Penguin Playmates Day 3

Penguin Playmates Day 3 features two card designs using the Penguin Playmates paper, but there’s not a penguin in sight! Instead, today we’ll be using 1″ x 4″ striped patterns to accent both a Christmas and birthday card. On Day 1 of the series you’ll find information on how to get the Penguin Playmates paper during Sale-a-Bration. You’ll want to check out the 4 card designs there as well! On Day 2, explore 4 ways to use a 5″ x 3″ piece of Penguin Playmates Designer Series Paper: Two designs use a horizontal layout and two have a vertical layout. Just click…

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Tell All Your Friends!

Handmade Thinking of You card. Black background that makes the colored triangles pop! Embossed butterfly image and sentiment, with a few opal rounds to finish it off!

Tell all your friends – Thinking of you today! Don’t just ‘Like’ their Facebook or Instagram post…take the time to create this card and send it. Creating the card in their favorite colors makes it extra special! This card layout is easy and the black background makes the colored triangles pop. How To Tell All Your Friends With this Card Supplies You’ll Need: Assembling your Thinking of You Card First, prepare your card base and center the black layer on the base. Second, using your die cutting machine, cut the circle and triangles with the Stitched Triangles and Stitched Shapes…

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The Good Things in Life

Gather Supplies from the Last Chance List! Grab the Good Things in Life sentiment for this card from the Butterfly Gala stamp set before it retires! Yes, the 2020-2021 Catalog retiring list from Stampin’ Up! came out yesterday. Sadly, this stamp set and the coordinating Butterfly Duet Punch are on it – BUT the punch is discounted! I love the sentiments and butterflies in this set, and the punch makes creating lots of butterflies really easy! So grab yours today from the Last Chance Products Sale because retiring items are only available while supplies last! Download the retiring list pdf…

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Stampin’ Up! Stitched Triangles Dies

When you’re looking for a versatile die set to create handmade cards for all occasions, look no further than the Stampin’ Up! Stitched Triangles Dies! I’ve been having so much fun creating cards from Valentines to Christmas, and birthdays to special occasions with these dies. Stitched Triangles Dies Other stitched dies (see Rectangle Stitched Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies and Stitched So Sweetly Dies) coordinate beautifully with the Stitched Triangles Dies. An example of this coordination can be seen in the butterfly card below. Large Right Triangles When you want to create a triangle split card design, the right triangle dies…

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Beautiful Day

Simple Beautiful Day butterfly card with a large butterfly in black and Calypso Coral with Wink of Stella accents

Beautiful Day is a perfect set for anyone who enjoys coloring! The large butterfly and flower image, shown below, make it easy to add color with Stampin’ Blends, watercoloring, or even colored pencils. There are also two sentiments in the set, and I find myself using the birthday greeting quite often! Today’s card is very simple. First stamp the butterfly in Tuxedo Black Memento ink on a piece of 4″ x 5-1/4″ Petal Pink card stock. Then add color to the butterfly with the light and dark Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blend markers, leaving the Petal Pink to show through in…

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You’ve Been On My Mind

Butterfly notecard with Butterfly Gala stamp set and Butterfly Duet punch

Who would you send this little You’ve Been on My Mind note card to? Is there someone you’ve been thinking about a lot lately? Maybe a friend who is going through a rough patch, someone who has lost a loved one or perhaps somebody who is away from home for school or travel. Then let that special person know that you’ve been thinking about them with a note card like this one! Note Cards Stampin’ Up! has the perfect note cards with matching envelopes for this project. They are 3-1/2″ x 5″, just large enough to mail easily with no…

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Fabulous at Any Age

Bold butterfly birthday card with the sentiment Fabulous at Any Age

Fabulous at any age is one of the sentiments in the Stampin’ Up! Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set, which includes stamps to cover almost every occasion you’ll need! This sentiment is great for cards for friends of all ages, just change the pretty paper to make a variety of cards. Or keep the same paper and design, but change the stamp to create cards for more occasions. Itty Bitty Greetings Here are all the sentiments in the Itty Bitty Greetings set. As you can see, the greetings are very versatile and suit many occasions from anniversaries to birthdays and graduations,…

