If you had fun ordering from Stampin’ Up! in August, it is now September so you can redeem any Bonus Codes you earned with every $50 purchase! Be sure to redeem them during the month of September. You can use all of them at once or space them out. Hopefully, you still have your email from Stampin’ Up! with your codes!
It’s easy! Just put in your order in the Online Store as usual, then click the “Manage Coupon Codes” button and add your codes! You will see your discount applied on the Order Review Screen. Be sure to check!
Here is a little tutorial from Stampin’ Up! (Click to view better!) Or click HERE to view the PDF!
You might want to wait until the Holiday Catalog goes live in just two more days, September 5th!!
Remember, if you are trying to reach an amount for a Hostess order, like $150, your total order must be $150 after the coupon codes are applied.
Want to make a quick and easy Halloween card with ghosts? I can show you how! In fact, a card like this one is partially responsible for me becoming a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator! I was visiting my friend who was a Demonstrator and she took me along to a team meeting. There was a card on a display board with a ghost or two. When I found out the ghost was made by cutting a heart in half I was just thrilled with how creative people could be with this thing called stamping! I was so inspired by all the creativity I saw at the meeting plus everything my friend had at her house! I think I signed up while I was visiting her that weekend!
When I made another Halloween card in THIS POST with this new paper coming in the Holiday Catalog September 5th, Toil & Trouble, I remembered the idea of making ghosts out of hearts! Just punch out, die cut, or hand cut out a heart of whatever size you want. Then cut the heart in half! That’s all there is to it! Draw on some eyes with a marker. Adhere it to the side of the card layout! Sometimes it doesn’t take much to thrill me to pieces!
This card starts with a Basic Black card base with a layer of Granny Apple Green Cardstock. I let that have a wider margin than usual and cut a smaller piece of Highland Heather Cardstock for another layer. Then I added the ghost patterned paper in the Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper for the background layer. The half-hearts/ghosts were adhered to the card on the sides. The greeting is from the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set in the Holiday Catalog.
This Toil & Trouble paper makes Halloween cardmaking so much fun! Especially when you can cut a heart in half and make a ghost poking out from a spooky place! You, too, can make a quick and easy Halloween card with ghosts!
You’ve got to try this Quick and Easy Frankenstein Halloween Card if you like Halloween! It will only take you two seconds to make. You can even vary the design to put on tags or treat bag toppers or a Halloween piece of home decor – whatever you like.
The card base is Old Olive Cardstock. The hair is Basic Black just cut in a jagged way. Just figure out how long you want his hair to hang down and cut off the top portion.
Otherwise, you just need a 3/4″ Circle Punch and a 1 1/4″ Circle Punch to make his eyes and nose. Punch two 1 1/4″ circles of Old Olive and cut in half with Paper Snips. Sponge some Old Olive Ink on three of the pieces for the two eyelids and nose. You could also make a circle nose if you like or an oval. The Whisper White eyes are punched with the 1 1/4″ Circle Punch and Basic Black with the 3/4″ Circle Punch. I used the White Stampin’ Chalk Marker to just draw in those little whites of his eyes. You can put them at crazy angles or whatever you want if you want to have some fun with it!
Draw in a few scars and Frankenstein’s mouth with a Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker or Journaling Pens . Once you get your supplies out, making the card goes very quickly! Halloween is so much fun!
Here is a closeup of Frankenstein’s face. Have fun making your Frankenstein!
In the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog you will find the prettiest designer paper called Frosted Floral. It has a beautiful shimmery look to it, so even a quick and easy card like this Frosted Floral Hello Card For Someone will look elegant and special to anyone you give it to.
The card base is Mint Macaron, one of the coordinating colors of the designer paper. Then I just layered on this paper with the vine design on top. I actually had another idea of adhering several stamped flowers from the First Frost Stamp Set onto the paper, but when I played with placing the flowers, I just didn’t care for it.
I considered several different greetings for this card but in the end, the “Hello” greeting from the Accented Blooms Stamp Set seemed just right. I stamped it in Mint Macaron and punched with the Tailored Tag Punch. I also applied Mint Macaron twine from the Nature’s Twine multi-pack. I like the way it looks on this card!
