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Gingham Pansy Petals Birthday Card

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Gingham Pansy Petals Birthday Card

I got this Gingham Pansy Petals Birthday Card idea from a sample in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog, coming May 4. I changed it up a little bit as often happens even when you think you are going to copy a card exactly! I’ve been seeing so many pansies around the neighborhood recently and I think of this beautiful new Pansy Petals Suite coming soon!

I love this Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper, not only for the pansies, but for the designs on the non-floral sides, like this gingham pattern. The sample in the catalog uses this pattern of the tiny pansies all close together and then uses the opposite yellow side for a layer underneath. I chose this Fresh Freesia gingham pattern on another sheet and layered it on a card base of Fresh Freesia. Fresh Freesia is one of the incoming In Colors 2021-23 so be sure to look for those!

I left a wide margin, about 1/2″ of the gingham showing, which them always makes the top layer look very small. In reality, it all fits just fine. I added a piece of the Fresh Freesia 3/8″ Open Weave Ribbon around the pansy paper and tied a bow separately and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot.

The greeting is stamped with “Happy Birthday” in a pretty font in the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. I didn’t want too small of a die-cut but nothing too big and I think this one in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies is just right. These dies are in the current catalog and thankfully are carrying over to the new catalog! They’re very versatile.

I couldn’t resist adding some of the new In Color Jewels that are so pretty! Be sure you put a package or two of those on your first order! They are beautiful colors for a little embellishment.

The Pansy Petals Suite Collection comes with the Pansy Patch Bundle (stamp set and dies), the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper, plus the cute little Bumblebee Trinkets. If you like this Gingham Pansy Petals Birthday Card, I hope you will take a look at the Pansy Petals Suite because it will make pretty cards for you!

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Arrange a Wreath Best Wishes Card

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Arrange a Wreath Best Wishes Card

I just had to make this Arrange a Wreath Best Wishes Card before the Arrange a Wreath Stamp Set and matching dies retires on May 3rd. I don’t know what they are thinking letting this set go! Usually I die-cut the wreath, so this time I thought I would try some stamping!

The card base is Pool Party just because I love that color! Then a layer of Basic White, stamped with the wreath in the Arrange a Wreath Stamp Set in Granny Apple Green Ink.

Next, I stamped a bunch of flowers in different colors, like Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, and Highland Heather, plus some of the leaves in the stamp set. Then I die cut those stamped images with the Wreath Builder Dies (retired).

The cute little sign hanging on the wreath by a thin thread (!) is stamped in Crumb Cake Ink, with the sentiment stamped in Memento Ink. Then I just cut out the sign by hand with Paper Snips.

To assemble the wreath, I just adhered some of the flowers popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and some adhered flat with Stampin’ Seal, along with a few leaves. For some embellishment, I added some Gold Glitter Enamel Dots in the center of some of the flowers plus a little bow tied from the Whisper White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon.

Don’t miss out on this Arrange a Wreath Stamp Set if you like wreaths! Here is an Easter Card made with a die-cut wreath and Easter eggs. Be sure to shop the Last-Chance Products List in the Online Store for just one more week!

Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card

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It’s time to use some retiring products on this Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card! I think no matter the cardstock, designer paper, or accessories, we always hate to see something retire! But it must be done to make room for wonderful new products we will also love!

May 4th is the launch date for the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! It’s always an exciting time when a new catalog goes live! However, you won’t find this stamp set and punch in the new catalog.

This card base is Petal Pink Cardstock with a partial layer of a pattern in the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. This is a huge package of paper with different patterns of surfaces and textures. I chose the one that looks like some kind of white fabric.

The flowers are stamped with the Floral Essence Stamp Set and then punched out with the Perennial Flower Punch. The Floral Essence Stamp Set is reduced in price and the Perennial Flower Punch is more than 50% off! They are both on the Last Chance Products List. However, the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper is carrying over to the next catalog! It’s pretty rare for designer paper to continue on to the next catalog. I stamped six flowers so I could double them up to make three full flowers. They are stamped in Petal Pink Ink to match the cardstock.

