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Turtle-y Awesome Birthday

May 19, 2025

Who doesn’t like a cute turtle card? This is such a fun suite of products.

Turtle-y Cute Suite Collection

Create turtle-themed cards, tags, and scrapbook pages with the Turtle-y Cute Suite Collection! This suite features designs of talented turtles, bright paper, and other decorative supplies that you can use to accessorize each turtle and make turtle-tastic scenes.

Turtle-y Awesome Birthday

Turtle-y Awesome Birthday Inside

How It’s Made

Cut Garden Green cardstock 5 ½” x 8 ½”. Score at 4 ¼” on the long side and fold for card base.
Cut two 4” x 5 ¼” panels of Two-Toned Granny Apple Green cardstock. Stack with one light side up and one dark side up. Mark at 3 ½” from top on the left side, and 2 ¼” from the top on right side. Place together in Paper Trimmer and cut diagonally from one mark to the other. You’ll have four pieces which will make two cards.
Adhere two of these (one light and one dark) to the card front.
Cut DSP 2” x 3 ½” and another pattern ½” x 4 ¼”. Adhere rectangle to card slightly right of center. Adhere strip on top near right edge.
Die cut circle using Stylish Shapes Dies. Stamp sentiment in Garden Green. Adhere over DSP using Dimensionals.
Fussy cut turtle of your choice from DSP and adhere with glue and Dimensionals to card on left side of circle.
Paint desired areas with Wink of Stella. I painted the glasses, party hat pompom and ribbon/bow on present.
Embellish with Hexagons.
Cut a white panel 4” x 5 ¼”. Stamp inside sentiment and decorate with images cut from DSP using coordinating dies.
Don’t forget to decorate your envelope, too!

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How to Make Your Own DSP

February 10, 2025

Isn’t it fun to get free products during Stampin’ Up!’s Sale-a-Bration promotion? Today, I’d like to share an exciting way to create your very own DSP (Designer Series Paper). This technique is easy to do with the new 2025 Sale-a-Bration stamp set, Day to Celebrate.

Pick Your Colors

I was inspired to try this technique by the Color Buddies shown on page 32 of the 2025 Spring Mini Catalog. Don’t you love all the hints and suggestions given in the catalogs? I find a new idea and get inspired almost every time I look through them! To begin stamping, get out these Color Buddies ink pads: Summer Splash, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, and Peach Pie.

Prepare Your Card Bases

Cut 4 Pumpkin Pie card bases 8 ½ x 5 ½”, scored at 4 ¼”. Also cut 4 layers from Summer Splash cardstock 5 ¼ x 4”. Before attaching this layer to the front of each card base, punch a label from the center of each with the new To the Point Punch and set them aside to use later.

Stampin – Step One

Next, get a full sheet of Basic White 8 ½ x 11” cardstock. It’s always best to begin stamping your own designs by using the largest stamp first, which in this case is the bullhorn/hat image. Begin stamping it randomly in different directions using Pool Party ink. Then stamp a few more using Pumpkin Pie and Peach Pie inks. Don’t be afraid to stamp some of the images off the page.

Stamping – Step Two

Now, randomly stamp the middle-sized image-confetti-using Pumpkin Pie ink.

Finish this step by randomly stamping the small star in Summer Splash and Peach Pie inks.

Cut Your New DSP

Now you’re ready to cut your designer series paper into four parts, which will be used to create 4 cards. Place the longest side at the top of the paper trimmer. Cut at 5”, slide the remaining paper over and cut it again at 5”. Stack and turn these pieces, again placing the longest side at the top of the trimmer, cut at 3 ¾”, slide the remaining paper over and cut again at 3 ¾”. Now each piece should measure 5 x 3 ¾”.

Design Your Cards

Look at the designs you’ve created and decide the best orientation for each piece: landscape or portrait? Turn the paper that way and finish filling in small spaces on the 4 Basic White pieces by stamping the word Hooray using Pool Party and Peach Pie ink.

Attach each piece to a card base on top of the Summer Splash layer (Summer Splash layer not shown in this picture.)

Finish Your Cards

Lastly, you’re ready to create the sentiment labels. Stamp All Day Your Way four times using Summer Splash ink on Pool Party cardstock. Punch these out with the Labeled With Love Punch.

Attach these to the To the Point pieces punched out earlier. Using Dimensionals, attach the sentiments to the card in a pleasing spot.

Stamp 5 ¼ x 4” pieces of Basic White, attach to the inside of the cards, and decorate your envelopes if desired.

Isn’t it nice to have a stash of birthday cards on hand, ready to go?

So Many Choices!

What other stamp sets would you like to try this technique with? Florals sets are fun, too—start with the largest images, fill in with medium sized images, and finish with some small images.

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Magnolia Mood – Last Chance

December 9, 2024

One of my favorite sets is the Magnolia Mood Bundle from the Online Exclusives Section of the shopping site. We used this in a class earlier this year and I think it’s gorgeous.

Magnolia Mood Birthday

We used the Bundle to make this birthday card. Our magnolia image was stamped in Gray Granite and colored gently with Petal Pink and Soft Sea Foam Blends.

Magnolia Mood Inside

We stamped the sentiment and smaller magnolia inside and colored it with the same Blends.

Detail

The white panel behind the magnolia was embossed with the Layered Florals 3D Embossing Folder and we used the Rhinestone Basic Jewels colored with the Dark Petal Pink Blend to embellish.