One of the new little tidbits from Stampin’ Up!’s new annual catalog that I want to share with you is “Shop the Project”. This is a little blurb next to some of the projects in the catalog that tells you a few of the items that are used on the project.

In the image above (which you’ll find on page 13 in the catalog) you can see a beautiful project . Below the project it lists the embossing folders that were used on the project. It also gives you the page number where you can find each embossing folder as well as the item number and price for each folder.

You can also see the outline with the words “Shop the Project” around the products and right near the project. You’ll find this little outline with “Shop the Project” throughout the catalog. It’s a great way to find out a little more about the products used on certain projects.

The many samples in Stampin’ Up!’s new 2020-2021 Annual Catalog are amazing! Did you know that I have access to the “recipes” for these projects? If there is a certain project that you’d love to recreate and would like to know what items were used on it as well as tips on creating it just let me know. I’m happy to share. This access is one of the many perks of being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Did you know that during the month of June new demonstrators can pick a FREE Bundle from the catalog to add to their Starter Kit? Not only do you get to choose $125 in merchandise for only $99 but you can add on ANY Bundle found in the catalog! That’s a pretty good deal. On average, that would be an additional $50 in merchandise! Contact me if you’d like more information on this fabulous deal and opportunity!

Have a great day! Take care and don’t forget to check out the “Shop the Product” feature in the new catalog!

One of the first stamp sets in Stampin’ Up!’s new Annual Catalog that caught my attention was Celebrate Sunflowers from the Flowers For Every Season Suite (pages 10-13). Sunflowers make me smile so I knew I needed this stamp set bundle in my life.

Today is Monday and I had intended to do a Make It Mine Monday post where I take someone else’s card and switch it up a bit and call it my own. I started with really good intentions after viewing Mary Fish’s beautiful card below.

I love the way she die cut the Early Espresso for the center and outline of the flower and layered it over the Bumblebee cardstock to make her flower. Don’t get me wrong, I love her entire card but when I finished my rendition that was about the only similarities that our cards have.

I like my card and I’m very pleased with the way it turned out but other than the sunflower itself and maybe the Whisper White layered on Early Espresso, our cards are not that similar. I was definitely inspired by Mary’s card but the card I created is definitely my own. And that’s okay.

As you can see from the picture, I didn’t adhere the entire outline die to the solid sunflower. I just used adhesive on the center of the outline piece. The outline is very fine so you’d have a hard time even using a glue pen to add glue. I could have used an adhesive sheet when I die cut the image but I wanted mine to pop up a little on the edges.

Are you wondering about that fun background on the Whisper White cardstock? I used the Old World Paper 3D Embossing Folder on it. It’s from the Old World Suite in the catalog and you can find it on pages 24 and 185. I can see myself using this new folder a lot.

The ribbon is the 1/4″ Faux Suede Trim from that same suite. You can find it on page 24 also as well as page 161. It’s really soft. Even though the ribbon and the embossing folder aren’t in the same suite of products as the Sunflower they sure do work well together!

Did you notice that I decorated the inside of my card as well as the envelope with the sunflower stamp? No naked envelopes! It’s always fun to try to add an image or some decoration to your envelope.

Be sure to contact me if you’d like the dimensions and/or directions for this card.

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping! Smile!

Here’s the first episode of Cruise the Catalog! Today I want to share with you how easy it is to find things in Stampin’ Up!’s new 2020-2021 Annual Catalog. Here’s a quick video highlighting the different ways you can find things in the catalog:

To quickly summarize the video:

• Table of Contents that correspond to colored tabs
• Alphabetical Stamp Index on page 189
• Alphabetical Accessory Index on page 192
• Search by category (animal, flower, masculine, etc.) in the search box in my online store

That’s it! Be sure to contact me with any questions you may have on finding things in Stampin’ Up!’s new annual catalog.

Today’s the day! Stampin’ Up!’s 2020-2021 Annual Catalog is here! Not only can you view it online now but you can order from it now too! Woo Hoo!

There are a few things you should be aware of as you are scrolling through the online catalog and preparing your order:

• The first thing to note is that the exciting new Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine that you may view throughout the catalog and on page 170 are not yet available for purchase.  The accessories for these machines found on page 172 aren’t available yet either.  These items will hopefully be available sometime within the next few months.

• You can still purchase dies and embossing folders found on pages 173-185 as they will work with other die-cutting machines.

• Due to the Covid-19 virus, social distancing and other health precautions Stampin’ Up! shipping is delayed.  You won’t be receiving your orders as quickly as you used to.  If you are in a hurry to receive your order consider using one of the expedited shipping options.

