On Memorial Day we honor those men and women in the service who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country. In the midst of our picnics and barbecues and shopping this weekend, we all need to consider the real reason for this holiday.
Now that Kim and Kanye have gotten married, I thought I should make them a wedding card with bling! This card probably doesn’t have enough bling for Kim Kardashian, but it will do for a start! She can always add more diamonds and jewels to it later! Can you even imagine the opulence of their wedding?
Most of us will never attend a wedding like Kim and Kanye’s, but when your friends or family members get married, I’m sure you want to give them a special handmade wedding card to send your good wishes. This one is made with a card base of Very Vanilla and the Modern Medley Designer Series Paper (it’s discounted on the Retired List right now!) The wedding cake was made with pieces of Very Vanilla card stock embossed with a variety of Stampin’ Up! Embossing Folders, some of which are retiring. I then added some Rhinestone Jewels and Pearls, some Flower Trim (retired) and a greeting from the stamp set Love and Laughter as well as some Silver 1/8″ Ribbon. I love how these little accessories can add so much to a card!
Whether or not you are sending Kim Kardashian and Kanye West a wedding card or gift, we all know someone getting married from time to time. If you need stamping supplies to make wedding cards, or perhaps cards for other special occasions, please visit my Stampin’ Up! Online Store. You’ll find everything you need! Be sure to check the Weekly Deals and the Retired List, plus the Clearance Rack and see if you can find any good deals!
Get the June Paper Pumpkin Kit for Half-Price if you sign up TODAY! Use the Promo Code: SHELLIDEAL.
What: 50% off June’s kit
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Sympathy cards are a fact of life and we all need to send them eventually. This card is rather monochromatic with Wisteria Wonder card stock and Wisteria Wonder stamped flowers from the Flower Shop Stamp Set. The Wisteria Wonder background is embossed with the Fancy Fan Embossing Folder. The Whisper White strip across the bottom of the card is embossed with the Delicate Designs Embossing Folder. My favorite ribbon is across the front, the Whisper White 5/8″ Organza Ribbon. It is not tied in a bow – a strip of ribbon is placed across the front and adhere to the back of the card layer and then a separate bow is tied and adhered to the top of the ribbon with a few Mini Glue Dots.
The Flower Shop flowers are stamped with Wisteria Wonder ink on Whisper White card stock and then punched out with the coordinating Pansy Punch. In fact, you can purchase a Bundle of the Flower Shop stamp set, in wood-mount or clear-mount Bundle and the Pansy Punch and save 15%. But you have to do it while the bundle is still available because the Bundle is on the retirement list. However, the stamp set and punch are both available separately in the new catalog. Yeah!
The sympathy greeting is from one of my favorite stamp sets, Teeny Tiny Wishes. You can find almost any greeting you need in this stamp set, and then you can easily punch it out with the Word Window Punch or others. I recommend getting the wood-mount in this stamp set because all of the greetings are rather small and I think easier to handle in the wood. There is a similar new set in the new catalog and that will definitely be on my list!
I love the Flower Shop flowers and the Pansy Punch. You can make lots of pretty cards with this stamp set.
If you are interested in this Flower Shop Bundle, be sure to order it in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store before June 4th.
Get excited! Stampin’ Up! is currently offering a 25%-50% discount on many of the retiring products, not including those products that are no longer available. This sale runs until June 4th, the last day any retired items are available after the new catalog goes live on June 2nd.
Not every item is on sale, but you can probably find a few things you like! Don’t hesitate about ordering if you find something you want lest it sell out. For easiest viewing, be sure to click the drop down arrow and choose “SHOW: ALL” so that you can see everything on one page. Check the red sale prices on select items. Just click on the red SALE tag below to go to the Retired Product Page!
Don’t miss this!! Stampin’ Up! is offering a special deal on Paper Pumpkin, the monthly papercrafting kit that comes in your mailbox – tomorrow, May 22 and Friday, May 23 ONLY!
Go to my Paper Pumpkin site by clicking HERE.
Click the “JOIN” button in the upper right corner.
