This is Otterly Amazing!

 This is a cute Suite of products: Otterly Adorable. Came out on our Online Exclusives list (not in any catalogue) and closing out now. If you like it...order it!

I received this card from my friend Katie Johnson who is also a part of the Global Inspiration Stamp Team, when we met up in Raleigh, NC for OnStage. It's hard to tell from the photo, but there's a piece of window sheet across the front of the card making it look just like the otters in their enclosure at the Zoo!

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Sneak Peek: Floral Impressions Patterned Paper

Sneak Peek! New patterned paper from the soon to be released Online Exclusive using one of my go-to card layouts. You'll get 12 cards from a 12 x 12 sheet if you cut them to 2 3/4" x 4". Add a 3" x 4 1/4" matte and you're all set! This is the Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper. Enjoy!

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Birthday greetings from With You in Mind

 A fun way to add smaller stamps to your project! Punch or die cut holes in a layer and stamp the tinier images through. These cute cupcakes and the large greeting come from the With You in Mind stamp set. I love how the cupcakes are also embossed with clear powder. And to get coordinating ribbon, colour (and let dry) your white or vanilla ribbon with an alcohol based marker like Stampin' Blends. Happy Monday!

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Cone Flower from Natural Botanicals

Cone flowers come in all colours which makes add a stamped one and colouring it in a breeze for us non-gardeners! I like the simplicity of this one image as a focal point on this card with a checkered background. A seldom used colour for me, Melon Mambo, is a nice compliement to all two greens: Old Olive and Mossy Meadow. I can see nice set of notecards using pinks, yellows, reds and purples. Hope your garden is starting to sprout beautiful colours!

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Two Step Stamping for the Win with Delightful Wishes

Have you tried two-step stamping? A great way to add multiple colours to the same stamp by layering up the images. I'll bet if you check your stamp collection you'll see that many are two-step or multi-step stamping. This card is from my bestie Tamara Bertram in Edmonton for the recent Mini Swap. The eyelet embossing folder really sets the stage for the feel of this card with strips of coordinating patterned paper behind a circle (Spotlight on Nature). The star of the show is the two step stamping technique for the flowers - anyone know what flowers these are? And some natural linen thread to finish it off with gems. I CASE'd this one using other colours ad paper. It's a keeper layout!

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Quick & Simple card featuring Natural Botanicals

A project from my monthly Quick & Simple card class at the Breslau Community Centre. This one's perfect for the beginner stamper with a piece of patterned paper on a simple white card base then a stamped layer (Gorgeous Grape ink on matching cardstock), a greeting and pop of colour with the Daffodil Delight cone flower stamped and hand cut out. I often need Sympathy cards so it's good to have a small stach at the ready. This layout was perfect. Thanks for stopping by!

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Thoughtful Journey makes one more turn around the sun!

Well now we demonstrators LOVE IT when a paper pack carries over into a new catalogue. Why? Because we have lots ot play with and want to share it with everyone! This is the Thoughtful Journey scene paper with muted watercolor images that make the perfect backdrop to a card. All I added was some of the lovely 1.5 inch gold open weave trim, a greeting and butterfly for accent. This was so pretty I decided we'd use it at April's Monthly Card class.

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Grow With Love Card

The new online exclusive Grow with Love Bundle has these pretty images of herbs along with the name at the bottom: Basil, Rosemary, Thyme and Mint. Great for the gardener on your list but wouldn't they also make a sweet set of note cards for everyday use? Jane made this for our team meeting swap in April adding the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder and strips (likely those pesky left over pieces we all have!) to make a fine background on the cardbase. Love it!

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New Bundle: All Zipped Up!

Team swap card from Stacey featuring brand new product: All Zipped Up Bundle (stamp set and dies). How stinkin' cute is this?!?! Use your favourite patterned paper to make a sweater or jacket card suitable for Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays and more! Love the silver foil accent on the zipper but any coordinating colour will be perfect. Thanks for sharing this card, Stacey!

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Fabulous Butterfly Card

 Next week at Avid Stampers we're making this fabulous card! The class is all about the Beautiful Butterflies bundle. When I saw this way of using the butterfly dies - the larger in patterned paper and a black detailed one layered on top, I knew this would be a hit. The colours are Petunia Pop and Summer Splash, two of our 2024-2026 In Colors. That black butterfly really makes this card pop, right?

