I was so excited when I checked the Stampin’ Up! website this morning and saw that Stampin’ Up! had not two, but THREE, new Kits in the KIts Collection and they are all Christmas! One is a tag kit, one is a small journal/scrapbook for the holidays, and one a beautiful card kit! I can’t wait to look these over in more detail, but I think for sure I’ll be ordering the Nutcracker Tags kit! I love those because you can use them for tags or make cards with them. Check out these Kits!! And easy enough for anyone to make!
Make your gifts stand out under the tree with the Nutcracker Tags Kit. Featuring festive nutcrackers and glittery sentiments, this kit makes it easy to create handmade tags bursting with festive spirit. It’s a fun and merry way to add extra magic to every gift. Now let’s get cracking!
DETAILS (#166226) – Makes 12 tags: 3 each of 4 designs – Colors: Basic Black, Darling Duckling, Garden Green, gold, Pecan Pie, Poppy Parade, Shy Shamrock
Turn your festive moments into a cherished keepsake with the Remembering Christmas Kit! With plenty of space for photos and journaling, you can easily create a festive album filled with your favorite Christmas highlights. Combine die-cut letters, holiday-patterned paper, and fun ephemera like bows, stars, and stockings to craft a merry album full of Christmas cheer. Display it proudly each season and relive those joyful memories year after year!
DETAILS (#166230) – Colors: Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Pecan Pie, Pretty in Pink, Pretty Peacock, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Shaded Spruce
Celebrate the warmth of home and the quiet magic of Christmas with the Calm & Bright Kit. A clean and simple design style paired with a soft color palette sets the tone for creating serene, sophisticated cards. Neutral bases and intricate die-cuts—tiny houses, holly leaves, and banners—layer beautifully to form peaceful focal points, while stamped sentiments like From Our House to Yours and All is Calm, All is Bright add a heartfelt and timeless touch.
DETAILS (#166461) – Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs – Folded card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm) – Colors: Basic Beige, Gray Granite, Lost Lagoon, Pecan Pie, Pool Party, Pretty in Pink, white
It might be a little early for Christmas gift bags, but I wanted to use this pretty paper on a gift bag to show it off, so here is the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Gift Bag. If you look through the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper, you will find this one paper with this huge pine snowflake centered on the paper. How can any one cut up that sheet of paper with that design?! It would be beautiful on a scrapbook page….as long as you didn’t put any photos on it! So my best solution was to center it on a large gift bag!
You might have collected kraft or other gift bags from certain stores that you can use for gift bags. Or you can buy a bunch of them at a craft store, small or large. This bag is 10″ wide so I just trimmed an inch off each side of the designer paper. It is 7 1/4″ from top to bottom. For a border piece on the top and bottom, I was just going to have cardstock, but then I noticed the strips I had cut off from the designer paper, turned them over, and used those. To help offset all the colors and paper designs, I cut strips of Shaded Spruce. You can make these any widths you like. I made the top designer paper strip about 1 1/4″ wide, with 1″ showing and a little bit wider at the bottom. The Shaded Spruce cardstock strips are both 1/2″ wide.
Every gift bag needs a gift tag! I found an already diecut circle of Gold Foil using the Stylish Shapes Dies in my gold foil package. For the greeting, I used “merry & bright” in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. These are peel-and-stick greetings in golf foil so they are very easy to use. I also fussy-cut some foliage from the designer paper to decorate the tag. I used some retired Cherry Cobbler ribbon to tie the tag to the bag.
After I took the first photo of the bag, I realized the tag didn’t show up very well plus I remembered I intended to put some red berries gems on the tag to match the berries on the paper. These Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries are perfect to go with this paper. You could also add some on the designer paper on the bag.
I love to decorate gift bags like this for any occasion and we’ll certainly need a lot of them for Christmas so it’s a good idea to start making some!
I always say having a Paper Pumpkin monthly subscription from Stampin’ Up! is a gift you give yourself! When I get my kit, it already looks like a gift when I open up the box and see the supplies wrapped up in colored tissue paper! Then I open up the supply package like it’s Christmas and see what all is included! In the photo above , you can see what I discovered when I opened everything for the September 2025 Kit, Fall For Toile! You get the card bases, envelopes with decorated flaps, diecuts, stamp set, ink spot, ribbon, and adhesives! I don’t think I even needed a scissors!
