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Stampin’ Up! Tranquil Thoughts Are Quite Curvy

Stampin’ Up! Tranquil Thoughts Are Quite Curvy

Happy Friday everyone, do you have great plans for the weekend? Or is it just a time to rest and relax and preparing for the coming week?  For me rest, sitting with an ill person all week is so tiring especially when you are an old person, but I would have it no other way.  Have a fun weekend whatever you choose to do.

My card today features two of my favorite stamp sets, Quite Curvy and Tranquil Thoughts.  This was an easy card to create, but I changed the design for the art piece three times before I was satisfied with how it looked. Have you ever had that happen?

My inspiration for today’s card is the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #412.

Start with a Basic White card stock base. Layer a panel of Basic White card stock embossed using the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder to the card base using Multipurpose Glue.

Colorwash a panel of Basic White card stock using Seaside Spray ink and a Blending Brush.  These brushes make color washing so easy.  The ink seems to glide onto the card stock.  After coloring, cut three strips and mat using Night of Navy card stock.  Adhere to the embossed panel.

Crop an oval using the largest one from the Stitched Shape Dies. Stamp the garland of flowers from the Quite Curvy Stamp Set in Tuxedo Memento Black ink onto the oval.  Color using Rococo Rose and Granny Apple Green Stampin Blends Markers. Stamp a greeting from the Quite Curvy Stamp Set in Tuxedo Memento Black ink between the garlands on the oval.

Crop a Basic White card stock butterfly using a Brilliant Wings Die and color wash with Highland Heather ink.  Pop onto the oval.

The first oval I cropped ended up being too small for the card front so I am using it on the sentiment panel for the greeting.  The greeting is from the Tranquil Thoughts Stamp Set and is stamped in Tuxedo Memento Black ink. Adhere the oval to the panel, then stamp using black ink the garland from the Quite Curvy Stamp Set above and below the oval. Color using Stampin Blends in the same color as the front.

The medium Basic White envelope flap gets a panel of Oh So Ombre DSP. 

If you would like to create this card all the products used and the card cuts are at the end of this post.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you will join me on my stamping journey as I share my cards with you each day.  My hope and wish are that you will be inspired to create amazing creations yourself.  Any questions you may have, you know you can always contact me.  Have a blessed day!


Questions? You can Contact Me.  If you need any stamping supplies, I’d love to be your Demonstrator.  Just click on the Shop Now button on the top right side of the screen to go directly to my online store.  You can Shop in my online store HERE.

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So Cool

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  • The So Cool Paper Pumpkin Kit is a little taste of summer fun, with enough supplies to make 12 colorful, shaped cards with coordinating envelopes. Six card bases are popsicle shaped, the other six are semicircles: three watermelons and three rainbows. All of the cards are splashed with cheerful, vivid watercolor images. The kit also includes two full-size, matching sticker sheets, die-cut accents, fun embellishments, and more.
  • This kit was designed with kids in mind, as a way to spark their creative imagination and introduce them to papercrafting.
  • The So Cool Kit makes a great gift! It’s an even better way to enjoy some quality time with those special little ones in life.
  • Even though the So Cool Kit was designed with kids in mind, these fun-shaped cards, featuring vivid watercolors, are versatile enough to gift to kids of all ages—the young in years and the young at heart. They’re a great way to send some “sunshine in a card!” Who wouldn’t love that?
  • The kit’s exclusive So Cool Stamp Set is versatile, offering sentiments that can be used for multiple occasions such as birthdays, congrats, cheer, and more! It’s a great addition to any crafter’s collection.

Details

  • Kit includes enough supplies to make 12 fresh, fun-shaped cards—6 popsicles and 6 blank semicircles to color—and coordinating envelopes. Kit includes card bases, 2 full sticker sheets, decorative die-cut pieces, embellishments, and more.
  • Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
  • Coordinating colors: Blackberry Bliss, Bermuda Bay, Bumblebee, Cinnamon Cider, Old Olive, Terracotta Tile
  • Coordinates with the Ice Cream Corner Suite from our January–June 2021 Mini Catalog.

