I have loved this Expressions In Ink Designer Series Paper and thought I would just make a simple card with it to enjoy the paper some more before it retires. Yes, it is on the Last Chance List but is still available as I write this so grab some if you want to stock up or finally get it. I made this basic Expressions In Ink Thanks Card because it is easy and it really shows off the gorgeous paper with gold foil accents.
The card base is Mint Macaron to match the leaves on the designer paper. There are several greens in the whole package of paper, actually quite a long list of coordinating colors that go with the paper. I intended to use the opposite side of the paper for the bottom portion of the card, but the papaya-colored florals on the front were too pretty to cover up even a small area!
I adhered a piece of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon across the front of the card. This is a beautiful soft, natural ribbon with shiny gold threads in it. It is easy to tie and use since it is soft. I tied a separate bow and adhered it to the card using Mini Glue Dots. This ribbon is on sale right now on the Last Chance List so get some before it retires!
The greeting is in the Artistically Inked Stamp Set which may no longer be available. You can use any greeting you would like for the occasion. It is stamped in Pale Papaya Ink and die cut with one of the Tasteful Labels Dies. These dies are another thing on the Last Chance List, retiring soon, while supplies last. I hate to see these go! The greeting is adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
The photo of this card really doesn’t do it justice! If you could see it in person it is so pretty! It’s all about the paper! Here is another card I made with this same paper design but with a lot more embellishment.
Be sure to check the Last Chance Sale and list of retiring products from the current Annual Stampin’ Up! Catalog because, as you can see, some products are selling out already. Not everything is on sale but some things are. You can also check the Clearance Rack any time you are ordering to see if any bargains there are for you!
A new kit in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection will be released tomorrow, April 6th, in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store! Stampin’ Up! introduced the Kit Collection last year and will continue this year with more and more new kits! These kits are designed for the new or beginning crafter, but of course, they can appeal to every crafter! For the beginning crafter, the kits are easy to understand and make and all the supplies are included. For experienced crafters, it’s a project already designed and ready to make and can be changed up if desired.
This new kit is called the Kindness Cards Kit. It’s not in the store yet today but will be tomorrow so check back. This heartfelt kit focuses on touching, thoughtful messages of kindness. It includes everything you need to create eight coaster cards—plus a cute travel-sized tin to hold it all. Each card is a story of kindness you can create and share. (Love the tin to hold the cards!!)
I’ve heard of stampers making a few small cards to carry with them and then when they are shopping or eating out or wherever they are, if they get great service or just want to, they hand out one of the cards to the person. It’s like a “random act of kindness”. Sometimes they even include a piece of candy or a little something. That’s where the tin comes in handy in this kit so that you can carry some cards with you and keep them pristine in your purse!
DETAILS
Kit includes:
8 small coaster cards, 2 each of 4 designs
8 envelopes
Carrying tin
Finished card size: 3″ x 3″ (7.6 x 7.6 cm)
Coordinating colors: Basic Gray, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo, Pale Papaya, Pool Party, Soft Sea Foam
Beginning tomorrow, April 6th, you can add this Kit Collection to your order! Who couldn’t use a Kindness Card from you to brighten their day?!
These triangle boxes are so fun and easy to make. I have made lots of them over the years for different holidays or occasions but I may not have ever made one for Easter like this Triangle Box Easter Bunny Treat. All you need is a piece of paper and then score it according to directions. You can vary the size of the paper depending on what size treat box you want. Put some candy or a small gift inside for a fun treat!
My Basic White cardstock is cut at 4″ x 8″. Use the diagram below to see how to score, but it is simple! At each end of the cardstock, put a light pencil mark at the halfway point which in this case would be 2″. Score the paper in half at 4″. Then in that awkward manner, with your Paper Trimmer, score from that 2″ middle point at one end down to the middle score line which will be on a diagonal. Do that on both sides of one end, then turn the paper and score at the other end in the same way.
Now fold and crease all the score lines. You will see how it will fold together to make the triangle box. Determine which side will be the front or top of your box that you will want to decorate and how the flaps will go so that the top view of the box will have the fold of the flaps showing and not the open side. Once you see how it folds together how you like, you can use any hole punch to punch holes in the sides near the top. You want the two holes on each side to align. This is how your paper should look creased and with holes punched.
