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Holiday Mini Catalog · Holidays

Wonderful Time

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It is most definitely the most wonderful time of the year. Wanna know why? Two things: (1) it’s starting to feel like fall, which is my most favorite season; AND (2) it’s time for the new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog!!! Have you checked out all the new goodies in the shop today? What’s on your shopping list? I’ve already shopped twice and still have a few more things I’m on the fence about.

This week, we’re creating very clean & simple holiday cards using the Joyful Days Memories & More card pack, Greetings for You ephemera pack, and the Christmas Tags & More 6×6 designer series paper pack with coordinating ephemera sheets. Today’s card is maybe just about the simplest design of the whole week. You can literally turn out 6 cards just. like. that.

Today’s card starts with a base of Crumb Cake cardstock. I selected the most wonderful time of year card from the Joyful Days pack and cut off just enough so it fits horizontally on the card front. Before adhering with dimensionals, I wrapped the decorative card with some (sadly retired) Cherry Cobbler & Gold satin ribbon tied with a nice, big bow. I finished it all off with a scattering of Pool Party sequins from the Traditional Sparkling sequins pack. Easy peasy!

Tomorrow we’re going to be creating a holiday card that has long legs. You’ll have to drop by to see what I mean. *wink*

Product List
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [ 120953 ]
[120953]
$14.00
Joyful Days Memories & More Card Pack [ 165822 ]
[165822]
$11.50
Traditional Sparkling Sequins [ 165875 ]
[165875]
$8.00
Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Satin Ribbon [ 164028 ]
[164028]
$8.00
Stampin' Dimensionals [ 104430 ]
[104430]
$4.25
Mini Glue Dots [ 103683 ]
[103683]
$7.25
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Coming Soon · Holiday Mini Catalog · Holidays

Happy Season

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Welcome to a bright, shiny new week, everyone! We’re enjoying a day off and taking full advantage of not doing much! So that means plenty of time to play in the craft room with some new goodies and getting a start on making new gifties for an October craft show, which means playing around with goodies from the retired stash.

It’s hard to believe that a whole new batch of Online Exclusives AND the brand new Holiday Mini Catalog goodies are due to launch tomorrow! I’m so excited for you to see all of the new things. The last few releases have been a little underwhelming, in my opinion anyway, but this one is worth the wait. This release is jam-packed full of good, GOOD stuff!

This week, we’re taking an early tour of some holiday goodies as we play with the new Joyful Days Memories & More card pack, the Greetings for You ephemera, and the Christmas Tags & More patterned paper pack that includes coordinating ephemera.

For today’s card, we get started with a base of Crumb Cake cardstock. The background panel is a combination of patterns – a sheet of red Season of Elegance foiled paper and a sheet of the festive plaid from the Christmas Tags & More pack. The focal panel is one of the smaller tree scene cards from the Joyful Days card pack that is matted with some gold textured paper. Some new Real Red shiny ribbon is tied around the bottom third of the full panel. And tucked underneath on several layers of dimensionals is the foiled sentiment from the Greetings for You ephemera pack. I’ve finished things off with a touch of sparkle in opposing corners from the Traditional Sparkling Sequins.

I hope you’ll drop by tomorrow to see another holiday-inspired design.

Products used in today’s card:
Crumb Cake cardstock
Christmas Tags & More (launching tomorrow!), textured gold metallic, Season of Elegance DSP
Joyful Days Memories & More card pack (launching tomorrow!)
Greetings for You ephemera pack (launching tomorrow!)
Real Red shiny ribbon (launching tomorrow!)
Traditional sparkling sequins (launching tomorrow!)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

florals

Too Kind

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Were you able to check out all of the crafty goodness that the Luv 2 Stamp Group brought during our Instahop on Thursday? It’s totally worth checking out! Link in my post from Thursday. Meanwhile, it’s been a busy couple of days here and that has totally cramped my crafty time, as you may have noticed by my absence yesterday. But sometimes we just have to roll with the punches and go with the flow. And that’s okay.

