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Small Easter Basket With Scalloped Tag Punch

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Small Easter Basket With Scalloped Tag Punch

If you are looking for a fun and easy little basket, try this Small Easter Basket with the Scalloped Tag Punch. It is really easy to make and you can decorate it however you like. The Scalloped Tag Topper Punch makes cute sides with an opening for the handle, but if you didn’t have this punch, you could just leave the side as is, unpunched. I just love this cute little Easter candy I found! It looks so cute in a little basket! Some chocolate eggs would be nice, too!

It’s very easy to make this little basket! I used Calypso Coral Cardstock with a layer of Happiness Blooms Designer Series Paper on the front and back sides. You could use whatever paper you like, or stamp the cardstock, heat emboss, or emboss with the Big Shot and a folder. Anything goes! To make the basket, cut two strips of cardstock 2″ x 7 1/2″ and punch one end on each strip with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Score at 3″ from the scalloped top and fold. Those will be the ends of the basket and you can adhere the bottom pieces together, one on top of the other.

Also cut two pieces of cardstock 2″ x 5 1/2″.  Score 1/2″ at each end. These pieces will be the front and back sides of the basket. If you are going to adhere designer paper or stamp or decorate these two pieces, it’s a good idea to do it before you assemble the basket. The designer paper pieces are cut at 1 3/4″ x 5 1/4″. Once you have everything ready, glue all the pieces together to form the basket.

For the handle, cut a strip 1/2″ x 8 1/2″. Insert each end through the scalloped tag punch opening and glue to inside of basket. See photo of inside.

Small Easter Basket With Scalloped Tag Punch Handle

Just to decorate the basket a little, I tied around a piece of Calypso Coral 3/8″ Satin Ribbon. You could make a little paper flower or add an Easter greeting or whatever you like!

Go get your “craft supplies” (chocolate candy!) at the store and then make some Easter baskets like this Small Easter Basket With Scalloped Tag Punch.

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Time Is Short! Sale-A-Bration Ends Soon!

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SAB Banner 2019

March 31, 2019 is almost here, so time is short! Sale-A-Bration comes to an end that night and the “free stuff” will be all over! Don’t miss out! Stock up on some basics for your stamping or choose those things you’ve been lusting after in the Stampin’ Up! catalogs. With every $50 you get to choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item. Upon reaching $100, you can choose two free items OR one $100 category choice…..and so on! No limit! And with a $150 you also get Stampin’ Rewards….and with a $250 order you earn an EXTRA $25 in merchandise (plus Stampin’ Rewards).

If you would like to JOIN Stampin’ Up!, this is the week! Check out the extra benefits PLUS you can choose to get the special Craft Tote Bag along with your Starter Kit.

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Butterfly Gala Thank You Card With Floral Garden Impressions

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Butterfly Gala Thank You Card With Floral Garden Impressions

When my daughter was here for a visit last week and pulling out lots of paper and stamps, some retired, when we went to put away the Garden Impressions Designer Paper I honestly couldn’t remember if it was current or retired! I hadn’t used it in a long time! So I thought it was time to USE IT, along with the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set and the Butterfly Duet Punch to make this Butterfly Gala Thank You Card With Floral Garden Impressions.

The Garden Impressions paper is a pack of 6″ x 6″ sheets so it is a little easier to work with. So many pretty floral patterns and on the other side a more generic, plain design. This pattern with the Night of Navy background and So Saffron flowers jumped out at me so I chose to use that. The card base is Night of Navy with a Whisper White layer. The strip of designer paper is 5 1/4″ x 2″. The ribbon is the beautiful Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon, so useful to have on hand.

The butterflies are stamped with the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set, colored with Stampin’ Blends markers and punched out with the Butterfly Punch. Unfortunately, at the moment, the punch is back ordered and unable to be ordered until they get more in stock.

The greeting on the card is from the same Butterfly Gala Stamp set, along with some other very nice greetings. Luckily I didn’t mess it up when I stamped it just above the ribbon. Well, somehow I did get a slight black ink smudge in the upper left corner, but I was able to cover it with the butterfly wings! The large butterfly is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the other two are just adhered flat with Glue Dots.