To decorate my Easter Bunny treat box, I used punches that are retired now but you can use whatever you have. There is the Double Oval Punch or maybe you have retired punches and dies that you can use….or simply cut out by hand! For the ears, I punched a large oval for the white ear and then I found the 2021-23 In Color Shimmer Vellum that I have and have barely used! It’s on the Last-Chance List and even on sale! To attach the ears to the box, I simply scored a bottom portion of the ears and folded then adhered each to the box. You can use Multipurpose Liquid Glue but you will have to hold it in place for a few moments.
For the eyes, I punched 1/2″ circles with my old punch and colored in the black portion. I had originally drawn them right on the box but later I smeared the ink somehow so I covered that mess up with the punched eyes! “There are no mistakes in stamping!” I think it looks better this way! The nose is a little larger than I planned on but I used one of the hearts in the Sweet Hearts Dies. I had to have something a little large since I attached these whiskers. If you have been papercrafting for any length of time you probably have a heart die or punch somewhere in your stash or you can just cut one by hand. The mouth is just drawn on with the Black Stampin’ Blend marker.
After putting your treat or gift inside the box, you can tie it closed with either an inconspicuous piece of ribbon or do as I did and use a larger bow that matches my bunny colors that looks somewhat like a bow tied on the bunny’s head! My pink colors are the In Color Polished Pink in the paper and ribbon. The ribbon is the 3/8″ Open Weave Ribbon. Such pretty ribbon in all the In Colors! Luckily these In Color ribbons are carrying over into the new Annual Catalog!
That’s it for making a triangle box! Here is another example in THIS POST. Just decide on the size of paper you want to use, score in half, score on the diagonal to each end from that scoreline, punch holes if you want to be able to tie it shut, and decorate as I did in this Triangle Box Easter Bunny Treat.
Here’s a fun, colorful card that I made just to use the Create With Friends Stamp Set that I’ve had but hadn’t used much. Unfortunately, after making this card, the stamp set is already sold out and retired. But you can still use this card design and just substitute the greeting with something else you have.
After making the multicolor front of the card, I used Basic Black for the card base. Black really makes those colors stand out but you can use whatever goes with the colors that you choose. I made this interesting background using the stamp in the Artistically Inked Stamp Set. This stamp set is the Distinktive design which adds texture right to the stamp. I just chose several colors to use on the front of the card and stamped on a slight diagonal. I used Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, and Real Red. A group of Subtles would be good too!.
The greeting was stamped on Basic White and die cut with one of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. This set of dies is retiring soon. I also used the same die to cut out a Real Red piece of cardstock and cut that in half horizontally to layer underneath the white greeting. I also punched a hole on each side of the die cut so I could tie on some Real Red Faux Linen Ribbon. Before tying on ribbon I decided to stamp the dots in the Artistically Inked Stamp Set in all the colors I used in the background. Plus I had to add a few little Artistry Blooms Self-Adhesive Sequins. The greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Even though you can no longer purchase the greeting stamp set, you can still get the Artistically Inked Stamp Set and will continue to be able to buy it in the next annual catalog! That is great news to still have that stamp set available to us! So many artistic things you can do with the “Artistically Inked” stamp set!
This Friends of the Forest Bunnies Easter Card is an easy one to make! But is it an Easter card?? Or is it a baby card?? Well, I made it as an Easter card but the whole time I was making it I thought this sweet bunny reminded me of baby cards! In fact, I was so taken with stamping the cute little bunny that I forgot about a greeting! But I’ll show you the inside and I think we don’t ALWAYS have to put a greeting on the outside.
This bunny is in the Friends of the Forest Stamp Set in the Spring Mini Catalog on page 19. This is not an “Easter” set but of course, the bunny is perfect for Easter. I did one of the things I like to do best … I randomly stamped the bunny on the Basic White layer to make my own designer paper! Or simply a pretty background! I used Crumb Cake ink and I went back and colored in the ears with the Light Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends Marker. I had to stop myself before I started doing even more coloring because I didn’t want all the bunnies colored.
