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Make Six Cards Out of One Sheet of Designer Paper

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Poppy Designer Paper Cutting

I’ve seen posts by other Demonstrators showing ways to use your designer paper to make lots of cards at one time so I thought I would try to make six cards out of one sheet of designer paper. I decided to use just this one design in the Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper. It is the sheet that has poppies on each side with a rather plain area running through the center of the paper.

With this, or any, 12″ x 12″ paper, you can cut three 4″ wide strips out of the paper. Then turn each strip and cut at 5 1/4″, the perfect size for a layer on a card. If you do the math, that will use up 10 1/2″ of the paper and you will have pieces left that are 1 1/2″ wide. If you plan ahead, you could cut off a strip 12″ x 1 1/2″ wide and then cut the strips. It probably all depends on the pattern of your paper and how you intend to use it, whether you want longer or shorter scraps of paper leftover.

This particular sheet of paper is different, with the plainer area in the middle. If you cut it as I show in the photos, you can basically cut out the plain area and just get maximum use out of the poppies! Then you can either use the center area for the colored side on the opposite side of the paper or the white side.

I might say that if you are not happy with your paper trimmer, the new Stampin’ Up! Paper Trimmer is really nice! I believe it makes much closer to perfect cuts than the previous one did. I am enjoying mine and do recommend it!

Poppy Designer Paper Cut Up

Another alternative would be to cut some or all strips at 3″ wide and get 4 strips out of the designer paper. In this way, you will not completely cover the card base, which is fine, too. I did some cards like this and added a little accent strip of cardstock along the side of the designer paper. This Peaceful Poppies paper is so pretty, no matter what you do with it, you will make a beautiful card!

Peaceful Poppies Designer Paper Easy Cards

I used several different colors of cardstock that coordinate with the designer paper – Rich Razzleberry, Flirty Flamingo, Old Olive, Calypso Coral, and Poppy Parade. Then just add a greeting, maybe layered on something else and maybe with some embellishments. You can make the card as fancy or as simple as you like at this point.

On the cards above, I used the “Thank You” from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set and the other greeting from the Little Ladybug Host Stamp Set. On the thank you cards I used die-cuts from the Painted Labels Dies. (I love that little scallop die-cut!) On the other card, I used the 1 3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch for the layer.

Peaceful Poppies Designer More Easy Cards

On these cards, I used another die in the Painted Labels Dies and the Pretty Label Punch. You can see I used two of the excess strips, one green and one the white side behind the greetings, plus some embellishments. You will notice two of the cards in the two photos have the narrower strip of designer paper, cut at 3″x 5 1/2″ with a narrow accent strip of cardstock.

If you want to see what you can do with the inside of the card, I added Whisper White layers to all and stamped a flower from the Painted Poppies Stamp Set in Memento Black Ink. Then I colored in the flower with some Stampin’ Blends markers.

Peaceful Poppies Designer Easy Cards Inside

And there you have it! Ideas for six cards from one sheet of the Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper!

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Get In On the Paper Pumpkin Fun!

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Paper Pumpkin Long Ad Feb 2020 PP Link Name

It’s time to get in on the fun of Paper Pumpkin, the papercrafting kit from Stampin’ Up! that comes in the mail once a month! Treat yourself to some crafting time every month! You deserve it!

Find the cute red box in your mailbox. Open it up and see the pretty blue tissue paper wrapping up the contents. You’ll find an exclusive stamp set for that month, a small ink spot (great to save for travel or for the Stamparatus!), and all the supplies, even adhesives, that you need to make whatever surprise project is inside! Usually, it is cards but sometimes it is some other project. For your first kit, you will receive a special acrylic block on which to mount the stamps.

No risk, no obligation. You can cancel any time you want to if Paper Pumpkin is not for you. If you just want to skip a month or two now and then, just go into your account and select that choice.

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Paper Pumpkin is great for non-stampers who don’t have supplies and materials. Everything you need is in the box! And if you are an expert stamper, here is one project you don’t have to think up yourself! Just open the box and enjoy the project! Or use the materials to make alternate projects. You will always find ideas online.

To get an idea about Paper Pumpkin, here is the Stampin’ Up! video showing how to assemble the January Kit. Mine just came! Looks like fun!

