Floral Card With Vellum

Today is the last day for the Stampin’ Up! Seasonal Sale so save some money buying all the products for making this card! Today is the last day to save buying punches, stamp sets, dies, embossing folders, and non-specialty designer series paper! These products in the Annual Catalog only are on sale for 10-20% off!

This card is made with some of the products in the Abigail Rose Suite. The card base is Petal Pink with a layer of the pink striped pattern in the Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper. I just love that striped paper! It’s so simple and plain yet so pretty and such a great background for something even greater! This Abigail Rose DSP is regularly $12.00, but it is on sale for $9.60 so you can save $2.40!

For the focal point of the card, I stamped the large flower and leaves in the Cottage Rose Stamp Set. This stamp set is regularly $25.00 but it is on sale for $21.25, saving you $3.75. The floral piece is stamped in Memento ink and then colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers in the Petal Pink Combo and Mint Macaron Combo plus a little Highland Heather for the tiny little flowers. This flower was die cut with the die in the Cottage Flowers Dies. The dies sell for $34.00 but they are on sale for $27.00, a savings of $7.00.

After looking at the dies, I cut out some more flowers using Vellum Cardstock. I stuck the flowers and leaves underneath the popped-up flower. I should have used the Adhesive Sheets to make it easy to adhere the vellum pieces to the card since they are so thin! But tiny drops of Multipurpose Liquid Glue did the trick pretty well.

The greeting on the card is in the Cottage Rose Stamp Set. I stamped it on Basic White Cardstock and then die-cut it using one of the label dies in the Painted Labels Dies. I also cut the same shape out of Petal Pink. In order to layer the pieces, I trimmed down the Basic White just a tad on the sides. I cut off the tops of both so they would line up with the edge of the designer paper at the top of the card. The Painted Labels Dies are also on sale and would save you $7.00!

So just for fun, if you purchase the two die sets to make this card, the stamp set, and the designer paper, you would save $13.15! The Cottage Rose Bundle at $53.00 for the stamp set and dies today costs $4.75 more in the Bundle than if you bought the two products separately!

For a little bling, I added three Iridescent Pearls to the card!

Check your Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog today and see what you ‘need’ that is on sale today!

10% off all punches
15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)
20% off all dies
20% off all embossing folders
20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper

SHOP STAMPIN’ UP & the SEASONAL SALE TODAY!

Fitting Florets Thank You Card

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After working with the Real Red & White Glimmer Paper, I was only using the red and not the white. So I thought of this blue floral paper in the Fitting Florets Designer Series Paper and thought I would use the White Glimmer Paper with it! Here is that card that turned out!

The card base is Balmly Blue, one of the coordinating colors with the designer paper. I cut a strip of the blue floral pattern that is 2 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ to fit across the card. Then I added narrow strips of the white glimmer paper in the Real Red & White Glimmer Paper in the Holiday Catalog with the Sweetest Christmas Suite.

The tag is diecut with one of the Tailor Made Dies. This is a great die set with two different styles of tags and several different sizes of tags. I’ve used it a lot. Get it this week by November 18 and you can get it on sale during the Seasonal Sale at Stampin’ Up!

I stamped the Basic White tag with a greeting in the Framed Florets Stamp Set with Balmy Blue Ink. The greeting is actually longer than just “Thank You” but I wanted a smaller greeting to fit on the tag. It would have been difficult to mask off the extra words, so I just inked up the whole stamp, then used a Blender Pen to wipe the ink off the excess words. It worked pretty well. The words came out just a tiny bit light, so I used a Balmy Blue Stampin’ Write Marker, the fine tip end, to just draw over the words very lightly and carefully. Then I stamped on some of the edges with a little leafy stamp. I also cut out a flower and leaf from the designer paper to tack onto the lower corner of the tag.

The tag is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the cut-out flower. Before adhering the tag to the card, I added some White 3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon. I thought the glitter in the ribbon would go with the White Glimmer Paper.

Before assembling the card, I thought of stamping some of the flowers and leaves in the stamp set with Versamark ink on the top and bottom that wouldn’t be covered by the designer paper. I like the look of that!