The card base is Crumb Cake cardstock, although it looks darker in the photo. Then there is a layer of Petal Pink underneath the Basic White. You could use any pink and you could use a darker brown like Soft Suede. Or change up the color scheme altogether.
I actually copied myself making this card! I remembered a card in THIS POST that I had always liked so I updated it with this bunny!
I wanted a colored bunny to be the focal point so I stamped the bunny on Basic White and die cut with one of the dies in Ornate Frames that fits on the frilly die cut in the same set. This one is on Petal Pink cardstock and was already in my bag of cardstock so I must have diecut it before and didn’t use it! Just seeing it in with the other Petal Pink cardstock gave me the idea. It was the perfect size for the bunny!
The bunny is just colored with a Light Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend Marker. I wanted to keep him light and didn’t do any blending with another color. I used the narrow tip of the Petal Pink marker to color the insides of the ears, the tail, and the cheeks. I could have stopped there but I added a bit of grass for him to sit in with the Light Mint Macaron marker.
To embellish the card a bit I simply wrapped around a piece of the Petal Pink 5/8″ Organdy Striped Ribbon. This has been one of my favorite ribbons so I am sad it is retiring on May 2, if not before. It is even on sale so check it out (or stock up!). The bunny piece, on the Ornate Frames diecut is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
After I got this far on the card, I realized I didn’t have a greeting and no space for one. I guess I could have fit one on somehow, but sometimes I think a card is fine without a greeting on the front. Or sometimes I make a generic pretty card that I like and don’t want to put the greeting on until I need the card. That way I can add whatever the occasion calls for.
On this card, I got the idea to make the greeting inside a little fancier. I stamped the greeting from the Celebrating You Stamp Set. What a great set of greetings! It is in the Spring Mini Catalog but it is also carried over to the new Annual Catalog! Yea!! On each side of the Petal Pink greeting, I stamped the bunny in Crumb Cake ink to match the outside. I think it’s really cute! It’s common to stamp a little something inside the card or add some of the designer paper, but I like the idea of stamping something on each side of the greeting! I should color the inside of his ears with Petal Pink as I did on the front of the card.
Be sure to check out the Last-Chance products and sale on some of them in my Online Store! Get the goodies you want before they sell out!
Here’s something for baseball fans everywhere, the Hey Sports Fan Suite, in the Stampin’ Up! January – June 2022 Spring Mini Catalog. Baseball season is beginning, whether for professional teams or Little League and everything in between! I wish this Suite had been around many years ago when my boys were little and every Saturday (and more) was a baseball game! Maybe you just know someone who is a big baseball fan. How they would enjoy receiving a baseball card or project made just for them with the contents of this Suite!
Part of the Hey Sports Fan Suite is a Bundle – the Your Biggest Fan Stamp Set and the coordinating dies, Sports Events Dies. You save 10% by buying the Your Biggest Fan Bundle rather than the stamp set and dies separately. You receive the same discount purchasing the Suite, as far as the Bundle goes, entering the product number for the Hey Sports Fan Suite (157896) just saves you the time of entering each product in the whole Suite separately (assuming you want everything!).
The Suite comes with the Bundle, the Fan Baker’s Twine, Resin Stars, and the Hey Sports Fan 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. The designer paper will be good for cardmaking but also scrapbooking. Perhaps if your kids played ball a few years back but you never got to those scrapbook pages, get the paper now and you’ll be inspired to make some of those scrapbook pages. Or use the paper as a background to frame some baseball photos or act as a mat. The Resin Stars can be used for other projects, not related to baseball, as can be the twine, so you might want to pick those up even if you are not into baseball. You might even find uses for the stamps and dies not related to baseball. Just the shapes can be used for many other sports or activities. Just think outside the box.
