How can anyone not LOVE Sale-a-bration?! FREE products! This card was made using 3, YES 3!, Sale-a-bration products! What are they? They are the Lovely Lily Pad stamp set (free with a $50 purchase), the COORDINATING Lily Pad dies (free with a $100 purchase) and the gorgeous Lily Impressions Designer Series Paper (free with a $50).
After the adorable The Gang’s All Meer stamp set these lily products were my next Sale-a-bration choices. Beautiful! If you go on Pinterest and search for Lovely Lily Pad you will find TONS of projects made with these products. I do have to admit I did CASE this card from Pinterest. I used Bonnie O’Neill’s card and basically just changed the size of the circles and put my lily inside the circle.
I really didn’t change too much on Bonnie’s card. Why mess with a good thing, right?
You can see all of the products I used below this post. Did you know that if you click on a product it will take you directly to my online store? Pretty neat, huh? 🙂
I need to work on some other samples using these products. My group’s stamp camp is next week and I’m using these products on my project. Now I need samples so the guests can see what else you can do with the products. I guess I better get busy…
Sale-a-bration is over on March 31st and these products will be gone for good. Go and start making that wish list and place that order! Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!
Not only is Bloom & grow a good name for a Stamp Set it’s also a good mantra for life! Be your best and always strive to improve. None of us are perfect and there is always something we can do better if we try. I do know this for a fact…. 🙂
Bloom & Grow
Let’s get back to the Bloom & Grow stamp set though. It’s a beautiful stamp set with lovely sentiments AND coordinating dies! This stamp set can be found in the main catalog and it’s actually been around a year or two.
I wanted to design a card that wasn’t too difficult since it’s for my classes this week. This card fits the bill! A few layers (ok…I could maybe have cut back a litte here…), a little coloring and a little die-cutting. That’s it!
I am loving the Stitched So Sweetly dies! This set of dies has these cute scalloped, stitched rectangles as well as fun stitched labels that layer beautifully! I actually used these dies on a number of the cards we’re making in class this week! These dies are one of my favorite purchases from the new Mini Catalog.
Stitched So Sweetly Dies #151690 $32
I did get the idea for this card online. I did change it up a little bit as you can see from the original card below:
OK….I didn’t change much on it did I? I switched the flowers from the bottom to the top, left off the rhinestones and had a wider border. But that’s why we share our creations…to inspire others and give them ideas to use! Thank you Jan for sharing your card and inspiring me!
When you see my Make It Mine Monday creations I hope you all see how easy it is to either recreate someone else’s design or to switch a few things up and make it your own!
Woo Hoo! Look what came in the mail on Saturday! My February Paper Pumpkin Kit! Now that I’ve challenged myself to actually put my Paper Pumpkin kits together once I receive them in the mail I’m getting pretty excited about them!
February 2020 Paper Pumpkin Kit
Here is the direction sheet with the color photograph of the completed projects. Nine birthday cards! Who doesn’t need birthday cards?! They were all fun and easy to put together. A little stamping, a few Stampin’ Dimensionals and a few glue dots was all it took for these fun cards.
My finished cards
My favorite part of these cards, which you can’t really tell from the photos, was the blush pink foil outlines on the banners and the large words of each card. It really adds that special touch. And face it, you can’t go wrong with pink. Ha!
Have you tried Paper Pumpkin recently? I’m loving it! We demonstrators are now getting little teasers about the next month’s kits. Yes, most of the time we now know ahead of time if the kit will contain cards or 3D projects. We also get a hint of the theme of the kit. For example, we knew that this kit contained birthday cards.
So what’s coming next month? Well….it’s going to be special because March is Paper Pumpkin’s birthday. Paper Pumpkin has been around for 7 years! Wow! As a special thank you, the March kit will contain a FREE stamp set! No, not just the one that comes with the kit, an extra FREE stamp set! Wow!
March 2020 Paper Pumpkin
Here’s your teaser for the March Paper Pumpkin kit. The name of the kit is “No Matter the Weather”. Think Spring, daffodils, umbrellas, rubber boots….and a FREE stamp set! Check out those fun colors on the specially designed box! There’s still time to get in on the March Paper Pumpkin kit. Just sign up today!