Then I used the pretty Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon to cover where the designer paper ends. This ribbon is in the Spring Mini Catalog so it will be around until at least the end of June. Even though it is a different pink than the cardstock, it still looks good together. I tied the bow separately and adhered it with Glue Dots.

The greeting is from the Floral Essence Stamp Set and die-cut with one of the Stitched Rectangles Dies. It fits perfectly at the bottom of this card. To finish embellishing this card, I used Gold Glitter Enamel Dots on the flower centers.

This Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card is pretty easy to make and you can add lots of different greetings to it. Remember to purchase retiring products by May 3rd at Stampin’ Up!

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In Color Stripes Cards

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In Color Stripes Cards

We’ve all seen card designs like this one with strips of cardstock adhered to the front of a card in one way or another but this In Color Stripes Cards came about because of a math error. I was cutting strips of the new In Color cardstock to make bookmarks for my customers, as many Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators do, to showcase the new In Colors “in person” for them. Instead of thinking about how many bookmarks I could make out of one strip of cardstock, I cut the number of bookmarks I was making instead of thinking about that I was going to get about five bookmarks out of one strip of color. Anyway, I ended up with about 5x as many cut strips as I needed, so not only did I waste the brand new cardstock, but I wasted a lot of time and energy! But paper never really needs to be wasted! I sent a bunch to customers in their catalogs along with the bookmark or in their envelope of goodies. And I made these two cards!

The first card I made has a card base of Whisper White and I placed the strips of In Colors horizontally. In case you haven’t heard about the In Colors yet, these are the new trendy colors Stampin’ Up! chose for this year and next: Soft Succulent, Pale Papaya, Polished Pink, Evening Evergreen, and at the bottom, Fresh Freesia.

To decorate the card, I stamped the new flower in the Color & Contour Stamp Set, coming in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on May 4th. It is a two-step stamping flower. You can stamp the outline and then stamp the solid stamp to fill in. It’s a little tricky to line up and probably not meant to line up perfectly anyway. Or you can stamp the solid image first, possibly stamping off on scrap paper first if you want a lighter color, and then stamp the outline image over it. And to make life easier, there are the Scalloped Contours Dies to die cut this flower. You can purchase both the stamp set and the dies in the Color & Contour Bundle and save 10% when the new catalog comes out.

The flowers I stamped are Pale Papaya, Fresh Freesia, and Polished Pink with a center stamped with Daffodil Delight. I intended to scatter them a little but ended up just making a straight line. That left room at the bottom to stamp the greeting from the Pansy Patch Stamp Set.

As long as I had everything out and plenty of strips, I made another card using Basic Black as the card base. I think these colors look good against the black! This time I made the card in portrait mode and left spaces in between the strips (wider than on the white card) so you could see the black in between the strips. This time I offset the die-cut flowers and did not add a greeting yet. I’ll think about what greeting I need later on when I send the card.

You can do that, too, when making cards. If you just want to make a stack of cards, just wait until you need one to add a greeting. You could also stamp an assortment of greetings on Basic White Cardstock and punch out or die-cut, then save them for adding to cards quickly and easily.

Even though I cut too many cardstock strips of the In Colors, it made me work with them and get to know them better! I almost have the names down without looking!

What do you think of the new In Colors? I have to say I wasn’t too thrilled with the colors that are going OUT, the 2019-21 In Colors – Rococo Rose, Terracotta Tile, etc. But I think I am liking these current In Colors and the ones that came out last year as well. In Colors stick around for two years so one group is always going out and a new group comes in. This keeps Stampin’ Up! up-to-date with the newest color trends without revamping ALL of our core colors.

If you want to check out the products that are still available in the retiring In Colors, click HERE or go to SHOP PRODUCTS, then SHOP BY COLOR and then choose the In Colors. The cardstock and ink pads are gone but you can get ribbons and markers if you want to have some embellishments to go with the colors you have already.

