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Abigail Rose Get Well Card

I just got this Bundle and designer paper recently and tried it out with this Abigail Rose Get Well Card. I wish I hadn’t waited so long because it all looks beautiful and I certainly have seen beautiful cards online made with these products! I bought them because I wanted them and the Cottage Rose Bundle is going to be used in the Stampin’ Up! Virtual Event, FREE for everyone, to be held this coming Saturday, October 1st on World Card Making Day! You are invited to join in, whether you stamp along during the event or whether you just watch and enjoy! There will be a replay if you want to watch it again or if you miss the live event. If you don’t have the Bundles they are using, just substitute with what you have.

For my first card with the Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper and the Cottage Rose Bundle, I wanted to start with something simple. I’m kind of fascinated with the designs and colors of the paper in the package. I don’t know that we’ve had a package before of “brownish” papers. These are all beautiful.

The card base is Early Espresso with a layer of this brownish floral pattern in the Abigail Rose DSP. Who would think some dark brown floral images on a Crumb Cake background could look so pretty and elegant?! I also purchased the Natural Finish Ribbon in the same suite of products. It is quite wide but very pretty. I haven’t tried it yet, but according to the catalog sample, it can be stamped on! This ribbon is made of flax and a cotton blend so it looks a lot like burlap but a lot more sophisticated! I simply adhered it across the width of the card.

The Cottage Rose Stamp Set has beautiful flowers and foliage and very nice greetings. The greeting on this card is one in the set, stamped in Early Espresso ink. I die-cut the greeting using the label in the All That Dies. To embellish the greeting a little bit, I stamped a few of the small flowers in the set around the edge in Crumb Cake ink.

The die-cut leaves were stamped in Crumb Cake ink on Very Vanilla cardstock and one stamped on Crumb Cake cardstock. The greeting is popped up on the Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals at the top and bottom so they would fit above and below the wide ribbon. Then I just tucked the die-cut leaves underneath, cutting some stems to make them a little shorter to fit better.

On the inside of the card, I added a Very Vanilla layer stamped in the corners with one of the flowers in the stamp set.

For my first try with this Cottage Rose Bundle and Abigail Rose Designer Paper, I made a simple but elegant card with a greeting to send to someone who is under the weather for whatever reason and those are good cards to have on hand, ready to send when needed.

I hope you will try to at least watch part of the Stampin’ Up! Virtual Event on Saturday or the replay. I don’t know what this one will be like but Stampin’ Up! events of any kind are always fun and worthwhile. Maybe you will pick up some new ideas or maybe it will just be some time for yourself to relax and watch some beautiful stamping! Just go to the Virtual Stamping Event page to find the link to join. The time of the event will be 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Mountain Time on Saturday, October 1st.

Warm Welcome Trick or Treat Halloween Card

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You may not recognize this open door stamp or the kitty, but they are from an early release of a stamp set and dies that will be coming in the January-June 2023 Spring Mini Catalog! They are out early because they will be used in the Stampin’ Up! Virtual Card Making Day Event next Saturday, October 1st! I wondered if I could turn it into a Halloween card along with the Scary Cute Stamp Set and I ended up making this Warm Welcome Trick or Treat Halloween Card! We have lots to discuss here!

This new stamp set is the Warm Welcome Stamp Set. There are also the Warm Welcome Dies, but you can only purchase the stamp set and dies together in the Warm Welcome Bundle right now. I don’t know if they will go away after World Card Making Day or what will happen, so if you like this Bundle, whether you are participating in WCMD next Saturday, I would go ahead and order this Bundle! There are lots of stamps and lots of dies so this will be a fun set to play with!

The Stampin’ Up! WCMD virtual event is FREE for EVERYONE next Saturday! The Bundles they will be working with and demonstrating are the Cottage Wreaths Bundle, the Cottage Rose Bundle, and as I said, the Warm Welcome Bundle. And if you purchase one or more of these Bundles, add the Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels (item 158987) to your order after you have a Bundle in your cart and you will get the Jewels FREE! If you would like to register so you can be notified about the event, register HERE, but it is not required at all. You don’t even have to stamp along, own these stamp sets, or anything. You can just WATCH! If you miss the live event, you can watch the replay. Read all about this Virtual Event HERE.

