Catty CASE

If this card look familiar it's because it was inspired by the card on p. 142 of the Spring/Summer Collection. I was just browsing through the catalog looking for something I could CASE and I found a great card featuring Hi & Hello. I did change it up a bit using Always. I started with a Taken with Teal base. I stamped my two flower images on a scrap of Taken with Teal and punched them out. I adhered them to my card. I also added a strip of Rose Red along the bottom of the card. I then stamped my sentiment in Taken with Teal on Whisper White. I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to get it straight. I then added a strip of Old Olive and a Ribbon Slide from the Styled Silver HPH in the Occasions Mini. I then stamped "always in Rose Red on Whisper White and punhed it out with my 1 3/8" circle punch and stamped the leaves in Old Olive on Whisper White and punhed it out with my 1 1/4" circle punch and layered it on a 1 3/8" Old Olive circle. Both of these circles were then adhered to my card base.

Last night was my monthly scrapbook class, so I will share our pages in my next post. Have a good day!

Enjoy.....this card

I bought this stamp set, Enjoy Every Moment, as I thought it would be a great set for scrapbooking, but I also find that it's a great set for card making, too. I stamped "enjoy" in Chocolate Chip on Very Vanilla, then using my Stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped the flower in Rose Red over the "e" as well as "every moment" under enjoy. I pierced the corner of my Very Vanilla piece and mounted it to a piece of Chocolate Chip. I then wheeled on my Rose Red cardbase with Rose Red ink using a wheel....I think it's Hot to Dot - retired. I hardly every use wheels, so I don't remember. Anywho, I don't own the coordinating wheel, Daisy Dash (which you can get for free when you purchase Enjoy Every Moment now through Apr. 30). But, back to the card. I wheeled my card base, cut a little slit in the fold of the card and slipped in a piece of my beloved, retired 1/4" Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon. I adhered my stamped layers and it's done! I hope you enjoy it!!!! (Cheesy, I know)

Free Wheels and Hostess Benefits!!!!!

Who doesn't love free stuff? I know I sure do. And starting today through April 30th you can get a free jumbo wheel with the purchase of select coordinating stamp sets. The select stamp sets and free wheels are:

Wonderful You & Stems and Silhouettes wheel
Life's a Breeze & Something Fishy wheel
Pun Fun & Sweet Stars wheel
Year after Year & See You Around wheel
Stitched Exotics & It's Beautiful wheel
Enjoy Every Moment & Daisy Dash wheel




During this time you can also earn an extra $25 in hostess benefits when you hostess a $350 workshop. Contact me today to select your preferred date to hold your workshop.


For more information on both of these promotions click on the fliers to the right.

Say Goodbye!!!

Well, today is the last day of Sale-a-bration. I figured it was a good day to use some of those Sale-a-bration sets that I earned. I've been using So Many Scallops and Birthday Whimsy a lot, but Friendship Blooms didn't get as much love. So, today I made not one, but two cards with Friendship Blooms.

For the first one I started with a Basic Gray base. I stamped the side of it with Polka Dot using Versamark then embossed with Whisper White. I then added a strip of Pretty in Pink and stamped the swirly image in Basic Gray on my cardbase. I stamped the big flower in Pretty in Pink on Whisper White and mounted it on a piece of Basic Gray. I added a pewter brad in the center of the flower and a little piece of 1/4" Whisper White grosgrain ribbon to the back. This was then added to my card with Stampin' Dimensionals.




For the second card I again started with a Basic Gray base. I cut a piece of Ruby Red a quarter inch smaller than my card base. I punched the corners with my Ticket Corner Punch. I stamped the swirl from Friendship Blooms on the bottom 2/3rds of the Ruby Red layer. I then stamped the 3 flower image in Ruby Red on Whisper White and added a Pewter brad to the middle of the middle flower. I added my layers and called it done.


I hope you got all the Sale-a-bration sets you wanted! If not I can put in a last minute order for you. Just shoot me an email and I'll get it taken care of.

Promos

This is your last call to take advantage of Sale-a-bration. Orders for SAB must be placed tomorrow. If you want to get your hands on one (or more) of the limited edition SAB sets I must place your order tomorrow. To view these limited edition sets click on the catalog to the right.

Also going on is the Wild Wasabi cardstock promotion. You can purchase a pack of 16 pieces of precut prescored textured cardstock. These pieces make great card bases. The packs are available for $3.95. For more information click on the Wasabi ribbon to the right.

Big Red Flower

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today is going much better than yesterday. Oscar is feeling much better. His hives are gone, but he's still on the Benadryl so he's a sleepy pup. He can barely keep his eyes open.

