Welcome to Simple Saturday, one stamp set for one card. Today I’m featuring the new “Halloween Treat” stamp from the 2016 Holiday Catalog. Today’s card features some of the new products from the Halloween Night Product Suite: Halloween Night Specialty Designer Series Paper (includes 1 each of 2 single sided silver foil designs) Halloween Night Designer Washi Tape… Read More: Simple Saturday featuring Halloween Treats »
The 2016 Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog goes live today! Click on the catalog below and go directly to the online catalog. There are so many beautiful stamp set, bundles and accessories in this catalog. Each Sunday, starting September 25th I will feature a Christmas project with instructions for the “12 weeks before Christmas”. Here is the card… Read More: 2016 Holiday Catalog is here! »
Happy Wednesday, half way through the week and closer to the weekend. Plans have changed around here for the weekend. This past Sunday the skimmer on the pool filter broke so we closed the pool for the year. With my work schedule. I’ll be out of town mid month, made no sense to have a new skimmer installed, refill pool with… Read More: Strawberry Spinner »
Since today is the last Saturday in August, I thought using the Pop of Paradise stamp set and bright colors was just perfect for my Simple Saturday card. They say the temperature will be about 90 degrees here today and humidity is on the rise, watch out pool here I come! For my card I used the stamps… Read More: Simple Saturday with Pop of Paradise »
Today’s post is in honor of National Dog Day. Features photo’s of our boys Bandit and Nitro and a card made with the Photopolymer stamp set Sitting Here. The dog in the stamp set reminds me of how the boys like to lie around which meant the stamp set was a must have for me. Don’t you cat… Read More: Sitting Here with the boys for National Dog Day! »
Happy Wednesday, half way through the week. The weather here is beautiful this morning so I’m sitting in the sun porch listening to the cars of the interstate and birds, great white noise if you ask me. I can hear the dogs in the yard below walking around enjoying the cooler morning temperatures. The kids in our school… Read More: Post-it Tape = Cool looking card »
Today I thought I would share with you the cards my ladies are making today as part of my Sunday Stampers group. We will be making a Shaker Card, featuring Jar of Love Bundle, which is also an easel and can be removed from the card base, a Spinner Card featuring the Shooting Star Bundle, with either a… Read More: Spinner, Shaker and Serene Scenery cards »
Welcome to Simple Saturday, one stamp set for one card. For the longest time, I didn’t think I needed this stamp set or the matching Fruit Stand Designer Series Paper, well was I wrong. Today I am featuring the stamp set only. In a future Simple Saturday I will combine the paper and stamp set. This is an… Read More: Simple Saturday with Fresh Fruit »
Happy Friday. Earlier this week I told you I would explain how I made the easel portion of my shaker card, well today is the day. I want to again thank fellow demonstrator Connie Stewart for this idea, it’s definitely a cute feature to add when making a shaker card. The shaker jar of fishes, can be removed from the… Read More: How did I do that? »
Happy Birthday Aunt Helen! It was great to spend time with you Sunday and Shari’s, always have a good time with family! Today I’ll be sharing with you the cards I made for Aunt Helen and Kenzi my god-daughter. Both are similar, Aunt Helen’s for her birthday and Kenzi using Wittenberg University colors. Each card has stamped images from… Read More: Happy Birthday Aunt Helen! »
Welcome to Simple Saturday using one stamp set to create your card. This week I’m featuring the Marquee Messages Photopolymer Stamp Set. I’ve created two versions of the card, one with Whisper White card stock and another with Watercolor Paper. For this card, I stamped the images with Basic Black Archival Ink on Whisper White card stock and used… Read More: Simple Saturday with Marquee Messages »
Well then I have a card for you. Happy Friday, welcome to weekend eve. Any special plans, it’s so hot & humid here, we seem to have quite a few pop up storms late afternoon and in the evenings. The past two days we’ve had bad rains with the sun shining and bright rainbows at the end. This weekend is the church… Read More: Do you use a jar as a vase ? »
Happy Hump Day, half way through the week and half way to the weekend! Hope you are all having a good week, weather is hot and humid here and I’ve been busy with some charity events and the first week or so is always busy at work, feels good to have some crafting time again. Today’s card was… Read More: May flowers in August »
Welcome to Simple Saturday, this week I decided to do something a little different and feature a Designer Series Paper Stack called Serene Scenery. This paper stack contains 48 sheets of 12 double-sided designs, 6″ x 6″. These papers coordinate with Bermuda Bay, Crumb Cake, Delightful Dijon, Island Indigo, Old Olive, Pool Party and Whisper White card stock.… Read More: Simple Saturday with Serene Scenery »
Happy Monday, hope you had a nice weekend and were able to stay dry if like us you had quite a bit of rain. Ever look at your crafting space and notice you have lots of scraps laying around? These can be anything from pieces of card stock, ribbon, punch or die cut shapes. This weekend I took some time to organize my… Read More: Have any scraps laying around? Make a card ! »