There are a couple different ways to sign up for Paper Pumpkin. The first way is to simply head on over to the Paper Pumpkin website and sign up with your credit card. Your card will be charged $22 (includes shipping) each month just before the kit is sent. You can put a hold on your account at any time or cancel if you aren’t enjoying the kits.
The second way to sign up for Paper Pumpkin is to purchase a prepaid subscription. You can purchase a 1 month ($21), 3 month ($63), 6 month ($114) or 12 month ($220) subscription. The nice thing about a prepaid subscription is that you can add other Stampin’ Up! products to your order when you pay for your subscription. And guess what? You can earn Stampin’ Rewards or Sale-a-bration items with your prepaid subscriptions with qualifying orders! To purchase your prepaid subscription just head on over to my online store!
If you have never subscribed to Paper Pumpkin now is the perfect time to give it a try. If you are a past Paper Pumpkin subscriber now is the perfect time to give it another try. Seriously, these kits just keep getting better and better!
Be sure to contact me if you have any questions on Paper Pumpkin! I’d love for you to give it a try. Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!
A few weeks ago I shared with you my January Paper Pumpkin Kit and all of the projects I made with it. The kit included small 3″ x 3″ cards as well as some Valentine treat bags. When I started making my projects I repurposed the little treat bags as I didn’t think I had anyone to give them to…or so I thought. Then it dawned on me that I could put a “thank you” on them instead of a valentine saying. That is exactly what I did. I ended up with about 10 or so.
Paper Pumpkin Treat Bags
Aren’t they cute? I made them exactly as the directions said. I am still in the mountains at our time-share and I brought them with me. I’ve been handing them out to anyone who has been helpful to me: waiters & waitresses, shuttle drivers, desk help here at the resort and even maintenance works! Everyone has been pleasantly surprised and grateful that someone thought enough of them to give them a little something extra.
Random acts of kindness really do go a long way. I really need to do something like this more often in my life…not just when I make cute treat bags with my Paper Pumpkin kit.
We finally made it up into the mountains a day after we had planned due to a 24 hr snow storm. We are enjoying ourselves as usual. Rest, relaxation, too much food and skiing for some of us.
When you’re in the mountains you need to post a mountain card! This gorgeous card was made by my friend and fellow demonstrator Janet Muse. A lot of work went into this card with all of the different layers. Janet used the Mountain Air stamp set and the coordinating Majestic Mountain Dies.
The Mountain Air stamp set is one of the new Reversibles stamp. These type of stamps are fun to use. The stamps have an image on each side of the stamp. One side is usually the outline/intricate image and the other side is a solid image that will fill in the first image. Of course each side can be used separately if desired. Check out the video below for more information on this stamp set and the coordinating dies.
I haven’t played with these fun products yet but they will probably be on my next order! How about you?
It’s that time of year when we have our time share week in Breckenridge, CO. We love it up there and look forward to our time in the mountains. However…Mother Nature is not cooperating. It’s absolutely beautiful out this morning…if you like SNOW! Down here in the Denver area we have probably close to 6″ on the ground and it’s still snowing. In the mountains they could get close to 3 FEET and many of the roads are closed.
It’s looking like our week in the mountains may be shortened by a day. I guess I’d rather be safe than sorry though.
Breckenridge, CO
If you haven’t been to Breckenridge you should put it on your list of places to visit. It’s a fun little mountain town all year around. I haven’t skied for a few years now but I’ll be getting back on the mountain one of these years. I enjoy just relaxing in our place or wandering around downtown. There are tons of cute little shops as well as my favorite little wine bar. 🙂
It’s time to go pack just in case the roads clear up later. Have a great day! Stay warm and Happy Stamping!
We can all use a little love in our lives whether it comes from family, friends or a complete stranger. It’s Throwback Thursday but I’m only going back about a year. I love this little project L-O-V-E project!
LOVE Banner
This was pretty easy to make and guess what? Many of the products I used on the banner are still available! The Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets aren’t available any longer but that’s the only item you’ll have to come up with another plan for.
