FDR Memorial

The FDR Memorial is my favorite memorial in DC. It's kind of hidden away near the Tidal Basin and a lot of people don't know it's there. So if you are ever in DC check it out. Here are a few of the pictures I took while there. There wasn't much stamping to be done on this page, but that's OK. I used Soft Sky and Wild Wasabi textured cardstock. I stamped my title in Soft Sky using Short Order Alphabet on Whisper White. I added my pieces of Wild Wasabi, put my title down, added a little Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbon, adhered my pictures and I was done! This page will go next to the previous page in my book.

Toot, Toot!!!

That's my horn. I'm tooting it because another one of my cards is on the Stamper's Showcase on the demo side of the Stampin' Up! website. This is the second time in the last week I'm up there. I love it! For this card I used Garden Whimsy. I stamped the big butterfly in So Saffron then rock'n'rolled it in Ruby Red. I stamped it on a piece of Whisper White and layered it on a piece of Ruby Red. I used my So Swirly jumbo wheel inked up in Old Olive and rolled it across a piece of Old Olive cardstock. I wrapped some Old Olive polytwill ribbon around it and adhered it to my So Saffron card. I added my butterfly with Stampin' Dimensionals and finished it off with a sentiment from Short & Sweet in Ruby Red punched out with my Word Window punch. I didn't win the contest, but it sure is nice to see my creations on the website!

Happiness....

I got some more Decor Elements today. This is the small Happiness. I put it on a board that I painted black. If you are looking for boards like this for your small Decor Elements head on over to my store and see what I've got. This board has a routed edge, painted flat black, and I added a hanger on the back. Right now it's hanging in my living room for photography purposes, but I think I'm going to put it in my stamping studio because it reflects my mood when I'm down there. I like it!

Cherry Blossoms

Here are the rest of the pictures from the Cherry Blossom Festival. Since I had so many pictures and I had already done one with a title I went crazy with pictures on this one. I cropped and printed my pictures to 3 1/4" x 3 1/4". I glued them all down on a piece of Wild Wasabi Textured cardstock. I then punched some photo corners in Soft Sky and added them to a few pictures. Then I stamped the flowers from Classic Backgrounds in Wild Wasabi on Wild Wasabi. I punched it out with my 3/4" circle punch and added it to a Build-a-brad. I then adhered the brad to a 5-petal flower punched from Soft Sky. I adhered it to my page with Stampin' Dimensionals. Not much stamping on this one, but I didn't really think it needed it.

I'm going to stamp today....

This week has been crazy busy. I've had a bajillion home parties to attend and work and I donated my hair to Locks of Love (and had to celebrate afterward). Today I will stamp, though.

Accessories

I updated the retired accessories list with the items that are no longer available. I'll try to update it every day so you can see what's available if you still haven't placed your order.



Oh, and I wanted to let you know that SU! will allow online ordering later in the fall. I'll post more when I know more!

July Scrapbook Class

Here are the pages from July's scrapbook class. We did a summer them and with the Life's a Breeze stamp set. We used Creamy Caramel, Gable Green, Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun, and Very Vanilla. We stamped some of the small elements from Life's a Breeze in our assorted colors and punched them out with the 1 1/4" Circle Punch. We then layered them on scallop circles. They were adhered to strips of Very Vanilla that we used the corner rounder on. We stamped our title with Big Deal Alphabet. For "fun" we cut it out with the Colluzzle Oval template. We also cut out the tube that we stamped with the Oval Colluzzle and layered it on the next larger size oval. We then "hooked" it to our photo mat with some Twill Tape and HodgePodge Hardware. We stapled a piece of Tempting Turquoise 1/4" grosgrain ribbon to one of our photo mats on page 2. This was the first time we used photo mats that were smaller than those for a 4 x 6 picture. I hope my scrappers like them and use different size photos in future layouts.

Retired Accessories List

Here's the retired accessories list. These items are first come, first serve while supplies last. Get your order in as soon as you can! As you can see some items are already sold out!