Another way you can subscribe to Paper Pumpkin is to add it to your regular Stampin’ Up! order! If you like FREE stuff, add a 3-month, 6-month, or 12-month subscription to your order and earn free Sale-A-Bration products. It might even help you reach Stampin’ Rewards! These are called Prepaid Subscriptions.

When you order, Stampin’ Up! will send you an email explaining how to set up your account and add your prepaid subscription. Even if you have a monthly subscription already, you can purchase a prepaid subscription and add it to your account. The account will use the prepaid subscription first, then go back to your monthly kits.

You must subscribe by February 10th so you still have time to think about it, but go ahead and do it today and then you’re all set!

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A Birthday Card For the Golfer

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A Birthday Card For the Golfer

Here is a great birthday card for a golfer, quick and easy to make and you can easily vary the card design. While we are often looking for a masculine card, this one is for any golfer, women golfers, children golfers, anyone who enjoys the game! The golf balls and tees on the green just make for a perfect golfing card with other possibilities for the greeting.

The paper is new in the Occasions Mini Catalog. It’s the Country Club Designer Series Paper. Now not every golfer, probably most, are not Country Club members but this paper is for everyone! Besides golfing images, there are nice plaids you can use on golfing cards or other kinds of cards. So it is a good paper collection to have on hand.

My card has a Garden Green base with a layer of Crushed Curry, both coordinating colors with the designer paper. I just wrapped a piece of the Crushed Curry 3/8″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon around the designer paper before adhering to the card. Then I just added a knot to the left side of the greeting.

The greeting is stamped on a strip of Whisper White and layered on the Tailored Tag Punch. The greeting is popped up on Dimensionals but the tag is adhered flat on the card. Then I added a couple of embellishments to the tag. A quick and easy card for the golfer!

Here is the inside. It is fun to add a strip of designer paper to the inside. I wish I would have used the other side, the plaid design. That would have been cute but I was too fast with the glue!

A Birthday Card For the Golfer Inside Greeting

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Making a Purse With the All Dressed Up Dies

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All Dressed Up Floral Bag

You are going to enjoy, in the Best Dressed Suite in the new Occasions Mini Catalog, making a purse with the All Dressed Up Dies. If you like creating 3D items, little gift bags, party favors, treat holders and more, I think you will have fun with all the possibilities of the Dressed Up Dies!

The Best Dressed Suite is cute enough as it is, with designer paper printed with feminine images….high-heeled shoes, purses, perfume bottles, lipstick…and we will all find so many ideas for making cards and other projects with this Suite. Then add in the All Dressed Up Dies that can die-cut little purses or backpacks or tote bags or whatever you like to call them or design them as.

I just got these dies the other day and was excited to try out these dies to make one of the bags… I used a pattern in the Best Dressed 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. You do need to use two sheets of the 6″ x 6″ paper for the two sides of the bag. The die will cut out the bag shape, score the fold lines and even make a decorative stitching line all around.

You do need to be careful when you begin to crease the score lines. They are a little difficult to see compared to the stitch lines. Sometimes the score lines are in between the stitching lines and you are tempted to fold on the stitching line! Put on your reading glasses if you need to and make sure you are creasing the correct lines! You probably won’t have any trouble after you make the first one! You may be able to see some of the stitch lines on the photo above.

You have options when you make this bag. You can “push in” the sides or let them stick out. You can attach the straps in different ways. You can make it look like a purse or a backpack with longer straps in the back. You can emboss the paper. You can stamp it. You can add different embellishments on the front. The dies come with various pieces to help you customize the bag. Be sure to notice that the dies are on two papers in the package… I missed the die-cut for the straps at first!!

This set even comes with dies to make the little buckles, which I made out of Gold Foil. I also die cut the little button on the front pocket on the front of the bag. There are so many options!

Even though the Best Dressed Suite and designer paper is very girly, you can use these All Dressed Up Dies even for making boyish backpacks, maybe for favors at their birthday party with a little gift inside. Or some of both or something neutral if you are having both boys and girls. If I had known about Stampin’ Up! when my kids were young and having all these parties and activities at school, I would have been in heaven having all kinds of easy ideas to make!