So here's another card from yesterday. It's my big red flower. I stamped the flower from Time Well Spent in Real Red with Whisper White craft ink and embossed with Whisper White embossing powder. I painstakingly cut it out with my craft knife. I colored in some of the areas with my Versamarker to add some dimension. I stamped my sentiment with Whisper White craft inked and again embossed it with Whisper White embossing powder. I added some Turquoise Fine Cosmo Glitter to the flowers with Crystal Effects. I attached some Old Olive Polytwill ribbon and put my big red flower up top with some Stampin' Dimensionals. Clean and simple, just like I like it!

A Dog and a Bird

Well I was able to make some time to stamp today since my poor baby, Oscar spent most of the day at the vet. As you can see he's got hives. He had a vaccination this morning and had an allergic reaction. This has happened before, but this time was much worse. This one was also unexpected because he's had this vaccination a few times before with no problems. It's usually just his Rabies vaccination that he reacts to. He's been very itchy and rubbing his whole body on the floor. I gave him some Benedryl and a cold bath and he's resting in his teepee, now.

Anyway he had to stay at the vet on an IV and steroids for a few hours so I had the house to myself to get some stamping done. I made 4 cards today, this was the last one. I forgot that I had this stamp set, Always, so had to get one quick card in before I went to pick Oscar up from the vet. I did this one a little backwards and started with the bird. I stamped it in Versamark on Bashful Blue and embossed with clear embossing powder. I painstakingly cut it out. I inked the heart in Versamark then Chocolate Chip and stamped it on So Saffron. I actually intended to cut the heart out, but decided not to. I repeatedly stamped the leaf image in Chocolate Chip on my Chocolate Chip base. I thought it needed a little something else, so I punch a hole in my piece of So Saffron and tied some of my beloved (retired) Chocolate Chip 1/4" grosgrain ribbon through it. I then stamped the small flower image in Chocolate Chip on So Saffron and punched it would with my 1/2" circle punch and adhered it to a Pewter Build-a-brad and put it through the hole in my So Saffron piece. I then adhered my So Saffron piece to my card base and adhered my bird with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Slacker

I know, I know....I've been slacking lately. I've been working on some submissions for Stampin' Up!'s monthly contest, so I haven't gotten around to stamping for sharing lately. Today, though I was doing something very important and slightly stamping related. I went to the grand opening of IKEA - West Chester. How is this stamping related you ask? Organization, of course. I bought some storage items for my stamping space. I started to set it up, but I'm not done, yet. I bought some new rails to replace the cafe rods that my punches are on. I also bought some accessory buckets and hooks for the rods. I got some magazine files to organize my cardstock in (already did that and it was fun!), and I got some magnetic tins to put embellishments in an put on my magnetic board (which I bought at IKEA several years ago and hadn't hung). I also bought some storage for the kitchen, but I won't bore you with that. My mom came down to go to the grand opening with me. We had a lot of fun. Now we're just exhausted and relaxing. I'll try to get some stamping done here in the next two days.

Updated the Store

I added a Birthday card pack to my store. Head on over there and take a look. I'm going to be adding more card packs in the next few days (OK, probably weeks). So, if you're not a stamper, but enjoy hand stamped cards (or even if you are a stamper) head on over and purchase a card pack.

Rejected!

Well, I applied to be a display stamper for Stampin' Up!'s convention this year, but was rejected. Oh, well. At least I tried, right? Anywho, here's one of my cards that was rejected. I was happy with it and I guess that's what is important. I love the layout of this one and I really like the eyelet and twill tape. I used my markers to color the flowers and frayed the ends of the twill tape. I hope you like it!

Recipe
Stamps: Polka Dots & Paisley
Ink: Pale Plum, Old Olive
Paper: Pale Plum, Old Olive, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Twill Tape, Pewter Jumbo Eyelet

Occasions Mini

The Occasions mini is now up! If you don't have a hard copy of the Occasions mini catalog you can view it online (by clicking on the picture of the catalog). I'm sure you'll like what you see. Cute stamp sets, beautiful accessories, and lots of project ideas.

Don't forget orders over $50 still qualify for Sale-a-bration benefits through March 17th. Make sure you get your order to me in time to take advantage of both offers.

Have I shown you these, yet?

Isn't this the cutest thing you've ever seen? I just love these little Post-It Note keychains. I made this one for me. I started with a piece of Night of Navy cardstock. I stamped an image from So Many Scallops in Night of Navy on Whisper White and punched it out with my Scallop circle punch. I added a 1 1/4" circle in Night of Navy and on top of that a 1" circle punched from Whisper White which was stamped with a letter from Short Order Alphabet. I added my Post-It notes inside, punched a hole with my Crop-a-dile, attached my scallop and put a little 1/4" Whisper White grosgrain ribbon on my keyring and it's done! These are so quick and easy to make. And so cute!!!!

