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Hand-Penned Petals With Soft Pastels

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Hand-Penned Petals With Soft Pastels

This Hand-Penned Petals With Soft Pastels was nearly the death of me! The idea was easy enough but the execution was a mess. This wasn’t even going to be a card! I was just trying out the new coloring technique we have, but I thought it turned out okay so I went ahead and made it into a card! That was the easy part.

In the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog we have the Soft Pastels Assortment! You will find these new chalk pastels on page 126 in the catalog at the bottom. You get eight colors in the box: Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, Mango Melody, Mossy Meadow, Night of Navy, and Poppy Parade. You can use these pastels in a variety of ways for cards and projects. Years ago Stampin’ Up! had a tin of a bunch of colors, little squares that we would pick up the chalk color with little applicators or a cotton ball. I need to refresh my memory of all the things we used to do with pastels!

To begin, I stamped this bouquet with Stazon Ink. First I tried picking up color from the end of the chalk using a Blender Pen. That worked, but on Basic White Cardstock you have to be careful not to rub too hard with any tool with water. Blender Pens barely have any moisture, but you still have to be careful. I colored in the small Daffodil Delight small flowers. Next, I used other colors and Sponge Daubers on some other flowers. I scraped some chalk dust off the side of the chalk using my open Paper Snips to get a little dab of chalk dust on an acrylic block to pick up with the Sponge Dauber. Of course you can’t color precisely with Sponge Daubers but that’s okay. With the soft look of the pastels, it gives a watercolor look to the flowers. In the end, the Basic White looked a little bare around the flowers, so I grabbed a Blending Brush and applied some Mango Melody chalk very lightly around the edges.

Hand-Penned Petals With Soft Pastels Coloring

Since Poppy Parade is one of the chalk colors, I used Poppy Parade and Granny Apple Green for the card base and the layer. But since the chalk doesn’t turn out as strong as the real colors, I think I should have chosen something different for the card base. The greeting is from the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set, stamped in Poppy Parade Ink. I did cut it with a Stitched Rectangle die, but then I trimmed off the stitched edges to make it smaller to fit into the same size die cut in Poppy Parade. Otherwise, the next larger size of die cut seemed too big for this card.

Hand-Penned Petals With Soft Pastels Closeup

Of course for a final embellishment, I adhered some Genial Gems in both colors around on the card. It was fun playing with the pastels, I just had trouble assembling the card. I stuck the layers down crooked and had to redo. Then the torn paper with adhesive on it was really sticky and I couldn’t get it off my fingers easily nor pick up the other pieces off the table! Just a lot of little things were a pain making this simple card, but at least I got to play with the Soft Pastels Assortment.

Check out the Soft Pastels Assortment in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

Pattern Party Colored Flowers Card

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Pattern Party Colored Flowers Card

Do you recognize this designer paper? It is in the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper, a product available for your Stampin’ Rewards when your order total reaches $150 or more. It’s a huge pack of paper of 48 sheets, 12 different designs with 4 sheets of each design. It’s a really fun and useful package of paper, too, so you could actually combine orders with a friend and share this large package of designer series paper!

However, if you don’t recognize this designer paper, its because it comes in black and white in the Pattern Party package! I spent some time coloring in the flowers with Stampin’ Blends just for fun! Coloring is always a good stress reliever to take your mind off everything except hearing the sound of the marker on the paper and staying in the lines!

Pattern Party Colored Flowers Card and B&W

This card was very easy. I decided to color in the flowers with the new In Color 2021-23 Stampin’ Blends, at least the Pale Papaya, Fresh Freesia, Polished Pink. I also used Daffodil Delight for the yellow flowers. If you are daring, you can also color in the background, as I did. I used Soft Succulent to color the background. It’s best to use the narrow tip of the markers to color around the individual flowers and if you want, then you can use the brush tip for the open areas. It does take a little patience to color in the background so it is up to you. It looks fine leaving it white as well!

The card base is Polished Pink Cardstock. The greeting is stamped from the Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set. I used two dies in the Ornate Frames Dies for the greeting and the fancy layer in Polished Pink. Then I added two In Color Jewels in Polished Pink to the ends of the greeting. They have been out of stock but should be back soon, I hope!

You may already have black and white designer paper from the Spring Mini, the True Love DSP, so you may have already tried this technique! Here is another card I made with just the black and white theme. Either way, colored or black and white, you will end up with a nice card! This Pattern Party Colored Flowers Card was fun to make if you want to take a little more time!

