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Floral Romance Sympathy Card

While we all hate to make sympathy cards because it means the loss of someone we knew and cared about, we usually want to make a special card to send to the family, and with the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper you can’t go wrong as on this Floral Romance Sympathy Card. The paper is so beautiful in itself I think it is perfect for this type of card. It’s pretty but soft and calming.

The Floral Romance paper is 12 sheets: 6 sheets of vellum, 2 each of 3 designs and the 6 sheets of regular printed paper. The vellum is really pretty and something different. Being printed, adhesives don’t seem to show through the paper so that makes it easier to use than regular plain vellum.

This card base is Petal Pink, one of the coordinating colors with this sheet of vellum. The vellum is adhered to a piece of Whisper White Cardstock of the same size which shows off the design of the vellum.

The sympathy greeting is from the Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set. This stamp set has some beautiful greetings plus very nice images. It’s one of those sets you will go back to many times.

The greeting is stamped on Whisper White Cardstock, die cut with the Big Shot and Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. I love the Stitched Shapes Dies and use them a lot. This piece is then layered on a Petal Pink scalloped oval, die cut with the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies.

The ribbon is the beautiful Rich Razzleberry 1/4″ Velvet Ribbon. Although it is not one of the official coordinating colors, I thought it looked nice with the paper and certainly the ribbon itself is pretty and rich-looking. I couldn’t resist a few sequins on the card. We all love the Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins because they are easy to use! No more tiny drops of glue!

You’ll find this pretty Floral Romance Designer Paper in the Occasions Catalog. Although this card is a sympathy card, I had previously made a similar card you can see HERE with a different greeting, of course. I sent this one to my daughter as a congratulatory card when she ran a 5K race and came in first in her age group!

Add this Floral Romance Designer Paper to your order. Remember, with a purchase of $50 you can choose a free Sale-A-Bration item! You will be able to use all this Floral Romance Paper on many different kinds of cards, including sympathy cards when necessary.

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Precious Parcel Sale-A-Bration 2019 Card Kit

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Sale-A-Bration is the biggest promotion Stampin’ Up! has during the year and the one that everyone gets the most excited about, because who doesn’t like free stuff like this Precious Parcel Card Kit?! With every $50 you spend on any Stampin’ Up! products, you may choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item! This promotion goes on through the end of March and a few new SAB items to choose from will be available February 15th.

One of the choices this year in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure is this Precious Parcel Card Kit. It makes eight beautiful cards, four each of two designs. And they are unusual cards with the special card that is inserted in the slot on the front of the card where you can write or stamp a note or greeting plus the card actually opens with plenty of room for a personal greeting.

Everything is included in the kit and adhesive strips are already applied to the inside of the card. I have to say this is probably the easiest card kit I have ever put together and it looks so nice when finished! The only hard part is remembering to tie on the little twine bow through the front holes of the card before adhering the folded portion of the card! But even then I was able to reach inside and insert the twine through those poked holes! And if not, I could have just tied the bow and glued it to the front! The little gold foil accents to look like metal pieces for the corners of the card as so cute. And I love the little clip and stamp that is attached to the inserted card in the “mailbox”. The whole thing is very cute and I loved making these cards!

This Precious Parcel Card Kit has been very popular so if you are planning to order and really want this kit, you might consider getting it soon so that it doesn’t go on backorder just when you want it. This and the Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets are both in danger of backorder. Might not happen, but both of these items are really great!

If you would like something where you just sit down and make beautiful cards with no planning, no getting out supplies, then choose this Precious Parcel Kit with your $50 or more purchase during Sale-A-Bration!

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Red Money Envelopes For Chinese New Year 2019 Year of the Pig

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It is the Chinese tradition to give out red envelopes with money inside to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which begins today. Here are Red Money Envelopes For Chinese New Year 2019 Year of the Pig, handmade for a Chinese acupuncture doctor who has asked me to make some for her for a couple of years now. She likes them all different and a few without the animal of the year, so it is both a challenge and great creative fun to come up with many different designs for the envelopes. It’s really like making a card, maybe just in a different shape.