To make this card, I started with a Basic Black card base and a layer of So Saffron. As it turned out, I had this Ornate Floral (retired) embossed piece in the package of paper and I thought it looked like wallpaper inside a house, so I used it. You could use another embossing folder, stamp a piece of cardstock, use a piece of designer paper, or simply leave the cardstock plain.

I stamped the door and frame (one stamp) with Memento ink and die-cut it. Since I wanted it to look like the front door had been opened and therefore you would see the outdoors with the trick-or-treater at the doorstep, I masked the edge of the door so I could add color inside the frame for the Halloween sky. To do this masking, I used the brand new Stampin’ Up! Masking Paper! It worked like a charm. It was the first time I used it! I just cut narrow strips the length of three sides of the door (top and sides) so that when I added the color, it wouldn’t get on the door frame. When you peel off the backing of the Masking Paper there is adhesive to hold it in place and is easy to pull off when you are finished masking whatever you are covering up. I used a Blending Brush to just add several ink colors to look like a Halloween sky. I used Night of Navy, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, and some Basic Gray at the bottom. There are other color combinations you could use! Just play!

The door and frame are colored in with multiple colors of brown using Stampin’ Blends! I started with Light and Dark Crumb Cake but then I played around adding darker shades of brown and used some of the Natural Tones markers, too. As I said, just play!

The blue piece at the bottom of the card is meant to look like a carpet inside the house. It’s one of the patterns in the 2022-2024 In Color 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I just cut a 1 3/4″ strip of it. Perhaps I should have glued the door right at the top edge of the carpet!

It would be a good idea to stamp the little trick-or-treater in the doorway before adhering to the card. I got lucky and the stamping still worked okay, but I did use the Stamparatus so that I could re-stamp it if the image didn’t turn out dark enough. The embossed paper underneath didn’t cause a problem; that’s what I was worried about. You usually want to do all the stamping before assembling the card so if you mess up, the whole card isn’t ruined! The “Boo!” and bats are also in the Scary Cute Stamp Set with the trick-or-treater. The cute little cat is in the Warm Welcome Bundle as well. I colored him with Stampin’ Blends.

On the inside of the card, I added a Basic White layer stamped with a greeting in the Scary Cute Stamp Set, plus the group of three trick-or-treaters and a moon!

Warm Welcome Trick or Treat Halloween Card Inside

Be sure to mark October 1st on your calendar for World Card Making Day and plan to watch or stamp along with the Stampin’ Up! Virtual event! You can use similar stamp sets you might already own, or as I said before, just enjoy watching the stamping! A few days before the event, a link will be added to this page. Return here and click the Join Event link to participate. The time will be 2:00 – 5:00 PM Mountain Time. Enjoy!

Hello Harvest First Day of Fall Pumpkin Card

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Today is the first day of fall so I thought I would make this Hello Harvest First Day of Fall Pumpkin Card, possibly with the hope that it would feel like fall where I live! No such luck, it’s still as hot as almost any summer day here. I’m ready to see colored leaves and wear a jacket in cool weather so I hope this card will bring us a weather change soon!

I used the Holiday Mini Catalog for the idea for this card. I pretty much copied one of the samples on page 50 in the Rustic Harvest Suite. But I did change some things!

The card base is Crushed Curry with a layer of a piece of the Rustic Harvest Designer Series Paper. At the top and bottom of this black and white piece of designer paper, I added just a narrow strip of a different pattern in the Rustic Harvest paper.

