Create colorful backgrounds with these new tools. The new Stampin’ Up! Water Painters are so easy to use when you want to create colorful backgrounds to your cards. The three different sizes of brush tips give you many options. The small and medium sized brushes are round and have pointy tips that allow you to do very detailed coloring. Give a little more pressure as you paint to give a washed look to small areas … Read more
Easy Designs With Just a Few Layered Circles! These spectacular swirls look complicated, but are really easy when you use the Layered Circles dies or various size circle punches. Decide on a color scheme and some circle sizes and you’ll be on your way to a card that will surely capture attention! Cut two groups of layered circles from card stock or Designer Series Paper (DSP), making the colors of the second group go in … Read more
Use Your Stylus Tool To Emboss Vellum I really love this technique! Use your stylus tool on the back of a piece of stamped or heat-embossed vellum for added highlights and dimension to your image. Stamp the image with ink, or emboss with VersaMark Ink and embossing powder. Working on a foam mat, turn your vellum to the back side with the image down. With the blunt end of your stylus tool, gently rub within … Read more
How To Make a Wiper Card to Wow Your Friends This card kicks up a Double Z-Fold card another notch. When stretching the card to make it open, it also activates a mechanism where an arm, like a windshield wiper, pops up an image or sentiment! Pretty cool, right? So let’s see how it’s done. Start with two pieces of Misty Moonlight card stock cut at 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ and 2 1/4″ x … Read more
An Added Surprise With Another Z Fold A single Z Fold is fun enough with its accordion style zig-zag fold that you pull sideways to open. The Double Z Fold adds another zig-zag inside the card for an added surprise for the recipient. This version uses the Many Layered Blossoms dies and the sentiments from the coordinating Blossoms In Bloom stamp set. The card base, in Gray Granite is layered with the herring bone pattern … Read more
Try this great technique with any dies. Make this fun fold card with any favorite die to create a window on the front. Next, attach the cut out to a Z-fold on the inside. Position the piece so it fits back into opening on the front. How fun is that? I used the layering circles here, but chose any shape or any size you like! Use the smallest rectangle from the Stitched So Sweetly dies … Read more
Create easy cards in minutes! The Posted For You stamp set and punch is an amazing one to be able to create quick and easy cards in minutes! No matter what style you are looking for, you can do it with this set and punch. They may be purchased separately or as a bundle, saving you 10%! (See supply list below.) Select one of the stamp images from the Posted For You set, stamp tone-on-tone … Read more
Father’s Day is just a few days away. Don’t forget to honor the special dads and father figures in your life with a fabulous handmade, one of a kind card! Stampin’ Up! has so many great stamp sets and die cuts that are appropriate for creating the perfect card to celebrate Dad. Go with some natural or rustic tones and designs as in these cards I made with some (old) retired Designer Series Paper (DSP). … Read more
Stamp Once, Get Two Cards! These two great cards were actually stamped on one sheet of paper then split in half! Using the Forever Ferns stamp set from the new annual catalog, simply stamp a collage of greenery in the middle of a 5-1/4″ x 8″ sheet of Whisper White card stock. You might want to lightly mark the halfway point with a pencil or a very light score mark on the top and bottom. … Read more
Thank you to everyone who joined the excitement on my recent FB Live video as I unboxed my new products from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog! I just got my delivery and waited until the LIVE video to open the box…now THAT TOOK DISCIPLINE on my part (well for a short time, as it was delivered just 2 hours before the LIVE event!) I was excited so see my pre-order (available to demonstrators only) and share … Read more
Looking for a great set to make fabulous cards easily? This Love What You Do stamp set, is just so versatile! At first I resisted buying it, but then one of my customers purchased it, and I started thinking that I needed it as well. So glad I decided to get it. Whether you want a quick, easy card or want to kick it up a notch or two, this set will do the trick. … Read more
Welcome to my blog! To start with, I would love to share a little about myself before we get into some great stamping topics and projects. First of all, I have been a stamper since 2001, and a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator since 2003. Secondly, I enjoy wine. Back then I knew little more than what I liked to drink. Over the years, like a fine wine, I have grown and matured in my knowledge of … Read more