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Flower & Field Just For You Card

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Flower & Field Just For You Card

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.

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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!

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True Love Red Floral Card

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True Love Red Floral Card

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.

True Love Red Floral Card Closeup

Trio of Hearts Valentine Card

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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.

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Hydrangea Hills Thank You Card

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Hydrangea Hills Thank You Card

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.

Hey Chick and Hey Birthday Chick Coming Soon!

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Hey Chick and Hey Birthday Chick

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.

Hey Birthday Chick 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!

Less than 2 weeks!!

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Art Gallery Floral With Gilded Frame Card

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Art Gallery Floral With Gilded Frame Card

I couldn’t wait to play with the new Gilded Leafing again but I wanted to try something different and I came up with this Art Gallery Floral With Gilded Frame Card.

I’ve loved the little floral stamp in the Art Gallery Stamp Set in the Fine Art Floral Suite. I got the idea to stamp the flower and then make a gilded frame around it. Instead of using Versamark Ink and Heat & Stick Powder before applying the Gilded Leafing, as I did on this card, I simply made the frame with strips of Tear & Tape Adhesive! You can either pick up pieces of the gold leaf and stick it onto the adhesive, which I started doing. But then I just plunged the piece into my container, pulled it out but still held it over the container, and simply rubbed most of the excess off with my fingers. The Gilded Leafing is so soft, you almost want to stick your hands in it! When I had most of it off, I used a soft brush I had from years ago to brush off the last little bits. You can also use one of the Stamping Sponges.

The card base is Night of Navy, and I chose that because on another card I made with the Dandy Garden DSP I really liked the yellow flowers and dark blue background of that paper. I started off coloring the stamp with Stampin’ Write Markers but since it was new and I hadn’t prepared the stamp first, the ink from the markers just beaded up. I decided to just skip to a regular ink pad, Mango Melody. I tried to mostly get it on the flowers but I knew that even if I got it on the leaves, that’s okay because they would be covered with green ink. On these I did use the Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Write Marker because it was the darkest green and it would look lighter stamped. What you see on the card is my first attempt, so it worked out great! I layered this on a piece of Mango Melody Cardstock and then added the Gilded Leafing around the sides.

Since I had used the Mango Melody under the flower piece, I decided to use it as a thin layer on top of the Night of Navy card base. The top layer is a piece of the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper. Instead of using the floral side, of course, I turned it over and used this light blue with a pattern on it that looks like it was painted with a paint brush! To add to that texture, I embossed the paper with the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder.

I adhered the floral piece to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For the greeting, I stamped a birthday sentiment from the Art Gallery Stamp Set in Mossy Meadow Ink and then die-cut it with a die in the Floral Gallery dies. I think all of these main products are in the Fine Art Floral Suite! I’m sure it will be one of the most popular Suites in the Spring Mini Catalog! Everything in that Suite is lovely!

If it isn’t on your shopping list yet, be sure to put it on there, at least if you like florals. The paper is gorgeous. The Gilded Leafing is fun and elegant. The Fine Art Ribbon is beautiful and soft. You will want everything!

Remember, with every $50 increment you purchase, you earn a free Sale-A-Bration product! If you spend $100 or more, you can choose one of the special Level 2 products, unless you want two Level 1 products at the $50 level.

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Sweet Little Valentines Cards & More

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Sweet Little Valentines Cards & More Kit

Here is something you might miss in the new January-June 2021 Mini Catalog – the Sweet Valentines Cards & More! I almost forget I put it on my first pre-order before Christmas and I guess it got lost in the shuffle a little bit. But don’t overlook it because I think you will enjoy making some cards with this little kit. It’s not even officially a kit, just a package of card bases, card fronts, and envelopes but there is so much possibility with these colorful pieces!

As you can see in the photo below, You get two kinds of card bases, printed on both sides front and back so you can choose whichever side you want to be the front. Or even cut them apart and adhere to your own card base for a colorful background. Make twice as many cards that way!

