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Painted Harvest Note Cards

Painted Harvest Note cards Once you get started making a Painted Harvest Note Card, I bet you can’t make just one! The Painted Harvest Stamp Set has such potential to make beautiful cards. And so many ink combinations to try! Once you get stamping, you don’t want to stop!

The flower stamps are actually two-step stamping and some people have tried real hard to line up the stamps exactly and stamp the center perfectly. Don’t even try! With these stamps, it really doesn’t matter. They are meant to have that imperfect watercolor look to the stamped image.

This is what Stampin’ Up! said about these stamps recently that will perhaps help you with your stamping!

“With the seasons changing, we thought it would be the perfect time to talk about one of our most popular products: the Painted Harvest Stamp Set. If you’ve ever used this autumn-themed set, you know one of its most endearing attributes is that it gives you the look and feel of painting with watercolors. And, like any work of art, there are many factors that influence your final product. We wanted to take a moment to let you know that we designed this set to help give your stamps a one-of-a-kind feel. Because this stamp set is meant to mimic the nature of watercolor, it’s particularly tricky to produce and can create varying results.

For the perfectionists among you (or those simply looking to master your craft), we thought we’d give you some tips and tricks for stampin’ like a pro!

Stamp all layers of the image.
Make sure your ink pads are well inked.
Use nice, even pressure when stamping.
Use the Stampin’ Pierce Mat.
Keep in mind that lighter colors won’t show up as deeply as darker colors.
Play around with saturation levels (e.g., stamping full strength vs. stamping off) to get your desired look.
The stamp is not supposed to match the flowers on the Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper.”

I’ve found that it is fun to use the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush either just in the flower centers or maybe a little on the flowers themselves also. This also helps if you just want to smooth out the ink a little, particularly if you have a bit of white space around the flower center. But again, it’s not supposed to be perfect, it’s the watercolored look! And the handmade look! Not perfect!

Take advantage of the Designer Series Paper Sale in October and purchase the Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper as one of your three choices…..and then choose a paper for your free one! Now is the time to get any and all of the designer papers that you like!

Also, the Whisper White and Very Vanilla Note Cards are on sale 15% off during the 10 days of the World Cardmaking Day Sale! Check out those stamp sets on the sale plus a great buy on Fast Fuse! Buy a Fast Fuse and get two refills FREE!

This is a fun time to shop at Stampin’ Up! Remember, the Designer Paper Sale Buy 3 Get 1 Free is the whole month of October, but the World Cardmaking Day Sale is only Oct. 1-10! Don’t delay!

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You Won’t Want to Miss These Stampin’ Up! Specials!

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October is a great month at Stampin’ Up! with some special sales going on! If you love our designer series papers, guess what? You get to look at the list of papers on sale and choose which three from the list you purchase and which one is free! That means you can pay for three $10 paper stacks, and get a $13 Specialty paper for free if you like! And you can order as many (and get as many free) as you would like!

The Details:

Sale period: October 1–31, 2017
All order types qualify for this promotion.
There is no limit to how many times participants can buy three packages of Designer Series Paper and get one free during this sale.
Participants can choose which three packages of Designer Series Paper they will order from the sale items and which package to receive for free.
Designer Series Paper purchased as part of a Starter Kit does not qualify for this sale.
Designer Series Paper ordered with Stampin’ Rewards does not qualify for this sale.

AND THAT’S NOT ALL!!

Only for ten days, October 1-10, you can choose these stamp sets and Note Cards for 15% off!

Also, purchase a Fast Fuse and receive two refills FREE!

Click on the images above for a more readable copy!

Check out these specials at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store! They all begin today, Sunday October 1, 2017. The World Cardmaking Day specials are only good for ten days, Oct. 1-10.

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Halloween Card Made with Scraps

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Halloween Card Made with Scraps This is an easy and fun way to make a Halloween card using scraps of Halloween designer paper! You can do this type of card for any occasion using any paper, even just plain cardstock in different colors. This card could even be embellished more but I chose to leave it simple.