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Easy Pansy Petals Designer Paper Card

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Here’s an ideas for an Easy Pansy Petals Designer Paper Card, using the beautiful new paper coming in the next Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! You will love all the sheets of paper in the package, florals on one side and ginghams, stripes, and other designs on the other side! You can make a simple card because the paper is so pretty.

This card starts with a card base of Fresh Freesia Cardstock, one of the new In Colors in the catalog. It is lighter in person than in this photograph. This pansy print paper is in the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper. Some of the sheets have pansies and leaves that can be die-cut right from the paper. No stamping required!

Before adhering the designer paper to the card base, I tied some of the Fresh Freesia 3/8″ Open Weave Ribbon around the paper and then tied on a bow. I like this Open Weave Ribbon in all the new In Colors so much!! It is very pretty and elegant!

The greeting is in the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. I stamped it in Fresh Freesia Ink on Basic White Cardstock and die-cut it with one of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. In order to make a layer for the greeting without taking up more room on the card, hiding pansies, I die cut another one of these same shapes out of Fresh Freesia and then cut it in half horizontally so that I could have it layered under the greeting but showing a tiny bit at the top and bottom.

For a little bling, I added two of the Fresh Freesia In Color Jewels. These are so pretty! You will want a package or two of these to go with the new In Colors.

Here is the first card I made with this paper, using another one of the new In Colors, Evening Evergreen plus one of the little Bumblebee Trinkets!

All in all, this is an easy card. Just add the pretty Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper to the card base, add some ribbon, and a greeting! The new catalog and these new products go live on May 4th!

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Ornate Style Birthday Card

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Ornate Style Birthday Card

I think this card might be a little too bright for me even though I think I like Granny Apple Green Cardstock just fine! But today it looks very bright! But it certainly is an Ornate Style Birthday Card with all the colors, stamping, embossing, and diecutting! I just looked through the catalog to see what stamp sets I have that are retiring and which ones I want to showcase again before they are gone!

To make this card, I started by stamping the large bouquet in the Ornate Style Stamp Set, retiring May 3. I stamped it with Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. Just choose whatever colors you like for the flowers and leaves. Then I cut it out with Paper Snips, although I first took it to my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine thinking there was a die to cut out this bouquet! No such luck!

I did use the coordinating dies, the Ornate Layers Dies, to cut out the fancy frame to layer underneath the bouquet out of Calypso Coral Cardstock. If you want to save 10%, you can purchase the Ornate Style Stamp Set and Ornate Layers Dies together in the Ornate Style Bundle. The dies are not retiring. They will be in the new catalog!

Before I layered the cut out bouquet on the Calypso Coral die cut piece, I put some ribbon behind it winding back and forth. This ribbon now is on the Clearance Rack! It’s the All the Trimmings Combo Pack, the Old Olive ribbon with a gold edge. The bouquet is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To decorate the card front, I embossed it with the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder. This folder is so pretty with all the tiny flowers and leaves to provide a nice, textured background. This folder is being carried over to the new catalog so it will not be retiring like the stamp set.

For a greeting, I chose the “Birthday Wishes” from the retiring Itty Bitty Birthdays Stamp Set. I hate that all the “Itty Bitty” stamp sets are leaving us! I could always find a greeting to use for any occasion in one of the stamp sets. But rest assured, there are a lot of greeting stamps in the new catalog as well!

Here’s another card I made with the Ornate Style Stamp Set. I just stamped and colored in the bouquet and added some sequins for some bling!

Only about another two weeks to go until the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog goes live on May 4th! Enjoy your current stamp sets and be sure to show them some love before all you want to use are your new sets!

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Don’t Miss the Lovely You Bundle!

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Lovely You Bundle Photo

The separate pieces of this Lovely You Bundle are not retiring but don’t miss getting the Bundle and saving 10% while you can! I think this is one of those stamp sets that we kind of take for granted – nothing flashy about it but it has some good, basic stamps in it and lovely greetings that you can use in many ways. You can often do more with the smaller stamp images than the big dramatic ones. Of course we love them all!