Sweet Little Valentines Cards & More Card Bases

To make the cards, you also get the card fronts. These are pieces almost as large as the card base itself so it’s a little bit of a shame to cover up the cute card base! But then when you look at the card fronts, there are two sides, both cute! You will hate to put glue on one side, like we do with designer paper! They also have gold foil accents!

Sweet Little Valentines Cards & More Card Fronts

Now really, if you adhere the card front with the blue hearts and one red heart onto a card base, you are DONE! You don’t need a greeting! If you wanted to, you could embellish either one with a bit of ribbon or whatever you wanted to use, whatever you have in your “stash”. And of course, the “You Are Loved” card really doesn’t need anything else! The blue hearts are the opposite side of the “You Are Loved” card and the big hearts card front has that kind of brushed look on the other side. You can add a greeting to these two plainer card fronts.

Sweet Little Valentines Cards & More Cards

Here are my first two cards, made, seriously, in like 30 seconds! I just adhered the card fronts to a card base. That’s all I made upon just opening the package, but I want to “play” with all the pieces more and make some alternative cards as well.

You might even want to order two packages of these and you will be set for Valentine’s Day or even just any occasion notecards to send. Hearts and love is good any time, not just February 14th!. Envelopes are included. The only thing, I’m not sure the envelopes are the proper size for mailing, but you can put your card in a regular size envelope and save these for something else…..like a little envelope album! I think envelopes have to be 3 1/2″ x 5″ to mail, the size of our Notecards & Envelopes.

Sweet Little Valentines Cards & More (154287) on page 16 of the Spring Mini.

Makes 10 cards
* Includes 10 scored card bases, 10 double-sided card fronts, and 10 envelopes
* 4 designed card fronts give you options
* Folded card size: 4-1/4″ x 3-1/4″(10.8 x 8.3 cm)
* Card front size: 3″ x 4″ (7.6 x 10.2 cm)

Put this on your next order! The set is only $10 and you will have fun making little love notes to have on hand or to send right away! Play with all the pieces and come up with your own creations!

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Mini Pizza Box and Card With Golden Garden Acetate

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Golden Garden Acetate Sheet Pizza Box and Card

You can play around with the new Acetate Sheets in different ways for a different look to your cards and projects like on this Mini Pizza Box and Card With Golden Garden Acetate. These acetate sheets are in the Fine Art Floral Suite.

After making this card the other day, I used a scrap piece of the Golden Garden Specialty Designer Acetate Sheets on this small gift card. You don’t have to only use it with the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper. You can use it on its own over a piece of cardstock. For this card, I just used a piece of Basic White Cardstock for the card base and adhered the acetate sheet on the front. The greeting is in the Art Gallery Stamp Set in the Suite. It is just stamped on white and layered on a piece of Gold Foil. The ribbon tied around the side is the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon.

Here are some things to know about the acetate sheets! On the backside of sheet, the backside of the gold design is silver! So you can use whichever color you like. There is also a protective plastic sheet on the backside of the acetate, on the silver side, so be sure to remove that before using. As for how to adhere the sheets to your card or project, you may be able to hide the adhesive underneath some other element on your card, such as under the greeting or under the ribbon. Some people are using Mini Glue Dots and hiding them under whatever they can. I chose to use teeny tiny dots of the Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Have a piece of scrap nearby so you can squeeze out a bit of glue to make sure it won’t pour out when you are trying to use really small dots! I just put the tiny dots under the widest parts of the gold design to try to hide it.

For something different I put together a Mini Pizza Box and added a piece of the Golden Garden Acetate to the top of the box. I used the shiny side for the outside this time. As I was assembling the box, I thought it felt a lot thicker and harder to fold for some reason! Well, the reason was revealed when a second box fell apart from the one box I thought I was working with. I was trying to crease two boxes stuck together and thought I only had one!!

