Beth's Paper Cuts: July 2025

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Thankful Garden

I fell in love with the Thankful Garden bundle due to the large floral images. I knew that they would be super fun for a variety of coloring techniques. I look forward to using this stamp with some watercolor and colored pencil. But first, I had to give it a go with the coordinating Decorative Masks.

There are three layers for the flower images and two layers for the leaf images on both flowers in the stamp set For the Hydrangea I used Garden Green and Fresh Freesia. I opted to use the same color on each layer. By adding a second layer of the same color, I was able to achieve a darker accent on top of the first layer. You could also layer different colors on top of each other to achieve another look.

The Blending Brushes are fun and easy to use. They come in packs of three in two sizes. I have a full length video how to for this card on my YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/5lPo2TZuFoU

Last week we used some of these papers in a Virtual Scrapbooking Retreat and we even did some pages with grids of pattered papers, so I think I still had that on my mind as I created the background for this card. The Lovely Garden paper is meant to compliment these stamps and I just love the colors. See that Scrapbooking Retreat album in my video here: https://youtu.be/9jVTUppwrWE

I hope you enjoy these cards and will give Blending Brushes a try! You can find the products used below.

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Thankful Garden Bundle (English)

[165534]

$64.75

Thankful Garden Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[165526]

$24.00

Thankful Garden Dies

[165533]

$35.00

Thankful Garden Decorative Masks

[165538]

$13.00

Lovely Garden 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[165524]

$12.50

Lovely Garden Suite Collection (English)

[165541]

$95.25

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[147089]

$9.00

Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad

[155611]

$9.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$9.50

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[121045]

$14.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$14.00

Basics Wow! Embossing Powder

[165679]

$21.00

Starburst Sequins

[165539]

$7.50

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

New Driver! On The Go scrapbook page

Hi everyone! It's time once again for the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop! Are you a part of the Scrapbooking Global Community? If not, let me tell you about us. We are Stampin' Up! and Scrapbooking enthusiasts. We love to share our pages as inspiration for others with our passion. We share in our Facebook Group, which you can join here: Scrapbooking Global Facebook Group. Be sure to answer the questions so we know you're not a bot :)

This month's theme is Travel and it is brought to us by Design Team Member Sherry Roth.

My Page is travel adjacent! I have a new driver in the house!! My daughter got her driver's license recently she is traveling all over town. I used the On The Go suite of products, which are perfect for travel scrapbook pages. When I saw these products I knew I had to make a page about her driving.

I used the On The Go designer series paper for the background. I also cut out some of the labels from the paper to use for my journaling. This was really fun paper to work with. There are fun colors and lots of travel inspired images.

The suite also has some coordination baker's twine, puffy stickers and even a stamp set called Tags to Go, which I used for the date stamp and the die cut keys.

I hope you like my pages and are a little inspired to make a page or two! Next up on the blog hop is .

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Friday, July 11, 2025

final day of 20% off Two-Toned Cardstock

Today is the final day of the Two-Toned Cardstock sale! Take 20% off all Two-Toned cardstock including multi-colored packs. If you haven't tried Stampin' Up! Two-Toned cardstock, let me give you a little explanation. Stampin' Up! Two-Toned Cardstock is printed, not dyed, giving it a white core. This also allows Stampin' Up! to print one side a darker shade, one side lighter shade of the same color. This allows you to have a larger range of colors in your collection. Tone-on-tone accents can be lovely and make beautiful backgrounds without adding too much.

I've added this photo from a page in the Annual Catalog because it highlights several ways to use the Two-Toned paper. The Petal Pink card in the center top of the photo uses both shades of Petal Pink for a soft yet interesting and pretty background. The card base used the light shade, the circles in the darker shade. The Japan Scrapbook page also uses both shades of Petal Pink for the background. The Dad card in the bottom left shows two shades of Garden Green. It is so easy to layer different shades to get more interest in your cards without overwhelming them with more color. Sometimes more color is fabulous of course, but sometimes you want something more subtle. The mountain card at the top right shows how tearing techniques can reveal that white core for a fun technique with layers.

This scrapbook page using the Weekend Adventures scrapbook kit also shows the tearing technique and the two shades of colors in the Old Olive cardstock.

Stampin' Up! scrapbook kits always use the Two-toned Cardstock for their kits. The Two-toned cardstock is heavy enough for card bases, a little thicker than our Designer Series Paper, but not as thick as our dyed Cardstock. The slightly lighter weight is really nice in scrapbooks because of how heavy they can get in the layering of paper and pages in an album.

Two-toned cardstock comes in 12 x 12 size only. You can get single packs of every Stampin' Up! custome color, as well as some multi-color packs. I went with the multi-packs for a big variety of colors.

Below I have linked the multi-colored packs that are great for getting started with this new Cardstock.

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Simple favor box you need to know how to make

Hi Stamping Friends! Today I want to show you this nice little favor box. This box was demonstrated to us at Creativity Now, an event put on by Stampin' Up! for it's demonstrators. I loved this box. It was so simple yet a great size and easily customizable with any papers, colors, sentiments, to fit your needs.

This first box is made with the Wildly Flowering Designer Series Paper, a favorite of mine. I added a little tag with a for you from the Beautiful Butterflies bundle. There are so many sets with for you or something similar. I loved the flower sprig in Gallery Blooms dies, so I used that in Crumb Cake and added some white to the tops and a Mossy Meadow fern from the same dies.

The box starts with an 11 by 4 piece of paper, so you can get 3 from a sheet of 12 x 12 designer paper.

Score the long sides at one inch (both sides) then turn and score at 2,3 and 7,8 inches. Fold along the score lines and snip the tabs. You can glue the tabs or just allow the ribbon or belly band to keep the box closed. The box fits a lot, even a gift card if you put it on a slight angle.

There is a full video for this box here on my YouTube channel:

I made a few of these boxes. First I will show you the version from the Stampin' Up! event. It uses some new papers and stamps that are coming in the next Mini Catalog in September.

Here is one from the Perennial Lavender paper and the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set.

This next version uses the Wildly Flowering Designer Paper again, with a Wild Wheat pattern. The For You is from Birthday Celebrations.

Check the video for some tips and tricks to putting it all together. These boxes are so simple and customizable, you will make them all the time. Great for Wedding Favors, baby showers, office co-workers, teacher appreciation, you name it.

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