
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,...

Greetings of the Season New Year
The bulk of the holiday celebrations are behind us. Perhaps you finished your handmade Christmas cards. Perhaps you didn't. Either way, have you thought about sending a new year's card? I'm thinking you could design, create, and send these well into the month of January. I know I have and plan to! Stampin' Up! carries just the products to make this a reality. Today, I share a new year's card that uses Stampin' Up!'s Greetings of the Season stamp set and the Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper. I seriously love all of the gold accents in the patterned paper. Find both of these as Online Exclusives. In addition, I...

Hearts of Elegance Class to Go
Looking for Valentine card inspiration? I’m offering a class to go featuring Stampin' Up!'s Hearts of Elegance Bundle and the Marbled Elegance Designer Series Paper. Find this bundle as one of Stampin' Up!'s Online Exclusives. I'll give you the ingredients and video instructions to create three handmade greeting cards, including two fun folds. Kits include envelopes, Gold Foil, embellishments, and ribbon. Please note: This is an exclusive class that I won't teach anywhere else. How does it work? There are two options: Option 1: Make a minimum purchase of $35 (before tax and shipping) using this link and the host code: YWSU2ZNH. (The...

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. 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...

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...




