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Expressions in Ink Birthday Card With Gold Foil

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Expressions In Ink Birthday Card With Gold Foil

THIS PAPER!!! Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper (155464) Order it!

Okay, that’s really all that needs to be said for this blog post! But since you probably want to know more about the card and the paper, I’ll continue.

When I first saw a Stampin’ Up! video giving us Demonstrators a sneak peek at some of the new Annual Catalog products, I fell in love with this Expressions in Ink Suite! And when I saw it online in the catalog I wanted to order it right away. But it was not on our Demonstrator pre-order so I had to wait just like everyone else. My order just came and I have to say, when I opened this package of paper and looked at the sheets, I just gasped! It is beautiful and striking with the gold foil accents on one side of the sheets. You must have it!

Here are closeups of some of the sheets of paper, but even these do not do it justice!

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For the card, I started out copying the catalog sample on page 96 in the upper right of the samples. It turned out not exactly the same. I dared to cut into one of the papers, trying to match the pattern I could see on the catalog page. Then I stamped the large and small flowers from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set plus the small individual leaves. The large flower is stamped in Polished Pink Ink and the small flower in Pale Papaya. The leaves are stamped in Just Jade Ink since the card base will be Just Jade. You can choose from lots of coordinating colors!

Expressions In Ink Card Beginning

Now when I stamped these flowers and leaves, I didn’t give a lot of thought ahead of time to that gold foil piece placed over the top on the sample. In the Ephemera Pack, I was thinking that there would be individual foil cutout flowers, leaves, etc. to place over my stamped images, but there were not! The pack will still be fun to play with, it just didn’t have what I was expecting. Then I realized, I just needed to die-cut a gold foil piece from the Artistic Dies. While my flowers and leaves lined up pretty well with the die-cut, and while it doesn’t and shouldn’t be perfect because this is a watercolor look, I did add another stamped leaf and then got my foil to line up pretty well.

Expressions In Ink Birthday Card With Gold Foil

I highly recommend using Adhesive Sheets on the back of the Gold Foil Sheets before die-cutting this intricate design, which I always forget, but I did manage to use teeny tiny dots of the Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the back. The greeting comes in the stamp set and I stamped that in Polished Pink Ink and placed it in a lower position than on the catalog sample. For a little extra, I used a strip of the Just Jade & Gold 3/8″ Braided Ribbon, a little frayed on the ends, and adhered just below the greeting a tiny bit. And for a little more bling, I wanted to try out the little adhesive-backed iridescent sequins in the Ephemera Pack. You can see about five of those placed around the card.

This is a relatively easy card to make, using both stamping and designer paper, or rather stamping ON the designer paper, plus the die-cut Gold Foil accent and other embellishments. I suggest you order this paper, or the whole Suite of products sooner rather than later because once word gets out about how beautiful this Suite is, it could be backordered by the time you decide to get it. Hopefully, Stampin’ Up! anticipated how popular this Suite would be and ordered plenty!

You might also consider the June Paper Pumpkin Kit which will coordinate with this Suite! Even if you subscribed before and dropped, you may want to come back just for this kit at least if you like the style of the Expressions In Ink Suite of products!

Here’s another view of my card without so much glare from the foil! I hope you are as attracted to this Suite as I am!

Expressions In Ink Birthday Card With Gold Foil Closeup

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Color & Contour Pattern Party Card

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Color & Contour Pattern Party Card

Once again, as I looked through the Pattern Party package of designer papers, this Flirty Flamingo stripe jumped out at me and screamed to be made into a card which resulted in this Color & Contour Pattern Party Card. I had almost forgotten this set of dies has this scalloped edge die in it which just helps to make this card! I love how this card turned out!

