Stampin’ Up! has a new collection available starting tomorrow! A few items are previews – they’ll be available in the January-June Mini Catalogue, and a few are exclusive to this order period only.
The Eden’s Garden stamp set and Eden Dies and the discounted bundle that includes both are early releases from the January-June 2022 Mini Catalogue. Exclusive to the promotion period are the Ever Eden Specialty Designer Series Paper, the Ever Eden Cotton Paper (both of these are 12″ x 12″) and the Garden Gems, which are adhesive backed round and marquise shaped gems.
You’ll be able to grab these items starting tomorrow, 2 November 2021 until 3 January 2022. Please note that the exclusive promotion items (the papers and the gems) will be available only while supplies last. You can shop online 24/7 in the YamStamps Stampin’ Up! Canada Store by going to the shortcut https://yamstamps.com/shop (or clicking on the link). You can message me if you’d like assistance placing your order or would like to pay by etransfer.
This is a purple hello card that I made recently and have been working on sending out in the mail! Honestly, the most difficult part for me is the getting the envelope delivered to the mailbox…so in the meantime, here’s the card.
Purple Hello Card
I coordinated a scalloped edge on the cardfront with the scalloped rectangle for the main sentiment/image area, and added a Highland Heather strip of cardstock along in the inside of the card to show off the detail. I love this abstract stamp! It’s from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set.
closeup – can you see what I see?
I stamped the abstract swirl numerous times on the diagonal across my die cut piece. Posting this closeup I discovered something – can you see what I see? I stamped the swirl and then would restamp to get different depths of ink and colour coverage…. Now that I post it – I can see the line of dots from where I had stamped over the stitched die cut area, and then restamped – so there was more ink left on the stamp in the area of the stitched marks that transferred to the next image! Ah well. I don’t think it’s the end of the world…and as I always say – if the recipient critiques a handmade card, they don’t deserve it!!
(by the way, if you received this particular purple hello card – sorry, oops, and consider it a unique little mark of the maker).
I mass produced a number of these for my Demonstrator Team reward recipients and recent customers. After I die cut the scalloped rectangles, I kept one outline of the rectangle (with the scalloped rectangle hole in it) and put that into my Stamparatus. I used it as a guide for placing the scalloped rectangles and lining up the “hello” stamp on the stamping plate. I only had to fuss over the alignment and placement at the beginning, and after that, I could watch Netflix and stamp cards at the same time!! Simply put a scalloped rectangle into the hole of my template, ink up the stamp on the plate and close the Stamparatus. Remove and repeat!
Hopefully that mass production tip helps you with your holiday cards…since today marks 2 months until Christmas!!! This week’s Twelve Weeks of Christmas email will be the last card project – we move on to giftables/packaging next – you can still catch the remaining weeks if you subscribe to the YamStamps newsletter today!
Stampin’ Up! has just let us know that they’re having a flash sale on selected stamp sets this Wednesday, October 20th. Starting at midnight Mountain Time (2am if you’re on Eastern time like me), you can get 15% off certain sets. Click on the image to download the flyer.
click on image to download sales flyer
You can shop online – shortcut is https://yamstamps.com/shop or message me if you’d like to pay by etransfer or can’t do an online order Wednesday (I can place it for you). Happy Shopping!
Here at the YamStamps site, you’ll know that my preference is for easy and impressive cards. I want my paper crafting projects to look great, but I do not want to spend hours labouring on one item! I have Netflix series to binge and chai lattes to drink, and I can’t always do those at the same time if the craft is too demanding….
So my new Fancy Folds online class is aimed at anyone who wants cards that are extraordinary, but only require ordinary paper crafting tools and an ordinary amount of time to create!
Fuss Free Fancy Folds Class
The Fancy Folds Class opens next week, and starting today, I’m offering Early Bird Pricing. You’ll get lifetime access to class materials at a discount. Click on the image to check out the class page and register – or click here.You’ll be able to work through the designs at your own pace, and with lifetime access, you’ll be able to go back to reference the videos whenever you need. See you in class!
Happy World Cardmaking Day! The first Saturday in October is designated as a day to celebrate the art and craft of cardmaking, so I’m sharing this easy elegant card that I created and haven’t yet shared here. I hope you are able to take a bit of time to be creative this weekend! More significantly for me, I plan to follow up with Card SENDING Day. True Confession: I seem to have issues with getting things into the mail – I’m one of those people that will walk around with mail to post and days later I will still have it on me and not into a mailbox yet. I’m getting better….but it’s a work in progress. Like most of my life LOL.
Anyway – here’s the card. It’s one that highlights the beauty of the patterned paper and die cuts, and it’s a quick one to make. Probably faster for me to make than for me to get into the mail….
easy elegant card
One of my current favourite Designer Series Papers, Expressions in Ink, is the main focal point of this easy elegant card. Since this design has gold foiled leaves on it, I used the similar leaf die from the Artistic Dies (also part of the Expressions in Ink Suite Collection) to cut out some Gold Foil Sheet. To make adding the die cut to the cardfront clean and easy, I put a strip of the Adhesive Sheet on the back of the Gold Foil Sheet prior to running it through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine. I also find that after die cutting, and using the Brush Tip attachment for my Take Your Pick tool, when I take off the liner for the Adhesive Sheet, it tends to pull off any remaining bits from detailed die cuts. Yay! Even cleaner and easier!
easy elegant card – close up
Cardmaking doesn’t have to be difficult to be enjoyable – both for the creator and for the recipient of the finished card!
I send out project tutorials, crafting ideas and information weekly to YamStamps Newsletter Subscribers. Right now, the Twelve Weeks of Christmas are also on – so it’s double the dose of creativity in your inbox for a few months! More information about my newsletters is at yamstamps.com/nl or you can sign up in the box at the top right of the YamStamps blog.
