January 2021

Heartfelt Anniversary!

Anniversary & Love-Weddings / January 21, 2021 / Designer Series Paper, Happy Anniversary

This is a clean and simple card using the New True Love Designer Series paper in the JJ2021 Spring mini and the Heartfelt Bundle in the annual catalog. I absolutely love this paper just the way it is, but I also love how it can be colored to create a totally different look. Stay tuned for future blog posts on that one!

Celebrating love and accomplishments can be so much fun. While this is actually an anniversary card for a young couple, it could also be used to celebrate milestones, like the number of years at a job or the number of years as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator!

You too can sign up to be a demonstrator and before you know it, you would be celebrating a one year anniversary of fun and fantastic card making!

Right now, Stampin’ UP! is offering a extra special gift of five 6×6 paper packs for all who sign up before the end of February. Just $99 and you can create your own kit of $125 worth of stamping toy, plus you would also get the free business supply kit. If that sounds fun to you, just CLICK HERE and get the details. I would love to have you on my team!

And now for that Anniversary card!

Begin with a Basic Black card base 5 ½ x 8 ½. Score in landscape position at 4 ¼”.
To the left side of the card front add a 2 x 5 ¼” piece of the True Love Designer Series Paper.
Cut black and white cardstock layers and attach as follows: 2½ x 3½” white, 2¼ x 3¼” black, 2 1/8 x 3 1/8” white.
Stamp Happy Anniversary from Many Mates in Memento Black ink.
Use the Heart punches from the bundle to punch a red scallop heart and a white smooth heart and layer them together. Attach the hearts to the black and white layers with a few Stampin’ Dimensionals and attach to the card front.
Finish off the card with a little bling by adding a few Red Rhinestone gems.

I hope you will stop by again for more crafting fun and some colorful cards with this New True Love Designer Series paper. The list of supplies used to make this card is below, just click on the add card and start earning those FREE Sale-a-Bration products! Don’t forget to add our monthly host code- SM7SJPZZ

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Hearts, Heart, Heal Your Heart!

32 Comments / Blog Hop, Get Well & Sympathy / January 20, 2021

Welcome to InKing Royalty’s January Blog Hop! During this year’s blog hops, we are having fun with our stamping favorites – our favorite themes for seasonal cards and projects. This month’s projects feature hearts, so prepare yourself for lots and lots of love. We are excited to share our creations with you today! After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.

Today’s blog hop inspired me to create two fun fold heart cards and instead of the traditional red and pink hearts, I used the Heartfelt Bundle, Misty Moonlight ink and the New Misty Moonlight Designers Series Paper pack that will be featured in the next annual catalog.

Card #1
Begin with a standard white card base and cut 2¼” from the front of the card. Turning it in landscape position, add three hearts along the cut edge of the cardstock, attaching only the top half of the hearts to the card front. The third heart is attached in the middle with a Stampin’ Dimensional.

The hearts were created using the Misty Moonlight Designer Series paper and the two punches from the Heartfelt Bundle. The stamped heart and the sentiment, although visible when the card is closed, is actually the inside and stamped directly on the card base in Misty Moonlight ink.

The smaller fancy heart is stamped on white scrap, cut out using the paper snips and attached to the larger heart with a Stampin’ Dimensional.

The inside greeting, from Heal Your Heart is stamped in Misty Moonlight ink. This Heal Your Heart stamp set is part of the Sale-A-Brations event and can be yours FREE with a $50 purchase through February of 2021.

Card # 2
This is another fun fold card with a few extra challenges. The outside image of this card is actually a combination of the card base front (Misty Moonlight) and an extension of the inside layer (Basic White) creating a fun fold.

