In Color Zinnia Card Duos

If there were a contest for the “most cheerful flower”, don’t you think ZINNIAS would take the prize?

Today’s card(s) feature the Simply Zinnia bundle (an online exclusive available now in my Stampin’ Store) as well as the 2024-2026 In Color products that will be in my store on May 1st!

This slanted background is a handy template to remember (or PIN!) because you can create TWO cards in about the same time it takes to make just one!

It all starts with a 6″ x 3-3/4″ piece of In-Color Designer Series Paper. Mark it at 2″ on the bottom long edge (on the back side of the design you want to use) and at 4″ on the top long edge. Then cut it from the 2″ mark to the 4″ mark. Layer each of those pieces onto a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Basic Black card stock and you are halfway done.

TIP: The leftover 6″ x 2-1/4″ piece of Designer Series Paper fits perfectly on the flap of your envelope, giving you terrific coordination!

Watch the tutorial (speed it up, if desired) to learn how to finish up the card:

And why stop at 2 cards when you can make 10? Two in each of the 2024-26 In Colors: Petunia Pop (shown above), Summer Splash, Peach Pie, Pretty In Pink and Shy Shamrock!

These colors coordinate beautifully, so you can even mix up the colors on the flowers- with the alcohol-based Stampin’ Blends markers, the colors bleed together smoothly:

Here are a few wonderful ways to collect the new IN COLORS:

• Join my IN COLOR COLLECTORS CLUB and receive a package each month (May-September) filled with a sampling of ALL the products in each of the colors, including an exclusive projects each month…PLUS a FREE BASIC BEIGE BONUS the last month!
• Too impatient to collect slowly? Purchase ALL the colors in May or June from my Stampin’ Store and earn the Basic Beige Bonus FREE!
• Join my Sprinkled Ink Team in May and receive 4 new In Color Products in the Starter Kit FREE!! Offer good May 1-31, 2024.

Add In Color to Your Creation Station

It’s easy to grow to love a color as you use it to make pretty projects, but with this year’s IN COLORS (coming in May), it was LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!

Don’t those colors just make you CHEERFUL? Paired with stripes and dots, they create a very happy card. Also a peek at the coming “Attention Shoppers” stamp set arriving with the new annual catalog in May!

To serve my customers who want to collect them ALL (but want to spread it out over a few months), I’ve designed an IN COLOR COLLECTORS CLUB where you join to receive each color one month at a time, with a sampling of ALL the products in that color (only a few of the items are shown below)!

Here’s how it works:

Each month (starting May through September 2024), you will receive one each of the new IN COLORS:

• Classic Ink Pad
• Classic Ink Refill
• Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack
• 4 sheets of card stock
• Four 6″x6″ pieces of Designer Series Paper 
• 2 yards of ribbon
• One 6″ x 6″ piece of Glimmer Paper
• The Stampin’ Write Marker of the same color

+ PLUS a bonus embellishment sample each month!

+ PLUS an exclusive project tutorial – supplies for the project will be included FREE (you’ll use your own ink and any stamp set to complete the project)

** BONUS: At the completion of the club, you’ll receive the Basic Beige Bonus FREE (Classic Ink Pad and Ink Refill, 4 pieces of 8.5″ x 11″ card stock and 2 yards of 3/8″ ribbon) with your Pretty In Pink color collection.

Monthly Club Membership Fee: $45 (plus $6 for shipping or pick up from Loni’s house in Hurricane, UT). 

SIGN UP FOR IN COLOR COLLECTORS CLUB HERE

Too impatient to wait 5 months and collect them all? I have two options for your immediate gratification:

You can earn the Basic Beige Bonus FREE when you order ALL of these items in May or June 2024 from my Stampin’ Up! Store!

• The 2024-2026 In Color Ink Pad bundle (Item #165058)
• The 2024-2026 In Color 8.5″ x 11″ Cardstock Assortment (Item #163803)
• The 2024-2026 In Color 6″x6″ Designer Series Paper Stack (Item #163777)
• The 2024-2026 In Color Stampin’ Write Marker Assortment (Item #163829) 
• *Either* all 5 of the 2024-2026 In Color 3/8″ Bordered Ribbons *OR* all 5 of the 2024-2026 In Color Stampin’ Blends Combo Packs *OR* all 5 of the 2024-2026 In Color Ink Refills

The Exclusive Project Tutorials will also be sent to you via email (over 5 months) if you choose to make a bulk purchase of all the colors, but only the complimentary project supplies will only be included in the monthly club kits.

