Friday, December 30, 2011

Single Layer Card and Some Card News

Almost Happy New Year Everyone!  I wanted to start off with some stamp news first, In December we finished our 2nd Stamp Club and If anyone is interested in starting up again I will need to know as soon as possible.  We are looking for 6 people to do $25 per month for 6 months and each month someone new will be the hostess and getting the hostess benefits  OR we can do 3 people to do $50 per month for 3 months or every other month and receive hostess benefits.  Please let me know as soon as you can so that we can start in January.  Other news,  On January 4th Stampin Up! will be starting their Occasions Mini promotion.  The new catalogs will be online and if you would like to get a hard copy, let me know and I'll mail you one.

Now on with the card.  The feather stamp used in this card is from the Natures Nest stamp set.  I like to take an image and turn it into something else and this is what I came up with.  This is a single layer card that probably took about 10 minutes to make from beginning to end.  

Friday, November 25, 2011

Time for Holiday Cards

I'm so happy that it's time to make my favorite type of cards.  We made some great cards at last weeks card club and I just realized that I forgot to post the photos. 
stamps-young vermillion, lovely as a tree
ink-cherry cobbler, soft suede, certainly celery
accessories-stamp a majig, rhinestones, nestabilites, top note die
stamps-jolliest time of the year, curly cute
ink-soft suede, lucky limeade, wisteria wonder, pool party, black
paper-pool party, wisteria wonder
accessories- sweet treet cups, 1 3/4 circle punch, 2 3/8 scallop punch, snowflake embossing folder
stamps-lovely as a tree
ink-old olive
paper-old olive, white
accessories-black gingham ribbon, versa mark, dazzling diamonds, heat n stick powder

Monday, November 21, 2011

Online Extravaganza (Very Limited Time)

Starting today, Stampin Up! is having a very limited time Extravaganza!  It's only available until November 30th. There are a number of items that range from 20-60% off.  You can check it all out HERE.  You can place your order directly here and It will get shipped to your house.  
Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Post It note Holder for the fridge (great teacher gift)



Last night we had card club and I gave away this adorable post it note holder that also has a magnet on back so you can keep it on the fridge.  I wrapped chipboard in some holiday paper and added the red ribbon.  I also wrapped the binder clip in the same paper and the paper is also inside of the rsvp pen.  It always looks nicer when everything coordinates.  Last night's cards should be posted by tomorrow.
                                          Happy Stamping!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

November Card Club

HelloEveryone

I just wanted to announce that November's card club will be held on Friday the 18th.  It's going to be Christmas themed.  This is always my favorite card club because I love making Holiday items.  So much fun and looks so great around the house.  Hope you can make it!  Please let me know as soon as possible because I already got some rsvp's for this night and I limited space.  
Happy Stamping!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

What we made at Card Club last night

Hello Everyone,

Last night I had a Halloween themed card club.  Here are photos of what we made.  I hope you all had fun!




Monday, October 10, 2011

Masculine Card with my Scraps

This is a card that I made for my Husband's Birthday.  I'm always saying that it's a challenge to make a masculine card because I don't get to use any of my pretty flowers and butterflies but I'm pretty happy with the way this one came out.  I used the mosaic embossing folder on the piece of Night of Navy and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  The leaves used is from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set from Stampin Up!.  All of the other papers are just scraps,  Card base-river rock, Top layer Misc. designer paper, and banner is certainly Celery.  The sentiment came from one of our newest hostess sets called Birthday Wishes (I think???) and I added a little liquid pearls. 

Saturday, October 1, 2011

October Card Club

Now that it's officially October,  I figured that I would send out a reminder for this month's card club.  It's going to be a Halloween/Fall theme.  We'll do 1 home decor project and 2 cards.  It's on 10/14/11 at 7pm.  Please let me know if you'll be attending since my space is limited.  Thanks


Happy Stamping!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Happy Birthday Zoe!