The card base is Flirty Flamingo Cardstock. The striped paper is from the Host Product in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. This means that with an order of $150 or more, instead of choosing some other free merchandise in the catalog, you can go to the back of the catalog where there is this designer paper option (48 sheets!) and some other stamp sets, all that you can choose as your Stampin’ Rewards at a discounted price. I think this package of paper is going to be a hit because it’s something different (just stamp sets have been offered as Host Rewards) and you will love the paper patterns! Look for the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper on page 171.

The striped paper is die cut with a die in the Scalloped Contours Dies. You can purchase the Color & Contour Stamp Set and the dies in a Bundle and save 10%. I love the stitched look along the scalloped edge. Whether you purchase the stamp set or not, I would buy the Scalloped Contours Dies by themselves. They are that good!

I do have the Color & Contour Stamp Set and I do like the flowers in the set! You can do two-step stamping to color in rather abstractly the flowers, or you can color in the open design yourself with whatever coloring technique you like. Then you can cut them out with the dies. You can set on the set that the individual leaf has a very open design, but I just stamped it in Memento Ink, colored in with two colors of green Stampin’ Blends, and cut out the leaf itself, not the extra squiggle! The lower flower is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the other two and the leaves adhered right to the card. The flower center is stamped with Daffodil Delight Ink.

It IS a little tricky to line up the two-step stamp with the first stamped impression and then to line up the die with the flower. You could spend some time lining them up and then put a black mark on the stamp and on the die to remind you of how to line them up. But since the design is rather abstract anyway, it kind of doesn’t have to be perfect. For some of us, though, who like things “perfectly lined up”, well, we can fiddle with it and we can get it lined up!

The greeting is in the stamp set but I did use another set of dies to cut out the greeting. I used the Stitched So Sweetly Dies to get a smaller rectangle to fit at the bottom of my card. This is another set of dies that I have used a lot and recommend you have in your supplies!

Not one to leave well enough alone, I saw the “speckle” stamp in the set and thought maybe it would look interesting in the bottom portion of the card. Usually it is not a good idea to stamp something more on a card that is nearly finished and could potentially be ruined if you mess up, but I took a chance and it worked out! I inked the stamp with Flirty Flamingo Ink but stamped off before stamping on the bottom of the card.

On the inside of the card, I put a piece of Basic White for a layer and stamped one of the flowers, just the outline, in Flirty Flamingo Ink down in the right-hand corner. Later I can stamp a message on the inside of the card or write a personal note.

If you have a large order of $150 or more, remember that you can choose Stampin’ Rewards of 10% or more and remember that there are special Host choices in the back of the catalog, one being this year the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper. This is 48 sheets, 4 sheets each of 12 different designs. This card, the Color & Contour Pattern Party Card, shows off one of the pretty patterns in this package of paper! You will enjoy it I’m sure!

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Pansy Patch Card For a Special Day

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Pansy Patch Card For a Special Day

This card is an easy way to make pansies if you don’t want to bother with the smaller die-cut pieces, and this Pansy Patch Card For a Special Day is perfect for Mother’s Day! Add whatever greeting you like or need for the card and it will be perfect for almost any occasion.

To make the pansy, just use the Pansy Dies to cut out the one large and two smaller pansy petals in Basic White. You could also use light colors of cardstock and still do what I did also. I used the Blending Brush along the edges of the pansy petals to color just/mostly the edges and then assembled them. I happened to use Mango Melody, but it is very light so it almost matches the paper in the background that is another color. The leaves and flower stem for the bud are Granny Apple Green. Even the two pieces of the flower bud are Basic White with just a bit of ink blended on them. If you don’t have the new Blending Brushes (so soft!) use a piece of a Stamping Sponge that you probably already have or a Sponge Dauber.

Actually, I was undecided on how I wanted to use one of the pretty Pansy Petals Designer Paper on the card. The design I have just kind of accidentally happened! I used the Bumblebee pattern for the main layer on the card and was going to die-cut a rectangle piece out of some colored cardstock. But I also wondered about the opposite side of the paper which had all these small pansies. I laid a scrap of it down on the card just to place the die-cut pansy on top and see how it would look with it but not necessarily behind it and I liked the look as it was! The pansy still stood out well enough against the print, especially when I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is stamped with part of the stamp in the Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set and then die-cut with just the middle portion of the Banner Blooms Die where the greeting would go. Then I just trimmed the stamped banner piece away from the rest of the bouquet die-cut and flagged the plain end.

