Changes are coming!

August 28, 2025

Stampin’ Up! announced a few upcoming changes last week. I mentioned and explained them in this video.

1. First up is the change in the type of stamps they’ll be offering. Currently we have both red rubber/cling and clear photopolymer. Starting in November all new stamps will be clear photopolymer.

Craft Stamps, Clear Stamps, Decorative Stamps & Cling Stamps

Why? They are having difficulty sourcing the product needed to produce cling or red rubber stamps. In addition they are not selling as well as photopolymer do. It seems most people like the clear stamps; my customers have mentioned this to me too.

So for stamp sets from the current Annual and Holiday catalog here’s how it works going forward. Once they run out of stock of the cling stamps they’ll switch over to clear photopolymer.

2. Next is the packaging. Because most stamps will be in photopolymer after November they will be in new packaging – clear sleeves. These will be approximately 5″ X 9″ in size. They are phasing out the DVD cases. However they will continue to offer them in 4 packs like they currently do. See them here. They will also offer bulk packs of the new thin sleeves as well.

3. The die-cut sleeves will change too and will be the same as the stamp set sleeves. They’ll now have photos of the dies on the cover like you see below.

4. Lastly they are discontinuing our Stampin’ Write markers. The Blends markers are outselling these by far. And because they were originally intended to be used to color directly on red rubber stamps (as well as coloring) they won’t be needed for this.

In my opinion I love coloring with the Blends so much I would never use these for coloring. They leave lines on larger images where the Blends do not. They color so smoothly!

All of our Stampin’ Write markers are now on the Last Chance list and will be available while supplies last. If you love them I’d grab some while you can. See them here.

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Artist of the Month with Sending Smiles; fun fold card & tags box

June 24, 2022
Today I'm sharing the rest of Marilyn's projects featuring the Sending Smiles bundle. See the first set here.

This cute card is a Dutch door fold where the front panel is attached to the lower 'door' opening.

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She used the new Sweet Sorbet & Parakeet Party In Colors here.

Her measurements are as follows:
- Sweet Sorbet – 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" plus a 8 1/2" X 2 3/4" scored at 4 1/4". The front panel is 2 3/4" X 4 1/8"
- White front is a stitched rectangle at 2 5/8" X 4" & inside is 4" X 5 1/4"
- In Color DSP is2 5/8" X 4"
Next is an adorable box made with the Tailored Tag dies.

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She used 2 of the Tailored Tag die-cuts and adhered them to the little box she made with the template seen below.

Details:
- The tags are approximately 1 3/4" X 3 3/4" and the box is1 1/2" square.
- She used the Sending dies for the flower & greeting.
- The DSP is the 2022-24 In Color 6 X 6" pack and the ribbon is the Tahitian Tide 1/8" ribbon.
To make this box start out with a 4" square of card stock and score at 1 1/4" on all sides.

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And below are all of her projects using the Sending Smiles bundle. She sure did a fabulous job!!

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Artist of the Month Sending Smiles cards!

June 23, 2022

Each month my Flowerbug's Team has a featured 'Artist of the Month'. For June, Marilyn chose to use the Sending Smiles bundle seen here.

She made 5 projects and I'm showing the first three here:

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Her card base is Orchid Oasis and the flowers are stamped in Orchid, Polished Pink, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive. The flower centers and leaves are separate images so it's easy to have multiple colors on your flowers.

She layered the two 'Sending' dies using our awesome Adhesive Sheets; no glue mess! The Birthday Wishes greeting is heat embossed and die-cut with one of the long dies in the bundle.  The background texture is the Quatrefoil embossing folder seen here.

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Next is a simple card with just a few layers using Fresh Freesia and Parakeet Party.

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I love the stamped background she did using Versamark. The White layer is textured with the Painted Texture folder. The Brass Butterflies are the perfect finishing touch!

Her measurements are 2 7/8" X 3 7/8" for the White and 3" X 4" for the Parakeet Party.

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Next is a fun fold card featuring the new hostess paper pack called Design a Daydream. Anyone can get this with hostess benefits if the order is over $150.

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Here's a tip on making this diagonal fun fold card. Cut your card base at 4 1/4" X 11" and score it at 5 1/2". Now with your card base laying flat and horizontally, cut off the upper left half of this card base on a diagonal. You'll add the layers of card stock and DSP to that but flip it before adhering it to the main card.

She used the Layering Circles dies for her greeting. I love that you can personalize your greetings with so many options. This was one of my top 3 sets in the new Annual Catalog. In fact it was one of the ideas I shared with Stampin' Up! for my Million Dollar stamp set!

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There are 22 stamps in the set and 14 dies!

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How to make a forest of trees from the Wisteria Wishes stamp set!

June 22, 2022
I thought the flower image in the Wisteria Wishes stamp set would make wonderful trees. So I played around and here's the finished card:

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I chose to use just one ink color of Evening Evergreen. I made this card in the video below; or click here to see it.

Tips on creating the trees:
- Starting at the bottom with the 3 flower image (turned point side up) stamp in full strength Evening Evergreen ink making sure you stamp some images higher and some lower. Ink every time filling in the very bottom fully.
- Now ink the same image and stamp off once before stamping slightly higher than the first 'trees'.
- Now ink the image again and stamp off twice before stamping even higher making sure you alter the height now & then.
- Wallah; you've created a forest of trees!
Did you know that Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent are a perfect color combination? Stamping off once or twice can give you almost an exact Soft Succulent color tone.

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You could make a bunch of these cards quickly and they're perfect for any occasion but to me they'd be great sympathy or men's cards.

Here are the other two cards I made with this bundle. It was super fun to play with!

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