This week, we’re making our way through the garden and today we’re stopping to enjoy the spring wildflowers. We’re keeping it super simple with today’s card design by using the Mixed Media Florals Memories & More pack. Here in Texas, the strips of grass along a lot of the major highways are beginning to be covered in wildflowers. This is all thanks to Ladybird Johnson’s wildflower project back in the 1970s, and I must say that I just love her for it! And I love that the State has worked hard to maintain all of the wildflower seedlings from year to year with their carefully timed mowing (or lack thereof, as appropriate) to ensure that the flowers reseed. So if you’ve ever wondered why Texas has some of the prettiest right-of-ways in the country, you can tip your hat to Ladybird!

Our design today starts with a base of Basic Black cardstock. The focal panel is one of the notecards from the Mixed Media Florals Memories & More. I wrapped some natural tones linen thread and Daffodil Delight satin ribbon around the top to bring out the greens and yellows in our focal panel. The sentiment is from the Wanted To Say die set and is cut from black cardstock and red glimmer paper from the Festive pack. I added a ladybug from the sticker sheet and a few yellow and white Starburst sequins to complete our scene and tie all of the colors in the design together.

Tomorrow we’re going to wrap up our garden series with a trip to the country and I hope you’ll come along!

Product List
Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [ 121045 ]
[121045]
$11.50
Festive 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Glimmer Paper [ 164106 ]
[164106]
$12.00
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More Card Pack [ 164657 ]
[164657]
$11.50
Wanted To Say Dies [ 161594 ]
[161594]
$39.00
Natural Tones Linen Thread [ 164071 ]
[164071]
$9.00
Daffodil Delight 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Satin Ribbon [ 164715 ]
[164715]
$8.00
Starburst Sequins [ 165539 ]
[165539]
$7.50
Fine-Tip Glue Pen [ 138309 ]
[138309]
$7.25
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [ 144108 ]
[144108]
$4.25
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January Mini Catalog

Plaid Florals Birthday

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We’ve made it to the weekend. What does everyone have in store? We were supposed to be at a school basketball tournament today, but due to the kiddos missing school at the end of the week due to winter weather, that’s been postponed. So we’re off to bowl the weekend league tournament instead, assuming we can get out of the icy driveway, that is.

This week, we’ve been working with the Mixed Media Florals bundle of products. And today, we’re closing things out by combining this fabulous bundle with the Timeless Plaid designer series paper and a loose take on Sketch #5 from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.

We get started with a base of Early Espresso cardstock, which brings out all of the subtle shades of brown in our Timeless Plaid background panel. A flowers-only patterned sheet from the Mixed Media Florals paper pack serves as our focal backdrop. I love how the slight turn askew adds a bit of whimsy and interest to this patterned paper and really draws the eye to our focal image. The focal image is a bundle of flowers that is cut from one of the smaller notecards in the Mixed Media Florals Memories & More kit. I cut around the florals to give it the look of a diecut piece and mounted it on dimensionals to ensure it really catches your eye. I cut a partial panel from the pastel ombre glimmer paper using the smaller decorative banner from the Mixed Labels die set. The sentiment is also from the Memories & More kit and is also mounted on dimensionals so that it overlaps all 3 of the panels that comprise our focal layer. I added a bit of gold thread behind the sentiment to ensure that the eye falls and rests on the sentiment. A few shiny sequins in various colors across the card front add some extra sparkle.

Next week, we’re going to be working with the Hugs for Love bundle to show how it can work for you for so much more than Valentine designs. I hope you’ll come along for the ride!

