There are just 2 days left to Sale-A-Brate! What does that mean? It means that Sale-A-Bration, the most anticipated Stampin’ Up! sales promotion of the year, ends tomorrow. Here’s a card I created near the start of the Sale-A-Bration (SAB) period. It doesn’t use SAB products. But it uses products that when purchased together, qualify […]
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Today I’m poppin’ up to say Hi! How lucky I am to have a photopolymer stamp that says just that!! It’s the Terrific Toadstools photopolymer stamp set that I purchased as part of the stamp set and punch bundle, of the same name. If you subscribe to my newsletter then you read this week that
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Today is the start of my 12 Weeks of Christmas projects. If you’ve been following me for a long time, you know that I offer this almost every year. What are the 12 Weeks of Christmas?? They’re a set of newsletter issues – 12 in all – in addition to my regular newsletter issues. Each shows
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Today’s project shows one way of working with Designer Series Paper (DSP). That’s the patterned paper by Stampin’ Up! I love working with DSP. It takes so much work out of a card design. Here are 3 of the top ways: Reduces some stamping – faster and easier to make a card Aids in color
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Inspiration for a card design can come from all sorts of places. Did you see my Facebook post on Friday? That card was inspired by a date on the calendar, specifically National Book Lovers Day. Really. Here’s the card again. Can you tell which book series I was thinking about? How was I inspired? A
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Many of my favorite card designs are monochromatic. That means the design is primarily one color. Here are 2 monochromatic card design examples from the past. To see a purple ladybug card, click here! What makes these designs so like-able? Best things about monochromatic designs Easy – no worries about matching, or clashing, colors
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Symmetrical and non-symmetrical card design. Do you have a preference? In symmetrical design, each element is equally distant from the top & bottom borders, as well as from the left and right borders. Edges are parallel. In non-symmetrical designs, each element is not equally distant from borders, nor are they parallel. Which do I prefer?
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Card design is not a linear process. Although it is achieved through a series of steps, it’s not a series where I add one element at a time until I have a finished card. Let’s look at today’s card. How did this design come about? It’s pretty wild, actually. I started with one green tree,
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A Fun Purple Ladybug! That’s what today’s card is designed to showcase. Ladybugs really don’t need to be black and red, you know. 🙂 It’s fun to use colors that are unexpected! This card uses a classic layout – 2 layers of cardstock, all centered on the card base. Then I took out my Hello
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Today I’m working with fabulous new colors! With the new annual catalog, Stampin’ Up! introduced a color refresh. That means, they kept most of the existing colors, deleted some, brought back a few favorite ones from the past and added some brand new ones. This has caused me to have lots of fun playing with color.
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Today, I’m sharing a fun card design with Bright & Beautiful DSP! What’s that??? DSP, or Designer Series Papers, are the beautful patterned papers that Stampin’ Up! makes. This month, 13 of these sets of paper are on sale for 15% off. Saving money while you shop is always fun. And, frankly, shopping for Designer
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Black Friday. Cyber Monday. I combined it all into Cyber Week. There was too much shopping going on the last few days to really focus on stamping, right? So, this should make it all easier for you! Card Class Videos I published a card class on my YouTube channel today. It’s set up as 3
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How can I thank my loyal email subscribers? By providing a special series of emails. This year, I’m offering the 12 Weeks of Christmas Projects again, but with a twist. I’m condensing them into 3 weeks! Why? I believe than many of my subscribers love to see the projects, but they don’t want it spread
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Working with a new product is exciting, but when it’s a sneak peek, it’s even better. That’s how I feel about today’s project. It was made using the Flitting Florets Collection. These products – or some of them – will be in the January-June 2023 mini catalog. But they are available this month, too. Plus,
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Where do you get your inspiration? How do you come up with ideas for your card designs? I’m asked these questions – and others that are similar to them – all the time. Sometimes, I find inspiration in the most unexpected places… A Recent Experience At the time that I’m writing this blog post, one
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