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Splash of Sparkles Z-Fold Birthday Card

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Splash of Sparkles Z-Fold Birthday Card

This Splash of Sparkles Z-Fold Birthday Card is made with some of the happiest paper we have ever had! Wait until you see it in person! That’s how I felt the first time I made a card with this paper – it made me feel happy! The colors, the foil accents, the splashes of colors in all different designs – it’s just wonderful paper to have fun with! You will want to put the Splash of Sparkles Designer Series Paper on your next order!

I made a Z-Fold card because it shows off more of the beautiful paper in the Splash of Sparkles pack. A Z-Fold card is easy to make. It just requires one extra fold. Make the usual card base of 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ for the front. Then fold the front of the card in half, back toward the fold which is at 2 1/8″. Score first to make it easier to fold. This card base is made with Timid Tiger cardstock, one of the newest In Colors.

To decorate the card I cut a strip of the orange, pink, and gold striped pattern at 1 7/8″ x 5 1/4″. For the inside of the card I used the pattern with the big watercolor circles, choosing the portion that had the orangish and pinkish colored circles so it would coordinate with the paper on the front.

For the front of the card, I diecut a piece of Timid Tiger with one of the Branching Out Dies and the next smaller one in Bubble Bath pink. For the inside of the card, I diecut another piece of Bubble Bath in the same smaller size so that it would fit behind that layered panel on the front of the card.

The flower, leaves, and sentiment are stamped with the Lovely Arrangements Stamp Set. The flower is stamped in Memento ink and colored in with the Timid Tiger Combo of Stampin’ Blends. The leaves are stamped with Granny Apple Green ink on Basic White. I cut both out by hand. The greeting is stamped in Memento Ink, also on Basic White. For space reasons, I cut the words apart and carefully cut around each one.

To assemble the card, layer the Bubble Bath cardstock diecut panel on the Timid Tiger panel. When you have the card folded into the Z-shape, adhere the designer paper on the narrow front panel and the other pattern inside the card. See where the center of that panel is so that it can be lined up right on the Z-fold. Only put glue or adhesive on the one side so that the other side will not be stuck to the inside of the card! I had a scrap of the striped paper, so I adhered that as a background for the words to the front panel. The flower is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the leaves are glued flat to the card.

If you want to stamp a greeting or images on the inside panel, do so before you adhere it inside the card, just in case. I stamped Happy Birthday and a couple of the other flower in the stamp set. Line it up inside the card with the front panel, put adhesive on the back of it, and then fold the back side of the card over to adhere the greeting panel to the inside of the card so that it lines up with the front panel and will not be sticking out when the card is closed. You will understand when you do it!

Splash of Sparkles Z-Fold Birthday Card Open

Here are the two sides of the Splash of Sparkles Designer Series Papers:

Spash of Sparkles Designer Series Paper

Aren’t those such bright and fun colors? And even better in person!

Splash of Sparkles Paper Foil Accents

And one side has gold and iridescent foil for some real pizzazz! Think about birthday cards, any happy occasion, maybe even party invitations!

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Celebratory Sips Birthday Drinks Card

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Celebratory Sips Birthday Drinks

Maybe you have seen this paper and Suite Collection around on the internet from the May Online Exclusives at Stampin’ Up! I didn’t order it right away, but later on I couldn’t resist. However, this is the first time I have really gotten it out to make a card and I’m happy with the way this Celebratory Sips Birthday Drinks Card turned out! It was fun to make. As I am writing this, the Celebratory Sips Suite Collection is not available because the two embossing folders in the suite are not available. But you can order everything else, just separately.

You might think that all the papers have to do with fancy drinks, but that’s not the case! The Celebratory Sips Designer Series Paper also has flowers, citrus images, watercolor designs, plus summer-inspired drinks. As hot as the weather is across the country you might like to cool off by designing some cards or scrapbook pages with these summer drinks! I’m really happy with the variety of designs on these papers, plus some whimsical designs on “the other side” of the papers.

Here are the Celebratory Sips papers up close:

Celebratory Sips DSP Other Side

Celebratory Sips DSP Other Side

The card starts with Berry Burst cardstock for the card base. There are so many colors you can choose from that coordinate with these papers! I hardly ever use Berry Burst but I liked it with the background paper I used. As you can see, that paper is one of the generic designs on “the other side”. I fussy-cut three drinks from one of the designer paper sheets. If you get the Cheers & Sips Bundle you can stamp and diecut some drink images and maybe some from the designer paper, but I only have the paper. To make the drinks stand out a little better against the rather dark background, I die cut a Basic White circle from the Spotlight On Nature Dies. How often do I use these particular dies? A whole bunch! They are a good set to have in your collection!

