What a wonderful day! The new Stampin’ Up! 2015 Occasions Catalog goes live and Sale-a-Bration with it! I am absolutely IN LOVE with these products, I’m super-excited about these books, and you can start ordering from them today. If I had to describe the Occasions Catalog with just two phrases, I’d choose BUNDLED FUN and SPRINGTIME LOVE. This catalog… Read More: 2015 Occasions & Sale-A-Bration starts today! »
Happy New Year’s! Hope you have some exciting plans for this evening. My husband and I plan on a nice quite dinner at home after watching the Penquins play a NYE evening hockey game, hopefully a winner! Weather here is cold, wind chills in the single digits expected for this evening, nice evening to spend by the fire!… Read More: Happy New Year! »
Merry Christmas, Hope you are enjoying the day with loved ones!
Today my baby brother Michael is getting his new ‘bionic’ hip. He has been having a lot of pain the last few months and decided he had enough, so today is first day to pain free walking, golfing, etc. I’ve been thinking about him a lot today so I thought I would use the new stamp set ‘Sheltering… Read More: Mikey – Thinking of You »
Happy Monday, hope you all had a nice weekend. Weather here was cold and gloomy, perfect weekend for watching Hallmark channel Christmas movies and doing some crafting. Good to know all my Christmas cards are complete, with a few extra’s just in case. My pre-order from the new 2015 Occasions & Sale-A-Bration catalogs came today! Look for some sneak peaks between… Read More: Merry Christmas Debbie & Chuck! »
Tomorrow the family will be celebrating my cousin Lisa’s son Jackson’s first birthday, today I thought I would share the card I will be taking to the party, it’s a shaker card! Thought it would be entertaining for the little guy. 🙂 Before I share the card with you, thought I would fill you in on the Year-End Closeout… Read More: Happy Birthday Jackson »
Each year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans gather for a day of feasting, football and family. While today’s Thanksgiving celebrations would likely be unrecognizable to attendees of the original 1621 harvest meal, it continues to be a day for Americans to come together around the table—albeit with some updates to pilgrim’s menu. Wishing you and your… Read More: Happy Thanksgiving »
Happy Friday to me and Wednesday to you. If you wonder why I am saying Happy Friday to me is because I am off work Thursday and Friday so that I can turn my house into a winter wonderland and work on some Christmas cards I need to mail out. Scary to think that in 5 weeks Christmas… Read More: Christmas Greetings »
Happy Friday, welcome to the weekend! Not sure about where you live but here it’s cold and there are snowflakes in the air. Luckily no snow is sticking around, just hitting the ground and melting! We have a husky and he is loving this weather, doesn’t want to even come in the house most of the time. Earlier… Read More: Gentle Peace »
Happy Wednesday, half way through the work week, two days until the weekend. Not sure what the weather has been like where you are but here it was 70 degrees Tuesday and 38 degrees today, brrrrr!!! Here is another card made with the Lovely as a Tree stamp set for the holidays. This is a clean, simple design… Read More: Lovely as a Tree – Merry Christmas »
Yesterday I shared with you the photo of the cards my Sunday Stampers made. Today I thought I would tell you about the Butterfly card inside and outside. Yes you read correctly, inside and out! I have a tendency not to stamp much more than a sentiment on the inside, but on this card, inside butterflies are on… Read More: Butterflies inside & out »
Good morning, hope you are enjoying the weekend. I had a busy Saturday – running errands, made Chili, Stew and Meatloaf for the up coming week and freezer. Also cut paper and packed up all the products needed for the cards I will be making with my Sunday stampers. Thought I would share a picture of the three… Read More: Dreamcatcher »
Happy 1/2 way through the Week! The other day I thought of the stamp set “Lovely as a Tree” one of the first Stampin Up sets I purchased and how I had not used it for a while. So tonight while watching the CMA Awards (loved Jason Aldean’s performance), I made the card below using the stamp set. The card would… Read More: “Lovely” Christmas Card »
Happy Tuesday, hope you are having a good week. Today I thought I would share with you and cool technique I found on You Tube over the weekend, “Stained Glass”. I took the Blended Bloom stamp, inked it with black StazOn ink and stamped it on a piece of Window Sheet. Next I gave it a few minutes… Read More: Stained Glass Blended Bloom »
Today is the monthly gathering of my Sunday Stampers Hostess club. Each month we meet at a different hostess’s home for a fun filled few hours of stamping, laughing and some great food. Today we are meeting at the home of the newbie in the group . Thought I would share with you the projects that we will be making. In… Read More: Sunday Stampers Cards »
