Hello and Happy Mother’s Day!!! Best wishes to all the lovely moms out there. Hope you have a wonderful day!!! Today is also the May Stamping Sunday Blog Hop! This month, the designers are featuring our Retiring Favorites! It’s a bittersweet time of the year, because we’re excited about new products coming out in the 2019-2020 Annual Stampin’ Up! catalog, but a little sad to say good-bye to retiring old… Read More »
Today is my Mom’s birthday, and I wanted to make something special and meaningful. As I was looking through my stash of stamps, I found the Half Full stamp set from the Annual Catalog. I was so excited, because it’s perfect!!! An idea immediately began to form in my head… My mom and I love going wine tasting together. Last year, we had several mother/daughter vacations in Napa, the Stockton/Lodi… Read More »
Two posts in one morning? Yep, it’s true! Once a month, both the Color Fuser’s Blog Hop and What Will You Stamp? challeng will happen on the same day. Maybe, I’ll get smart next month and combine the two challenges!!! Haha! If you are already following the Color Fusers Blog Hop, then you’ve just come from the talented Beverlee Morales. If you’re just starting, you’re in for a treat! Follow… Read More »
Last weekend, I had to make FOUR masculine birthday cards!!! I was sitting there with all these beautiful new products with flowers and baskets and girly things to color, and I couldn’t use any of them!!!! I know, it’s a sad story … I decided to double up and make two cards each of two different designs. (I had to clean the house, and help my husband with work, so… Read More »
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I look at all my stamps and feel overwhelmed, I don’t know where to start. I was feeling like that last Saturday; I wanted to design Christmas cards and needed some serious inspiration. To help, I started looking at websites with challenges. Challenges help me think outside the box and be more creative. So, I thought I’d try the TGIF Color Challenge for this… Read More »
I just love the Half Full stamp set. I love the sayings, the fonts, and the stamps as well. Plus, it’s a PERFECT stamp set for playing with the new Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers!!! These markers are currently only available to demonstrators for a short time, so we can practice using them, perfect our techniques, and get ready to teach classes. But, they will be available to the public later… Read More »
Stampin’ Up! has a new Holiday Catalog that customers can start ordering from on September 1st! Earlier this month, I was able to place a pre-order, and I’ve been DYING to play with my new stuff!!! I finally got a chance this past weekend. One thing that really caught my eye was the Half Full stamp set. It has some of the greatest saying (super funny) and lots of both… Read More »