An Easy Card For Spring, Easter, or Any Occasion

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An Easy Card For Spring, Easter, or Any Occasion

I would hazard a guess that one of the most popular Sale-A-Bration items this year is the Springtime Foils Designer Series Paper, available FREE with a $50 purchase to make cards like this Easy Card For Spring, Easter, or Any Occasion.

This Springtime Foils Paper is beautiful enough just on its own, but if you like, you can color in a little or a lot with the Stampin’ Blends markers or other coloring techniques.

REMEMBER:  The Stampin’ Blends Markers will become unorderable TODAY at Noon (MT). If you want to get some that are not backordered or order all of them and be ready for your order to go out when they get restocked in late May perhaps, be sure to place them on your order before Noon Mountain Time today.  That way you can get Sale-A-Bration rewards even though you have to wait for your markers.

Here’s a card I was coloring with the Stampin’ Blends in several colors.

This card is just a Whisper White card base and a layer of the Springtime Foils Designer Paper. I colored in some, but not all, the leaves with the Old Olive Blends markers. I also tied around a piece of the Lemon Lime Twist 1/4″ Ombre Ribbon.  The butterfly is die cut with the Big Shot and the Butterflies Thinlits Dies out of Copper Foil.

I didn’t add a greeting yet to this card because I don’t know if I will use it as an Easter card or thank you or maybe something else.  Honestly, I don’t know what occasion you couldn’t use it for except maybe Christmas!

When you find a card design you like or designer papers, make a stack of cards….at least 3….and keep them on hand.  You can always add an appropriate greeting later!  I made other cards with this beautiful paper, some colored in and some left plain, different ribbons, some with two patterns of the papers on it, top and bottom. Try you hand at making an easy card for Spring, Easter, or any occasion, make multiples, and keep them in your stash for when you need a card at the ready!

Make an Easter Card With a Basket of Flower Blossoms

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Easter Card With a Basket of Flower BlossomsMake an Easter card with  a basket of flower blossoms using the beautiful stamp, Blossoming Basket. You can earn this stamp set free during Stampin’ Up!’s promotion called Sale-A-Bration! With a $100 purchase, you can earn not only this Blossoming Basket Stamp Set but also the Basket Weave Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. Check out the Blossoming Basket Bundle.

The card base is made with Crumb Cake Cardstock. Then I chose Blushing Bride for a pink background layer and embossed it with the Basket Weave Embossing Folder.  I am still saying “Wow!” every time I open up that embossing folder and take out the embossed paper! The Dynamic heavyweight folder really embosses the paper into a deep basket weave!  It’s best to spritz the paper with a little bit of water or rubbing alcohol to dampen the paper fibers to allow for the deep embossing.  It really is stunning!

I stamped the basket with Memento Ink on Whisper White Cardstock, and enjoyed coloring everything in with my Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. 

  • Unfortunately, Stampin’ Up! just announced that they will turn off the ordering for these markers on Friday, March 23 at Noon (MT). The good news is that so many people love these markers that they were selling like hotcakes, but the bad news is that was happening at the same time as factories were shutting down in China for Chinese New Year and whatever other difficulties the supplier was having to keep up with the demand. So to take some time to catch up, Stampin’ Up! is making the markers unorderable until the supply is restocked probably the end of May.  You can try getting some of the markers that you want before Friday and get the rest later on.  This way you can still take advantage of Sale-A-Bration even if you have to wait for all your markers.  But do it before the deadline tomorrow!

I die cut the Whisper White paper with the basket using the Lots of Layers Framelits Dies. The Easter greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  The bow is tied with the Powder Pink 3/8″ Shimmer Ribbon.  And for a bit of embellishment, I adhered two little Subtles Enamel Shapes to the ends of the greeting.

If you want to see one of the first cards I made with this folder and stamp set, please click HERE.

This Basket Weave Embossing Folder is going to be available in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog, if you happen to  miss out during Sale-A-Bration. I’m not sure about the Blossoming Basket Stamp Set, but it will not be bundled with the Folder even if it is.

