Last chance!

This is your last chance to get your holiday catalog items! December is almost over and with it the holiday catalog. Were there items on your wish list that Santa forgot? Now is the time to get them yourself!

Click on the catalog to see products. 

Remember you can order online or place your order through me. 

SUDSOL Blog Tour!

Today is the day!! The SUDSOL Blog tour featuring products from the fabulous new Holiday catalog is underway!

What is Sudsol? Well it is probably THE best group that you could be part of if you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator. They are wonderful! There are terrific challenges each week, a daily 15 minute business builder task, yahoo group where you can get answers or help with anything in a matter of minutes!, terrific articles, tutorials, an awesome gallery of unique samples, and sooooo much more.  I wish I would have found the group sooner.  Want to try it for yourself?  Click the banner below to get a FREE TWO WEEK TRIAL!

Now to get on with the projects!


The first project today is a very simple card using the new christmas washi tapes.   It is so simple but so cute. You could easily mass produce many of these for your Christmas cards this year.

I used a whisper white base with an embossed whisper white panel on top of it. Then a smaller white panel with the sentiment stamped on it. For the image I cute a 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 square of white cardstock then put strips of washi tape down it and wrapped them behind it, adhered with dimensionals and tied a little bow and added it. SIMPLE! This card was a total case from Sandy Mathis except the different ribbon and sentiment. 

Next up another super simple card. This card uses the stylish stripes embossing folder and Joy to the World stamp set. 

I used cherry cobbler for the base, then embossed the top half of my white panel with the striped embossing folder. I then stamped my sentiment in cherry cobbler ink and although you can not tell from the picture I added dazzling diamonds to it for a little more bling.  The bow was made using the oval punch, a 3/4 circle punch, (or you could cut a little strip of paper for the middle, personally I like the circle at times) and a 2 3/4 x 3/4 inch strip of silver paper that I used the hexagon punch on to make the banner points. 

Next up I have my Holiday Planner. I can see this going everywhere with me starting next month or so. It has a cute cover that you can decorate with anything you want. I chose to use the year and some christmas papers, along with a bow made from my FAVORITE THING IN THE CATALOG!!!, the new bow die!! Oh my gosh if  you have not seen this in person yet, find a demo and check it out or better yet, just get it. You will love this die!  You can make the bow as a single bow, you can layer it, you can turn the tails down, many many different options for this and can you imagine how great this is going to be on christmas gifts and bags this year!! I think every present I give is going to need a bow. 

That's just the outside! Inside this planner has 4 month's worth of calendar pages, a section for your card list and who you sent and received them from, gift idea/budget section by person, entertaining, you name it, it's there. This will be so helpful in keeping up with all the chaos of the holidays. Not to mention it is so much cuter an much more well laid out then the plain notebook I usually carry to write all this in. 

and I had to make some of the small bow paperclips so that I could turn to my sections I use most often much quicker. 

Well I hope you enjoyed your stop by my blog and have fun getting more great ideas from the others on the blog tour. 

CONTINUE on the Blog Tour
Elizabeth Dyson	Dianne Keough

First Day of Kindergarten

Today was the first day of kindergarten for my youngest :(   I was not ready for her to go but she was very excited. So last night we spend the evening making a small gift for not only her teacher but the other kindergarten teacher as well.

I made these little notepad holders using stampin' up! cardstock, design paper, and a few small stamps. 

I used the recently retired storybook design paper for the top and used stamps from last years Ronald McDonald stamp set for the flowers, frogs and birds stamped on the cut up printer paper. 

Here are the gifts all packaged and ready to go. As you can see on the blue one I forgot to do the little half circle cut out. I used the new bow die to pretty up the package and the chalk talk framelits for the tag.


Sorry they are not very clear pictures, sent them from my phone as a small file and didn't think about the sizing issue until now .


I got the idea from googling teacher gifts and patterns from StampwithBlythe as well as splitcoaststampers. However the instructions from SCS were for a small square box and Blythes were missing the cut out. I will be preparing a tutorial for the boxes this week and post it as soon as it's finished.

small bows

After making those bows with the bow die, I wanted to do some small paperclip bookmarks. So I got out my oval punch, hot glue gun, hexagon punch and small circle punch to make these cute little bows. 

I made about 30 little bows in under an hour. They are really easy. Then I thought since I had so many I would add them to a tag from the now retired :( two tags die, slip a business card onto the back and pass them out. They are just too darn cute to keep all to myself. 

Totes and Bows

I made some more of the cute little card and tote sets that we will be making this month during my classes. I wanted to show more of the colors so made a couple more sets. I did not get the pistachio one made yet but hope to this week. 

My pre-order from the Holiday Catalog also arrived and I was able to play with some things in it. I am LOVING the bow die. I did not think that was something that I would use, but it is soooo cute that I just keep playing with it and putting bows on everything!

3 of the 4 color choices for the upcoming classes. Credit goes to Chiaki Haverstick for the card and tote design.

This is the crisp cantaloupe option. Didn't think I would like this color much when they came out, but it is really growing on me. 

Here is one of the bows made with the bow die! See isn't it adorable!!

Another bow using the same die but with the tails turned differently and another one layered on. This die makes 2 different size bows that you can use to make many looks. 

Here is the coastal cabana set. Everyone seems to adore this color! It is so pretty in real life. 

If you wish to stop by and take part in this class, there are openings on July 25 or 26.  Just contact me and chose your color! If you are not in this area but would like to take part in this class, I can mail you a class packet but you will need to stamp images using stamps you have or you may order the ones we used.