Heart Shaped Bundle for Every Occasion

A Versatile Heart Shaped Bundle for Every Occasion

I’m absolutely loving the Heart Shaped Bundle, and I have to say—this set is way more versatile than you might think! While hearts are often associated with Valentine’s Day, this design proves that they can be used for so much more. 💚

For this card, I combined Granny Apple Green and Melon Mambo to create something perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, or simply sending a sweet note to someone special. The intricate heart frame adds just the right touch of elegance, while the bold pop of color makes the greeting stand out beautifully.

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What occasion would you use this bundle for? Let me know in the comments!

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A Bunch of Birthday Cards

Every once in awhile, I like to do strictly birthday cards for my stamp-a-stack.  So this year I decided to  do the birthday cards in my birthday month so I can easily remember when we did them.  Many times we do all occasion cards that can be made into birthday, but these are pretty clearly birthday only!  (We will sneak in an Easter bunny card too this month.)

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Tasty Trucks Birthday

Oh my goodness!  Tasty Trucks was one of my two favorite Sale-A-Bration sets the first time I saw the catalog.  I chose to use that set for a demonstrator swap card that I created back in December, but this one was for last weekend's Stamp-a-Stack.  We were already using the watercolor pencils with a blender pen so I decided we should keep with the blender pen and use the stamp pads.   For anyone who had never used the blender pen, it was a great chance to learn a couple of different ways to use it.

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Marquee Shaker Cards

This new Marquee Messages stamp set is so much fun.  I made a couple of options for my stamp class last week.  They both had paper piecing, but we left the So Saffron card on the white background without trimming it down.  The sequins are leftovers from my July Paper Pumpkin kit - lucky timing for some extra pieces!

Birthday Spinner Card

Have you made a slider card before? Long ago I used a razor blade or the word window punch, but not anymore! The new Sliding Star framelits are fantastic. There is a coordinating stamp set, Shooting Star, but I did not order it. There are so many uses for the framelits even without the coordinating stamp set. This card was inspired by my friend Cheryl, who demonstrated several creative ways to use the framelits. And last night at stamp class, this one was one of the favorites of my stampers.

Stained Glass Rose

Ahhh, I've been away too long. My family experienced a loss and I stepped back from stamping for awhile, but I'm back in business now.  Just this week, I went to a meeting with fellow Stampin' Up demonstrators and then met Kathy Jo and her friends at her party.  As a result, I have a lot to share with you over the next few days!

This technique is called the Stained Glass technique and I first saw it on Pinterest (don't you just love Pinterest?) from Tami White.  I demonstrated it at my demo meeting, and we'll be doing one of these cards at my next stamp class on March 24.  Let me know if you'd like to join us!

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Birthday Candle Birthday Card

My goodness I have not been a very good blogger lately...  My most recent excuse is the terrific vacation I took a week ago.  Hopefully you'll see that in the near future in the form of Project Life pages.  I ordered the photos yesterday and am anxious to get started.

In the meantime, I have been creating cards and other projects - just too soon to share a few.  But here are the cards I did yesterday.  My friend, Jim, sent me a card with a candle on it, and I loved the idea. So on a recent grocery trip, I grabbed a box of candles and whipped these out pretty quickly.

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Bokeh Technique Birthday Card

This technique is everywhere these days, but it took awhile for me to warm to it.  But I'll tell you once I found a color combination I liked, I was in love.  It is so much fun to blend the inks and then daub the white ink over it.  

Build a Birthday

You can begin ordering from the new catalog today!  This set, Build a Birthday, is one of the great new sets available, and I was excited to be able to pre-order it.  The coordinating washi tape has lots of fun possibilities too!  I am going to a demonstrator meeting tonight and this will be my swap.  Hope everyone likes it!

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Colored Embossing Birthday

Before the Blendabilities markers were discontinued I created this card for my embossing class.  We embossed with white embossing powder and then colored the top of the image with Blendablities.  I wasn't sure it would look good up close, but really it's easy and quite dramatic looking.  

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Happy, Happy Birthday Card

This was just a quick card I put together with the Crazy About You stamp set in the occasions catalog.  It didn't make the cut for a stamp-a-stack project, but still a cheerful, happy card that would be fun to get in the mail.  