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Happy Easter Greetings with Storybook Friends

My friend Shauna Mikuliak from Moose Jaw, SK makes the most precious of cards and I've been waiting to post this one on Easter! Featuring the delightful Storybook Friends bundle with soft Lost Lagoon, Crumb Cake and Petal Pink. Tip: if you love this bundle, get it before May 5 because it won't be 10% in the new Annual Catalogue. Wishing you and yours the very happiest of Easter weekends as we usher in Spring and new beginnings. #thecreativeinkster #stampinupcanada #handmadecards #storybookfriends

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Stunning Butterfly Hybrid Folder with Heat Embossing

Linda Yamamoto sent me this card in our latest Mini Catalogue swap and it really shows off how versatile our Embossing Folders are. Did you know you can dry and heat emboss together with a folder? Yes indeed! Use your versamark on the hybrid or 3D folder and run it through the Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine then quickly sprinkle with WOW! Emboss Powder and heat set. Stunning! Will we see butterflies anytime soon?

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Delightful Wishes is so versatile

A stunning card from our Mini Catalogue Swap designed by Elizabeth Ames. So much pretty patterned paper and this fab die cut greeting "wishing" that pairs up wonderfully with the other stamps in the set: "you all the best", "you were here", "you a happy birthday", "lots of love" and "you well". Covered for all those card sending occasions!

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Wanted to Say Dies: Feel better soon

This one's totally outside my usual colour palettee with Azure Afternoon as the main colour! How did I get that coordinating ribbon? Grabbed my Stampin' Blend also in Azure (it's probably never been used) and ran it along both sides of my white ribbon. A few tips when adding alcohol based markers to ribbons: a) use a cotton based ribbon so it doesn't rub off, b) add the colour in broad strokes for evenness and c) you'll find the ribbon becomes stiffer and easier to tie in a bow that stays. The greeting on this card is from the Wanted to Say Dies which are on the last chance list at 10% off while supplies last. You'll use them...trust me on that!

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Mixed Florals featuring Black-Eyed Susan flowers

Beautiful thank you card from my Silver Sister and best roommate Tamara Bertram from Edmonton! This features the Mixed Florals from our Online Exclusives offering and the With You in Mind greetings stamp set. A great reminder that our gardens will be bursting with new growth through the summer months with these black-eyed susans. Hope you enjoy it!

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Let the Adventure Begin with cardmaking and scrapbooking

Growing up we did a lot of camping...from tents to trailers across both Canada and along the eastern seaboard through winter and summer months. Great family adventures and exploring new places. Today's card from my Silver Sister Leanne is a reminder of those awesome times. If you like to scrapbook, this bundle will also be great for documenting your travels. The cards is a Diorama Fun Fold that stands up with multi-dimension packed in. Enjoy!

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Make a Wish Pop Up Card

 Sweet Birthday Card created by my Silver Sister Desiree for our Mini Catalogue swap. So much going on to make this one that pops: an embossed layer stunning flower paper, gold heat embossing and a pop up feature! What a winner. Thanks for stopping by today.

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Check Out this Beautiful Butterlies Die

A fun fold card that shows off the gorgeous butterfly die cut from Beautiful Butterflies. This bundle is retiring soon so if you like this one, grab it before May 6. It pairs very nicely with the Delightful Wishes greetings including the "wishing" die cut shown here but don't stop there! Beautiful Butterflies is a magical bundle with stamp set, hybrid 3D embossing folder and dies. Enjoy!

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Everyday You & Me Stamp Set for Scrapbooking and Cards

The Everyday You & Me stamp set has a lovely set of flowers, leaves and greetings. Initially I purchased it for scrapbooking and now I'm so loving it for card making, too! The big "happy" greeting stamps beautifully. What do you think of today's card?

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Sending Love with Nature's Sweetness

Here's my swap card from our Team Stampin' Social featuring the Lovely & Sweet Stamp Set and Die bundle and coordinating Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP. I added Petal Pink ink with a blending brush over the gold-flecked words to add some texture between that layer and the popped up leave in gold. Added some leaves in Pretty Peacock and flowers in Petal Pink with the perfect vertical greeting. Enjoy!

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Reversible Stamps: Natural Botanicals

Did you know we have reversible stamps? Yep! You can stamp on either side for unique and different looks. Here's an example of that with the Natural Botanicals stamp set. I've found it works particularly well when the back or flat side is stamped off once for a more muted look. That's the colour I laid down first on this white layer followed by the leaf full strength. The cone flower is stamped and hand cut out. Love the uniqueness of this!

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Delightful Wishes Floral card with patterned Vellum

I received a card looking just like this with other velllum and I just had to duplicate it! To show off the vellum to its fullest, the 1" panel that you see embossed is part of the cardbase with another 1" x 5 1/2" piece behind it that the vellum is sandwiched between. As an alternative, substitute the vellum with a coordinating patterned paper. So very pretty, don't you think? As always, full supplies list below.