My best friend's daughter Zoe had her 8th birthday party yesterday.  She looked so cute with her princess outfit on that I wanted to share.  I asked her if I could borrow it when she was done with it but she said "no way....I'm going to wear this forever".  Can you blame her.  Here's a photo of her and the card that I made for her.

supplies used:
stamps-happiest birthday wishes, dot dot dot
paper-rich razzleberry, whisper white, vellum, silver
ink-rich razzleberry
accessories-ticket punch, build a blossom punch, round tab punch, ribbon, silver liquid pearls, dot embossing folder, rhinestones

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Card Club Updates and Stamp Club orders

Unfortunately, I will not be having a card club this month because of some Friday commitments that I already have but I thought that I would give you a heads up on October's card club.  Friday October 14th we will be having a Halloween themed card club at our usual 7pm.  I will re post this date at a later date as a reminder since it's a month away still. 


Another note,  Our Stamp Club order is going in on the 15th (Thursday) so if anyone wants to be included on this group order, please email me by Thursday morning.  


Friday, September 2, 2011

Got Birthdays

My daughter Hayley is going to a double Birthday party tomorrow for her friends Lilly & Liz.  I just had to use my new birthday stamp set again called Happiest Birthday Wishes.  This set comes with so many different stamps that is comes in 2 dvd cases.  Unfortunately you can't just buy it because it's a hostess set but if your order reaches $150.00 or more, you have a choice of free Hostess or regular catalog stamp sets.
 Stamps-Happiest Birthday wishes
paper-rich razzleberry, river rock, whisper white, rich razzleberry dsp
accessories-1 3/4 circle punch, 2 in scallop punch

Stamps-Happiest birthday wishes
paper-whisper white, old olive, daffodil delight dsp, melon mambo
accessories-little leaves sizzlet, beautiful wings embosslit

Happy Stamping!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

No Power, Yes Scrapbooking

Well, What else can you do when a bad storm takes away your power, internet and water.  SCRAPBOOK!!
Here are some pages that I got done yesterday during the hours of daylight.  No way could I ever do it with candlelight.  Mind you, I didn't have my cricut to work with so I just used what I had including stamps. 



Sunday, August 28, 2011

Language of Friendship

This little bird is so cute.  I love using stamp sets with coordinating punches.  It makes it so easy and quick to make a card.  We also made this one at last Friday's card club.  We all enjoyed using some of Stampin Up's new stamp sets from this new catalog.  My wish list is still very long but I managed to get my hands on a handful of new sets so far.  I'm actually creating this post on Saturday the 27th because we are due to get hurricane Irene tomorrow and I'm sure that there won't be any power for a little while so I figured that I would set this up ahead of time. 
Supplies used:
Stamps-Happiest birthday wishes, language of friendship, frame it
ink-soft suede, bravo burgandy
accessories-ribbon punch, 2 step bird punch, corner rounder punch
paper-soft suede, whisper white, patterned paper

Happy Stamping!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle

I love using recyclable items in my cards.  I use a page from an old Hardy Boys book behind this piece of vellum in this card.  It was a real simple card and very easy to make at our card club.  The ladies found it very easy to color in these flower from the old fast and fabulous stamp set using Q tips. 

Supplies used:
stamps-fast and fabulous
paper-wisteria wonder, black, recycled book paper, whisper white, basic black
Ink-wisteria wonder, certainly celery

Friday, August 26, 2011

Faith in Nature

I thought that I would take my mind off of the upcoming hurricane and do a post today.  Here's one of the cards that we made at Friday's card club.  I've been wanting to do a lot of texture lately and I just love using these warm earth tones.  We did some dry embossing with the ms scoring board for our background piece of crushed curry and crimped this piece of pumpkin pie for the center.  This image is from one of the new hostess stamp sets in the Stampin Up! catalog.  It's called Faith in Nature.  Any order of $150.00 or more qualifies you for $25 worth of hostess sets or any other catalog item of your choice.

Monday, August 15, 2011

August Card Club

Hello Ladies,


This month's card club is going to take place on Tuesday August 23rd at 7pm.   We are going to be playing with some new stamp sets.  If you are interested in coming, please let me know as soon as possible. 
Happy Stamping!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

So Many Birthday Parties

We had back to back parties this weekend.  My daughter Alex had her twin friends Hannah and Sarah's party on Friday night and then we had my 2 oldest daughters Hayley & Alex's party on Saturday.  I remembered to take a photo of Sarah's card but not Hannah's.  Oh well.  Here it is.  It features that cute little owl.  We had so much fun playing with that punch at one of my card clubs that I wanted to bring it out again.   The photo isn't the greatest but you get the idea. 
Supplies used:
paper-pink pirouette, whisper white, old olive chocolate chip
Stamps-dot dot dot
Ink-old olive
Accessories-owl punch, little leaves sizzlet,ticket corner punch, rhinestones, white gel pen

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

TAX FREE WEEKEND!!!

