Here is how I created the gift card pocket with for the Holiday Stocking Die. WARNING - THIS POST IS PHOTO HEAVY!!! Step 1: You will need 1 - 6" x 11" and 1 - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Fold the 6" x 11" in half to 5 1/2" x 6" Step ...
Gift Card Stockings
I've been really busy lately working on craft fair, and I wanted to share with you one of the products I've been making for the christmas season. Gift Card popularity has grown in the past years, supermarkets and drug stores now have large sections dedicated to selling gift cards for every type of ...
Happy Labor Day!!
Are you having a great end of summer weekend? I can't believe how fast the summer has flown by. I spent Saturday at the Lake Boon Artisan Fair. What you can't tell from the photo, is that the lake was just behind my tent, down a small embankment. I wish I had gotten a photo of the view. ...
Anniversary
This past Sunday my family celebrated my brother & sister-in-law's wedding anniversary. I remembered to take a photo before signing it and running out the door. My camera is still broken, so I'm still using my iphone for all my photo's......maybe someday. Hubby is one of those guys who refuses to pay for ...
Gone so long……catching up!
Wow.....how time flies. It's amazing how life can just engulf you. Back in May I did my first craft fair and I devoted every free moment I had to creating product to sell and display. I think it went well and I'm looking forward to doing some more this fall. Here's a picture of my booth: We were ...
Cased “Friends”
I love to look at other paper-crafters blogs. Sometimes I lose several hours of a day to my computer. One of my favorite's is "Kerry's Paper Crafts". Her ideas are very inspiring, and I just love her style. So a couple of weeks ago, she did some spring cards, and one really caught me eye. I changed it up a bit ...
Hartford Regionals Swap
Back in mid-March I got to attend Stampin' Up!'s Regional event in Hartford, CT, with Gianna from my downline. This was our first time at a Regionals, and we had such a great time. One of the fun activities of a Stampin' Up! get together is swapping cards. I decided I wanted to make about 100 cards to swap. I had ...
Chairs, Lights, and Photo’s
So first I have to apologize for the quality of the photos. I changed the lights in my craft room to OttLite lights and they are awesome, but they didn't work real well for lighting my photos. I think I need to make some changes with the settings on the camera. I tried to fix them in Photoshop, and some look better ...
More Hydrangea’s
I have a simple but fun card tonight. I love this stamp set "Becuase I Care". It's a level 1 hostess set, that you can earn by hosting a workshop with $150 in sales. The image is stamped on card stock vellum, then you lay the vellum (image side down) on your mat from the mat pack and rub the 'white areas' with ...
Baby Bundle
Here is an adorable baby shower set I made for my friend Lesley in New York. She was hosting the shower for friend Daphne who was expecting a baby girl. Lesley wanted to have thank you cards, note cards with a box to hold them and favors. I immediately knew I wanted to use the Baby Bundle (W 118525, C -120576) set ...
My 1st Challenge
So I decided to try my hand at a challenge, but why do just one. I started with the Color Q Challenge #70 and then used the Create with Connie and Mary #136 for the design. And here it ...
Thinking of You
I had the honor of designing the cards for my uplines demonstrator meeting. I wanted to do something for Valentines Day that didn't scream VALENTINES DAY!! I used Blushing Bride as my pink. The trick to this card is in the center heart. I used a piece of scrap paper to mask off the heart, then stamped the En ...
Elizabeth Eiffel Tower
Here a simple card that I cased from Diana Gibbs over at "Stampin'' with Di". I love the black, white, beige & red color scheme. For the beige I used crumb cake, and used the brayer to apply the ink to the embossing folder to make the image pop. The red is riding hood red. The ribbon is a retired item, but is ...
Get Well Birdie
So, has this happened to you?.....You see a stamp set in the catalog, you don't think that particular set is for you, not your style. Then you see what someone else does with that same stamp set, and realize you have to have it. Well that was pretty much my story when it came to the Fun & Fast Notes Stamp set ...
Stamp Mist Resist Dasher
I learned about this cute little technique called Stamp Mist Resist from a demonstrator only website Stampin' Connection (one of the many benefits of being a demonstrator.) Let me tell you how it's done....First, you need a piece of Whisper White Card stock, your dasher stamp, early espresso classic ink, versamark ...
Season Greetings
Here's a great christmas card that I made for a workshop for my BFF. I CASE'D (Copy And Share Everything) this design from a card my up-line received as a swap at Founders Circle. Founders Circle is made up of the top demonstrators within Stampin' Up!, and this year 135 demonstrators received this honor and were ...
Linda Cullen