Slippity Slide

This is a scrapbook page that I wanted to share with you forever ago, but I apparently I hadn't taken a picture of it when I first completed it. So while I was working on some new pages the other day I made sure to take a picture of it. I got happy with the circles with this one, but I love it! I think there was a challenge (probably on SCS) about framing your picture. Well, I didn't have any frames, so I made one with a cut-out circle on the square picture. It took me forever to decide on a title for this page, but I finally settled on Slippity Slide, which I love! And I was also feeling adventurous with this page and used some DSP (which I have a really hard time doing).

Recipe
Stamps: Short Order Alphabet, Big Deal Alphabet
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel
Paper: Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Linen Prints
Accessories: Fiskar's Shape Cutter and Circle Templates

Risky Rescue

Scrapbook page #2 from yesterday is Clyde and Seamore's Risky Rescue. This was a great show we saw at Sea World. This page came together really quick. It's a pretty simple page. I stamped my title with Rough Edges Alphabet and Short Order Alphabet in Not Quite Navy and More Mustard on Very Vanilla. I adhered that to a piece of More Mustard. I also stamped a row of dots from Enjoy Every Moment on two strips of Very Vanilla. One is Not Quite Navy, one in More Mustard and adhered them tot he sides of my Not Quite Navy piece of cardstock. I adhered my pictures and title. I then inked up a piece of chipboard with More Mustard and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I overheated it a little in one spot, so I stamped a star from Tagger's Dozen in Not Quite Navy and punched it out with my 1" circle and adhered it to my piece of chipboard. I added my chipboard star and thought that the upper corner looked a little plain so I added a piece of twill ribbon. I didn't really like it, but I had already stapled it, so it's stuck there now.

Wegeforth Bowl

What is one to do when avoiding housework? Scrapbook of course. That's exactly what I did today. I am so close to finishing my San Diego scrapbook and I really just want to complete it so I can really enjoy the book. Oh, and I have new pictures I want to scrap. So here is one of the two pages I did today. The pictures are from one of the shows at the San Diego Zoo. It's the sea lion show that takes place in Wegeforth Bowl. The sketch was inspired by a Becky Higgins sketch in her new book, The Best of Becky Higgins' Sketches. I love browsing this book. Her sketches are wonderful and practical.

I started with a Chocolate Chip base. I added a strip of Brilliant Blue which was stamped with one of the stamps from Background Basics. I cut strips of Very Vanilla to fit the edges of the photos and rounded the corners. I used my Basic Brown Journaler to add a caption for each of the photos. I added two Antique Brass brads to the wolf picture in the bottom corner before adding it to my page. I also added a strip of Chocolate Chip Polytwill ribbon to the owl picture before attaching it. I stamped an image from Enjoy Every Moment in Old Olive on Very Vanilla and punched it with my 1" circle. I mounted that on a 1 1/4" Brilliant Blue circle and a 1 3/8" Pumpkin Pie circle. I attached it with Stampin' Dimensionals. I also added a Pumpkin Pie Flower Fusion felt flower to a 5-Petal Flower punch in Old Olive using an Antique Brass brad and mounted it to my page with Stampin' Dimensionals. I stamped my title with Rough Edges Alphabet and journaled with my Basic Brown Journaler. I added a strip of Old Olive Polytwill ribbon and two strips of Brilliant Blue cardstock. I think that's about it. I hope you like it!

Today's Sketch Challenge

I sneaked downstairs for a few minutes this evening to do stamping. To make it easy I used today's sketch challenge. I started with a Basic Gray card base. I busted out my Charbon DSP (retired) and added a strip of Very Vanilla across the bottom portion. I tied a piece of 1/4" Basic Black grosgrain ribbon and adhered it to my card base. I stamped "enjoy" from Enjoy Every Moment in Basic Gray on Very Vanilla and mounted it on a piece of Basic Black. I added a "Levi tag" stamped in Basic Black and mounted it on my card base with Stampin' Dimensionals. Easy peasy, took 5 minutes! Enjoy!!!!!

No time for stamping

I had no time to stamp this weekend. I made one thing and that's it. My hubby was home for the weekend!!!! And I spent most of this afternoon working on a sewing project that has been sitting around for a month or so. I do want to share some pictures, though, that have nothing to do with stamping. I've been growing a pineapple for almost 2 years and it's finally starting to flower!! The pineapple is in a south facing window and it has been getting so big. It spans about half-way across the room. Soon we should have a pineapple!!!!