Subscribe to the April Paper Pumpkin Kit between 11 March and 10 April at paperpumpkin.com!

Note: Supplies may be limited toward the end of the subscription period.

THERE’S MORE TO LOVE IN THE COORDINATING ICE CREAM CORNER SUITE!

ICE CREAM CORNER DESIGNER SERIES PAPER – 154567

Keep the creative fun going by pairing the So Cool Kit with the Ice Cream Corner Designer Series Paper (154567) featured in our 2021 January–June Mini Catalog. It’s a great way to use the kit’s stamps, ink, stickers, and more to further indulge your craving for summer fun. Plus, the paper is part of the matching Ice Cream Corner Suite, so there’s virtually no end to the possibilities!

Coordinating colors: Bermuda Bay, Blackberry Bliss, Cinnamon Cider, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Pool Party, Purple Posy, So Saffron, Soft Sea Foam, Terracotta Tile

Click this link to view the suite and start shopping.


Stampin’ Up! Products Used in Creating This Card

 Card Cuts

  • Basic White card stock
    • Card Base — 4-1/4″ x 11″ scored & folded at 5-1/2″
    • Embossed panel — 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
    • Sentiment panel — 4″ x 5-1/4″
    • Three Color Washed Strips — 3/4″ x 5-1/8″
    • Art panel — 4″ square
    • Sentiment panel — 3″ square
  • Night of Navy card stock
    • Mat for color-washed strips


Stampin’ Up! Beautiful World

Stampin’ Up! Beautiful World

Happy  Day, have a lovely weekend.

My card today features the Beautiful World Stamp Set.

My challenge inspiration design is from the Tuesday Morning Sketches

Start with Mossy Meadow card stock as the card base.  Picking a Mossy Meadow card from the World of Good Memories & More Card Pack.  Trim to the desired size. Mat using Basic White card stock, then adhere to the card base.  Pick another card from the World of Good Memories & More Card Pack. Trim to the desired size and mat on Night of Navy card stock.

   Make a faux mat using a scrap of Basic White card stock.  Adhere this panel over the Mossy Meadow panel.  Cut a strip of Night of Navy card stock and antique the edges by tearing the edge of the paper toward you as you tear it.  Stamp the greeting on a small strip of Crumb Cake card stock and do the edges the same as the Night of Navy strip.  Pop three stars from the Star Designer Elements over the Night of Navy strip.  Fussy cut one of the golden worlds from one of the cards in the World of Goods Memories & More Card Pack and mat on a circle of Night of Navy.

Stamp the sentiment in Night of Navy ink on a panel of Basic White card stock.  Stamp the world in Night of Navy ink using one of the world stamps from the Beautiful World Stamp Set.

Give a medium Basic White envelope a panel of 2021-2022 Incolor 6″ x 6″ DSP to the envelope flap.

If you would like to create this card all the products used and the card cuts are at the end of this post.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you will join me on my stamping journey as I share my cards with you each day.  My hope and wish are that you will be inspired to create amazing creations yourself.  Any questions you may have, you know you can always contact me.  Have a blessed day!


Questions? You can Contact Me.  If you need any stamping supplies, I’d love to be your Demonstrator.  Just click on the Shop Now button on the top right side of the screen to go directly to my online store.  You can Shop in my online store HERE.

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Use this host code when you order $50 or greater and receive a free gift from me!  If your order is over $150, please do not use this code, but you’ll still get the free gift.  The free gift is your choice of any item valued up to $10.00 in any active Catalog!