This is actually a pretty easy card to make for Mother’s Day or to send on any day!

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Die-Cut Pansies For May Day

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Die-Cut Pansies For May Day

It’s May 1st and this Die-Cut Pansies For May Day Card is perfect to celebrate the day! If I went outside and walked up and down the street, I would see loads of pansies planted in neighbors’ landscaping. They won’t last in the hot weather, but so far the weather is tolerable for them. Just today I had a memory of being a little girl in Sunday School and planting or just bringing home a pansy planted in a milk carton to my mother for Mother’s Day.

As I discovered the other day, I need to play with the new Pansy Patch Stamp Set and the Pansy Dies in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog coming out on Tuesday, May 4th a little more to learn how to effectively make a pretty pansy. I’m sure it is not difficult, but I was a little unsure. Maybe I need to take photos of some of our neighbor’s pansies so I know exactly how the petals are placed!

For this card, I wanted to just experiment with the Pansy Dies and not worry about making an amazing card. I just wanted to make pansies. I decided to just die-cut a bunch of pieces and then see how they all fit together. I planned with two different shades of similar colors for each pansy, like Petal Pink and Polished Pink, Pale Papaya and Mango Melody and even just Basic White and Highland Heather for the contrasting parts of the flowers. The leaves are Soft Succulent for the solid leaf (really very pretty on it’s own because the die embosses it) and Evening Evergreen for the outline piece.

After cutting out an assortment of pieces for the pansies, I just glued, with tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue, the outline edge to the corresponding color. Each pansy flower has three pieces (at least mine do!). The top part has kind of the three areas and then the two bottom pieces are each like one petal with an outline piece along the bottom edge. I glued those two pieces together, then added the top piece. I think you want them close enough so the outlines kind of line up. There also is a die that cuts out three flower centers at once, so I used Daffodil Delight cardstock for the centers.

The leaves, of course, are simple. Just glue on the outline color…..or don’t. You could easily leave the leaves plain.

To make the card I used a base of Pale Papaya Cardstock and die cut a Basic White scalloped rectangle with the new Scalloped Contours Dies. I am really liking these dies! They go with the Color & Contour Stamp Set and you can buy the stamps and dies together in the Color & Contour Bundle and save 10%.

Then I just placed the pansies and leaves on the rectangle to see how they would fit. Since the pansies (at least mine) turned out a little large, they took up most of the room on the rectangle. There was just enough space at the bottom to stamp a greeting from the Pansy Patch Stamp Set in Pale Papaya Ink. I probably should have used a darker color as this one doesn’t show up that well with the pansies grabbing all the attention!

My advice when you get the Pansy Patch Bundle is just to get out your Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and cardstock and cut out all the pieces and just play. Don’t worry about making anything, except flowers. Just play! And soon we will all be learning good tips and tricks of the best way to use this stamp set and dies I’m sure!

HAPPY MAY DAY With the DIE-CUT PANSIES!

Die-Cut Pansies For May Day Closeup

Ornate Style Birthday Card

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Ornate Style Birthday Card

I think this card might be a little too bright for me even though I think I like Granny Apple Green Cardstock just fine! But today it looks very bright! But it certainly is an Ornate Style Birthday Card with all the colors, stamping, embossing, and diecutting! I just looked through the catalog to see what stamp sets I have that are retiring and which ones I want to showcase again before they are gone!

To make this card, I started by stamping the large bouquet in the Ornate Style Stamp Set, retiring May 3. I stamped it with Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. Just choose whatever colors you like for the flowers and leaves. Then I cut it out with Paper Snips, although I first took it to my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine thinking there was a die to cut out this bouquet! No such luck!