All Dressed Up Floral Bag Back

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Learn About the Lily Pad Products You Can Earn During Sale-A-Bration 2020!

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Lily Pad Flowers

This Stampin’ Up! card is made with the Lily Pad Dies, available during Sale-A-Bration for FREE with a $100 purchase. Just because something says “lily pad” doesn’t mean it has to look like lilies in a pond! If you have an order of $100 or more, you can choose two free $50 items or you can get this higher valued $100 selection.

These dies go with the Lily Impressions Designer Series Paper and the Lovely Lily Pad Stamp Set. These are also Sale-A-Bration choices at the $50 level! So lots to choose from! The Lovely Lily Pad stamps are extra-special because they are reversible! This whole collection of products is really quite interesting. Wait until you hear about the designer paper!

Watch the Stampin’ Up! video below to learn about the Lily Pad products!

Just purchase $50 in Stampin’ Up! products and you can earn one FREE Sale-A-Bration product! No limit to the number of products you can earn so think of your order in $50 increments. You don’t want to get to $48 on your order and miss out on Sale-A-Bration! Sale-A-Bration is going on now through March 31.

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Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card

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Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card

When you want to make a pretty card in a very short time, try monochromatic like this Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card. I thought this stamp set might be a perfect one for a monochromatic card and I think I was right! Talk about quick and easy cardmaking!

I used the Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set, only available FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. And even more exciting, coming in February, you will be able to purchase a set of dies for this stamp set as an extra! There will be several new coordinating items for you.

The card base is Whisper White and the layer is Lovely Lipstick. I realized I have barely used these In Colors and thought I would give Lovely Lipstick a whirl. Then I stamped the fancy cake with Lovely Lipstick on another layer of Whisper White and the greeting at the bottom. I mean, you can’t make a card any faster than this one!

Monochromatic Lovely Lipstick Birthday Card With Bling

But if you did want to make a quick and easy monochromatic birthday card and you wanted a little bling on it, you could make this card! I had some very narrow Lovely Lipstick 1/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon so I made a very small bow to go on the cake stand. Next, I colored three small rhinestones with the Lovely Lipstick Dark Stampin’ Blend marker and placed them on the card. A monochromatic card with a little extra bling!

Whatever you want to order, be sure to try and do it in $50 increments so you can take advantage of Sale-A-Bration 2020 and earn some free product(s). After you have entered your order, it will prompt you to choose your Sale-A-Bration items.

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From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips

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From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips

Doesn’t making valentines like this From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips just take you back to your childhood?! Maybe it’s the doily because who of us did not use that white paste and doilies to make our valentines in elementary school?

I love this new From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper in the new Occasions Mini Catalog on page 9. Some of the papers have foil accents which makes them especially pretty! You can’t really tell from my photo above, but the second and fourth strips on my card have the foil accents. As usual, it’s so pretty you hate to cut into the paper, but cut you must in order to make these pretty cards and projects!

This is how this valentine came about! I got out the paper, saw a rectangle scrap in the package and it popped into my head to use several paper strips for the background of the valentine. Often cardmaking ideas just pop into your head or come about after working on your idea and then changing it when something else sparks your creativity.

The card base is Real Red. Real Red has probably always been my favorite Stampin’ Up! color because they have captured such a perfect red. With the switching around of the colors in the Color Families, it seemed like I wasn’t using it as much and that was sad! With Valentine’s Day approaching, how can you not be using Real Red again?

Now I should have gotten out my calculator or pencil and paper and did the math to figure out what size the strips should be and the size paper they are mounted on. But I didn’t! I just made the card, trimmed things down once or twice and when I still had a bigger margin at the bottom of the Whisper White, I simply trimmed that off. The card looks fine to me. If it is not mathematically perfect on the strips and margins, it’s just a valentine….it doesn’t have to be perfect.

If you want some measurements, the Whisper White layer on which I adhered the paper strips is 3 3/4″ wide and 4 7/8″ long. The designer paper strips are each 1 1/8″ wide and 3 5/8″ long with about a 1/16″ space in between the layers. And there is about the same 1/16″ margin around the edge, but you could also not have any margins and totally cover the Whisper White piece. Please don’t go crazy trying to make everything exact and fit perfectly. Just get it as balanced as you can and it will be fine.

