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Textured Notes Thinking of You Card

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Textured Notes Thinking of You Card

I wanted to make an easy card and the first stamp set I noticed was With You In Mind. I thought, “I will just stamp the large greeting and stamp a few flowers around in the background.” Easy peasy. While thinking about what color to use for the card base, I decided to pull out the Color Coach. The Color Coach is the Stampin’ Up! version of the color wheel. What jumped out at me was to use Analogous colors, which are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. I chose Melon Mambo, Bubble Bath, and Fresh Freesia. I wasn’t sure those three were going to make a pretty card, but supposedly the Color Coach says so! I think it was right, once I finished the card!

The card base is Melon Mambo with a Basic White layer. The two colors of flowers that I used aren’t too different, or maybe I need to reink my ink pad. I stamped some flowers in Bubble Bath ink and some in Fresh Freesia. You probably can’t tell the difference in the photo, but I can’t tell much difference in person either.

The “Thinking of You” greeting is stamped in Melon Mambo ink. I love the font and size of the greetings in this stamp set. I did take some time to play around with the colors or stamping on colored cardstock, but ended up with the Melon Mambo ink on white. Then I had to figure out how to layer it or place it on the card.

One thing you should put on your Shopping List for the new Online Exclusives are the Textured Notes Dies. I think you will like them and use them a lot. Each rectangle die has a different border and they layer together nicely in lots of different sizes. Once I was able to fit the greeting onto one of the dies, then I used the next larger die to cut out a Bubble Bath cardstock layer. Since I didn’t want to take up any more space on the card with a larger die, I simply cut a piece of Fresh Freesia cardstock just 1/8″ larger on all sides to layer under the Bubble Bath cardstock. This gave me all three colors I was using on the Color Coach right there in the center of the card.

This is very unlike me, but I happened to place the greeting at an angle and I really liked it. I think it makes the card even happier with a little whimsy that just putting it on straight. I could have popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals but I just adhered it flat….AFTER adhering some ribbon tails on each side. As I started looking in my ribbon basket, I came across this pretty Bubble Bath Sheer Ribbon from a Combo Pack. This ribbon is now retired, but I used it because it was perfect for this card. I cut two pieces of ribbon, about 2″ each and folded them in half, in a V-shape spacing out the ends, and adhered them to the back of the card. For another embellishment, I used some of the Purple Sequins that were free during Sale-A-Bration. They were laying right there and looked like perfect matches so I used them, but if you don’t have them you have lots of other choices for sequins or gems on your card.

I started out not too inspired, not too enthused in that moment to make a card, and eventually came up wtih this card that I really liked! You just never know what will happen when you start making a card!

Remember, there are LOTS of new products in the Online Store with new Online Exclusives and two new Kits in the Kits Collection!

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With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card

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With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card

This With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card uses some rather new products and a soon-to-be-new product! The plaid paper and the colors make it a great masculine card that we often have difficulty coming up with.

I wanted to use the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper for a card and this is what I came up with. You’ll find it in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog. This plaid has brown and blues in it. I chose Crumb Cake cardstock for the card base and then the plaid designer paper.

The greeting is stamped in Boho Blue ink on Basic White with the With You In Mind Stamp Set. This stamp set is also in the Spring Mini. I really like this stamp set! It has rather large greetings in a fun font and are ones everyone will use, plus some small images like the stars and cupcake you see on this card. This greeting was then diecut using new dies “coming” on March 4th in the Online Exclusives! Demonstrators were able to preorder. These are the Textured Notes Dies. These are all rectangles with different diecut border designs. They will be very useful dies to use for layering or cutting frames to use. For this card I added an extra plain Boho Blue layer under the Basic White greeting, just cut with the Paper Trimmer, and then the whole greeting piece is layered on top of a Textured Note diecut piece of Crumb Cake. For this card I really liked the extra Boho Blue color layered under the white. I popped up the whole greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For some embellishments, I stamped two stars, one in Boho Blue ink and one in Crumb Cake ink, plus a cupcake. To stamp the cupcake, I inked up just the cupcake bottom with Crumb Cake ink, stamped that, then inked up just the frosting in Lost Lagoon ink, and stamped that right above the cupcake bottom. It happened to work out perfectly! You could also use Stampin’ Write markers to color both areas, breathe on the stamp, then stamp. It might turn out a little light but it would probably be fine. Then I just cut out the stars and cupcake with my Paper Snips. I felt like the card still needed a little sparkle or something so I added two gold dots in the Low Profile Dots. I really like these dots which are really “low profile” because they don’t add bumpy lumps to the envelope when mailing!

