Happy Saturday, hope your weekend is starting off to a good start. After all the rain yesterday today is beautiful and sunny. I’ll be getting ready to host my Sunday Stampers at the house tomorrow and have a manicure & pedicure scheduled later in the day, a monthly treat to myself. What do you treat yourself to? Today’s… Read More: Shades of Blue Eclectic for PCC249 »
Today I’m sharing a technique I was reminded of now that Stampin’ Up! is selling Glossy Card stock again. Glossy card stock is 8.5″ x 11″, comes 10 in a pack and has a glossy finish on one side, matte finish on the other and not acid free. For this technique you need glossy card stock, re-inkers (2-3 colors),… Read More: Polished Stone Technique »
Hope you are having a good week, today I thought I would share a card that was easy to make and packs a punch. I’m featuring the Just Add Text stamp set, which comes in both wood and clear-mount. You know how to create the card background, and these stamps will make it easy to get the right… Read More: Sometime Simple is Best »
Happy Monday, hope you had a great weekend. I was able to spend time in the pool both days until the thunderstorms rolled in Sunday afternoon, then it became chores and craft time. It’s always best to get pool time in when you can on the weekend, no guarantee the next weekend will be as nice. Todays card… Read More: Be Inspired by PCC248 »
Happy Saturday, it’s going to be a hot one here in Pittsburgh, the perfect pool day. I’ll be spending some time in the pool and going to a picnic, what about you, what are you doing today? Today I am featuring items from the Wood Textures Suite – the Wood Words Bundle & Wood Textures Designer Series Paper… Read More: Wood Textures Suite = cute crate & note cards »
Hope you are having a good week. Today’s card features one of my new favorite 2017-2019 In-Color, Lemon Lime Twist which I used for the card base, stamping and the new ½” twist ribbon. I’ve used a piece of the Eastern Palace Designer Series Paper for the mat, Layering Oval Framelits and Stitched Shapes Framelits for the focal image.… Read More: Lemon Lime Birthday »
Thought I would showcase a couple new products today, the Very Vanilla Note cards and Foil Frenzy Specialty Designer Series Paper. Pick a pack of patterned paper! So many designs, so many colors, so many uses. Makes a statement with classic patterns combined with foil accents. * Each sheet is double-sided for double the creative options * 12″ x… Read More: Ever use a Note card? »
Today I am featuring the Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Bundle. Remember, when you bundle you save! Buy these two coordinating products using the bundle code and save 10%. Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set – Summer, spring, winter, autumn… we don’t care what season it is…we’ll stamp for all of them with this set and we’ll have fun doing it!… Read More: Colorful Seasons »
Happy Friday! Today’s card was a fun card to make. I’m using some of the new products from the annual catalog. Now I must admit when I first saw the Embossing Paste in the catalog it did nothing for me, but once I watched the Stampin’ Up! video it jumped into the top 5 must haves for me,… Read More: Ever use Embossing Paste? I did with PCC247 »
On Monday I used the Happy Birthday Gorgeous Stamp set, which is also part of the Happy Birthday Gorgeous Bundle. Today I thought I would feature the Happy Birthday Thinlits Die. When you buy these two coordinating products and save 10%. Happy Birthday Gorgeous Photopolymer Stamp Set is Balloons, flowers, and messages, oh my! Create the perfect card or gift… Read More: Happy Birthday & new In-Colors »
Hope you had a nice weekend, it was rather rainy for us on Sunday, perfect for a little crafting and some television. Today’s card is for the Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch challenge 246, link the image below to check out the design teams ideas as well as other crafters, who knows you may even decide to play… Read More: Make a Wish for PCC246 »
Don’t know about you, but I hate waiting, especially when it is for new Stampin’ Up! products to be delivered. Friday I placed my order for products from the new annual catalog and treated myself to 2nd day shipping, I’ll be looking for that brown truck on Tuesday and we all know what I’ll be doing that evening! While I’m… Read More: Don’t you just hate waiting . . . »
Today, June 1, 2017 the new Stampin’ Up! catalog goes live! Falling in love with all the Exciting New Products. I’m sure you have seen the list already, if not here are the new names of the new 2017-2019 In-Colors: Fresh Fig Powder Pink Lemon Lime Twist Tranquil Tide Berry Burst Here is a combination list Stampin’ Up!… Read More: New Annual Catalog Time! »
Quick reminder, today, Wednesday May 31, 2017, is the last day for Stampin’ Up! retiring bundles and stamp sets. Here is the list of retiring bundles, while some of the stamp sets and Framelit/Thinlits will be available in the new catalog, the bundle pricing goes away.: Here is the list of retiring stamp set, available while supplies last. Thank… Read More: Last Day for retiring bundles and stamp sets! »