The really fun part of this card was stamping the pumpkins in the Hello Harvest Stamp Set, die-cutting them with the Rustic Pumpkin Dies, and then coloring them! The two orange pumpkins on the sides are colored with Stampin’ Blends, mostly the Pumpkin Pie Combo but I also used tiny amounts of some other colors. Just play with the markers and see what you get! The center pumpkin I tried to copy from the catalog but I got it a lot darker than I would have liked. The sample in the Holiday Catalog uses watercolor paper and the pumpkin is colored with a Water Painter and Merry Merlot ink. I had to be careful because I was only using Basic White cardstock which, of course, doesn’t handle water as well as watercolor paper! But it worked out all right except I like the lighter-colored pumpkin in the sample.

For the fall leaves, I used the stamp in the Hello Harvest Stamp Set. Rather than using an ink pad, I used various colors of Stampin’ Write Markers. You can apply color directly to the stamp with one color and then just dab on other fall colors. If you get a darker color on a marker just scribble with it on scrap paper to get the excess ink off. Then “huff” on it with your breath and stamp. There is also a die to cut out the leaves. I really had fun making assorted leaves to add on at the base of the pumpkins.

To assemble the card, after adhering the designer paper piece, I adhered the two side pumpkins with Multipurpose Liquid Glue and popped up the middle one with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I very carefully added some glue to the back of little pumpkin vines to adhere to the pumpkins.

The greeting is stamped on the same designer paper that I used for the strips at the top and bottom of the black & white paper. It is in the Hello Harvest Stamp Set. Behind the diecut greeting, I added some Gold & Vanilla 3/8″ Satin Edged Ribbon going back and forth. Then I placed the little die-cut flowers around the card as well.

Here is another card I made with just a single colored and diecut pumpkin.

If you want to get in a fall mood, be sure to order the Hello Harvest Bundle and maybe the Rustic Harvest Designer Paper and have fun!

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True Beauty Floral Lattice Card

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This True Beauty Floral Lattice Card came from finding scraps on my table! I could tell you how I was busy stamping and die-cutting a whole bunch of flowers and leaves for this card, but all I did was try to clean up a little messy pile on my table and I thought I should go ahead and make a card right that minute! I suppose one time when I made another True Beauty card, I may have stamped many flowers and cut them but only used enough for that one card. Maybe it was THIS CARD. I don’t really know! But it was fun making a card from scraps! If you have a pile of any kind of scraps, see what you can make!

This card is made with the True Beauty Bundle in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. If you want both the True Beauty Stamp Set and the Organic Beauty Dies, you can purchase the Bundle and save 10%. With this stamp set, I would say you probably DO want the Bundle because you get this really nice lattice die to use for a background,

The card base is So Saffron with a background layer of Gold Foil die cut with the lattice die in the Organic Beauty Dies. The flowers were all stamped in various colors and die cut along with the greenery. Some of my greenery is from another die set(s). It would be good to use Adhesive Sheets on the back of the Gold Foil before die-cutting so you don’t need to apply glue.

I just placed some flowers and leaves around on the card front. Some are adhered flat and some are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. When doing a project like this, don’t put glue or Dimensionals everywhere on the back of what you are gluing. You want to have some space to be able to slide another flower partially under another or slip some leaves underneath the flowers.

I added some Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels to the flower centers. I chose not to put a greeting on the front of this card. For one thing, the card front is pretty full as it is, but also, I kind of like it for just a pretty card that I can write a note inside without any specific greeting. Or I can wait until I use the card and add an appropriate greeting.

A way to get those Iridescent Pearls FREE is to purchase one of the Bundles that are going to be used on World Card Making Day October 1st! If you would like to join the Stampin’ Up! Virtual event of cardmaking, just tune in at the appropriate time! The link will be on the Stampin’ Up! website. If you like, but not required, you can register HERE and Stampin’ Up! will send you updates on the event. You can watch live, stamp along, or simply watch! If you miss it, you can watch the replay later! I’m sure it will be fun so plan on joining. The Bundles they will be stamping with (not that you are required to have them or purchase them) are the Cottage Wreaths Bundle, the Cottage Rose Bundle, and the brand-new Warm Welcome Bundle! This Bundle will be in the January-June 2023 Mini Catalog!

