Today, I have a quick and easy fun fold card to share with you. Every Tuesday night, I host Mystery Stamping on my Facebook Group. Last night, we made easel cards. There were a couple of mishaps because the stampers had no idea what they were making, but this is actually a simple card to make. So, on y go! Let's get stamping.

For this card, I used the Country Home stamp set. I stamped it with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored it with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers. I sued Petal Pink, Granny Apple Green, Crumb Cake, and Soft Soft. I added texture to the puffs of cotton with some white puff paint. We carried this in last year's mini-catalog and I absolutely love the look of it for the cotton puffs. Sadly, it isn't in this year's catalog but I just couldn't resist adding a little of it. If you'd like to know more, here is a blog post and video I made with the puff paint last year. 

The piece of 8 1/2" x 3" cardstock is folded in half and adhered to the 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card base before adhering the patterned paper. This way the back of that flap is under the patterned paper and doesn't show. Then, the stamped image is adhered to the bottom half of the piece of 8 1/2" x 3" cardstock under the fold. The sentiment is attached using Stampin' Dimensionals so that the easel can rest against it. 

​Looking to make card making quicker and easier? The Stamparatus from Stampin’ Up! is the answer! Today I have some simple card making ideas using the Pattern Play stamp set. When I checked my birthday calendar for September, I realized that I know a lot of people with birthdays coming up and I will need a lot of birthday card ideas. These clean and simple cards – or CAS cards – are quick to make and the Stamparatus makes it easy to stamp a stack of them. So, on y go! Let’s get stamping.

This clean and simple card was CASEd (Copy and Share Everything) from the 2020 Stampin' Up! Catalog p. 146. There are adorable tags using neutral colors. I used the same layout and put it on a full-sized card and changed the colors to those from the  Brights Collection. 

Today, I have easy card making ideas for what to do with paper scraps. I've shared ideas for using scraps before, but it's always good to have more card making ideas for patterned paper. Do you have lots of bits of patterned paper? Perhaps you do scrapbooking and have lots of pieces left from your beautiful scrapbook paper. Or maybe you just have lots of paper scraps from cardmaking. These clean and simple cards (or CAS cards) are easy cards to make and use up lots of patterned paper scraps. So, on y go! Let’s get stamping.