Triple Heart Easel Valentine Card

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One of the cards I worked on this week is this Triple Hearts Easel Valentine Card. It’s not that hard to make but looks quite fancy and elegant! It’s best to work with the Hearts Collection Framelits Dies to cut out the hearts. For the base of the card,cut out three sizes of hearts. The card stock should be folded in half and then the fold placed just inside the top of the framelit so the fold will remain when the rest of the heart is cut out by the die. The bottom of the folded heart will be the base and the top heart will be folded about in half. It remains open and the folded down part will hold another single heart. Adhere the three base hearts together spacing them the correct distance apart to fit in an envelope or just to be able to stand up the way you want them.

Once you have the base assembled, cut out the same size hearts ago, but just singles. Decorate the hearts how you like and adhere to the base hearts. The whole thing can be folded down flat for mailing.

Hope you had a nice Valentine’s Day making, sending, and/or receiving valentines!

If you need some Hearts Framelits for your projects, please visit my Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

A Husband Valentine

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Here’s the valentine I just made for my husband! I guess you can say I work best under pressure! At the last minute! I got the idea to use the little wooden people that came in a Paper Pumpkin Kit. What a cute little 3D embellishment especially for a man’s card! The ampersand and sideways banner is from Perfect Pennants. The Real Red heart is die-cut with one of the Hearts Framelits. That background paper is from the Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stack. The “love” die-cut is from the Expressions Thinlits that were in the Holiday Catalog and sadly NOT carried over! What WERE they thinking??! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that they reappear in the next Annual Catalog!

I hope you are having a great Valentine’s Day! The bouquet of flowers has arrived, right? And your husband will be bringing home the box of chocolates and diamond necklace later, right? Well, if not, then you get a free evening of stamping! Treat yourself!! One year I bought myself that purple bottle of Elizabeth Taylor perfume, whatever it was called, and had it gift-wrapped at the cosmetic counter…for myself for Valentine’s Day! Why not?!

Hope this card will inspire you if you need an idea for a husband Valentine!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Grab Some Ideas for Valentines!

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Here are some Valentine ideas from the past! Perhaps if you don’t have the newest Stampin’ Up! products, you will find something here that you already have and can use today if you are a last-minute Valentine stamper and creator!

Last Minute Valentine’s Day Candy Treat Ideas

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You Are Loved Valentine for Valentine’s Day

Robot Valentines for Kids

A Love Card

Valentine Fancy Favor Box

And for more Valentine ideas just click HERE.

Have a Happy Valentine’s Day!

Make a Valentine Treat Box with Hearts

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If you need to make a little Valentine gift box or Valentine treat box, here is an easy one to do You can vary the size if you want according to the size of paper you have. You just have to do a little math! If you want this box a little wider you would need to start with 12×12 paper. You could use designer paper if you don’t mind it a little less sturdy.

I cut my Real Red card stock 11 x 4 3/4. It is scored at 2 5/8″, 5 1/4″, 7 7/8″, and 10 1/2″. Turn the paper then and score at 1 3/4″. On the short side, cut the flaps up to the score line and trim off the 1/2″ tab on the end. See photo below.

Fold on all the score lines and use your Bone Folder to get good creases. Figure out how you will fold the bottom flaps and where you will put the adhesive. You can use Sticky Strip or the Tombow Multi-Purpose Adhesive. I put my Sticky Strip on the first bottom flap (side opposite the narrow tab) and the third one.

And to decorate the box, I used layers of the Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stack, 2 7/8″ x 2 1/2″. Can you see what I did wrong with mine?! I glued them on upside down! Sheesh! But I bet if I gave this box to someone, they wouldn’t even notice! So I just left it as is rather than risk tearing the paper to get it off! To decorate the front I just used various punched and die cut hearts and a banner I had already stamped but didn’t use the other day, with the greeting from Loving Thoughts. The ribbon handle is the 7/16″ Natural Trim Ribbon in the Annual Catalog.

Like this Valentine Treat Box? If you need any of these supplies for future projects (remember hearts aren’t just for Valentine’s Day!) feel free to visit my Stampin’ Up! Online Store for all the current Stampin’ Up! products. And when you spend $50 or more, you get to choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration product until March 31.

