Monthly Archives: March 2013

Happy Easter to You!

Here’s an Easter card that just popped into my head to make. I know years and years and years ago someone made these little individual wooden crosses to stand on wooden bases for our family with an artificial flower stuck on the middle. Perhaps one had little white flowers all over the cross, I don’t quite remember, but it is the image I had in my mind when I made this card. I just punched out some white flowers with the Itty Bitty Punch Pack, poked them with my bone folder to get them to curl up a bit, and put a rhinestone in the middle.

I hope you are spending a wonderful Easter Sunday with your family; and if you have little ones, really treasure this time!

Here are some Texas Bluebonnets in our yard that always make me think of Easter time!

And some of the last of the azaleas for the season!

Stampin’ Up! Fabric Frenzy Ends Sunday, March 31 (Easter)!

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The Stampin’ Up! Fabric Frenzy comes to an end tomorrow night, March 31. Since it is Easter, you might forget to place your order for Stampin’ Up! fabric at 50% off! Check it out here at my Online Store!

And just in case you missed it before, enjoy this video with some great ideas for using your Stampin’ Up! fabric in ways you might not have thought of!

Details: Last Day to order: Sunday, March 31, 2013

Jump into Our Spring Fabric Frenzy! Today’s the day! For one week only, all of our beautiful Designer Fabric is 50 percent off!

Page	Item	Description	Discount	Retail Price	Sale Price
170	126892	Essentials Designer Fabric	50%	$ 29.95	$ 14.98
171	126893	Floral District Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
171	126894	Comfort Café Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
171	125411	Summer Smooches Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
171	125412	Twitterpated Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
171	122337	Timeless Portrait Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
171	122336	Beau Chateau Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
171	124066	Spice Cake Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
171	122335	Flirtatious Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
6*	129308	Tea for Two Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
13*	129307	More Amore Fabric	50%	$ 9.95	$ 4.98
*2013 Spring CatalogPlace your order at my Online Store today if you are interested in this fabric offer!

Make an Easter Chick with the Stampin’ Up! Petal Cone Die

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If you want to make an Easter Chick, or an Easter Duck I suppose, it’s easy to make one with the Stampin’ Up! Petal Cone Die. It makes a great treat holder. Just die cut two shapes of the Petal Cone Die with the Big Shot and adhere them together. Cut off all but one of the flaps. Use the same die to cut the orange scalloped tuft for the top of his/her head. The other scalloped pieces of yellow that were cut out with the original cone can be folded in half and made into wings on the side of the body. Make a face and beak using some punches and scraps of card stock and you’ve got a cute little chick!

Punch holes in the sides if you want to add a ribbon hanger. Add some Easter grass and some candy treats! You can use the Petal Cone Die to make all sorts of treat holders for any occasion!

Make a Card for Easter with an Easter Bunny

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It’s not too late to make a card for Easter! This one is easy to make and you can do it with whatever supplies you have. The bunny is from the Stampin’ Up! stamp set Everybunny in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. Just stamp in Black Stazon Ink…or even any color of ink (and don’t necessarily color in). If you stamp in Black Stazon, you can watercolor with markers, ink, Blender Pen, brush, or Aqua Painter. I used my Watercolor Crayons and Aqua Painter. Love using those! The Easter bunny is then die cut with the Labels Collection Framelits and put on a layer of Melon Mambo. If you don’t have those framelits, use some other shape or even just layer rectangles. That’s how we did it before framelits! I used a strip of Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper….I love how “Eastery” and “springy” those colors look!…. and tied a piece of 5/8″ Whisper White Organza Ribbon around the middle of the card. The greeting is already included in the Everybunny set, punched out with the Large Oval Punch and layered on the Scallop Oval Punch.

If it is too late to mail, hand it to a friend, a neighbor, or someone at church on Easter Sunday!

You can find all of these supplies in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here!

If you don’t have the bunnies, stamp a flower instead and a greeting, add a pretty strip of designer paper, or not, and you can make a card you can be proud to give someone for Easter!

Sign Up for My Mailing List Today!

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Sign up for my “Stamping With Karen” Mailing List today….or you will miss my April newsletter next week! It’s free and it’s fun! Every month I send you free project ideas to make or to inspire you and the latest Stampin’ Up! news (and during their 25th year, there’s something new almost all the time!), and you even get a free gift for joining my list! There’s nothing to lose and you can unsubscribe any time. Just go to the red box at the top of my blog (or you may catch the pop-up box!) and put in your name and email. The only trick is to be sure you confirm your subscription when you receive the email that says “Confirm Your Stamping With Karen Subscription”. There will be a link inside to click on, so that I definitely have your permission to send the newsletter to you.

