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Monochromatic Layering Beauty Unbounded Love Card

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Monochromatic Layering Beauty Unbounded Love Card

This monochromatic card idea popped into my head and amazingly, I stuck with the idea! I am calling it the Monochromatic Layering Beauty Unbounded Love Card which covers the stamp set and the designer paper! I like the way it turned out and it was easy to make.

I like this Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper a lot! The watercolored florals, foliage, and backgrounds are so soft and pretty. I especially like this foliage pattern in Summer Splash, one of the new In Colors. I thought a monochromatic card using the large floral spray in the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set would make a pretty card.

The card base is Summer Splash cardstock with a layer of the Unbounded Beauty DSP. For the focal point of the card, the stamping, I cut a Deckled Rectangle of Basic White using the third from the largest die. I stamped the flowers in Summer Splash ink. It was easy to place them on the small paper because the stamp was photopolymer so I could see through it! I also stamped a “hello” in the upper left corner (because there was space there!) from the Simply Said Stamp Set.

Before adhering the papers together, I added a strip of the Summer Splash 3/8″ Bordered Ribbon across the bottom portion of the stamped piece and added a separately tied bow with Mini Glue Dots. This ribbon is really pretty! Then I adhered the stamped piece to a larger layer of of Summer Splash diecut with the second largest die in the Decked Rectangles Dies. I decided to pop up this whole piece and really like how that looks. I also added some 2024-2026 In Color Resin Dots in Summer Splash to the card front. I love that they are fairly flat so they won’t be a problem to mail.

You could make this same card but not make it monochromatic. Stamp the flower with Memento ink and color in with Stampin’ Blends markers or use some other coloring technique.

This Unbounded Love Bundle is on the Bundle Sale until June 30th at Stampin’ Up! so be sure to check that out plus all the other Bundles where you can save an additional 10%.

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Irresistible Blooms Hello Card in Flirty Flamingo

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The other day I made a card exactly like this Irresistible Blooms Hello Card in Flirty Flamingo except in Lemon Lime Twist. I was SO happy with it after I made it that I wanted to make another one right away but in another color. I usually like a card after I make it or I wouldn’t even put it on my blog, but for some reason, this card design caught my eye!

The card base is Basic White but you could also use the same cardstock color as whatever designer paper you are using. In this case, I used the Flirty Flamingo patterned paper in the Brights 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I chose the hearts pattern and the polka dots and cut each sheet at 5 1/4″ x 4″. Then I cut each one in half diagonally. When you do this, be sure to look at the pattern in case it is going in a certain direction.

The flowers and leaves are stamped with Flirty Flamingo ink on Basic White with the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set. Then those images were diecut with the Irresistible Blooms Dies. Purchase both the stamp set and dies together in the Irresistible Blooms Bundle and save 10%!

Just place the flowers and leaves around and see what arrangement you like best. You can pop up some of the flowers with Stampin’ Dimensionals as I did with one large flower and one small. Plan ahead to see where you are going to slide the leaves underneath the flowers so you don’t glue down the flowers completely to the edge. Or adhere the leaves to the flowers first before adhering to the card.

The “hello” greeting is in the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set and is diecut with a small circle in the Stylish Shapes Dies.

Here is the original card I made in Lemon Lime Twist.

Also, notice the little sparkle on the card! I just had to use the Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels randomly on the flowers and card.

Which one do you like better? It would be fun to make a card with each color in the Brights DSP!

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Irresistible Blooms Lemon Lime Twist Monochromatic Card

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Make a bright and happy card with one of the bright new colors in our Color Refresh at Stampin’ Up!, the Irresistible Blooms Lemon Lime Twist Monochromatic Card. It’s easy when you use one color of ink and paper!

This card uses the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set and the Irresistible Blooms Dies. You can buy both together and save 10% by purchasing the Irresistible Blooms Bundle. The flowers and leaves are all stamped with Lemon Lime Twist Ink on Basic White and then die cut. There are two different sizes of dies for the flowers and two sets of leaves. If you don’t have the dies, it is easy enough to cut them out by hand.

The greeting is in the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set and is die-cut with a stitched circle in the Stylish Shapes Dies.

The card base is Basic White. The card layer uses two different patterns of the Brights 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. They are cut at 5 1/4″ x 4″ as you would for any layer on a card but then cut diagonally in half to make two different designs. Be sure to check before you cut the paper if you want the patterns to go a certain way.

After the designer paper is in place and you have stamped and diecut all the flowers and leaves, lay them out on the card to get an idea of where you want everything to be placed. You can pop up some of the flowers or leaves on Stampin’ Dimensionals and adhere the rest flat on the card. You just want the adhesive to not extend completely to the edges of the flowers so that you can tuck the leaves in underneath where you want them. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a finishing touch, I added some Irridescent Rhinestone Jewels to the card front. On the inside, I added a flower and some leaves in the corner or I could have just stamped them to match the front of the card.

