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Freezin’ Fun Christmas Wishes

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Freezin' Fun Christmas Wishes

Here’s a cool and icy looking Christmas Card, perfect for the skiing bunny, called Freezin’ Fun Christmas Wishes. The little guys in this stamp set are so cute you can’t help but love them! This little bunny is having fun skiing down a pretty steep slope amid the snowflakes! If you are making several designs of Christmas cards, you might like this one for a fun, whimsical card to send someone special.

I had planned to use the Feels Like Frost 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. It was brought back from last year. I guess all the snowy, wintery photographic scenes on the paper were hits! As pretty as those scenic papers are, the other side with silver foil designs is also pretty and fun. It’s hard to use one side and miss out on the opposite side! For this card, the foil side won out, even though I had planned on the wintery scenes! You never know when you start creating!!

The card base is Balmy Blue with a layer of Whisper White to help the Feels Like Frost paper stand out a little. Cards with foil are always hard to photograph because of glare, but this paper is silver foil with white dots that look like snow.

I stamped the bunny from the Freezin’ Fun Stamp Set and cut him out easily with the Freezin’ Friends Dies. You can buy both the stamp set and the dies together in the Freezin’ Fun Bundle and save 10%.

The Balmy Blue oval is die cut with the Stitched Shapes Dies. In the Freezin’ Friends Dies is just a long curvy die with which I made the snowy slope. I die cut the slope just out of a scrap of Whisper White, then adhered it to the oval and trimmed off the excess with Paper Snips.

The bunny is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals skiing down the slope! Of course, I colored him with Stampin’ Blends first, which I love to do! After adhering the layers together to make the card and adhering the oval to the front, I added some Adhesive-Backed Snowflakes. Those were sure fun to stick on! You could also glue on Snowflake Sequins with teeny tiny drops of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Be sure to grab your Take Your Pick tool when you are handling these tiny pieces! It makes it a lot easier!

The greeting is stamped in Balmy Blue Ink from the Banner Year Stamp Set. I simply stamped it on a long scrap and then punched the ends with the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch. Not being able to leave something plain alone, I had to add a couple of Rhinestones to the ends!

Even with the die-cutting, this card is pretty easy to make, simple design! Check your stash and see if you bought this designer paper last year and if so, get it out and start making some cards with it. It doesn’t even have to be just for winter or Christmas with the foil designs! If you don’t own it, you can purchase it, but wait until October 1st! There’s a designer paper sale coming!!

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Witch’s Boots For Halloween!

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Witch's Boot For Halloween

Something fun to make for Halloween is a witch’s boot out of a toilet paper roll or a paper towel roll. You can use it for a decoration in your house or you can put candy treats inside the roll or into a narrow cello bag, tie with a ribbon at the top, and put it into the boot. These are actually easy to make – just wrap the paper around the tube and add a triangle cardstock piece at the bottom for the boot.

Since I had an empty paper towel roll, I decided to make a pair of boots this year! I cut the roll in half so I could have two boots. Then I chose the Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper to use for the stocking. Really you could use almost any of the papers in that package, especially if you wanted your witch to have some crazy stockings! But I chose this green ombre print paper pattern which definitely looked like Halloween. Just cut a piece of paper that will it the length of your roll and long enough to go all the way around the roll.

For the boot piece, cut a piece of Basic Black Cardstock to go around the bottom of the roll that just meets and then fold back the edges to look like the collar of the top of the boot. It will be just as tall as you want the boot to look, maybe about an inch high or so. For the base of the boot, just cut a triangle-shaped piece. The wide back end should be wide enough for the paper roll to fit on it. From there it tapers down to a point that you can roll back a little for the toe of the boot. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the very bottom of the paper towel roll to adhere to that triangle piece.

If you want a boot buckle, just cut a piece that will fit in the space and then cut a smaller piece of black to adhere to the center to make it look like a buckle, but you don’t have to cut out the center of the buckle. It’s a “faux buckle”! I used Gold Foil for the buckle, but you can get creative and use any color you like.