Only two days remain to purchase the special priced product bundles from the Eastern Palace Suite, new in the 2017 – 2018 annual catalog. The bundled pricing expires May 31, 2017. The starter bundle, perfect for the beginner, item#147196 is $60.50 and includes FREE Very Vanilla Note Cards and Envelopes. The Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies are NOT part of this bundle. The Premier… Read More: Eastern Palace Bundles – only 2 days remain ! »
Today’s card is for the Paper Craft Crew 245 Challenge -Tic Tac Toe and features some of the new 2017-2019 In-Colors and new Happy Birthday Gorgeous Bundle from the Annual Catalog that goes live June 1, 2017 at 10am MT. After looking at the board for a few days, I finally settled on diagonal top left to bottom… Read More: Tic Tac Toe with PCC245 »
When I made today’s card I was not sure when I would post it, but after looking at the calendar I thought this was the perfect weekend to share it with you. Today is part of the Memorial Day weekend here in the United States. Memorial Day is for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s… Read More: Perfect Card for this Weekend »
Happy Thursday, one more day to go until the weekend. For me it’s the last day of work this week, I’m on vacation tomorrow, just like a lot of other people. They showed the morning traffic on the news today and more cars were outbound than inbound to the city, have a feeling quite a few people are… Read More: Old meets New with a Dapper Denim Thank You »
Happy Birthday to my favorite nephew Jake! Today he is finishing up his freshman year at the University of Delaware, guess that’s not a bad birthday present – your last final exam and then done for the summer. He plans on working and even taking a class over the summer, guess it will be busy for him. I’m… Read More: Happy Birthday Jake! »
Hope you are having a nice weekend. Today I’ll be sharing with you the cards my Sunday Stampers will be making. First we will be making cards using the new Eastern Palace Premier Bundle. The card features the new Thick Very Vanilla card stock, Eastern Palace Designer Series Paper, Eastern Beauty stamp set, Eastern Gold Vinyl Stickers, new… Read More: May 2017 Sunday Stamper Cards »
Happy Saturday. Today I thought I would combine a sneak peek of a new stamp set (Crafting Forever) and In-Color (Berry Burst) with the Paper Craft Crew challenge PCC244. The new stamp set and In-Color will be available for purchase June 1st, when the new Annual Catalog goes live. Click on the image below to check out the… Read More: Sneak Peek with PCC244 »
Happy Friday – any special plans for the weekend? I’ll be stamping with my Sunday stampers and running some errands. Today’s card is using the Happy Celebrations stamp set and features a little shadowing of the word ‘Celebrate’, what started as a oh no, turned out to look rather cool, like a shadow. You see I was getting… Read More: Celebrate Good Times with a shadow »
This past weekend I was looking through the new Annual Catalog that starts June 1st (one of the many perks of being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator – early access to the catalogs) I saw that the Paisley & Posies Photopolymer Stamp set was part of the catalog. I really enjoyed this stamp set in the fall and had… Read More: Almost forgot about this stamp set . . . »
Hope you all had a nice weekend, what started out to be a weekend with rain in the forecast turned out to be rather nice with sun peeking out every once in a while and only rain late at night. Thought I would create something a little different today, a mini-treat bag. While the paper I used in… Read More: Mini Treat Bag perfect for a gift card or even… »
Happy Sunday, last night’s hockey game did not end like I hoped, the Penguins lost, not to worry, it’s a seven game series. On a more positive note, what we thought was a pool liner issue turned out to be a pool cover issue and every time we thought we were draining water off the cover, we drained… Read More: PCC243 Sketch Challenge »
Welcome to the weekend! This evening the Pens start round three of the Stanley Cup finals, hopefully they win this series and I’m still watching hockey in June! Today I thought I would share with you a card I made using some of the catalog pre-order items I was able to purchase this month in preparation of the… Read More: Sneak Peek Saturday – Color Theory Suite »
Recently a few of the 24/7 Stampers (the demonstrator group I am part of) got together and did a shoe box swap, since the group that met was in California and I’m in Pennsylvania, I participated via mail as did Marci Long in Texas. A shoebox swap is when you bring a completely made card and all the parts… Read More: Eastern Palace Swap with 24/7 stampers »
Happy Sunday, hope you are having a good weekend. It’s rather cool and rainy here, hopefully today will have some sunshine. Perfect time to make some homemade soup and spaghetti sauce for dinner and the freezer. Today’s card is for the Paper Craft Crew Challenge 242, a color challenge. Click the image below for a link to check… Read More: Z Fold card for PCC242 Color Challenge »
Before I get started, I need to give credit to Janet Wakeland another Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for showing us how to do this using Window Sheets. The Eastern Gold Vinyl Stickers are really cool and a great addition to a card, or even like the card on the right, created completely with stickers with the exception of the… Read More: Turn your Gold Eastern Vinyl Stickers into Silver, how you… »