Then it was just a matter of placing the drinks. I popped up the pink drink with the cherry and umbrella on the left, but the lemonade drink, shall we say, is adhered flat to the card. The green drink in the center ( I don’t think it is a Margarita!) is popped up right in between on Stampin’ Dimensionals just on the right side because the left side is flat on the pink drink.

The greeting is in the Charming Day Stamp Set. It just happened to be nearby and I thought the “Happy Birthday” font was perfect to use on this card. I stamped it with Berry Burst ink and then cut around the shape instead of taking up too much space on the card. I saw a tip about drawing around the stamp itself lightly with pencil, stamping within that line, and then you can cut out the greeting following the line. If it is too difficult to get your stamp placed right, just eyeball it. There is no right or wrong way to cut around the words. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Since I wanted it to be a fun birthday card, I aded several Shiny Sequins that I had in my stash. You can use whatever gems or sequins you have to add a little sparkle!

Remember, you will find the Celebratory Sips Suite products in the Online Exclusives category or just search for the name.

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Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Birthday Card

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Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Birthday Card

This Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Birthday Card is an easy one to make when your kitchen is torn up waiting for new flooring, your stamping supplies are scattered around different places in the house, and you can’t find your Paper Trimmer anywhere! (Oh! It’s under a pile on the fireplace! Who would have thought?!)

The card base is Garden Green cardstock with a layer of the generic design on the back of the daisy paper. This is the Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives. This is a great package of paper with pretty florals and foliage plus the pretty colors on the “other side” of the papers. This paper is part of the Floral Impressions Suite Collection if you want it all with one number on your order! Don’t forget it is FREE SHIPPING at Stampin’ Up! with a $75 order today and tomorrow!

The daisy paper is 3″ x 4″ and the only reason it is that size is because it was a piece already cut to that size and fit this card perfectly! I layered it on another piece of Garden Green cardstock 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″. The greeting is in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack in the Annual Catalog. I layered it on a strip of Garden Green. Just add a little bow out of twine, like this Garden Green color, or Linen Thread would be perfect as well. The greeting is popped up on Dimensionals.

That’s all there is to this card. Add a Basic White layer inside so you can stamp or write a personal message because of the dark cardstock. Add a few gems if you like some sparkle, too!

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Painterly Pears Unbounded Love Birthday Card

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Painterly Pears Unbounded Love Birthday Card

I needed to make a simple card because we are in the midst of getting a new kitchen floor so everything is out of place, including my stamping stuff since I do that at our kitchen table! This Painterly Pears Unbounded Love Birthday Card came together very easily even though I didn’t really have a plan. Very often just looking at a pack of designer series paper stimulates some creativity!

For this card, I simply looked at the Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper and this pattern with the Petal Pink background happened to be in the front of the package. It looked beautiful to me! And I found a Petal Pink card base, already cut, scored and folded! I can’t find where I put my Paper Trimmer but I always have my old guillotine one from years ago handy so I cut use that to trim down the designer paper for the card front.

The greeting is made with the Unbounded Love Bundle. I used two of the dies in the Unbounded Love Dies, one to diecut the Basic White larger oval scalloped shape and a smaller one for the Petal Pink thin oval. I found that the small Petal Pink diecut fit right over the pierced inside border of the scalloped diecut. Before adhering the Petal pink piece, I stamped a greeting from the Unbounded Love Stamp Set in Mossy Meadow ink. It just barely fit! I also added a little trim to the bottom of the greeting. It is the Petal Pink 5/16″ Braided Trim. I just cut two small pieces because the braided trim is thick so I didn’t want to fold over one bigger piece in half and make too large a fold under the greeting. Then I popped up the whole greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a little embellishment, I used the new Low Profile Sparkle Dots to put a little sparkle on this card. These Dots are in the beautiful Painterly Pears Suite Collection but you can purchase them separately, of course.

You’ll find the Painterly Pears Suite and individual products in the latest Online Exclusives in the Online Store! It really is a beautiful set that I’m sure you will enjoy!

