Dandelion Wishes – Sending Well Wishes Your Way

Hello Crafty Friends! There is only more week to get any retiring products that are on your wish list. Today we’ll look at two of the products that are retiring – the Dandelion Wishes and Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle. Today’s card is a quick and easy card that you can make in no time. Quick enough to make several for when you need them. …

Rooted In Nature – You’re A Blessing In My Life

Happy Tuesday! For today’s card we’ll focus on the Rooted In Nature stamp and the Birch Background stamp. Although this card has orange tones, it is not as orange looking in person, but somehow it looks like that in the picture. As much as I tried adjusting the lighting in my editing software, I had no luck changing it to show you the true colors …

Color & Contour – So Very Happy For You & New In Colors

It’s time for a sneak peak into one of the stamp sets and 2021-2023 In Colors from the upcoming 2021-2022 Annual Catalog. The stamp set is Color & Contour. As a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, we get to preview the new catalog and pre order some select products before it goes live. This is just one of the benefits SU offers to all demonstrators. Here’s the …

Cute Fruit – You’re One In a Melon Sweet Friend

The Cute Fruit stamp is perfect for #simple stamping. All you need is the stamp, ink, paper and adhesive – no other tools to make this sweet friend card. This stamp set is perfect for the beginner or for the person who likes to make quick cards. If you haven’t seen this set in the catalog it’s because the set is in the Beginner’s Brochure. …

Inspiring Iris – Window Sheet Smooch Technique

Today’s card features the Window Sheets (Acetate) Smooch technique using the Inspiring Iris stamp and used the Sweet Ice Cream stamp for the greeting. I love the watercolor and alcohol look on cards so I try to use different methods to make them. Today I’ll share with you on how to create watercolor backgrounds. You need to know that each card you make will look …

Timeless Tulips

Timeless Tulips – Happy Spring, Happy Easter

Happy Easter! Today’s card features the Timeless Tulips stamp and Tulips Builder Punch. You know it’s springtime when you see tulips everywhere in an array of colors. The Timeless Tulips is a carryover to the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog and is a distinktive stamp. The set has seven greetings and 3 different size tulips along with leaves and stems, and it coordinates with the Tulips Builder …

Harvest Hellos, Buffalo Check & Pinewood Planks

Today’s card features another card from my Giving Thanks Card Class. This time we have 4 retiring products in one card – Harvest Hellos, Buffalo Check, Country Home and the Pinewood Planks 3D Embossing Folder. Instead of posting spring and summer cards, here I am posting Fall cards, but I want to share these cards with you since these products are retiring and won’t be …

Painted Poppies, Tasteful Touches, Butterfly Wishes

Last Chance Items & Just Saying Hello with Painted Poppies

I love many of the stamps in the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog but I’ve come to the conclusion that Painted Poppies is my favorite stamp set since the first time I saw it in the 2020 January – June Catalog at a Stampin’ Up! conference. Whew! I was very happy to see that this set made it through another year! However, the Butterfly Wishes from which …

St. Patrick's Day Card

Quite Curvy & Game On – Lucky Me & Lucky You

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! To celebrate, I decided to combine the Quite Curvy & Game On Stamp sets to create this green Lucky Me card. Why are you lucky today? Because there’s FREE SHIPPING on all Stampin’ Up! products today only so you can spend more on supplies and less on shipping. This card came together very quickly with using just two dies and patterned …

Basket of Blooms - Friendship

Basket of Blooms – Sweet Friendship Refreshes

The Basket of Blooms stamp is the focus of today’s card combined with the Prized Peony stamp for the sweet friendship greeting. Unlike yesterday’s quick card, this card is a bit more detailed. There’s some dry embossing, coloring, die cutting, and masking. The stamp includes 14 photopolymer images that consist of a clay pot, basket, vase, flowers and leaves. Although the stamp doesn’t have any …

Let’s Paint the Town with Brushed Blooms

In yesterday’s post we featured the Beautiful Brushstrokes dies and today we’ll talk about the coordinating Brushed Blooms stamp. This set includes 13 cling stamps – 5 sentiments and 8 images. One of the things that drew me to this stamp, was this particular greeting. I think it can be used in many crafty ways that would add some humor to your projects. This is …

Beautiful Brushstrokes Dies

Beautiful Brushstrokes Dies – Just Because

Hello Crafters! Today’s card is all about dies specifically Beautiful Brushstrokes. Beautiful Brushstrokes comes with 10 dies consisting of layered roses, leaves and a brushstroke piece that can be used as a backdrop like I did on this card. You can also use the die cut brushstrokes pieces individually to create another look. We’ll see this in another post. The dies are part of a …