SUper Friends Saturday: Holiday Themed Swap Cards

 Happy Saturday!!!  I have a treat for you today -- some holiday themed swap cards from my SUper Friends demonstrator group's November swap!  

Jaya's gorgeous New year's card absolutely sparkles thanks to her peek-a-boo, firework die cuts from the Light the Sky Bundle with glimmer paper behind it:

Judy created a festive card with a fun pull to reveal greeting!   She used the Merriest Trees Bundle and Joyful Specialty Designer Series Paper (retiring soon!) to create her card:  

Kallien created a beautiful z-fold which features the online exclusive Traditions of St Nick Designer Series Paper, and is a great way to show off both sides of the paper:

Margery created an awesome tropical scene on her card, which includes hand drawn Christmas lights around and between the palm trees!  She used the Rhino Ready stamp set for her cute little Christmas rhino, along with the Pardise Palms stamp set.  There's also an adorable pop-up rhino inside the card:

For my card, I decided to create a fun fold with the Beary Christmas Suite.  Because this design uses a fair amount of designer series paper, I used two different papers for my cards:

Hope you enjoyed these ideas!  Thanks to the SUper Friends for their creativity and inspiration!  And, thank you so much for visiting my blog!

Michelle

OnStage at Home Bee Cards!

 I had so much fun attending OnStage@Home this Saturday!  I wore my socks from the from the swag box I received and settled in with my tablet, a cup of coffee, notebook, and cell phone to be able to text and share the experience with some great friends!  

During the event, we made some cards with the Bee Mine Suite, which is a sneak peek of a product suite from the upcoming January to April Mini Catalog.   We made two cards, and I had cut enough supplies to make two each of the two cards.  Here are some photos of the cards in progress:

And, here are the final products:

I added a bit of Wink of Stella to the bees' wings, which you can see a bit better here:

I love all the facees for the bees in this set!  So fun to be able to give them such cute expressions!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

You Make My Heart Buzz Fancy Fold Card

I gave a bit of a sneak peek of today's card last week in a Facebook Live video I did with my good friend Connie M!  This card is made with the Bee Mine Suite, which those who registered for Stampin' Up!'s OnStage @Home event this weekend were able to preorder.  This Suite will be in the upcoming January to April 2024 Mini Catalog.

I was crafting at my friend Judy's house, and we decided to use the items from the Suite to create a card using a fun fold shown by Sidney during her presentation with her mom Sara during the Stampin' Up! online World Card Making Day event.  Here's how the card turned out: 

I used the Heartfelt Hexagon Bundle, another sneak peek product from the January to April 2024 Mini Catalog, which was available to order for the World Card Making Day event, alon with the Bee Mine Suite products, to make the greeting piece on the belly band:

Here's the card open:

 I'm looking forward to creating more projects with the Bee Mine Suite this Saturday during the Onstage@Home event!  I'll be sharing those here and on my Facebook Business Page!  Please stay tuned!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

New Online Exclusives Today!

 Happy Tuesday!!!!  Today is the day that the new Online Exclusives are available.  Demonstrators were able to preorder some of the new items last month, and I had to get the Meandering Meadows Suite!  It's just so beautiful!!!  Judy had preordered it, too, and we made this card together last month:

Want to check out the Meandering Meadows Suite and other Online Exclusives in the online store?  Click here to head over there!  

Please let me know if you have any questions about the products used on the card!

- Michelle

Some Beary Cute Cards with 3D Abundant Beauty Snowflakes

Happy Monday!  Hope you aren't tired of seeing cards I've made with the Abundant Beauty Masks!  I have three more for you today, this time showing cards made with the snowflake mask and embossing paste!  

For the first two cards, I made embossing paste snowflakes on some designers series paper from Walk in the Forest.  I used the Merriest Tree dies to cut out one of the trees from the designer series paper, and added a bear cut with the Beary Cute punch from the designer paper.

 

I had a bit of designer series paper left over to use on the inside of the card as well:

For this card, I embossed the snowflakes onto some Night of Navy card stock.  I used a bit of Basic White card stock to create the snow for the bears and present to sit on.  This time the bears are stamped with the Beary Cute set: 

 Hope you enjoyed these!  Please let me know if you have any questions about them!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

With Lots of Love and Gratitude! So Many Paper Pumpkin Alternate Cards!!!

 Happy Friday!  I finished a big project this week -- my September With Love and Gratitude Paper Pumpkin kit and a refill kit that I'd purchased!  

I had done a Facebook Live when I first received the kit and made an alternate card with that (which you can see in this blog post).  

Then, to get started creating with the kit, I made a note card and a treat bag following the kit's instructions:

With two kits, I would have been able to make 16 treat bags, but I decided I didn't need that many.  I kept 10 aside for something I'd like to create.  Then, the remaining 6 plus the note cards and envelopes, I decided to cut up to make as many cards as I could.

I added card bases cut from Crumb Cake, Lost Lagoon, and Pecan Pie card stock.  I ended up being able to create 40 alternate cards!  

I kept my card making pretty simple overall, though did decide make a couple sets of stack, cut and swap cards!  Here those are:

I also kept the insides pretty simple:

Here are my other cards:

Whew!  Here's everything all together:

This was a wonderful kit -- I had so much fun creating with it!!!  Please let me know if you would like more information about the cards I made or about Paper Pumpkin in general!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

- Michelle