Nature's Prints

Nature's Prints is a great suite that you will find in the main catalog. It comes with 4 stamps from nature, 4 greetings, and a splotches stamp. You can see one of the nature stamps in this first card. It's a stem with some leaves on it. I don't know my botany so I can't help you with the kind of plant this would come from. I still love the looks of it! To get the color under part of the panel, I used post it notes to protect that corner and added the color with a blending brush that had some orange still on it. Oops or happy accident? I kind of like it.

Starry Sky

Starry Sky is one of the newest In Colors. I adore this year's In Colors because I love bright colors and these are bright! Starry Sky is not a bright color but a beautiful deep blue with a few undertones of purple. 

I made this first card with A Fish & a Wish stamp set and coordinating punch. I used Bermuda Bay and Mango Melody with Starry Sky for a fantastic color combination.

Kindest Gnomes

These gnomes are so stinking cute! I just love how cute they are. This set, Kindest Gnomes, has retired but you could pick up the new set called Friendly Gnomes and recreate these cards with those images and a different paper pack.

Balmy Blue and Real Red are very striking with each other. I love how the boldness of the red pops off the blue. I used the designer series paper Storybook Gnomes.

Hippest Hippo Scrapbook Pages

These hippos were part of the sale-a-bration this past summer. They are so cute and I really enjoyed playing with them. Writing up the blog post, evidently not so much! I'm working making that better but I am playing catch up and trying very hard to be consistent with my posts.

Grassy Grove

My dad and brother are deer hunters. This deer is so majestic and all the supporting stamps are perfect for it. I have had this set and dies for a while but I will admit I was a bit intimidated by this bundle so it sat for a while. I had to just start playing with it to feel more comfortable with it. 

I started with a piece of Evening Evergreen and stamped the ground and trees with Evening Evergreen too. The words and and birds are stamped with Sahara Sand. The deer was stamped with Soft Suede and then die cut so it would stand off the card. 

Adorable Owls

Have you checked out the sale-a-bration catalog yet? You get to pick out free items with every $50 purchase through the end of February. One of those free items you might pick is this super cute owl stamp set called Adorable Owls. 

This set comes with 3 owls and 3 greetings. I started with card with Sweet Sorbet and added some designer series paper from Country Floral Lane pack. This is a pretty simple and easy card but isn't it cute? 

Hello Ladybug

Ooo...if I'm seeing ladybugs, does that mean it's almost spring? Oh a girl can dream! We have had a very mild winter so far in SE WI but it is only January 23. I'm guessing the bitter cold and snow will show up one of these days! (I'm praying not. What's wrong with a mild winter?)

I can pretend that spring is close and create spring like cards so here are a few lady bug cards.

Christmas Knots

This fun designer series paper is part of the hostess only pack that was available during the last mini catalog period. It was a fun pack of paper that covered most of the major holidays and a few just for fun papers too. With these cards, I was showing how you could make a lot of cards easy, fun, and fast with a couple of different kinds of knots.

Brewed For You Scrapbook Pages

Cheers! 

Getting together with some friends for drinks sounds like a blast! Now, I don't drink beer but I would love to sit and chat and just be with friends. Taking a few pictures and filling out these pages would be awesome too.

Sweet Sorbet

I would think by now you have checked out the fun new in colors. I am featuring Sweet Sorbet with these three cards. This first one showcases the Sweet Songbirds. I folded the card base in half and then the front flap in half again. I added some designer series paper to the front flap and the circle is only adhered to the front so that the card can be opened. 

Frienda Are Like Seashells

Here are 7 cards that are all basically the same. I tweaked some colors on them but the technique is the same. When using this technique, no two cards will look alike. You can see that by scrolling through my 7!

Snowman Magic

I love this snowman! He was part of the last mini catalog and is no long available but he's so stinking cute! It was hard to not make a good card with him. OK, I didn't actually try to make an ugly card but you get what I mean.

I paired him with the Snowflake Vellum and WOW! So much fun! Pool Party is the card base. The Wonderful Snowflake add another layer and fun touch to this card.

