Monthly Archives: January 2013

My Digital Studio Content Discs For Only $1 !!

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Simple Snapshots Content CD

Copyright Stampin’ Up! 2013

If you are using My Digital Studio or even think you might in the future, I’d suggest purchasing these Content Discs on the Clearance Rack until Feb. 12, 2103 (or while supplies last!) for ONLY $1 !!!

When you get to that page in my Online Store, you can click on the images for more information….and if you see the words More Images, click on that and see more!

  • Avant-Garde Collection DVD (item 125841)
  • Cheerful Treats Digital Content CD (item 124237)
  • Express Booster Pack DVD (item 124889)
  • His & Hers Collection DVD (item 125842)
  • October, December, Whenever Collection DVD (item 124485)
  • Simple Snapshots Content CD (item 127185)
  • Sweet Retreat Collection DVD (item 125840)

Since these are on the Clearance Rack, they must be ordered on an online order…but if you need any help, just contact me! When you get to the Clearance Rack, just click on the second row “Clearance Content Discs”.

What a deal!  Only $1.  Can’t be beat!!

And if you want to try My Digital Studio, do the 30-Day FREE Trial!

Another “You Are Loved” All-Occasion Card

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You Are Loved All Occasions Card

This was just too easy, so I had to make another card with the You Are Loved stamp set! I chose Perfect Plum card stock and ink to give it the monochromatic look, stamped on Shimmery White card stock.  If you enlarge the photo, you might even be able to see the “shimmer” of the paper. Very subtle, very elegant, very pretty! I just used the greeting that was in the stamp set, or you could any other one, and tied a little Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon around the middle.  Beautiful card and couldn’t be simpler to make!

You could make a little package with this stamp set, colored card stock, Whisper White card stock and ribbon to spend $50 and then be eligible to choose a FREE product from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure!

  • You Are Loved Stamp Set (clear) #123779   $23.95
  • Assorted card stock #120954 or a single color  $6.95
  • Whisper White Card Stock  #100730   $6.95
  • Classic Stampin’ Pad (choose a color)  $5.95
  • 3/8″ Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon  #109070   $6.95

Total:  $50.75

Now if you wanted to add on some more items, like adhesive, envelopes, some bling (rhinestones, pearls, glitter, 2-Way Glue Pen), another greeting set, other ink colors, etc. you could spend another $50 and choose a second Sale-A-Bration FREE product!

Shop HERE at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store or contact me if you have any questions!

A Love Card…For Any Occasion

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Love Card

I’m calling this a “Love Card” because it has the beautiful heart from the stamp set “You Are Loved” and it has a greeting from the stamp set “Loving Thoughts”. I had no idea I was going to make this card until I stamped the heart on Shimmery White paper and embossed it with Pewter Embossing Powder. I could have added any number of sentiments  depending on the occasion I wanted to use this card for, and it would be perfect! Just for extra pizzazz, I added a layer of Silver Glimmer Paper (although it was fine without it) and layered all that on Pool Party card stock. With two stamps and some card stock I had a lovely card!  It was so easy!  And I hadn’t even planned it!

Get out some of your Stampin’ Up! stamps, ink and paper today and see what comes to your creative mind! If you make something, take a picture and email it to me!

Find all your stamping supplies at my Online Store here. Don’t forget….it’s Sale-A-Bration!  Get a FREE product with every $50 you spend on merchandise!

Embossed Valentine with Hearts

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Embossed Valentine Card

Here’s a pretty simple valentine to make. Embossing the bottom edge with the Delicate Designs Embossing Folder (you actually get two and they coordinate with the Large Scallop Edgelits Die) gives the card an elegant look. I adhered some ribbon and a bow at the top of the embossing to hide the little line the folder made and just to delineate the design.

Next, you can just go to town with your punches! Actually, the design in my head was to have LOTS of punched and die cut hearts from card stock and from the More Amore Specialty Designer Series Paper all over the top portion. But once I placed the large heart and two smaller ones on each side, I liked that look. I just layered the little hearts punched from the Small Heart Punch onto die-cut hearts. The little bitty hearts are from the Owl Punch! The “love” is from the “Ciao, Baby” stamp set in the Spring Catalog.

Gather some card stock and punches and make a valentine for somebody!!

