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Stampin' Up! 2023 Beautiful Balloons Birthday Shaker Card

Hello friends, today I have a bright and happy birthday shaker card for you using the Beautiful Balloons bundle from the 2023 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

Stampin Up Beautiful Balloons Shaker Card by Claire Daly, Stampin Up Demonstrator Melbourne Australia

I started with a piece of white cardstock (slightly smaller on all sides than the base card) blended with Azure Afternoon, Fresh Freesia and Lemon Lime Twist. I then cut the combined balloons shape from this and traced that shape onto the base card too.

Stampin Up Beautiful Balloone

Next I adhered foam strips around the outside of the shape and added some sequins (mine are some retired ones I had in my stash). 

Stanpin Up Beautiful Balloons Shaker Card

For the piece that gets adhered over the top, I:

  • Embossed some tassles and streamers and random dots onto the sponged cardstock using white embossing powder;
  • Added a piece of window sheet attached on reverse (tip: if you wipe the sequin side of this with your embossing buddy, it helps the sequins to not stick to the window sheet). 
  • Die cut a large balloon in Fresh Freesia with the small star embedded in the balloon (make sure the star is low enough to emboss Happy Birthday onto the balloon too.

Stampin Up Beautiful Balloons Shaker Cardiful Balloons 4

Pin this Stampin Up card idea for later.

How to make a birthday shaker card

All of the products I have used today can be purchased either in my online store, or by email or phone. If you are in Australia, I welcome you to shop with me for awesome customer service. Place a $75+ order and receive a brand NEW 2023-25 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

Use this code if you shop with me online and your order is less than $250 (if it's over $250 you are better off claiming your own Stampin' Rewards at the time of ordering. You will then qualify for a small gift the month after you order.

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Stampin Up Fresh as a Daisy Quick and Easy Cards InColor Cards

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Did you know the Stampin' Up! Fresh as a Daisy DSP coordinates with all five of the new InColors? I made these 5 quick and easy hand made cards to show the coordination. From left to right I have used the following new InColors for the base card and the mat on the sentiment label: Pebbled Path, Boho Blue, Wild Wheat, Copper Clay and Moody Mauve.

Stampin Up Cards 2023-25 InColors Fresh as a Daisy DSP

For each card I used a contrasting colour as a mat to the patterned paper and followed that colour through on the paper strip under the label and the ink colour for the sentiment. In this example below I have used Copper Clay. I coordinated the jute bows with the base cardstock colour. For the Jute bow I have used just one of the strands of the twine (there are 3 strands so I just twisted and divided them).

Stampin Up Something Fancy Birthday Card

The InColor jute twine is fabulous value actually. You get 4.6m of each colour in the one pack, and if you divide the strands it will go even further. Here's just one of the five colours you get in the pack (Boho Blue) so you can see what it looks like before it's unravelled to one thread.

Stampin Up 2023 InColor Jute Trim

For these two examples I have used Copper Clay with Pretty Peacock for the left hand side card, and Moody Mauve with Wild Wheat for the one on the right.

2023 Stampin Up Cards using Fresh as a Daisy DSP

For the sentiments, I used the Something Fancy stamp set with the coordinating dies. The dies have these two graduating sized labels which I have stacked on top of each other using Dimensionals. Here's a look at the Something Fancy Stamp Set and the coordinating Something Fancy Dies. Something Fancy stamp set

Stampin Up Something Fancy Dies

I hope this has given you an idea for making a quick and easy set of coordinating cards.

Fresh as a Daisy IC Cards 6x4 wm

 

All of the products I have used today can be purchased either in my online store, or by email or phone. If you are in Australia, I welcome you to shop with me for awesome customer service. Place a $75+ order and receive a brand NEW 2023-25 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

Use this code if you shop with me online and your order is less than $250 (if it's over $250 you are better off claiming your own Stampin' Rewards at the time of ordering. You will then qualify for a small gift the month after you order.

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How to Organise and Easily Find your Stampin' Up! Reinkers

If you have your Stampin' Up! re-inkers (ink refills) stored together in a container like me, sometimes it can take a while to find the one you are looking. I end up picking up each one and checking the colour on the label, and with over 50 colours it can take a while to find the one you are looking for.

