Happy Tuesday, hope you had an enjoyable weekend! Today’s card features the new Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder and the Affectionately Yours Product Suite. The card base is Night of Navy and the mat is one of the Copper Foil papers from the Affectionately Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper has colorful floral designs including copper foil. Ten sheets… Read More: Love me some Copper! »
Happy July 4th! Hope you are enjoying a nice three day weekend. Today’s card is a shaker – my favorite to make and with the new Stampin Up foam adhesive strips they are now super easy to make! The Sweet and Sassy Framelits along with the Big Shot and Magnetic Platform make cutting out the heart a breeze.… Read More: Happy 4th of July ! »
Merry Christmas in July! Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I really enjoy the Hallmark channels Christmas in July movies, they start this afternoon. I’m known for taping and watching these movies through the whole year. My husband even enjoys them with me, he’s such a great guy! Have a feeling a few will get watched… Read More: Merry Christmas in July! »
Welcome to the last day of June, getting ready for the long three day holiday weekend? Weather here has been really nice and I’ve even been able to enjoy a few evening swims. Hopefully the nice weather will continue. We have a new grill and plan to smoke some wings and pork butt to go with my famous… Read More: Winner Winner Spinner Card ! »
Happy Birthday to my sister-in-law Diane today, hope you have yourself a great day! Here is a picture of my sister-in-law Diane, Jake, Mike and Maya from Jake’s prom night. Rather good looking family! Funny how Diane and I seem to get better each year as my brother and husband just get older. Here is the card… Read More: Happy Birthday Diane! »
Hard to believe that my nephew Jake graduated from high school last night, seems just like yesterday he was starting school and now he’s 18 and graduating. I’ve very proud of him, he will be attending University of Delaware this fall. Here is a picture of him from his prom earlier this month with my brother Mike, rather… Read More: Jake graduates ! »
Hope everyone had a great weekend, I enjoyed my three day weekend and have another one coming at the end of this week. I was able to create some cards and spend time in the pool, two things I love to do! Hope you did something you enjoy as well. You are my sunshine, my only sunshine you… Read More: You are my Sunshine ! »
Happy Tuesday, hope you are having a great week so far. We are here in Pittsburgh, the Pens won the Stanley Cup Sunday night and we are still enjoying the win! There is even a parade Wednesday! Today’s card features the stamp set “Pop of Paradise”, which can be found on page 85 of the annual catalog. To… Read More: Love me some pineapples & pink flamingo »
We’ve made it halfway through the week and closer to the weekend. Saturday is my 40th year high school reunion. I’ve made a gift basket with 40 handmade cards as a door prize, I’ll post a picture later in the week. Today’s post features the new 2016-2018 In-Colors, both card stock and ink along with the Moroccan Nights… Read More: Moroccan Nights with new In Colors »
Hope you all had a nice weekend, mine would have been better if the Penguins won their game Saturday night, luckily there are four more – need two more wins to bring home the Stanley Cup. Today’s card features the Love and Affection stamp set. This set is perfect for creating your own designer series paper. The card… Read More: Sending a smile 🙂 »
May 2016 was a busy month for my cousin Shari, two of her daughters graduated, Kenzi from Chartiers Valley High School and Jessie from Wittenburg University and her son Josh passed his journeymen’s test and is now a licensed Plumber Here is a picture of the three sister – Erika, Jessie & Kenzi from Jessie’s graduation earlier in May. Erika and… Read More: Congrats to Kenzi, Jessie and Josh ! ! ! »
Today is the day Stampin’ Up! demonstrator and customers alike have been waiting for, the start of the new Annual Catalog. I was up early today with my wish list in hand ready to place my order, what about you? For the month of June when you have an order of $350 USD or more (individual or workshop)… Read More: Let’s Celebrate the new Catalog ! »
Happy Memorial Day weekend. This facebook post from Matt Ehrin, my cousin Alex’s husband is a perfect reminder of what Memorial Day means, please take a moment to read it. For those of you who think Monday is just a day off to party…..Memorial Day is a United States (U.S) Federal Holiday that honors service members that died… Read More: Please take the time to remember today . . . »
Today we are celebrating my cousin Sue’s sons Jon & Steve as they graduate from high school this year. It’s busy month for her, her oldest son Jacob Aaron graduated from college last week. The cards I made for Jon & Steve feature the new 2016-2018 In-Color Dapper Denim, retired Brushed Gold Paper and Whisper White card stock.… Read More: Congratulations Jon & Steve »
It’s been awhile since I participated in a blog design challenge, but when I saw the new Stamp, Ink, Paper challenge this week, I knew I need to play along. I’ve had some flowers from the Botanical Builder Framelits sitting around looking for a home and today’s card is it! Here is the banner for the challenge, please… Read More: SIP # 49 = Flowers »