This was a set of nine cards for fall, 3 each of 3 designs. All the kits are easy enough for anyone to make. You get pictorial directions plus you can watch a video, which I usually like to do regardless. The directions show you where to put the adhesive on each piece and what kind of adhesive, which, again, is included in the kit. I would say this kit was really easy to make. Just some easy stamping on the diecut pieces for two of the greetings and some acorns for another decorative piece, a little ribbon to add to three of the cards, and the rest was just adhering the diecuts to each card. These are beautiful cards to send to friends and loved ones for fall or even Thanksgiving.
The top left card was the most “difficult”. It was fun stamping leaves around the edges of the card. I always like doing that random stamping! Then I had to placed the two diecut leaf groupings together, plus the foil-accented dark leaves on the card, all popped up on Dimensionals. Then the stamped greeting and ribbon adhered to the back was adhered over the intersection of the leaves.
The top right card is the first one I made. The card base already has that pretty toile background on it (also on the backside of the card!). The greeting was already printed, I only stamped the cute pair of acorns. The tree and frame are a diecut popped up on dimensionals.
The bottom card was the very easiest. I stamped the little birds in the corner of the cornfield and adhered it to the card base with Dimensionals. The pumpkins and fox are all diecuts and popped up also. The greeting is stamped and popped up. Nothing could be easier to make!
You, too, could get in on the fun of Paper Pumpkin Kits by subscribing before October 10th. For October you will receive a Kit to make Christmas cards that have flocked pieces to decorate the cards. For November, your Kit will make small goodie boxes perfect for the holidays to present a gift card or small gift or treat. Personally, I like the holiday kits the best, but then I love holidays of all kinds!
When you become a subscriber, besides getting the kit in the mail every month, you also have the option to purchase any past kits that are available, refills (which do not include the stamp set or ink spot, but otherwise have all the same supplies), and some add-ons like small dies that you can use to enhance your cards and projects or use any time. If you like a past kit but only see a refill, you can probably make use of that even without the stamp set and ink spot that would come in the full kit. For example, this fall kit I am showing has already been mailed out to subscribers, but once you subscribe, perhaps the “refill” kit will still be available, as it is as I write this, and you can just use some of your own stamps and ink to make the cards. Then your first kit will come in the mail, Cozy Christmas, right after October 10th.
And you can always use your supplies any way you like! Lots of alternatives are always posted online as soon as people get their kits and start creating. For example, with this month’s kit, with the card bases printed on both the front and the back, you could cut the two sides apart and make twice as many cards by adhering the printed part of the kit card to your own cardstock base. You can change it up however you like. Sometimes I make some of the cards as designed and then make my own alternatives. It just depends on what you like to do. If you are a beginner, at first you will probably just want to follow the directions for the fun of crafting. As you get more experienced, you might like to make the projects a little bit different – maybe add your own greeting instead or add your own embellishments if you have some.
To join Paper Pumpkin, just click the link below. No risk, no obligation to continue for any length of time. Stampin’ Up! guarantees every kit, so if you have a problem, just let them know. You can even skip a month if necessary or if the hint of the upcoming project doesn’t appeal to you. It used to be a total surprise what would come in the kit, but now we get somewhat of a hint, which I am happy about. Subscriber or reactivate a previous account you had, by October 10th! The 10th of the month is the date to always remember if you want to make any changes to your account as that is the date the current subscription ends and on the 11th the new kit comes out. It’s easy to go into your account and skip a month, or heaven forbid, cancel! I hope you will try out Paper Pumpkin and enjoy some pre-planned crafting with all the supplies right there in your box! And wrapped up in tissue paper like a gift!!
I got another Stampin’ Up! order late yesterday and had to try out this new Elegant Pine Snowflakes Designer Series Paper, which you will find in the newest Online Exclusives. I was totally drawn to this darker print pattern and made this Elegant Pine Snowflakes Season’s Greetings Card, partly so I could use the new In Color, Secret Sea!