Happy Sunday, hope you are having a nice weekend. Today’s card features the Confetti Celebration Stamp set and Sprinkles Punch to create a Birthday Shaker card. One of the Scalloped frames from the Layering Squares Collections Framelits create the window for the card. Shaker items are all in the 2015-2017 In-Colors with Gold foil and sequins added for… Read More: Let’s Celebrate a Shaker! »
Welcome to Simple Saturday – using just one stamp set to create your card. Today’s card features the photopolymer stamp set Watercolor Wings. When I was looking around by stamp room I realized I’ve not used this set for awhile and thought it would make a great Simple Saturday card. With this set you can stamp two different… Read More: Simple Saturday with Watercolor Wings »
Happy Friday, or weekend eve. Hope your week has gone well. Last week I had fun playing with the Sunshine Sayings Bundle and Playful Palette Designer Washi Tape and today I’ve added a twist by using Peekaboo Peach to die cut the flower and brushed over it with Gold Wink of Stella for glitter. The card base is Thick Whisper… Read More: Wink of Gold Sunshine »
Today’s card is a “CASE” – copy and share with everyone from the Stampin Up Annual catalog. I really like the look of the card and thought I would give it a try. The card features the Birthday Blossoms Stamp set and Brick Wall Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. To get started I used a card base of Smoky… Read More: Catalog CASE (copy and share with everyone) »
Merry Christmas in July! With the temperatures hot and humid out thought this was the perfect time for the holiday card, it is after all five months away. Today’s card features the Letters for You Bundle, Snow Place Stamp Set and Snow Friend Framelits. I was sitting around thinking about what type of card I could make using the… Read More: Christmas in July with Letters for You! »
Happy Saturday and welcome to “Simple Saturday’s” – Using one stamp set to create the card. This week Sweet Cupcake Photopolymer Stamp set is featured. Today’s shows you that just because a stamp set comes in a bundle, this one with matching dies, you don’t always needs to use both, you can create cool cards without die cutting. This… Read More: Simple Saturday Cupcakes »
Happy Thursday, hope your week is going well. Today’s card features the Sunshine Sayings Bundle and the Playful Palette Designer Washi Tape and one of the new In-Color Enamel shapes ♥ This card is fun and easy to make. I started with a piece of Whisper White 4 7/8″ x 3 5/8″ and added strips of Washi tape… Read More: Love me some Washi Tape . . . »
Hello to all, hope you are having a good week. Today’s card is a layering card, featuring the Fluttering Textured Embossing Folder and Gold Foil die cut Butterfly. The main three colors of the card are Whisper White, Dapper Denim and Watermelon Wonder, two layers of each on a Whisper White Card base. The layer with the butterfly on it,… Read More: Butterfly Layers »
Don’t let the look of this card worry you, it’s really rather easy, all you need is your Stampin Up Trimmer and some cardstock. Depending on how you decorate the card, you still have a 4¼” x 5½” card that fits in an A2 envelope. The basic pieces for the card are a piece of card stock 4¼” x… Read More: My first “Bendy” card »
Welcome to Simple Saturday, featuring the Celebrate Today photopolymer stamp set. For my card I am using only the stamp set. There are coordinating Balloon Framelits and I’ve included information on those in the supply list below. The stamp set is made up of 17 photopolymer stamps and is recommended for 6 different clear blocks. One idea I… Read More: Celebrate Simple Saturday »
One of the latest rages now are shadow boxes, made from designer series paper or card stock and decorated. Today’s post are the first few shadow boxes I’ve made. They are fun to make and make great presents. For mine I used the Affectionately Your Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Playful Palette Designer Series Paper Stack. The… Read More: All the rage, Shadow Boxes »
In keeping with the theme from Simple Saturday, 2016-2018 In-Colors, today’s card features the Sunshine Sayings Bundle – the Sunshine Sayings Stamp Set and coordinating Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies, using the new 2016-2018 In-Colors. New In-Color card stock was used to die cut both the large and small flowers. These flowers are layered on a card base of Thick… Read More: Love is in the Air with In-Colors! »
When I see the fireflies out at night I remember back to when I was a child and would catch them and put them in a jar with holes in the lid to watch them glow. On Facebook I saw that a local orchard was having a Firefly Festival last night for kids, both of these items inspired… Read More: Fireflies light up the night! »
Welcome to Simple Saturday – this week I’m featuring the Kinda Eclectic stamp set with the new 2016-2018 In-Colors, Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugarplum, Dapper Denim and Emerald Envy. This stamp set is perfect for those who like the collage look and it showcases a variety of colors rather nicely. The five images of stamps match the… Read More: Simple Saturday – Kinda Eclectic »
Ever been looking that craft project to take with you for something to do while waiting on the kids, doctors appointment, on vacation or even just a relaxing Saturday afternoon? Well I have the solution for you, Stampin’ Up! kits. There are two types in this years annual catalog, one type are All-Inclusive (kit with photopolymer stamp set included)… Read More: Party in a Box ! »