Paper Crafting Blog Hop March 2025 - January-April 2025 Catalog!

 

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop for March 2025 - featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. We have a wide array of projects and design styles to share with you this month - and every one of them is spotlighting projects using products from our January-April 2025 Catalog!

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Less than one month left of this amazing catalog - so I am so happy we are showcasing some of the great products it contains.  This project features two of my favorite products - 

#164747 With You In Mind $20.00*

#164678 Timeless Plaid 6x6" DSP $12.50*

I really needed some masculine birthday cards and this all came together perfectly - 

I struggle with masculine cards - but I love this one - here is a list of the rest of the products used for this card - 

Basic White Card base, Crumb Cake CS layer, DSP layer, Basic White tag, DSP tag layer, Basic Beige Bordered Ribbon, Earth Tone Shimmer Gems, Boho Blue and Old Olive Markers.

Hope you liked it!

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Now, please click on through to the rest of those hopping with me this month to see all of their wonderful creations and inspirations! ~Maureen

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You can check in the SHOP NOW tab at the top of this page to find my current hostess code at any time.

To order any of Stampin' Up's products you can go directly to my online store - www.stampingwithmaureen.stampinup.net  and click on SHOP NOW.  Please use the Hostess Code CZJ2992F through March 31, 2025 to get full benefits from me- 

*NOTE: If your personal order is not part of a current party and you are ordering over $150 in merchandise - please do not use this code; as your order without the code will qualify you to earn a minimum of 10% in hostess benefits. 

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 Any costs shown are in the U.S. Market for March 2025 – Price will vary in other Stampin’ Up! markets.

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If you don't currently have a demonstrator and would like a catalog; or would like to learn more about Stampin' Up! and our products, please email me at crazystampinglady@gmail.com

*Note: Product pricing varies by market.  Check with your local demonstrator if you are not in the U.S. to find out your cost.

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Always Stamping, Maureen - the Crazy Stamping Lady!

 

Paper Crafting Blog Hop November 2024 - December Holidays!

 

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop for November 2024 - featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. We have a wide array of projects and design styles to share with you this month - and every one of them is spotlighting projects for December holidays!

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I so love this time of year - November for Thanksgiving and December for Christmas.  Lately I've been working on a few Home Decor Items for the holidays and today, I'll share one with you.  I love covering wood elements with our awesome Designer Series Paper (DSP) - so here is one of my recent creations -

It's really so easy - but I'm including a step by step tutorial for this incase you have not tried before.

Step 1 - the first thing is to purchase (or create if you do woodworking) your wood piece.  These are available at most hobby stores in many shapes - so for this project I chose stars.  Lay the wood piece onto the DSP you plan to use and trace around it with a pencil.  I used our "Take A Bow" DSP - which has a ton of coordinating designs.

Step 2 - Using your paper snips - cut out the image - cut just inside of your pencils lines to have the best fit.

Step 3 - adhere the DSP to the wood piece - Tombow liquid multi-purpose glue works great for this.  It's very strong, and it gives you some wiggle room to make sure the DSP and wood line up.

Step 4 - You can then trim off any extra DSP hang-over pieces and use a sanding block to smooth out all the edges.  It's best to hold your wood piece level and sand down from the front to the back of the wood piece.  This causes any excess DSP to be sanded off.

Step 5 - Then to camoflauge any imperfections in the edges, I used a dauber and added some Real Red Ink to all of the edges.  This also makes the DSP pop.  Then I cut out letters with the Mini Alphabet die to make my words to add on cardstock layers.

Step 6 - Next I took a piece of SU White Frayed Ribbon (#158138) on the Clearance Rack, and cut a long piece of it to become the base for my stars. (any coordinating substantial ribbon will do).  I added Tear and Tape to the ribbon to adhere a jump ring at the top for hanging.

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Step 8 - Finally I used the Tear and Tape again to adhere each of the three stars I made to the ribbon.  

My Finished project - I love how it turned out and will be displaying it with pride this holiday season.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I would love to hear your thoughts and comments!

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Now, please click on through to the rest of those hopping with me this month to see all of their wonderful creations and inspirations! ~Maureen

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You can check in the SHOP NOW tab at the top of this page to find my current hostess code at any time.