Remember, Sale-A-Bration is going on just one more week!! Wow, does time fly!! You can still get the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper FREE with a $50 purchase, at least as I write this! I’m surprised this paper didn’t sell out early on because it is so fun with the butterflies on one side and some black and white designs on the other. If you like butterflies, you do want this paper!

If you didn’t want to take time to color in butterflies, you could simply make this same card without them! The Garden Impressions 6″ x 6″ DSP is pretty enough! Stamp a greeting, maybe add a ribbon and you’ve got a lovely card. Check out these products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and get your Sale-A-Bration order in before you miss out!

Paper Pumpkin & New Distinktive® Stamps For April

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Paper Pumpkin Distinktive Banner April 2019 Kit

It’s time to get signed up for Paper Pumpkin, the papercrafting kit that Stampin’ Up! sends right to your mailbox each month with a fun project inside, all materials, stamps, and ink included! What could be more fun to look forward to!

The April Paper Pumpkin Kit is going to have something different….brand new Stampin’ Up! Distinktive® stamp images.

What are Distinktive stamp images? Stampin’ Up! says…….

  1. Distinktive stamps give you photo-realistic images with just one stamp. They have a special texture that gives added depth and dimension in a single step.
  2. These stamps are available only from Stampin’ Up! and are made using a patent-pending process.
  3. Distinktive stamps are available in red rubber and photopolymer; Paper Pumpkin’s April kit includes photopolymer stamps.
  4. Shop Distinktive stamps in the online store by searching “Distinktive,” or look for the Distinktive icon in Stampin’ Up! catalogs.

Join Paper Pumpkin today and be all set to receive the April Paper Pumpkin Kit in the mail mid-April. Get the first set of Distinktive stamps to appear in Paper Pumpkin. You must subscribe (or reactivate) your subscription by April 10th to receive this kit. Do it now so you don’t have to put it on your “To-Do List”!

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The link above is my personalized link for my Paper Pumpkin page to make it easy for you to sign up. If you have a Demonstrator you want to use, then go to Paperpumpkin.com and search for their name.

Fable Friends Bunny Easter Card

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Fable Friends Bunny Easter Card

It’s time to start making Easter cards like this Fable Friends Bunny Easter Card. Isn’t that bunny the cutest thing?! This is an easy card to make so you could make multiples and make lots of people happy to receive a card from you during the Easter season. The Fable Friends Stamp Set is great for Easter but you can also use it for other cards, like for a baby.

The card base is Lovely Lipstick with a layer of Whisper White under the designer paper which is from the All My Love Designer Series Paper. Don’t tell anybody, but I stamped the bunny on the middle part of the Whisper White paper, die cut it and then used that piece as the layer. Nobody will ever know that there is an oval hole in the Whisper White layer unless they take the card apart! You can save a little bit of paper this way although I don’t always think of doing that little trick.

The bunny is stamped in Memento Black Ink. This is the ink that works with the Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I love to color with these markers! Just pick out whatever colors you like. The bunny is easy to color! This oval piece is layered on a scalloped oval Lovely Lipstick piece.

The ribbon is the Crumb Cake 3/8″ Classic Weave Ribbon . This ribbon has a very nice soft feel to it. I just tied a knot to keep it simple and popped the bunny up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is from the same Fable Friends Stamp Set and layered on a piece of Lovely Lipstick.

That’s it! That’s all there is to this easy Easter card using the Fable Friends stamp set. Easter is a month away so you have time to order this stamp set, add a few things, and reach $50 so you can take advantage of Sale-A-Bration! Get a free product with each $50 you spend. Don’t miss it!

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Beautiful You Card by Amy

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Beautiful You Card by Amy

I might not have little kids around the house any more to brag about the cute things they said or did, but a mother can still brag about her adult daughter’s artistic creation, this Beautiful You Card! I suppose I could say happiness is when you ask your daughter what she would like to do the next day of her visit and she says, “Stamp!” That’s never happened before!