Right now you can purchase the stamp set and coordinating punch for the greetings together in the Lovely You Bundle at a discount of 10%. From May 4th on you will be able to purchase the Lovely You Stamp Set and the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch separately in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog but they will have to be purchased separately at full price.

The greetings can be used on many cards in their lovely font and the small images can be used on simple card designs, stamped randomly as a background on a card (which I think is really fun to do!) or just added to fill in some space when you need just a little something. I have used the punch many times for greetings when I wanted not a plain edge but a little bit of a design. The punch can handle different widths of cardstock giving you a little variation.

Here’s a card I made almost a year ago. I love stamping a background like this! You can see even small images can be used in many ways!

Lovely You Floral Stamped Card For a Friend

Be sure to check your stash and see if you “need” the Lovely You Bundle before the Bundle itself retires on May 3. Might as well save 10% on the price of both the stamp set and the punch if you can!

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Forever Fern Hello Card

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I think that Forever Fern was the most popular stamp set in the current Stampin’ Up! Catalog and fortunately, it is carrying over to the next catalog coming out May 4th! The dies are also carrying over, but will be sold separately. Therefore, if you don’t have the stamp set and dies, be sure to purchase them by May 3rd so you can get the Forever Fern Bundle Price and save 10%!

Sadly, the beautiful Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper is retiring on May 3rd along with the Gold Hoops. I have loved this paper and hate to see it go, but most designer paper is only around for one season in the catalog. I haven’t even gotten enough use out of the Gold Hoops and hate to see them go, too!

To make this card, I began with a card base of Just Jade, one of the “new” In Colors from last year! We’ll have to stop calling those colors “new” as soon as we have the “really new” In Colors, coming in the next catalog! Out of all the pretty paper in the Forever Greenery package, I chose this striped pattern for my card. I stamped all these images from the Forever Fern Stamp Set on Basic White Cardstock and die-cut with the Forever Flourishing Dies.

To design the card, I placed the Gold Hoop where I thought I wanted it and placed the fern pieces around it. You kind of want to plan where you want to put your die-cut pieces, yet, then you usually have to move them to put adhesive on them so it gets messed up anyway! To adhere the Gold Hoop, I used Mini Glue Dots but placed them where I thought they would be covered by the die-cut pieces. Then I just placed the fern pieces where I thought they looked good and either used Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop them up or just Stampin’ Snail to adhere directly to the card.

For some extra embellishment and to hide the stems a little bit, I tied a bow with Just Jade Ribbon and adhered it to the card with a Mini Glue Dot. The greeting is in the stamp set and I stamped it in Just Jade Ink. Overall a pretty easy card and the colors in the designer paper give you lots of design options. And I’m not even a big fan of “green”!

You will still be able to find this stamp set and paper in the next catalog but if you want the Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper or Gold Hoops, you need to purchase those in the Last Chance Sale! Don’t forget to check the Clearance Rack too!

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A Little Christmas in April With the Tag Buffet Project Kit!

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Tag Buffet Christmas Gift Tags

How about a little Christmas in April using the Tag Buffet Kit?! While things are kind of quiet holiday-wise, think about getting this Christmas tag kit at a discount and make some tags for Christmas gifts ahead of time! I know I have had to go to the store at the last minute to buy more tags for Christmas gifts. Or you can even make these tags or parts of them and stick them on Christmas cards! Get a head start!

This Tag Buffet Project Kit is on the Stampin’ Up! Clearance Rack right now. The Tag Buffet Stamp Set is no longer available but you can use any stamp set that has Christmas greetings with these tags. There is no stamping involved except for the greeting, so really you could skip any stamping and just use the images. I really think this tag kit is beautiful and I enjoyed making my Christmas tags when the kit came out in the past Holiday Catalog 2020.

The kit comes in a cute holiday box. All you have to do is layer the kit contents to make the tag and thread the string through the top. Or use the pieces to make Christmas cards or any other project!