Valentine Fancy Favor Box

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Valentine Fancy Favor Box

The Fancy Favor Bigz XL Die for the Big Shot is one of those very useful dies to own! I think it was at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference last year that I learned to make a box like this using two die-cut Fancy Favor boxes, one inserted into the other.  What a cute idea it was! That idea popped into my head while thinking about a Valentine project.  You do need 12″x12″ sheets of card stock to use with the Fancy Favor die. I used Primrose Petals and Pool Party card stock for the boxes.  I turned the Primrose Petals Fancy Favor Box upside down and punched a heart with the Full Heart Punch.  You could also use one of the Hearts Collections Framelits if you preferred. Then when the Pool Party box is inserted, you can see through.  In the end I couldn’t resist adhering a paper heart onto the Pool Party box to show through the punched heart!

The More Amore Specialty Designer Series Paper was perfect for this project. Two of the sheets you get in this package are of laser-cut hearts, one Real Red and one Primrose Petals.  All you have to do is trim around the edge of whatever shape you want.  Since they are white on the back, I turned the heart over so the white would show and punched the same shape heart out of it to line up with the punched heart in my Fancy Favor box. After that I just added various sizes of hearts from punches and framelits until I was happy with the design.

This was one of those projects where I had to slap my own hand and say “Stop!” Knowing when to stop is sometimes the hardest part of a project you like! Just to cover the top of the box (which would normally be the bottom of the box), I added a piece of More Amore paper to cover the tabs. And then I added a bow made from the new Pink Pirouette/Rose Red 1 1/4″ Two-Tone Ribbon.

Here is what the two boxes look like separated.

Valentine Fancy Favor Box Open

Think about what a cute gift you could put inside this box! It really wouldn’t even have to be strictly for Valentine’s Day, hearts are good for most occasions!

Be sure to check out the Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog for the paper and ribbon I used in this Valentine project.  The Fancy Favor die, punches and framelits can be found in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.  Remember, with every $50 you purchase, you can choose a free product from the Sale-a-Bration brochure through March 22. Now is the time to purchase those items you have been wishing for! Just click HERE to go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

Stampin’ Up! Making a Difference in Orlando…and the Cutest Truck Ever!!

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During the Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference held recently in Orlando, Florida demonstrators spent time filling 2000 gift bags with Stampin' Up! supplies to be donated to Orlando teachers to use in their classrooms and as a thank you to teachers. Each bag is signed with a personal note. Watch this video to see the process, a peek at Stampin' Up! Leadership, and the CUTEST truck in the world delivering the gift bags!

Patterned Occasions Cupcake Birthday Card

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Patterned Occasions Birthday Cupcake Card

Here’s another sample of a card using the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Patterned Occasions. I found this polka-dot embossed card base in my “scraps” and I decided it would be perfect to use with the cute little cupcake in the Patterned Occasions stamp set. I could have stamped the cupcake in just one color and it would have been nice. To get the different colors on the one stamp, I used our Stampin’ Write Markers to color in the stamp. Then it is punched out with the 1 3/4″ Circle Punch and layered on the 2 3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch.  That is popped up on the 2 1/2″ Circle Punch with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The pretty new ribbon is found in the Spring Catalog on page 30, Melon Mambo 3/8″ Striped Organdy Ribbon.

You can get this fun stamp set FREE with a Sale-A-Bration purchase of $50 or more! Just spend $50 or more during Sale-A-Bration (Jan. 22 thru March 22) and choose one of the products in the Sale-A-Bration brochure.  For every $50 you spend, you can choose one product! Spend $150 and get a free pack of Silver Glimmer Paper, in honor of Stampin’ Up! 25th Anniversary year!

Go to my Online Store right now and do some window-shopping!  When you are ready, just place your order online and choose your free Sale-A-Bration item(s) for every $50 you spend before tax and shipping!  Let me know if I can help!

Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration Patterned Occasions Quick & Easy Note Card

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Sale-A-Bration Patterned Occasions Quick & Easy Note Card

If you want to make a quick and easy note card, look no further than this card made with the Patterned Occasions Stamp Set in the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration brochure and a small strip of the Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper, also in the brochure. You could make it monochromatic, as I did here, add some different colored paper, or color in the elephant and flower with different colors. I started with a Stampin’ Up! Note Card (you can purchase a set of 20 cards, 20 envelopes #107311 for only $5.95 here at my Online Store), stamped the image, cut a strip of designer paper, adhered a little 1/4″ Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon around it, added a knot, and adhered it to the front of the card.  So quick and easy!  I doubt it took more than 30 seconds!