Just for fun I added three rows of lace to the top of the witch’s stocking using the Very Vanilla 3/8″ Scalloped Lace Trim. I just used Mini Glue Dots to hold the lace in the back.

Click HERE to see the witch’s boot I made last year in 2019 and HERE to see one from 2018. Here’s one from 2014! See how fun and easy they are to make!

Use your imagination when you get a toilet paper roll or paper towel roll that you can use and make up your own Witch’s Boot for Halloween!

Happy Halloween (a little early!)!

Join Stampin’ Up! and Get Extra Products FREE!

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You can join Stampin’ Up! as a Demonstrator and start your own business any time, but if you can get some extra free products when you join, why not join then? If you are interested now or think you might be in the near future, purchase the Stampin’ Up! Starter Kit now and take advantage of the special promotion going on for just a few more days in September! This special promotion is designed to give a new Demonstrator some extra products to help with your first event!

In addition to the regular Starter Kit (for $99 USD/$135 CAD, new recruits choose $125 USD/$165 CAD-worth of products) a new recruit will also receive enough cardstock pieces to make 16 cards, a pack of Rhinestone Basic Jewels, the So Much Love stamp set, and the Queen Anne’s Lace stamp set—all for their first event.

  • In addition to the regular starter kit (for $99 USD/$135 CAD, new recruits choose $125 USD/$165 CAD-worth of products) new recruit will also receive enough cardstock pieces to make 16 cards, a pack of Rhinestone Basic Jewels, the So Much Love stamp set, and the Queen Anne’s Lace stamp set—all for their first event.
  • 8 packs of precut cardstock of the Coastal Cabana pack will be provided, and 8 packs of precut cardstock of the Granny Apple Green pack, for a total of 16 cards (packs include envelopes). The new recruit can choose what samples to replicate and how to distribute the packs to their customers.
  • Important note: Ink, adhesive, cutting tool, and clear block for stamping must be purchased separately. However, these products may be included as part of the Starter Kit product selection.

Look on the Stampin’ Up! website to read about joining to get some information about being a Demonstrator! Then if you have any questions, just contact me! I suggest thinking about if you want someone local to you to be your Upline to help you perhaps in person. Check the Demonstrator Finder and see is someone near you is interested in having a new recruit. Otherwise, it is perfectly fine to sign up under any Demonstrator you choose who can help you via all the media we have these days – phone calls, email, messaging, whatever works! Stampin’ Up! has lots of help “behind the scenes” on the Stampin’ Up! website to help new recruits get started!

It’s fun and easy to sign up! You get to choose $125 worth of whatever product you choose and pay only $99! Now with this promotion during September, you will also get the extra cardmaking products! Free shipping on Starter Kits!! As soon as you sign up, you will receive an email from Stampin’ Up! with your Demonstrator number and with that you can sign in to the website and start exploring and thinking about how you would like to run your business. There are many ways, even in these pandemic days. I’m happy to help you and direct you to extra resources depending on what you are interested in or what will help you. We all have slightly different businesses and sizes, but it’s up to you to choose what works for you!

Get started by getting some information! Let me know if I can help! Email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com when you have questions!

This offer ends Wednesday, September 30th!

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LAST DAY: Wed., September 30, 2020

Tag Buffet Christmas Gift Tags

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Tag Buffet Christmas Gift Tags

For some fun and relaxation, I took the afternoon and spent time making the kit I recently ordered that I couldn’t wait to get my hands on and made these Tag Buffet Christmas Gift Tags! You will find this Tag Buffet Project Kit in the Holiday Catalog on page 5. I immediately loved the images for the tags and couldn’t wait to order it! Then I forgot to order it over two orders and finally, I got it!

The project kit comes in a cute green holly print box. As long as you have a cute box, that’s almost all you need, right?! If you want, you can order the coordinating Tag Buffet Stamp Set to stamp the greetings on the tags. But if you already have a good selection of Christmas greeting stamp sets, you might have something you can use without buying a new stamp set. But I do love the ornament and stocking in this stamp set, plus the verse that you could stamp inside the card. I plan to make some extra Christmas cards and maybe more tags using this stamp set.