The Fitting Florets Designer Paper is available now through January 4th or while supplies last. The Framed Florets Stamp Set and Dies will be sold in the January Spring Mini Catalog so you’ll be able to get those products for a long time! But don’t miss out on this beautiful Fitting Florets Designer Series Paper!

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TODAY! Stampin’ Up! Seasonal Sale!

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The Stampin’ Up! Seasonal Sale Starts Today!

What a fun day for shopping at Stampin’ Up! And it’s not the only day! This sale lasts from November 15 through Friday, November 18! Browse through the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog (Holiday Mini not included) and choose which stamps, punches, dies, embossing folders, and non-specialty designer series paper you want to purchase AT A DISCOUNT!

Select products from the 2022–2023 Annual Catalog will be on sale with the following discounts:

10% off all punches
15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)
20% off all dies
20% off all embossing folders
20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper

During this sale, buy products separately, NOT the BUNDLE. Do the math! The two sale products will be a better price than the 10% off the Bundle.

View the Annual Catalog PDF Here!

See the List of All Sale Products Here!

SHOP THE SALE HERE!

Stampin’ Up! Seasonal Sale Tomorrow!

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Stampin’ Up! Seasonal Sale Tomorrow!

Get ready to shop the Stampin’ Up! seasonal sale beginning tomorrow! The sale only covers products in the Stampin’ Up! ANNUAL Catalog! It’s time to refresh our memories of what is in the Annual Catalog after we have devoted a lot of attention to the Holiday Mini Catalog!

No products in the Holiday Mini are included in this sale!

It begins tomorrow, November 15, and goes through Friday, November 18!

Select products from the 2022–2023 Annual Catalog will be on sale with the following discounts:

10% off all punches
15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)
20% off all dies
20% off all embossing folders
20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper

During this sale, buy products separately, NOT the BUNDLE. Do the math! The two sale products will be a better price than the 10% off the Bundle.

For example:

If you would like to purchase the Happier Than Happy Bundle of stamp set and dies. The 10% off price is $48.50. If you purchase separately on the sale, the Happier Than Happy Stamp Set would be $20.40 and the Happy Forest Dies would be $24.00 for a total of $44.40 instead of the Bundle price of $48.50.

CLICK HERE to view the list of all products on sale if you would like to double-check.

With the season of giving upon us, this is a great opportunity to buy gifts for your fellow crafting enthusiasts or to stock up on supplies for all your upcoming handmade projects. This is also a great time for new stampers and crafters to build up their supplies and save some money! Remember, this sale is for four days only! Don’t miss out!

If you are interested in joining Stampin’ Up!, when you choose these sale products for your Starter Kit, you will save money and get a little more perhaps in your Kit! JOIN HERE!

Once again, in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog:

10% off all punches
15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)
20% off all dies
20% off all embossing folders
20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper

SHOP HERE TOMORROW!

(Don’t type in your order until tomorrow or the sale prices will not show up!)

Paper Pumpkin Christmas Cards in the October 2022 Kit!

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It seems like Saturday afternoons are good times to work on a Paper Pumpkin Kit! These Christmas cards were made with the October 2022 Paper Pumpkin Kit! Very cute! I only made two of each of the designs and then I like to go back and see if I want to make some alternative ideas with the supplies in the kit.

Of course, it is past time to join Paper Pumpkin and have this kit mailed to you, but most of the time, it is possible for you to be a subscriber and then go back in the Online Store and purchase a Past Kit or Refill. The Refill has all the supplies you need except for the stamp set and ink spot, because if you already got the full kit you would have those already and would only need the consumables. Sometimes if the Past Kit isn’t available, the Refill will do and you can use your own stamp sets and ink pad with the kit contents.

The best way not to ever miss out on these super cute kits is to Join Paper Pumpkin and a kit will automatically come in your mailbox about mid-month (unless you live at my house, then it seems that the post office likes to send it to farther away cities first!) (but that’s not Stampin’ Up!’s fault!). You can skip a month if you need to or don’t care for the upcoming kit. And Stampin’ Up! guarantees all Paper Pumpkin Kits.

The November Kit has already been mailed out. If there are extras, they will be in the Online Store a little later, but you must be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber first to order the Past Kits & Refills.

