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...
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...
