Most Adored Book Fold Card

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Today’s card features the Most Adored Specialty Designer Series Paper, one of the free items you can earn with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration. While I used this paper to make a Valentine’s Day card, you can use this paper for other occasions. I used the red and pink designs on one side of several papers but the other sides are gold foil and white. There are only 9 days remaining for you to earn this paper before this year’s Sale-A-Bration promotion ends.

Here is how I made the card.

  • Card base – cut a piece of Flirty Flamingo cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″. Score at 4 1/4 and 5 1/2″. Fold and sharply crease score lines with a bone folder. Adhere the 1 1/4″ fold section to the card base so that it opens up like a book.
  • Cut a piece of the Most Adored Specialty Designer Series Paper at 4″ square. Cut another piece of DSP at 1″ x 4″. Adhere both pieces to card front.
  • Die cut or punch out nine 1″ circles with Basic White cardstock and one 1 1/4″ circle with Real Red cardstock. I never got rid of any of the circle punches Stampin’ Up! has sold in the past so I was able to punch everything out. You can use any nested circle dies as well.
  • Stamp greeting with Real Red ink on one of the Basic White circles and adhere to the Real Red circle. I used the Love You greeting from the Season of Chic stamp set because it fit perfectly in the circle.
  • Cut three different 1 1/2″ strips of the DSP and either punch out eight hearts with any heart punch or dies in your collection that will fit within the circles. I used dies from a long-retired set of heart shaped dies. Hearts are one of my favorite shapes, so I always keep them.
  • Adhere the hearts to the circles. Lay the circles out on the card front, three circles per row, and when you like how the arrangement looks, adhere them down.
  • Cut piece of Basic White cardstock at 4″x4″. Stamp small hearts from the Bee Mine Valentine stamp set two times with Real Red ink in upper right corner. Stamp Valentine’s greeting with Real Red ink. Adhere to inside of card.
  • Cut a piece of ribbon or bakers twine and tie around card front. I used two different colors of retired bakers twine on my card.

Most Adored Specialty Designer Series Paper Item #162976 Free with $50 Purchase

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Paper Snips
[103579]
$11.00

Happy Valentine’s Day

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Wishing you a very Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you get to celebrate in a fun way! Here are the cards we made in my in-person classes last month. I ran three classes at my home. The fourth class was held for residents at St. Peter’s Apartments in Columbia, PA and was promoted by the local public library. All of the cards feature the Country Lane Floral Suite in the January-April 2023 Mini Catalog. I’ve been so busy that I had to hastily photograph them. Please excuse the not-so-great quality of the photos. I cased two of the cards from catalog. No instructions today – just photos!

Lovely ladies at St. Peter’s Apartments

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Stamparatus
[146276]
$49.00

Black and Pink Country Bouquet Card

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Today’s card uses the Country Bouquet Bundle, however, I created this card with a totally different look by using my favorite Valentine’s Day colors-black, pink, and a touch of red-rather than using the Country Floral Lane Designer Series Papers. I had fun making this card and was happy that it came out looking like what I had visualized!

Here is how I made the card.

  • Card base – cut a piece of Thick Basic White cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″, fold and crease with a bone folder.
  • Cut a piece of Basic Black cardstock at 4″ x 5 1/4″ and run through a die cutting machine with the Split Card Textures Die. Cut a piece of Polished Pink Designer Series Paper at 2 7/8″ x 5 1/4″. I used a sheet from the 2021-2023 In Color 6″ x 6″ DSP that I had from the 2021-2022 annual catalog, which is now retired so you can use the DSP from the 2022-2023 annual catalog. Adhere to back of black die cut piece with liquid glue.
  • Stamp the greeting from the Country Bouquet stamp set towards the bottom of the black die cut piece with Versamark ink and heat emboss with white embossing powder. The white embossing powder is no longer sold separately. It is now included in the Basics Stampin’ Emboss Powder set, which also includes black and clear powders.
  • Stamp nine hearts from the Country Bouquet stamp set with Flirty Flamingo, Polished Pink, Blushing Bride, and Sweet Sorbet or Real Red inks on piece of Basic White cardstock and punch out with the coordinating Country Bouquet Punch. Stamp both the large and small hearts, which will be used on the inside of the card.
    • Arrange the hearts along the split line on the black die cut piece, overlapping them in different directions. When you like how it looks, adhere with liquid glue. Adhere piece to the card front
    • Stamp greeting with Polished Pink ink on inside of card. Randomly adhere a few of the smaller hearts that were punched out along with the large hearts.