As many of you Massachusetts residents know,  This coming weekend (Aug 13 & 14th) is tax free.  This also includes your Stampin Up! purchases.  If you'd like to take advantage of this 6.25% discount, you can order directly through my site at www.sylviakipnes.stampinup.net or you can contact me direct to place a group order.  Any group orders have to be emailed to me no later then 12 noon Aug 14th. 

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Beautiful Wings

I can't believe that it took me so long but I finally ordered the Beautiful Wings Embosslit.  It cuts out 5 different butterflies all at once.  It's a must have if you loves butterflies as much as I do.  I layered the 2 largest butterflies 3 times on my layered Wild Wasabi card stock.  I also used the En Fracais background stamp with whisper white ink.  It's a pretty quick card to make and the color combinations are endless.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Emboss Resist

Here's another new In Color.  It's called Island Indigo.  It's soooo pretty!  We did the emboss resist using the flowers from the Inspired by Nature stamp set.  Then we used my new color spritzer with the island indigo marker and added these little splatters all over my background.  Cleaned my flower back off and then sponges the Indigo over one side of my card stock.  I was pretty happy with how it came out.  The spritzer takes a little practice but gives a nice touch if you just wanted to add a little color for texture.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Bleaching technique

I thought I'd share a card that we made last night at Card Club.  We did the bleaching technique with this flower from the Fifth Avenue stamp set.  We first embossed it in black and then used our aqua painters to color it in with bleach.  I almost couldn't stand to have the bleach in the room because it's so strong so I only put a little bit into a sweet treat cup and everyone shared.  I'm sure that we wouldn't have lasted long in my enclosed scrap room if I had more then that laying out.  We used the new Calypso Coral card stock by Stampin Up!.  At first I didn't think that I was too crazy about this color and now I have no more card stock left.  It's moved right up to being one of my favorites.

All supplies used:
Stamps-fifth avenue floral
Paper-Calypso Coral, Whisper White
Tools-black embossing powder, 1 1/8 circle punch, embossing folder, corner rounder, bleach

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

New Demonstrator Special for July


 During July, you can join the Stampin' Up! family as a demonstrator for only $99! This limited time Starter Kit--valued at $185--comes with the following high-quality products:

  • Easy Events Clear-Mount Set*
  • Pennant Parade Wood-Mount Set*
  • Basic Black Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad
  • Brights 8-1/2" x 11" Assorted Card Stock
  • Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper*
  • Chocolate Chip 1/2" Scallop Dots Ribbon*
  • Note Cards (20)
  • Clear-Mount Block C
  • Blender Pen (1)
  • SNAIL Adhesive
  • Business supplies
*Brand new to the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog!
Plus, join in July and get a FREE Christmas Keepsake project kit--a $40 value! Imagine an afternoon spent chatting with friends while creating something beautiful--isn't that what Stampin' Up! is all about? But act now because this special kit is only available as part of this limited-time offer.
As an added bonus, first-time demonstrators can get two free months of Demonstrator Business Web Services (DBWS) when they sign up during their first 21 days as a demonstrator. Subscribing to DBWS means having your own online store, blog, hostess portal, and much more!

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

2 Spots Left

My July Card Club is planned for Monday night (the 18th) and I have 2 spots left.  If I have any more takers, please let me know by Friday.  See you then.


Happy Stamping!

Friday, July 8, 2011

A Rockin Birthday Card

My nephew Andru is 13 so I had to think of something that would be more for a teenage boy.  This now retired stamp (Extreme Guitar) seemed to be perfect.  I still can't believe that they got rid of these great single stamps. 
 
