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Dazzling Window Sheet Card

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I have a good stamping friend back in Ohio who comes up with all kinds of techniques to use on her cards. After she arranged a gathering of other stampers for my visit last month, I decided I just had to find something special for a thank you card. A day with other Stampin' Up demonstrators on my team taught me several new techniques. I chose this one for Anne's card. Although Stampin' Up! carried window sheets several years ago, they were discontinued. I was thrilled to see them back again in the Occasions Mini Catalog. For this technique, I stamped the image from the Fresh Cuts stamp set, although I think the Bella Toile or Pretty Petals background stamps would work well, too. In fact, I am envisioning a card with this technique using Pretty Petals and attaching one of the die cut butterflies... Anyway, I used black StazOn ink for the image. Once the ink dried, I flipped the window sheet over and covered the back by scribbling all over with Crystal Effects. Then I

Wagon Full of Fun

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I find it difficult to view the mini catalog on-line, so I decided to feature one of the stamp sets in the new "occasions mini catalog" here. This set is called "Wagon Full of Fun" and it really is a fun set! Priced at $34.95, you only need to purchase that along with one of the accessories or wheels in the catalog this month to qualify for a free product from page 208 in the spring-summer 2009 idea book & catalog (see the info on the promotion in the following post). There are 10 stamps in this set. I have used all but two of those stamps in the following cards. The first one is incredibly simple, stamped in basic brown and colored with certainly celery, pale plum and apricot appeal markers. I used a stamp from the Itty Bitty Backgrounds set for the festive path from the upper corner to the cupcake. That set, the itty bitties, has been around forever and I hope they never retire it! This cheerful card is made with ruby red, summer sun and garden green c

April Stampin' Up! Promotion

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April 2009 Card Kit

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