Of course this Easter Card With a Basket of Flower Blossoms is not just for Easter, just change the greeting or don’t even put on a greeting and you have a beautiful card for any occasion!

Paper Pumpkin Flowers For the First Day of Spring!

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Here are some Paper Pumpkin flowers for the first day of spring today! It might not feel like spring where you live if you are having snowstorms, and it is a bit chilly here even in Houston, but today is the Spring Equinox! So we should generally have equal hours of light and darkness. It will be a beautiful day here in Houston as soon as it warms up a bit! The azaleas are in full bloom as our the Texas Bluebonnets, at least in our backyard garden!

The Paper Pumpkin March Kit sold out even before the deadline to sign up, so there are no extras to purchase.  BUT if you missed out on this beautiful spring kit, I have a couple of deals for you!

Paper Pumpkin 50 off March 2018

If you are a new Paper Pumpkin subscriber and sign up by April 10th or May 10th, you can save 50% off the first two months of kits! That is a tremendous bargain for all you get in each kit!  You get a clear block with your first kit when you are new so you can mount the stamps.  Each kit includes an exclusive stamp set, an ink spot (a very small ink pad!), instructions (of course!), link to a video, and all the supplies you need to assemble the project!  You can follow the directions exactly or change up the design if you like! And no risk, no obligation!

Join Paper Pumpkin

If you are already a monthly subscriber, put a 3-, 6- or 12-month Prepaid subscription on your Stampin’ Up! order. You will get an email with directions for activating your account.  Even if you have a monthly subscription, Stampin’ Up! will recognize that, suspend the monthly account until after you use up your prepaid subscription and then it automatically goes back to the monthly account. Don’t worry, it’s easy!

The advantage of the Prepaid Subscription right now, during March, is that with a 3-month prepaid subscription or higher, you will earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration gift!  Add some other items to your Stampin’ Up! order so you won’t pay shipping just on your free gift!

Paper Pumpkin Prepaid Subscription Sale-A-Bration

Enjoy your first day of spring today!  Think about treating yourself to Paper Pumpkin, especially if you are new and want to take advantage of the 50% off offer! And enjoy watching the Paper Pumpkin video with spring flower cards!

 

Quick and Easy Thinking of You Heartfelt Blooms Card

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Quick and Easy Thinking of You Heartfelt Blooms Card

Here’s a quick and easy Thinking of You card with Heartfelt Blooms. This Heartfelt Blooms Stamp Set is one of the free choices during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. I chose this stamp set with my first Sale-A-Bration order, yet it got lost in the shuffle I guess, and I only used it for the first time on this card!

Stampin’ Up! describes the stamp as a new Distinctive stamp that lays down the ink at different opacities giving the image more depth.  I chose to use my new Stamparatus when stamping with this stamp in case I didn’t get the stamp inked up enough. That’s one of the advantages of the Stamparatus……if your image doesn’t come out fully, you can re-stamp because nothing has moved (as long as you are using the magnets!).

Three nice greetings also come with the Heartfelt Blooms Stamp Set.  It’s very easy to make a quick and easy card with this stamp set with the nice image and the greetings all right there!  And you can still fancy it up more if you like!

The card base is one of the about-to-retire In Colors 2016-18, Flirty Flamingo. I decided to cut the stamped Whisper White top layer a little smaller and add a layer of Peekaboo Peach and then tied a piece of Peekaboo Peach 5/8″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon. The stamping is done with Flirty Flamingo Ink.

Keep in mind that all of these In Colors 2016-18 are going to retire before the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog comes out in June.  As soon as the Retirement List hits the streets, some products are going to go like hotcakes!  Often it is the In Colors, especially the ink refills.  But don’t just think about the ink pads and refills…..the ribbons, the cardstock, the designer papers with those colors, everything with these In Colors is going to retire. Demonstrators are beginning to put the word out to their customers to get what you want EARLY so you aren’t disappointed IF they sell out.  Now is the perfect time because you can stock up and also take advantage of Sale-A-Bration!

