Bloom Impressions Angled Z Fold

Stampin’ Up! just released so many new products. I’m playing with a few of those with today’s card. I modified an Angled Z Fold card, and I share that with you today.

I use the Bloom Impressions 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper. Earn this pretty patterned paper free with a $60 purchase (before tax and shipping) during SaleABration. This promotion runs through February 28, 2025. Click here to see a PDF copy of the brochure.

Bloom Impressions 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper

I also use the Beautiful Butterflies Bundle. Find this in Stampin’ Up!s January-April 2025 Mini Catalog. Click here to see a PDF of this catalog.

Beautiful Butterflies Bundle

Measurements and Details

  • Melon Mambo card stock measuring 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
  • Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper measuring 12 x 5 1/4, scored at 4 and 8
  • From the bottom left corner of the DSP, measure 2 inches and mark softly with a pencil
  • Put the paper in your trimmer and cut a diagonal up to the eight-inch score mark. (Watch the video below to see how I do this.)
  • Butterfly die cut from Melon Mambo card stock
  • Sentiment heat embossed with white embossing powder on Melon Mambo card stock and die cut
  • Vellum (Graceful Greenery Vellum) die cut with Spotlight on Nature Dies
  • For the inside: Melon Mambo card stock measuring 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 and Basic White card stock measuring 3 x 3.

See a picture of the inside and how the fun fold looks.

Bloom Impressions Angled Z Fold

How to Video

From my craft room in Mesa, Arizona, I offer step-by-step instructions for creating this angled z fold card and show a couple of different variations.

Thanks so much for visiting today! I hope you love this project!

Kim

Please let me know if I can help you in any way in our paper crafting journey.

Bloom Impressions Angled Z Fold Supply List

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Pick a Season Fun Fold

My favorite time of year is here: Stampin’ Up!’s SaleABration sale. With qualifying purchases of $60 or $120 (before tax and shipping) earn your choice of FREE, exclusive paper crafting products. Selections include stamp sets, dies, Designer Series Paper, an embossing folder, ribbon, and embellishments. See the PDF here.

When SaleABration first started years ago, I saved my Christmas cash and birthday money so I could get all of the SaleABration freebies. Today, it’s no different. I still love to collect and play with all of the great products.

In fact, there are so many fun items, I didn’t know where to start. So, I chose to share a fun fold using the Pick a Season Stamp Set, the sentiment from the Heart Shaped Stamp Set, and the Toadstool Gardens 6 x 6 Designer Series Paper. These are just three of the fourteen available free choices.

Measurements and Details

  • Melon Mambo card stock measuring 8 1/4 x 4 1/4, scored and folded at 2 3/4 and 3 x 4 1/4
  • Basic White card stock measuring 5 1/4 x 4 and 2 3/4 x 4
  • Toadstool Garden Designer Series Paper measuring 4 x 2 1/2 and 4 x 1
  • Granny Apple Green card stock measuring 4 1/2 x 3 1/4
  • Granny Apple Green, Melon Mambo, and Early Espresso ink
  • White Baker’s Twine
  • Pearl Basic Jewels

Here’s a look at the inside.

I hope you enjoy today’s project. Be sure to watch the video below to see how this card comes together.

How to Video

In this Facebook Live replay (1/7/2025) from my craft room in Mesa, Arizona, I give step-by-step directions for creating this card and also show other samples of this year’s SaleABration offerings.

Thanks so much for visiting. Please let me know if you have questions about this project or any others

Kim

Pick a Season Fun Fold Supply List

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Hearts of Elegance Free Tutorial

With Christmas and New Year cards behind me, I set my sights toward Valentine’s Day and heart-themed cards. I’m loving Stampin’ Up!’s Marbled Elegance Suite Collection, which includes the Hearts of Elegance Bundle. Look for these as Online Exclusives.

In addition, for today’s card, I added a sentiment and die cut from one of the upcoming 2025 SaleABration offerings: Heart Shaped Bundle.

Remember: SaleABration begins January 7, 2025. With qualifying purchases of $60 and $120 (before tax and shipping), earn your choice of free, exclusive products. Look for stamp sets, a bundle, an embossing folder, ribbon, and gems.

Please enjoy this free, paper crafting tutorial.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • STAMPS – Heart Shaped Bundle (164953) (SAB) (Note: Available beginning January 7, free with a purchase of $120 or more before tax and shipping.)
  • PAPER – Melon Mambo Cardstock (115320), Basic White Cardstock (159276), Marbled Elegance 12 x 12 Specialty Designer Series Paper (164919), Gold Foil Sheets (132622)
  • INK – Versamark (102283)
  • OTHER – Hearts of Elegance Dies (164915), Gold Twisted Thread (164603), Adhesive-Backed Heart Sequins (164920), Heat Tool (129053), Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder (165678), Stampin’ Seal (152813), Mini Glue Dots (103683), Multipurpose Liquid Glue (110755), Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine (149653)

Cutting & Scoring:  