The card base is Basic Black with a slight Very Vanilla layer. The paper strips are actually glued on to a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock. It’s easier to glue strips on to a piece of cardstock, trim the ends, and then layer that on the card than to try to get everything straight directly on the card. This is a great way to use up some scraps you have leftover from other projects. The strips can be the same size or they can be different widths. Just play around until you make them fit on the card. If you are layering on a piece of cardstock, you don’t have to worry about the length of the strips. Just glue them down and then trim the ends from the back of that cardstock before adhering to the card front.

On this card I just tied on a piece of Basic Black 3/8″ Shimmery Ribbon. I could have punched out a cat or cut out a pumpkin or added a greeting, but since the Halloween words were part of the paper, I just let that be the greeting.

The Spooky Night Designer Series Paper is a fun package to use for Halloween, and not all the sheets are exclusively for Halloween. They can be used for other fall cards and projects.

Be sure to check out the Spooky Night Suite of products in the Holiday Catalog!

The “12 Weeks of Christmas” is Coming!

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The "12 Weeks of Christmas" is Coming!

Our annual “12 Weeks of Christmas” campaign begins October 4, 2017!

Can you believe it??!

During this campaign, each week you are going to receive a different free project tutorial via email for the holidays! You’re going to receive ideas for cards, gifts, bags & tags over the twelve weeks leading up to Christmas. We’ll start with card ideas. It’s going to be so much fun!

The only people, however, who will get these amazing gifts from me are people on my Mailing LIst. So in order for YOU to get these holiday emails, you must be on my mailing list by Wednesday, October 4th at 1:00 PM Central Time. If you’re not, you’ll miss out!

Don’t miss out! We want you to be a part of this! To sign up for my Stamping With Karen Mailing List, here’s how to do it………..

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Remember, you have to be on my Mailing List in order to receive these special “12 Weeks of Christmas” emails each Wednesday, beginning next week October 4th. These are a special gift for my mailing list subscribers who already receive my weekly emails with Stampin’ Up! news and project ideas. We’d love to have you join us!

The “12 Weeks of Christmas” is Coming!

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The "12 Weeks of Christmas" is Coming!

You have just one week before we start our annual “12 Weeks of Christmas” campaign! Can you believe it??!

Don’t miss out! We want you to be a part of this! To sign up for my Stamping With Karen Mailing List, here’s how to do it………..

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Make Christmas Crafting Easy With TWO Season of Style Paper Pumpkin Kits

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Can you believe TWO exciting, holiday-themed kits in a row?! That will be the October and November Paper Pumpkin Kits! The way to receive BOTH of them is to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin by October 10th! Each kit stands alone, but I’m sure you will want to have both!

These Season of Style Paper Pumpkin Kits are designed for EVERYONE so you don’t have to worry if you are not already a crafter or if you think you are not artistic! This is the perfect, fun time to try Paper Pumpkin when we all need as many holiday cards and gifting items as possible! Order more than one kit and give one as a gift or invite several friends to order, and you can all get together and work on your kits!

Are you someone who always plans to make time for Christmas crafting but somehow you never get it done? Stampin’ Up! makes it easy for those happy holiday dreams to come true with October and November’s back-to-back coordinating kits. They include everything you will need to quickly and easily make two full kits of merry and bright Christmas projects—without having to set aside a huge block of time.

Subscribe to Paper Pumpkin TODAY so you don’t miss out! Just do it and it’s off your “to-do” list!

Be Sure You Get the “12 Weeks of Christmas” Emails! Coming Soon!

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Christmas Mailbox Whether we want to believe it or not, Christmas is coming soon! We always want stamping and papercrafting ideas for the holidays, the more the better! Every year I send out a weekly email leading up to Christmas with one project idea and complete instructions and supply list to my mailing list subscribers. This is an “extra” for my subscribers and only they will receive these projects. They won’t be on my blog or social media. I love doing this for them!

We usually begin with card ideas for the first several weeks, then move on to gift ideas and closer to the “last minute”, gift bag ideas, tags and wrapping ideas! Copy them exactly or use them for inspiration to come up with your own ideas….or if you’re like me, just enjoy seeing more ideas! I’m all about the ideas, even if I can’t make everything!

