Author Archives: Karen Fontinelle

FREE SHIPPING at Stampin’ Up! Coming Soon!

Stampin’ Up! has announced FREE SHIPPING coming for three days only, July 23-25! That is this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday! Make your list today!

Free Shipping Details:

Free shipping is for three days only. Orders must be closed July 25.
Free shipping automatically applies to your cart after the qualifying amount has been met, which is $75 (before tax).
Coupon codes and Stampin’ Rewards will lower your order’s retail amount. Orders must meet the qualifying amount to be eligible for free shipping.
The additional cost for expedited shipping is not covered by this promotion.
Prepaid 3-, 6-, and 12-month Paper Pumpkin subscriptions and month-to-month subscriptions do not qualify for free shipping. Refills, past kits and add-ons do qualify toward free shipping, but you must be a subscriber to purchase. Subscriptions billed and shipped this month will be charged for the normal amount ($27.00 shipping included) + tax.

Now that we have Rewards to use in our accounts, remember that if you apply those Rewards to your order and it lowers your merchandise total below $75 then you will not receive free shipping. But you can save those Rewards to use next time. Just be mindful of that.

Happy Shopping!

2025 Back To School Tax Holidays Coming Up!

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It’s that time of year, almost! 2025 Back To School Tax Holidays will be starting up! School could be starting in a few weeks for some children and it will be back-to-school time! A few states are offering a sales tax holiday during certain dates. You will have to click and check the chart above to see if your state is participating and what products are eligible.

There are 13 states and Puerto Rico with a sales tax holiday for school supplies in the months of July or August (the dates are included in the table below by state). There are four states (GA, LA, NJ, WI) that have suspended the tax holiday for this year. Basically, this is a school supply holiday and each state has specific rules they consider to be school supplies—this may be by description or by price. The table above shows the items included per state statute definitions.

Basically, the Stampin’ Up! products included are ones that would normally be used by students in a classroom for educational purposes. It looks like these are adhesives and markers of all kinds. You must place your Stampin’ Up! order during the dates for your state to take advantage of this state tax holiday. If you have school-age children, you know they will be wanting to get into your markers and may need adhesives for those school projects! Even though my family didn’t show much enthusiasm for my crafting fun, when they needed to do a project for school they almost always came to me looking for my supplies to use!

Check the chart, or click HERE for the link, and see if you can save a little money on tax during your state’s tax holiday!

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Painterly Pears Unbounded Love Birthday Card

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I needed to make a simple card because we are in the midst of getting a new kitchen floor so everything is out of place, including my stamping stuff since I do that at our kitchen table! This Painterly Pears Unbounded Love Birthday Card came together very easily even though I didn’t really have a plan. Very often just looking at a pack of designer series paper stimulates some creativity!

For this card, I simply looked at the Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper and this pattern with the Petal Pink background happened to be in the front of the package. It looked beautiful to me! And I found a Petal Pink card base, already cut, scored and folded! I can’t find where I put my Paper Trimmer but I always have my old guillotine one from years ago handy so I cut use that to trim down the designer paper for the card front.

The greeting is made with the Unbounded Love Bundle. I used two of the dies in the Unbounded Love Dies, one to diecut the Basic White larger oval scalloped shape and a smaller one for the Petal Pink thin oval. I found that the small Petal Pink diecut fit right over the pierced inside border of the scalloped diecut. Before adhering the Petal pink piece, I stamped a greeting from the Unbounded Love Stamp Set in Mossy Meadow ink. It just barely fit! I also added a little trim to the bottom of the greeting. It is the Petal Pink 5/16″ Braided Trim. I just cut two small pieces because the braided trim is thick so I didn’t want to fold over one bigger piece in half and make too large a fold under the greeting. Then I popped up the whole greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a little embellishment, I used the new Low Profile Sparkle Dots to put a little sparkle on this card. These Dots are in the beautiful Painterly Pears Suite Collection but you can purchase them separately, of course.

You’ll find the Painterly Pears Suite and individual products in the latest Online Exclusives in the Online Store! It really is a beautiful set that I’m sure you will enjoy!

Get the Haunted Home Kit While You Can!