How is your week going, we have half way through with a three day weekend on the horizon. It’s starting to be graduation time around here, parties the next two weekend. I’ll be taking a break from Simple Saturday’s so I can feature graduation cards for the my cousins sons and daughters, we have both high school and… Read More: Time to Party with Old and New »
Happy 18th birthday to my favorite nephew Jake! Today’s post is all about Jake. Earlier this year he has here for a visit and I snapped this picture of him, he’s not one for having this picture taken, which explains the face. He is turning into a rather handsome young man who will be attending the University of Delaware this… Read More: Happy 18th Birthday Jake! »
Yes, you are correct, it’s not Sunday and I’m sharing my Sunday Stampers cards. Running a little behind but wanted to make sure I shared the cool cards we made this past Sunday. The Fancy Fold card was seen by a few stampers on Pinterest and as the good demonstrator I am we made the card. We also had… Read More: Sunday Stamper cards . . . »
Welcome to Simple Saturday, a weekly series featuring cards made with one stamp set. Today’s cards features designer series paper and the retiring stamp set “Fabulous Four” – available in both wood and clear mount. The card starts with creating the design using strips of designer series paper. First I cut about 20 strips, ½” wide of designer series… Read More: Simple Saturday with the Fabulous Four »
At the Stampin’ Up! office Shannon West decided she wanted to “bring birthday’s back” and designed a stamp “imbringingbirthdaysback” to get people back to sending birthday days instead of just wishing facebook birthdays. How many of us are guilty of not sending enough cards? Let work on changing that ! ! ! Today is Shannon’s birthday and I wanted to share… Read More: Happy Birthday Shannon! »
Happy Anniversary to Mike & Diane my brother and sister-in-law, many more happy years to come! Thought I would share with all of you the card I sent them for this special day using the Shine On Specialty Designer Series Paper, which happens to be retiring at month end. This is a great paper to use for boxes… Read More: Happy Anniversary Mike & Diane »
Happy Saturday and welcome to the weekend. Today’s card features the stamp set Balloon Celebration and the matching Balloon Bouquet punch. Until May 31st you can purchase the stamp set and punch as a bundle, that pricing will go away June 1st, so get your bundle today. Have you ever heard of “ROYGBIV” it’s an acronym for the… Read More: Simple Saturday – ROYGBIV »
Today I am sharing with you a card made with a brand new stamp set, Marquee Markers #141727, from the new catalog that goes live June 1, 2016. The stamp set was in our bags at On Stage. It’s a fun set you can stamp, cut out and layer. Don’t forget the rhinestones for added bling. Thank you… Read More: Marquee Madness . . . »
So how is your week so far? Mine is going well, I’m in Stamford CT for business, learning new responsibilities for my day job as Lead Finance Manager. Being a remote employee in another state, it’s nice to see and meet people you normally only talk to on the phone. Today’s card features the retiring Pretty Petals Designer… Read More: A Happy Hello »
Today’s card was inspired by fellow 24/7 demonstrator Valory Degree who used this design which was part of a presentation during On State this past April, it’s where a 4″ x 4″ square of designer series paper (DSP) is used for the background. The key to the design is cut the paper diagonally and adhere to a card base with… Read More: Amazing what a 4″x4″ square of DSP can do .… »
Hope you are all having a great week, I’ve had fun the past couple evenings playing with some of the new product I was able to pre-order from the new catalog since I attended On Stage Live in Salt Lake City this month. This is definitely a great perk of being a Stampin Up demonstrator. Check out my… Read More: Sneak Peek, new In-Colors »
Happy Tuesday, hope all is well with you. My Stampin Up new catalog Pre-order (one of the perks of being a demonstrator) was delivered yesterday and over the next few evenings I will be playing with the products, look for some cards using some new 2016-2018 In-Colors and stamp sets. The actual catalog goes live June 1st. Today’s card… Read More: How to use Washi Tape on a Card . .… »
Happy Saturday, any special plans? I’ll be doing some errands with my husband, we are looking for some new outdoor furniture for our patio. We have a new fountain and would like a few new other items as well. Today’s card is for my Simple Saturday series, clean and simple card with one stamp set. My card features… Read More: Butterflies Simple Saturday »
So how has your week been going? Order anything from the retired list? The stamp set/framelit bundle featured on today’s card, A Nice Cuppa, is one the list, so if you like the card or have a tea/coffee drinker you like to make cards for this is a bundle for you! Today’s card is a Fancy Cut Card,… Read More: Tea anyone? »
Happy Saturday, while you are reading this good chance I am at the On Stage event today here in Salt Lake City. I’m a member of the on-line Stampin Up demonstrator group Sudsol (Simply Unique Demonstrators Sharing OnLine) and on Friday here at On Stage they hosted a card swap and gift exchange, both of which I decided to take… Read More: Sudsol Swaps – Cards and Gifts »