One of the time-savers of this process is using my Envelope Punch Board. I used Real Red Cardstock, cut to a certain size, and then punched and scored with the punch board very easily. Next, I creased all the score lines and assembled with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. So that she can put the cash gift inside and seal the envelope later, I just put a Stampin’ Dimensional on the envelope flap that will seal the envelope when she removes the little paper on the dimensional.

To design the envelopes, I looked back at past money envelopes I made, such as these from last year and ideas for the stamp sets I might use. This year, the Year of the Pig, it was easy to choose the This Little Piggy Stamp Set in the Annual Catalog. When I am doing custom projects for someone, I often pull out retired stamp sets and accessories and embellishments to use, so you may see some things that are not current.

Here are some more money envelopes with stamping, coloring, and other embellishments.

Great to use the Large Numbers dies again. They come in handy for projects like this.

I did some embossing on some of the envelopes to add an interesting background.
It’s fun using the little piggy in different positions and with a little bit of glimmer through paper or Wink of Stella.

I especially loved using my Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers to color in all the pigs! I love the feel of those markers when I am coloring!

If you have some Chinese friends or family, you might like to surprise them by making your own red money envelopes to celebrate the Chinese New Year! You can find templates online or make your own envelopes easily with the Envelope Punch Board from Stampin’ Up!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Need Super Bowl Football Card Ideas?

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Today is Super Bowl LIII, the New England Patriots playing the Los Angeles Rams, so if you would like to make a card for your favorite football fan, here are some Super Bowl Football Card Ideas from years past!

Super Bowl 2017 Punch Art Football Game Card

One of the most popular punches of all time (I would think!) was the Owl Punch, used to make these football players out on the field! Just using a couple of narrow strips of paper can make a card look like a football field.

A Football Card For Super Bowl LI in Houston, Texas

A couple years ago we were so excited and proud in Houston to host the Super Bowl! Maybe someday our Houston Texans will actually be IN the Super Bowl! Maybe!

Super Bowl 2017 Card With Punch Art Football Helmets

Make some football helmets for your card with a few punches! Use your team colors!

Super Bowl Sunday 2016 Football Owl Punch Card

Here are these owls again playing football! Substitute one of our current animal stamps if you don’t have the Owl Punch in your stash!

Lace Embossed Heart Valentine Card

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The Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets are beyond gorgeous, as you can see on this Lace Embossed Heart Valentine Card. They are something you can earn FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase and you get two colors! Check out this card I made with the Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheet the other day.

Foil is difficult to photograph with the glare so you can expect that the paper in real life is much more beautiful than this photograph can capture! Not only is the color of the foil gasp-worthy every time you look in the package, but when you use the Lace Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder you really come up with something fancy!

This card base is the Lovely Lipstick Cardstock with a layer of Whisper White Cardstock embossed with the very pretty Tufted Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. This is another very nice embossing folder to have for when you want a little texture or interest in the background but nothing overwhelming.

The greeting is stamped from the Forever Lovely Stamp Set in Lovely Lipstick Ink. It is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals over the die cut heart.

TIP: When you are die-cutting and embossing, be sure to do the die-cutting first, then emboss. If you emboss first, then run the piece through the Big Shot again to die-cut it, you run the risk of flattening out the embossed design.

The little design at the bottom is made of two die cut pieces of the Lovely Lipstick Foil. It is a die in the Be Mine Stitched Framelits DIes. It is shorter than the width of the card so I cut two pieces and trimmed off just a tiny piece of a swirl so it would better match the other piece it was connecting with. It adds a nice little fancy border without taking anything away from the main focal point of the card. I just used teeny tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere that piece. Adhesive sheets would be good to use!

The large heart is also die-cut with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies. You might consider the Meant to Be Bundle containing these dies plus the Meant to Be Stamp Set and save 10%. Not to mention, purchasing the Bundle earns a FREE Sale-A-Bration item! And if you order another $50 worth of product, you can choose two FREE Level 1 Sale-A-Bration items or 1 of the Level 2 Choices. What a great deal!!

It’s time to make Valentines so make sure you have all the supplies you need! Just remember that hearts are for any time, not just Valentine’s Day so don’t hesitate to purchase Stampin’ Up! hearts whenever they have them! Think of weddings, engagements, anniversaries, even just thinking of you or graduation. Lots of opportunities to use hearts! And these are lovely ones this year!