The hearts are all made using the Stitched Be Mine dies (#148527 $35) and the letters are from the Large Letters Framelits dies that are now on the clearance rack (141712 $59.40) at almost half off the orginal price! I would definitely think about picking these dies up if you don’t have them. There are lots of projects that you can make using them.
Large Letters
Here is the link to the original post where you can get instructions on how I made it. This little banner was pretty easy to make. You can easily swap red or pink paper for the foil sheets. You could also punch out the large hearts from the From My Heart Specialty Designer Paper in the current Mini Catalog if you want. There are all sorts of ways to change this banner. You could even use the Hand-Lettered Prose dies instead of the Large Letters if you wanted.
I hope you find a little L-O-V-E in your lives. Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!
Brrrr! I feel like I’m back in the Minnesota Homeland! When I woke up this morning the temperature was in the single digits and barely above zero! For Colorado that’s VERY VERY COLD! I want to go to the tropics where it’s WARM!
Since I can’t just jump on an airplane right now I can do the next best thing and dream of a tropical vacation while playing with my crafting supplies…or just staring at tropical cards my fellow demonstrators have made. 🙂
Tropical Oasis Memory & More Cards
Check out this fabulous card that my friend and fellow demonstrator Keri Young designed. Don’t you love it? Keri made this for the recent swap I hosted. The rectangular focal point is one of the Memory & More cards from the Tropical Oasis Suite. Keri used many of the different cards for her swap cards but kept the basic card design the same. Clever! I’m telling you….the tropics, or at least thinking about them will be my happy place today!
Have you played with any of the Memory & More cards yet? You don’t have to be a scrapbooker to use these cards. As you can see from Keri’s card above the cards can work perfectly on a greeting card! I have a set of these Tropical Oasis Memory & More cards. Now I just need to sit down and play with them…..and today may just be the day! Brrr!
I hope you have a warm and productive day! Take care and Happy Stamping!
It’s Throwback Thursday! Who remembers the What I Love Sale-a-bration stamp set from 2016? This was one of my all time favorite Sale-a-bration stamp sets. I just love those flowers.
What I Love
Before Stampin’ Up! had DistINKtive stamps that look realistic you had to rely on two or three step stamping to get your dimensional-looking image. This stamp set was easy to work with because it was easy to line up the different images.
I still love this stamp set and will be sad if it’s not in my stash of retired stamps. The good news is that Stampin’ Up! keeps coming out with new stamp sets to replace our old favorites! Ha!
No, I’m not in Hawaii nor am I going to Hawaii in the near future….I just made a card that made me wish that I was in Hawaii! Ha! The Tropical Oasis Suite will definitely make you think of a tropical vacation.
Tropical Oasis Suite
Oh, my! Check out all of the goodies in this bundle! Stamp set, dies, designer series paper, trinkets, braided trim, embossing folder, new ink and Memories and More cards! Wow! You will love these products! They all coordinate and make you think tropics!
I think my favorite product in the suite (at this point, anyway…) is the embossing folder. It’s called Coastal Weave. Check it out:
Coastal Weave Embossing Folder
Now, I can’t tell you all about this fabulous suite of products without sharing a project with you! This was my first project made with this suite and I only used the stamp set, dies and of course the embossing folder from the suite on it. It kind of makes you want to head on over to a tropical island and walk on the beach.
Timeless Tropical Project
I must have a thing about trees. If I see a stamp set with a tree I really want it. These palm trees are what called to me when I first saw this stamp set….them and the gorgeous flowers.
To make the sandy beach I took a strip of Crumb Cake cardstock and tore one of the long edges. Then I took a Stampin’ Sponge and lightly dabbed on some Soft Suede ink. It’s hard to tell from the picture but I also did a little sponging on the sun to add a little depth to it. The trees are stamped in the Soft Suede ink and then colored with a Dark Old Olive Stampin’ Blend Marker and a Light Soft Suede Stampin’ Blend Marker.
Ah….Tuesday’s Tip! You don’t just have to use Memento Tuxedo Black ink to stamp your images before coloring them with your Stampin’ Blend Markers. You can use any Stampin’ Up! ink pad! All of the Stampin’ Up! colored ink pads are water-based just like the Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad is!
