Happy Hump Day, half way to the weekend, next to Friday the best day of the work week. This year Stampin Up is doing something different during Sale-A-Bration with three items only available until February 15th when they will be retired and replaced with three new items. One of the items, the “Sky Is The Limit” stamp set is… Read More: You Send Me Soaring until February 15th »
Happy Monday, welcome to another week, any special plans? Don’t forget this coming Sunday is Valentine’s Day, a great time to show some love to the special people in our lives! Today’s card is for the CanYouCaseIt weekly challenge, this week it’s a sketch by Elizabeth. When I first saw this sketch I though of the two sheets… Read More: CYCI#106 Happy Birthday »
Happy Sunday, ready for some football tonight? While my team is not playing in the big game, I still plan on watching the game, having some great food and watching those commercials. One of the best part of the game is the commercials, you never know what you will see. The card for today features Mint Macaron ink… Read More: Happy Minty Birthday ! »
Welcome to the Simple Saturday version of CardsandCraftswithKaren, an easy to make card using one stamp set. Today’s card features the You’ve Got This Stamp set, one from the annual catalog that I just love. This stamp set can be used for any occasion based on the sentiment used. The background image can used behind any focal image stamp from… Read More: You’ve Got This – Simple Saturday »
Happy Ground Hog Day! It’s a big day here is Pennsylvania, hopefully Punxsutawney Phil will not see his shadow and winter will be ending, I’m ready for warmer temperatures, how about you? Today’s card is for the CanYouCaseIt weekly challenge, this week it’s a color challenge, you can see the banner below. I would like to take the… Read More: CYCI#105 – Heart for Phil »
Happy Sunday, hope the weather is as nice for you today as it is here, it’s in the low 60’s and the sun is out. I’m just sitting her relaxing on the sun porch enjoying the beautiful weather watching the planes high in the sky go by wondering just were the people are going, hopefully somewhere fun! While checking… Read More: Wildflower Birthday FMS221 »
Today is my baby brother Michael’s birthday and this is the card I sent him, guess how old he is? Seems like just yesterday he was a little blonde haired kid complaining about getting his face wet in the swimming and now he’s all grown up. Here is a picture of us from this past summer in Wildwood NJ,… Read More: Happy Birthday Baby Brother »
Happy Friday and welcome to the weekend, now its time to kick back, relax and enjoy some down time 🙂 When I first saw the Cups & Kettle Framelits I did not think of the tea cups as much as the fork, knife and spoon and how cool that would look on a card – today’s card satisfies… Read More: Place setting anyone? »
Happy Hump Day, we made it half way through the week, only two days until the weekend! Hopefully the east coast will have an uneventful weather weekend. I’m looking forward to some crafting time and a massage I have scheduled for Saturday! Today’s card is for the CanYouCaseIt weekly challenge which happens to be a sketch this week.… Read More: CYCI#104 – Global Valentine »
Hope everyone on the east coast survived Snow Storm Jonas, we only had about 2″ of snow here north of Pittsburgh. I’ve been watching the weather channel off and on and my heart goes out to all the people impacted by the storm. My brother in New Jersey has quite a bit of snow, they’ll be spending today… Read More: Happy Birthday Kenzi ! »
Happy Saturday, is the snow from Winter Storm Jonas falling where you are? If you are it’s the perfect day to stay in and be a little crafty. We are on the outer fringe of the storm and only have a few inches and will most likely clear the driveway a little later today, still the perfect day for… Read More: Simple Saturday – Birthday Blooms »
Happy Wednesday and Birthday to me! I’m one of those people who enjoy advertising their birthday, how else do you get presents? I’m also known for spreading out my birthday over a week or so, again why not? Rule number one in our house is no cooking on my birthday, so cereal and fruit for breakfast and my husband… Read More: CYCI#103 – Happy Birthday to me! »
Happy Monday, hope you had an enjoyable weekend. All that warmer than normal weather is gone and winter is here, sure wish we could get those 60 degree days back. For me it’s always a fun weekend when I get to stamp with my Sunday Stampers, for some reason I always seem to take a nap when it’s… Read More: Going Places – Hello »
Today I am featuring the cards that my Sunday Stampers made today. We used the new Precision Base Plate (a recent purchase of mine) along with some products from the new Occasions & Sale-A-Bration catalog. One product I did not purchase and wish I did was the new Big Shot Die Brush – a must have for detailed thinlits! First is the… Read More: Sunday Stamper Cards »
Happy Saturday, welcome to the weekend. Today I am starting a new series of cards that are simple and easy to make, featuring just one stamp set per card – “Simple Saturdays”. I know a lot of us like to use multiple stamp sets when making cards, sometime we just need something easy and simple, hence cards posted on… Read More: Simple Saturdays – Lego Birthday »