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So Hoppy Together Frog Card For Anyone

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This So Hoppy Together Frog Card For Anyone came about because it is a drizzly, dreary day here in Houston Texas so I thought I would try out one of the bright patterns in the Happiness Blooms Designer Series Paper that I just purchased the other day! However, when I looked through the paper, this more muted pattern was the one that inspired me! Go figure!

I thought of the frogs in the So Hoppy Together Stamp Set immediately, I guess because of the green! You can get this stamp set FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase through March 31. You KNOW you can easily spend $50 on Stampin’ Up! products once you start looking at the catalog!!

This card has a card base of Call Me Clover with a thin layer of Whisper White to help the designer paper stand out a little. I punched the tag with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch, a favorite of mine! Then I used just the stamps in the So Hoppy Together Stamp Set for the images and the greeting. I used my Stampin’ Blends to color the frog and the little flies. I just love coloring with those Blends alcohol markers. There’s something about how smoothly they color on the paper or something! And a little piece of Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Cross-Stitched Ribbon to tie on to the tag for some brightness!

That’s all there is to it! This is a very easy card and you can adapt just the design to almost anything! At least this stamp set and designer paper are not backordered…..yet!

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Embossed Grapefruit Grove Foil Heart Valentine Card

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How about this Embossed Grapefruit Grove Foil Heart Valentine Card? Isn’t that foil heart just magnificent? I’m not bragging, I just love that Grapefruit Grove Foil Paper and embossing it with the Lace Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder really puts it over the top!

The good news is that the package of Grapefruit Grove & Lovely Lipstick Foil Papers is just gorgeous! Every time open the package I just gasp at how pretty the colors are! The bad news is that Stampin’ Up! says it is possible they will run out before the end of Sale-A-Bration, so if you want these foil papers you should order them as soon as possible. The fact that they are FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase is amazing.

The base of this card is the same color as the first layer. I wanted to use pink. I think I used Powder Pink. The top layer is embossed with the Polka Dot Basics Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

The foil heart is quite large so it fits nicely on this card. I put it off to the side so I could use the Whisper White 5/8″ Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon to wrap across the front and tie in a bow. I love this ribbon!

The greeting is from the Forever Lovely Photopolymer Stamp Set. I played around with the greeting to see where the best place would be to place it. When you are designing a card don’t be afraid to move things around, try different things, whatever it takes and you will be able to tell when it all comes together!

Valentine’s Day is in two weeks so you have time to order supplies and make some Valentines! What could be more fun?! Remember, the price of postage went up to $.55 although if you have the “Forever” stamps they are fine. Just check the USPS site for all the postage prices.

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Easy Floral Romance Card

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If you want to make a beautiful card easily, just grab the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper and start creating! Some of the pages are vellum, like this one on this card. It is really beautiful paper that you will love! The papers of Floral Romance are perfect for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, or simply to say “Hello” and that you are thinking about that person. Everyone would love to get a personal handmade card in the mail instead of more junk mail!

I started with a card base of Fresh Fig Cardstock because it is one of the coordinating colors and then a layer of Whisper White to be placed under the printed vellum. I just applied the Multipurpose Liquid Glue to the darkest colors on the backside of the vellum and I don’t think it is showing through. This printed vellum is great for that!

For the greeting, I stamped with Petal Pink, another coordinating color of the designer paper, on a piece of Whisper White with a stamp from the Forever Lovely Stamp Set. That was punched with the 1 1/4″ Circle Punch and layered on a die cut from the Stitched Labels Framelits Dies. I used Petal Pink for the circle die cut.

I tried several ribbons to tie around the side of the card but nothing looked quite right so I went with a piece of the Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon, although it is currently on backorder until mid-February. It is just adhered underneath the circle die cut and greeting. If you don’t already have the Flax Ribbon, just substitute some other wide ribbon. If you have narrow ribbon, try winding it back and forth underneath for another look! And of course, a few Petal Pink Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins.

Here is a birthday card I made using a different pattern of the Floral Romance vellum.

Remember to put the new postage on your envelope and all your mail beginning today! This easy Floral Romance card could be sent for a Valentine, birthday, so many occasions! Just let someone know you are thinking of them!