This is the order in which the colors will be sent:

• May- Petunia Pop
• June- Shy Shamrock
• July- Peach Pie
• August- Summer Splash
• September- Pretty In Pink (with Basic Beige Bonus!)

Join the club before May 15th by filling out the form- button below!

JOIN IN COLOR COLLECTORS CLUB

UPDATED APRIL 22: JUST IN! There will also be a STARTER KIT SPECIAL from May 1-31, 2024, which will include 4 NEW IN COLOR PRODUCTS for FREE in the Starter Kit!

New at SU!- CASEing Karen’s Mini Album

What a creative challenge we have for April’s New at SU! Blog Hop! We are “CASE”ing (= Copy And Share Everything) each other on the design team, and I was inspired by Karen Henderson’s fabulous MINI ALBUM that she made for our last hop AND her OnStage 2024 experience!

Nature’s Sweetness Mini Album for New at SU! Blog Hop – March 2024

If you didn’t see Karen’s album last month, you’ll be visiting her Furry Cat Designs blog next, or you can click on the link above to see how she used the Nature’s Sweetness products to create her album in March.

I chose to use the Lighter Than Air Designer Series Paper and the Mini Alphabet Dies to capture the fun of being GRANDparents and make my album with a fold over closure to keep it all together.

Karen’s idea to score the 6″x6″ pages at 4″ was brilliant, so I did the same. On the “short” pages, I added a photo or journaling flap:

Here are some of the pages in my album (just starting to journal our recent visit to see the grandkids…):

Because my pictures are larger, I cut some of them to spread across two pages.

The album base is 6.5″ x 11″, scored at 4.25″, 4.75″, 9″ and 9.5″ and used 11 sheets of the 6″ Designer Series Paper to create the pages, gluing them back to back. On a few (like the tulip page above), I just adhered the edges and bottom of two pages together, so I could create a pocket between them with a large tag I can pull out and journal on! Other supplies listed below.

Perhaps this type of album should be a class? Would you be interested in attending?

I’m so glad you visited me and hope you’ll leave a message for me before you hop over to Furry Cat Designs to see how Karen was inspired by Angie!

April 2024 New at SU! Blog Hop: CASE a Team Member

Previous Blog Next Blog

1.247 Inkspiration (US) – Submarine Life

2.scraphexe (DE) – Case a Team Member (Rochelle)

3.Stamping Flair (AU) – Case a Team Member with Adventurous Sky

4.Playing with Papercrafting (CA) – CASEing Lynda Jacobson Day for New

5.My Flutterby Moments (US)-C.A.S.E Copy and Share Everything

6.De Kijkkast (NL) – Coffee Collagecard – Casing Tricia

7.Tricia’s Stamping Creations (US) – CASEing Nina’s Southern Accents

8.Nina’s Southern Accents (US) -New at SU! Blog Hop-Case a Team Member

9.Creative Juice by Loni (US) – Casing Karen’s Mini Album

10.Furry Cat Designs (UK) – Casing Angie’s Treat Box

11.Nature’s INKspirations (US) – CAS(e) a Team Member

12.Studio Shabaz (AU) – CASE A Member – Jan Musselman

13.iHeartCards2 (US) – Case A Team Member

14.Joni in the Spotlight Stamping (US) Sending Smiles & Countryside

15.The Joy of Stampin’ with Rachael (US)- CASE a Team Member

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Product List

Lighter Than Air 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

$12.50

Azure Afternoon 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Lemon Lolly 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Bubble Bath 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Fresh Freesia 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.50

Mini Alphabet Dies

$31.00

Perennial Postage Dies

$33.00

Adhesive Sheets

$11.50

Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

$66.00

3/8" (1 Cm) Sheer Ribbon Combo Pack

$12.50

Stampin' Seal+

$12.00

Ice Cream, Adhesive Sheets and Last Chance Sale

When you have the right tools, any project becomes easier.