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Beautiful Butterflies Hybrid Folder

Team Make 'n Take card for April featuring this stunning Butterfly Hybrid embossing folder. What is meant by Hybrid? It also had dies that cut out the embossed images! A great pairing of products. This makes up a super quick card with the very detailed embossed layer in Bubble Bath, a few gems and a simple greeting. Enjoy!

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Collage Stamping with Natural Botanicals

Here's that Natural Botanicals making an appearance again! Collage stamping is where you randomly (ok not always totally randomly in my case) an image on a layer. I often choose one colour but you can do 2, 3, 4 and more! This was Poppy Parade with a stamped off larger image cut by hand and popped up on the front layer. I love the idea of 3s - 3 colours, 3 stamps, that kind of thing. So with my Poppy Parade I added Basic Gray and Basic White. Hope this brighten's YOUR day!

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Delightful Wishes Avid Stampers Card

Sharing one of the Avid Stampers cards from March featuring the Delightful Wishes bundle. Loads of value with this: 14 stamps and 19 dies! It makes the prettiest of floral cards and has coordinating Floral Delight patterned paper. This stem is a die which you can use with other florals in your collection. I laid this grouping onto a layer of the Exposed Brick (all time favourite embossing folder) in Old Olive. We really enjoy making this one at class!

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Monthly Card Class Project - Join me on the 2nd Tuesday of the Month!

One of my April Monthly Card Class projects! Gorgeous gold accents on a Pretty Peacock card base with a Basic Black layer to help it pop. In this monthly class you always get to choose alternate greetings to supplement your supply of cards. They're great for the beginner crafter to learn from as well as appreciated by the avid crafter. Never been to a class before? You don't know what you're missing! Bring a new crafter to the in person version and you both take home 3 cards from my stash. This is also available as a Kit to Go but you'll need your own stamps, inks and blocks to complete the cards. Join me on the 2nd Tuesday of the month! REGISTER HERE.

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Friends of the Ocean inspiration for this friendship and Team Make 'n Take card

Bold bright colours from the Friends of the Ocean patterned paper. I didn't invest in the coordinating bundle as one of my fave seashell ones is the Seaside Wishes bundle. Normally I work in blues and crumb cake with that set so it was a nice diversion to use these colours from the patterned paper: Coastal Cabana, Lemon Lime Twist, Melon Mambo and Pumpkin Pie. If you're stumped on how to get started with a card, grab a pack of patterned paper and pull it all together using the colour palette on the packaging. A great way to get launched!

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Fresh Freesia meets Basic Beige for this Quick & Simple Birthday card

Soft flowing colours for a quick and simple birthday card. Recognize this stamp set? It's the Reversible Stamp called Natural Botanicals. It truly is reversible! I'll show that in a future card. For today. I stamped the cone flower in Fresh Freesia on a small white layer then stamped my greeting over top in Blueberry Bushel ink. Layered that up onto coordinating Fresh Freesia cardstock to sit on top of another collage stamped 2 1/2" x 5 1/2" layer. Basic Beige as a card base and the ink used for the leaf is a perfect match to the Fresh Freesia. Finished off with a pop of Blueberry Bushel embellishments. Like this simple card!

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Use up your 3/4" scraps to create your own layer

I designed this card for the TLC tutorial group for March. A great way to use up 3/4" strips of the scrapbook kit Everyday You and Me. I laid 7 coordinating strips measuring 3/4" x 5" on a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" cardstock in a diagonal pattern. Then - the piece de resistance - I embossed the whole thing with the Cute Crochet folder. Gives it some awesome texture. Any folder will do! Before adding a greeting and laying it down on the card front, I grabbed my Lost Lagoon Stampin' Blend (alcohol based marker) and coloured some iridescent pearls and white ribbon. Always buy white ribbon and colour this way to match your project. Shh....don't tell anyone how easy it was!

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Take to the Sky with Flying By

A new catalogue is around the corner dropping May 6 which means some of our beloved stamp sets and patterned papers are retiring. If you've got little ones in your life, scoop up the Flying By Stamp Set #163685 before it's gone for good! It has a helicopter, paper airplanes, spaceship, airplane and clouds together with 4 separate greetings! Lots of value for just $26. I did an easy fun fold with a 1" flap on the left and a layer on the front tied with some vanilla and black gingham ribbon. Pairs great with the also retiring Take to the Sky patterned paper #163436. Happy April Fool's Day!

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