February To Go Kits: Creativity Made Simple!

Love card making but short on time? My February To-Go Kits are the perfect solution! Whether you're crafting at your own pace or need an easy, ready-to-assemble set of beautiful cards, this kit has you covered.

What's Included?

✔️ Pre-cut supplies to create two each of four unique card designs

✔️ Coordinating envelopes for a polished, ready-to-send finish

✔️ A tip sheet with helpful assembly guidance

What You’ll Need:

Simply provide your own greeting stamp, ink, and adhesive—everything else is ready for you!

Cost & Delivery Options:

$20 for porch pickup

$25 shipped directly to you

Pickup & Shipping Details:

📅 Kits will be ready for porch pickup or mailing by February 15th

📩 Let me know if you’d like one, and I’ll have it ready for you!

Don’t miss out—secure your kit today and enjoy a fun, stress-free crafting experience!

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Create a Stunning Butterfly Card in Minutes!

There’s something magical about butterflies, and the new Beautiful Butterflies bundle makes creating stunning, elegant cards a breeze! Whether you’re celebrating National Learn About Butterflies Day on March 14 or simply want to brighten someone’s day, this card is perfect for the occasion.

Why You’ll Love This Card

• Hybrid Embossing & Die-Cutting in One Step! The Beautiful Butterflies hybrid embossing folder allows you to emboss and die-cut simultaneously, saving time without sacrificing beauty.

• Quick & Simple Assembly. This card comes together in just minutes, making it ideal for busy crafters.

• Gorgeous Free Paper! I used the Sale-a-Bration Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper—because who doesn’t love a freebie? Paired with Petunia Pop and Blackberry Bliss cardstock, this color combo is a showstopper!

Supplies Needed:

• Beautiful Butterflies Bundle (stamp set, dies, and hybrid embossing folder)

• Bloom Impressions Sale-a-Bration DSP (or any coordinating patterned paper)

• Petunia Pop, Blackberry Bliss and Basic White cardstock

• Petunia Pop ink & sentiment stamp from Beautiful Butterflies

• Purple Adhesive Backed Sequence from the Sale-a-Bration catalog

When to Send It?

While this card is a great fit for National Learn About Butterflies Day (March 14), any day is a great day to send a little joy! Whether for birthdays, encouragement, or just because, this butterfly card is sure to bring a smile.

I’m popping this one in the mail this week—who will you send yours to?

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Happy crafting!

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Scary Cute Halloween Cards

The Scary Cute bundle makes such cute cards.  Because I do take and make to go kits, I look for sets that have die cutting options.  So the purple card was made with no stamping but the greeting.  The orange card used blending brushes, die cutting, the Stamparatus and stamping.  Such a fun set!!

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October Fall and Halloween Stamp-a-Stack Cards

I had a fun Friday night and Saturday morning of stamping!  A couple of new stampers joined us Friday which is always fun.  And we had a good group Saturday and even went out to lunch afterwards!  

I like to ask what everyone’s favorite card was at the end of class.  My favorite answer is “I can’t decide”, but it sometimes surprises me which cards they choose.  This month it was a fairly even split. 

This Halloween card might be my favorite.  We used blending brushes with Pumpkin Pie and Gorgeous Grape ink to make the spooky background.  And I just love the extra touch the bats add.

And this one was my fall card/Thanksgiving card.  I pulled this long greeting from a old set of wooden stamps I have saved.  Many people went with Thanksgiving, but it also made a nice sympathy card. 

In October I usually do a Halloween card and two fallish cards that can be made into Thanksgiving or all occasion cards. A lot of stampers made this one into birthday, thinking of you and sympathy.

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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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Potted Geraniums Birthday Card

This happy geranium card was popular at our June Stamp-a-Stack last weekend. I didn't set out to match my napkins, but it was a happy accident.  Anyone that has attended very many of my events knows my love of pretty napkins.  Maybe I was subconsciously thinking of the pinks in those napkins when I started stamping.  I used Flirty Flamingo and Melon Mambo for the geranium and it was just the right combination!

For anyone wondering, the treat was a white chocolate snickerdoodle blondie, and it was delicious.  Here's my Pinterest board of successful Stamp-a-Stack treats if you'd like to try them.  

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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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Springy Cards for a Snowy Day

Here in central Illinois, we are have another day of snow.  I designed cards for this weekend’s stamp-a-stack knowing this weather was coming. It looks like I’m going to need to reschedule and will need another card design.  I’m afraid the valentine card will be too late when we are able to stamp next weekend.  Maybe I can put together a slightly modified to go kit for valentine cards!

These other two cards definitely have us thinking springy thoughts!

My friend Mary McCormick designed this bird card for a group swap. I made a few changes, but this card was definitely inspired by Mary‘s creation. I love that little pop of Pool Party ink on the flowers.

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Cards for the Winter Months

It was fun to get back to my craft room after a holiday break to make this month’s to go kit cards.  I decided on a mixture of wintery cards with a little hint of spring coming.  

These card kits are die cut and ready to assemble so when planning, I knew the tree die would make an easy yet stunning card.  That red bird is just the right pop of color.  

February to go kits won't go out until after Valentine's Day so I included this one for anyone who won't be attending an in person event. 

This lovely card make me want my tulips are daffodils to start coming up.  I have this very daffodil in my backyard, and I look forward to putting them in a vase on the kitchen table every year.  