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Scary Cute Halloween Happiness Card

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It was a busy weekend, but I felt like making a fun Halloween card and this Scary Cute Halloween Happiness Card came about! Only two weeks left in September if you can believe that! Halloween will be here before we know it! I like the look of this little girl out trick-or-treating and the greeting “Halloween Happiness” because happiness for kids in the fall is dressing up and going out trick-or-treating and filling their bags with candy and treats!

The card base is Orchid Oasis (but the Parakeet Party green for the background for the photo makes it look like that might be good for the card base with a LAYER of Orchid Oasis! The Orchid Oasis has a layer of Pumpkin Pie and a strip of the dark star pattern in the Black & White Designs Designer Series Paper. I added three rows of three colors in the Glitter Washi Tape Pack across the designer paper. Love the Glitter Washi Tape! There are four colors in the pack you can choose from or use all of them! Perfect for Halloween or really any festive occasion!

The Scary Cute Stamp Set and the Scary Silhouettes Dies come together in a Bundle which saves 10% if you want both. The stamp set is cute in itself, but with this set I think you will also want the dies as they are so different and fun for Halloween! You get the interesting frame with the tree branches, bats, a black cat, and a seemingly haunted house! The stamp set has cute silhouettes of several different trick or treaters and fun sentiments for Halloween cards and projects!

I die cut the frame out of Basic Black and the background out of Parakeet Party. I just glued the frame over the background and stamped the girl on the background. I did use my Stamparatus to get a good stamped image over three times, maybe I needed to reink my ink pad better! If you ever have an image that doesn’t stamp as well as you would like, you often can use a marker or reinker to lightly fill in the areas that didn’t stamp well. I also stamped the Halloween greeting in the lower corner of the card. The bats are adhered at the top of the card. For a little more sparkle besides the washi tape, I added some yellow Glossy Dots in Daffodil Delight.

We’re about to embark on the fun part of the year for crafters and papercrafters with all the holidays coming up! Start early and enjoy the process. Make some Halloween or fall cards to send to friends and family and surprise them when they find “real mail” in their mailbox! Here is another fun card I made with the Scary Cute Bundle but just blended some colors in the background, stamped the figures in black, and added die cut bats and the haunted house!

You’ll find the Scary Cute Bundle in the Holiday Mini Catalog so use this Scary Cute Halloween Happiness Card as an example of what you can make with it!

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Jingle Jingle Jingle Christmas Card With Bells

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This Jingle Jingle Jingle Christmas Card With Bells was fun to design! This stamp set, Jingle Jingle Jingle, is probably a less noticed one in the Holiday Mini Catalog because it’s not part of a Suite or Bundle. However, it’s a fun stamp set with cute words and extra little stamps like a candy cane, Christmas lights, stars, and Santa hat, plus fun words to use as sentiments.

This card has a card base of Real Red and a layer of Basic White. I simply spaced out the stamped word “Jingle” using my Stamparatus to make sure I had it straight and that it stamped the image well in Real Red ink. I didn’t really do it the “right” way with my Stamparatus (I should have just moved the plate down instead of placing the stamp on the card where I wanted it!) but it turned out just fine. Using the lines on the Stamparatus, I could see if I had the word straight.

In between the words, I stamped the string of Christmas lights. These are stamped in Memento ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. I used Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, Orchid Oasis, and Daffodil Delight. You can use the Light or Dark marker or any other colors you like for Christmas. Another tip would be to add some Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to each light bulb for a little bit of sparkle up close.

I added two Flat Jingle Bell Trinkets to the bottom of the card. I’m not sure where the red and white baker’s twine came from but it was on my desk so I used it! I ran the twine through the holes in the bell trinkets but glued down the bells with Mini Glue Dots. These bells are flat which is great because they will be easier to go through the mail. So cute!

I almost added some Iridescent Rhinestones or some jewels for a little sparkle, but then I decided to use the star stamp in the set stamped with Daffodil Delight ink.