She does enjoy doing the Paper Pumpkin Kits I send her but she doesn’t want the ton of supplies her mother has, which is one of the great reasons for people to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin – get all the supplies and design you need to do some crafting once a month without buying and carrying an “inventory” of stamps, paper, and ink! This time she was interested in creating some of her own cards and projects for friends getting married or having babies or celebrating birthdays!

We also tried out several techniques, like salt and ink, alcohol and ink, embossing, watercoloring with ink refills, watercoloring with Brusho crystals, embossing with the Big Shot, die-cutting, coloring with Stampin’ Blends, using Sponge Daubers, and many other things. She had already picked out this Beautiful You Stamp Set to use so she used one of her backgrounds for this stamped image which she had colored and cut out. Then, just like her mother, she played around with several choices of ribbons until she was happy with the look and figured out a way to incorporate the Lemon Lime Twist Ombre Ribbon with the Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon.

Some projects she didn’t have time to pull together but she has paper and stamped images and ribbon all ready to take home with her to complete. I’ll be interested to see what she eventually makes for her friends out of her new stash!

It was nice to have a stamper in the house and nice to have a relaxing visit without the Christmas hoopla going on, as nice as that is at the time with everyone home! It’s always nice to visit with one child at a time, or even two when her brother came home to visit her over the weekend! She wishes she could stay longer but the airfare would be $400 more to stay another couple of days! Crazy! We didn’t even run around to go out and do “fun” things because we were already having plenty of fun staying home, relaxing, stamping, even baking bread and pizza and making a chocolate tart! (Check out www.thefoodnanny.com, my new passion, I don’t even know why!)

So try to go back in your mind and think like a new stamper! Try your supplies in new ways, try out a new technique just for fun. You don’t have to create a masterpiece at the end, just try something new or something you haven’t done in a long time! Everything old is new again….or whatever the saying is!

And don’t forget Sale-A-Bration only has about another week to run! Purchase $50 worth or more, or multiples of $50, to get your FREE Sale-A-Bration products. Maybe you’d like this lovely stamp set in the Annual Catalog on your order so you can make a card like my daughter’s Beautiful You Card.

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A Floral Card For Spring With Brusho

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A Floral Card For Spring With Brusho

Late yesterday spring arrived, finally, and here is a Floral Card For Spring With Brusho to celebrate! My daughter has been visiting for a week (not long enough!) and she wanted to stamp and learn some new techniques! We played around with several things including the Brusho Crystal Colour (yes, that’s how it is spelled!). I haven’t used it much, even though it was something I wanted right away when it came out! There are different ways you can use Brusho. Mostly you just need to play with it!

We used real Watercolor Paper by Stampin’ Up! because that works the best, along with the Aqua Painter. You can apply water to the paper with the Aqua Painter or move the ink crystals around with it. You can also just pick up with crystals mixed with water and use as a watercolor paint to color in an image. The Watercolor Paper is a high-quality cotton paper that absorbs the water and doesn’t pill like Whisper White Cardstock does when you use water on it and try to move color around. Even if you don’t use watercolor paper often, you might like to keep a package or two on hand in case you come across a project you want to try with watercoloring.

The Brusho is fun to use because you get five little pots of color – Brilliant Red, Gamboge (orange), Moss Green, Prussian Blue, Yellow. You can use them individually or combine them or do whatever you want! It is recommended you do not even OPEN the pots as the powder is so fine and you’ll have tiny crystals all over. Just poke a hole or several holes in the lid with a Paper Piercing Tool or push pins or something so you can shake out minute amounts of color when you want them.

For my card, I stamped the flowers from the Petal Palette Stamp Set with Stazon Ink since it is waterproof. Then I just shook out a tiny amount of Brusho onto a clear block and picked it up with my Aqua Painter to color in the flowers and leaves. If the shade isn’t exactly what you wanted, you can go back and add more color for a deeper color or shading or blending.

I just wanted kind of a light blue, sky background for the card so I sprinkled just a very few crystals on the wet watercolor paper (I applied water around the flowers with my Aqua Painter) and kind of let it move on its own and helped it with the Aqua Painter so it went where I wanted it. Very easy and simple, not to mention fun!

The card base is Real Red to match the flowers and the greeting is from the Petal Palette Stamp Set. I had to add a little bit of bling with the Gold Faceted Gems.

