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Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card

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Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card

There are many different designs in this designer paper, but this Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card with the bluish leaves and branches in it really caught my eye. You might think it has colors for fall, but I think it can be for any time. I just really love these colors all together!

I have trees on my mind because yesterday on our walk, we saw a tree at someone’s house that had broken off from the trunk and fell toward the street. Luckily it didn’t fall on their house or hurt someone walking by! Apparently it is a kind of tree that was past its age limit and should have been cut down way earlier. Since we had the big freeze in February, a lot of plants and trees have come back, surprisingly, but the advice was to wait awhile and see what would come back in the spring rather than just cut down everything that looked dead from the spring. But this big tree needed to go sooner!

This designer paper, Beauty of the Earth, has very different patterns in it and many colors! Many will be beautiful when we think of fall trees, but many you can use any time. You can use the dies to cut out the patterned paper to be the leaves on the trees. So many possibilities!

The card base is Misty Moonlight, with a layer of Old Olive Cardstock. I thought about adding one of the tree images one way or another on the front of the card, but I loved the paper so much I didn’t want to cover it up in any way.

The greeting is stamped in Old Olive and is in the Beauty of Friendship Stamp Set on Basic White Cardstock, then die-cut with a rectangle in the Beautiful Trees Dies. There are some nice sentiments in this stamp set which is always good! The greeting is layered on a piece of Old Olive and underneath I added a strip of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon and frayed the ends just a little bit! This is a beautiful ribbon and I think it added a little something to the front of this card.

Save money and purchase the Beauty of Friendship Bundle with the stamp set and dies together for a 10% discount! And if you want to get “everything” – the Bundle, the Designer Series Paper, and the Bark 3D Embossing Folder, just order the whole Beauty of the Earth Suite (155843). The Bundle price is included in that.

Since the inside of the card, Misty Moonlight Cardstock, is dark, I added a Basic White layer and just stamped a tree off to the side to decorate the inside a bit and still leave room to write a message! I don’t always think to do that when I am making a card and then when I go to use the card, I have to pull out the paper and everything to add it later! Just do it when you make the card if you want a decorated inside or if the cardstock is too dark to write or stamp on.

If you like this Beauty of the Earth Thinking of You Card, be sure to check out the Beauty of the Earth Suite in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog!

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Black and White Pattern Party Thank You Card

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Black and White Pattern Party Thank You Card

This Black and White Pattern Party Thank You Card is NOT the card I was planning to make AT ALL! It just happened! So when you start to stamp, you don’t really know what you are going to end up making! Even when you think you know!

I was planning to make a card with the Art Gallery Stamp Set, stamped on our new Linen Paper, and was looking for designer paper to go with the card, possibly. When I caught a glimpse of these two black and white patterns together in the package, that was it! I’ll do the Art Gallery card another time!

The card base is Basic White Cardstock with a layer of Basic Black. Then I just layered the two patterns of the Pattern Play black and white paper, one a narrow strip. I added a strip of the Black 3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon and tied a knot with a smaller piece. I think it dresses up the card and makes it fun! I tried a bow but that seemed like too much with the glittery ribbon. It’s not a “fancy” card, just a fun one with the ribbon!

The “Thank You” greeting is stamped from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set, one carried over into the new catalog. I die-cut it with the same die as the black layer underneath from the Scalloped Contours Dies. I could have measured the empty space in the middle of the black piece and then cut the white greeting piece down, but I cut the white die-cut and then used the little lines from the die-cut to cut the white piece.

I want you to know about the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper. It is a Host item which means you can only purchase it when you have a order of $150 or more. We often don’t pay that much attention to the Host items, there are also a few stamp sets, and these products are available to Hosts (or for your individual order) as Rewards at a reduced price from their value. This Pattern Party DSP is a package of 48 sheets of paper, 4 each of 12 double-sided designs. Lots of different coordinating colors and will be lots of fun to use! Just remember this package when you are placing a “Hostess” order of $150 or more. This term comes from when we had more home parties and the person holding the stamping party with her friends was the Hostess and got free merchandise based on the total for the party. Now with people ordering individually online, it also works for your own orders of $150 to choose Stampin’ Rewards. You will find this paper in the back of the catalog on page 171. You will love it!