United Through Creativity FREE Digital Download

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A FREE Digital Download from Stampin’ Up! for everyone!

“The first Stampin’ Up! value statement is this: we care about people first. What does that look like? Caring about people first means treating others with kindness, respect, and equal consideration. It means working together towards a common goal, helping each other through life’s challenges, and celebrating one another’s accomplishments. It means including others, even when we disagree, have contrasting life experiences, or simply see things differently. Caring about people first is our greatest strength!

In honor of this value—and in the spirit of World Diversity Day—we’d like to celebrate what makes us unique through what brings us together: creativity! The United Through Creativity Digital Download features inclusive, multicultural, and multilingual sentiments and illustrations that represent the multiple markets Stampin’ Up! engages with. And, it’s free for all!

  • The elements featured in the United Through Creativity Digital Download were created in the spirit of World Diversity Day—a day for each of us to join together and understand the value of cultural diversity throughout the world. And, to celebrate our unique community of crafters!
  • We celebrate the diversity of the Stampin’ Up! family every day! In the United Through Creativity Digital Download, you’ll see a variety of illustrations, sentiments, and other elements that represent each of our marvelous markets and more.
  • Print your favorite pieces and use them to create cards, scrapbook pages, and other paper projects! We hope you’ll enjoy celebrating diversity, connection, community, and creativity with this sweet selection of inclusive, multicultural, and multilingual elements.
  • Don’t be shy—share what you’ve made! When sharing to social media, use the hashtags #UnitedThroughCreativity and #DiversityDay. We can’t wait to see your creations!

Let’s celebrate what makes us unique through what brings us together: creativity!”

DOWNLOAD THE SENTIMENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS HERE!

After you download this PDF, just page through all and see if something appeals to you. There is no need to print the whole thing unless you want to! You can choose certain pages to print and tell your printer to only print those. I suggest printing on cardstock (probably Basic White Cardstock) and then you can color in the images and use them however you like. And it is all FREE! Be sure to read the first page of the download for tips on using and printing.

There are many greetings, in different languages and different colors. Near the end you will even find a glass of wine and selection of cheeses! Again, this is an offering put out by Stampin’ Up! for everyone, for free. You are welcome to download the PDF and then print anything that appeals to you and use it in your cardmaking and projects.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Don’t Miss This June Paper Pumpkin Kit!

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Paper Pumpkin always looks fun, but this upcoming kit for June really got me excited for it! Paper Pumpkin is the monthly papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail from Stampin’ Up! and this kit for June is extra special! It will introduce you to the new 2021-23 In Color collection, and you’ll also find a familiar shade from the 2020-22 In Color Collection.

The In Color Collections are new colors introduced that are new, fresh, and trendy, but they only stick around for two years! So every year it is important to get the In Colors to add to your ink, marker, and paper collection!

This Paper Pumpkin Kit will have all the supplies you need to make 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs plus coordinating envelopes! And by coordinating, they mean “not plain white”. You will receive printed card bases, die-cut paper pieces, embellishments, adhesive, and more! The coordinating colors in June are Bumblebee, Evening Evergreen, Fresh Freesia, and Polished Pink.

As always, this month’s kit features an exclusive stamp set. But, this month’s kit also includes not one, but two Classic Stampin’ Spots! (Little ink pads!) And to top it all off, the kit comes in a cute, colorful, and collectible box.

An extra bonus is that this kit coordinates with products from the Expressions in Ink Suite (item #155459) in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog. You will find this Suite on pages 96-97. It is also featured on the front of the new catalog! This Suite jumped right off the page at me and I absolutely love it!! The designer paper is stunning! That makes the Paper Pumpkin Kit extra exciting! And if you are not ready for the whole Suite yet, you can get a taste with the Paper Pumpkin Kit!

Get a taste of the new In Colors as well as coordination with the new Expressions In Ink Suite in the new catalog! Join Paper Pumpkin today and be assured your name is on the list for June’s Paper Pumpkin! OR add a Prepaid Kit or several months to your regular Stampin’ Up! order. Maybe it will help you reach Stampin’ Rewards!

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Pattern Party Hello Card

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Pattern Party Hello Card

After working with this Pattern Party Designer Series Paper the other day, I left these two patterns out on my table because I knew they would make a cute card like this Pattern Party Hello Card. It’s one of the easiest card designs you can make and yet it always looks good and can be for almost any occasion. Just change the greeting.