How do you get this stamp set? Just purchase $50 or more in Stampin’ Up! products and get the stamp set FREE in the Sale-a-Bration brochure…or anything else you choose. If you want a good all-occasion stamp set, this is a good one to have, especially if you are starting out.  It’s always good to have a versatile stamp set that you can stamp and use in a lot of different ways!

Imagine just stamping the elephant (or any of the stamp images in the set) on a 3″x3″ card! That’s it!  Use it for a tag on a gift or just a tiny note!  What could be simpler?!

Place your Stampin’ Up! Order here!

Really Useful New My Digital Studio Downloads This Week!

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MDS Newest Downloads Banner

Every week when Stampin' Up! comes out with the new downloads for My Digital Studio, there is always something I like, if not all of them! This week there are some really good choices, even useful choices.

Are you a family history buff? Or do you have someone in your family who is and perhaps you can consolidate some of their research on family trees and relatives and family stories into an album? Then the Family History Photobook Template is for you!

Family History Template MDS

If you are an organizer or at least attempting to organize closets and things in the new year, print out the Label This Laundry Designer Template to help.  Even though they are for laundry, you can change them.  You can always change MDS designer templates!

Laundry Labels MDS

 

And this stamp brush set So Sorry can be so useful, whether you own My Digital Studio or not, because we all often need to make a card with the sentiments that come with this set.

So Sorry Stamp Brush Set

 

I know you would enjoy owning and using My Digital Studio….you can try it for 30 days FREE and see if it is for you!  But the downloads can also be used with other design programs on your computer so they can be purchased separately.  If you see "More Images" below the main image of the download, be sure to click on that link and you will get a better view of the parts that come in that download.  Be sure to read the description also as often there is lots more than you can imagine in a download!

Click HERE right now and take the Free 30-Day My Digital Studio Trial!

Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration Starts Today!!

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SAB Banner 2013

If you’re already familiar with Stampin’ Up!, then you know that Sale-A-Bration is their biggest promotion of the year….and it starts today! If you’re not familiar, you will love hearing that Sale-A-Bration is all about FREE STUFF! With just a $50 purchase (before shipping and tax), you can choose a free item from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! You can place your Stampin’ Up! order with me at my Online Store here or email with your order or any questions.

Once you have $50 on your order, you can choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration product.

  • The free gifts continue with each $50 you spend…so if you spend $100, you choose 2 free products!
  • Spend $150 and get 3 free products….PLUS $25 in Hostess Dollars to spend AND a free pack of Silver Glimmer Paper! (be SURE you go through my direct link to my Online Store, not the Stampin’ Up! website first.
  • If you really have a lot to buy…or get some orders from friends to add to your own…and reach $400 in merchandise, you will get your 8 FREE Sale-A-Bration products, Silver Glimmer Paper, a free product bundle (Sycamore Street paper, Ribbon & Button Pack, and Madison Avenue Stamp Set), $65 in Hostess Dollars to spend AND 50% off any full-priced item!

And if you prefer to become a Demonstrator yourself and join the Stampin’ Up! family, well, there’s a bonus for that as well! Choose an extra 25% worth of products in your Starter Kit for only $99 (that’s $156.50 of products for $99). Being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator gives you your own business to provide extra income for your family, extra spending money for you, opportunities for incentive trips…whatever it is that you want and want to work for! I can direct you to plenty of resources to start and build your business so you can be a success…at whatever level you define success!

So, you better stop reading and start shopping!  Go to my Online Store now and get started!

If you have any questions, just email me, leave a comment below, or contact me through my Stamping with Karen Facebook page here!

Valentine Treat Bundles….Last Few Hours!

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Valentine Specials Jan 2013

Today is the last day…last few hours!….to purchase either one or both of these cute Valentine Treat Bundles!

Purchase just the single heart stamp and get 50 1″x8″ cello bags with it for treats! Even if you don’t need the treat bags, the stamp is cute enough itself!

Valentine Treat Bundle  #132771  $5.95

Or if you prefer, purchase the My Little Valentine stamps and get the cute Sealed With Love Simply Sent Kit FREE!

Order by clicking the links above or by going to my Online Store.

To get these specials, you need to place your order before 11:50 pm Mountain Time tonight!