Products used in today’s design:
Early Espresso cardstock
Mixed Media Florals, Timeless Plaid, Pastel ombre glimmer DSP
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More kit
Shiny sequins
Gold thread
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[119686]
$11.50
Timeless Plaid 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164678]
$12.50
Mixed Media Florals 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164638]
$12.50
Pastel Ombre Glimmer 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper
[164851]
$12.00
Mixed Labels Dies
[164652]
$21.00
Gold Twisted Thread
[164603]
$7.50
Adhesive Backed Shiny Sequins
[163484]
$7.50
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
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January Mini Catalog

Sketchy Fridays: Celebrate

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We’re having SNOW much fun here in North Texas, where we’ve woken up to a layer of fresh snow. After a full day of sleet and snow yesterday, things were already well covered before it got dark and we all turned in. Not sure that it will hang around long this time, but it sure is pretty!

But on to the business that is happening in the warmth of my craft room. This week, we’re getting a look at the new suite of products called Mixed Media Florals. And today’s design is pairing the gorgeous paper with the coordinating Memories & More kit.

And it just so happens to be time for a new installment of Sketchy Fridays, where we’re using a card sketch to design our featured card. Right now, we’re working through a full series of designs using the card sketches found in current Stampin’ Up! catalogs.

This week’s card is based on Sketch #2 from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog because I just couldn’t resist how perfectly it tied all of the fun, and very different, elements from the Mixed Media Florals together. What’s fun about today’s use of the sketch is that it serves more as a jumping off spot for the design, and I really love how this design evolved as I began working with all of the elements.

We get started with a base of Flirty Flamingo cardstock. A gorgeous sheet of paper from the Mixed Media Florals paper pack serves as the backdrop for the focal section of our design. I used a strip of the Beautiful Bokeh paper to serve as the anchor for the focal section. A partial cut of the Spotlight on Nature circle from a sheet of the new pastel ombre glimmer paper serves as the oversized mat for the focal image and sentiment and definitely add some interest as a partial shape. The focal image is a sticker from the Mixed Media Florals Memories & More kit and is adhered over the mat using dimensionals. The banner and sentiment are also from the Memories & More kit and are placed to overlap both sections of our full focal panel to tie the elements together visually. I added a ladybug and some foiled gems to catch the eye and add some whimsy.

Tomorrow we’ll be closing out our Mixed Media Floral series with a super fun and simple design.

Products used in today’s card:
Calypso Coral cardstock
Mixed Media Florals, Pastel ombre glimmer, Beautiful Bokeh DSP
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More
Petal Pink foiled gems
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[122925]
$11.50
Mixed Media Florals 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164638]
$12.50
Pastel Ombre Glimmer 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper
[164851]
$12.00
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More Card Pack
[164657]
$11.50
Petal Pink & Pretty Peacock Foiled Gems
[162587]
$8.00
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
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January Mini Catalog

Amazing Florals

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We’re sailing into the end of the week in grand fashion here in North Texas as we all – kids & adults alike – anxiously sit at home, in our comfy clothes, awaiting the impending winter storm. For those of you who live in colder climates, you may wonder why on earth Texans are always so dramatic when it comes to winter weather. I will simply say…hurry on down here and drive on the roads during a winter storm and you will understand! For one, we typically receive a mix of icy precipitation during winter storms, and for another, we have a lot of elevated roadways. And our only fight against impassable roadways is a special brining mixture that is applied to roads ahead of forecasted weather. As you can imagine, this doesn’t yield the best results. So…here we sit! But I’ll never complain about being able to mix my comfy pants with my business jacket! *wink-wink*

This week, we’re having a closer look at the brand new suite called Mixed Media Florals. If you choose the entire suite of products, you’ll receive 2 stamp/die bundles, designer series paper, the Plaster Painting 3D embossing folder, and embellishments called low profile dots. There is also a coordinating Memories & More kit. And today, we’re pairing up the Memories & More with the gorgeous paper.