Also on the Clearance Rack are these little Jingle Bells! You can get these for only $3.00 and add them to your Christmas tags! Or add them to any other holiday packaging when the time comes! Order a bunch and make a jingle bracelet for the holidays!

If you want any more details, read my blog post when I made my Tag Buffet Project Kit HERE.

You will also find other Christmas ribbons and even the Plush Poinsettia Specialty Papers on the Clearance Rack right now! Be sure you check it out while you are shopping! I already have my extra Tag Buffet Project Kit! If you don’t use all the designed pieces on each tag, you can probably use some of your own supplies and expand the number of tags you can make! Last year I enclosed a tag in a few Christmas cards that I sent out just for a little surprise gift inside my card. Remember, anything can sell out at any moment, but since now the big rush of the first day is over, I think you have a moment to look around on the Clearance Rack, not to mention the Last Chance Products and pick up some bargains for your stash!

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Beauty of Friendship Trees Thinking of You Card

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Beauty of Friendship Trees Thinking of You Card

This is a sneak peek of one of the new stamp sets coming in the next Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog in May. I made it a simple card because I was really just experimenting with the stamps. I think this set has tremendous potential as we get ideas for stamping the different style trees with different colors of ink for many seasons, occasions, and different looks.

This is the new Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set that will come in a Suite called the Beauty of the Earth. It includes the stamp set of trees and greetings, a set of dies, beautiful watercolor-look designer paper with which to create trees and enhance our cards and projects, and an embossing folder.

For my card, I used two of the new In Colors, Evening Evergreen for the layer and Pale Papaya for the card base. The trees were stamped on Basic White Cardstock using Early Espresso Ink on one tree trunk and Soft Suede on the other two. Then I just chose the leaf stamps for the tree tops, stamping in Granny Apple Green since it is spring. On one I overstamped with a different tree top stamp in Pear Pizzazz. I think you will find the look of these stamps very interesting and fun to experiment with to see what looks you can get. And when fall comes and you want colored leaves, oh my! You will be able to use various techniques for all those fall colors!

The three trees looked a little barren just stamped there so I added some grass for them to be growing in. I simply used one of the tree tops to stamp little blobs of green ink along the bottom edge of the card. Being as they are irregular in shape, I thought this technique worked fine to represent grass without looking like tree tops.

To fill in the background a little to look like sky, I used my new Blending Brush and Balmy Blue Ink to very lightly and softly add some blue color to the background. I love the feel of the Blending Brush. Our Stamping Sponges are retiring so grab some of those if you like (at a little discount!) and/or pick up some of the Blending Brushes (which are currently unavailable until they are back in stock as I write this). These are washable so you can use them over and over again with different colors. After you purchase the first three you can see if you are going to use them so much that you want more to be able to use them without waiting for them to dry between washings. If you begin with lighter colors you may be able to go on with darker colors without washing in between.

The greeting is in the stamp set and actually would fit in one of the dies included in the Suite. I didn’t have my new dies for this set out yet so I just used one of the Rectangle Stitched Dies to cut out the greeting.

Here is a photo of the new style of stamp case you will see. The cover of the stamp set, which is slipped inside the plastic cover over the stamp case now has, on the inside, the images of the stamps printed on it. So when you open the stamp case, you will find the photopolymer stamps still encased in two pieces of plastic as we are used to now, but you will also see all the stamp images over on the right side of the case. Therefore, you can take the stamps off the plastic pieces (as you see on the left of my photo) and place them right over the images printed on the right (as you see I have done with some of the stamps).

Stamp Case Inside

Those of us who have been around Stampin’ Up! for more than a few years recall the love we have had for the Lovely As a Tree Stamp Set. See THIS CARD for an example. When it retired, we thought nothing could replace it. This Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set just might come close, maybe a little more dramatic with its designer paper, but I am guessing this will become a popular stamp set and Suite in the new catalog.

This Suite and its components will be available May 4th in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog so you will be able to play with the trees and stamping as I did on this Beauty of Friendship Trees Thinking of You Card.

