Online Catalog Launch Party

Did you know I hold online parties? Not sure how they work? I am holding one this week, you can come check it out if you would like to see how it works.  Just click on the Launch Party image below to be taken to the event page.


If you would like to earn some FREE products of your own, we can schedule your own online party! June is a wonderful time to hold your party. You get $35 in ADDITIONAL Stampin' Up! rewards!

Not ready to schedule your party yet? Need more information? Contact me! 

Earn Extra Stampin' Rewards in JUNE!!!

All this month earn extra Stampin' Rewards! 

You can get $35 EXTRA at your party! 

This counts for in home, catalog or ONLINE parties also! 

I have some days left if you would like to schedule yours. 

Painted Petals Birthday Cards

These cards were sent out to some wonderful people for their birthdays this month.  I saw a version of this card on Pinterest and knew I had to make some. Sometimes you see a card and when you recreate it, it just doesn't turn out quite as cute as you were hoping it would. In this case it was the opposite. I loved it even more than the original one I had seen. I am not sure but I think it was because the blackberry is just so stunning with that green ribbon and those flowers.

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Product List

Painted Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set

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$23.95

Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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$6.95

Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad

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$5.95

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

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$5.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

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$5.95

Decorative Label Punch

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$16.95

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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. 

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! 

Time is running out! Sale-a-bration is almost over! Did you get all the free products you were wanting?

If not contact me or place an order online 24/7 to get yours before they are gone!

There are 19 available products that you can receive for placing any order over $50. Now is the time to order that stuff from the Spring catalog that you have been holding out on. Why not get extra stuff for free! 

Also, this is a terrific time to join Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator. Your kit is still only $99 shipping including but instead of $125 in products that you get, you will receive over $150 in products! AND they can be ANYTHING that you want. The kit is not pre-selected for you. Have you been wanting a Big Shot? Why not join and get it in your kit along with a die and embossing folder or two! Get the products you want.

Click here to Join Now and be Stamping in just a few days!

Altered New testament

I have been really busy this week and have not been great at updating my blog. Not only have I had two classes that I had to prepare for (cards from those will be on here this week!) I have been trying to get ready for a vendor fair/quarter auction this coming weekend.  I have really only done holiday craft shows before so they were mostly Christmas themed items and didn't really know what to make for a spring one. The first thing I had made was the altered jr legal pads , and then I made some of these covered new testament Bibles. I thought they would make cute Easter basket gifts. I used some new and some retired DSP on these, along with saying from the Trust God stamp set. 

Can you tell me what this is??

I thought this card was pretty obvious but when asking some family members only one got it right without me telling. So can you tell me what this is supposed to be???

I got the card idea from here, thought this video was pretty funny, lol

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. 

March Class Schedule and Drawing Winner!

The class schedule for March is now ready. 

March Class Schedule

one of the cards from the spring card class

Spring Card Class (2 different times)

March 8 6:30-8:30 (Eastern ) or Saturday March 9^th from 6:30-8:30

 Come make some cute fun cards with a spring theme. We will be making a St. Patty's day card, an Easter card and a spring birthday card.

This class is $5 and we will make 3cards that you are sure to love! 

Class fee is waived if you have a FREE Class card, bring a friend who is new to my classes or place an order over $10 the night of the class.

Please RSVP so that I can prepare enough materials for the class.

As always, bring your favorite adhesive. 

RSVP below

Sale-a-bration Celebration!

March 12 6-8 pm

Come help celebrate! I will have give aways of Sale a bration products as well as a cute new card make and take that has not been shown and some great food!

Also if you have not picked up a new catalog they will be available also!

RSVP below

Open Stamping

March 19 from 10am-2pm

Come stamp with me! You can bring your stamps, paper or whatever project you wish and we can work on them, or I can show you how to use new products, answer questions etc. Great time to come play with new items to see what you are interested in or just see if Stamping would be for you! No need to RSVP for this, my stamp room will be open during these hours to drop in as you wish.

HOSTESS CLUB

March 22  6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Eastern )

This is my monthly hostess club get together night. Those that are a part of the hostess club meet, have refreshments and make some adorable new projects! If you have yet to join my hostess club or want some more information, contact me! 

RSVP HERE 

Choose the class you are signing up for from the drop down menu. 

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Giveaway Drawing Results

Now the reason you are even looking at this blog today! You want to know who won the Sale a bration products!  There were not many entries for the drawing so everyone had a good chance. If you placed an order this month (online, paper pumpkin, workshop order or other), attended any class or event, made a comment on the blog post, liked my facebook page,  or emailed to tell me you tried and couldn't, then I put a ticket with your name on it into a can and then I let my little helper draw a ticket out this morning. 

THE WINNING TICKET WAS:

Julia C

I had a cute video of my little one drawing the ticket but I can not get it to upload. 

To those that did not win this one, make sure you check out the Treasure Hunt for your chance to win $150 in Stampin' Up! Products. 

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! 

Birthday Balloons

This card today is pretty cute I think. I knew when I saw it that I would be making some for birthdays this month.  I case'd this card. Not sure what she used for her balloons since Stampin' Up! does not have a balloon punch but I can tell you what I used.

I used the 1 3/8 inch circle punch along with the owl punch to make my balloons.  For the balloon knot I punched the polka dot papers with the owl punch, cut off one foot and the top of the owl and glued it onto my circle punch.  The wish Big stamp is from the Word play set. The cards also use the new cloudy day embossing folder, ruffled ribbon and bakers twine. The red and blue ribbons are not SU unfortunately I did not have matching ribbons for them and had to do with what I had. 

Oh Hello.

This will be a week of case'd cards.  I  have two classes, and a workshop coming up in the first week of March along with needing Auction donations and at least 20 birthday cards between now and the first of May so when I see a cute design I will be making multiples of each!

Many cards I find late at night while browsing the internet and the easiest way for me to go back through them without taking hours clicking back on blog links is to take a screen shot of the card and it saves it to my desktop where I can put it in the folder for that stamp set. The downside to that is if the photo does not have a watermark or something I can not save the info from where I got it. I try to go back if I use the card and find the picture again but sometimes I can not.

This was case'd from fellow Demo Sue Scheets, I changed very little to the card since it seemed perfect as she had it.

This card uses the Oh Hello stamp set from the Spring Mini (love this set think it is my favorite!)  Colors used are bashful blue, crumb cake and early espresso.  The sentiment is from the Trust God set in the large idea book and catalog.  Sorry about the glare on the picture. I have been putting all my cards in sleeves since I have been making them otherwise cute little tiny hands wants to play with them and they don't last long enough to mail.

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