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Adorable Poppin' By card swaps

Today I'm sharing 3 adorable cards made with the Poppin' By bundle from our latest Online Exclusive release.  

Candace made this amazing fun fold card for our May team swap: 

She folded her card front into a box and added lots of sponged popcorn and the cute box on the lower front.  Note his sunglasses & shoes!  They're part of the stamps & dies bundle. The corrugated card stock on the front mimics a box so well.  

Do you see the window sheet strips on the two pieces of popcorn coming out of the box? They flutter when you move the card. She also added a 'wobble' to the top piece of popcorn.  Love this so much!  

Here's the Poppin' By bundle - stamp set & dies.  So cute! See it here: 

I received a few cute popcorn cards with my Disney swaps.  

This first one is made by Marcia Besecker.  She added so much detail to her card!  

Lots of texture and fun details on this one!

Next is an adorable swap card made by Amy Storie.  I love her choice of colors and the fun accents she added to her card. 

This bundle is super cute don't you think?  

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May Specials

Starter kit deal! 

Reserve my new Designer Paper Share here

Get $166 in product of your choice for just $99 with free shipping! Click here!

Earn free card kits in May with online orders! Get 4 kits with a $60 order and orders over $80 receive all 6 cards. All you need are greetings, gems and adhesives to assemble. 

Order here 

Get my Florals in Bloom PDF tutorial free with any online order in May!

Adorable Turtle-y Cute fun fold card

Last weekend we held our monthly Team swap and Lori made this super cute card. 

It's a vertical book binding card fold.  I love how this fold allows you to show off so much fun products like the DSP and the embossing folder. Her turtle & balloon are fussy cut from the Turtle-y Cute DSP.  

She used the Turtle-y Cute suite seen here. So many fun elements! Unfortunately the Turtle Textures embossing folder is currently unavailable.  

Measurements:

• Base 8 1/2" X 5 1/2" score 1 3/4", 3 1/4" & 4 1/4"
• yellow is 2 5/8" X 5 1/2"
• green textured 2 3/8" X 5 1/4"
• DSP 2 pieces at 3/4" X 5 1/4"
• white inside 2 1/8" X 5 1/4"
• banner greeting 2 3/4" X 7/8"

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May Specials

Starter kit deal! 

Get $166 in product of your choice for just $99 with free shipping! Click here!

Earn free card kits in May with online orders! Get 4 kits with a $60 order and orders over $80 receive all 6 cards. All you need are greetings, gems and adhesives to assemble. 

Order here 

Get my Florals in Bloom PDF tutorial free with any online order in May!

Get a free PDF tutorial of your choice with any order over $55 at my shop here 

Fun Team swaps with new In Colors!

Today my husband and I are off to Orlando for the 2025 Stampin' Up! incentive trip.  We're pretty excited to be there and see all of our SU friends. *less than 1% of SU demonstrators earn the incentive trip each year and I am so blessed to be one of them!  Thank you all for your support!!

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Sharon made this super fun card for our May Team swap. She used all 5 new In Colors!

The circle die-cuts are from the Spotlight on Nature dies seen here.  These dies are a 'must have' in my opinion.  I love how she used them as the focal point of her card.  She was inspired by a purchased card she received and is using this card to introduce the new in colors to her customers.  She used the Plaster Painting embossing folder on the White layer. 

She added even more dies to the inside!  

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Next is a pretty card made by Marla. She chose to feature the Beautiful Gallery suite seen here.  

She die-cut the pretty leaves with the Beautiful Motifs dies seen here. These dies are pretty special as some of them only cut out partially which allows for some neat effects. 

Then she cut a frame from the Gallery Blooms dies seen here.  Once she added the Secret Sea frame over the Cloud Cover die-cut she pulled a few of the leaves to the front, over the frame edge.  Genius!  

The designer papers are from the Beautiful Gallery 6 X 6" DSP stack seen here.  And even her gems are from this suite! 

Here's the inside view.  

Measurements:

• Card base - Vanilla - 8 1/2" X 5 1/2" scored at 1 1/2" & 4 1/4". 
• DSP on the inside left 2 5/8" X 5 1/2", on the right 1 5/8" X 5 1/2" 
• Cloud Cover layer is 2 1/2" X 4" 

 

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May Specials

Starter kit deal! 

Reserve my new Designer Paper Share here

Get $166 in product of your choice for just $99 with free shipping! Click here!

Earn free card kits in May with online orders! Get 4 kits with a $60 order and orders over $80 receive all 6 cards. All you need are greetings, gems and adhesives to assemble. 