I did use the coordinating dies, the Ornate Layers Dies, to cut out the fancy frame to layer underneath the bouquet out of Calypso Coral Cardstock. If you want to save 10%, you can purchase the Ornate Style Stamp Set and Ornate Layers Dies together in the Ornate Style Bundle. The dies are not retiring. They will be in the new catalog!

Before I layered the cut out bouquet on the Calypso Coral die cut piece, I put some ribbon behind it winding back and forth. This ribbon now is on the Clearance Rack! It’s the All the Trimmings Combo Pack, the Old Olive ribbon with a gold edge. The bouquet is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To decorate the card front, I embossed it with the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder. This folder is so pretty with all the tiny flowers and leaves to provide a nice, textured background. This folder is being carried over to the new catalog so it will not be retiring like the stamp set.

For a greeting, I chose the “Birthday Wishes” from the retiring Itty Bitty Birthdays Stamp Set. I hate that all the “Itty Bitty” stamp sets are leaving us! I could always find a greeting to use for any occasion in one of the stamp sets. But rest assured, there are a lot of greeting stamps in the new catalog as well!

Here’s another card I made with the Ornate Style Stamp Set. I just stamped and colored in the bouquet and added some sequins for some bling!

Only about another two weeks to go until the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog goes live on May 4th! Enjoy your current stamp sets and be sure to show them some love before all you want to use are your new sets!

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Good Morning Magnolia Soft Subtles Thinking of You Card

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The other day I had another blog post about the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set and that I was surprised it was retiring because the magnolia stamp is so striking and dramatic in its size and beauty as you can see on this card, Good Morning Magnolia Soft Subtles Thinking of You Card. You don’t really need much else when you have this beautiful magnolia on the front of a card!

The card base is Soft Sea Foam, a color I haven’t really used that much. It is a very soft, light green, and perfect for this card. The magnolia in the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set is stamped in Memento Ink and colored with the Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends Combo. I left some areas whitish on the petals so it wasn’t all colored in solid. The leaves are colored with Soft Sea Foam Stampin’ Blends with a tiny bit of yellow thrown in.

The greeting is stamped in Petal Pink and die cut with a die from the Ornate Frames Dies. For a little layer underneath, I cut another die from the same set, but since it is small, I cut it in half so an end could stick out from each side of the greeting. The stamped layer of the card, instead of just layering on a pink cardstock, is layered on a pinkish pattern in the Peony Garden Designer Series Paper. Actually, on this card I made recently, you can see the same designer paper that I used behind the Basic White stamped layer, used as a layer behind the die-cut magnolia.

For a little pizzazz and sparkle on my card, I used the Elegant Faceted Gems, three in the smallest size and two in the larger size. I think they add a little extra to a very pastel card.

The Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set and Magnolia Memory Dies are retiring on May 3. The Dies are SERIOUSLY reduced in price! They were originally $35.00 and are now discounted to $8.75!! If you already have the stamp set, it would be a good time to pick up the dies! They weren’t sold in a Bundle, just separately, so check that out!

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True Love Sympathy Card

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True Love Sympathy Card

If there is one card we all hate to make, it is a sympathy card such as this True Love Sympathy Card although at the same time we hope it expresses our feelings and sends comfort to the family. I’m pretty sure I got the idea for this card from someone else but I don’t remember where I found it and haven’t been able to find it again. I do think I changed it up at least a little bit. I didn’t originally plan to post it but I came across it in my photos and I think it is a pretty card. Just change the greeting and you can use the same card design for almost anything else.

The card base is Blushing Bride with several layers on top. Let’s start with the flowers. The flowers are from the True Love Designer Series Paper in the Spring Mini Catalog. All the papers are black and white, but if you want to, you can color in the flowers and cut them out. That’s what I did here with the Stampin’ Blends, my favorite way to color. Behind the flowers for an embellishment is a loop of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon, which is a natural-colored ribbon with gold in it. It’s very pretty!

