Blue Blooms Butterfly

The Butterflies Thinlits are so easy to use! It takes very little else to make a lovely card. This card will likely end up in the "Mother's Day Collection" for my mom. Shhhh! Don't tell!

A bit of the beautiful Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper (DSP) behind the cutout draws your eye to the details of the butterfly. I used glue dots to adhere the butterfly body to the DSP.

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Stamps: Four You
Paper: White, Painted Blooms DSP
Ink: Pacific Point
Accessories: Butterflies Thinlits, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Rhinestones

Free Shipping and the Berry Basket

Stampin Up is offering a great promotion--Free Shipping on any purchase today (April 6) through Friday (April 10)! Get your order in and save BIG! 

Another Berry Basket--this one full of 3x3 cards and envelopes. I lined the basket with Designer Series Paper (DSP) by cutting 2 extra basket pieces from the (now retired) Sale-a-bration Best Year Ever DSP.

3x3 cards are really fun to make. Here are two from this set. I'll show the others in the next few days. 

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Stamps: Big Day (Retired SAB), Sew You (March Paper Pumpkin)
Paper: Whisper White, Best Year Ever DSP (Retired SAB), Crushed Curry
Ink: Soft Suede, Coastal Cabana
Accessories: Itty Bitty Accents Punches, Word Bubble Framelits, Hello You Thinlits, Berry Basket Die

Strawberry Easter Basket--No Fooling!

This cute basket is made with the Stampin Up Berry Basket Die. It goes together VERY quickly--always a nice quality--and makes a great Easter basket, gift basket, or storage container.

At Stamp Club in March, we made cardstock strawberries to fill our baskets, because they're so cute! I looked on Pinterest for the strawberry template and used this one. I printed it on white cardstock, then traced it onto Real Red for the strawberries. It's a very simple shape to cut. Don't let it scare you off! Then emboss with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, score, and adhere together. The template provides a "leaf," but I cut them out with one of the Flower Fair Framelits instead. Thread Pistachio Pudding baker's twine through the top of the strawberry "petals," then through the "leaf," and pull tight. Tie in a bow. You could put something small inside the strawberry if you wanted to, but we didn't.

Here's another view of the basket:

I'll be featuring more Berry Baskets in the next several days so you can be as excited about this die as I am! Happy Spring!

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Stamps: Crazy About You, One Tag Fits All, Pictogram Punches       
Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Sky, Whisper White, Kraft Gift Wrap (Clearance Rack), Real Red, Wild Wasabi   
Ink: Real Red, Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Sky   
Accessories: Berry Basket Bigz Die, Note Tag Punch, Flower Fair Framelits (leaf), Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack (flower), Baker’s Twine in Baked Brown Sugar and Pistachio Pudding, Soft Sky Seam Binding

Irresistible in the Garden

It was really difficult to get a good picture of this card! As you know, I'm a big fan of yellow, so of course I had to try Crushed Curry on the Irresistibly Yours DSP! Then I thought the little flower punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack coordinated so well with the flowers on the print, so I added a few punched from vellum scraps. I used the Daffodil Delight Blendabilities to color tiny pearls for the center of each punched flower.

The Designer Series Paper (DSP) is really the star of the show here, so I let it shine! This paper is so versatile! Make sure you get yours before Sale-a-bration is over!

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Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners
Paper: Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Irresistibly Yours DSP (SAB)
Ink: Crushed Curry, Blendabilities in Daffodil Delight
Accessories: Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder, Bitty Banners Framelits, 1/2" circle punch, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack (flower punch), Painted Blooms Cotton Twine, Pearls

Corny Gift Card Holder

One of my favorite products from the Holiday Catalog is the Gift Card Envelope and Trims Thinlits! Whew that's a long name. I give gift cards to my nephews and brothers quite often, so this seemed like the perfect, easy solution. 
 