This Black and White Pattern Party Thank You Card is easy to make but so striking with just the black and white design. You could use a plainer black or white ribbon on the side too. It would also be fun to color in the white flowers on another card! It reminds me of the True Love Designer Paper in the Spring Mini Catalog that is all black and white as on this card. Be sure to check out the Pattern Play DSP to see all the colors and patterns next time you have a large order or combine orders with friends!

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Pansy Patch Card For a Special Day

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Pansy Patch Card For a Special Day

This card is an easy way to make pansies if you don’t want to bother with the smaller die-cut pieces, and this Pansy Patch Card For a Special Day is perfect for Mother’s Day! Add whatever greeting you like or need for the card and it will be perfect for almost any occasion.

To make the pansy, just use the Pansy Dies to cut out the one large and two smaller pansy petals in Basic White. You could also use light colors of cardstock and still do what I did also. I used the Blending Brush along the edges of the pansy petals to color just/mostly the edges and then assembled them. I happened to use Mango Melody, but it is very light so it almost matches the paper in the background that is another color. The leaves and flower stem for the bud are Granny Apple Green. Even the two pieces of the flower bud are Basic White with just a bit of ink blended on them. If you don’t have the new Blending Brushes (so soft!) use a piece of a Stamping Sponge that you probably already have or a Sponge Dauber.

Actually, I was undecided on how I wanted to use one of the pretty Pansy Petals Designer Paper on the card. The design I have just kind of accidentally happened! I used the Bumblebee pattern for the main layer on the card and was going to die-cut a rectangle piece out of some colored cardstock. But I also wondered about the opposite side of the paper which had all these small pansies. I laid a scrap of it down on the card just to place the die-cut pansy on top and see how it would look with it but not necessarily behind it and I liked the look as it was! The pansy still stood out well enough against the print, especially when I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is stamped with part of the stamp in the Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set and then die-cut with just the middle portion of the Banner Blooms Die where the greeting would go. Then I just trimmed the stamped banner piece away from the rest of the bouquet die-cut and flagged the plain end.

This is actually a pretty easy card to make for Mother’s Day or to send on any day!

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Paper Pumpkin has a LIMITED SUPPLY of Batter Up! kits to offer at this special SUBSCRIBE-A-THON rate.

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Pansy Petals Happiness Card

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Pansy Petals Happiness Card

Sometimes you just want to make an easy card or just let the designer paper be the main focus as in this Pansy Petals Happiness Card. Just a card base, a layer of designer paper, a greeting and some embellishment and you’re done…yet you still made a pretty card!

The Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper has beautiful patterned paper, including some ginghams and other designs on the “back” of the florals. This particular pattern with the smaller floral images really caught my eye! The card base is Soft Succulent, one of the new In Colors. Here’s another card using a different pattern of pansies paper.

I used the Polished Pink 3/8″ Open Weave Ribbon to wrap around the front of the designer paper. The bow is tied separately and adhered with Mini Glue Dots. This ribbon is just gorgeous, I think, and comes in all the In Colors. I love it!

The greeting is stamped in Polished Pink. It is one of the greetings in the Pansy Patch Stamp Set but I omitted part of the greeting. This is when sticky notes come in handy! I carefully placed the notes over the part of the stamp I did not want to use and then stamped in the ink pad. Be sure to remove the sticky note before stamping on your cardstock! Luckily I did remember! This way I could stamp just the part of the stamp I wanted.

The greeting is die-cut with just one of the Layering Circle Dies and layered on one of the scalloped circle dies. It is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals over the ribbon. Of course, I had to add some Polished Pink In Color Jewels to the greeting. These are already so popular they are back-ordered! But you must get them as soon as they are back in stock!

Remember, you don’t always have to make a super-fancy card. Sometimes quick and easy cards like this Pansy Petals Happiness Card are just fine!

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When Does the New Stampin’ Up! Catalog Begin? Today!!

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When Does the New Stampin’ Up! Catalog Begin?

TODAY! May 4th!!

It may be Star Wars Day (May the 4th Be With You!), but I doubt many of us care about that when we have a new Stampin’ Up! Catalog to look at and order from! You can order right now in the Online Store or contact me if you would prefer me to put in your order for you. Ask if you have any questions! Hopefully the website will run smoothly but when more and more people get on, there may be glitches but just keep trying because maybe in a few seconds you will get through.

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Be sure to check the specials below, too!

