Stamp Out Loneliness: Virtual Card Making Retreat 10/3

You're invited!  All paper crafters welcome!  This event will all happen on my Facebook page (with a live Zoom session at 10 AM EDT) with a few inky friends from the Mauvelous Lollies team!

 

April Crafternoon Card Class Card #1

This month's card Crafternoon was this past Sunday, and my ladies and I had a blast creating four cards!  I'm grateful for the 2026 Virtual Card Making Retreat and all of the generous Stampin' Up! demonstrators who freely share ideas.  (You can find the original card HERE if you're interested.)

This first card uses the Garden Poetry DSP & Garden Textures specialty paper along with the 2026 Virtual Card Making Retreat stamp set and Forever Florals bundle.  We used Blackberry Bliss, Fresh Freesia, Shy Shamrock, Lemon Lolly, and Black ink along with Bubble Bath and Basic White cardstock.

Instead of using rectangles, consider angling one edge of your DSP for a fun effect!

Virtual Card Making Retreat ‘26: Card #2

The Virtual Card Making Retreat 2026 product bundle is still available, along with the instructional videos, and you will be amazed by how your creativity is stretched!  For the second card, we used the frame die in such a creative, unusual way!

We colored the flowers with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers (and were supposed to color the leaves that way also, but instead, I used the solid leaf stamp in Secret Sea).  If you look closely, you'll see "dew" drops created with the color lifter.

Do you enjoy coloring lined images?  If so, what is your favorite medium?  I am definitely still working on my Stampin' Blends (alcohol markers) techniques.

Elegant Congrats Card

Inspired by the Virtual Card Making Retreat card #3, I made this card on my Facebook Live recently using the Lovely & Beautiful DSP, the Virtual Card Making Retreat stamp set, and the Simply Beautiful and Beautifully Celebrated dies for my school's Teacher of the Year. Our school colors are purple and gold.

I heat embossed the sentiment in gold, and also added gold heat embossed accents to the flower centers.

Be sure to decorate the inside of your card and your envelope!

I think this is the first time I've added ribbon to the inside(-ish?) of a card, but I thought that flower blossom needed a little grounding.

If you'd like all the details, you can watch how I made this card on my Facebook page or on my YouTube channel.

Virtual Card Making Retreat ‘26: Card #3

This beautiful tri-fold card uses two pieces of DSP (designer series paper) and some Berry Burst Two-Tone cardstock.

It was fun to use a blending brush to color the flowers and stamps to "color" the leaves.  The white matte dots were colored with Darling Duckling Stampin' Blend to turn them yellow.

I love all the stamped flowers!  We even added little dots with the Darling Duckling Stampin' Blend.

I'll be showing you how to make a similar card on tonight's Live at 7:30 PM (EST) on my Inky Scrapper Facebook page!

Virtual Card Making Retreat ‘26: Card 1

The Stampin’ Up! Virtual Card Making Retreat was incredible! I was able to complete a few of the 15 cards this weekend, and I learned so many things. I can’t wait to share in upcoming classes and events! 

This card features the exclusive Virtual Card Making Retreat stamp set PLUS a sentiment and dies from the {sneak peek} March Online Exclusive Forever Florals bundle (stamp set and dies).

Can you believe that there was no coloring?  Coordinating stamps colored in the flower centers in Darling Duckling, the tiny flowers in Fresh Freesia, and the leaves in second generation Granny Apple Green and Old Olive.

It's important to remember to stamp the inside of your cards and your envelopes!  This card also uses Cloud Cover DSP and Secret Sea (ink and Two-Tone cardstock) plus some white embossing for the sentiment.

I'm looking forward to sharing the card designs and techniques I've learned at future stamping classes/events.  Did you know that the retreat bundle is still available and that the videos will also be available for at least a year?