I love the corn print from the Color Me Autumn Designer Series Paper--I just wanna take a bite out of it! Just cut a 6 inch strip and wrap around the short side of the envelope to hold it closed. The set of thinlits contains the banner, a tag, a heart, and a little "washer" for closing the envelope.

The Lucky Stars embossing folder added just the right amount of texture to the envelope, and the sentiment is from And Many More in the main catalog.

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Stamps: And Many More
Paper: Old Olive, Naturals White, Cajun Craze, Color Me Autumn DSP
Ink: Cajun Craze
Accessories: Gift Card Envelope Thinlits, Lucky Stars Embossing Folder, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack (star punch)

Project: Birthday!

Project Life by Stampin' Up! I love the pieces for cardmaking--they make it easy (just like memory keeping) to pull together a great project with very little extra needed. Here, a stamp from Four You and a few flowers with sequins are all that's needed for a fun birthday card! What are you doing with your Project Life by Stampin' Up!?

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Stamps: Four You
Paper: Pool Party, Basic Black
Ink: Pool Party
Accessories: Thick Baker's Twine, Gold Sequin Trim, Itty Bitty Accents Punch pack, Everyday Adventure Project Life by Stampin' Up!

June Thank You Cards

This was my June thank you card for anyone who placed an order. I love the Hardwood background stamp paired with feminine or floral images! The tiny pearls are colored with the lightest Rich Razzleberry Blendability marker, as are the ears and nose on the cute little mouse.

Thank you to all who keep my business running!

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Stamps: Hardwood, Just Sayin', Life in the Forest
Paper: Smoky slate, Blushing Bride
Ink: Smoky Slate
Accessories: Blushing Bride 3/4" Chevron ribbon, Itty Bitty Accents Punches (flower), Word Bubble Framelits,  Chalk Talk Framelits, Decorative Dots embossing folder, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" scallop circle punch, pearls, Rich Razzleberry Blendabilities

Paper Pumpkin Bonus card

This card is made with parts of the July Paper Pumpkin kit, with just a few extras! I used the Banner Punch on leftover bits of the Paper Pumpkin Designer Papers, then stamped the "party" stamp to create an invitation (or birthday!) suitable any time. A great side benefit of the kits is that you accumulate great stamps and ink spots (the miniature version, no longer available in the catalog) to use in other projects.

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Stamps: July Paper Pumpkin
Paper: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Real Red
Ink: Smoky Slate, Real Red
Accessories: Banner Punch, Itty Bitty Accents Punches (heart), Gray Baker's Twine (July PP kit), Large Polka Dot embossing folder, rhinestones

Patriotic Work of Art

These cards are all the rage right now, and why  not? Work of Art is an amazingly versatile set! Check out more samples I love on my Work of Art Pinterest Board!

I will be taking the month of July off from classes (but not blogging!), except for my Paper Pumpkin Playdate on Tuesday, July 29. If you would like to come for free, order your July Paper Pumpkin kit now (or by July 10) by clicking here. Or you can order on a regular order by using the following codes:

You can order just one month at a time, if you wish. The kits are new and improved, with more supplies, photopolymer stamps, and clearer instructions. As always, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about Paper Pumpkin!


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Stamps: Work of Art
Paper: Whisper White
Ink: Real Red, Night of Navy
Accessories: Itty Bitty Accents Punches, Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine, Rhinestones

In Color Stripes

I took the idea for this card from a sample in the new 2014 Catalog--page 72. I loved the simplicity of it, and added a bit of sparkle with the rhinestones. It was also a great way to feature all 5 In Colors at my Catalog Kickoff Party!

Tips and tricks: Cut the strips of colored cardstock a little bit longer than the base you attach them to. It makes it easier to line them up! Then just trim off the excess.

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Stamps: Another Thank You (photopolymer)
Paper: Naturals White, Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow, Tangelo Twist, Lost Lagoon, Hello Honey
Ink: Mossy Meadow
Accessories: Itty Bitty Accents (heart punch), rhinestones