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Valentine’s Day Party Pandas Mini Treat Bag

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Valentine's Day Party Pandas Mini Treat Bag

How about a cute Valentine’s Day Mini Treat Bag stamped with one of the Party Pandas? This mini treat bag is big enough to hold a few pieces of candy inside, a gift card, a small gift or just a note! You can make it for Valentine’s Day, but really it could be used for lots of occasions!  And one of the best parts is that you can get the Party Pandas Stamp Set FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase of Stampin’ Up! products!

It’s so easy to make a treat bag with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies.  These dies have always been one of my favorites!  I also like the other pieces that come in the collection besides the two pieces that make up the treat bag.

Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies

For the Party Pandas treat bag, I made the treat bag with a paper in the Whole Lot of Lovely Designer Series Paper.  I figured the pink dots could be used for Valentine’s Day but also for other occasions.  I did trim off the top edge of the bag since I was going to tie the bag shut with the Powder Pink 3/8″ Shimmer Ribbon.

The Panda is stamped with the Party Pandas Stamp Set available during Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration!  You can’t buy this stamp set, you have to earn it! You earn it with a $50 purchase, which is easy to do, and then you choose a special Sale-A-Bration product for your FREE product!  I think the pandas are probably one of the most popular Sale-A-Bration sets this year! The panda is just stamped in black ink.  (I used Memento Black.)  Just color in the little heart on the envelope with a pink marker.  I stamped just the word “Love” from the stamp in the set and inked it up with the Melon Mambo Marker.  I got lucky and stamped it in just the right place!

Next I die cut the panda with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and layered on a piece of the Iridescent Myths & Magic Glimmer Paper in the Occasions Catalog. This glimmer paper was also die cut with the larger square in the Stitched Shapes Dies.  The paper almost seemed to take on a little bit of the pink from the paper and the ribbon!

Here is another Mini Treat Bag I made last summer with the Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper.  I put a card inside the bag for the birthday card.  There are so many ways you can use these treat bags!

If you need a little Valentine Treat Bag, you can make one yourself with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies out of any paper you choose. Best of all, with a $50 purchase, you can choose the Party Pandas Stamp Set for your free Sale-A-Bration item and make all kinds of cute cards and projects with the pandas.

If you like this project and want to share it with your friends, you can click one of the social media buttons right below this post! Or leave me a comment!

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Easy to Stamp Valentine Card With Gold Vinyl Stickers

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Easy to Stamp Valentine Card With Gold Vinyl Stickers

Today I thought I would make a simple, easy to stamp valentine card using the Gold Vinyl Stickers! It’s time to start making some valentines as tomorrow is the first day of February! Making valentines is something that takes us back to our childhood – the decorated shoebox or lunch sack to put on our school desks, the handmade valentines with doilies and red construction paper, the bottle of white paste!  Wow!  Does that bring back memories??! Now we can be a little more sophisticated with our wonderful Stampin’ Up! cardstock, creative stamps, and beautiful embellishments!

This card starts with a base of Real Red Cardstock and a layer of Whisper White Cardstock stamped in Real Red Ink!  Basic red and white for Valentine’s Day with a touch of gold! I stamped the various hearts from the Heart Happiness Photopolymer Stamp Set. Just choose whichever ones you want and stamp away!

To add a little bit of pizzazz to this valentine, I used some of the Painted Love Gold Vinyl Stickers.  If you haven’t noticed these in the Occasions Catalog, it’s not your fault!  They are barely noticeable on the page. But now that you know they are there, go look on page 19 on the left edge of the page in the fold!  These are self-adhesive stickers in gold that coordinate with the stamp set Sure Do Love You.  However, they coordinate with lots of stamp sets and designs, so you can use them even without this stamp set.  The stickers are really good quality, not flimsy, and they DO stick….so make sure you know exactly where you want to put them because you aren’t likely to be able to move them once they stick on the paper! Don’t ask me how I know!

Since the stickers come on a clear sheet, you can hold the sheet over your project and see where you want to place a certain sticker and what it will look like.

How to Place Gold Vinyl Stickers

Here are the Painted Love Gold Vinyl Stickers on page 19 of the Occasions Catalog.  Be sure to check them out!  They aren’t just for Valentine’s Day either!  They will go with any pretty card or project!  You get two sheets, so you might want to order an extra package or two to have on hand!  You will want to use them!