This easy card begins with a card base of Basic White Cardstock. I just cut the two patterned papers from the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper the width I liked them and so they would overlap by about 1/2″. It would be easier if you cut another piece of Basic White Cardstock on which to adhere the two designer papers for that layer on the card front. It would be easier to line them up and tie the ribbon around.

This Whisper White Faux Linen Ribbon, part of the Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack, is rather sheer and I could see the paper seam underneath it. I didn’t like that look, so I use a scrap strip of Basic White Cardstock that was about the same width or narrower than the ribbon and adhered that over the seam of the two papers to the ribbon would look solid white without showing through to the paper. I just put the strip of ribbon across that white cardstock strip on the front and then adhered it to the back sides of the paper. This saves a couple of inches of ribbon if you were to tie ribbon all the way around the card. I tied the bow separately and adhered it with Mini Glue Dots. Now when you do that with a wide ribbon like this white one, you might want to tie a piece of twine around the ribbon right where you are going to adhere the bow. That narrows the ribbon at that point so it looks more real that the ribbon is tied onto that wide ribbon rather than just stuck on! But it’s not absolutely necessary.

You can add almost any greeting you want as long as it fits in the space. I stamped the “hello” from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set in Flirty Flamingo Ink. Then I die-cut it with the pretty scalloped circle die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. I added three 2021-23 In Color Jewels (155571) to the greeting for a little bling. These are out of stock at this moment but they will get more! They were obviously very popular! I know I have already used them a lot on cards!

Here is the other card I made with the striped pattern of the Pattern Party DSP. You can only get this paper with an order of $150 or more on which you would earn Stampin’ Rewards. Check pages 170-71 in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog to read about Stampin’ Rewards.

I really like this bright, happy card made with this Pattern Party Designer Paper! You can make a card like this with whatever two patterns of designer paper you have in your stash at the moment and add a ribbon and a greeting!

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Bloom Where You’re Planted Card

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Bloom Where You're Planted Card

If you like plants, you will like creating cards with lush greenery like this Bloom Where You’re Planted Card! You don’t even have to have a green thumb! Just some dies or scissors! This is a Suite in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog that just came out about two weeks ago. Almost everyone wants to have a few green plants around, but these paper ones are a lot easier to take care of!

Even Demonstrators can’t buy everything they want, so I opted, as I sometimes do, to just purchase the Bloom Where You’re Planted Designer Series Paper so I could have a little bit of fun with the plants without buying everything. I like the way this card turned out and I just used my Paper Snips scissors!

The card base is Cinnamon Cider Cardstock which goes really well with this brick wall design design in the designer paper. I decided to cut out some of the plants on one of the sheets of designer paper. One sheet has lots of images of all kinds of potted plants, some large and some smaller. Now the Perfect Plant Dies will cut out images on one or more of the designer paper sheets but not these plants, so even if you have the dies, you will still have to cut out these plants as I used on my card. You might think it is too much trouble and too tedious to cut out images from designer paper, but it really is easy enough and I would even say relaxing to do. It’s best to have some good scissors for this job like the Stampin’ Up! Paper Snips. These scissors are very sharp but you can get in and around curves and things easily. Remember to mostly hold your scissors steady and turn your paper according to how you want it cut.

The dies are really made to go with the Plentiful Plants Stamp Set. You can buy both in the Plentiful Plants Bundle and save 10%. There are also Paper Lattice Accents that will be fun to play with as you create your cards and projects. So if you want it all, just use the one order number for the Bloom Where You’re Plants Suite Collection (1556990).

After cutting out these three potted plants with my Paper Snips (even dies are not perfect always so don’t worry if your cutting is not perfect), I just adhered them to the bottom of the brick paper. The small middle plant is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals for fun. If you don’t like the handles on the pot, just cut them off! If you don’t want the plant that tall, cut it shorter! You have more freedom with scissors!

The greeting is from the Dragonfly Garden Stamp Set. I thought it was appropriate for this card! I stamped it in Cinnamon Cider Ink and die cut it with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. What would we do without this die set?! I felt like the greeting didn’t need any other layers or anything behind it. I did pop it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals as well.. And except for putting a Basic White layer inside the card, stamped with a leaf from another stamp set, that’s all there is to this card!

