Don't be a cotton headed Ninny-nuggins

A card and a contest! 

I am certainly starting to get in the Christmas spirit. Yes, I know it is only October and we have quite a few holidays between now and then but when you have to prepare for craft shows and Christmas Card classes, you start working pretty early on Christmas cards.  The card today came from another demonstrator on Pinterest and reminds me of one of my favorite Christmas movies. Bet you can't guess what it is...............

If you couldn't guess, the movie is Elf, but that is not the contest lol. Bet you thought you were going to get off easy. 

So what is the contest? Well I have a Christmas giveaway going on and it will end October 7th.  All you need to do to win is comment and tell me how many times I used the word Christmas in this blog post and what your favorite Christmas movie is.  How simple is that? 

Don't forget that there is a great sale going on right now at Stampin' Up! on designer series paper and some other great things for World Card making day (which was yesterday!) Did you know that?

If you place an order and use hostess code B34V447C and I will mail you a FREE gift! 

Fingernail File holders

What an absolutely beautiful day here today! The last few have been getting warmer and warmer and after what seemed like never ending snow I am so glad to be able to drive and even put the windows down some!!!  With spring right around the corner, I am looking forward to getting time to create even more.

I was wanting some little items to handout and I was directed to Connie Stewarts blog where the directions for these adorable little finger nail file holders were.  They use very little paper and I found 24 packs of nail files at Walmart. The front of them are the regular ugly brown color but the back is an off white which worked well for what I wanted.

The cardstock colors used were limeade, island indigo, and melon mambo. The dsp papers are not SU but some that I had that I thought matched the cardstock nicely and said "spring" to me. 

You can see a video on Connies blog for these nail file holders. They go together very quickly. 

Project Life 2015 Week 1

I wanted to post my project life pages on the blog weekly but was a little behind getting some pictures printed to finish some layouts so although it is almost March, I am ready to show you some layouts. 

My layouts are pretty basic compared to many seen on the internet. There are a few reasons for that. First, I think it is more important that I try to stay as current as possible so that I do not fall too far behind and get discouraged. Also, I am helping beginners get started on project life and I like them to be able to see how easy it is and that it does not need to be time consuming. It literally takes me longer to upload my pictures to walgreens than it does to put my pages together. 

My title page for 2015. 

 The plan was for a family picture to go in the bottom left spot but since we have yet to get everyone together to get one, it will probably more than likely remain how it is. 

Week 1

My title page and week 1 layout uses mostly cards from BH Favorite things.  One of the things that I am really trying to get past this year is worrying about my handwriting. I hate my handwriting but if I have to computer journal or even type everything it will never get done. I did use the typewriter on the weekly little tags and plan to use it more.

Hello December!

Yes I know it is November, not December, but that is the name of the newest Project Life by Stampin' Up! kit.   Hello December is made for those that want to do a December Daily type album and document your holiday season!  What a great way to keep all those holiday memories preserved and together!

Want to see a little bit more?  Check out this video from Stampin' Up!

Want to purchase the products shown in the video?

Just click below!

Hello December Project Life Card Collection

$9.95

Hello December Project Life Accessory Pack

$14.95

Hello December Project Life - Digital Download

$13.95

6" X 8" Project Life Envelopes Pages

$4.95

Cherry 6" X 8" Project Life Album

$9.95

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Pinterest?

Do you use Pinterest? My husband is constantly picking on me because he will see me on the laptop and ask what I am doing and 9 times out of 10  I will say I am on Pinterest.  He just doesn't get it. I bet if he knew some of the stuff that he could find on there, he would be on it too!  I check it for new dinner ideas, crafts and of course card ideas since most of the cards I make I case from others. I get very little time to actually make cards or craft so when I am able to I don't want to spend most of the time designing a card just to find out I don't like the overall look when it's done. So I would rather spend some time browsing pinterest while everyone is watching tv and saving some card ideas just so I can go straight to my stamp room and get started on a card.

What do you look at on pinterest the most? Food, crafts, a new hairstyle? If you are a pinterest person you can follow me on pinterest.   Let me know what you do on pinterest. Is it something you find useful?  I love it. Can't believe I ever done without it. Now I don't have to print all those recipes I want to try. I just make a board for them and if we try it and don't like it, I can delete it.

Check out some of these gorgeous cards from Pinterest! Now you can see why I love it so much! I have tons of cards that are beautiful at my fingertips just waiting to be made! These are gorgeous quick valentines made with Stampin' Up! Supplies and they would make someone a very Happy Valentine!

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. 

August "Best of" set is here!!!

Best of Halloween!!! I am really excited for this set because I really didn't like the sets in the new catalog. They are nice, but just not what I was looking for (except the tag set!) love it! I missed out on buying the haunted house set last time, and was glad to see one in this set!