The flowers are layered on a diecut from the Ornate Layers Dies to make a frame. Underneath the frame is another Basic White layer that is edged in the new Gilded Leafing. I applied Tear & Tape on all four sides of the white cardstock and then applied the Gilded Leafing. That stuff is so fun! Then this piece is layered on Basic Black Cardstock to help the gold leafing stand out plus to go with the black and white of the True Love Flowers. And finally all this is on a layer of Basic White adhered to the Blushing Bride pink card base.

The greeting is in the Prized Peony Stamp Set. It is die cut with a circle in the Tasteful Labels Dies. It really didn’t need any layer underneath it on this card.

I think just the True Love Designer Series Paper will be retiring when the Spring Mini retires as usually most designer papers retire, but I think most of the rest of the supplies I used will be sticking around in the new catalog.

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Good Morning Magnolia Enjoy Today Card

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Good Morning Magnolia Enjoy Today Card

This Good Morning Magnolia Enjoy Today Card is one I had to make before this beautiful stamp set retires soon! I can’t believe they are taking away this beautiful, dramatic flower, but I think it has been around for two years. However, I haven’t had enough opportunity to play with it!

The Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set is on the Last-Chance List for the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. It is easiest to see what is retiring and still available by going to the Stampin‘ Up! Store. There are also coordinating dies, the Magnolia Memory Dies, that are retiring along with the stamp set. You can get these dies for the low, low, ridiculously low price of $8.75!! Be sure to check these out!

To make this card, I started with a card base of Petal Pink. I stamped the large magnolia using my Stamparatus because with a very large stamp like this one, it could be that one area of the stamp might not stamp as well. If you are using the Stamparatus, you can simply reink the stamp, still attached to the Stamparatus, and stamp again focusing on the area that needs more pressure or more ink. The Stamparatus is so great for things like this! The Stamparatus even has its own Craft & Carry Stamparatus Bag that is on sale for only $11.60 after being reduced from $29.00. This is a great bag, actually, even if you don’t own a Stamparatus. Even if you do, you can use the bag for other things. There are nice pockets inside for holding all kinds of things, crafting or otherwise.

After stamping the magnolia on Basic White Cardstock, I colored it with Stampin’ Blends. You can use various methods of coloring but I love using the Stampin’ Blends. I used the Petal Pink Combo on the flower and then for some crazy reason added tiny bits of Melon Mambo. It really was a strong color on the flower and I figured I had ruined it! BUT, I kept blending with my Petal Pink colors and I think it all worked out! I die cut it with the Magnolia Memory die. As I got ready to layer the flower on the card, I saw a piece of designer paper from the Peony Garden Designer Series Paper and thought this Petal Pink pattern would look good behind the flower. (Honestly, I had looked all over for the Magnolia DSP I thought I had and had loved, but I guess that was from the year before!)

Because the die cut had a bit of white showing on it, I decided to put a layer of Basic White with a very narrow margin underneath the pink designer paper, which helped it stand out a little from the Petal Pink cardstock base. The magnolia is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I chose a greeting in the stamp set and stamped it in Petal Pink Ink and die cut it with a frame in the Ornate Frames Dies. To finish off the card, I added two Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels to the Ornate Frame.

Here is a similar card I made with the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set and the designer paper almost two years ago. Really, this Good Morning Magnolia Enjoy Today Card is an easy card to make so check out the stamp set and dies if you don’t already own them on the Stampin’ Up! Retiring List.

