Gentle Peace

 The newest release from Stampin' Up! is this gorgeous photopolymer stamp set. 

This set is wonderful for using blendabilities and color it in or just emboss.  You can order this stamp set starting today. Get it now for all your holiday card making.

Stamp, Stock and Save Sale!

In honor of World Card Making Day today, Stampin' Up! is having a Stamp, Stock and Save sale!

You can get 15% off ink pads, adhesive, paper, envelopes and even certain stamp sets! This is a great time to stock up so you have all your supplies on hand for the holidays!!

The image above is a little hard to read but if you click on it, it will take you to the PDF where you can view the entire sale! Make sure to stock up before the sale is over! It only lasts through Oct 6, so order now!  If you order and use hostess code 37TFUEEB, you will automatically be entered into my monthly drawing where you could win FREE Stampin' Up! Products! If you are ordering through a party from one of my hostesses, please use their personal hostess code so that it counts towards their party and not the code posted here. 

Santa and his Elves.

Well Christmas is over and I did not get all the projects I wanted to make completed. (do we ever?) But I did manage to get 25 little christmas bags made for my daughters school party and was able to make the little snowman tea light candles as ornaments with her class as their craft at their party so it was not a total loss.

There are always so many things I want to get done over the holiday season between thanksgiving and christmas. One year I would like to be able to get everything checked off my list. Just once! This year I didn't even get my Christmas cards sent out so that seems like a major fail for me. I made them. Not 100+ like I wanted but I did make over 30 to send out to family and friends. I had them all signed and in the envelopes and I brought them upstairs to mail but had to do something in the kitchen and was afraid they would get something spilled on them so I put them up. Do you think I have been able to find them? NO!  It is now Dec 26th, Christmas is over and I still have not found those darn cards! Oh well maybe I will still mail them when I find them. Or at least I will have a jumpstart on next year.



Here are the cute little bags I made for the goody bags for her class! Aren't they cute! Obviously these have been all over pinterest and other blogs so I can not take credit for the idea.  The one picture I think I used for inspiration came from this blog and was from 2009!

The box in a bag instructions are from splitcoaststampers tutorials section and I used real red and lucky limeade as my primary colors for my bag.  Some silver glimmer paper and black ribbon made adorable belts. Since I didn't start with Stampin' Up! until last year the round tab punch that I wanted to use was already retired and I just didn't like any of the other ones for the bag closure.  I have a cameo and thought I would just cut them out but I kind of had to make my own pattern and size it but I think in the end it worked out wonderfully and all the little kids LOVED them! It was well worth the time it took to make them all. 

Quick Christmas Card

My next round of christmas card classes is coming up and here is one of the cards we will be making. 

 

This picture did not look so blurry when I looked at it before uploading?? Sorry about that

 This card uses the Delightful Dozen stamp set, silver glimmer paper, season of style dsp stack, and some cherry cobbler cardstock for the base. THAT'S IT! Simple as can be and all the credit goes to Valerie Moody.   I think the only thing I changed was my base color because I was out of gumball green and my glimmer paper because I liked it with the silver. 

Holiday Hustle Class #1

Tonight kicks off my Christmas card classes for the season with my Holiday Hustle #1 class. This class will be monthly and we will make 3-4 different Christmas cards that can be easily reproduced so that you can make more for everyone on your mailing list. 

I am not going to post all 4 of tonights cards today but will get them posted soon.  

I also want to remind everyone of the LNS Treasure Hunt Blog Hop going on right now. Collect 50 clues and be entered to win the grand prize of over $75 in FREE STAMPIN' UP! merchandise. 

Starting in September I will also be participating in the Sudsol Blog Hop. Sudsol is a group of demonstrators that have came together to help each other with ideas, class projects, and much more. Click on the link in my sidebar for a free 2 week trial! 

First up in my Holiday Hustle class is this card cased from Tammy Shaia.  I know the stamp set used is retired but this was my first time actually inking it up.  I used the Northern Flurry embossing folder (item # 120902), rhinestones, new candy dots in Bermuda Bay (#130931) and the brad bases for them (#132293)  Cardstock was whisper white and Bermuda bay, and the snowman was colored using smoky slate, bermuda bay. pool party and pumpkin pie.  The sentiment may be hard to recognize. I don't have as many Christmas sentiments as I wish I had and many of the ones I do have are on the larger side. The "let it snow" sentiment actually comes from a christmas word wheel that I cut apart. 

I have many more Holiday card classes as well as decor and gift classes coming up. If you are in the area and interested please contact me. If you are not near by but would like to take part I do have classes by mail. Just email me with what classes you were wanting to do and I will let you know if they are available :)

I was in quite the hurry trying to get my samples ready for class with all the running going on with kids activities. (I thought once they were back in school I would have all kinds of extra time. I was WRONG!)  Anyway, when I stamped the sentiment I messed up and had to restamp on top so it is kind of shadowed and not how I wanted it to be. 

New Thinlits card dies!! Now available to order!!

These awesome new dies were shown at convention ( I did not get to go) but there has been a LOT of talk about these great new dies. They make quick work of cards that normally took much more time to make than a regular card.

Not sure what these are or how to use them? Just scroll to the bottom of this post for a quick video with samples and just how easy it is to use!

AND even better, you do not just get the die to cut the card base, you get other pieces to use on your cards also!! The circle card die comes with 10 total pieces and the label card one comes with 9 pieces. 

You can order these starting today on my online store!! 

Item # 113479  Label card thinlit die $32.95

# 113480 Circle card thinlit die $32.95