Best of halloween set item #134381 $14.95 

and remember to save your proof of purchase sticker to earn a free stamp set!!

You can order this product and more at my online store

Buy 3 get 1 FREE! Paper Sale!!

So not only is the new paper in the Stampin' Up! Catalog absolutely gorgeous! But now you can get some FREE! Free is always good, love that word. Especially when it means I get more new things to play with!

Buy three packs of select Designer Series Paper and get one for free!

This offer runs through the entire month of July!!

See our Designer Series Paper in the annual catalog on pages 151, 153, and 154.

The Fine Print:

The following items do not qualify for the offer:

• Designer Series Paper Stacks
• Specialty Designer Series Paper
• Designer Series Paper ordered through hostess benefits

• No limits. Order six? You'll get two for free. Nine? You'll get three for free.

Happy Father's Day!

Today is Father's Day and my poor husband worked last night until 11 this morning and went back to work at 7 tonight so while he was home he slept and we didn't see him much.

We have a little inside joke going that has to do with a cow so I knew I wanted a cow on his card.
This is what I came up. I googled "punch art cow" and took bits and pieces of different ones.  All seemed to use a punch I did not have for the cow "ears" so I used the bitty butterfly punch and cut it in half and I think it made very nice ears with a shape that looks much more natural.

This picture looks distorted but didn't when I uploaded it? Very odd. 

The sentiment was computer generated 

Simply Sketched

Another card sample from my Catalog Launch last week. I loved this card when I saw it and I am not really a flower/bird card type person. I avoided buying any floral stamp sets for ages and really only picked this set because I liked the font on the sentiments. But this card and the following one really made me want to use this set! And I am not one for watercoloring either but I had so much fun making these!

This one uses pistachio pudding cardstock as well as whisper white and the flowers are colored using pistachio, and strawberry slush ink pads and a blender pen. 

The other card that made me ink this set up quickly is this card  and I have pretty much cased them completely! No point in changing something that's perfect as is. 

I used blushing bride and chocolate chip cardstock and the retired early edition paper.

Father's Day Cards

Love this cute card! This would be wonderful for father's day, graduation, or a wedding. This card idea came from The Craft Spa blog.  I love how simple it was to make but that it also has a great impact. Looks great with a black bow tie also!

The card base is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 done in basic black, the white panel is 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 and then I went in 1 3/4" and used my trimmer to cut up about one inch in the center so that I could make the cuts for the flagged end.
I used my score board and scored three lines on each side of the white panel to give it the raised look. Stamped two of the ties from the dapper dad set and cut them out, then placed glue in the center of the tie and layered them, bending the ends of the top tie up for dimension. Added 3 colored pearls for buttons and my sentiment.
Tip for the pearls:  You can color them with a sharpie to make pearls to match all your cards!





A clean and simple card cased from this blog. Apparently she case'd it also! Love that we can find so many ideas from the internet!

This was one of the cards at my masculine card class tonight.

Very simple cute card to make for the Golfer in your life!

Time is Running out!

The Late Night Stampers Treasure Hunt is getting close to an end.  Have you found all your clues or do you have a few more to find? Did you find some new projects you just have to do now like I did while visiting all those great blogs?  Or are you just getting here and have no clue what I am talking about, lol?

Well just encase you don't know, the Late Night Stampers group has a blog hop of sorts going, where you go from one blog to another and collect a clue from each blog and write down the clue and what blog you found it on. Then you email your list to someone who is participating and you are entered to win $150 in your choice of Stampin' Up! products!!

Here is the link to the original post  that has all the blogs and my clue.

It's Tuesday!

It's Tuesday so you know what that means! No, not trash day, well it is that too but that is not as fun as what I was referring to :)  Tuesday is the day Stampin' Up! releases new digital downloads. There are some really cute new downloads today for you, including a pretty new set, a set for a new baby, and even a FREEBIE!

You can get these downloads as well as look at all previous downloads by clicking HERE.

Are you a digi scrapper, traditional paper scrapbooker, or do you do both? Leave me an answer and I will put your name in a drawing for a classic ink pad. 

Cute new kit!

Another Brand new kit just released from Stampin' Up!

We're excited to introduce our second Submit a Project kit--the Dolled-Up Birthday Kit--voted on by you via our Facebook page. This gorgeous birthday card was created by Chris Gilmore, a manager from Coshocton, Ohio. Congratulations, Chris!