Stampin’ Up! Products Used in Creating This Card

Card Cuts

  • Mossy Meadow card stock
    • Card base — 4-1/4″ x 11″ scored & at 5-1/2″
  • Night of Navy card stock
    • Band across the top of card — 1-1/4″ x 4-1/2″
    • Mat for World panel — 2″ x 3-1/8″
    • Mat for World — 2-1/2″ square
  • Crumb Cake card stock
    • Greeting — 1-1/4″ x 2-1/4″
  • Basic White card stock
    • Mat for background panel — 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″
    • Sentiment panel — 4″ x 5-1/4″


Stampin’ Up! Forever Fern

Stampin’ Up! Forever Fern

Happy Monday, it is going to be a beautiful day, even if the dreaded pollen is being to appear.  That pollen will be with us for a while and it interferes with being outside.

Yesterday’s card featured the Forever Greenery DSP that comes with the Forever Fern Suite.  Today the stamp set Forever Fern is featured.  The greeting and sentiment are from the Happy Thoughts Stamp Set.  I am hoping this Happy Thoughts set carries over to the next catalog.

My design inspiration is from the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.

Start with a Basic White card stock base with a panel of the same cropped using the largest Stitched Rectangle Die and embossed using the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder.

Crop three rectangles using one of the smaller Stitched Rectangle Dies, then stamp three different images from the Forever Fern Stamp Set in Garden Green, Rich Razzleberry, and Pear Pizzazz ink.

A greeting from the Happy Thoughts Stamp Set is stamped in Rich Razzleberry ink on a scrap of Basic White card stock and then cropped using one of the smallest Stitched Rectangle Dies.

A sentiment from the Happy Thoughts Stamp Set is stamped in Pretty Peacock ink on a Basic White card stock panel.  An image from the Forever Fern Stamp Set is stamped in the upper left corner in Rich Razzleberry ink.  Look at the difference between the two images, It must be something with the camera that causes the one at the top to look this way.  Anyone know the cause let me know, please.

A medium Basic White envelope gets a panel of Forever Greenery DSP applied to the envelope flap.

If you would like to create this card all the products used and the card cuts are at the end of this post.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you will join me on my stamping journey as I share my cards with you each day.  My hope and wish are that you will be inspired to create amazing creations yourself.  Any questions you may have, you know you can always contact me.  Have a blessed day!


Questions? You can Contact Me.  If you need any stamping supplies, I’d love to be your Demonstrator.  Just click on the Shop Now button on the top right side of the screen to go directly to my online store.  You can Shop in my online store HERE.

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Here’s To You

Subscribe February 11th – March 10th

Three cheers for mountain air, a sky filled with sunshine, and finding joy in life’s journey! Adventure awaits inside this month’s majestic, mountain-themed kit. With enough elements and embellishments to create eight cards and coordinating envelopes, the Here’s to You Paper Pumpkin Kit is the perfect pick for celebrating life’s little moments and mountain-high milestones!

What makes March’s kit one-of-a-kind? The spectacular set of four free stencils—and a stamping sponge—that you’ll find inside! Pair this pack of stunning stencils with the kit’s contents to stamp a springtime scene, then store the set to stamp for any season in the future. Clean up your binoculars and dust off your hiking boots—the Here’s to You Paper Pumpkin Kit is ready to lead you on an excursion to explore your creativity!

ABOUT THE MARCH KIT

NAME: Here’s To You

Details

  • Kit contains enough supplies to create 8 cards—4 each of 2 designs—and coordinating envelopes. The kit’s contents include printed card bases, die-cut paper pieces, embellishments, adhesive, and more!
  • Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
  • Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
  • Coordinating colors: Bumblebee, Calypso Coral, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Pretty Peacock, Seaside Spray
  • Includes four free stencils and a stamping sponge!
  • Arrives in a cute and collectible box.

Subscribe to the March 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit between 11 February and 10 March at paperpumpkin.com!

Note: Supplies may be limited toward the end of the subscription period.