This is really just a basic design for a card so you can change it up however you like. The card base is Secret Sea cardstock with a layer of Real Red cardstock, which I couldn’t resist adding for that pop of red! The Real Red layer is cut a bit larger than usual to give that very narrow border of the Secret Sea. It measures 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″. I did cut the designer paper layer at the usual 5 1/4″ x 4″ but I decided I wanted more of the red to show than just a narrow margin so I trimmed it down just a bit. Now it is 3 3/4″ x 5″.
I intended to wrap the new ribbon I just got that belongs in the Elegant Pine Snowflakes Suite around the left side of the designer paper and add a bow. But I was too hasty in gluing down the layers! Instead, as you can see, I just tied a bow with the new Shaded Spruce & Gold Edged 7/8″ Ribbon. It is adhered with several Mini Glue Dots. I first intended to place it on the side of the card, but when I sort of accidentally moved it into that corner I thought it looked like a bow that would be on a package so I placed it there!
The greeting is in the Traditional Labels Stamp Set. It is stamped in Real Red on one of the new Foiled Frames & LabelsEphemera Pack. You’ll find these in the Floral Impressions Suite in the Online Exclusives that came out in May. Obviously they aren’t just for Christmas but you can use them any time, even Christmas! I popped up the tag with Stampin’ Dimensionals. To embellish the tag a little bit, while I was watching TV, I cut out some pine snowflakes and pinecones. And because they are so pretty, I added some red Traditional Sparkling Sequins for some sparkle in the dark background.
While it seems crazy to be showing Christmas cards now, we know time flies and every year we wish we would have started on our cards and holiday projects earlier. Now is your chance to start thinking about what you would like to make, order your supplies, and get to work!
Stampin’ Up! will be holding a FREE virtual event to celebrate World Card Making Day on October 4, 2025 and YOU are invited!! During this event all of us, Customers and Demonstrators will:
Celebrate the art of cardmaking.
Learn new stamping techniques.
Craft along with the presenters and create beautiful, heartfelt cards that you can send out.
Connect with fellow stampers.
Event Details
Who: Everyone, including new customers!
When: October 4, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. (MT)
Where: Online
Price of Event: Free
Registration Dates: September 3–October 3, 2025, until 2:00 p.m. (MT)
Registration for this event is free. Everyone must register to receive a link to view the event. Also, those who register will receive a gift after the event ends. Even if you watch with some friends, be sure each friend registers so they will get the link and receive a special registration gift.
LAST DAY to register is the day before, October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM (MT).
This World Card Making Day event will be recorded and will be available to watch immediately following the event. So watch it live and craft along, go back and rewatch certain parts, or watch the recording later if you miss the live event.
One of the best parts about this event is the opportunity to craft together! This year we’re going to create cards using the Handmade & Heartfelt Kit, an all-inclusive product that comes with everything you and your customers need to make 10 lovely, all-occasion cards.
Item: Handmade & Heartfelt Kit (166213)
Includes: A stamp set, 10 cards and envelopes, a card organizer, shaped labels, twine, glitter adhesive, embellishments, a mini ink pad
I was so tickled with the Halloween card I made in my previous post that I had to make another one right away! Halloween decorations and things just make me happy! I won’t be decorating my house for at least another month, but I’m happy to start making Halloween cards and other projects to provide some inspiration for you.
I really wanted to use this Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper with the little drawings of candies on the gray background. So cute! The card base is Granny Apple Green which goes with the paper, but I felt like the paper stood out more with a layer of black behind it. I made the margins very narrow so the Basic Black is 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″ and the candies designer paper is the usual 5 1/4″ x 4″. I diecut a Pumpkin Pie circle from the Spotlight On Nature Dies. I could have used Stylish Shapes Dies or a large circle punch. It’s just meant to be a background to help show off the three trick or treaters, however, it also looks like a moon out on Halloween night. I could have tucked it behind the bottom strip of paper and made it look more like a moon. Either way, I think it works.
The three trick or treaters are fussy-cut from the sheet of costumed characters in the package of DSP. It wasn’t as difficult or “fussy” as you might think! It helps to leave a tiny bit of white margin around the image and that makes it easier to cut out. The first and third costumed characters are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the middle guy is glued flat on the card front. I did add that strip at the bottom of the candy designer paper. It is the opposite side of the candy pattern! I made it 5 1/4″ x 1 1/4″. You could make it whatever width you like. The characters just needed something to “stand” on.