Wildflower Birthday Hidden Tag Card

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Wildflower Birthday Pull Out Tag Card

Last Saturday Stampin’ Up!® held a virtual event, Creativity Now, for Demonstrators to “attend”. I made this card, Wildflower Birthday Hidden Tag Card, in the same design as one of the cards but with paper I already had. They used a specific upcoming Suite, Peaceful Garden, to do their projects. This Suite will be one in the new September-December 2025 Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini). We could preorder that Suite or any of the products in the Suite to stamp along during Creativity Now, but I decided to wait and see what would be in the Mini Catalog. I did find I was more drawn to the Suite seeing it being used in making cards and one little box, and it’s not just for Christmas cards at all, but you could use it for holiday cards.

I mostly copied the Creativity Now design of this card that they made, but I used the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper. I changed up the design a little bit from how Stampin’ Up! made their card but it is basically the same and easy to make.

The card base is Pool Party cardstock but other colors could have been used also. Stampin’ Up! just used the square of designer paper and the greeting block underneath on the card base, but I adhered them to a layer of Pretty In Pink cardstock first before adhering to the card. The Wildflower Birthday Designer Paper is cut at 3″ x 3″ and the Basic White block is 3″ x 1 1/4″. On this block, I stamped a sentiment in the Simply Said Stamp Set in Pretty In Pink ink. I measured the size of both of these blocks of paper together which was 4 1/2″ x 3″ and then cut the Pretty In Pink cardstock at 4 5/8″ x 3 1/8″ so there would be just a little margin around the edge. Before adhering to the card, I added a piece of Pretty In Pink Ribbon and bow around the seam of the DSP and the greeting.

Now I should have popped up that panel described above of the designer paper and greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals to make it easier to slide the tag in and out from underneath, but I didn’t think of it in the moment! However, I did remember not to put glue on the right side where the tag would slide in and out, so it still works. Just not as easily. For the tag, I used one on the sheet of tags included in the Wildflower Birthday Specialty DSP and trimmed it down to fit better. I stamped the “Happy Birthday” greeting in Pretty In Pink ink from the same Simply Said Stamp Set on the tag. I decided to adhere it to a piece of Basic white cardstock to make it a little sturdier and then just trimmed off the excess white cardstock around the shape of the tag. To make sure the recipient would notice this tag should be pulled out, I added one of the diecut flowers across the gold top that is included in the DSP plus added a bit of Pretty In Pink Ribbon to the end of the tag. You could also write a message on the back of the tag if you wanted to.

To the side of this front panel with the Designer paper and the greeting is a strip of the designer paper. At the Creativity Now event, they used a small embossed piece and a piece of glimmer paper on that side. I decided to just use one strip of the coordinating designer paper instead. It is cut at 3/4″ x 4 5/8″. I think the gold scallops on the paper add a nice accent to that side of the card.

Wildflower Birthday Hidden Tag Card

This is a fun card design and you can make it with whatever paper and greetings you have for many occasions while you wait for the Peaceful Garden Suite Collection to come out in the next Mini Catalog in September! Maybe you will want that Suite or part of it. I always find it just as fun to watch others stamp and make pretty things as making them myself so I enjoyed Creativity Now even though I wasn’t stamping along with the new sneak peek Suite!

Remember, we are entering the LAST DAYS of the SUITE BOGO 50% OFF SALE so make your list and put in your order if you want to take advantage! Click on that link and scroll down to list the list of the many Suites we have that you can choose from. Read my blog post from yesterday to get more information.

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Wildflower Birthday Tag Card

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Wildflower Birthday Tag Card

I wish I could express to you how easy this card was to make! I had no plans in mind except to use the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper and out came this Wildflower Birthday Tag Card. I had forgotten about the two sheets of paper in the package that are full of individual tags and images that you can cut apart and use on your cards and projects. You also get two sheets of diecuts which are so fun to use! This designer paper is so pretty for a birthday but lots of other occasions as well. It is definitely not all birthday.

This card has a base of Basic White cardstock and a layer of Peach Pie cardstock. The green dotted designer paper is “the other side” of one of the themed papers in the Wildflower Birthday package. It’s so soft and pretty.

