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Sweetheart with a Pop-out Heart

I am into the insides of cards lately. Here is another fun inside for a Valentine's Day cards that pops out. I thought this was fun and pretty easy so I thought I would make a video showing how easy it is to make one. The Sweetheart set by Stampin' Up! works perfectly for this technique.

Another great part of this card is that you only need paper snips and no other special tools to make the inside special effect. The center of the heart is done with the Sale-A-Bration set Whimsical Words.

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Stamps:Sweetheart, Whimsical Words
Paper: Sending Love Specialty, Real Red, Whisper White
Ink: Real Red, Regal Rose, Old Olive
Other: Red Satin Ribbon, Glitter, Sticky Pages, Pinking Hearts Border Punch

Pop-up Hearts From Love You Much

Here is the inside! This is the one card that is part of the Valentine Stamp Camp that coming up this week. I made this card using the Love You Much and Holiday Best stamp sets from Stampin' Up!. I like how the stamped hearts coordinate with the Heart To Heart punch. The row of hearts is designed to pop out and stand up when the card is opened.

Here is the front of the card. I decided to keep the front of the card simple because there is more work on the inside. I used the I {Love} Love wheel from Stampin' Up!'s Occasions catalog.

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Stamps: Love You Much, Holiday Best
Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Pretty In Pink
Ink: Real Red, Craft Whisper White
Other: Heart To Heart Punch, Pinking Hearts Punch, Ribbon

Vintage Vogue Done in Rich Razzleberry

When Stampin' Up! offers a corresponding wheel I sometimes like it and occasionally purchase it. When I saw the Stampin' Around Wheel Very Vintage designed to go with the Vintage Vogue stamp set, I knew I wanted it right away. I think it adds a lot to projects made with the Vintage Vogue set.

I designed this card this card with colors from the Cottage Wall paper. That set of designer paper is so gorgeous. Look for more cards made with this combination.

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Stamps: Vintage Vogue
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Cottage Wall
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Certainly Celery
Other: Cottage Wall, Top Note Die, Very Vintage wheel, Modern Label punch, Big Shot, brads, Little Leaves

Fox & Friends Baby Card

The set Fox & Friends from Stampin' Up!'s Occasions catalog is so cute. I love all the little animals and I need a baby card for my new nephew so I decided to do a baby card. The dots are from the Dot, Dot, Dot stamp from the A La Carte section of the Occasions mini. I did use the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to line up the dots.

This card layout is based on one of the card sketches provided by Stampin' Up! in our demonstrator's newsletter. Stampin' Up! provides a lot of support in many ways and a fabulous newsletter full of ideas, tips and business information is one of them.

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Stamps: Fox & Friends, Dot, Dot, Dot, Family Phrases
Paper: Sahara Sand, Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry,Dusty Durango, Close To Cocoa
Other: Scallop edge punch, word window punch, modern label punch, Wide Oval Punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, ribbon

Building Houses with Good Neighbors

Last night I held my annual Sale-A-Bration Stamp-A-Stack. It was a full house and a lot of fun. This card using the Good Neighbors stamp set created quite the running joke. After completing this card many of the stampers compared how well she or he could build a house. One person nearly left her houses topless. So be sure to remember to put the roofs on!

One interesting change (I think all) the stampers made was lining the houses up on a longer clear block and stamping the houses and trees at the same time. I stamped the parts all separately,  but you can line them up on one block, color them with markers and then stamp them at once. Lining up the stamps on the block does place the houses a bit further apart. I think they really liked the quickness of doing it in one impression.

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Stamps: Good Neighbors, Short & Sweet
Paper: Bermuda Bay, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Welcome Neighbor
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive
Other: Pinking Hearts Punch, brads, Paper Piercer

Happy Together a Sale-A-Bration set?

It is this year. Stampin' Up! changed up the way the program works this year. If you do not want any of the 6 items in the regular part of the catalog, go to the last page and they have included a list or stamp sets from the 2009-2010 Catalog and Idea book available as your SAB choice. This set, Happy Together, is on that list. What is Sale-A-Bration? Click Here to go to a post that explains it.

To see all the SAB options, click on the picture of the Sale-A-Bration catalog in the left column.

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Stamps: Happy Together
Paper: Pale Plum, Rich Razzleberry, Cottage Wall Designer Paper, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Other: Ribbon, Small Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch

Vintage Label meets Flock Together

I have had the Flock Together designer series paper for awhile now, but then I started Christmas stamping and it was set aside. I was working with the Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration set Vintage Label and I decided that it would work very well together.

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Stamps: Vintage Label, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Boho Flowers
Paper: So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Flock Together, Very Vanilla,
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Versamark
Other: Scallop Trim, Boho Flowers Punch, satin Ribbon, brad, wide oval punch, word window punch

Big Shot Video with the Lattice Die

Wow, did I learn a lot about video editing today. I basically sent myself to self-taught video school today. Thank goodness for Google. I learned a lot, but I know that I will learn so much more as I make more videos.

The video I am sharing today is how to make the extended Lattice die cut that I used on the Valentine's Day card the other day. I put a lot more information into the video and if you watch to the end you will see this card made with the Top Note die and The Big Shot.

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Stamps: Vintage Vogue
Paper: Kraft, Very Vanilla, Bashful Blue, Bella Bleu
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue
Other: Top Note Die, Big Shot, brad, ribbon, corner rounder

Pink Birthday Bird

Ok, I know that I promised a video today, but I was waken up at 1:00 am with a very sick child (Required quite a bit of clean up!) and I just didn't get everything together for the video. I will attempt to get it together tomorrow.

I am sharing a card that my club will be making tonight instead. I love this new 2 step bird punch. It is so cute. Tonight we will be making a simple birthday card with the bird and Stampin' Up!'s Sweet Pea paper stack. I love the pink and brown.

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Stamps: Vintage Label
Paper: Pretty In Pink, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Sweet Pea Paper Stack, Old Olive
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Other: 2 step bird punch, big shot, Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon

A Sweetheart of a card

For this card I used my favorite Big Shot die "Lattice". It makes a great subtle background that looks a bit like faux embossing. The sentiment is done with the Sweetheart and Well Scripted stamp sets. The Sweetheart stamp set is designed to go with the Heart Treat Cups. Click Here to see a post about the treat cups.

Check back tomorrow to see a video on how I extended the Lattice Die.

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Stamps: Sweetheart, Well Scripted
Paper: Pretty In Pink, Very Vanilla, Sending Love Specialty
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Real Red
Other: Heart To Heart Punch, Red Satin Ribbon, Big Shot, Full Heart Punch, Lattice die