I hope I see your name on my list when I send out my April stamping newsletter!!

Or sign up here at this link!

Make a Punch Art Easter Bunny and Basket

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It’s fun to make a punch art Easter Bunny with your Stampin’ Up! punches, and even more fun to put him on a cute basket made with the Fancy Favor Die and the Big Shot! To get the basket look, I also embossed the cut out basket with the Lattice Embossing Folder. The basket is made with Soft Suede card stock and I also sponged some White Craft Ink on to the embossing to make it show up a little more. The Easter eggs were really fun….just punched some Tea for Two Designer Series Paper with the Small Oval Punch.

To make a bunny out of punches, just experiment according to what size you want. This one has a 1 3/4″ circle punch body, 1 1/4″ circle punch head and ears made with the Blossom Petals Punch. I drew in the eyes and mouth and whiskers, punched the heart nose and colored in some cheeks with Watercolor Crayons and an Aqua Painter.

The basket is all ready for some Easter treats! Cut some narrow strips of card stock and crumple or run through your (retired) crimper to make “Easter grass”!

Try your hand at making a punch art bunny!

For any punches, card stock, or any other papercrafting supplies, just check out my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here.

Springtime in Houston….Azaleas Bursting in Bloom!

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I know from the weather map this morning that half the country is covered in snow! While I can easily wish we had some of that snow here in Houston, just for the novelty of it, I really don’t know if I could adjust to the cold weather anymore! After all, when it gets below 50 here in the morning, we think it is miserable just going from the house to the car! I told my husband this morning, “Think of August! Think of August! Think of August!” when we will be drenched in sweat in those few steps from the house to the car! In July and August we would be on our knees praying for cool weather like we have today!

To help you over the winter weather, if that’s what you have when you look out your window, here are some photos of our beautiful azaleas in full bloom the other day. The only thing snowy here is the one wild white bloom on the otherwise pink group of bushes!

So with this inspiration, get your stamps, ink and paper, or your punches, and make yourself some flowers!

Or get out some fabric and make fabric flowers! Stampin’ Up! has fabric on sale this week until Sunday, 50% off, so don’t miss it! Go check it out here at my Online Store, and don’t forget to check the Stampin’ Up! Clearance Rack for more great bargains!

Stampin’ Up! Fabric Frenzy Ideas

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If you need some ideas on how to use Stampin’ Up! fabric on your projects, just watch this cute video from Stampin’ Up! Then order your fabric from now until Sunday, March 31 at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here!

Stampin’ Up! Spring Fabric Frenzy Starts Today!

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If you love fabric, you’ll want to take advantage of the Stampin’ Up! Spring Fabric Frenzy! It starts today, Monday, March 25th and runs just through Sunday, March 31.

Seamstress or not–you’ll love using our high quality Designer Fabric–especially at 50% off! Our Designer Fabric is designed to coordinate with Stampin’ Up! inks, paper, and other accessories, and is perfect for adding a stylish touch to traditional paper projects. Available in an extra-wide fat quarters (18″ x 26″). Use it for quilting, clothing, home décor, and more!

*Spring Catalog

All items are limited quantity and the discount will be removed once the quantity is reached.

Even if you don’t sew, you can tear (or cut) strips of fabric to tie packages rather than ribbon. Use with our Big Shot Adhesive Roll for adhering rather than sewing! Use the fabric to make flowers by just twisting and rolling onto our Jumbo Sticky Rounds.

Just shop at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store for the Fabric Frenzy and all the other great offers Stampin’ Up! has going on! Don’t forget the new This and That Bundle and the new Photopolymer Stamps!

Have fun with the Spring Fabric Frenzy at 50% off!

New Product Line from Stampin’ Up!….This and That….for Quick and Easy Scrapbooking!

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Stampin’ Up! is introducing a new product line called This and That!! It will be in the next new Stampin’ Up! catalog, but we are ALL getting a sneak peek NOW and opportunity to purchase it at a 15% discount!

It’s the latest craze in scrapbooking….just write in the journal, just stick in your mementos, no designing perfect scrapbook pages…..just get it in there! Use the washi tape ( the hottest item these days!), use the clips, cut up the paper…write, stamp, stick…whatever you want! Just get it in there so you have something. It can be the everyday, the mundane, the usual daily stuff…or it can be the special occasion,the extraordinary, a gift, a remembrance.

Click any of the photos above to see more about the new product line, This and That, from Stampin’ Up! Or click HERE to go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and place your order for any or ALL of these products! Surely you want them ALL in the BUNDLE for the 15% discount! Order extras for gifts for your friends or those young people in your life! These kind of journals are “all the go now” as my grandmother used to say!