Love You Always Happy Easter Card

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Love You Always Happy Easter Card

Can you use Valentine paper to make an Easter card? Sure, with the Love You Always Specialty Designer Series Paper with its beautiful foil floral design on three different colors of papers. Of course, it is not officially Valentine paper. It is just presented in the January – June 2021 Mini Catalog in “sort of” the Valentine section of the catalog, in the Love You Always Suite. It is actually beautiful paper that you can use for many occasions. Since two of the three sheets of paper are pink (Blushing Bride and Rococo Rose) and since the suite contains hearts, we perceive it as Valentine’s Day paper. But if it would have been added to a floral suite, we wouldn’t consider it Valentine paper! All this to say, you can use this Love You Always Paper to make almost any pretty cards that you want!

This easy Easter card starts with a Blushing Bride Cardstock card base. The layer is the Love You Always Paper in Blushing Bride. I wanted to keep the card simple so I didn’t try for anything fancy. I stamped the greeting with stamps from two different stamp sets. First, stamped the Easter greeting from the Arrange a Wreath Stamp Set (retiring from the Annual Catalog!) and then for a little extra, I remembered the tulip in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set which I thought would sort of match the designer paper. I stamped just one tulip but decided on one on each side of the greeting.

Next, to cut out the greeting, I looked through my dies and finally decided on a large one in the Tasteful Labels Dies. Then I tried various things to make a layer of Blushing Bride Cardstock under the greeting, usually by cutting another die in half so it would just show out to the sides of the greeting. Nothing seemed to add anything to the card.

I thought I would try ribbon, so I used the Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon. I’ve been using this ribbon pretty often. It’s very pretty with its one satin side and one metallic side. I wrapped this ribbon horizontally around the designer paper and added a bow separately. This seemed to enhance the card without interfering with the large die-cut greeting.

The greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For a little bling, I added a few of the smallest Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels, which I really liked on this card!

If you were to copy this card, you would find it very quick and easy to make because you wouldn’t have to figure out which elements to use! So if you need a quick and easy Easter card, try this card design! You can change it up however you like, but at least you will have a quick and easy idea to go by if you need to make some Easter cards and get them in the mail today! This Love You Always Happy Easter Card is really a basic card design so you can make a card like this for Easter.

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Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card

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Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card

There are so many pretty cards you can make with this die-cut wreath including a card like this Easter Bunny Wreath Easter Card. You can use this wreath and the other design that comes in the set as well to make all kinds of cards for many occasions. I love adding the Easter bunny and his basket of eggs to the wreath!

The die-cut wreath is made with the Wreath Builder Dies. I die cut two wreaths, one out of Pear Pizzazz and one out of Soft Sea Foam for a lighter color. You can use just one wreath but I think two look more interesting. Just glue one on top of the other, however you would like to place it, and then adhere to the card front.

The card base is Pear Pizzazz with a layer of Shimmery White Cardstock. I thought the background needed a little something, so I embossed it with the Ornate 3D Floral Embossing Folder. I think it adds a nice background without being too much.

The Easter bunny and basket, from the Springtime Joy Stamp Set, are stamped on Shimmery White with Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. I then cut out each by hand. To get your scissors inside the handle of the basket, you can punch a hole or maybe a couple of holes carefully which might work better than trying to stab the point of your scissors into the cardstock! I just used Multipurpose Liquid Glue for everything, although you could pop some things up with Stampin’ Dimensionals if you wanted to.

I also added a bow with the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon and adhered it with Mini Glue Dots. There is also a die for a bow to hang on the wreath, but I preferred a real bow. For the greeting, I stamped one in the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and made a tiny tag out of it to tie on behind the bow. You can even cheat and add Glue Dots behind a little tag like this to hold it in exactly the position you want it or even behind ribbon tails or bow loops to keep them where you want them!

Here is another card I made for fall die-cutting one each of both the wreath designs on one card!

Easter is in two weeks from yesterday so it’s time to make Easter and Spring cards if you want to send them.

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Get the Butterfly Bouquet For Butterfly Lovers!

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Today is the first day for butterfly lovers to get the Butterfly Bouquet! It’s a sure sign of spring after a hard winter for many, don’t you think?!

Bring in the beauty of nature with the artistic designs of the Butterfly Brilliance Bundle and coordinating designer series paper, along with textured specialty paper that will put a pop of brilliance on every project.