If you would like to receive my upcoming “12 Weeks of Christmas” emails beginning SOON, please join us! Sign up for my Mailing List today! It’s the red box in the upper right corner of my blog! You also get a FREE GIFT available to all subscribers any time, when you sign up.

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Pumpkins Halloween Card

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Pumpkins Halloween Card That’s a lot of pumpkins on this Halloween card! They are actually from the Spooky Night Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog. I got the idea for this card from one on Pinterest from several years ago, so I used the basic format and changed my design a little bit.

As you can see, the card base is a little different. The fold is on the side for one thing. I cut the Very Vanilla Cardstock in half lengthwise on the 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper instead of horizontally. Cut the cardstock in half at 4 1/4″ x 11″, score at 5 1/2″ and fold. Now cut off the top half of the front of the card. You can make this measurement whatever size you want, but I just cut mine in half. Make sure you know which side is the front of your card and which way it opens, then cut on the fold line down to wherever you want and then across the front. My bottom piece (and same as the piece I cut out) is 5 1/2″ x 2 1/8″. You can save the cut out piece for some other use.

When I had the basic card formed, I adhered a more neutral piece of the Spooky Night Paper to that front portion. You could also layer with other colors. I added a different pattern to the inside front of the car. See the photo below.

Pumpkins on a Halloween Card Inside For the pumpkins, there is a sheet of paper in the Spooky Night Paper that is all pumpkins! Some of the Patterned Pumpkins Thinlits Dies fit some, but not all, of these printed pumpkins. You can use your Big Shot and dies to cut out the pumpkins that fit. Since I was watching TV, I decided it was just as easy for me to hand cut the pumpkins with Paper Snips scissors. If you like cutting with a scissors, it’s very relaxing to cut mindlessly while watching TV! If you hate cutting, then use the Big Shot! I cut enough pumpkins to fit totally across the front of the card and some for in front of that row along the edge. I wanted LOTS of pumpkins!

Some of the pumpkins I glued with Mulitpurpose Liquid Glue and some I popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Just be careful with the glue that you know the exact pumpkin placement so that you don’t get glue on the back part that shows. You don’t want the pumpkin glued to the inside of the card! I didn’t worry about the backside of that paper showing when the card was opened, and fortunately it was an okay pattern to show.

For the background, I sponged with ink and Stamping Sponges. I always cut my sponges into pieces. Some people like to make a portion of a sponge for each color and label them. I already had a cloud template cut out from the Tree Builder Punch. I just save it and then sponge around the edges to make a cloud…..make a cloud by sponging blue around what will show up to be the white cloud! So it’s really a “mask” to keep from getting ink in a space. I sponged on some sky with Dapper Denim ink and some gray floating clouds with Smoky Slate ink. That makes it look a little spooky!

The greeting is from the Spooky Cat Photopolymer Stamp Set, punched out with the Classic Label Punch, and layered on a piece of Gold Glimmer Paper, a scrap I had laying around!

This was really an easy card to make! And I love the end result, if I do say so myself! Try something like it and see what you come up with! You can copy exactly or you might have a different idea! Get yourself some pumpkins and make a Halloween card today!

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Fall Leaves Card For the First Day of Autumn

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Fall Leaves Card For the First Day of Autumn

If you like fall colors, here is an easy fall leaves card for the first day of autumn. If you have a Big Shot and the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies, you can easily make the beautifully die cut leaves for a card. I love the delicate look of the leaves! The rest of the card is super simple, of course, except for maybe delicately gluing the leaves! But tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue and a Silicone Craft Sheet make that easier.

Yes, today is the first day of fall, not that there is ANY hint of it here in Houston, Texas where the heat and humidity is miserable! So I have to make my own fall by using fall colors and thinking ahead to Halloween! And making the air conditioner cool the house down more! The weatherman promises(?) fall weather in a week from now. We’ll see. Even if we have it, no telling if it will last, and it most likely will not! We had some lovely cooler weather after Hurricane Harvey, a blessing for those who had damaged homes and no power or air-conditioning. But now it is hot again….and worse, very humid.