Supplies used:
Paper-daffodil delight, basic black, whisper white
Ink-basic black, daffodil delight
Stamp set-Extreme Guitar
Accessories-silver foil smooch spritz, iridescent ice embossing powder, non su metallic paper

Thursday, July 7, 2011

A birthday card with my new favorite In color (Pool Party)

I just had to use the new pool party card stock since my niece Emma will be having a pool party for her 7th birthday this coming Saturday.  I know that she will have no idea what the name of the paper is nor will she care.  I just needed any excuse to use it.  
 Supplies used:
Paper-pool party, melon mambo, pear pizazz, whisper white
Ink-basic black
Stamps set-swirls & curls versus
accessories-embroidery floss, glass glitter, SU markers in pool party and pink pirouette, crystal affects, scallop border punch

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

New Card Club night for the summer

Happy July everyone!!!  I had a great day today at the beach with my sister and all of our kids.  It was 96 degrees here today and it was so relaxing.  I figured that I would post our new and next card club date.  For this month I will be having our regular card club on a Monday night.  I know that our weekends are so busy with BBQ's and parties so Monday seems to work better.  I'm planning on having our next get together on July 18th at 7pm.  If you plan on attending please let me know. 

Happy Stamping!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Teacher's Card

I made this simple but adorable card for my daughter's teacher.  I used the build a blossom stamp set and punch that I haven't used in a little while.  I'm sure that she will also enjoy the Dunkin Donuts gift card that I put inside as well.

Supplies used:
Paper-pink pirouette, crushed curry, whisper white
Ink-pink pirouette, basic black
Accessories-polka dot embossing folder, ribbon tag nestie, crushed curry brad

Monday, June 27, 2011

Recycle Those Books

I have created this card but my friend Rachel who has a birthday coming up.  I wanted to make a card using some items from around the house.  I ended up using a page from my daughter's old Hardy Boys book.  It was a book that she didn't like and didn't even want to keep so I took it with me to my scraproom and went to work.  I'm really pleased with what I came up with but I'm very sad that this stamp set (cheers to you) is retiring at the end of this month.

Supplies used:
paper-chocolate chip card stock, whisper white, book page
Ink- soft suede, basic black
Accessories-red rinestones, certainly celery marker, real red marker, dazzling diamonds, certainly celery ribbon

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Open Sea


What a great set!  I really love having more options for masculine cards.  I used it for father's day and now I'm using it for birthdays. 
Supplies used:
paper- whisper white, river rock, basic black
Ink-crumb cake, soft suede, basic black
stamp set-open seas, short and sweet
Accessories-chocolate chip ribbon, black brads, corner rounder

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Elements of Style

We got together for my monthly card club last night and we made some fabulous cards.  We also had some great goodies to match.  My friend Margaret brought over some chocolate covered strawberries that her and her daughter Zoe made for us and I served some sangria.  It really got our juices flowing (at least we would like to believe they did. lol ).  Here's a photo of the first card we made.   I know that you can't see it in the photo but I sprayed the whole card with some champagne shimmer mist.  It looked so nice in person.
supplies used:
paper-whisper white, river rock, elegant eggplant
Ink-elegant eggplant, river rock
accessories-basic pearls, embossing border
Stamp set-Elements of style, watercolor trio

Monday, June 13, 2011

Another Birthday Card

My sister Patty also had a birthday this month.  I've been having so much fun with the Cheers for You stamp set.  It's retiring at the end of this month so I'm so glad that I have it already.  I may make another one of these for a friend who also has a birthday this month.  It's super quick and easy to make but looking at the cocktail in the glass makes me want one and that strawberry looks so yummy!


Sunday, June 12, 2011

Happy Birthday My little Monkey

My youngest daughter Ava turned 6 on Thursday.  After she fell alseep the other night, me and my other 2 daughters went down to my scrap room to make her birthday cards.  We always call her a little monkey so that's why I picked this stamp from the fox and friends set.  I'm so sad that this jumbo wheel is retiring.  It's called Classic stars and it makes a great background on cards or scrapbook pages.  I also added Dazzling diamonds to the monkey's bellys.  Hope you like it. 

Happy Stamping!

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Open Sea Stamp Set

Here's one of the new stamp sets featured in our Summer mini catalog.  If you haven't got the Open Sea set yet, you must get it.  It's great for Father's day, an adult male birthday or even a child's birthday.  It's great for any masculine card.  If you're like me, you probably keep buying all of those beautiful flower and butterfly stamp sets which I know are wonderful and as girls we can't resist.  But every once in a while we need to give the guys a card too and I'm sure that they wouldn't appreciate a rose with some polka dots.  He he, that would be funny though.  On to the card, 
Supplies used:
paper-whisper white, chocolate chip, river rock
ink-crumb cake, soft suede
accessories-photo corner punch, white gel pen, misc. brads

Thursday, June 2, 2011

2011-2012 Catalog Giveaway

Hi All,

I'm going to do a little giveaway for the month of June.  Since the new Stampin Up! Idea Book and Catalog is due to come out on July 1st, and I know that you all want a hard copy of it.  I figured that I would give away a new catalog to anyone placing a minimum $50.00 order in June (before tax and shipping).  