The December Kit is up now! Subscribe by December 10th! You’ll make little boxes that will hold gift cards, and they have designs that you can use all year long. Or use them for other small gifts or treats. You will probably even receive the kit before Christmas if you wanted to make a few for holiday gifts.

Join Paper Pumpkin today so you don’t miss out on any of the fun!

JOIN PAPER PUMPKIN NOW!

Stampin’ Up! Seasonal Sale Coming Up!

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It’s time to get that Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog out and start flipping through the pages because Stampin’ Up! is having a Seasonal Sale of select Annual Catalog products from November 15-18, 2022. We get so involved with the Mini Catalogs that we sometimes forget about the great products in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! This is an excellent time to look back at the Annual Catalog and get some bargains!

Select products will be on sale with the following discounts:

10% off all punches
15% off all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)
20% off all dies
20% off all embossing folders
20% off all non-specialty Designer Series Paper

To inspire you, I decided to make a card from the Annual Catalog, which I copied from the sample on page 108. It just caught my eye! The Hues of Happiness Suite was a really popular one when the catalog first came out. If you didn’t get some of the products then, you can get them at a discount next week!

My card has a card base of Basic White Cardstock with a layer of “the other side” of the Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper. It’s kind of the yellowish/pinkish piece of designer paper, but really almost any of the colors would be fine.

The next layer is a little smaller than normal in order to see the paper behind it. It’s the paper with the tiny flowers printed on it. It measures 3 1/2″ x 4 1/2″.

The Melon Mambo piece is 3″ x 4 1/4″. The short right side is cut at 3″ diagonally over to the bottom corner of the cardstock. Just eyeball it! I stamped the birthday greeting in the Happiness Abounds Stamp Set with Versamark ink, then embossed it with White Embossing Powder and the Heat Tool.

The flowers could have been stamped, but you can just diecut flowers using the Blossoming Happiness Dies from the designer paper! I think the catalog sample stamped and diecut one of the flowers, but I just used all from the designer paper. Even the leaves are diecut. The purple and yellow flowers are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To embellish the card, there is a white twine bow tied with two strands plus a few 2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds. It’s always fun to add a few jewels of some kind to a card!

Take some time to look through the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog and see if there are stamps, punches, embossing folders, dies, or designer paper you want to put on your Shopping List!

Lights Aglow Colored Strips Christmas Card

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This Lights Aglow Colored Strips Christmas Card came about after seeing a pretty similar card in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog on page 32. It’s a great way to use up designer paper scraps by using various designer paper strips for the background of the card. It shows off lots of the pretty paper and provides a nice card front. And no waste if you have saved a bunch of scraps!

This card starts with a Cherry Cobbler Cardstock card base. I had a lot of scrap strips from the Lights Aglow 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. In whatever way I had cut up the paper, I had a lot of 4″ x 3/4″ strips. I began laying out the strips on the card base, just eyeballing it. Then I got the idea that with the paper having gold foil accents, it might look nice if there was gold foil in between the strips. Finally, I decided to cut a piece of Gold Foil for the background of the strips. Fortunately, six strips fit just right on that layer of Gold Foil! If you want to do all the math and figure out the space measurements and all that, go right ahead, but you are very likely to just lay out the strips and have them spaced apart pretty evenly! My Stampin’ Up! Grid Paper was a little bit of help but mostly I just eyeballed it.

I die-cut a Christmas tree out of one of the green Lights Aglow papers using the Twinkling Lights Dies. I also cut out a tree in Gold Foil just with the outline die to adhere behind the tree die so the gold would show through the little holes in the Christmas tree! The tree was then adhered to the card front. You can pop it up if you like, I just glued mine flat. You could instead pop up the background with the strips of paper. If you are going to mail the card, though, you don’t want it

For the greeting, I stamped the banner in Cherry Cobbler ink in the Christmas Banners Stamp Set and cut it out with the Christmas Banner Dies. You can get both in the Christmas Banners Bundle and save 10%. Since I wanted the greeting to be gold to match the card, I stamped the greeting with Versamark Ink and embossed it with Gold Powder using the Heat Tool. The greeting is in the Christmas Banners Stamp Set. I popped up the banner using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To finish off the Christmas tree, I die-cut the little “star” at the top of the tree with one of the dies out of Gold Foil. I also placed a few Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels on the tree for just a little more sparkle!