You get all the materials you need to make the tags, but you do need your own ink pads and Stampin’ Dimensionals. The coordinating ink colors are Real Red, Shaded Spruce, and Garden Green. The only stamping is for the greeting so really, you could get buy with any one of those colors or two if you wanted a red and green. I did use a lot of Dimensionals but I did use up some scrap edges of old sheets because no one will see them anyway! And if you don’t want to pop things up, you could just use glue or Stampin’ Seal or Stampin’ Seal+.

And if you want to, you don’t have to follow the directions at all, just do your own thing with the kit supplies. This would be a great kit for a beginning or novice stamper or crafter because all you have to do is stamp the greetings and then assemble the tags and tie them together with the included gold twine.

Since they are gift tags, I stamped the “To: From:” on the back of each of the tags before I put them together. The tags are large so if you also want to add a personal message on the back of the tag or stamp some other image, there is plenty of room! They are really nice tags!

Another thing you could do, is make the tags and then use them as a focal point on the front of a Christmas card. And what would be really fun is if you used just enough adhesive to hold it on the card but that the recipient could take off and use themselves or hang on the tree like an ornament. When I was growing up, my mother knew some people who were very rich and their Christmas card was always the fanciest one, but part of it was actually an ornament to save and use! We always looked forward to that one!

Don’t miss the Tag Buffet Project Kit in the August-December 2020 Holiday Mini Catalog on page 5! You might miss it as you rush to page through the beautiful catalog! The kit makes 30 tags!! That is 6 different designs, 5 tags each! The tags are 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ so that is a nice size. Your present will really stand out with these beautiful handmade tags!

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Gilded Autumn 2-4-6-8 Fall Treat Bag

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Gilded Autumn 2-4-6-8 Fall Treat Bag

If you want a little autumn treat for someone or maybe for Thanksgiving dinner favors, this little Gilded Autumn 2-4-6-8 Fall Treat Bag would meet your needs! These little 2-4-6-8 bags, as we like to call them, are really easy to make out of cardstock or designer paper and then you can decorate them for any occasion. You can make them taller too with a larger piece of paper.

For this treat bag, you just need half a sheet of paper, 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ if using cardstock or cut designer paper to this size. I used the pretty Gilded Autumn Specialty Designer Series Paper with gold and copper foil accents, which makes it extra special. If you want a taller bag, then cut it more than 5 1/2″.

Score at 2″, 4″, 6″ and 8″. Turn and score at 1 1/2″ (or 2″). These will be the bottom flaps so pay attention to the pattern on your paper, watching which way it is going so it doesn’t end up upside down. Cut the bottom flaps up to the score line. Cut off that very small 1/2″ piece on the end. See the photo below. (This isn’t the paper I used, and it is taller, but you can get the scoring and cutting idea.)

2 4 6 8 Box Inside Scoring

Assemble the box, putting adhesive on that 1/2″ piece on the side. Then pay attention to where the seam is and try to have that face the back. Fold in the bottom flaps, trying to make the front of the bag look nice with a flap fold, not the edge.

Now all you have to do is decorate the front of the bag. You can even leave it open at the top if you prefer or if you want to put maybe a cello bag of treats inside. But if you want to close the top, just pinch in the sides of the bag and push the top together. Punch holes for ribbon or add a clip of some kind to keep it closed. Be sure to put the treat in first!

For this little Gilded Autumn bag, I die cut a piece of Gold Foil using the Tasteful Labels Dies. Out of the designer paper with pumpkins and gourds all over it, I cut out a pumpkin, a gourd, and a teeny tiny pumpkin! I love that paper! I adhered the large pumpkin and gourd onto the Gold Foil circle with Stampin’ Seal+. After stamping and cutting out the greeting, from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set, I adhered that at the bottom of the pumpkin and gourd, then popped up the tiny pumpkin with a Mini Dimensional just at the very top so that it would partially layer over the greeting.

To finish off the treat bag, I used my old Cropodile to punch two small holes in the top of the bag and I tied a piece of Braided Linen Trim at the top. You could use some other ribbon as well.