Two Easy Small Square Valentines

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Here are Two Easy Small Square Valentines to show you how you can use both sides of the beautiful designer paper and make some smaller, simpler Valentines that are still lovely! Often when we start cutting up our designer paper, which we hate to do in the first place (heaven forbid that we USE those beautiful 12″ x 12″ sheets of paper!), we hate that we are not using the opposite side! We pick the side we want to show on our card or project, but then we hate that the other side is hidden because we like that side, too! So here I have made a Valentine with the side of one pattern of designer paper and another Valentine showing the other side of the same paper

Both cards are 8″ x 4″, folded in half so that the card base is 4″ x 4″. Lots of times I make these cards 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ so choose whatever you like. I used Whisper White Cardstock for the card base and the All My Love Designer Series Paper.

The card on the left with the flowery pattern of designer paper has the Whisper White card base, then a layer of Flirty Flamingo Cardstock since that is a coordinating color of the designer paper, and then the designer paper. Before adhering, I added a piece of Whisper White 1/8″ Sheer Ribbon and tied a separate cheater bow which I then adhered over the ribbon. Use Mini Glue Dots or a tiny drop of Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

For the heart, I stamped a greeting from the Meant To Be Stamp Set on a piece of Flirty Flamingo and then die cut with a heart in the Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies. With this die, the heart comes out plain but there is also a heart frame die cut with the stitching. Just remember to poke it out of the die! If you die cut another heart in a different color, like I did with Whisper White, you can use the other color for a frame around your heart!

On to the next Valentine with the other side of the flowery All My Love Designer Paper. The complement of this paper is Lovely Lipstick Cardstock which I used for the layer on the Whisper White Cardstock. This time I stamped the greeting on a piece of Whisper White, die cut the heart, then die cut the fancy heart in Lovely Lipstick. The fancy heart is then layered over the white heart. I stamped a small greeting since it is a small space in the center of that fancy heart. For a finishing touch I added a bow in the Lovely Lipstick 1/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon at the top of the heart.

There you have two very easy Valentines to make and you got to enjoy using both sides of one sheet of designer paper! If you have a lot of valentines to make, you might like using a smaller size to save on paper and using a simple layout design.

The All My Love Designer Series Paper is not just for Valentine’s Day so be sure to order it to use all year. The same is true with the Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies. Hearts are for lots of things! I always miss then when Stampin’ Up! somehow takes them out of the catalog! But these are here now so don’t miss them! Save 10% on the Bundle containing the Meant to Be Stamp Set and the Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies. Then have some fun making some Easy Small Square Valentines.

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Hello Cupcake Birthday Card

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The stamp set to make this Hello Cupcake Birthday Card can be yours FREE during Sale-A-Bration! This is Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year since the early days of Stampin’ Up! Usually, a special promotion doesn’t have a history behind it!

Until March 31, just spend $50 on any Stampin’ Up! products and then choose a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! This Hello Cupcake Stamp Set is one of the popular choices! Just think of all the cute cards you could make with this cupcake! I really like the greetings and the font, too.

To make my card I used Blushing Bride Cardstock for the card base. Next is a layer of Whisper White on which I stamped the cupcake. The whole cupcake is actually three pieces….the cupcake wrapper, a bottom piece of the frosting, and the top of the cupcake. I stamped the cupcake wrapper in So Saffron and the frosting in Blushing Bride. I stamped some sprinkles in Melon Mambo and colored them in with a Melon Mambo Stampin’ Write Marker. And to fill up space around the cupcake, I stamped the teeny little flowers in the set.

On the side panel of Blushing Bride, I stamped the greeting three times with Blushing Bride ink using the Stamparatus! When you use the Stamparatus, you can move the stamping plate down one hinge at a time and get perfect placement of the greeting all lined up. After stamping three greetings, there wasn’t enough space for another one so I just stamped three flowers at the bottom. Then there is a small strip of Soft Seafoam Cardstock to match some of the Soft Seafoam stamped flowers!

Just for a finishing touch, I added one of the Frosted Flower Embellishments right over the center stamped flower. And one little Share the Love Artisan Pearl in the center looks perfect.

