Card Making Ideas
Summer Splash & Pretty in Pink for End-of-Summer Card
This being the final "official" week of summer, I just had to reach for my aptly named Summer Splash cardstock. It's one of the 2024-2026 In Colors and my current favorite. However, I hardly use it! That changed today. For my Quick Class Live, I was featuring the...
Adventurous Sky for Template #12 & A Fun-Fold
We are up to Template #12 in the Stampin' Up! template line-up, and the Adventurous Sky bundle was screaming at me to be used for this one! When I see a giant circle, to me that says focal point. And what better focal point than the amazing airplanes included in the...
Fabulous Holiday DSP Sneak Peek & Template #11
In my Quick Class Live this week, I featured a huge sneak peek for the upcoming holiday DSP! I made the card shown here and then went through every sheet of designer series paper found in the Stampin' Up! September-December Mini Catalog. Check it out here:...
Cool Friendly Fins Summer Card for Stampers Dozen Blog Hop
What better than an underwater Friendly Fins summer scene for a summery blog hop? This adorable stamp/die bundle makes it amazingly easy to create! First, the watery feel of the background was created with the So Swirly embossing folder. This giant folder allows you...
Upcoming Mini Catalog Paper Share – Order Today
In just a few weeks, you'll be able to shop for brand-new paper crafting products from Stampin' Up!'s September-December 2024 Mini Catalog. The catalog goes live Wednesday, September 4. It's filled with brand-new paper crafting products for fall, winter, Thanksgiving,...
Thoughtful Journey DSP for Template 10
So Template 10 on page 22 of the Stampin' Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalog calls for a full-front image, and my go-to for this is always the Thoughtful Journey Designer Series Paper (DSP). The natural, free-flowing flower and field scenes are stunning as focal points. And...
Template 9 with a Special Twist
I'm up to Template 9 on page 22 in the Stampin' Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalog! Today I featured this template in my Quick Class Live on YouTube and Facebook. You can watch it below: https://youtube.com/live/3mbSZiFsKD0 In addition to using the template with paper...
8 Easy Card Templates to the Rescue!
Did you know that there are 22 card templates on page 22 of the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog? I've been working my way through them during my weekly Quick Class Lives and I thought I'd share them with you here. I have linked to them below. I've gotten through 8 so far!...
Sophisticated Sled for Stampers’ Dozen Blog Hop
The Sophisticated Sled bundle is one of the recently added Online Exclusive items, just in time for Christmas in July! This bundle includes a winter-themed stamp set and coordinating die cuts. Stamp your image and quickly cut it out. Or, several of the dies cut out...
A Little Latte with Template #6
The Stampin' Up! Little Latte Suite Collection is part of our Online Exclusives collection, available only in the online store. Because today marks the launch of a bunch of new Online Exclusive items, I thought I would use an Online Exclusive for my weekly Template...
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...
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