The new Holiday Catalog is getting close! It goes live Wednesday, September 5th – that’s a week from today! To help you out with costs you will WANT to incur in September with the Holiday Catalog, don’t forget about Bonus Days in August! Before Friday, order some basics to stock up in $50 increments and maybe some items from the new annual Stampi’ Up! Catalog and get your $5 Bonus coupons to use in September! Bonus Days end Friday, August 31!
Here’s a similar card made with the Frosted Floral Designer Series Paper I made about ten days ago. It’s really about the same style. All you have to do is change the greeting on either card and they can serve for many occasions. Try the Frosted Floral Hello Card For Someone and mail it to someone special!
This Color Your Season Flower Card is just one beautiful card you can make with the Color Your Season Suite of products, a limited-time offer! And you know what, Friday, August 31 will be the last day to purchase the stamp set, framelit dies, or the Bundle. There is also a new selection of Watercolor Pencils that may (or may not) be available in a future publication. These are separate from the Bundle, but you will want them in your collection because they are the real Stampin’ Up! colors!
I’ve seen so many beautiful samples created with this set. And it covers all four seasons! You could be making Christmas cards right now with this Suite!
Just be sure to purchase by August 31 or it will be gone!
Remember, it’s Bonus Days still going on this week at Stampin’ Up! With every $50 you spend during August, you will receive a $5 Bonus Coupon to use in September! And in September, you will be shopping the Holiday Catalog after Sept. 5th so those coupons will come in handy!
Be sure to add these limited-time products to your order through Friday, August 31 so you can have fun and color your season with many pretty cards and projects.
Wouldn’t you love to receive this cute red box in the mail once a month? This is the August 2018 Kit from Paper Pumpkin, the papercrafting kit that comes in the mail from Stampin’ Up! Each month is a different project and almost always a surprise. The majority of kits are for making cards, but sometimes a different kind of project is in store, like party favors or a piece of home decor.
Open the box and it’s like a gift just for you! Each kit comes with an exclusive stamp set, an ink spot, and all the materials you need for the project, even little glue dots and dimensionals if you need them. Your first kit comes with an acrylic block on which to mount the stamps.
Unwrap the tissue paper and find the package containing your new project!
It’s fun to open up the box and take out all the materials and see how many things you get in a kit. Sometimes there are extras leftover for more projects on your own. There are directions and even a video you can watch.
Make the project exactly as designed or if you don’t care for it, make something else! Within a few days of people receiving their kits, there are alternative ideas online you can find if you need suggestions. I very often make part of the kit as designed and then make a few things differently. That’s what I did with this kit. But if you are someone with no other craft supplies, just make the kit as designed and you will have everything you need!
All kits are easy enough for non-crafters, never-crafters, friends, grandchildren, college students, sons, daughters, little ones, big ones, professional crafters who like a break from designing and gathering materials. Just open the box and skip to the fun, as Paper Pumpkin says!
Here is the August 2018 Paper Pumpkin Kit video:
Usually Paper Pumpkin is a complete surprise, but the upcoming kit for September 2018 is obviously going to have a Halloween theme! And I love Halloween!
I thought this Cookie Cutter Christmas Gingerbread Man Card would be appropriate today since it is just four months until Christmas! We better get busy making our cards and projects! Hard to believe, isn’t it, especially while it is still nearly 100 degrees outside here in Houston.
I thought I would just use a set from last year, which is in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. It’s the Cookie Cutter Christmas Stamp Set and has the coordinating Cookie Cutter Builder Punch. The green print paper is new in the Holiday Catalog, though, the All Is Bright Designer Series Paper. One side of the paper has those photographic images, really pretty! The card base is Crumb Cake. The red designer paper is just the background for the card for the photo, not part of the card although I originally planned to use half green and half red. The red ribbon on this card is retired, but I have the new stuff on the way (I think!).
Of course, I also used the Big Shot and the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies for the background of the gingerbread man. And then the scalloped dies in the Layering Circle Framelits Dies are always nice to finish off the Stitched Shapes Dies as a layer.
I had planned to put the Gingerbread Man and circle over to the right side of the card, but somehow I put him in the center and thought that was just right!
The Cookie Cutter Christmas Stamp Set was a fun one last year and can be used even for baby cards with the bear! Here are some bear Christmas cards I made last year.