Order here 

Get my Florals in Bloom PDF tutorial free with any online order in May!

Get a free PDF tutorial of your choice with any order over $55 at my shop here 

New In Color samples with Impressions Abloom

I made these cards for my In Color display board. The Impressions Abloom bundle is one of my favorites among the new Online Exclusives.  

This bundle has it all - beautiful images, pretty greetings and amazing die-cuts! 

It's a 2-step stamp set and has 3 sets of flowers and a set of leaves in images.  I love the greetings and the dies especially.  These pretty ovals are perfect! See the Impressions Abloom bundle here. 

The new 2025-27 in colors are Darling Duckling, Cloud Cover, Strawberry Slush, Secret Sea and Timid Tiger. The greetings are inked in Secret Sea ink, stamped off once first.  Same with the flower centers. I used Lemon Lime Twist CS for my leaf die-cuts.  The embossing folders are Soft Waves 3D and Dotted Circles 3D. 

These are my two favorites; Strawberry Slush & Secret Sea. 

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May Specials

Starter kit deal! 

Get $166 in product of your choice for just $99 with free shipping! Click here!

Earn free card kits in May with online orders! Get 4 kits with a $60 order and orders over $80 receive all 6 cards. All you need are greetings, gems and adhesives to assemble. 

Order here 

Get my Florals in Bloom PDF tutorial free with any online order in May!

Get a free PDF tutorial of your choice with any order over $55 at my shop here 

Pretty Florals cards with video tutorial

Here's another pretty card I made on last week's Live video: 

Most of this card is made with the Florals in Bloom designer paper.  Both large pieces of DSP and the small flowers & leaves are fussy cut from it.  The large flower is die-cut from this DSP using the Pretty Florals dies. See the bundle here. 

My colors include Petunia Pop with Secret Sea and White. 

Which card do you prefer?  

I didn't create a project sheet for this card so I'll share the measurements here.

• Card base 4 1/4" X 11" score/fold at 5 1/2"
• DSP on the left 3" X 4 1/4"; DSP on the right 2 1/2" X 5"
• White circle die-cut 3" X 3 7/8" (Spotlight on Nature dies) 
• diagonal strip 6" X 1 1/8" 

During the video I shared another neat card using the Florals in Bloom suite.  Check it out here. 

Below is the video tutorial for this card and a fun fold too. Both are made with this upcoming bundle from the new 2025-26 Annual Catalog.  

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Awesome Starter kit deal! 

Get $166 in product of your choice for just $99 with free shipping! Click here!

Earn free card kits in May with online orders! Get 4 kits with a $60 order and orders over $80 receive all 6 cards. All you need are greetings, gems and adhesives to assemble. 

Order here 

Get my Florals in Bloom PDF tutorial free with any online order in May!

Get a free PDF tutorial of your choice with any order over $55 at my shop here 

2 opportunities for new products! My In Color bundle and a Designer Paper Share

Yay; everyone can now order from the new 2025-26 catalog! 

Go here to shop

I have a few other opportunities for you too; both from the new catalog. 

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1st - my In Color bundle is available through tomorrow.

Reserve yours ASAP. Here are the details: 

Details:

• There are 4 colors of ink available right now. Secret Sea, Strawberry Slush, Timid Tiger and Darling Duckling. Cloud Cover ink pad will not be offered due to a reaction of the ink to the foam pad. *Lost Lagoon (stamped off once) works well for Cloud Cover ink. 
• Add on 4 Blends markers duos and get the 5th one free! 
• The bundles will ship out around May 21st via Priority Shipping.  

Payment:

• Basic bundle is $99 and I'll pay the shipping to you!  
• Add on the 5 sets of Blends markers and it's $151.50 (one set is free and shipping to you is also free!)
• Pay via check, cash, PayPal or Zelle 

Message me here to reserve your bundle.

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2nd - I'm offering a new Designer Paper Share. 

Reserve yours and it will ship out to you mid to late May or when your group fills. 

It includes 7 packs of DSP - 5 from the new Annual Catalog and 2 online exclusives (Celebratory Sips & Floral Impressions)

Cost is $17.50 and includes 54 sheets of 6 X 6" papers.  

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Awesome Starter kit deal! 

Get $166 in product of your choice for just $99 with free shipping! Click here!

Earn free card kits in May with online orders! Get 4 kits with a $60 order and orders over $80 receive all 6 cards. All you need are greetings, gems and adhesives to assemble. 

Order here 

Get my Florals in Bloom PDF tutorial free with any online order in May!