This 2-4-6-8 pattern is so versatile and so easy to make! Try it for whatever occasion you want. Halloween is coming up so that would be fun!

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Gather Together Fall Colored Leaves Card

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Gather Together Fall Colored Leaves Card

I might have seen a tree with a few yellowish leaves at the top the other day when we were out for a walk so I was inspired to hope for fall and make this Gather Together Fall Colored Leaves Card. The weather has even been a little cooler lately (in part thanks to Tropical Storm Beta). In fact, the night before last I almost a felt a little cool on my legs wearing shorts. Yes, in Houston, Texas we are still wearing shorts, complaining about the heat, and running the air-conditioner. It kills me to see pictures way up north of trees with beautiful fall colored leaves. But fall leaves will get here, too….just not until December!

I just wanted to make a simple fall card and this is it! The card base is Cajun Craze and the layer is Shimmery White Cardstock. I love Shimmery White Cardstock, as I have said many times before. It is the tiniest bit off-white and has a very subtle shimmer. It’s also good for watercoloring if you don’t have watercolor paper.

The stamps are in the Gather Together Stamp Set. They are just inked up with Memento Ink, stamped randomly on the card, and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. Just choose a variety of fall colors and color the leaves with whatever combinations you want. I think I used the Light and Dark of Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Old Olive, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie and a few others like Cajun Craze.

The little texture stamp is also in the Gather Together Stamp Set. I inked it up with Old Olive but stamped off first on my Grid Paper so it would stamp lighter. The greeting is also in the same stamp set and I just stamped that in Old Olive Ink on a scrap strip. For some reason I decided to just let the strip extend completely across the bottom of the card. I liked it.

I hope you are beginning to see signs of fall where you live. A few houses in our neighborhood have some Halloween decorations up. I think it’s a little early but I love to put up Halloween decorations, inside and out. Maybe this year I will go a little lighter since no one will be coming in to see them. But of course making myself happy with my favorite Halloween and fall decorations is just as important!

Here is another card I made with the leaves in the Gather Together Stamp Set you can check out for another idea.

If you don’t own the Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers, you could color these leaves with a sponge or Sponge Daubers or pick up ink and color in. There are lots of coloring techniques. Try your hand at making some fall leaf cards soon like this Gather Together Fall Colored Leaves Card.

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24-Hour Stamp Sale Going On Now!

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24-Hour Stamp Sale

Stock up on stamp sets at a stellar price today! For one day only, you can purchase select cling and photopolymer stamp sets at a 15% discount. This short, stamp-tacular sale only happens once a year—you won’t want to miss out on these super savings!

For 24 hours on 23 September—from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM (MT) online—a select number of cling and photopolymer stamp sets from the 2020–2021 Annual Catalog will be available for purchase at a 15% discount.

The Online Store will have a category entitled “Stamp Sale” that displays every stamp set on sale to ensure a quick and easy shopping experience.

SHOP THE STAMP SALE ONLINE TODAY!

Here are some cards I have made with a few of the stamp sets on sale today so you can see some ideas for using them!

Snowman Season Stamp Set

Snowman Season in Plaid Tidings

Nature’s Beauty Stamp Set

Nature's Beauty Deer in the Fall

Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set

Beautiful Friendship Pink Flowers Card

Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set

Perfectly Plaid Christmas Card With Trees

Waterfront Stamp Set

Waterfront Stamp Set Mountain and Island Scenery Cards

Butterfly Gala Stamp Set

Butterfly Gala Thank You Card With Floral Garden Impressions

Bloom & Grow Stamp Set

Bloom & Grow Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Card

Hope these sample cards give you some ideas for how to use some of the stamp sets on sale today! Click on each photo to go to my blog post for details!

Have fun shopping!

Perfectly Plaid Christmas Card With Trees

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Perfectly Plaid Christmas Card With Trees

This Perfectly Plaid Christmas Card With Trees is one you can make with two stamp sets that will on sale at 15% off tomorrow, September 23 during the Stampin’ Up! Stamp Sale! This sale will only last 24 hours!

You can check out the list of select stamp sets that will be on sale on my blog post from yesterday HERE.