Even if you can’t afford everything, you can pick and choose products in an entire Suite and buy what you think you can use the most. I think it’s the colors on this Bloom Where You’re Planted Card that really appeal to me and make me really like this card!

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Hand-Penned Petals Hello Card

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Hand-Penned Petals Hello Card

I didn’t even order this Suite when Demonstrators got to preorder select new products in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. The loosely drawn floral images really didn’t appeal to me. But I started seeing cards other Demonstrators were making and then I liked everything about this Suite! This Hand-Penned Petals Hello Card is my first attempt using the stamps and paper! I love it!

This is a very easy card to make! Just stamping and paper….well, and a few rhinestones! The card base is Blushing Bride, one of the coordinating colors of the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper. All the sheets of this paper are beautiful to use for floral cards. It reminds me of old-fashioned wallpaper! But modern! Very pretty!

I just chose one of the papers to use as a layer on the front of the card. I didn’t want to cover it up very much, so I made just a small piece of Basic White on which to stamp the bouquet in the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set. I stamped it in Memento Ink, fully expecting to color in the bouquet with Stampin’ Blends. But then I saw there were stamps for two-step stamping to fill in the color! They aren’t a perfect fit because that’s not the look you want, but they are fairly close. I used Blushing Bride, Daffodil Delight, and Mint Macaron Ink to stamp the flowers.

The greeting is from the Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set because I needed something small to fit just below the flowers. It is stamped in Mint Macaron Ink also. The Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set “goes with” the Inspired Thoughts Bundle which has the stamp set and Inspiring Canopy Dies. I really like this greeting stamp set but I did not purchase the dies. However, now I have seen some cute cards using those tree dies so who knows if I can hold out on not buying!

In finishing off this card, I layered the stamped bouquet piece on Blushing Bride and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I forgot that in the Hand-Penned Suite Collection, there are the Genial Gems. These are faceted glitter gems in Pale Papaya and Mint Macaron. Instead, I used three Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels for the flower centers.

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Expressions In Ink Gatefold Thank You Card

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Expressions In Ink Gatefold Thank You Card

The photo of this Expressions In Ink Gatefold Thank You Card doesn’t do this Specialty Designer Series Paper justice! Once you open the package, you cannot stop “oohing and aahing” over the beauty of it! The gold foil accents and the watercolor/alcohol ink images are just stunning.

This paper is the Expressions In Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper and I think it is some of the most striking papers we have ever had! Nothing can compare to having the paper in your hands to see how beautiful it is. No photos can come close. My post yesterday has photos of some of the sheets of paper and a card but even then, the paper is even better in person.

This card was fun to make and easy. It’s called a gatefold card because instead of the 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ paper that we usually start our cards with, folded in half, this card is folded in from each side which makes the “gatefold”. Start with your card base of 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and score 2 1/8″ from each end (or 2 1/8″ and 6 3/8″). This gives you a standard card width of of 4 1/4″ in the center, with the two ends folding over like doors (gates) over that area.

Decorate each “gate” with a piece of designer paper cut at 5 3/8″ x 2″. This leaves just a very narrow margin of cardstock showing so you can cut it smaller at 5 1/4″ x 1 7/8″ if you like. The cardstock I used on this card is Pale Papaya, one of the new In Colors.

For a gatefold card, make a center piece with the greeting or some other image to be adhered only on the left side flap so the card can be opened. Or you can make a bellyband that goes around the card to hold it closed. On this card, I die-cut a piece of Pale Papaya with one of the Scalloped Contours Dies (the second from the smallest die). After you cut out this piece, you will notice something different about it. There are actually slits around the edges that you can use for other creative opportunities, like inserting cardstock strips or ribbons through those. But otherwise, you can just use this die-cut piece as a layer or a focal point. For the greeting, I simply cut a piece of Basic White that would fit inside the Pale Papaya piece and stamped the “thanks” on it in Pale Papaya Ink. This was adhered to the left side of the card by figuring out where the middle of that piece was (count the scallops at the bottom!) and making sure I only put glue on the left side. The greeting is from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set. You can purchase the stamp set and dies that go with the stamp set, the Artistic Dies, together in a Bundle and save 10%.

To embellish, I tied a little Pale Papaya 3/8″ Open Weave Ribbon into a bow and adhered it to the greeting. Then I also added a few of the adhesive-backed iridescent sequins that come in the Expressions in Ink Ephemera Pack.

