Hello Cupcake Birthday Card

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The stamp set to make this Hello Cupcake Birthday Card can be yours FREE during Sale-A-Bration! This is Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year since the early days of Stampin’ Up! Usually, a special promotion doesn’t have a history behind it!

Until March 31, just spend $50 on any Stampin’ Up! products and then choose a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! This Hello Cupcake Stamp Set is one of the popular choices! Just think of all the cute cards you could make with this cupcake! I really like the greetings and the font, too.

To make my card I used Blushing Bride Cardstock for the card base. Next is a layer of Whisper White on which I stamped the cupcake. The whole cupcake is actually three pieces….the cupcake wrapper, a bottom piece of the frosting, and the top of the cupcake. I stamped the cupcake wrapper in So Saffron and the frosting in Blushing Bride. I stamped some sprinkles in Melon Mambo and colored them in with a Melon Mambo Stampin’ Write Marker. And to fill up space around the cupcake, I stamped the teeny little flowers in the set.

On the side panel of Blushing Bride, I stamped the greeting three times with Blushing Bride ink using the Stamparatus! When you use the Stamparatus, you can move the stamping plate down one hinge at a time and get perfect placement of the greeting all lined up. After stamping three greetings, there wasn’t enough space for another one so I just stamped three flowers at the bottom. Then there is a small strip of Soft Seafoam Cardstock to match some of the Soft Seafoam stamped flowers!

Just for a finishing touch, I added one of the Frosted Flower Embellishments right over the center stamped flower. And one little Share the Love Artisan Pearl in the center looks perfect.

The Stamparatus would actually be a good thing to purchase during Sale-A-Bration, plus one other item (because the Stamparatus is $49) to easily earn a Free SAB item.

What’s more fun than shopping for things you want to buy and then getting to choose FREE things?!

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Easy Valentine Card With Hearts

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Make an Easy Valentine Card With Hearts with the beautiful All My Love Designer Series Paper! Although this designer paper looks like it is for Valentine’s Day, it really is just flowers so you can use it long after Valentine’s Day. It’s only the hearts I added from the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies that turn it into a Valentine. And really, even the hearts don’t force it to be a Valentine, it could be a wedding or anniversary card or just a card to say “I love you!”. We just think of it being a Valentine since it is almost Valentine’s Day.

One of the coordinating colors for this package of paper is Flirty Flamingo. I don’t think I often use that paper, but it looks perfect with this print. I stamped one heart with Flirty Flamingo Ink with the heart in the Meant to Be Stamp Set and die cut it with the heart shape. Then I cut a larger heart and a smaller heart to help make the white heart stand out on the printed paper. That stitching adds just a little bit of something that adds to this card. I added the ribbon on the side before adhering the DSP layer to the card base. I simply tied three pieces of ribbon in knots rather than fool with a bow, but you could do a bow.

For just a little something extra, I added some Heart Epoxy Droplets. These are neat little things because they can be used as is or they can be colored with Stampin’ Blends or a Sharpie.

This is an easy little card to make. If you don’t have heart dies, just cut out some hearts with a scissors like when we were kids! You can add some embellishments, maybe sequins rhinestones, other jewels, or every teeny hearts scattered around. Just play and see what you come up with. I had no idea what card I was going to make when I got out the paper!

Read this blog post HERE to see another card made with die cut hearts.

If you need any supplies to make this Easy Valentine Card With Hearts, you can order them in the Occasions Catalog section of the Stampin’ Up! Online Store. Remember to take advantage of Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase or more.

Easy Valentine’s Day Designer Paper Gift Bag

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You’ve got to make this Easy Valentine’s Day Designer Paper Gift Bag! It just uses half a sheet of designer paper and you make it like a 2-4-6-8 box or bag, except the measurements are just a little different since it is a wider bag. You can make it with any paper, even cardstock. Just be careful if there is a pattern that you score it the correct way so your pattern is going in the right direction. For example, my hearts could have been upside down.

Start with a sheet of 6″ x 12″ designer paper. I used the hearts sheet from the All My Love Designer Series Paper. Place the paper in the Simply Scored scoring tool with the 12″ side at the top or use the Stampin’ Trimmer. Score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. Turn the paper so the short edge is at the top and score at 1 3/4″. This will make the bottom flaps of the bag so make sure your pattern is going the right way and that the bottom is going to be where you want it! Now take some scissors and cut those short bottom tabs up to the 1 3/4″ score line. Cut off the little 1/2″ tab on the bottom. Fold on all the score lines and crease well with the Bone Folder. Adhere the tab on the end to the other side to assemble the bag. Then adhere the flaps on the bottom.