Inauguration Day Creped Filter Paper Flower Tutorial

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Inauguration USA Creped Filter Paper Flower

Today is Inauguration Day in the United States, the day that regardless of political affiliation or views, all Americans celebrate the President of the United States taking the oath of office as prescribed by the Constitution. Some years we are celebrating the peaceful transition of power from one president to another; in this year it is a continuation of the presidency of President Obama for a second term.

I love ceremony and tradition, whether it be the Inauguration or a wedding or a Cub Scout ceremony. I especially love to see or hear of any behind-the-scenes happenings at events like this!  To celebration the Inauguration today, I decided to make a patriotic flower out of the new Creped Filter Paper #129393 in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog. You might want to order several packages so you have lots to play with, and they are inexpensive, just $2.95.  You get 4 rectangles and 8 circles in a package.

Stampin' Up! Creped Filter Paper

To get the colored filter paper, I used my brayer and ink pads.  I chose Real Red and Pacific Point. It was easy and only took a couple of minutes.

Brayering Creped Filter Paper

Next I used the Big Shot and the Floral Frames Framelits #127012 to die-cut the flowers out of the brayered filter paper.

Creped Filter Paper Die-Cut Flowers

Stack them in the order you want them according to size and color and insert a brad in the center to hold together.

Stacked flowers

Next comes the fun part….just separate each layer and crumple toward the center! No perfection required!!  Start in the center and work to the bottom.

Forming the flower

Once you have gone to the work of crumpling to the center, now it is time to uncrumple to the degree you like and make the actual flower.  A little foofing of the papers and you are done!

Inauguration USA Creped Filter Paper Flower

Stampin’ Up! Valentine Treat Bundles…Last Few Days!

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Valentine Specials Jan 2013

Two different choices of Valentine Treat Bundles from Stampin’ Up!….but the last day to purchase either one or both of these is Monday, January 21st. Don’t miss it if you want one!!

Bundle Item Description Retail Value Special Bundle Price
132771 Valentine Treat Bundle 
Includes the Happy Valentine Heart Single Stamp (clear-mount) and 1″ x 8″ cellophane bags		 $7.45 $5.95

Buy one of the following:

 

Item Description Price
132242 My Little Valentine (English; clear-mount) $9.95
132245 Enamorados (Spanish; clear-mount) $9.95
132248 Mon petit amour (French; clear-mount) $9.95

 

Get this FREE:

Page Publication Item Description Retail Value
35 holiday catalog 126923 Sealed with Love Simply Sent $7.95

Just go to my Online Store and you’ll be able to purchase the Valentine Bundles right there!

Stampin’ Up! On Trend with Window Frames Framelits

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Mirrors
When I saw this photo of mirrors from a 2013 home decor market for store buyers, I immediately thought of the Window Frames Framelits that Stampin’ Up! had in the Holiday Catalog and which are carried over in the new Spring Catalog (page 36). You can see that Stampin’ Up! is on trend with the latest and greatest in design so our cards and projects will look up-to-date and in style!
And what new stamp do we have in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog?  The Just Thinking single stamp that fits the Window Frames Framelits perfectly!
Just Thinking Stamp
If you want a Spring Catalog to browse and ooh and aah over, please email me. I’ll also enclose the upcoming Sale-A-Bration brochure. And when you are ready to shop, you can do it at your convenience at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here.

Make an Easy Pinwheel Card

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Easy Pinwheel Card

It’s fun to make these little pinwheels with the new Stampin’ Up!  Pinwheel Sizzlits S Die! You can either use a paper piercer tool to poke through the holes to form the pinwheel or use a Mini Glue Dot to hold them down. Then poke a brad through the center to hold all the corners of the pinwheel. Cut a little stick by hand or with your Paper Trimmer from a scrap and adhere all to your card with a Stampin’ Dimensional or some Glue Dots.

The background is made with the Cloudy Day Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. They didn’t ask me, but I think they could have made up a better name for this embossing folder!  To me, it seems like such a happy, pleasant design, but “Cloudy Day” sounds dreary!  Maybe if I make some cards with the Rain or Shine stamp set or the Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper about rainy weather, maybe I will change my mind!

Then I needed a greeting of some sort on the card, so I used the Ciao, Baby! stamp set which was just the right size plus a little different.  The greeting is punched out with the Petite Curly Label Punch, coming in the Sale-A-Bration promotion, which begins Jan. 22!

The card measures 3 1/2″ square.

If you need any supplies to make this card or any of the other beautiful products in the new Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog, just remember, my Online Store is always open!