Paradise Garden Simple and Elegant Card

Making simple cards isn't always a thing we do...often it's bigger - better - more! So it was nice to step back and make more of a clean and simple card. On the white layer, I placed a few little score lines for attention and where they meet I covered with this flower from the Paradise Garden bundle stamped in Poppy Parade. The greeting and the die for it are also from the same bundle. Then I sprinkled 3 Iridescent Pearls that were coloured with Blueberry Bushel Stampin' Blends to tie it all together with the matte and the card base. Sweet and uncomplicated! What do you think?

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Wagon Wheel Treat Holders

These Wagon Wheels treat holders will be a hit with the Elmira Community Living class this week. They always love a treat at the end of their crafting session. These came together super easily: Cardstock cut at 8.5 inch x 8.5 inch then cut on a diagonal. With the wide edge horizontal on the score board, score at 4 inches and 8 inches. Fold in each side to seal. That's it! I used cardstock but this would work just as easily with patterned paper. Super cute!

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Perennial Postage Framed All Around Card

A pretty Framed All Around card with the floral image heat embossed in silver on a Perennial Postage die. Each flower was coloured with Poppy Parade and Old Olive Stampin' Blends. The dies are poppedup onto a piece of poppy parade then centred top to bottom on basic white embossed with the Beautiful Pattern embossing folder before adhere to the poppy parade card base. All it needs are a few rhinestone embellishments and white baker’s twine coloured with poppy parade Stampin' Blends to finish it off. A beautiful card from my Team member Wendy.

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Jungle Pals Sloth Card

Blast from the past making a card with the retired Jungle Pals bundle. Thought I'd share with you all with a back story! The mascot for our Crop weekend is the sloth. This is the ONE stamp set with a sloth in it - I mean how many do you need? Perfect for my tablemate cards. With sloth mode on, we are most certainly relaxing. Happy Day!

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Sweet as a Bug Hershey Kiss Treat Holder

I'm away at a Crop for this weekend in Stratford with 48 of my favourite scrappers. Most of the gang that attends does scrapbooking/memory keeping. I'm seated with my little band of merry card makers. This is one of the little gifties I made to share with my tablemates complete with a bag of Hershey kisses because who doesn't NEED chocolate when they craft? The box is simple: 6 x 6 inch square scored on all four sides at 1 inch. Then on one side score also at 2.5 inches and 3.5 inches. Fold up the bottoms and fold down the inside at the top. Like a said...super simple!

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Exploring Nature Slim Line Card

Nothing like a slim line card to display coordinating patterned papers! This layout really uses up those scraps by displaying them beautifully. The greeting is from the Exploring Nature stamp set. That one comes with large greetings that are perfect for memory keeping and on large card fronts like this one. I think this would be an awesome card for someone striking out on their own, going on an adventure, leaving for College or University. Lots of possibilities. What do you think?

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Everyday Arches with Framed All Around

Featuring my Team member Wendy's Creative Ambassador card CASEd from JilliBling. She started by choosing a patterned paper from Lovely and Beautiful and was inspired to use a coordinating card stock colour palette from there. For layers, Wendy used the Everyday Arches dies, embossing the outer arch. The floral image and sentiment are done in gold embossing powder and she coloured the flower with Stampin' Blends. These embellishments are retired but very much like the current Flower Accents. Beautiful card, Wendy!

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Faux Tile featuring Paradise Garden

Tried the Faux Tile look for today's card by cutting my Basic White layer to 4 inches by 5 inches providing even 1 inch segments. Who says a card needs to be 4.25 inches by 5.5 inches? To achieve this look, I scored the white first at 1 inch on all sides. Next I stamped the image o the debossed side using this gorgeous Blueberry Bushel ink. The score lines creating the faux tile peek through. The flower, greeing and die are from the Paradise Garden bundle. Paired with Lemon Lime Twist cardstock it sure pops. Enjoy!

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Welcome Baby Peek-a-Boo card with circles

Look at this adorable layout with a circle cut out of another for a peek-a-boo featre. Love it! Today's card was designed by my daughter, Michelle, with the Welcome Baby Stamp Set. This is a new idea to me and I'm going to be CASE-ing it for sure. The stamp set and rectangular Textured Notes Dies are on the Last Chance list to pop those into your cart before they're gone. Enjoy!