Begin with a Misty Moonlight card base 5 ½ x 8 ½. Score in landscape position at 4 ¼”.
Next cut a 5 ½ x 6 ½ piece of Basic White cardstock and in landscape position, score at 4 ¼”, this will create the inside portion of the card and the flap that folds to the front of the Misty Moonlight card front.
Attach the white that measures 4¼ x 5½” to the inside of the Misty Moonlight card base and stamp the Happy Valentines Day heart greeting in the center. The 2¼ x 5 ½” flap will fold to the outside of the card.
On the 2¼ x 5 ½” flap stamp the small heart in Misty Moonlight ink on both sides. Again, this flap will fold to the front of the card.
Using the hearts from the Heartfelt bundle, stamp and punch 4 large hearts.
Attach two of the hearts to the outside and two hearts to the inside of the white 2¼ x 5 ½” flap, aligning the center of the hearts with the edge of the cardstock and attaching both hearts back to back.
When you open the white card flap it reveals the next layer which is actually the Misty Moonlight card front pictured in the image below.

To create the three heart panel on the Misty Moonlight card front, punch three scalloped hearts from Misty Moonlight cardstock.
Stamp the smallest heart from the Heartfelt Bundle in Misty Moonlight ink on Basic White cardstock and punch out three hearts using the smooth heart punch. Attach these to the scallop hearts.
Layer the three hearts in a triangle pattern on the front of the Misty Moonlight card base. Stamp the arrow at the bottom in Misty Moonlight ink.
Open this flap to reveal the inside of the card pictured below.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn Stamps There’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!

Thank you for hopping along with us. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:

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Sweet Ice Cream Birthday-You’re so cool!

Happy Birthday / January 19, 2021 / Bundle, Sale-A-Bration

Birthday can be so fun, even when you are getting older and especially if you are celebrating with ice cream! I don’t eat ice cream very often, but when I do it usually has come kind of chocolate in it.

Fun fact: When I was 16 years old I worked at Bresler’s Ice Cream shop. It was very similar to a Baskin Robins and was located inside the mall, which was perfect for any teenager. The best part about working there was always being busy, too busy to gain any weight from eating ice cream. That may not be the case these days! LOL

So today’s card was inspired by a Sketch Challenge from one of my Stampin’ Up! uplines Mary Fish. I used the New Sweet Ice Cream bundle in the JJ2021 Spring mini catalog.

It is part of the Ice Cream Corner Suite Collection. A suite collection is a variety of related items that Stampin’ Up! coordinates for you, making it even easier to create beautiful things! The Suite collection is only $56 and entitles you to a FREE Sale-A-Bration set, but hurry Sale-a-Bration ends at the end of February!

Begin with a Basic White card base 5 ½ x 8 ½. Score in landscape position at 4 ¼”.
Cut another layer of white that measures 4 x 5 ¼” and using the sketch challenge below ½” strips of cardstock to create the diagonal design. I used Rococo Rose, Highland Heather and Seaside Spray.
Using a few pieces of scrap basic white cardstock, I stamped and punched out the ice cream cone, adding the waffle texture with Early Espresso ink.
I stamped the Happy Birthday and You’re so Cool sentiment in Memento Black ink.
Finally I added some of those sweet Pastel Pearls from the Hydrangea Hill Suite Collection in the JJ2021 Spring catalog.

Here is Mary’s sketch challenge! Maybe it will inspire you to create a card and if you do of’ course I would love to see it. Feel free to email it to me or share it with me on my Facebook page, #SketchChallenge#12!
Thanks Mary!

I also decorated the inside of my card with a few sweet ice cream cones. The cones are stamped in Cinnamon Cider directly to the inside cards. The Rococo Rose ice cream is also stamped direct to paper, but the Gorgeous Grape is stamped and punched out with the Ice Cream Cone Builder Punch that is part of the bundle.

I stamped the sentiment in Memento black ink and the sprinkles in Cinnamon Cider.

I hope you will stop back tomorrow for some more sweet cards ideas and be sure to mark your calendars for this Wednesday January 20th, because it is time for the Inking Royal Blog Hop and we have some very fun project ideas for you!

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Come Sail Away

Congratulations-Graduation-Retirement / January 18, 2021 / Manly cards, Masculine

Yes, I know it is still winter, but sometimes in the midst of the cold I think of summer things, like swimming, fishing and sailing. I guess fishing could technically be a winter sport if one likes ice fishing! Today I thought it would be nice to create a card for the special men in our lives.

