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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Class with Purchase

Inspiring Imperfections

With the purchase of the Inspiring Imperfections bundle from my online store, during the month of June you will receive this online class. It's a great time to purchase because of the sale beginning on June 3. Be sure to order soon, as the sale offer is good only while supplies last. Several bundles and suites are very popular and you don't want to miss out! Order the bundle from my online store, and I will email you the tutorial.

Projects In This Tutorial

Seven card designs

One over size Shoji Screen Card 5" x 5-1/2"
One over size 3D card 5-1/2"
One 3D Project
Card Book Box to hold set of cards

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Monday, May 19, 2025

Happy Mistakes

How many times have you just finished a card only to drop it on an inkpad? I've used splatter stamps and diecuts to cover up stray ink marks and even used my trusty Mono Sand Eraser. Today, it was a dooszy of an ink smear and I grabbed some scrap DSP that coordinated with the Inspiring Imperfections Bundle and covered up the mess in TWO PLACES! I'm glad that the smears weren't in the middle of the card lol!

Oh! I've got something else fun to share with you too. See the branch on the second card? That diecut was designed to be the branch for those flowers AND the "join" in the Kintsugi method of pottery repair. If you diecut it out of gold foil, it looks awesomely authentic as a Kintsugi method of repair. Don't forget I made a PDF of little notes explaining what Kintsugi is for your card recipients. You can find it in a previous post - HERE.

Cardstocks: Lost Lagoon, Basic White, Gold Foil, Kintsugi Inspirations DSP

Inks: Lost Lagoon, Petal Pink, Misty Moonlight

Joined Together embossing folder, Spotlight on Natures dies, Stampin' Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers

Back

Inside

Inks: Misty Moonlight, Versamark
Cardstocks: Petal Pink, Crumb Cake, Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Kintsugi Inspirations
Deckled Rectangles Dies, Stampin' Dimensionals, Joined Together embossing folder

Inside - this panel was made for another card, but I did it in portrait orientation and the card was landscape. So I saved it....

Click on the links below each product to purchase from my store

https://www.stampinup.com/products/inspiring-imperfections-bundle-english

https://www.stampinup.com/products/joined-together-3d-embossing-folder

https://www.stampinup.com/products/kintsugi-inspirations-12-x-12-30-5-x-30-5-cm-specialty-designer-series-paper

https://www.stampinup.com/products/flower-accents

Friday, May 16, 2025

Kintsugi

It's really hard to pick a favorite from the new catalog, but this just may be mine. I just love the fact that it is so unique. I've not seen anything done with this Japanese technique. So first of all what is Kintsugi?

Kintsugi ("golden joinery") is a traditional Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer. The mended gold veins become a celebration of imperfection instead of hiding it. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

Stampin' Up! has an entire product suite designed around this beautiful art form. There's a stamp set, dies, DSP, Embellishments, and an Embossing Folder.

As you can see below, I wrote a brief description of Kintsugi, and I plan to put it on the inside of each card I make with this gorgeous bundle. If you don't have one, I'd love to be your Demonstrator. If you order the Kintsugi bundle, and designate me as your Demo, I'll send you the PDF for the description.