In the Promo Code box, enter this code to get your discount: SHELLIDEAL You will see that you are given the discount in the price above.
Continue on filling in your shipping and billing information.
Have any questions or problems, let me know OR call the friendly agents at 1-800-STAMPUP.
You must sign up by this Friday AND this offer is good for the June kit only, which will ship around the middle of June. You will not be billed until the kit is ready to be shipped.
This is a GREAT way to try out Paper Pumpkin, especially since it has continued to improve since it was created. You can continue to receive Paper Pumpkin in your mailbox every month at the regular price of $19.95 or you can cancel before the 10th of the next month or even just “pause” your subscription. Just ask if you have any questions! AND the price includes shipping!!
Watch these videos to see what previous Paper Pumpkin kits were like! It’s a surprise every month and varied projects so you just have to wait until your kit arrives to see what it is!
APRIL 2014 PAPER PUMPKIN KIT
MARCH 2014 PAPER PUMPKIN KIT
FEBRUARY 2014 PAPER PUMPKIN KIT
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Here’s another card we made at my stamp camp on Sunday with the Petite Petals Punch and the new In Colors 2014-16. It was a last minute creation and my mojo wasn’t working. But then – in the end it came together and I think everyone liked the card! It’s just a simple Whisper White card base with the top wrapped in Gold Baker’s Twine three times and tied. The flowers are punched with the Petite Petals Punch in all the new In Colors: Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Tangelo Twist, and Blackberry Bliss. The center of the flower is Crumb Cake punched with the new Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, a set of three small punches of the flower, a star and a heart! And for an embellishment I used some Candy Dots in the center of each flower. LOVE THOSE CANDY DOTS!!!
Here’s a flower tip: To make little punched flowers like this look a little 3D, poke them in the center with something like the Paper Piercing Tool or a Bone Folder or a pencil eraser or whatever you have. It will make the petals stand up just a bit.
The little greeting “hello” is stamped in the beautiful new ink color Blackberry Bliss with the stamp set A Dozen Thoughts. We all found we loved the new Blackberry Bliss ink! The color is beautiful!
I know May has sped by, but it still seems like the debut of the new catalog is eons away on June 2nd. But it will get here! If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator that you work with and are interested in Stampin’ Up! products, please email me and I can send you the new catalog that is coming soon! It will be available online starting June 2 at Noon MT, but most people like having the hard copy in their hands! I know I do! Just email me at Karen@KarenStamps.com if you have an interest.
Be sure to also look on page 2 when you check out the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deal this week! Lots of ribbon available this week plus two Digital Downloads for My Digital Studio. Stop and think about how you can use the ribbon other than for making cards or scrapbook pages. Use it for gift wrap or give a collection of ribbon, maybe tape, scissors, and some plain wrapping paper as the gift itself to someone who could use a started gift wrapping set! We can all use ribbon from time to time. We used to tie ribbon in our hair when we were girls! Maybe you bake a plate of cookies or special bread for a friend now and then. Tie some ribbon around it and make it special!
The Burlap ribbon is really on trend now and is fun to use. Use it as is or even pull it apart and use a bunch of the individual threads for a new decorative look.
The deals will be available May 20 – 26, 2014. Don’t delay! And don’t forget about the Retired List of stamp sets and Retired List of Accessories! The end of the Stampin’ Up! catalog is coming soon!
Have fun checking out all the current products at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store!
This Flower Shop Pop Up Box Card was one of the projects we made yesterday at my Stamp Camp with some stamping friends. It’s actually easy to make once you know how and can be varied in size if you want it smaller or larger. This size is made with half a sheet of card stock and will fit in a regular size envelope. It’s amazing that something that looks so 3D can be folded up to fit perfectly in an envelope! You can design a card like this for almost any occasion! Just change up the images, the greeting, the colors and you can make anything!
This is the pop up box card folded. I made a belly band to go around it just to hold it flat and decorate it.
If you are in the Houston or Sugarland area, sign up for my Mailing List in the upper right corner of my blog and you’ll find out when I am having a stamp camp. Stamping is not too hard for anyone, not even a beginner, so feel free to join in! If you prefer a free private beginner session to get the hang of it, just contact me at Karen@KarenStamps.com and we can arrange something.