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Frame it All Around

Oh so pretty with soft colours of green, blue and grey. Today's card was designed by Wendy on our team as our April Creative Ambassador. Through this program team members select a stamp set and create 4 cards for the month to show its versatility. Amazed at all the great designs they come up with! This is the Framed All Around stamp set with these darling floral/leaf images and 4 greetings. Love it!

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Cutest Crew Triplet Layout

For the cat lover in all of us....this card from my team member Holly is so darling. You can just see the kittens playing. I call this a "triples" card layout...with 3 small images - in this case die cuts - on theme. I find the little flowers look like wallpaper as a nice backdrop. Love the colour palette of Crumb Cake, Old Olive and Pecan Pie. Enjoy!

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Woolly Friends Baby Card

Check out this adorable welcome baby card shared by my team member Jane as Creative Ambassador earlier this year. The Woolly Friends stamp set and punch was great for Easter but cute baby cards, too! The Hearts of Leave 3D embossing folder is back in stock and fits this to a "T". Using left over strips with the Three Banner Punch adds a great layer to this card. Enjoy!

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Nature Walk peek-through card layout

There's something about this scripted patterned paper that speaks to me! Together with Blueberry Bushel accents. Making this card at the April Avid Stampers class featuring the Nature Walk Designer Series Paper and sticker sheet for no mess, no fuss card making. Enjoy!

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Using your Circle Punches or Dies in a new way!

What a way to use your circle punches or dies! Today's card was created by my talented team member, Dawn and uses 3 different sizes of punch circles in cut paper, folded over (but not quite fully in half) and the folded over side popped up on a dimensional. I'm so impressed that she hand drew the legs for each bird. This is over the top darling and I'll be making my own version of it real soon for monthly card class. Thanks, Dawn!

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Simply Beautiful Wedding Card

For my swap card at this month's Team Stampin' Social, I did some heat embossing with gold from the Metallics WOW! embossing powder collection together with the large floral from the Simply Beautiful stamp set. The greeting was also embossed in gold with a layer of gold foik paper and some flower accents to tie it all together. Once embossed, use a blending brush to add a soft colouring to the centre of the flower and leaves. I think this makes a lovely wedding card!

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Sliding inside Tuck Fun Fold featuring Delicate Dreams

A new fun fold! Compliments of Wendy on my team, this Sliding Inside Tuck fun fold card is a showstopper. See the 2nd photo for that magic. I love this simple and wow card so much. Wendy embellished with the Delicate Dreams suite of products. At the time of writing, these are due back in stock next week so you can get your hands on this gorgeous patterned paper with copper highlights and the dies. For making multiples (and prepping classes), stand alone dies that don't require stamping and die cutting are a breeze for getting projects done. Love this so much!

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Sneak Peek of Moonlit Flora

Beautiful swap card from my team member Jane showing off the new Moonlit Flora Suite of products. The embossing folder has so much depth and dimension. It will quickly become your go-to folder for everyday cards. When I'm prepping embossed layers for a class, I love how you can just pop the paper in and not have to be precise when lining it up in the folder. Helps with making a bunch of these. Would double as a panel on a memory keeping page, as well. The paper has a lovely mix of colours: Basic Black, Berry Burst, Golden Glow, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Peaceful Pine, Pecan Pie, Secret Sea, Soft Sea Foam. Super card!

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Grillin' and Chillin' for the grill master

Such a cool card from my team member, Holly in our stampin' social swap! For the grillmaster on your card list, a new home owner, Father's Day and more. This is the BBQ Master Bundle and features 14 stamps and 22 dies for just $54.75. This will be great for scrapbook pages and invitations, too, as there are individual dies for burgers, hotdogs/sausages, veggies, shrimp. Showing the inside of the card to show off the individual bun, onion, tomato, lettuce, burger and cheese dies. Makes my mouth water. What a versatile set. Enjoy!

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Wow: 5" x 7" Pillar Card

Check out this amazing 5" x 7" card with pillars inside. Watch the Video to get the full effect!

This is one of four cards I'll be teaching at my Avid Stampers Class on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Join us! Register here. 

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Hydrangea Hue makes an appears with sneak peek of All Aflutter

A sneak peek at some new products coming out May 6: All Aflutter Stamp Set and punch die with my favourite, butterlies! The stamp and punch make these 3 butterlies in one go and punch them out individually. Where is this paper from? It's an Online Exclusive released in March. Gorgeous copper highlights with Mossy Meadow and the new Hydrangea Hue ink colour. Enjoy!