Make a Valentine Treat Bag with Scraps

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You might be getting ready to make Valentine Treat Bags of some sort for Valentine’s Day perhaps for your child’s classroom or their teachers or your friends, neighbors, co-workers or maybe your family! Maybe this tag will inspire you. Put the treat in a Cello Bag and make a tag from your scraps! You know you’ve got ’em! I punched the tag with the new Scalloped Tag Topper Punch and then used scraps to decorate it. Now the tag is pretty narrow, only 2″ wide, as is, but for my small bag I wanted it even smaller. You can trim your strip of paper narrower than 2″ and just be sure to center it when you put it in the punch so it will be even on both sides. But since I had already punched it at 2″, I just trimmed off both sides, trying to make the top scalloped edge look symmetrical. And it doesn’t have to be perfect! Then I rounded off the bottom edges of the tag to match the scallops at the top. It really gives the tag a nicer look. The layer on top of the Real Red tag is from the Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stack. The “XOXO” is from the Oh, Goodie! Stamp Set, a carryover from the Holiday 2013 Catalog. That means you can still order it! And then I grabbed some die-cut hearts from the Hearts Collection Framelits Dies and the Hearts A Flutter Framelits and even the Small Heart Punch. Use whatever you have! Or even just cut some hearts by hand! They can be whimsical odd-shaped hearts! Tie on your tag with a piece of 1/8″ Silver Ribbon.

Here’s a tip for cutting a narrow banner. If the strip is narrow enough, stick the end in the new Banner Punch, free with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration! You only want it to cut the one end, that”s why you don’t slide the strip in the regular way. This will punch just the end and that will make you little “flags” at the ends.

Have fun making your Valentine Treat Bags and don’t forget to check your pile of scraps!

Stampin’ Up! Paper Pumpkin Free Markers Offer Extended!

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HOT OFF THE PRESS TODAY!

Just today Stampin’ Up! extended the special offer with Paper Pumpkin! Subscribe to Paper Pumpkin during Sale-A-Bration until March 31 and receive a free set of In Color Stampin’ Write Markers! The markers will be sent with the subscriber’s Welcome Kit (pictured in the flyer above). No coupon code required.

If you’re looking for a fun surprise in your mailbox every month, if you are a new crafter, if you want to make things but don’t know where to start, if you would like a special project to make with a friend or loved one (order two!), if you want to craft but don’t want to buy a lot of craft supplies, if you have every papercrafting supply under the sun but you still like to be surprised with something new to make in your mailbox — then Paper Pumpkin might be for you!

Sign up for Paper Pumpkin today (only $19.95 a month including shipping!) and get your Welcome Kit and free markers in mid-March. You will not be charged until the kit ships. No obligation! Cancel your subscription if you need to. Better yet, just “Pause” it now and then if you must and continue on when you are ready. The 10th of the month is the magic date to make any changes in your subscription for that month’s shipment. The kits are not always cards. They can be anything. They are quick and easy and contain everything you need except adhesive. Stampin’ Up! has stepped up the kits recently so they are even a better value now!

Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deal February 11 2014

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Here are the new Weekly Deals from Stampin’ Up! for the week of February 11 2014. That Artisan Label Punch is a good one. I would snatch that up. Of course ribbon and ink is always good and might as well get any Big Shot supplies while you can on discount! Just click on the image above to go to my Online Store page. Check out the other items from Stampin’ Up! by looking at the categories in the left sidebar of the store.

Don’t forget about the ongoing Sale-A-Bration promotion going on at Stampin’ Up! Simply purchase $50 or more in current products and choose a free product from the Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration Brochure! Who doesn’t want free stamping stuff?!

New downloads released for My Digital Studio today, also! Check these out! Click on the image below! Just image a scrapbook page with the beautiful Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper! And if you’re looking for St. Patrick’s Day decorations, check out the Luck O’ the Irish Ensemble!

Check out the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deal at my Online Store! Why not get some current discounted stamping products and add them to your Sale-A-Bration order?! Just get to $50 in merchandise and earn a free product! No limits! Buy $100 in product, get two free Sale-A-Bration products. Buy $150 and get three free Sale-A-Bration products PLUS $25 Hostess Dollars to choose more items! Let me know if you have any questions! You can put in your order online HERE yourself or I can do it for you! I’m happy to help!