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I have a hard time coming up with masculine cards. The Sailing Home set in the annual catalog is perfect for a masculine birthday, graduation, anniversary or just a simple thinking of you card.

Begin with a Night of Navy card base 5 ½ x 8 ½. Score in landscape position at 4 ¼”.
Using the Stampin’ cut and emboss machine run a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of Crumb Cake cardstock through with the Subtle 3-D embossing folder.
Cut a 2 ½ x 2 ½” piece of Night of Navy cardstock and a smaller 2 ¼ x 2 ¼” square of Basic White cardstock. Stamp the sailboat and the sentiment in Night of Navy ink on the white square and then stamp the compass in Crumb Cake ink.
Layer the white onto the Night of Navy square and attach to the dry embossed Crumb Cake panel.
Wrap some Night of Navy bakers twine around the lower portion of the Crumb Cake layer and attach to the Night of Navy card base.
Cut a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of Basic White for the inside and stamp the anchor in Crumb Cake ink and attach to the inside of the card.

I hope this card will inspire you to create something special for the men in your lives. I love this set and have used it several times to create a birthday card for my son. He is not much into sailing, but at least he enjoy my creations.

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We are all loved! Sunday Wisdom

Sunday Wisdom / January 17, 2021

Who is Jesus for you?

What are you looking for?

What’s the goal of your life?

Jesus invites each of us to “come and see” for ourselves that his word is true and everlasting.

“Come and see” is God’s invitation to grow closer to the one who created us. The one who loves us, regardless of how far we stray. and without his grace, mercy, and help we could not find him.

So allow yourself to be loved, to be accepted, to know that you are an important piece in the puzzle of life. Let us all grow in the knowledge of His love and truth and may the Holy Spirit set our hearts on fire to be Christ to all we meet. For we are all His and we are all loved!

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Forever Fern-Heal Your Heart!

Get Well & Sympathy / January 16, 2021

Yesterday I posted a card using the Framed for You Distinktive stamp set and today I thought I would just continue to be “Distinktive”. LOL I really do love the details on these stamps! As you look through the catalog, notice that crazy scallop circle that indicates a distinktive set. They produce such elegant cards!

My card today uses the Forever Fern (distinktive) set and a New set, Heal Your Heart.

The Heal Your Heart set is part of our Sale-ABration offers and can be yours FREE with a $50 order. Check it out today and if your order is less that $150, please use our current Host code: SM7SJPZZ

And now….today’s card!

Begin with a Merry Merlot card base 5 ½ x 8 ½. Score in landscape position at 4 ¼”.
On a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of Basic White cardstock, stamp the leaves in Shaded Spruce and Old Olive ink and the berries in Merry Merlot.
Stamp the dotted speckles in Old Olive ink randomly over the leaves and berries.
Using Merry Merlot ink, stamp the sentiment from Heal Your Heart and attach panel to the card front.
On a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of Basic White cardstock stamp a leaf and a berry in the upper left corner. Stamp the sentiment from Heal Your Heart in Merry Merlot ink and attach to the inside of the card.

I hope you are enjoying Sale-A-Bration and are earning lots of FREE stamp sets. If you are in the St. Louis area and would like to attend one of my stamp camps, CLICK HERE to check out my schedule of events! Be inspired to create something beautiful today! As always, feel free to leave a comment.

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Thinking of You-Framed for You!

Thinking of You / January 15, 2021

This simple Thinking of you card is so full of color and was created using the Framed for You stamp set in the annual catalog on page 47. I just know my mother-in-law will enjoy this one. I am not sure how much I will use the frame stamp, but for sure all the other one. This particular set what Stampin’ Up! calls a is “Distinkive” stamp.

These stamps start with a photograph and is turned into a photorealistic red rubber stamp! This innovative stamp style allows you to create images with depth by simply inking and stamping once. The detail is beautiful and you can find these stamps in the catalog by looking for the green scalloped circle marked Dist INK tive!

