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About Stamp with Jini

My name is Jini Merck and I'm a Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator. I love being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, not only do I get to be creative every day, I also get to be a creative coach, offering fresh project ideas and encouragement to my customers and friends. For me, helping someone create that perfect project for a special occasion is the best feeling in the entire world. After all, creating cards, scrapbook pages, and gift items is about more than just stamps and ink—it’s about sharing a part of yourself with the people in your life. I live in Clarkesville which is in the North Georgia Mountains with my husband and two children. Although my family keeps me busy I enjoy the creativity of stamping and crafts and the fellowship stamping brings into my life. Spending time creativing cards and gifts for friends and family has been one of my favorite hobbies over the years.

Virtual Album Retreat Now Being Offered!!!

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Join us for our first Virtual Album Retreat in July.

During this three-day, virtual event, you’ll create 12 (2 page) scrapbook spreads, craft with a community that loves memory keeping, learn new techniques, and interact on a personal level with fellow crafters and Stampin’ Up! staff.

Scrapbooking made easy with everything prepped for you – The Kit includes things organized to make it easy!

By purchasing the Month by Month Album Retreat 2025 kit (167338), you’ll get access to an exclusive Facebook group where the live event will be held.


This kit is available for order starting Today, May 28 and available while supplies last!

Month by Month Album Retreat 2025 (167338)

Includes: Exclusive stamp sets, designed precut sheets, cardstock, embellishments, and more

Price: $250 

Use your Stampin’ Rewards and earn more each time you shop with me! This kit earns you $25 in Stampin’ Rewards to use on future orders!

Why not get started on your photos and book with us at this fun event?

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Suites & Suite Products Buy 1 Get 1 50% Starting June 3rd!!!

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Woohoo! Starting Tuesday, June 3rd, all available suites and suite products from the 2025–2026 Annual Catalog and Online Exclusives are buy one, get one 50% off! That means products found in the Suite, not just the Suite themselves so you can mix & match.

So if you’ve had your eye on a new suite from the annual catalog or you really like the look of a stamp set from an Online Exclusives suite, you don’t have to choose—you can get both!

Here are the details:

Sales Period: June 3–30, 2025

  • All available suites and suite products from the 2025–2026 Annual Catalog and Online Exclusives are buy one, get one 50% off.
  • When you shop the sale, the 50% off discount will apply to the lower-priced item (for example, if you buy a suite collection and a stamp set from a suite, the suite would be full price, and the stamp set would be 50% off).
  • Suite collections are available if all items are in stock; if all items are not in stock, you can still shop the products in the Suite separately.
  • You don’t have to buy a suite and suite products all from the same suite collection for the discount to apply. You can buy any suite products from any suite.
  • The discount will appear in your cart once you’ve added two items within the sale parameters to your cart.
  • Products are available only while supplies last.
  • See and shop all qualifying suites in the online store.

Why not grab a coffee and work on your shopping list today so you’re ready to place your order on Tuesday, June 3rd?

Monochromatic Year of Flowers

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Do you love a monochromatic card? I know I do. When I began stamping this was a great way of creating cards with limited supplies. And our In Colors both are great to start with since there are only 5 colors in a family or to add fun trendy colors to your collection.

Today’s card is a monochromatic card highlighting our Strawberry Slush 2025-2027 In Color.

This card uses two different Online Exclusives, the Year of the Flower stamp set (Online Exclusive 165367) and Painted Stripes stamp (Online Exclusive 165437).

This stamp set contains a full year of stamps with monthly flowers making it wonderful for birthday cards all year round.

The Painted Stripes stamp is a large stamp with built in shading so it’s a great stamp for backgrounds and adding a bit of interest to a project, And when you use a punch like the Modern Oval Punch ( 162234) stamping is easy. I loved punches when I first started stamping since they allowed me to get great centered images every time. Simply flip the punch over, line it up in the window, and punch!

And of course a bit of texture has been added with the Strawberry Slush 3/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon (165274) which is lovely and ties wonderfully.

Did you know that each of our In Colors have a variety of options to choose from? You can buy our assortment packs, or individual pack of card stock. Accessories come in assortment packs. Or like our ribbon individual colors making it a great way to quickly choose a color and get started crafting.

Sounds interesting? Why not check out our two In Color Families today?

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Wildflower Birthday

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Do you love soft and lovely? If so this the Wildflower Birthday Suite (164604) might be right up your alley with it’s soft color pallet for creating wonderful cards to celebrate birthdays and other occasions like graduation.

Today’s card uses this Suite of products to create this lovely birthday card.

The Birthday Celebration stamp set (Online Exclusive164592) has these lovely sentiments that are two step making them great for creating the sentiment you need when you combine them. Today’s card uses our white Embossing Powder from the Basics Wow! Embossing Powder (165679) to make the sentiment shine and go with the fun gold foiling in the Wildflower Birthday Designer Series Paper (Online Exclusive 164591). And the fun tassels (think graduation too!) from the Birthday Celebration Dies (Online Exclusive 164598) add a bit of celebratory fun along with the Party Dots (Online Exclusives 164602).

This Suite is sure to please. So why not stop by my Online Store and see what it’s all about today?

