Thinking Stamping: Heart Punch

Sunday, 1 February 2026

An Eclectic Mix for Paper Players 771

Thank you to everyone who played along with Jaydee's super sketch last week - the gallery was amazing! I'm sure it will be this week too with this week's theme from Claire: Love is in the Air,

Today's card is a real mix of things from the stash and the new box, which is something that's nice to do. I like it when you can mix and match what you have with something new for a fresh look.

The starting point of this card is the new - and gorgeous - Lovely & Beautiful specialty DSP. The other starting point was a card by my team mate, LeAnne Pugliese who recently made a card that featured hearts layered with scalloped hearts. This reminded me that I had a pair of punches that I got when I was on the Artisan Design Team so I hunted them out.

I layered heart in the Lovely & Beautiful DSP with scalloped hearts in Petal Pink and Peach Pie to pick out DSP colours. Then what? That was the question!

I needed a ground for the hearts, so embossed a piece of Basic White with the Exposed Brick embossing folder then flicked over some splatters of Petal Pink and Peach Pie ink. At that point, I decided on a Calypso Coral base in order to bring out the richness of the colour from the DSP.

Next question: what sentiment? Well, I got out Lifetime of Love and inked up the 'Love You' from there then cut it with a banner from Stylish Shapes. I felt it needed something else, so I added a gold bow with the sadly retired Elegant Trim... it's nearly all gone now!

The final thing was the addition of a trio of Pearlised Faceted Circles in Calypso Coral. These little beauties are part of the Lovely & Beautiful suite but of course, work well with lots of other things too.

What will you do with Claire's theme?

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

Christy Stanford

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Saturday, 4 January 2020

Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Hop - Coordination Product

I'm as pleased as punch to be part of the 2020 Artisan Design Team's first hop!

For this assignment, we have all been given different products to showcase, so make sure you go round the hop to see the range of items coming in the exclusive, limited-time Coordination Product Release. This awesome set of products make the most of the just-released Sale-abration items by adding in dies and Designer Series Paper that coordinate with both them and items from the January-June Mini-catalogue. The dies mean no more fussy cutting and the DSP means you, and your customers, can make the most of your new punches.

I'll be showing you the Pleased as Punch DSP and how it works with the Heart Punch combo that is part of the From the Heart suite. This pack of DSP has 3 sheets of 4 double-sided designs. Each design explicitly partners with one of the punches from the mini-catalogue with a reverse side in a more generic pattern. This pack also works with tulip, umbrella and small bloom punches.

Aren't the colours appealing? Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, Blushing Bride, Petal Pink... a delightful mix. So here's what I made.

The paper that matches the Heart punch has hearts in various patterns and colours on one side that match the plain heart punch perfectly. For the first card, I cut three hearts from the DSP. The strip of DSP down the side is the reverse of one of the other punch papers. I've ink blended a background in the colours of the three hearts I chose. I spotted it with water to lift some colour and added in some flicks of Wink of Stella, along with some coloured sequins, for some sparkle. Playing with making an interesting background is great fun for avid stampers but beginning and casual stampers will fall in love with the beautiful cards that can be made with paper and punch alone.

The sentiment is from Modern Heart, from the Annual Catalogue.

My second card uses the reverse of the heart patterned paper. This pretty pink check paper makes for a lovely baby card. Although it is pink, when mixed with Coastal Cabana, the card becomes gender neutral. To make it more explicitly for a boy, choose one of the Bermuda Bay hearts to use for the centre panel, instead of the Blushing Bride one that I chose. This time, the sentiment is from Animal Outing, from the Annual Catalogue. To soften the sequins, I've added a pearl to the centre of each one.

As with the last card, the paper is so lovely it needs little else to make a great project from beginner to avid crafter.

This paper, like all the products featured in the blog hop, is part of the limited time Coordination Product Release. These products will be available to customers on 4 February but as demonstrators, you will be able to preorder them from 3 January. While pre-orders are limited to one per demonstrator for non-consumables (like dies) you can order two of consumables (like this fabulous paper).

Make sure you pre-order yours today. You'll love the way these dies and the DSP open up so many more creative opportunities with your existing sets and Sale-abration items. The dies co-ordinate with these SAB items: Little Ladybug, Sending You Thoughts and Happy Birthday to You, and also with these items from the January-June Mini-catalogue: Positive Thoughts and Special Someone sets.

The pre-ordering of exciting new products is just one of the reasons becoming a demonstrator makes sense. If you live anywhere is New Zealand, I'd love to have you join my team. There's information on this in the tab at the top of the page.

Next up on the hop is the Crafty Little Peach herself, Lauren Alarid. You'll have been enjoying Lauren's creations for the Artisan Team for the last couple of years so we're really lucky to have her with us again for 2020.

Artisan Design Team - Blog Roll

Caroline van der Straaten

Emma Goddard

Helene den Breejen

Jan Clothier

Lauren Alarid

Leah Fedynak

Manuela Geiswinkler

Marine Wiplier

Martha Groger

Martin Stone

Narelle Farrugia

Nina Waldschmidt

Rochelle Blok

Stesha Bloodhart

Tammy Wilson

Zsuzsanna Balazs

Product List
Note: The Pleased as Punch DSP is available to demonstrators on pre-order from 3 January 2020 and to customers on 4 February 2020.

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