I don’t think you would want to mass-produce this card to send, but if you have some scraps, it is easy enough to make one or a few more cards with this design!

Paper Pumpkin Flash Sale TODAY & TOMORROW!

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Surprise! On November 9th ad 10th, all current Paper Pumpkin subscribers can save up to 50% on Paper Pumpkin past kits, refills, and add-ons! Past kits, refills, and add-ons make perfect gifts for this upcoming holiday season. Items are available while supplies last. If you missed a kit or you want more pieces from one kit you already got, this is the time to check out this sale! TODAY & TOMORROW!

If you are not a Paper Pumpkin subscriber yet, you can fix that right now and then go shop the sale!

Considering how well received my Paper Pumpkin Spooky Treats boxes were, I’d suggest getting that kit and saving it for next year. You can always use more treat boxes for Halloween!

The refills and kits don’t contain the stamping block but you can use the acrylic blocks you have. The refills also don’t contain the stamp set and ink spot, but in most cases, you can use something else you have. The full Kit has everything!

Check out the Paper Pumpkin Sale here!

If you subscribe to Paper Pumpkin by Nov. 10th, you will receive the holiday kit “From the North Pole”. It is a tag-making kit with exclusive Mint Macaron glitter paper, but you can use the materials to make cards if you like or use them any way you like!

Remember, you must be a subscriber to take advantage of this Paper Pumpkin special sale today and tomorrow!

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Here is the November Paper Pumpkin Kit which will be shipped out before mid-November! It’s the gift you give yourself!

This November, Paper Pumpkin delivers this and more with its one-of-a-kind, holiday-themed crafting experience. This festive kit includes 12 fun, sparkly gift tags and (as always!) an exclusive stamp set—plus everything you need for a successful holiday crafting experience.

***SUBSCRIBE by November 10th!***

This kit includes:

This month’s kit contains enough elements to create 12 tags—4 each of 3 designs. This all-inclusive kit includes printed die-cut paper pieces, twine, adhesive, and more!
Includes a Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin’ Spot!
You’ll love decorating your gift tags with snowflake and banner die-cut pieces on our Mint Macaron glitter specialty paper (a Paper Pumpkin exclusive).
Create festive gift tags for all your packaging needs this holiday season with classic Christmas colors and designs.
Finished gift tag size: 2″ x 3″ (5.1 x 7.6 cm)

Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Mint Macaron, Shaded Spruce, Sweet Sorbet

If you need unique Christmas packaging to round out your gifting, we’ve got you covered with our exclusive North Pole Sacks add-on in the Online Store under Paper Pumpkin Past Kits, for subscribers only. Available now.

SUBSCRIBE NOW!

PS Once you are a subscriber you can go back and purchase any past Kits or Refills that are available!

Abigail Rose Tulip Birthday Card

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This card came about because I always forget I have this beautiful designer paper, and when I came across it yesterday, I had to use it! It’s always like a new surprise when I find it in my collection of current designer papers!

This is really an easy card to make because you can let the paper do all the work! It’s the Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog in the Abigail Rose Suite on pages 56-57. Sometimes we forget about the Annual Catalog when we get so interested in the Mini Catalogs that are out!

I chose this pattern with tulips, but all the papers are pretty in their own ways. The card base is Early Espresso Cardstock with a layer of Petal Pink. Those are coordinating colors for the designer paper.

The greeting is stamped in Early Espresso with a stamp in the Cottage Rose Stamp Set in the Suite Collection. Besides the pretty flowers, this stamp set also has some lovely sentiments to use.

The greeting is cut out with one of the narrow banners in the the Stylish Shapes Dies. Then I also cut a Petal Pink layer from the Stitched Rectangle Dies to be a layer for the birthday greeting. For a finishing touch I added a bow made with the White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon.

So as you can see, this is just a card with a layer under the designer paper and a stamped and diecut greeting! Here’s another “basic” card I made with another pattern of the Abigail Rose paper. These ideas are quick and easy cards to keep in mind when you need to make a card without much time!