Floral Essence Flower Card

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This Floral Essence Flower Card is one that I so enjoyed making on the spur of the moment with no plan! I had paged through the Stampin’ Up! catalog to refresh my memory on what stamp sets were retiring. When I came to this one, I thought maybe I owned it but I wasn’t sure! That’s likely a sign you haven’t used a stamp set very much! When I checked my stamp sets, sure enough, it was there along with the coordinating punch!

I stamped this card with the Floral Essence Stamp Set. I think it has been around since at least a year before this current year’s catalog. I feel like I must have seen someone’s stamped card that inspired me to buy the stamp set because I’m not sure that on its own I felt that inclined to buy it

As it turned out, as soon as I got it out, even though I didn’t have any idea for making a card, I just chose the largest flower and started stamping on Basic White. I did choose Melon Mambo for the card base because I like it, so I chose Melon Mambo Ink. I could have made different colors of flowers but I stuck with the Melon Mambo. I stamped the three flowers and stamped the flower centers in Daffodil Delight.

I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do next and the stamp with the stem and trio of leaves didn’t fit right to look like they were attached to the flowers. So just stamped them around the blank space in Granny Apple Green Ink, not attaching them to the flowers! Have some scrap paper underneath your cardstock so that you can stamp off the edge of your cardstock as I did so that you fill up the space better but don’t get ink all over your table!

The flowers still seemed to be floating in space without leaves, so I stamped the little leaf outline stamp around the flowers in Memento Ink. To color them in, I just used a Blender Pen to pick up the Granny Apple Green Ink. I should have really used Stazon ink if I was going to use our water-based ink but I colored carefully and lightly and it worked out fine.

For the greeting, I just chose one in the stamp set and simply stamped it right in the corner of the card! If I had messed up, I could have covered it up with a die-cut greeting, but thankfully it worked out fine!

There is something I can’t describe about the feeling of only doing stamping on a card, especially in a somewhat random pattern like I did on this Floral Essence card. The block and the stamp just feel good in my hand and every time I lift up the stamp and see the image I just stamped, it is almost magical! I do love all the dies and punches and embellishments, but I think the magic is in the actual stamping! It just feels good! Do some basic stamping and see if you agree with me!

While you are shopping in the next couple of weeks in the current catalog, don’t forget to check out the Clearance Rack. As of right now, there still are quite a few products left so you just might find a bargain you can’t live without! And of course, the Last Chance Sale is going on with the retiring stamps and other products. Some of those are real bargains, too!

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Pansy Petals Thank You Card

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I couldn’t delay showing you this card any longer! This Pansy Petals Thank You Card is a simple card made with one of the designer papers coming soon in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. I just wanted to make an easy card to showcase this beautiful designer paper. If you like pansies, this paper, and the whole Suite is for you!

The card base is one of the new In Colors, Evening Evergreen. It’s a very dark green, different than anything we’ve had before through the years. The card front layer is from the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper. Every paper is pretty in this package! At least one of the papers, you can use the coordinating dies to die-cut some of the printed pansies on the paper! The “other side” of the paper has gingham checks, dots, and stripes! Also, very pretty and easy to use for our cards and projects.

Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper other side

For the greeting on this card, I chose the “Thank You” in the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. It’s such a pretty font! This is stamped on Basic White Cardstock and then layered on a die-cut of Evening Evergreen Cardstock from the Scalloped Contours Dies. These are not the dies that coordinate with the Pansy Patch Stamp Set, but goes with a cute stamp set, Color & Contour.

For a little bling, I added some of the new 2021-2023 In Color Jewels in Pale Papaya scattered around on the card front. And for the finishing touch, I added a Bumblebee Trinket to the corner of the greeting! The bee trinket matches the little bees printed on the designer paper!

The new catalog begins May 4th, which will be here before we know it! In the meantime, check out the Last-Chance Product Sale and whatever is still available on the Clearance Rack, just refreshed yesterday!