If you haven’t heard this before, the reason you need to use a water-based ink pad is because the Stampin’ Blend Markers are alcohol-based. You want to use the opposite type of ink pad. If you used a StazOn ink pad which is alcohol-based with your Stampin’ Blends your images would smear since both the ink pad and the markers are alcohol-based. The same goes when you’re water-coloring your stamped images: you want to use an alcohol-based ink pad so when you watercolor the ink won’t bleed.
Dimensions: Crumb Cake card base: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″, 3 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ Soft Suede: 5″ x 3 3/4″, scrap Pool Party: 4 3/4″ x 3 1/2″ Whisper White: 5 1/4″ x 4″, 2 3/4″x 3 3/4″ So Saffron: scrap
I hope you have a warm and tropical kind of day! Take care and Happy Stamping!
Adorable! These little critters are TSC! (Too Stinkin’ Cute!) How can you not want to own this stamp set?! This stamp set is the very first one you see in Stampin’ Up!’s Sale-a-bration Brochure. Stampin’ Up! definitely knows how to grab your interest! I sure fell in love with these little guys. They were my very first Sale-a-bration choice…yep…you can choose this stamp for FREE with a qualifying order during Sale-a-bration!
The Gang’s All Meer
Check out this adorable and easy card that we made in my classes recently. The most difficult part of the card was cutting out the little hat and that wasn’t bad at all! The fun background is made using one of the stamps from the Birthday Backgrounds stamp set which is found in the Annual Catalog. This time of year it’s hard to remember that there are still tons of amazing stamp sets in the Annual Catalog….we get caught up with all of the new products that have come out in the Mini Catalog and the Sale-a-bration Brochure!
Dimensions: Thick Whisper White cardstock for card base: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ Lovely Lipstick: 5 1/4″ x 4″, 2 3/4″ x 3 1/4″ Whisper White: 2 1/2″ x 3″, scrap for hat Crumb Cake: 5″ x 3 3/4″ Ribbon: 3 3/4″, 4″
Poppies are popping everywhere these days! Check out the photo below….I was at the party store and saw these cute plates and napkins. I just got on the Amazon website and searched for poppies. I found poppy everthing! Scarfs, glassware, sheets, shower curtains, pillows, peel-and-stick wall decor….the list goes on. Poppies are BIG now!
Poppies!
If you don’t believe me that poppies are “in” now, you haven’t checked out the front of your 2020 Mini Catalog!
2020 Mini Catalog
Look at all of those poppies! Aren’t they gorgeous?! Check out the Peaceful Poppies Suite starting on page 24 of the Mini Catalog. Look at all of those fantastic products!
So many fabulous products! Two stamp sets, two sets of dies, GORGEOUS designer series paper, sequins, ribbon and die-cut elements! WOW! You really do have to check out the paper. It’s amazing!
Painted Poppies
I played with this suite just a little bit after the holidays and made some fun and simple cards. Here’s one of them. I stamped card front with the poppy outline in the Poppy Parade ink. I stamped my focal point of many poppies twice on the Whisper White card stock. I colored the poppies with my Dark Poppy Parade Stampin’ Blend, layered the stamped image and adhered it to the front of my card with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Easy Peasy!
This suite of products is definitely going to get a lot of use! Have you ordered yours yet? If not, you can head right on over to my online store and order it today! 🙂
January is all about making goals and trying to improve things in our lives. One of my (many) goals this year is organization. I try, but it doesn’t always happen because I’m so messy! Yes. I hate to admit but I can be a slob. It’s time to make a change and 2020 is the year to do just that! Let’s get this ball rolling and get organized!
One step at a time, right? My whole house needs organization but we’re going to focus in on my craft room. Let’s start small….say with how I store my Stampin’ Blends Markers.
Stampin’ Blends Storage by Stampin’ Up!
I love my Stampin’ Blends Markers and I love my Storage by Stampin’ Up! for my Blends. The Blends fits perfectly and it’s easy to organize whichever way you want in the storage unit. I’ve grouped mine by color family and then alphabetically in each color family.
Now you’re wondering why I’m talking about changing things up and getting organized if I’m using this great little storage unit. Well, it’s because as a demonstrator, I usually have more than one set of markers. This is because if I have a large class or my group is holding a Stamp Camp I sometimes need duplicates.