You could make this same card but make the flowers and leaves different colors, but I think monochromatic cards look very nice and are easy! Try your hand at a card like this one with this pretty stamp set and bright and happy designer paper!

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Scenic Garden Friend Card Two Ways

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Scenic Garden Friend Card

If you really stock up on stamping supplies, you may earn this special stamp set for free, Scenic Garden, during Sale-A-Bration! It’s a tranquil stamp set of images – a park bench, a gate, flowers – but it might scare you with all the tiny coloring you think you have to do! But there are ways around that!

For this first card, I did color in the stamped images. But I find that when I use the Stampin’ Blends markers, they just glide so smoothly it is easy to color with them. I love to use them. And you just do not have to be perfect when you are coloring.

You could use other techniques as well, like using Watercolor Pencils, or ink and Water Painters. Soft Pastels would be very pretty, too! To cheat on the background, I used the “backside” of one of the papers in the Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper, one of the FREE papers you can earn during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. The “main” side is all florals and greenery, but some of the other sides are pastel backgrounds that look like watercolors. That gave my card what looked like a sky and grass background without even having to color anything.

The card base is Orchid Oasis (I think I used!) with a layer of Soft Saffron. The greeting is from the Framed Florets Stamp Set stamped in the same Orchid Oasis (?) ink on Basic White and then die cut with one of the Deckled Rectangle Dies.

Scenic Garden Monochromatic Card

If coloring is not your thing, just make a monochromatic card, as I have shown many times! For this card I simply stamped the bench, flowers, and stepping stones plus the greeting all in the same color on Shimmery White Cardstock.

The card base is Fresh Freesia cardstock with a layer of the dotted Fresh Freesia pattern in the Dainty Flowers DSP. I made a wider margin with that so you could appreciate the designer paper underneath the card front. The greeting is in the Celebrating You Stamp Set. When you design a card this way, all you have to do is stamp and no coloring is required!

I love the Shimmery White cardstock and don’t think it gets the attention it deserves! I think it has been around forever and is certainly one of my favorites. It is great for stamping and also stands up better to a little water and watercoloring than regular Basic White cardstock. If you look closely, you can see a little shimmer on the paper! It’s difficult to photograph but see if you can notice it in the closeup below.

Scenic Garden Monochromatic Shimmery White

There are only about two weeks or less left of Sale-A-Bration so check your inventory of supplies and see what you need so you can get in on the party and earn some FREE stamping products. Go to the Online Store HERE to see all the Sale-A-Bration choices because extra ones were added besides what is in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! Happy Shopping!

Monochromatic Shaded Summer Thank You Card

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Monochromatic Shaded Summer Thank You Card

I was taking inventory of all my cardstock colors before I got an order ready for Stampin’ Up! and I came across this embossed layer in the bag with the other Pool Party Cardstock. I immediately thought that would be pretty on a simple card and this Monochromatic Shaded Summer Thank You Card turned out! Sometimes it’s your scraps that turn into something interesting!

This card has a Basic White Cardstock base, which is difficult to see in the photo. I added a Pool Party Cardstock layer to go behind the embossed layer. Another extra piece I saw with the Basic White paper was this already die-cut Scalloped Contours Die so I thought it would be perfect to use!

The floral bouquet is stamped with the Shaded Summer Stamp Set. You will find this stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on page 75. It has two pretty floral stamps and a lot of useful greetings. Another interesting thing about this stamp set is that you can earn the coordinating dies FREE during Sale-a-Bration with a $100 purchase. The die set is called the Summer Shadows Dies. Not only does it have dies to cut out the stamped flowers, but it has other flower dies, too! I didn’t even own the stamp set, but with the opportunity to get the dies free, I went ahead and ordered the Shaded Summer Stamp Set. Maybe I’ll get lucky and they will carry over the dies after Sale-A-Bration! Either way, it will be a useful combination to own.

After diecutting the flowers, I popped them up with Stampin’ Dimensionals on the die cut Scalloped Contour piece. I tied a piece of White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon around the stem of the flower piece, plus added some small, white Elegant Faceted Gems around the flower.

The greeting is in the Shaded Summer Stamp Set. As I looked at my dies to see what I would like to use, I decided on the Messages Die. You don’t have to have a whole page of stamped greetings in order to use this die that cuts out an amazing number of greetings all at one time! I just placed the little scalloped die area over my stamped greeting to see if it fit, and ran it through my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine. It was perfect for this card! It fit perfectly without covering up too much of the pretty embossing on the card layer. By the way, the folder is the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder. So pretty with all the little embossed flowers and leaves! I had already embossed it to use on another card but didn’t like it. Then it ended up being perfect on this card, actually inspiring the creation of this card!