Stampin’ Up! Products Used in This Creation

Card Cuts

Basic White card stock

  • Card base — 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ scored & folded at 4-1/4″
  • Sentiment panel — 3-3/4″ x 5″
  • Embossed panel cropped with die — 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ Cropped with largest die

 


Stampin’ Up! Butterfly Wings

Stampin’ Up! Butterfly Wings

Good Morning all!  It is Friday, again, seems it was just here.  For retired people, it should make no difference what day it is but somehow it seems to make that difference.

My card today is featuring the wonderful, beautiful dies that come with the Butterfly Brillance Stamp Bundle.  They are called Butterfly Wings.  Beautiful butterflies can be cropped using these dies.  When I see butterflies or create a card using butterflies, I think of my niece who left this earth much too young.  She loved butterflies and maybe it was so because her name was so related to the outside world — Stormie Woods. 

My design layout is inspired by the Tuesday Morning Sketches.

This is a very easy card for today.  Start with a Bermuda Bay card stock base, add a panel of the Butterfly Bijou DSP that has been cropped using a Stitched With Whimsy Dies.

Crop another panel using a smaller Stitched With Whimsey Dies to pop over the Vellum card stock butterflies cropped using a Butterfly Wings Dies.  Color the edges of the butterflies using a Dark Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends Marker. Adhere a dot of Multipurpose Glue to the dark tip of the butterfly wings to hold them in place.

Crop the smallest Stitched With Whimsy Die, stamp the greeting from Grace’s Garden Stamp Set in Bermuda Bay ink on the cropped label.  Pop a Pearl Basic Jewel on the greeting and two others around the card front. The card front is now finished.

The sentiment panel is left blank for a note except for the side border of butterflies from the Butterfly Bijou DSP

A medium Basic White envelope gets a panel of the Butterfly Bijou DSP applied to the envelope flap.

If you would like to create this card all the products used and the card cuts are at the end of this post.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you will join me on my stamping journey as I share my cards with you each day.  My hope and wish are that you will be inspired to create amazing creations yourself.  Any questions you may have, you know you can always contact me.  Have a blessed day!

Questions? You can Contact Me.  If you need any stamping supplies, I’d love to be your Demonstrator.  Just click on the Shop Now button on the top right side of the screen to go directly to my online store.  You can Shop in my online store HERE.

  • Ready to Join our team?  Click HERE  for more information. 
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March 1-15 Host Code: FKWU4DFZ

Use this host code when you order $50 or greater and receive a free gift from me!  If your order is over $150, please do not use this code, but you’ll still get the free gift.  The free gift is your choice of any item valued up to $10.00 in any active Catalog!


Here’s To You

Subscribe February 11th – March 10th

Three cheers for mountain air, a sky filled with sunshine, and finding joy in life’s journey! Adventure awaits inside this month’s majestic, mountain-themed kit. With enough elements and embellishments to create eight cards and coordinating envelopes, the Here’s to You Paper Pumpkin Kit is the perfect pick for celebrating life’s little moments and mountain-high milestones!

What makes March’s kit one-of-a-kind? The spectacular set of four free stencils—and a stamping sponge—that you’ll find inside! Pair this pack of stunning stencils with the kit’s contents to stamp a springtime scene, then store the set to stamp for any season in the future. Clean up your binoculars and dust off your hiking boots—the Here’s to You Paper Pumpkin Kit is ready to lead you on an excursion to explore your creativity!

ABOUT THE MARCH KIT

NAME: Here’s To You

Details

  • Kit contains enough supplies to create 8 cards—4 each of 2 designs—and coordinating envelopes. The kit’s contents include printed card bases, die-cut paper pieces, embellishments, adhesive, and more!
  • Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
  • Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
  • Coordinating colors: Bumblebee, Calypso Coral, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Pretty Peacock, Seaside Spray
  • Includes four free stencils and a stamping sponge!
  • Arrives in a cute and collectible box.

Subscribe to the March 2021 Paper Pumpkin Kit between 11 February and 10 March at paperpumpkin.com!

Note: Supplies may be limited toward the end of the subscription period.