This card is made with Early Espresso Cardstock for the card base and layered with a piece of paper from the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack. I wanted the colored leaves against the wood-look background. The greeting is stamped with a stamp in the Wood Words Stamp Set. On the inside, I will probably put a piece of Very Vanilla Cardstock and adhere a small leaf or a strip of the Wood Textures paper along the side or at the bottom. When you have a dark card base like this one, you need to put a light layer of cardstock inside so you can write or stamp your message.

If you want to be precise, the 2017 Autumn Equinox today will be at 3:02 PM Central Time. Celebrate this afternoon by making your own fall cards or projects! If you have the September Paper Pumpkin kit, this afternoon would be a good time to sit down and make the projects inside to celebrate autumn arriving.

Watch this video for extra inspiration, even if you don’t have the kit! And if you don’t own the kit, subscribe to Paper Pumpkin today, and if any extra kits are available, you will be able to purchase one on your regular Stampin’ Up! order after you are officially a Paper Pumpkin subscriber. Besides, you won’t want to miss the coordinating holiday crafting kits coming in October and November! Join Paper Pumpkin today!

Enjoy the first day of fall and look forward to the upcoming holidays! Do some fall stamping today, on the first day of fall, whether just for a “Thinking of You” card or a card you will send over Thanksgiving.

Learn New Embossing Techniques

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You will enjoy this video from the Stampin’ Up! Home Office about embossing techniques and learn new things! Embossing with the Heat Tool is one of the things that really amazes new people to our craft when they see it demonstrated! I think heat embossing remains magical even to us experienced stampers every time we do it, especially with the metallic embossing powders!

After stamping and applying the embossing powder, the Heat Tool melts the powder and leaves a raised, stamped image that really adds some pizzazz to your stamping repertoire.

You do need the Stampin’ Up! Heat Tool in order to do this kind of heat embossing. Ours has the metal tip that gets hot while in use that is protected by a plastic cover. This makes it safer to use. I recommend always unplugging the heat tool when not in use, just so it doesn’t fall off the shelf or get bumped and accidentally turn on. I also generally recommend letting the tool heat up for a moment or two before aiming it at the embossing powder.

Be sure to use the Embossing Buddy by rubbing across your paper before stamping. This eliminates some of the static and keeps the embossing powder from sticking outside the area you are going to emboss. After applying the embossing powder and dumping off the excess, be sure to look over your piece and try to wipe off any stray specks of embossing powder. I like to keep a small watercolor brush handy to wipe off any stray powder.

We used to have separate Craft Ink pads that were good to use when embossing. However, as you see in this video, if you work quickly, you can use our current ink pads before the ink dries. It is worth your while for many other reasons to own the Versamark Ink Pad and surely every stamper has one! This works great for embossing and is mostly what everyone uses. Be sure to have the Versamark Refill because you will definitely need it.

I love this gold embossed Definitely Dahlia card I made that you can see HERE.

If you haven’t already tried heat embossing, you might want to after watching this Stampin’ Up! video! Try it, I think you will like it! It certainly is impressive on cards and projects and will stun the recipients! They will think you are a highly talented professional (which, of course, you are!). You can choose various embossing powders to use. I recommend gold or silver to begin with just for their stunning beauty!

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Heat Tool (Us And Canada)
$30.00

Embossing Buddy
$6.00

Versamark Pad
$8.50

Versamark Refill
$5.00

White Stampin’ Emboss Powder
$5.00

Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder
$5.00

Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder
$5.00

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder
$5.00

Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder
$5.00

Quick and Easy Christmas Card in Green and Black

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Here’s a quick and easy Christmas card made in the trendy colors of green and black. What do you think? Often there are different colors and combinations of colors that pop up to use for Christmas just to get away from the traditional red and green. Sometimes there are really different colors like pink and light blue or purples, etc. So I think ultimately almost any colors CAN be used and can be very pretty and holiday-like, but maybe are just not what we are used to!