Painted Love Gold Vinyl Stickers

If you need any of these products to stamp an easy Valentine Card with the gold vinyl stickers, please visit my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE!

 

Make a Valentine Treat Box With a Mini Pizza Box

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Valentine Treat Box with a Mini Pizza Box Embellished

Here’s an easy project for Valentine’s Day or any occasion –  Make a Valentine treat box with a Mini Pizza Box from Stampin’ Up!  Use a small box to decorate with paper and embellish to put a special treat inside!

Did you know you can still purchase the Mini Pizza Boxes that were in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog?  They are on the Carryover List of products that are still available at least until the next Annual Catalog comes out.  Then we will see which products continue on in the new catalog or if they are retired. Anyway, you will still find the Mini Pizza Boxes in my Online Store! You will find all the Carryover Products listed in the Online Store under Holiday Favorites.

The Mini Pizza Boxes come flat in the package so storage is not a problem.  Then just fold on all the scored lines and assemble the pizza box. Decorate however you like for whatever occasion! For this box, I chose to use the Painted With Love Specialty Designer Series Paper.  Even though one side of each sheet has gold foil accents, today I chose to use the side without the gold foil. Just cut a square slightly smaller than the top of the lid and individual strips to adhere on the sides of the pizza box.  You can make them the same or contrasting.

For the top of the box, I chose some hearts since we are close to Valentine’s Day, but hearts can be for anything! I used the Sweet & Sassy Framelits Dies to cut out the two hearts. If you look closely at these dies, you will see there are two styles of hearts – one sweet, and one sassy, I suppose! One shapes curves inward near the bottom and the other shape just has a straight edge to the bottom point. I don’t know which shape is sweet and which shape is sassy, but you can choose! Sometimes I don’t notice these subleties so in case you are like me, I thought I would point it out. Of course you can mix and match the shapes of the hearts however you like!

I also added two kinds of doilies. One is a small gold doily in the Metallic Foil Doilies package.  The other is part of a white doily in the Delicate White Doilies package.  Always good to have embellishments like these on hand for when your project needs a little something And for some extra little embellishments, I stuck on a few of the Glitter Enamel Dots.

At the last minute I added the word “Love” in Gold Foil because I thought the top of the box still needed “something”.  How did I get the word “Love”?  From the Lovely Words Thinlit Dies!  The die cuts out a heart and the word “Lovely”, so I just trimmed off all but the “love” part!  Very easy!  I think it adds just the right thing on this box. The other two words are “hugs” and “friend”.

Do you have some Mini Pizza Boxes that you can make into a Valentine Treat Box with embellishments and designer paper or cardstock?  If not, put them on your Stampin’ Up! order!Valentine Treat Box with a Mini Pizza Box Top Closeup

 

Make Your Own Easy Greeting Cards With the Mixed Medallions Card Kit

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Medallion Card Kit

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One of the choices you can make when you earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product with a $50 purchase from Stampin’ Up! is the Mixed Medallions Card Kit on page 6 of the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.  This kit makes 8 beautiful trifold cards and also comes with envelopes. The kit contains 4 cards each of 2 designs. Besides the cards and envelopes, the kit also has a sheet of die-cuts to use on the cards as well as adhesive dots.  So everything you need for 8 cards is right there in the package!

Whether you are an experienced cardmaker  or a new papercrafter or stamper, you can enjoy this kit……especially when it is FREE!  Just purchase $50 or more in Stampin’ Up! products and choose a free Sale-A-Bration product for every $50 you purchase. That’s the Sale-A-Bration promotion offered annually by Stampin’ Up!

Watch the Stampin’ Up! video below and see if the Mixed Medallions Card Kit would be one of your Sale-A-Bration choices!

As Holly says in the video, even if you are a cardmaker, sometimes we run out of time, and this card kit makes it easy to save time.  I would add, sometimes it is nice to have the design already thought up for you, so you can just get to the crafting!

This card kit reminds me of the Eastern Beauty Photopolymer Bundle that is available in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store. Here is a card I made with that Eastern Palace Suite of products.

If you need a Sale-a-Bration Brochure, email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com and I’ll get one out to you! If you would like to check it out online, see the Sale-A-Bration Brochure HERE. And you can see the free products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE.