Here’s another bag I made of the same size and design back in April.

You can leave the bag open at the top or for this one, I punched two holes in the top and draw closed with a ribbon. I used the new Lovely Lipstick ribbon in the All My Love Combo Ribbon Pack.

To decorate the bag die cut a large Whisper White heart with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies and stamped with the greeting in the Meant to Be Stamp Set. Really, the bag looked fine with just that heart adhered to the front. I could have stopped there. But I already had a flower diecut from the Be Mine Dies so I adhered that at the bottom of the heart and added a Rhinestone Basic Jewel in the center.

Fill the bag with a small gift or some favorite candies! You are all set to give someone this Easy Valentine’s Day Designer Paper Gift Bag!

Easy Just For You Card

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Use the “Valentine” paper for other cards and occasions as well, like this Easy Just For You Card that could be for a birthday, thinking of you, or any kind of friendly card! This All My Love Designer Series Paper in the Occasions Catalog has hearts on the opposite side of the flowered pattern, but on this side, the card can be for anything. The bottom strip of neutral paper has flowers on the other side. It’s great when we have “holiday” paper that can also be used for other occasions in case we don’t use it all up for the holiday!

The greeting comes from the Meant to Be Stamp Set which also has Valentine’s and “love” sentiments, but “Just For You” can be for non-holiday use! Who wouldn’t like to receive a card that was meant for them?! Remember, when you use these new sticky Cling Stamps to be careful taking them off the block. Make sure you are under the cling label before you peel it off the block or you might rip the foam. It is not difficult, you will get into the habit of doing it just like everything else.

For a simple embellishment behind the layered greeting, I used a piece of the Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon. It is just tacked down with a little adhesive and the greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Very simple.

Remember, sometimes the easy designs are the best! You could embellish this card a little bit more if you wanted to, but it is just fine as it is. I like using the two pieces of designer paper on the card. Sometimes just in mixing and matching the patterns, you can come up with other card ideas. You could also have just one piece of designer paper and let the cardstock show. Add a greeting and maybe some ribbon or a little bling. That’s all.

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Be Mine Valentine Hearts Card

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Here’s a simple but elegant Be Mine Valentine Hearts Card made with three die-cut fancy hearts and a few little hearts plus a greeting. The colored hearts are made from the Grapefruit Grove & Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets. I am telling you, when you open this package of foil sheets you will just die over how pretty the colors are!!! The colored hearts on this card are made with the Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheet. It is so beautiful in person. And guess how much they cost?! They are FREE, with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration! And we all know it’s plenty easy to spend $50 at Stampin’ Up!

To make the hearts, I used the fancy heart die in the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies. I probably bought the set because of this fancy heart! There are lots of hearts and they have the “stitching” on them. You might miss that in the name of the dies! They are “Stitched Framelits Dies” and that makes them fancier and prettier! We can always use hearts in our cards and projects so don’t miss this set! For a Bundle, go ahead and get the stamp set also, Meant to Be, so you can save 10% on both!

I used the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets on the back of the foil so I wouldn’t have to use glue to adhere the hearts to the card. Normally this is a great thing to do with intricate designs that are hard to adhere with glue because there are no large enough areas to apply the glue to. But when I made this card, I had a mess with all the teeny tiny pieces in the die cut edges of the hearts all sticking to my fingers! I think it was “operator error” somehow. Usually people really like the Adhesive Sheets! I seldom remember to use them and when I did remember to use them, I couldn’t find them, so there you go! Maybe I am better off just using glue!

The card itself and the two white hearts are made with the beautiful Shimmery White Cardstock. This paper is one of my enduring favorites! It has such a subtle shimmer to it yet it looks much more elegant than just Whisper White. It is also good for watercoloring if you don’t have the official watercolor paper from Stampin’ Up!.

The little hearts are die cut from the Lovely Lipstick Foil using the die that cuts out a whole grouping of hearts. I just wanted a few to use somehow on this card. I placed two inside the white hearts and scattered the others randomly on the card.

I needed a small greeting for this card and I found one in the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set. This is a great set to own because we can never have enough words!

