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 »
Today I would like to share with you a card that I will be swapping with the 24/7 Stampers later today at our pre-convention gathering. During my niece Maya’s visit over July 4th, she not only helped me design the card after viewing some idea’s on You Tube, but scored and stamped them! Don’t worry, I did work… Read More: 24/7 Swap Card »
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 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! »
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! »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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! »