Aloha, all! I’m featuring Stampin' Up!'s Designer Papers in my greeting cards all during July. For the entire month, most of Stampin' Up!'s Designer Papers are on sale at 15% off the catalog price. I'm hoping to show you that these papers can carry a whole card design all by themselves. So, even at full price, they're worth having in your crafting stash. In the first paragraph about each … [Read more...] about Three Designer Paper Sets and a Card With Diagonal Strips
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Three Designer Paper Sets and a Postage Stamp Punch
Aloha, all! I’m featuring Stampin' Up!'s Designer Papers in my greeting cards all during July. For the entire month, most of Stampin' Up!'s Designer Papers are on sale at 15% off the catalog price. I'm hoping to show you that these papers can carry a whole card design all by themselves. So, even at full price, they're worth having in your crafting stash. In the first paragraph about each … [Read more...] about Three Designer Paper Sets and a Postage Stamp Punch
Three Designer Paper Sets and a Horizontal Background
Aloha, all! I’m featuring Stampin' Up!'s Designer Papers in my greeting cards all during July. For the entire month, most of Stampin' Up!'s Designer Papers are on sale at 15% off the catalog price. I'm hoping to show you that these papers can carry a whole card design all by themselves. So, even at full price, they're worth having in your crafting stash. In the first paragraph about each … [Read more...] about Three Designer Paper Sets and a Horizontal Background
Three Designer Paper Sets With A Vertical Strip Design
Aloha, all! Beginning today and going through the end of July, I'm going to be featuring Stampin' Up!'s Designer Papers as the main element in my greeting cards. The reason is that, for the entire month, most of Stampin' Up!'s Designer Papers are on sale at 15% off the catalog price. I'm hoping to show you that these papers can carry a whole card design all by themselves. So, even at full … [Read more...] about Three Designer Paper Sets With A Vertical Strip Design
Nothing’s Better Than — Coffee
Aloha, all! As many cards as I have in my stash, I manage to get myself into situations where I don't have JUST.THE.RIGHT.CARD for an occasion that's suddenly come up. That is exactly what happened when my husband mentioned that he wanted to go to a coffee for a neighbor who is turning 94 years old last week. Saturday morning coffee is a big deal for this particular neighbor. He has been … [Read more...] about Nothing’s Better Than — Coffee
Celebrate Independence Day
Aloha, all! This coming Sunday is the Fourth of July. Of course, no matter where you are, it's the Fourth of July. But in the United States, the Fourth of July is celebrated as our Independence Day. With the colors of our flag being Red, White, and Blue, and with a flag filled with stars and stripes, how could I not pull out my long-neglected Stitched Stars Dies!? Stitched Stars Dies Are … [Read more...] about Celebrate Independence Day
Stampin’ Up!’s Papers Make Cardmaking Easy
Aloha, all! It's the last Wednesday of the Month of June. So it's time for Island Hopping, my monthly online get-together with my Maui sister Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Cheryl Hamilton. This month we chose to feature Stampin' Up!'s Designer Series Papers -because Stampin' Up! papers are going on sale tomorrow! Designing with Papers is Fun and Easy With all the fuss I make about … [Read more...] about Stampin’ Up!’s Papers Make Cardmaking Easy
Mini Catalog Products Are Selling Out!
Aloha, all! Do you know what Stampin' Up! stamp set I used for this project? Maybe what's important isn't so much that it's called, "Wrapped Bouquet," but that it's no longer available for us to buy. You see, it's one of the stamp sets in the Stampin' Up! January - June 2021 Mini Catalog that's already sold out. That's because, during the last couple of weeks of any catalog's sales period, … [Read more...] about Mini Catalog Products Are Selling Out!
A Little Something To Cool You Off!
Aloha, all! I originally made this card to feature it in a "Christmas in July" post. But after I've been reading all about the triple-digit temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, I decided today was a great time to bring on a little something cool. I hope my son and grandson, both of whom live in the greater Portland/Vancouver (Washington) area, are cool on days like today. A Returning Oldie … [Read more...] about A Little Something To Cool You Off!
All Squared Away Is Not Just for Grids
Aloha, all! Looking at the All Squared Away bundle in the Stampin’ Up! 2021-2022 Annual Catalog, you’d think that the only way to use this bundle is to create a 2 x 2 grid. But I’m here to tell you today and a grid like that is far from the only way to use this bundle First The Colors One thing that I do like about the pictures in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog (p. 117) is that all three of the … [Read more...] about All Squared Away Is Not Just for Grids
Cut and Emboss At The Same Time
Aloha, all! Did you get the "Sand and Sea" suite from the January - June Stampin' Up! Mini Catalog? Wasn't it fun to have a die AND an embossing folder with the same image. First you ran it through your machine to cut it. Then you stamped the images. And finally you ran the cut and stamped image through with the embossing folder. What fun that was? But with the Art In Bloom Bundle, you can … [Read more...] about Cut and Emboss At The Same Time