Happy Christmas in July week! I am a big fan of Christmas and love making holiday cards for family and friends. At the Stampin’ Up convention this week we will be receiving the new Holiday catalog with the chance to preorder some items as demonstrators – I can hardly wait!!!! Thought I would share with you a card made with… Read More: Christmas in July »
Happy Friday, today at 5pm I started my vacation! Next week I will be in Salt Lake City for the Stampin’ Up Convention and some sightseeing. Looking forward to meeting up with demonstrators I met last year and the new one’s I’ll meet this year! Todays card is for the Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch#101, each Wednesday a new… Read More: PCC #101 »
Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend with family and friends. I enjoyed having my brother and his family here for the long weekend, even had some crafting time with my niece which is always nice! Here is the sketch for this weeks Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch #100 challenge. Click on the sketch to visit the PCC… Read More: Paper Craft Crew #100 »
Happy July 4th! Quick post of a flag card made with the Work of Art stamp set in Real Red and Night of Navy. Stars are punched from the Itty Bitty Accent punch pack and gold paper. The picture below the card is of my nephew Jake, niece Maya, brother Michael and not in the photo my sister-in-law… Read More: Happy July 4th! »
Keep in mind: There is no limit to the number of free Designer Series Paper packs you can receive. For each three purchased, you will receive one free. To get your free DSP, enter it in your order separately from the three packs you’re paying for. For example, if you want four packs of the same type… Read More: Buy 3 get 1 Free – Designer Series Paper Promotion… »
Hope you are all having a nice weekend. Weather was beautiful here Saturday, spent over 6 hours enjoying my pool, so that means a lot of things to do today, but that’s ok, weather will not be “pool” weather so errands it is. Need to get ready, my brother Michael and his family will be visiting for a… Read More: Paper Craft Crew Sketch #99 »
Let me start today by wishing a Happy Birthday to my wonderful sister-in-law Diane, hope you have a great day! Look forward to seeing you a week from today with my brother Michael, Jake & Maya when you come to visit for a long July 4th weekend! Today I will be sharing with you the card I sent to Diane… Read More: Happy Birthday Diane! »
Here are the weekly deals from Stampin’ Up for June 24 – June 30, 2014, click on the pictures below to be directed to the Stampin’ Up website. Highlighted card uses the “Window Frames Collection Framelits”. Keep in mind you can never have enough framelits, they are great for easy layers to the card.
Let me first say thank you to Paper Craft Crew for selecting me as a Featured Artisan for Sketch #96, it is a honor and I enjoy participating! Sketch #98 proved to be a challenge as I decided to use every color in the piece of “Sweet Taffy” Designer Series Paper I used as the background. Woo Hoo!… Read More: PaperCraftCrew #98 »
I was just sitting here working when this just popped into my head, a quick and simple welcome baby card using the stamp set “Work of Art”. It was the pastel colors I was thinking about. This is a great card you could use for a baby shower if you do not know if boy or girl or… Read More: Work of Art Baby Card »
Today’s card is a Sympathy card I created to send to the husband of a fellow stamper. I thought simple is best. The card base and mat are Sahara Sand and I used the new ‘Large Polka Dot’ embossing folder for depth on the mat layer. The stamp set used is called ‘Too Kind’, which is a two-step set, ink colors are, Blackberry… Read More: Too Kind »
Happy Thursday, it’d been a rather rainy week here in the ‘burgh, which seems to always happen when Pittsburgh hosts the Three Rivers Art Festival. Luckily the weekend weather forecast is sunny and 80, grilling, pool time and swaps for convention on my schedule! Here is the sketch for this weeks Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch #97. Each Wednesday… Read More: PCC#97 – Flowers, Lace & Chevron »
Tonight I thought t I would share a Quick and Simple birthday card with you. This card is made with a new stamp set and designer series paper from the 2014-2015 Catalog. The stamp set used is called “Age Awareness” and it is a photopolymer set , great for placing the image exactly were you want it on the paper.… Read More: Quick & Simple Birthday Card »
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. Saturday was nice and sunny, I was able to get about 2 1/2 hours in the pool! Today is overcast and we have had a few rain showers, guess that’s what we are in for today. That’s actually ok, I can work on some card designs, Monday my first order from the… Read More: Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch #96 »