The greeting is stamped in Flirty Flamingo Ink with a heart in the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the Suite. Then that stamped heart and the Real Red heart on which it is layered were punched out with the two punches in the Heart Punch Pack. You can purchase the stamp set and punches together in the Heartfelt Bundle and save 10%. These two hearts are then adhered to the Flirty Flamingo doily in the Heart Doilies Package. This large heart is then popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

If you want EVERYTHING in this From My Heart Suite (as I did, because who wouldn’t?!), just put the number #153931 on your order and you will get the coordinating selection of products on pages 8-10 without having to put in all the individual numbers. This won’t all only be good for Valentine’s Day, you will be able to use hearts on lots of occasions, the punches, the stamp set, etc.

Overall, this From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips is fairly easy to make so give it a try with the beautiful From My Heart DSP and the Heart Punch Pack!

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Join Paper Pumpkin & Get Your Papercrafting Kit!

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Paper Pumpkin Banner Feb 2020

February’s Paper Pumpkin kit is coming, and love is in the air! The Lovely Day kit is versatile, elegant, and the perfect way to help you celebrate birthdays and other grand occasions.

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Here are the details about the kit:

  • Makes nine cards and envelopes.
  • Card size: 4-1/4” x 5-1/2”
  • Envelope size: 4-1/2” x 5-3/4”
  • Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Petal Pink, Pool Party, Pretty Peacock, Rich Razzleberry, Rococo Rose, and Old Olive

Paper Pumpkin is the papercrafting kit from Stampin’ Up! that comes to you in the mail each month. I think it is the treat we all need to give ourselves – the fun of receiving the kit in our mailbox plus the easy opportunity to take the time for some creativity and crafting! Just sit down with your Paper Pumpkin Kit and find a nicely designed project plus all the supplies you need.

Paper Pumpkin is for new crafters, non-crafters, experienced crafters, part-time crafters – anyone! The beauty of Paper Pumpkin is that you don’t need supplies to make the kit! Everything is in the box! So if you don’t want to go down the road of purchasing all kinds of rubber stamping supplies like a lot of us do, you don’t have to! Everything you need is in the kit!

And if you DO like to add on to your kit, this Lovely Day Paper Pumpkin Kit coordinates with the Happy Birthday to You Stamp Set in the Sale-A-Bration brochure! You can get this stamp set FREE with a $50 purchase from Stampin’ Up! during Sale-A-Bration!

If you prefer cards over other projects, the upcoming January Paper Pumpkin Kit being shipped now is some kit of treat project so if you passed on that kit, you can jump back in for February to get the card kit! Let me know if you need help reactivating your subscription. You can join Stampin’ Up! and skip months now and then if you don’t care for the kit or don’t have time that month.

You have two options to join!

  • Monthly subscription HERE
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Easy Best Dressed Square Celebrate Card

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Easy Best Dressed Square Celebrate Card

Here’s just an Easy Best Dressed Square Celebrate Card that was fun to make and I think will be fun to receive. Sometimes it is fun to make a different shape card and this 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ square card is easy enough to make. Just cut across a regular sheet of cardstock at 4 1/4″. Then score that 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of cardstock in half at 4 1/4″. Perfect square card for you!

For the card base, I chose Melon Mambo, even though that’s not one of the coordinating colors. But I liked it! Then a piece of the Best Dressed 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper was layered on top. The greeting is from the Sale-A-Bration Set, Happy Birthday To You, that you can earn FREE from Stampin’ Up! with a $50 purchase!

I think the Best Dressed DSP is so cute!! Not only do the papers have images of purses, perfume bottles, lipstick, and shoes but also gorgeous floral images plus some other generic designs like stripes or dots. You can use this paper to make very feminine cards and projects or use the other papers for many other things.

The greeting, I knew, couldn’t be too big because it’s a small card and because I didn’t want to cover up too much of the designer paper. Finally I settled on an oval die cut layered on a Stitched Shapes Die.

For a little extra embellishment, I adhered a piece of the Silver 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon around the designer paper before adhering to the card base. Then I just tied on a smaller piece of the ribbon in a knot. The greeting is adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals® and has a few Rhinestone Jewels for some bling. This is a fun card!