The tag is cut out of the sheet of tags and images I mentioned that also come in this Specialty paper. There are flowers, cakes, and balloons plus others. Just cut them apart and use them on your project. I chose this floral bouquet with a Peach Pie top of the tag. That’s why I added a thin layer of Peach Pie underneath the designer paper. That’s the only thing that took me any time – deciding on just the designer paper on the card base and on which color? White or Peach Pie? I just left a narrow margin of the Peach Pie peeking out under the Soft Sea Foam designer paper pattern and I liked the white card base. However, using Peach Pie for the card base was pretty too!

The tag is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals with a Peach Pie 3/8″ Bordered Ribbon bow adhered to the top. I don’t usually like things placed on an angle, but I liked it on this card! The greeting practically fell out of the package of words in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack so I figured it was the greeting to use! I also added a few Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems in the clear color. Even though the name mentions two colors, there is actually three colors in the package!

If you don’t already own the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper I’d recommend putting it on your shopping list because you can make lots of cards or scrapbook pages with it!

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Wildflower Birthday Cupcake Birthday Card

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Wildflower Birthday Cupcake Birthday Card

Make this Wildflower Birthday Cupcake Birthday Card easily with the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog. It’s not “just” for birthdays (as you can see with the floral paper in the background) but you will have some fun options for making birthday cards or birthday scrapbook pages.

This card is made with a card base of Blueberry Bushel Cardstock. It coordinates with some of the flowers in the background paper. The pretty floral paper in the background has gold foil accents which makes almost anything look fancier!

The extra special feature of the Wildflower Birthday Designer Paper is that it comes with two sheets of diecut images. These are great to use on cards and scrapbook pages and make designing the project quick and easy, not to mention fun! For this card, I used three cupcake diecuts on these sheets on the front of the card. They are popped up on three layers of paper underneath to help them stand out. The green paper with white dots underneath the cupcakes is cut at 4″ x 1 1/2″ and is in the Wildflower Birthday DSP. The layer underneath that paper is Blueberry Bushel cardstock cut at 4 1/4″ x 1 3/4″. The layer underneath that is Gold Foil to match the gold foil accents and is cut at 4 1/2″ x 2″.

The greeting is stamped on a scrap strip of Basic White cardstock and layered on Gold Foil with the ends flagged like banners. I just cut these by hand. Just for a little extra embellishment on this card, I added some Shiny Sequins (retired) from the Flowering Zinnias Suite on the top of the cupcakes using the different colors. You can use anything sparkly that you have!

Since the card base is a dark color, add a Basic White layer inside the card on which to stamp or write a personal message. Make it extra nice with either a strip of the designer paper along the bottom and/or a diecut or two!

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With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card

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With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card

This With You In Mind Masculine Birthday Card uses some rather new products and a soon-to-be-new product! The plaid paper and the colors make it a great masculine card that we often have difficulty coming up with.

I wanted to use the Timeless Plaid 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper for a card and this is what I came up with. You’ll find it in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog. This plaid has brown and blues in it. I chose Crumb Cake cardstock for the card base and then the plaid designer paper.

The greeting is stamped in Boho Blue ink on Basic White with the With You In Mind Stamp Set. This stamp set is also in the Spring Mini. I really like this stamp set! It has rather large greetings in a fun font and are ones everyone will use, plus some small images like the stars and cupcake you see on this card. This greeting was then diecut using new dies “coming” on March 4th in the Online Exclusives! Demonstrators were able to preorder. These are the Textured Notes Dies. These are all rectangles with different diecut border designs. They will be very useful dies to use for layering or cutting frames to use. For this card I added an extra plain Boho Blue layer under the Basic White greeting, just cut with the Paper Trimmer, and then the whole greeting piece is layered on top of a Textured Note diecut piece of Crumb Cake. For this card I really liked the extra Boho Blue color layered under the white. I popped up the whole greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For some embellishments, I stamped two stars, one in Boho Blue ink and one in Crumb Cake ink, plus a cupcake. To stamp the cupcake, I inked up just the cupcake bottom with Crumb Cake ink, stamped that, then inked up just the frosting in Lost Lagoon ink, and stamped that right above the cupcake bottom. It happened to work out perfectly! You could also use Stampin’ Write markers to color both areas, breathe on the stamp, then stamp. It might turn out a little light but it would probably be fine. Then I just cut out the stars and cupcake with my Paper Snips. I felt like the card still needed a little sparkle or something so I added two gold dots in the Low Profile Dots. I really like these dots which are really “low profile” because they don’t add bumpy lumps to the envelope when mailing!

