Monday, February 9, 2026

KEEP IT BEAUTIFULLY SIMPLE

Happy Monday!  What's great about a new week?  Well, a lot of things, but for me it means I get to share new cards with you!

This week I am sharing cards made with the Beautifully Celebrated Bundle.  This bundle is part of the Lovely & Beautiful Mega Suite.  What's a Mega Suite?  Well, typically it refers to a Stampin' Up! Suite Collection that includes two bundles and several other coordinating products, like Designer Series Paper (DSP), embellishments, etc.

The cards this week will focus on Beautifully Celebrated bundle.  I may bring in a few of the other products, but my focus will be on the bundle and using it with products that are not from the Suite.  I want you to be inspired to use it with products you already own!

Since it is Monday, and I try to keep my Monday cards quick & simple, I focused mainly on the stamp set for today's card.  This stamp set has several "foliage" stamps and a few sentiments.

I used the tried-and-true technique of stamping several images around one of the corners to use each of the stamps in the set.

Since I know that the 2024-2026 In-Colors will be retiring in a couple of months, I decided to use those.  I really like these In-colors.  They are so pretty and, as always, In-Colors always coordinate well together!


The sentiment is from the Beautifully Celebrated stamp set.  It is one long stamp, but to fit it on my Beautifully Celebrated die cut, I stamped it in two parts.  Photopolymer stamps make it so easy to do that!

I wasn't very happy with my first attempt at this card.  As you know "quick & simple" cards are not really my area of expertise, and this card was not coming together for me.  I knew I didn't like what I saw, but I was drawing a blank on how to "fix it".   So, I looked to a good friend for some ideas.  She suggested the black layer behind the stamped image to make it pop,  She also thought adding some DSP strips behind the image to add a little more color might help.  I found my Unbounded Beauty DSP -- which uses all the 2024-2026 In-Colors -- in my stash, and that definitely was a good call.

But, if I'm honest, I'm still not 100% in love with the card.  There is something about the stamping that bothers me, but I don't know what it is.  Maybe I should have colored the leaf image so there would be a mix of some solid images and some lined images.  What do you think?  What would you do to change this card?  


I repeated the stamping on the corner of the inside of the card and on the front of the envelope to provide some continuity of design.


A list of the products I used is shown below.

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Watch the following video to learn more about becoming a demonstrator and to also see the fun new Stampin' Positioner that you will receive when you join Stampin' Up!

February has brought an exciting opportunity to get Stampin' Up's new stamping positioner tool for FREE!  The brand-new Stampin' Positioner is available FOR FREE exclusively to those who join Stampin' Up! as a Demonstrator between February 3 - March 2.

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