Adhesive sheets are a type of double-sided adhesive that make any piece of paper into a sticker, and they are indispensable for a project like PAPER PIECING. The Ice Cream Swirl dies are a perfect example of how you can create sweet cards to drool over, using adhesive sheets:

Start with a 5.5″ x 6.75″ card base (scored at 4.25″) and “build” layers with Designer Series Paper. The Lighter Than Air designs have creamy colors that I used to cut 3 swirls from, then built up my lemon-raspberry ice cream swirl. This is a card you’ll want to make triplets of at one time, just to use up all the pieces:

Today (April 9th) is the last day to register for my Crafting Happiness class on Friday, April 19th, where I’ll be featuring the Ice Cream Swirl Bundle (and you get a discount on the class if you purchase the bundle from my store)- OR you can use one of the stamp & die bundles you may already have.

Crafting Happiness Class Registration

A tutorial to teach how to use Adhesive Sheets:

Inside the card:

Today also begins the Stampin’ Up! Last Chance Sale– click image to shop!

I appreciate your order of genuine Stampin’ Up! products from my store! Your support give me the opportunity to continue sharing creativity with you. I’m always tickled to mail a hand-stamped card as a thank you for online orders!

Product List

Ice Cream Swirl Bundle (English)

$53.00

Adhesive Sheets

$11.50

Lighter Than Air 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

$12.50

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.50

Fresh Freesia 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Lemon Lolly 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.00

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.00

Sweet Sorbet Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.00

Sweet Sorbet Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

$10.00

Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

$66.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

$4.25

Paper Trimmer

$26.00

Stampin' Seal

$8.00

Mini Glue Dots

$5.75

Farewell Friday: Sweetest Cherries

I’ve used the Sweetest Cherries stamp set with the coordinating Cherry Builder punch over the last few years for everything from Christmas to birthdays and will be sad to see it retire this month. Here is my card for a fond farewell to this crafting friend:

I made a “basket” for my cherries on this tall card base (11″ x 4.25″) by folding the bottom corners up to meet in the middle, stamped the cross-hatch designs on the front, then lined it with some Designer Series Paper before filling it with the mouth-watering fruit.

When I shared the retiring lists last week, I mentioned that the “Last Chance Sale” didn’t start until April 9th. What I *neglected* to mention that you may NOT WANT TO WAIT for the sale if there is something you REALLY want to get! There are already MANY products that are sold out and discontinued.

Check these lists to make sure you have collected the items you need in your craft room:

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Farewell Friday: Good Feelings & Rays of Light

As we near the end of a Stampin’ Up! catalog year, it’s time to spotlight some of my favorite retiring products. These products are available while supplies last or until April 30, 2024 (download full retiring product list at end of this post).

Since the TGIF Bonus Challenge #tgifc466 was to create a “simple gift set” of cards, it gave me the opportunity to stretch outside my comfort zone of bright colors, and use some of the black & white designs from the Delightfully Eclectic Designer Series Paper. But you can’t take ALL the color out of my life, so I added Calypso Coral, which also shows up on some of the paper designs.

These cards use the paper, PLUS the Good Feelings stamp set and Rays of Light background stamp, all of which will NOT be returning to the new catalog premiering in May. The Rays of Light background is the one I will grieve over losing the most!

This simple fun-fold card style is strategically planned to make the most of your patterned paper! If you score a full 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of card stock along the long edge at 4.25″ and 9.75″…THEN cut it in half at 4.25″, you’ll have two 11″ x 4.25″ cards ready to fold, meeting on the front of the card,

Use a 4″ x 4″ piece of DSP on one side and a 4″ x 1″ piece on the smaller fold. This pattern can be used in landscape or portrait orientation.

Now, HOW should we “gift” all these simple co-ordinating cards?

A quick folio made from a 12″ tall x 10″ wide piece of the Designer Series Paper is just the thing, and can hold all the cards plus envelopes!

Score it at 4.75″ and 5.25″ to give a center binding back, then add a ribbon to tie closed:

What else is retiring? Click banners to download the lists of items from the ’23-’24 Annual Catalog AND the January-April Mini Catalog which will be retiring.

>>> NOTE THAT THE LAST CHANCE SALE STARTS APRIL 9th <<<

These are the supplies I used for my simple set of cards and the folio to gift them in. I appreciate your orders so much and will mail you a thank you card! THANK YOU.