Item Number	Page #	Product Description	Availability
109200	177	Accents & Elements Build A Flower	Not Available
110718	177	Accents & Elements Lucky Star
110719	177	Accents & Elements Messenger
103158	184	Acrylic Graph & Grid
108638	163	Card Stock 12 X 12 In Color
108642	163	Card Stock 8-1/2 X 11 Blue Bayou
108643	163	Card Stock 8-1/2 X 11 Groovy Guava
108637	163	Card Stock 8-1/2 X 11 In Color
108640	163	Card Stock 8-1/2 X 11 River Rock
108639	163	Card Stock 8-1/2 X 11 Soft Sky
108641	163	Card Stock 8-1/2 X 11 Wild Wasabi	Not Available
108644	163	Card Stock 8-1/2 X 11 Purely Pomegranate	Not Available
103975	166	Card Stock Brushed Copper	Not Available
108694	163	Card Stock Textured 12 X 12 In Color
107312	167	Cards & Envelopes Gift Whisper White
107292	167	Cards & Envelopes Greeting Whisper White
109116	167	Notes & Envelopes Long Notes
109118	167	Notes & Envelopes Love Notes
109117	167	Notes & Envelopes Pocket Notes*	Not Available
110729	167	Notes & Envelopes Scallop Notes
109119	167	Notes & Envelopes Gift Notes
109018	163	Classic Stampin' Ink Blue Bayou	Not Available
109019	163	Classic Stampin' Ink Groovy Guava
109017	163	Classic Stampin' Ink Purely Pomegranate	Not Available
109016	163	Classic Stampin' Ink River Rock	Not Available
109015	163	Classic Stampin' Ink Soft Sky
109020	163	Classic Stampin' Ink Wild Wasabi	Not Available
109013	163	Classic Stampin' Pad Blue Bayou	Not Available
109012	163	Classic Stampin' Pad Groovy Guava
109011	163	Classic Stampin' Pad Purely Pomegranate
109010	163	Classic Stampin' Pad River Rock
109009	163	Classic Stampin' Pad Soft Sky
109014	163	Classic Stampin' Pad Wild Wasabi
110751	171	Designer Series Paper Azure*
110696	169	Designer Series Paper Bali Breeze
110749	169	Designer Series Paper Berry Bliss
109154	169	Designer Series Paper Cutie Pie
110699	168	Designer Series Paper East Coast Prep*	Not Available
109160	170	Designer Series Paper Fall Flowers	Not Available
109159	169	Designer Series Paper Flowers For You*
110697	169	Designer Series Paper Ginger Blossom	Not Available
110479	168	Designer Series Paper Jersey Shore*
109151	170	Designer Series Paper Le Jardin
110748	170	Designer Series Paper Notebook*
110750	171	Designer Series Paper Olive Press
109153	170	Designer Series Paper Porcelain Prints*	Not Available
109175	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Almost Amethyst*	Not Available
109177	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Always Artichoke
109173	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Blue Bayou	Not Available
109174	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Brilliant Blue
109178	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Certainly Celery
109169	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Close to Cocoa*	Not Available
109168	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Groovy Guava*	Not Available
109171	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Lovely Lilac
109172	171	Designer Series Paper Prints More Mustard	Not Available
109176	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Old Olive
109170	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Pumpkin Pie	Not Available
109164	171	Designer Series Paper Prints River Rock*
109167	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Rose Red
109166	171	Designer Series Paper Prints So Saffron
109165	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Soft Sky	Not Available
109163	171	Designer Series Paper Prints Tempting Turquoise	Not Available
110698	168	Designer Series Paper Spring Break
