Circle Punch Flowers Card

These circle punch flowers turned out great and are perfect for my to go cards this month!  Per Stampin' Up's policy, I can't pre-stamp anything so I put together kits that don't require any stamping beyond a greeting.  I can punch and die cut so my stampers will have an envelope of circles and leaves to assemble in the comfort of their own homes!

I was able to use 4 of the 5 new 2022-2024 InColors and threw in a little Flirty Flamingo on the center flower.  And the leaves?  They are from the cherry punch!  Isn't that fun?  And the stems are freehand from scraps.  Imagine all the color combinations you can try!

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Sending Smiles Birthday Card

I spent my afternoon making a swap card.  It's one of the fun perks of being a demo.  We get to preorder from new catalogs, and then we swap with other demonstrators.  We make a set number and send them off to the swap hostess, and she swaps them out and sends us back that same number of different cards made by demonstrator friends.  It's a great way to get ideas or to see new product being used!  We make full cards so sometimes I have used one to send to one of my stampers who has seen and/or made all of my ideas already.  

I used the new Sending Smiles stamp set and dies to make this cheerful card, and I love, love, love the new In Colors, Parakeet Party and Orchid Oasis together.

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Ice Cream Stand Up Card

 No Designer Series Paper?  No problem!  Sweet Ice Cream is a great set!  Everyone loves ice cream in the summer, and I’ve made another fun fold that stands up when you take it out of the envelope.  

For the card base, start with a 8 1/2 x 5 1/2.  Coming in from the side, score at 2" and 3 1/8".  I find it easiest to turn the card and do the same thing from the other side.  Less mesurements to worry about that way - you do the same thing on both sides.

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I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream

I made this fun Z fold card to show off the Sweet Ice Cream stamp set and coordinating punch.  The punch makes it so quick and easy to make a cute card by punching cones and scoops - stamped or from the Designer Series Paper.  

There’s just something about a Z fold that really fancies up a card, and I love to use it on a card that doesn’t have ribbons and other embellishments.  The card base is the recently retired Purple Posey, but the sentiment and ice cream cones would make a perfect card for adults, children, male or female. Because it’s so versatile, I included this card in July’s take and make to go kits so my stampers can make their own at home.    

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Life is Beautiful Adirondack Chair Card

If you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen a couple of pictures of this work in progress.  (And if you don't, please hop over there and start)!  I was getting it ready for a demonstrator swap and it was one of the first projects I did for the new catalog.  I made 28 of these and got 28 different cards back from my demonstrator friends - so much fun to get that package in the mail!

The Colorful Seasons Bundle is going to be a regular in my rotation because it is so versatile.  It includes beach chairs, leaves, flowers and snowflakes so each season, it will be new again!  

To create the sand and water, I tore the top edge of cardstock and Color Theory Designer Series Paper.  Our cardstock has color throughout so you get a colored edge even after tearing.  But if you tear towards yourself on the Designer Series Paper, you get the white edge for whitecaps on the waves.  I did borrow some stamps from High Tide for the sand, grass, and birds.  Check back later this week for my best tip for gluing all of those chairs on neatly!

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Just Breath Adirondack Chairs

This new thinlit is hands down my favorite in the new catalog. I've always loved Adirondack chairs, and this set is so versatile because it represents all of the seasons.  Colorful Seasons stamp set and Seasonal Layers Thinlits will be in my regular rotation.

The combination of 3 of the new In Colors for the chairs is really what made the card.  Berry Burst, Fresh Fig and Powder Pink look so great together.  To create the sand, I use the water stamp from the High Tide stamp set and tore the top edge of my cardstock.   I finished it off with the birds.  Who wouldn't want to be sitting in one of those chair right now?

Quick and Easy Jars of Love Card

This is easily a favorite new set of mine.  This is a quick little card we made at my Stampin' Up! garage sale a few weeks ago. I've made a few more Jars of Love cards since then and will be sharing them soon!

Crazy About You Hello

One of my stampers described this as a "happy card"today.  I'm glad to know that's how someone else sees this card when making it.  Imagine how someone might feel receiving it!?!

