Someone I know turns 50 tomorrow, and we are showering her with some love today! I made this card for her on my Thursday Live last week (8/6/26) using the Artisan Sketched Garden DSP. (You can watch the replay on YouTube HERE if you're interested in learning how to make this card.)
Our daughter needed a birthday card for a friend, so I helped her create this Turtle-y Cute card with the recently retired stamp set.
The hot foil system is a lot of fun to use! I used Very Vanilla cardstock and my Butterfly Flight hot foil dies to create two identical panels.
The fourth and final card of July's Card Crafternoon was a Silly Old Bear easel card.
My friend Nancy Dodge at YB Stamping create this fun fold (watch HERE), and I couldn't resist playing along for my July Card Crafternoon with the flocked Velvet Meadow DSP.
This Balloon Festoon was a fun fold card indeed!
One of the things that I love most about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is the wonderful people I meet. Recently, I celebrated my team member Lisa's birthday with this card.
In addition to being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator herself, she makes the most beautiful baskets (and teaches basket making)! I combined my Easter Basket dies with the Balloon Festoon bundle and Valley in Bloom DSP to make this card for her. I tucked flowers die cut with the Forever Floral dies on Beautiful Ordinary Life (Pool Party) DSP and then colored the leaves with a Garden Green marker.
A quick sentiment on the inside and strip of DSP finished it off! Normally I don't glue paper to my envelopes, but I was planning on hand delivering so she got a balloon instead of a postage stamp! The rest of the floral spray went on the envelope flap.
Happy {belated} birthday, Lisa!
Happy birthday to my friend and longtime customer, Ann! I hope you like the water vibes of this card!
I paired a pretty piece of Scenic Coast DSP with the Balloon Festoon bundle to celebrate her.
Remember that it's not a mistake, but rather an opportunity to embellish like I did here because I scored my card base at the wrong measurement. That pretty DSP strip covers up my booboo pretty well. That's a sign of being handmade, right?
Happy birthday, Ann!
The Scalloped Blooms birthday card was the last card we made at my June Card Crafternoon. We used the Scalloped Blooms bundle (stamp set & dies) along with the Bloom Boutique DSP. (I grabbed my Fern & Flora stamp set for that pretty little moth.)
Can you see the In Color butterfly embellishments? I love the gold foil accents of the Bloom Boutique DSP! This angle also lets you see how pretty the Pearlized In-Color speciality paper is!
Having our daughter home from the University of Illinois to celebrate her birthday was very special for our family! I had a lot of fun creating this diagonal accordion birthday card for her on my recent Facebook Live (each Thursday at 7:30 PM). You can also find YouTube instructions HERE if you're interested. (Did you know that my customers get a tutorial for each of these projects? Just place an order with me HERE!)
The June Paper Pumpkin subscription box, Bikes & Blooms, has shipped, and the window for ordering July's box, Hooray for Birthdays, is now open!
• Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 coordinating envelopes
• Holographic foil accents
• Precut paper pieces and printed stickers
• Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Darling Duckling, Hydrangea Hue, Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Timid Tiger (Stampin’ Spot)
If you aren't a Paper Pumpkin subscriber yet and want to month's kit, be sure to sign up HERE by July 10.
My youngest nephew just turned 18 (NOT sure how that happened so quickly!), and his mom hosted a lovely dinner in his honor. Since he loves to fish (both lake and ocean), I grabbed the recent Lakeside Retreat Paper Pumpkin kit to make him a card quickly.
Happy birthday, Will!
How our baby can be 25 is a bit of a mystery to me, but we certainly enjoyed celebrating with her this weekend!
My (almost) sister-in-law's birthday is the day before mine, and I had a lot of fun making this Easter Joy birthday card for her!
To make it extra festive, I scored this card to be an easel fun fold. I also added a Cute As a Bug snail die cut on the inside along with die cuts and some fussy cutting.
Shy Shamrock is one of the retiring In Colors (24-26) that I absolutely love and hate to see go! You can find these products while supplies last HERE. Thanks for choosing me as your Stampin' Up! demonstrator!
Recently I needed a masculine birthday card for a co-worker, so I decided to use a card sketch that I found and make this card on my weekly Lives on my Facebook page (Thursdays at 7:30 PM Eastern time).
Did you know that my customers have an exclusive VIP Facebook Group where I post instruction sheets after each Thursday Live? Anyone can watch and craft along with the Thursday Lives at 7:30 PM.
Birthday cards are always in high demand for me, and sometimes it's hard to create masculine (or at least gender-neutral ones). I think this card made with the Nature's Walk suite would be perfect for anyone.
Today is my sister's birthday, so I made this fun fold birthday card for her.
I used scraps from the Memories in Bloom Scrapbooking Workshop Kit paired with Lemon Lolly, Basic White, and Pretty in Pink cardstock. I stamped the front with the Arched Wishes stamp set in Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly, and Black inks. I fussy cut the balloon from Pretty in Pink cardstock and the cupcake with scraps from the scrapbooking workshop kit and some Lemon Lolly DSP.
The front panel and Peach Pie glimmer paper arches were cut with the Everyday Arches dies.
The Party Dots and Tinsel Gems embellishments add some fun!
How fun is the easel fold? I stamped the inside sentiment from the With You in Mind stamp set in Peach Pie and added a few more Party Dots. Both the stamped arched panel and the inside panel were raised with Dimensionals. I really love this fun fold and how this card turned out!
On another note, earlier this week would have been my 26th anniversary with Close To My Heart! I'm sharing here because some of you have been with me from the beginning. I'm grateful for this chapter with Stampin' Up! We have a great demonstrator join offer this month, so if you'd like to know more about the benefits of being a demonstrator, reach out please.
Each Thursday at 7:30 PM, I go live on my Inky Scrapper Facebook page, and this is the card I made last Thursday. My customers and team members get written instructions to create my live projects.
I use the new Branching Out bundle, 3-D Birch embossing folder, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Shaded Spruce, and Very Vanilla card stock plus the coordinating inks.
Join me live tonight at 7:30 (or on replay)!
My firstborn nephew turned 19 last weekend, and I made this fun interlocking panel birthday card for him with the Autumn Toile DSP.
It was also the model for a Halloween card we made at my October card class, so my customers will receive printed instructions to make this card.
I think it turned out beautifully!
Happy birthday, Alex!
Here's another fun birthday card I made and sent to someone recently. I used scraps from the now retired Wildflower Birthdays collection to make a double easel card.
I stamped the sentiment from the With You in Mind stamp set in Soft Sea Foam and Pool Party, then fussy cut around the edges.