When you go to choose your free Sale-A-Bration product, consider the Mixed Medallions Card Kit!

 

Get a Stampin’ Up! Card Kit: Past Paper Pumpkin What a Gem Kit 50% off!

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Past Paper Pumpkin Kit What a Gem 50% Off

You can get a Stampin’ Up! Card Kit, the Past Paper Pumpkin “What a Gem Kit” 50% off through Valentine’s Day!  This is a Paper Pumpkin Kit that was offered a year ago July, and Stampin’ Up! is now offering it at half price! If you are looking for a little kit to have on hand for unique little gifts, this might be it!  Think about Valentine’s Day coming up and how you could use these little gem boxes for a small gift (or cash!) or candy inside. Time to order!

Normally this kit sells for $17.00 in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store under “Paper Pumpkin/Past Kits”, but right now it is selling for $8.50. You must be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber to even see the Past Kits available, I believe, so here is the information about the What a Gem Kit and Refill.

The Kit contains supplies for 8 treat boxes and 12 mini cards.

Your kit includes:

• What a Gem Photopolymer Stamp Set

• Emerald Envy Classic Stampin’ Spot® ink

• 4 small gem boxes• 4 large gem boxes

• 12 mini cards (6 ea. in 2 sizes)

• 8 pieces of pink baker’s twine (8″ ea.)

• 8 pieces of green baker’s twine (8″ ea.)

• 4 spools of pink baker’s twine (96″ ea.)

• 4 spools of green baker’s twine (96″ ea.)

Past Paper Pumpkin Kit What a Gem 50% Off

This is an exclusive stamp set for Paper Pumpkin that you can use forever. And of course you can use any of the materials in the kit however you like! If you don’t care for the original project, there are many alternative ideas online that other stampers have come up with!

Now if you need more than 8 treat boxes, also order the What A Gem Kit Refill which has all the supplies from the kit but not the stamp set or ink spot.

Contains supplies for 8 treat boxes and 12 mini cards

Your kit includes:

• 4 small gem boxes
• 4 large gem boxes
• 12 mini cards (6 ea. in 2 sizes)
• 8 pieces of pink baker’s twine (8″ ea.)
• 8 pieces of green baker’s twine (8″ ea.)
• 4 spools of pink baker’s twine (96″ ea.)
• 4 spools of green baker’s twine (96″ ea.)

Now you do have to be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber in order to purchase Past Kits. But if you haven’t joined Paper Pumpkin yet, now is the time!  In my opinion, the kits just keep getting better and better!  And it is so much fun to look forward to that red Paper Pumpkin Box showing up in your mail once a month! Paper Pumpkin is a monthly subscription to an exclusive papercrafting kit from Stampin’ Up!  Each month is a surprise! Some people, I know, do not like surprises, but I think that is part of the fun! I think the majority of the kits are for making cards, but some are for other projects – could be treat holders, a home decor piece, a small album, a holiday item, etc.

You can subscribe on a monthly basis by signing up on my Paper Pumpkin website HERE! But another choice is to order a 3-month Prepaid Subscription in the normal Stampin’ Up! ordering process in my Online Store.  This is a great deal during Sale-A-Bration, going on now, because a 3-month Prepaid Subscription will earn you a FREE Sale-A-Bration product! (Just so you know, if you ONLY order a prepaid subscription, your FREE Sale-A-Bration product will be shipped to you separately like a regular Stampin’ Up! order so you will pay $6.95 minimum shipping on that item. Therefore, I would recommend ordering some extra Stampin’ Up! supplies that you can use along with the Prepaid Subscription so you get your money’s worth out of the shipping charge!)  There are also longer Prepaid Subscriptions available to earn even more Sale-A-Bration items!

Even if you are already a monthly subscriber, you can take advantage of the Sale-A-Bration offer, by just purchasing the prepaid subscription you would like.  Your subscription will automatically send out the prepaid kits monthly and then your normal monthly subscription will resume, you don’t have to do anything.

Everyone will receive an email from Stampin’ Up! to activate the prepaid subscription so watch for that and follow the instructions.  If you have any questions, let me know!

So get a Stampin’ Up! Card Kit, the Past Paper Pumpkin What a Gem Kit at 50% off, until Valentine’s Day, February 14th and/or the What a Gem Kit Refill.

