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New Products/Last Chance Products!

Hello friends,

There are a couple of great offers starting today: a Special Release Designer Series Paper. Stampin’ Up! has taken a few popular patterns of recent Designer Series Paper and has brought them back with other colors. See the video!

Another new area of the Stampin’ Up! website is the Last Chance Products. Some of these products are cut by 50% or more! Take a look and see!

https://www.stampinup.com/categories/specials/last-chance-products

Have a wonderful day!

Blessings, Debbie

Frames & Flowers

Hello crafty friends!

Well, our Bash was successful, and we’re planning another at the end of January. Are you wondering what a “Bash” is? (Hint: It’s not a car wreck.) It’s a party where my demonstrator friends and I come up with card projects or techniques to our customers and friends so they can try out some new products. We have door prizes, sell our retired products, look at presentations, and basically enjoy each other’s company.

Lately, I’ve been playing with the Frames & Flowers products in the 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue. This product has 4 sheets of 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper and sheets of cutouts that coordinate with the DSP. I needed some Thank You cards for customers who placed an order at the Bash. This product is SO easy to create with! Here is a few cards I made, plus what I have leftover to make more cards. The cards were so easy to put together.

I used Lost Lagoon cardstock and a bit of Basic White to complete the cards.

I used some of the smaller pieces to decorate the inside in a simple way.

This is the last card:

And here is the inside:

These cards were quick and easy to do! And look at what I have left over – lots of pieces to make more cards or maybe even a scrap page!

I’m off to make more cards!! Thanks for stopping by. Have a blessed day!

Debbie

Fun with Template #6!

Hello, crafty friends!

Today we are moving on to Template #6 on p. 22 of the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog. Take a look at the template from the Annual Catalog:

My friend Marilyn is playing along, too. If you want to join us, you are welcome! Marilyn used the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper. This is a great paper for this template.

Here is the idea I came up with:

Directions:

I used Early Espresso cardstock cut to 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, scored in landscape at 4-1/4 inches, and folded to make the card.

Rectangles (Wildly Flowering Designer Series Paper): 1-3/4 x 2-1/2 inches (cut 3). Middle rectangle flipped over to view opposite side.

Rectangles (Basic White): 1-7/8 x 2-5/8 inches (cut 2). These rectangles should be adhered to the top and bottom rectangles. The middle rectangle has no backing.

The two-inch circle is the focal point with the greeting. I used the Wildflower Designs by Stampin Up! for the stamped images on this focal layer. It needed a little bling so I added a Drusy round adhesive embellishment. They are sooo pretty!

I kept the inside layer simple for more space to write. For the flower I used my Blackberry Bliss and Pecan Pie markers to color the stems and flowers, huffed on them a few times to moisten the ink, then stamped on the paper.

Have a blessed day! Debbie

More Creativity with Template 5

Hello crafty friends!

After all the out-of-town AND out-of-country traveling, I’m finally settling down into my “normal” (if there is such a thing!) routine. In August, I went on a retreat, our yearly family vacation, a Congress in Boston, and then two lovely weeks in Spain with two of my energetic daughters. Whew! It was all wonderful!

Now I’m getting back to using my creativity with the Templates in the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog on page 22. My crafty friend Marilyn has been making them along with me. She’s a bit ahead of me, but I’ll try to catch up:-)

Here’s my take on Template 5. I used some retired DSP.

Here is the Template 5 on page 22 so you can compare them:

The above card is Marilyn’s. Love that Designer Series Paper!

The Templates given in the Annual Catalog don’t list measurements so I’ll supply the measurements I used for my card.

Directions:

Card Base (Soft Sea Foam): 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches; score & fold in landscape position at 4-1/4 inches to create card base

Layer 1 (Peach Pie cardstock): Cut 3-1/4 x 5 inches. With layer in portrait position, make pencil tic-mark along bottom edge and top edge at 1-5/8 inches. From bottom tic-mark draw light pencil line straight up to 1 inch on ruler. Rotate paper 180 degrees and do same on opposite edge. Use scissor to cut from bottom left corner up to middle tic-mark. Cut from right corner up to same middle tic-mark to remove the wedge. Rotate the cardstock and do same on opposite side. Your cut piece should look similar to my cut piece on my card. If you wish, you can run the layer through the Cut & Emboss Machine using an embossing folder. Adhere to card front, tilting a bit to the right.

Layer 2 (Expressions in Ink Designer Series Paper – retired): 3-1/2 x 3 inches. N.B. – If your paper has a definite orientation, note that the 3-1/2 length goes across the card front.

Greeting Layer (Basic White): 3-1/4 x 1 inches. I heat-embossed the birthday greeting on the white cardstock using gold embossing powder.

Melon Mambo cardstock: 3-3/8 x 1-1/8 inches to layer behind white greeting. Punch a little hole to string ribbon through and hand-cut the end with the hole, then put the knot in the ribbon. Use a few dimensions on the back to make it stand out on the card. (I used retired Melon Mambo ribbon.)