Don’t forget that Bonus Days are going on during August at Stampin’ Up! For every $50 you spend in August, you will get a $5 coupon code to use on your order(s) in September! As soon as you place your order, you will receive an email from Stampin’ Up! with your code(s). I printed mine out right away in case something happens to my email. Stampin’ Up! cannot replace lost coupon codes. And you know how technology is!
And Merry Christmas from the Cookie Cutter Christmas Gingerbread Man in four months!
This cute little Party Animal Dog is front and center on a Halloween card and all dressed up in his spooky Halloween costume! I just love the colors and the fun images for Halloween!
My main purpose for this card was to use the Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pen. I selected this image that needed to be colored in from the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set in the upcoming Holiday Catalog. As far as the Watercolor Pencils, the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog has a set just called Watercolor Pencils. We’ve had those for a while. But if you would like some additional colors, during August you can order the Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2. It’s part of the Color Your Season Suite going on during August only! The pencils are not included in the Blended Season Bundle that includes the stamp set and framelits dies. But all of these products go away August 31 so don’t miss out! Stampin’ Up! “may” bring back the pencils in another publication, but we don’t know so if you want them and don’t want to have to wait until another catalog, go ahead and order them now!
Watercolor pencils are easy to use, especially with a Blender Pen. Just lay down some color (you don’t even have to color in every space) and the Blender Pen will sort of “melt” the color and you can smooth it out beautifully. You can also pick up the color from the pencil itself with the Blender Pen just by touching the tip of the Blender Pen to the pencil. That probably gives a little darker shade of color. You can also use an Aqua Painter or a small paintbrush. I’ve always like Watercolor Pencils for coloring!
The card is made with a base of Gorgeous Grape Cardstock. The designer paper is from Toil & Trouble. When I saw the ghost paper, I thought that would be a cute background. I wondered if it would be too much, so I checked and the back of the paper was purple-striped so I just used that different pattern at the bottom of the card layer. To cover the seam of the two papers, I adhered a piece of Basic Black 3/8″ Shimmer Ribbon.
The little dog is stamped on Thick Whisper White Cardstock with Stazon Ink since it is waterproof. That means it will stand up to the moisture of the Blender Pen. I also used some Sponge Daubers to sponge on some color on the tag so it wouldn’t be so stark white. The tag is made with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch and popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also tied on a piece of the black ribbon. You might be able to see the shimmer a bit in the photo.
This Frosted Floral Wishing You the Best Card is a little difficult to photograph but is really beautiful in person. If you look closely at the top part of the designer paper on this card, you might be able to see the shimmer of the paper, kind of a pearlized look. I think the paper feels a little bit lighter weight than others which gives it that elegant, rich look and feel. It’s the Frosted Floral Designer Series Paper, available soon in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog.
The card base is Mint Macaron, although there are many different colors you could choose to go with this paper. I cut the cardstock lengthwise, 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″, so the fold would be at the top of the card. The designer paper is adhered to the Mint Macaron and then I embellished it with a greeting from the coordinating First Frost Stamp Set in the Suite. Just think how many ways you could use this greeting and this paper! The striped paper underneath the greeting is just a narrow strip of another designer paper in the Frosted Floral collection and tied with a little bow made with the Crumb Cake twine in the Nature’s Twine pack. There is also a new Linen Thread coming in the Holiday Catalog that would be pretty.
The greeting is punched with the 1 3/4″ Circle Punch and the 2″ Circle Punch. I adorned it with a few of the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls. These pearls are teeny tiny and in several pretty colors, but when you mail the card, be sure to add a piece of paper inside the envelope, preferably crimped with a Paper Crimper if you have one, to protect those pearls as they go through the mail. I recently heard that some Demonstrators testing various ways of mailing cards with these kinds of embellishments felt that putting a small piece of paper towel inside the envelope protected everything the best! Make it almost the size of the envelope so it doesn’t slip away from the area you want it covering.
You will love this beautiful Frosted Floral Designer Paper when it comes out in September and can use it for many occasions. Here is another card I made with another pattern. This Frosted Floral Wishing You the Best Card will serve you well for wedding cards, graduation, and all kinds of occasions.
Almost a month ago now, I had the pleasure of having five girls and four moms over to do some stamping! The girls are all friends in Girl Scouts and/or school and they were so wonderful to work with. I initially thought that being 11-year-olds and in our rather short time frame, we wouldn’t get that many projects done. The former teacher in me always overplans, regardless, even with adults, because you never really know how fast or slow people will work. And I like nothing better than thinking up projects on my own or browsing the internet (of course!) for ideas so I had PLENTY from which to choose.