The sale will last basically for 24 hours on Wednesday, September 23, 2020—from 12:00 AM to 11:50 PM (MT) Remember, just select stamp sets but there are a lot to choose from.

For this Christmas card, I chose Garden Green for the card base with a layer of paper from the Heartwarming Hugs Designer Series Paper. So many great patterns to choose from for cards in this collection!

The stamp set that will be on sale is the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set. This is a great Christmas set from last year that is now in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. There is a coordinating Pine Tree Punch that works great with the stamped trees if you want them to be cut out. I owned this Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set last year and used it a lot.

While that stamp set has lots of great holiday greetings, I also used another stamp set that will be on sale tomorrow for 24 hours, the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set. I LOVE all these Itty Bitty stamp sets! Sometimes you need a small greeting to fit on the card and these sets always have something I can use! In this Christmas set, I chose “Season’s Greetings” and then punched it out with the Classic Label Punch. To help offset it, I added a piece of Real Red behind it and snipped the ends to match the punched ends.

I stamped each tree and punched it out, then layered it on a small piece of Heartwarming Hugs DSP. Those are layered on a strip of Real Red Cardstock. To help that stand out, I added a strip of Whisper White top and bottom on the Real Red strip. The trees are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, the Minis and the Black ones.

If you need some stamp sets, make your list and check it twice! Save 15%! It’s something!

Stamp Sale September 23!

There’s a Stamp Sale Coming September 23!

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For 24 hours on Wednesday, September 23, 2020—from 12:00 AM to 11:50 PM (MT) online — a select number of cling and photopolymer stamp sets from the 2020–2021 Annual Catalog will be available for purchase at a 15% discount!

The Online Store will have a category entitled “Stamp Sale” that displays every stamp set on sale to ensure a quick and easy shopping experience. The sale will run for ONLY 24 hours.

The 15% discount will apply to select cling and photopolymer stamp sets only.

Stampin Up Stamp Sale

There you have it! Don’t buy these stamp sets until Wednesday but you will only have 24 hours! Let me know if you have questions!

Be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator!

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Get & Go Starter Kit Promotion
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As we like to say, any time is a great time to buy the Starter Kit and join Stampin’ Up!, but if there is an extra promotion, why not?! This special promotion is designed to give a new Demonstrator some extra products to help with her first event!

  • In addition to the regular starter kit (for $99 USD/$135 CAD, new recruits choose $125 USD/$165 CAD-worth of products) new recruit will also receive enough cardstock pieces to make 16 cards, a pack of Rhinestone Basic Jewels, the So Much Love stamp set, and the Queen Anne’s Lace stamp set—all for their first event.
  • 8 packs of precut cardstock of the coastal cabana pack will be provided, and 8 packs of precut cardstock of the Granny Apple Green pack, for a total of 16 cards (packs include envelopes). The new recruit can choose what samples to replicate and how to distribute the packs to their customers.
  • Important note: Ink, adhesive, cutting tool, and clear block for stamping must be purchased separately. However, these products may be included as part of the Starter Kit product selection.

Look on the Stampin’ Up! website to read about joining to get some information about being a Demonstrator! Then if you have any questions, just contact me! I suggest thinking about if you want someone local to you to be your Upline to help you perhaps in person. Check the Demonstrator Finder and see is someone near you is interested in having a new recruit. Otherwise, it is perfectly fine to sign up under any Demonstrator you choose who can help you via all the media we have these days – phone calls, email, messaging, whatever works! Stampin’ Up! has lots of help “behind the scenes” on the Stampin’ Up! website to help new recruits get started!

It’s fun and easy to sign up! You get to choose $125 worth of whatever product you choose and pay only $99! Now with this promotion during September, you will also get the extra cardmaking products! Free shipping on Starter Kits!! As soon as you sign up, you will receive an email from Stampin’ Up! with your Demonstrator number and with that you can sign in to the website and start exploring and thinking about how you would like to run your business. There are many ways, even in these pandemic days. I’m happy to help you and direct you to extra resources depending on what you are interested in or what will help you. We all have slightly different businesses and sizes, but it’s up to you to choose what works for you!