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Chalkboard Technique Easel Birthday Card

Oh I just love this card!  We did it at my embossing class and it features the chalkboard technique.  Angie Hutton's blog gave me the idea to actually make it into an easel when doing a quick search on Pinterest for Chalkboard Technique.  To create a chalkboard technique project, emboss with white embossing powder.  Then with a sponge, dab white ink on the dark cardstock to "smudge" it and make it look like a used chalkboard.  

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Big Day Birthday

I do love making Christmas cards, but when December 25th rolls around, I'm ready to put away the red and green and pull out my newest goodies. I pre-ordered from the Occasions and Sale-a-bration catalogs in December and had all sorts of fun new stamps and accessories waiting for me.  I created these cards with the Sale-a-bration set, Big Day.   While I was at it, I used Sale-a-bration DSP too. This paper is Best Year Ever and is one of the exclusive products you can choose for free from the Sale-a-bration catalog for every $50 you spend.  If you haven't received your catalog yet, let me know.  

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Bloom with Hope Birthday

The new Bloom With Hope hostess set is a beautiful floral set.  There are several stamps that have that sketched look and a number of words to choose from.  The flowers will color nicely but I really enjoyed using my new Blendabilities.  And good news for those of you wanting to get your own Blendabilites - the first 6 colors are available for purchase as of July 1!  The remaining 6 color families will be available August 1.  

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It's Your Celebration from Life's Adventure

Here's a card I made with Life's Adventure, a hostess set from the new 2014-2015 catalog.  I also used my new Blendabilites markers to color this image and they are just so easy to work with.  I will get better on the blending, but I really was just wanting to color with them and take advantage of the 3 different shades of the same color this time.  If you can't wait to get your hands on some of these markers, you'll have to wait a little longer or take advantage of the $50 starter kit to join Stampin' Up and order them as a demonstrator.  

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Secret Garden Double Slider Card

As a part of my demo at Spring into Stamping, I also did Double Slider Cards.  You can find directions at splitcoaststampers.com when you search slider cards.  I'll post a few more over the next few days, but if I have to pick a favorite, this is it!  I'm so sorry to see the Secret Garden stamp set is on the retired list - I had a great time mixing and matching these flowers for this card.

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Happy Birthday Giraffe Slider Card

 

Once I started making these slider cards, the ideas started coming to me and I was looking for creative ways to show the versatility of this type of card.  This will be my last post of a slider card I made for my demo, but I don't think this will be the last slider card for me.  I made 3 different types of slider cards so you'll be seeing lots more posts of double and triple tier slider cards, but I have to say this "single" slider could be my favorite.  There is still the dramatic flair of pulling it out to reveal what's hidden behind, but this card is no more difficult than a "regular" card. 

 

It's obvious from the cut showing above the fence there is something more to come, but until you pull, there's no way to know it's a pair of giraffes!  And judging from the comments made during my demo, this was a favorite of my fellow stampers.

 

 

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Wheely Sweet Friend Slider Card

 

I love this style of slider card.  It's so easy to make an impressive looking card when all I really did was stamp a few times and cut! Check out some of the other slider cards I put together for my Spring into Stamping demo in recent posts here, here, here and here. 

 

 

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Blast Off Slider Card

 

Here's another one of my favorite slider cards from my Spring into Stamping demo.  It happened to be the very first one I did, but how can you go wrong with this stamp set?  Thanks to Rae Anne for loaning it along with a few others that lend themselves to a slider card.  Cutting through 2 layers on my paper cutter was not easy and if I had to do it again, I would go right to the hobby blade.  For the card I did with 3 layers, the hobby blade was the only option. 

 

There are so many great stamps in this set that it was easy to decorate inside and out.  I had to be careful not to put the rocket too far to the right or it would have gone off the edge of the card and not fit in the envelope. 

 

Check back for more slider card samples this week!

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Birthday Wishes Card in a Box

 

Here's one more card in a box.  It didn't make the cut for the card in a box class I did a couple of weeks ago, but it was too cute not to share.  The birthday packages are my favorite section!

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