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Thinking of You and all-occasion cards are so handy to have on hand.  With this stamp set, you can make all sorts of cards.  It is an interesting stamp in the way it is made and stamps!  And the best part is you can get it FREE during Sale-A-Bration!  Try this Quick and Easy Thinking of You Heartfelt Blooms Card and add it to your stash!

Lots of St. Patrick’s Day Ideas For Cards and Treats!

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St. Patrick's Day Pot of Gold Rainbow Card

St. Patrick’s Day Punch Art Leprechaun Card

I’m digging into the archives for Lots of St. Patrick Day Ideas For Cards and Treats for you, if you are making some last minute cards or treats of some kind…..or just enjoy looking at the ideas to celebrate!

St. Patrick's Day Bloomin' Love Heart Card

Make a St. Patrick’s Day Card

St. Patrick's Day Gift Bag and Tag

St. Patrick’s Day Gift Bag and Tag

A Fun St. Patrick's Day Card Idea

A Fun St. Patrick’s Day Card Idea

Leprechaun Hat

Make a Leprechaun Hat For St. Patrick’s Day

I hope you have fun with some of these older ideas and can change them up according to whatever supplies you have!St. Patrick's Day. Have a lucky day

Have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  Especially if you are Irish!

St. Patrick’s Day Card and Leprechaun Treat Tubes

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St. Patrick's Day Card and Leprechaun Treat Tubes

If you need some last minute St. Patrick’s Day things for today or tomorrow, I hope you will get some inspiration from this St. Patrick’s Day Card and Leprechaun Treat Tubes.  I told you hearts weren’t just for Valentine’s Day!  Just make a little treat or card for a loved one, a friend, or a neighbor for a St. Patrick’s Day wish!

The card is made with Emerald Envy, one of the retiring In Colors. I am not fond of this color at all!  I guess I’m not a “green” person unless it’s a really pretty green!  I used the Heart Happiness Stamp Set to stamp the hearts randomly around the card front. In order to make sure I got each stamp stamped the way I wanted it, I used my new Stamparatus!  The St. Patrick’s Day greeting is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set, which has a greeting for almost anything, and it is punched out with the Classic Label Punch.  I wanted to add some gold to the card so I just tied a little bow with the Gold 1/8″ Ribbon and attached it to the big heart with Mini Glue Dots.

For the candy treats, I used some Treat Tubes I had leftover from the ones in the Holiday Catalog.  I don’t believe you can get those any more, but if you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can order the Something Good to Eat Kit or Refill under Past Kits.  They are filled with green candies, and then the cork top is wrapped with Pick a Pattern Washi Tape to keep it from coming off and spilling the candy!  Wouldn’t want that to happen!

Thanks to some other creative stampers, someone discovered that you could color the Santa in the Cookie Cutter Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set to look like a leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day!  I cut off the curved part of the hat and added a separate square piece of paper, colored green, to make the top of his hat.  The leprechaun is colored with Stampin’ Blends Markers.  I love coloring with these markers!  Then he is punched out with the Cookie Cutter Builder Punch.

I layered the leprechaun on a piece of Gold Foil die cut with the Lots of Labels Framelits Dies. The leprechaun is adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop him up a bit and then the whole piece is adhered to the tube with Mini Glue Dots.  If you don’t own the Treat Tubes, just use a little cello bag or make a little box and then adhere the leprechaun to the front of that,  There are lots of ways to make little candy treats to give someone!

If you are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday, March 17th, or if you just want to have a little fun with your family, make something like this St. Patrick’s Day Card and Leprechaun Treat Tube.

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Sale-A-Bration Ends March 31!

 

More Free Sale-A-Bration Gift Choices!

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More Free Sale-A-Bration Items

Sale-A-Bration Catalog Items

There are only two more weeks left of Sale-A-Bration, and today Stampin’ Up! is adding even more FREE gift choices with each $50 or $100 purchase!  If you haven’t heard, Sale-A-Bration is the biggest promotion Stampin’ Up! has annually!  With each $50 or $100 purchase (no limit!), you can choose a free gift from the special Sale-A-Bration brochures….and now today, from these specific catalog items!