Play Ball Scrapbook Pages

There is no stamping on these pages! I know, how do you do that? Is that even right? When the designer series paper is so fantastic, you don't have to stamp. 

This paper was from last spring's mini catalog so it is not available any longer but check out these fantastic pages anyway!

Hippest Hippo

Sale-a-bration is on it's way again this year! Stampin' Up! releases excludes stamp set and papers that you can only earn during sale-a-bration. Sale-a-bration used to be 2 times a year and Stampin' Up! is going back to just once a year and that time is NOW!!

July and Auguste were the last sale-a-bration window. You could pick this awesome hippo stamp set or the coordinating dies or the gold striped paper as one of your free items. You can see I may have earned more than one (oops, please don't tell my hubby! 😁

I think the hippos are so cute. I started with a card base of Smoky Slate. The designer series paper was colored with Melon Mambo. The hippo was die cut and is on dimensionals.

In Symmetry

This beautiful set called In Symmetry did retire last spring. Yep, I'm behind, playing catch up again--or maybe it's still. I used that stamp set with a fun technique to create these 3 cards. The technique is called plaid stamping. You can see from the examples why plaid stamping is a good name for this fun technique. All you need to re-create this technique is a large, solid image stamp and 3 coordinating ink colors. 

Charming Sentiments

Charming Sentiments is a fantastic sentiment set with an amazing set of coordinating dies. Most of the dies the words out closely. I paired this great set up with Perfectly Penciled designer series paper and created some great cards.

Parakeet Party is the base color here. I colored the designer series paper with some finger daubers and ink pads. Coloring this way is very fast but not very precise. The messiness of it is perfect for the look I was after. 

Kindest Gnomes

I'm not sure I love the gnomes but I certainly appreciate them. This set was in the June-January mini catalog and I thought it was cute so I bought it and played with it several times. 

I create a class at home every month. I pick a bundle and add some fun accessories and give you 3 options to purchase if that stamp set and the accessories that will fit into your budget. The November Class at Home was this set and these were the cards that came with this class. 

Paradise Palms Scrapbook Pages

I really enjoy the challenge of creating scrapbook pages with my Stampin' Up! supplies. Many would say that Stampin' Up! doesn't have much for scrapbooking and I understand where they are coming from but strongly disagree! You can scrap with just about anything!

Here you can see some designer series paper, a few die cuts, some cardstock, stamps, and ink. I know, it sounds like a lot but it was all stuff I already have in my stash. I'm sure you do too!

Hippo Happiness

Hippo Happiness was retired last spring. I was sad to see this one leave our arsenal. The labels that are part of the dies are fantastic! The animals in this set are so adorable too. As you can see, I played with this set but didn't get to share them with you so here we go!

The colors for this card are Tahitian Tide,  Daffodil Delight, and Melon Mambo. It's a very cheerful card. You can see one of the great labels in these dies on this card too.

Snowflake Wishes

Snowflake Wishes retired a year ago and I made these cards a year ago. They have been patiently waiting for me to share their beauty.

The card base is Crumb Cake that I added another layer of Crumb Cake onto the base. I stamped the snowflake with Crumb Cake and Pool Party ink and the greeting with Night of Navy ink. I sponged some Whisper White ink on the edges of the cardstock. I added strip of embossed vellum to the left side of the cardstock. I tied some linen thread around the layer, tying it in a bow. I then added a snowflake die cut from Basic White cardstock with a rhinestone added to the center. 

Wildlife Wonder

I am going to work on being consistent this year. I want to be posting on my blog several times a week. I was doing that very consistently until summer. It is time! I have over 60 posts in my queue waiting to be written up and shared. I haven't stopped creating, just stopped sharing. So, here I go!

I'm starting with a fantastic stamp set called Wildlife Wonder. This set is perfect for creating those hard to make masculine cards.

The Night of Navy and So Saffron is the perfect color combination for this card. The moon was stamped with the large circle from Watercolor Shapes.