The greeting is in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set along with some cute character stamps and greetings. I stamped it with Memento ink on the opposite side of the character paper. To make it smaller to fit better and to look more interesting, I cut the greeting into narrow pieces and then popped each one up on Dimensionals. When I stamped the greeting, I noticed the little bats stamp in the set so I stamped some bats on the orange circle (before adhering the words!). There were also small blackbirds on the designer sheet so I cut two of those out and placed them on the card. Finally, because once you have them you can’t resist, I added some purple and white Shimmer Star Foam Stickers. These are so fun to use, you really should order some and I’m sure you can use them on other cards for other occasions, not just Halloween!
Can you believe four months from today is Christmas? I thought it only appropriate that I make my first Christmas card of the season, Traditions of Christmas Bouquet Card, for my blog post today! My box of Holiday Mini Catalog preorder goodies arrived just the other day so it was time to make a Christmas card. The Holiday Mini Catalog goes live on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 so you only have about another week to wait!
When you get to see the September – December 2025 Mini Catalog online or in person, if you like traditional Christmas colors and designs, you will probably gravitate toward the Traditions of Christmas Suite Collection! I can’t link to it yet, but it is beautiful! It is a very large Suite, so you can buy it ALL with just one number on your order, or you can pick and choose which products you want and still make beautiful cards even if you don’t have everything!
This card, of course, doesn’t do the whole Suite justice, but it does give you an idea of how pretty the designer series paper will be! I got the idea for this card from the Mini Catalog on page 24 but changed it up a little bit. The paper I used is the Traditions of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is called “Specialty” because it has gold foil accents. The paper is made up of poinsettias and other Christmas flowers plus generic patterns on “the other sides” of the pretty floral papers. And one surprising, but fun color, in the package is the new In Color, Secret Sea! You wouldn’t think that deep blue color would be for Christmas cards in these traditional red and green colors, but it really is stunning.
The card base is Real Red with a layer of this Olive Green striped and dotted paper. The “other side” has the pretty flowers that I used for the focal point of the card. The bouquet may be able to be cut with a die in the Christmas Greenery Dies in the Suite or you can stamp a bouquet just like this one and color and cut out. My bouquet is fussy-cut so I’m not positive if the die fits it, but I think it might. The Basic White background is cut at 3″ x 4″ with a Real Red layer of 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″. There are many bouquets on that designer paper page with flowers of varying colors. The bouquet is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals on this card, then a greeting is placed across the stems
The greeting in the catalog sample is stamped and gold embossed, but for my card I chose a greeting in the Greetings For You Ephemera Pack. It is on page 15 up at the top of the Mini Catalog. The greetings are all in gold foil and are diecut and adhesive-backed! Just peel off the release paper on the back and stick the greeting to your card or project. I adhered mine to a strip of Old Olive cardstock to help it stand out and flagged the ends. You may barely notice a strip of Gold Foil 4″ x 3/4″ going across the card under the popped up center piece but lined up underneath the greeting. The gold foil is glued flat on the card. The greeting is glued flat where it intersects the bouquet, but it’s probably a good idea to add a Dimensional on each end of the greeting to make it sturdier going across the popped up bouquet.
For some embellishment and sparkle, I added three of the gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins. You will want these for sure for your holiday projects. They look like gems but are nearly flat so will be good for mailing. They come in three different sizes in Real Red, Old Olive, Pool Party, and gold.
This beautiful Traditions Of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper will be wonderful for scrapbook pages and other projects, even giftwrap, not just for cards! Although you don’t have your new holiday products today, just for fun, to celebrate 4 months until Christmas, get out some paper from your stash and make a Christmas card! And mark your calendar for September 3 when there will be the new September-December Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini!), new Kits in the Kits Collection, and new Online Exclusives!
This beautiful Traditions Of Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper will be wonderful for scrapbook pages and other projects, even giftwrap, not just for cards! Although you don’t have your new holiday products today, just for fun, to celebrate 4 months until Christmas, get out some paper from your stash and make a Christmas card! And mark your calendar for September 3 when there will be the new September-December Mini Catalog (Holiday Mini!), new Kits in the Kits Collection, and new Online Exclusives!
