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Look What’s Coming in May With Paper Pumpkin!

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Paper Pumpkin May 2020 White ad Info

Look What’s Coming in May With Paper Pumpkin! I don’t really know exactly what hints this photo provides for the May Paper Pumpkin Kit except for revealing the new In Colors, coming in the next Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog, but it sure has my attention! I can’t wait to see the kit!

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If you are not familiar, Stampin’ Up! In Colors are the trendiest colors that Stampin’ Up! adds every year to its collection for two years. The oldest In Colors go out and the new ones come in! This ensures that we always have the most current, trending colors to use in our cards and projects. We are always up-to-date!

We don’t know yet what the new In Colors will be (except for a hint in the early released Ornate Garden Suite!) so the May Paper Pumpkin Kit will be the big reveal! Paper Pumpkin subscribers will be the first to get to PLAY with the new In Colors even before Demonstrators can begin preordering products from the new Annual Catalog in May!

About the May Kit

A Kit In Color

Kit contains supplies for 12 cards and envelopes
8 cards are traditional size
Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″

4 cards are notecard size
Notecard size: 5″ x 3-1/2″
Envelope size: 5-1/8″ x 3-5/8″

Coordinating Colors: Four NEW In Colors plus Purple Posy from the 2019–2021 In Color collection. (The new In Colors will be introduced on April 24.)

I think this is one of those kits you don’t want to miss! Even for past subscribers, this might be the time to reactivate your subscription, at least to get this kit! If you are new, this will be an extra-special kit! And with your first kit, you will receive an acrylic Paper Pumpkin block on which to mount the stamps in your kit. Everything you need will be included in your kit, so if you have no craft supplies, no worries!

Although the deadline for subscribing to Paper Pumpkin is May 10, 2020, it would be a good idea to go ahead and subscribe NOW! There is always the possibility the kits could sell out closer to the date and always the possibility that if you don’t subscribe right now, you will forget! Also, once you are a subscriber, you can purchase any Past Kits or Refills that are available in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store. That inventory just depends on what is leftover and how quickly it gets purchased.

Instead of subscribing by the month, if you prefer and are putting in a Stampin’ Up! order, you can add a Prepaid Subscription to your Stampin’ Up! order for whatever time period you like. You will receive an email from Stampin’ Up! right after your order which will have a special code in it and will tell you how to set up your Paper Pumpkin account and how to add that code so you receive your kits. You must do that before the 10th of the month to get that month’s kit. So if you order a Prepaid Kit today, you must set up everything by May 10th to get that kit.

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Dinoroar All-Occasion Dinosaur Card

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Dinoroar All-Occasion Dinosaur Card

This Dinoroar All-Occasion Dinosaur Card is a fun card to make with this dinosaur paper! Just imagine the kids who would love to get this dinosaur card from you! Maybe even some adults because it’s a fun card regardless!

I got this paper free at the end of Sale-A-Bration last month when Stampin’ Up! offered a few catalog items as rewards for spending $50. I hadn’t bought it earlier because I didn’t think I had any use for dinosaur paper, but it’s really cute and I’ll be able to make some fun cards and projects with it. It would even be good for baby cards!

The card base is Mango Melody, one of the coordinating colors for the paper. I also added a layer of Old Olive and then a pattern of the Dinoroar Designer Series Paper.

The greeting is from the Itty Bitty Birthdays Stamp Set, a great stamp set to own. While this particular greeting likely implies “birthday”, I think you could interpret is as an all-occasion type greeting. You could put it on a card just for any day or to encourage someone or for many reasons, maybe a celebration. It doesn’t have to be for a birthday.

The greeting is stamped in Old Olive Ink and die cut with a small Layering Circles die, then layered on another die-cut circle of Mango Melody. These are then layered on a scalloped circle of Old Olive in the same die set. Surprisingly, I used a piece of ribbon from the Ornate Garden Suite. It’s in the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack.

This was a very easy card to make! Just a card base, some cardstock layers and designer paper on top with a greeting and some ribbon for embellishment. I think this Dinoroar Paper will be fun to use as on this Dinoroar All-Occasion Dinosaur Card.

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Ornate Garden Monochromatic Floral Card

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Ornate Garden Monochromatic Floral Card

If you want to stamp an EASY card, make this Ornate Garden Monochromatic Floral Card! The front of the card only uses two stamps and then a little bit of ribbon and a bow. You can’t get much easier than that! And with the beauty of just the one large floral stamp, you really don’t need much more!