February Scrapbook Class

Last night was my monthly scrapbook class. Our theme was Easter and our technique was to make your own "designer paper." Here is the layout. We started with a Bashful Blue base. The Pretty in Pink mats are fitted for pictures. The one on the first page is for a 5x7 and the two on the second page are for 4x6 pictures. We used Polka Dots & Petals to make our designer paper using Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, and So Saffron. We added Certainly Celery 1/4" grosgrain ribbon on the second page. Some of the girls stamped tone on tone images on the So Saffron accent pieces and some stamped images on Very Vanilla and punched them out with circle punches and added them to their page. They all stamped Easter with Big Deal Alphabet on the bottom of the first page, some added happy from Polka Dots & Paisley. On my page I wanted to show of the Sticky Cuts letters, so I added an 'h' to my page and covered it with Fine Cosmo Glitter. We were all so excited with how it came out and that the glitter actually sticks to the letter and doesn't come off if you touch it!!! I just need to finish my title and add my pictures and I'm done!

Happy Valentine's Day

Just a quick Valentine for you!

Recipe
Stamps: Always
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Bravo Burgundy, Versamark
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Bravo Burgundy, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Stampin' Sponges

Happy Snow Day

Well, we had some nasty weather today and I was told to go home at 12:30. Who am I to argue? So I spent the afternoon and most of the evening stamping!!!! I got to play with my new stamps sets, SAB sets, and get my stuff together for Friday's scrapbook class. Oh, and I was working on some ideas with my new bulk items for upcoming classes. I was a busy girl. And a good one, too, cause when I was done I cleaned up after myself!!! Amazing!!! So here's another creation with a SAB set. I used So Many Scallops which I just love because it works with the Scallop Circle Punch! I stamped the image in So Saffron on Whisper White. I also stamped Polka Dot BG in Bashful Blue on Whisper White. I tied a piece of new Chocolate Chip Polytwill ribbon around it (sneak peak....this will be available in the Occasions mini). I adhered all my layers to my Bashful Blue cardbase using last weeks card sketch from SCS. I added my scallop with Stampin' Dimensionals. I love how it turned out! Very springy on a very icky day!

Glitter Whimsy Birthday

While I was in my stamping space making a card for my nephew's birthday I thought these presents would look great with a little glitter. So I just had to make another card while I was there. Since the Fine Cosmo Glitter has Orchid, Celery, and Turquoise I used those for my color combo. I stamped the present with each color on Whisper White, then put glue along the whimsy lines on the present and sprinkled glitter on them. I then mounted it on a piece of Tempting Turquoise. I added some Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon to a strip of Certainly Celery. I added that to my Orchid Opulence card base and added my presents using Stampin' Dimesionals.

Well, I'm off to my nephew's birthday party!!!!

My first SAB creation

I didn't preorder any SAB stamp sets, so this is the first time I got to play with any. I just got my order that I placed on the first last night. I didn't have time to play with them until this morning after my dentist appointment. I had to play with them because I have a birthday party on Sunday in Indiana. I had to stamp today because I was leaving for Indiana after my dentist appointment. Also in my order was Basic Gray cardstock and Basic Gray classic ink. I really wanted to use it and since I needed to make a masculine card I thought it would work. It's muted, but I like it. I stamped the cake from Birthday Whimsy in Basic Gray on Whisper White. I stamped it again in Not Quite Navy on Whisper White and cut out just the cake. I mounted it on top of my Basic Gray cake with Stampin' Dimensionals. I layered that on Basic Gray and layered again on Not Quite Navy and added it to my card base. I stamped my balloons twice, too. Again, one in Not Quite Navy and one in Basic Gray. I cut them out and mounted them on my Basic Gray card base. The Basic Gray one was popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals. I drew the strings for the balloons with a black gel pen. I'm not thrilled with how the strings turned out, but there was no turning back at this point. I stamped "happy birthday" in Basic Gray and "....and many more" inside the card. I stamped the present on my envelope and left for Indiana.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Time Spent with Friends

I'm going crazy. I am not used to being this busy or tired. I have been working full time (I usually only work 3 days a week), I have been working late (tomorrow I'm going to a marketing meeting until 9, plus an hour drive home), I have been traveling on the weekends (I met my husband last weekend at his parent's and this weekend is my nephew's birthday in Indiana), and I am taking care of a crazy puppy (ok, he's not really a puppy any more) as well as a house. I don't know where time goes any more. I haven't been sleeping well with all the wind and rain echoing off the vaulted ceiling in my bedroom and skylight in my attached bathroom. And the worst part is I haven't stamped in a week!!!

I'm getting my SAB order on Thursday, but going out of town on Friday, so I won't even have time to play with it. Most of it is paper for upcoming classes, but I am getting two new stamps sets that I'm so excited about. At least I'll get to stamp next Friday at my scrapbook class.

All I have to share with you right now is another thank you card I made for one of my guests at my jewelry party.

I love simple cards and this is definitely simple.

