One Sheet Wonder card featuring Mediterannean Blooms

A few weeks back I did a One Sheet Wonder class in the online group Global Inspiration Stamp Team and this was one of twelve cards my 12 x 12 sheet made! A lovely mix of Garden Green, Peach Pie and Early Espresso. It's one super dee duper easy layout with the centre pieces measuring 2 3/4" x 4" and one embossed layer for the background on the front. Tell me...do you like to fussy cut your greetings out? I often use a punch but this time I wanted to share as much of that pretty Mediterannean Blooms paper as possible.

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Pretty Autumn card with the Bough Punch

Sharing a card from my November Monthly Card class. Such pretty flowers on the one side matted by Old Olive cardstock. The Bough punch is a must have making it so easy to add flowers and leaves (shown here) to your project in a coordinating colour. The greeting is from Rustic Crate. Really like the font used. The Cajun Craze layer is embossed with what's turning out to be my new go-to folder: Forever Plaid. What I like most about this folder is it doesn't have to go into the folder straight. If you're off - that's A-OK as the pattern isn't completely straight. Perfect for me!

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Support Children's Literacy with purchase of the Sentimental Christmas Patterned Paper

Today's card comes from Stacey for our November Swap. Wow! Where your pattern paper and dies make the card! This is from the Sentimental Christmas DSP our giveback paper for this catalogue. For every pack sold, Stampin' Up! will donate $4 to children's literacy. The stocking is cut out using the coordinating dies (or fussy cutting). You can get so many beautiful cards from this one pack of paper. Stacey said she hadn't stamped a greeting on DSP before which is a great reminder of these little touches to add to your card making tool kit.

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LIght the Year Bundle Christmas Card

Here's an amazing card using the Light the Year bundle shared by my team member, Jane at our November team swap. Two features on the white layer: die cut a Deckled Circle first out of the cardstock measuring 4 x 5.25 inches then dry emboss with the Forever Plaid folder. The Cherry Cobbler piece behind measures 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches and also has a Deckled Circle cut out of it to reveal the white from the card base. Tricky, eh? Looks great! Now you have a few circles to use on your next project. Top it off with a stamped, die cut and coloured candle and bough, bow and Drusy embellishments. SO pretty!

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Reindeer Fun Christmas card with heat embossing

Love how my team members come up with amazing ways to use their products! Holly's swap card from the November meeting featuring the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set, dies and coordinating patterned paper behind the opening on this card! To add texture to the snowflakes, Holly heat embossed the snowsflakes in White emboss powder. An oh so cute Christmas Card for sharing this season. Enjoy!

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Versatile Spring Tree using the Frosted Forest Bundle

 Here in Ontario, our trees are mostly leafless now and this is a reminder they will be full again in Spring. Check out the depth of colour and texture on this tree! Made by using the stamp set, decorative masks and dies from the Frosted Forest bundle available in the Online Exclusives offering. Love how it turned out. Have a great week - the last full one in November!

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Memories of Skating

For me growing up in Quebec, Christmas and winter was all about skating whether at the Rec Centre, the half-enclosed and mostly outdoor arena at Macdonald High School in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue or on Lake St. Louis. Always seemed to have my skates at the ready! My parents would take us toboganning at Apple Hill in Beaurepaire and I remember us kids hounding dad to drag us up the hill one more time. This card really brings back those amazing childhood memories.

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Reindeer Days Fun Fold Card

Got a fun fold for you today with this sweet "Rudolph" image from the Reindeer Days patterned paper. This came together super quickly and is my swap card from my team meeting last week. CASE'd (copy and share everthing) from my friend Andrea Estesen's original design. Enjoyed making a bunch of these and sharing with my team!

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Light the Year Holiday Card

With the shorter days and longer evenings that seem to start at 4:30p, we relish in the light of twinkle Christmas lights, lanterns lining the streets and in our hearts leading into the holiday season. The Light the Year Bundle is the one I'm featuring this month for my Avid Stampers Class. This card is a great complement to those for the class and was designed by Nadine Valle. Thanks for stopping by!

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Use up your scraps card with Nests of Winter squares

 What a cute card layout using the smallest stitched squares in the Stylish Shapes Dies set! Karen Duke created and sent me this card in a recent swap and I love the soft muted colour palette. Use up your small scrap pieces with this layout and your favourite focal point. The greeting just fits perfectly at the bottom. Love this!

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Bird's Eye View Stamp Set for the Bookworm

 How I like to spend an afternoon...engrossed in a good mystery. Are you a bookworm? If so, what's your favourite genre to read? Do you have more than one book on the go at a time? I usually stick to one at a time to follow the story. Next best thing to reading a book is making a card about books! Hope you have some time today to get lost in a good story!

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Nothing's Better than ?