Although I labeled this card as masculine, it could be for anyone as is because the colors are so pretty together in the plaid, but you could change the plaid paper to other colors and brighten up the whole card a little bit. Be sure to check out these Textured Note Dies when they come out next week.

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Wildflower Birthday Slice of Cake Card

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Wildflower Birthday Slice of Cake Card

This Wildflower Birthday Slice of Cake Card is the first one I made with this package of paper and a couple other products. My order came the other day and I’ve been trying to organize some of my older (retired?) papers and my new ones. It’s a never-ending battle, right?! I think the products in this Wildflower Birthday Suite will make it real easy for you to make all the birthday cards and others that you can think of! So pretty, festive, and very “useable”.

The card base is Pool Party cardstock, one of the many pretty colors that go with this Suite. I chose one of the papers in the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper for the background layer of this card. It was a tough choice to start because all the papers are so festive and pretty! I chose the one with lots of pretty small decorated cakes and it also has gold foil accents.

The center focal point of the card started as one of the tags on two of the sheets that can be cut apart. It had an Old Olive top edge on the tag, and although I started to work with that, I finally realized I just didn’t like it on this card but I wanted the cake slice, so I just got off the top Old Olive edge of the tag! Then I even trimmed it to be a little shorter. I layered it on a piece of Pool Party to match the card base and then I was happy. The cake slice piece is 3 1/4″ x 2 3/8″. The Pool Party layer is 3 1/2″ x 2 5/8″. I adhered that flat on the card but I almost popped it up. Instead I popped up the greeting, which I found in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack in the Annual Catalog. The color and size were fine, although I did snip off bits on the ends to make it look like a banner shape.

To embellish the card I added some Party Dots around the cake slice. I used all three colors of dots – Pretty in Pink, Pool Party, and Peach Pie – and they all go together with the cake image. The ribbon is new and coming in the next Online Exclusives in March. It is the White 1/4″ Ribbon.

This is a pretty simple card yet the birthday-themed paper with the pretty cakes and gold foil on each one make it stunning. Also included in the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Paper are two sheets of diecuts which will be fun to use on cards, scrapbook pages, and other projects. You will find this Wildflower Birthday Suite Collection in the Spring Mini Catalog. Get it all or choose which products you want the most!

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With You In Mind Birthday Card

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With You In Mind Birthday Card

Now that the Christmas holidays are over, we are getting real close to the new year. That brings thoughts of getting organized and getting birthday cards ready like this With You In Mind Birthday Card. Especially if you have birthdays coming up in January after the busy-ness of the holidays, you need to get on the ball and get cards ready to send right away in the New Year!

This With You In Mind Stamp Set is one that is coming January 7th in the new Spring Mini Catalog (officially known as the January – April 2025 Mini Catalog). This stamp set appealed to me because it has four all-occasion greetings with one of the words in a rather large font. You get “Thinking of You”, “Happy Birthday”, “Best Wishes”, and “Thank You” plus a small flower, star, heart, cupcake, and leafy sprig.

To try to get back into create mode after being very busy with Christmas and children home, I started off making up a card beginning with copying a sample from the new mini catalog. I thought the “Happy Birthday” tag with cupcakes was pretty cute and could be made into a card. To choose colors for the card, I tried out the Color Coach. I’m not a real expert using the Color wheel but I decided to choose three colors next to each other on the wheel. I chose Pool Party, Balmy Blue, and Azure Afternoon. I really wasn’t sure how that combination was going to work, but I think it did!

The card base is Basic White and on top of that I used two of the cardstock colors I mentioned above. I used two panels of Pool Party with a panel of Balmy Blue in the middle. These are cut at 1 3/4″ x 4″. I adhered them right next to each other with no space in between. After I adhered them to the Basic White card base, I stamped stars around the background using the star in the stamp set with Versamark ink to give it that light, watermarked image.

As I said, the tag in the middle of the card is like the sample in the mini catalog. It is a piece of Basic White cardstock cut at 2 1/4″ x 4 1/2″. The greeting is stamped in Azure Afternoon ink ( one of the three colors next to each other on the Color Wheel). The three cupcakes are stamped with Daffodil Delight ink for the frosting and Pool Party ink for the cupcake holder. I inked up just the frosting top portion with the ink pad and stamped that three times for the three cupcakes. Then I went back and inked up just the bottom portion of the cupcake and stamped it underneath the frosting. This worked better than using Stampin’ Write Markers because these stamps were brand-new and not cooperating with trying to color on with a marker. The ink pads worked much better.

