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Monday Mystery Stamping – 3/10/25

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Vertical/Portrait card:
Clue #1… gather your supplies, All measurements in inches.

Get ready to dig through your paper stash!! You don’t need full quarter sheets for these cards! Yes, these, we are making 3 cards in a very short time!
The key to these cards is your DSP.  I would use double-sided and mostly non-directional with 2 smallish patterns and 1 maybe medium.  You can use 3 smallish patterns, too.

Clue #1   …  Gather your supplies: All measurements in inches.  This is a portrait/vertical card.

Cardstock Base A: Based on your DSP.  Can be the same or different.
3 @ 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, scored at 4-1/4
Cardstock B:Based on your Card base and DSP choices.  Can be the same or different.
3 @ 5-1/4 x 4
DSP: Double-sided DSP is probably best. 
3 @ 4-3/4 tall x 3-3/4 wide
Basic White or Very Vanilla:
1 @ 5 x 4-1/4 for the inside if your card base is dark
Focal point: I would add a sentiment for the front of the card. 
OPTIONAL: Die cut(s) 

Stack all 3 pieces of your DSP together and mark the top sheet as shown below. Then cut on the lines from side to side.

Here are my 3 cards with the 3 patterns. You can see each one is at the top, middle and bottom on the 3 cards.

You can also turn over the DSP if there is a pattern there that you like better.

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!!

Monday Mystery Stamping – 2/24/25

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Vertical/Portrait card:
Clue #1… gather your supplies, All measurements in inches.

Cardstock Base A:
1 @ 5-1/2 x 11 scoring along the 11″ side from left to right: 1-1/4, 5-1/2, 9-1/4
1 @ 1-1/4 x 10
optional: 2-3/4 square to back sentiment or die cut(s)

DSP:  can be scenic, 3 or 4 complimentary patterns, all one pattern
1 @ 7 1/2 wide x 5 1/4 tall, cut from left to right: 1, 1, 4, leaving 1-1/2
1 @ 1-1/8 x 10

Basic White or Very Vanilla:
1 @ 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 
optional: 2-1/2 square for your sentiment

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!!

Paper Crafting Blog Hop – More Sale-A-Bration!

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So happy you are hopping through our February Paper Crafting Blog Hop with Independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from all over the world featuring projects using Sale-A-Bration exclusive products! 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 Pick a Season (#164969) and Toadstool Gardens DSP (#164942), each free with a $60 purchase!

My card base is Daffodil Delight, with a layer of Toadstool Gardens DSP (#164942) and then a layer of Highland Heather cardstock. The top layer of Basic White has the tree stamped with Pecan Pie, Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, and Daffodil Delight. A Brushed Brass Butterfly (#158136) completed my card.

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. Annette McMillan- Australia
2.Terri Stewart – USA
3. Sue Boerner – USA
4. Julia Quinn Australia
5. Maureen Rauchfuss – USA
6. Tracy Held – Australia

I hope you found some inspiration for your next paper crafting project using Sale-A-Bration products. 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.

Next to Last Host Code

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In mid-April, the Host Rewards program is changing and each stamper/scrapbooker will earn their own rewards. More details will be shared as we get closer to that date.

For now, S4UNSBBP is the Host Code from now through mid-March. Please use this code when ordering if your order is under $150. This is how I collect small orders.

Stamping Stray Ducklings Blog Waddle-Sketch!

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Welcome to our February Blog Waddle! We call ourselves ducklings, so we waddle from blog post to blog post, instead of hop!! We are featuring ways to use a card sketch with January-April Mini-Catalog, Sale-A-Bration, Online Exclusive, and Annual Catalog products!

Here is the Sketch we are using from page 12 of the January-April Mini-Catalog:

When I start to make a card from a sketch, I look through my stamps, dies, and DSP to see what jumps out at me. The Terrific Toadstools Bundle (#164790) in the January-April Mini-Catalog and the Sale-A-Bration brochure was the set for this card. I added a layer of Toadstool Gardens DSP (#164942 – free with a $60 purchase) to my Granny Apple Green card base and then focused on the oval shape. I don’t have an oval in any current product, so I used a circle from Spotlight on Nature Dies ($163580). I love layered DSP, so I choose a second Toadstool Gardens DSP (#164942) pattern. I picked more cardstock based on the colors in my DSP. The pointed rectangle is from Sentimental Park Dies (#160566). Here’s a first look at the pieces.

The proportions aren’t quite right, so I cut a 1/4″ from each side of the rectangle and an 1/8″ off the Melon Mambo strip.

To replicate the oval shape a little, I cut the circle apart and left a gap between the edges, covering the separation with the strip.

Here is a sneak peek of my finished card.

I stamped the toadstool in Gray Granite and Pumpkin Pie, popping the top up on a dimensional. The 2″ leftover strip of DSP I added to the envelope flap.

All participants in this month’s waddle:

1. Sue Boerner
2. Kim Baker
3. Lori Helvick

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

I hope you found some inspiration for your next Stampin’ Up! card from a sketch! 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.

Monday Mystery Stamping – 1/27/25

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Vertical/Portrait card:
Clue #1… gather your supplies, All measurements in inches.

Cardstock Base A:1 @ 5-1/2 x 4-1/4
Cardstock B: (this can be foil or anything else to back the white square and compliment the DSP)
1 @ 2-7/8 x 2-7/8DSP: Double-sided DSP is a must for this card. 
1 @ 12 wide x 5-1/4 tall
Basic White or Very Vanilla:
1 @ 5 x 3-3/4
1 @ 2-3/4 x 2-3/4 
Focal point: Die cut(s) and sentiment for the front of the card.  The focal piece is the 2-3/4 square 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!!