Recipe
Stamps: Time Well Spent
Ink: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum
Paper: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Whisper White
Accessories: 1/4" Whisper White Grosgrain Ribbon, Blender Pen
Technique: Watercoloring

Happy Sale-a-bration Day

Today is the first day of Sale-a-bration!!!! I'm so excited. I was up at 2:00 AM EST this morning to put in my order (and another one for a customer). I didn't intend to be awake at that time, but Oscar woke me up, so I figured I might as well. I had the orders all ready to go, just needed to add my Sale-a-bration sets. My order is already in picking!!! Woo-hoo!!!!

In the meantime, here is another thank you card I made, again for one of the guests of my Lia Sophia party. This one has a Rose Red base. I adhered a piece of Rose Red Print DSP to the bottom portion of the base. I then added a piece of Whisper White 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, but cutting a slit in the fold of the card. I stamped my flower from Big Flowers in Rose Red on Whisper White and adhered it to a piece of So Saffron. I then stamped my sentiment from Short & Sweet in Basic Black on So Saffron and punched it out with the Word Window punch. I adhered it to my card with Stampin' Dimensionals.


There is a link to the SAB catalog on the sidebar if you don't have a hard copy. Let me know when you are ready to place your order and get your freebies!!!

Getting Punchy With It

I recently had a jewelry party and I wanted to thank they ladies that came to my party, so I included a thank you card for each of them with their order. This is one of the cards I made. It's a punchy card! I stamped the flower from Big Flowers in So Saffron and Rose Red on Very Vanilla and punched it out with my 1 1/4" Circle Punch. I layered that on a So Saffron circle from my 1 3/8" Circle Punch. That was layered on a Scallop Circle in Rose Red. I added a strip of Old Olive on my Perfect Plum base for my flower stem and added my flower head to the top. I then punched a scrap of Old Olive with my Word Window punch and cut it at an angle. I lined the edges up with my "stem" and adhered them as leaves for my flower. I then stamped my sentiment on the bottom corner.


So, in regards to the uploading issue my hubby says I have a memory issue and I can't upload videos, but I can now upload pictures. He's working on it, though and I hope to be able to upload the videos I have waiting for you. Good night everyone and keep your fingers crossed that tomorrow goes a little smoother than today (I lost power overnight, so my alarm didn't go off and I was late for work).


ETA: It was a Lia Sophia party. If anyone is interested in having their own Lia Sophia party I can recommend a consultant. She does a lot of traveling and does parties all over the country.

Issues

I've been trying to post a blog for 3 days, now, but I can't seem to upload photos or videos. I hope to get the issue figured out soon and back to posting. Please bear with me.

I stamped today!!!

I managed to sneak in a little stamping time today. I was downstairs cleaning up and I decided that cleaning could wait. I've been dying to do something with this frame since I bought it last week. It's a 12" x 4" frame for a panoramic picture. I started working on it earlier in the week, but didn't get too far. This isn't the DSP or the picture I was originally going to use, but I like these choices better. I used my retired Petals & Paisley DSP and this picture of John and I at a wedding. The "happy" is strategically place over the beer that is on the table. I mounted the picture on a piece of Pretty in Pink and added the flower in the upper corner. As I was working on this Mr. Brown came and delivered my Flower Fusion Accents & Elements, so I added an Old Olive flower over my stamped image using a silver brad. I used my Old Olive and Rose Red Stampin' Write Markers to stamp "find joy in the little things" as well as my flowers from Polka Dots & Paisley. I mounted in on a piece of Rose Red and added a piece of ribbon using a silver brad.

I put this on the piano in the front room.

Feeling Springy!

It's miserable outside. It's cold and snowy, so here's a little springy feeling card to cheer me up. I made this for my husband's grandmother for her 80th birthday. I started with a Pixie Pink base. I stamped the center flower from Big Flowers in Gable Green on my Very Vanilla strip. I then stamped the image again on a scrap of Very Vanilla with Pixie Pink. I punched it out with my 1" circle punch and adhered it with a Stampin' Dimensional. I stamped the other two flowers on either side of the center flower in Pixie Pink. I adhered this to a strip of Gable Green and adhered it to my card base. To finish off my card I added some Very Vanilla 1/4" grosgrain ribbon to it. Inside I stamped a sentiment from Hugs & Wishes.

So, that's all I have time for right now. It's been a crazy busy week and I just haven't had time to stamp. But my work week is over, so I hope to get some stamping time in.

VSN cards

While I was waiting for my hubby to come home on Saturday I had some time to play the Virtual Stamping Night Challenges over on SCS.

Here's one I did for the challenge, Little Black Dress. The object of this challenge was to use black cardstock for the focal image. Here I decided to use 4 focal images. I stamped the flowers from Big Flowers in Whisper White on Basic Black and embossed them with Whisper White EP. I punched them out with the 1 3/8" Circle Punch. I adhered them to a square piece of Whisper White cardstock with Stampin' Dimensionals. I stamped my sentiment on the card base and embossed it with Whisper White EP and added some Black Gingham Ribbon around my cardbase. I then added my focal image to my card base. Tah-dah!!!! I love how the flowers pop in white!