Check out the great Occasions Catalog and see what you can get for FREE during Sale-A-Bration in the special Sale-A-Bration Brochure! With every $50 purchase, you earn a free SAB item. With a $100 purchase, you can choose two items for the two $50 purchases or you can choose one of the special $100 items! At $150 you also earn Stampin’ Rewards plus Sale-A-Bration. At $250, you earn those PLUS an extra $25 in Stampin’ Rewards! All the information is HERE!

If you are interested in Stampin’ Up! products and would like these catalogs, just send me your contact information and I can mail them out to you. While you can view them online, nothing beats having a Stampin’ Up! catalog in your hands!

If you need any supplies to make this Be Mine Valentine Hearts Card, you can contact me to put in your order or just go to the Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE!

Join the Stamping With Karen Mailing List!

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Every Tuesday I send out an email in the afternoon with at least one stamping project and whatever news you need to know from Stampin’ Up! The first newsletter of the month has several stamping projects with a list of supplies and complete directions.

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Butterfly Gala Gingham Check Thank You Card

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When you need inspiration, look no further than the Stampin’ Up! catalogs, in this case, the new Occasions Catalog. I was looking for something to make with the new Butterfly Gala Stamp Set so I decided to just copy the sample on page 34.

I love the new Gingham Gala 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper and I had wanted to try the technique of drawing extra lines on the checks to make another style of plaid. I used my Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blend Marker, the narrow tip, and a ruler to draw lines in between the printed pattern. Just an extra step that gives the paper a new look!

The butterflies are stamped, colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers and then punched with the Butterfly Duet Punch. The butterfly stamps in this set are connected so that after you stamp them, they are perfectly placed on the paper to be aligned with the punch! No making a template and all that! I suggest stamping extra butterflies while you have the ink and stamp out because you likely will want more than the two stamps (notice the two small butterflies on the card). If you don’t use them all at the time, just save and keep for another project!

The greeting is in the stamp set. After stamping it, I die cut with the brand new Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies on page 28 of the Occasions Catalog. Notice the word “Stitched” in there! These are quite a collection of rectangles with the lovely stitched edge. Two can be used to make a frame out of the dies

For a little embellishment, there is a Vellum Cardstock punched piece behind the greeting with the Starburst Punch. Also added is a strip of the Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon. And I can’t resist sprinkling around a few sequins! You can choose from the Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins or the Gingham Gala Adhesive-Backed Sequins. These sequins are so fun and easy to use when you just have to stick them down, not try to apply a teeny dot of glue!

Notice that there are a couple Bundles available with these products I used on this card:

The Amazing Life Bundle with the Amazing Life Stamp Set and Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies.
The Butterfly Gala Bundle with the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set and Butterfly Duet Punch.

Save 10% when you buy the products in a Bundle!

Use the catalog when you need ideas for making a card. You can copy exactly, vary the design a little bit as I did, or start with the idea and then see what you come up with that is different. That is often what happens when I stamp, I end up with something completely different than what I thought I was going to make! Try your hand at this Butterfly Gala Gingham Check Thank You Card or change up the greeting, the colors, the paper, the number of butterflies!

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Be Mine Die Cut Hearts Valentine Card

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The other day I just die cut some pieces with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies and then I played with them to see if I could make a card with them! I could! As it happened, I love the look of the die cut hearts, tone on tone, at the bottom of the card. After I placed the large and small die cut hearts on the upper part of the card and put on the greeting, I decided to add some of the tiny hearts from that bottom piece inside the heart outlines. I think it all came out like a pretty good Valentine!

I used a piece of the Thick Whisper White Cardstock for the card base with a layer of the Lovely Lipstick Cardstock. The Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies are very interesting and pretty with the way they make a stitched look on the hearts and with one of the hearts just having a fancy outline to it.

Remember, hearts aren’t just for Valentine’s Day! I have often wished Stampin’ Up! would quit taking away out heart punches and dies because I like to use them for weddings, graduations, congratulations cards, and other occasions. Hearts can make any kind of pretty card! Don’t think this Meant To Be Stamp Set and Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies are only for Valentine’s. In fact, you can buy both in a Bundle and save 10%! Every little bit helps!

If you purchase the Meant to Be Bundle, you will earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product! Be sure to think in terms of $50 increments when placing your order to get the full benefit of Sale-A-Bration! Check out the products you can earn during Sale-A-Bration HERE in the Brochure.

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Forever Lovely All-Occasion Card

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This Forever Lovely All-Occasion Card is stamped with the Forever Lovely Stamp Set in the Occasions Catalog and inspired by the All My Love Designer Series Paper. This designer series paper is beautiful. While it has come out sort of during “Valentine season” and it does have hearts, but a lot of the paper can be used for any season and all occasions.