On the inside of the card, I added a Basic White layer stamped with two rows of Christmas lights and one of the phrases in the set that goes with the bells. I could also stamp or write “Merry Christmas” underneath when I send the card and sign it.

Jingle Jingle Jingle Christmas Card With Bells inside

Whether we like to think so or not, it’s the middle of September already, and time to get ahead of ourselves and start making our cards and projects so we won’t be so rushed when the holidays arrive! I am saying this to myself!

This Jingle Jingle Jingle Stamp Set is a good stamp set to use because you can make several different versions of cards with this set. The whimsical images will be fun to use!

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TODAY ONLY! Stampin’ Up! Stamp Sale!

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Today is the day!

For 24 hours ONLY you can purchase any of the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog stamp sets (except Host Reward stamp sets) for 15% off!

This sale does NOT include the Holiday Mini stamp sets.

Stamp sets available WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

ALSO!!….

Don’t forget about the September Weekly Deals!

New ones posted today!

SHOP TWO SALES IN ONE! AND DON’T FORGET THE CLEARANCE RACK! (Just a few things!)

HAPPY SHOPPING!

Favorite Stamp Sets and Cards

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Stampin’ Up! Stamp Sale TOMORROW, September 15!

One Day Only!

Yesterday we got word to make out our lists to get ready for the 24-Hour Stamp Sale at Stampin’ Up! tomorrow, Thursday, September 15, 2022! What do stampers love more than a sale on any of the products we use?! Each stamp set is 15% off.

I was under the impression this very long list of stamps was a “select” collection of sets on sale, but as I went through my catalog last night I realized that it was EVERY stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog except for the Host stamp sets in the back of the catalog. Maybe there is some other exception, but this is what I understand now.

The Holiday Mini Catalog is NOT included in the sale.

SEE THE LIST OF STAMP SETS ON SALE HERE!

In the photo above are some cards I made with current stamp sets that I still had in my stash. Some of these may be your favorites too or ones that you just haven’t purchased yet! Tomorrow is the time!

Here are the stamp sets I used on the cards above, starting at the top, in case you want to know:

Cup of Tea, Amazing Silhouettes, Celebrate Sunflowers, Sending Smiles, (maybe this one is retired), Color & Contour, True Beauty, Art Gallery, Jar of Flowers, Forever Fern, Beauty of Friendship, Hello Ladybug, Blessings of Home, Biggest Wish.

Hope I got those all right except for one! So many more to choose from, too!

Enjoy the day browsing through the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog and make a list for tomorrow! Don’t forget you can stack other bargains with the Stamp Sale, like the Perfect Partners Dies, the Weekly Deals, any Bundles you may want for World Card Making Day plus the FREE pearls (add to your order and they should come up free), the Clearance Rack, the new Gifting Christmas Kit Collection, and whatever else you want!

Happy Shopping!

Stamp Sale on Thursday!

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24 Hour Stamp Sale 2022 — Click to see the List!

Find yourself staring at multiple stamp sets and can’t decide which one to get? On Thursday, September 15, 2022, you can get those sets you’ve wanted at a 15% discount. This is a deal you do not want to miss out on! The 24-Hour Stamp Sale will only last for one day, so make sure you are ready to shop ‘til you drop! It’s time to expand your collection!

For 24 hours on September 15th almost all the stamp sets from the 2022–2023 Annual Catalog will be available for purchase at a 15% discount!

Holiday Catalog stamp sets NOT included!

SEE THE STAMP SALE LIST HERE!

On Thursday, you can look on the Online Store in the Stamp Sale category to find all the sets on sale!

Sales Period: 15 September 2022 12:00am to 11:59 p.m. (MT)

DETAILS:
This stamp sale only happens once a year!
The sale will run for 24 hours.
The 15% discount will apply to select stamps from the 2022–2023 Annual Catalog.
Check out the list of stamps included in the sale and be ready to act quickly!
Stamp sets are available while supplies last!