• Some products may not be available when the catalog goes live or they may go on back-order or non-orderable status quickly.  This is because Stampin’ Up! may have issues in receiving products from suppliers.  You can find a list of some of these products here. There also may be quantity restrictions on some items like the ink refills for the new 2020-2022 In-Colors.

Stampin’ Up! appreciates your patience during these uncertain times as do I.  Please contact me if you have any questions on the new catalog, it’s products or shipping.  Have a fun time scrolling through the catalog!

During June’s Cruise The Catalog event I will be sharing Stampin’ Up!’s new 2020-2021 Annual Catalog with you.  I will be sharing with you in emails, Facebook Posts and Blog Posts things that I don’t want you to miss while looking at the new catalog.  I will be sharing videos, posts, and projects highlighting the catalog itself as well as the new products in it.

I won’t be sharing the same information on all platforms so you’ll want to check out all of them throughout the month.  I also won’t be sharing on all platforms every day.

• You’re reading this on my blog so you’ve got that covered.

• You can make sure that you’re on my mailing list by either emailing me (cindy@stampbystampcreations.com) with a request to add you or you can sign up right here on my blog. Just look for the sign-up box to the right of this post.

• You can find my Stamp By Stamp Facebook page here.  Head on over and like the page so you don’t miss anything there.

I’m pretty excited about this cruise and I hope you are too!  Thanks for joining me!  Here’s to smooth sailing!  😀

I will admit it. I am like the little mouse in the children’s book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”. I get easily distracted on move on from one thing to the next. As I was making up the Simple Card Classes To Go kits for customer that ordered them I decided that I needed more. So, instead of finishing putting the kits together I got out my designer series paper and started creating again. I couldn’t stop!

In the photo above you can see the variety of the new Simple Card Classes To Go that I came up with. There are kits for kids, guys and of course we have to have flowers! You can check out all of the new designs (and the previous ones I offered) right here. You can also find out the details on how to order the Classes To Go on this page.

I’ve had a lot of fun designing these classes. I hope you’ll have a lot of fun putting them together!

Have a great day! Happy Stamping! Stay Healthy!

Yesterday I shared with you a fun birthday card made with Stampin’ Up!’s adorable Birthday Bonanza Suite. Today I want to share a treat container made with the same suite. My friend Jan designed this container for our March Stamp Camp that we had to cancel.

Isn’t this treat container fun? Jan outdid herself with this design. She loves creating treat containers with the Starbuck’s frappuccino bottles. Jan used the Bonanza Buddies stamp set, the coordinating Bonanza Dies, and the fun Birthday Bonanza Designer Series Paper from the Birthday Bonanza Suite. She also used my new favorite Stitched So Sweetly Dies. So many fun products on one little treat container!

Today is Tuesday so not only do I have this fun project to share with you but I have a Tuesday’s Tip for you! When stamping the fun little lion or koala bear from the Bonanza Buddies stamp set you want to stamp the face image with the eyes, nose and mouth FIRST. Since the stamps are so tiny, it’s easier to line up the head around the eyes, nose and mouth than it is to fit the eyes, nose and mouth into the little areas for these images.

In the photos above I first stamped the body and then tried to line up the face. As you can see, I was a little off. Now check out the photos below. Here I first stamped the eyes, nose and mouth and then lined up the body around those stamped images. So much easier!

That is Tuesday’s Tip! When stamping these cute little critters, stamp the eyes, nose and mouth first!

Have a great day! Take care, happy stamping, and stay healthy!

It’s Make It Mine Monday! Today I want to share a fun birthday card with you using the adorable Birthday Bonanza Suite. The products in this suite are perfect for kids of any age and it’s all about birthdays.

The colors in this suite just make you smile. Bermuda Bay, Mango Melody, Daffodil Delight and Terracotta Tile are the main colors. The suite consists of a stamp set, coordinating dies, ribbon, little pom poms and printed gusseted cellophane bags.

The above card is mine but I completely CASEd it from Anne Marie Hile. If you look at Anne’s card below you can see that I really didn’t change much on my card. I skipped the sequins, used a different color of Baker’s Twine, simplied the left border on the designer paper and put the sentiment on the inside of the card.

I used most of the products in the suite on my card. The only two items that I didn’t use were the bags and the pom poms. Don’t these products just shout “let’s have some birthday fun!”. I definitely smile when I see these products. The critters are ADORABLE!

I hope this suite makes you smile as much as it makes me smile. Have a great day! Happy stamping and stay healthy!

Have you been looking for a simple craft project during this time of social distancing?  Do you want to send a handmade card to someone but don’t want to take the time to design one yourself? 

