While it is time to be making Valentines and mailing them, this ice cream paper just stole my heart and I had to use it! But with the greeting, I think this Ice Cream Corner Valentine Card could be used as a Valentine! Why not?!
I hadn’t made anything yet with the cute Ice Cream Corner Designer Series Paper and some of the patterns in the package I don’t really care for. But the ice cream patterns are adorable, and then they can be paired with the generic designs as I did here on this card.
There are lots of coordinating colors with this paper so you have a wide choice of colors to use making cards and projects! I chose Bermuda Bay for the card base and a layer of Petal Pink. Once I cut the ice cream cone paper to layer on the card front, the card looked plenty finished and cute as it was! So you could make a very simple card just like that and add a greeting
I also liked the underside of the ice cream cone pattern, which is this cross-hatch paper that looks like an ice cream cone. I cut a narrow strip of it and adhered it over the bottom of the ice cream cone paper, then added some Cinnamon Cider Ribbon and bow over the seam of the two papers.
I originally thought I would have to make this cute card a birthday card, but when I looked at the Sweet Ice Cream Stamp Set and saw the “You Melt My Heart” greeting, I knew that was the one I had to use! I didn’t want it to be too large and take away from the cute ice cream cones in the background, so these dies seemed to work well.
The greeting is stamped in Bermuda Bay Ink on Basic White (the new replacement for Whisper White) and die cut with one of the smaller Layering Circles Dies. This was layered on a Bermuda Bay die-cut (one of my favorite ones!) from the Tasteful Labels Dies and popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
For a final touch, I die cut some hearts with the Many Hearts Dies. I chose a small one to add just below the greeting to convey a little bit of a valentine feeling or at least “love”. So I think you can use this Ice Cream Corner Paper for a Valentine like this Ice Cream Corner Valentine Card.
What’s in store for this month’s kit? February’s Paper Pumpkin kit—Bouquet of Hope—provides a way to offer comfort, care, and condolences to those enduring life’s challenges. With beautiful blooms and supportive sentiments, theBouquet of Hope Paper Pumpkin Kit will soothe sorrow and share sympathy in a heartfelt, handmade way. While you can create nine cards of comfort and coordinating envelopes with this month’s kit, the kit’s exclusive, versatile stamp set can be used to uplift loved ones during trying times, any time.
These look like they will be beautiful cards to make for many occasions, even if you don’t need a sympathy or comforting card. But it is nice to have those cards on hand because when you need one, you’d like to be able to send a card out quickly.
The Bouquet of Hope Paper Pumpkin Kit provides enough supplies to create nine cards and coordinating envelopes. This soft, sympathetic kit includes patterned card bases, die-cut floral elements, ribbon, embellishments, and more!
Details:
Kit contains enough supplies to create 9 cards—3 each of 3 designs—and coordinating envelopes. Kit includes card bases, decorative die-cut pieces, embellishments, and more.
Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Bumblebee, Just Jade, Merry Merlot, Mossy Meadow, Rococo Rose
The kit’s exclusive Bouquet of Hope Stamp Set features supportive sentiments centered around comfort, care, hope, and love. Such a versatile stamp set can be used throughout the year!
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Spring will be coming even though many places are in the midst of a very cold winter right now, so I combined hydrangeas and a bunny for spring in this Springtime Joy Gift Bag. This would be cute for Easter treats or a gift or for Mother’s Day in May or any other time!
I started off wanting to make this gift bag with the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper just as you see, with the border of hydrangeas at the bottom of the bag with room in the plain area for a greeting or whatever I would come up with. I wanted to use that sheet that has the borders of hydrangeas at the top and bottom. Shortly, I realized that if i scored the paper like normal, most of the hydrangea images would end up at flaps at the bottom of the gift bag! So I had to engineer an extra piece of cardstock at the bottom to make the bottom flaps without cutting into the hydrangeas!
I did a little math and added on a 12″ strip of Old Olive cardstock to the bottom of the hydrangea piece.
To make this gift bag, I cut the designer paper at 6 3/4″ x 12″. Make sure your hydrangeas are where you want them before you cut! The Old Olive piece is 2 1/4″ x 12″. I adhered just 1/2″ of the Old Olive to the designer paper because I wanted 1 3/4″ to be the bottom of the gift bag.
Score the bag and Old Olive piece at 1 3/4″, 5 1/2″, 7 1/4″, and 11″. Then turn the paper and score the Old Olive portion at 1 3/4″ and 8″. This gives a 1/2″ lip at the top of the bag I folded over to show the inside color of the bag for contrast.
Cut up from the bottom on all the scored lines up to the edge of the designer paper. Normally this would all be the same paper, of course! Then cut off just the little narrow piece of the Old Olive as shown in the photos above.
Next, crease all the score lines, fold and assemble. Put some adhesive on that narrow side about the cut-off piece and fold the other side over to make the seam. Form into a box shape and fold in the flaps at the bottom, applying as much adhesive as you think necessary to close the bottom of the bag. Reach in from the top of the bag with a ruler or bone folder to press down from the inside on those bottom tabs to make sure everything is stuck together well.
Once you have the bag made, you can embellish however you like. You can even punch some holes in the top and tie ribbon through to hold the bag closed. Just pinch in the sides a little to get the top to close. But on my bag, I just tied a separate bow and adhered it with a couple of Mini Glue Dots.
The little bunny is from the cute spring stamp set, Springtime Joy. You’ll find it in the Spring Mini Catalog on page 22. I stamped the little bunny (the lamb was too big!) in Memento Ink and colored in with several Stampin’ Blends markers. For the bunny, I just used the light and dark Smokey Slate plus a little Crumb Cake and then pink and purple flowers for the little crown. I die cut the bunny with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. I wanted a layer underneath it so I just cut a Rococo Rose rectangle to fit underneath and with my Paper Snips, cut those curved corners after I adhered the two pieces together. I popped up the bunny with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is from the same Springtime Joy Stamp Set and stamped in Rococo Rose Ink to match the paper.
I think it’s a cute little bag, a relatively easy gift bag to make. You’ve probably made one just the same way. With the rest of that same sheet of hydrangea paper, check out the cards I made in this post. It would have been nice if the cards fit in the bag, and I could have made them smaller, but I just made regular size cards as a separate project! I can use this little bag as a decoration around Easter time or as a gift! Just think of this Springtime Joy Gift Bag filled with chocolate Easter eggs or a chocolate bunny!
You can’t beat the beauty of the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper as you can see here on these Hydrangea Hill Designer Paper Trio of Just For You Cards, with the designer paper behind them! Besides these three cards, I made something else with the rest of the designer paper that I will show you tomorrow!
This one sheet alone in the package of Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper makes the purchase worthwhile! If you are a scrapbooker, just think what a beautiful page you could make by just adding your photos to this already beautiful paper. And if you take a deep breath, shut your eyes, and cut into it, you can make all kinds of beautiful cards and projects with this unusual sheet with the flowers at the top and bottom.
To make these cards, I knew the dimensions of designer paper as a layer on a card base is 5 1/4″ x 4″. I just cut across the DSP at 5 1/4″ with one of the flower edges at the bottom. Make sure you pay attention which way you are placing your paper before you cut! Basically, you will cut off the bottom edge of the paper with the flowers at 5 1/4″ Then cut this 12″ x 5 1/4″ panel into three pieces at 4″ wide each.
For these cards, I used card bases of coordinating colors, such as Highland Heather, Rococo Rose, and Old Olive. Then I stamped the greeting in the matching ink color. The greeting is from the Meant To Be Stamp Set, which is in the Annual Catalog. Next, I used the die in the Tasteful Labels Dies to cut out the greeting and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. That’s all there is to these cards! You could add some little jewels or embellishments, but basically, I wanted to keep the cards simple with such pretty paper.
The Hydrangea Hill Paper is so pretty you can just use it and a greeting to make a card! It will be hard to cut into your designer paper, but after you do, you will make something even more beautiful than the paper itself. Then send your lovely card off to someone who will certainly appreciate hearing from you!
It’s time to make some Valentines and this Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card is an easy, traditional one to make! I like Valentines made with other colors, but what says Happy Valentine’s Day better than Real Red?!
The card base is Real Red. I think Stampin’ Up!’s best color is Real Red. There are other “reds” out there in the world but when you compare to Real Red, which is a full, true, “real” red color, you can’t beat Stampin’ Up!
For theBasic Whitelayer, (formerly Whisper White) before I even knew exactly what card I was going to make, I just stamped randomly with the little flowers in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set in Real Red Ink. Certainly don’t put this stamp set away after Valentine’s Day because it’s not just for Valentines! I’m already thinking what a pretty spring card I could make with this little flower stamp!
Coordinating with the Lots of Heart Stamp Set are the Many Hearts Dies. You can purchase both these items in the Lots of Heart Bundle. I just love this scalloped heart die-cut! I cut that out of Real Red and layered with a plain white die-cut heart. I thought about different ideas, but in the end, I just wanted to stamp “Happy Valentine’s Day” on the heart. I found that greeting in my Meant To Be Stamp Set in the Annual Catalog on page 69. You may already have this stamp set! (There are dies to go with this stamp set, too, which you may already have!)
The scalloped heart is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For a little bit of bling, I decided to see if the Resin Hearts Embellishments would work. They are very small and I thought that was perfect for this card! Just a little something without being too much around the greeting. I doubt they would show up very well on the background.
So there you have a basic, traditional, easy-to-make Valentine card! We better get busy if we want to have Valentines to mail soon! Have fun making something like this Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card.
Today is the day Stampin’ Up! brings back the Hey Chick Stamp Set from Sale-A-Bration 2017 because it was SO popular…plus they added a set of Chick Dies! You can purchase the stamp set or just the dies, or get BOTH in the Hey Chick Bundle! Save 10%! Lots of cute die pieces in this set for creating all kinds of scenes for your Chicks!
If you like chickens and cuteness, you will love these new offerings! Maybe you already have the Hey Chick Stamp Set in your stash from 2017! If you do, just order the dies. If you don’t own it, you can purchase the stamps or Bundle today and catch up!
I know chickens are popular because we could hear a rooster crowing one afternoon out for our walk around the neighborhood! I don’t think it was even from our neighborhood but from a couple streets adjacent to our subdivision. But some people love having chickens! It’s a lot easier just having chicken stamps and dies, so check out the new/not so new Chicks today!
These True Love Many Hearts Valentines and Cards were really going to be two identical cards. I often have suggested while you are making one card, make two, three or four of the same card while you have decided on the design and have all your supplies out. So after I cut my cardstock in half to make a card, I thought why not go ahead and use the other half right now to make two cards. And I was going to make both cards the same!
After looking through the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog for ideas, I took my inspiration from the small square card on page 10 with the polka dot paper. Our Stampin’ Up! catalogs are great places for ideas, by the way! My two cards don’t resemble the actual sample in the catalog, but the sample gave me the idea of how I wanted to proceed.
The card base is Blushing Bride and the polka dot paper is in the black and white True Love Designer Series Paper. (As I write this, this paper has been backordered but should be back in stock this week.) This True Love paper has really been interesting because you can use it as is or color it like a coloring book (maybe not the whole 12″ x 12″ page!), or just add shades of color to some of the images without really staying in the lines. Here is another cardI made with a stripe pattern in this package.
I used the Many Hearts Dies for these cards to die cut the large scalloped heart out of Blushing Bride cardstock and a plain heart out of white cardstock. I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to do the greeting or what I was going to do with the white heart, but what I really wanted to do for sure was use the silver Heart Charms. I was thinking in terms of having one dangling on the card from the top of the heart.
I decided to stamp a greeting on the heart and then also stamp the little flower in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set. With one swipe of my finger across the greeting moments later, I smeared the ink so for sure I had to go to Plan B. I stamped the greeting on a strip of Blushing Bride and adhered it over the smeary greeting!
The ribbon at the top of the heart is the Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon. (As I write this, this ribbon is backordered until March!) It doesn’t photograph too well but it has one sparkling side and one satin side. I tried slipping the heart charm onto the ribbon while I was tying it but I couldn’t get it how I wanted it and I didn’t want to take a lot of time to figure it out! I just adhered the bow to the top of the heart with Mini Glue Dots and adhered the heart charm separately.
When adhering the Heart Charms you can roll up a Mini Glue Dot very small to fit on the very narrow backside of the charm and even then work with it to make it fit. I put them on two places on this heart charm. The scalloped heart is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
As I said, I started off planning to make the two cards identical, but on the second one, I changed it up! My white heart was already die cut but I took a chance and stamped it with Blushing Bride using the Lots of Heart Stamp Set. I got it a little off, that’s why you see a white edge, especially on the left side, but that just proves it is handmade! You can get this stamp set and the Many Hearts Dies together in the Lots of Heart Bundle and save 10% (plus be on your way to spending $50 and earning a FREE Sale-A-Bration product!) (And, it’s not backordered as I write this!!)
I turned the card to a vertical position and put a greeting at the bottom. This time I tied a little piece of white twine around the heart charm and placed it around the Silver 3/8″ Metallic Edge Ribbon already tied in a bow and adhered both to the top of the heart with Mini Glue Dots. I like the way it just hangs, not even perfectly.
I really liked the black and white polka dot paper with the pink of the Blushing Bride Cardstock. While it is now February and you might want to make cards like these for Valentine’s Day, I think you could send both of these cards with the exact same design any time during the year. They don’t “scream” Valentine! They could be for a birthday, a thank you, a thinking of you-type of card. Use the catalogs for inspiration and if your creativity takes you elsewhere after you get started, like it did me with these True Love Many Hearts Valentines and Cards, just go with it!
I may have mentioned before that I LOVE this designer paper on this Flower & Field Red Floral Thank You Card. The best part is that you can earn it FREE during Sale-A-Bration! This is an easy card design, you can change it up a little bit and still use the basic design and layout.
Sale-A-Bration is a special promotion from Stampin’ Up! that happens every year! With each $50 you spend on any Stampin’ Up! products, you can choose a free product in the Sale-A-Bration brochure. If you spend $100, you can choose from special Level 2 choices, or choose two Level 1 ($50) products. No limits!
This is the Flower & Field Designer Series Paper and you’ll find it on page 10 in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! You can choose it FREE with a $50 purchase of Stampin’ Up! products. I just love the colors of this paper on the black background! There are many colors that coordinate with this paper. It doesn’t list Real Red but I used that on another card here and liked it just fine.
For this card, I started with a card base of Poppy Parade. Before adhering the paper to the card, I added some Bumblebee 1/4″ Gingham Ribbon and tied on a bow. I think this ribbon is really cute with this paper! I stamped the greeting from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set in Poppy Parade Ink. the greeting is then die cut with a stitched, scalloped rectangle from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. Rather than find one to layer this diecut on, I took the easy way out and just cut a rectangle layer of So Saffron to layer behind the greeting!
That’s all there is to this card! I love to use a piece of really pretty designer paper this way, with it being the focal point of the card.
We have just one month left of Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration! If you like this Flower & Field Red Floral Thank You Card, you might want to grab a package of this paper with your $50 order!
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This Easy Sweet Strawberry Bundle Thank You Card was quick and easy to make! I had just baked Blueberry Scones so when I saw this paper with blueberries plus strawberries I just had to use it!
I picked Poppy Parade for the card base because it is one of the coordinating colors for this Berry Delightful Designer Series Paper. This paper plus the Berry Blessings Stamp Set come together in the Berry Blessings Bundle. Would you believe you can get this fun paper plus a stamp set FREE during Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration?! When you spend $100, instead of choosing two Level 1 free products, you can choose this Bundle!
The card base is Poppy Parade and then I just adhered a piece of the Berry Delightful Designer Paper to the front of the card. I found an already die cut piece from the Ornate Frames Dies in my package of cardstock so I just used that! That was easy! For the greeting, I stamped the “Thank You” from the Sweet Strawberry Stamp Set in Poppy Parade Ink and then cut that out with the matching die in the same Ornate Frames set.
Of course, I wanted to use my new Strawberry Punch. I stamped the strawberry in two-steps from the Sweet Strawberry Stamp Set along with the leaflet that goes on top of the strawberry. I punched out the strawberry and leaf with the punch and popped it up next to the greeting. Cute and done!
Unbelievably, Sale-A-Bration is about half over already! Be sure to make your shopping list so you don’t miss out on any products you really want! This Sweet Strawberry Bundle and the Berry Blessings Bundle are going to be fun to make cards with and other projects with spring and strawberry season coming up!
I absolutely love this paper I used on this Flower & Field Just For You Card! And you can get it FREE during Sale-A-Bration 2021! Can you believe we are already half way through Sale-A-Bration?!
This is really an easy card to make. I decided I actually liked Real Red for a card base for this card, even though it’s not one of the coordinating colors. Just like my card the other day, I really like the red, black, and the tiny bit of white on this paper.
The first paper I wanted to use out of this Flower & Field Designer Series Paper was this pattern with a black background with yellow, red, and white flowers. But when I turned it over, I also loved the yellow polka dot design on the other side! So on this card, I used both sides of the same paper! I used a Real Red card base with a layer of the yellow polka dot paper. Then I added a strip of the floral side.
Before adhering the designer paper to the card base, I adhered a piece of the Bumblebee 2000-2022 In Color Ribbon around the designer paper. For something different, I tied on three knots of the ribbon instead of a bow.
The greeting is from the Sweet Strawberry Stamp Set, in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. If you like you can bundle the stamp set with the Strawberry Builder Punch and save 10%. I used the small circle die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. For a little embellishment, I cut out a group of the red flowers on the designer series paper by hand and adhered it behind the popped up greeting.
During Sale-A-Bration, you can choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration product with every $50 purchase during the promotion! No limit! If you have an order of $100 you can choose either two $50 Level products or one special $100 Level product. This is Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year, so don’t miss it! Who doesn’t want free stuff?!
This Flower & Field Paper is so pretty, you could sit down and make a ton of cheerful cards to send out just to let someone know you are thinking of them or for birthdays or whatever occasion!
Would you believe this True Love Red Floral Card is made from the True Love Designer Series Paper except for the vellum and the greeting? This black and white designer paper with all sorts of designs give you all sorts of opportunities to be creative!
To make this card, I decided to copy a sample card in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog on page 10 in the Love You Always Suite. I changed the colors of the flowers and how I arranged them and I put a different greeting on my card. My greeting took up a little extended space since it was longer and narrower than the sample card, so that caused me to move the flowers around a little.
The card base is Thick Whisper White and the striped pattern of the True Love Designer Series Paper covers the whole front of the card base. I didn’t leave any margin. The piece of vellum is 5 1/2″ x 3 1/4″. You could make yours any size. Just don’t glue it down yet because glue and other adhesives show through vellum.
Then I chose another of the patterns in the designer series with these flowers. I decided which ones I wanted as close to the edge of the paper as I could get and cut those out of the sheet. I colored them in with Stampin’ Blends Markers, the Light and Dark Real Red. I wanted my card to be black, white and Real Red! The flower center is just colored with Dark Daffodil Delight. The leaves are Granny Apple Green, Light and Dark, along with a touch of Daffodil Delight. An artist friend I know always said to mix some yellow in with green, so I do!
You can leave the flowers in the group in which they appear on the designer paper or if you need to cut them apart to make them fit on your card you can do that. Some I popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and one flower and one leaf is adhered right on the vellum.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red Ink on Whisper White from the Lots of Heart Stamp Set. It is die-cut with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies as is the Real Red piece behind it.
If you place and adhere everything on to the vellum before you attach it to the card, you can turn the vellum over and apply adhesive on areas that are covered by the greeting and flowers on the front. That will hold it on to the card front without showing the adhesive through the vellum. I used Stampin’ Seal.
When you are looking for card ideas, if you don’t already have one in your head, think about looking at any of your Stampin’ Up! catalogs! You can copy any of the ideas, and most likely you will come up with your own version once you start creating!
Remember, Sale-A-Bration is going on so with every $50 you spend, you earn a free product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! No limit!
Be sure to check out the black and white True Love Designer Series Paper so you can have fun either designing with it as is or using different methods of coloring it like on this True Love Red Floral Card.
You get lots of hearts in the stamp set and dies I used to make this easy slim card, Trio of Hearts Valentine Card, for Valentine’s Day or really any time! These hearts are pretty big but they still fit perfectly on this slimline card.
I just got the Lots of Heart Bundle, which has the Lots of Heart Stamp Set and the Many Hearts Dies. And there really are many heart dies in that set! In fact, I recommend making a copy of the sheet with all the dies still adhered with your printer and keep it with your dies so you can see clearly what you are supposed to have! There are 15 different dies in the set!
To make this card, I decided to make pastel-colored hearts so I started with a card base of Pool Party Cardstock. I cut the paper 6″ x 6″ so that when I folded it in half, it would be 3″ x 6″ for a slimline card. The Whisper White layer is just a tiny bit narrower than the card base, 2 7/8″ x 5 7/8″.
I stamped the hearts on another piece of Whisper White and then die cut with one of the heart dies. This heart die also cuts a narrow outline of the heart, which I didn’t notice at first so the excess paper was getting left in the die. If you have this set, make sure you check the underside of your heart die because if you cut several times, that paper still stuck in the die will prevent getting a complete cut after awhile!
The hearts are stamped in Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, and Pool Party ink. Since the photopolymer stamps are new, even though I wiped them on my Shammy a couple of times, the ink still beaded up a tiny bit when I stamped, but I don’t think it’s anything that’s bad enough to jump out. I adhered the hearts flat on the white card layer, but I could have popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Either way is fine. I did stamp the greeting in Pool Party Ink and then popped that up on Dimensionals. The greeting is in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set.
I almost left it as is at that point, but I decided to add some Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Who can resist a few rhinestones?! And for a final touch, I just used a piece of white twine I had to make a little bow on the center heart, adhered with a rolled-up Mini Glue Dot.
This is one example of how you can make an easy Valentine using three hearts in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog on page 15.
Do you love the look of this Hydrangea Hills Thank You Card as much as I do? I’m not bragging about my own work….it’s the PAPER!! Oh my gosh! I just got it, opened the package, didn’t even look at ALL the paper, just grabbed the top sheet, and went to work!
It was late and I just wanted to make an easy card and this card was certainly it! When I flipped the hydrangea side of the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper over, I saw this green plaid on the other side and thought it would work perfectly with this card design. With the way the hydrangeas are printed on the paper, I knew a horizontal layout on the card would show the hydrangeas the best.
The mistake I made was cutting the designer paper exactly the size for a layer on the front of the card. Since I wanted to wrap some ribbon around the layer, I needed to overlap the flower part of the paper and the green plaid portion. (I could have cut out another strip of paper but I didn’t). The way to get around this is to glue the two designer paper pieces to another piece of cardstock, either covering it entirely or leaving just a tiny margin around the edge (1/8″) like I did on the white cardstock. Sometimes an extra layer like this under the designer paper helps the colors in the designer paper stand out.
Once I had the two pieces of the Hydrangea Hill DSP adhered to a piece of white cardstock, I wrapped a piece of ribbon across the front. While this Blackberry Bliss 3/8″ Striped Ribbon is a little dark, since it’s sheer I think it still works fine on this card. I tied a bow separately and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot or two.
This whole card front is then adhered to a card base of Highland Heather. There are a lot of colors that coordinate with this designer paper so you can have lots of different looks depending on which colors you use with which papers.
For the greeting, I chose the “Thanks” from the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set. The font is so elegant in that set and I thought worked well on this card. The greeting is stamped in Highland Heather Ink, die-cut with the Layering Oval Dies as is the Highland Heather layer. I popped it up over the ribbon with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
Actually, I only ordered the designer paper in the Hydrangea Hill Suite (because I can’t have everything I want!), but now that I see how pretty the Hydrangea Hill Paper is, I don’t know if I have the will power not to order more things!
I have to say just this one sheet of designer paper I have looked at is SO pretty, so be sure to check out the Hydrangea Hill Suite of products starting on page 18 of the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. While you might want everything, you can make cards with just the paper and maybe some matching ribbon as I did with this Hydrangea Hill Thank You Card.
Maybe you noticed the Hey Birthday Chick Stamp Set in the new January-June 2021 Mini Catalog on page 52 and maybe you thought it looked familiar. If you were a Stampin’ Up! customer back in 2017 during Sale-A-Bration, you may have chosen the Hey Chick Stamp Set as one of your free Sale-A-Bration products!
Apparently, it was such a popular stamp set back then that Stampin’ Up! is bringing it back in February! If you already own this stamp set, you are ahead of the game! And if you don’t, you will get a chance to own it beginning February 2. And get the new Chick Dies, too! Just look at those cute images and imagine what you could make with them!
Maybe you have already purchased the Hey Birthday Chick Stamp Set in the Mini Catalog. On February 2, you can also get a set of dies to go with it or purchase both the stamp set and dies in a Bundle.
These Chick stamps and dies will be available February 2 through the end of June! If you like cute chickens, these are the stamps and dies for you!