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Astros Win World Series 2022!

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You can make a card for ANY occasion with Stampin’ Up! supplies when the Astros WIN the WORLD SERIES!!!

What a game! What a night!! Houston is very excited for our baseball team!

CONGRATULATIONS ASTROS!!!

Jingle Jingle Jingle Pastels Christmas Card

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Yesterday when I went into one of my favorite gift shops, I saw a display of Christmas nutcrackers, buildings, decorations, and ornaments all in pastel colors! It was all really pretty and I was a little surprised to see a big display like that of those soft colors. That is what inspired this Jingle Jingle Jingle Pastels Christmas Card!

I sometimes forget I own this Jingle Jingle Jingle Stamp Set but I really do like it! I plan to make lots more cards with this stamp set. There are so many ways to use it and extra images to add more whimsy!

For this card, I simply used a Pool Party cardstock base with a layer of Blushing Bride pink cardstock. The top layer is Basic White. I used three colors of ink – Pool Party, So Saffron, and Blushing Bride, plus Memento black for the “all the way” part of the greeting. Maybe I should have used a pastel color instead of black. Then when I spied the candy canes in the stamp set, I stamped those around randomly in the same colors. And for a finishing touch, I added a few of the 2021-2023 Opal Rounds. These aren’t the exact colors I used on the card, but they are close enough since they are light-colored.

I may try another version of this card using these or similar colors. I have some other ideas! We’ll see!

Get your “Jingle” on and check out this fun stamp set!

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Framed Florets Silver Frame Birthday Card

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The more I work with the new Fitting Florets Collection, the more I love it! You can do so much with the pretty designer paper, the more subtle patterns like this card front, and the florals to use as accents and embellishments.

This card starts with a card base of Balmy Blue to match the pretty designer paper in the Fitting Florets Designer Series Paper. I used the Framed Florets Dies to cut out this beautiful oval frame from the silver foil paper in the Silver Foil Specialty Pack. Then I cut the same oval frame with Basic White cardstock so I could have the center of the oval be white. The center white oval is stamped with a birthday greeting from the Framed Florets Stamp Set in Balmy Blue ink.

You can purchase the Framed Florets Dies and the Framed Florets Stamp Set separately, or you can buy them together in the Framed Florets Bundle and save 10%. Do you notice something in that sentence?? From this Spring Catalog forward, Stampin’ Up! will give the stamps, dies, and bundle all the same name!! Now we won’t have to try to remember the different name of the dies that went with a certain stamp set and was the bundle name the same or different??

Did you know that the flowers you see in the lower right corner of the oval frame can be die-cut from the designer paper?! I fussy cut another extra flower to pop up on top of the diecut, but it is nice that one grouping of flowers at least can be diecut!

The group of flowers on the top left of the silver frame were fussy-cut from the designer paper and even altered a bit to fit in that spot and not interfere with the stamped greeting. Plus one extra flower popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals for some more texture.

For just a little more pizzazz, I added three Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels on the center oval.

You could make this same card with many other greetings in that center oval. I think that is why florals are so popular because they are so useful. You can use them for birthdays, sympathy cards, or just any card that you want to be beautiful for a special person and reason.

While this Framed Florets Bundle will continue to be available in the January – July 2023 Mini Catalog (the Spring Mini), from now until January 4, 2023 (or while supplies last) is the only time you can purchase the Fitting Florets Designer Series Paper and the Gold Adhesive-Backed Swirls. There is also the Christmas greeting stamp set included in the Collection, Framed & Festive, that is also only available now until Jan. 4th. If you need a Christmas greeting stamp set, I recommend this one!

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Get on My List For the Remaining “12 Weeks of Christmas”!

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Time is flying by and there are only 8 weeks left of my 12 Weeks of Christmas holiday emails! Every week for 12 weeks I send you a free holiday project idea that you can use to make your holidays brighter! The only people who receive these free projects are the people who are on my Stamping With Karen Mailing List! This is my way of thanking my mailing list subscribers for following me, so if you would like to receive these special holiday emails, please sign up!

