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Surprise pop-up inside card

Surprise pop-up inside card. If you love interactive cards, you’ll love this surprise pop-up inside the card. I used the Sweet Peas photopolymer stamp set from the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue on page 103. It has images of peas in a pea pod with all sorts of facial expressions and a pun on the word “pea” […]

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Make 3 cards with Happiest Day

Make 3 cards with Happiest Day. Happiest Day is a stand alone stamp set. If you wish to step it up, you can use whatever dies you have in your stash. The samples created by Stampin’ Up! featured how the stamp set was used for scrapbooking layouts. As with any stamp set, you can use […]

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Simple cards with Choose Happy

Simple cards with Choose Happy. Choose Happy is one of the most useful stamp sets to have in your stash because it has 14 simple line drawings to suit all four seasons of the year. These are a penguin, candle, heart, star, 2 faces, a bird, rabbit, an apple, a bee, a yacht, the sun, […]

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Cards for kids – Racing By

Cards for kids – Racing By. This month Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop theme is cards for kids. One of my grandsons is learning to drive, and at 17 would you consider a teenager still a “kid”? I made this card with him in mind and picked the Racing By stamp set because it was […]

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Dry embossed card – Friends for Life

Dry embossed card – Friends for Life. A great way to make a card special is to use the dry embossing technique. You can achieve this with an embossing folder. There are so many to choose from and it’s a quick easy way to add that extra “kappow” element to a card. The Friends for […]

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Quick and Easy Options

Quick and Easy Options. A brand new section in the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue is called Quick & Easy Options. You can find it on pages`12-29. It has new crafting ideas and a variety of paper pieces, card stock, envelops to add your own personal touch. Unlike the “step-by-step” section where the kits provide you with […]

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How to create a Rotating Pop-up card

How to create a Rotating Pop-up card. This card looks quite ordinary from the front and springs into action when you open it. I used the products from the Lily Pond Lane Suite on pages 44-45 of the current Annual Catalogue 2024-25. Featuring the Charming Duck Pond Bundle, the papers called Lily Pond Lane 6″x […]

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Card sketch – Friends for Life

Card sketch – Friends for Life. When you’re stuck for inspiration a card sketch is a useful tool to re-ignite your creativity. In the current 2024-25 Annual Catalogue on page 22 there are several sketches provided to help you. The one I’ve chosen for today is no. 9 in the first row and uses strips […]