110273	169	Designer Series Paper Spring Fling*	Not Available
110271	170	Designer Series Paper Spring Silhouettes
110272	170	Designer Series Paper Western Sky	Not Available
107299	167	Envelope Confetti Cream Medium
105320	189	Eyelets Basic	Not Available
100375	189	Eyelets Bold Brights	Not Available
100381	189	Eyelets Earth Elements	Not Available
107233	189	Eyelets Fresh Favorites I
107234	189	Eyelets Fresh Favorites II
105316	189	Eyelets Rich Regals
100378	189	Eyelets Soft Subtles	Not Available
105515	188	Hodgepodge Hardware Pewter	Not Available
105531	188	Hodgepodge Hardware Antique Brass	Not Available
105532	188	Hodgepodge Hardware Aged Copper	Not Available
101120	183	Metallic Art Pencils
107307	179	On Board Accents
109181	178	On Board Blossoms & Basic
109179	178	On Board Ginormous Pieces
107306	179	On Board Simon Lower
102678	166	Mulberry Paper White	Not Available
109227	181	Punch Box Three For You	Not Available
102686	180	Punch Handheld Rectangle
100271	183	Pure Color Pencils
109060	191	Ribbon Double-Stitched Blue Bayou	Not Available
109063	191	Ribbon Double-Stitched Groovy Guava	Not Available
109061	191	Ribbon Double-Stitched Purely Pomegranate	Not Available
109062	191	Ribbon Double-Stitched River Rock*
109059	191	Ribbon Double-Stitched Soft Sky	Not Available
109058	191	Ribbon Double-Stitched Wild Wasabi	Not Available
109189	190	Ribbon Originals Beachfront*
109187	190	Ribbon Originals District*
109188	190	Ribbon Originals Fairy Tale
109185	190	Ribbon Originals Jersey*
109184	190	Ribbon Originals Sherbert
109186	190	Ribbon Originals Theater
110716	191	Ribbon Striped Grosgrain Wild Wasabi*
110281	182	Rub-Ons Cherished Memories*	Not Available
110284	182	Rub-Ons Eastern Elegance*
110285	182	Rub-Ons Urban West*
110557	174	Simply Scrappin' Boho Blend
109610	174	Simply Scrappin' Confetti	Not Available
110572	172	Simply Scrappin' Crew Kids Boy
110567	173	Simply Scrappin' Crew Kids Girl
109597	175	Simply Scrappin' Home Again
110562	174	Simply Scrappin' Rose Cottage
109648	173	Simply Scrappin' Special Delivery Boy
109627	173	Simply Scrappin' Special Delivery Girl	Not Available
110587	175	Simply Scrappin' Summer Days
110577	175	Simply Scrappin' Tie The Knot
111184	15	Simply Sent Friendly Notes
109228	16	Simply Sent Simple Delights	Not Available
109229	16	Simply Sent Three Thoughts	Not Available
106662	197	Stampin'Around Wheel Daisy Field
107561	197	Stampin'Around Wheel Garden Annuals
109681	197	Stampin'Around Wheel Good Dog
109678	197	Stampin'Around Wheel Kisses
107482	197	Stampin'Around Wheel Lily Pad	Not Available
109680	197	Stampin'Around Wheel Meow
109677	197	Stampin'Around Wheel Mistletoe	Not Available
106610	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Basics Outline
107467	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Birthday
109571	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Dilly Dally Baby
109570	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Dilly Dally Friends
109569	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Dilly Dally Party
108423	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Leaves A La Carte	Not Available
107468	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Nature Hike
108980	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Petals
107464	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Rough Texture	Not Available
111261	196	Jumbo Stampin' Around Wheel Spunky Spots
109554	193	Stampin' Color Index Labels	Not Available
106694	194	Stampin' Kids Markers
101399	185	Stipple Brushes	Not Available
102673	183	Zig Painty