 Nothing's better than.....Chocolate? Hot Cocoa? Pumpkin Spice? or maybe just Peppermint! Received this card in a Mini catalogue swap from Gen Ko in Markham. Lots of sparkle, glitz and glam plus those adorable marshmallows atop the cup containing a peppermint hot beverage. Great red accents with those cute round peppermint embellishments that have been hot this catalogue. Did you get some? Hoping they come back in stock this season.

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Regal Flora Design showing off Wild Wheat

Beautiful card designed by my friend Diana Langman featuring the Regal Winter patterned paper and our In Color Wild Wheat accents. It almost looks like gold! A cute fun fold with left and right flaps so it stands up very nicely on your mantle or wherever you show off your cards. Enjoy your Monday!

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Elegant Holiday Card featuring the Season of Green & Gold Product Suite

Today's card features some of the products in our Online Exclusives offering - these are products that don't appear in any catalogue or publication - just on our website.

Perfect for sharing new products so check back frequently as we are always changing it up.

Pleased to bring you an elegant holiday card from the Season of Green & Gold Products suite with gold accents on the patterned paper and traditional holiday messaging all on a simple layout suitable for any occasion card. Enjoy!

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Christmas Friends on a So Swirly Background

One of the Christmas Cards I created this year for the Trinity Holly Market. It was a hit and secretly my favourite of all 7 I designed. Doesn't that Flirty Flamingo layer swirl look just like snow? It's called So Swirly and you can find it in our Annual Catalogue. One of the 6" x 8 1/2" embossing folders now in the line. Perfect for larger cards and memory keeping. And I must say, the ideal one for snowbanks!

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3D Box featuring Spotlight on Nature and Patterned Papers

Final Day of the Annual Catalogue Seasonal Sale - Did you get all that you were stocking up on?

With today's project, comes a reminder that we don't just do card making - in fact, we're returning to our memory keeping roots and highlighting today that you can also use your stamps, inks and paper to make gorgeous 3D items like boxes.

This project features our Colour Family packs of patterned papers, inks, cardstock and the Spotlight on Nature bundle all falling under the Seasonal Sale. Snap these up for yourself before they're gone!

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Thoughtful Journey DSP at 20% OFF

Spotlighting more products featured in our 3-Day Annual Catalogue Sale with today's fun shaker card. If you would like to expand your ink colour collection to include the 2024-2026 In Colors and coordinating Thoughtful Journey patterned paper this is a great time to pick them up! Save 10% on inks, 10% on cardstock and 20% off the beautiful Thoughtful Journey 6" x 6" pack of patterned paper. Use any shape to create your window opening fo rthe shaker card. Contact me to order, or order online from my online store.

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Round We Go Bundle at an extra 10% OFF

The Annual Catalogue Seasonal Sale begins today for 3 days only and I'm thrilled to share a card featuring these sale items:

- Bright & Beautiful and Countryside Inn patterned papers at 20% OFF

- Round We Go Stamp Set and Die Bundle at 20% OFF

- Boho Blue Ink Pad at 10% OFF

- Boho Blue, Lemon Lolly & Basic White Cardstock at 10% OFF

Save for the coming year by stocking up on cardstock during the Seasonal Sale. Email me your order or visit my online store and place your order today!

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3 Days Only (Nov 13-15): Annual Catalogue Seasonal Sale

What's this? For 3 days only you can SAVE $$$ on your crafting supplies:

• Stock up on the basics like inks and cardstock
• Treat yourself or a friend to a stamp set and die or stamp set and punch bundle
• Grab those favourite patterned papers you've been checking out

Shop Directly from my Online Store OR Email me your order!

Let's Keep Autumn a wee bit longer with the More Than Autumn Bundle

Autumn continues to be upon us giving us a very long season which I'm thoroughly enjoying - how about you? While I love pumpkin in pies, cakes and loaves, I'm not particularly drawn to it in hot bevvies so for me today's card has hot chocolate written all over it in a blanket of whipped creams on these pretty autumn colours of petal pink and pumpkin pie. Welcome Autumn and may you stay with us a wee bit longer so we can enjoy your beautiful sunny and warm days.

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Support a great cause with Sentimental Christmas DSP

Just love the font on this stamp wishing your Days be Merry & Bright! It's so cheerful and playful. It's from the Sweetest Star stamp set and pairs perfectly with the reindeer from the Sentimental Christmas patterned paper. If you haven't gotten yours yet, do reach out or place your order online. With each purchase of the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper, Stampin' Up! will donate $4 to support children’s literacy around the world so you'll also be supporting a great cause. #164209 $17.00. Happy Days! 

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Graceful Greenery Vellum with Wild Wheat Ribbon - oh yes!