The card base is Lovely Lipstick, one of the outgoing In Colors when Stampin’ Up! releases the annual retirement list. Lovely Lipstick was one of my favorite In Colors so I hate to see it go. If you want any of those colors in paper, ink or accessories, you should probably order before the retirement list comes out.

I started to stamp the floral image with the largest acrylic block, but then I thought this would be the perfect time to use my Stamparatus. If I didn’t get every area on the large stamp inked up just right or didn’t press well enough in the right place, I wouldn’t have to worry with the Stamparatus because I could just stamp again over the exact same position!

This large floral image is in the Ornate Garden Suite in the Ornate Style Stamp Set and the greeting is in the Ornate Thanks Stamp Set. You really should look at all the greetings and combinations you can make with that stamp set! You don’t always have to use the large words either. And even on the inside of the card, I stamped two of the corners with the smaller corner stamp.

If you stamp a monochromatic card, you just use and stamp one color so that makes it easy! Here’s another monochromatic Easter card I made recently.

Check out the Ornate Garden Suite and also the Clearance Rack which was just refreshed yesterday! Then try your hand at stamping a monochromatic card with whatever stamps you choose!

New Clearance Rack Update TODAY!

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Clearance Rack Banner April 2020

Hurry! Stampin’ Up! updated the Clearance Rack overnight so rush right over there for best selection! You know things will go fast! You can order just Clearance Rack items or add them to your regular order! But do go check them out as soon as you can! While supplies last!

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Ornate Garden Daisy Thank You Card

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Ornate Garden Daisy Thank You Card

This Ornate Garden Daisy Thank You Card was made with the new Ornate Garden Suite of products. This suite will be in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog in June so this is an early release! One set of products coming in the next catalog that you can get your hands on now! And who among us does not need a box arriving from Stampin’ Up! right about now!!

I resisted pre-ordering it as I can do as a Demonstrator, at least not until the end of March. And I did have a short trip in there and stocking up for the coronavirus, which I’m glad I did as early as possible. So finally I realized how beautiful the suite was and that I had to have it, right away!

This card just came from thumbing through the Ornate Garden Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is called “Specialty” because some of the papers have gold foil accents on them. I liked this small daisy print today!

I started off thinking I would use the Daisy Punch to add a 3D daisy to the front of the card but I decided to stick with using stamping from the suite. I stamped the single daisy in the Ornate Style Stamp Set in Memento Ink and colored it in with So Saffron and Old Olive Stampin’ Blends. You might notice that one of the coordinating colors for the designer paper is called Bumblebee! Must be a new In Color! So my yellow doesn’t really match the paper but I wanted to color in around the daisy rather than leave it stark white. The photo I think actually makes the color a little brighter than it is in person so it really is okay.

You may see that I layered the daisy designer paper on Whisper White to help it stand out a little more against the Old Olive card base. Sometimes I do this and sometimes I don’t. The layers, then, have 1/8″ margins instead of 1/4″ or I could have cut them smaller with a bigger margin.

The ornate layer behind the daisy is in the Ornate Garden Suite, of course! It is in the Ornate Layers Dies and I cut the daisy paper down to fit on it just perfectly. Be sure to run your die through your die-cutting machine two or three times and put it in the narrow end first. I just used my old die brush to get out the few pieces that stuck in the design so mine cut out well.

I popped up the ornate frame with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Behind it just at the top is the Old Olive Ribbon that comes in the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack, along with Terracotta Tile. The greeting is stamped in Old Olive Ink using the stamp in the Ornate Thanks Stamp Set. This is basically a pretty easy card to make!

Take some time to look over all the products in the Ornate Garden Suite. There are two stamp sets and two sets of dies. These are matched up in Bundles and you will save 10%. There is also an Embossing Folder, the ribbon combo, the designer paper and some Gilded Gems for embellishment. If you want the WHOLE THING, just use this one number #154153 to order the Ornate Garden Suite Collection. That saves the effort of entering each number of each product into your order. But if you like, you can order the products separately and get just the ones you want now.

This is a beautiful collection of Stampin’ Up! products so go check them out in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

Treat Yourself! Join Paper Pumpkin Today For April!

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PP Wonderful Family Flyer

It’s time to Treat Yourself! Join Paper Pumpkin today, April 10th, to get the April Paper Pumpkin Kit in the mail mid-April! It is a perfect kit for these Stay-At-Home Days. Doing something creative every day is good for all of us and Paper Pumpkin will come to you!