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Best wishes with our Sunrise Sailing

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Sand, sea, and sun. What does that make you think of? For me spending time at the lake front in Milwaukee and watching the boats on the water. They looked so elegant out in distance against the blue skies.

Today’s card uses our Sunrise Sailing Bundle (Online Exclusive 165497) filled with lovely sentiments and nautical images. The color has been added using a Blending Brush to hit the embossed image after it’s been cut out with the coordinating die. Isn’t it cool that our Hybrid Embossing Folders like this allow you to cut out the images and dry emboss them like this? A bit of color has also been added to the water and sky so the clouds pop on the Cloud Cover background.

And for a little shine our Holographic Resin Dots (Online Exclusive 165598) have been added.

Look interesting? Why not stop by my Online Store and check out this very popular Bundle today?

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Strawberry Slush Impressions Abloom Card Tutorial

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It’s Friday, and a long holiday weekend at that. Hopefully, everyone enjoys it and has nice weather as we kick off summer and honor those who lost their lives serving in the military and protecting our freedoms.

The card today is a monochromatic card that uses the Impressions Abloom stamp set (Online Exclusive 165605).

This stamp set is part of the Floral Impressions Suite (Online Exclusive 165617) which has dies, Designer Series Paper and more!

The card also uses 2 of our NEW 2025 In Colors that I think you’ll enjoy adding to your collection. The Secret Sea is fantastic as an addition to your neutral choices as it is a deep dark blue, that is almost black.

Check out today’s card using this fun floral set.

I’ve got my PDF below the video for you that contains the measurements, supply list, and even the link for the video so everything you need is in one spot.

Impressions Abloom Thank You Card Tutorial PDF

If you love florals why not stop by my Online Store and check out this fun Suite of products?

And don’t forget we have just a few more days to take advantage of the best kit in the catalog! Build your own kit filled with products you love AND get a discount.

Our Join Now ends on May 31st. Got questions? I’m happy to answer them, simply email me at info@stampwithjini.com

Enjoy!

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Shop at my Online Store and receive a FREE Gift from me; my In Color Impressions Abloom Card Class PDF

Textured Notes

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Have you seen the Textured Notes Bundle (Online Exclusive 165556)? This bundle includes some wonderful images and has several sentiments for all occasions. In addition the Textured Notes Dies (Online Exclusive 165555) are a wonderful set of all purpose dies too.

Today’s card uses this lovely set and creates a neutrals inspired thank you card.

Done in Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake and Garden Green it also uses the Elements of Text stamp set (Online Exclusive 164774) and Birch Wood 3D Embossing Folder (164069) to add interest and texture to the background.

A great card for someone who loves nature or a masculine card.

Why not check out this Bundle and the Suite in my Online Store?

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Happy Hibiscus

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It’s been a rather sultry week and the temperatures have been as high as the humidity so it’s got me thinking of tropical things. So today’s card highlights the Happy Hibiscus stamp set (Online Exclusive 164877).

This stamp set allows you to create these lovely flowers year round if you choose since the set has some great all occasion sentiments. Check out today’s card that uses this stamp set.

The flowers have been stamped in shades of Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, and Pretty in Pink and the leaves in Old Olive which brings out the lovely foiling from the Season of Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper (164144).

So how about you? Are you feeling a bit tropical today too after seeing this lovely card?

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Loveliest Tree

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Today’s card uses a lovely little stamp set that is great for creating masculine cards and more with it’s all occasions sentiments.

Loveliest Tree Bundle (163716) has coordinating dies to work with too. Check out today’s Thank You card that uses this stamp set.

Done in shades of Old Olive and Pecan Pie this card feels like it has a lot of texture. The simple technique of using our Stampin’ Write Markers has been used to add color to this tree. When doing this technique don’t forget to use the side of the tip to protect it and then breathing on it to reactivate the ink for a great image.

I love the way out products work so well together. Would you guess the Cute as Can Bee Designer Series Paper (Scrapbook Brochure 166621) and Cute as Can Bee Scrapbook Workshop Kit (Scrapbook Brochure 166622) papers have been used with their geographic patterns and the Gold Foil Sheets (132622) and Basic Rhinestones Jewels (144220) add some shine?

So what do you think? Find yourself interested in this stamp set? Why not stop by my Online Store and check it out today?

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Darling Dinos Birthday Card Tutorial

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Today’s card is quick and easy and uses our Stampin’ Blends which gives it a bold image.

I just love this little image and it’s sweet little smile. The line image makes the coloring with Stampin’ Blends quick and easy too. I’ve pulled the colors I’ve used from the Timeless Plaid 6×6 Designer Series Paper (164678) plaid pattern that I’ve chosen. While Boho Blue was an In Color that is on the Last Chance list the Boho Blue Stampin’ Blends (Last Chance 161659) is still available while supplies last.

Here is a quick video tutorial and pdf with the complete supply list so you can create one too! And this fun little card uses one of my card sketches, so look for that PDF below too!

Darling Dino Birthday Card Video Tutorial PDF

Card Sketch #16 – Quick & easy inspiration for your projects!

Card Sketch #16 PDF

The great thing about these sketches they are to inspire you. I simply flipped this sketch over to get the layout I used for this card as I wanted the sentiment tucked into the space by this little guys neck. Voila!

Want to learn more about my Card Sketches? Click HERE and Here to see a fun storage idea.

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