Stampin’ Up! Products Used in This Creation

 Card Cuts

  • Bermuda Bay card stock
    • Card base — 4-1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5-1/2″
  • Butterfly Bijou DSP
    • Background panel on card front — 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″
    • Butterfly panel — 2-3/8″ x 2-3/8″
    • Greeting — 1″ x 1″
  • Oh So Ombre DSP
    • Sentiment panel — 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″


Stampin’ Up! Happy Thoughts

Stampin’ Up! Happy Thoughts

Good morning, I hope everyone’s week has gone great.  My week has been pretty busy, not even card-making time and you know how it is with a card addiction, but life happens and we deal with it.

Today’s card is for a dear, dear friend that lost her husband and then her daughter four days later.  She has been so grief-stricken that she doesn’t want people calling her and won’t answer her phone.  She is a lovely ole lady with flaming red hair still.

Today’s card features the Happy Thoughts Stamp Set.  I hope this set is around for a long, long time because it has such wonderful sentiments.  I also used the Hammered Metal 3D Embossing Folder and the 2021-2022 Designer Series Paper that was available when someone joined during Sale-A-Bration.  Being a demonstrator I had the opportunity for a short while to purchase this DSP.

Design inspiration comes from Try Stampin’ On Tuesday.   

The card base is Basic White card stock with a panel of Basic Black card stock as the mat for the Hammered Metal 3D Embossing Folder used to emboss the Basic White panel.

I used dies from the Layering Ovals Dies to crop the two ovals for the greeting. One is from the new 2021-2022 DSP the other that the greeting is stamped on in Garden Green ink is from a panel of Basic White card stock.  A length of black ribbon is wrapped between the Basic White card stock and the DSP and a bow is made to pop on.

Hearts are cropped using a die from the Stitched Be Mine Dies to create the shamrocks.  The hearts may be the negative portion of the hearts I have inside on the sentiment panel may be the negative portion, I guess it is according to you think of it.  The three scalloped strips from Basic White card stock at the bottom of the front panel are cut with an old, old and I mean old pair of scissors.  There are more modern ones today.  Three Rhinestone Basic Jewels are popped around the card front.

A sentiment from the Happy Thoughts Stamp Set is stamped in Garden Green ink on a panel of Basic White card stock.  The hearts are the ones left when I cropped the panel of DSP to get the hearts to create shamrocks.

A medium Basic White envelope gets a panel of the 2021-2022 DSP applied to the envelope flap.

If you would like to create this card all the products used and the card cuts are at the end of this post.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you will join me on my stamping journey as I share my cards with you each day.  My hope and wish are that you will be inspired to create amazing creations yourself.  Any questions you may have, you know you can always contact me.  Have a blessed day!


Questions? You can Contact Me.  If you need any stamping supplies, I’d love to be your Demonstrator.  Just click on the Shop Now button on the top right side of the screen to go directly to my online store.  You can Shop in my online store HERE.

  • Ready to Join our team?  Click HERE  for more information. 
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  • Check out the Clearance Rack and save up to 70%.
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March 1-15 Host Code: FKWU4DFZ

Use this host code when you order $50 or greater and receive a free gift from me!  If your order is over $150, please do not use this code, but you’ll still get the free gift.  The free gift is your choice of any item valued up to $10.00 in any active Catalog!


Stampin’ Up! Products Used in This Creation

 Card Cuts

  • Basic White card stock
    • Card Base — 4-1/4″ x 11″ scored & folded at 5-1/2″
    • Embossed panel — 4″ x 5-1/4″
    • Sentiment panel — 4-18″ x 5-3/8″
  • Basic Black card stock
    • Mat for embossed panel — 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
  • 2021-2022  Designer Series Paper 6″ x 6″
    • Focal panel card front — 3″ x 4-1/4″
    • Mat for greeting — 1-3/4″ x 3″
    • Envelope flap — 2-1/” x 6″