Hello and welcome to the October Color Fusers Blog Hop! This month, we are featuring a color combination that’s perfect for Halloween, including Grapefruit Grove, Terracotta Tile, Cajun Craze and Basic Black. When I first saw these colors, I immediately thought of festive treats!!! I created two boxes filled with candy to give my son and his sweet girlfriend for Halloween. (I have something else planned for my daughter.) Since… Read More »
Hello and Happy Friday! This week, TGIF Challenges has a color challenge with a combination perfect for Fall! It includes Pretty Peacock, Grapefruit Grove, and Crumb Cake. At first, I wasn’t so sure I was going to like this combination, but once I started playing with it, I was hooked! If you think about it, it makes sense that this color combo would be striking. Pretty Peacock and Grapefruit Grove… Read More »
One of my favorite suites in the Holiday Catalog is Feels Like Frost on pages 40 to 42. I seriously love everything about this suite, especially the gorgeous Frosted Frames Dies and Feels Like Frost 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. The beautiful, photographic images are so inspirational! Creating with these products makes designing handmade cards easy! For this card, I started with a 3″ wide layer of the… Read More »
It’s time for another 2020 Desktop Calendar! For September (my birthday month!), I chose two of my favorites … Floral Essence stamps and Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper. I love watercoloring, and these stamps bring out the inner artist in me. Plus, the coordinating paper is simply the most gorgeous I’ve ever seen. Speaking of paper, this paper is on sale right now!!! Stampin’ Up!’s Buy 3 Get 1 Free… Read More »
It’s Friday and that means a new TGIF Challenge! The product challenge for this week focuses on either the Mosaic Mood or Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper. You can find both of these gorgeous paper packs on pages 166 and 167 of the Annual Catalog. I hope you can join us for this week’s challenge. Simply create a project, post it on your blog or social media, and then link… Read More »
The new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog has some really amazing products! I’ve just started playing with a lot of them, including the gorgeous Come To Gather Suite on pages 46 to 48. In fact, Stampin’ Through The Catalog Challenge (#STTCchallenge) is also featuring the Gather Together stamp set this week. That means, you can use that hash tag to search on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram for lots of inspiration, in… Read More »
Our son turned 25 yesterday!!! No way … a quarter century? It’s crazy how quickly the years go by! I’m super proud of the young man he has become, but I can’t help missing that sweet little boy too… My sister took this precious photo during a vacation in Maui just after Samuel had turned two. Maybe I’m feeling a little nostalgic, because I decided to make a goofy, fun… Read More »
Hello and happy Friday! Today, I have a quick post to share a preview of the upcoming October and November Paper Pumpkin Kits. These are two of my FAVORITE months to get kits. Why? Because they usually include Holiday cards and tags, and I love having a quick, easy way to reduce my Holiday To-Do list. I’m just crazy about the colors for these two kits. The preview looks gorgeous!!!… Read More »
This week, Stampin’ Through The Catalog (#SSTCchallenge) is focusing on the Spooktacular Bash stamp set! You can find it, along with all the coordinating products, on pages 52 to 54 of the Holiday Catalog. It’s such a cute set that I decided to whip up some Halloween treat boxes this weekend and play along. To create the boxes, I used the Mini Curvy Keepsake Dies. The box die fits on… Read More »
Welcome to the September Stamping Sunday Blog Hop! This month, the theme of the blog hop is the new Mercury Glass Designer Acetate, which can be found in the Holiday Catalog on page 33. This fun new acetate has a faux mercury glass finish. It comes in a pack of 4 sheets measuring 12″ x 12″ including 2 each of 2 designs. For lots of inspiration using this unique new… Read More »
It’s TGIF time! This week, TGIF Challenges has a color challenge including Basic Black, Merry Merlot, and Very Vanilla. I have to admit that this color combination stumped me a bit. It really only includes one “color” (Merry Merlot), as the other two are neutrals. In addition, both Basic Black and Merry Merlot are very dark … not a combination I would typically choose. With that in mind, I decided… Read More »
Hello and welcome to the September Creating Kindness Blog Hop! I’m Tami Hewlett from California, USA. This is an exciting day for me, because it’s both my birthday AND I’m guest designer for Creating Kindness! Wahoo!!! What a fun coincidence! The Creating Kindness Blog Hop includes designers from around the world who come together to inspire kindness through cardmaking and paper crafting. This month, the theme of the hop is… Read More »
A quick reminder that TODAY is the last day of my Labor Day Special. Don’t miss this opportunity to earn FREE products from me with a qualifying purchase. See details below. When you place an online order today for $50 or more, I will mail you your choice of ANYTHING in the current Stampin’ Up! Annual catalog priced at $10 or less for FREE! To qualify for this offer, you… Read More »
Hello, and welcome to the September Color Fusers Blog Hop! I participate in this blog hop on the first Monday of each month, along with a great group of fellow demonstrators, to share different project ideas using the same color combination. This month, the colors include Rococo Rose, Merry Merlot, Night of Navy, and Mossy Meadow. If you’re already following through the blog hop, then you’ve just come from the… Read More »
A three-day weekend is the perfect time to celebrate and shop! I just wanted to take this opportunity to express a big THANK YOU to all my customers and subscribers! That means, all weekend, you can earn FREE products from me with qualifying orders. See details below. When you place an online order today through September 2, 2019 for $50 or more, I will mail you your choice of ANYTHING… Read More »
Hello stampers! Hope you’re doing well. I have a few quick reminders and news to share about some fun, upcoming promotions. Be sure to scroll down to see details regarding my Labor Day Weekend promotion, when you can earn FREE items from me!!! Bonus Days Coupons The end of the month is quickly approaching, so I wanted to remind you to redeem any unused Bonus Days Coupons before they expire… Read More »
Happy Friday! It’s time for a new TGIF Challenge!!! This week, the challenge is to use splatter. Oh boy, I love getting messy. How about you? For my project, I pulled out a new bundle I had just recently purchased — the Tasteful Textures Cling stamp set and Tasteful Background Dies. I thought the bold background shape would be a great backdrop for my splatter creation. I created my background… Read More »
Last weekend, I had time to play with some of the new products from the upcoming Holiday Catalog! (Products available to order on September 4, 2019). I seriously think this Holiday Catalog is my all-time favorite. So how about a little sneak peek of my favorite new suite called Feels Like Frost? The Feels Like Frost Suite includes the Frosted Foliage stamp set, Frosted Frame Dies, and GORGEOUS Feels Like… Read More »
Hello and welcome to another edition of my 2020 desktop calendars. Each month, I try to design one of these calendar pages for the following year, so by the time Christmas rolls around I have eight sets to give away as gifts to friends and family. The completed calendar pages measure 4″ x 6′ and fit in a standard frame. Typically, I keep these pages fairly simple, since I need… Read More »
OK, I think I have a little bit of explaining to do. Back on June 21st, when I posted my June 2020 Desktop Calendars, I indicated that I had already designed the July ones and was nearly finished. Then, nothing happened … until today. Well, at the beginning of July, I got Shingles:( I seriously had NO IDEA how sick I would get or how long it would take to… Read More »