SALE-A-BRATION BROCHURE

SALE-A-BRATION BROCHURE 2ND RELEASE

SALE-A-BRATION CURRENT CATALOGS SELECTIONS

You MUST use the product numbers in the flyer above, NOT the normal catalog numbers if you choose any of these items for your free Sale-A-Bration gift(s).

 

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SEE THE SALE-A-BRATION CHOICES HERE!

 

How to Make a St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Card

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St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Card

It’s very easy to learn how to make a St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Card!  Just use hearts! Whether you have a heart punch, heart dies, or simply cut them by hand, put three or four hearts together and you have a lucky shamrock for St. Patrick’s Day!

My card today has a base of Old Olive Cardstock and a layer of a pattern from the Color Theory Designer Series Paper Stack. It provides a greenish background for St. Pat’s but is still neutral enough to add other designs on top.

To make shamrocks, just use hearts!  Or even stamp three hearts together in the shamrock shape and draw on a stem. For my larger shamrocks, I used the Sweet & Sassy Framelits Dies to die cut three hearts each, and then I just cut a stem with my Paper Snips.

For the little shamrocks, I used the strip of hearts die in the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies. That die is great because you can cut seven hearts in one pass! I didn’t do a very good job on my stems, maybe I should have just drawn them in!

I thought the Gold 1/8″ Ribbon around the bottom for an accent. This has been one of my favorite and most useful ribbons of all time! I always have some on hand. Beginning tomorrow, Stampin’ Up! is adding some catalog items that can be chosen for a Sale-A-Bration reward, and this gold ribbon is one of the choices with a $50 purchase!

I still wanted a little more gold on my card, so I added the Painted Love Gold Vinyl Stickers little hearts. These are high quality, beautiful stickers.  Might be worth keeping some in your stash for those times when you need a little something on a card or project.

Beginning tomorrow, March 15, Stampin’ Up! will have even more choices for the end of Sale-A-Bration (yes, the end is near….March 31st!). There are certain catalog products that you can choose with every $50 or $100 purchase as your free reward item.  You must use the number provided on this flyer below, not the catalog number, so be sure you are not charged for the item and then you know you did it right! The page isn’t set up yet, so I don’t know how it will look on the ordering system.

MORE CHOICES FOR SALE-A-BRATION! STARTS MARCH 15.

All-Occasion Lavender Springtime Card

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All-Occasion Lavender Springtime Card

Here I have made an All-Occasion Lavender Springtime Card.  I will probably make it into an Easter card, but before I put any greeting on it, I liked it so much as is that I just left it plain.  Now I can add any greeting I like or need to this card!  You might consider making a stack of cards like this that are ready to go for almost any occasion, and then if you need a birthday card, sympathy, congratulations you can simply add a greeting for the occasion!

This lavender bouquet is stamped with the Lots of Lavender Photopolymer Stamp Set that you can get FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase from Stampin’ Up! It’s actually a 2-step stamping process, if you want to do it entirely with stamps. You can stamp over the image to color in the flowers and even to color in the leaves. With the stamps being photopolymer you can see through them for placement.  And it doesn’t have to be perfect! Many artistic images are not colored in “completely”.

This simple card was actually made over time! Awhile back, I made THIS CARD and at the same time I was stamping, I stamped this lavender bouquet you see on my card above, but I got a smudge or something on the paper.  So I put that aside and made the Easy Easter Card With Lavender. I thought maybe I could just cut out the lavender bouquet on the smudged paper to eliminate the smudge.  Then at some point I wanted to color in the stripes on this Springtime Foils paper to see what it would look like. After that I thought maybe that lavender bouquet would look pretty on the Springtime Foils paper! Finally, the whole card came together with the cut-out lavender bouquet and an oval die-cut layer underneath of Whisper White, layered on a Silver Foil scalloped oval die cut. For these oval die-cuts I used the Layered Ovals Framelits Dies.  You could add more embellishment to this card, but I liked it simple the way it is.

