I love layered cards. I particularly love crisp colors on crisp layers – and we have a bunch of potentials with our current In Colors. Today’s card tries to take advantage of those full combinations with this Full of Love card and, yes, well…it is a little summery. But who doesn’t need a brightly colored READ MORE
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A Canopy of Soft Seedlings
I just cannot get enough of the Stampin’ Up! Soft Seedlings stamp set. This is not a bundle – just a stamp set. But it is a wonderful image on its own, without a coordinating die set. And this card takes very few materials – so it is a great candidate for a new stamper! READ MORE
Is it me – or does the Split Card Textures Dies look like the profile of New Hampshire?
Here is another easily overlooked item in the catalog: the Stampin’ Up! Split Card Textures Dies. I saw them and almost overlooked them– except that they looked like the profile of New Hampshire… Or was it really Vermont? Well – in either case, they spoke to me as a very appropriate design for the changing READ MORE
Polka Dots and Full of Love
Every new annual and mini catalog from Stampin’ Up! have the stars of the season that are featured in multi-page layouts and lots of samples. But I am always amazed at the hidden gems in the catalog…and I love to design with these. Today’s card features 2 of these hidden gems: Stampin’ Up! Full of READ MORE
Stitched Greenery that’s Full of Love
I have mentioned those hidden gems in every annual and mini catalog from Stampin’ Up! And here is another design that features one of those – actually two of them: Stampin’ Up! Full of Love Stamp Set and the Stitched Greenery Die. I have been exploring the Full of Love stamps in this post and READ MORE
It may be fall…but a Shaded Summer design is timeless…
I love the Shaded Summer stamps and the coordinating Summer Shadows Dies. The florals are just exquisite, and they coordinate wonderfully even though they offer great design opportunities separately. Tone-on-tone designs are wonderful choices for formal cards. But if the method is easily done, why not treat ourselves to it on many other occasions? And READ MORE
Stenciled and Full of Love
I always love stenciled backgrounds. The current Stampin’ Up! Catalog has a wonderful set of stencils (what Stampin’ Up! calls “Decorative Masks”). The newest set, Artistic Mix Decorative Masks, includes 5 beautiful designs that offer so many possibilities for some unique designs. I need to keep these out on my craft table so that I READ MORE
Even Pretty Birds can get silly!
As I was making the Pretty Birds card that I published here, I had this idea that the artist who designed this stamp had made some fun options possible. So here they are…that group of friends looking in amusement (or is that shock and horror?) at that one friend who is always the clown! I READ MORE
Wisteria Wishes can happen in September…
I lived in a very old New England farmhouse a long time ago. We had wisteria there that was so hardy and so old that I believe it was holding up the old woodshed – instead of the other way around. It was a gorgeous bloom in the spring. And sometimes, if the weather through READ MORE
A blast from the past…along with an update with Nature’s Prints
The most fun part about cardmaking is our ability to reinvent a design any time we sit down to create the next card. Long ago (2018, I believe), I made this “Impossible Card” using Stampin’ Up!’s Love What You Do stamp set and the designer series paper from that bundle, Share What You Love. What READ MORE