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You may remember that this Haunted Home Kit in the Kits Collection came out last year and sold out before Halloween! Stampin’ Up! said they would make it available again this year and it is in the Online Store NOW. Due to the popularity last year, I’m thinking if you want this, although it is July, order it now in case it should sell out again! Also, “some” Kits in the Kits Collection will have a price increase July 22. I don’t know which ones, but it would be a good time to get this Kit and any others you are interested in this week!

This Kit comes with all the materials you need to make your own haunted paper house with cardboard walls, vellum, and other pieces to accessorize. Just follow the directions to assemble the house, then add your own ghostly touches to it if you like!

Kit includes:
*Cardboard Home Pieces
* Predesigned projects
* Step-by-step instructions
* Precut vellum and die cut paper pieces
* Enough adhesive to complete projects
*A 10-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ x 1-1/4″ (26.7 x 21.6 x 3.2 cm) printed designer box for storage or crafting on the go.

Product colors: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Gray Granite, Moody Mauve, Pumpkin Pie

AND….you might want to order two Haunted Home Kits and decorate one for Christmas! Yes, some people did that last year! You can use the pieces however you like. Now you might have to use some creativity to see how to make it into a Christmas house….or any other house….but I’m sure you can do it!

Get the Haunted Home Kit before everyone else does!

About the August Paper Pumpkin Kit!

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Paper Pumpkin Aug 2025 Farmhouse Florals Banner Info

It’s time to sign up for Paper Pumpkin, the papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail each month! It’s a gift you give yourself, your creative escape! And if you want to double or triple the fun, order extra kits whenever you want and craft with a friend or loved one.

No risk, no obligation. You can cancel your subscription if Paper Pumpkin is not for you or better yet, skip a month or two if other things come up and you don’t have time to craft that month. Just check your account no later than the 10th of any month to pause, cancel, or reactivate your account for the next month’s kit.

All supplies are included. With your first kit, you get an acrylic block on which to mount the stamps you need in the exclusive stamp set included in your kit. Other than scissors, everything you need including adhesive is wrapped up like a gift in your Paper Pumpkin box. Sometimes the box is just as cute as the project inside! I especially love the holiday kits! Get signed up now so you won’t miss out on those!

Here are the details about the August Paper Pumpkin Kit, Farmhouse Florals, which you will receive about mid-August. Did you see the typewriter and flowers on the banner above? That’s a clue about some of the card designs!

August: Farmhouse Florals
Subscribe July 11–August 10
Send whimsical cards featuring flowers nestled in delightfully unexpected places.
• Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 coordinating envelopes
• Precut paper pieces and linen thread
• Sentiment stamps for the outside and inside of the cards
• Coordinating colors: Calypso Coral, Darling Duckling, Gray Granite, Lost Lagoon,
Pecan Pie, Secret Sea (Classic Stampin’ Spot).

One 1″ x 1″ Stampin’ Spot is included in each kit as your mini ink pad! Collect them each month and you’ll have lots of colors of ink to use on other projects!

With this August Paper Pumpkin Kit you will even receive a FREE additional stamp set!

Paper Pumpkin Farmhouse Florals Free Stamp Set Aug 2025

CLICK HERE TO JOIN PAPER PUMPKIN!

Two Tone Cardstock Torn Strips Card

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This Two Tone Cardstock Torn Strips Card is so easy to make and shows another way you can use the Stampin’ Up! Two-Tone Cardstock! Today is the LAST DAY for the 20% off sale on all two-tone cardstock! You can choose some or all of your favorite colors to try out, or I suggest, buying one or more of the assorted packs. That way you get two sheets of each of six colors! These are 12″ x 12″ sheets so you will have lots of cardstock for cards and other projects and certainly perfect for scrapbooking.

Each piece of cardstock has a smooth texture for stamping and a white core that works great for techniques like tearing, sanding, crumpling, embossing, etc. This cardstock is two-sided with shades of the same color on each side.

106 Color Variations. This two-tone cardstock offers 53 lighter and darker Stampin’ Up! colors on double-sided sheets. It’s available in single or mixed-color packs for harmonious colorful or monochromatic projects.