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Bright and Cheerful Peaceful Petals

This is a modified version of a swap card I received from Laura Borchert.  Several of my stampers commented on it when looking through my recent samples so I decided I should do this for a stamp-a-stack.  We stamped and cut the center flower out by hand, and in Laura's version she colored with the matching Melon Mambo and Calypso Coral markers.  The bright cheerful colors were just want we needed on another sub-zero stamping night!

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Quick Thank You

I just recently added this Embellished Events stamp set to my collection.  What took me so long?  It's such a great set and so useful for so many occasions.  We did this little 3 x 3 thank you card at Kim's party.  The ladies could choose to make a thank you, thinking of you, congratulations, or a celebrate card. 

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Easy Events All Occasion

This all occasion card turned into a sympathy, get well, birthday, anniversary and Easter card at last weekend's Stamp-a-Stack.  We used Watercolor Wonder Crayons for the coloring, and that was a hit with many of the stampers.  Looks like we will be doing more watercolor crayons soon!

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Secret Garden

This beautiful stamp set is from the new Occasions Catalog that is starting today, January 3, and running through May 31.  It is called Secret Garden and has a coordinating framelit die set.  And like the last catalog, Stampin' Up! offers the two together in a bundle at a 15% savings.  The border was created with one of my Delicate Designs Embossing Folders, and  I used a sympathy greeting but feel like this card can be used for most any occasion.  If you are coming to my stamp-a-stack tomorrow night, we will be making this card along with two other all occasion cards. 

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Sneak Peek Patterned Occasions

 

Here's a sneak peek of the new Sale-a-bration Patterned Occasions stamp set available starting January 22.  With the Regal Rose and Chocolate Chip cardstock combination, I was able to stamp one of each stamp for a variety of cards. 

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Hello Friend Card

Here is another of our recent Stamp-a-Stack cards.  It was inspired by a swap I saw at convention a year ago.  I didn't own this set, My Friend, until that convention but there were so many great cards made with it that I came home and had to order it.  I hadn't used it for awhile so felt like a new set to everyone. 

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Gingham Technique Pefrectly Preserved Cherries

Don't have a background paper that works for your color combination?  Make your own.  This gingham technique was easy to do.  Using your brayer, ink up the inside of your Stripes Embossing Folder.  Put your card stock in the folder and run it through the Big Shot like you would normally do.  Then reink your folder and turn the card stock a quarter turn before placing it in the folder again.  Run it back through the Big Shot and voila - you have a gingham background with texture too! 

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Lovely as a Tree Reflection Technique

September Stamp Club is tomorrow so I guess that means I am a little slow if I am just now posting an August Stamp Club project featuring the reflection technique.  After sponging the background with the two colors, we stamped the tree at the top.  Then we reinked the stamp, stamped it onto waxed paper and then pressed the waxed paper down below the tree to create the "reflection".  This is such a good stamp set to use to create the refection and a perfect time of year to do it!

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Perfectly Preserved Flowers

Here's another Perfectly Preserved card.  I've posted cards with the pear and the apple and now here are the flowers from that set.  Maybe that versitility is one of the reasons it has been a popular set with my customers. The new woodgrain embossing folder adds a nice fall touch too.

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Perfectly Preserved Jar Card

 

I am sure a lot of you are Pinterest readers too and may have seen several of these types of cards with the window lately.  This Perfectly Preserved stamp set just has so many possibilities.  For this card, stamp the jar on a Window Sheet and when you open the card, there is a pear down in the bottom corner.  

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Cheers

The Happy Hour stamp set lends itself to bright and cheerful colors.  I picked three colors and started stamping the cheers word down a strip of paper and had this card made in no time.  I look forward to using it at Christmastime too because there's a spring of holly and the words - "Wishing you Christmas Cheer and a Happy New Year!".

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Apple Thank You Card

I took my color choices for this card from the coordinating Orchard Harvest Designer Series Paper and stamped the apples in Raspberry Ripple.  Who knew?  Raspberry apples.  But it looks great and fallish.  This paper pack has a lot of great choices so it was easy to put a card together around this paper.  I'm looking forward to using the Cannery Set Framelits with this stamp set too! 

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