If you answered yes to either of these questions, I have a solution for you….my new Simple Card Classes To Go! The cards in these classes are full size note cards highlighting Stampin’ Up!’s gorgeous designer series papers.  No stamping involved!  All you need is adhesive!  All paper is cut and scored and ready for you to make your cards.  Envelopes and directions are included. Currently I have two different class kits designed and available for purchase: 

The Ornate Garden Simple Card Class To Go

This class is designed using all 12 different designs found in the new Ornate Garden Specialty Designer Series Paper Pack.  The cost for this class-to-go is $20 for 12 cards.  

Best Dressed Florals Simple Card Class To Go

This class is designed using the 9 floral designs found in the Best Dressed Designer Series Paper Pack.  The cost for this class-to-go is $15 for 9 cards. 

The deadline to order these two kits is Tuesday, April 14th.  This gives me time to order the supplies, cut the projects, and package everything so the kits can be available sometime the week of April 20th. Kits can be picked up from my porch, delivered locally or shipped via USPS priority shipping. 

f you’re looking for a stamp set to go with your kit that has a variety of sentiments my new favorite is the Peaceful Moments stamp set.  You can order it yourself in my online store or I can add it to your Class To Go order.  The stamp set would be an additional $24 with tax and shipping if ordering with your kit.

To order Simple Card Classes to Go please contact me via email, text, or phone (email address and phone number can be found below) and let me know the following information:

• Name
• What Kit(s) you would like to order
• If you would like to add the Peaceful Moments stamp set to your order
• Whether or not order will be shipped (USPS Flat Rate Priority shipping is $7)
• Email address for electronic invoice via Paypal or Square

I am excited about these new kits.  I hope you are too.  It’s an easy way to stay creating with you since we won’t be having in-person classes in the near future. 

Don’t forget that the deadline to order either of these classes is Tuesday, April 14th.  Please contact me with any questions you may have on my Simple Card Classes To Go. Take care, happy stamping, stay healthy! 

Cindy Russell
Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator
(303)903-2228
cindy@stampbystampcreations.com

It’s new! It’s beautiful! And the Ornate Garden Suite of products can be yours! What better way to make you smile than a whole suite of flowers?!

This suite of products contains 2 bundles (each containing a stamp set and a set of dies), a floral embossing folder, a ribbon combo pack and GORGEOUS designer series paper! These products can be purchased separately or all together in a suite.

Head on over to my online store and see all of the products included in this suite. I think you’re going to like them! I can’t wait to start playing with these products and sharing them with you!

Have a great day! Take care, happy stamping and stay healthy!

Life is crazy, that’s for sure. I hope you and your loved ones are all doing well. How about a little sweetness on this Monday morning? This little treat is one that my friend Jan designed for “The Stamp Camp That Didn’t Happen”.

How clever is this with the little jar of honey and the honey dipper stick? I think it’s adorable! This cute Golden Honey designer paper was a Sale-a-bration choice but unfortunately it’s no longer available.

Instead of designing a box that would hold the honey and the honey dipper stick, Jan started her project with a Clear Tiny Treat Box (#141699 $7.50/16). She just snipped of the lid before assembling it. She then cut a 2″ x 12″ strip of designer paper and scored it on the long edge at 2″, 3″, 5″, 7″, 9″ and 10″. Lay the paper on the table with the side of the paper that you want showing on the outside towards the table. Now the inside score marks (3″, 5″, 7″ and 9″) get folded in a valley fold (V) to make the folds that go around the box and the two outside score marks (2″, 10″) get folded the opposite way in a mountain fold to help make the straight piece on top. This is a pretty easy project and would be perfect for anything that you can fit in a little 2″ x 2″ box.

My friend Jan is really good at coming up with all of these fun little treat packaging for our stamp camps. I always look forward to seeing what she comes up with for us.

I hope you enjoyed your little taste of sweetest with this little Honey Treat. Have a great day. Take care, happy stamping and stay healthy!

Oh, my gosh! The March Paper Pumpkin Kit is fabulous! I’m in love! I received my March Paper Pumpkin kit this past weekend and I finally got around to playing with it yesterday. I’ve just been so busy lately what with having to social distance and stay in my house. You’d think that with at least 8362 things I could be doing I might actually do something! Ha!

Back to this amazing kit. Just look at that adorable box! Don’t you love the rain boots? Rain boots are definitely the theme for the kit. Below you can see the directions sheet which shows the three different cards you can make with the kit.

One of the sentiments included in the stamp set is perfect during these trying times: “No matter the weather we’re in this together”. I decided to use this sentiment on all of the cards. I’m planning on sending them out to my friends and family that I can’t see right now. Below you can see my cards. I kept them a little simpler than the samples but that’s the beauty of the kits. You can make them how ever you’d like.