To order any of Stampin' Up's products you can go directly to my online store - www.stampingwithmaureen.stampinup.net  and click on SHOP NOW.  Please use the Hostess Code XPXQGRQG through November 30, 2024 to get full benefits from me-

*NOTE: If your personal order is not part of a current party and you are ordering over $150 in merchandise - please do not use this code; as your order without the code will qualify you to earn a minimum of 10% in hostess benefits.  

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 Any costs shown are in the U.S. Market for November 2024 – Price will vary in other Stampin’ Up! markets.

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If you don't currently have a demonstrator and would like a catalog; or would like to learn more about Stampin' Up! and our products, please email me at crazystampinglady@gmail.com

*Note: Product pricing varies by market.  Check with your local demonstrator if you are not in the U.S. to find out your cost.

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Always Stamping, Maureen - the Crazy Stamping Lady!

Paper Crafting Blog Hop - August 2024 - Masculine

 

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop for August 2024 - featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. We have a wide array of projects and design styles to share with you this month - and every one of them is spotlighting projects made with a Masculine theme!

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I always need masculine cards - as there are many men in my life. They are still very difficult for me - I can never decide how to make them nice, quality - without ribbon etc. So I decided to really go with simple lines - and I used the Perennial Lavender DSP in a different way.

I wanted some simple plaid - but there was nothing in my current stash - so I pulled the simple Crumb Cake herringbone design from the paper pack - and using a ruler, a Basic Black Stampin' Write marker and a Poppy Parade Stampin' Writer maker to add some lines and color. You can see in the picture - just what a difference that makes.

I layered my pieces of DSP onto Poppy Parade and Basic Black to make the POP against the Crumb Cake background layer - which was added to my Basic Black card base.  I really love the black/tan combo.  My sentiments are from the Online Exclusive set - Frosted Forest.

#164344 Frosted Forest $21.00*

And I added a bit of linen thread around each end - I like this look for a guy - a bit of added texture to the card - but not ribbon.

The embellishments are the Adhesive-Backed Sparkle Gems from the current annual catalog.  I finished the inside with a little strip of the DSP.

And of course another strip on my envelope, as I can't leave any envelope "naked."  Lol!

I hope you like it and that I showed you to think outside the box with your DSP. Thank you so much for stopping by and I would love to hear your thoughts and comments!

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Now, please click on through to the rest of those hopping with me this month to see all of their wonderful creations and inspirations! ~Maureen

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You can check in the SHOP NOW tab at the top of this page to find my current hostess code at any time.

To order any of Stampin' Up's products you can go directly to my online store - www.stampingwithmaureen.stampinup.net  and click on SHOP NOW.  Please use the Hostess Code KFG43ABS through August 30, 2024 to get full benefits from me-

*NOTE: If your personal order is not part of a current party and you are ordering over $150 in merchandise - please do not use this code; as your order without the code will qualify you to earn a minimum of 10% in hostess benefits.  

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If you don't currently have a demonstrator and would like a catalog; or would like to learn more about Stampin' Up! and our products, please email me at crazystampinglady@gmail.com

*Note: Cost shown is in the U.S. Market for August 2024.  Product pricing varies by market.  Check with your local demonstrator if you are not in the U.S. to find out your cost.

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Always Stamping, Maureen - the Crazy Stamping Lady!

Paper Crafting Blog Hop June 2024 - Online Exclusives!

 

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop for June 2024 - featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. We have a wide array of projects and design styles to share with you this month - and every one of them is spotlighting projects made with our Online Exclusives products.

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So for my post I am using my very favorite bundle and DSP from our Online Exclusives - Latte Love Bundle and A Little Latte DSP. If you know me at all - you know I am totally addicted to caffiene. I grew up drinking coffee and try to keep it to 3-4 cups a day - but have been known to polish off a pot or two in a day :) Don't tell!

I've wanted a little coffee shelf sitter for my table for a bit - so I chose to make my own for this hop. I found this 5" x 5" open shadow box at Dollar General for just a couple dollars. There is a picture in it of a rainbow, but I covered that with a square of the DSP. Then I basically just created a card front -

Cutting out the cups from the DSP; making a base with Early Espresso cut from our Deckled Rectangles, and adding more DSP - then layering it all up. It's hard to tell in the pictures, but to give this some dimension I layered the entire Early Espresso layer up on dimensionals, as well as the center coffee cup. So here is how I display it now -

Doesn't it look great!! I just love it so much!

I hope you like it too. Thank you so much for stopping by and I would love to hear your thoughts and comments!

