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Stamping Stray Ducklings July 2025 Blog Waddle

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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.

1.Lori Helvick
2.Sheryl Diemer
3.Kim Baker
4.Sue Boerner

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!

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

Monday Mystery Stamping – 6/30/25

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Clue #1  Vertical/Portrait card, Gather your supplies: 
Colored Card Stock: card base
–   1 @ 4-1/4 x 11, score at 3-1/4, 6-1/2, 8-3/4
–   2 @ 3 x 3, can be the same as the base or a complimentary cardstock color

DSP: 
–  1 @ 2 tall x 4 wide
–  1 @ 3 tall x 4 wide

White/Vanilla Card Stock (CS):
–  2 @ 2-3/4 x 2-3/4, both are focal points of the card, turned on point. Neither square has to be white/vanilla. Both can be DSP with die cuts on them. Both could be embossed card stock, the same color as the base or complimentary. Or do one of one type and the other a different type.
Embellishments:  
–   for embellishments, use something that goes along with your DSP that does not go too far out of the 3 x 3 turned on a point.

I hope you like this fun-fold card! Please join us if you like to make a card without knowing what it is until you are done!!

Sharing (before) Saturday

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It has been extremely hot in Central IL this week, so I spent as much time in my Stamping Space in the basement as I could. I had a very productive 3-1/2 days: 5 Eagle Scout cards, 4 special birthday cards, 3 college graduation cards, 2, sympathy cards, and 1 special card for my hubby!

How have you been keeping cool this week?!

Paper Crafting Blog Hop – June, for the Guys!

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Welcome to our June Paper Crafting Blog Hop with Independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from all over the world featuring projects for the special guys in our lives. 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.

I love the Loveliest Tree stamp set (#163714) and Loveliest Tree Dies (#163715) both a part of the Loveliest Tree Bundle (#163716) at a 10% savings. So fitting for a masculine card. I wanted a very muted, soft look to this card, so I started with a card base of Mossy Meadow with a layer of Crumb Cake.

I used 2 of the squares from Stylish Shapes Dies (#159183) to cut and create the frame. The tree was stamped in Crumb Cake over the Crumb Cake layer. Next, I inked the tree with sponge daubers directly onto the stamp using Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow, and Old Olive. I used a scrap piece of Crumb Cake to stamp Happy Birthday from Loveliest Tree and the new Hole Punch Assortment (#165409) to punch the hole and added a piece of Baker’s Twine Essentials Pack (#155475)

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

All demonstrators in this month’s hop:

1. Tracy Held – Australia
2. Annette McMillan – Australia
3. Julia Quinn (Australia)
4. Sue Boerner – USA
5. Maureen Rauchfuss – the Crazy Stamping Lady! (USA)
6. Terri Stuart – USA

I hope you found some inspiration for your next paper crafting project for the special guys in your life. 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.

Monday Mystery Stamping – 6/16/25

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Clue #1  Vertical/Portrait card,
Gather your supplies: 

Colored Card Stock: card base
–   1 @ 4-1/4 x 5-1/2
–   1 @ 3-1/8 x 6, score at 1/2 from one end on the long side. Adhere to the top of the card base keeping the fold inside the card. Can be centered, left or right.

DSP: 
–  1 @ 5-1/2 x 3. Adhere over the outside of the 3-1/8 flap, leaving only narrow edges on the sides, not the top or bottom.

White/Vanilla Card Stock (CS):
–  1 @ 3 or 3-1/8 (your choice) x 5-1/2 (writing panel). Goes under the front panel and over the flap, completely covered by the panel.

Embellishments:  
–   for embellishments, use something that goes along with your DSP

I hope you like this fun-fold card! Please join us if you like to make a card without knowing what it is until you are done!!