With spring and summer comes baseball. The sound of a baseball game on the radio or TV always takes me back to my childhood, maybe a lazy Sunday afternoon listening to or watching the baseball game. Growing up in St. Louis my family was Cardinal fans. I remember going to my first baseball game with my Girl Scout troop and in junior high, we could earn free baseball tickets if we got good grades! I can see my grandpa listening to the game on his big transistor radio. One time, as his eyesight was failing, he asked a family friend, who was a really big baseball fan, if he would take him to a Cardinal game along with that man’s kids and my brother and me. My grandpa paid for good seats for all of us so he could see better. When my husband and I and our baby got transferred to Houston, one of the first fun things we wanted to do was go to an Astros game at the Astrodome! I remember even dressing up a little bit, to sit in the bleachers, because “it was the Astrodome!” I remember being on a tour of the Astrodome when it was new when my family made a trip to Houston to visit friends who had moved here. It was impressive! And when the Astros played in the World Series several years ago, I got to go to a game with a friend, the only time in my life I’ve had “connections”! It was the thrill of a lifetime to walk into that stadium knowing I was at the World Series!
Be sure to check out the Hey Sports Fan Suite or the individual products in the Spring Mini on pages 68-69.
If you would like to make a pretty easy Easter card, this Prized Peony Monochromatic Easter Card will do! When you use one color, it takes some design decisions out of the way. I did some embossing on a layer but you could skip that. Just stamp, assemble your card, maybe add a ribbon for embellishment and it’s finished.
The card base is Highland Heather. Based on inspiration from an embossed piece of cardstock in the package, I decided to use the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder to add a little extra to the card. It is a separate layer on the card, not the card base.I like to use these tiny embossed flowers, but sadly, it is retiring! It is on sale, though, so if you want it, grab it.
The flower, from the Prized Peony Stamp Set, is stamped in Highland Heather ink on my favorite paper, Shimmery White. The Prized Peony Stamp Set is a Distinktive Stamp Set, that design by Stampin’ Up! that adds texture and depth right in one stamp. That’s why this peony stamp works well if you want to make a monochromatic card because all the design is already in the stamp. You don’t have to do another thing to it unless you want to. I was daring and stamped the greeting right in the corner of the card rather than on a layer (but I could have covered it if I messed up!). The Easter greeting is from the Celebrating You Stamp Set. The Prized Peony Stamp Set does come with some very useful greetings for other occasions, just not Easter!
For a little something, I finally tried something new. I wanted to have a bow on the flower stem so I colored the ribbon to match the card. I used the White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon and then, on scrap paper, ran the side of a Highland Heather Stampin’ Blends Marker over the ribbon. The alcohol markers dry very quickly. I tried both the Light Heather and the Dark Heather markers and decided the Dark was probably a better match to the card. I could have left the ribbon white, but I happened to think about dying the ribbon with the marker. Nothing to it unless you get colored fingers. But do remember to use scrap paper underneath! The ink goes through this thin ribbon so you only have to color one side.
Here are the two products that are retiring in the Last-Chance Sale AND discounted! The Prized Peony Stamp Set is on sale for $19.20 and the Ornate Floral EF is on sale for $5.40!
Easter is coming soon, so if you would like to send out cards, start making some Easter cards so it won’t be a last-minute rush! Make a card something like this Prized Peony Monochromatic Easter Card if you are looking for something quick and easy but still pretty!
Why are smaller things so cute?! I don’t know but it applies to the Stampin’ Mini Cut & Emboss Machine! Ever since the original Big Shot Machine came out at a Stampin’ Up! Convention I attended YEARS ago I’ve done lots of die-cutting and embossing and think it’s a great addition to our stamping and papercrafting. Then, not too long ago, we got the new Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine. This machine works even better, in my opinion, and has the advantage of the platform folding up on both sides if you want to tidy up a bit or carry it somewhere. But if you like the convenience of a smaller machine, taking up less space, easy to travel with, then the Stampin’ Mini Cut & Emboss Machine is for you! Especially when you can save some money! It retails for $60 but with 20% off you can buy it for only $48!
This mini—but mighty—machine is durable, portable, and easy to use. It’s the perfect pick for budding beginners who want to branch out, papercrafting pros who want to craft on the go, or those who are short on storage space! With this trusty tool, any crafter can make precise cuts and embossed designs for their projects with one pass.
During the month of March, you can snag the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine at a 20% discount! This miniature machine is compatible with a large selection of Stampin’ Up! embossing folders and dies. Build your craft collection and combine the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine with any (or all!) of the select stamp-and-die bundles that are also available for 20% off during the month of March!