Cherry Cobbler Language of Love Valentine Card

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It’s just four days until Valentine’s Day! Are you making some valentines? Better get started! Here’s one I had cut the pieces for and had partly ready the other day, but when I went to make it, I forget what my idea was! But I got out the Language of Love Stamp Set and went to work. Just stamping the heart with the words onto the Very Vanilla card stock didn’t look that great on this card so I stamped it again, punched out with the Full Heart Punch. Then I mounted that heart on a die-cut scalloped heart cut with the Hearts A Flutter Framelits Die. I really liked that. I also stamped the two banners in the Language of Love Stamp Set, cut them out, and adhered them to the top of the card. For the greeting, I used the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp, placed perfectly with the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig!

I used a Cherry Cobbler theme here, although I think I prefer Real Red. The embossed strip is made with the hearts folder in the Adorning Accents Embossing Folders with a Silver Glimmer Paper edge peeking out made with the Scallop Edge Border Punch. The Silver 1/8″ Ribbon was in the Holiday Catalog but also in the new Occasions Catalog.

Don’t forget! Sale-A-Bration is going on through March 31! Spend $50 on any current Stampin’ Up! merchandise and earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration Brochure!
Today is the last day to sign up for a Paper Pumpkin subscription and receive a FREE set of 2012-14 In Color Stampin’ Write Markers. Paper Pumpkin is a monthly papercrafting kit from Stampin’ Up! that comes in your mailbox! No risk and no obligation!
Today is the last day to order the current Weekly Deals from Stampin’ Up! Just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store to check them out!

Make a Valentine for someone today!

Hurry! Sign Up for Paper Pumpkin and Get a Kit in the Mail!

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Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Welcome Kit

Don’t get so caught up in the Winter Olympics that you forget about the special offer from Stampin’ Up!, the papercrafting kit that comes in the mail, Paper Pumpkin!! Tomorrow is the last day – Monday, February 10th – for the special offer! Subscribe to Paper Pumpkin and get a FREE set of 2012-14 In Color Stampin’ Write Markers!

If you like a craft project with no muss, no fuss, easy and quick to do, and a surprise in your mailbox about mid-month, Paper Pumpkin is for you! When you first sign up, you receive the Welcome Kit pictured at the top of this page. This kit makes four cards and comes with stamps, ink, the materials you need plus a free Clear Block to mount your stamps and to use in subsequent kits. All you need to provide is adhesive. Use the ones you have already at home or I can suggest some quality ones from Stampin’ Up! After the Welcome Kit you will begin receiving the same kit all the subscribers receive.

No risk, no obligation! Sign up and cancel your subscription in a few months if you need to. Better to just “pause” your subscription (yes, you can do that!) so that you can continue on when you are ready.

The cost for Paper Pumpkin is only $19.95 per month, which includes shipping! Stampin’ Up! has even IMPROVED the kits since January! In fact, our January kit even came with an extra surprise in it! If you like to get mail like I do and if you like a surprise just for you, you’ll like Paper Pumpkin. You can even order more than one kit if you have a friend, daughter, mother, niece, son, someone special you would like to craft with or treat. Change quantities every month! Or better yet, have your friend sign up for her own subscription by tomorrow and you each get the free markers! The magic date to make ANY changes in your subscription is always the 10th of the month!

Here are photos of a couple of the projects I have received in my kits. You can follow the supplied instructions exactly or break out on your own and do your own thing! Whatever you want! It’s YOUR kit!

Paper Pumpkin Leadership Incentive

You won’t find Paper Pumpkin in the Online Store. You must go to this Paper Pumpkin Link to sign up! Once to get to that page, click on the “JOIN” button in the upper-right corner. Let me know if you have any questions or need any help signing up! Just email me at Karen@KarenStamps.com.

Make a Card for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi

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Are you excited that the 2014 Winter Olympics is about to officially begin in Sochi? I know we will be watching many hours of the competitions over the next two weeks or so. The Olympics Opening Ceremony will be tonight. I always think it is interesting to watch the Opening Ceremony where we really don’t know that many of the athletes as contrasted to the Closing Ceremony where many have become celebrities and familiar to us.