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If you are putting in a large order yourself, remember at $150 you get to choose 10% of your total in Stampin’ Rewards, so $15 in any other merchandise you want to choose for free!

During “Connect, Craft & Collect $25”, May 4 – June 14, if you have an order of $250 or more, you can choose an ADDITIONAL $25 in free merchandise plus the Stampin’ Rewards you are already entitled to! What a deal!! Especially with a new catalog when we want so many things!

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If you would like to have your own stamping business, this is a great time to join Stampin’ Up! as a Demonstrator! All you have to do is purchase the Starter Kit. Choose the products you want in your kit plus Stampin’ Up! will add business supplies, catalogs, and a Paper Pumpkin Kit. Normally you choose $125 in products and pay only $99, but during this special during May, you get to choose $155 ($30 more!) in products for only $99!

Click the link above and read about joining Stampin’ Up! and look over the form to join, but if you have any questions just ask! I’m happy to help! If you want a Demonstrator local to you, then check the Demonstrator Locator to find someone or call Stampin’ Up! and ask them to refer you to someone. Lots of us, though, have team members around the country, not just local, and we can still help you.

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I hope you love this new catalog! Believe it or not, years ago when I joined Stampin’ Up! the first time anyone saw the new catalog was at the Stampin’ Up! Convention in the summer! As soon as we checked in and got our bag of stuff, we would sit down and look through the catalog! Everyone else had to wait to hear from those Demos and wait for their catalog to be mailed later. I think we have a better system now, but whatever the system or situation, a new Stampin’ Up! catalog of any kind is always so fun and exciting! Enjoy the day!

Art Gallery Linen Flower Birthday Card

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Art Gallery Linen Flower Birthday Card

Something new in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog 2021-22 is the Linen Paper that I used on this Art Gallery Linen Flower Birthday Card. Does this card have a different look to it than regular stamping? I think we all have lots of experimenting to do with this new product! I didn’t know such a think existed! And wait until you hear one of the features of this special paper!

The Linen Specialty Paper (155681) is on page 136, the first of the photos of products on that page. It’s easy to miss! So far I know you can stamp on it, die cut it, and blend ink on it. We will have to experiment with different colors, maybe using the Stamparatus so you can repeat the stamping to make it darker maybe, see what colors look good on the linen or not and more!

To make this card, I was pretty sure the ink color was going to turn out lighter than on regular paper. It doesn’t stamp quite as heavily as on paper, because this is fabric paper! The texture is going to keep the ink from being really smooth. I used Melon Mambo ink for the flower in the Art Gallery Stamp Set and Old Olive for the stem and leaves thinking these would be dark enough to show up well. I think the Melon Mambo stamped a little shade darker than it would have on paper. Just a different look! Then just die-cut it with the coordinating Floral Gallery Dies. The Linen Paper die-cuts just as nicely as paper, at least this first time!

Art Gallery Linen Flower Die Cut

The background I chose to put the flower on is Basic White die-cut with the Scalloped Contours Dies. These new dies will be very popular. And I didn’t even have to glue down the linen flower! The Linen Specialty Paper comes with adhesive on the back! After die-cutting, just carefully peel off the backing and you can adhere your die-cut linen piece wherever you want it! You probably should lay it out it out first to see exactly where you want to adhere it. If parts of your pieces are very thin, like this flower stem, just handle it carefully and try to place the larger parts where you want them first and then the skinnier areas.

The card base is Melon Mambo to match the flower, although, as I said, the stamped color looks slightly different than the cardstock. But it’s very close. Maybe it looked darker when I first stamped it than later on. The greeting is in the Art Gallery Stamp Set. In the end I decided to just keep the whole card simple, to focus on the linen flower. I tried all kinds and colors of designer paper as a layer under the die-cut scalloped piece and nothing looked right. I thought about added some jewels or embellishments and that didn’t seem right either! So in the end, I just left the card simple! Sometimes you have to know when to stop!

Here is a close-up of my card so you can see the Linen Specialty Paper better.

Art Gallery Linen Flower Birthday Card Closeup

How many more days until the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog goes live? One!!! Tomorrow, May 4th is the day! Supposedly there will be no down time so if you want to order in the middle of the night you may be able to. However, on a new launch like this, LOTS of people like to order right away and the website will probably be a little wonky! If it crashes on you or the little thing just spins and spins, just keep trying until you catch it at the right moment….or come back a little later! It will likely be a busy day!