Now you all know that I like a saucy ink pad, but one quick tip when using the Dist-ink-tive stamps, especially the larger images is to apply even pressure on the stamp and not have a saucy ink pad! If your ink pad is too saucy, the detail of the stamp will be lost.

Begin with a Poppy Parade card base 5 ½ x 8 ½. Score in landscape position at 4 ¼”.
Next add a Basic Black layer, 3 7/8 x 5 1/8”
On a 3 ¾ x 5” piece of Basic White cardstock stamp the leaves in Garden Green ink up the left side of the layer. Using the fern stamp, add a layer of sprigs, stamping off first to create a lighter image.
The greeting is stamped in Memento Black on Basic White cardstock and punched out using the Rectangular Postage Punch on page 168 in the annual catalog.
Next add some Poppy Parade flowers along the leaves.
Add a layer of Black and Poppy Parade to the image and attach to the card front.

For the inside cut a 4 x 5 ¼” layer of White cardstock and again the leaves, ferns and flowers along either the bottom as pictured here or go crazy and create something new! Remember, there are no mistakes in stamping, only creative opportunities!

I hope enjoyed today’s card and stop back tomorrow for some more crafting inspiration. I am not sure what the weather is like in your neighborhood, but here is St. Louis we are calling for a bit of snow. Looks like another cold day, I guess I will have to stay tucked in my craft room! Yay!

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Sweet Ice Cream-Happy Birthday!

2 Comments / Happy Birthday / January 14, 2021

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. If that sounds good to you then why not treat yourself to the Sweet Ice Cream Bundle? It is part of the Sale-A-Bration set and is packed full of sweet treats!

You can save 10% when you order the bundle #156244! Add some of the Ice Cream Cone Designer Series Paper and a pack of the New Basic White Cardstock or some to of the fun Blackberry Bliss Stripped Ribbon and you qualify for a FREE set.

I am having fun playing with this new bundle-there are so many fun things you can do with it. Here is one of the cards I created. If you have this bundle I would love to see your creations.

Although it is hard to tell in the picture, I actually started with a Basic White card base and layered the Granny Apple Green on top. The sprinkles, along with the ice cream scoops, are stamped in Granny Apple Green, Gorgeous Grape and Poppy Parade.

The Happy Birthday sentiment from the bundle is in Memento Black. I used the ice cream cone builder punch to make the cone and scoops. The cone is punched from Crumb Cake cardstock and sponged with some Soft Suede ink.

I love ice cream, but rarely get three scoops because it either melts too fast or OOPS! falls off like on my card!

For the inside I stamped my cone directly to the inside of the white card base in Soft Suede ink and punched out another scoop of Poppy Parade. Whether today is your birthday or not I hope you treat yourself to this sweet set.

The bundle is in the JJ2021 spring mini catalog and is available until June, but hurry and get yours early….before they all melt away. Don’t forget if your order is at least $50 you can choose a FREE set from the SAB catalog.

Whether today is your birthday or not I hope you treat yourself and create something beautiful. I would love to see your creations! Feel free to leave a comment, I love hearing from you

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Berry Blessings-Pals Blog Hop!

29 Comments / Blog Hop, Paper Crafting Ideas / January 13, 2021

Hello, welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month our Design Team created projects featuring “Sale-A-Bration Products.” We hope you enjoy and will be inspired by them! Don’t forget to leave comments. We love hearing from you! At the end of my post, you will find the full line-up to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.

My card today features the Berry Blessings and Berry Delightful Designer Series Paper pack that is FREE with a $100 purchase during Sale-A-Bration. The paper is bright and cheery garden and fruits on one side and colorful patterns on the flip side, making it super easy to coordinate when making your card designs.