SHOP HERE ON THURSDAY!

Don’t forget the September Weekly Deals! There will be new ones by Thursday! Get a double sale!

Design A Daydream Just For You Card

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The other day I was looking through my designer paper and realized I hadn’t really used this Design A Daydream Designer Series Paper very much and it is actually quite a pretty and interesting package of papers! I thought for the next card I was going to make, I would just make something simple and easy with this paper and this Design a Daydream Just For You Card is what turned out!

This package of designer paper is in the back of the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on page 179 at the very top of the page so it is kind of easy to miss. There is also a correction on the description. There are 48 sheets of paper, not 12, 4 each of 12 designs! Now that is a lot of paper and a lot of designs to choose from! However, this is a Host Reward set, which means you cannot purchase it, but you can choose it for your Stampin’ Rewards with an order of $150 or more. There are also three stamp sets on that page at prices lower than their actual value, so you might want to check that whole page!

This card starts with a card base of Mint Macaron, one of the coordinating colors of the Design A Daydream Paper. I chose a floral pattern for the card layer, but I also added a 1″ strip on the left side, a striped pattern, just for some other little pattern. The ribbon does kind of cover it up a little bit, though! Before adhering the designer paper layer to the front of the card, wrap the ribbon around the side of the card. I used the Petal Pink 3/8″ Soft Polyester Ribbon. This ribbon is so soft, has a rich feel, and is beautiful to use. I intended to tie a bow and adhere it, but the bow was going to be a little bulky so I settled for just a knot and I actually really like it. The card is designed to be soft and simple and I think just tying a knot around the ribbon keeps with that design.

The greeting is stamped from the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set using Petal Pink ink on Basic White, Then it is diecut with a small stitched circle in the Stylish Shapes Dies and layered on a small scalloped edge circle in the Layering Circles Dies. I popped that up with Stampin’ Dimensionals® and added three Champagne Rhinestones on the card for a little bling and sparkle!

This card was just that quick and easy and you can make a card like this for almost any occasion. Use a pattern or two of designer paper, add a greeting, and maybe some embellishment or bling! The recipient will think you spent hours designing and making it!

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Paper Pumpkin Holiday Kit!!

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‘Tis the season to make your own Christmas cards with the Ho Ho Ho Paper Pumpkin Kit! This kit contains whimsical designs of Santa and his reindeer in a classic Christmas color palette which is sure to match various styles of holiday décor and look great on mantles everywhere.

Each kit contains enough supplies to create 9 festive cards—3 each of 3 designs—and 9 coordinating envelopes. These cards are sure to bring a warm holiday spirit.

And word from the North Pole is that this kit coordinates with next month’s Paper Pumpkin tag kit and the special add-on product! With so much coordination between products, you’ll have a breeze at creating a cohesive look for all your holiday gifting needs. Make this season the most wonderful time of the year for your loved ones—and for yourself!

My Spooky Treats Paper Pumpkin Kit isn’t even here yet but already I can’t wait to get these next two coordinating kits! If you want extras, just change the quantity in your account! The Holidays are definitely coming! This is an easy and fun way to get ready!

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If you don’t care for a monthly subscription, purchase a Prepaid Subscription on your regular Stampin’ Up! order for the number of months that you choose!

Best Witches and Frogs Halloween Card

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I was in the mood for some coloring and I even thought I would try for different colors on this Halloween witch. In the end, I don’t think I strayed too far from typical Halloween colors except for her Melon Mambo dress! This Best Witches and Frogs Halloween Card is one you make just to have fun coloring and playing!

I started off using the Best Witches Stamp Set and stamping the stamp with the witch and her cauldron on Basic White cardstock with Memento ink. I colored her with a bunch of different Stampin’ Blends. You can see some of the colors I used in the photo below. I also used some of the Natural Tones markers for her face and hands and the logs for the fire. I also stamped a frog but decided to cut him out separately, and then I decided on stamping and cutting out some more frogs!

