We all love gorgeous Designer Series Paper, so by popular demand, Stampin’ Up! has brought back the Designer Series Paper Sale! But the month is half over already, so be sure to check which designer papers you NEED for your stash!
Only these select papers are on the sale! Put in the three packages of designer paper you want, then add the 4th package you want FREE.
Only Designer Series Papers listed in the table above qualify for this promotion. You may mix and match papers from any of the listed papers.
There is no limit to how many times you can buy three packages of Designer Series Paper, and get one free (the 4th) during this sale.
In the online store, if a customer orders four packages of the same qualifying Designer Series Paper, they will need to enter three together and then order the fourth free item separately.
Designer Series Paper ordered as part of a Starter Kit does not qualify for this sale.
Designer Series Paper ordered with Stampin’ Rewards does not qualify for this sale.
How to order: Put three papers (all the same or different) in your order, then choose the 4th package from the selection for your FREE one. You can even make the most expensive one the free one! My favorites are Magnolia Lane and Bird Ballad! Be sure to get those…or MORE of those!
Here is an easy Christmas card I made during a short stamping session with my daughter while visiting her in California, the Wrapped In Plaid Christmas Trees Card. I brought some projects along in the hopes that a couple of her friends could join us, but it ended up being just us! Of course, when you are on vacation, there is never enough time so we didn’t get to make everything we wanted to.
While she was working on another card using this plaid paper and the tree punch, I somewhat copied this card from a sample in the Holiday Catalog on page 12. The card base is Cherry Cobbler. The greeting is stamped from the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set in Cherry Cobbler Ink and then layered on a piece of Cherry Cobbler Cardstock.
For the background of the card, I chose two designs from the Perfectly Plaid 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. They overlap just a bit and I put a thin strip of Shaded Spruce Cardstock across the line where the two papers overlap.
The four Christmas trees are punched out easily with the Pine Tree Punch, new in the Holiday Catalog. I just chose patterns from the designer paper that I thought would stand out from the background. I could have also added a few embellishments, like the Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels on page 58.
If you use this dark cardstock for your card base, you probably want to put a piece of Whisper White Cardstock inside the card, perhaps stamping first, or writing a personal note later. Stamp a greeting or stamp just a small image somewhere on the inside of the card.
Really, with the Pine Tree Punch and the Perfectly Plaid Paper, this is a pretty easy card to make. You could change it up by only putting the designer paper on the bottom half of the card, allowing the punched trees to stand out more against a solid color background. Just play with the elements and see what you come up with! Use a ribbon around the seam between the two patterns of plaid paper.
Have fun thinking up creative ideas using the new products in the Holiday Catalog!
Stampin’ Up! has been busy updating our Demonstrator websites, where you do your ordering, and making them more secure, for one thing.
But in some cases, you may have received some kind of security alert instead of going to the website. To ensure you have the best experience, the next time you visit my site, please make sure not to include “www.” at the front of the URL. Or you can simply click the following link and save it as a favorite so you don’t have to think about it: karenfontinelle.stampinup.net
If you forget and do include “www.” at the front, it’s possible you will see an error telling you the site may not be secure. That’s not true; in fact, it’s more secure than it was before the update! That “www.” is the problem.
Hope you check it out soon! (Just don’t type “www.”)
This Let It Snow Die-Cut Snowman Christmas Card will be a fun card to send at Christmas time! It uses fun designer paper plus a cute snowman stamp set. There are so many possibilities with the Let It Snow Suite for making cards and projects for winter and Christmas! You will find it all, of course, in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog!
This card starts with a Coastal Cabana card base. The designer paper is the Let It Snow Specialty Designer Series Paper. This package of paper has glittery snowmen on some of the patterns. The paper used on this card doesn’t have the glitter, but it is a design of an assortment of mini snowmen! It makes a great background for a snowman card without taking away attention from the main snowman.
The main snowman is stamped with the Snowman Season Stamp Set and then punched with the Snowman Builder Punch. With this punch, you can make the snowman body, the arms, the hat, and the carrot nose! You can even purchase the Snowman Season Stamp Set and the Snowman Builder Punch together in the Snowman Season Bundle and save 10%! After building this snowman with the punch, I popped him up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. He is then layered on a flip side of designer paper and layered on a large scalloped circle die cut.
The greeting is stamped from the Snowman Season Stamp Set and layered on a scalloped oval die cut. You can see another card HERE that also uses the punched snowman.
That’s all there is to this card! Stamp a holiday greeting inside or write a personal note and the card is ready to go!
Also, don’t forget about the Designer Series Paper Sale going on now at Stampin’ Up!. Select papers – Buy 3, Get the 4th package FREE!
The Pressed Petals Journal could almost be left alone with its embossed cover and it’s a shame to cover it up with any embellishments, but it does need a little something and this is how I decorated the Pressed Petals Journal in the Stampin Up! Annual Catalog.
This is another of those products that you just might miss in the catalog. You’ll find it on page 170 in the Memories & More section. It’s a spiral-bound little journal and you can even tear out some of the pages if you like to decorate card fronts or on memory-keeping pages. Or you can just leave it all together and add photos or your own written thoughts on the pages. It’s for you to use however you like or give as a gift to someone.
In decorating the cover of the Pressed Petals Journal, I used the catalog for my inspiration. I loved one of the card samples on page 131 of the catalog so I copied that idea.
The cover uses the Bloom & Grow Stamp Set, stamping the flowers and the sentiment plus the coordinating Budding Blooms Dies. I stamped two copies of the floral spray, colored it with Stampin’ Blends Markers, and die cut with the Budding Blooms Dies. The sentiment is stamped and cut out with a scalloped edge using one of the dies, also. There’s even a little more stamping in the background behind the die-cut flowers and greeting.
Of course, I couldn’t leave well enough alone, so I colored on some of the flowers with the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush for a little glitter and shine! Not one to be a slouch, I also added some sequins in the background! You can’t have too much subtle sparkle!
The inside pages of the journal have some writing prompts of sorts and decorated pages.
You might want to pick up several of these journals. Maybe you want several for yourself or to give to friends, or even to have on hand when you just want to give a little special gift to someone.
Halloween is nearly here, which means that Paper Pumpkin has been busy, busy, busy. Stampin’ Up! thought you might like “a hand” with your frightful festivities, so they designed September’s kit, Bone Appétit, with YOU in mind. I can’t wait for this kit!!!
This kit includes 20 food-safe treat boxes, a unique and exclusive Halloween stamp set, and a spooky, special-edition box. September’s kit also gives new meaning to the word “handmade.” (Cue the scary laughter!)
So don’t be in the dark this Halloween. Subscribe at paperpumpkin.com by September 10 to get in on the fun. Find my name to be on my list: Karen Fontinelle
It’s the Monster Bash Spooktacular Bash Halloween Card for ghouls and goblins! Halloween is so much fun for making cards, treats, and other projects! I especially love the fun, whimsical Halloween things and this card has them! What a cute sentiment to send someone with these two ghouls on this card!
This card starts with a card base of Basic Black Cardstock with a layer of a generic design on the backside of a Halloween paper for the card layer. This paper is the Monster Bash Designer Series Paper which is full of fun Halloween characters and themes. You can cut out many of the images and use them on your projects rather than just using the full paper. For this card, I chose two of the “ghouls” and then layered them on the Ornate Frames Dies.
Although these Ornate Frames Dies are in the Holiday Catalog, in the Halloween suite, these are great frames to use on many types of cards, not just Halloween! I hope Stampin’ Up! will keep them around past the Holiday Catalog! You can layer them under many things.
The sentiment is stamped with the Spooktacular Bash Stamp Set. Talk about a cute Halloween stamp set with these fun monsters and cute greetings to use on your Halloween cards and projects! You can actually purchase the Spooktacular Bash Stamp Set and the Ornate Frames Dies in a Bundle together and save 10%!
And for a little extra pizzazz, get the Monster Bash Enamel Shapesand use them on your projects! These are adhesive-backed enamel tombstones, skulls, crows, and dots. On this card, I used two of the dots on the greeting piece. Just imagine the fun things you can do with the other shapes!
Here is how I usedthe designer paper for just a decorative strip on the side of a different card and then the Ornate Frames and monster from the DSP. If you like Halloween, you will have all kinds of fun with this Monster Bash Suite in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog!
I named this card Night Before Christmas At the Christmas Tree Lot because that is what it looks like to me! Well, I guess it’s not just what it looks like to me, I think that’s what it is! I first thought it looked like all the trees were die-cut, so that’s how I got the idea for this card, but then I realized it’s just how good the paper is designed that they look that way! However, I did sacrifice some other paper to punch out a couple of trees to give it a 3D effect!
This card is made with the Night Before Christmas 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I just fell in love with this whole package of paper when I first saw it in the Holiday Catalog for its vintage look! The card base is Night of Navy, one of the coordinating colors with a layer of Crushed Curry. I thought it brought out the strings of lights over the Christmas trees. For the 3D trees, I was going to cut some out by hand but I decided to use the Pine Tree Punch, just to punch out some greenery from the larger trees in the paper. I popped those up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
I couldn’t find a good place for a stamped greeting, so I thought of using the die cut one from the Jolly Season Dies, part of the Holly Jolly Christmas Bundle. I used Real Red Cardstock and just adhered it with tiny drops of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Of course, I had to have a little more bling, so I adhered some Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots to the fronts of two of the trees like little red ornaments!
If you like this paper, you will also probably like the card I made in THIS POST using a different pattern of paper and the Santa in the Holly Jolly Christmas Stamp Set. All of these holiday products you will find in the Night Before Christmas Suite in the Holiday Catalog!
Grab some popcorn and a soda or some chocolate and enjoy!
Honestly, it will take you a while to really absorb all the products in the Holiday Catalog! Everyone seems to miss seeing something…..EVEN Shelli Gardner in a video hadn’t noticed the Coffin Treat Boxes! (If you like Halloween you should get those, even if you like more whimsical Halloween themes, but these are cute and easy to put together. Then you can decorate however you like!)
You will find this darling snowman stamp set and really fun designer paper in the Holiday Catalog plus the teeny tiny snowflakes in theSnowflake Sequins package. They are really for theSnow Globe Shaker Domes, but I couldn’t resist using a few with my Happy Snowman Christmas Card! I used the teeny tiniest dot of Multipurpose Liquid Glue and used the Take Your Pick Tool to place the sequins. They are really tiny!
The card base is Real Red (which I am super happy to be using with these cards and the Let It Snow Paper) and has a layer of this red pattern of Let It Snow Designer Series Paper. I hate to tell you that on the other side are glimmery snowmen that I hated to cut through and put glue on!!! Oh my!! But it had to be done if I wanted to use this red paper with white snowflakes. Of course, you could use this pattern at any time because the white dots don’t have to be snowflakes! Just to help this red stand out, I put a layer of Whisper White underneath it. Now if you don’t tell anybody, you can die cut the circle that the snowman is stamped on out of the Whisper White before you assemble the card. No one will ever see it or know!
After I die cut that circle out of the Whisper White layer, I stamped a snowman from the Snowman Season Stamp Set on it in Memento Ink. Then I could add just a tiny bit of icy shadows on the snowman and snow with my Stampin’ Blends and lightly color in the winter sky. This circle is layered on a Real Red larger circle, die-cut with the Layering Circle Dies and that is layered on a scalloped circle from the same set out of Sparkle Glimmer Paper.
The greeting is in the snowman set and stamped in Real Red Ink. I also layered this on a piece of the Sparkle Glimmer Paper. Just for fun, I added three tiny snowflake sequins to the greeting, too.
That’s it. Pretty easy card to make once you have the idea and the Sparkle Glimmer Paper adds a little pizzazz! The inside of the card has another one of the greetings stamped in red, plus “Merry Christmas” as well as some snowflakes stamped at the top, all on a layer of Whisper White since the red card base would be a little difficult on which to stamp a sentiment or write a note. It’s easy to decorate a layer inside your card with some stamping or a piece or strip of designer paper! And don’t forget the outside of the envelope!
Just as this snowman is excited, I’m sure you are excited to start shopping with the Holiday Catalog! You can combine your Holiday Catalog order with the Designer Series Paper Sale! And don’t forget about the Clearance Rack if you want to pick up some bargains!
Only these select papers are on the sale! Put in the three packages of designer paper you want, then add the 4th package you want FREE.
Only Designer Series Papers listed in the table above qualify for this promotion. You may mix and match papers from any of the listed papers.
There is no limit to how many times you can buy three packages of Designer Series Paper, and get one free (the 4th) during this sale.
In the online store, if a customer orders four packages of the same qualifying Designer Series Paper, they will need to enter three together and then order the fourth free item separately.
Designer Series Paper ordered as part of a Starter Kit does not qualify for this sale.
Designer Series Paper ordered with Stampin’ Rewards does not qualify for this sale.
Not to mention, the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog also starts tomorrow so you can order everything together! Remember, only those papers listed are in the sale!
How to order: Put three papers (all the same or different) in your order, then choose the 4th package from the selection for your FREE one. You can even make the most expensive one the free one! My favorites are Magnolia Lane and Bird Ballad! Be sure to get those…or MORE of those!
You might not believe how easy this Perennial Essence Birthday Gift Box or Bag is to make, and just think what a great impression your gift to someone would make when presented like this! You can leave it open as it is filling it with “shred” or tissue paper to hide the gift inside, or close the top with ribbon or a decorative binder clip or many other ways.
This Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper is so beautiful. You could even frame a sheet of it to look like art! This paper features handpainted impressionistic images in rich colors! You just can’t go wrong on any project using this paper! And guess what?! It’s going to be part of the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale beginning Wednesday, September 4, 2019!
While we are waiting for the sale day to arrive, here are directions on how to make this easy little birthday gift bag!
Start with a 6″ x 12″ piece of designer paper. Score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. Then turn the paper long ways and score at 1 3/4″.
Before you do anything, pay attention to any pattern in the paper. That 1 3/4″ area is going to be the bottom flaps of the bag or box, so picture how the paper will look when it is completely made. Even some of this paper you might decide has a bit of a pattern that you want to pay attention to. Cut those flaps up to the 1 3/4″ score line. Crease all the scored lines and fold so you can see how the bag will go together. Cut off that smallest end piece on the bottom that would be 1 3/4″ x 1/2″.
When you fold on all the scored lines, you will be able to assemble the box (or bag). Start with putting a strong adhesive on that narrow flap you see on the far right. Use something like Tear & Tape or Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Think about which side you want for the front of the box depending on where you see the good side of that flap and then try to fold and adhere the flaps on the bottom so that the folded edge is facing the front, if possible. These small details help to make your project finished off perfectly!
I chose to just leave my box open at the top. I tied a bow but just adhered it to the top of the bag with Mini Glue Dots. You could punch holes in the top of the bag and tied the ribbon through. Or you can punch holes in both sides of the bag and close it with ribbon that way. The ribbon I used is the gorgeous Petal Pink 5/8″ Organdy Striped Ribbon.
To decorate the front of the bag/box I die cut a piece of Petal Pink Cardstock from the Petal Labels Dies and then cut an oval for the stamped greeting with the oval that comes in the set. The Happy Birthday greeting is from the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set. And I couldn’t leave well enough alone! I had to add a little bling with the Petal Pink Rhinestone Gems.
Here is a similar project I made back in May. Check out THIS POST. You can see how fun and easy this project is!
Start looking over the select designer series papers that will be on sale Sept. 4th, which will be the same day as the Holiday Catalog goes live. None of the Holiday papers are part of the sale, though! Choose 3 papers, then the 4th one you add to your order will be FREE!
I hope you will try this project I made today with the Perennial Essence Designer Paper and see how easy it truly is!