Got Wood?

If you are looking for a solution for your Decor Elements head on over to my store and check out the boards I have for them. I only have a few sizes right now, but like SU! with the Decor Elements I am starting small. Unfinished boards will ship in 2-3 days, while painted boards will take a little longer. I hope you like them!

Discounted Retiring Accessories

Just this morning I have learned that select retiring accessories will be discounted while supplies last starting Monday. So if you want anything off of this list I suggest you get it soon. To see the items click on the picture -------->

Wow Birthday Circles

Here's another card with the new Wow Flowers stamp set. This one used the circle with happy birthday on it. I stamped it in Chocolate Chip and Certainly Celery and punched it out with my 1" circle punch. I layered Chocolate Chip and Certainly Celery circles of different sizes. I used my new Scallop Border Punch along the edge of my Certainly Celery card base. On some of the circles I added them to my card using Stampin' Dimensionals. I added some retired 1/4" Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon and I was done. This one came together really quickly and I love how it turned out.

Quick Wow Flowers

This is another sneak peek stamp set called Wow Flowers. I also used the new Scallop Border Punch on this one. It's just a quick and simple card to try out my new stamp set. I started with a Taken with Teal card base, added a strip of Rose Red that had been punched with the Scallop Border punch. I stamped 3 Rose Red flowers and my Thank You in Taken with Teal. I adhered this strip of Whisper White cardstock and another border of scalloped Rose Red.


I hope you're enjoying the sneak peeks! More to come!

Want More Monkey?

This is my pieced monkey. I stamped him on Very Vanilla, then again on a piece of (retired) Linen DSP. I cut out a few sections of the Linen monkey and glued them to my Very Vanilla monkey. I then stamped the flower in his hand and colored it and his mouth with my ink and blender pens. I mounted my monkey on Real Red and added it to my Close to Cocoa card over a strip and piece of Certainly Celery ribbon. I stamped my sentiment in the bottom corner and admired my cute little monkey. I love him!!!

Sock Monkey is Here!!!!!

Here he is!!!!! Isn't he cute???? I'm in love!!! I stamped him with Jet Black StazOn on Very Vanilla. I colored him in with Stampin' Pastels (Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel and Pretty in Pink). I then stamped the bananas in Jet Black StazOn on a scrap of Very Vanilla and colored them with my Barely Banana pastels and cut them out. I adhered them both to my main image. I then stamped a bunch of bananas on my Barely Banana piece, although I don't think you can see that in the picture and layered my main image on top. I added a Chocolate Chip Round Tab and a Very Vanilla 1" circle that I stamped my sentiment on with Creamy Caramel. I took a strip of Chocolate Chip, stamped a banana on it, and adhered it to my Creamy Caramel card base and added my main image.

I was talking to my husband on the phone while making this card and he was laughing at me because I said "I love the Sock Monkey" at least 4 times during the conversation. But really, I love the Sock Monkey!

Oh, the Humanity!!!

I'm sitting at the VW dealer waiting for them to figure out what is wrong with my car and my box of new SU! goodies is sitting on the porch. Doesn't it figure on the days that I am home Mr. Brown doesn't show up until 6:00, but the days I'm not he shows up around lunch time??? I'm ready to play!!!

Cherry Blossom Festival

Yesterday was great. My friend Michele came over with her daughter and the 3 of us scrapbooked. Here are two of the pages I did. These are some pictures of hubby and I in DC during the Cherry Blossom Festival in April. I used So Saffron and Pretty in Pink as my colors to play off the yellow of my coat and the pink in the trees. I also used some retired Designer Series Paper that I can't recall the name of. I used Short Order Alphabet and Rough Edges Alphabet for my title. I also used Polka Dots & Petals to accent my titles. I added some Very Vanilla 1/4" grosgrain ribbon and some swirly paperclips from my Antique Brass HodgePodge Hardware.

I must say that I love having a larger photo printer so I can print my pictures in different sizes to fit my scrapbook layouts. I've printed a bunch more photos so be looking for some more scrapbook pages soon.

But tomorrow be looking for something with sneak peek items as they are schedule to be delivered tomorrow!!! I hope Mr. Brown shows up before 6:00 so I have all day to play!!!

DiRusso's

I did a little scrapbooking!! And not for class either!! For my personal scrapbook!! These pictures of the hubby and me eating our DiRusso's sausage sandwiches at his hometown's annual festival. I pulled the colors from the pictures. I used a Garden Green base with Blush Blossom and Bashful Blue accents. We went to the festival on the 4th of July, so I went with a star theme. I stamped my title in Garden Green with Short Order Alphabet. I then stamped a Blush Blossom star from Classic Backgrounds in the bottom corner. I journaled using my Garden Green Stampin' Write marker. The journaling reads "Every summer we have to head down to Tuscora Park during the First Town Days Festival to get a DiRusso's Sausage sandwich. John likes his with onions and peppers. Heather does not." I stamped some Blush Blossom stars across the journaling and added a larger star next to it. I then added a Bashful Blue Round Tab and wrote the date on it. I then punched out some small and large stars to add to my page. I took a piece of On Board chip board and inked it up with my Very Vanilla craft ink. I added a Bashful Blue large star that has a small star punched out of the middle.

