Vintage Swap Card

I've joined my 2nd swap with fellow Stampin Up! demonstrators.  I have to admit that this is getting a little addicting.  It's a vintage swap so I'm really excited to see what ideas other people came up with.  Here's a look at what I came up with.  I used river rock card stock as my base.  I layered the News Print designer paper onto basic black.  The stamp set is called inspired by nature and I made some buttons for embellishment using the buttons #5 Sizzlet die.  I really like the way this card came out and I hope the recipients do too.  Happy Stamping!



Markis Turns 4

Markis Turns 4

My cutie little nephew Markis turned 4 on Saturday.  It seems like he was just born and now we were at Chucky Cheese watching him play like the big kids.  Time is passing too fast.  Well, I took so long to figure out what to do on his card because I really didn't have much in stamps for little boys.  I remembered that I had an old clear set that I used once before for my nephew Jake.  It was a set with monsters on it (and what little boy isn't a little monster once in a while)  so I figured that I would try and do something with it.  I was so pleased with the way it came out.  I just love the Marina Mist cardstock and he just looks adorable covered in dazzling diamonds.  Who says it just for girls anyway. 

Mounting your stampin up! Clear mount stamps

Just a little video with a tip on mounting your Stampin Up! Clear mount stamps.  Recorded it from my ipod so the angle wasn't right.  sorry.

Valentine Swap Cards

I've recently participated in a card swap with some of the other Stampin Up! demonstrators.  It was Valentine's themed so I wanted to share them in case anyone was looking for any new ideas for card layouts.  Nice job ladies!

Made by: Cely Havens

Made by: Michelle James

demonstrator unknown

Made by: Anjanette Potter

Made by: Tiffany Csalovszki

February's Card Club

February's Card Club

By request, I have been asked if we could make the embellished candle that we never got to make in December's class.  It got a ton of attention when I posted it for a December Card Club but it was a hard time of year for the regular girls to get together.  We will make it a neutral floral design that would be great as some home decor around your own home or you can give it as a birthday gift or even duplicate for mother's day.  We will also be making some cards that match to go along with it.  The price of this class will be $15 to cover the cost of supplies needed.  Starting at this card club I will need payment for the class in advance.  Class is on February 18th at 7pm and payment is due no later than the 12th.  Contact me for my address if you are sending a check or you can paypal me.  Your spot for that night will be saved once I've received your payment. 

Love is in the air

Here once again is another Valentine's day card.  I made these flower petals using the largest heart in the Heart to Heart punch.  I am really loving the way this one came out.  I also used the pinking heart border punch and the scallop sentiment is from the Love you Much stamp set.  I worked this card around the great faux grass.  It's a wonderful way to add some dimension to a card with just some card stock and a pair of scissors.  Hope you like it.

Build a Blossom Tutorial

I've been having so much fun with the new Build a Blossom stamp set and coordinating punch.  Since it's so new, I've decided to do a video on it.   I know that some of you have seen it in the new Occasions Mini Catalog and this way you can get a sneak peek.   Sorry but my video editing is still not that great.

Stampin Up! Sale-a-Bration begins today!!!

Sale-A-Bration Begins Today!!!

January 25th thru March 31st

Here are the ways that you can earn free stamp sets during sale-a-bration.

Put in an order of $50 (before tax and shipping) and pick a free stamp set from the sale-a-bration catalog.  A $100 order will qualify you to pick 2 items from the catalog and so on.

Host a workshop and with a min. workshop total order of $300 (before tax ande shipping) , you get to choose a free stamp set.  Your guests also will qualify for the free stamp sets if they put in a qualifing order of $50.

If you don't have a copy of the Sale-a-bration catalog, send me an email and I will send you a pdf file of all the free items available.

Valentine's Swap Card

I've entered my very first card swap.  I heard that it's very addicting but I thought that it would be fun and I can't wait to see what other people came up with.  It's a valentine themed swap and I wanted to do some kind of technique for my cards so I did the faux silk technique.  I made 6 of these same cards and am going to get 5 different cards back from other demonstrators.  They should be arriving any day now. 

Happy Birthday Dad

My father just celebrated his 62nd Birthday.  Masculine cards are not my favorite but I've been dying to use this stamp set since I got it.  It's called Uncharted Territory. 