Get started by getting some information! Let me know if I can help!

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Artistry Blooms Just Because Card

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Artistry Blooms Just Because Card

I’m not sure what to say about this Artistry Blooms Just Because Card. I have seen cards with these woven scraps of cardstock or designer paper before so I just thought maybe I would get out my Artistry Blooms Designer Paper again and cut some strips to decorate a Halloween card. And this is what I got instead! It’s not Halloween!

The card base is Thick Whisper White Cardstock. If you are making a card without layers, the Thick Whisper White is strong enough to stand on its own. Since I thought I was making a Halloween card, I cut strips or used scraps of the Artistry Blooms paper that could look like fall or Halloween. But once I got the strips woven together (which really was easy enough to do), I wasn’t sure what else to put on the card!

Finally, I decided on a bunch of leaves from the Lovely You Stamp Set. In order to incorporate most of the colors of the paper strips, I colored the leaves in different fall colors with Stampin’ Write Markers right onto the stamp. This technique makes the stamped image lighter so I colored over the stamped image a little bit with the same colored markers. The greeting is also from the same stamp set and is stamped in Pumpkin Pie.

So the lesson for today is you never know what you are going to create for sure until you sit down and do it! But enjoying the process and using the supplies is the real fun of it!

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Ghoulish Goodies Halloween Night Card

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Ghoulish Goodies Halloween Night Card

As I got ready to stamp, I decided maybe I wanted to make a Halloween card and this Ghoulish Goodies Halloween Night Card resulted! I had no idea or plan except I started out thinking I would look through my regular designer papers and see if there was something I could actually use for Halloween paper rather than “official” Halloween paper. I think sometimes we forget we can use papers that are themed in a designer paper package but really you can use that color or generic pattern for many other cards.

As I looked through my packages of designer paper, I thought maybe the Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper, with its interesting patterns might have something. And sure enough, there were probably a couple different ones I could have used. I chose the last one I saw in the package with this multi-shaded green paper.

I chose these two images in the Ghoulish Goodies Stamp Set to stamp on Whisper White and then die cut with a large Stitched Shapes oval die. Then I colored in the background with various colors of Stampin’ Blends markers. It almost doesn’t matter what colors, just make it look spooky! I used greens, oranges, dark blue, and yellow. The only thing was I got it kind of dark around the man so I colored over him with a Black Stampin’ Blend to make him show up a little more.

For the background I die cut a frame from Mango Melody Cardstock from the Ornate Layers Dies. I had a scrap of Black Glitter Paper so I cut that to fit inside the frame for something sparkly. I also added a layer of Gorgeous Grape under the green designer paper.

For a greeting I needed something small and noticed the small little “Eek” in the stamp set so I used that and cut with the Classic Label Punch. Then I even shortened it with my Paper Snips to fit better and added two Gold Glitter Enamel Dots.

I think it turned out pretty spooky looking just with the combination of colors! It’s not too early to start working on Halloween cards! Have fun!

Stamping With Forever Fern

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Stamping With Forever Fern

I realized I hadn’t really used the Forever Fern Stamp Set very much yet, but when I opened the stamp case to start making a card, I realized I hadn’t even used these stamps yet! How did that happen?! I have used the Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper to make cards, but I hadn’t actually stamped with the stamp set! But now that I have, on this Stamping With Forever Fern card, I am in love!

I chose Just Jade, one of the new 2020-22 In Colors, for the card base since it is one of the coordinating colors with the designer paper. Not that I used the designer paper. The card front is Shimmery White Cardstock, a beautiful paper to use for a nice card.

Of course I wasn’t quite sure how this card would turn out if I just stamped the various ferns in the stamp set, but I just started stamping with various colors of green ink. There is something so relaxing and satisfying with stamping, applying that inked up stamp to the paper! It just feels good every time! I used Just Jade, Shady Spruce, Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, and Soft Sea Foam. Just chose a group of greens! You can stamp over ones you have already stamped, it all looks good in the end!