Get a free PDF tutorial of your choice with any order over $55 at my shop here 

Pretty Florals fun fold card with video tutorial & free project sheet!

Here's one of the cards I shared on last week's video.  It' features lots of new products from the 2025-26 Annual Catalog. Yay! This catalog & lost of new product goes live tomorrow! 

My colors include Misty Moonlight with Timid Tiger and White.  The floral stamp set is called Pretty Florals and will be available on May 6th. The greeting is from the Blooming Phrases set.  

I believe this fun fold is called a diamond fold.  It starts out with a 11" X 4 1/4" card base with two score lines.  Where the diamond layers are added is the second score line.  Simply trim off the excess on the left side of the diamond layers.  *watch the video here to understand

This is one of those cards where the video helps you more than a tutorial does.  Please watch the video below to understand how this fold works. 

But if you like having the instructions with measurements here's the free project tutorial for you.  Click on the following link to print or download it.  Download Pretty Florals diamond fold

Below is the video tutorial for this card and one more too. Both are made with this upcoming bundle from the new 2025-26 Annual Catalog. It goes live on May 6th.  

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Awesome Starter kit deal! 

Get $166 in product of your choice for just $99 with free shipping! Click here!

Earn free card kits in May with online orders! Get 4 kits with a $60 order and orders over $80 receive all 6 cards. All you need are greetings, gems and adhesives to assemble. 

Order here 

Get my Florals in Bloom PDF tutorial free with any online order in May!

Get a free PDF tutorial of your choice with any order over $55 at my shop here 

Yay! My New Catalog Launch Party is tomorrow!

With each new catalog I host an open house for my local customers.  I love prepping for these because it gets my display boards done.  The best part is that I get to see people I don't get see regularly.  It's a joy to watch friends meet up and visit while browsing the new catalog. I also truly enjoy planning my menu and treating them to lots of yummy food. 

This event is in Minot, ND at my home studio. If you're local I hope you can stop in and pick up your new catalog!

One of the most popular things I offer with the new Annual Catalog is my In Color bundle.  They love getting the new colors in a great sampling of new color products they can enjoy right away.  

Details:

• There are 4 colors of ink available right now. Secret Sea, Strawberry Slush, Timid Tiger and Darling Duckling. Cloud Cover ink pad & refill are currently unavailable. *Lost Lagoon (stamped off once) works well for Cloud Cover ink. 
• Add on 4 Blends markers and get the 5th one free! 
• The bundles will ship out around May 21st via Priority Shipping.  

Payment:

• Basic bundle is $99 and I'll pay the shipping to you!  
• Add on the 5 sets of Blends markers and it's $151.50 (pay for 4; get one set free and shipping to you is also free!)
• Pay via check, cash, PayPal or Zelle 

Message me here to reserve your bundle.

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There's also an exciting Starter Kit promotion in May.  Get an extra $66 in free product of your choice! 

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May Specials

Earn free card kits with orders in May! The more you order the more kits you'll receive. Add a stamped greeting and assemble using the project sheet included! 

Don't miss the deals in the Last Chance list here!

*host codes have been discontinued; no need to add one. 

Now you'll earn host rewards on all orders over $20!

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Get my Florals in Bloom PDF tutorial free with any online order in May!

Get a free PDF tutorial of your choice with any order over $55 at my shop here 

It's here! My In Color bundle offer! Reserve yours by May 6th

Each year I offer a package deal with most of the new In Color products.  Reserve yours by May 6th!  

The advantage of my bundle is that you'll get the products all at once; there's no waiting for each color monthly.

Details:

• There are 4 colors of ink available right now. Secret Sea, Strawberry Slush, Timid Tiger and Darling Duckling. Cloud Cover ink pad & refill are currently unavailable. *Lost Lagoon (stamped off once) works well for Cloud Cover ink. 
• Add on 4 Blends markers and get the 5th one free! 
• The bundles will ship out around May 21st via Priority Shipping.  

Payment:

• Basic bundle is $99 and I'll pay the shipping to you!  
• Add on the 5 sets of Blends markers and it's $151.50 (one set is free and shipping to you is also free!)
• Pay via check, cash, PayPal or Zelle 

Message me here to reserve your bundle.

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April Specials

Don't miss the deals in the Last Chance list here!

*host codes have been discontinued; no need to add one. 

Now you'll earn host rewards on all orders over $20!

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Get a free Botanical Textures PDF tutorial with any online order in April!

See this gorgeous suite here

Get a free PDF tutorial of your choice with any order over $55 at my shop here