For the pizza box, after adhering the acetate to the top of the box with teeny tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. I actually can see the glue that oozed out from under the spot when I placed it, but honestly, no one else will even notice it. I can see it because I’m looking for it, but it doesn’t really show. I also added strips of Gold Foil around all four sides. The greeting is also in the Art Gallery Stamp Set and is die-cut with a die in the Floral Gallery Dies, layered on a piece of Gold Foil. Then I just tied a piece of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon around the box, which holds the lid closed and also is an embellishment. This is an easy way to make a little box for a gift, treat, or maybe some notecards or a cookie inside!

Mini Pizza Box and Card With Golden Garden Acetate

The Fine Art Floral Suite is a beautiful group of products for you to make lots of pretty things! Check them out in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store along with the other January-June 2021 Mini Catalog products.

Art Gallery Flowers With Gilded Leafing

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Art Gallery Flowers With Gilded Leafing

I finally got a chance to play with some of the new products in the Fine Art Floral Suite in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog! I almost made a giant mess but I think the card turned out pretty well for my first try!

I started with a card base of Magenta Madness, one of the current In Colors. When I looked for a piece of white cardstock for the layer, I had a shorter piece and decided to just cut it down to 4″ x 4″ instead of covering the whole front of the card.

One of the new products I have been dying to try was the Gilded Leafing! If you get this, it’s a REAL GOOD IDEA to put the whole jar in a large enough container that a card will fit into. That way you can stick the whole card into the gold leafing to apply it. I found a perfect size container in the closet but I still nearly spilled it while making this card when the attached lid pulled it backward! Yikes! What a mess that would have been! The gold leafing is very thin, light, and will go ANYWHERE if you let it! Some pieces are big, some are tiny.

I stamped two flowers with Magenta Madness Ink and then used the two-step stamping smaller image to stamp over the original flower with Versamark Ink. Then I dumped on the Heat & Stick Powder (it’s back!) and embossed it with my Heat Tool. You don’t want to overheat the Heat & Stick Powder. After I heated it, I just plunged the card face down into the Gilded Leafing! It came up looking like a mess like a kindergartner would have made. But I just rubbed off some of the big pieces of leafing and then used a retired stencil brush I had from Stampin’ Up! from many years ago I think. I just brushed and brushed the gold leafing until all the excess came off.

You should really do all your stamping before you add the gold leaf. I added two Mango Melody flowers and got the gold on my stamp where it overlapped. Luckily it did wash off my stamp at the sink.

I adhered a strip of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon that has gold threads in it along the bottom of the stamped panel. I tied a separate small bow and adhered it with several Mini Glue Dots.

For the greeting I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of white cardstock and die cut with the die in the Floral Gallery Dies. You can buy the dies and the Art Gallery Stamp Set together in the Art Gallery Bundle.

To check out all these new products, especially the Gilded Leafing, check out pages 32-34 in the spring Mini and also in the Online Store!

Art Gallery Floral You Are Lovely Card

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Art Gallery Floral You Are Lovely Card

Here is a quick and easy card for you to make, my Art Gallery Floral You Are Lovely Card, with new products in the Stampin’ Up! January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. This is from the Fine Art Floral Suite of products on pages 32-34.

This Suite has a lot of products in it allowing you to make the fanciest of cards and projects if you would like to. You can do two-step stamping, you can add gold leafing with the Gilded Leafing Embellishment, you can add gold foiling with the Golden Garden Designer Specialty Acetate, you can die-cut images, add texture with a dramatic embossing folder, Painted Texture. You can use all those things, but if you want a simple card you can make one like my card today. This is an easy card design all of us use a lot in various ways.

The card base is Bumblebee, one of our new In Colors, and one of the MANY coordinating colors with this designer paper. First, I randomly stamped one of the flower images from the Art Gallery Stamp Set on the card front in Versamark Ink. I also could have used Bumblebee Ink for the same type of watermark look. After using the Versamark Ink I could have used Clear Embossing Powder on the flowers if I wanted, but I was keeping this card simple.