Here's a card we made at a recent team event with gorgeous vellum and coordinating patterned paper from the Online Exclusive product, Graceful Greenery Vellum paper pack. I die cut them with the Sentimental Dies set which has a pair of layering tags but any shape will work. On the card base I used the Painted Trees 3D embossing folder which gives some texture if in the end the treetops were hidden. That Wild Wheat ribbon makes another appearance looking very gold paired with these colours. Enjoy!

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Welcome card with Humble Home Bundle

There's so much more to the Humble Home bundle than holiday cards - it comes with this great Welcome greeting which is great for inviting people to a party but also for a "glad you're home" card or to welcome a new family to the neighbourhood. To achieve the light brick, I found it best to stamp off once as our amazing ink pads are super juicy. I've also used the edge of an old gift card to push ink away from the centre to ink up a stamp then push it back. The roof goes on after the brick house stamp. Alternated Real Red and Misty Moonlight inks for the sentiment for a change and adorned with 3 of the Basic Gray and Smoky Slate pearls. Enjoy!

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Warms My Heart Easy Layout

Pumpkin season seems to be behind us but I wanted to share one more card from the incredibly versatile Warms My Heart stamp set in the Sep-Dec Mini Catalogue. The woven leaves were arranged to created a layer behind the stamped and cut image. Arffixing the large circle to extend beyond the embossed layer is a way to use those larger shapes in your stash beyond taking up the front of the card. Simply adhere to the edge and trim from the back before adding. Copy this layout with any focal point. Thanks for stopping by!

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Light the Year Christmas Gatefold Card

Popping in with a more traditional holiday card. Having candles at the table is such a cozy way to enjoy your holiday meal whatever the size of your get together to celebrate. The colours in this patterned paper remind me of the meals we celebrated growing up: gold and yellow hues with red and green. Although growing up in an older neighbourhood in Quebec candles were used more than just for dinners as our power outages were regular in the winter months! We certainly enjoyed them encircled in pine or cedar on the table.

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Season's Greetings from Snow Scenes

Bringing you a non-traditional coloured holiday card today, featuring the Snowy Scenes patterned paper and greeting from the coordinating stamp set. On this card I used: Petal Pink, Pool Party and Garden Green to coordinating with the circle from the designer series paper. The Snowflake 3D embossing folder is a well loved accessory this season. It's easy to line up so your embossing is perfect every time. Those teeny snowflakes finish it off with a little dot of liquid glue (or folded Mini Glue Dots). I whipped up a dozen of these for last week's Craft Fair. So easy.

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Nothing's Better Than a warm beverage on a cool fall day!

Are you a coffee or tea drinker? Or maybe both? I'm partial to pure tea (nothing added) and my fave is Earl Grey. Even a latte is a little too much richness for me. For sure in Canada you need a warm bevvie to start these cooler days be it coffee, tea, hot cider or hot chocolate. Many a parent has a "Tim's" cup at sporting events, walking the dog or heading off to work. I think we can all agree nothing's better than a warm pick me up to keep you enjoying our fall and winter days. Happy Tuesday!

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Season of Green & Gold for holiday decorating

It's coming...the most wonderful time of the year with holiday parties, light celebrations, Christmas Bazaars. Just as the nights are longer we begin to see people decorating their houses with bright lights, garland and red bows. This week is forecast to be fairly warm and mostly dry so I marvel at those who will get their lights up before it's freezing rain - smart! Enjoy your decorating friends....I'm not quite ready yet but I have loads of holiday cards made. Perhaps I should string them up on garland and call it decorated.

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Versatile card layout featuring Regal Flora & Regal Winter DSP

I've really been drawn to creating new cards with the Regal Flora bundle. Such deep, rich colours in the patterned paper called Regal Winter for deciding on the card base and accent colours: Blackberry Bliss, Gold Foil, Highland Heather, Soft Sea Foam. After making this card, I copied it for a Wedding Card that my son Alec gave to his friends who were married in Ocrtober. Great design, right?

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Winterly Treetops Bird Card

If you follow me you know my favourite bird is the Cardinal and that's what I see in this stamped image although with a shading in a different colour, these might be blue jays or another variant! Find your favourite colours and give the Winterly Treetops bundle a try. Use your preferred colouring medium - pastels, watercolor pencils, markers or Stampin' Blends to add just the right amount of shading to suit your style. Love this very simple and elegant card sent to me in a swap from Bonnie Creates. Have a lovely day!

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Snowy Scenes Holiday Card: Let it Snow

An oh so sweet holiday card for Christmas or any snowy day! Good if you like snow...maybe not if you don't? But the penguin is adorable and you can just seem him sliding across the snowbanks or ice patches. A fun colour combo: Pool Party (that ribbon, too!), Real Red and Garden Green. The Snowy Scenes designer series paper pack comes with two sheets of thow snowflake pattern for a fab backdrop. The tag is from Merriest Trees dies but you could easily cut a rectangle and snip off the corners to achieve a similar look!

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