For this card I started with the Lovely Lipstick Cardstock, one of the 2018-2020 In Colors. It is one of the coordinating colors of the All My Love DSP. I added a layer of Whisper White and stamped three flowers from the Forever Lovely Stamp Set. There is one stamp that is a grouping of flowers, but I used the individual flower stamps and then added individual leaves. I also stamped the little stems of open leaves which I decided to look at as little blue flowers, sort of like the tiny blue flowers on the DSP and colored them with the Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blends Markers (new colors in the Occasions Catalog). And for fun, stamped the tiniest hearts in the stamp set in between the flowers!

I added a strip of the All My Love DSP to the bottom of the card. The greeting comes from the same stamp set and is die-cut with the Layering Circles Framelits Dies. The ribbon is in the same suite. It is part of the All My Love Ribbon Combo Pack, including Flirty Flamingo 1/8″ Ribbon and this Lovely Lipstick 1/2″ Ribbon with a white-stitched edge.

Not being able to stop with a little more embellishing, I used the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush on the flowers plus added a tiny die-cut heart on the greeting and brushed on some Wink of Stella to give it a little glimmer.

As this card turned out, I would call it a “Happy card” and I hope someone who received it would feel that it brightened their day.

I might add that this stamp set has the term “Distinktive” attached to it. You might notice the “textured” look to the stamped image. This is the intended look of this type of stamp. It gives added depth and dimension to the stamped image in one step.

Check out the All My Love Suite of products, perhaps for your Valentine cards and projects, but keeping in mind that you will be able to use these products way beyond Valentine’s Day.

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Behind-The-Scenes at Paper Pumpkin!

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One thing I always love is to get a behind-the-scenes look at almost anything, and right now Stampin’ Up! is giving all of us a behind-the-scenes look at Paper Pumpkin and how they come up with each month’s kit. You won’t see what the project is, just their process in going about its development. Only occasionally do we really get some hint about what the project looks like.

Paper Pumpkin is a gift you give yourself! It’s a box of crafting time that you don’t have to plan for, design for, gather supplies for. It’s all right there when you open the box and ready for you to make.

If you are a first-time subscriber, you will receive an acrylic block to use with the exclusive stamp set inside. You also receive at least one small ink spot in the kit and of course all the materials you need for whatever the project is.

The majority of projects are cards but for variety and fun, some month’s kits are something different. We have had party favors, holiday items, framed art, mini albums, and other 3D items. It’s always a treat to receive Paper Pumpkin in my mailbox!

Subscribe Today to get the February Paper Pumpkin Kit! Fill out the information for your account to join and select my name, Karen Fontinelle, as your Demonstrator. You won’t be charged until your kit ships after February 10th. The price is $19.95/month plus sales tax, and the price includes shipping. It is well worth the money and worth everything for your enjoyment and relaxation!

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Decorated Valentine Tin

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Remember when we used to find a lot of crafty things to use at the Dollar Spot at Target? I haven’t in a while but the other day I found this pretty tin that looked like it could be decorated for Valentine’s Day! It already has a lot of cut out hearts on the tin so I added a big heart and new ribbon.

To decorate this tin, I cut out several different hearts with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies on page 6 of the Occasions Catalog. I played around first with the grouping of little bitty hearts, but I wasn’t pleased with that for the tin. If you ever need a bunch of tiny little individual hearts cut out, run that die through the Big Shot and you’ll have lots of little hearts even if you don’t use the grouping!

Next, I cut out one of the large printed hearts from the All My Love Designer Paper. It is one sheet with large hearts and small hearts. You could use this sheet as is or you can cut out all or some of the hearts. I also used the very frilly heart die to cut out a heart to overlay the printed heart. I liked that on the tin!

In the All My Love Suite in the Occasions Catalog is a package of two ribbons, the All My Love Ribbon Combo Pack. One spool is Lovely Lipstick 1/2″ Ribbon with a white stitched edge and the other spool is Flirty Flamingo 1/8″ wide ribbon. I used both ribbons to wrap around the tin with the ends meeting in the front. Then I adhered the heart I’d made over the ribbon ends using Stampin’ Dimensionals on the back.