A Crafting Necessity. Two-tone cardstock has so much to offer! It’s an ideal layering option without adding bulk and its white core means you can tear, crumple, sand, and emboss your way to fun effects whatever your crafting skill level. Its smooth texture is great for stamping, clean cuts, crisp folds, and seamless color applications. And because it’s 12″ x 12″, you can use it as a scrapbook base, or you can cut it to use as part of your card-making projects.

This is how you make this card. I used “regular” Daffodil Delight cardstock for the card base. For the two strips on the side, I cut 1″ x 5 1/2″ strips from the Two-Tone cardstock I already had, one Granny Apple Green and one Poppy Parade. If you tear any cardstock TOWARD yourself, you will get that ragged edge. We used to do that a lot during my early days of stamping! When you tear this Two-Tone cardstock like this, it reveals the white core of the paper which just adds a little interest! If you use this paper but don’t want the white showing, just sponge a little ink on along the edge, which is interesting in itself.

For the focal point of the card, I used a new product I had. I die cut a circle with the Spotlight on Nature Dies in Basic White. Then I used a pear, strawberry, and foliage from the Good Times Mix & Match Ephemera Pack. You’ll find this new product on page 25 in the Annual Catalog. It looks like our other ephemera packs, but I noticed it was thicker. They are actually stickers! Just peel off the paper on the back if you want to use them as stickers or leave it on and perhaps use Dimensionals or other adhesive depending on your project. I used mine as stickers on this diecut circle base but then popped up the circle on Stampin’ Dimensionals. For a simple greeting, I just stamped directly in the corner of the card using a stamp from the Memorable Blooms Stamp Set.

These are the assortments of Two-Tone cardstock:

Celebrate Together

Memories In Bloom

Weekend Adventures

Turtle-y Sweet

Wildflower Celebrations

Everyday You & Me

Meant To Bee

Check your stash because maybe you purchased one of the scrapbooking workshop kits that Stampin’ Up! offered last year when this two-tone cardstock first came out. You may already have some sheets of this fun paper!

Today is the LAST DAY for the Two-Tone Cardstock Sale! Don’t miss it!

SHOP the TWO-TONE CARDSTOCK SALE TODAY!

Charming Day Damask Birthday Card

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This Charming Day Damask Birthday Card was a fun card to make! I used a Petal Pink Two-Tone cardstock for the background to show one of the techniques you can use with this two-tone cardstock. This paper has a light shade on one side and a darker shade of the same color on the other side, plus a white core. I took advantage of the white core of the paper with the embossed background.

In order to create the interesting background for this card, I embossed the Petal Pink Two-Tone cardstock with the Damask Designs Embossing Folder. This is a pretty embossing folder to use just as it comes out, but if you have two-tone cardstock, you can do something extra with the embossed paper. After embossing the pretty design, use a sanding block, or whatever you have, to lightly rub across the top of the embossed images. Go lightly at first. You can always do more as long as you don’t tear the paper. When you do the sanding, it will expose the white core of the paper! It’s very subtle on this card with the light-colored paper, but you can see it.

The card base is Basic White cardstock and the embossed Damask Designs layer is adhered to it. If you wanted a more dramatic background, use a darker color of the two-tone cardstsock.

For the flowers, I stamped this little cluster of flowers in the Charming Day Stamp Set with Memento Ink on Basic White cardstock. The flowers are colored in with Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends and the leaves with Lemon Lime Twist Stampin’ Blends. Then it was diecut with the Charming Day Dies. If you want the stamp set and dies, you can get the Charming Day Bundle and save 10%. The greeting is also in the stamp set and is stamped in Memento ink. It is diecut with my go-to…. the banner in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The flowers are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but the greeting is adhered flat to the card.

For a little embellishment, I used three of the Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems on the embossed layer. They are small and just add a little sparkle. I didn’t want to add too much to this particular card because I wanted to show off the sanded embossing on the card using the two-tone cardstock.

If you are interested in any of the colors in the Two-Tone cardstock, there is a sale going on today and tomorrow, July 10 – 11. You can check out all the colors on page 77 in the Annual Catalog. The paper is 20% off on these last two days of the three-day sale! This cardstock is great for cardmaking and other projects as well as scrapbooking!