Although I labeled this card as masculine, it could be for anyone as is because the colors are so pretty together in the plaid, but you could change the plaid paper to other colors and brighten up the whole card a little bit. Be sure to check out these Textured Note Dies when they come out next week.

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With You In Mind Birthday Card

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With You In Mind Birthday Card

Now that the Christmas holidays are over, we are getting real close to the new year. That brings thoughts of getting organized and getting birthday cards ready like this With You In Mind Birthday Card. Especially if you have birthdays coming up in January after the busy-ness of the holidays, you need to get on the ball and get cards ready to send right away in the New Year!

This With You In Mind Stamp Set is one that is coming January 7th in the new Spring Mini Catalog (officially known as the January – April 2025 Mini Catalog). This stamp set appealed to me because it has four all-occasion greetings with one of the words in a rather large font. You get “Thinking of You”, “Happy Birthday”, “Best Wishes”, and “Thank You” plus a small flower, star, heart, cupcake, and leafy sprig.

To try to get back into create mode after being very busy with Christmas and children home, I started off making up a card beginning with copying a sample from the new mini catalog. I thought the “Happy Birthday” tag with cupcakes was pretty cute and could be made into a card. To choose colors for the card, I tried out the Color Coach. I’m not a real expert using the Color wheel but I decided to choose three colors next to each other on the wheel. I chose Pool Party, Balmy Blue, and Azure Afternoon. I really wasn’t sure how that combination was going to work, but I think it did!

The card base is Basic White and on top of that I used two of the cardstock colors I mentioned above. I used two panels of Pool Party with a panel of Balmy Blue in the middle. These are cut at 1 3/4″ x 4″. I adhered them right next to each other with no space in between. After I adhered them to the Basic White card base, I stamped stars around the background using the star in the stamp set with Versamark ink to give it that light, watermarked image.

As I said, the tag in the middle of the card is like the sample in the mini catalog. It is a piece of Basic White cardstock cut at 2 1/4″ x 4 1/2″. The greeting is stamped in Azure Afternoon ink ( one of the three colors next to each other on the Color Wheel). The three cupcakes are stamped with Daffodil Delight ink for the frosting and Pool Party ink for the cupcake holder. I inked up just the frosting top portion with the ink pad and stamped that three times for the three cupcakes. Then I went back and inked up just the bottom portion of the cupcake and stamped it underneath the frosting. This worked better than using Stampin’ Write Markers because these stamps were brand-new and not cooperating with trying to color on with a marker. The ink pads worked much better.

The end of the greeting was cut in a flagged end and a small 2 1/4″ x 1″ piece of Azure Afternoon card stock was adhered to the left side of the tag. I had also stamped it with a few Versamark stars. I tied around some Balmy Blue twine in the Baker’s Twine Three Color Pack and made the strands spread out just for a fun look. Then I took three pieces of the same twine and tied a knot in the center. The whole greeting was then popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

This is an easy card to make! The only thing that took time for me was deciding the best way to do the cupcakes and what colors to make them. I love the new stamped greeting and love seeing something big but not huge. The greetings in this With You In Mind Stamp Set will get a lot of use!

Remember, Sale-A-Bration also begins on January 7, 2025 and runs through February 28 during which time when you make a qualifying purchase, you get to choose a product from the special Sale-A-Bration brochure for FREE! This year the qualifying amount is $60 in product (before tax and shipping).The products include stamp sets, designer series paper, embellishments, an embossing folder, and more. And if you choose to join Stampin’ Up! and become a Demonstrator, with your purchase of the Starter Kit (stamping products you choose yourself plus business supplies to get your business started), you can either choose from certain free items or an additional amount to add to your Starter Kit. It’s all in the last pages in the Sale-A-Bration brochure!

It all begins a week from tomorrow!!