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If you need some graduation announcements, this pocket card makes a nice one. I made a similar announcement for my son a few years ago that you can see in THIS POST. This uses a half sheet of card stock “the long way”, so 4 1/2″ x 11. Then it is folded in half and the little flap in front folded down. I made an insert with all the commencement information, printed on my computer. I used some retired product on this card, some new, and some using My Digital Studio as I didn’t have the exact stamp I needed.You can probably purchase a scrapbooking pack of paper and embellishments in the college bookstore if you want the official college colors. These pocket cards work great for other kinds of invitations, gift card holder, just cards in general.
The colleges and schools often offer a gigantic box of announcements and some families just aren’t going to send out 50 or whatever the quantity is. So sometimes it makes sense to just make a few of your own and personalize the occasion!
Last night I remembered a little too late that the University of Texas at Austin was having a live webcast of their all-school graduation ceremony. I was interested in hearing the speaker and seeing the fireworks at the end! We have attended three of these ceremonies and they were all very nice, but require parking where you can get out easily afterwards, arriving early to get a seat, sitting outside in some amount of heat, eating early so you don’t starve, and mostly sitting, sitting, sitting, and waiting. So I was glad we didn’t have to attend this ceremony this year, but I did catch the end of the webcast. Lots of happy faces in that crowd finalizing their college days and degrees! And I was just in time to see the fireworks over the UT Tower!
I actually got my flip album decorated yesterday that I first told you about in THIS POST and mailed off for a gift. You can see the way it folds from the photos on that blog post better there than here. I have to say I had so much fun decorating this flip album and coming up with ideas, but finally ran out of time and wanted to get it in the mail. I usually start out kind of slow, not many ideas of what to do, and then maybe I’ll look through all my stamp sets to see what words or images might be appropriate. I almost always look online for ideas, maybe by the stamp set name, paper name, or accessory name, or something like “paper flowers”. Out of all that, my brain will usually start coming up with its own ideas or I can just copy. The more you stamp and design, even in one day, the better you will get at it! In a little while, I had so many ideas and was having so much fun, I didn’t want to stop. I hope the recipient will like it, From the first time I saw one of these flip albums (that’s what I call it anyway) I thought it was one of the neatest things I’d ever seen!
The designer paper I used is Sweet Sorbet from Sale-A-Bration that isn’t available any more, but maybe you have some, or you can substitute something else. Mainly I chose the colors that went with the designer paper (you can see the list on the back of every designer paper package now). That makes it easy to coordinate everything without thinking! The “Oh Happy Day” is from Starburst Sayings. The Gold Foil is cut out with the Starburst Framelits Dies. Now the “Oh Happy Day actually stamps as a starburst but you can very carefully punch it out in a circle with the 2 1/2″ Circle Punch.
These pages are just inside the front cover. I used the On Film Framelits. The little camera is stamped with the Peachy Keen Stamp Set. The filmstrips are stamped with the single stamp, Filmstrip, which retired and I think is no longer available.
I stamped the smaller image in So Very Grateful with ink the same color as the cardstock Crisp Canteloupe.
Just use whatever strikes your fancy! You can leave some pages plain so there will be room for photos and memorabilia. Also, be careful when adhering elements. Maybe just adhere the corners where no photo is going to go and then leave the other corner free so a photo can be slid underneath.
I hope you will try a flip album! It really is fun and easy to do after you do the first one!
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This flip album is something I haven’t made in several years, but I’ve always thought it was one of the neatest ideas ever! This one is going to be a gift, hopefully. It’s not even that hard to make, although it appears to be very complicated. I think these albums are so much fun! I’m not sure what the official name of it is, but I think I’ve always known it as a Flip Album and there are other variations.
This flip album isn’t finished yet, but it is the basic layout. Now I need to go through and add some embellishments of some kind. But since the pages are relatively small, I don’t want to add too much and not leave room for photos. I will post pictures when I finish it up. The paper I used is the beautiful paper from Sale-A-Bration 2014 called Sweet Sorbet. I chose that based on my paper supplies and what I thought the person would like who I plan to give this album to. You do need some 12×12 paper in order to make this.