Our current Stamp Club is also coming to an end this month, so anyone who wants to continue onto the next stamp club starting in July please let me know.  It's a 6 month commitment where everyone takes turns being the hostess each month with a $25 min. order. 

I will be putting in an early order on June 5th for those of you who want to place a retired order.  You can place your order on the 15th with our regular order but I can't promise that your items will still be available then. 


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Here it is!

Stampin Up's retire list is out as of today.  If there's something on this list that you just can't live without, Then you better move fast before they are all gone.  These items are only available until June 30th.  The link is listed below for anyone who wants to look through the items or if you would like to place an online order.  You can also just place an order directly with me on  the 15th.  




http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/CategoryPage.aspx?categoryID=736

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

June Card Club Date

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to post June's card club before any other  plans for this month comes along.  My daughter has her 6th birthday and we have a few different graduation parties to go to.  It looks like the 24th is the best night.  We will make a total of 4 cards.  One of the stamp sets we will  be using is Open Seas from the summer mini that's going on right now.  Space is limited so please let me know if you'll be attending.

P.S.  For those of you who are part of our baby card swap, you can bring your cards with you that night and we will do the swap then.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Happy Birthday Jeff!

My Brother-in-law Jeff celebrated a birthday yesterday.  I was so happy when I remembered that I had the Cheers to you stamp set and it had this beer mug that fits perfectly with Jeff.  I decided to make 2 more for the 2 more male birthdays that are coming up in the next few weeks.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Stampin Up's Retire list is almost here!

Hello Everyone,  It's that time of year again when Stampin Up! goes out with the old and in with the new.   On June 1st Stampin Up! will be releasing their list of all items that are being retired before the new 2011-2012 catalog comes out in July.  I will be placing 2 orders in June.  One by the 3rd for anyone who wishes to try and get their hands on any retiring items.  Once they are sold out of a certain item then you're out of luck.  Be sure to get your reinkers, paper or stamp sets before they're gone.  I'll also be placing our usual stamp club order on the 15th.  Anyone is welcome to place orders on that day as well. 
Happy Stamping!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Shirt Cards for Father's day are always a hit


I just love these male shirt cards.  They were a big hit last year when I made them for my husband and my father.  If I can get some time tomorrow, I will try and get a video up on how to make these.  My card club girls made this card last year before father's day but I couldn't resist making them again for anyone else who hasn't seen them yet.


Monday, May 16, 2011

Father's Day and Lovely as a Tree

Have I mentioned that I LOVE this stamp set.  I also Love this photo corner punch more than I though I would.   

supplies used:
stamps-Lovely as a tree (SU),  Sentiment (PTI)
Ink- always artichoke (SU), summer sun (SU), Chestnut roan (color box)
Paper-Old olive, chocolate chip, whisper white
accessories-silver brads, photo corner punch

Sunday, May 15, 2011

It's Graduation time again

Here's a card that I made for my friend Ashleigh.  Her sister is graduating and she wanted to give a card with her school colors.  I hope she likes it.


Supplies used:
Graduation cap-SCAL, banner-SCAL
paper-DCWV & PTI
Accessories-Shimmer paint (Stampin Up!)
Stamps-Michaels dollar bin

Friday, May 13, 2011

Greenhouse Garden

As you can probably tell, I had no idea where I was going with this one.  I knew the supplies that I wanted to use but wasn't sure how I was going to put them together.  Here's what I came up with. 
Supplies used:
Stamps-en francais background stamp, greenhouse garden
Paper- green galore (retired), crumb cake, whisper white
Ink-crumb cake, regal rose, melon mambo, wild wasabi, basic black
Accessories-sheer ribbon, jute twine, perfect pearls, framed tulips embossing folder, champagne shimmer paint