The beautiful designer paper is the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper. I cut a narrow strip of it to adhere along the side of the card. My strip is 5 1/2″ x 1 1/2″. You could make the strip a little wider if you wanted to or even allowed a slight margin along the fold showing the card base rather than right up against the fold. Before adhering the designer paper to the card front, I added a bit of Mossy Meadow 3/16″ Braided Linen Trim on page 59 of the Spring catalog. I tied a separate bow and adhered it with Mini Glue Dots.

The greeting is stamped in Bumblebee Ink from the same stamp set and then die cut with the small banner die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. It is then popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

That’s all there is to making this card. Randomly stamp the flowers on the card front, add a strip of designer paper along the side with some linen trim for embellishment, stamp and die-cut a greeting and you are done. You could even skip the dee-cutting, just cut a small rectangle for the greeting.

It’s fine and it’s fun to make more involved, fancier cards and projects, but if you are in a hurry or you are a beginner with not as many supplies, it is perfectly fine to go simple with a card design like this Art Gallery Floral You Are Lovely Card.

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LAST DAY! Get the January 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit!

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January 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit

Love is in the air! Send a little love to someone special with the Sending Hearts Paper Pumpkin Kit. From heaps of heart-shaped elements to paper pieces in red and pink, this month’s kit has everything you need to create eight adorable cards—with coordinating envelopes—for Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, and every celebration of love in between!

Sign Up for Paper Pumpkin HERE to get the January 2021 Kit!

With the add-on to January’s sweet and sentimental kit, there’s even more love to share! The add-on—called Little Love Boxes—includes 20 tiny, printed boxes and 24 die-cut, heart-shelled snails and sentiment labels. When combined with the remaining components from the Sending Hearts kit, you can create treat packaging, additional cards, and so much more! Order the Add-On from the Stampin’ Up! Online Store after becoming a Paper Pumpkin subscriber.

Who doesn’t love making Valentines and sending them? I think Valentine’s Day takes us back to our childhood, to elementary school, when we would decorate shoeboxes or lunch sacks in which to receive our valentines from our classmates!

Today is the LAST DAY to sign up for the January 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit, Sending Hearts! Sign up TODAY or reactivate your account so you will receive this kit mid-January!

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Dandy Garden Z-Fold Card

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Dandy Garden Z-Fold Card

I’m not sure I would have ordered this paper and other supplies in this Dandy Garden Suite, but since I was “attending” the Stampin’ Up! OnStage Event virtually, I got it and it turns out I really like it! This paper I used on my Dandy Garden Z-Fold Card is very colorful and who can resist the little ladybugs?!

While deciding which designer papers to use out of the Dandy Garden 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, I decided to make my card a z-fold design to show off the designer paper better. I love this paper with the dark blue background and bright yellow dandelions. The other designer paper on the inside of the card is the opposite side of the one with the blue and dandelions.

The card base is Misty Moonlight. To make the z-fold card, just make a regular card front but then score the front of the card base in half at 2 1/8″ and fold back. That’s all there is to it! And yet a z-fold card will look like you made something really special! I just used a piece of designer paper on this front panel.

Dandy Garden Z-Fold Card Open

The greeting, from the Dragonfly Garden Stamp Set, is stamped in Misty Moonlight Ink on Bumblebee Cardstock, then die-cut with one of the Tasteful Labels Dies. The greeting is then layered on a larger die from the same set in Misty Moonlight blue. Be sure you only put adhesive on the back of this label that will attach to the front panel, probably half or less of the area.

On the inside of the card, I adhered a piece of the other side of the designer paper in Bumblebee. Since it is a print, I decided to die-cut a matching label to the one on the front to adhere inside the card for stamping or writing a message. To hide it directly behind the die on the front of the card, hold it perfectly behind the one on the front after applying some adhesive on the backside, and carefully hold it there while closing the card so it will glue down right behind the front one but on the inside of the card. I had also stamped some Bumblebee flowers on the die.