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Now, please click on through to the rest of those hopping with me this month to see all of their wonderful creations and inspirations! ~Maureen

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You can check in the SHOP NOW tab at the top of this page to find my current hostess code at any time.

To order any of Stampin' Up's products you can go directly to my online store - www.stampingwithmaureen.stampinup.net  and click on SHOP NOW.  Please use the Hostess Code RJ7WSCM7 through June 30, 2024 to get full benefits from me-

*NOTE: If your personal order is not part of a current party and you are ordering over $150 in merchandise - please do not use this code; as your order without the code will qualify you to earn a minimum of 10% in hostess benefits.  

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Bundle Bonus for June 2024

#163644 Attention Shoppers bundle $39.50 (on sale through 6/30/24 - $35.00)

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Cost shown is in the U.S. Market for June 2024 – Price will vary in other Stampin’ Up! markets.

Order the above bundle in the month of June 2024, and all of my profits from the sale will go to support Doors of Hope ministry in Murfreesboro, TN – see more about this incredible ministry here –

Doors of Hope | (opendoorsofhope.org)

Plus - you will receive a special full bundle tutorial of additional card ideas – that you can use to create wonderful projects.  Tutorial bundle will be sent out as soon as possible – usually the Sunday after your purchase.

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If you don't currently have a demonstrator and would like a catalog; or would like to learn more about Stampin' Up! and our products, please email me at crazystampinglady@gmail.com

*Note: Product pricing varies by market.  Check with your local demonstrator if you are not in the U.S. to find out your cost.

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Always Stamping, Maureen - the Crazy Stamping Lady!

Paper Crafting Blog Hop March 2024 - Sympathy/Thinking of You!

 

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop for March 2024 - featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. We have a wide array of projects and design styles to share with you this month - and every one of them is spotlighting Sympathy and Thinking of You projects.

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So for my post I am using an amazing Bundle from out Spring Mini Catalog that I just love - and the deep rich colors make it perfect for masculine cards and sympathy cards. That is the Notes of Nature Bundle.

#162640 Notes of Nature Bundle - $46.75

I really don't love doing Sympathy cards, but I need them, and like to have them done already when I need to send. I like them to be beautiful, but subtle, and so many I make have flowers - but I need a few masculine ones. So that being said, here is my card -

I started with a base of Basic White CS 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4".  I added a layer of Pebbled Path CS 3 3/4" x 5"; a layer of Pecan Pie 3" x 4" and a layer of Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP 3" x 4".

Sentiment is stamped and punched out with the Heartfelt Hexagon bundle.

I added some little foliage pieces that were diecut out of Pebbled Path and Pecan Pie using the Notes of Nature dies.

Final touches - a little bow from our Baker's Twine Essentials pack; and three gems from the 2023-25 In Color Dots pack.

It all came together perfectly and then I finished the envelope with the same simple stamped image - 

I hope you like it. Thank you so much for stopping by and I would love to hear your thoughts and comments!

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Now, please click on through to the rest of those hopping with me this month to see all of their wonderful creations and inspirations! ~Maureen

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You can check in the SHOP NOW tab at the top of this page to find my current hostess code at any time.

To order any of Stampin' Up's products you can go directly to my online store - www.stampingwithmaureen.stampinup.net  and click on SHOP NOW.  Please use the Hostess Code NVHZJZYP through March 31, 2024 to get full benefits from me-

*NOTE: If your personal order is not part of a current party and you are ordering over $150 in merchandise - please do not use this code; as your order without the code will qualify you to earn a minimum of 10% in hostess benefits.  

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Bundle Bonus for March 2024

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Cost shown is in the U.S. Market for March 2024 – Price will vary in other Stampin’ Up! markets.

Order the above bundle in the month of March 2024, and all of my profits from the sale will go to support Doors of Hope ministry in Murfreesboro, TN – see more about this incredible ministry here –

Doors of Hope | (opendoorsofhope.org)

Plus - you will receive a special full bundle tutorial of additional card ideas – that you can use to create wonderful projects.  Tutorial bundle will be sent out as soon as possible – usually the Sunday after your purchase.

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If you don't currently have a demonstrator and would like a catalog; or would like to learn more about Stampin' Up! and our products, please email me at crazystampinglady@gmail.com

*Note: Product pricing varies by market.  Check with your local demonstrator if you are not in the U.S. to find out your cost.   

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Always Stamping, Maureen - the Crazy Stamping Lady!