My daughter and I also made some backgrounds while we played with the Brusho so we will have to make those into cards or something.

Take some inspiration from this Floral Card For Spring With Brusho and make your own card for spring to send to someone who just might really need a card that day!

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An Easy Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks

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Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks

Here is a fun little Easy Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks, one you may have made in the past to fill with candy. Easter is late this year, but it will still sneak up on us! Now is the time to start having fun making Easter cards to send and maybe some little projects for your Easter dinner or home decorations!

This small little basket is made with just a 6″ x 6″ piece of cardstock and pieces of designer paper. Score at 2″ and 4″ on each side so it ends up looking like a tic tac toe board with six sections. Then on each corner, score diagonally. You can do it easily with the Stampin’ Trimmer by lining up the top and bottom corners on the cutting track of the Trimmer. Don’t score all the way down the paper, just in that corner. That center piece will be the bottom of the basket. See photo below.

Candy Basket How to Score

This is what your paper will look like when it is all scored and creased.

Candy Basket Scored Piece

After the scoring is done, be sure to crease on all the score lines and just see how it is going to fold up into a basket when assembled. Note where the bottom is and put an X on the bottom with a pencil just so you know. Then cut and adhere pieces of designer series paper (or stamp on the cardstock) to each area. The squares will be 1 3/4″ x 1 3/4″. Note that for the four pieces that will go on the corners must be cut diagonally in half and adhered on each half of that scored corner. You do not need a piece of designer paper for the bottom of the basket, that you have already marked.

Candy Basket with Designer Paper

To assemble the basket just fold up into a container shape, folding those diagonal corners in. The way the basket will stay together is by tieing the four corners together in the center. In order to do that, you will need to punch a hole in each corner. It’s probably best to do this after you adhere the designer paper, but you can do it to the plain cardstock and then just re-punch if needed. You can see the punched holes in the corners in the photo above if you look closely. Run some ribbon around through the holes and then pull and gather the corners to the center and tie the ribbon into a bow.

Candy Basket Top View

Add some shred or make your own by cutting very narrow strips of cardstock and crinkle with your hands or with a paper crimper. Then add your treats, like these chocolate Easter chicks!

Chocolate Candy for Easter

I spotted this candy at Home Goods and thought it would be perfect for Easter projects…..and it tastes good too!

My basket is made with Pineapple Punch Cardstock and Happiness Blooms Designer Series Paper. If you are using a paper with a certain pattern, make sure you have each piece going the way you want it to go on the finished basket. The ribbon is the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon. The Easter greeting is stamped from the Fable Friends Stamp Set and die-cut with a die in the Stitched Labels Framelits Dies. If you didn’t have this die set you could just cut a rectangle or an oval for the front of the basket.

Candy Basket Full View

That’s how you make this Easy Candy Basket For Easter With Candy Chicks and anyone can do it, even with a larger piece of cardstock. Make one for a little Easter treat or decoration at your house!

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Favorite St. Patrick’s Day Projects!

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Here are a few St. Patrick’s Day projects from years past, in case you need some ideas! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick's Day Bloomin' Love Heart Card

This St. Patrick’s Day card was made with the beautiful Bloomin’ Heart Thinlit Die and Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper colored with some green ink!

St. Patrick's Day Pot of Gold Rainbow Card

This St. Patrick’s Day Card shows a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

St. Patrick's Day Gift Bag and Tag

This St. Patrick’s Day Gift Bag & Tag is a fun little project for a little gift or treat!

Have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box

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St. Patrick's Day Clear Tiny Treat Box

If you need an easy little treat for St. Patrick’s Day, you can’t go wrong with this St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box. Even if you don’t have the box or don’t want to make one out of paper, you could use a cello bag of some kinds. What is more St. Patrick’s Day than green and gold?

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are great to have on hand. You can put candy inside or a small gift or even just a special note. Best yet, they store flat so don’t take up space so all you have to do is crease and assemble when you need one! Just remember to remove the piece of plastic on them that protects the finish!

