Hibiscus Flowers for Kindness Thank You Card

July 14, 2025July 5, 2025Leave a comment

Cleaning off my stamping surface, I found pieces for a card I had started to make showing how lovely Secret Sea and Cloud Cover card stock pair together. Since I had already embossed the background with the Happy Hibiscus Hybrid Embossing folder and stamped the background on the large label, all I had to do was stamp some Hibiscus flowers in Strawberry Slush (also a Stampin’ Up!®️ 2025-2027 In Color).

You can get TWO shades of the same color by stamping off the bold flower filler stamp onto a scrap paper once before stamping it inside the outline (stamped in full strength ink of same color). Do the same for the leaves!

TIP: If you haven’t created an ink spot with a Cloud Cover Ink refill and uninked stampin’ spot (because the ink formula didn’t work correctly for a full-sized foam ink pad), YOU CAN STAMP OFF WITH SECRET SEA for an in-between color, as shown in the leaves on this card. I also used VERSAMARK ink on the Cloud Cover label, which turns the stamped images a shade darker.

To make the background pop a bit, I softly sponged some Whisper White craft ink over the raised images. Top off the card with an elegant Cloud Cover bow and some Rhinestone Jewels in the center of the flowers.

One more suggestion: Make four of the same cards at one time! Why four? For this card, you’ll use two full sheets of Cloud Cover for the card bases, one full sheet of Secret Sea card stock for the 4 backgrounds and almost a full additional sheet of cloud cover for the large label: It makes the best use of your supplies, and takes LESS time to create four of the same cards than to come back later and make the same card another time!

Thank you for ordering the supplies from my Stampin’ Store – you are supporting a home-based business and allowing me the time to bring you more creative ideas!

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Keep your creative juices flowing! 🍊🧡– Loni Spendlove

Embossed Fault-Line Cards

December 30, 20244 Comments

If this was a contest, you would have OVERWHELMINGLY voted for the Fault Line Cards as BEST OF SHOW! Since they have been such a hit, I wanted to try an EMBOSSED version, and they are just as show-stopping as the originals, just take a look (watch the video tutorial)…

The Happy Hibiscus bundle includes a photopolymer stamp set, hybrid embossing folder and coordinating dies. With all that divine coordination, it was a lovely choice for this project! This time I started with a 4.25″ x 9″ card base and pulled a white craft ink pad across the embossed Melon Mambo card stock to make the flowers pop.

Next, I used the Eyelet 3D embossing folder to create a background in hues of purple for a few toadstools (arriving January 7th- just in time to add to your cart and qualify for a free Sale-a-Bration product, like the embellishments on the card):

Watch this “How-To” tutorial for making Fault-Line cards of all types:

This version gives you one more look at one of the Designer Series Papers that will be included in the Paper Share (reserve your share by 1/7/25) and it’s called Wildflower Birthday, which is part of a suite of coordinating products in the Stampin’ Up! 2025 Jan-April mini catalog.

It is destined for one of my team members who has a birthday in January, and I know she’ll love it!

Not all products are available in my Stampin’ Store until January 7th, but here are the ones you can save to your cart now, or JOIN MY TEAM AND GET IN ON THE PREORDER immediately:

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New at SU!- Tied Up with Bows

December 18, 2024December 17, 20242 Comments

It’s Ribbon Week here on the Creative Juice Blog, and the New at SU! design team theme for December is “Tied Up with Bows” ~ so I went BIG with the bow on this slimline card, featuring the Happy Hibiscus, a NEW Online Exclusive bundle:

Wrapping a ribbon around a layer on your card gives it a nice finish, and you don’t see the ribbon from the inside of the card.

Before I tied the ribbon, I cut a length of the Silver & White Sheer ribbon in half down the center and laid two loops on my knot, then tied them inside the bow, giving it extra “fluff”:

The Happy Hibiscus bundle includes a 3-D Hybrid embossing folder (which cuts and embosses flowers at the same time, should you so desire), and I just pulled my Whisper White ink pad across the embossed Smoky Slate card stock to bring the embossing out.

I chose to HEAT EMBOSS the large flower, then watercolored it using Pretty In Pink ink and a Water Painter, before die cutting it out. The blossoms and leaves are also watercolored.

I will use this card for my next team member who promotes to Silver, though it would also be a lovely wedding card! Plus: a matching envelope. Finished size: 6″ x 3.5″

Before you move on to the next ribbon/bow project, what is your current favorite Stampin’ Up! ribbon? Tell me in a comment section (at the top of this post, by the date)!

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