You have already missed the first four emails but there are eight more to come, starting this afternoon at 1:00 PM Central Time! Sign up right now and here’s how: If you are on my blog, sign up in the red box in the top right sidebar. If you are on your phone, you may have to scroll way down. OR go to my sign-up page HERE and sign up in the red Mailing List box! We’d love to have you!

Besides these holiday emails, I also send out a weekly newsletter on Tuesdays with the latest Stampin’ Up! news and new product information plus a stamping project or two or maybe some papercrafting tips!

Please join us!

Fitting Florets Collection Available TODAY!

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Today is the first day you can purchase the Fitting Florets Collection in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store! “Add just the right touch of elegance to any occasion, including Christmas and seasonal celebrations, with the sweet Fitting Florets Collection. From color schemes to sentiments and embellishments to dies, these unique products blend together so that your cards and crafts fit whatever occasion you might need. Send birthday wishes, express your gratitude, or spread Christmas cheer—with so many options to mix and match you’ll be set no matter the celebration all year!”

This is an interesting Collection because all of it is available now through January 4th (while supplies last), but the Framed Florets Bundle (stamp set and dies, all of the same name!) will continue on and be in the January-June 2023 Spring Mini Catalog! (I know we can’t comprehend a Spring catalog when we just finished Halloween!)

The best way to get an idea about this whole beautiful Collection is to watch this Stampin’ Up! video!

Click the photos below to read the Flyer.

This is a beautiful set of new products! Use them exactly as is or, as the designer did, turn some into a Christmas presentation. The Framed & Festive Stamp Set has really fun greetings to use right now for our Christmas cards and projects.

Check it all out and let me know if you have any questions! The Framed & Festive Stamp Set, the Gold embellishments, and the designer paper will only be available until January 4th or while supplies last before that. The Framed Florets stamps and dies are available now and will be in the Spring Mini Catalog! It’s all pretty! You’ll like it! Get it all in the Collection or pick and choose what you want!

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Spooky Best Witches Halloween Card

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Happy Halloween!

This Spooky Best Witches Halloween Card is the last Halloween card of the season I guess! I hate to see the end of using the Best Witches Stamp Set and the Scary Cute Stamp Set. I have loved stamping the Best Witches and coloring them with Stampin’ Blends.

This card has a Basic White card base and a layer of Basic Black cardstock. Then I layered on a piece of the Black & White Designs Designer Series Paper for the background and even added a little strip of another pattern down lower on the card.

The witch is stamped with Memento ink on Basic White Cardstock and colored in with various Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I diecut her with a Layered Circle Die and layered on a piece of Pumpkin Pie Cardstock cut with a scalloped circle die in the same set. The witch looked a little plain so I colored in the background to look more like Halloween night. I used several different colors of Stampin’ Blends – a little light yellow, some bright green, some orange, then Pale Papaya over all of it, plus some Granny Apple Green to finish it off! You can just play with these markers and see what turns out!

I used the Alphabest Stamp Set and the Best Label Punch to spell out “Spooky!” across the card. I barely had room to fit it in! It’s really a fun set to play with, as I am finding out. You can purchase both the stamp set and little punch in a Bundle and save 10%. You’ll find both in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.

The ghosts peeking out from the sides of the card have special significance! Ghosts are part of what attracted me to Stampin’ Up! and to sign up to be a Demonstrator 20 years ago, as it turns out! When I saw cards made with ghosts out of hearts cut in half, I was sold on the creative possibilities of stamping!! To make these ghosts I punched a heart with the Heart Pack punch out of Basic White cardstock and cut it in half with scissors. The ghost on the left side is cut down just a little smaller to make him fit better. Then I just added eyes with a marker! So fun!

Here is another card I made with my heart ghosts a few years ago!

I hope you have your Halloween treats all ready for the trick-or-treaters tonight! Not sure we will have as many as we used to have back when more kids lived here and there was a little carnival down the street at the pool. I love handing out candy when the kids come to the door! I have my Paper Pumpkin treat boxes ready plus some extra bags of candy. The Paper Pumpkin treat boxes I already handed out were quite a hit, so consider trying out the Paper Pumpkin Kits especially for holiday times!