Another one of the challenges was to make a Criss Cross Card. I've only made one other of these and it was fun, so I thought I'd give it another go. This one is not quite as fancy as the first one I made, but there is a time limit for the challenges, so that played a factor.

Recipe
Stamps: Time Well Spent
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Orchid Opulence, Sage Shadow, Barely Banana
Paper: Whisper White, Orchid Opulence, Sage Shadow, Barely Banana
Accessories: Round Tab Punch, Blender Pens, 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Crop-a-dile, 1", 1 1/4" & 1 3/8" Circle Punches

I worked on a few other challenges, but if you want to see them you'll have to check them out in my SCS gallery. My Miss You Tag card uses up some scraps from the scrapbooking class.


Also, I was going to upload a video, but since the hubby was home this weekend he was messing with the computer and updated my video editing software, so I wasn't able to download and edit video. Hopefully I'll be able to some time this week, but I have to work the next few days and was hoping to finish painting the hallway, so we'll see.

Blog candy winner!!!

OK, sorry I'm a little late....it's been a hectic day. So, I got my number from random.org and it says Claudia is the winner!!!!!!!!!!

January Scrapbook Class

Here are the pages we made last night at the scrapbook class. Actually these are my pages. I added some extra ribbon to mine as an example of how to dress it up a bit.

We started with 2 sheets of Rose Red and added our Old Olive strips across the lower half of each page. We cut our photo mats to fit standard size photos. The two mats on the left are 4 1/4" x 6 1/4" and the mat on the right is 5 1/4" x 7 1/4" in Whisper White. We stamped the sentiment on the strip of Old Olive in Jet Black (before we adhered it in case we messed up). On the left we stamped the jumping frog from Unfrogettable and the flower. Some people put the flower in the frog's hand, some put it lower and some put flowers everywhere!!! We colored them in with the Old Olive, Rose Red, and Barely Banana Stampin' Write Markers and mounted it on a piece of Basic Black. Then we stamped the sentiment on a scrap piece of Whisper White and punched it out with the Large Oval punch. I attached my two pieces with a piece of Black Gingham Ribbon. We attached the oval with Stampin' Dimensionals. On the other side of the layout we stamped the lovey frog and using masking we stamped the mushroom. We also colored these in with markers and used the new Fine Cosmo Glitter on the heart. This cute little guy was mounted on a piece of Basic Black cardstock and we all tied a piece of Black Gingham Ribbon along the bottom. Some of the girls stamped "love" using Jumbo Outline Alphabet where it says "Title Here" and some left it blank to add more pictures there. Everyone personalized their page a little bit and we all had a great time. We're looking forward to next month's class.

And don't forget to check my previous post for some blog candy!!!!

Candy Time!!!!

I'm in a really good mood, so I went to my Stampin' Studio to see what I had to give away. And now I'm going to share the love. Leave a comment on this post between now and noon EST Monday, the 21st and you will be entered to win. I'll pick a winner based on a random number generator to receive a pack of retired Rich Regals Mulberry Paper and a Bravo Burgundy and Elegant Eggplant Classic' Stampin' Spot.

Limited to residents of the US and Canada.

Thanks!

Simple page

This is just a simple page with a little bit of pop. I wanted to do something fun with the title, so I kissed my letters. I inked up my Big Deal Alphabet letters either in Really Rust or Creamy Caramel, then kissed them with a flower from Polka Dots & Petals. I also twisted the flower a little. This gave the letters that mottled look. I mounted my pictures on Creamy Caramel and added them to my page. I stamped my giraffe from Wild About You in Really Rust on Whisper White and mounted it on Creamy Caramel. I added a Pewter Jumbo Eyelet and added some Whisper White grosgrain ribbon tied with a piece of hemp twine.

Look for a few more scrapbook pages coming soon, including the pages we're making tonight at my scrapbook class.

So girly

Can it get any girly-er than glitter, flowers, and scallops? I love it! A co-worker got some difficult news, so I thought she could use a pickup. A girly pickup. I stamped my pickup from Loads of Love in Jet Black StazOn and colored the wheels with my Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pens. I then stamped my pickup again on a piece of Almost Amethyst Prints DSP and cut it out. I put the flowers in the bed of the pickup and colored them with Perfect Plum and Certainly Celery and my Blender Pens. Now the fun part. I adhered my new Orchid Fine Cosmo glitter using Tombow Multi. It's so sparkly!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh, I love it!!!!!!!!!! OK, back on task, I adhered my pickup with Stampin' Dimensionals. I then mounted it onto a piece of Certainly Celery. I took a strip of Whisper White and added the scallops with the Corner Rounder punch. I added that to the bottom of my piece of Perfect Plum, which I added to my card base. I then added my pickup to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals. I stamped "thought you could use a little pickup" on the inside. I hope she likes it!!!!!