This clean and simple card comes together in a matter of minutes and would be perfect if you need a gorgeous card in a rush. We start with a base of Balmy Blue cardstock. Our background panel is a sheet of the Mixed Media Florals designer paper. The focal panel is a smaller card from the coordinating Mixed Media Florals Memories & More kit. I love how the ladybugs in this panel really pop against the floral backdrop. The sentiment is also from the Memories & More kit and is popped up on dimensionals to allow a little room for the leaves that are diecut from Festive glimmer paper using the Mixed Label dies. I added some regal foil dots and wrapped some gold thread behind the focal panel for just a touch of subtle sparkle and to draw the eye across the design.

I hope you’ll pop in tomorrow as we continue to explore all the ways that the Mixed Media Florals products can go to work for you!

Products used in today’s card:
Balmy Blue cardstock
Mixed Media Florals DSP
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More
Mixed Labels dies
Gold thread
Regal foil dots
Dimensionals
Adhesives

Product List
Balmy Blue 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[146982]
$11.50
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More Card Pack
[164657]
$11.50
Mixed Media Florals 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
[164638]
$12.50
Festive 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Glimmer Paper
[164106]
$12.00
Mixed Labels Dies
[164652]
$21.00
Gold Twisted Thread
[164603]
$7.50
Regal Foiled Adhesive Backed Dots
[164038]
$8.50
Stampin' Dimensionals
[104430]
$4.25
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January Mini Catalog

Grateful Florals

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Happy hump day, everyone! This is definitely one of those weeks when today feels like a big ol’ road hump! But we’re making it. Actually, here in North Texas, we’re bracing for our first winter storm of the season. And if you’re not familiar with what that looks like for Texans, well, it basically brings life to a standstill. But one of the best things to come from the COVID era is the ability to work from home. So we’re all scurrying around buying last-minute supplies and making preparations to be stuck at home for a few days.

Today, we’re continuing a closer look at the new Mixed Media Florals products. In particular, today’s design is all about the Memories & More pack of goodies that coordinate with the suite.

Our super simple card design begins with a base of Calypso Coral cardstock. Our focal panel is a beautiful 4×6 notecard from the Mixed Media Florals Memories & More pack. I cut the notecard down to fit the standard-sized card front and then added some Earth Tones shimmer gems. Voila! That is IT and what a stunning result, in my humble opinion anyway.

The beauty of the Memories & More products is how easily they simplify your paper crafting without sacrificing one bit of jaw-dropping designs. We’re going to finish out the week by using a variety of the Mixed Media Florals Memories & More elements to give you a whole host of ideas for using these lovelies to shortcut your design process.

Products used in today’s card:
Calypso Coral cardstock
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More
Earth Tones shimmer gems
Adhesives

Product List
Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
[122925]
$11.50
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More Card Pack
[164657]
$11.50
Earth Tones Shimmer Gems
[164070]
$8.50
Stampin' Seal+
[149699]
$12.00
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Coming Soon · January Mini Catalog

Heartfelt Thanks

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Today we’re rounding out our quick peeks at some of my favorite products from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! January Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalogs. This is a super easy design that uses the new Memories & More kit called Mixed Media Florals and the gorgeous new Plaster Painting embossing folder.

Our design begins today with a base of Petal Pink cardstock. The focal panel backdrop is a piece of Beautiful Bokeh patterned paper that is embossed with the new Plaster Painting embossing folder. I made sure to give the panel a deep impression, which allows the white center of the paper to show through. I really loved this distressed look ad how it brings out the white elements of our focal panel. Our focal panel is one of the smaller cards from the Mixed Media Florals Memories & More kit, along with one of the included sentiments from the same. The focal panel is adhered to the backdrop over the Petal Pink diagonal trim using dimensionals. I added Wink of Stella across the wings of the butterfly and adhered to the corner of the focal panel with dimensionals. A few shiny sequins and foiled gems help draw the eye across our design and settle on the sentiment.

Next week, we’ll be taking more in-depth looks at all of these new products and we’ll be getting started with the Beautiful Butterflies bundle. I hope you’ll come along as we combine a few products from the upcoming catalog to make gorgeous projects!