Just the other day, somewhere, I saw one of those montages of clips from various local news and other shows where everyone is saying the same thing! It was “I can’t believe it’s August!” “Is it really August already?” “Can you believe it is August?” Well, now I have to say, “I can’t believe it is the end of August!” It seems like the whole summer has gone by pretty fast!
In fact, August has gone by so fast, you may not realize today is the last day for a couple of Stampin’ Up! things!
If you wanted to join Stampin’ Up! you may have forgotten that today is thelast day to sign up! Join Stampin’ Up! today and choose $155 worth of products for your Starter Kit and only pay $99! That’s too good of a deal to pass up! Run a big business or just get your own discount. Stampin’ Up! welcomes all types of Demonstrators! Plus get a $10 coupon to spend later on. I am happy to answer any questions you may have and help you along the way!
If you earned any Bonus Coupons in July (a $5 coupon for every $50 you spent) today is the last day to redeem them on your order.
We often say, “Stamping is therapy” and it certainly is, like with this Path of Petals Thank You Card and many other cards! Sometimes you just need to stop and sit down and stamp.
It’s been such a busy week and everywhere I went traffic, traffic, traffic! I think everybody is in town with all the schools back in session so no one is on vacation anymore. Everybody is home and going to work and on the roads! Not to mention construction everywhere which causes backups and slowdowns! I think I need to allow an hour to get anywhere I go just to keep the drive less stressful! I don’t know when it’s been quite like this in all the years I have lived here.
So what is the best thing to do to alleviate a little stress?? Stamp, of course! This card uses the Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper and stamping with the Path of Petals Stamp Set. Although I have used the Pressed Petals DSP on lots of cards, I had difficulty stamping the flowers and leaves with this stamp set so this is the first time I actually used the flowers and stems! Here is a card I made with a piece of the Pressed Petals Designer Paper. I love these dark-colored flowers so much!
The card base is Mossy Meadow, one of the coordinating colors of the Pressed Petals Designer Paper. I started with the design with the leaves and ferns (I guess!), although originally I had the top and bottom designs reversed. This is actually the same paper, the leaves on one side and the cloth-looking design on the other.
The die-cut piece going across the front of the card is from the Flourish Dies using Merry Merlot Cardstock. I like to have something, usually ribbon, where I have two different patterns of paper coming together. It just finishes off that edge nicely. But this time I thought of using some kind of border die or something and finally, I found this one. It is a little bit fancy but doesn’t overwhelm the card. The secret is that the piece is not long enough to reach all the way across the card. But since part of the die-cut was going underneath the stamped piece, I was able to cut it, leaving a space underneath the stamping making the ends reach to each side of the card, and no one will be the wiser!
Maybe you won’t have trouble stamping the flowers, but just in case, this is what I found out. I think it was easier to stamp the flower stems and leaves first. I stamped these in Pear Pizzazz Ink. Next, I stamped the flowers in Merry Merlot Ink. I think you will have to move the stamp around until you feel like the flower blossoms are fitting with the stems. Past stamps we have had had a notch on each of the stamps that were to be stamped in the same direction so you could tell how to line them up. These stamps do not, so you just have to line them up as best you can. I could not get the other leafy stamp to line up correctly, so I just stopped with what I had as you see on the card.
For a little pizzazz on the stamping, I used the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to brush on a little Merry Merlot ink from the ink pad onto each flower, trying to keep it fairly light, which also added a bit of glimmer. Then I did the same with the leaves with the Pear Pizzazz ink. As much trouble as these stamps were to line up, I really liked the stamped image after adding a little bit of color and the glimmer from the Wink of Stella brush!
The greeting is from the same stamp set. It is stamped on Very Vanilla Cardstock in Merry Merlot Ink and then punched out with the Classic Label Punch. However, I snipped off the pointy ends of the punched piece to just make it plain. I could have layered it on a piece of Merry Merlot but I liked it just adhered to the card by itself.
So there you have it! A little stress relief from the demands of the week and a simple card design that you could vary in many different ways!