This is an early release of a new product in the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! Here are the details:

  • The Butterfly Brilliance Stamp Set and Brilliant Wings Dies are available NOW, either separately or in the Butterfly Brilliance Bundle. These will be in the new catalog, too.
  • The two papers, the Butterfly Bijou 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper and the Natural Touch Specialty Paper are ONLY available now during this promotion until May 3. While supplies last. (That means this paper is not going to be in the new catalog, I imagine, so get it now while you can.) The Natural Touch Paper actually has some texture to it and is something different.

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The stamp set is ONE BIG STAMP! It’s even slightly bigger than a regular card size so if you would like to make a larger card, this is a good stamp for that! Use your Stamparatus to get a good image for sure!

One of the dies cuts out all the butterflies on one of the sheets of butterflies on the designer paper! If you order the stamp set and dies, be sure to get the designer paper so you can do this!

Lots of possibilities with this fantastic collection! If you want everything, just order the Butterfly Brilliance Collection and get it all with one number!

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Last Day! Sale-A-Bration Darling Donkey

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Sale-A-Bration Darling Donkey

Today is the LAST DAY for SALE-A-BRATION and this Sale-A-Bration Darling Donkey is kicking up his heels hoping you will remember to get your order in before Sale-A-Bration comes to a screeching halt tonight!

With every $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase you make, you can earn a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! No limits! Like this Darling Donkeys Stamp Set!

With a $100 purchase, you can earn one of two special products: the Berry Blessings Bundle or the A Touch of Ink Stamp Set. Or chose two of the Level 1 products.

With a $300 order, yours alone or shared with others, you can choose the FREE Punch Party Stamp Set.

And if you want to JOIN Stampin’ Up! as a Demonstrator, with your Starter Kit you will also receive 5 packages of upcoming 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper Packs included in your business supplies FREE!

Today is the last day to earn FREE product during Sale-A-Bration!

Think about stocking up on adhesives, cardstock, ink refills…some basics you need to reach your $50 or more!

OR purchase a Prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscription (or add on to your order!) to reach the sales amount you want!

This easy card is made with a card base of Granny Apple Green to match the leaves on the Flower & Field Designer Series Paper, another one of the Sale-A-Bration choices, by the way! I love this package of paper!

The Darling Donkey is stamped on Basic White Cardstock in Memento Ink and cut out with the Rectangle Stitched Dies. The greeting is also in the Darling Donkeys Stamp Set. I colored in the donkey with Stampin’ Blends in Crumb Cake and Smokey Slate. The bow is tied with the Braided Linen Trim. And I couldn’t resist adding two red Resin Hearts Embellishments!

If you would like this Darling Donkeys Stamp Set or the beautiful Flower & Field Designer Paper, be sure to shop at Stampin’ Up! today!

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Berry Delightful Strawberry Card

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Berry Delightful Strawberry Card

When I saw this particular strawberry paper in the package, I just fell in love and had to make this Berry Delightful Strawberry Card. It just seems to have a lovely watercolored look to it.

This is the last week to earn free products during Sale-A-Bration at Stampin’ Up! Monday, Feb. 28th is the LAST DAY! With every $50 purchase, you can earn a free product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. With a $100 you may choose two of the $50 choices or you may choose one of two $100 level choices, with this Berry Blessings Bundle being one of them! Earn the Berry Blessings Stamp Set and the Berry Delightful Designer Series Paper together in one Bundle!

This card is made with a Poppy Parade Cardstock base, with just a layer of the Berry Delightful Designer Series Paper. If you want something to brighten up these winter days, this paper is it! I also love the other side of this paper, as seen in this card I made for Valentine’s Day.