A pretty easy way to decorate this Valentine tin a little more! Since it was already pretty “busy” I didn’t want to add much more. I could have stamped and adhered a greeting across the front, but I liked it the way it was. Then just put some candy inside, a candle, notecards or whatever you like. You could even use it to hold stamping supplies on your craft desk because the hearts aren’t only for Valentine’s Day!

You don’t have to find this exact tin, but you might find something similar, maybe already in your house, like a votive holder and this is one easy way you can decorate it!

Check out the Occasions Catalog All My Love Suite of products!

All My Love Party Favor Treat Box For Valentine’s Day

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One of the new pretty designer papers in the Occasions Catalog is this All My Love Designer Series Paper which I have used to make this All My Love Party Favor Treat Box For Valentine’s Day. This paper has hearts and florals so it covers almost any occasion! Remember, hearts are just for Valentine’s Day! The Occasions Catalog has a whole suite of products to go with this paper.

To make this little box or bag, for a treat to give someone or maybe as a party favor (think bridal showers, maybe?), just make the classic 2-4-6-8 box!

This paper is cut at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, even though the designer paper is 12″ x 12″. Don’t you hate to cut into new designer paper?! Then just score at 2″, 4″, 6″, and 8″. Turn the paper to make the bottom flaps of the box at 2″. Cut up on those score lines to the horizontal score line to make the bottom flaps, cutting out the tiny little piece at the end. Your paper will look something like this.

On my treat box today, I also scored a line about 3/4″ down from the top so that I could fold over the top and see the other side of the paper. Or you can just fold it on your own before you start assembling the box.

Crease and fold all the score lines and assemble the box. I just used the Multipurpose Liquid Glue to hold everything together. You could also use the Tear & Tape Adhesive.

Once the box is assembled, tie a little ribbon around the top and use the new Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies to cut out the little hearts. This smallest heart is really cute because it comes out with the pretty edge and the little stitching! I used Glue Dots on the back of the hearts to adhere to the ribbon. If you have trouble with the hearts hanging where you want them, another Glue Dot on the back won’t hurt to place them properly! If you wanted, you could use a white gel pen to write a name or message on the hearts.

Fill with some treats or a little gift and you are done! The All My Love DSP is so pretty and can be used for almost any occasion. You will think of it for Valentine’s Day but you are not limited to that at all. And the box is pretty on it’s own without the hearts because the paper is so pretty.

Check out the All My Love Suite in the new Occasions Catalog! Remember Sale-A-Bration — with every $50 purchase you earn a free Sale-A-Bration product!

Practice making some 2-4-6-8 boxes so you will know how easy they are to do! Here’s one I made at Christmas at this link. You can also squeeze the sides in a bit and the top together as I did on that Santa’s Workshop box. Try your hand at this All My Love Party Favor Treat Box For Valentine’s Day.

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Earn Free Butterfly Paper During Sale-A-Bration!

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You can earn this beautiful butterfly paper FREE during Sale-A-Bration at Stampin’ Up!, the biggest promotion of the year. And butterflies seem to be a theme this year! In fact, I had to remember that this designer paper was in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure and not the Occasions Catalog where you will find the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set in the Gingham Gala Suite of products.

Look at how simple this card is to make! The card base is Daffodil Delight Cardstock with a layer of Basic Black. If you like or want to learn a tip, cut out or punch out the inside of the black cardstock, leaving a wide enough margin for the layer of designer paper but saving a large rectangle of paper from the center of the black. No one will ever know unless they take apart the card! I certainly do not do this all the time but sometimes with a specialty paper like foil or shimmer paper, I will do it. Or if you need a punched or die cut piece the same color as the layer, you can punch that piece and use the rest of the paper as the underneath layer.

My first idea in designing this card was to cut out or punch out some of the printed butterflies on the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper on page 9 of the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. As it turned out, this particular page had butterflies that fit the Butterfly Duet Punch on page 35 of the Occasions Catalog, part of the Butterfly Gala Bundle with the punch and the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set. Of course, you need to cut out around the butterfly on the paper in order to reach it with the punch, but you don’t have to trim around the details of the butterfly, just punch it. I like to adhere a post-it note to a corner of a small piece of paper I am punching so that I can still maneuver it into place inside the punch. If the paper you are punching is small, you have no edge of it to hold onto while you punch, so you need to adhere a scrap of paper or a post-it note to hold on to.

I chose the designer paper with these small butterflies as the background for my punched out butterfly. The sentiment is stamped from the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set. I really love that font! I played around with several options to put underneath the butterfly and finally decided on this Whisper White circle I found in my stash already die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. Then I just popped up the butterfly with the Stampin’ Dimensionals.