The two cards without sentiments on the front have the sentiment on the inside. I’m really excited about sending these out. I hope they make someone’s day. These cards are note card size. I thought about making them into a full size card but the I fell into the cute, lined envelopes! Ha!

Did you know that as a Paper Pumpkin subscriber you can order refill kits for the monthly kits? I am definitely order at least one refill kit. I’m in love with these cards!

March is Paper Pumpkin’s birthday month. To celebrate Paper Pumpkin included an extra full-size stamp set in the kit that coordinates. Check it out in the photo below. I can’t wait to play with it! I’ve seen some great samples made from it online already. I’ll definitely keep this set in my stash.

Now that I’ve finished with the March Paper Pumpkin kit I can hardly wait for the April kit. It’s all about family and relationships and the kit will contain 8 full size cards for you to make. If you want to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin just click here. Or, if you’d like to purchase a prepaid subscription and earn a Sale-a-bration item or two during this last week of Sale-a-bration just head on over to my online store.

Have a great day! Take care, happy stamping and stay healthy!

Wow! This has sure been a crazy couple of weeks. A little over a week ago my SASSY Stampers & Friends were going to hold a Stamp Camp for almost 48 people at my church.

Needless to say, we had to cancel the event. I was a little stressed out for a few days and now I’m almost lethargic. Not really, I just can’t seem to get motivated. As I told my husband, “I have 8362 things I could be doing but I don’t feel like doing any of them”. It pretty much sums up my days.

But enough about me. I need to share the projects from the Stamp Camp that didn’t happen. The first project I want to share with you is “the bag”. For our stamp camps we like to give the participants a decorated bag to put all of their completed projects in. It also holds the little treats we’ve made for them. The fun thing about these bags is that you can usually take off part of the decoration and make it into a card!

Isn’t it pretty? Simple, yet elegant. My friend Jan designed all of the little gifts and the bag. To make sure everything lined up she made a couple of templates. She had a template for the acetate so that the rows of poppies lined up. The poppies were stamped with StazOn on the acetate.

Jan then had a template for the stamped Whisper White cardstock. The cardstock was lined up on the template so that you knew where to stamp the large poppy, then the rows of poppies. The flowers were stamped with Memento ink so the large flower could be colored with the Real Red Stampin’ Blend Marker.

Once the poppies were stamped we punched out the large flower with the 2 1/4″ Circle Punch and then adhered that to a Real Red 2 1/2″ circle and popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The cardstock focal point is the exact size of a card front. Remove it from the bag and adhere it to a card!

Stay tuned this week to see some of the fun projects we put in the bag! 🙂 Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping! Stay Healthy!

The Champagne Rhinestones in Stampin’ Up!’s 2020 Mini Catalog are gorgeous and they look fantastic on projects. However…..Stampin’ Up! is having a hard time getting them restocked due to the darn Corona virus. Never fear though…..

Your favorite demonstrator has a hack for you! I wanted to use them on a project for my class last month and couldn’t order them. Of course, I had already designed the card and didn’t want to design another one so I got out my Stampin’ Blends markers and tried to come up with the same color.

The Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends were too light. I tried adding other colors to it but it just didn’t work. I finally got out my Light Cajun Craze marker…and it was perfect! Well, as perfect as you can get without having the real thing.

I’m telling you…it really works! You will definitely want to give this a try! It’s amazing what you can do with the Stampin’ Blend markers. They color ribbon, rhinestones…even paper! Ha!

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s tip! Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

The Back on Your Feet stamp set is absolutely adorable and perfect to send to someone who’s had an accident, is ill or is just going through a rough time. If nothing else, the images of the critters in the stamp set will make you smile.

I mean really, what’s not to love about the injured sloth, the knotted neck giraffe or the poor little turtle stuck on his back?! This is definitely a stamp set I will hold on to for awhile. Which critter is your favorite?

I knew I wanted to use this stamp set in a class and I decided on the adorable sloth laying on a tree branch. For the sentiments I chose “Sigh…Sometimes that’s all there is to say–and that I’m here for you”. Even though the little sloth has a cast on his arm I think you could use this card for someone going through a rough time or is ill.

I stamped the sloth with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored him in with my Stampin’ Blend markers. I then die cut the cardstock with my new favorite dies, the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I love the new scalloped, stitched rectangle dies in this set of dies! They set off the focal point of your card perfectly! The background is embossed with the Layered Leaves 3D Embossing Folder. There’s nothing too fancy about this card but I do think it will make the recipient smile…unless of course they despise sloths!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!