Tulips Brighten Your Cloudiest Day

Tulips brighten your cloudiest day as they poke through the ground in early spring and burst into bloom. Send birthday wishes and recreate that refreshing feeling with these rosy red tulips. Last Chance for these Tulip Products During the Last Chance Products Sale for the January – June Mini Catalog the beautiful Flowering Fields paper is on sale for just $8.05 USD. Not only will you have many tulip papers to choose from when you purchase this Designer Series Paper, but you’ll also have two coordinating cloudy backgrounds! Also, the Flowering Tulips stamp set and Tulips Dies are still available…

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Drapery Fold Flowering Fields

Experiment with Card Folds Every once in a while, it’s good to shake up your card-making routine by using a different technique. This card features an easy fold that allows you to see both sides of your pretty Designer Series Paper. It is called a Drapery Fold or Pleat Fold, and you can find some videos on how it’s done on YouTube. Try it with your favorite paper! This sample shows the Autumn Traditions DSP, which is a retired Stampin’ Up! paper from the 2009-2010 Annual Catalog, a card base in Tip Top Taupe, and a Whisper White layer. Whichever…

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Where is Spring?

Flowering Fields Work of Art Last week the box of flowers I ordered in February arrived for the “right time for planting in Wisconsin”. But it’s been cool and rainy lately, so I planted some flowers in my studio instead. Flowering Fields This was my first chance to play with the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration Flowering Fields stamp set, and it was so much fun! To create this card: Ink up some of the flower images from Flowering Fields (shown below) with Stampin’ Write markers in Perfect Plum, Wild Wasabi, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight and stamp them in the middle…

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