Products used in today’s design:
Petal Pink cardstock
Beautiful Bokeh DSP (coming soon)
Mixed Media Florals Memories & More (coming soon)
Plaster Painting embossing folder (coming soon)
Petal Pink diagonal ribbon
Petal Pink & Gold foiled gems, shiny sequins
Paper butterfly
Wink of Stella
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Beautiful Thanks

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While I’ve been away tending to my family, I’ve had many hours to sit and gather inspiration for some of my newer stamp sets. The Hills of Tuscany set is one I was drawn to in the new mini catalog, but once I had it in hand, I felt stumped. Do you ever have stamp sets like that? You love them when you see them but then you find yourself a little intimidated by them once they’re in your stash? One of the things I love about our Stampin’ Up! crafting community is the number of forums from where we can draw inspiration. From Pinterest to Facebook to Instagram to Demonstrator Planning Place (if you’re a demo), there are so many incredibly talented stampers out there!

For today’s card design, I drew from several talented stampers who used the Hills of Tuscany stamp set to create beautiful watercolor-looking scenes. Here, I wanted to create a Tuscan sunset with a chateau in the distance. I used the larger and smaller hillside stamps to create the hill on which the chateau sits. To create the sunset, I used the cloud-looking stamp and covered it with a number of different color inks before stamping it. While not perfect, I do love the look that I was able to achieve here. I experimented with stamping it multiple times but found that using multiple colors and stamping once worked better. To pull the colors of sunset from the image panel, I matted it with rose gold and Moody Mauve luster paper. I used Pretty Peacock for the ribbon, blooming pearls, and sentiment to pull everything together with the Sweet Thoughts Memories & More card base.

Products used:
Basic White cardstock
Rose Gold, Moody Mauve SP
Sweet Thoughts Memories & More
Hills of Tuscany, Circle Sayings stamps
Deckled Rectangles, Thoughtful Expressions dies
Blooming pearls
Pretty Peacock & gold metallic ribbon, linen thread
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Luv 2 Stamp Artisan Design Team

Can’t Thank You Enough

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Thank you so much for your patience as I have been navigating a family medical emergency. I have spent the last month between Alaska and Texas in various hospitals. While things are certainly heading in the right direction, we still have a very long way to go to have this medical crisis behind us. I hope to be able to post more regularly as I am home more in between several major surgeries. I’m also trying to figure out how to bring you Terrific Tuesdays content during this time period, but I think it will be another week before I’m able to do so.

I had so much content planned for the period of time that I’ve been away. I’m so sad that I missed the end of Sale-a-Bration! There’s SO much wonderful product in the (now retired) Sale-a-Bration catalog. I hope you were able to swipe some of your favorites. While it’s a little late, I’m still planning to share projects using some of my favorite SAB products. So be watching for those.

Today, I’m sharing a thank-you card design. Being gone from home for a month has required a lot of support from family and friends, as you can imagine. So needless to say, you’ll be seeing a lot of designs that are thank-you or gratitude in theme.

For today’s design, I wanted to keep things simple and play with a new stamp set from the current mini catalog. I used a card base from the Sweet Thoughts Memories & More pack as the base for this design. I built this hillside scene on a piece of white cardstock using the Hills of Tuscany stamp set. To help the focal panel pop, I used a piece of the Lost Lagoon Tartain Foil specialty paper and popped up the entire panel using dimensionals. I twisted some linen thread behind the panel to bring in a nice neutral. The blooming pearls on either side of the sentiment help draw the eye across and down.

Some stamp sets really lend themselves to simple yet beautiful designs. The Hills of Tuscany is certainly one of those. There aren’t many products in this design, yet it really stands out as an eye-catching design. Things don’t have to be complicated to be lovely!

Products used in today’s design:
White cardstock
Tartain Foil DSP
Sweet Thoughts Memories & More card base
Hills of Tuscany stamps
Linen thread
Blooming pearls
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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