My first thought was to decorate a gift bag for them to carry home their projects and teach them how they can recycle the bags they might get at a store by decorating with paper and maybe some stamping and embellishing. The one in the photo I made a while back in this post, but it was a good sample and I used this same retired paper for the girls because I had enough of it, in different colors. They stamped different flowers in matching colors. I also had die cut their first name initial with the Large Letters Dies to glue on the tag. I love decorating bags like this.
To teach them how to make a card, I thought a birthday card is always handy to have on hand. One girl made hers for her dad who had a birthday coming up. I found this design somewhere online. It was easy to make with the Balloon Bouquet Punch and the In Color 2018-2020 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. My sample used all the same colors but some of the girls and moms traded balloons so they could have each balloon a different color. I love when people put their own twist on a project.
When I first became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, at my first workshop we made a sticky note holder (whatever brand you like to use!). This one just takes a piece of cardstock folded to fit a pad of notes inside and then decorated on the front. For this one, we used a piece of the Garden Impressions 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper on the front and then stamped a daisy with the Daisy Delight Photopolymer Stamp Set and punched with the Daisy Punch. These stamps and punch were very popular last year when they came out in the catalog and still are this year. Some people punched two daisies to layer, which was cute also! For the daisy center we used a Clear Faceted Gem.
The thank you card used the Stampin’ Up! Note Cards & Envelopes and I die cut the butterfly ahead of time with the Springtime Impressions Thinlits Dies. I got this idea online from Mary Fish. We placed a colored piece of cardstock behind the die cut and popped the butterfly up on Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals. Some call this the Eclipse Technique. For a little bling, we added the Glitter Enamel Dots.
And what’s a stamping event without candy and chocolate?! We assembled the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes and decorated with some retired designer paper and ribbon. Of course one of my favorite things to do is to cover chocolate candies with a small strip of designer paper, so I showed them how to do that for some chocolates to put in their Tiny Treat Box.
Who would have thought we would get through this many projects with 9 people in about two hours or less?! But we did, and still had extra time, I hurriedly cut some more paper and grabbed some small chocolate candy bars and we made the small Halloween slider treat with the Cat Punch. This is a fun little project that is surprising that when you pull on the ribbon at the top, it pulls the candy bar up and out of the cardstock wrapper.
I always like to make a lot of projects, I wonder if these broke a record in how many we got done in two and a half hours with nine people! The girls said they should come back for “every occasion” and were amazed at all my stamp sets on the shelf. I’m just glad they enjoyed the stamping experience. I told them all to come back to me when they are 18 and I’ll sign them up to be Demonstrators!
This Color Your Season Wreath Card is just one of the hundreds of cards you could make with the Blended Seasons Bundle. It is a set with which you can make cards and projects for all four seasons (if you are lucky enough to have four seasons where you live!). Here in Houston, Texas we have summer, summer, summer, a day or two of fall, a month of winter maybe, a week of spring and then back to summer, summer, summer. But it’s always nice to think that there is light at the end of the tunnel of summer where we can at least put out some pumpkins and fall colors and leaves and pretend that it is autumn!
Just think what you could do with just this stamped wreath from the Blended Seasons Stamp Set! Just stamp it and then color in the leaves according to the season. The wreath on this card to me looks like spring. If you colored the leaves darker greens, perhaps, it might look more like summer. And of course fall colors for a fall wreath.
The thing is about this special Blended Seasons Bundle is it is only available now during August. And August is flying by if you ask me! Be sure to take a look at the options in this suite and see if you want the stamp set only, or the Bundle with the stamp set and framelits dies. You can also order the new assortment of Watercolor Pencils, which is separate from the Bundle. These may or may not be available later on, so if you like Watercolor Pencils in Stampin’ Up! colors (years ago when I started Stampin’ Up! sold Watercolor Pencils but they were not in official Stampin’ Up! colors, that’s why these newer ones are special!), you should probably purchase these now while you can.
This Blended Seasons Bundle and Watercolor Pencils are only available until August 31! Less than two weeks!