(Be sure to scroll down to read the entire flyer about the machine AND the Bundles on sale!!)
Details
The Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine will be available for purchase at a 20% discount.
A number of select stamp-and-die bundles that are compatible with the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine will also be available for purchase at a 20% discount.
For this promotion only, we’ve brought back the previously popular Art Gallery, Celebrate Sunflowers, and Garden Wishes bundles. They will only be available in their bundle form during this promotion, so make sure to snag ‘em while you still can!
The Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and select compatible bundles can be bought together or separately.
There is no limit on the number of Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machines you can purchase during this promotion. In fact, having more than one machine is ideal for workshops, classes, and other events!
Products are available in all markets while supplies last. Offer may vary from market to market based on product availability. No backorders or substitutions will be allowed.
The stamp-and-die bundles that can be found in a current catalog will be replenished until they retire. When they do retire, the bundles will be added to the Retiring List.
Due to supply chain challenges, this promotion may be altered or ended early. We will post a Current Update with further information if this is anticipated.
This Create With Friends Card came about because as I looked through the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog, I saw that the Create With Friends is a stamp set on the retirement list and I have only used it once or twice! What a shame! It is really a fun stamp set but it kind of got lost in the shuffle I guess! It’s like when you buy new clothes but don’t wear them for a while and then decide to get rid of them and the tags are still on the clothes!
In this stamp set, you will find words in a larger size cursive font that you can use alone or pair with extra words in a small print font. It is a stamp set designed by one of the Million Sales Achiever Demonstrators.
I actually came up with the idea for this card myself! What better word for us stampers to have than “Create”! I’m not exactly sure who you would send this card to except another stamping friend, but it was fun to make anyway!
The card base is Real Red cardstock with a layer of Basic White cardstock. I simply stamped the word “Create” on a diagonal, staggering the word placement. You need to stamp off the edge of the cardstock on each side when you do this so have scrap paper underneath your card! I just used Memento Black Ink but you could also make each word a different color or at least just use a few colors.
The greeting is stamped in black ink on Real Red cardstock and die cut with this die in the Painted Label Dies. Before I adhered the die-cut, popped up on several Stampin’ Dimensionals®, I wrapped a piece of Real Red 3/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon around the stamped layer. After adhering the greeting over the ribbon, I also tied some red ribbon in a knot on each side.
I could have left well enough alone, but why not add a few Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels? The red color is actually Cherry Cobbler, but no one will complain it’s not Real Red! I just scattered them among the stamped words.
Remember to check out the Last-Chance List and Sale until the end of the current Annual Catalog, while supplies last!
The other day after I made the Easter basket I posted yesterday, I was cleaning up my mess and as I saw the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper up against the Mint Macaron Cardstock, I loved it and had to make a card with that combination. Since I had made the Easter basket out of Cinnamon Cider and since this paper has some Cinnamon Cider in it, I added a narrow layer underneath the designer paper.
This is a really easy card to make yet looks perfect for a spring or Easter card. The card base is Mint Macaron with a layer of Cinnamon Cider (retiring soon!) and then the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper. Before adhering the designer paper to the Cinnamon Cider layer, add the ribbon first, if you are using ribbon. I used the wide, velvet Mint Macaron Soft Velvet Ribbon. This ribbon is beautiful but I hadn’t even used it yet and now it is retiring! Since that ribbon is wide, I didn’t try to add a bow, plus the background paper is pretty busy so I wanted to just keep it simple.
The greeting is in the CelebratingYou Stamp Set. I stamped it on Basic White with Mint Macaron Ink and then die cut that piece with one of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies and layered it on a larger die in the same set. These Stitched So Sweetly Dies are retiring soon, which I hate as I have used these dies a lot!! Not that I can’t continue to use them, but of course, once we get new things, we like to use the new things!
For the inside of the card, I added a layer of Basic White. To decorate it a bit, I cut out two flowers from the designer paper and adhered them inside the card. It’s always fun if you take the time to decorate the inside a little to match the outside of the card. You can take a strip of any designer paper you used on the card and adhere it to the bottom of the inside of the card or along the side or do a little stamping.
I know it’s hard to believe I didn’t add any jewels or gems on this card! I was just keeping it simple, but you could certainly add some sparkle!