Paper Pumpkin is easy enough for beginners and non-crafters. You don’t need any extra supplies except maybe a scissors. Even adhesives are included! With your first kit, you will receive a special clear block on which to mount your stamps. Each kit has an exclusive stamp set and all the materials to make the project. Most kits are cards but occasionally the kit is another kind of project. Nowadays we usually have a hint so if you don’t want a particular kit, you can go into your account and “Skip” a month! Then resume for the following months.

And if you are an experienced crafter or stamper, you can enjoy a kit already designed and ready to go! Just sit down and enjoy! Or use the materials plus ones you have to do your own thing!

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Add a Prepaid Subscription right on your Stampin’ Up! order if you want to save a little bit of money or want to reach Stampin’ Rewards ($150 or more) on your order! You can do this even if you already have a monthly account. Stampin’ Up! will email you a code to add to your account. Just do it today if you want the April Kit or by the 10th of any month.

This April Kit is a family appreciation themed card kit. It certainly happened to be in the works for just the right time as we think of our families all the time during these difficult days.

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Today is the deadline for the April Kit!

Easy Easter Candy Treats

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Easy Easter Candy Treats

If you want to make some last-minute Easy Easter Candy Treats, these will work! These are quick and simple and you can vary the size according to the candy treat you have to put inside. You could even not cut an opening in the front and just decorate the front for the occasion and tuck your candy treat inside. You can make these taller or wider.

These candy treat holders are 2″ x 8 1/2″ to start with but depending on your candy, you can cut them down a little shorter. The 2″ width is so the piece of cardstock will fit into the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Cut the 2″ x 8 1/2″ strip of cardstock and punch each end in the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Then place one end at the 3 3/4″ inch mark on the Paper Trimmer and score, then turn and place the other end at the 3 3/4″ mark and score. That gives you the little space in which to place your candy treat.

Before you put the candy inside, decide if you want a different color background inside. The Daffodil Yellow treat holder has a Whisper White piece stamped with the little green leaves in Welcome Easter, although you really can’t see them! The Melon Mambo treat holder doesn’t have an inside layer. However, on that one, I stamped the little flowers in the Welcome Easter Stamp Set on the front. The greeting is stamped from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and punched out with the handy dandy Classic Label Punch. To decorate the Daffodil Delight holder, I just added some small Rhinestone Jewels.

I didn’t have any exciting Easter candy but these little chocolate bunnies which are pretty flat fit in just fine. So if you had a larger chocolate bunny, for example, you probably would need to make the base wider and therefore the strip longer in the beginning. Then you can die-cut or punch some kind of opening in the front. Just add a ribbon to tie the top together and you’re done!

Sometimes you need to give credit where credit is due so I must give credit to myself! I made a similar Easter treat last year but I had a cuter piece of candy to put inside! You can see that post HERE.

None of us will be having big family Easter dinners this year, so it would be easy to make one of these Easter candy treats to put at each place at the table for you and your spouse, or children, or whoever you are living with during this quarantine time.

Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card

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Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card

Today I needed to make an Easter card for my son that was a little less frilly than the ones I already made and I had something in mind, but not this Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card. But once I started looking at my designer papers for the one I was going to use, I saw this Garden Lane Designer Series Paper and I thought that leafy pattern would go well with a bunny!

The card base is Garden Green but there are other greens that go with the paper. For the scalloped Layering Circle Die underneath the bunny, I chose Pool Party because it looked like it matched the bluish leaves a little bit.

The bunny from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set is stamped in Memento Ink and die cut with the Stitched Shapes Die. Then I had fun coloring him in with Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends.

The Easter greeting is from the same Welcome Easter Stamp Set and is just stamped on a strip of Whisper White. The bunny and the greeting are both popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

That’s all there is to this card! The Garden Lane Easter Bunny Card is an easy and fun card to make!

It’s Time To Sign Up For Paper Pumpkin!

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It’s time to sign up for Paper Pumpkin and celebrate your family with April’s kit! What better time than now! Any time is a good time to let family and friends know how much you care about them, but right now with this terrible virus, we certainly are thinking about our families and loved ones. Subscribe to Paper Pumpkin by Friday, April 10 and get your kit in the mail by mid-month. Just choose my name, Karen Fontinelle, as your Demonstrator.

Not only will family members or other close people to you love to receive a card from you, but sitting down to stamp will be good for you! Turn off the news and focus on being creative and relieving your own stress for a little while.

PP Wonderful Family Flyer

Also, Mother’s Day will be coming up in May followed by Father’s Day in June. This kit will have options for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. This kit consists of supplies to make 8 regular size cards. The coordinating colors will be Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, Melon Mambo, Mint Macaron, Pear Pizzazz, Shaded Spruce, Soft Sea Foam. A yellow, brown, pink and greens! Those are your clues!

