Looking for something sure to SURPRISE them? Take the Pop Up Box Online Class and Learn How!
I probably say this about most of my classes, but I LOVE this project! The Pop Up Box Online Class is in Pre-Launch and you can get Early Bird Pricing before 4 May 2023 (when the class opens). Check out my class protoype project below! (Video is the best way to see this).
In the Pop Up Box Online Class, I’ll show you how to create a version that fits inside a regular, medium Stampin’ Up! envelope, but I’ll also teach you how to scale the size up or down, depending on your needs! Plus I’ll show you some fun variations on the theme.
No fancy tools required for construction of these items – just your basic paper crafting tools, plus some household items you probably have in your junk drawer!
Sign up before 4 May and pay just $20CAD for lifetime access. You’ll be first in line to access the class when it officially launches 4 May! If you miss the early bird price, I will keep registrations open for a while longer at full price after that date. Online Classes are open to paper crafters from across the world!
Message me if you have any questions about the class, otherwise, go here to register and be ready to SURPRISE your friends and family with your Pop Up Box creations!!
A quick and fun stripes and spots card that’s easily customized!
I love how it’s easy to get a custom card by swapping out colours or sentiments. That’s the case with this stripes and spots card! It’s a fun celebratory card that could be used for any number of occasions.
For this card, I used the NEW Core Colour Fresh Freesia. Yes, the same Fresh Freesia that is a 2021-2023 In Color – it’s sticking around and becoming part of the regular Stampin’ Up! colour offerings! I combined it with Pale Papaya and Polished Pink, also 2021-2023 In Colors, but those ones are retiring 1 May 23.
You could easily take this stripes and spots card design, and use it with any cardstocks and embossing folder you have on hand. In this case, I used the spots folder from the Basics 3D Embossing Folders package – which includes 3 different Embossing Folders which are great for all occasions. They are one of the Online Exclusives – so they don’t actually appear in any catalogue, just in the online store.
The sentiment is from the Eden’s Garden stamp set (available until 1 May/while supplies last) and is stamped in Fresh Freesia ink – because you know I like to coordinate my colours! I used a die that had angled edges because it made it easy to angle my sentiment across the cardfront. It’s actually from the retired Frosted Flurry dies….but apparently I couldn’t keep track of that and used it anyway LOL! I don’t feel it’s fair to use retired products here because they aren’t always available (though obviously this one will show up at my retired product garage sale if you’re able to attend!). There are other angled dies that would do a similar job – like the Something Fancy Dies or even the Sentimental Park Dies. Or you could go old school, cut a long rectangle and then once you’ve adhered it in place at an angle you like, just trim off the overhang!
If you’re looking for other card design ideas to help you get creating more quickly and easily, subscribe to the YamStamps Sketch System! Subscribers have been loving how quickly they can create cards based on the sketches! You get the “blueprint” or sketch of the card, including measurements, the first week, and then in the following weeks you’ll get samples (and a supply list) using the same sketch, showing different takes on it! For only $9.99 CAD a month that’s a lot of inspiration – and it’s exclusive to the program. Find out more and start your subscription here!
So for the super easy fancy fold card part…the Crumb Cake a “Z fold” card. Take your cardstock (8.5″ x 5.5″), fold it in half, and then fold one side in half again. Arrange it so it opens to the right, and then adhere it inside a 8.5″ x 5.5″ piece of Balmy Blue Cardstock that’s folded in half.
The impressive part comes from cutting a circle in the front of your Balmy Blue/DSP card. Take that circle, and with the entire card structure closed, adhere the circle on the fold of your Crumb Cake cardstock. It looks a lot trickier than it actually is!! Don’t you think it lives up to the Super Easy Fancy Fold Card title?!
For this card I did use the Layering Circles Dies with my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine. The layering circles dies are retiring – so they’re only available until 1 May or while supplies last (whichever comes first). I am having a retiring product garage sale here in Burlington on Saturday, 6 May 23, but these dies will NOT be part of that – because I’m hanging on to them!!! If you don’t have these in your stash, you may want to grab them before they’re gone, or if you are recreating this card, you could easily use a circle punch, or another shaped die you have in your craft area.
(otherwise, garage sale in my garage Saturday 6 May 23 (EDIT) SATURDAY 13 MAY from 9am til noon, and yes I’m aware it’s Coronation Day, but you can still watch and then come by….or PVR it and come early). (also – it will probably be re-broadcast multiple times that day!!) Message me for more details and exact location!
If you’re interested in more easy and impressive card ideas, be sure to be on the YamStamps list – I send out weekly ideas, information and tutorials! Use the sign up box at the top of the YamStamps site, or click here. If you’re new to my list, you’ll get a free video tutorial when you sign up!
Need to save money? Wednesday 19 April 2023 – FREE SHIPPING on product orders of $100 or more!! Shop online in Canada at https://yamstamps.com/shop
Orders of $100CAD product placed Wednesday 19 April 2023 will pay NO SHIPPING fees! Order online at https://yamstamps.com/shop and have it delivered directly to your door.
Have a smaller order? If you’re local to Burlington ON – message me with an order before 4pm Wednesday 19 April. I’ll group together orders into $100 groupings so that everyone qualifies for the free shipping. I’ll message you when the order arrives for porch pickup in Burlington. If you’re not local to Burlington, you can still choose this option and then pay Canada Post charges for delivery from my place to yours (I’ll choose the most appropriate post, or the flat rate shipping box, whichever is CHEAPER – and this will be charged separately once the order arrives at my place, to be most accurate).