Dandy Garden Z-Fold Card Inside

The middle panel I could have left plain, but in case I wanted to write a note, I put a piece of Bumblebee cardstock.

That’s all there is to this card, except for the Ladybug Trinkets! For each one, I used two Glue Dots to attach it. I put the first one on, sort of stuffing it into the indentation on the underside of the bug, and then added another glue dot right on that first glue dot to hold it on the card.

I think the colors of the designer paper on this Dandy Garden Z-Fold Card really make it look special, along with the little ladybugs!

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Fine Art Floral Golden Garden Birthday Card

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Fine Art Floral Golden Garden Birthday Card

I thought I would make an easy but beautiful card for this blog post and of course that meant using the Fine Art Floral Suite to make this Fine Art Floral Golden Garden Birthday Card. I know the title is a little weird, but it’s because I used the Golden Garden Designer Specialty Acetate Sheets. I didn’t even know what they were called, just that they were in the new spring mini catalog and I had them! If you place them just right, some parts match this designer paper!

First I made the card. I wanted to use the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper. I chose the sheet that has one top corner bare of flowers. Actually, there is another sheet with a blue background and yellow flowers, but this one has the white background with pinkish flowers. You’ll see it in your package. You could also just frame this sheet of paper, kind of like some other designer paper we had one time! Or use it for a scrapbook page. I chose So Saffron for the card base, one of the paper’s coordinating colors….and there are a lot of coordinating colors with this paper!

Next, I got out the Golden Garden Acetate Sheets and found the portion that matched the flowers on the paper and cut it out. I just put tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the back of the acetate on the widest parts of the printed design in hopes of hiding the glue. Actually, when you turn the acetate over, you could use that side instead! Then I carefully overlaid the acetate on the floral paper. Be sure to adhere the ribbon around the designer paper and acetate before you adhere to the card base. I added a piece of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon which is soft, pliable, and has gold in it!

The greeting is stamped in Flirty Flamingo Ink from the Art Gallery Stamp Set in the Suite. I die cut the piece with one of the Tasteful Labels Dies. Next, I cut out two flowers from a scrap of the designer paper and popped them up on the corners of the greeting. I’m not sure if I like them or not, but they are there.

That’s all there is to this card! Once again, the beautiful designer paper does most of the work to give you a lovely card! The acetate overlay is a bonus. HERE is another card I made recently with both sides of the same designer paper.

You’ll find all of these supplies in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. And while you are ordering, be sure to keep Sale-A-Bration in mind and order in $50 increments so you earn FREE Sale-A-Bration products! No limits!

If you want EVERYTHING, order the Fine Art Floral Suite Collection (155982) and get it all by just putting in one item number. It has been on backorder but as I write this it should be available next week. Or just order the individual products that you want, or the Bundle. I’m sure you will want these beautiful products to make a card like this Fine Art Floral Golden Garden Birthday Card!

Dragonfly Garden Thinking of You Card

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Dragonfly Garden Thinking of You Card

You may think this Dragonfly Garden Thinking of You Card would be difficult to make, coloring those tiny areas, but it is still relatively easy. Since the areas you probably want to color are so small, you can’t really fuss over it very much!

Just to use a color I don’t usually use, I chose Blackberry Bliss for the card base. And because I had thought about using Melon Mambo as the card base I used it as a layer underneath the Whisper White card front.

The reason I used this collection of flowers in the Dragonfly Garden Stamp Set was to see what it would be like to color and make into a card. I stamped it with Memento Ink and then colored in with Stampin’ Blends. I used some Daffodil Delight on the top flower, Melon Mambo on the next group of daisies or whatever kind of flower that is! The other flowers I used a purple color. The leaves and stems are colored with Granny Apple Green.