Paper Pumpkin is for everyone! If you’ve never done any crafts before and are looking for something to do while you are home during this time, try Paper Pumpkin because all supplies are included and you will get instructions plus a video to watch to make your cards or project inside. You can even make something different with the materials. And if you are experienced, treat yourself to a project that comes to you in the mail and just sit down and do your thing with the kit! Add some of your own supplies or follow the directions exactly. Whatever you like!

If you are placing a Stampin’ Up! order anyway, just add a Prepaid Subscription to your regular Stampin’ Up! order! This addition to your order may boost your total so that you can receive Stampin’ Rewards. Stampin’ Up! will send you an email telling you how to set up your account and how to add your prepaid code to your account.

Even if you are already subscribed on a monthly basis to Paper Pumpkin, you can still buy a Prepaid Subscription and Paper Pumpkin will use that up first and then resume your monthly subscription.

You must sign up for Paper Pumpkin by April 10th to receive this kit OR if you buy a Prepaid Subscription, you must set up your account with your Prepaid code by April 10th. If you have any questions or problems, just ask or you can call Stampin’ Up! and they will help you with your account.

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Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter

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Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter

It’s been a long time since I have made a diorama card but it was fun to make this Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter. Diorama cards can be made in different ways, even fancier than this one. A diorama card is a 3D card with an opening on the front layer that lets you see a scene of any kind on the inside. Sometimes there is even a middle layer. But let’s start with this one!

You just need two pieces of cardstock, each piece 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. I chose Pool Party for my front piece and Whisper White for the back. On each piece, score 1/2″ and 1″ from each end.

Diorama Easter card diagram

Then you will crease those score lines so that your card front pushes out and the back piece pushes back. You can see which way these score lines go from this top view of the diorama card.

Diorama Card Top View

Now you will stamp or decorate that back piece before you assemble the card. But when you are ready to adhere the two pieces of the card together, use something like Tear & Tape Adhesive or Multipurpose Liquid Glue. All you have to do is adhere that end 1/2″ on the front and the back piece together.

For my Easter diorama card, I used the Welcome Easter Stamp Set. I stamped the three little characters, colored them with Stampin’ Blends, and cut them out with my Paper Snips. I also used the Happy Easter greeting stamped in Pool Party from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set.

On the front of the card in the center area, I die cut with a Layering Ovals die. You could use a circle die, punch, square, whatever you like. I played around with the placement of the bunny, chick, and lamb before adhering the two pieces together. You want to make sure that you can see what you want to see well enough.

You want to think about the background. I stamped a few leafy boughs from the Path of Petals Stamp Set. I didn’t want the rest of the background to just be white so I colored in lightly, just with kind of a scribble motion with a Pool Party Stampin’ Blend marker. And I drew in some sprigs of grass at the bottom.

The lamb and the chick are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals to give a little dimension inside the card. The bunny is also popped up on a dimensional on the front corner. I still thought the card needed a little something so I used some Iridescent Sequins on the inside and even the outside. Once I added the sequins, I was happy with the card!

Now the amazing part of this card is that you can fold it flat and it is the size of a normal card! It will fit in an envelope and can be mailed!

As I’ve said before, you can use the Welcome Easter Stamp Set to make baby cards with these cute images! You could change the greeting on this Easter card and make it one for a baby, like one that comes in the stamp set.

Here is another example of a diorama card that I made years ago, an oldie but goodie!

Easter is coming soon so try your hand at this Easter Diorama Card With Welcome Easter because it is easy enough to make and will the recipient feel like someone special!

Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper

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Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil

This Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper is one of those cards for which I didn’t really have a design in mind until I made it but I knew what kind of paper I wanted to use. After it all came together I really loved it! I think I will make some more cards just like this one to send for Easter. And Easter isn’t far off!

I was seeing the Noble Peacock Specialty Designer Series Paper being used on some cards and it jogged my memory about having that paper! I have barely used it even though it is beautiful paper! I think products in the Annual Catalog get forgotten sometimes when we are mostly looking at the Mini Catalogs!

One of the coordinating colors with the Noble Peacock paper is Old Olive so I chose that for my card base. Then I just adhered the designer paper on the card base.

The bunny is from the Welcome Easter Stamp Set and is stamped in Memento Ink. Then I colored him with my Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blends and a little bit of Flirty Flamingo for his ears, nose, and bottom of his feet. I even drew in some sprigs of grass with Old Olive.