Product List

Good Feelings Cling Stamp Set (English)

$24.00

Rays Of Light Cling Stamp Set

$18.00

Delightfully Eclectic 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

$30.00

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.50

Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

$6.50

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.00

Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

$10.00

Black & White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Gingham Ribbon

$7.00

Bee Builder Punch

$22.00

Paper Trimmer

$26.00

Stampin' Seal+

$12.00

Traveling with Stampin’ Friends

Stampin’ Up! offers a reason to travel with friends: Two weeks ago, a few of my Sprinkled Ink team (& friends) flew to Houston, Texas for OnStage (the SU! version of convention). We went a day early and did a bit of sightseeing at the Cockrell Butterfly Center, followed by lunch at our new favorite mediterranean restaurant “Fadi’s” (there is *always* good food involved on vacation).

The next few days were filled with fun like stamping, learning, greeting friends from all over the world, celebrating milestones, eating more good food, winning Prize Patrol, hearing the vision and strategy of the company, seeing the new catalog and enjoying (enduring?!) so much togetherness!

This was the card I created to trade with other demonstrators using the Filled With Happiness bundle (I will show how to create this fun-fold in a future video). Swapping is an essential part of stamping events, and I came home with 30 different samples to display at upcoming events.

It’s fun to feel spoiled by all the SWAG you receive at these events~ I snapped this photo at our hotel of the amazing backpack and gifts we received on check-in. In addition, we took home rubber stamps, Designer Series Paper, a color wheel and the catalog (it’s important to leave extra room in your luggage for all the goodies)!

Next year, OnStage will be in Raleigh, NC (March 2025) and I’m already looking forward to it! What would you suggest are things we MUST SEE in/near Raleigh? Best food?

Would you like to come with us? There is room at our table for more stamping friends… invest in yourself with a Starter Kit and we’ll happily save you a seat!

Coloring with Masks (Enduring Beauty)

Masks (the fancy Stampin’ Up! term for stencils) make coloring stamped images speedy and simple!

I was truly WOWed with how quickly I was able to color the floral spray image from the Enduring Beauty bundle with the coordinating masks, blending brushes and ink pads. This is a technique you may embrace if you don’t love to color, OR if you are just getting started, you can stamp and color this image with just two ink pads! Watch & learn how:

Did you catch how to die cut just half the image so you can add a layer of Designer Series Paper as the background? For the video, I added a second fold that opens on the right:

But you can just add a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ layer of Designer Series Paper behind the flowers to make it a regular card. I really like the look of the Poetic Expressions designs with the flowers, and used the colors of that paper for coloring the flowers, as well.

Turn the design sideways and try different colors, too.

It’s a beautiful stamp set to use for so many projects, and if you haven’t seen my two previous posts using this set this week, check out the Notebook Cover project HERE and the color challenge card HERE.

THANK YOU for shopping in my Stampin’ Store for GENUINE Stampin’ Up! products!!! It enables me to continue bringing you creative ideas and you are guaranteed high quality products with service from someone who cares about you.

Product List

Enduring Beauty Bundle (English)

$50.75

Poetic Expressions 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

$12.50

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

$8.25

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.00

Bubble Bath Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.00

Moody Mauve Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.00

2023–2025 In Color Jute Trim

$8.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

$4.25

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

$128.00

Adding Color to Enduring Beauty

Florals are always timeless, and the many ways you can use the Enduring Beauty stamp set is endless! Today I’ve colored the blossoms using Stampin’ Blends for the Global Design Project #GDP437 color challenge:

Shrinking the space to stamp the large floral image allows me to zoom in on just a portion where the butterfly lands:

I added a hint of Coastal Cabana to the paper butterfly accent with blending brushes to give it color like some of the pretty butterflies we saw at the Cockrell Butterfly Center in Houston when we were there for Stampin’ Up! OnStage last week. We had a few close encounters (like my Sprinkled Ink teammate Kristi, shown here) and it was delightful to immerse ourselves in floating and fluttering winged things!

Cutting out a few of the flowers to curl and pop up on my card gives it the dimension to make it feel like it’s coming alive off the canvas- makes me want to let it land on my finger, just like our fun experience.

While difficult to see in photos, a bit of Wink of Stella brushed onto the butterfly wings gives it a pretty shimmer. Yes, WInk of Stella has been backordered for a LOOONNGG time, but we just heard from Stampin’ Up! that it should be back in stock SOON!

Stripes are a dynamic pairing with florals, so I added some 1/2″ strips of card stock at the bottom and embossed the sentiment over the the top.