Today is the last day for the Last-Chance Products that are retiring! Check those out today!!

Tomorrow is the big day! Shop the NEW catalog!

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Paper Pumpkin Cards So Cool Kit April 2021

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A Day For Paper Pumpkin April 2021

It’s been a rainy weekend in Houston so it was a perfect day for Paper Pumpkin! I stopped everything else and opened up my new Paper Pumpkin Kit called “So Cool” for April 2021. This is the kit that was designed for children to have a fun papercrafting experience with you! But it was really just as much fun without any little ones around! It is a very cute, colorful kit! And so many alternative ideas if you want to make other designs.

With every Paper Pumpkin Kit you have the option to make the project as designed or use the supplies to make whatever you want to come up with! The kit comes to you in your mailbox each month unless you skip a month. You can cancel with no risk or obligation.

This particular kit seems to have lots of alternative ideas that other stampers have come up with. Often I like to make a few of the cards as designed for the kit and then make something different with the rest. Today I only made these cards as designed and then it was time to clear off the kitchen table for dinner! Ugh!

Each Paper Pumpkin kit costs $22.00 plus tax but includes shipping.

Sign up HERE at my personalized link. If you are looking for another Demonstrator, just go HERE to Paperpumpkin.com.

You must sign up or change your subscription by the 10th of any month.

You can also purchase a prepaid subscription to Paper Pumpkin on your regular Stampin’ Up! order! Perhaps it will help you earn Stampin’ Rewards if your order reaches $150 or more. Once you are a subscriber, you can go back and order any extra past kits or refills if you want more pieces to make with a kit you have!

Each month you get a new kit, usually cards, but it could be any number of other projects! You get a little bit of information about each kit as soon as ordering is available, but not everything about the kit until later!

Here are the cards I made with the cute “So Cool” Paper Pumpkin Kit for April.

Paper Pumpkin Cards So Cool Kit April 2021

Next up for May! The “Batter Up Paper Pumpkin Kit”! (But if you are new, wait a few days!) (Just in case!)

Die-Cut Pansies For May Day

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Die-Cut Pansies For May Day

It’s May 1st and this Die-Cut Pansies For May Day Card is perfect to celebrate the day! If I went outside and walked up and down the street, I would see loads of pansies planted in neighbors’ landscaping. They won’t last in the hot weather, but so far the weather is tolerable for them. Just today I had a memory of being a little girl in Sunday School and planting or just bringing home a pansy planted in a milk carton to my mother for Mother’s Day.

As I discovered the other day, I need to play with the new Pansy Patch Stamp Set and the Pansy Dies in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog coming out on Tuesday, May 4th a little more to learn how to effectively make a pretty pansy. I’m sure it is not difficult, but I was a little unsure. Maybe I need to take photos of some of our neighbor’s pansies so I know exactly how the petals are placed!

For this card, I wanted to just experiment with the Pansy Dies and not worry about making an amazing card. I just wanted to make pansies. I decided to just die-cut a bunch of pieces and then see how they all fit together. I planned with two different shades of similar colors for each pansy, like Petal Pink and Polished Pink, Pale Papaya and Mango Melody and even just Basic White and Highland Heather for the contrasting parts of the flowers. The leaves are Soft Succulent for the solid leaf (really very pretty on it’s own because the die embosses it) and Evening Evergreen for the outline piece.

After cutting out an assortment of pieces for the pansies, I just glued, with tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue, the outline edge to the corresponding color. Each pansy flower has three pieces (at least mine do!). The top part has kind of the three areas and then the two bottom pieces are each like one petal with an outline piece along the bottom edge. I glued those two pieces together, then added the top piece. I think you want them close enough so the outlines kind of line up. There also is a die that cuts out three flower centers at once, so I used Daffodil Delight cardstock for the centers.

The leaves, of course, are simple. Just glue on the outline color…..or don’t. You could easily leave the leaves plain.

To make the card I used a base of Pale Papaya Cardstock and die cut a Basic White scalloped rectangle with the new Scalloped Contours Dies. I am really liking these dies! They go with the Color & Contour Stamp Set and you can buy the stamps and dies together in the Color & Contour Bundle and save 10%.