So in honor of the Winter Olympics, I have made a red, white and blue card for the USA team! For the banner, I stamped an image from the first photopolymer stamp set Stampin’ Up! introduced, Designer Type, which is sold out now, but of course you could use something else. The “Dare To Dream” sentiment is from the stamp set Loving Thoughts. The stars were punched with the Small Heart Punch. Also, the banner has a little paper piecing on it. That means I stamped the banner image on a piece of Brights Designer Series Paper Stack, cut out the pieces to fit on the stamped banner and adhered them. The banner is cut out and mounted on the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals with little Cherry Cobbler Baker’s Twine bows.

While the Winter Olympics games are going on, get out some red, white, and blue paper or maybe gold and silver and make something in honor of the Olympic athletes and games! Need any supplies? Just click the Online Order button on the right to go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store.

Do You Want a Trendy Alphabet Stamp Set?

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At the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference, Sara Douglass introduced us to a new upcoming photopolymer stamp set called Sans and Stripes. And now it is available for purchase! If you are looking for a new, trendy alphabet stamp set, maybe this one will appeal to you! Here are some of the samples Sara made and shared in her presentation (and we always love her stamping presentations on stage!):

If you would like to try out this newly released Sans and Stripes Photopolymer Stamp Set, just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store! Remember, photopolymer stamp sets are entirely transparent so you can align them perfectly. That’s certainly great with an alphabet set!

Tags 4 You Valentine Card

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Do you ever just reach into a bag of card stock scraps and see what you come up with? That’s how this Valentine came to be! I spotted a Melon Mambo card base in my bag and thought, “Wow, I haven’t used Melon Mambo in a while!” The tag is also made from Melon Mambo and punched with the new Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Cut your strip of paper exactly 2″ or a sliver narrower to fit into the punch. Make sure it is pushed all the way to the back. Then make the length anything you want! I found a scrap of Silver Glimmer Paper already scalloped so I added a piece to the bottom of the tag. The greeting is from the stamp set Tags 4 You, a carryover stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog that you can still order. The greetings in that stamp set fit the Bracket Label Punch perfectly. I thought the tag needed something so I stamped it with Melon Mambo ink and the row of hearts from the Language of Love stamp set.

The Whisper White card layer is first embossed with the Adorning Accents Embossing Folder, the little hearts! So sweet! Again, I thought the card needed a little something so I stamped the row of hearts above the embossing. The Stamp-A-Ma-Jig comes in handy for that although you can carefully eyeball it! And of course the little hearts are punched with the Small Heart Punch.

Back to the tag! I tied a bow with the Silver 1/8″ Ribbon, available in the Occasions Catalog after making its debut in the Holiday Catalog. And then for a bit more, I picked up a Tea Lace Paper Doilie on the table. It was too large, but I cut off a section and then folded it back and forth and adhered to the top of the tag. Then the tag was ready to go!

I hope you are getting inspired to make a few handmade Valentines for your friends and family! Only nine more days until Valentine’s Day!

Shop for any Valentine supplies at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

Stampin’ Up! has just brought back the Gift Bow Bigz L Die that was in the Holiday Catalog! Great idea because we can use it year-round for all kinds of gifts and projects! It has been added to the Holiday Catalog Carryover List HERE. You can purchase it in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE. Gift Bow Bigz L Die #129977 Price $32.95

Stampin’ Up! Circle Monogram Stamp! Hot Off the Press!

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The new Circle Monogram Stamp is now available, as of this afternoon, from Stampin’ Up! It’s a photopolymer stamp and can be customized with your information (font styles and images are set). It doesn’t have to be just a return address stamp – use your imagination! Use it to personalize gifts, notes, labels –whatever you can think of! We saw this stamp at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference. Here are some samples they showed:

Some of the stamps say:

“From the Desk Of ____”

“This Book Belongs To ___”

“Awesome Excellent Work!”

“Thank You (Thanks) It Was So Sweet of You”

Here’s a project Sara Douglass made on stage at Leadership with a Circle Monogram Stamp:

Go check it out in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store! These stamps come from a third-party vendor, are shipped separately from anything else in your order, and are nonrefundable.

