Happy Friday! We have a new color challenge at TGIF Challenges this week including Lovely Lipstick, Basic Black, and Old Olive. When I saw this combo, I immediately thought of flowers and coloring. So, I decided to get a jump on Mother’s Day:) I thought it would be fun to use the Dressed To Impress stamps and All Dressed Up Dies for this challenge. (Purchase in a bundle to save… Read More »
The TGIF Challenge this week is a product spotlight focusing on Fancy Foil! Stampin’ Up! carries several colors of metallic foil sheets, which are very reasonably priced at only $5.00 for a pack of two 12″ x 12″ sheets. In addition, you can purchase the beautiful Noble Peacock Foil Sheets pack (149495) for $10.00, which includes a pack of six 12″ x 12″ sheets in three colors (Blueberry Bushel, Old… Read More »
I have something fun to share today! It’s a preview of one of the new stamp sets from the upcoming Mini Catalog (products available to purchase January 3 to June 2, 2020!!!) I won this stamp set indirectly through prize patrol. The actual winner, Kimberly Morris, received two stamp sets and was instructed to pick another demonstrator she didn’t know to give one away. I guess I looked very excited,… Read More »
It’s time for another 2020 desktop calendar! For the month of October, I designed my calendar page around the Spooktacular Bash stamp set and coordinating products, featuring my favorite little mummy. If you’re new to my blog, I design these 4″ x 6″ desktop calendars each month for the following year. That way, by the end of the year, I have 8 sets to give away as Christmas gifts. My… 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 »
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 »
Do you like to color? I was crazy about it when I was a kid, and I don’t think I’ve ever grown out of it. In fact, one of my favorite things to do on the weekend is to sit in my craft room, listening to music and coloring. It’s my happy place. Today, the Stamping Through the Catalog Challenge (#sttcchallenge) is featuring the Over The Moon stamp set. This… Read More »
Happy Friday! TGIF Challenges is starting out July with a fun color challenge including three new 2019 In Colors! I am IN LOVE with these new colors. Not only do they look great together, but they coordinate well with Stampin’ Up!’s standard color palette. I decided last minute to make a card for this challenge, so I didn’t put a lot of thought into it. (Typically, I’m only supposed to… Read More »
Welcome to the July Color Fusers Blog Hop! This month, we are using a beautiful, soft color combination, including Soft Seafoam, Seaside Spray, and Purple Posy! For more inspiration using this color combination, be sure to use the navigation buttons at the bottom of this post to continue through the whole blog hop. This color combination was a little bit of a challenge, because the Purple Posy ink pad and… Read More »
Happy Monday Everyone! Today, we have a very special What Will You Stamp? Challenge featuring the gorgeous Good Morning Magnolia stamp set! You can find this stamp set, along with the whole coordinating Magnolia Lane Suite, on pages 36 to 39 of the Annual Catalog. I can’t wait to see what the designers come up with using these amazing products!!! I decided to create four gift boxes. The boxes showcase… Read More »
Hello and Happy Friday! Thanks for stopping by. Today, I’m sharing my June 2020 desktop calendar page. If you follow my blog, you know that I design these little 4″ x 6″ calendar pages each month for the following year. That way, by the time December rolls around, I have eight sets to give away as Christmas gifts. I love browsing through my favorite current and retired stamps and papers… Read More »
It’s time for a new 2020 desktop calendar! Each month, I try to design a page for the following year, give or take a few weeks:) I make eight sets of these cute little 4″ x 6″ calendars and then give them away as Christmas gifts. My May calendar features one of my favorite retired stamp sets — Floral Frames, as well as the coordinating Foliage Frames Dies. I stamped… Read More »
The May Paper Pumpkin Kit was a super special one! It was designed with the help of Stampin’ Up!’s very own co-founder Shelli Gardner focusing on her special style, which includes vintage elements, soft neutral tones, and birds! I was so excited to open mine and start playing!!! You can see the contents of the box above, and a close up of the exclusive photopolymer stamp set below. The kit… Read More »
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 »
Hello and Happy Friday! We have a very beautiful color challenge at TGIF Challenges this week, including the following colors: Crumb Cake, Petal Pink, and Pool Party! I love these pretty pastels! My mind immediately went in two directions, a basically pink card with blue accents or a blue card with pink accents. (It reminds me of the fairies from Sleeping Beauty!) I started pulling out matching designer series papers… Read More »
It’s time for another edition of my 2020 desktop calendars. I try to design one of these 4″ x 6″ calendars each month for the following year, so I have eight sets to hand out to friends and family as gifts at Christmastime. Making these calendars is a great way to showcase my favorite products of the season and get full use of retiring products. So for April, I decided… Read More »
The What Will You Stamp? Challenge Blog is featuring the Wonderful Romance stamp set this week! When I initially looked through the Occasions catalog, this whole suite of products was the one that really jumped out at me. You can find it on pages 10 and 11, including the stamps, coordinating papers, die cuts, and embellishments. They are so pretty and feminine … just my style. For my card, I… Read More »
Happy Sunday! I have a quick post today so I can enter the color challenge at the Global Design Project the week. I told myself at the beginning of the year that I was going to try to participate more in these challenges, and this is the first one this year! OK, better late than never, right? (Ugh, too many things to do and too many commitments. Haha!) The challenge… Read More »
Hello and Happy Friday! This week, TGIF Challenges has a product spotlight featuring Stampin’ Blends Markers! I was so excited to see this challenge, because these alcohol-based markers are one of my very favorite coloring tools. I had a hard time deciding which stamp set to choose for this challenge. (There are so many!!!) In the end, I settled on the Lovely Lattice stamp set. It’s one of my favorite… Read More »
The What Will You Stamp? Challenge Blog is featuring the Amazing Life stamp set this week. That’s the same stamp we featured yesterday for the Stamping Sunday Blog Hop! Talk about a coincidence! But, that’s OK because it just gives me another opportunity to play with this great stamp set! One of my co-workers is having a birthday soon, so I designed this card for her. She loves purple!!! I… Read More »