I’ve made a few paper Easter baskets in the past, but I hadn’t tried this fun-looking design. I called this the Woven-Look Easter Basket in Cinnamon Cider to differentiate the kind of basic ones like I made recently in this post. I don’t know what design it would really be called! It is made by cutting strips on parts of the paper and then adhering them one by one, side by side to the front and back of the basket. Somehow it turns out like this! Who thinks of all these ideas?!
I have a lot of photos to hopefully show you how to make one of these baskets!
Start with a piece of cardstock cut at 7″ x 6 1/2″. You will also need a basket handle later cut at 3/4″ x 6″ or whatever size you like. If you want to cover it with designer paper, cut it just slightly narrower and just as long. You can also add designer paper to the sides of the basket if you like, or even each strip that we will make. Or just keep it plain and simple!
With the 7″ side at the top of the Simply Scored Scoring Tool or the Paper Trimmer, score each of the four sides at 2″. (See the red lines.) Then with the 7″ side at the top, on the two outer squares, score from the top only down to the horizontal score line. (Green lines.) Score at 5/8″, 1 1/4″, 5 3/4″, and 6 3/8″. Then turn the paper with the other 7″ side at the top and do the same thing.
In preparation for assembly, add pieces of Tear & Tape to each end of those scored strips as you see in the diagram. You could use Multipurpose Liquid Glue but you would have to hold each strip in place for a moment, so Tear & Tape is really easier. You “could” apply the tape across all three strips at once because you are going to cut them apart next anyway.
Next, use scissors to cut on the scored (green) lines just up to the horizontal score line. Also, cut the red line, just up to the red score line, so that you have three “fringe-like” pieces on each side (all four corners).
In that middle section, top and bottom, you see a dotted line. That is where you will fold over just about 1/4″ to the inside of the basket. Score it first if you like. Adhere well. Tear & Tape works best if you make it as wide as the tape. The Liquid Glue you have to hold a few moments. (That squiggle over on the right is a boo-boo! Ignore it!)
Now you will assemble the basket by removing the Tear & Tape one strip at a time. Pull the inside strip over toward the center of that center section, adhering it about 1/4″ below the top edge. Next do the strip on the left side, also 1/4″ below the top edge.
Next, go to the next (middle) strip on the right, remove the tape and pull it over adhering it right about at the top edge of that middle section. Do the same with the one on the left.
Now you are on the last strip. Pull that over so that it is fairly level and straight with the top of that middle section. Now do the last one on the left, also making it straight with the top. That’s it! As you take a look at the basket, you will see that curve that developed! Don’t worry if everything isn’t lined up perfectly because you are likely to be covering this side (and maybe the back section, too) with a decoration. Do all the same steps on the other side of the basket.
Try to stick the end of the handle down in between the layers of the basket if you can or just adhere wherever you like. Add whatever decoration you want, whether a greeting or some layered circles, punches, rectangles, whatever. Tie on a ribbon if you like. Decorate both sides or just one. Add some small pieces of designer paper on the basket sides if you want. I stamped the little bunny in the Friends of the Forest Stamp Set and layered it on a piece of the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper on top of Mint Macaron cardstock.
Here is the back side. I almost stamped a “Happy Easter” greeting for the back but I didn’t. I thought just decorating the front was fine!
If you want to decorate the sides of the basket with designer paper, just cut two pieces 2 1/4″ x 1 3/4″. Make sure you have any design going in the correct direction if there is a pattern. This Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper is on the Last-Chance List of retiring products so if you need more, be sure to get it while it is available! And the Cinnamon Cider cardstock is also retiring as it is one of the outgoing In Colors!
Make a few Easter baskets either for your own decoration around the house or as a decoration at each place setting at your Easter dinner table!
Introducing the new Stampin’ Up! In Colors 2022-2024! Thanks to another Demonstrator for creating this graphic to show off all the new colors and even a bit of Stampin’ Up! artwork to show how they all work together! These new In Colors will be available in the next Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog beginning May 3, 2022.
Stampin’ Up! provided a little quiz each day in our Demonstrator Facebook Group to give us clues as to each new In Color. Then at the end of the day, they would reveal the name and show the color. I was amazed at how easily some of the Demos guessed the names!