If you use the left sidebar in my store, you’ll find it under Stamps — Personalized Stamps — on page 2.

The Circle Monogram Stamp is ready for your personalizing! What will you come up with?!

Deals for You at Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deal & Paper Pumpkin!

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Today is Tuesday and that means new Weekly Deals from Stampin’ Up! So many things going on at Stampin’ Up! these days! Add some of these discounted products to your order, reach $50 or more and earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product (for EVERY $50 you spend!)!

Paper Pumpkin

Don’t forget about Paper Pumpkin! Sign up and start getting your fun papercrafting kit in the mail every month! Not every kit is cards either! Be surprised!! If you sign up by Feb. 10th, you will receive a FREE pack of 2012-2014 In Color Markers! The 10th of every month is the magic date to sign up by or change your order so that you receive the next kit. The first kit every new subscriber receives is called the Welcome Kit.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Welcome Kit

In the Welcome Kit you receive all the materials (except adhesive) to make four cards PLUS a free clear block on which to mount your stamps to use with future kits! I have to say, when I received my Welcome Kit I thought the cards were cuter in person than I thought they were going to be. You can follow the directions from Stampin’ Up! for making your cards or you can strike out on your own! It’s up to you! No rules!

At Leadership we were treated to a sneak peek of the upcoming kits and EVERYONE agreed that Stampin’ Up! had stepped up the kits to make them even better. They are good for new crafters, non-crafters, young, old, friends, family, kids, college students, etc. Order two and make one kit with your friend every month! It’s just fun to get a package in the mail once a month in a cute red box and have a surprise about what is inside!

The cost is $19.95 per month, which includes shipping! You can be flexible in the monthly orders – order an extra kit, pause your subscription, cancel your subscription if you must. Just make any changes by the 10th of the month.

Go to my Paper Pumpkin page NOW and get signed up so you won’t forget! Then your Welcome Kit will be in the mail on its way to you around the 15th of the month. You won’t be charged until your kit ships! And you’ll get the cutest email letting you know Paper Pumpkin is on its way!

Fresh Prints Hearts Geometrical Valentine

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Do you need an easy Valentine to make? Use the Hearts Collection Framelits to cut out the pretty Fresh Prints Paper Stack papers into hearts. Glue them on a card, stamp with some arrows from the Geometrical Stamp Set and stamp a little banner with one of the greetings in the set. The banner is popped up with a couple Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Now this is the simple version of this card. You could “jazz it up” a bit more maybe with some bling: some Rhinestones or Candy Dots, maybe some extra punched small hearts scattered around. Card-making is easy when you start with Stampin’ Up! coordinating designer papers and card stock!

It’s Sale-A-Bration, so with every $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase in current products (you are NOT limited to the bundles in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! Those are suggestions!) you earn a FREE product from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.

Don’t forget the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals that end tonight!

Go visit my Stampin’ Up! Online Store for any products you need for Valentine’s Day! Take advantage of Sale-A-Bration as well!

Stamping With Karen

Having Fun With Paper, Ink, and Stamps

Triple Heart Easel Valentine Card

A Husband Valentine

Happy Valentine’s Day! Grab Some Ideas for Valentines!

Last Minute Valentine’s Day Candy Treat Ideas

You Are Loved Valentine for Valentine’s Day

Robot Valentines for Kids

A Love Card

Valentine Fancy Favor Box

Have a Happy Valentine’s Day!

Make a Valentine Treat Box with Hearts

Make a Valentine Treat Bag with Scraps

Stampin’ Up! Paper Pumpkin Free Markers Offer Extended!

HOT OFF THE PRESS TODAY!

Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deal February 11 2014

Cherry Cobbler Language of Love Valentine Card

Make a Valentine for someone today!

Hurry! Sign Up for Paper Pumpkin and Get a Kit in the Mail!

Make a Card for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi

Do You Want a Trendy Alphabet Stamp Set?

Tags 4 You Valentine Card

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

Stampin’ Up! Circle Monogram Stamp! Hot Off the Press!

Deals for You at Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deal & Paper Pumpkin!

Paper Pumpkin

Fresh Prints Hearts Geometrical Valentine