I think stamping is so much fun because you can use other images to make something else. If you don’t have a shamrock stamp (and most people wouldn’t!), just use hearts! You can stamp and cut out four hearts or in this project, I just stamped the Call Me Clover green hearts together in a shamrock shape. I just eyeballed it and they didn’t come out perfect meeting in the center but can you even tell? No, because I covered the center with a Gold Faceted Gem. These are sparkly and pretty. For a beginner stamper, a few of these kinds of embellishments are good to have on hand. They aren’t very expensive and serve (sometimes!) to cover up any little boo boo, stray ink, or smudge or at least direct the eye away from it! My little heart stamp is from the Meant To Be Cling Stamp Set. I told you hearts weren’t just for Valentine’s Day! The little stem is just hand cut from a scrap.

The shamrock is layered on a piece of Gold Foil, die cut from a scalloped Layering Circle Framelits Die. Lucky for me, I could fit it all on the front of the Tiny Treat Box! The greeting is from the must-have set, Itty Bitty Greetings. This set comes with 32 stamps and greetings to cover most any occasion. They are small which means they usually fit in the Classic Label Punch so they are easy to use. I cut a flagged end on the tag and stuck it under the shamrock with a little bit of glue.

After you put in your treat, green candy is good for St. Pat’s, tie a ribbon around the box to make sure the lid stays closed and mostly just to fancy it up a little bit more. This is the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon, a great all-purpose ribbon to have on hand. The gold edge makes it just a little bit fancy.

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are something inexpensive you can add to your order if you are trying to reach a $50 increment on your Sale-A-Bration order to earn a free product! Remember, with a $100 purchase you may choose either TWO $50 Sale-A-Bration items or ONE $100 Sale-A-Bration item. Spending $150 gets you the choices above plus another $50 choice PLUS Stampin’ Rewards (another 10% in merchandise!). And for big spenders (I mean, crafters), a $250 order gets you all the appropriate Sale-A-Bration choices plus Stampin’ Rewards, PLUS an EXTRA $25 in Stampin’ Rewards! That’s a lot of good stuff!

Make something like this St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box this weekend for a little St. Pat’s fun, maybe with your kids or grandkids!

St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Card

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St. Patricks Day Shamrock Card

St. Patrick’s Day is coming Sunday, March 17 so here is a fun St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock card you can make or get an idea from to make your own card. I imagine people will be celebrating St. Pat’s all weekend!

My husband went to an engineering college in Missouri and since St. Patrick was the patron saint of engineering, St. Pat’s weekend was quite the party weekend there – actually the whole week was I think! I guess I went to two of them when we were dating and he was still in college. I think I remember someone (some people?) being thrown into a vat of awful green stuff. We were reminded of some of this disgusting stuff that went on, all in the name of college and fraternity fun back then, when we went back for a reunion and new fraternity house last fall. One of the men was wearing his St. Pat’s jacket from when he was on the St. Pat’s board during college. Apparently it was quite the honor to own that jacket, although technically it must be a biohazard from the tales he told of what was done to that jacket before it was given to him, with the admonition never to clean it! So even though we are not Irish, St. Patrick’s Day holds those college memories for us. I think I have a green garter from the occasion and probably a green sweatshirt or t-shirt or other souvenirs.

If you are Irish or know someone you want to give a card or St. Patrick’s Day treat to, here is a fun card to make. If you don’t have a shamrock stamp, just find some little hearts and stamp those together to make a shamrock! Or punch out some hearts, big or little. Add a touch of gold and a greeting and you’ve got it!

My card uses Call Me Clover Cardstock (pretty appropriate for St. Pat’s, don’t you think?) for the card base with a Whisper White layer. I put a strip of green patterned designer paper along the side. The paper on the other side has alligators from the Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper. I just wanted some strip of green paper so look for whatever you have, but I can say the Animal Expedition Paper is super cute!

Next, I stamped the shamrocks from the Amazing Life Photopolymer Stamp Set. I could have just stamped them in Call Me Clover Ink, but I stamped them in Memento black ink and colored them with my Call My Clover Stampin’ Blends Markers.