The Stamparatus would actually be a good thing to purchase during Sale-A-Bration, plus one other item (because the Stamparatus is $49) to easily earn a Free SAB item.

What’s more fun than shopping for things you want to buy and then getting to choose FREE things?!

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Easy Valentine Card With Hearts

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Make an Easy Valentine Card With Hearts with the beautiful All My Love Designer Series Paper! Although this designer paper looks like it is for Valentine’s Day, it really is just flowers so you can use it long after Valentine’s Day. It’s only the hearts I added from the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies that turn it into a Valentine. And really, even the hearts don’t force it to be a Valentine, it could be a wedding or anniversary card or just a card to say “I love you!”. We just think of it being a Valentine since it is almost Valentine’s Day.

One of the coordinating colors for this package of paper is Flirty Flamingo. I don’t think I often use that paper, but it looks perfect with this print. I stamped one heart with Flirty Flamingo Ink with the heart in the Meant to Be Stamp Set and die cut it with the heart shape. Then I cut a larger heart and a smaller heart to help make the white heart stand out on the printed paper. That stitching adds just a little bit of something that adds to this card. I added the ribbon on the side before adhering the DSP layer to the card base. I simply tied three pieces of ribbon in knots rather than fool with a bow, but you could do a bow.

For just a little something extra, I added some Heart Epoxy Droplets. These are neat little things because they can be used as is or they can be colored with Stampin’ Blends or a Sharpie.

This is an easy little card to make. If you don’t have heart dies, just cut out some hearts with a scissors like when we were kids! You can add some embellishments, maybe sequins rhinestones, other jewels, or every teeny hearts scattered around. Just play and see what you come up with. I had no idea what card I was going to make when I got out the paper!

Read this blog post HERE to see another card made with die cut hearts.

If you need any supplies to make this Easy Valentine Card With Hearts, you can order them in the Occasions Catalog section of the Stampin’ Up! Online Store. Remember to take advantage of Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase or more.

Easy Just For You Card

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Use the “Valentine” paper for other cards and occasions as well, like this Easy Just For You Card that could be for a birthday, thinking of you, or any kind of friendly card! This All My Love Designer Series Paper in the Occasions Catalog has hearts on the opposite side of the flowered pattern, but on this side, the card can be for anything. The bottom strip of neutral paper has flowers on the other side. It’s great when we have “holiday” paper that can also be used for other occasions in case we don’t use it all up for the holiday!

The greeting comes from the Meant to Be Stamp Set which also has Valentine’s and “love” sentiments, but “Just For You” can be for non-holiday use! Who wouldn’t like to receive a card that was meant for them?! Remember, when you use these new sticky Cling Stamps to be careful taking them off the block. Make sure you are under the cling label before you peel it off the block or you might rip the foam. It is not difficult, you will get into the habit of doing it just like everything else.

For a simple embellishment behind the layered greeting, I used a piece of the Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon. It is just tacked down with a little adhesive and the greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Very simple.

Remember, sometimes the easy designs are the best! You could embellish this card a little bit more if you wanted to, but it is just fine as it is. I like using the two pieces of designer paper on the card. Sometimes just in mixing and matching the patterns, you can come up with other card ideas. You could also have just one piece of designer paper and let the cardstock show. Add a greeting and maybe some ribbon or a little bling. That’s all.

Check out the Occasions Catalog and earn some Sale-A-Bration rewards!

Be Mine Valentine Hearts Card

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Here’s a simple but elegant Be Mine Valentine Hearts Card made with three die-cut fancy hearts and a few little hearts plus a greeting. The colored hearts are made from the Grapefruit Grove & Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets. I am telling you, when you open this package of foil sheets you will just die over how pretty the colors are!!! The colored hearts on this card are made with the Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheet. It is so beautiful in person. And guess how much they cost?! They are FREE, with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration! And we all know it’s plenty easy to spend $50 at Stampin’ Up!

To make the hearts, I used the fancy heart die in the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies. I probably bought the set because of this fancy heart! There are lots of hearts and they have the “stitching” on them. You might miss that in the name of the dies! They are “Stitched Framelits Dies” and that makes them fancier and prettier! We can always use hearts in our cards and projects so don’t miss this set! For a Bundle, go ahead and get the stamp set also, Meant to Be, so you can save 10% on both!