This page got hubby's approval!

Wild Color Inspiration

I had a chance to play with Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenge today. I really like this color combo. It took me a while to decide on a stamp set that would work with this combo and Wild About You was the winner. (I really need some new rubber) So, anyway, I stamped the giraffe in Really Rust, the penguin in Close to Cocoa, and the alligator in Certainly Celery. I used one of the circles from Polka Dots & Petals to create a background on a piece of Really Rust. I added a piece of Certainly Celery 1/4" grosgrain ribbon and adhered it to my Chocolate Chip card. I then added the piece with the animals. I stamped my sentiment in Chocolate Chip and punched it out with my Large Oval punch, adhered it to a 1 1/4" Close to Cocoa circle and added it to my card with a Stampin' Dimensional. I hope you like it!

Square Tree

This is a stamp set that hasn't seen ink a long time. I wanted to do something with squares, so I thought this was the perfect set since the image fits in a square. So I punched out some 1 1/4" squares in Whisper White, Apricot Appeal, and Soft Sky and arranged them on the upper portion of my Wild Wasabi card. I cut a 2x2 square and stamped the image from A Tree for All Seasons with Jet Black StazOn. I then colored it in with my ink (Wild Wasabi, Creamy Caramel, and Apricot Appeal) pads and blender pens. I adhered it to the center of my squares with Stampin' Dimensionals. I then stamped my sentiment from Short & Sweet in the bottom corner in Wild Wasabi.

Now I'm just patiently waiting for my new stuff to arrive!!! It'll be here Monday! I can't wait!

Baby Crazy

It seems like everyone is pregnant right now. I have so many friends and co-workers who are expecting so when I sat down to make a card or two last night I went with a baby theme. Usually when I use Wild About You I go with the giraffe, but lately I've been thinking how cute the alligator is. He's just so happy! So I stamped my alligator in Wild Wasabi on Whisper White and mounted him on Wild Wasabi. He was mounted with Stampin' Dimensionals on a piece of Soft Sky and a piece of Whisper White stamped with Polka Dot in Soft Sky. Before adhering those pieces I wrapped some Wild Wasabi stitched ribbon around them. I then stamped my sentiment in Soft Sky on Whisper White and punched it out with my small oval punch. I then mounted it on a piece of Soft Sky that was punched out with the large oval punch. I mounted it to my card with Stampin' Dimensionals. It was so nice to do stome stamping just for fun last night after a busy few weeks of classes.

Happy Independence Day!!!

These are the scrapbook pages we made at my June scrapbook class. I wanted to wait to share them with you until the 4th of July. They were so quick and easy to put together. We inked up our chipboard stars with Whisper White craft ink and set them aside to dry while we put the pages together. We tied the ribbon around our fingers to make a knot, then adhered the ends around the back of our Whisper White cardstock then snipped the loop of the ribbon to create our bow. The page title was stamped in Brilliant Blue with Short Order Alphabet. We also added a small piece of Brilliant Blue to page two for some journaling or maybe as a place to add the date. The fun part was stamping all the stars from Classic Backgrounds in Real Red and Brilliant Blue and punching them out with the Large Star punch. We also punched some small stars out to add in between. Everyone lined their stars up a little differently and a few people layered their stars, which looked really cute.

Hodgepodge Hardware

Just in case you aren't receiving my newsletter (email me if you want to be added to the distribution list) I wanted to let you know that the Hodgepodge Hardware that is in the Spring/Summer Collection is 25% off while supplies last. The Pewter, Antique Brass, and Aged Copper finishes are retiring, so they are discounting them until they are gone. Be sure to get your HPH order in soon.

Decor Elements Brochure

Head on over to the SU! website to check out the Decor Elements brochure. I hope you love this product line as much as I do. I love everything in the brochure now and I can't wait to see what else they come up with. Click on the picture to view the brochure!