Welcome to the June 2025 Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. We have a super fun theme this month! The designers are picking a sketch from the new 2025-2026 Annual Catalog and then CASEing the design using the new In Colors. CASE means to “Copy And Share Everything” or in other words, find a sketch/project that inspires… Read More »
It’s time for another TGIF Challenge! This week, we have the beautiful inspiration photo below. I love the soft colors and watercolor blends. I also love the detail on the flowers. So these are the elements I decided to focus on. For my card, I used the Thankful Garden Bundle, with is an Online Exclusive.… Read More »
Happy Valentine’s Day!!! For today’s TGIF Sketch Challenge, I thought I’d make some Valentine treats! I used the darling Gift Bags Combo Pack (an Online Exclusive), which come in two sizes. They are perfect for handing out big or little favors to some of my favorite people. I put a lot of effort into the… Read More »
This month, our theme for Stampin’ Fancy Friday is “Not a Card.” Since the holidays are right around the corner, I decided to make a Christmas gift box. I love wrapping gifts in beautiful boxes for special friends and family. So I decided to get a jump start on my preparations for this year! To… Read More »
Welcome to the September Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. This month, our theme is Unfold Funfolds. I have to admit that I don’t make fun fold cards very often, and they intimidate me a little. Lately, I’ve tried to push myself to create more and even focused a whole class on them a few months ago.… Read More »
Happy Friday! It’s time for a new TGIF Challenge and this week, our theme is “Let’s Go Shopping!” It’s a broad theme that could include any type of shopping. Stampin’ Up! has several market-themed products that could work, or a gift card would also work. I interpreted the theme as grocery shopping, based on the… Read More »
Happy Friday! For this week’s TGIF Challenge, we are focusing on “Back To School”. While I don’t have school age kids anymore, I do remember how important it is to have teacher thank yous on hand. Teachers play such an important role in our kids’ lives, and I believe it’s important to let them know… Read More »
It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas! I’m having so much fun with the Joy of Christmas Suite Collection. I designed a whole class around the Joy of Noel Bundle. Then, as a thank you for signing up for the full class, I made these cute little tags to add to everyone’s supply packets.… Read More »
Welcome to the November Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. This month, our theme is stocking fillers! Christmas is getting closer, so it’s the perfect time to start making stocking fillers and small gifts for friends and family. These bags could qualify as both; they’re small enough to fit in a stocking or perfect for hand delivery.… Read More »
For this month’s Stampin’ Fancy Friday, our theme is super fancy Christmas! One of my favorite things is making super fancy gift boxes for family and friends, so they feel special and loved. To me, “super fancy” means a little more effort and lots of layers and dimension. I love not having to worry about… Read More »
Welcome to the October Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. This month, our theme is celebrating good times! I’m currently focusing on making lots of holiday projects, and so what’s better than celebrating Christmas? Family and friends, beautiful decorations, delicious food and good times … it is truly the most wonderful time of the year. I designed… Read More »
Happy Friday! This week’s TGIF Challenge is Halloween Treat packaging! It’s almost October, so time to get ready for your favorite Trick or Treaters!!! I decided to use the Night of Flight stamp set. It’s a Host set, and I figured that with the right colors, it might just work for this challenge. My color… Read More »
Welcome to the Stamping Sunday Blog Hop for September 2023. This month, our theme is shaker cards! How fun! I love interactive cards and shaker cards are my favorites. For my card, I used both the Joy of Christmas and Christmas Classics Bundles. They are both part of a fabulous mega suite in the new… Read More »
My Mother-In-Law, Antionette (Toni), just celebrated her 100th birthday! Isn’t that amazing? You’d never guess. We are very blessed. To celebrate this momentous occasion, my sister-in-law and husband arranged a big surprise party. We filled a whole restaurant with friends and family. My sister-in-law’s decorations and attention to detail were amazing, and the birthday girl… Read More »
Happy Good Friday! Last weekend, I used my Easter Bunny stamp set to create a bunch of fun treats for family members. This stamp set is so cute and it’s carrying over to the next Annual Catalog! It’s also super fun to color with Stampin’ Blends Markers, so I thought I’d share all my projects… Read More »
Happy Valentine’s Day!!! Just a quick note and a few cute treat boxes to inspire you today. I whipped up these treats with the Love Cats Stamp Set from the JA Mini Catalog. It was so cute, I couldn’t resist buying it for the cat lovers in my family. There’s nothing like a box of… Read More »
Welcome to a new TGIF Challenge! This week, we have an inspiration challenge from the photo below. I decided to focus on the pretty layout and use one of my favorite Sale-A-Bration products, the Favored Flowers 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. You can earn this paper for FREE with a qualifying purchase of $50… Read More »
Welcome to the December Stamping Sunday Blog Hop. This month, our theme is the “Hostess With The Mostest.” I decided to make some hostess gifts, so I’d have a bunch on hand and could grab one or more when the occasion arose. I used Stars Treat Bags for all my gifts. They come in a… Read More »
Welcome back! This is the second post in a series of three showing samples I created for my OnStage presentation featuring the Sweet Citrus Bundle. This bundle is part of the upcoming January-June Mini Catalog going live on January 5, 2023. Today, I’m sharing some fun treat/gift wrapping ideas!!! At the end of my post… Read More »
Our theme for Stampin’ Fancy Friday this month is tags, which is perfect timing for the upcoming holidays! You never know when you might need a special tag for a loved one. To see all the designers’ tags, keep an eye on the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Facebook and Instagram pages throughout the month. We’d also love to see your… Read More »