Yesterday was our daughter’s birthday! She loves blue and this is the card I sent to her.
Sharing Sunday
Friday Funny
In Color Sale Aug 5-31
- Sale includes select inks, cardstock, Designer Series Paper, embellishments, and other products that include these new In Colors. Only products featured on the 2025–2027 In Colors page are included in this promotion.
- Some products are excluded from the sale, including the Month by Month Album Retreat 2025 kit (167338).
- Products are available only while supplies last.
Stampin’ Up! is saying goodbye to Sale-A-Bration! Instead – there will a new Product of the Month promotion – starting later this year. Be on the lookout for more details coming in the early December timeframe!
With Sale-a-bration ending, it only feels right to send it out in style with one last party . . . a Sale-A-Bration Retirement Party! For the month of August only, Stampin’ Up! is doing something that’s never been done before—they’re offering some of the 2025 Sale-A-Bration items (products officially discontinued at the end of February 2025) as Last Chance Products! The party starts today, 5 August with this Last Chance Products refresh!
Monday Mystery Stamping – 8/4/25
Clue #1 Vertical/Portrait card, Gather your supplies:
Colored Card Stock: card base*
– 1 @ 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 OPTIONAL If putting this on the back of your card, cut your DSP to only 5-1/4 TALL X 12 WIDE.
DSP:
– 1 @ 5-1/2 TALL x 12 WIDE, best to like both sides of your DSP. You will see more of one side than the other. Score at 3, 6-1/2, 10-1/2. Your front of card will be the left end 3” panel; fold mountain, valley, valley.
White/Vanilla Card Stock (CS):
– 1 or 2 @ approx. 3 x 4-1/2 Rectangle, Oval, Arch, Label or a little smaller. There are SO many options to finish your card. I used ovals matted with oval scallops behind, 2 sizes of the old Deco Labels Dies, and more. Look at the samples to see what you might like to do for your card!
Embellishments:
– for embellishments, use something that goes along with your DSP. You can use a lot or just a little.
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!!
Tuesday Tip
Tuesday Tip – To be certain you get a longer stamp on your block straight, put the stamp face down using a line on your stamping grid paper,
put the block on top of the stamp,
then ink and stamp!
Do you have a stamping tip to share?
Friday Funny
Please answer this travel question below in comments & have a great day!!
Tuesday Tip
Here is a great tip for DSP and embellishments. Pull the excess packaging to one side.
Cut off the sealed edge of the packaging.
Easily slide the DSP or embellishment pack out the side without dealing with the adhesive at the top!
Do you have a stamping tip to share?
Monday Mystery Stamping – 7/14/25
Clue #1 Vertical/Portrait card, Gather your supplies:
Colored Card Stock: card base
– 1 @ 8-1/2 x 5-1/2, score at 4-1/4. Mark 2-1/2″ from the top right corner in toward the fold. Cut from the mark down to the bottom right corner.
– 1 @ 1-1/2 x 5-1/2, cut from the top left corner down to the bottom right corner.
DSP:
– 1 @ 5-1/4 tall x 4 wide. Mark 2-1/2″ from the top right corner. Cut from the mark down to the bottom right corner. Save the cut off triangle for another card.
– 1 @ 5 tall x 2-1/4 wide, different from first piece. Cut from the top left corner down to the bottom right corner. Then cut 3/8″ off the base of this triangle
White/Vanilla Card Stock (CS):
– 1 @ 4 x 5-1/4
Embellishments:
– for embellishments, use something that goes along with your DSP but isn’t too large. Adding just a sentiment on the front is great, too.
Layer the small DSP on the small triangle and the larger triangle DSP on the larger triangle. Then layer on the card base creating a fan, keeping your tips inside the cardbase.
I created my card from a card I made at a demonstrator shoe box swap, so I have no directions. Karla suggested Mary Deatherage’s directions found here. Her measurement at the top is not the same as mine. She has each piece of DSP matted on her card.
I hope you like this Fan Fold fun-fold card! Please join us if you like to make a card without knowing what it is until you are done!!
Stamping Stray Ducklings July 2025 Blog Waddle
Welcome to our July Blog Waddle! We call ourselves ducklings, so we waddle from blog post to blog post, instead of hopping!! We are featuring cards for Summer or Scrapbooking! I am going to try to cover both. Here’s a preview of my card.
I love the Sunrise Sailing Bundle (#165497) and it includes a Hybrid Embossing Folder (#165496) that is amazing! It can die cut and emboss at the same time. for special handy guys. The card base is Secret Sea with a layer of Basic White embossed. Then I stamped the sailboat in Secret Sea and Coastal Cabana for the color on the sails. After die cutting the sail boat and the largest circle from Stylish Shape Dies (#1599183) in Calypso Coral, the card is nearly ready to assemble. The birds were stamped in Secret Sea and the sentiment, too.
Are you new to scrapbooking or a seasoned scrapper? Stampin’ Up! has a fantastic scrapbook kit in the Annual Catalog called Weekend Adventures Scrapbooking Kit (#167315). And there is a coordinating Weekend Adventures stamp set (#167318) to combine both crafts I love!
KIT DETAILS
– Makes three two-page scrapbook spreads
– Page size: 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
– Colors: Basic Beige, Basic Black, Cajun Craze, Calypso Coral, Early Espresso, Misty Moonlight, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Very Vanilla
Kit includes one of each item listed below.
– Step-by-step instructions
– 10 sheets of Designer Series Paper
– 10 sheets of Two-Tone Cardstock
– 3 sheets of printed stickers and precut images
– Photo placeholders
The only thing you may want to add is some Linen Thread (#104199). I like to make my supplies go farther, so I cut a frame from one of the pages and created an extra page. You can buy extra stickers, DSP, and card stock bundles to make more pages. This is the page as shown in the kit.
Here, you can see I cut a piece out of the middle of the base DSP, slightly smaller than the blue piece.
And here is the start to my extra page. All I need to do is add some clusters of embellishments, journaling, and my pictures and the page is done!
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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