Hi there, hope you are having a good week. Today’s card features the Botanical Blooms bundle (mentioned in Monday’s Post). This set bring numerous idea’s into my mind. To make my card I started with a top folding Whisper White Thick card stock card base. There is a piece of the Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper 5.5″ x… Read More: Botanical Blooms »
Hope you all had a nice weekend. The weather here was wild, with 50 degrees and sunny on Saturday and dropping temperatures with snow showers on Sunday. Saturday was spent doing those thing we need to do, food shopping, making chili for the freezer and laundry. Sunday I spent a few hours playing with the box of new products I ordered from the 2016… Read More: How do you use Designer Series Paper? »
Who doesn’t like a birthday hat, especially one you don’t have to wear. As promised here is another birthday card featuring additional products from the Birthday Bouquet suite in the 2016 Occasions catalog, page 9. This card features the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper, Honeycomb Embellishments and Pool Party 3/8″ Glitter Ribbon. Using my Stampin Trimmer and a piece… Read More: Who doesn’t like a birthday hat? »
Today both the new 2016 Occasion and Sale-A-Bration catalogs go live, what an exciting day at Stampin Up. There are tons of great products in the new 2016 Occasions catalog and for the first time as part of the Sale-A-Bration catalog there will be limited time items (while supplies last), how cool is that. While some demonstrators have been sharing… Read More: Today’s the day – new 2016 Occasion & Sale-A-Bration catalogs! »
Happy Sunday, hope all is well with you. Yesterday was one of those days were I just felt like cleaning out some cupboards/drawers/closets – as they say out with the old in preparation for the new. This included my craft space in preparation for the new 2016 Occasions and Sale-A-Bration products. I’ll be placing my order Tuesday morning.… Read More: Cherry on Top Birthday! »
Just a quick and simple card to wish you all a Happy New Year for 2016! Later today I will be enjoying some pork, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and baked beans, standard meal we have every January 1, for good luck! Thank you for stopping by, have a great day – Craft On!
Happy New Years Eve! Any plans this evening? Nothing special happening here, just a nice quite dinner with a NCIS LA DVD marathon. I know that starting next week I’ll be super busy (year end close at work and the new SU Occasions/Sale-A-Bration catalogs) so some quite time will be nice! I wanted to take a moment to… Read More: Thank you for 2015 ! »
Hi there, thought I would post a quick and simple card featuring two of the new Weekly Deals – the Wood Mount stamp set, Amazing Birthday and the Ornate Tag Topper Punch. This was a quick and easy card to put together. It features one of the stamps on the tag. While the theme for the card is… Read More: New Weekly Deals with Cucumber Crush »
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas and was able to spend time with family & friends. I enjoyed Christmas morning, that special breakfast and Skyping with my brother & his family. Even though we are miles apart they always seen close when I can watch them opening presents! Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to get my… Read More: CYCI#100 – A Milestone! »
So were you all good little boys and girls? Did Santa stop at your house last night? Hopefully Santa will have brought me a new purse under the tree . . . what are you hoping for? I wanted to take the time today to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas! I appreciate all of you whether you are a regular customer… Read More: Merry Christmas! »
Let me start my saying while I enjoy the warmer weather something just seems wrong with starting Christmas Eve with a thunder and lightening storm at 60+ degrees vs. watching the snow fall for Santa’s sleigh. Something tells me we just might have Easter snow this year. Today’s post is a sneak peek of the parts included on… Read More: Sneak Peek for Christmas »
Just a reminder that each Tuesday Stampin’ Up! releases a new group of items as Weekly Deals, items that are reduced 25% in price while supplies last. This weeks are listed below. Who doesn’t like Glimmer paper and you might want to try the Color Me Irresistible Designer Series Paper. The card in today’s post is made using a piece of… Read More: New Weekly Deals Dec. 21-28 »
So how are you coming with your holiday preparations? Cards sent? Presents purchased and wrapped? Cookies made? I’m happy to report cards made and sent as well as cookies made. I spent part of the weekend prepping for the Christmas gifts I will be giving my Aunts, Uncles & cousins this Christmas as well as looking for that… Read More: Falala Santa’s coming this week! »
Thought I would show you have one of this weeks “Weekly Deals” , the Pretty Petals Designer Series Paper stack is for anyone. Don’t let the name fool you, using the Watercolor Words Photopolymer Stamp Set and a few pieces of card stock I was able to create a couple cards showcasing the versatility of the stamp set and… Read More: Which Weekly Deal is your fav? »
Happy Monday, how was your weekend? Did you know today is one of the largest card mailing days of the holiday season, are yours in the mail? I’ve mailed all the ones I normally do and have special cards (like today’s) that I will hand out on Christmas to my relatives along with a special treat! This morning… Read More: Jolly MOJO428 »