The bunny was die cut with one of my favorite dies of all time, the Stitched Shapes Dies. Then in deciding what color and size scalloped circle to use as a layer under the bunny, I die cut one in Petal Pink Cardstock and one in White Glimmer Paper. As I layered them to see what size I wanted, I saw that both layers looked good together! I love the little bit of pink around the edge and the pretty glimmer paper bringing another texture.

Since I had just received some back-ordered ribbon, the Petal Pink 1/4″Metallic Edge Ribbon, I used that underneath the bunny and popped it all up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting was stamped on a narrow scrap I had of Whisper White and I just cut the flagged ends.

Such a simple card, fun to make, and beautiful! Here is a similar card but with a monochromatic design for Easter. Try your hand at either one of these cards and send them out for Easter or just for spring or to say hello. If you have it, dig in your stash for the fancy-looking Noble Foil Paper to make this Welcome Easter Bunny on Peacock Foil Paper.

Early Release of the Ornate Garden Suite

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Ornate Garden Suite Early Release Ad

Today is the first day you get a chance to order something from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! No need to wait until June! Beginning today, you can order some or all of the products in the Ornate Garden Suite # 154153. If you want it ALL, you can just put in that product number and get everything in the Collection! If you want just certain items, you can order each product that you want.

Click on the photos below or view the individual pieces of this collection.

Click HERE to view the Flyer – Be sure to scroll down through the 3 pages!

Ornate Garden Products 2
Ornate Garden Products 3
Ornate Garden Suite Prices

Find out more about the Ornate Garden Suite Collection in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

Final Day! Sale-A-Bration Ends Tonight!

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Last Day! Sale-A-Bration 2020a

Last Chance to Earn Free Product!

It almost seems like Sale-A-Bration just began, which was back in January, right after the holidays! It was great to see the new Occasions Mini Catalog and have fresh, new products and project ideas after working for months on the fall holidays and Christmas! Sale-A-Bration is a Stampin’ Up! promotion stampers have looked forward to for years and years.

But tonight at 11:50 PM Mountain Time, it all comes to an end! If there was a Sale-A-Bration freebie you were looking forward to earning, but hadn’t yet, today is the day!

Here are some ideas:

See the Sale-A-Bration choices in the Online Store HERE! Place your order totaling $50 or more, or $100 or more, and then select the Sale-A-Bration items you want!

Enjoy the Last Day of Sale-A-Bration!

Flowering Foils Colored Flowers Cards

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Flowering Foils Colored Flowers Cards

These Flowering Foils Colored Flowers Cards were so easy and fun to make, coloring with my Stampin’ Blends! I think coloring almost anything these days is good therapy to calm us from all the news in the world. And Stampin’ Blends really makes it fun!

We are at the last TWO days of Sale-A-Bration 2020! Today and tomorrow are the last days to earn FREE Stampin’ Up! products with a qualifying purchase. Spend $50 and choose one free item. Certain items have a $100 qualifying order. With a $150 order, you can choose Sale-A-Bration items PLUS Stampin’ Rewards. And with a $300 order, you can choose the Little Ladybug Stamp Set in addition.

The Flowering Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper is a beautiful choice for Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. These papers are beautiful on their own, as in this card, with Rose Gold and Silver Foil accents. If you like, you can color the papers with various coloring methods. You can use the Aqua Painter and ink, markers, brayer, sponges, Sponge Dauber, and Stampin’ Blends.

For the cards I made today, I simply colored the flowers with Stampin’ Blends markers. You can actually do it rather quickly because you don’t have to be perfect. The Stampin’ Blends do cover the foil outlines a little bit but that’s ok. For a lighter coloring over the whole area, use the Sponge Brayer. Or use Stampin’ Sponges (I cut mine into smaller pieces) or Sponge Daubers to apply ink in more specific areas.

Flowering Foils Thank You Card
Flowering Foils Multicolored Flowers Card

JOIN Stampin’ Up! as a Demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration and get extra perks until March 31! Purchase the Starter Kit for $99 and choose $125 in product PLUS receive a new Mini Paper Cutter, a 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper Sampler, and your choice of any stamp set offered in current catalogs (host sets and Sale-A-Bration sets excluded). You will also receive business supplies free in your Starter Kit so you will be ready to start your stamping business! I can help you with any questions you may have to help you decide! Stampin’ Up! has lots of resources to help you start your business plus I’m here for you as well!

Reminder: You have two days left to take advantage of Sale-A-Bration 2020! Tuesday, March 31 is the last day! Use the Flowering Foils Paper, one of the Sale-A-Bration choices, to color in the designs to make cards like these Flowering Foils Colored Flowers Cards.

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