Before you decide on individual colors, check out the various assortment packs. There are seven assortments with two sheets of each of six colors which would give you several colors to try. They are mixed in on the Two Tone Sale page so just scroll through. Choose the grouping of colors you like the best or get all of them!

Read more about the Two-Tone cardstock HERE.

SHOP THE TWO TONE SALE!

Two Tone Cardstock Stampin’ Up! Sale Today!

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Today begins the 3-day sale on all Two-Tone Cardstock at Stampin’ Up! You’ll find all the colors on pages 76-77 in the Annual Catalog and samples on pages 78-79. All Two-Tone cardstock is 20% off!

This sale is the perfect opportunity to stock up on a crafting essential that’s great for both card making and scrapbooking. Check out the wide variety of available colors and decide which ones you will want to have. Act fast before your favorite colors are gone! It is a 3 day only sale!

What is two-tone cardstock?? Each piece of cardstock has a smooth texture for stamping and a white core that works great for techniques like tearing, sanding, crumpling, embossing, etc. This cardstock is two-sided with shades of the same color on each side.

106 Color Variations. Our two-tone cardstock offers 53 lighter and darker Stampin’ Up! colors on double-sided sheets. It’s available in single or mixed-color packs for harmonious colorful or monochromatic projects.

A Crafting Necessity. Two-tone cardstock has so much to offer! It’s an ideal layering option without adding bulk and its white core means you can tear, crumple, sand, and emboss your way to fun effects whatever your crafting skill level. Its smooth texture is great for stamping, clean cuts, crisp folds, and seamless color applications. And because it’s 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm), you can use it as a scrapbook base, or you can cut it to use as part of your card-making projects.

Choose a few colors to try and see how you like it and what you can do with it! Remember, the sale begins today and runs through Friday, July 11th. While supplies last. Don’t miss it! Have fun!

If you are looking at the catalog online, here is the catalog PDF in which you can scroll to around pages 76-79 to view the Two-Tone cardstock. Or click the link below.

SHOP THE SALE!

Two-Tone Cardstock Sale Starts July 9th!

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Starting tomorrow, July 9th, Stampin’ Up! is having a 3-day sale on all of the Two-Tone Cardstock! Did you know we have two-tone cardstock? What is it?! You’ll find all the colors on pages 76-77 and samples on pages 78-79 of the Annual Catalog.

All Two-tone cardstock will be 20% off! This sale is the perfect opportunity to stock up on a crafting essential that’s great for both card making and scrapbooking. Check out the wide variety of available colors and decide which ones you will want to have. Act fast before your favorite colors are gone! It is a 3 day only sale!

Here’s a card I put on my blog a little while back using Two-Tone cardstock and showing the two shades of the same color! The circles are diecut from the same paper, but they are the other side of the paper! See the difference in shading?

A Crafting Necessity. Two-tone cardstock has so much to offer! It’s an ideal layering option without adding bulk and its white core means you can tear, crumple, sand, and emboss your way to fun effects whatever your crafting skill level. Its smooth texture is great for stamping, clean cuts, crisp folds, and seamless color applications. And because it’s 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm), you can use it as a scrapbook base, or you can cut it to use as part of your card-making projects.

Something different to try! Choose a few colors and see how you like it and what you can do with it!

The sale runs Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday – July 9-11th! Don’t miss it!

SHOP THE SALE!

Use this ANNUAL CATALOG PDF to go pages 76-77 to see the listing in the catalog of all the colors.

Painterly Pears Hello Card

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This Painterly Pear Hello Card introduces the new Painterly Pears Suite Collection which was released in the Online Exclusives on July 1st last week. This is a beautiful set. The Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper has all kinds of pear images in a soft, vintage kind of look, plus blossoms and foliage. It is similar to the Mediterranean Blooms Designer Series Paper which had lemons and oranges along with pretty blossoms and foliage also. (The Mediterranean Blooms DSP is still available in the Online Store, by the way.)

This card has an Old Olive cardstock card base. I used to use Old Olive a lot, but it seems I am into other greens now. However, Old Olive is still a very useful color and is one of the coordinating colors in the Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper. The layer of designer paper on the card is similar to what we have had in other papers. The whole 12″ x 12″ paper has a large border of the Painterly Pears with a blank center area. You can cut the paper into 4″ x 5 1/4″ pieces to have pears on different sides of the paper to make a multitude of cards. Or it would be like a ready-made page background for scrapbooking. This piece I used was cut from the bottom left corner of the designer paper.