  • Melon Mambo Cardstock – 8 ½” x 5 ½”, scored at 4 ¼” and folded, 4 ¾” x 4 ¾”, and a scrap
  • Basic White Cardstock – 5 ¼” x 4”
  • Marbled Elegance Designer Series Paper – 5 ¼” x 4”
  • Gold Foil Sheets – 1 ½” x 1 ½”
  • Gold Twisted Thread – 10”

Instructions:

  • Attach the Marbled Elegance DSP to card front. Choose the design that favors the Melon Mambo.
  • Use the second largest heart (the stitched border heart) to die cut a shape from the 4 ¾” x 4 ¾” Melon Mambo card stock. Adhere to center of card front.
  • Die cut the smallest heart with the 1 ½” x 1 ½” Gold Foil Sheet. Add to card front on the left side of large Melon Mambo heart.
  • Heat emboss, with gold, the “Just Because I Care” sentiment from the Heart Shaped Bundle on the Melon Mambo scrap. Die cut with the label from the Heart Shaped Bundle die.
  • Tie Gold Twisted Thread in a bow and add to card front, as shown.
  • Add three Adhesive-Backed Heart Sequins.

See this blog post for a fun fold using the Hearts of Elegance Bundle.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. Please let me know if you have questions about this or any other paper crafting projects.

Kim

Hearts of Elegance Free Tutorial Supply List

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Hearts of Elegance Valentine

For today’s handmade card, I feature a technique I used for one of my many Christmas cards. (See that post by clicking here.)

I use strips/scraps of Designer Series Paper as a focal point to create a Valentine card. Find the die cuts and sentiment in Stampin’ Up!’s Hearts of Elegance Bundle, some of the Online Exclusive offerings. This bundle offers a variety of heart-shaped dies and sentiments for creating a variety of Valentine and love-themed cards.

Hearts of Elegance Bundle

Measurements and Details

  • Cherry Cobbler card stock base measuring 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, scored and folded at 4 1/4
  • Basic White card stock panel measuring 5 x 3 3/4. Die cut heart first. Then emboss the panel with the Adoring Hearts Hybrid Embossing Folder.
  • Basic White card stock panel measuring 4 3/4 x 3 1/2. Layer 1/2-inch strips of the Marbled Elegance Designer Series Paper and Gold Foil Sheets on this panel. Tip: I use the lines on the Grid Paper to ensure the lines are straight.
  • Pop up with die cut and embossed panel on the sheet from above.
  • Add all to Cherry Cobbler card base.
  • Heat emboss the “xoxo” sentiment with gold on Cherry Cobbler card stock and die cut with heart.
  • Add the heart above and another heart die cut with Gold Foil Sheets to card front.
  • Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4-inch Satin Ribbon
  • Adhesive-Backed Heart Sequins

See these blog posts that showcase the Hearts of Elegance Bundle:

Hearts of Elegance Wine Bottle Tag

Hearts of Elegance Fun Fold

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today! I hope you “love” this project!

Kim

Hearts of Elegance Valentine Supply List

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2025 Desktop Calendar Project

This project deserves its own post every year at this time. A new year looms, and you’ll need a new calendar. Today, I share a refreshed version of a 2025 desktop calendar project with a notepad holder.

I used two brand-new products: Day to Celebrate stamp set and Blossom Impressions 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper. Both of these debut Tuesday, January 7, 2025, as SaleABration offerings. (During SaleABration, earn your choice of free products with minimum purchases of $60 and $120 before tax and shipping.)

When January 7 arrives, look for other exclusive stamp sets, patterned paper, an embossing folder, ribbon, gems, and dies to earn free with minimum purchase.

Measurements and Details

These measurements will help you get started making your own calendar at home:

  • Melon Mambo card stock: one piece measuring 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 and one piece measuring 4 1/4 x 11, scored at 2 2 3/4
  • Blueberry Bushel card stock measuring 5 1/4 x 4 (2)
  • Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper measuring 5 x 3 3/4
  • Melon Mambo card stock measuring 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 for notepad base
  • Melon Mambo card stock measuring 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 for calendar base
  • Blueberry Bushel card stock measuring 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 die cut with die from Spotlight on Nature Dies
  • Basic White card stock measuring 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 die cut with circle from Stylish Shapes Dies
  • Sentiment from Day to Celebrate stamped with Melon Mambo ink on die cut circle
  • Flowers from Country Birdhouse Dies cut with Daffodil Delight card stock
  • Melon Mambo gems from Glossy Dots Assortment
  • Calendar purchased separately from Taylored Expressions

I created this other calendar as a gift for my son’s fiance. This one uses the Country Birdhouse Dies and the the Perfect Pets stamp set.

I just love how you can customize these calendars with any number of different stamp sets, sentiments, patterned paper, and embellishments.

How to Video

Be sure to watch the video below. From my craft room in Mesa, Arizona, I give step-by-step directions for creating this calendar at home.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. I hope you love this project. Please let me know if you have questions about this creation or other rubber stamping products.

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Kim

DIY Project Supply List

Click on any of the pictures below to shop for the supplies to create this card at home. Keep in mind that the stamp set and Designer Series Paper become available January 7.

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