Card Making Ideas
Flowers of Beauty with Unbounded Love Scraps for an Easy, Beautiful Card
The Flowers of Beauty bundle has so many options for fabulous floral accents and focal points, and this card makes excellent use of one of them. This particular template or sketch is making the rounds on social media, mostly because of it's great use of Designer...
Friendly Fins Card to Kick off Summer
When I saw the Friendly Fins Bundle in the catalog, I knew it had to be part of my collection! I love anything revolving around water and I knew these adorable stamps and dies would create many aquatic scenes. And while I tend to avoid "scene" cards, the amazing coral...
Beautiful In Colors for the June Stampers Dozen Blog Hop
The 2024-2026 In Colors from Stampin' Up! are bright and beautiful, and they work together beautifully! This isn't always the case, but it makes me so happy when they do. Given that the theme to our blog hop is In Colors, this card allowed me to use all of them at...
Fabulous Fathers Day Card with Adventurous Sky Plane
The Adventurous Sky bundle has all you need to create super-impressive masculine cards! As soon as I saw it in the Stampin' Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalog, I knew it would become my favorite bundle with which to create cards and scrapbook pages for the many men in my...
Cap & Gown Stamp Set to Celebrate your Favorite Grad
Celebrate the hard work and achievement of graduates with a handmade card! The Cap & Gown Stamp Set features stamps that can be combined or used separately on paper projects, cards, gift tags, and more to wish happy graduation to nephews, nieces, grandchildren,...
Country Birdhouse Card for a Sweet Birthday
The Country Birdhouse bundle is just what you need to send sweet greetings to all your bird-loving friends! With decorative details, flowers, and friendly sentiments, this stamp set is perfect for cards, gift tags, scrapbook pages, and more. Make the birdhouse the...
Wildly Flowering DSP & Debossing for Great Cards
I couldn't wait to use the Wildly Flowering Designer Series Paper (DSP), so I focused on it for my first lesson using the fabulous templates in the Stampin' Up! 2024-2025 catalog on page 22. My Quick Class on 5/22/24 shows how to use the first template with the Wildly...
Awesome Take to the Sky Suite for the May Stampers Dozen Blog Hop
The brand-new Take to the Sky Suite is perfect for the men in your life! It's filled with aviation-themed stamps and dies, antiqued silver industrial embellishments, and crafting paper with topographical maps, blueprints, clouds, and complementary designs. Use it to...
Country Lace DSP Pairs Perfectly with Country Flowers Bundle
When I opened the package of the new Stampin' Up! Country Lace designer series paper (DSP), I admit I was expecting some texture because the image was so crisp and clear! So when I went to use it for my card for class this week, I thought I'd do something about that!...
Latte Love to Start the Day Right
The Latte Love bundle from Stampin' Up! is one of the many Online Exclusives offered in our online store, meaning they aren't found in any catalog. With the stamps, dies, designer series paper (DSP), ribbon and embellishments, you can create breakfast-themed projects...
Take to the Sky DSP for Father’s Day
With the launch of the new catalog, we have the new Take to the Sky Designer Series Paper (DSP)! These maps, blueprints, textured clouds, and sketched planes are fitting for aviation, military, outdoor, or adventure-themed cards and crafts. Use the planes and clouds...
Masterfully Made DSP Retiring Soon
With the new 2024-2025 Annual Catalog launching on 5/1, we must sadly say farewell to the Masterfully Made designer series papers (DSP). This was my very favorite paper collection from the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog, and considering how much I love DSP, that's saying a...
Flowering Zinnias for a Cheerful Card
Whether you want something groovy or a little more elegant, the Flowering Zinnias Suite Collection has everything you need to create a wide range of all-occasion crafts! The stamps and dies work perfectly together to create flowering zinnias that burst right from the...
Using the new Unbounded Love Bundle with Retiring DSP
Just wait until you start playing with the new Unbounded Love Bundle! It's releasing on 5/1/24 with the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog from Stampin' Up!, and it's chock-ful of great sentiments and the labels on which to put them! However, there are some things you are...
Let’s Go Fishing Retirement Fun Fold Card
The soon-to-retire Let's Go Fishing suite from Stampin' Up! is the perfect set of products to use to make a retirement card for a man. This card also features a fun fold that makes it extra-special. The suite, below, features lots of great elements including stamps,...
New Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Share
In just a few weeks, you’ll be able to shop for brand-new paper crafting products from Stampin’ Up!’s 2024-2025 Annual Catalog. The catalog goes live Wednesday, May 1, 2024. It’s filled with an array of brand-new paper crafting products. Look for new stamp sets,...
Sneak Peek of Layers of Beauty Spectacular Card
Another bundle with MASKS - Layers of Beauty! It's no secret that I love the technique of pre-designed masks that coordinate with stamps and even dies - I've shared our recent ones here and here. And now there's a brand-new set coming in the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog!...
New Flowers of Beauty for Stamper’s Dozen Blog Hop
It's time once again for our monthly blog hop, and I'm using the soon-to-be-released Flowers of Beauty bundle. I'm so excited for the new In Colors that are used in the coordinating Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper (DSP) as well! As you can see, this card...
Circle Sayings is my Favorite Retiring Stamp Set
Stampin' Up!'s Circle Sayings stamp set is retiring as of 4/30, and I'm not sure why but I am only just realizing the hole this is going to make in my cardmaking designs. This was my #1 go-to stamp set of the year! Looking back, I realized I used it every month for...
Seasonal Branches Makes Delightful Spring Card
The Seasonal Branches stamp set and coordinating dies offer a ton of ways to mix-and-match tree branches, flowers, leaves and a little bird to reflect the different seasons. This card is perfect for Spring but uses neutral colors to tone down the feel. It also uses a...
Doggone Friendly For All the Dog Lovers You Know
The Doggone Friendly background stamp is one stamp with a whole lot of cuteness! There are actual dogs whose images were used to create this artwork . I love that you can leave it black & white, or color in one that you like (or just the bandana). I'm just sad...
Thoughtful Expressions Dies on Retiring List(!)
Stampin' Up!'s Thoughtful Expressions bundle in the January-April 2024 mini catalog is a great multi-purpose stamp set. But, the dies are the true gold here (in my opinion)! Somehow, the stamp set is carrying over to our new catalog but the dies are NOT! I love, love,...
Bright & Beautiful Balloons DSP NOT Retiring – Hooray!
Let's talk about the Bright & Beautiful suite in the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog (that's the one retiring on 4/30). It's unusual for Stampin' Up!, but in this case the fun Bright & Beautiful DSP is NOT RETIRING! Hooray! This designer series paper (DSP) is so...
Unbounded Beauty DSP Sneak Peek and New In Colors
Back with another sneak peek from OnStage 2024 - the gorgeous Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper (DSP)! And not only that, this paper uses some of my favorite new 2024-2026 In Colors - Petunia Pop, Summer Splash and Pretty in Pink! So much to share today! First,...
Inked and Tiled with a Striking Color Combo
The Inked and Tiled stamp set from Stampin' Up! has been a favorite of mine throughout the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog year. I am so sad that it will be retiring as of April 30th. But that just means I need to play with it a lot this next month! The Inked and Tiled stamp...
Black & White Magnolia Mood Makes a Perfect Pairing
The Magnolia Mood bundle, found only in the Online Exclusive section of the Stampin' Up! online store, is a fabulous new floral combination with which you can create magnolias so beautiful you can almost smell them. Stamp, then die cut a single flower or a bouquet to...
Retiring Lists for the Annual and Jan-Apr Mini Catalogs
Every time a Stampin' Up! catalog ends, retiring lists for each catalog are published so we all know what products will no longer be available (and ultimately grabbing them while we still can!). Come April 30th, we have both the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog and the...
Sneak Peeks with Spotlight on Nature and New In Colors
At Stampin' Up!'s annual OnStage convention, demonstrators from all over the world got together to learn and share! The highlight is always receiving the new catalog which is launching on May 1st. And just as exciting is the opportunity to play with new products! This...
Fun Fold for March Stampers Dozen Blog Hop
This is my ALL-TIME FAVORITE fun fold, the one I turn to whenever I want to quickly step up a card. When better to share it than for the March Stamper's Dozen Blog Hop with a fun fold theme! I do feel like I'm cheating, though, because it's so very simple. But I am a...
Dry Embossing Vellum for Stunning Results
Dry Embossing Vellum is a technique often overlooked when creating cards. With Stampin' Up!'s lovely selection of embossing folders, using this technique is truly fun and easy. Dry embossing is a paper crafting technique used to create raised designs or patterns on...
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