Here you can see what I used to make this card. The pears were stamped and diecut with the Perfectly Pears Bundle in the Suite. Of course, you can purchase any of the products separately if you do not want the whole Suite. The stamp really does most of the work for you giving the pears different colorations even with just one stamp or you can play around with inking up the stamp with one color and then kind of rounding the edge of the stamp in the ink pad with a second color. You can also stamp an outline around the pear as you see in the bottom pear. The dies leave a white margin around each pear so I just trimmed that off because I didn’t want that on this card. The leaves on the yellow pear were stamped in Old Olive and on the green pear the leaves are stamped in Mossy Meadow ink. Both pears are layered on a Petal Pink diecut circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies. This is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To greeting on the card is from the Perfectly Pears Stamp Set and is stamped in Mossy Meadow ink. It is diecut with the smallest banner die in the Stylish Shapes Dies. To add a little embellishment, I used the new Low Profile Sparkle Dots in the Suite. They come in three colors: Darling Duckling, Mossy Meadow, and Secret Sea. Low Profile means that they don’t poke into the envelope when mailed which is really nice!

Check out this Painterly Pears Suite in the Online Exclusives along with many other newly released products!

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Try This July 4th Treat Pouch!

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This July 4th Treat Pouch is a project from several years ago, but you could make it easily right away for a little treat for your 4th of July picnic, barbeque, or fireworks gathering. Use designer series paper which is a little easier to fold if you have some in appropriate colors. If not, you can use red, white, and blue cardstock! Or just use white if that’s what you have and do some patriotic stamping. Stars are ALWAYS good for an occasion like this so you can always add stars of any kind.

Use a sheet of 6″ x 6″ designer series paper for each pouch. This 6″ x 6″ size makes a pretty small pouch, so if you want to put very much candy inside, you might want to use a 9″ x 9″ piece of designer paper or even cardstock. (It’s a good way to use up some of your retired designer paper if you are hoarding it for a special occasion!!) You could even make a big one at 12″ x 12″!

Fold the square paper in half to form a triangle. Place the base of the triangle at the bottom, and fold down the top point to just about 1″ from the bottom edge. Then fold down the front layer of the point just as a guide. Take the point on the right side and fold it over to the left side, but not all the way, so that it will fit underneath that point you folded down from the top. Later you will fold that point down to stay, but for now, just make sure folding that point from the right will fit under it. Then take the point on the left side and fold it over toward the right side. Now fold the front piece of that point at the top down. Tack it down with a little Stampin’ Seal or Glue Dot. Stick your hand inside to just poof it out a bit and it feels like everything locks in place when you do that!

For the candy, I always love decorating chocolate nuggets with designer paper. It just takes a 1″ x 3″ (or 3 1/4″) strip to wrap around the candy. Be sure not to get adhesive on the candy itself!! Or use any candy of your choosing that will fit inside the pouch. Maybe a cookie will be perfect!

I hope you have a fabulous 4th of July planned to celebrate the birth of our country. We will go see fireworks that are close to home with friends. I’d love to see the gigantic fireworks display the city puts on, but I like getting home in ten minutes instead of sitting in traffic for who knows how long!

Growing up, my family and lots of the neighbors would take turns shooting off some fireworks in our driveways, but that’s not considered safe any more (and wasn’t then either, but my dad always had the garden hose and a bucket of water ready just in case). I have so many memories of my brother and I hitting some wooden thing with a cap or two or three inside on the concrete of the carport and the “bang” would kind of echo a bit. The first firework to get set off each year was something that a little parachute would fall out of, always landing on the roof of course! I loved the little colored balls we would throw down on the ground that would pop! Sometimes our grandparents would bring over a bag of fireworks to add to what my dad bought! What a thrill for little kids back then! When a shopping center did a big fireworks display my girlfriend across the street and I would stand at the top of our street on a hill and watch them.

Whatever your plans, be safe, have fun, and be thankful we are celebrating our country’s birthday!