On the inside of the card, I added a layer of Basic White, stamped with a flower and leaves from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set in Pale Papaya and Just Jade Ink. You can also see in the photo below how the greeting looks from the inside of the card.

Expressions In Ink Gatefold Thank You Card Inside

Be sure to check out the Expressions in Ink Suite or at the very least the designer paper, the Expressions In Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper! You will easily make beautiful cards and projects using this paper at a minimum, like this Expressions In Ink Gatefold Thank You Card.

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Expressions in Ink Birthday Card With Gold Foil

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Expressions In Ink Birthday Card With Gold Foil

THIS PAPER!!! Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper (155464) Order it!

Okay, that’s really all that needs to be said for this blog post! But since you probably want to know more about the card and the paper, I’ll continue.

When I first saw a Stampin’ Up! video giving us Demonstrators a sneak peek at some of the new Annual Catalog products, I fell in love with this Expressions in Ink Suite! And when I saw it online in the catalog I wanted to order it right away. But it was not on our Demonstrator pre-order so I had to wait just like everyone else. My order just came and I have to say, when I opened this package of paper and looked at the sheets, I just gasped! It is beautiful and striking with the gold foil accents on one side of the sheets. You must have it!

Here are closeups of some of the sheets of paper, but even these do not do it justice!

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For the card, I started out copying the catalog sample on page 96 in the upper right of the samples. It turned out not exactly the same. I dared to cut into one of the papers, trying to match the pattern I could see on the catalog page. Then I stamped the large and small flowers from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set plus the small individual leaves. The large flower is stamped in Polished Pink Ink and the small flower in Pale Papaya. The leaves are stamped in Just Jade Ink since the card base will be Just Jade. You can choose from lots of coordinating colors!

Expressions In Ink Card Beginning

Now when I stamped these flowers and leaves, I didn’t give a lot of thought ahead of time to that gold foil piece placed over the top on the sample. In the Ephemera Pack, I was thinking that there would be individual foil cutout flowers, leaves, etc. to place over my stamped images, but there were not! The pack will still be fun to play with, it just didn’t have what I was expecting. Then I realized, I just needed to die-cut a gold foil piece from the Artistic Dies. While my flowers and leaves lined up pretty well with the die-cut, and while it doesn’t and shouldn’t be perfect because this is a watercolor look, I did add another stamped leaf and then got my foil to line up pretty well.

Expressions In Ink Birthday Card With Gold Foil

I highly recommend using Adhesive Sheets on the back of the Gold Foil Sheets before die-cutting this intricate design, which I always forget, but I did manage to use teeny tiny dots of the Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the back. The greeting comes in the stamp set and I stamped that in Polished Pink Ink and placed it in a lower position than on the catalog sample. For a little extra, I used a strip of the Just Jade & Gold 3/8″ Braided Ribbon, a little frayed on the ends, and adhered just below the greeting a tiny bit. And for a little more bling, I wanted to try out the little adhesive-backed iridescent sequins in the Ephemera Pack. You can see about five of those placed around the card.

This is a relatively easy card to make, using both stamping and designer paper, or rather stamping ON the designer paper, plus the die-cut Gold Foil accent and other embellishments. I suggest you order this paper, or the whole Suite of products sooner rather than later because once word gets out about how beautiful this Suite is, it could be backordered by the time you decide to get it. Hopefully, Stampin’ Up! anticipated how popular this Suite would be and ordered plenty!

You might also consider the June Paper Pumpkin Kit which will coordinate with this Suite! Even if you subscribed before and dropped, you may want to come back just for this kit at least if you like the style of the Expressions In Ink Suite of products!

Here’s another view of my card without so much glare from the foil! I hope you are as attracted to this Suite as I am!

Expressions In Ink Birthday Card With Gold Foil Closeup

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Color & Contour Pattern Party Card

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Color & Contour Pattern Party Card

Once again, as I looked through the Pattern Party package of designer papers, this Flirty Flamingo stripe jumped out at me and screamed to be made into a card which resulted in this Color & Contour Pattern Party Card. I had almost forgotten this set of dies has this scalloped edge die in it which just helps to make this card! I love how this card turned out!

The card base is Flirty Flamingo Cardstock. The striped paper is from the Host Product in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. This means that with an order of $150 or more, instead of choosing some other free merchandise in the catalog, you can go to the back of the catalog where there is this designer paper option (48 sheets!) and some other stamp sets, all that you can choose as your Stampin’ Rewards at a discounted price. I think this package of paper is going to be a hit because it’s something different (just stamp sets have been offered as Host Rewards) and you will love the paper patterns! Look for the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper on page 171.