A bit overdue, but here’s my report! I think I was actually better at posting while I was away – because I worked at prescheduling so much – so maybe I need to plan my next trip so that I get back to all that prescheduling…
I had the privilege to travel with the Burlington Teen Tour Band to Ireland in March (actually a month ago this week!). They were invited to participate in the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day Parade and had a number of other scheduled performances as well. I volunteer as one of the photographers for the band. It’s a great way to work on my photography and editing skills, give back to an organization that has meant a lot to me and my family, and hang out with my band friends (both young and not so young anymore).
Photo: Burlington Teen Tour Band – Dublin St. Patrick’s Day Festival Parade 2023
The Burlington Teen Tour Band is a city sponsored marching band of youth – aged 13-21. (Right now, they are a pretty “young” band, I think they are mostly around 15-16 years old??). The majority are from Burlington, but we also have teens who travel from nearby cities to participate. They march, but also perform concerts (sitting down…), and include a colour guard section (the ones who carry the flags and twirl the baton). I was a member when I was the right age…LOL, and later my son was also a member in his teens, which is how I got re-involved with the band. The parent group, the Burlington Teen Tour Band Boosters, do a lot of fundraising and also chaperone on trips and events with the band, and I actually reconnected with a lot of people that had been in the band at the same time as me! My son retired from band a few years ago, but I stuck around as one of the volunteer photographers.
(spot the band in red in the sea of green as they make their way along the parade route)
This tour had been delayed a couple of times due to COVID, so it was great to finally see it happen! Unfortunately, the band equipment was delayed in arriving in Ireland (despite being packed and at the airport for transport days in advance of the band’s actual departure/arrival), so a couple of performances had to be cancelled and schedules re-worked, including a last minute extra practice once the equipment DID arrive! In the end, it was all good – the band performed really well in the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day Festival Parade and won Best Overall Band, topping a number of US college bands, which is quite a feat.
We did also get to do a bunch of site seeing, historical castles and building, farms (sheep and horses!) and cities. Number one most purchased item (besides the badges/pins for band jackets) – RAIN GEAR. It rained pretty much every day. One of the positives to so much rain (besides a very green landscape) though, is the number of rainbows we saw.
If you want to learn more about the Burlington Teen Tour Band, their website is https://teentourband.org . If you want to see more of the pictures from the trip and other activities taken by myself and Andrea, my fellow photographer (and also a fellow band alumna), you can go here.
Last but not least, you may have seen my attempt at a travel reel – I did one on Instagram, but I also did one on TikTok – and I think the TikTok editing was a little better….LOL. You can see that if you follow me on TikTok – or below! (yes, I usually post crafting videos, but had to commemorate my first time travelling internationally in 4 years!!).
The next online class at YamStampsMore is POP UP PARTY! Pop Up Cards are SUPER impressive! The Pop Up Party! Online Card Class will walk you through the construction of four different pop up cards. You’ll be amazed at how EASY it is to create these amazing interactive cards!
This class launches Thursday, 13 April 2023 – and if you register before then, you’ll save $10CAD on your lifetime access – you’ll pay just $20!! Find out more at https://go.yamstampsmore.com/popup or message me.
Check out the class designs here..
You will need basic Paper Crafting Tools (Paper Trimmer, Scorer, Bone Folder, adhesive, cardstock) for the construction, and you’ll be able to use your die cuts and punches to customize your designs (they aren’t essential for the actual card mechanisms, though!).
Grab retiring product while supplies last – at up to 60% off!
It’s time to make room for new products and colours from Stampin’ Up! The Last Chance Promotion has started – and will run until 1 May 2023, or while supplies last.
If you click on the image or go to https://yamstamps.com/shop, you’ll be able to see what’s currently still available in the Last Chance Promotion.
A reminder that the 2021-2023 In Colors are retiring, along with the retiring core colours – so there’s going to be some fun new additions to the SU colour family come May!
Stampin’ Up! just released the Retiring List and Colour Refresh – so here’s the information. (More as I go through the files and check out the new catalogue, which was released online to Demonstrators!) If you want a copy of the new catalogue, live in Canada and don’t already have a Demonstrator, fill out this form!
Retiring Colours:
Brights:
Mango Melody Bermuda Bay Pacific Point
Neutrals:
Merry Merlot Soft Suede Sahara Sand
Regals:
Rich Razzleberry
Subtles:
Blushing Bride So Saffron (this was my go-to soft yellow…..*sigh*) Pear Pizzazz (***WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH***) Mint Macaron
Promotional pricing starts 4 April 2023 but if there’s something you really want, you may not want to wait since retiring products are “while supplies last”
Stampin’ Up!’s New Annual Catalogue will be released soon – it will come into effect 2 May 2023. The current Annual Catalogue will finish on 1 May and we will be getting the Retiring List and more information on the Colour Refresh in a couple of days (29 March).
In the meantime, I’m finalizing my mailing list for the new catalogue.If you’ve made a product purchase through me in the past year, I’ll automatically add you to that list. If you are on my Demonstrator Team, you’ll get your complimentary copy mailed to you from Stampin’ Up! directly.
If you’d like a copy, and don’t currently have a Stampin’ Up! Canada Demonstrator, I’m happy to help!Just fill out this form here and I’ll be in touch to see about sending you a free copy.This offer is only open to Canadian residents due to Stampin’ Up! rules and regulations. If you sign up by 30 March 23, I’ll be able to include you in the first mail out for the catalogue!