The end of the greeting was cut in a flagged end and a small 2 1/4″ x 1″ piece of Azure Afternoon card stock was adhered to the left side of the tag. I had also stamped it with a few Versamark stars. I tied around some Balmy Blue twine in the Baker’s Twine Three Color Pack and made the strands spread out just for a fun look. Then I took three pieces of the same twine and tied a knot in the center. The whole greeting was then popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

This is an easy card to make! The only thing that took time for me was deciding the best way to do the cupcakes and what colors to make them. I love the new stamped greeting and love seeing something big but not huge. The greetings in this With You In Mind Stamp Set will get a lot of use!

Remember, Sale-A-Bration also begins on January 7, 2025 and runs through February 28 during which time when you make a qualifying purchase, you get to choose a product from the special Sale-A-Bration brochure for FREE! This year the qualifying amount is $60 in product (before tax and shipping).The products include stamp sets, designer series paper, embellishments, an embossing folder, and more. And if you choose to join Stampin’ Up! and become a Demonstrator, with your purchase of the Starter Kit (stamping products you choose yourself plus business supplies to get your business started), you can either choose from certain free items or an additional amount to add to your Starter Kit. It’s all in the last pages in the Sale-A-Bration brochure!

It all begins a week from tomorrow!!

Meandering Meadows Happy Birthday Card

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Meandering Meadows Happy Birthday Card

This is the Meandering Meadows Happy Birthday Card which I made for my son, in kind of a hurry since it became really a “belated” birthday card! At least I mailed it on his birthday, I think! I actually did make this card for him because he loves to go hiking in the mountains where he lives. I thought this beautiful scene on this designer paper looked like a trail he might find when he goes hiking. Maybe it looks more like a trail I would like since it looks flat and there are no drop-offs on the side!

This card has a Basic White cardstock card base with a little wider than usual margin before we get to the card layers. Your layer colors will be determined by which of the papers you choose from the Meandering Meadows 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. I don’t have the card in front of me as I write this, but I believe for this pattern I chose Shaded Spruce and Lemon Lime Twist cardstock for the layers. I almost always play around with a couple different colors as I work on a card to see which ones look best together on the card.

The greeting is stamped with two different stamps in the Choose Happy Stamp Set. You can make up many different greetings with this set. It also has a lot of cute little images that might be fun to use in your cardmaking and other projects. It is diecut with one of the small banner dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I cut off the left side of the banner, lined it up with the edge of the designer paper, and adhered a bow made with a double layer of the Garden Green Natural Tones Linen Thread. You get three colors in this pack of this linen thread!

And if you want to decorate the inside, this is what I added to the inside of this card:

Meandering Meadows Happy Birthday Card Inside

That’s how easy this card is because you just have to let the Meandering Meadows Designer Series Paper show off its beauty! Add a greeting and maybe an embellishment and you have a beautiful card.

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Unbounded Beauty Split Birthday Card

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Unbounded Beauty Split Birthday Card

This is one of the quickest cards I have made lately! I had the card idea in my head from one I saw online so all I had to do was choose paper and make it! I didn’t even stop to find another card like it to see how to make it. I just had to get it done and out came this Unbounded Beauty Split Birthday Card! I don’t even know what this card design would be called, but that’s what I am calling it.

The card base is Petunia Pop, one of the new In Colors. It coordinates with the pretty Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper. The patterns you see on this card are the two colors on one sheet of paper. I guess my geometry skills were lacking because I thought I would just cut this 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of designer in half diagonally and flip one piece over to show the other side. But that didn’t work! so I cut another piece from the same designer paper at 4″ x 5 1/4″, cut it on my Paper Trimmer diagonally, but this time I cut it from the opposite top corner of the paper than I did the first time. Here is a photo of how to lay your paper on the Paper Trimmer:

Unbounded Beauty Cutting

When I swapped out one of the halves from each piece of paper, then they lined up properly! You could even have another layer on the card base and adhere the designer paper to that, but I put mine right on the card. Also, you can have the space in between the two pieces or you can push them together. I liked having that diagonal line going through the middle.