Shop Paper Pumpkin HERE at Stampin’ Up! Online!

 

 

 

 

 

Make Your Own Custom Note Cards

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Custom Note Cards

Make your own easy custom note cards with the new Stampin’ Up! Narrow Note Cards & Envelopes.  We’ve always had the Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes, but these are new in the Occasions Catalog on page 19.  They are very easy to miss at the bottom of the page! But you will find that you can do so many things with these Narrow Note Cards!

All it takes is a little bit of designer paper layered on the note card or a little bit of stamping, and you will have a quick and easy note card to enclose inside a gift or hand to someone. Moms put them in their children’s lunch box for a little encouraging note for them to find. Stick a gift card or cash inside. Having a package or two on hand will save you a trip to the store for a card or gift enclosure on short notice!  You WILL want more than one package on hand because they are fun to make once you get your supplies ready to go!  Good way to use up small scraps of cardstock or especially designer paper! Add a greeting and a few small embellishments or ribbon.

The Narrow Note Cards I made above only took minutes. I just used different patterns of the Painted with Love Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper is so beautiful and artistic with its gold foil accents!

The top note card has a stamped greeting from the Labels to Love Stamp Set  punched out with a Circle Punch and layered on a piece of the Iridescent piece of paper in the Myths & Magic Glimmer Paper. I layered the circle pieces over a strip of Rich Razzleberry and added two light colored Glitter Enamel Dots.  Even though the greeting says “Love”, you wouldn’t have to only use it for a valentine, but if you wanted to, it could easily be for Valentine’s Day!

The bottom note card has another pattern of the Painted with Love Paper (love the little hearts!) and decorated with die cut hearts from the Sweet & Sassy Framelits Dies.  I also tied a little bit of Gold 1/8″ Ribbon around it, tying the bow first!

Get yourself a couple packages of these new Narrow Note Cards & Envelopes on your next order and then sit down and play with a package of designer paper and a few embellishments at hand.  After you make one or two you won’t want to stop!  By the way, they come with the cutest envelopes! Check out these birthday note cards I made recently HERE.  You will love making your own custom note cards!

 

Flourishing Phrases Sympathy Card

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Flourishing Phrases Sympathy Card

It’s always said when we need a sympathy card, but the Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set and the Flourish Thinlits Dies make it easy to come up with a sympathy card idea. Just choose whatever color you think would be appropriate.

In reality, a lot of the pretty cards we make can just have an appropriate greeting added to it, even just “Thinking of You”, and they can serve as a sympathy card.  The Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set does come with the stamp “With Sympathy”. This is a card like one I found on Pinterest that I liked.  It is a simple layout but pretty and not flashy in any way.

The card base is Blushing Bride Cardstock with a Shimmery White Cardstock layer.  Shimmery White paper is so beautiful and such a nice quality.  There is the faintest glimmer to it if the light is right, which I think makes it look like luxurious paper. I think that Flourish Thinlit Die with the flowers and stems is a beautiful die to use for lots of cards. To give the card a little more sparkle, I added some Rhinestone Jewels.

The Whisper White Medium Envelope is stamped with a matching stamp (you see it poking out from the side of the card!). These are the nicest envelopes! Once you are used to using them, if you receive one in the mail, you can pick it out immediately by feel!  No kidding!

Just by changing the greeting, this could also be a beautiful birthday card, Get Well, Thinking of You, Congratulations, any occasion almost!

If you purchased the Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set and the Flourish Thinlits Dies, you would be over $50 and would have earned a FREE Sale-A-Bration product from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! Check out the choices and add products to your order if you want even more free things!

Heart Happiness Thinking of You Card

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Heart Happiness Thinking of You Card

You will find the Heart Happiness Stamp Set in the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions Catalog, and what a fun stamp set to make a valentine or any occasion card like this Heart Happiness Thinking of You card!

At this time of year, with Valentine’s Day coming up soon, you might think this stamp set is great for Valentine’s Day……and it is!  But as you can see, hearts are wonderful for lots of occasions so this stamp set can be used year-round!  I could have chosen a birthday greeting or congratulations or other fun greetings to put on this card.

I use my Big Shot most days when I am stamping, but sometimes it feels good to “just stamp” on your card, like this one! Honestly I didn’t really know what I was going to make for this card, just got out the stamp set and started with this particular heart stamp. I thought I would make a line of these hearts across the middle of the card but this is what evolved!