Happy World Card Making Day! Thought I would share two cards made with the same stamp set (Festival of Tree’s with matching Tree Punch) using traditional and not so traditional holiday colors. The basics of the cards are the same – Crumb Cake cardstock for the card base, banner 3/4″ x about 3″-4″ with a tree stamped and… Read More: World Card Making Day ! »
Happy Birthday to my wonderful niece Maya – Uncle Dan and I hope you have a great day! Maya loves to craft and I always make sure to include a craft item in her birthday package. She received her card early and loved it, hope you do as well! Here is a picture of Maya from the first day… Read More: Happy Birthday Maya! »
Last night I saw a piece of Watercolor paper in my paper stash and thought it’s been awhile, you look lonely. I’ve been hooked on Blendabilities and water-coloring has taken a backseat, now water-coloring is front and center. With the weather lately we have had some beautiful evening sunsets – yellow & oranges – which gave me the idea for… Read More: Fall Watercolor Wetlands »
Hope you had a great weekend, ready for another week? Yesterday I made a “Dump Cake” for dessert. I like to watch Food Network and The Pioneer Woman is one of my favorite shows. Ree made the cake in the show Saturday and it made me remember how my Grandma Sutterlin would make a cherry/pineapple one. A dump cake is… Read More: Clean – Simple and Scattered! »
Happy 39th Birthday to my godson Jason, you have grown to be a fine young man. I have to admit it seems like yesterday he was that cute little kid with blond hair riding a tricycle. Below is the card I sent Jason for his birthday. I used the Four Feathers Stamp set with matching framelits from the new… Read More: Happy Birthday Jason! »
Happy Saturday, hope you all have a fun weekend planned. Hopefully I will have both pool and craft time. It seems like the summer just started and now its over. So what do you think of the new Holiday Catalog, have a wish list of items you are interested it. Over the next few weeks, I will share with you… Read More: Thank you card »
Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband Dan, for a few short months we will be the same age – then come January I become the “older” women! Today is the first day for the new 2014 Holiday Catalog – there are a lot of great stamp sets and bundles. Over the past few days I have showed a… Read More: Hello Fall and 2014 Holiday Catalog! »
Recently I needed to send a get well card to my upline’s husband and “manly” cards are always a challenge, then I though of this. Using the new ” Little Letter” Thinlit dies, I randomly die cut Get Well on a piece of Night of Navy. I then used the new Confetti Stars Punch (from the 2014 Holiday Catalog go live… Read More: Get Well Card »
At the Stampin Up convention this past July in Salt Lake City, our team of 24/7 Demonstrators decided we would do a card swap using the Amazing Birthday stamp set we all received for attending convention. A swap is where a group of people make cards and “swap” their card for a card from another crafter, you can only imagine… Read More: 24/7 Swap card and Short & Sweet recruiting promotion »
Hi there, thought I would share one of the cards we made at my monthly Sunday Stampers Club yesterday. The third Sunday of each month my Sunday Stampers meet and we make three cards/projects. One of the projects was a card made with the Kind Eclectic stamp set we did at convention. I posted that on my blog August… Read More: Quick & Easy »
Happy International Lefthanders Day! While not a “lefty” myself, I do know a few : My dad, Herman (I was always daddy’s girl and I miss him every day!) My husband Dan – the love of my life My friend Theresa – who introduced me to the wonderful world of Stampin Up and cardmaking! Thought I would make a… Read More: Salute to Lefties Everywhere! »
Welcome to the weekend. This weekend is the Cranberry Cup Softball Tournament, which benefits families in my local community. My husband manages the Badd Newz/Nationwide team and I wish them luck! Today I thought I would share cards we made at a Make-n-Take at the Stampin’ Up Convention this year, using Whisper White Note Cards. When I came home I made… Read More: Whisper White or Very Vanilla »
Thought I would share a cute Koala card with you today. Koala’s are one of my favorite animals, they are just so cute! My ultimate vacation would be a trip to Australia to see them in their natural surroundings. The stamp has the words ‘thinking of’ and ‘you’ part of the entire stamp, now hold your breath – I… Read More: Cute Koala »
Happy Monday, Today’s card represents what I’m thinking as I watch the raining falling again today. We had rain “showers” all weekend, including at the Jason Aldean concert @ PNC Park in Pittsburgh Saturday night. The rain actually felt good, but the lightening was a little scary at time. Great concert – Tyler Farr, Florida Georgia Line, Miranda… Read More: Bootiful Rain/Sun »
Today’s card is one from an organized swap I am participating in at the Stampin Up convention this week. My Sunday stampers made a similar card in are June class. At the bottom of the post is a photo of the cards made in June, you can see a different version of todays card. Soft Suede cardstock was used as… Read More: Tag Card »