Then I just placed the pansies and leaves on the rectangle to see how they would fit. Since the pansies (at least mine) turned out a little large, they took up most of the room on the rectangle. There was just enough space at the bottom to stamp a greeting from the Pansy Patch Stamp Set in Pale Papaya Ink. I probably should have used a darker color as this one doesn’t show up that well with the pansies grabbing all the attention!

My advice when you get the Pansy Patch Bundle is just to get out your Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and cardstock and cut out all the pieces and just play. Don’t worry about making anything, except flowers. Just play! And soon we will all be learning good tips and tricks of the best way to use this stamp set and dies I’m sure!

HAPPY MAY DAY With the DIE-CUT PANSIES!

Die-Cut Pansies For May Day Closeup

Trio of Pansy Patch Pansies Hello Card

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Trio of Pansy Patch Pansies Hello Card

It’s a rainy day here in Houston (finally!) but this Trio of Pansy Patch Pansies Hello Card brightens up the day for sure! I will say, this whole Pansy Patch Bundle has a lot to offer and for me, a little bit of a learning curve. As I learn more tips about using the stamps and dies I will be passing them on to you. My first large stamped pansy turned out to not be so much of a pansy! I think I stamped one of the layers upside down….what should have been at the top was at the bottom! My pansy was twice as big as it was supposed to be! But these smaller ones are easier!

The card base is one of the new In Colors, Soft Succulent. It matches the gingham designer paper, which is one of the patterns in the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper, the opposite side of the floral side. I really like these gingham patterns!

These small pansies are really just two-step stamping. There is a solid color stamp and an outline stamp. You can practice and decide on both the small and large pansy stamps which way is easier for you to stamp….to stamp the solid and then add the outline over it or vice versa. The three colors I used were Melon Mambo, Highland Heather, and Daffodil Delight. But when I stamped the solid image, I stamped off first to make it a little lighter, then stamped the outline image full-strength. The leaves are stamped with Pear Pizzazz and Garden Green. I also stamped some stems but didn’t end up using them.

After stamping the pansies, leaves, and stems I used the Pansy Dies to cut them out. I actually lost my stem die for a couple of minutes until I discovered it had slipped down between the roller and the machine platform, but fortunately I was able to pull it out and it hadn’t gotten bent or damaged! So if you can’t find a die and you think you heard a “jingle” sound as you die cut something else, be sure to check your machine before you go to much further!

This Bundle is great because you can stamp the individual pieces of the flowers and die cut those, then assemble into a flower, or you can do what I did and stamp the whole thing then use the outline die to cut out the whole stamped flower. Lots of options with this stamp set and dies! Not to mention the infinite number of color combinations you can make with your pansies.

To assemble my cards, I glued the yellow pansy directly onto the Basic White layer and popped up the other two flowers with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The leaves are glued right onto the Basic White. Since I had a lot of white space around the flowers, even after stamping the greeting from the Pansy Patch Stamp Set in Soft Succulent, I added some of the In Color Jewels, coming in the new catalog. I can’t stay out of that package making cards! I used the smallest jewels but there is an assortment of sizes in all the In Colors in the package.

I know a lot of people are looking forward to getting the Pansy Petals Suite when the new catalog goes live on May 4th! If you like pansies, or just any flowers, you will find a lot of creative opportunities with the Pansy Patch Stamp Set and Pansy Petals Designer Paper. The dies even cut out some of the designer paper images! I’d highly recommend getting all the In Color Open Weave Ribbons, too. They are beautiful!

Enjoy your New Stampin’ Up! Catalog Shopping List Weekend getting ready for Tuesday!

Gingham Pansy Petals Birthday Card

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Gingham Pansy Petals Birthday Card

I got this Gingham Pansy Petals Birthday Card idea from a sample in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog, coming May 4. I changed it up a little bit as often happens even when you think you are going to copy a card exactly! I’ve been seeing so many pansies around the neighborhood recently and I think of this beautiful new Pansy Petals Suite coming soon!

I love this Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper, not only for the pansies, but for the designs on the non-floral sides, like this gingham pattern. The sample in the catalog uses this pattern of the tiny pansies all close together and then uses the opposite yellow side for a layer underneath. I chose this Fresh Freesia gingham pattern on another sheet and layered it on a card base of Fresh Freesia. Fresh Freesia is one of the incoming In Colors 2021-23 so be sure to look for those!

