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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

We Create Blog Hop - Mother May I?

Welcome to the MAY 2024 "Mother May I?" Blog Hop, and the DEBUT of the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog!!! We generally hop on the first day of every month, and this month our theme will focus on projects having to do with the month of May, including Mother's Day. My project today features the NEW Mix & Match Products. {scroll down below the Blog Roll for ALL product purchase links}

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The NEW Mix & Match products I used for my card are the Calming Creek Cards & Envelopes, the Saying Something Ephemera Pack, and the Labels & Layers Ephemera Pack. There's also a coordinating stamp set I'll show you below, but I wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to use the pre-printed die cut elements to create a card.

The Calming Creek Cards & Envelopes come in a small pack of only 5 cards with coordinating envelopes, but all 5 cards (and coordinating envelopes) feature different designs. Our Mix & Match products also include the Sunny Springs Cards & Envelopes pack, but the Calming Creek pack is much less flowery so I felt like it would be a little more versatile for me.

The Saying Something Ephemera Pack includes tons of different die cut sayings, in several different formats. You get 2 each of 4 different sheets (5"x7") of designs, for a total of 8 sheets. It includes the very popular rectangular sayings strips, outline cut sayings, a couple different banner edged sayings, and even one in a circle. In addition, there are plenty of modern cursive greeting die cuts that are generously sized, so they work wonderfully as a focal image. TIP: if you want to pop up the cursive sayings, trim a skinny strip off one side of one of our Foam Adhesive Sheets and then cut to whatever little lengths fit best - look for straight parts of the letters for easier placement.

The Labels & Layers Ephemera Pack also contains 8 sheets that are 5"x7", and there are 2 each of 4 different variations. This pack works beautifully together with the Saying Something greetings. On my card I used a couple of pieces for layering, but you can also stamp on them.

The coordinating Simply Said Mix & Match Photopolymer Stamp Set has sayings that are sized specifically for use with the Labels & Layers Ephemera Pack. It's a fantastic versatile stamp set in its own right, as well. But as you can see from my photo, you don't really have to have the stamp set, or stamping supplies (cardstock, ink, blocks, etc.), in order to make a cute little card with the Mix & Match Cards & Envelopes, and the Ephemera Packs.

I finished my card by adding some of the NEW Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls, as well as a little bow made with our Linen Thread. These are great embellishments to choose for your Mix & Match projects, because they are neutral colors that should go with just about any design!

Stampin' Supplies: Calming Creek Mix & Match Cards & Envelopes, Saying Something Mix & Match Ephemera Pack, Labels & Layers Mix & Match Ephemera Pack, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls, Linen Thread, Paper Snips (for cutting thread), and Bone Folder (optional, to burnish score lines).
{see Product Purchase Links under the Blog Roll}

We Create Blog Hop MAY 2024 Blog Roll
Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE!
Lisa Cunningham
Linda Moore
Tricia Butts

CLICK TO ORDER YOUR HARD COPY CATALOG HERE!!!

Stampin' Supplies Product Purchase Links:

Calming Creek Mix & Match Cards & Envelopes [163753]	Saying Something Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (English) [163761]	Labels & Layers Mix & Match Ephemera Pack [163764]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]	Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls [163416]	Linen Thread [104199]	Paper Snips [103579]
Bone Folder [102300]

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Friday, May 6, 2022

Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop - A Mother's Love

Welcome to the MAY 2022 Edition of the Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop! You'll see projects in our hop from Stampin' Up! demonstrators around the world--I'm in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Note: I can only sell to customers in the US, so prices are in USD)

We generally hop the first Friday of each month, and our theme for today is A Mother's Love! For my project I am updating an old project, using the NEW Sun Prints Suite Collection (though I didn't use the Fern 3D Embossing Folder on my cards). The first pic below shows the old design. {you'll find all Product Purchase Links below the Blog Roll near the bottom of the post}

This week has been SUPER crappy for me...it's been really stressful, and I've been in a lot of pain, especially the last few days. So, I am going to resurrect an old Mother's Day project that's super easy to make. It's a Four Card Stationery Box you can recreate with any 12x12 Designer Series Paper that you feel is pretty enough to stand as a complete card front design on its own. I love giving sets of cards as a Mother's Day gift, and it doesn't get much easier than this.