I took the basic rhinestone gems and colored them with my Dark Melon Mambo Blend to match the color in the Designer Paper. I adhered the rhinestones on the greeting label. Voila!

I did a little decoration on the inside layer, using the Round We Go Stamp set. The layer was Basic White and cut to 4 x 5-1/4 inches, decorated, and adhered to the inside of the card. Hope you like it!

Have a blessed day! Debbie

Playing with Templates 4 and 5!

Hello friends!

My friend Marilyn has been playing with the templates in the Annual Catalog. Here are her next cards, numbers 4 and 5 of the templates in the catalog. Maybe you’ll give them a try, too!

These cards are beautiful! Now…I need to work on mine 🙂 Try it yourself. These templates can help us in our card-making, giving us a creative start.

Have a blessed day! Debbie

Card for Template #4!

Hello friends!

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that I’m working my way through the card templates on page 22 of the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog from Stampin’ Up! If you wish to see the previous cards I made from the Templates 1, 2, and 3, check my last three posts.

Now for the 4th card . . .

Here are the details if you would like to make it with your own cardstock, paper, and ribbon.

  • Crumb Cake card base: 11 x 4-1/4 inches, scored in landscape at 5-1/2 inches.
  • Layer 1, Misty Moonlight cardstock: 4-1/2 (height) x 3-1/2 (width) inches. Use side of a scissors to scrape the four sides of the cardstock to give it a vintage look.
  • Layer 2, Wildly Flowering Designer Series Paper 12 x 12: 4-1/4 (height) x 3-1/4 (width) inches
  • Basic White greeting strip: 5/8 x 3-1\2 inches. Stamp greeting in Misty Moonlight ink towards the left of the strip as shown.
  • Misty Moonlight Strip: 5/8 x 3-1/2 inches. Offset behind greeting strip. Glue together.
  • Use 6 inch length of Wild Wheat Rustic Striped Ribbon to wrap around right side of greeting strip and make a square knot.
  • Use dimensionals behind greeting strip to pop up on card.
  • Adhere a piece of Basic White cardstock 4 x 5-1/4 inches for inside layer. Embellish as desired.

Hope you like it! Have a blessed deay!

Debbie Koch

Card Template #3!

Hello friends!

I am on to the third template in the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog (p.22). My friend Marilyn is joining me and I’ll be posting her cards, too, as she sends them to me. Anyone else want to join the fun? Let me know. I used the Latte Love Suite Collection and the So Swirly Embossing Folder. I love coffee, and if you’re like me, you’ll love this Collection of products.

Here are the products I used for this card: Latte Love Bundle (Online Exclusive), A Little Latte Designer Series Paper (O.E.), Swirl Dots (O.E.), Everyday Details Dies, 2-inch Circle Punch (retired), Cardstock: Petal Pink, Basic White, Cut & Emboss Machine, S.U. Paper Trimmer, So Swirly Embossing Folder, dimensionals, Tombow Liquid Glue

Here are the details:

  • Card Base (Petal Pink): 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in., scored on long side at 4-1/4 in.
  • Layer 1 (Designer Series Paper): 4 x 5-1/4 in.
  • Layer 2 (Basic White): 3-7/8 x 5-1/8 in. Emboss with So Swirly Embossing Folder
  • DSP strip: 1-1/4 x 5-1/4 in.
  • (Cut 3) DSP strips: 1 x 3-1/4 in. Pop up with dimensionals.
  • Focal Point: Early Espresso (cut with Everyday Die), Basic White, cup from DSP
  • Inside layer: Basic White: 4 x 5-1/4 in.
  • DSP strip: 1/2 x 4 in.
  • Spoon and Coffee Drip from Latte Love Bundle
  • Design on right is from Everyday Details Dies

I hope you like my card for Template #3.

Have a blessed Day! Debbie

Card #2 from Template

Hello crafty friends!

To refresh your memory, I have begun to make a card using every card template on page 22 of the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog. If you go back a couple of blog entries you’ll see Card #1 from the very first template. I’m so happy to have my friend Marilyn joining me to make cards from these templates. Anyone else want to join us?? So here is the card I made from Template #2:

If you would like to replicate this card, here are the details:

  1. Card base (Summer Splash): 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, score along 8-1/2 side at 4-1/2 inches.
  2. Layer 1 (Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper): 4 x 5-1/4 inches
  3. Layer 2 (Vellum Paper): 4 x 5-1/4 inches. Emboss with Eyelet 3-D Embossing Folder. I used a spattering of Glue Dots to adhere the vellum to the DSP.
  4. Petunia Pop Bordered Ribbon: 4 inches in length, to lay behind focal image layer. Use Stampin’ Seal + to adhere ribbon to card.
  5. Unbounded Love Bundle: used for label and greeting (Basic White & 2024-2026 In Color Glimmer 12 x 12 Specialty Paper)
  6. Inside layers: Petunia Pop: 4 x 5-1/4 inches and Basic White: 3-7/8 x 5-1/8 inches

The greeting was stamped in Summer Splash ink. The greeting is from the Unbounded Love stamp set. There you have it – Card #2!

Have a blessed day! Debbie