I left a wide margin, about 1/2″ of the gingham showing, which them always makes the top layer look very small. In reality, it all fits just fine. I added a piece of the Fresh Freesia 3/8″ Open Weave Ribbon around the pansy paper and tied a bow separately and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot.

The greeting is stamped with “Happy Birthday” in a pretty font in the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. I didn’t want too small of a die-cut but nothing too big and I think this one in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies is just right. These dies are in the current catalog and thankfully are carrying over to the new catalog! They’re very versatile.

I couldn’t resist adding some of the new In Color Jewels that are so pretty! Be sure you put a package or two of those on your first order! They are beautiful colors for a little embellishment.

The Pansy Petals Suite Collection comes with the Pansy Patch Bundle (stamp set and dies), the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper, plus the cute little Bumblebee Trinkets. If you like this Gingham Pansy Petals Birthday Card, I hope you will take a look at the Pansy Petals Suite because it will make pretty cards for you!

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Arrange a Wreath Best Wishes Card

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Arrange a Wreath Best Wishes Card

I just had to make this Arrange a Wreath Best Wishes Card before the Arrange a Wreath Stamp Set and matching dies retires on May 3rd. I don’t know what they are thinking letting this set go! Usually I die-cut the wreath, so this time I thought I would try some stamping!

The card base is Pool Party just because I love that color! Then a layer of Basic White, stamped with the wreath in the Arrange a Wreath Stamp Set in Granny Apple Green Ink.

Next, I stamped a bunch of flowers in different colors, like Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, and Highland Heather, plus some of the leaves in the stamp set. Then I die cut those stamped images with the Wreath Builder Dies (retired).

The cute little sign hanging on the wreath by a thin thread (!) is stamped in Crumb Cake Ink, with the sentiment stamped in Memento Ink. Then I just cut out the sign by hand with Paper Snips.

To assemble the wreath, I just adhered some of the flowers popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and some adhered flat with Stampin’ Seal, along with a few leaves. For some embellishment, I added some Gold Glitter Enamel Dots in the center of some of the flowers plus a little bow tied from the Whisper White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon.

Don’t miss out on this Arrange a Wreath Stamp Set if you like wreaths! Here is an Easter Card made with a die-cut wreath and Easter eggs. Be sure to shop the Last-Chance Products List in the Online Store for just one more week!

Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card

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It’s time to use some retiring products on this Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card! I think no matter the cardstock, designer paper, or accessories, we always hate to see something retire! But it must be done to make room for wonderful new products we will also love!

May 4th is the launch date for the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! It’s always an exciting time when a new catalog goes live! However, you won’t find this stamp set and punch in the new catalog.

This card base is Petal Pink Cardstock with a partial layer of a pattern in the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. This is a huge package of paper with different patterns of surfaces and textures. I chose the one that looks like some kind of white fabric.

The flowers are stamped with the Floral Essence Stamp Set and then punched out with the Perennial Flower Punch. The Floral Essence Stamp Set is reduced in price and the Perennial Flower Punch is more than 50% off! They are both on the Last Chance Products List. However, the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper is carrying over to the next catalog! It’s pretty rare for designer paper to continue on to the next catalog. I stamped six flowers so I could double them up to make three full flowers. They are stamped in Petal Pink Ink to match the cardstock.

Then I used the pretty Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon to cover where the designer paper ends. This ribbon is in the Spring Mini Catalog so it will be around until at least the end of June. Even though it is a different pink than the cardstock, it still looks good together. I tied the bow separately and adhered it with Glue Dots.

The greeting is from the Floral Essence Stamp Set and die-cut with one of the Stitched Rectangles Dies. It fits perfectly at the bottom of this card. To finish embellishing this card, I used Gold Glitter Enamel Dots on the flower centers.

This Floral Essence Perennial Punch Flowers Card is pretty easy to make and you can add lots of different greetings to it. Remember to purchase retiring products by May 3rd at Stampin’ Up!

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In Color Stripes Cards

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In Color Stripes Cards

We’ve all seen card designs like this one with strips of cardstock adhered to the front of a card in one way or another but this In Color Stripes Cards came about because of a math error. I was cutting strips of the new In Color cardstock to make bookmarks for my customers, as many Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators do, to showcase the new In Colors “in person” for them. Instead of thinking about how many bookmarks I could make out of one strip of cardstock, I cut the number of bookmarks I was making instead of thinking about that I was going to get about five bookmarks out of one strip of color. Anyway, I ended up with about 5x as many cut strips as I needed, so not only did I waste the brand new cardstock, but I wasted a lot of time and energy! But paper never really needs to be wasted! I sent a bunch to customers in their catalogs along with the bookmark or in their envelope of goodies. And I made these two cards!

