How to Step Up a Simple Design We’ve all been there. We start with a simple card design. But then we feel it’s missing something… It’s just too simple… It’s boring. Okay, that last one is me. Let’s examine a recent creative journey. I needed an absolutely simple, easy card for someone who had never […]
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When I stamp, I always try to ensure that the card design has dimension to it – layers and depth. Today, I’m, exploring some ways to achieve that! Here is a card with dimensional flowers. How to Add Dimension to Your Design Cut out stamped shapes – Every stamped image on this card is cut
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Have a Happy 4th of July! Take the time to celebrate our country’s birthday, with friends and family!
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A CASEd design. We see the term CASE all over the place in the stamping community. What does it mean? Is it useful to CASE? What is a CASEd Design? This acronym has a few different names. The most common name is Copy And Share Everything. While a powerful process, never use it without responsibility.
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How to make cascading images with your stamps Today’s card has cascading squares, each with a stamped leaf on it. I’ve made this kind of design element often. Today I’ll explain how I do it. The Cascaded Images I start by choosing the images. On this card, each image is a different leaf. (By the
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A Sweet Card to Welcome a Baby Boy Does this card look familiar to you? If it does, then you are probably a newsletter subscriber of mine. In this week’s newsletter, I presented the corresponding baby girl card! If you’re not a subscriber, then be sure to complete the form at the top of the
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May your glass always be half full. Whether you prefer water, juice, coffee or wine, this is really a good wish to send someone. Today is the last day you can purchase the Half Full stamp set to do just that. It retires tonight! This stamp set is quite versatile. It has a funny sentiment
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Don’t forget about Christmas, even though it’s still the month of May. In all the excitement of the retiring items, I know I focus on the all-occasion products – stamps, paper, embellishments. But there are some holiday products that are retiring, too. Let’s look. This is a variation of a card I offered to my
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First Hello to Soft Spring I know that the new annual catalog sales period hasn’t started yet, but I thought you’d like to see one of the new sets in it. Today I’m showing Soft Spring, a stamp set you can purchase only with Rewards dollars. So, if you host a home party/workshop, or you
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A simply fabulous card. That’s what you get when you work with the Fabulous Flamingo stamp set. Wait. You don’t have much time to do this. Fabulous Flamingo is set to retire by June 3. Funny thing about this card. I’ve had it on my craft table for months. I really love the colors, so
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Be your own kind of beautiful. It’s easy with the Flowering Desert stamp set from the Occasions catalog. It is among the products that will retire on June 3. I’m a northerner. I have no idea how to color a cactus. But in my mind, I see browns and greens. So, that’s what I stamped.
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Use this design for an easy card. Any time of year. Don’t you need a stash of these cards that you can easily make for a variety of occasions? It is so simple to put together. I’ve used this general layout before. But because I vary the number of layers, and the occasion, you probably
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Thanks a Latte to Coffee Cafe, a fun set from the current Stampin’ Up! catalog that’s going to retire. The stamps are fun on their own, but pair them with the Coffee Cups Framelits, and you have TRIPLE the fun! I’ve created lots of other projects with Coffee Cafe. This was one of my first
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Starting today, you can make cards with the Everything is Rosy medley of products. What is a Medley of Products? A Medley of Products is a new offering from Stampin’ Up! It’s a large set of coordinating products, much larger than a suite. That means, it allows even more creativity. In fact, it practically guarantees
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Going to Miss Lovely As A Tree. Even though I wondered every year if this stamp set was going to retire – it was introduced in 2001 – I was still surprised to learn that it’s going to retire with the current catalog. I’m going to miss it. I haven’t posted many cards made with
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