I used the Just Jade Gingham ribbon in the Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack around the designer paper before adhering to the card base. The greeting is stamped in Poppy Parade ink from the Berry Blessings Stamp Set and die cut with a scalloped rectangle in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Since the strawberries on this paper are so pretty I cut one out with Paper Snips and popped it up on the corner of the greeting. Then I tied a little knot with the gingham ribbon. Very easy card and the paper makes it!

Sale-A-Bration is quickly coming to an end so check your Stampin’ Up! shopping list and see what else you need! Don’t forget to stock up on cardstock, adhesives, ribbons, whatever you need to help earn your free products!

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Love You Always Fancy Heart Card

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Love You Always Fancy Heart Card

This Love You Always Fancy Heart Card can certainly be for Valentine’s Day tomorrow or it can be for other occasions! I left off a greeting just to show that you can use this card design in multiple ways.

The card base is Blushing Bride because it coordinates with the beautiful designer paper I used on the card. The Love You Always Specialty Designer Series Paper is so pretty on this card. It’s always a little hard to photograph paper that has foil accents as this one does. You always get a little glare! But I think you can see the shine a little bit of the foil.

Can you tell that I used three strips of paper on this card front? I cut two strips from the light Blushing Bride pink paper and then a strip of the Rococo Rose darker pink paper. You can cut the sizes however you like. I have a very narrow margin around the edge of the card. You can cut the strips larger than you want them and then trim down to see what will fit on the card base. These strips were glued right down onto the card base.

The die-cut scalloped heart I just love and is in the Many Hearts Dies. I cut it out of Rococo Rose Cardstock. In the center is a plain die-cut Basic White heart overlaid with the floral heart die in the same set cut out of Blushing Bride. The Basic White behind the floral heart makes it show up against the Rococo Rose heart. I like the way it turned out.

For an embellishment, I tied a bow with the very pretty Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon and adhered it to the top of the heart with a few Mini Glue Dots. The ribbon has one satin side and one metallic side so you get a little bit of both when you tie a bow!

You can add a greeting to this card, but I thought it looked pretty enough without one. It would make a special Valentine, or a gorgeous engagement, wedding or anniversary card. I always say hearts are for any time so you can get a lot of use out of heart stamps or dies!

If you don’t have contrasting designer paper to use on a card design like this, you can stamp different designs on strips of paper and use it the same way! Maybe this Love You Always Fancy Heart Card will give you an idea of a card to make for Valentine’s Day or some other occasion.

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Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card

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Lots of Heart Happy Valentine's Day Card

It’s time to make some Valentines and this Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card is an easy, traditional one to make! I like Valentines made with other colors, but what says Happy Valentine’s Day better than Real Red?!

The card base is Real Red. I think Stampin’ Up!’s best color is Real Red. There are other “reds” out there in the world but when you compare to Real Red, which is a full, true, “real” red color, you can’t beat Stampin’ Up!

For the Basic White layer, (formerly Whisper White) before I even knew exactly what card I was going to make, I just stamped randomly with the little flowers in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set in Real Red Ink. Certainly don’t put this stamp set away after Valentine’s Day because it’s not just for Valentines! I’m already thinking what a pretty spring card I could make with this little flower stamp!

Coordinating with the Lots of Heart Stamp Set are the Many Hearts Dies. You can purchase both these items in the Lots of Heart Bundle. I just love this scalloped heart die-cut! I cut that out of Real Red and layered with a plain white die-cut heart. I thought about different ideas, but in the end, I just wanted to stamp “Happy Valentine’s Day” on the heart. I found that greeting in my Meant To Be Stamp Set in the Annual Catalog on page 69. You may already have this stamp set! (There are dies to go with this stamp set, too, which you may already have!)

The scalloped heart is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For a little bit of bling, I decided to see if the Resin Hearts Embellishments would work. They are very small and I thought that was perfect for this card! Just a little something without being too much around the greeting. I doubt they would show up very well on the background.

So there you have a basic, traditional, easy-to-make Valentine card! We better get busy if we want to have Valentines to mail soon! Have fun making something like this Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card.