For the greeting, I diecut two circles with the Deckled Circles Dies in the Online Exclusives. One is Basic White cardstock and the larger one is Summer Splash cardstock. At first, I was going to use Petunia Pop cardstock, but I liked using the Summer Splash better for a little more color. I stamped the greeting on the Basic White circle in Summer Splash ink. The stamp is in the Unbounded Love Stamp Set. The birthday greeting seemed like just the right size for the look of this card. After stamping, I adhered the white circle layered on the Summer Splash circle.

I had even forgotten I had the ribbon in the new In Colors, so when I saw I had those, I used the Summer Splash 3/8″ Bordered Ribbon. The texture and feel of this ribbon is really nice! I applied Stampin’ Seal adhesive on the back of the Summer Splash circle and applied the ribbon back and forth behind that piece. When I popped up that greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals, those Dimensionals helped hold the ribbon in place even more.

And why not apply a few embellishments to this card for a little more pizzazz? I used the 2024-2025 In Color Resin Dots for a little bling on the greeting in Pretty in Pink, Petunia Pop and Summer Splash to represent all the colors on this designer paper.

I just realized this is the first day of August and I made a birthday card….and it’s my birthday month! I didn’t even have that in my head! I was probably thinking of a friend whose birthday is the day after mine so I could send her this card. And there probably are other August birthdays I will need cards for!

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Attention Shoppers Gift Bags Birthday Card

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Attention Shoppers Gift Bags Birthday Card

Yesterday I posted a card using the Attention Shoppers Bundle and today I have another one to show you another way to use the stamp set. This Attention Shoppers Gift Bags Birthday Card is one you can make without the cute shopping cart but using the stamps only.

This is also a lesson in making your own designer paper! Just stamp your own background! I always like doing random stamping like this. It just feels good to stamp and stamp and stamp over and over again! Sometimes you develop a nice rhythm to it!

This card starts with a Bubble Bath cardstock card base. Instead of using the cart stamps or dies, I made a birthday card by stamping the gift bags with Memento Ink all over the piece of Basic White which would be the front of the card. I used the Attention Shoppers Stamp Set and of course, if you want the coordinating dies, it’s a good deal to buy the Attention Shoppers Bundle and save 10%. I colored in the bags and tissue paper with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers but I could have used Watercolor Pencils or reinkers and the Water Painters. I used all sorts of colors of markers so use whatever you like!

The birthday greeting is in the stamp set also. I stamped it in Bubble Bath ink on a thin strip of Basic White and layered it on a piece of Bubble Bath cardstock. Only took me about five tries to get it right! I either cut it too close to the words or I didn’t cut the layer right or I put the flagged end on the wrong end! For some embellishment and sparkle, I added three Iridescent Faceted Gems.

This was a fun card to make with all the stamping and coloring. If you don’t want to do any coloring, stamp all the bags one color to match the card base…or stamp them in different colors but just don’t color them! Here is the card I made yesterday with this Attention Shoppers Bundle.

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Spotlight on Nature Flower Birthday Card

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Spotlight on Nature Flower Birthday Card

Sometimes you change your mind as you go along creating and that’s what happened with this Spotlight on Nature Flower Birthday Card. I started off thinking I would make a very simple, basic, stamped card. I was going to stamp the flower and butterfly on Basic White which would be the layer on the Soft Sea Foam card base, then add a greeting of some sort. But I kept changing as I went along, and that’s okay!

The card base is Soft Sea Foam and I chose this Soft Sea Foam patterned paper with leaves in the Hello, Irresistible 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. However, I see that this paper is no longer listed under Online Exclusives so maybe it is not available anymore. If you don’t already have this paper, just choose another patterned paper that would make a nice background. As a layer to separate the Soft Sea Foam designer paper from the Soft Sea Foam card base, I added a layer of Garden Green cardstock to help set it off.

Even though I started off thinking I would do simple stamping with the Spotlight on Nature Stamp Set I did stamp and color in but then I cut out the flower and the butterfly! So you may not always know exactly how your card will turn out! The flower and butterfly are stamped in Memento Ink. I colored both images in with Stampin’ Blends markers. Use whatever colors you like. For my flower, I colored the petals with Pretty In Pink and a little Flirty Flamingo. The leaves are colored with Soft Seam Foam and a little bit of Lemon Lime Twist. Just play and see what you like. I love using these Stampin’ Blend markers! The butterfly is colored in with Fresh Freesia, Light and Dark, but then I added some other purple color as well on some parts of the wings. Instead of leaving them on the Basic White piece of cardstock I intended to use on the card, I decided I would rather cut them out separately and adhere them to the card. The flowers are glued down flat on the card and the butterfly is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is from the Simply Said Stamp Set and stamped in Soft Sea Foam ink on this diecut piece of Basic White. The interesting die I used is in the Lovely and Sweet Dies. To make it stand out more on the card, I colored the side tabs and around all the edges with the Soft Sea Foam Stampin’ Blend marker to give it some color.