Yesterday Stampin’ Up! announced some product changes that probably took almost all of us by surprise. There will be lots of different opinions about the changes depending on what you like, but I find that after everyone gets used to the new things it turns out okay.
Here are the changes.
Stampin’ Up! is discontinuing red rubber cling stamps and all stamps will be photopolymer. I have been finding that I’m so used to the photopolymer and being about to see through the clear stamps that in some cases I’m disappointed I can’t see through the cling stamps for placement.
Also being discontinued, are Stampin’ Write Markers. Oh my! We have had these markers since before I started stamping. We even had the nifty carrying case for ALL of the markers. BUT I have found that I rarely use mine any more because I use Stampin’ Blend markers all the time. But you still have a chance to get your hands on the Stampin’ Write Markers while they are available.
New are the stamp and dies packaging! This will make some people happy who like saving space and having the artwork for the dies on the package which we don’t have now. Other people who don’t like their storage system changed up may not be happy. Even if you prefer another kind of storage and organization you can still do that with your own system.
Watch this video from Stampin’ Up! explaining the changes and the reasons why. Then I’ll give you the information on dates.
PS: That stamp set and dies you see pictured above? It’s a sneak peek of a new set and packaging coming in the November Online Exclusives!
Cling Stamps Info:
Starting with November 2025 Online Exclusives, all new stamps will be photopolymer.
The upcoming Sept – Dec 2025 Mini Catalog and the 2025-2026 Annual Catalog will be the last printed catalogs with cling stamps.
In December 2025, all cling stamps in the September–December 2025 Mini Catalog will move to Last Chance Products and be available while supplies last. No cling stamps from the mini catalog will carry over.
In April 2026, all cling stamps in the 2025–2026 Annual Catalog will move to Last Chance Products and be available while supplies last. No cling stamps from the annual catalog will carry over.
Final transition: In April 2026, all remaining cling stamps across our offering will move to Last Chance Products and be available while supplies last.
Stampin’ Write Markers – IMPORTANT TO KNOW TODAY!
On August 20, 2025, all Stampin’ Write Markers will move to Last Chance Products* and be available while supplies last. So if you want to get any markers, I’d get on that website today and start ordering in case some colors sell out.
New packaging for stamp sets and dies!
New packaging measures 5-5/8″ x 9″ (14.3 x 22.9 cm).
Stamps and dies will now come in the same size and style of packaging, making it easy to store bundles and coordinating products together.
Packaging is clear with an insert that displays stamp or die artwork for quick and easy identification—yes, both stamp and die packaging will now show artwork!
Larger packaging dimensions allow us to showcase more stamp artwork at 100% on the insert.
Sleek, slim design will help you and your customers store more in less space.
Envelope closure includes a tuck-in flap for quick and easy opening and closing.
Packaging is sized to fit a variety of organization systems.
Let all this news sink in! If you have any questions just let me know! Or leave a comment about what you think!
This is one of those cards, this Celebratory Sips Rosy Drinks Card, that as relatively simple as it is, it was very pleasing to see the end result. I think the designer series paper and the greeting make the card! Not only is the designer paper fun to use, but all the elements just came together.
The Celebratory Sips Designer Series Paper may surprise you if you don’t look at it carefully online. It is in the Online Exclusives category PLUS is on sale during August because some of the coordinating colors are the new 2025-2027 In Colors. Get it for 15% off until August 31! What is surprising is that it’s not just pretty drinks! The papers also contain flowers, whimsical designs, citrus fruit images and watercoloring. And no need to assume that the “drinks” are alcoholic! They can be anything! Just refreshing summer drinks perhaps!
The card base is Strawberry Slush cardstock. It is also in the In Color Sale going on now! The designer paper, Celebratory Sips, would normally be cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″ but since I wanted to fold over one side of the DSP to show “the other side”, I cut it an inch wider, so 5″ x 5 1/4″, scored at 1″ on the left side, and folded it over. I glued it down, then wrapped around some ribbon. This is the Strawberry Slush 3/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon and it is a very lovely type of ribbon! And on sale! The bow is tied separately and stuck on with Mini Glue Dots or you can use a bit of Stampin’ Seal Adhesive right on the ribbon.