And sometimes when you stamp, you just love the look of a particular stamp. That’s how I felt about this heart stamp when I used it. That IS the way it is supposed to stamp – not completely solid all the way across – it’s the trendy watercolor look.  I really like it.  And I really liked choosing several colors of ink pads from the Brights Family and rather randomly stamping on the Whisper White card layer.  It seemed to maybe need a bit more, so I added the tiny hearts that are also in the stamp set to fill in the empty space.  I looked for a greeting that was a decent size to stand out, and I found this one in the Window Shopping Stamp Set.

I think you could make your own beautiful designer paper pattern by stamping these large and small hearts on a larger piece of paper, even 12″ x 12″ of Whisper White and then cutting it down for cards or using for a scrapbook page or whatever project.

If you would like this Heart Happiness Stamp Set, you will find it in the Occasions Catalog HERE.  The greeting is from the Window Shopping Stamp Set.

If you would like a copy of the Stampin’ Up! Catalog and/or the Occasions Catalog plus ME for your Demonstrator, I would be happy to mail you the catalogs if you are interested in Stampin’ Up! products!  Keep in mind that through March 31 is Sale-A-Bration, the Stampin’ Up! promotion that gives you a FREE Sale-A-Bration product for every $50 you spend!  Who doesn’t love free stuff?!  Just email me at Karen@KarenStamps.com with your contact information and any questions you have or anything you are particularly interested in. I would love to help you.

SHOP STAMPIN’ UP! ONLINE HERE!

 

Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration is Going On!

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Sale-A-Bration is the biggest Stampin’ Up! promotion of the year!  The history of this promotion goes back to almost the beginning of Stampin’ Up! so it is something everyone looks forward to every year.  Watch the video and see some samples of the FREE products you can earn during Sale-A-Bration.

This is Sale-A-Bration:

For every $50 you spend, you will receive a free Sale-A-Bration product. For anyone who has enjoyed Sale-A-Bration in the past, there is an exciting new twist for this year: Sale-A-Bration now has a new reward level, giving you more flexibility and options for your free items.

Let’s break it down:

  • If you spend $50, you get one free level 1 product.
  • If you spend $100, you get one free level 2 product, OR, you can choose two level 1 items.
  • If you spend $150, you have the option to choose three level 1 items or one level 1 item and one level 2 item.  Not to mention earning Stampin’ Rewards for a $150 or more order!

This new option allows everyone to create a personalized Sale-A-Bration experience!

See the Sale-A-Bration Brochure HERE!  You choose your FREE product(s) from this brochure.

Sale-A-Bration 2018 Brochure

Sale-A-Bration Brochure PDF HERE.

See Sale-A-Bration products in Online Store HERE.

This is our chance to get “free stuff”! Let’s take advantage of it!  Join the Sale-A-Bration at Stampin’ Up!

 

Join Paper Pumpkin For a Papercrafting Gift

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Paper Pumpkin Sale-A-Bration

Paper Pumpkin is the papercrafting kit from Stampin’ Up! that comes to you monthly in the mail! Each month is a surprise, and while most months are cards, some months are another kind of project!  I love anticipating the arrival of my red Paper Pumpkin box in my mail! It’s a gift for yourself (or someone else) every month!

There are two ways to get Paper Pumpkin – You can subscribe monthly by signing up HERE.

OR – During Sale-A-Bration, if you purchase a Prepaid Paper Pumpkin Kit, just by putting it on your regular Stampin’ Up! order, you will also earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product!

  • Purchase a 3-month Prepaid Subscription #137859 for $59 and earn one free Sale-A-Bration item.
  • Purchase a 6-month Prepaid Subscription #137860 for $114 (which saves $1/month) and earn 2 free Level 1 items or 1 free Level 2 item since the order is over $100.
  • Purchase a 12-month Prepaid Subscription #137861 for $215 (which saves $2/month) and earn 4 free Sale-A-Bration Level 1 items or 2 free Level 2 items…or a combination!

Check out the past kits from 2017 to get an idea of what Paper Pumpkin is like! And every month, people post alternative ideas online that they made with their kit, so if you don’t like the project, or you need something else, or you just like to do something different you CAN! Plus once you are a subscriber, you can purchase any Past Kits online or refills that are available, if you see something you like that you missed.