The first card I made has a card base of Whisper White and I placed the strips of In Colors horizontally. In case you haven’t heard about the In Colors yet, these are the new trendy colors Stampin’ Up! chose for this year and next: Soft Succulent, Pale Papaya, Polished Pink, Evening Evergreen, and at the bottom, Fresh Freesia.

To decorate the card, I stamped the new flower in the Color & Contour Stamp Set, coming in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on May 4th. It is a two-step stamping flower. You can stamp the outline and then stamp the solid stamp to fill in. It’s a little tricky to line up and probably not meant to line up perfectly anyway. Or you can stamp the solid image first, possibly stamping off on scrap paper first if you want a lighter color, and then stamp the outline image over it. And to make life easier, there are the Scalloped Contours Dies to die cut this flower. You can purchase both the stamp set and the dies in the Color & Contour Bundle and save 10% when the new catalog comes out.

The flowers I stamped are Pale Papaya, Fresh Freesia, and Polished Pink with a center stamped with Daffodil Delight. I intended to scatter them a little but ended up just making a straight line. That left room at the bottom to stamp the greeting from the Pansy Patch Stamp Set.

As long as I had everything out and plenty of strips, I made another card using Basic Black as the card base. I think these colors look good against the black! This time I made the card in portrait mode and left spaces in between the strips (wider than on the white card) so you could see the black in between the strips. This time I offset the die-cut flowers and did not add a greeting yet. I’ll think about what greeting I need later on when I send the card.

You can do that, too, when making cards. If you just want to make a stack of cards, just wait until you need one to add a greeting. You could also stamp an assortment of greetings on Basic White Cardstock and punch out or die-cut, then save them for adding to cards quickly and easily.

Even though I cut too many cardstock strips of the In Colors, it made me work with them and get to know them better! I almost have the names down without looking!

What do you think of the new In Colors? I have to say I wasn’t too thrilled with the colors that are going OUT, the 2019-21 In Colors – Rococo Rose, Terracotta Tile, etc. But I think I am liking these current In Colors and the ones that came out last year as well. In Colors stick around for two years so one group is always going out and a new group comes in. This keeps Stampin’ Up! up-to-date with the newest color trends without revamping ALL of our core colors.

If you want to check out the products that are still available in the retiring In Colors, click HERE or go to SHOP PRODUCTS, then SHOP BY COLOR and then choose the In Colors. The cardstock and ink pads are gone but you can get ribbons and markers if you want to have some embellishments to go with the colors you have already.

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Easy Pansy Petals Designer Paper Card

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Here’s an ideas for an Easy Pansy Petals Designer Paper Card, using the beautiful new paper coming in the next Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! You will love all the sheets of paper in the package, florals on one side and ginghams, stripes, and other designs on the other side! You can make a simple card because the paper is so pretty.

This card starts with a card base of Fresh Freesia Cardstock, one of the new In Colors in the catalog. It is lighter in person than in this photograph. This pansy print paper is in the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper. Some of the sheets have pansies and leaves that can be die-cut right from the paper. No stamping required!

Before adhering the designer paper to the card base, I tied some of the Fresh Freesia 3/8″ Open Weave Ribbon around the paper and then tied on a bow. I like this Open Weave Ribbon in all the new In Colors so much!! It is very pretty and elegant!

The greeting is in the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. I stamped it in Fresh Freesia Ink on Basic White Cardstock and die-cut it with one of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. In order to make a layer for the greeting without taking up more room on the card, hiding pansies, I die cut another one of these same shapes out of Fresh Freesia and then cut it in half horizontally so that I could have it layered under the greeting but showing a tiny bit at the top and bottom.

For a little bling, I added two of the Fresh Freesia In Color Jewels. These are so pretty! You will want a package or two of these to go with the new In Colors.

Here is the first card I made with this paper, using another one of the new In Colors, Evening Evergreen plus one of the little Bumblebee Trinkets!

All in all, this is an easy card. Just add the pretty Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper to the card base, add some ribbon, and a greeting! The new catalog and these new products go live on May 4th!

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