The greeting is in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack in the Annual Catalog. As I write this, it says “Low Inventory” so if you want it, I would order it SOON! It really is a fantastic product, especially when you want a quick greeting to finish off the card or you don’t have quite the right one in your stamp sets. There are all sorts of greetings, styles, colors, and shapes so you are almost sure to find one you can use. This one I found in the package I thought was PERFECT for this card, with the word “rosy” in it, just in case any of the drinks perhaps had some Rose wine in them! Or even just a reference to enjoying any of these drinks with their rosy color!
I also diecut a Stylish Shapes circle on which to pop up the greeting to help it stand out. For a little embellishment, I added three of the Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems on the Strawberry Slush diecut circle. I love those particular gems so I recommend them!
You could make cards like this design with other designer series paper by just folding over one edge of the designer paper to show the other side, or cut a strip from another paper for a contrast to the main paper. We do have great designer series paper!
Here is another card I made with the Celebratory Sips Designer Series Paper but I cut out the larger drink images and used one of the other papers for the background.
I saw a card using the Two-Tone Cardstock that Stampin’ Up! now carries that reminded me that the Two-Tone cardstock could be torn and look like ocean waves! That is how this Two-Tone Torn Paper Ocean Card came about! Tearing paper was something everyone was doing when I first joined Stampin’ Up! many years ago and then I didn’t see it for awhile. I think it is back now and a fun and easy technique to use!
The card base is Crumb Cake but the entire front of the card is covered. There is no Crumb Cake margin showing as I usually do. I cut several strips of different widths of the Two-Tone Cardstock in various colors in 5 1/2″ lengths to fit completely across the card. The other dimension of the strips doesn’t really matter since they are going to get torn to make different widths, so I cut some at 1″ and some at 2″ or 3″ wide. Two-Tone cardstock means that it has a white core which is perfect for looking like white caps on ocean waves! Also, one side of the paper has one color and the other side has the same color but in a different shade, lighter or darker. That gives you a lot of choices with just one sheet of paper!
You can use whatever colors for water, sky, sand or landscape that you choose. My paper isn’t labeled and sorted yet, so I’m not positive about my colors. However, I believe I used Crumb Cake for the sandy beach, Pool Party and Night of Navy for the water, and just regular Daffodil Delight for the sun. I punched out the sun with a 1 3/4″ Circle Punch. You can use whatever size punch or die you have. The top piece of “sky” is Basic White, colored slightly with Balmy Blue ink and a Small Blending Brush. You could also use a sponge. I purposely left some areas of the paper whitish to look like clouds.
The trick to tearing strips is to tear the strip toward yourself with the side of the paper you want to use in the front to show off the torn edge. When you have some strips cut and torn, just play around with them a little bit and see how you like them laid out. You can apply glue only to the bottom edge of the strip, then you can adhere succeeding strips by slipping them behind the top of the bottom strip and so on. Or start at the top and work your way down. If you don’t like the way something looks, you can slip in a small torn piece or you can tear off the top edge of the paper a little more to fix it how you like it. The sun is just slipped in behind the top water strip.
I thought my card needed a boat, but I didn’t think I had one. Then I did remember there was a little sailboat in the Choose Happy Stamp Set. I stamped it in Memento Ink, colored with a brown and a red Stampin’ Blend marker, then cut it out carefully with scissors. I think it turned out to be a good size for my ocean! If you don’t have a sailboat stamp, just draw one yourself. It’s just a bowl shape for the boat and put a triangular sail on top.
The greeting is one I found in the Saying Something Ephemera Pack. When I came upon it, I knew it was perfect for this card! I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then you are finished with the paper strips on the card front, check and see if you need to trim off either or both sides of the card to even up everything. I like to use my very old Stampin’ Up! guillotine cutter, if you have that! But the Paper Trimmer will also work.
See what other ideas you can think of for using the Two-Tone Cardstock! I just thought of one myself!
All you need are dies or scissors to cut out these beautiful images for this Kintsugi Inspirations Vases Thinking of You Card. And they are easy to cut out if you don’t have the dies!
