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This blog is for sharing a love of paper crafting. I love paper crafting -
and Stampin' Up! products in particular -
and became an independent Stampin' Up!®™ demonstrator early in 2025.
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Enjoy browsing my blog, and I'd love to hear from you.
It is what helps make the time I put into this blog feel worthwhile, and always brightens my day.

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Monday, December 22, 2025

5 Quick Christmas Cards

 

Last night I realized I had somehow forgotten 5 important Christmas cards I need to deliver! SO, I pulled out my scraps from a couple of discontinued DSP packs (designer series paper - Traditions of Christmas and Seasons of Green and Gold).  With the many die cuts and fussy cut pieces that I had, three of these cards came together very quickly.  I also used a stamped/colored focal for a couple of them from an older stamp set called A Beautiful Season.  Four of the five cards are Inverted Center Step cards.  All materials were from Stampin' Up! except for the cutting dies used to create the sentiments for all five cards - they were a discontinued Moonstone die set.  This is how my five cards turned out:

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

December 2025 Class 2 - Turtle-y Cute Pop Up Card & More

 

Today's class continued a look at scene creation.  This time, the scenes are all created by fussy cutting pieces from designer series paper (DSP) from Stampin' Up!.  This time we used the Turtle-y Cute DSP (all images © 1990–present Stampin’ Up!®.  This first card took scene building a bit farther, by making it a simple pop-up scene!   Here's a look at these cards and how we made them:

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

December 2025 Class - Scene Creation & Monochromatic Color Schemes

 

This month we're looking at aspects of scene creation - this time with Monochromatic color schemes.  All cards used Stampin' Up!s discontinued Winter Meadow papers, but most paper packs have papers that will work well for this technique.