It will be fun to see how these colors compare to past colors we have had or even our current ones. I will be eager to see the colors in person and see if I like them. Of course, you almost have to work with them a while to see what you think! There will be new Stampin’ Blends for each color (of course ink pads and reinkers) plus, of course, things like embellishments, ribbon, and designer paper. Fun!
Here is an example of the kind of clues they provided: “I’m a delicious treat on the tip of your tongue. Creamy yet dairy-free is the life for me. Strawberries, watermelon, raspberries, oh my! Just blend a little fruit juice, water, and sugar for a frozen surprise. What’s my name?”
Remember the Last-Chance Sale began yesterday afternoon with retiring products! Not everything is discounted of course but I hope you find some bargains you would like! The Last Chance product list is impossible to read unless you zoom in online or print it and wear your very best reading glasses. But it really is best to just look online in the Store and see what is still available, what is “Low Inventory”, etc. That will be up-to-date. Remember, the Spring Mini Catalog is not retiring yet. That January-June catalog will be live through June 30. Some products will carry over into the new catalog, which you will see when you get the catalog! As much as I love new things, I’m always happy to see products I already have carry over to the new catalog!
I’ve wanted to make this Friends of the Forest Easter Diorama Card ever since I got this stamp set in the Spring Mini Catalog! I could just imagine making a diorama card with some kind of little scene using the stamps in the Friends of the Forest Stamp Set!
This diorama card is actually a regular card size so you can fit it in an envelope. It folds flat! You could even make a middle layer inside a diorama card and make it as fancy and involved as you like, but this style is easy and just fine! All you need are two pieces of cardstock and an opening cut in the front so you can see the scene or decoration inside.
Start with two pieces of cardstock, each 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. Score at 1/2″ and 1″ from each end on each cardstock piece. Fold and crease the score lines and play with them a little to see how it is going to go together. For this card, I used Soft Sea Foam Cardstock for the front and Basic White for the back.
Here is the diagram I used on a previous card. Since we no longer have the oval dies, I changed this card to cutting the opening with a circle die in the Layering Circles Dies, the largest one. You could use a rectangle or whatever you have that would make a hole large enough for whatever you want to do. The lines show the score lines.
To make the card, I stamped a tree and a bunny on Basic White and cut them out for the front of the card. On the inside, I stamped the tree, fox, flowers and mushrooms directly onto the Basic White and colored them in. But I also stamped two bunnies and a tree stump separately and cut them out by hand to add to the inside scene. Some things are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and some are glued flat on the card.
On the inside, after I had the scene made I decided to color in some grass. I used the Light Sea Foam Stampin’ Blend Marker. For the sky, I used the Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend. Just scribble lightly, you don’t even have to cover all the white space. I punched out a cloud with the Cloud Punch. It was too big, so I just cut off the side that was too long and popped it up on Dimensionals.
I colored all my pieces with Stampin’ Blends. I didn’t keep track of the colors. It doesn’t matter because you can do your own thing! I did discover after I finished, that the Stampin’ Blends bled through the back of the Basic White background, which I hadn’t thought about so I cut another piece of Basic White to cover that up on the back.
Here is a view of the card from the top. Just glue the ends together to connect the front and back and make sure everything creases well.
For another idea, here is a card I made two years ago in a similar design.
If you just try this card design, once you cut and score the paper and crease the lines, you will see how the card goes together. It’s really very easy but will make a great impression on whoever you decide to send it to!
The list of Stampin’ Up! retiring products will be released along with a special promotion! All the details will be revealed this afternoon!
This Last-Chance Products Sale will be from March 23 – May 2, while supplies last!
Check back later today, after 1:00 PM MT, 2:00 PM CT, 3:00 PM ET, Noon PT! I’ll need a little bit of time to get the information posted!
(Considering the retiring In Colors 2020-2022 should be at the top of your list….everything with those colors….ribbon, gems, reinkers, paper, etc…..if you need or want any of those items!)
Peruse your Annual Catalog and try to guess what will be retired! Make your list! Exercise patience the rest of the day trying to get on the website. Chances are it will be very busy!