Happy Friday, in just a few hours the weekend officially starts. Its been a rough week at work, we switched to the cloud for email and lets just say its been a ‘stormy’ cloud. I am looking forward to spending some time in pool if the weather stays sunny, next week I’ll be crafting since my order from the new… Read More: Endless Birthday Wishes Walt! »
Happy Monday, The day is finally here, the new Stampin’ Up 2014-2015 Annual Catalog goes live at 12PM MDT !! This past month I have enjoyed looking at the catalog and creating a wish list of items I can’t wait to get my hands on, my order will make your head spin! Thought I would start by showing two… Read More: New In-Colors for 2014-2016 »
First let me start by saying Happy Friday, sure do like these short work weeks, even if I get confused on what day it is! Here is my card for this weeks Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch Challenge. This card actually came together rather easy for me. I knew I wanted to use items from my pre-order for the 2014-2015 Stampin’… Read More: Paper Craft Crew #95 »
For a limited time you can join Stampin’ Up! for just $50! This amazing opportunity will only last until June 30, 2014, so take what you already love doing—stamping and crafting—and make a little money while you’re at it! When you join Stampin’ Up! during this limited-time offer, you’ll receive: $55 worth of products A 30% discount on your first… Read More: Join Stampin Up for $50 until June 30, 2014 »
There are some great specials this week, click to order.
Happy Memorial Day, let me first thank all the service men and women – past and present who have served our great country – you are reason we have the freedoms we do today! It’s been a busy weekend around here, we opened the pool which is an all day affair and had some great bar-b-q and grilled steak.… Read More: Paper Craft Crew #94 »
Today is a special day, my favorite nephew Jake is 16! Watch out all you drivers in New Jersey! In honor of his birthday, I made a special card and matching envelope for him. What I’m not showing you is the first envelope (made the wrong size) that I filled with lip balm and breath mints for all the… Read More: Happy 16th Birthday Jake! »
Once a month my Sunday Stampers meet and yesterday was the day. Also a pleasure to get together with the ladies. I had a request from Jan, our hostess for the day, for a special baby card and when I saw some samples of a “Building Block Card” I knew this had to be base of my card! I… Read More: Build-a-Block Baby Card »
Happy Saturday, today I decided to try the Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge. Here is a look at the sketch. Here is the card a designed: For my card, I decided to use a card base of Gumball Green(retiring) and Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper as my background and tag. I really like the Scalloped… Read More: Paper Craft Crew #93 »
This week, my brother and sister-in-law celebrated their anniversary, thought I would share the card I made for them. The card base and background mat are Whisper White, for a nice clean look. The background is embossed with the Adorning Accents embossing folder (retiring) and highlighted with Watercolor Wonder Washi Tape. Entire background is popped up with dimensionals. I… Read More: Anniversary Card – Mike & Diane »
This and That Epic Day Designer Series paper is featured on the “Tag-A-Bag” Card.
Happy Saturday, today I thought I would share a card make with products from the new catalog, available June 2nd. It’s a simple card using the new Blended Bloom Stamp, Rich Razzleberry and Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blendabilities Markers. Some fussy cutting and the greeting from Itty Bitty Banners. One tip when “fussy” cutting out a stamped image, run a black… Read More: Sneak Peak! »
Here is a card using the “Tag a Bag” Accessory kit in a different manner, sometime you just need to think outside the box. Gumball green cardstock for card base, equal size pieces of Crushed Curry cardstock and Epic Day Designer Series Paper create the back drop for a tag, label and Bakers Twine from the Tag a Bag Accessory… Read More: Tag a Bag into a Card! »
It’s been a busy weekend and now I am relaxing watching a concert performance of Jason Aldean at the Stagecoach Festival. He’s one of my favorite country singers. Last summer I had the pleasure of meeting him and getting a photo with him, one of the highlights of my summer. One of the other highlights of the Summer of… Read More: Remembering summer of 2013 and Maya’s card design! »