I used Wisteria Wonder Cardstock for the card base even though I used the Pool Party Stampin’ Blends Marker to color the Springtime Foils paper.  I think it has a greenish look to it which goes with the leaves on the bouquet.

The photo doesn’t do this card justice because of the glare from the foils. It’s very simple and pretty in person! I think I should make more to have on hand, as I suggested to you!

There are only about two more weeks left of Sale-A-Bration so don’t let it slip by!  Sale-A-Bration ends March 31. Lots of great choices this year!

Today your assignment is go make several cards like this All-Occasion Lavender Springtime Card and leave it plain so you can add any greeting you like when you need a card next time, or add some greetings and send out the cards right away!

Easter Bunny Tiny Treat Box For Candy

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Easter Bunny Tiny Treat Box For Candy

Here’s a fun Easter Bunny Tiny Treat Box for candy or even a small Easter gift! It’s so handy to keep some of the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes on hand for making cute little treat boxes or party favors like this one for any occasion.

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes come flat so storage is not a problem.  They are small, just 2″ x 2″ x 2″ and even food safe.  But that size is big enough to make a cute project out of them.  Just assemble when you are ready and fill with your special treat or gift!

For Easter, I made this cute punch art bunny!  Just use one of the heart die cuts in the Sweet & Sassy Framelits Dies for the bunny face, or you can use a heart punch if you have one the right size.  For the ears, I used a small oval from the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and then layered on a scalloped oval die cut from the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies.  I just drew on the face myself.  Use oval punches for the ears if you prefer.

After you put the treat in the box, just tie with a ribbon! I used the Powder Pink 1/2″ Finely Woven Ribbon, which is a beautiful light pink color and has such a nice feel to it. In fact, I think I have used up my roll so it’s time to order more!

Speaking of ribbon, if you need or want any of the 2016-2018 In Colors that will be retiring in May (at least if Stampin’ Up! follows their usual routine!), whether you need ink refills, cardstock, any ribbon with those colors or designer paper (well, usually most designer papers retire!), I would suggest ordering what you need in those In Colors right now before everyone else is thinking about it.  As soon as that retirement list comes out, people rush to order, especially the ink refills, and later on you will end up paying a higher price on an auction site! I know it is early to think about retiring products and the list won’t come out until May, but that’s only a month and a half away!  Beat the rush so you won’t be disappointed.

But right now, we have Easter coming up, so if you want some easy cute treats for your family, your guests, teachers, co-workers, try this Easter Bunny Tiny Treat Box and impress everyone!

New Paper Pumpkin Monthly Kit 50% Off Offer

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Paper Pumpkin Logo 2017

Stampin’ Up! has a brand new offer out today for their monthly papercrafting kit called Paper Pumpkin! It’s fun to wait eagerly for that box to appear in your mail around the middle of the month and spend some crafting time without having to design something yourself or get out your supplies!

Inside the cute red box you will find:

  • an exclusive stamp set
  • an acrylic block for new subscribers on which to mount the stamps
  • a 1″ ink spot for stamping
  • all the supplies plus directions to make whatever the project is, even adhesives are usually included!
  • a link to a video to watch for assembling the project

If you are a new subscriber and join Paper Pumpkin today through May 10, you will get 50% off one kit per month  for the first two months of your new subscription! 

USE PROMO CODE:  SAVEFIFTY0418

This discount is not available for Prepaid subscriptions.

Once you are a subscriber, you are able to go to the Paper Pumpkin page in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and purchase any past kits or refills  (no stamp set, no ink spot, only materials in the refills) that are available, while supplies last.  Not every kit will have extras in the Online Store. But you might find something you missed in the past kits!

Here are some Stampin’ Up! videos of past kits to give you an idea if you are not familiar with Paper Pumpkin!

As you can see, each month is a surprise and a little bit different! I would say the majority of the kits are cards, but sometimes there is something different like a mini album, a framed piece, or a type of treat holder like the Christmas stockings above! Part of the fun is the surprise each month!