Download the Four Card Stationery Box Pattern PDF HERE

The key is having a coordinating stamp set with the greetings you want to use, and a punch (or die set) on which you can place those greetings. Pick either a neutral background color for your card base, or use a few different colors that coordinate with your Designer Series Paper.

It is also nice to have some specifically coordinating ribbon, but if you don't, you can do what I did, and use the Baker's Twine Essentials Pack, or you could even just use Linen Thread. And, our White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon is quickly and easily changed to any coordinating color with the swipe of Stampin' Blends Marker.

You can bling these up with embellishments, like our Iridescent Rhinestones or our Solid Faceted Gems. Personally, for the sake of the recipient of my card set being able to mail them without extra postage, I like to leave my designs fairly flat. Our Brushed Brass Butterflies, or Polished Dots have a little less height than the former two embellishments, and would probably be fine postage-wise.

Stampin' Supplies: Sun Prints Suite Collection (Nature's Prints Stamp Set, Natural Prints Dies, Sun Prints 12x12 Designer Series Paper, Fern 3D Embossing Folder), Basic White Cardstock, Sahara Sand Cardstock, Starry Sky Ink Pad and Cardstock, Baker's Twine Essentials Pack, Stampin' Seal or Multipurpose Liquid Glue (to adhere DSP to card base), Stampin' Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots (to make little spun twine circles), Stampin' Seal+ or Tear & Tape (to adhere stationery box), Stampin' Scrub & Stampin' Mist (to clean red rubber stamps), Bone Folder, Paper Snips, Grid Paper, Paper Trimmer, and the Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine. And don't forget Basic White Medium Envelopes, if you want to mail your card! {see Product Purchase Links under the Blog Roll}

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Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop MAY 2022 Blog Roll
1. Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE!
2. June Olsen
3. Marieke Bart
4. Jan Musselman
5. Tricia Butts

Stampin' Supplies Product Purchase Links:

Sun Prints Suite Collection (English) [158805]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Starry Sky Classic Stampin' Pad [159212]	Starry Sky 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159263]
Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121043]	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack [155475]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]	Stampin' Seal [152813]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Mini Glue Dots [103683]	Stampin' Seal+ [149699]	Stampin' Scrub [126200]
Stampin' Mist [153648]	Bone Folder [102300]	Paper Snips [103579]	Grid Paper [130148]
Paper Trimmer [152392]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Whisper White Medium Envelopes [107301]

Coming SOON: May's PAPER PUMPKIN kit!!!

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SIGN UP no later than 11:50pm MT on MAY 10th to get the "Celebrating in Color" Paper Pumpkin Kit! Kit includes all the supplies you'll need to make 10 cards (which foldover to 4-1/4"x5-1/2") with coordinating envelopes (4-1/2"x5-3/4"). The cards will feature all 5 of our 2022-2024 In Colors...you'll get 2 each of 5 different card designs!!! You'll also receive 10 Gift Card Holder pockets in this kit that you can use on each of your cards, or save them to use on future projects. This kit will include a Basic Gray mini ink pad. Coordinating colors for this kit include: Orchid Oasis, Parakeet Party, Starry Sky, Sweet Sorbet, Tahitian Tide, and of course, Basic Gray.

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View or Download PDF of CURRENT Product Catalogs:

2022 Jan-June Mini Catalog

Stampin' Up! 2021-2022 Annual Catalog

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Friday, May 1, 2020

We Create Blog Hop - Mother May I?

Welcome to the MAY 2020 "Mother May I?" Blog Hop!!! We generally hop on the first day of every month, and this month we are creating projects with a motherly, frilly, or feminine feel to them.
{scroll to the bottom of this post for ALL product purchase links}

Sorry, my computer started having a fit and I had to walk away before I completely rage-smashed something...I'll have to try again later to get this finished...

Stampin' Supplies: Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, Simply Shammy (to clean photopolymer stamps), Grid Paper, Paper Snips, Paper Trimmer (to cut and score cardstock), Medium Whisper White Envelopes (for mailing!). {you will need a die cutting machine to use the Stitched Nested Labels Dies}

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Click the image below to check out Sharon's pretty projects...

We Create Blog Hop MAY 2020 Blog Roll Coming Soon!
Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE!
Sharon Dalton
Tricia Butts
Libby Fens
Cheryl Curtis
Tanya Harvey
Anastasia Radloff
Julie Davidse

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