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Ephemera packs make the card

I love an embossing folder that's perfect for any occasion and the Paradise Garden Hybrid is for me! So much depth of texture it makes the ideal background for the ephemera packs. No stamping on this card. To get the Garden Green matte on my greeting, I simply applied the greeting sticker to a piece of scrap card stock and hand cut around it. Doesn't get simpler than that. Enjoy!

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Be Inspired with Ephemera Packs

Did you know we have pre-printed and die cut images and greetings? No ink required! We call these Ephemera Packs and they come with a variety of images and greetings to suit. Just add your cardstock and glue. I used the soon to be retiring Fully Flowering and Saying Something packs on today's card. I like the look of a vellum circle behind to add dimension and provide a layer for between the flower and embossed layer. Added a few Rhinestones and some Baker's twine from my stash and called it done! Our new May to August catalogue will feature new ephemera packs so keep your eyes open for these super tools for cardmaking ease. Enjoy!

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Cute 3D treat holders featuring Petunia Pop and Pretty in Pink

Nope....it's not a card but could easily be a cute 3" x 3" card. This is a treat holder I made to hold Excel Mints. The cover features Petunia Pop and Pretty in Pink with Garden Green accents in the paper. I made these for the Global Inspiration Stamp Team presentations in March showing off retiring In Colors. Do you make treat holders for friends, co-workers, customers, family? I love making them. The challenge can be figuring out what to put in them. So there I was at Dollarama with my treat holder in the gum/candy aisle which gave me lots of reasons to chat about what I'm doing with fellow customers. Love these!

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Fussy Cutting Tips with Simply Beautiful

I'm thoroughly enjoying playing with the Simply Beautiful stamp set. While I don't own the dies, these shapes are quite easy to fussy cut around. My tips for that are: use very sharp scissors; move the paper - not the scissors - around as you cut through; leave a small white border as it's really difficult to get it spot on the line so that wee border provides a buffer. Looks pretty good, eh? The colours used here are Peach Pie and Old Olive. I used my Stampin' Blends to colour in but the ink pad and a blender pen would do the trick nicely.

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Simply Beautiful meets Paradise Garden

The Paradise Garden hybrid embossing folder is the star of the show on today's card. I embossed the card front as well as a the layer. To add the gorgeous black feature to the layer, after embossing, I dragged the black ink pad in vertical passes across the piece. The lighter the touch, the less ink in the recessed areas. This just screamed, "use Poppy Parade" to me so I added the flower coloured with Stampin' Blends and a strip of Poppy Parade cardstock behind the embossed/matted layer. In different colours, I could see using this for a wedding card, too! So many possibilities.

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Pinwheel Style card using up 1" scraps

Last week, I shared an Easter card made by my team member Jane which was a CASE of this one we made at our March team stampin' social. This has got to be the easiest WOW card ever that uses up 1 inch wide scraps. I have them....I know you do, too! To make this card fit just right without funky 1/8 inch measurements, cut the embossed layer to 5 inches wide. In doing so, I made my card front slightly smaller at 5 1/4 inches by 4 inches. The dark green triangles were once 1 inch squares, cut in half on the diagonal and placed pinwheel style right over the patterened paper pieces measuring: 1" x 2" (cut 3) and 1" x 3" (cut one). Assemble so they all meet then add those triangles in matching colours. Love this card layout!

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Elegant yet quick Gallery Blooms card

With these large flower stamps, I often like to stamp them without colouring in. This allows the details to really show through and adds a very elegant feel to the project. For this one, I used our retiring Pretty in Pink cardstock with a tone-on-tone embossed layer for the card front and built the stamped image over top matted on coordinating Night of Navy. The image is from the Gallery Blooms stamp set. A super quick card for all occasions!

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Painting a message of thanks with Trusty Tools

Ok, isn't this cute? Features a few of our retiring In Colors: Shy Shamrock and Peach Pie along with Basic Black and Daffodil Delight. Confession time: I was eating homemade chocolate chip cookies while creating and left some chocolate smudges on the Basic White! So before finishing it off, I used the Summer Splash and Basic Black markers to "flick" some spots all over and embellish my oops. A wonderful way to say "thanks" to your favourite person!

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Gears and Textures - just a note

Oh my lovely Gears and Textures out for another shared post. This one uses the dies in yet another way: adhered to a layer to create a 3D look. I added a wee bit of colour to the largest on which I placed the greeting. The colour paletee is Secret Sea, Cloud Cover and Darling Duckling. Really like how the card just oozes texture and dimension!

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