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For the Bride & Groom

When you need a quick and simple wedding card for the bride and groom, the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper (DSP) can come to the rescue. This beautiful paper has floral designs, as well as butterflies, and this pretty piece in Highland Heather coordinates well with the Gorgeous Grape card stock from the annual Stampin’ Up! catalog. You can also view all the current catalogs on the catalog page. Did you know that you can choose this paper as a free Sale-a-Bration reward when you place a $50 (US) order in my online store before March 31st (while supply lasts)?…

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Mother’s Day

Painted Blooms for Mom May will be here soon, the temperatures are climbing, and flowers are bloomin’! So it’s Mother’s Day in my craft room. This Stampin’ Up! Painted Blooms paper (sadly retired) is one of my favorites for Mother’s Day cards. Good thing I still have some in my paper stash! Stampin’ Up! Products to make this card: Strawberry Slush Cardstock (retired); recommend Rose Red Painted Blooms DSP(retired) Blackberry Bliss Cardstock (retiring soon) * Whisper White Cardstock Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper Butterflies Thinlits Ovals Framelits (retiring soon!)* Itty Bitty Punch Pack (retiring soon!)* April 2014 Paper Pumpkin Stamp set Stampin’ Dimensionals Blackberry Bliss…

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Butterflies for Mom

Mother’s Day Butterflies Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. When I go out in the yard and see the hyacinths, tulips and daffodils blooming, I’m in my happy place! So naturally, my spring card creations often feature flowers and butterflies. They’re a great combination for celebrating both spring and mothers! To create this card: Card base 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ in Daffodil Delight – a nice bright happy yellow! Designer Series Paper 5-1/4″ x 4″. This sample paper is from Park Lane (Stampin’ Up! 2014-15 catalog). Butterfly Thinlits Dies and a Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine to…

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Weekly Deals Start today!

Weekly Deals for Feb. 16 – 22, 2016 Enjoy this week’s Weekly Deals! The Bitty Butterfly Punch is a must have! Here’s a simple card featuring the butterfly punch and a coordinating stamp. If you purchased the Butterfly Basics stamp set in the Weekly Deals last week, you’re in luck! You already own a coordinating stamp! The Envelope Punch Board is awesome for making matching envelopes in coordinating colors for all your cards. Don’t forget – if your order is $50 before tax and shipping, you can also earn a FREE item from the Sale-a-Bration brochure! There are some NEW items for…

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New Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals

Weekly Deals for Feb. 9 – 15 Enjoy this week’s Weekly Deals! Stretch your crafting dollars by combining items from the Weekly Deals with items from the Clearance Rack. If your order is $50 before tax & shipping, you can also earn a FREE item from the Sale-a-Bration brochure!Here’s one of two cards I created with the beautiful Butterfly Basics stamp set. See the details in this previous post   Baker’s Box Thinlits Dies Item # 138279 Regular Price: $33.00 US/$41.00 CAN Discounted Price: $24.75 US/$30.75 CANSee some cute treat holders made with this die on my Pinterest Treat Holders board…

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Butterfly Basics for Mom and Everyone Else too!

Butterfly Basics Variations I’m loving the Stampin’ Up! Butterfly Basics stamp set. The two cards above were cased from the card below that I received in a 2015 Leadership swap (sorry I don’t know who it’s from, but if you do, let me know). I simply added a Mother’s Day greeting to it. For the first card above I die cut the butterfly with the Butterfly Thinlit die from a piece of striped dsp that I really didn’t like much at all (Autumn Traditions in the Stampin’ Up! 2009-2010 catalog). First row, second image below. Because the die cuts so…

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