Remember, if you want to keep things easy, a monochromatic card can fit the bill! I only had to stamp the floral image, not color in the flowers and leaves! Here is another monochromatic card I made a while back, that was simplest to make with just one ink color.

This is the last month for Sale-A-Bration this year! Whether you spend $50 or more to earn a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure or spend more and get a $100 level choice, you will be sure to find something fun to spur your creativity, like this Monochromatic Shaded Summer Thank You Card.

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Hand-Penned Petals Monochromatic Bumblebee Card

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Hand-Penned Petals Monochromatic Bumblebee Card

I didn’t have much mojo left when it was time to make a card so I knew I had to come up with something simple, and when you’re in that situation, sometimes a monochromatic card makes it all easy! This Hand-Penned Petals Monochromatic Bumblebee Card was just the perfect card to make after a busy day and evening.

The card base is Bumblebee Cardstock. Have you ever thought about how this color name is the only one that is just one word? Just “Bumblebee”. I looked through some of my designer paper for inspiration even though I was thinking about a monochromatic card. When I saw this Bumblebee-colored designer paper in the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper, I knew what I was going to do.

I could have had just a layer of the designer paper on the card front, but I thought a bit of white underneath would help it stand out a little. For the front of the card, I stamped the floral bouquet from the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set in Bumblebee Ink on Basic White Cardstock, then cut it out with the Scalloped Contours Dies. These are some of the best dies we’ve ever had, in my current opinion! I love them! For an embellishment, I tied a bow out of the Bumblebee 1/4″ Gingham Ribbon. I planned to stamp a greeting on the card, but we don’t ALWAYS have to have a greeting on the front of the card! Sometimes it can just be plain and you can stamp something inside or write a note. Or add a greeting when you are ready to send the card, if you are just making cards for fun, and then decide which greeting would be appropriate.

I also thought about putting some jewel embellishments on the card to look like they matched the yellow of the Bumblebee, but I just said to myself, “Stop!” The card was fine as it was, simple but nice enough, with a small bow for an embellishment, not to mention the very nice scalloped rectangle die complete with the stitched look. It was fine and sometimes you just have to know when to stop!

The days are winding down for the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog so be sure you are looking through the catalog another few times and getting everything you want. Some things carried over to the new Annual Catalog so we don’t have to say goodbye to those products! And some retiring products are reduced in price for the Last Chance Sale so see if you can find any bargains you “need”.

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Encircled In Friendship Monochromatic Card

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Encircled In Friendship Monochromatic Card

This Encircled In Friendship Monochromatic Card was my first attempt using this stamp set and dies, available as a Bundle in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. I wasn’t coming up with good ideas of what colors I wanted to use for this card, so making a monochromatic card was the answer! Plus I saw this designer paper and loved it!

This card has the fold at the top and opens at the bottom for something different. You still come out with the same size card, you just cut the full sheet of cardstock in half lengthwise instead of horizontally. The cardstock is Blushing Bride Cardstock. The layer is a piece of designer paper from the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper.

Next I die-cut different designs of the Encircled In Beauty Dies in both Basic White and Blushing Bride pink. I wasn’t sure what order I would like them or how they fit together but I was pretty sure I wanted to overlay one with another. I cut an assortment in both colors to be able to see in real life how they would look. The flowers in the center are stamped in Blushing Bride ink (saves from needing to color in!) and comes out of the center of one of the dies. Stamp them with the Encircled in Friendship Stamp Set. You can buy both the stamp set and dies in the Encircled in Friendship Bundle and save 10%.

The greeting is actually just a few words from a longer greeting in one of the stamp sets! I used my Blushing Bride Stampin’ Write Marker to carefully color just those words on the stamp and stamped it on a scrap piece of Basic White. Then after fiddling with a couple different dies and messing something up each time, I finally got it die cut with a small die in the Ornate Frames Dies. If you try stamping something like this with just coloring certain words with a marker and it doesn’t come out perfectly, try using the narrow tip end of the marker to very lightly and carefully go over the word or image….or use your Stamparatus in the first place!

If you wanted to embellish this card a bit, maybe you could tie a small white bow with twine or our narrow Whisper White Crinkled Ribbon and adhere it somewhere on the card, maybe just off to the side at the bottom of the circle with the stamped flowers, off to the side. Just a little something but nothing to take away from the card itself since you want to show off those diecut fancy circles.

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Encircled In Friendship Monochromatic Card Closeup

Ornate Garden Monochromatic Floral Card

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Ornate Garden Monochromatic Floral Card

If you want to stamp an EASY card, make this Ornate Garden Monochromatic Floral Card! The front of the card only uses two stamps and then a little bit of ribbon and a bow. You can’t get much easier than that! And with the beauty of just the one large floral stamp, you really don’t need much more!