At the Hotel

This isn't the scrapbook page I intended to share today, but it seems I haven't taken a picture of the other one. Or at least I can't find a picture. But this page will do. These are a couple of pics I snapped while the kids were playing at the hotel.

I used a More Mustard base and added the Chocolate Chip center, which has two corners rounded. Oh, but first I stamped the Polka Dot BG in the bottom corner. I matted my pictures on Garden Green and added those to my page. I stamped my title using Short Order Alphabet and Jumbo Outline Alphabet in Whisper White. I stamped the flowers and leaves from You Make Me Happy (retired) on Whisper White in More Mustard, Chocolate Chip, and Garden Green and cut them out. I adhered the leaves and attached the flowers with Stampin' Dimensionals. I added a piece of Pewter HPH to frame the word "the" and added the Whisper White 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, which wraps around the back of the page. A little bit of journaling with my Basic Brown Stampin' Write Journaler. It says "Faith and Taj even had fun just hanging out at the hotel."

Stampin' Heather's Store

I've updated the store, so head on over and check it out!

Edited to add: Something's wrong with the PayPal buttons. I've been fighting with them for almost an hour and I can't figure it out. If you would like to purchase any stamp sets (that aren't listed on eBay) send me an email and I will just invoice you.

Just Making a Card

I hope to have plenty of stamping to share with you this week, but I've taken on a home project. I'm painting the upstairs hallway (a Wild Wasabi-ish color). That is going to impact the time I spend in my stamping room. So, I'm almost finished cutting in and I'm starving, so I thought I'd take a chimichanga break and share with you another video. Enjoy!




Recipe
Stamps: Celebrate Everythiing, A Beautiful Thing
Ink: Versamark, Jet Black StazOn
Paper: Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens, Whisper White Embossing Powder, 1/4" Whisper White grosgrain ribbon

I scrapped today

And this is what I did. It's the first page for my San Diego scrapbook. I've only got two more pages to scrap and my book is done (not all have been posted here yet). I started with a Pumpkin Pie base and mounted my sunset picture on Basic Black and More Mustard. I cut my fountain picture down and mounted it on More Mustard. I added a strip of Bali Breeze DSP along the bottom as well as a strip of Basic Black cardstock. I stamped the 4 flowers image from A Beautiful Thing in Pumpkin Pie along the black strip. I then added my pictures to the page. I stamped my title with Jumbo Outline Alphabet on More Mustard and Rose Red with Jet Black StazOn and colored in in with my Versamarker. I mounted my title on a piece of Basic Black and adhered it to my page. I wrote the dates of the trip on a piece of Rose Red. I adhered it to my page and added a piece of Pewter HodgePodge Hardware over it. I also added a piece of HPH to my title.

Back to Scrappin'

Caution: Kids at Play

The kiddos had so much fun at Balboa Park. We spent a lot of time there playing. The kids had to test out every piece of equipment (more than once). These were a few pictures that I loved of them at the park.

I started with a Old Olive base and added my mats. They are Summer Sun, stamped with the Sanded BG and I inked up the edges with Basic Black. I added my photos and overlapped them a bit (it's my new favorite thing to do). I cut a square of Summer Sun cardstock and stamped Caution Kids at Play with Rough Edges Alphabet and matted that on a piece of Basic Black. I added that to my page with some Stampin' Dimensionals. Lastly I stamped my title, Balboa Park, with Short Order Alphabet kissed with Sanded.


I look forward to doing some more scrapping this weekend!!!

Something Old, Something New

I had a little fun playing with some retired items, hence the something old. I used some Linen Prints DSP and my much hoarded 1/4" Chocolate grosgrain ribbon. This card was so simple to make. I punched out two squares of Linen Prints and one square of Chocolate Chip with my 1 3/8" Square punch. I then stamped my image from Tagger's Dozen on Very Vanilla with Apricot Appeal and punched it out with my 1 3/8" Circle punch. I then punched a 1 1/4" circle from a piece of Apricot Appeal and then punched it out with the Scallop Circle punch. I added my squares to my Very Vanilla card base and then added my stamped image. I added the scallop circle with Stampin' Dimensionals. It was looking a little plain, so I added some beloved 1/4" Chocolate grosgrain ribbon (why, why was it retired????).

Now, for the something new. The new Demonstrator Business Websites are active today. Check mine out.