Valentine's sweet treat pops

Here's another project that we did at our cardclub.  It's using the sweet treat cups.  They were so easy to make and I even found some red hots to put inside.  I Loved these when I was a kid.  I'll be making these for my daughter's kindergarten class next month for valentine's day.  She so excited.

Valentine's Day Card #3

We finished off our card club with this card.  It was a quick and simple single layed card.  Even though it didn't have all the shimmer and glitter that the others had, I still got all the Ohhs and Ahhs when the girls saw it.  I actually turned it into an Anniversary card for my parents.  They celebrated 41 years yesterday.  

Valentine's day card #2

Here's the 2nd card from our past card club.  It has a different kind of a fold and I think that's why I wanted to try it.  Here are the dimensions of the cuts in case you want to try it yourself.

Red cardstock cut at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 and scored at 4 1/4.  Cut 1 1/4 off of one side. 
Kraft cardstock cut at 6 1/2 x 4.
Embellish as desired.

See you tomorrow with another Valentine's card!

Valentines Day Cards

With Valentine's day right around the corner, I made Friday night's card club all about LOVE.  We made this great gate fold card.  Everyone loved the red glitter chipboard.  This stamp set called Love You Much has so many great stamps.  We used it in 3 of our projects.  I also used the jumbo stampin wheel I{Love} Love as a background pattern.

Thank You!

I've had this stamp set for about 3 months now and I'm just now using it for the first time.  It's one of my favorites but I've been so into all the Christmas stamps that I haven't got to play with this one yet.  I'm sending out a Thank You to someone for a Christmas gift that she sent and I figured that this one was so pretty that it didn't need much embellishment.  Here's what I came up with.

Supplies include:
Card base-River rock/stampin up
Layer-Kraft/non stampin up
Top layer-Whisper White/stampin up
Stamp set-5th Avenue Floral & because I care/stampin up
Ink-Perfect Plum & Soft Suede/stampin up
Ribbon-non stampin up

Booking Workshops!!!

Hi All,
I will be Booking Stampin Up Workshops for February and March.  If you are interested, please contact me with a date to see if it's available.  I will still be having my regular monthly card clubs so I'm trying not to plan them around the same times.  If you have a date in mind, please let me know. 

Happy Stamping!

The Stampin Up! New Occasions Mini Catalog is now available

The new  Occasions mini catalog is available starting today.  If you'd like to look at it online you can check it out here
http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryID=401

January Card Club 2011

WOW!!!  2011!!!!  That sounds funny.  With Christmas behind me now I figured that I would schedule our next cardclub.  January 14th at 7pm we will have a Valentines theme.  We will be making some valentines cards and a valentines treat holder.  Space is limited so please let me know if you will make it and I will forward you the supply list. 

Have a wonderful New Years!

Christmas Scrapbook Page 1999

Here's a page that I just made starring my oldest daughter Hayley.  She was 15 month old and back then we didn't have digital cameras so we would have to take a whole roll of film just to make sure that we got at least 1 good picture for her Christmas card.  Boy have times changed.  She was so cute though and I can't believe that she's 12 now.  I Love hopping around with my scrapbooking and not really going in order.  I think that it's more fun that way. 

Some Holiday items

When visiting with my friend Margaret last week, I noticed that she was making some teacher's gifts.  It was an idea that I had seen a couple of years ago but totally forgot about until I saw them sitting on her table.  They are adorable post it note holders.  It's really nice to have by your phone.  I put an RSVP pen with coordinating holiday designer paper inside.  These are just black metal  frames that I found at my local AC Moore store for about $1.49 on sale. 

Here's a couple of really easy gift tags that I also made to attach to the neck of a wine bottle.  They're made with cherry cobbler cardstock and I used the slit punch to make the clasp.  I'm not sure if you can see it in the photo but I embossed the words Merry and Brite in silver on the front.  I used fancy gold yarn that I picked up in the knitting dept. of Walmart to make the tie.

At last but not least,  I used one of my fall stamp sets on this Christmas card.  It's the very popular French Foliage.  I saw this on Dawn Olchefske's blog.  I thought that it was such a cute idea.  I used Old Olive for the card base and wreath and Bravo burgandy was used to stamp the splashes and the ribbon. 

Hope you got some quick and easy ideas for some last minute details.