Here’s something to consider:  If you ONLY order a prepaid Paper Pumpkin kit online and choose your free Sale-A-Bration item for every $50 you spend, you will pay the minimum shipping for that SAB item.  So as long as you are paying shipping, I would suggest ordering some other Stampin’ Up! products as well!

Just go to my Online Store and choose Paper Pumpkin in the left sidebar of categories. You can read about the choices and then select Prepaid Kits.  Just put in the order number for the subscription level you would like, as if you were ordering paper or stamps or anything else on your Customer order in your account.

Join Paper Pumpkin for yourself or a gift for someone special!  You deserve it!

Coloring Therapy With Petal Passion and Stampin’ Blends

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Coloring Therapy With Petal Passion

Coloring is said to be good for us, one of those things (like stamping) that takes our mind away from everything else for awhile as we get engrossed in the act of coloring. In the new Occasions Catalog, the Petal Passion Designer Series Paper really lends itself to coloring therapy with our Stampin’ Blends Markers!

The Petal Passion Designer Series Paper is designed with handpainted watercolor designs in black and white that can stand alone or easily lends itself to whatever coloring technique you would like to use on this paper. On this wintry night in Houston, I thought it would be fun to just sit and color for awhile on this paper. The Stampin’ Blends markers have their own unique way of “taking me away” with their smoothness and pretty colors.  Although each color comes with it’s own “Light” and “Dark”, don’t be afraid to use two different colors for coloring and blending rather than sticking with the one color.  Just play and experiment!

If I wanted to, I could color this whole sheet of paper OR I can choose a few flowers to color and then cut them out and use on a project. I know some people hate cutting out by hand, but I find using my Paper Snips to cut can be another relaxing activity while you are watching TV or even just sitting at your stamping desk (or kitchen table!).

Get a glimpse of all the Stampin’ Up! designer papers in the Occasions Catalog in this video.  The Petal Passion Paper begins at 19 seconds in!

Just remember, the designer papers always look WAY better in person than they do in the catalog picture. I think this video gives us a pretty good view of what the papers look like in person.

There is also a coordinating Petal Passion Memories & More Card Pack to go with the Petal Passion Suite. This card pack is on page 24 of the Occasions Catalog. These cards are perfect for memory keeping, but that’s not all!  You can also use them for making cards or gift tags or other projects.  Just pull one out and make something with it. There are also extras in the pack you might not expect like overlays, stickers, and other accents.

If you are snowed in or iced in like we are in Houston for the second day, coloring might be a good way to pass the time…..as well as stamping!  If you don’t have the Petal Passion Designer Paper, you can stamp any outline image with Memento Ink and color in. Try it! I think coloring is therapeutic, as they say, because it takes us back to our childhood and reminds us of that new box of crayons we all loved so much! Do some coloring today!

Petal Passion Pink and Black Card

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Petal Passion Pink and Black CardThe Petal Passion Suite of products in the Occasions Catalog is an interesting group of products.  The Petal Passion Designer Paper is pretty in its own right in black and white, but you can also do coloring with various mediums of the images or backgrounds.  There is also the matching stamp set, Petal Palette, with its artistic images that are ready for watercoloring if you like!

We are under a Winter Storm Warning here in Houston, Texas, which is highly unusual for our area (even if we did have some snow a month ago! Check out this blog post for my snow day photos at my house!), so these Petal Passions flowers really brighten things up!  The local news is on non-stop right now talking about road conditions and weather reports. People even went crazy at the grocery stores yesterday like they do in northern climates or here during hurricane season, buying all the bread and milk and standing in long lines!  It might be bad here today and maybe tomorrow but by Saturday we will be back up to 70 degrees!  All the schools and universities are closed, my husband even stayed home from work because once this moisture freezes later conditions will get worse. Right now it’s just raining at our house, but I went out to get the newspaper and the plastic wrap had ice on it and the mailbox is covered in ice.  I have to say, I love a good SNOW DAY when we are home and don’t have to go anywhere!  It’s a great day to stamp, although there will probably be plenty of distractions with the weather and a husband home!