The striped paper is die cut with a die in the Scalloped Contours Dies. You can purchase the Color & Contour Stamp Set and the dies in a Bundle and save 10%. I love the stitched look along the scalloped edge. Whether you purchase the stamp set or not, I would buy the Scalloped Contours Dies by themselves. They are that good!

I do have the Color & Contour Stamp Set and I do like the flowers in the set! You can do two-step stamping to color in rather abstractly the flowers, or you can color in the open design yourself with whatever coloring technique you like. Then you can cut them out with the dies. You can set on the set that the individual leaf has a very open design, but I just stamped it in Memento Ink, colored in with two colors of green Stampin’ Blends, and cut out the leaf itself, not the extra squiggle! The lower flower is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the other two and the leaves adhered right to the card. The flower center is stamped with Daffodil Delight Ink.

It IS a little tricky to line up the two-step stamp with the first stamped impression and then to line up the die with the flower. You could spend some time lining them up and then put a black mark on the stamp and on the die to remind you of how to line them up. But since the design is rather abstract anyway, it kind of doesn’t have to be perfect. For some of us, though, who like things “perfectly lined up”, well, we can fiddle with it and we can get it lined up!

The greeting is in the stamp set but I did use another set of dies to cut out the greeting. I used the Stitched So Sweetly Dies to get a smaller rectangle to fit at the bottom of my card. This is another set of dies that I have used a lot and recommend you have in your supplies!

Not one to leave well enough alone, I saw the “speckle” stamp in the set and thought maybe it would look interesting in the bottom portion of the card. Usually it is not a good idea to stamp something more on a card that is nearly finished and could potentially be ruined if you mess up, but I took a chance and it worked out! I inked the stamp with Flirty Flamingo Ink but stamped off before stamping on the bottom of the card.

On the inside of the card, I put a piece of Basic White for a layer and stamped one of the flowers, just the outline, in Flirty Flamingo Ink down in the right-hand corner. Later I can stamp a message on the inside of the card or write a personal note.

If you have a large order of $150 or more, remember that you can choose Stampin’ Rewards of 10% or more and remember that there are special Host choices in the back of the catalog, one being this year the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper. This is 48 sheets, 4 sheets each of 12 different designs. This card, the Color & Contour Pattern Party Card, shows off one of the pretty patterns in this package of paper! You will enjoy it I’m sure!

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Exciting Paper Pumpkin Kit For June!

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Paper Pumpkin always looks fun, but this upcoming kit for June really got me excited for it! Paper Pumpkin is the monthly papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail from Stampin’ Up! and this kit for June is extra-special! It will introduce you to the new 2021-23 In Color collection, and you’ll also find a familiar shade from the 2020-22 In Color Collection.

The In Color Collections are new colors introduced that are new, fresh, and trendy, but they only stick around for two years! So every year it is important to get the In Colors to add to your ink, marker, and paper collection!

This Paper Pumpkin Kit will have all the supplies you need to make 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs plus coordinating envelopes! And by coordinating, they mean “not plain white”. You will receive printed card bases, die-cut paper pieces, embellishments, adhesive, and more! The coordinating colors in June are Bumblebee, Evening Evergreen, Fresh Freesia, and Polished Pink.

As always, this month’s kit features an exclusive stamp set. But, this month’s kit also includes not one, but two Classic Stampin’ Spots! (Little ink pads!) And to top it all off, the kit comes in a cute, colorful, and collectible box.

An extra bonus is that this kit coordinates with products from the Expressions in Ink Suite (item #155459) in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog. You will find this Suite on pages 96-97. It is also featured on the front of the new catalog! This Suite jumped right off the page at me and I can’t wait for it to arrive in my order this week!! That makes the Paper Pumpkin Kit extra exciting! And if you are not ready for the whole Suite yet, you can get a taste with the Paper Pumpkin Kit!

Get a taste of the new In Colors as well as coordination with the new Expressions In Ink Suite in the new catalog! Join Paper Pumpkin today and be assured your name is on the list for June’s Paper Pumpkin! OR add a Prepaid Kit or several months to your regular Stampin’ Up! order. Maybe it will help you reach Stampin’ Rewards!

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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.

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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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