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Uncharted Territory

Here's another father themed card that I may be using next month for father's day.  I'm not entirely pleased with this card because I couldn't seem to get the colors right.  I used watercolor pencils and then blended it with blender pens.  I colored and blended and colored again.  I finally gave up.  It will have to do. 
supplies used:
Stamps- Uncharted territory, mega mixed messages (pti)
Paper- river rock, basic black, whisper white
Accessories- water color pencils, white gel pen, jute twine


Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Lovely as a Tree

As long as I can remember, I have loved this stamp set.  It's a great set for making masculine card and even great Christmas cards.  A father's day card would be perfect as well.  I did a masking technique on this one using some photocopy paper and temporary adhesive.  I embossed the trees on using versa mark and basic black just to make sure that they resisted the sponged ink.  I've listed the supplies used below
Supplies used:
Paper-Marina mist, Crumb cake, Whisper white, basic black
Ink- Marina mist, summer sun, certainly celery, basic black, versa mark
other supplies- Lovely as a tree stamp set, photo corner ex large punch, bronze brads, dimensionals

Friday, April 29, 2011

The Stampin Up Stampin' Scub is Back!

That's right, you heard me.  The Stampin' Scrub is back.  It's available for sale as of 4/28.  Both the Stampin scrub and the refills can be ordered through my website or through one of our regular group orders. 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Shimmer Baby flowers

I can't believe that I have now made 2 baby cards in 1 week.  They are just so stinking cute!  I used all soft colors and the details were all girl.  I think that I'll use this card for a Christening next month.  I have listed the recipe for this card below the photo.
 supplies used:
paper-pink pirouette, whisper white, lavender (non su), summer sun dp
tools-simple flower embosslit, scallop border punch, framed tulip embossing folder, swiss dots embossing folder, champagne shimmer paint
stamps-mega mixed messages (pti)
Happy Stamping!

Monday, April 18, 2011

May Card Club

I'm sure that some of you may have noticed in my post about the card swap that I'm doing May's card club on the 13th.  Our swap cards will also be due on that night.  If you are mailing them.  Be sure to get them in my mail at least 3 days prior to the swap.  We will be doing some masculine cards in honor of father's day and also doing some other cards with a stamp set that hasn't been used yet in card club.  I would need to know by May 8th if you'll be attending.  

Happy Stamping!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Baby Card

I don't know why I don't do this more often but today I went to my stamp room because my juices were flowing with inspiration.  I wanted to make a baby card, I don't know why because I'm not going to a baby shower or anything but it's good to have one in my supply in case I need one.  I wanted to create a scene so I started with this field of multi greens and then stamped these cute little bees and little bird.  I also tried out my new champagne shimmer mist.  Hopefully you can see it in the photo.  It gave my card stock such a great shimmer all around.   I'll list the recipe below the picture.

Supplies used on this card

stamps-pocket silouettes, sweet summer, mega mixed messages (PTI)
Ink- certainly celery, wild wasabi, always artichoke, perfect plum, bashful blue, marina mist
Paper-whisper white, marina mist, yellow(non su), SU DP (butterflies)


Who's ready for another card swap???

Well,  Since our first swap was such a success, I figured that I would do another one.  I think that a baby swap would be perfect for this time of the year.  It seems that there are so many babies born in the spring and we are always in need of a baby shower card, new baby card or Christening card.  It can be for boy or girl and be creative.  The rules are similar to the demonstrator swaps.  

1. Once everyone signs up, I'll let you know how many cards you need to make
2. You make all identical cards in 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 (envelopes not needed)
3. Make sure that all of your layers are glued well and be sure that there are no smudges. 
4. Please use Stampin Up! products so that they can easily be duplicated. 
5. Cards will be due by May 13th. (our next card club)
6. If you can't attend card club that night.  Be sure to mail your cards to my in a zip lock bag with a self addressed stamped envelope with the same postage as it took to mail them.  I'll mail your swap cards back to you on May 16th.

Any questions, just let me know.  Please reply to the swap by April 22nd if you would like to participate.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Stamping Block Card Swap

We just had our very first card swap.  Everyone did such a great job so I wanted to show off their work.  Our theme was birthdays.
 Made by Lucy
Made by Margaret
made by Carol
made by Rebecca
Made by Vicky
made by Sylvia

Inside of the card     

I can't wait until the next one.