If you like something different, this Kintsugi Inspirations Specialty Designer Series Paper is for you! I think a lot of us learned a new term….Kintsugi…when the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog came out and this Suite was in it! Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer. These gold veins become a celebration of imperfection instead of hiding it.
The card base is Lost Lagoon cardstock, a color I really like but I don’t use very often for some reason. But it is one of the coordinating colors of the Kintsugi Inspirations Suite. After seeing some scrap strips in my package of DSP, I got the idea to use a strip at the bottom of the card as sort of a base or table for the vases.
The vases are all fussy-cut with scissors, but there are the Inspiring Imperfections Dies which would be great to have. These dies cut out the large vases and short ones, flowers, and even the shape for the gold veins or use it as a branch. For my card, the single flower is also fussy-cut and a slit put in that short vase or cup so I could slip the flower stem into the vase.
You can adhere the vases flat on the card or with Stampin’ Dimensionals or both. Two of my vases are popped up and one flat. Since I happened to have the Spotlight On Nature diecut vellum circle on my table, I decided to use that also on the card. I just slipped it behind the vase and under the table strip at the bottom. You have to be careful where you put adhesive when you are using vellum because it can show through, but usually there is a hidden spot where you can put adhesive and it won’t show. On this card sticking it behind the one vase and behind the paper strip at the bottom it was fairly well held down, but after adhering the greeting, I also put glue on the back of the vellum behind the greeting so it definitely won’t show.
The greeting is part of the Blooming Phrases Stamp Set. I thought the font went nicely with the card design. I wanted something simple and sophisticated. This greeting is stamped in Lost Lagoon ink on Basic White and then diecut with one of the Textured Notes Dies. For a little embellishment besides the gold foil on the vases, I used the Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems in the clear color with a bit of gold on them that I thought went well with the card.
Don’t be afraid to cut out images from designer papers if you don’t own the matching dies or if there are not dies that match the images you want. Your cutting doesn’t not have to be perfection and you can do it as a relaxing exercise while you watch TV or just sit and relax!
For a different look to your cards, check out the Kintsugi Inspirations Suite and individual products that you can purchase separately.
“Send warm greetings to welcome the harvest season with the Fall for Toile Paper Pumpkin Kit. These elegant cards truly capture the beauty of this special time of year, with rich colors, traditional autumnal imagery, and luxe foil accents. Each kit comes with three different printed card base styles, three coordinating envelope designs, precut paper pieces, and grosgrain ribbon—as well as a stamp set perfectly suited for seasonal messages from the heart. And because this kit coordinates beautifully with the Autumn Toile Suite Collection, you’ll have even more opportunities to create seasonal magic!”
(And if you look closely on the Paper Pumpkin ad you will see a sneak peek of a beautiful fall suite, Autumn Toile, coming in the September-December Mini Catalog next month!)
It’s time to sign up for Paper Pumpkin, the papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail each month! It’s a gift you give yourself, your creative escape! And if you want to double or triple the fun, order extra kits whenever you want and craft with a friend or loved one.
No risk, no obligation. You can cancel your subscription if Paper Pumpkin is not for you or better yet, skip a month or two if other things come up and you don’t have time to craft that month. Just check your account no later than the 10th of any month to pause, cancel, or reactivate your account for the next month’s kit.
All supplies are included. With your first kit, you get an acrylic block on which to mount the stamps you need in the exclusive stamp set included in your kit. Other than scissors, everything you need including adhesive is wrapped up like a gift in your Paper Pumpkin box. Sometimes the box is just as cute as the project inside! I especially love the holiday kits! Get signed up now so you won’t miss out on those!
Here are the details about the August Paper Pumpkin Kit, Farmhouse Florals, which you will receive about mid-August. Did you see the typewriter and flowers on the banner above? That’s a clue about some of the card designs!
August: Farmhouse Florals Subscribe July 11–August 10 Send whimsical cards featuring flowers nestled in delightfully unexpected places. • Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 coordinating envelopes • Precut paper pieces and linen thread • Sentiment stamps for the outside and inside of the cards • Coordinating colors: Calypso Coral, Darling Duckling, Gray Granite, Lost Lagoon, Pecan Pie, Secret Sea (Classic Stampin’ Spot).