The Stampin’ Up! suite in the new Holiday Catalog is called Merry Little Christmas that has these colors in the designer papers. If you look closely at many of the patterns in the Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper you will see that they can be used outside of Christmas. For example, the Basic Black and Old Olive plaid on the card above could be used for birthdays, invitations, masculine cards, and more.

The greeting is from the Snowflake Sentiments Stamp Set. This stamp set is not in the Merry Little Christmas Suite but certainly can be used on any cards. It is die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and layered on the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies.

For a little pizzazz, I added some Gold Mini Sequin Trim underneath the greeting as well as some Metallic Enamel Shapes in Gold adhered to the greeting.

If you need to make a lot of Christmas cards, you might consider just a basic card like this – a card base, a layer of designer paper and a nice die cut greeting! Very quick and easy to make!

Take a look at the Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper! Some of the patterns are more clearly for the holidays, but take a look at the stripes and the plaid, the polka dots and the leaves! Those leaves can be used on spring cards with flowers!

Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper

Check out the entire Merry Little Christmas Suite! There are so many fun products and embellishments to use on your projects!

Halloween Card with Spooky Cat

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Here’s a pretty easy Halloween card to make with a spooky cat! If you are a cat lover, Stampin’ Up! has made it easy for you this fall season to enjoy cats! We have the new Spooky Night Designer Series Paper with a whole page of cats! And Stampin’ Up! makes it even more fun with the new Cat Punch! How crazy is that?! You can use the Cat Punch on both the designer paper and on stamped images! This cat is punched out of the designer paper and adhered on to the card.

Some of the coordinating colors with this Spooky Night Paper are Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze. For this card, I made the card base Pumpkin Pie and a polka dot panel of the designer paper. To make the paper stand out a bit, I put a narrow layer of Very Vanilla behind it.

One of the fun stamp sets this season is the Labels To Love Stamp Set. It has enough greetings to cover several occasions and has a cute one for Halloween. I used the Stampin’ Write Markers in Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, and Cajun Craze to color directly on the stamp to get a multi-colored look. The fun thing about the labels in this stamp set is that there is a punch to match – the Everyday Label Punch by Stampin’ Up! Since I wanted to layer the stamped Very Vanilla piece on to Cajun Craze I had to trim down the Very Vanilla label. It was pretty easy with my Paper Snips and just following the lines on the label itself to make it a little bit smaller. Then I just punched a plain label of Cajun Craze.

To jazz things up a little bit, I did three things. Before I layered the labels I adhered a bit of the Vintage Crochet Trim in Basic Black in the Holiday Catalog to the bottom of the vanilla label. Next I made a little Gold Glimmer banner to go underneath the label and adhered the label with Stampin’ Dimensionals. And for just a finishing touch, I stuck on two Black Rhinestone Jewels. They are already black so you don’t have to color the regular rhinestones yourself!

It’s time to make Halloween cards, so check out the Holiday Catalog and all the great products so you can order what you want for cardmaking or Halloween partying!

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Autumn Themed Thank You Card with Painted Autumn Paper

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Can you really make too many cards with this Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper like this autumn-themed thank you card? This package of paper has so many pretty patterns in it, and one that is stunning is this one with the watercolored sunflowers printed on it. You can use the

The card base for this card is Very Vanilla with an Early Espresso Cardstock layer. That has a Very Vanilla layer on it but the bottom half has a piece of the Painted Harvest sunflower paper adhered to it. I tied around some Crushed Curry Solid Baker’s Twine a few times.

The greeting is stamped with a “Thank You” from the Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set. It’s die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and layered on a die cut from the Layering Ovals Set. The greeting is adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop it up over the twine. Just for fun I took a piece of the Crushed Curry Twine and made a little bow and stuck it on the greeting with a Mini Glue Dot or you could use a tiny drop of Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

The leaves are stamped with the two-step stamping in the Painted Harvest Photopolymer Stamp Set. Then for the fun part! Punch out the leaves with the new Leaf Punch! Then I just tucked the punched out leaves underneath the greeting. You could also cut the leaves apart and use them individually.

I think the sunflower patterned paper has such a rich look to it. You will love all the Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper for your fall and Thanksgiving cards. Some of the papers can be used for other occasions as well.