I used the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets on the back of the foil so I wouldn’t have to use glue to adhere the hearts to the card. Normally this is a great thing to do with intricate designs that are hard to adhere with glue because there are no large enough areas to apply the glue to. But when I made this card, I had a mess with all the teeny tiny pieces in the die cut edges of the hearts all sticking to my fingers! I think it was “operator error” somehow. Usually people really like the Adhesive Sheets! I seldom remember to use them and when I did remember to use them, I couldn’t find them, so there you go! Maybe I am better off just using glue!

The card itself and the two white hearts are made with the beautiful Shimmery White Cardstock. This paper is one of my enduring favorites! It has such a subtle shimmer to it yet it looks much more elegant than just Whisper White. It is also good for watercoloring if you don’t have the official watercolor paper from Stampin’ Up!.

The little hearts are die cut from the Lovely Lipstick Foil using the die that cuts out a whole grouping of hearts. I just wanted a few to use somehow on this card. I placed two inside the white hearts and scattered the others randomly on the card.

I needed a small greeting for this card and I found one in the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set. This is a great set to own because we can never have enough words!

Check out the great Occasions Catalog and see what you can get for FREE during Sale-A-Bration in the special Sale-A-Bration Brochure! With every $50 purchase, you earn a free SAB item. With a $100 purchase, you can choose two items for the two $50 purchases or you can choose one of the special $100 items! At $150 you also earn Stampin’ Rewards plus Sale-A-Bration. At $250, you earn those PLUS an extra $25 in Stampin’ Rewards! All the information is HERE!

If you are interested in Stampin’ Up! products and would like these catalogs, just send me your contact information and I can mail them out to you. While you can view them online, nothing beats having a Stampin’ Up! catalog in your hands!

If you need any supplies to make this Be Mine Valentine Hearts Card, you can contact me to put in your order or just go to the Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE!

Join the Stamping With Karen Mailing List!

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Butterfly Gala Gingham Check Thank You Card

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When you need inspiration, look no further than the Stampin’ Up! catalogs, in this case, the new Occasions Catalog. I was looking for something to make with the new Butterfly Gala Stamp Set so I decided to just copy the sample on page 34.

I love the new Gingham Gala 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper and I had wanted to try the technique of drawing extra lines on the checks to make another style of plaid. I used my Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blend Marker, the narrow tip, and a ruler to draw lines in between the printed pattern. Just an extra step that gives the paper a new look!

The butterflies are stamped, colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers and then punched with the Butterfly Duet Punch. The butterfly stamps in this set are connected so that after you stamp them, they are perfectly placed on the paper to be aligned with the punch! No making a template and all that! I suggest stamping extra butterflies while you have the ink and stamp out because you likely will want more than the two stamps (notice the two small butterflies on the card). If you don’t use them all at the time, just save and keep for another project!

The greeting is in the stamp set. After stamping it, I die cut with the brand new Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies on page 28 of the Occasions Catalog. Notice the word “Stitched” in there! These are quite a collection of rectangles with the lovely stitched edge. Two can be used to make a frame out of the dies

For a little embellishment, there is a Vellum Cardstock punched piece behind the greeting with the Starburst Punch. Also added is a strip of the Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon. And I can’t resist sprinkling around a few sequins! You can choose from the Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins or the Gingham Gala Adhesive-Backed Sequins. These sequins are so fun and easy to use when you just have to stick them down, not try to apply a teeny dot of glue!

Notice that there are a couple Bundles available with these products I used on this card:

The Amazing Life Bundle with the Amazing Life Stamp Set and Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies.
The Butterfly Gala Bundle with the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set and Butterfly Duet Punch.

Save 10% when you buy the products in a Bundle!

Use the catalog when you need ideas for making a card. You can copy exactly, vary the design a little bit as I did, or start with the idea and then see what you come up with that is different. That is often what happens when I stamp, I end up with something completely different than what I thought I was going to make! Try your hand at this Butterfly Gala Gingham Check Thank You Card or change up the greeting, the colors, the paper, the number of butterflies!