One 1″ x 1″ Stampin’ Spot is included in each kit as your mini ink pad! Collect them each month and you’ll have lots of colors of ink to use on other projects!
With this August Paper Pumpkin Kit you will even receive a FREE additional stamp set!
This Charming Day Damask Birthday Card was a fun card to make! I used a Petal Pink Two-Tone cardstock for the background to show one of the techniques you can use with this two-tone cardstock. This paper has a light shade on one side and a darker shade of the same color on the other side, plus a white core. I took advantage of the white core of the paper with the embossed background.
In order to create the interesting background for this card, I embossed the Petal Pink Two-Tone cardstock with the Damask Designs Embossing Folder. This is a pretty embossing folder to use just as it comes out, but if you have two-tone cardstock, you can do something extra with the embossed paper. After embossing the pretty design, use a sanding block, or whatever you have, to lightly rub across the top of the embossed images. Go lightly at first. You can always do more as long as you don’t tear the paper. When you do the sanding, it will expose the white core of the paper! It’s very subtle on this card with the light-colored paper, but you can see it.
The card base is Basic White cardstock and the embossed Damask Designs layer is adhered to it. If you wanted a more dramatic background, use a darker color of the two-tone cardstsock.
For the flowers, I stamped this little cluster of flowers in the Charming Day Stamp Set with Memento Ink on Basic White cardstock. The flowers are colored in with Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends and the leaves with Lemon Lime Twist Stampin’ Blends. Then it was diecut with the Charming Day Dies. If you want the stamp set and dies, you can get the Charming Day Bundle and save 10%. The greeting is also in the stamp set and is stamped in Memento ink. It is diecut with my go-to…. the banner in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The flowers are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but the greeting is adhered flat to the card.
For a little embellishment, I used three of the Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems on the embossed layer. They are small and just add a little sparkle. I didn’t want to add too much to this particular card because I wanted to show off the sanded embossing on the card using the two-tone cardstock.
If you are interested in any of the colors in the Two-Tone cardstock, there is a sale going on today and tomorrow, July 10 – 11. You can check out all the colors on page 77 in the Annual Catalog. The paper is 20% off on these last two days of the three-day sale! This cardstock is great for cardmaking and other projects as well as scrapbooking!
Before you decide on individual colors, check out the various assortment packs. There are seven assortments with two sheets of each of six colors which would give you several colors to try. They are mixed in on the Two Tone Sale page so just scroll through. Choose the grouping of colors you like the best or get all of them!
Today begins the 3-day sale on all Two-Tone Cardstock at Stampin’ Up! You’ll find all the colors on pages 76-77 in the Annual Catalog and samples on pages 78-79. All Two-Tone cardstock is 20% off!
This sale is the perfect opportunity to stock up on a crafting essential that’s great for both card making and scrapbooking. Check out the wide variety of available colors and decide which ones you will want to have. Act fast before your favorite colors are gone! It is a 3 day only sale!
What is two-tone cardstock?? Each piece of cardstock has a smooth texture for stamping and a white core that works great for techniques like tearing, sanding, crumpling, embossing, etc. This cardstock is two-sided with shades of the same color on each side.
106 Color Variations. Our two-tone cardstock offers 53 lighter and darker Stampin’ Up! colors on double-sided sheets. It’s available in single or mixed-color packs for harmonious colorful or monochromatic projects.
A Crafting Necessity. Two-tone cardstock has so much to offer! It’s an ideal layering option without adding bulk and its white core means you can tear, crumple, sand, and emboss your way to fun effects whatever your crafting skill level. Its smooth texture is great for stamping, clean cuts, crisp folds, and seamless color applications. And because it’s 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm), you can use it as a scrapbook base, or you can cut it to use as part of your card-making projects.
Choose a few colors to try and see how you like it and what you can do with it! Remember, the sale begins today and runs through Friday, July 11th. While supplies last. Don’t miss it! Have fun!
If you are looking at the catalog online, here is the catalog PDF in which you can scroll to around pages 76-79 to view the Two-Tone cardstock. Or click the link below.