The greeting is from the same stamp set. I stamped that in Memento Ink also and colored in the letters with my marker, even adding some stripes and dots for fun. I had a scrap of Gold Foil so I die cut that to fit to add a touch of gold. Of course, I had to add a bit more bling and gold, so I added a few gold Metallic Pearls on the front of the card.

If you are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday or this weekend, make a little something green with whatever you have in your stash! You might be surprised when you look through your stamp sets to find a shamrock or St. Pat’s greeting or balloons you can color green or any number of things. Try something today!

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It’s Pi Day! Celebrate With the Frog!

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Pi Day Frog Card

Today is Pi Day and I thought this frog looked much like a professor, or at least math nerd, teaching about Pi.

This is what you need to know about Pi, on this Pi Day:

It’s about circles! The distance around the circle is the circumference.

The distance across the circle through the center is the diameter.

The ratio of the circumference to the diameter for all circles is pi.

Pi is an infinite decimal. It never stops and never repeats.

I’m sure I knew about Pi once upon a time ago, like in high school math class, but that’s as far as it goes…except that when my youngest son was in high school taking calculus, he memorized pi out to 500 digits in his Calculus class! He had a great teacher and this was something the teacher did every year. My son held the record for at least several years, but then he heard someone else broke it! He got a Pi t-shirt, too! He had some system for memorizing that many numbers. I still can’t imagine how he did it! I think the teacher’s young little daughter was there that day and was quite impressed. Maybe she asked for his autograph or something, I don’t remember. He was probably more amused by that than that he knew 500 numbers of pi!

In case you want to get started for next year so you can show off to your friends, here is a website, Pi Trainer, that will help you!

Anyway, I thought this frog from So Hoppy Together looked like a professor or really smart guy who could teach about Pi! The card base is Old Olive with a layer of Basic Black. I stamped the frog and colored him with Stampin’ Blends markers, one of my favorite things to do!

To stamp pi, I happened to think of the Make a Difference Stamp Set which has individual letters, numbers, and a few phrases in it. I managed to get the numbers lined up pretty straight on a block and stamped. I had to go back and put in the extra “1”. I thought it worked out pretty well.

Then I noticed that one of the sentiments in the So Hoppy Together Stamp Set was “You Can Do Anything” and I thought how appropriate for this card! I stamped the words, die cut with an oval framelit die and layered it on a scalloped oval die. Couldn’t resist adding some “bling” with the two Glitter Enamel Dots.

My son is coming home this weekend so I will give him this card so he knows we were still remembering and celebrating one of his favorite moments of high school.

You can celebrate Pi Day by stamping some circles or smart-looking frogs or maybe even baking a real PIE! Or make a Pi card like this one and send it to one of your math friends!

Be sure to shop Stampin’ Up! this weekend coming up. More and more products are selling out, both from Sale-A-Bration and also the Occasions Catalog. The longer you wait, the higher the chance you can’t get something you wanted. The Cupcake Framelits and the Bunny Builder Punch are two of the most recent casualties, not to mention a problem with the die manufacturer possibly creating a quick retirement of certain dies. The good thing is Stampin’ Up! knows how to choose products that are popular with everyone, but sometimes it makes for supply problems. If you have any specific questions about what’s available and what’s not, just ask.

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Fable Friends Happy Spring Card With a Bunny

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Fable Friends Happy Spring Card With a Bunny

Spring is really coming, in just one week, so here is my Fable Friends Happy Spring Card With a Bunny looking forward to that! I just got the Fable Friends Stamp Set and couldn’t wait to play with it! It is perfect for Easter cards and projects and with the “Happy Spring” sentiment, we can use it to celebrate spring! There is also a baby greeting and one for a friend. Such a cute set!

The card is made with Calypso Coral Cardstock and a piece of paper from the Happiness Blooms Designer Paper. Even though this paper has a lot of bold patterns, there are more generic, simpler ones like this one with dots. The strip of designer paper is ultimately layered on the side of the Whisper White layer which has first been stamped with the “Happy Spring” greeting randomly on the paper in Calyso Coral ink.

The bunny is stamped with Memento Ink on Whisper White and then colored with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I love coloring with these markers! Have I ever said that before?? Then I cut out the bunny with the new Rectangle Framelits Dies plus the Calypso Coral layer underneath. And before adhering all this to the card base, I attached some Whisper White 1/8″ Sheer Ribbon around the layer.

