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Monday Mystery Stamping – 8/25/25
Clue #1 Vertical/Portrait card, Gather your supplies:
Easy-peasy card featuring BOTH sides of your pretty 6x 6 DSP!! Remember, you can cut a 12 x 12 into 6 x 6 pieces.
Colored Card Stock A card base:
– 1 @ 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
DSP:
– 1 @ 6 TALL x 6 WIDE, with an overall pattern. Best to like both sides of your DSP. You will see more of one side than the other. Score at 1-3/8 on all 4 sides of your square DSP. Cut out the corners. Then cut from the top right of each rectangle down to the left corner. See pictures below.
Card Stock B:
– 1 @ 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 complimentary to DSP
Card Stock C:
– 1 @ 5-1/4 x 4 complimentary to DSP
White/Vanilla Card Stock (CS):
– 1 @ scrap for sentiment
Embellishments:
– for embellishments, use something that goes along with your DSP, not too big
Fold on the score lines, tucking the large end under the point of the previous side, all the way around the square.
Want to use up those corner pieces you cut off? Here are 2 ideas!
And if you are still with me, you can take the for triangles you cut off the sides and lay them out like the folded square and make another card.
I hope you like this easy fun-fold card! Please join us if you like to make a card without knowing what it is until you are done!!
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Paper Crafting Blog Hop – August, Get Well/Thinking of you!
Welcome to our August Paper Crafting Blog Hop with Independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from all over the world featuring Get Well and Thinking of You cards. Here is a sneak peek of my card. Below my full card picture is a list of links to all of this month’s participating bloggers. Please leave a comment and tell us what you think of our projects!
Isn’t the scenic Designer Series Paper (DSP) so lovely to work with? The Splendid Autumn DSP (#164173) is one of my favorites and as I start to think of Fall projects, this is perfect!! I started with a card base of Cajun Craze with an extra 1″ strip embossed with the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder (#164049). The DSP is cut at 3″ to make 2 cards. The tall grass from Prairie Grass stamp set (#166168) was stamped in Early Espresso directly on the DSP. I live on the prairie of Illinois and I think these stamps are gorgeous!
After adhering these 2 pieces to the card base, I used a scrap piece of Basic White to stamp Thinking of You from the Right Words stamp set (#165316) in Cajun Craze and punched the ends with the Happy Labels Pick a Punch (#160683) then added a bow from the Baker’s Twine Essentials Pack (#155475). The final embellishment are Pressed Flower Motifs (#165215).
Thanks for hopping with us this month. Next go to –> Julia’s blog to see what she has created.
All demonstrators in this month’s hop:
| 1. Annette McMillan – Australia 2. Tracy Held – Australia 3. Terri Stewart – USA 4. Sue Boerner – USA 5. Julia Quinn (Australia) |
I hope you found some inspiration for your next paper crafting project for when you want to send a Get Well or Thinking of You card. Enjoy hopping through the blogs, looking at all of our projects! Please leave comments to let us know you stopped by!
My Events calendar has been updated with my online Mystery Stamping and in-person Stamping Buffets. Mystery Stamping is on Monday twice a month. All supplies used to make my card above can be ordered through my online store.
If you do not currently have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, I would be love to be yours. Ready to enjoy the demonstrator discount? Click the Contact Me button above.
Changes to Stamps and Dies
- Cling Stamps (Red Rubber) discontinued due to key raw materials becoming increasingly difficult to source, with some no longer being manufactured at all. Stampin’ Up! will continue to offer a wide range of photopolymer stamps to support various artistic styles and techniques.
- Stampin’ Write Markers also discontinued due to growing popularity of Stampin’ Blend. There has been a steady decline in sales of Stampin’ Write Markers. One of the primary techniques unique to Stampin’ Write Markers is coloring directly on cling stamps—a technique that will become less relevant as we transition away from cling. On the Clearance Rack August 20th.
- New and Improved Stamp and Die Packaging Because photopolymer stamps are thinner, the packaging will be sleeker, slimmer packaging that saves space. Both stamps and dies will now come in the same size and style of packaging, making it easier than ever to store bundles and coordinating products together. The new packaging is similar to our current die packaging—durable, clear plastic envelopes—but with an exciting improvement: Die packaging will now feature printed artwork for quick and easy identification! Stamp packaging will continue to display artwork as well.
Tuesday Tip
Tuesday Tip – The longer you hold an inked stamp on the cardstock, the more ink that transfers. This applies to first generation stamping and also second generation or stamping off, like the cupcake in these samples.
Do you have a stamping tip to share?
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You never know…
After a day of crafting and you look at your hands upstairs…
Tuesday Tip
Tuesday Tip – Score your cardstock base, the score line is indented
Fold the base so the indented side is the “mountain” and the score line that extends goes to the inside of the card
this makes a really nice folded edge!
Do you have a stamping tip to share?
Stamping Stray Ducklings August 2025 Blog Waddle
Welcome to our August Blog Waddle! We call ourselves ducklings, so we waddle from blog post to blog post, instead of hopping!! We are featuring fun fold cards! Here’s a preview of my card.
I love the Charming Day Bundle (#166136) and the coordinating Floral Charm DSP (#166125). The DSP is 15% off this month while supplies last, so if you love it, too, order it soon! The card base is Berry Burst measuring 5-1/2″ x 11″, scored at 4-1/4″ and 8″. With the 4-1/4″ panel to your left, create an angle by cutting from the top of the middle score line down to the next score line, about 2 3/4″ from the bottom of the card. Then cut from the bottom of the angle in a straight line to create the small flap that is the front of the card.
DSP on the small front flap is cut to 2 3/4″ x 2 1/2″. The Brights DSP (#165301) on middle panel and the white panel behind it on the inside are both cut to 3 1/2″ x 5 1/4″. Cut on an angle from the top left down to about 2 1/2″ from the bottom. Cut on an angle from the top left down to about 2 1/2″ from the bottom right. I stamped and colored a flower from the Charming Day stamp set and die cut it. I cut a Stitched Shapes circle from the left over triangle of Brights DSP and added the flower on top and White 1/4″ Ribbon (#165276)behind it.
If you would like to join my Mystery Stamping group on zoom on September 1st, we will be making this card. Contact me in the link above and I will send you the paper cutting clues and zoom invite.
| 1. Sheryl Diemer 2. Kim Baker 3. Sue Boerner |
You are always welcome to join me on 2 Monday nights a month at 7:30 p.m. Central Time for Mystery Stamping! Let me know you are interested and I will send the Clues and Zoom invite to you!
If you do not already have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, I would love to be yours and help you to unleash your creativity. Please join me in person for Stampin Buffets, filled with seasonal cards from the Annual and Mini catalogs if you are in the Central, IL area! I have room for 5 people!
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