The Dolled-Up Birthday kit includes the following:

• Dolled-Up Birthday Photopolymer Stamp (1)
• 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Crumb Cake Cardstock (6 pieces)
• 2" x 4-1/4" Very Vanilla Cardstock (6 pieces)
• Very Vanilla Medium Envelopes (6)
• Tea Lace Paper Doilies (6)
• Dress Up die-cuts (6)
• Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Spot (1)
• Vanilla 5/8" Flower Trim (6 pieces)
• Sponge Dauber (1)

Get everything you need to make six cards for only $15.95 (item 133913)!*

To assemble one card, follow the instructions below:

1. Place the stamp on clear-mount block D or H rubber side up and ink with the Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Spot.
2. Stamp "Happy Birthday" at the bottom of the card front.
3. Ink the Sponge Dauber with Soft Suede ink and gently antique the doily and the edges of the dress form.
4. Adhere the pieces to the card front in this order:
   
   • Doily
   • Very Vanilla Cardstock
   • Dress form
   • Flower

*Adhesive not included

April My Paper Pumpkin!

The new My Paper Pumpkin kit arrived in my mailbox today! I love getting boxes in the mail but I usually know what is coming because it is something I have ordered and that is exciting enough, but to get a box and have no idea what is in it, takes me back to being a kid and ripping open Christmas presents. So if you have yet to get your April kit in the mail and don't want the surprise spoiled, stop reading now. If you want to see what this months kit looks like, scroll down.

Here is the box. It was still not the pretty orange box that will soon be coming

but it was packaged very nice. Everything was wrapped in tissue with 

a pretty paper pumpkin sticker sealing it shut.

I had to laugh when I opened this because the largest stamp in it (this one contains 3 stamps)

says "seriously" and that happens to be quite a popular phrase in our house. The papers in this kit 

were very cute and I love the stamps in it. It also included buttons, twine, and envelopes. I have not put the cards together yet but will post them as soon as I do. 

If you don't want to miss out on May's My paper pumpkin kit, sign up today to have your 

own surprise delivered directly to your door. Make sure to put me as your demonstrator and I will send you an extra gift! 

Project Life update.

Project Life 

If you have been to my blog around the beginning of the year, you know I had intentions to do a Project Life album.  I don't know about you but I always have good intentions to do something (especially around the beginning of a new year) that don't always work out.  I took some pictures here and there but not regularly (with the exception of Disney and I have too many from that, lol) Anyway, here it is the beginning of April and I have not done ANYTHING with project life except upload some pictures from my phone to my computer. Notice I didn't say to be printed but at least they made it to my computer right?  Well that is about to change. With the introduction of Stampin' Up!'s This and That line, it made my renew my goal of completing a project life album this year.  At the moment I am not using all SU products, that may change when I see what all they have in the new IBC, but for now I am using a mixture of SU and a project life core kit. The kit I bought came with an album and it's cute but I prefer the crumb cake linen album I bought from SU for it so I am keeping it for this years album.  I am using the project life protectors as well as the SU divided page protectors because they give me some different layout options so I won't get bored with the same layout over and over.  And the new Rotary Stamp from Stampin' Up! will work wonderfully with this project!!!  The kit arrived in the mail yesterday and after the boys track meet I opened it and got busy uploading my photos to Walmart but that has been it so far.  The photos will get picked up this evening and I hope to show you all a cute layout or two by tomorrow evening! 

Another Sneak Peek item!

To say I am excited about these products is an understatement!  If you have been reading my blog, I have wanted to start a project life album this year. Part of my problems were I wanted to use only SU products so that I could show them on my blog and I am using the album and divided protectors but many other items are not SU. NOW I CAN USE STAMPIN' UP! ITEMS!!  I am super excited about the rotary date stamp and washi tapes. The fact that we can order these new catalog items early and at a bundled discount just makes it that much better!!

To see a closer picture click here!  To order this or any other product contact me or use online ordering 24/7

Want to earn free products! Host a Stampin' Up! party!  We can do an online party or in home party. Contact me for details. 

My paper pumpkin has arrived!

So it arrived in my mailbox on Monday. It did not come in the pretty red box but a cute little kraft box that I am sure to re-use for something. They will start coming in the red boxes soon, they had more orders than they had planned.

So I went ahead and put the cards in the kit together. I wanted to use ONLY what was included in the kit except adhesive to do the cards first. This is what I came up with, I wanted to vary them some. I think I will take them later and add to them some to show what you can do with just a few extra items.

These first 3 I done and had completed in under 10 minutes. Then I decided to give the rest of the product to my sons girlfriend who is 15 and has never stamped before and when she looked at it she saw a tree. So this is what she came up with. 

If you would like to get a wonderful box of crafting goodies in the mail each month, go to www.mypaperpumpkin.com  and sign up! Make sure to add me Tanya Stottlemire as your demo.

Card bouquet

Here is one of the items I used for auction at the quarter auction I participated in this past weekend. It was a card bouquet with 6 handmade cards, an aluminum garden stake made with the big shot and blossom punch, and a free card class for 5 people.  This item did pretty well at the auction and I am planning to make more :)