The greeting is also in the stamp set. I stamped it on Shimmery White with Just Jade Ink and die cut it with the pretty circle die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. It actually looked good just like that if I would have put it on the card without layering it on something, but I did die cut a scalloped circle in the Layering Circles Dies and layered it on that. I adhered it flat on the card for a change. No embellishments either! I was so taken with how the stamping turned out, I didn’t even think about embellishments.

 This is a Distinktive stamp set (Patent pending); it has a special texture that gives added depth and dimension in a single step, creating photo-realistic images. It’s something special that Stampin’ Up! has created in some of the stamp sets. It’s really pretty!

There are also dies you can purchase to cut out the stamped images. If you want to get the Forever Flourishing Dies along with the Forever Fern Stamp Set, you can buy the Forever Fern Bundle with both and save 10%!

I do have to play more with this stamp set and Bundle. I was really pleased with this card I made with almost only stamping! Check it out if you haven’t ordered it yet. Lots of people have!

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A Special Paper Pumpkin Kit For October 2020!

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Paper Pumpkin October 2020 Banner

This holiday season, share the joy of Paper Pumpkin! The Joy to the World Paper Pumpkin Kit is an exclusive holiday kit that provides a specially-designed box, enough supplies to create eight elegant cards, and an opportunity to connect with the Stampin’ Up! global community. 

With October’s magical kit, not only will you get a head start on your holiday crafting—you’ll get to create Christmas cards, share project ideas, and spread holiday cheer with Stampin’ Up! customers and demonstrators around the world! After you receive your kit, you can join the Joy of Paper Pumpkin Facebook group to make the most of this month’s kit.

ABOUT THE OCTOBER KIT

Name: Joy to the World

Details

  • Kit contains enough supplies to create eight cards—four each of two designs—and coordinating envelopes.
  • Kit includes die-cut pieces in English, French, and German. This will allow you to create cards you can use to connect with other customers and demonstrators around the world—in their language! To learn more about how to do this, read the “The Joy of Paper Pumpkin” section on this page.
  • Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
  • Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
  • Coordinating Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Just Jade, Soft Sea Foam

Don’t worry, we’ve put a reminder flyer with details—and a key to help you translate sentiments—in every Paper Pumpkin kit so you won’t forget to participate in this fun global sharing!

Note: Customers and demonstrators in North America will receive this kit during the October subscription period (kits will ship around 11 October). The release date for our global markets will be 3 November. Make sure you join the Facebook group and save some of your cards so you can join in on the fun global sharing when customers in other markets receive the kit!

Sounds interesting, right?! It’s early, but sign up now and you’ll be ready!

JOIN PAPER PUMPKIN TODAY!

Deadline: October 10, 2020

This is my personalized link so you don’t have to look for my name! If you have a Demonstrator you work with, go to www.paperpumpkin.com.

Make Christmas Tags With the Tag Buffet Kit

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Tag Buffet Project Kit and Tag Buffet Stamp Set

Just the box alone signals that there is something really good inside! I always like a cute box! Inside this cute Christmas box are all the supplies you need to make Christmas Tags with the Tag Buffet Kit.

Tag Buffet Kit Open

Just open the box and see all the wonderful supplies inside!

Tag Buffet Contents

Make thirty Christmas tags, 5 each of 5 designs with this Tag Buffet Project Kit. You will love all the included pieces!

Tag Buffet Contents opened

These are beautiful images with a watercolor look and beautiful tags to use! Stamp on greetings with the Tag Buffet Stamp Set! You can use another stamp set with Christmas greetings if you have one, but I always like to get the one that matches! Then you can use the greetings on other Christmas card projects.

Tag Buffet Project Kit and Tag Buffet Stamp Set

The Tag Buffet Project Kit looks like a gorgeous kit to make it easy to sit down and have a productive crafting time! Just assemble the pieces as directed, or change it up to make your own tags. And who doesn’t need more tags when it is time to wrap gifts?! Save yourself a trip to the store at the last minute as you wrap gifts and make some special tags soon! If you want this tag kit, order it soon so it doesn’t go on backorder just when you wanted to get it! Make some quality Christmas tags for some special gifts!

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