CRAFTING DAILY DOSE

Paper Pumpkin is Stampin' Up's monthly subscription box. August’s “Sweet Sunflowers” kit included components for 9 cards—3 each of 3 different designs—along with matching envelopes. Kits always include an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, embellishments, and adhesives. In August, we got a bonus 2nd ink pad and some honeycomb gold foil sheets too! The intended projects are always fun, but I love to find different ways to use the kits and show their versatility. This card u

Paper Pumpkin is Stampin' Up's monthly subscription box. August’s “Sweet Sunflowers” kit included components for 9 cards—3 each of 3 different designs—along with matching envelopes. Kits always include an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, embellishments, and adhesives. In August, we got a bonus 2nd ink pad and some honeycomb gold foil sheets too! The intended projects are always fun, but I love to find different ways to use the kits and show their versatility. I focused o

Paper Pumpkin is Stampin' Up's monthly subscription box. August’s “Sweet Sunflowers” kit included components for 9 cards—3 each of 3 different designs—along with matching envelopes. Kits always include an exclusive stamp set, a mini ink cube, embellishments, and adhesives. In August, we got a bonus 2nd ink pad and some honeycomb gold foil sheets too! The intended projects are always fun, but I love to find different ways to use the kits and show their versatility. I paired th

Welcome to this blog hop honoring Susan Campfield! Susan is one of my Stampin’ Up team leaders, and she is celebrating 25 years as a Demonstrator this week. Wow! That’s 25 years of spreading crafty joy and sharing creative ideas, and I have learned so much from her! Susan is a master of fun folds, and she always does an amazing job of showing the technique used with a variety of different stamp sets and papers. Today, we’ve been inspired to each make a version of one of Susan

Welcome to the August 2022 Technique Squad Blog Hop! I’m excited to be a part of this collaboration with fellow Stampin' Up Demonstrators because it’s a chance to explore new techniques and have fun experimenting. This month, we’re making pop-up cards! I’ve always been fascinated with pop-ups, and I love having the chance to incorporate one into a card. Today, I’m sharing a tutorial for a basic box. This particular one is filled with hearts from the Cheerful Basket stamp set,

Have you ever used card sketches? They’re a good way to jump start your creativity by giving you an idea for a card layout. You can interpret a sketch any way you’d like, using any stamp set! And it’s really fun to see how others apply the same basic idea. This month’s Stampin’ Up! Creative Challenge is this sketch: I have been stamping with the Lighthouse Point bundle for my workshop coming out later this month, and since I already had pieces cut, I made this card. You can f

Welcome to this special blog hop! We're a group of stamping friends who are coming together to celebrate Bronwyn Eastley's upcoming birthday! This month's theme is fancy folds, which is particularly appropriate because she is the master of them! I am paying tribute to Bron with this version of her fabulous bridge fold slider card. Isn't it so fun?! The background comes from the Happy Forest Friends Designer Series Paper. I had just a quarter pack of it, but there are lots of