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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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