I LOVE the new Holiday Catalog. I want every single stamp set and accessory in it. How about you? Do you have a favorite? Mine changes, but right now it's the Ornament Keepsake stamp set and matching framlits. Stampin' Up! is now offering Bundles, you can purchase the stampset and the coordinating framelits at a ...
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Where does the time go??
Do you ever have those times in your life that you keep thinking, "Once I get "x" done, I'll have some free time OR I'll get back to my normal day to day?" only to have something else come up, followed by something else. That is what my entire spring and summer has been like, and unfortunately my poor blog has be ...
Wonderful Wisteria Mother’s Day
Mother's day is just around the corner.....(hint, reminder, wink wink). Here's great card that any Mom would love to receive. I stamped & embossed the large rose from the now retiring Fifth Avenue Flower 3x on card stock vellum. Before I cut the the flowers out, I used my brayer and added Wisteria Wonder ink on ...
Banner Gift Bags
Aren't these cute!!! Almost as cute as the recipients!! My cousin's twins turned 2 a couple of weeks ago, and these were their gift bags. The price of gift bags at paper stores is so expensive, then add the card, matching tissue paper, you can pay as much for packaging as you do for the gift. I now prefer to ...
Woven Hearts
We held our demo meeting last night and this was one of the cards I came designed for the ladies. The heart is cut out of the Basic Gray paper with the Framelit Hearts. We then used 1/2 inch strips of Twitterpated DSP to create a woven pattern that was attached to the inside of the card. I added a ...
Cup of Tea
Happy Sunday Here's a quick card we did at Coffee & Crafts and features the Tea Shoppe stamp set from the Occasions Mini and the Fabulose Foliate Wheel. The inspiration comes from the Stampin' Up! demonstrator magazine Sampin' Success that we receive every month. I just loved the mix of ...
Easy and bold, CASEing Pinterest!
Here's a really quick and fun card that I CASE'd from Pinterest. I just used some scraps of Real Red, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise and Melon Mambo and used Natural White as a base. After I glued the strips of colored card-stock to the base, I ran it though the big shot with the Flower ...
Flowers, Flowers everywhere!
I'm thinking SPRING!!! We haven't had very much winter here in New England, so I'm ready to move on to spring. I want warmer weather, green grass, and flowers. Today's card is a really simple "springy" card. I used the great lined images from the Fabulous Florets stamp set. Just randomly ...
Happy Birthday……..a little bit late!
Pin It Here's a card we made in a class a few month back. I has a request for some masculine cards. I got the inspriation from Pinterest. Do you love Pinterest? I'm totally addicted, but my boards are so full and I can't find the card now, it wasn't a Stampin' Up! card, but they used the ...
Beary Balloon’s
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Coffee & Crafts, fun!
On Wednesday mornings I have a great group of ladies that comes by for Coffee & Crafts. We chat, craft, drink coffee and chat. Did I mention we chat. We all started as strangers and now are great friends. We usually make one card, but sometimes we might sneak in a second. Pin ...
Dressing up the Bag
Pin It We attend lots of kids birthday parties. Some times it seems like we will have at least one a week. For the last one, I found this cute polkadot bag and it screamed MELON MAMBO. I see the world in Stampin' Up! colors, do you? To dress the bag up I added a cute cupcake tag, tissue paper which I ...
New Framelits & Stamps
Happy January!!! I'm back!!! I finally got a new camera, and can properly photograph my cards. iPhones are great, but they just can't cut it for somethings. ...
Distressed Holiday Card
A few weeks back, I had a request for a card using products found in the distressing essentials kit (118762). The kit contains 4 distressing ink spots (tea stain, charcoal, mahognay, navy); a flat stamp; 1 sanding block; 1 emery board, and 3 precision files. This is the perfect kit to make the ...
How-to: Gift Card Stockings
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 ...
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 ...
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