Check out the Best Dressed Designer Series Paper in the new Occasions Mini Catalog. With an order of $50 or more, you get to choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration product! What a fun time in the Stampin’ Up! year!

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Peaceful Poppies Thinking of You Card

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Peaceful Poppies Thinking of You Card

Wouldn’t someone you know just love to receive this Peaceful Poppies Thinking of You Card? I think these two patterns of paper in the Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper really make for a springy, happy card! The bright, colorful flowers and the light polka dot tulle ribbon just really catch my eye!

The card base is Poppy Parade, which is one of the many coordinating colors for the Peaceful Poppies DSP. I cut the two pieces of DSP to fit how I wanted them, overlapping about half an inch. Just to cover up the seam, I added a half-inch piece of Old Olive Cardstock across the card.

Before you adhere this designer paper piece to the card base, be sure to wrap the ribbon around the Old Olive strip first! I just love this Whisper White 5/8″ Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon in the Annual Catalog! Just wrap it around and then make a separate bow. Adhere the bow with a couple of Mini Glue Dots. The greeting is stamped from Magnolia Blooms. I really liked the font and thought it would go with the flowers. I punched it out first with the 1 1/2″ Circle Punch, not yet knowing exactly what I would layer it on, but opted to go with the scalloped circle in Layering Circles Dies. Since I stamped the greeting in Poppy Parade Ink I layered it on a piece of Poppy Parade Cardstock. Then it is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals over the ribbon.

The Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper has handpainted blooms and watercolor washes. Each paper is beautiful and I think you’ll want to have that package in your collection!

Remember that today is the LAST DAY to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin to get the January kit! Read all about it on my post HERE.

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Paper Pumpkin Banner Jan 2020

It’s time to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin in order to start the New Year off right and receive the January 2020 Kit in the mail very soon!

Paper Pumpkin’s first kit of 2020 is all about L-O-V-E. Whether you want handmade favors for Valentine’s Day, a bridal shower, or a remarkably romantic wedding, this month’s kit has everything you need to help you celebrate your favorite friendships and love stories. So make it a “LOVE”-ly year with Paper Pumpkin!

About the January Kit

  • Makes 20 treat bags + 10 mini cards and envelopes
  • Card size: 3″ x 3″ (7.5 x 7.5 cm)
  • Envelope size: 3-1/8″ x 3-1/8″ (7.8 x 7.8 cm)
  • Bag size: 3-1/4″ x 4″ (8.2 x 10 cm)
  • Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Crushed Curry, Highland Heather, Mint Macaron, and Rococo Rose

You can subscribe to Paper Pumpkin on a monthly basis by clicking the link right below. You can always skip a month or cancel any time.

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Add a Prepaid subscription to your Stampin’ Up! order, perhaps getting Sale-A-Bration benefits or even Host Rewards! Choose the 3 months and get one SAB item FREE (although you will pay shipping on it, if by itself) or 6 months for two SAB items (or one $100 choice).

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You can get more from the I’ll Bee Yours kit when you buy the Heart Punch Pack (item 151292) from the 2020 January–June Occasions Mini Catalog. Both punches coordinate with the heart stamp in the kit so you can craft for love-filled occasions now . . . and later!

From My Heart Valentine’s Day Card

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From My Heart Valentine's Day Card

You “might” be able to tell on this From My Heart Valentine’s Day Card that the designer paper has a few pink foil accents. Can you see the shine on the little pink hearts in this photo? There was something about this particular design in the package that really caught my eye!

The card base is Real Red with a layer from the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper. Next, all you have to do is make the heart focal point!

The doily comes in the package of Heart Doilies. The doilies are Real Red and Flirty Flamingo, but if you flip them over to the back, they are white, which you can also use! So you really get three colors of doilies.

I flipped my doily over to the white side and added the “Happy Valentine’s Day” greeting. That is a stamp in the Heartfelt Stamp Set. It is punched out with one of the heart punches in the Heart Punch Pack. You can buy both the Heart Punch Pack and the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the Heartfelt Bundle and save 10%! The punched heart doesn’t really fit inside the Heart Doily but it looks okay I think.

