January 7th

The January-April 2025 Mini-Catalog is online

The January 2025 Scrapbooking brochure is online.  In the future, all scrapbooking supplies will be in the catalogs, not a separate brochure. 

New Online Exclusives are online 

3 new Kits are available (and the Haunted Home Kit is back in stock!!)
 
SALE-A-Bration begins

Jan 13th, 7:30pm (CST) – Mystery Stamping

Jan 13th-15th In person Stamping Buffets
Jan 27th-29th
In person Stamping Buffets

Designer Series Paper (DSP) Release

Stampin’ Up! has recolored 3 favorite DSP packages, so you explore designs you’ve enjoyed in a new, refreshed, and updated way! Supply is limited, so find your favorite and order today.

This is THE opportunity to purchase Designer Series Papers before the new catalog is available on the 7th. You can never have enough pretty paper, right?

Thank you!

As we bid farewell to 2024 and usher in 2025, we find ourselves surrounded by the memories we’ve crafted together in 2024. As a reader, a stamper, or a scrapbooker, we’ve shared a fantastic journey.

As we begin a new year, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your unwavering passion and creativity. Your dedication to preserving moments, telling stories, creating handmade cards, creating handmade gifts, and turning ordinary into extraordinary has been what keeps me going. I love how you share your creations with me! Know that you mean the world to me!

Here’s to another year of stamping, crafting, creating, scrapbooking and cherishing the moments that make life extraordinary.

Paper Crafting Blog Hop – Silver or Gold!

So happy you are hopping through our December Paper Crafting Blog Hop with Independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from all over the world featuring silver or gold on our projects! Here is a sneak peek of my card. Below my full card is a list of links to all of the participating bloggers.

My card features the Season of Green & Gold DSP (#164324), a part of the Season of Green & Gold Suite (#164121) which also includes the Golden Greenery Stamp Set (#164331) and the Golden Greenery Dies (164116). These are also a part of the Golden Greenery Bundle (#164117).

My card base is Mossy Meadow, with a layer of Season of Green & Gold DSP (#164324). I used the dies to cut the boughs and branches from the Season of Green & Gold DSP (#164324). Isn’t that cool they match?!

I cut a circle from the Spotlight on Nature Dies (#163580) in a gold pattern from the Season of Green & Gold DSP (#164324). Then I die cut branches from Gold Foil Sheets (#132622) using dies from the Lifetime of Love Dies (#162583). I built the cluster from the bottom up, completing it with the sentiment from Greetings of the Season (#164325) Merry stamped in Mossy Meadow and Christmas stamped in VersaMark ink (#102283) and heat embossed with Gold from the Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder (#165678). I completed my card with a bow in Gold from the Gold & Silver 1/8″ Trim Combo Pack (#161633). Did you know there are gold adhesive dots in the Blooming Pearls (#162238)?

Thanks for hopping with us this month. Next go to –> Julia’s blog to see what she has created.

All bloggers in this month’s hop:

1. Tracy Held – Australia
2. Shirley Merker – USA
3. Annette McMillan – Australia
4. Sue Boerner – USA
5. Julia Quinn – Australia
6. Terri Stewart – USA

I hope you found some inspiration for your next paper crafting project using Silver or Gold. 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. Please use the host code found on the right-hand side of my blog when ordering, if your order is under $150. If it is over $150, don’t use the code so you can redeem all the host rewards.

If you do not already have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, I would be happy to be yours. Ready to enjoy the demonstrator discount? Click the Contact Me button above.

Stamping Stray Ducklings Blog Waddle-Gift Card Holders!

Welcome to our December Blog Waddle! We call ourselves ducklings, so we waddle from blog post to blog post, instead of hop!! We are featuring ways to gift a gift card for the holidays! You can substitute birthday, Valentines, Easter, Graduation, and any other occasion products to give gift cards all year long.

Here is a sneak peek of my card.

I love the Season of Green & Gold Specialty DSP (#164324) (SDSP) part of the Season of Green & Gold Suite Collection (#164121)! I started with a Garden Green base 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″.

Next is a 4″ x 5-1/4″ layer of the Season of Green & Gold SDSP. The other piece of cardstock base is 4-1/4″ x 9″, scored at 3″ and 6″. Fold it in a z-fold. On the front panel, I used a piece of Season of Green & Gold SDSP cut to 2-3/4″ x 4″. And the top layer is Basic White 2-1/2″ x 3-3/4″. Stamp boughs and branches from the Golden Greenery stamp set (#164331) in Garden Green and Old Olive on scraps of Basic White. Then die cut the pieces with the Golden Greenery Dies (#164116). These are available as a Bundle (#164117) for a 10% savings!

Cut a piece of SDSP 3″ tall x 2-7/8″ wide to form the gift card pocket on the next panel. Adhere it with tear n tape around the sides and bottom, being sure to leave room for the gift card. I stamped another bough on the final Basic White panel, 4″ x 2-3/4″. Both sentiments are from the Greetings of the Season stamp set (#164325), stamped in Garden Green.

You can add a ribbon or a belly band to hold the card closed, if you prefer. Here is a birthday card gift holder I made.

All participants in this month’s waddle:

1. Sue Boerner
2. Kim Baker
3. Sheryl Diemer

Please join us on the 10th of January for another great Stamping Stray Ducklings’ Blog Waddle!

I hope you found some inspiration for your next Stampin’ Up! gift card holder! All the supplies used on this card can be ordered through my online store. Please use the Host Code found to the right of this post when ordering from me, if your order is under $150. If it is over $150, don’t use the code so you can redeem all the host rewards.

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! I have room for 4 people!

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