These products (and more in this line!) will be available in the new catalog; however, the 15% bundle discount is only good from now until April 30. Don’t miss out! Just get it all…..and some extras!

Don’t Let This Happen To You Today!!

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The last few hours of Sale-a-Bration with Stampin’ Up! are upon us! Be sure to place your order today before the witching hours when computers break down, power goes off, minds go blank!

Place your Stampin’ Up! order HERE today and choose from all THESE FREE Sale-a-Bration products….one free with EVERY $50 that you spend!

Ordering ends at 11:50 pm Mountain Time (figure it out for your time zone…that’s 12:50 am Central Time)

Contact me at Karen@KarenStamps.com if you have any questions!

Place Your Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration Order Today to Earn Free Product!

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All good things must come to an end….and today is the end of Sale-a-Bration for Stampin’ Up! It’s been going on since January but today is the last day to order $50 in product and then earn a free Sale-A-Bration product. Stampin’ Up! used to only offer 4 or 6 stamp sets, I believe, when I first started for Sale-a-Bration but now you have LOTS of choices…..stamp sets, card stock, card kit, buttons, ribbons, punch, embossing folder, designer paper, digital discs, and more! And it ships free with your order!

Check out my Online Store today, without fail, and place your order. For every $50 you spend, you may choose a free Sale-A-Bration item. Read about Sale-A-Bration here.

You can also JOIN Stampin’ Up! today and receive extra in your Starter Kit and the best part will be that you will be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and can build your own stamping, scrapbooking, and digital business however it fits you and your family. For information on joining the Stampin’ Up! family, please click HERE. You can sign up online and be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator in minutes!

Let me know if you have any questions or would like me to place your order for you.

Last Days of Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration! Get Your FREE products!

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Tomorrow, Friday March 22, is the very last day of Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year, Sale-A-Bration! Lots to choose from….stamps, paper, a punch, embossing folder, free card kit, buttons, ribbon, discs for My Digital Studio and more!

Order $50 in Stampin’ Up! merchandise (and we all know THAT’s not hard!!) and choose ONE FREE Sale-A-Bration product!
Spend $100 and get TWO FREE Sale-A-Bration products.
Spend $150 and get THREE FREE Sale-A-Bration products….plus $25 Hostess Dollars to spend, plus Silver Glimmer Paper!

You have today and tomorrow to order! Don’t wait until the last minute! Computer glitches have been known to happen (don’t ask me how I know!).

Just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here to order!

It’s always fun to shop for Stampin’ Up! products, whether stamps, paper, ink, or accessories…or My Digital Studio! But when you can get a FREE product with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration, it’s even MORE fun! But it all ends tomorrow!!

Make a Card for the First Day of Spring!

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Today is the first day of spring, so why not make a card for someone to brighten their day even more! On this card I used some Sale-A-Bration products that you can get free with each $50 purchase. The Whisper White card layer is embossed with the Big Shot and the Vine Street Embossing Folder. For the look of flowers growing, I just punched some of the Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper for the flower design and backed it with some card stock colors. Of course I had to add a little Rhinestone Jewel to the center of each flower. The stems I cut by hand. The greeting is from the Tea Shoppe stamp set.

As you can see from this card, you don’t even need flower stamps to make a flower card! Use some designer series paper and punch out some designs that can look like pretty flowers!

If you want to place an order before Sale-a-Bration ends on this Friday, March 22, just go to my Online Store here. Make sure you see my name in the upper right corner and you are set! Spend $50, get a free Sale-a-Bration Stampin’ Up! product! Spend $100, get two! Spend $150, get three SAB products plus Hostess Rewards plus a free pack of Silver Glimmer Paper!!

Let me know if you have any questions! Here are your SAB choices below!

Get My Digital Studio at a Lower Price!

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My Digital Studio by Stampin’ Up! has been so popular and successful that Stampin’ Up! has lowered the price for the software! You don’t want to miss this! The price now is $19.95 for either the digital download (recommended) or the disc itself. It’s all called MDS now, not MDS 2 and MDS 2+ and all that. And coming soon, if you already have the original MDS, you will be able to get the upgrade FREE. The 30-Day Free Trial is still available, but at only $19.95 I suggest you just take the plunge because you’re going to want it anyway and this is easier!

And every Tuesday, Stampin’ Up! puts out new downloads for us! Check out the cute ones for today here!

To purchase My Digital Studio (MDS) just go here to my Online Store!

Let me know if you have any questions!