After I had the witch stamped and colored in with her cauldron, I diecut the image with the largest circle in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I wanted to layer it on a scalloped circle in the Layering Circles Dies, but it wasn’t large enough so I just cut out two square layers, Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie. The black one is 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ and the Pumpkin Pie is 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. I used the Black & White Designs Designer Series Paper with the black stars as the layer on the Starry Sky cardstock card base. Before adhering the designer paper, I wrapped around some ribbon. I colored the White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon with the Dark Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Blend. Just do it on top of a piece of scrap paper and run the side of the brush tip of the marker along the ribbon, holding it down at one end with your finger. Give it a little bit of time to dry completely or even rub a tissue along it to remove any ink that hadn’t dried yet. I tied the bow separately and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot.

Back to the stamped and die-cut witch piece. I colored underneath with a bit of light gray marker. For the sky, I thought I would try Soft Pastels in various colors. I started off picking up some chalk color with a Blender Pen but then I just scribbled on various colors for the Halloween night sky and softened them with the Blender Pen. You have to be a bit careful to not make the paper pill up from having too much moisture or rubbing too much. But you can get away with a lot for a Halloween sky! After adhering this piece to the front of the card above the ribbon, I adhered the little frogs, two with Stampin’ Dimensionals and one flat on the card with the Multipurose Liquid Glue.

The greeting is in the Best Witches Stamp Set and is stamped in Pumpkin Pie ink and die cut with one of the Tailor Made Tags . I decided to tuck it under the bow so I added another Mini Glue Dot to hold the ribbon in place over the tag hole and put a frog partly on the end of the tag. That’s all there is to this fun Best Witches and Frogs Halloween Card!

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Glitter Washi Tape Birthday Card

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I saw this idea of using our Glitter Washi Tape this way on the @Stampinupofficial Instagram account the other day and I loved the idea! Because of the colors, I assumed they were suggesting this was a way to make a Halloween card. While that would be very cute, I thought I could make a Glitter Washi Tape Birthday Card with three of the four washi tape colors! And I did! But I’m also dying to make a Halloween card using this technique, too!

The main idea is to use the Black & White Designs Designer Series Paper and add strips of the Glitter Washi Tape in the Holiday Mini Catalog on page 57. You have to look up in the upper left corner of the page to find it! I did make THIS CARD for Halloween using some Glitter Washi Tape but not in this way. I think this is such a clever idea to use this washi tape with this designer series paper!

The colors of the Glitter Washi Tape are Old Olive, Black, Highland Heather, and Pumpkin Pie. I left out the Pumpkin Pie so it wouldn’t look like Halloween. The card base is Highland Heather and I embossed the front with the Hive 3D Embossing Folder. I would normally use a separate layer to emboss, but since this card base was already cut and folded in the cardstock package I just went with it this way. I had to run the folder through my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine sideways which isn’t the best but it worked. Since I had a slightly smaller layer for the card front I thought a little texture around the edges of the card was in order.

The card front is a polka dot pattern in the Black & White Designs Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Catalog. I ran the washi tape diagonally in between the polka dots. There are also striped designs and others so you can choose other ways to apply the washi tape. Just let the strips of washi tape extend over the edges of the cardstock and then fold them all under instead of cutting or tearing them off at the ends. You could do that though. I used Stampin’ Seal+ adhesive to adhere the striped card front to the card base.

I used the Biggest Wish Stamp Set for the greeting and focal point of the card. I stamped the words separately in Highland Heather ink and cut them very closely to the words with the Paper Trimmer. I also added a narrow layer of Highland Heather behind the stamped words. This stamp set is a fun one to own and perfect for a card like this.

Just in case the Glitter Washi Tape wasn’t enough “bling” on this card, I added a few 2021-2023 In Color Jewels even though they are retired now. (Such a shame!) I thought the Fresh Freesia jewels could be a close enough match to work on the card and applied a few to the greeting.