No risk, no obligation! You can cancel Paper Pumpkin at any time or simply skip a month now and then if you are having a busy month. Order an extra kit ahead of time whenever you want if you want a gift for someone or want to make a kit with a friend!  It’s always more fun to stamp with someone else! Great gift for college students, grandkids, grandmothers, sisters, nieces and nephews, anyone!  Treat yourself!  You deserve it!  Especially at 50% off right now!

Join Paper Pumpkin today at 50% off the first two months of your new subscription and get started with the fun!

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Animal Critters Celebrate With We Must Celebrate Stamp Set

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Animal Critters Celebrate With We Just Celebrate Stamp Set

These Animal Critters Celebrate With the We Must Celebrate Stamp Set in the Occasions Catalog!  Aren’t they so cute?!  Actually I passed this stamp set up at first until I saw so many cute samples with these cute animals!  Then I had to have it!

The animals all come attached on one stamp, but, if you want, and if you are very careful, you can cut the animals apart. Actually if you are very careful, you can line the stamps back up on one block and stamp them all together, which is what I did on this card!  Then you can have it both ways, but it is very hard to alter your stamp like this! And the bunny is perfect to use right now for Easter and spring.

We Just Celebrate Animals Cut Apart

I happened to have a scrap already-folded square card so I stamped it and colored everything in with Stampin’ Blends markers. Of course the color shows through on the other side of the paper, so it was showing on the inside of the card.  I decided to just cut that front of the card off and layer it on a card base of Marina Mist Cardstock.

Next, for a greeting, I used my new Celebrate You Thinlit Dies.  You can earn it free during Sale-A-Bration with a $100 purchase.  I die cut the word “Celebrate” from Crumb Cake cardstock.  I like the word and the color on the card to complement the animals and critters. Very simple card, really, but cute!

Whatever you are are celebrating, I think you can use the We Must Celebrate Stamp Set to celebrate with these animals and critters!

Easter Basket and Bunny Easter Card

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Easter Basket and Bunny Easter Card

There’s a lot to talk about on this Easter Basket and Bunny Easter Card. Such a fun time to make cards, for Easter and for spring.  You can use bunnies, baskets, and flowers! Easter is coming soon, April 1st!

The bunny is from the We Just Celebrate Stamp Set.  Yes, the animals in that stamp set are all attached, but I……cut them apart!!!!  It was a nerve-wracking decision, but I did it and I think I managed to do it perfectly. Some parts of the stamps are pretty close together so you have to be very, very careful.  I wanted to be able to use the animals separately, not always all in a line. The stamp is very cute either way, but I did cut them apart!  Yikes!  So the Easter bunny is stamped separately and then cut out with my Paper Snips.  Actually, I cut the animals apart with my Paper Snips. I figured they were narrow enough to cut in between the animals.

The basket is made with the Basket Weave Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.  This folder is available FREE during Sale-A-Bration in a Bundle along with the Blossoming Basket Stamp.  This embossing folder is fantastic in the bold way it embosses that basket weave look.  It’s best to spritz the cardstock with water to moisten the fibers and make them easier to be pressed into the embossing folder.

I figured this embossing folder would be great for making Easter baskets or just any baskets on cards and projects, and I assumed I would need to cut out a basket shape by hand.  But then I saw a tip from another Demonstrator about using the Coffee Cups Framelits Dies to cut out a basket shape!  I used the one that looks like the bottom of a cupcake or muffin.  For the handle, I used two oval dies to cut out the handle shape and trimmed it down a tiny sliver at the bottom to make it fit the basket.

For another tip, I cut the Easter eggs out of the Sweet Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper, using some scraps I had.  I wondered if there was any chance there was a very small oval die in all of my Big Shot dies……and there was!  In the Coffee Cups Framelits Dies!  It is in there to fit one of the stamps in the Coffee Cafe Stamp Set.  I cut a bunch of Easter eggs since I had the scraps and I’ll use them on other cards as well.

The greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. I wasn’t sure where I wanted to put it on the card so it ended up being like a tag on the basket! The designer paper layer is also Sweet Soiree.  The card colors I used were Soft Sky and Old Olive.