In summary, this is a very easy card. It has a card base, an extra layer under the designer paper just for a little extra definition. You could even skip this piece. Then there is the punched out butterfly layered on a die-cut circle (could be punched out) with a stamped sentiment. Just for fun, I brushed Clear Wink of Stella over the butterfly to give it some shimmer.

After I made this card, I had the same feeling I had after I made this Gingham Gala Monochromatic Card. Although I loved the Holiday Catalog and making Christmas cards and projects, now making cards with the new Occasions products just feels like a breath of fresh air! I guess it is always that way with a new catalog!

Remember, whether you are buying products from the new Occasions Catalog, the Annual Catalog or even the Clearance Rack, it all counts toward Sale-A-Bration! So for every $50 you spend, you can choose a FREE product from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. If you spend $100, you can either choose TWO free products from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure or one of the special $100 rewards. If you spend $150, you make your SAB choices PLUS earn Stampin’ Rewards which is 10% of your total in additional free merchandise. Just check page 52 in the Occasions Catalog for the information. With a large order (or combined with friends) of $250, you also get an EXTRA $25 in free merchandise you can choose.

We can make very fancy cards or sometimes just a simple card like this Botanical Butterfly card will be perfect. Right now you can earn this FREE butterfly paper during Sale-A-Bration.

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Don’t Miss Out! Join Paper Pumpkin to Get This Fun Kit!

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Are you often so busy that you don’t have time for making cards to keep on hand or making cute treats for a holiday or party favor? Paper Pumpkin can help you with that problem with the easy-to-make, all-ready-to-go papercrafting kits. Not to mention it’s a treat for YOU to open your mailbox and find your Paper Pumpkin Kit has been delivered! Something for you or maybe something for you to make with your child or grandchild or friend.

Every kit comes with an exclusive stamp set you can use forever, as well as an ink spot for stamping. These ink spots are great to use with the Stamparatus and certain stamping techniques so save them! A clear block comes with your first kit as well. And of course, all the materials you need for the project! There is always a video for you to watch to go along with the directions included in the kit.

This January Kit is called “Be Mine, Valentine” and makes 24 Valentine treat packages! I haven’t seen the kit, of course, but if you don’t need treats, I bet you will think of other ideas to do with the materials. And if you don’t think of them, soon after kits arrive in subscribers’ homes, alternate ideas for using the kit will appear on the internet to give you more ideas! Sometimes I make half my kit as designed and half using alternate ideas!

This particular kit coordinates with the Animal Expedition Suite in the Annual Stampin’ Up! Catalog on pages 26-27. This doesn’t mean you have to own the suite to use the kit……it just gives you more opportunities for creativity with Stampin’ Up! products.

To get this kit mid-January, you MUST subscribe by Thursday, January 10th. You have today and tomorrow! Don’t miss out! Join Paper Pumpkin today to get the fun Be Mine, Valentine Kit that coordinates with the cute Animal Expedition Suite in the annual catalog!

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Love What You Do Frog Card

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Do you “love what you do” like this guy on this frog card? When I went to stamp this frog on the unicycle, he looked happy and like he is loving what he is doing! Just like you would love what you do if you became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and became part of the Stampin’ Up! family! Join now during Sale-A-Bration for some special deals!

If you would like to own this fun froggy stamp set, just spend $50 on Stampin’ Up! products (believe me, it’s easy!) and choose this So Hoppy Together Stamp Set from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! Spend another $50 and choose another free SAB product!

To make this card I used a card base of Garden Green Cardstock layered with a piece of Granny Apple Green Cardstock. The frog is stamped on Whisper White Cardstock with Memento Ink so I could color in with my Stampin’ Blends markers. Just use a couple different greens to color the frog. The butterfly stamp also comes in the set. The greeting, however, is from the Love What You Do Stamp Set. For a little bling, I added some sequins in the Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins. I’ve been adding sequins a lot lately, but when they already have adhesive on them, they are so easy to use I can hardly help myself!

This is a project I made the other day with another of the frogs in the So Hoppy Together Stamp Set. You can use the frogs to make treats and lots of things!

I also thought this card was appropriate for the New Year! Think about the greeting “love what you do” and make sure you are loving what you are doing….at least some of the time! This Hoppy Frog looks like he is happy and living a fun life, so should we! And if you ever wanted to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, now is the time, during Sale-A-Bration!

Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration!