This So Thankful Beautiful Butterflies Card is a great way to show your gratitude!
I am loving the Beautiful Butterflies Bundle – a hybrid embossing folder (embossing folder and dies) and stamp set – so three tools for one great price! This So Thankful Beauitiful Butterflies card is a great way to show your gratitude – or change out the sentiment to suit the occasion!
I love how easy it is when you can emboss and die cut at one time – and by using a patterned paper it’s even easier and prettier! For this So Thankful Beautiful Butterflies Card, I used the Beautiful Bokeh Designer Series Paper for the large die cut butterfly, and place it onto an embossed piece of Lemon Lolly Cardstock, It’s mounted on a Balmy Blue cardstock base, and that’s also the ink I used for the sentiment. One of the easiest tricks in the book to give your project a coordinated look – pick out colours from the Designer Series Paper you’re using! (they are listed on the back of the packaging…or if you’re like me and sometimes end up with things separated…it’s also listed on the website – shortcut to the Online Stampin’ Up! Canada YamStamps shop is YamStamps.com/shop). Technically, I did cheat a little bit – the colour used in the patterned paper is actually Daffodil Delight, but Lemon Lolly is a coordinating, lighter shade, plus there’s only a bit of yellow that ended up showing on the butterfly die cut.
To finish it off and add a bit more bling, I randomly stuck on sequins from the Itty Bitty Bokeh mix. I found it really handy to pick up the sequin with my Take Your Pick tool putty end, and then dip it into some Liquid Glue that I had squeezed out onto my Silicone Craft Sheet before sticking it to the cardfront. If you’re looking for the “easy” button for this So Thankful Beautiful Butterflies Card, the Beautiful Bokeh Suite Collection includes the stamp set, embossing folder, dies and embellishments that I used for this card. It’s another way to take a shortcut to a project that looks totally put together and coordinated.
If you purchase the suite, you will be able to select one Level 1 Sale-a-Bration item of your choice for free! When you place a product order until February 28th, each increment of $75CAD in a single order will earn you free Sale-a-Bration product! Plus- I’ll send you a tutorial for this So Thankful Beautiful Butterflies card! Shortcut to shop is YamStamps.com/shop or message me if you have any questions or would like to pay by etransfer. If you decide to become part of my demonstrator group, the “Eh” Team during Sale-a-Bration, you’ll be able to select TWO Stampin’ Write Marker families in addition to the “regular” $165CAD worth of product for $135CAD. More information about becoming part of my group of demonstrators here, or reach out if you have any questions. I’d love to have you as part of the “Eh” Team!!
It’s Sunday! Time for a Sale-a-Bration 2025 Share!
Every Sunday (well, pretty much every Sunday), I share a swap card that I’ve either made or received from recent swaps with other Demonstrators on the YamStamps Facebook Page (and the YamStamps Sunday Swaps Page). I was first introduced to swaps when I became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator over 20 years ago – it’s an event where you create a card or cardfront, and then make multiples of it. When you meet up with other Demonstrators (typically it was at conventions or other in person events), you would trade one of your card fronts/cards for one that another Demonstrator made. It’s a great way to get new ideas and samples with products that you may not personally have in your own stash.
I honestly can’t remember when this particular swap group started, it might have been around the time of COVID, or before, but this is a mail in swap. We create multiples of the same card, and then send them to the other Demonstrators. This year was a bit tricky due to the Canada Post strike….but in the end it all worked out! In any case, this is my Sale-a-Bration 2025 share!
You can find a full linked supply list on the YamStamps Sunday Swap Share Page. For this card, I used the Heart Shaped Bundle (also available in French) which is a Level 2 Sale-a-Bration item – you can select it as a Sale-a-Bration freebie with a $150CAD product order (single order total, before shipping/taxes, after any applicable discounts). I used a couple of design techniques that always work well for me – monochromatic colour schemes and clean layouts. For this card, the main image (and sentiment) are stamped on watercolour paper. I like using that paper because of its weight and because of the techniques you can use. I spritzed the paper before stamping it to get a soft, watercolour-like image. I used the same paper for the sentiment strip because I wanted it to match. The flowers were die cut from scraps of the watercolour paper (must use every inch possible!!) and then I used a Water Painter to add some ink to the flowers.
What do you think about single colour approaches? Are you one of the “the more colour the better” types or the “keep it simple, stamper” types? (We know which category I fall into haha).
You can shop 24/7 in Canada with delivery to your door (especially now that Canada Post is fully operational again) – shortcut to shopping is YamStamps.com/shop. You’ll be prompted to enter your choice of Sale-a-Bration item once you hit the applicable total product order as well, so you don’t have to worry about doing math!! Thanks for stopping by the page today, and happy shopping!
Happy New Stampin’ Up! Catalogue 2025 to all my crafty friends!
It’s finally official – Happy New Stampin’ Up! Catalogue 2025, my crafty friends! It’s a super bonanza this time around – there’s the January – April 2025 Mini Catalogue, the Scrapbooking Brochure (online only) and last, but definitely not least – Sale-a-Bration!
For each $75CAD product ordered in a single order (before taxes/shipping, after any coupon/discounts), you earn a Level 1 Sale-a-Bration item; at $150CAD you can choose between two Level 1 items OR one Level 2 items…and so on, and so on… no limit to the number of times you can earn Sale-a-Bration rewards!
JOIN Stampin’ Up! as a demonstrator and receive the usual great deal of $165CAD product for $135CAD, plus catalogues, and a Paper Pumpkin kit, pay no shipping and no blended tax (HST/GST); PLUS January 7 – February 28, you’ll get TWO sets of Stampin’ Write Markers and the Handmade Designs Stamp Set! A $294CAD Value – for just $135CAD!! Check out my Frequently Asked Question Page here – we’d love to have you as part of the “Eh” Team – my group of Stampin’ Up! Canada Demonstrators!
The shortcut to shop all these products in Canada is YamStamps.com/shop – delivery straight to your door! Please message me if you have any questions, would like to pay by etransfer, or need assistance placing an order or signing up as a demonstrator with my group!
A downloadable pdf with step by step tutorials for three different inked embossing folder techniques, plus I’m throwing in fifty tips for using your Embossing Folders! On sale December 26-28 ONLY, it’s a limited time special item – for just $9.99CAD, and the download is available as soon as your purchase is completed.
This is one of the step by step tutorials you’ll get:
I love the look of this! If you don’t recognize the products I used, it’s because they’re from the January-April 2025 Mini Catalogue! The Quick Sheet Tutorials include a supply list, plus step by step instructions. You aren’t limited to the supplies in the list – you can use the techniques with whatever embossing folder you might have in your craft room.
Just popping in to wish you a Merry Christmas, and happy first day of Hanukkah. I hope you are able to spend the day in a way that is meaningful for you!
Sharing this beautiful, simple card from Cheryl – thank you Cheryl!! I love this sentiment and thought it would be appropriate to share today.
I love the look of embossing foil cardstock!
We are spending the day quietly today and will be getting together with extended family (part 1) tomorrow! (the other side’s extended family get together isn’t until January – we are spreading out the holiday joy).
PS If you want to learn more about using your embossing folders, come back tomorrow to check out my Boxing Day Special!