Before adhering the greeting, I thought I needed something and added some of the Silver & White 1/2″ Sheer Ribbon going back and forth behind the sentiment. I meant to add some gems but I forgot! However, the ribbon provides some sparkle.

This Spotlight on Nature is a pretty set and can come in a Bundle with some great dies. Bundles will be an extra 10% off starting June 5th next week! Make out your Wish List!

Layered Florals Blackout Technique Birthday Cards

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Layered Florals Blackout Technique Birthday Card

Here is a technique I tried this past weekend that I have seen on the internet for a little while. It’s called the Blackout Technique or maybe Blackout Embossing. No matter the term, it is fun and easy and results in a stunning card. This Layered Florals Blackout Technique Birthday Card is my first attempt and I also made another one in different colors. This Layered Florals 3D Embossing Folder is a perfect one to use for this technique!

Layered Florals Blackout Technique Embossing

To make this style of card start with embossing a piece of Basic White with the Layered Florals Embossing Folder and the Stampin’ Up! Cut & Emboss Machine. The cardstock can be larger than will be used on the card front, it can be trimmed down later. Turn the embossed cardstock over to the “debossed” side, not the usual “pretty” side. You will see the indentations of the flowers. Color on this debossed side of the cardstock. For this card, I used Stampin’ Blends….many colors! You can choose what you like or use just one main color. I was using bright colors, such as Melon Mambo, Peach Pie, Summer Splash, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lime Twist, Pretty in Pink, and more.

Once you have all the coloring done that you want to do, you will swipe a dark ink pad over the whole piece of embossed cardstock, colored side up. You won’t ruin it!

Layered Florals Blackout Technique Swiping Ink

You can use a Memento ink pad or a Stampin’ Up! ink pad. I used Basic Gray which is dark and looks like black. Don’t swipe the ink pad completely flat on the card but rather hold the edge of the pad at a slight angle as you swipe over the card. You do need a juicy ink pad as this uses a lot of ink! You probably will need to go over it in several swipes to get every area covered in the dark ink. You might use a tissue to hold the cardstock down so you don’t get ink all over your fingers, but it is a messy technique!

Layered Florals Blackout Technique Basic Gray Ink

Now you can trim down your embossed and inked piece for whatever size you want for the card. My card base is Basic White with a layer of Melon Mambo so my inked piece is trimmed down to 3 3/4″ x 5″. The greeting is stamped with a stamp in the Textured Florals Stamp Set in Melon Mambo ink. It was then diecut with one of the Unbounded Love Dies.

Another way to color is to use Blending Brushes or Sponge Daubers. For this embossed piece, I wanted Peach Pie flowers for the large ones and I used Daffodil Delights for the small flowers. You can use a light touch with the Blending Brush while adding the color. The leaves were colored with Stampin’ Blends.

Layered Florals Blackout Technique Blending Brush Coloring

For this card, I used Blueberry Bushel ink to swipe on the embossed piece. I thought the dark blue would look good with the Peach Pie flowers. It is very dark, almost black. This card is Basic White with a layer of Peach Pie cardstock. I embellished it with the Peach Pie 3/8″ Bordered Ribbon and added a separate bow. The greeting is from the Simply Said Stamp Set stamped in Peach Pie ink on Basic White and then diecut using the Unbounded Love Dies again.

This is what it looked like as I began swiping with the Blueberry Bushel ink, which even at that stage, I thought it looked interesting and pretty! So I suppose you could stop with a few swipes of ink if you liked it that way! But I did cover it completely with ink.

Layered Florals Blackout Technique Blue Ink

Here is the finished card.

Layered Florals Blackout Technique Peach Pie Card

I know you will want to try this technique! If you don’t have this exact embossing folder, see what you do have or just try any one you have and see what you can do with it! If you don’t have large images like these flowers, maybe using Blending Brushes or Sponge Daubers to apply the color. Remember to do it on the debossed side of the embossed cardstock.

It’s fun and easy and a surprise to see how the card will turn out!

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