Most of these images are so small and tiny that you can only use the pen tip of the marker, not the brush tip. And even then, you mostly barely dot the color in, not really “color in”.

The greeting is the pretty font from the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set. If you aren’t sure what you will use a card for that you make, usually the “Thinking of You” sentiment is a versatile one to choose. You may be thinking of that person for many occasions!

The flowers looked a little bare over there by themselves, so to kind of ground them a bit, I colored around them with a Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend marker. I only barely wanted it to be seen. It was nothing artistic, just some scribbling and coloring lightly with the brush tip. Nothing is right or wrong.

Since the cardstock is so dark, I adhered a layer of white cardstock on the inside to stamp or write a message. And for a little decoration, I adhered a strip of Dandy Garden Designer Paper across the bottom.

Basically, this is an easy card to make to send to someone. Just some stamping and a little bit of coloring! And if you don’t want to do the coloring, make a monochromatic card stamping the flowers in a color, and then there is no need to color the design like this card HERE that I previously made.

If you like various kinds of plants and dragonflies, you should really check out this Dragonfly Garden Suite Collection in the new January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. Then you will have everything in this theme to make lots of beautiful cards and projects.

First Day of Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration and Spring Catalog!

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Today is maybe a bigger day for stampers than New Year’s Day because Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year begins, Sale-A-Bration 2021, as well as the release of the new January-June 2021 Mini Catalog with great new products in it!

When you purchase any of these new products (or Annual Catalog products!) and your order totals $50 or more (before shipping and tax) you earn a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! For every $50 you spend, you earn a free Sale-A-Bration product. If you spend $100, you may choose one of the select higher-level products.

You can mix and match your free products, too. If you spend $100, you can choose two $50 level products OR you can choose one $100 level product. If you spend $150 (you get Stampin’ Rewards of 10% already!), you can choose three $50 level products OR one $100 level product and one $50 product. You get the idea! No limit! Just ask me if you have questions!

Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Available Today!

Finally, this little cutie, the Mini Cut & Emboss Machine is available beginning today!! This cute machine has a compact footprint for easy storage and travel. The 3-1/2″ platform works with many of Stampin’ Up!’s smaller dies and smaller embossing folders. Dies and embossing folders that are compatible with the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine are indicated in the product description in our catalogs and online store. Includes 1 Mini Base Plate (Plate 1), 2 Mini Cutting Plates (Plate 2), 1 Mini Embossing Plate (Plate 3), and 1 Mini 3D Embossing Plate (Plate 4).

If you want to JOIN STAMPIN’ UP! as a Demonstrator, in your Starter Kit you will also receive a free stack of our Regals, Subtles, Neutrals, Brights, and 2020—2022 In Color Designer Series Paper. There couldn’t be a better time to join the Stampin’ Up! family. Think about it and let me know if you have questions! You’re always invited to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator!

If you have a large order yourself or go in together with friends, at a $300 order you will receive an exclusive Punch Party Stamp Set for FREE!

New Mini Catalog Live Today!

The January-June 2021 Mini Catalog is ready for ordering today! You will find fresh, new products for spring. If you have not received your catalog yet from me if you are a regular customer of mine, I still hope it will come soon now that the holidays are over…but remember, you can view it online as well as just viewing the products in the Online Store.

If you are new and interested in purchasing Stampin’ Up! products, I would be happy to be your Demonstrator and send you the catalogs if you would like. Just email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com and send me your contact information.

And one more thing…..new Basic White Cardstock and other products available today! Remember, our Whisper White line was no longer being produced so Stampin’ Up! found an acceptable substitute called Basic White. Just search in the Online Store for Basic White to see all the products!

And remember, for every $50 you spend with Stampin’ Up!, you will earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product! So when you put those two things together, what can be a better way to start off a New Year!!

SHOP STAMPIN’ UP! ONLINE TODAY!