Stampin’ Up! Clearance Rack Refresh TODAY!

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Clearance Rack

It’s a Clearance Rack Refresh today, April 13th!! Check out the sales and find some good stuff! While supplies last! The Early Bird gets the worm! Some things will go fast I’m sure!

(It may be starting at 1:00 am CT but I didn’t hear a time from Stampin’ Up! so……!)

When you finish with the Clearance Rack, check out the Last-Chance Products Sale, also! There are some good deals on retiring products also!

Be sure you are shopping with me, Karen Fontinelle!

Beautiful Friendship Happy to Know You Card

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Beautiful Friendship Happy to Know You Card

Crazy how I picked out the colors for this Beautiful Friendship Happy to Know You Card! I decided I would make a card with this stamp set but had no idea what colors I wanted to use. I thought maybe yellow flowers and grabbed the Daffodil Delight Cardstock and the Poppy Parade practically jumped out at me off the shelf! I wondered if the card would be too bright, but I don’t think it turned out to be! It’s a bright, happy card!

This Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set is on the retiring list for May 3. I think it’s one of those stamp sets that no one makes a big fuss over, yet it is so pretty with greetings in a beautiful font. Just a great stamp set to have on hand for making pretty cards! Here is a card I made with the stamp set last year after going on the annual Azalea Trail. That was when we were hearing a little about the virus and stocking up on toilet paper but had no idea what was headed our way.

As I said, I used Poppy Parade for the card base and a layer of Daffodil Delight to go with the yellow flowers. I essentially copied a sample card in the outgoing Stampin’ Up! catalog on page 115.

The large flowers are stamped in Daffodil Delight with some of the smaller accents stamped in Poppy Parade, Granny Apple Green, and Rich Razzleberry (because it was in the wrong slot on my ink pad stand!). I was choosing other Brights colors.

The greeting is stamped in Poppy Parade and die cut with this long die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals but ran a piece of 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon with its gold threads underneath. The card could use a few sequins or gems of some kind if you wanted to do that! Or you can keep it simple!

We only have about three weeks left of this Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! Keep checking the Last-Chance List in the Online Store so you can see what is still actually available. If it says “backordered” you can go ahead and order the item and Stampin’ Up! will ship it to you automatically as soon as they have it back in stock. Check the Clearance Rack tomorrow morning. I “think” there might be new items added but we’ll have to see!

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Good Morning Magnolia Soft Subtles Thinking of You Card

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The other day I had another blog post about the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set and that I was surprised it was retiring because the magnolia stamp is so striking and dramatic in its size and beauty as you can see on this card, Good Morning Magnolia Soft Subtles Thinking of You Card. You don’t really need much else when you have this beautiful magnolia on the front of a card!

The card base is Soft Sea Foam, a color I haven’t really used that much. It is a very soft, light green, and perfect for this card. The magnolia in the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set is stamped in Memento Ink and colored with the Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends Combo. I left some areas whitish on the petals so it wasn’t all colored in solid. The leaves are colored with Soft Sea Foam Stampin’ Blends with a tiny bit of yellow thrown in.

The greeting is stamped in Petal Pink and die cut with a die from the Ornate Frames Dies. For a little layer underneath, I cut another die from the same set, but since it is small, I cut it in half so an end could stick out from each side of the greeting. The stamped layer of the card, instead of just layering on a pink cardstock, is layered on a pinkish pattern in the Peony Garden Designer Series Paper. Actually, on this card I made recently, you can see the same designer paper that I used behind the Basic White stamped layer, used as a layer behind the die-cut magnolia.

For a little pizzazz and sparkle on my card, I used the Elegant Faceted Gems, three in the smallest size and two in the larger size. I think they add a little extra to a very pastel card.

The Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set and Magnolia Memory Dies are retiring on May 3. The Dies are SERIOUSLY reduced in price! They were originally $35.00 and are now discounted to $8.75!! If you already have the stamp set, it would be a good time to pick up the dies! They weren’t sold in a Bundle, just separately, so check that out!

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