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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Best Day Ever Happy Dance

Do free crafting products make you dance? I love to create things, and when I get free products to make them with, I do a little happy dance! That’s what happened when I received the Best Year Ever Designer Series Paper and the coordinating Best Day Ever Stamp set during Stampin’ Up!’s Sale-a-Bration. (If I mix up Best Day Ever and Best Year Ever, please forgive me. Why couldn’t they both have the same name to make it easier for confuzzled brains like mine to remember?) I’ve already shown you some easy card samples with the Best Year Ever paper…

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Thank You Best Year Ever

Sale-a-Brate with Best Year Ever The 2015 Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration catalog is full of products I love! One of my favorites is the Best Year Ever designer series paper that you can choose as a free product when your order of fabulous products from the Occasions or annual catalogs reaches $50 (before tax & shipping). Today I have a simple cheery Thank You card to share, using Best Year Ever paper with the cute little Petite Petals stamps and punch, and the Cheers To Love stamp set:   Color Combo This paper has a great combination of colors: Calypso Coral,…

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