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Beautiful Backgrounds: Springtime Impressions Embossing Dies

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Truly, adding texture to a card is one of my favorite tried-and-true tricks for dressing up a background. This card, adapted from the soon-to-retire 2018-2019 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog, features the pretty Springtime Impressions Thinlits Dies in a different way. Instead of using them to cut the card stock, this card uses the dies to
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Trends in Stamping: Add Stitching to Your Favorite Cards

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One of the hot trends in stamping right now is adding stitching to your cards - either with or without thread! The Needlepoint Elements Framelits Dies are perfect for this look, since they give a gorgeous stitched effect with just a few turns of the Big Shot handle. This Stamps in the Mail Club card for February is actually one that I
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Seriously Sweet Silver Treat Box: Gable Boxes with Sweets

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How sweet can it be? Loving these Silver Mini Gable Boxes. Just add some fun paper or stamped elements and you have a gift ready-to-go.  My current favorite? The How Sweet It Is paper and the coordinating suite elements. They'd make perfect favors for a shower or party, or an excellent hand crafted birthday gift idea! These boxes fit
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Secret Slot Gift Card Holder: How Sweet It Is with the Pretty Label Punch

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Lurking inside this card is a secret... a special slot fold that creates a pocket for a gift card! This technique is actually really simple. You just need to score your cardstock, punch on the center score line, then fold the front and back so that the 'pocket' stays in the middle. Fun, right? Plus the candy theme with the Sweetest Thing
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The Sweetest Thing: Who Doesn’t Love a Candy Jar?

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I love it when cards just seem to come together! With the products in this "sweet" suite, you'll find it simple to create fun designs that mix and match all the pieces. Also in this project, you'll see me talk about the gorgeous Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets. These are available as a Sale-A-Bration free selection, while supplies
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Voting Time – Yes or No… Are Blizzards Beautiful?

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Hard to believe we're nearly at the end of 2018! Where did the last 360+ days go? I could have sworn that I just wrote "2018" for the first time, and now here we are at 2019. So what do you think about the blizzards? During this few days we've had quite the snowfall around the US - not quite in time for a White Christmas, but still
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Butterfly Gala Sneak Peek: Fluttering By to Say Hi

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Welcome to Crazy Crafters Blog Hop and my LovenStamps blog! I’m Meg Loven from Illinois in the USA. If you're new to blog hopping, get ready for a mini New Year's road trip...or plane trip, since you'll be traveling from one side of the globe to the other! At the bottom of my post, you will find a list of all the participating blogs
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Shaker Card Tutorial: Wishing for Broadway Birthday

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Hard to think of something happier than a Shaker Card when it comes to birthdays. And if your birthday boy or girl (of any age) happens to love glimmer and glitz, then the Broadway Birthday bundle with the stamps and dies is a terrific choice for your card-making project! Shaker Cards are actually one of my favorites - and I have a
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Spectrum Pads: Broadway Birthday Gate Fold Card

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When I'm looking for inspiration on what to stamp, one of my favorite places to turn is my past blog posts - the projects that I loved enough to share with you all, now updated with a new twist. This card is a Gate Fold Card - similar to one I shared this past summer with the Varied Vases stamp set. This time though, I've turned the
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Fancy Folds Made Simple: Double Z Fold Card Tutorial with Dashing Deer

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That's it - that's the whole tutorial.  Ha! Okay, just kidding. The best part of this Dashing Deer card tutorial for the Double Z fold is the video.  The Double Z Fold Card (some call it a zig zag card) is that it's actually really simple to create. Hardly any extra scoring (unlike my Stair Step card earlier this week), and so many ways
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Crafting Hacks: Silhouette Cards with Dashing Deer

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Got extra Stampin Dimensionals laying around? Then this is the project for you! Of course I'm joking - everyone has extra Stampin Dimensionals around...except that one day back in August when I ran out. Wow. Day for the history books, right? If you missed my panic that day, be sure you've liked my LovenStamps page on Facebook so you'll
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