This guy is fussy cut from some of the DSP in the last round of Sale-a-bration.  He's wintery but not Christmasy.  

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Summer Shadows You Inspire Me Card

The new catalog is coming out August 3 and I have so many pre-ordered sets that it's hard to know where to start!  I want to try them all!  I am doing a demonstration of one particular bundle in August for demonstrator friends so that was an easy place to begin.  And thanks to the swap I participated in, I got to play with a different new mini catalog bundle and also some Sale-a-bration products.  

Here is my Sale-a-bration swap card:

I love the black, white and pink combination so when I saw the Beautifully Penned 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper, I knew that's what I was going to do!  This DSP is so great because it coordinates with the Hand-Penned  Petals bundle in the annual catalog on one side and is a much simpler black and white pattern on the other. 

My base is the new in color, Polished Pink, and then I added the basic black and DSP.  Also in the Sale-a-bration catalog, there is a new Summer Shadows die set.  It also coordinates with an annual catalog item, Shaded Sumer Stamp set.  I don't own that stamp set, but as you can see, there's no need to own the stamps to still get a lot of use out of the dies.  I cut my flower pieces out of more Polished Pink and Melon Mambo.  And the leaves are Pear Pizzazz.  I popped the square panel up with dimensionals and attached all the flower pieces flat. 

To finish off the card, I used the "you INSPIRE me" sentiment from the free Sale-a-bration set Delicate Dahlias.  I even made a few extras for myself to drop in the mail to some friends.  

If you live in the US and don't have a demonstrator, I would love to send you copies of these two new catalog.  

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It’s Christmas in July

It’s going to be hot and humid here today so what better way to spend the afternoon and evening than making Christmas cards? It’s time for our annual Christmas in July!  

I’ve been playing around with so many new products from my demonstrator pre-order, but the catalog does not go live until August 3. So it was fun to pull out some stamps sets from the annual catalog to create our Christmas cards for the day. 

 

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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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Sweet Strawberry

I'm so happy to be stamping again in person this weekend, and here is one of the cards we will be making!  It's a simple little card with some coloring and punching.  I think it will be perfect to ease us back into stamping together again after more than a year!

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Today's Plan...

I loved this set the first time I flipped through the catalog, and I was so glad to see it is again in the annual catalog.  I hadn't really done much with it last year and knew it was perfect for a class now that we can get together again in person.  I hope my stampers enjoy it as much I do!

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Hydrangea Haven To Go Class

Hydrangea Haven is such a beautiful stamp set and bundle. I sat down on a cold, snowy day to create a little springtime cheer.  If you are like me, you'll want to get the entire Hydrangea Hill Suite to get the Designer Series Paper, ribbon, Mercury Glass Acetate and pearls too.  

Hydrangea Hill Class - $36 includes the Hydrangea Haven stamp set, pre-cut cards, pre-punched pieces and accessories to make these 4 cards. Color directions will include measurements and supplies. Please add $5 if shipping.

Better value - $62 includes Hydrangea dies (you save 10% purchasing the bundle) in addition to the stamp set and the supplies to make these 4 cards. Please add $5 if shipping.

I Want It All - $88.50 (plus additional shipping and tax) Hydrangea Hill Suite Collection includes The Hydrangea Haven Bundle of stamp set and dies, Hydrangea Hill Mercury Glass Designer Acetate, Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon, Pastel Pearls, and Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper in addition to the supplies to make these four cards. We will order the hydrangea Hill Suite collection to be shipped directly to your home and I will mail the pieces to make the cards to you.

If you already own Hydrangea Hill, and would like this card class, feel free to substitute something of equal or greater value to receive the supplies to make these cards.

   

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Virtual Scrapbook Club

Introducing a fun new opportunity to scrapbook with all the benefits of scrapbook club, but you don't have to leave your own home. Once a month, I will email you a sample 12 x 12 layout (with measurements). You will supply your own cardstock, and we will meet via Zoom to scrapbook together. You will also be emailed a hostess code each month you participate so you can place your minimum $25 order. When you place your orders as a part of the club, you'll get a credit for each $25. When your credits total $150 you get to choose $15 in free product of your choice. Email me with questions or if you're interested in joining us.  

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Thinking Spring with the New To Go Kit

I was a little later this month getting the February To Go kit ready, and clearly I was thinking spring when I was designing these cards.  I am ready for green grass and some spring flowers to start peeking up. 

Porch pick up is available now for $20 and $24 to mail the kit.  You will get all the pieces pre-cut and pre-punched to make 2 each of these 4 cards.  All you'll need is adhesive, ink and greetings stamps. 

 

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Valentine's Day Glasses

Every year, I make valentines for my students, and it's always fun to create with the kids in mind.  This year I used the Paper Pumpkin stamps and created my own "card".  Did you know there are a lot of extra stamps each month that you can use to do alternatives to the Paper Pumpkin design or use them on your own projects?  This little snail is popular this year, and I liked the "hi valentine" stamp.  I don't want to be too lovey dovey so this was a perfect sentiment and it was printed instead of cursive.    

I had purchased these glasses just for fun but decided I would go ahead and make them the valentine "card" for the kids.  They get a lot of candy from each other already and I thought these would be fun on party day.  They were a hit, and I am thinking I need to be looking for glasses again for next year!

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When I hear the mailman's truck coming I usually watch to see if he stops - might be a handmade card in the mailbox that I need to run out and get after all! He drove past without stopping today. Maybe Monday!

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