I found a little plastic drawer unit when I was cleaning out a closet one day and have been using that but there’s no organization to it. If I’m looking for a specific color I have to go through all the markers in the little drawers to find the color I’m looking for. So it was time to get organized.
Stamp Case
Even though Stampin’ Up! doesn’t carry wood block stamps any more (except for background stamps), you can still purchase the stamp cases and they are great for storage! Yes! This is what I’m using to store my duplicate Stampin’ Blends!
Stampin’ Blends Storage
I’ve used the Full Wide Stamp Cases. You can easily fit 14 markers in a case. I was debating on whether to use my label maker to label the case but decided to make some labels with my computer that slip perfectly into the plastic sleeve cover. And guess what….I’ve saved the file so if you’d like to organize your Stampin’ Blends like this and would like a copy of the file just email me at cindy@stampbystampcreations.com. I’d be happy to share! My labels group the markers by generic color: blue, green, purple, pink, orange, red, yellow and neutral. Of course the beauty of a Word file is that you could keep the size and change the description! I love technology! 🙂
An important thing to keep in mind is that you will want to keep the cases flat as you seen in the above photo so the ink stays evenly distributed in the marker!
I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s organization tip. Please leave a comment below and let me know! Thanks! Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!
When a new catalog comes out I usually host a Card Swap for some of my fellow demonstrators. Last week my 2020 Mini Catalog and Sale-a-bration Swap cards were due and I received 18 fun and fabulous cards.
There’s still time to work on your Valentine’s Day projects so I want to make sure you get plenty of inspiration! Today’s card was one of the swaps I received. It was from fellow demonstrator Lisa Van Goor. I love how Lisa used so many of the fun products in the From My Heart Suite. She used the stamp set, the designer paper, the ribbon, the doilies and the punches. That’s five out of the 7 products! Wow!
I love fun fold cards. Isn’t this one unique? The front of the card isn’t one sheet of cardstock. The focal point with all the hearts connects the top and the bottom of the front. Too fun!
Since we’re talking valentines here I was wondering what your favorite valentine color was. Pink? Or red? Pink is my favorite color but for valentines I’m going to have to go with red. Which you do prefer? Leave me a comment and let me know!
On Friday I received my January Paper Pumpkin kit. Usually when I receive my kits they go on the shelf with all of my other Paper Pumpkin kits…I’m a collector. Ha! This month though, I decided to actually sit down and work on my kit. What a concept!
Check out these adorable projects that can be made with this kit. It’s hard to see in the upper right corner but the instruction sheet tells you that the kit will make 10 little 3″ x 3″ cards and 20 little treat bags. Wow!
Now, some of you are probably saying that you don’t need little cards or little treat bags. That’s what I was thinking….at first.
I started my crafting by making one of the little cards and one of the little bags according to the directions as you can see in the first picture below. Then I took what I originally made and made them into full size cards (second photo). In the third photo I’ve made the original projects into note cards.
After these changes I made more cards trying to keep things pretty basic. I didn’t want to get too carried away.
Since I didn’t need any little treat bags I was going to continue making full size cards with the remaining products in the kit. Then I had an epiphany! I would make little thank you treats and hand them out in the weeks leading up to Valentines Day. Waiters, cashiers, etc.. Just a little thank you for something nice someone does. Did you know that a Ghirardelli chocolate fits in the little bags perfectly? Now I just need to pick some up and fill my cute little treat bags!
I had a lot of fun with my January 2020 Paper Pumpkin kit and can’t wait for February’s! I’ve already been given a hint that it will coordinate with the Happy Birthday to You Stamp Set in the Sale-a-bration Brochure! I love these little teasers!
If you’d like to have as much fun as I had with a Paper Pumpkin kit you should sign up to receive these monthly kits. As you can tell from this kit, they’re not all full size cards, but many of the kits are. From my post here, you can also see that when a kit isn’t full size cards, it’s not hard to make to pieces and parts you receive into full size cards with a little extra cardstock.
You can check out the Paper Pumpkin website and sign up today! Give it a try! I think you’ll enjoy receiving this monthly kit in the mail!