HAPPY 4th of JULY!

New Products at Stampin’ Up! Today!

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Happy July and Happy New Products Day at Stampin’ Up! Click the link below for all the new Online Exclusives available today! Remember, this is a way to get new products to us quickly instead of waiting on the next catalog which is compiled a few years in advance! And we get to improve our computer skills!

Click HERE for new ONLINE EXCLUSIVES!

Lots of new products! I got the new Painterly Pears Suite and the Floral Charm Suite in my preorder last month. Both very pretty! The Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper is beautiful! Also some Halloween and even Christmas if you want an early start!

Two New Kits in the Kits Collection!

A birthday card kit and a HALLOWEEN KIT!!! Guess which one I’ve got to have!

I have to make this short and sweet but now you can go check out all the new goodies! Let me know if you have any questions!

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LAST DAY: Stampin’ Up! Suite BOGO Sale!

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I hate to say it, but today, June 30th, is the LAST DAY for the Suite Sale at Stampin’ Up! Buy one Suite or Suite product and get one 50% off! It’s not quite as easy as it sounds because you do need to use some strategy! You can buy entire Suites or you can pick and choose Suite products and they can be from different Suites. You do not have to purchase an entire Suite. Just pay attention that you have products with prices that are closely alike. For example, if you want to buy two Suites but you also add a roll of ribbon and a package of embellishments from any Suite, the Online Store computer will give you 50% off the lowest price items. It doesn’t match up the items you are ordering.

You may be better off doing one order with two or four Suites and not put any other Suite product on that order. You can order two Suites and other products that are NOT part of Suites and the discount will be applied to your second, lower-priced Suite. So it is a little confusing, but you just have to be aware that’s how it works. Probably similar to how it works in stores with a similar sale.

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL THE SUITES TO CHOOSE FROM!

Or go to the main Stampin’ Up! website and click on Menu and then Suites.

When you get to the Suites page, be sure to SCROLL DOWN to see the long list of Suites!

These Suites can be in the Annual Catalog, in the Online Exclusives, or even in the Last Chance category!

You will EARN Stampin’ Rewards for a future order on this order of $20 or more! If you already have some earned Rewards, you can apply those to your order. A pop up will show you how much in Rewards you have. You can use some or all of it.

All available suites and suite products from the 2025–2026 Annual Catalog and Online Exclusives are buy one, get one 50% off.
When you shop the sale, the 50% off discount will apply to the lower-priced item (for example, if you buy a suite collection and a stamp set from a suite, the suite would be full price, and the stamp set would be 50% off).
Suite collections are available if all items are in stock; if all items are not in stock, you can still shop the available suite products.
You don’t have to buy a suite and suite products all from the same suite collection for the discount to apply. You can buy any suite products from any suite.
The discount will appear in your cart once you’ve added two items within the sale parameters to your cart.
Products are available only while supplies last.

Watch this Stampin’ Up! video for a refresher on just a few of the Suites that are available!

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Kintsugi Inspirations Thinking Of You Card

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I only recently got this paper to make this Kintsugi Inspirations Thinking Of You Card. What in the world is Kintsugi? According to the explanation in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog, “Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer. The mended gold veins become a celebration of imperfection instead of hiding it.”

This Kintsugi paper, the Kintsugi Inspirations Specialty Designer Series Paper, is one that when you open the package and start paging through the sheets you absolutely gasp out loud because it is so stunning! The gold foil and the designs on many of the papers just take your breath away. And on the “other side” of the paper are soft petite florals and other generic designs that you can use any time.

For my first card with this designer paper, I chose a Mistly Moonlight card base. The background layer on the card base is one with swirly blue lines on a dark background. I cut it at 4″ x 5 1/2″ because I wanted it to be the length of the card base. Then I chose a center panel with pretty blue flowers and gold accents. It is cut at 3″ x 5 1/2″.

I only bought the package of designer paper in this Kintsugi Inspirations Suite Collection. There is also a stamp set, embossing folder, dies. and flower accent gems. Sometimes I feel like I can make a lot of things with just the designer paper since I can’t buy EVERYTHING. And you can make pretty things with just this Kintsugi paper, but I think at least the stamp set and dies would be good to have with this paper. Since the paper is so different, you almost need other parts with the same style.