If you purchase this stamp set and a few other products to reach $50, then you can earn a free Sale-A-Bration item! You will be able to use this stamp set now for spring and/or Easter, for a baby card, to send to a friend or lots of other occasions. Then there are the cute projects you could also make besides cards. Go check out this stamp set in the Online Store so you can make something like my Fable Friends Happy Spring Card With a Bunny.

Quick and Easy Petal Promenade Floral Birthday Card

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Quick and Easy Petal Promenade Floral Birthday Card

If you want a quick card to make, this Quick and Easy Petal Promenade Floral Birthday Card might be one you would like to make to give someone! It’s just designer paper, card stock, ribbon and a stamped greeting.

This beautiful Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper is one of the free items available during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. Remember, Sale-A-Bration comes to a screeching halt on March 31. Be sure to use the specific Sale-A-Bration product number for any of the Annual Catalog choices that were recently added to Sale-A-Bration.

This paper was designed by purchasing REAL flowers, bringing them into the Stampin’ Up! home office, photographing the flowers and then doing some photoshopping (like to omit little spiders on the flowers!) to design the actual sheets of paper. I always love finding out behind-the-scenes stories! And I have to say the paper is beautiful for making cards and other projects.

My card starts with a card base of Whisper White Card Stock with a layer of the same. The designer paper is cut 3 1/12″ x 4″ with a layer underneath of Petal Pink Card Stock. You could even make the designer paper piece a bit smaller. Before adhering, I tied the Whisper White 1/8″ Sheer Ribbon around the designer paper. The greeting is stamped from the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set, a beautiful set for the images AND the sayings that come with it. There’s almost no way to make an easier card than this!

And while we are on the subject of flowers, I took these photos of our azaleas at our house in full bloom! They are amazing in person! I thought I better get some photos before a storm or heavy rain comes through! The deep pink azalea bush on the corner of the house by the crepe myrtle tree is just HUGE! The blossoms are gorgeous!

Pink Azalea Bushes
Dark Pink Azalea Bush
Dark Pink Azalea Closeup Flowers
Pink Azaleas Closeup

Spring is right around the corner and so is the end of Sale-A-Bration! The frog framelits and the cupcake framelits have sold out so get in the store and make sure you get what you want before the end of Sale-A-Bration!


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Share What You Love Tufted Card For a Friend

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Share What You Love Tufted Card For a Friend

This Share What You Love Tufted Card For a Friend is one that I saw somewhere online and loved the look of it, especially the tufted background. I changed a few details of the card and you could change it up even more. Mostly I love the sentiment! What a great card to send to a friend with that stamp!

The card base is Mint Macaron, of course you could use any color that coordinates with the designer paper. Or you could use one color for the card and another color for the layer.

The tufted background is embossed with the Tufted Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. This is one of the “heavy-duty” embossing folders that makes such good impressions on the cardstock. It is suggested that you spritz the cardstock with a little water before you run it through the Big Shot. I have a small spray bottle that I have water in and keep by my Big Shot and then I just very lightly spritz the paper. Don’t go overboard with the water! Just a light spritz will make enough of a difference!

For the focal point of the card, I used a piece of the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper. This whole package of paper has been one of my favorites! Instead of paper, I took a piece of the Petal Pink/Whisper White 5/8″ Variegated Ribbon and draped it over the top of the designer paper and clipped the bottom of it in the v-shape like a banner.

After stamping the sentiment and a few flowers from the Love What You Do Stamp Set I die-cut that with a large Stitched Shapes Framelits Die and layered on a larger scalloped circle die. Next, I punched out some vellum pieces from the Leaf Punch, adhered those to the back of the greeting and then adhered that to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals. For one more finishing touch, I added a small bow to the side with the Whisper White 1/8″ Sheer Ribbon. You could a few Rhinestones or Sequins if you liked.

Don’t forget to go back in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog and look up some things you might not have looked at for awhile! The Tufted Embossing Folder really adds a nice background to your cards and the Share What You Love Designer Paper is very pretty as well!

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