Images © Stampin’ Up! 2018
Unless you have been inside a craft store, you probably won’t believe it is less than twelve weeks until Halloween! We are in the midst of summer and back to school, but as a mom of three, I remember that there is just a small pause after school starts while kids get acquainted, before birthday parties start, before sports and activities kick into full gear, before big school projects get assigned. THEN it all hits and before you know it, it is Halloween and we know it is a slippery slope to all the rest of the holidays until the end of the year! So the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog comes out at a good time, early enough for us to take some stock into what we want to make for the holidays and get our supplies purchased and ready to go!
Since Halloween is right around the corner (ha!), here is a card I made to get us in the mood! I love all things cute an lovely for fall and Halloween and I think this new Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper in the upcoming Holiday Catalog fills that bill! You’ll find cute witches and cauldrons, like the ones on this card, plus little spiders, bats, lovely pumpkins, and even some generic paper patterns that you can use for backgrounds or trim on Halloween cards or even on other cards.
I started with this cauldron paper, which lends itself to being cut into strips which can then be used in various ways.
For the card base, I used Basic Black Cardstock with a layer of Crushed Curry, then a layer of the designer paper with one of those “generic” backgrounds, the stars. I chose a piece of Whisper White to die cut and layer on a scalloped piece of Crushed Curry. I was just going to glue on the witch, cauldron, and greeting, but I decided it needed a little more spookiness! I used my Sponge Daubers to sponge on some spooky colors of ink for the background. I just hand cut the images from the designer paper, but you can purchase the Cauldron Framelits Dies if you prefer. My greeting is from the Trick or Treat Stamp Set, also coming in the catalog.
Since the inside of the card is Basic Black I adhered a piece of Whisper White inside for a greeting. To embellish it a bit, I added a strip of the designer paper on the side and even the little cat which is on the designer paper. I like the way it turned out for my first Halloween card of the season!
Hopefully, your Holiday Catalogs are starting to arrive in the mail if you are one of my customers. If you are looking for Stampin’ Up! products, just send me your contact information and I can mail a complimentary catalog to you! We wouldn’t want you to miss out on these great holiday products!!
I hope this Toil & Trouble Halloween Witch Card gets you in the Halloween and fall mood. I know I am in the mood, especially for cooler fall weather and time for crafting!
Who wouldn’t love this Animal Expedition Playful Animals Birthday Card? While whimsical and playful, these animals on the Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper, is not just for children! It would make cute cards and projects for children or babies, but it can be for anyone.
Even if you do not want to invest in the entire Animal Outing Bundle, I think just owning the paper can be a very good investment! And if you really love the paper, stamps, and the dies, then buy the paper and the Bundle! The Bundle saves you 10%! I’ve seen so many cute samples using this entire set! But, so far, I only own the paper because I think it is so cute! If you don’t mind some scissor-cutting, you can trim out the animals in the paper without the dies, while you are watching TV or working on your project. Or you can use various dies and punches that you may already own to cut out the animals. The paper is just adorable!
To make this card, I chose Lemon Lime Twist Cardstock for the card base with a layer of the smaller animal pattern. I used the greeting from the Detailed With Love Stamp Set. It is die cut with an oval in the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and layered on a scalloped oval in the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies. The ribbon is the Lemon Lime Twist 1/4″ Ombre Ribbon. And just for fun, I added some leaves from the Leaf Punch and sponged them a little bit on the edges.
This is one of those basic card designs that are easy for anyone to make – just a card base, a piece of designer paper and a greeting, maybe some ribbon or another pattern of designer paper, and that can be it. If you want, you can embellish even more. Keep the design and layout in mind when you need to make a card and don’t know where to start!
Remember the Stampin’ Up! Bonus Days going on now! Spend $50 and earn a $5 coupon code to use on your order in September! For every $50 you spend, you will receive a coupon code. Be sure to write them down or print out the email from Stampin’ Up! so nothing happens to your codes! Stampin’ Up! cannot replace lost codes.
This would be a good time to purchase the Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper and perhaps the entire Animal Outing Bundle along with some of the new ink pads, if you don’t have all the new colors already! Don’t forget the Reinkers! Get as much on your order as you can so you can take advantage of Bonus Days! Only two weeks left in August! OMG! You’ll want those coupon codes in September when you start shopping the Holiday Catalog beginning September 5th.