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    Country Bouquet Card

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    Today’s card features products from the Country Floral Lane Suite in the January-April 2023 Mini Catalog. It is a quick and easy card to put together. This is such a sweet collection of products and I’m having fun working with it. I like the funky heart shape and think it is whimsical! I especially love the Country Gingham 6″x6″ Designer Series Paper! I’m always happy to see gingham designs because I think they work well with just about everything as a background.

    Here is how I made the card.

    • Card base – cut a piece of Petal Pink cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″, fold and crease with a bone folder.
    • Cut a piece of the heart paper from the Country Floral DSP at 4″ x 5 1/4″ and adhere to card front.
    • Cut a piece of Sweet Sorbet cardstock and a piece of Petal Pink DSP from the Country Gingham DSP at 3″ x 4 1/2″ each. Adhere to card front.
    • Run a piece of Basic White cardstock through a die cutting machine with the medium size die with the curved top from the Designer Tags Dies.
    • Stamp the large heart on the tag with Sweet Sorbet ink. Stamp the small open hearts with Petal Pink ink. Stamp greeting with Mint Macaron ink. Adhere to card front
    • Cut an 8″ length of red ribbon from the Real Red & Burlap Combo Pack and tie into a bow. Adhere to top of tag with a glue dot and trim the tails on the bow.
    • Embellish with a few Petal Pink Adhesive-Backed Sequins.

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    Love & Happiness

    Hello and Happy Valentine’s Day! Today’s card features the Love & Happiness Bundle in the January-June 2022 Mini Catalog. I used the more traditional colors for the card – red, white, and black. I CASE’d this card from Mary Fish and you can see her card here.

    Here is how I made the card.

    • Card base – cut piece of Basic Black cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″, fold and crease with a bone folder.
    • Cut a piece of the black and white stripe paper from the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper at 3″ x 4″ and adhere to right side of card front.
    • Cut piece of Basic White cardstock at 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″ and run through the die cutting machine with the next-to-largest die from the Scalloped Contours Dies.
    • Cut a piece of the red and white Playful Pets ribbon at 15″, wrap around scalloped piece and tie in a bow.
    • Cut a piece of Real Red cardstock at 2 3/4″ x 3 1/4″ and run through the Bouquet of Love Hybrid Embossing Folder, centering the cardstock in the center of the folder so that it covers the entire heart in the middle of the folder. Don’t forget to place the heart die from the hybrid folder die set inside the folder. Adhere to the scalloped rectangle. Adhere rectangle to card front.
    • Stamp greeting from Catching Butterflies stamp set with Memento ink on scrap piece of Basic White cardstock and run through die cutting machine with the larger label die from the hybrid embossing folder set. Adhere over the embossed heart with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
    • Stamp greeting from the Love & Happiness stamp on a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Basic White cardstock with Memento ink. Adhere to inside of card.
    • Adhere two Matte Black Dots to card as shown.

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    Paper Snips
    [103579]
    $10.00

    Sweet Talk Tailor Made Tags Card

    Hello! Today’s card is one of five cards from my January Valentine’s Day class-to go. All of the projects featured products from the Sweet Talk Suite in the January-June 2022 Mini Catalog. I cased the card from one that is shown on page 10 in the catalog. This card was quick and easy to make and shows off the fun Designer Series Paper.