Sketch

I's been a while since I posted one of my sketches. Actually this is only the second time I posted one of my sketches. I had some time last night to head down to my stamping room and play. I decided to take a look at my sketch folder and see what I could come up with. I also wanted to play with some markers. I don't have many markers so I had to make do with what I had. The result....the color combo you see here. Sage Shadow, Summer Sun, and Barely Banana. What do you think? I like the effect on the flowers, but I don't know about the overall look. Oh, well. Live and learn.

Recipe:
Stamps: Time Well Spent, Short & Sweet
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Sage Shadow, Summer Sun, Barely Banana
Paper: Sage Shadow, Summer Sun, Barely Banana, Whisper White
Accessories: Whisper White 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Hemp Twine

Video!!!

Well, my technical difficulties have been resolved, so for Post #2 today I present a video. It's just me, making a card.


And no, I don't really stamp that fast. It's just video editing awesomeness!

Recipe:
Stamps: Polka Dots & Petals, Celebrate Everything. Polka Dot BG
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, Double Circle Punch, Tempting Turquoise 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon

Technical Difficulties

I had every intention of uploading a video today, but I'm having technical difficulties. Ah, computers....can't live with them can't live without them. Oh, and my "v" is messed up on my keyboard, so I'm going to try to use words that don't have that letter in it any more. Oops, I just did. So instead you get a scrapbook page.I love this page (I think I say that about all my pages). These pictures are so fun and funny and I love Bali Breeze, so I thought I'd combine them. I stamped my title on Tempting Turquoise with Versamark and embossed with White EP using Big Deal Alphabet and Rough Edges Alphabet. I mounted it on a strip of Bali Breeze. I put that piece near the top of my base layer. I then added two more smaller strips of Bali Breeze underneath. I took a piece of Whisper White and stamped the 4 flowers image from A Beautiful Thing in Rose Red on the top, journaled in Old Olive, then stamped the 4 flowers again on the bottom. I mounted my pictures on Rose Red, added the Whisper White grosgrain ribbon using the double circle punch. I adhered those to my base. Then on a scrap piece of paper I stamped the solid flower from A Beautiful Thing in Pumpkin Pie, then stamped the outline image in Versamark and embossed with White EP. I cut those out and adhered them to my page with Stampin' Dimensionals. I wanted to add a little more, so I mimicked the white dots from the Bali Breeze paper in the corners of my base layer and the corners of my photo mats. That's about it. I hope you like it!

Open House Today

Today I am having my new catalog Open House. I've been busy prepping for it and getting carried away with refreshments. I've been making cookies!!!!! Check them out!!! And now my counters are covered in royal icing (that needs to be cleaned up before the open house in 2 hours)!!!



I also wanted to share with you one of the projects I will be demonstrating. These covered Peppermint Patties are a great project for a Valentine's Day gift. If you have kids, these would be great fort hem to give to their classmates. And they're so easy. Start with your Scallop Circle Punch and punch out two scallop circles for each peppermint patty. Then with the 1 3/8" Circle Punch, punch out your next layer. Then stamp your image, here the Love stamp from Tagger's Dozen and punch it out with your 1 1/4" Circle Punch. Put all your layers together and attach them to your peppermint patties with a glue dot. They take no time and are so cute!

Happy New Catalog Day!

Yay!!! The Spring/Summer Collection is here!!! And lucky for you I have time to share this card I made with some of the new items since my neighbors shoveled my driveway for me!!

I love the bold colors in this new DSP, Bali Breeze. Technically I think the blue color in the paper is Taken with Teal, but I don't have Taken with Teal, so I used Tempting Turquoise instead for my card base. I stamped the flower image from A Beautiful Thing in Rose Red on Whisper White. I also stamped the sentiment in Old Olive on the Whisper White. I mounted that on Rose Red and adhered it to my card base. I added two Old Olive strips that were cut from my Word Window Punch. As a finishing touch and because I thought that it needed something else I added the Rose Red button in the top right corner.

So, happy new catty day everyone! If you don't have a catalog you can view it online at the link above or if you'd like a copy for yourself you can purchase one over in my store.

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful new year celebration last night. I also hope you had a wonderful 2007 and will have an even better 2008. Mine is off to a rough start. I've spent the last 12 days with my husband, but now he's heading back to DC and I'm still here in Ohio. Although with him being gone I have a lot more time to stamp and scrap.

While he was home I had a little time to hide out in my stamping room and I made this card to celebrate the new year. I stamped the flowers from Polka Dots & Petals with Real Red and Brilliant Blue on Whisper White to look like fireworks. I cut two strips of Real Red cardstock and attached them to my Brilliant Blue card base. I embossed my sentiment by stamping in Versamark and using Whisper White embossing powder. I attached some Whisper White 1/4" grosgrain ribbon with a staple onto my Whisper White piece and added it to my card with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Enjoy everyone and have a wonderful New Year!