You might want to add this 4-pack of Glitter Washi Tape to your next order. It’s not just for Halloween and you can use the tape in so many ways in cardmaking and scrapbooking. You could just use little touches of it or actually make stripes or designs with it on cards. Just one of the fun embellishments we have for our papercrafting!

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New Kit For Christmas Gifting!

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You’ll love the ease of gift gifting this year with the Christmas Gifting Kit! Create gorgeous gift tags to attach to presents or make the gift card holders to wrap your loving gift cards in!

Available starting today, the Christmas Gifting Kit is a simple way to enhance the gift gifting experience for you and your loved ones! Give your friends and family gift cards to the places they love, while still adding a handmade touch.

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Kit Includes:

Kit includes 9 tags and 9 gift card holders—3 each of 3 designs
Includes the exclusive Christmas Gifting Stamp Set and a Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin’ Spot
Sized to fit standard gift cards
Coordinating colors: Basic Black, black foil, Mint Macaron, Real Red, Shaded Spruce

Celebrate the season with a card kit that has everything you need to wish those you love a merry Christmas and a joyous New Year. Don’t let the holidays overwhelm you–get your all-inclusive kit and make quick multiples everyone will love!

Watch Sara show the Christmas Gifting Kit in this video! Watch for the pretty foil! That caught my interest!

By the time you start wrapping Christmas gifts, you will be very happy to have these tags already made and ready to go instead of having to use those stick-on tags you buy at the grocery store!

There’s also the Cozy & Bright Kit for making Christmas cards with all the supplies included in your kit!

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Hello Harvest Pumpkin Fall Card

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I feel as if I should be saying, “Hello Fall!” with this Hello Harvest Pumpkin Fall Card, but it’s not fall yet, just the day after Labor Day! Put away your white shoes and slacks! That used to be the rule in the olden days at least! And the day after Labor Day was always the first day of school when I was a kid. We usually bought new “fall” clothes for the start of school even though it was still pretty warm and not really fall yet so you couldn’t exactly wear the new clothes right away!

This card is made with the Hello Harvest Bundle in the July-December Holiday Mini Catalog. Almost anything “fall” I think is just beautiful! That’s why this Bundle and the coordinating Rustic Harvest Designer Paper is one of my favorites in the Holiday Catalog!

The card base is Mossy Meadow cardstock. It has a layer of Pumpkin Pie with a piece of the designer paper die cut as the layer on top of that. I had recently purchased the Deckled Rectangles Dies and then forgot I had them! So I used them on this card to cut out the Rustic Harvest Designer Paper. In the olden days of stamping, we just tore the paper edges if we wanted the deckled edge look, and we wanted that a LOT! But now, thanks to the Deckled Rectangles Dies, we don’t have to tear edges anymore!

The pumpkin and flower garland were stamped on Basic White with Memento Ink and then colored in with Stampin’ Blends Markers. I love to color with those markers! I didn’t keep track of every color I used so just play and use what you like! I did color the pumpkin with Pumpkin Pie (of course!). The flowers and leaves are quite a few different colors. The sunflowers are mostly So Saffron with a little Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight thrown in and a brown #300 in the flower center. Remember those natural tones markers aren’t only for skin color and animals! You can use them for anything! The leaves are mostly Granny Apple Green with some Mossy Meadow. One of the little flowers is colored with Fresh Freesia and the bright “red” flowers are Light Sweet Sorbet. That’s pretty much what I used but you can blend other colors together or change it up.

To put the card together I die cut the pumpkin and flowers and popped those two pieces up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is in the Hello Harvest Stamp Set. It is stamped in Mossy Meadow and die cut with one of the Tailor Made Tags. I added a piece of the Evening Evergreen 3/8″ Windowpane Check Ribbon. I think it adds a little extra pizzazz to the card.

It’s time to start making cards you can send around Thanksgiving time or for Halloween! You’ll find all kinds of card ideas using the Rustic Harvest Suite of products!

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Hello Harvest Pumpkin Fall Card