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Make a Fall Card With Painted Autumn Paper

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You can make a beautiful fall card so easily with the Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog! I had been doing a lot of stamping with the flower stamps in the Painted Harvest Stamp Set, but there is this sheet of paper printed with sunflowers in the Painted Autumn paper package that I decided to use instead of stamping.

The card base is Very Vanilla with an Early Espresso layer over it. I had a slightly different idea for using the designer paper, but once I cut this sunflower paper, I saw that the other side of it had the blue and green patterned paper and thought maybe I could use it somehow. So instead of using a Very Vanilla pattern on the other side of the flowered paper, I used the other side of the patterned paper that coordinates. Before gluing down to the Early Espresso layer, I wrapped a piece of Copper Trim around the center of the designer papers. It’s easier to either glue both pieces of designer paper down on to Very Vanilla cardstock or to make one piece larger so they can be glued together before layering.

I also cut out a sunflower from the patterned paper including the leaves and adhered that to the corner of the card, popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. This gives a little interest to that plainer paper without overpowering the card. Paper Snips are great scissors to use for detailed cutting like this.

For the greeting I used a stamp in the Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set. It is stamped in Early Espresso and die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelit Dies. This piece is then layered on a piece of Early Espresso die cut with the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies. For an extra touch, I tied a bow with the Copper Trim and adhered it to the greeting with a Glue Dot.

The amazing thing about the 1/4″ Copper Trim is that you can pull it apart a little bit to give it a different look. And if you don’t like it, just pull on it and it goes back to the original shape! Really fun!

You can see a card I made with another pattern of the Painted Autumn Paper here.

I’m sure once you take a look at the Painted Autumn Suite of products, pictured in the Holiday Catalog on pages 48-49, you will want to purchase many, if not all, of the beautiful products. You can make cards to send to friends and family for any occasion or for Thanksgiving or lovely gift bags for fall birthdays or hostess gifts.

Be sure to notice the Painted Harvest Photopolymer Bundle which includes the stamp set and Leaf Punch at a 10% savings.

Once you have some or all of these products in your hands, you will want to make lots of fall cards!

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Make a Nostalgic Birthday Card With Birthday Memories

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I love this Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper and the whole Birthday Memories Suite of products in the Annual Stampin’ Up! Catalog, so I thought I would make this card for a friend’s birthday. It was a “big” birthday for her and I debated what kind of special card to make for her. I just thought she would like this “vintage” look kind of card.

The card base is the new Powder Pink Cardstock, randomly stamped with the little bouquet in the Birthday Delivery Photopolymer Stamp Set with the same color ink. This gives a little bit of interest in the background without taking away from the focal point. I used a piece of Powder Pink 1/2″ Finely Woven Ribbon wrapped around the card.

The cute little girl is die cut from the Birthday Memories Paper with one of the Birthday Friends Framelits Dies that fits the girl! Also, the red polka dot package is die cut! The other little package I just cut out by hand with my Paper Snips. Something new that we can use the framelits to die cut images on the designer paper! And very handy!

The little girl is adhered to a Whisper White oval die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. This is layered on a piece of Silver Glimmer Paper die cut with the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies.

The greeting is stamped from the Birthday Delivery Stamp Set. If you want to save 10%, you can purchase the Birthday Delivery Photopolymer Bundle which includes the stamp set and framelit dies.

I also stamped the envelope with a birthday cake in Powder Pink. Stampin’ Up! has the best envelopes! Try the Whisper White Medium Envelopes! Once you do, you’ll never go back to ordinary envelopes for your precious cards! I can identify them by feel if I get a Stampin’ Up! envelope in the mail!!

And here is a glimpse of the inside of the card!

I just die cut another character on the designer paper and adhered him inside the card on a piece of Whisper White! So fun! I wrote a note to my friend saying we weren’t getting older, just “nostalgic”! I knew she would enjoy the “vintage” characters!

Take a look at the Birthday Memories Suite in the Annual Stampin’ Up! Catalog and see if you can resist ordering it for making some fun cards and projects!

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