This super quick and cheap organisation hack has solved that problem for me and saved me lots of time.

Just use a 1/4" circle punch and punch out a circle of the corresponding colour cardstock and attach to the top of the reinker with a Stampin' Up! mini glue dot which are super adhesive so it will stay in place. Now you can quickly and easily find the reinker you need. Pin it for later!

Labelling Stampin Up Reinkers to easily find them

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Claire

 


Stampin' Up! Radiating Stitches and Something Fancy Stamp Set Wedding card

 

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Today I have a handmade Stampin' Up! wedding card that I didn't get to post before the end of April. It uses the Stampin' Up! Radiating Stitches Dies (which are an online exclusive, but can still be ordered directly from me as well), as well as the Something Fancy sentiment stamp set (available as a single set, but there are also coordinating dies).
The DSP and Soft Succulent cardstock have since retired but could easily be replaced with any supplies you have in your stash to replicate this card. My sentiment is embossed in gold.

Radiating Stitches Wedding 1

I really love these Radiating Stitches Dies. You can find them here in the online exclusives section in my online store.

Stampin Up Radiating Stitches Dies available online in Australia from Claire Daly

I hope you like this quick and easy wedding card.

All of the products I have used today can be purchased either in my online store, or by email or phone. If you are in Australia, I welcome you to shop with me for awesome customer service. Place a $75+ order and receive a brand NEW 2023-25 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

Use this code if you shop with me online and your order is less than $250 (if it's over $250 you are better off claiming your own Stampin' Rewards at the time of ordering. You will then qualify for a small gift the month after you order.

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I also want to remind you that my May Class by Mail is open for registration for just one more week. There are four options for purchase, including two options where you can get the class kit absolutely FREE (for one of those options you also get a FREE full pack of InColor Embellishments). Get all the details HERE.

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Thanks for stopping by today. See you back here again soon.

Claire


Stampin Up Bubble Bath Birthday Card with a new Colour Combo.

Today I have a lovely new colour combination to show off the new Bubble Bath colour that Stampin' Up! introduced in the 2023 Colour Refresh. I have made a birthday card using Painted Posies embossing folder, Biggest Wish stamp set and some of the dies from Scalloped Contours. Bubble Bath was one of the new colours that jumped out at me straight away in the colour refresh, and I was keen to explore how it could work with some of our other existing cards.

Bubble bath 1b

Here's a look at my colour combination. Bubble Bath, Smoky Slate and Misty Moonlight. I love how this turned out. Bubble Bath is a really clean, blue toned pink.

Stampin up colour / color combination with Bubble Bath, Misty Moonlight and Smoky Slate

The Stampin' Up! Painted posies embossing folder is so luscious. It doesn't need much else added as it's such a big bold folder. I just added the stitched and scalloped die cut from Scalloped Contours for a bit of interest at the top. Isn't this die gorgeous?

Stampin Up Biggest Wish and Painted Posies Birthday Card

Stampin' Up! Biggest Wish is the perfect sentiment for this card. I have used this sentiment set so much and I'm really happy it has carried over to the new 2023-24 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. I have stamped my two part sentiment in Bubble Bath and Misty Moonlight, and then cut out with one of the Scalloped Contours dies. This die is a perfect size for these sentiments and I like the die cut border that gets added inside the scalloped edge. I've just added a strip of Smoky Slate cardstock and Misty Moonlight under the die cut sentiment for colour interest.

Stampin Up Painted Posies embossing folder
It would be super easy to duplicate this card is a different set of colours. I find embossing is a quick, easy and cheap way to add a real WOW to your cards.

All of the products I have used today can be purchased either in my online store, or by email or phone. If you are in Australia, I welcome you to shop with me for awesome customer service. Place a $75+ order and receive a brand NEW 2023-25 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

Use this code if you shop with me online and your order is less than $250 (if it's over $250 you are better off claiming your own Stampin' Rewards at the time of ordering. You will then qualify for a small gift the month after you order.

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Have a great week, and I'll see you back here in a day or two. I have lots to share with you right now :)

Claire

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