Get out some paper, ink and stamps and make some Easter cards and be sure to mail them! Easter is right around the corner.  I hope this Easter Basket and Bunny Easter Card gets you in the mood!

Petal Palette Stampin’ Blends Stamped Birthday Card

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Petal Palette Stampin' Blends Stamped Birthday Card

In the midst of stamping Easter cards yesterday, I came up with this birthday card stamped with the Petal Palette Stamp Set and colored in with the Stampin’ Blends markers. At first glance, you might not be all that impressed with the Petal Palette Stamp Set (I wasn’t!), but as usual, once I started seeing samples made with this set I was convinced I had to have it!  Besides the images, which are so pretty, there are some very nice words to use in the set.

The card base is Cherry Cobbler Cardstock with a layer of Basic Black.  The flowers are stamped on Whisper White in Memento Black ink and colored in with the Stampin’ Blends markers.  Some of the markers are backordered right now, but I suggest ordering the single markers, even if you want the whole collection, because then you will receive all of the markers that are available now and Stampin’ Up! will ship the backordered ones when they are resupplied. Even if they are backordered, I would suggest putting them in your Shopping Bag now so you will be first in line to get them when they come in stock.

I chose a greeting from Picture Perfect Birthday and die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies.  Then that is layered on a scalloped oval die cut from Layering Ovals from Gold Foil. For some extra pizzazz I wound up some Gold Metallic Thread adhered to the back of the greeting.  This thread is only $3.00 so a great thing to have on hand or add to your order when you need a little bit more!

On the inside I put a piece of Whisper White cardstock since the Cherry Cobbler is so dark, and stamped one other flower from Petal Palette.

There you have it!  An easy birthday card made with stamping Petal Palette flowers and coloring in with Stampin’ Blends markers!

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Easy Elegant Mini Treat Bag with Springtime Foils Paper

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Elegant Mini Treat Bag with Springtime Foils Paper

I’ve said many times before how much I love the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies, so today I made this easy elegant Mini Treat Bag with the beautiful Springtime Foils Paper. You can earn this gorgeous paper FREE with a Sale-A-Bration order of $50 or more. Now’s the time to get it before Sale-A-Bration ends March 31.

The Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies have always been one of my favorites! I think the bags turn out so cute and are easy to make, plus you can vary the look of the bag by folding the top over or cutting it down, adding a belly band or tying with a ribbon…..so many options! They are perfect for just a greeting on a card inside or inserting a gift card, candy treat or small gift! Very easy and simple.  All you need is a Big Shot and these dies which come with lots of pieces to use for many different projects!

When you use the Springtime Foils Designer Series Paper, you will automatically have an elegant project, no matter what you do with it!  And the best part…..it’s FREE!  Just spend $50 on Stampin’ Up! products and choose a free Sale-A-Bration product! This paper should be one of your top choices (although they are all wonderful choices this year!).

Here is another Mini Treat Bag I made with the Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper and put some punched balloons at the top of the card inside. So many occasions you can use these dies for!

To accent the bag, I colored a flower from another pattern of the Springtime Foils Paper with my Stampin’ Blends markers and cut it out with my Paper Snips.  To color the flower I used the Pink PIrouette Blends plus the Light Rich Razzleberry marker.  Honestly the Light Pink Pirouette colors so lightly on this glossy paper that you can barely see it.  I just thought it would be fun to add some other color, the Rich Razzleberry, so see what the blended flower would look like.  The leaves are colored with the Old Olive markers.

This flower is then layered on a piece of Blushing Bride Cardstock, die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits oval die and then layered on a piece of Silver Foil die cut with one of the scalloped Layering Ovals Framelits Dies. For a tiny bit more bling, I added a piece of the Silver Mini Sequin Trim.

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You can use any kind of cardstock or designer series paper to make a mini treat bag such as this one, of course. But if you can earn this Springtime Foils Designer Series Paper during Sale-A-Bration, I think you will find it to be beautiful paper and worth your choice! Then go ahead and make some elegant cards and projects like this Easy Elegant Mini Treat Bag with Springtime Foils Paper.