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Welcome Spring Bunny Card

With all the snow, ice, and cold weather, not just in Texas but all over the country, I thought it was time to think about spring! Tulips, bunnies, and a basket of eggs – that says spring quite well, I think!

I pulled out the Springtime Joy Stamp Set which is in the Spring Mini Catalog. It’s not part of a Bundle or anything, just a simple stamp set, so don’t miss it! It’s perfect for spring and Easter and other occasions.

I often like to stamp randomly on the cardstock to make a background myself rather than use designer paper so I stamped all over the background with the tulip stamp in Memento Ink and then colored in the tulips with Stampin’ Blends. I used Flirty Flamingo and Granny Apple Green for the tulips with a bit of Daffodil Delight on the green leaves.

The card base is Granny Apple Green with a Flirty Flamingo layer. The way I made this big color decision was when I pulled out the cardstock, these two colors were right next to each other! I thought it looked springy and bright so used them!

The bunny and the basket were stamped on a piece of Basic White Cardstock. I played around with various dies until I found something that fit around the bunny and could have a layer behind it. I chose these rectangles in the Stitched So Sweetly Dies to cut out the bunny and then to make a Granny Apple Green layer. I cut the basket of eggs out separately with my Paper Snips and popped it up like the bunny is holding the basket. The eggs were colored with Pool Party, Balmy Blue, and a bit of light pink.

The greeting is stamped with the spring sentiment in the Springtime Joy Stamp Set and then layered on a die-cut piece of Granny Apple Green. Here is another way I used the bunny in this stamp set by placing it on a gift bag.

If you purchase this stamp set early, you will have time to use it for spring and Easter, but the darling bunny and lamb could be used for baby cards and projects, also.

Although I found the winter weather we finally had in Houston after several years to be a little exciting and I’m always happy to see snow as long as my family and I are at home, I think we are all reaching our limit with this winter storm with power outages and such low water pressure you barely have water! Usually winter in Houston lasts one day but this one is something else! Time to think about spring! If you are snowed in, maybe it is time to make something for spring similar to this Welcome Spring Bunny Card.

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Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box For Valentine’s Day

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Mini Curvy Keepsakes Candy Box For Valentine's Day

Don’t forget about the cute little boxes you can make easily for some Valentine candy, even at the last minute! Any cardstock or designer paper you have will work, but for Valentine’s Day you might want to use some fancy designer paper!

This cute little box is made with the Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Dies. You just need a piece of 6″ x 6″ paper for the box. Then you can also die-cut a little heart in the same set to tie onto the box. Just cut the paper, fold on the score lines, then assemble. Push down on the two handle pieces and fold over the two slit pieces to hold the box together. Be sure to put your treat in first!

I used the pretty Love You Always Specialty Designer Series Paper with the foil accents. The die-cut heart is Rococo Rose Cardstock. I tied it on with the Whisper White 5/8″ Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon. That’s all there is to it! You could use this little box for Valentine candy or maybe a little table decoration or party favor. You can get very creative with this Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box and make all kinds of creations.

This little Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box For Valentine’s Day matches the card I made with the Love You Always Specialty Paper here in this post! Make a matching set!

Love You Always Fancy Heart Card

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This Love You Always Fancy Heart Card can certainly be for Valentine’s Day tomorrow or it can be for other occasions! I left off a greeting just to show that you can use this card design in multiple ways.

The card base is Blushing Bride because it coordinates with the beautiful designer paper I used on the card. The Love You Always Specialty Designer Series Paper is so pretty on this card. It’s always a little hard to photograph paper that has foil accents as this one does. You always get a little glare! But I think you can see the shine a little bit of the foil.

Can you tell that I used three strips of paper on this card front? I cut two strips from the light Blushing Bride pink paper and then a strip of the Rococo Rose darker pink paper. You can cut the sizes however you like. I have a very narrow margin around the edge of the card. You can cut the strips larger than you want them and then trim down to see what will fit on the card base. These strips were glued right down onto the card base.

The die-cut scalloped heart I just love and is in the Many Hearts Dies. I cut it out of Rococo Rose Cardstock. In the center is a plain die-cut Basic White heart overlaid with the floral heart die in the same set cut out of Blushing Bride. The Basic White behind the floral heart makes it show up against the Rococo Rose heart. I like the way it turned out.

For an embellishment, I tied a bow with the very pretty Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon and adhered it to the top of the heart with a few Mini Glue Dots. The ribbon has one satin side and one metallic side so you get a little bit of both when you tie a bow!

You can add a greeting to this card, but I thought it looked pretty enough without one. It would make a special Valentine, or a gorgeous engagement, wedding or anniversary card. I always say hearts are for any time so you can get a lot of use out of heart stamps or dies!

If you don’t have contrasting designer paper to use on a card design like this, you can stamp different designs on strips of paper and use it the same way! Maybe this Love You Always Fancy Heart Card will give you an idea of a card to make for Valentine’s Day or some other occasion.

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Die-cut Hearts For a Valentine

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It’s time for making, sending, giving Valentines like this Die-cut Hearts For a Valentine card. I am so happy about this background designer paper on this card! This year we do not have a whole package of “Valentine” paper to use so I looked to see what I could maybe use. You can use this card for other times, not just Valentine’s Day.

Other years at Stampin’ Up! we have maybe had “Valentine” paper that had assorted hearts or a lot of red and white patterns. It wouldn’t HAVE to be for Valentine’s Day but it suggested it. So I looked through my packages of current designer paper and I found this red and white plaid paper in the Sale-A-Bration Berry Delightful Designer Series Paper in the Berry Blessings Bundle! It’s on the opposite side of a beautiful, soft-colored strawberry images. I wouldn’t have even thought to tell you this was a pattern in this package of designer paper, but when I found it, was thrilled to use it on my valentine card! It’s just a different look!

The coordinating color is Poppy Parade so I used that cardstock as a card base with this plaid paper as a layer. I stamped the center heart with Poppy Parade Ink from the Lots of Heart Stamp Set in the Spring Mini. It is just stamped on Basic White and then die cut with one of the Many Hearts Dies. If you want both the stamp set and dies, then get the Lots of Heart Bundle and save 10%! I also die-cut the “fancy” heart from the Many Hearts Dies and layered them. Then the hearts are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting, in the same stamp set, is stamped in Poppy Parade Ink and punched with the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch. I just adhered it flat on the card so I could add an embellishment that would not stick up too high for mailing. I wanted to use the Resin Hearts Embellishments, but the colors were white (which wouldn’t show up very well) or red (which might be okay but the rest of the card is Poppy Parade). I decided to try coloring the white hearts Poppy Parade with the Poppy Parade Dark Stampin’ Blends. It worked! I went over it a couple of times and around the sides a little bit. So the next time you want something to be a different color, try coloring with Stampin’ Blends!

Overall, this was an easy card to make for Valentine’s Day because it has hearts or any time because the greeting isn’t just for Valentine’s Day! Hearts can be for any time, also! And I do love the little Resin Hearts!

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Playful Alphabet Valentine

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Express your love with some “X’s” and “O’s” plus hearts on a card like this Playful Alphabet Valentine. It requires some die-cutting and a little stamping, but it’s a fun card to make and I’m sure to receive!

The card base is Real Red with a layer of Basic White Cardstock. I cut it a little smaller than normal (5″ x 3 3/4″) to allow more of the Real Red card base to show. I also cut a strip of Basic White (5″ x 1″) layered on a wider strip of Real Red (5″ x 1 1/4″) for the center (or so) of the card on which to layer the X’s and O’s.

I used the Playful Alphabet Dies to cut out the X’s and O’s and adhered them to the Basic White Strip with tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. For an extra embellishment, I die-cut two strips of hearts in the Many Hearts Dies.

The little red hearts at the top and bottom of the card are from the Lots of Heart Stamp Set. Normally I might stamp the little hearts randomly on the area where I want them to show, but with the strips of die-cut hearts having open hearts, I didn’t want stamping interfering behind them. I probably should have positioned the center portion of the card better so the hearts at the bottom weren’t so crowded. But I doubt the recipient will be as critical as we are of our own work! We should remember that as we are making and stamping our cards!

That’s all there is to this card. On the inside, you might add a Basic White layer either stamped with a few hearts in the corner or along the top or bottom, or maybe add another X and O for fun! You could just stamp a greeting on the Real Red in black ink, too.

On the front of the card, if you wanted to embellish more, you could add the little Resin Hearts or rhinestones at the beginning and ending of the X’s and O’s. I might have done that, but I also thought maybe the card was busy enough and didn’t need anything extra.

Valentine’s Day is coming soon so take some time to make some valentines for your family or maybe some to mail! Receiving your card might be the only Valentine celebration they have this year! Use this Playful Alphabet Valentine to give you some ideas for making your own valentines today!

Ice Cream Corner Valentine Card

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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.

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Next Paper Pumpkin Kit: Bouquet Of Hope February 2021

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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, the Bouquet 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
Coordinates with the Flower & Field Designer Series Paper, an exclusive Sale-A-Bration item.

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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Buy a Prepaid Subscription in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store! It just goes on a regular order according to how many months you want to purchase! It may help you reach Stampin’ Rewards on your whole order! And keep Sale-A-Bration in mind: 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month subscriptions earn free Sale-A-Bration products! Or add a 1-month subscription to your order to reach $50 for Sale-A-Bration. Stampin’ Up! will send an email with instructions on how to set up your account with the prepaid code. Click HERE to see the Prepaid Subscription page.

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And once you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, if available, you can purchase past kits or refills that you might have missed.

Let me know if you have any questions! Deadline is February 10 and your kit ships out within days after.

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Springtime Joy Gift Bag

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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!

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Hydrangea Hill Designer Paper Just For You Cards

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Hydrangea Hill Designer Paper Trio of Just For You Cards

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!

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Trio of Hydrangea Hill Just For You Cards

Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card

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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 the Basic White layer, (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.

Hey Chick & Hey Birthday Chick Bundles Here Today!

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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!

Hey Chick Stamp Set (158190) $17.00

Chick Dies (158199) $32.00

Hey Chick Bundle (158627) $44.00

And I’m sure you have seen the Hey Birthday Chick Stamp Set in the Spring Mini, the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. Starting today, if you would like coordinating dies, you can get those, too, for this stamp set!

Hey Birthday Chick Stamp Set (154464) $21.00

Birthday Chick Dies (158200) $27.00

Hey Birthday Chick Bundle (158631) $43.00

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!

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True Love Many Hearts Valentines and Cards

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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 card I 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!

Flower & Field Red Floral Thank You Card

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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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Join the Stamping With Karen Mailing List Today!

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It’s time to be a part of the Stamping With Karen Mailing List since we have the new January-June 2021 Mini Catalog (I call it the Spring Mini!) plus it is Sale-A-Bration, the big Stampin’ Up! promotion during which you can earn free products with every $50 or $100 purchase! These catalogs, along with the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog, give you lots of products you will be excited about, want to learn about, and want to see all the ideas for cards and projects possible!

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Easy Sweet Strawberry Bundle Thank You Card

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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!

This Berry Blessings Bundle also coordinates with the Sweet Strawberry Bundle in the Spring Mini Catalog! You’ll find it on page 44. Along with the Sweet Strawberry Stamp Set, you get a Strawberry Builder Punch in the Bundle! If you like strawberries, you’ve got to get all this good stuff!

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!

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