Begin with a Blackberry Bliss card base 5½ x 8½. Score in landscape position at 4¼”.
Next cut a 4 x 5 ¼”piece of Garden Green for the card front, but do not attach.
Cut three pieces of Designer Series paper from the Berry Delightful paper pack that measure 1 ½ x 3 ½” and layer them onto a 3 ¾ x 5” piece of Blackberry Bliss cardstock, evenly spaces them so a small border of Blackberry Bliss is exposed.
Attach this panel to the previously cut Garden Green layer and wrap some linen thread around both layers. I wrapped three times, but you can wrap more if desired.
Stamp the greeting on a piece of Basic White cardstock and using the Stampin Cut and Emboss machine and the Stitched Nested Labels from the annual catalog (p 183) cut out the greeting with one of the smaller dies.
Next cut the size up from some Blackberry Bliss cardstock and layer the two together.
Use several Stampin’ Dimensionals to attach the greeting over the linen threads.
Finally add a small linen bow to the bottom of the greeting.

For the inside all you need is a 4 x 5¼ piece of Basic White cardstock. I stamped the greeting and the berries from the Berry Blessings set in Blackberry Bliss ink, to match the card base. The leaves are stamped with Garden Green ink to coordinate with the cardstock layer on the front of the card as well.

This really was a simple card, yet it looks so elegant. I love this paper and can’t wait to create more cards for you. But don’t go just yet, because more inspiration awaits!

Use the Blog Hop Line-up below to visit the rest of this month’s Design Team. My fellow Pals are excited to show you what they’ve created! Mark your calendars for our next blog hop on February 10th when our theme will be “Birthday Bonanza” where the design team will be sharing birthday projects that celebrate our family and friends. Don’t miss the fun! Until then, please stay safe and have fun in your craft room.

Your next stop is to the Stampin’ Hoot with Stesha Bloodhart -have fun!

Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty

Rosanne Mulhern at Heartfelt Stamping

Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery

Rae Harper Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts

Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards

Renae Novak at Blessed By Cards w/Renae Novak

Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!

Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…

Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stamping Habit

Deb Walker at Deb Stamps Life

Su Mohr at Aromas And Art

Melissa Seplowitz at The Stamping Ninja

Leah O’Brien at Honey Bee Stamping & More!

Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping

Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping

Lori Pinto at LollyPop Paper and Ink

Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity

Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping

Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’

Ann Murray at Murray Stamps INK

Jennifer Roque at Stamp Camp with Jen

Jeanie Stark at Just Stampin’

Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs

Sara Stuart at Sentiments by Sara

Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose

Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom

Lori Webb at Clever Copies

Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations

Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations

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Hee Haw! Darling Donkeys

Just Because Cards / January 12, 2021

These little donkeys really are darling! If you have never read the book Wonky Donkey, it is adorable, especially if you have younger children or if one of your children is a teacher.

My daughter teaches first grade in Chicago and I am sure her students will enjoy the cute story about a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey!

Begin with a Basic Gray card base 5½ x 8½. Score in landscape position at 4¼”.
Next cut a 4 x 5 ¼”piece of Seaside Spray cardstock and using the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss machine, run it through with the Brick and Mortar 3-D embossing folder.
Adhere the faux brick wall to the Basic Gray card front.
Stamp one of the darling donkeys in Black Stazon ink on Basic White cardstock and use the watercolor pencils and the water painter to color the donkey. Be sure to use the Stazon ink and not Memento Black so that when you watercolor, the ink will not bleed.
Again using the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss machine and the Stitched Shapes, but out the donkey using one of the stitched circles.
Using the layering ovals, cut a coordinating scallop circle out of Basic Gray cardstock and layer the two together.
Using Stampin’ Dimensionals, attach the donkey to the card front.
Stamp Hee Haw with Memento Black ink on Basic White cardstock twice, cut out and attach to card front.
Next stamp You’re the best! on White cardstock and layer it to some Basic Gray and attach to the front of the card.
Layer a 4 x 5¼” piece of white on the inside.

The Darling Donkeys set is part of our Sale-A-Bration event and is FREE with a $50 purchase. If you are placing an order and it is less than $150, please use the Host code: SM7SJPZZ

I hope you enjoy these cute little guys and order your set today. I really appreciate your business and hope you will stop back tomorrow for some more crafting fun!