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 ! »
Did you get everything you want from the new annual catalog yet? Since it only came out a month ago, you probably still have some items on your wish list, and I have some great news for you! For every $50 you spend in between July 7 and July 31 (before shipping and tax), you’ll get a $5 Bonus… Read More: Calling all crafters, Bonus Days have started ! »
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 ! »
Welcome to Simple Saturday – using one stamp set to create your card. Today I am featuring the Bunch of Blossoms Bundle which includes the Bunch of Blossoms Stamp Set and matching Blossoms Builder Punch. I’ll be showing you two versions, one using the stamp set and one with the flowers stamped, punched out and backed with Stampin… Read More: Simple Saturday with Bunch of Blossoms »
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! »
Welcome to Simple Saturday where each week I feature cards made with one stamp set. Today’s stamp set is Layering Love and it’s available in both wood and clear mount. I’ve made one card with each of the sentiments using the Floral Boutique Designer Series Paper, Night of Navy and Flirty Flamingo card stock. All sentiments were stamped… Read More: Simple Saturday with Layering Love »
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 ! »
Welcome to Simple Saturday, today I am featuring the Bunch of Blossoms stamp set which comes in a bundle with the Blossoms Builder Punch, so many possibilities with this bundle. Don’t you just love when you have punch that matches your stamp set, saves you from cutting the images out by hand. The bundle saves you 10% over… Read More: Simple Saturday with Bunch of Blossoms »
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 »
Welcome to Simple Saturday, a card using only one stamp set. Today I took the luxury of using two, one to add background to the card base and one for the main images/greeting. The main stamp set today is “Sitting Here”, one of the first sets I knew I wanted and was happy it was included in the demonstrator… Read More: Simple Saturday – Sitting here thinking of you . .… »
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 »