For an added embellishment, I took a piece of Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon and just adhered it underneath the doily with a little twist at the top and the tails hanging below the doily. Then I popped up the whole thing with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I needed a layer inside the card since the Real Red is rather dark. I stamped a greeting from the same stamp set on a piece of Whisper White and added a heart in the bottom corner. Somewhere along the line, I got a tiny ink smudge on the other side of the card, so I stamped another little heart over it to cover the smudge. But to balance that out, I had to stamp a few more little hearts so you can see the hearts are maybe a bit overdone!

From My Heart Valentine's Day Card Inside

This was really an easy valentine card to make! It’s going to be fun to play with all the hearts and other products in the Suite to make all kinds of valentines! Of course, hearts aren’t just for valentines, so you can use the hearts for other occasions throughout the year!

From My Heart Valentine's Day Card Closeup

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All About the Peaceful Poppies Suite

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I think this Peaceful Poppies Suite is one of the most beautiful and has so much creative possibility! While I don’t have the whole suite yet, I have one Bundle and can tell you there are lots of ways to use just that bundle to make wonderful cards and things.

Watch this Stampin’ Up! video and you’ll find out all kinds of things about the Suite, like how they named everything! I watched it twice because there was so much information in it!

You’ll find out how the beautiful Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper was designed and that will make you want it even more. Although I have a sample, I can’t wait to get the whole package.

Check out this quick video as they show each paper in the collection:

Check out this post and this post about two cards I have put on my blog if you would like to see a couple of easy cards to make with these poppies!

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Peaceful Poppies Happiness Card

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Peaceful Poppies Happiness Card

This Peaceful Poppies Happiness Card is another fairly simple card to make! This card opens at the top instead of the side just for something different. It uses a strip of the beautiful Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper. Just wait until you get your hands on this beautiful designer paper!

To make this card, the card base is 11 1/2″ x 4 1/2″, folded in half with the fold at the top. I chose Real Red Cardstockalthough I don’t think that’s actually a coordinating color with the designer paper, but I think it looks fine together.

For a little extra interest, I stamped a poppy and stem from the Painted Poppies Stamp Set on the Real Red cardstock that isn’t covered by the designer paper. I inked it up and stamped off before stamping on the card. I could also have used Versamark Ink for that watermark look. If you had ribbon, you could wrap some ribbon around the designer paper before adhering it to the front of the card.

The greeting is from the Sending You Thoughts Stamp Set, one you can get FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. I stamped it on Whisper White with Real Red ink and then die cut it with a label die in the Painted Labels Dies. Then I used Flirty Flamingo Cardstock and die cut another label in the same set, cut it in half and used it under the top and bottom of the greeting. It just adds a little something although just the greeting die cut with that label die with a little embossed border around the edge was just fine by itself.

You will probably want to get the Painted Poppies Stamp Set and the Painted Labels Dies together in the Painted Poppies Bundle and save 10%!

Check out the whole Peaceful Poppies Suite and see what you’ve GOT to put on your next Stampin’ Up! order! Remember about Sale-A-Bration and getting a free SAB item with every $50 you spend!

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Get a Free Sale-A-Bration Product With a $50 Purchase!

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Occasions & SAB Catalogs 2020

Today is the day we’ve been waiting for! Sale-A-Bration begins and with every $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase, you can choose a Sale-A-Bration product in the brochure! And to help you, the Occasions Mini Catalog is LIVE today with all new spring and summer products!

One of the products that I think will be the most popular is the Painted Poppies Stamp Set. I made this easy card with just some basic stamping and coloring by stamping the group of poppies twice and then quickly coloring in the flowers and grass with the Stampin’ Blends markers. I didn’t color “carefully”, I just dabbed some Light Poppy Parade marker on all the flowers and then went back and dabbed on a little bit of Dark Poppy Parade. I used Granny Apple Green Blends on the stems and drew in some grass.

Easy Painted Poppies Birthday Card

The greeting on this card is from the Sending Thoughts Stamp Set, FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration! You will find it under the Sale-A-Bration category in the Online Store and in the SAB brochure. I simply stamped it in Memento Black Ink right on the card front to keep things simple! Sometimes we forget “simple”! The card base is Poppy Parade with a bit of Granny Apple Green Cardstock showing under the stamped image.

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