My card base is the In Color Powder Pink. The layer is the Petal Passion Paper, which looks like I could have stamped it.  Then I die cut a piece of Whisper White with the largest framelit in the Lots of Labels Framelits Dies.  I stamped the group of flowers and leaves in the Petal Palette Stamp Set in Memento Ink so I could color in with my Stampin’ Blends markers. I could have used my regular Stampin’ Write Markers or my Watercolor Pencils or Aqua Painter and reinkers, etc. So many good choices for coloring!

After coloring in the flowers and leaves with various Stampin’ Blends markers, I colored in the background a little with the Light Pool Party color.  When you use these markers, just play!  You don’t have to stick with the pairs of colors, maybe use a pink and a light coral or a blue and a green and blend.  There are no rules!

For embellishments, I used a die cut from the Petals & More Thinlits Dies. Such a pretty little piece, maybe like a trellis, to use in so many ways.  The greeting comes from the stamp set, and I just hand cut the pointy ends. For fun I tried out the Tutti-frutti Adhesive-Backed Sequins!  How fun are these in bright, cute colors! And to make it easy, they already have adhesive on the back, like our Rhinestones or Pearls, so you just have to stick them down! No fooling with a dot of glue and getting the sequin in the right spot! And for a final touch I tied a bow with the Basic Black 3/8″ Shimmery Ribbon.

If my card looks a little bit familiar, it’s because I did “copy” a sample in the Occasions Catalog on page 22. I changed several things, but got the inspiration from the beautiful sample in the catalog. These are designed by the Stampin’ Up! artists, so you can copy and feel like a real artist yourself! If you aren’t sure what to stamp, start with a sample in one of the catalogs and that will get your creative juices flowing.

There are even more coordinating products in this Petal Passion Suite!  Check it all out in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store in the Occasions Catalog!

 

 

Party Pandas Birthday Card With Balloons

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Party Pandas Birthday Card With Balloons

Celebrate a birthday with the Party Pandas! Make this fun and easy Party Pandas Birthday Card With Balloons to send to a child, an adult, a friend, a loved one, anyone! So many possibilities with this simple stamp set! And you can get it FREE!

Stampin’ Up! has their best promotion going on right now called Sale-A-Bration! All you have to do is spend $50 on any Stampin’ Up! products (which you know you are going to do anyway!) and then choose a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure!  Lots of choices, you are sure to find something fun that you like!  I’m guessing that this Party Pandas Stamp Set is going to be one of the most popular sets during Sale-A-Bration!  Everyone seems to love pandas!

To make this card, I stamped the panda and his balloon with Memento Black Ink. I colored in the stamped balloon with my Bermuda Bay Stampin’ Blends Markers. For a little extra interest, I punched two balloons with the Balloon Bouquet Punch. One is made with Gold Glimmer Paper and one from the Picture Perfect Party Paper.  Then I just drew in the balloon strings down to the panda’s hand.  For the background I stamped the little confetti stamp in the coordinating colors of the Picture Perfect Party Paper. I decided to make the “Happy Birthday” greeting a little pennant that the panda is holding by using a cut toothpick for the stick!

That’s all there is to this easy Party Pandas Birthday Card With Balloons. So fun to make!

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Painted With Love All-Occasion Card

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Painted With Love All-Occasion CardMy big order from the new Occasions Catalog came late last night so I finally have a multitude of new Stampin’ Up! products to play with!  This new Painted With Love Specialty Designer Series Paper is so beautiful in person and will make all kinds of fantastic cards and other projects. This Painted With Love All-Occasion Card can serve as a card for almost any occasion or a Valentine or birthday or anniversary or whatever you like.

The Heart Happiness Photopolymer Stamp Set is one that we will be able to use in many ways with all the hearts! I decided to stamp this flowery heart in Melon Mambo, one of the coordinating colors with the designer paper.  I die cut the flowery heart with one of the sizes in the Sweet & Sassy Framelits Dies and then cut a larger heart out of Gold Foil.

The card base is Melon Mambo and then the striped pattern is layered on the other pattern with a thin Gold Foil strip in between.  The heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I could have added a greeting or more embellishment, but I just kind of liked it “plain and simple” like this. Now I can use the card for whatever I choose when I need it or still leave it plain and write my own message on the inside. It’s a good idea when you make a card similar to this Painted With Love All-Occasion Card to just leave it plain without a greeting, and then when you need a card, just stamp a greeting and add to the card.

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