Best of Sets...

The "Best of" Sets were released each month through 2013. These collectible sets are still available but only until the end of this month, so get them while you can.

There were 12 Best of Sets:

January~ Best of Birthdays
February~ Best of Love
March~Best of flowers
April~Best of Butterflies
May~Best of Brides and Babies
June~Best of Greetings
July~Best of Shelli
August~Best of Halloween
September~Best of Autumn
October~Best of Christmas
November~Best of Snow
December~Best of Sale~a~bration

I was wanting to post a picture of all of them but having some issues with computer and the other pics right now. You can find them by googling the name though if you would like for now.

Cascading Birthday Card

This card is for a friends daughter and I really hope she likes it! 
I saw these cards on a couple different blogs and loved them! I was mostly inspired by the cards here. Absolutely gorgeous! 

But since her instructions were for Australian sized paper, I used the tutorial from here.  

Book marks

Ok, so while you are reading this I will be at a vendor fair. Please wish me luck! This is one of the items I took with me today. These are crumpled flower bookmarks. I have used some double sided DSP, some current and some retired to make these adorable scalloped flowers and turned them into really cute bookmarks. I hope the people at the craft show think they are as cute as I do. Hopefully not everyone has turned to reading all their books on a Kindle like I do making bookmarks obsolete, lol. 

If you are in the area, the vendor fair/quarter auction is taking place at the Village Inn and Suites in Coshocton at 1pm today. Come see me! 

More Butterflies!

 

 I told you there would be more butterflies!  Loved the butterfly card and had to do it in more colors. I think it makes a great all occasion card. Cute for birthday, get well, anything really. Since the punch only uses a small bit of paper to make a card I will be making tons of these to have on hand. You would be seeing dozens right now had I not ran out of linen thread and pearls!

Altered Jr. legal pads

So months and months ago I purchased a large pack of jr legal pads at Sams club and had them taken to Staples and cut down some so that I could put them in Stampin' Up! dvd cases to make journals. I had plenty left over and saw this tutorial so thought I would cut it down to 7 inches instead of her 8 to fit my cut down pads.  Not sure what I want to put on the orange one yet and it does not use SU papers but some I had left in my stash pre demo days. The pink one does use SU paper and that great polka dot paper is from the paper pad in the spring mini catalog. I am loving the papers in that stack. Had to throw in another butterfly too, lol.  Does anyone know a cheaper place to buy the RSVP pens?  Staples if you buy them in a bulk pack still averages to .62 per pen and Dollar tree has a 2 pack for $1 so that's .50 each and the cheapest I have found but wondered if someone knew of a better deal than that. 

I also made a few of these with pictures of One Direction on the front for some teenage girls I know and they loved them. Maybe I should make some for the upcoming quarter auction. 

Butterflies!

    This card is so simple yet so beautiful!   A few weeks ago I came across the most gorgeous simple looking card and knew I had to make it.  I ordered the butterfly punch from the spring catalog JUST to make this card.  The bad part is I saw the card but before I could save it the phone rang and when I came back my daughter was playing ABC mouse on my laptop so it never got saved. Not even a screen shot.  I remembered the card and have googled stampin up butterfly, stampin up butterflies, everything for the last few days and can not find it. Which makes me think it was on SC or something and I will have to check out the gallery further. It also showed me about 50 more cards I need to use the butterfly punches and dies on! 

     My card does not compare to the one I saw. She had beautiful stitching around the edges but I did not want to drag out my sewing machine. I also know that hers had monochromatic butterflies but couldn't remember if they went light to dark or dark to light. 
UPDATE:  I found the card! Apparently I pinned it to my pinterest board when I found it! So here is the link to the card

There were a couple more of these but I already mailed them off. Love the simple look of the white layer on the white and the butterflies. The stitching would have added to it but I am happy with how they turned out. I WILL be making many more of these!