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Stamping Stray Ducklings August 2025 Blog Waddle

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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!

Ready to enjoy the demonstrator discount? Click the Contact Me button above.

In Color Sale Aug 5-31

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  • 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

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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

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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?

Tuesday Tip

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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

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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!!