So now I need to go finish up my little flip album and hopefully get it in the mail today!
Why don’t you take an old idea and make something new with it today?!
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Today is National Chocolate Chip Day! Could there be a better holiday?! Have you ever just dug into a bag of chocolate chip morsels to get your chocolate fix? Think of all the chocolate chip cookies that have been baked and all the variations that exist!
And who would celebrate this day more than anyone but Cookie Monster! If you have baked some chocolate chip cookies as a gift for someone, you could put a few in this Stampin’ Up! Decorative WIndow Gift Box and decorate the box with a cute punch art Cookie Monster! He’s so fun and easy to make and you can vary the size or even make him into a card. For this box, I punched his face with the 2 3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch. His mouth is die-cut with a 2″ Circle Framelit and then part cut off to look like a mouth. His eyes are punched with the 1/2″ Circle Punch and the circle in the Itty BItty Punch Pack. The all important cookie is punched with the 1″ Circle Punch and the eaten part punched out with the 7/8″ Scallop Punch. I just colored in the chocolate chips with the Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker rather than deal with glueing tiny dots! You can use Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up certain parts or the whole Cookie Monster face.
And now I think I will go bake some chocolate chip cookies to put inside that box!
Need some punches for your collection? Just shop at my Online Store!
I was late in opening my April Paper Pumpkin Kit and missed out on using the “Happy Mother’s Day” stamp that was inside! But what a cute project!! And tons of materials included, extras, in fact! It was supposed to be wrapped in a wrapper that came in the kit, but since I am keeping it for myself at least so far, I will use the wrapper for some other project. I LOVE this cute little frame that came in the kit. It had a piece of glass, like most picture frames, but I took it out so the paper design can be 3D with the popped up heart and the clear button. The photopolymer stamps that came in the kit stamped great to make the background design.
To start receiving your Paper Pumpkin papercrafting kits in the mail each month, just sign up HERE on my Paper Pumpkin site. It’s just $19.95 a month which includes the $5 shipping. You do pay tax.
And if you prefer, you can purchase a Paper Pumpkin prepaid subscription which can count towards your order, if you are putting one in, or counts toward Hostess Benefits if you are at a workshop. However you decide to go about Paper Pumpkin, you should try it out and see how much fun it is! Each kit only takes a few minutes, probably less than half an hour, to make, which gives you just a little bit of relaxation time for a creative adventure! You deserve at least that much! And for a beginner, you don’t need a whole roomful of supplies, just some adhesive – and in this kit I didn’t even need to provide my own! It came with small little foam dimensionals and glue dots. But if you DO have a roomful of supplies, you might enjoy the treat you get in the mail and just taking the box, sitting down at the table and having a craft experience – without digging through all your craft supplies to find what you need. Just sit down with the cute Paper Pumpkin box and start creating! Change it up if you want, it’s yours, or follow the instructions exactly!
Check out Paper Pumpkin and see if you want to have some creative fun at least once a month! You can always cancel or pause your monthly subscription or restart it later on.
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Here are the new Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals for the week of May 13 – 19, 2014. Remember, these deals are only available through Monday night next week.
One thing I would recommend would be purchasing the Project Life Corner Punch rather than the one on sale this week. The rounding is slightly different and I think you should have the latest thing that might work best for you. The Project Life cards come with square corners that you CAN round if you want to – or leave as is!
You might LIKE to get the Retro Fresh Designer Journaling Tags because you can use those with Project Life or just to add to cards or other projects! Of course you also can see designer paper on the deals plus Big Shot dies and an embossing folder!?!
Just announced this morning, but probably won’t last long! Stampin’ Up! has a LIMITED QUANTITY of 2012-14 In Color card stock available only while supplies last, which I bet won’t be long! If you want some, GET IT right away! Just go to my Online Store HERE.
Only two weeks left to buy Stampin’ Up! retired products! Don’t wait much longer!