    Here is how I made the card.

    • Card base – Cut piece of Real Red cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″, score at 5 1/2″, fold and crease with a bone folder.
    • Cut a piece of Sweet Talk Designer Series Paper at 4″ x 5 1/4″ and adhere to card front.
    • Cut a piece of the Highland Heather sheet of DSP with the words written in white at 2 1/4″ x 4 1/2″. Run through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine with the largest Tailor Made Tag with the rounded top.
    • Cut a piece of Basic White cardstock at 2 1/4″ x 4 1/2″ and run through the machine with the same tag die.
    • Cut an 8″ length of ribbon to tie the two tags together. I used some retired Highland Heather ribbon that was a Sale-a-Bration item a few years ago, so you can use any ribbon in your stash that matches the colors in the DSP. Put the two tags together and insert ribbon into both of the holes and tie with a slip knot. Trim ends.
    • To make the words for the tag, use a scrap piece of Real Red cardstock that measures 1 1/4″ x 2 1/4″. Cut a piece of Foam Adhesive Sheet the same size, peel off one of the backings and adhere to cardstock. Cut letters from the Playful Alphabet Dies – one “L”, one “V” and two “U”. Run through the Cut and Emboss Machine. Peel backings off the letters and adhere to the Basic White tag as shown.
    • Stamp hearts with Blushing Bride ink at bottom of tag. I used a stamp from the Love Notes stamp set, which is retired. If you own the Sweet Conversations stamp set you can use the image with the three small hearts.
    • Adhere tags to front of card. Adhere the Highland Heather tag first, placing it at an angle. Adhere the Basic White tag over it, straight up and down.
    • Cut a piece of Basic White cardstock at 4″ x 5 1/4″ and stamp a Valentine’s Day greeting of your choice. Adhere to inside of card.

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    Paper Snips
    [103579]
    $10.00

    Happy Galentine’s Day!

    Hello! Today’s cards feature the Hearts & Kisses Bundle. When I saw this bundle in the mini catalog, as a woman that loves lipstick and feels naked when I’m not wearing it, I knew I had to purchase it! I also thought that it would make great cards to send to my gal pals to celebrate Galentine’s Day! As I’m writing this post, I’ve already heard back from a few of them to say how much they loved receiving their cards! One of my friends has a Valentine’s Day birthday and another has a birthday on February 17 so I used a birthday greeting for those two cards.

    Here is how I made the cards.

    • Card base – cut a piece of Real Red cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″, fold and crease with a bone folder.
    • Cut piece of DSP at 4″ x 5 1/4″. I used From My Heart Specialty DSP from the 2020 Spring Mini Catalog, now retired. Adhere to card front.
    • Cut a piece of Basic White cardstock at 3 1/4″ x 4 1/2″ and run through your die cutting machine with the largest rectangle from the Stitched So Sweetly dies.
    • Stamp the lipstick streak image from the Hearts & Kisses stamp set with Flirty Flamingo ink at the top and bottom of the die cut piece, stamping off first, before stamping onto the cardstock. For the birthday card I stamped the Galentine’s Day greeting with Real Red ink in between the stamped streaks. For the Galentine’s Day card I used the Hello Fabulous greeting from the Dressed to Impress stamp set.
    • Stamp two lips with Flirty Flamingo ink, punch out with the Kiss Punch and adhere on top of the streaks. Embellish with three Resin Hearts. Adhere piece to card front.
    • For the inside of the card, cut a piece of Basic White cardstock at 4″ x 5 1/4″. For the birthday card I stamped it with the Happy Birthday greeting from the Happy Thoughts stamp set and I used the Happy Galentine’s Day greeting for the rest of the cards. I stamped the greetings and the xoxo with Real Red ink. Stamp the lipstick with Flirty Flamingo ink. Adhere to inside.

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    Kiss Punch
    [154238]
    $18.00
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    [103579]
    $10.00