On Monday, I’ll be demonstrating the coordinating masks that come with the Enduring Beauty BUNDLE which also includes the coordinating dies I used here, so tune in on my Creative Juice by Loni Facebook Page or YouTube Channel at 12:30 pm MT time to watch live, then order your own bundle from my Stampin’ Store to create with!

New at SU! Enduring Beauty Notebook Cover

We love using our rubber stamps to make greeting cards AND are ready to stamp anything we can get our hands on, which brings us to our March 2024 New at SU! Blog Hop featuring projects that are anything BUT a card!

My project is a notebook cover:

The recently released Drizzling Droplets background stamp created a subtle texture I adore to place behind the floral spray from the Enduring Beauty stamp set featured in the January-April Mini catalog!

When you want to create a mat around an image you are cutting out with dies, here’s a handy tip: Trace around the outside of the metal edge (with the cutting edge up), then fussy cut for a perfect frame every time!

You don’t even have to erase the lines, because once you flip it over to match your die cut image, any lines will be on the back side.

I cut this die in half lengthwise and added it to the top and bottom of my cover:

Detailed project instructions (including measurements) are below, following the supply list.

Carry the theme throughout your notebook by stamping this pretty image on the bottom corner of each page- one large image stamp can do so much!

I love hearing what you think of these projects, so leave me a comment before hopping over to one of our other international demonstrators “Anything BUT a card” projects! Lynda’s BEE-utiful scrapbook pages are up next at My Flutterby Moments…

March New at SU! Hop: NOT A CARD

Previous Blog Next Blog

1.Stampinxime (DE) – Ostergoodie mit Originelle Ostereier

2.Nature’s INKspirations (US) – Easter Lilies Alcove Treats

3.The Joy of Stampin’ with Rachael (USA)- Cutest Cows Milk Carton

4.Nina’s Southern Accents (US)-A Little Latte K-cup Caddy (Not A Card)

5.Stamping Flair (AU) – Rock Star

6.Playing with Papercrafting (CA) – Magnolia Mood for New at SU

7.Furry Cat Designs (UK) – Nature’s Sweetness Mini Album

8.Creative Juice by Loni (US) – Enduring Beauty Notebook Cover

9.My Flutterby Moments (US)-Bee Mine Scrapbook Pages

10.iHeartCards2 (US) – Thoughtful Expressions Bath Bomb Box

11.Tricia’s Stamping Creations (US) – Stippled Roses

12.24-7 Inkspiration (US) – A Little Latte

13.scraphexe (DE) – Latte Love | Käffchen

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Product List

Enduring Beauty Bundle (English)

$50.75

Drizzling Droplets Cling Stamp Set

$24.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$10.50

Versamark Pad

$9.50

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

$9.00

Embossing Additions Tool Kit

$27.00

Gold & Vanilla 3/8" (1 Cm) Satin Edged Ribbon

$8.00

Simply Scored

$36.00

Tear & Tape Adhesive

$7.00

Basics Embossing Powders

$18.00

Heat Tool (Us And Canada)

$31.00

Paper Trimmer

$26.00

If you are still reading for instructions, here they are!

This cover fits a Junior Legal Pad (4.5″ x 7″) and a thin PaperMate mechanical pencil with a pocket clip.

Cover: 7-1/8″ x 10-1/8″. Score down along the longest edge at 4-1/2″, 4-7/8″ and 5-1/4″

Fold along the middle score line and with the shorter cover on top (see picture), mark at 4-1/2″ and 6″ out to the next score line. Use scissors to cut along those two marks to create a holder for your pencil.

Add Tear & Tape adhesive, as shown below. Remove the paper on your adhesive and adhere to RIGHT SIDE (largest area) of the cover, pushing the small pencil holder fold out to the left. Attach your notebook on the back (largest area), then embellish the front as desired.

Using Versamark, stamp the Drizzling Droplets background onto 6-5/8″ x 3-7/8″ Crumb Cake card stock. Wipe stamped image with embossing buddy and let dry before embossing sentiment. Layer onto 6-3/4″ x 4-1/8″ white card stock before adhering to front cover.

Emboss floral image, cut and layer, as shown above.

Cut along a 15″ ribbon lengthwise, creating two delicate pieces to tie around the pencil holder. Secure in place with a mini glue dot, if needed.