The card base is Lovely Lipstick, one of the outgoing In Colors when Stampin’ Up! releases the annual retirement list. Lovely Lipstick was one of my favorite In Colors so I hate to see it go. If you want any of those colors in paper, ink or accessories, you should probably order before the retirement list comes out.

I started to stamp the floral image with the largest acrylic block, but then I thought this would be the perfect time to use my Stamparatus. If I didn’t get every area on the large stamp inked up just right or didn’t press well enough in the right place, I wouldn’t have to worry with the Stamparatus because I could just stamp again over the exact same position!

This large floral image is in the Ornate Garden Suite in the Ornate Style Stamp Set and the greeting is in the Ornate Thanks Stamp Set. You really should look at all the greetings and combinations you can make with that stamp set! You don’t always have to use the large words either. And even on the inside of the card, I stamped two of the corners with the smaller corner stamp.

If you stamp a monochromatic card, you just use and stamp one color so that makes it easy! Here’s another monochromatic Easter card I made recently.

Check out the Ornate Garden Suite and also the Clearance Rack which was just refreshed yesterday! Then try your hand at stamping a monochromatic card with whatever stamps you choose!

Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card

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Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card

When you want to make a pretty card in a very short time, try monochromatic like this Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card. I thought this stamp set might be a perfect one for a monochromatic card and I think I was right! Talk about quick and easy cardmaking!

I used the Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set, only available FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. And even more exciting, coming in February, you will be able to purchase a set of dies for this stamp set as an extra! There will be several new coordinating items for you.

The card base is Whisper White and the layer is Lovely Lipstick. I realized I have barely used these In Colors and thought I would give Lovely Lipstick a whirl. Then I stamped the fancy cake with Lovely Lipstick on another layer of Whisper White and the greeting at the bottom. I mean, you can’t make a card any faster than this one!

Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card With Bling

But if you did want to make a quick and easy monochromatic birthday card and you wanted a little bling on it, you could make this card! I had some very narrow Lovely Lipstick 1/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon so I made a very small bow to go on the cake stand. Next, I colored three small rhinestones with the Lovely Lipstick Dark Stampin’ Blend marker and placed them on the card. A monochromatic card with a little extra bling!

Whatever you want to order, be sure to try and do it in $50 increments so you can take advantage of Sale-A-Bration 2020 and earn some free product(s). After you have entered your order, it will prompt you to choose your Sale-A-Bration items.

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Monochromatic Real Red Holly Jolly Santa Christmas Card

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Monochromatic Real Red Holly Jolly Santa Christmas Card

If you love this Santa, but don’t want to color him in, monochromatic is the way to go for this card, the Monochromatic Real Red Holly Jolly Santa Christmas Card. After making several other Christmas cards with this Santa and taking time to stamp in black and then color in all the areas with Stampin’ Blends, I would say, even though I LOVE coloring with my Stampin’ Blends, that it can take a fairly long time to color the Santa. So if you want to make a lot of cards in a hurry, just stamp Santa in Real Red Ink and call it a day!

This is a really simple card. The card base is Real Red and the designer paper layered on the base is the red stripe pattern in the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Catalog.

The Santa is from the Holly Jolly Christmas Stamp Set. He is just stamped in Real Red on Very Vanilla Cardstock. I have made several cards with this Santa and coloring him in with Stampin’ Blends and as much as I like coloring, it takes a while to do several Santas for several cards! This is super easy, just stamping him in red ink and die-cutting with a Layering Ovals Die. He is layered on a piece of Real Red Cardstock. I was going to stop there but I thought having a layer of Very Vanilla underneath made it stand out just a bit more.

The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Very Vanilla from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. I keep turning to all these “Itty Bitty” stamp sets for greetings since they have so many choices and don’t take up much room on a card if you don’t have much room for a greeting! The greeting is then die-cut with a small Layering Ovals Die and layered on a scalloped oval die in the same set. You could also have the greeting be just a straight strip of paper too.

I suppose you could even add some rhinestones or sequins to this card, but I liked it just the simple, basic way it turned out. I didn’t even pop anything up on Dimensionals but you could. If you weren’t making a bunch of these cards, you could also stamp the Santa in Memento ink and color in with Stampin’ Blends or whatever color medium you liked. This is just a time-saving method that still delivers a very nice card! Here is a card I previously stamped and colored the Santa. I loved this card, too, and looked forward to making several more to send out, and I did, but it took time.

It’s not too late to get this stamp set or Bundle with the dies and whatever paper you need for Christmas cards! Just go shop at Stampin’ Up! and find what you need!