For my card, since I do not have the dies, I cut out two vases from a sheet of the designer series paper. I chose two vases in the same color, different sizes, and difference gold foil patterns on them. The bases are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also cut out the flower that is on this same paper with the vases. The flower is a little tedious to cut out for sure! I made a little slit in the short vase in which to slip the flower and it also has a Dimensional on the back.

The greeting is from the Saying Something Ephemera Pack. I wasn’t sure what I would use, but when I saw this in that pack, I thought it blended well with the look of the card, so no need for me to stamp a greeting on my own! Something stamped and embossed with gold would look pretty, though!

This is one of the Suites in the Annual Catalog, so you could pair it with another Suite anywhere in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and get the second Suite at 50% off. Just don’t add any other Suite products to that order that cost less.

This Kintsugi Specialty Designer Series Paper is really beautiful and different so if that is something you are looking for and you can take advantage of the Suite BOGO 50% off sale as well, it’s time to do some shopping!

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Wildflower Birthday Hidden Tag Card

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Last Saturday Stampin’ Up!® held a virtual event, Creativity Now, for Demonstrators to “attend”. I made this card, Wildflower Birthday Hidden Tag Card, in the same design as one of the cards but with paper I already had. They used a specific upcoming Suite, Peaceful Garden, to do their projects. This Suite will be one in the new September-December 2025 Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini). We could preorder that Suite or any of the products in the Suite to stamp along during Creativity Now, but I decided to wait and see what would be in the Mini Catalog. I did find I was more drawn to the Suite seeing it being used in making cards and one little box, and it’s not just for Christmas cards at all, but you could use it for holiday cards.

I mostly copied the Creativity Now design of this card that they made, but I used the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper. I changed up the design a little bit from how Stampin’ Up! made their card but it is basically the same and easy to make.

The card base is Pool Party cardstock but other colors could have been used also. Stampin’ Up! just used the square of designer paper and the greeting block underneath on the card base, but I adhered them to a layer of Pretty In Pink cardstock first before adhering to the card. The Wildflower Birthday Designer Paper is cut at 3″ x 3″ and the Basic White block is 3″ x 1 1/4″. On this block, I stamped a sentiment in the Simply Said Stamp Set in Pretty In Pink ink. I measured the size of both of these blocks of paper together which was 4 1/2″ x 3″ and then cut the Pretty In Pink cardstock at 4 5/8″ x 3 1/8″ so there would be just a little margin around the edge. Before adhering to the card, I added a piece of Pretty In Pink Ribbon and bow around the seam of the DSP and the greeting.

Now I should have popped up that panel described above of the designer paper and greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals to make it easier to slide the tag in and out from underneath, but I didn’t think of it in the moment! However, I did remember not to put glue on the right side where the tag would slide in and out, so it still works. Just not as easily. For the tag, I used one on the sheet of tags included in the Wildflower Birthday Specialty DSP and trimmed it down to fit better. I stamped the “Happy Birthday” greeting in Pretty In Pink ink from the same Simply Said Stamp Set on the tag. I decided to adhere it to a piece of Basic white cardstock to make it a little sturdier and then just trimmed off the excess white cardstock around the shape of the tag. To make sure the recipient would notice this tag should be pulled out, I added one of the diecut flowers across the gold top that is included in the DSP plus added a bit of Pretty In Pink Ribbon to the end of the tag. You could also write a message on the back of the tag if you wanted to.

To the side of this front panel with the Designer paper and the greeting is a strip of the designer paper. At the Creativity Now event, they used a small embossed piece and a piece of glimmer paper on that side. I decided to just use one strip of the coordinating designer paper instead. It is cut at 3/4″ x 4 5/8″. I think the gold scallops on the paper add a nice accent to that side of the card.

This is a fun card design and you can make it with whatever paper and greetings you have for many occasions while you wait for the Peaceful Garden Suite Collection to come out in the next Mini Catalog in September! Maybe you will want that Suite or part of it. I always find it just as fun to watch others stamp and make pretty things as making them myself so I enjoyed Creativity Now even though I wasn’t stamping along with the new sneak peek Suite!

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