What's new at Stampin' Up! ?

Great news...Stampin'Up! is offering free shipping Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 6-8. To take advantage of this go to my Website and click on the upper right hand box marked "Shop Now". This will save you 10%. Check out the This and That at the website, if you are into smash type notebooks, this group is being offered at 15% off currently also(it will be in the big book in June).

With the new Idea book in June we are also doing a Color Refresh. Some of those old colors are going away: Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Baha Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Bravo Burgundy, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard and River Rock. If any of these is your favorite, or if you have markers or ink pads that need to be re-inked, now is the time to buy re-inkers, they will go really quick.

I will be placing an order tomorrow morning, Friday, at 6am and if you want to order something let me know by then and I can order it for you.

 

 

 

Sale-A-Bration Last Call Blog Hop

 

You just came over from the talented Christine's Blog and we are celebrating the last two days of Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration.  I have really enjoyed all of the free items we had available this year.  Still time to place an order, and not miss out on these great buys.  The Patterned Occasions Stamp Set has five stamps that will end up being your go-to set of the future.  I found the "Smarties" bag set on Pinterest and thought what a great graduation gift it would make.  Couldn't you see these as favors at a graduation party?  My pic isn't the greatest for reading the sentiment...congratulations smarty pants! The sentiment is under the blue jeans on the stamp, but I cut the stamp in two, separating them and now I can stamp them in different colors.  I covered the clothes pin in the Sale-A-Bration Sycamore Street DSP.  Love how the colors worked together.

Smarty Pants Smarties Treat

The Bloomin' Marvelous has four sentiments and four images, to me that is Marvelous!  I free stamped the flowers, stamping twice before re-inking.  The images include the flower, leaf, butterfly and a hummingbird, love it.

 

Bloomin' Marvelous



The next card once again uses the Sycamore Street DSP in the background as well as the Sycamore Street Ribbon and the Vine Street Embossing Folder.  I love butterflies and found this card on Pinterest also.  The large butterfly was made with the Elegant Butterfly punch and I love the way the Sycamore DSP colors blend so well together.  The smaller butterfly punch called the Bitty Butterfly just came out in our spring catalog, the cool thing is that it matches the smallest butterfly in the Papillon Potpourri stamp set.

 





Sharing in your Sorrow

I was determined that I was not going to purchase everything in the spring catalog this year.  Well that lasted until I saw my friend, Susan Horr's card that I CASEd below.  I loved the dress so much that I purchased the All Dressed Up Bundle and our Tea Lace Paper Doilies.  It is my favorite color also, Real Red and have to love the Polka Dot Parade DSP.  

All Dressed Up Oh, Hello

I saw this cute baby card on Pintrest and had to make it for my card buffet.  It was so easy to make, the birds are made out of two half hearts.  I used the new Tea for Two DSP out of the spring catalog.



Tweet Baby

I fell in love with this baby card when I found it.  The stacking toy was one of my favorites, wish I had found it before the two grand babies were born.  I used the Natural Composition Specialty paper for the wood and the Color Collection DSP stacks for the rings.

Hello Baby

Hope you enjoyed yourself and join us again next month for our next blog hop.  Now on to talented Marsha's blog.

 

 

 

 

 

Spring-a-Bration February Blog Hop

Welcome to our February Blog Hop!  After waking up to the beautiful Hibiscus bloom yesterday morning, I felt that spring is really on it's way.  Isn't it beautiful and I managed not to kill it over winter.

Well, my son is a band instructor at a high school close to New Orleans and last week they marched in two Mardi Gras parades.  Here is my granddaughter dressed for the day.

And here is a Mardi Gras card inspired by her tshirt. 

I started by sponging on glossy cardstock the Retired Fleur De Lis from the Elegant Trio Stencil Set.  The mask I found on the following Pattern and I printed it to 50%, then placed it on our Champaign Glimmer Paper and cut it out.  I used the Bird Builder punch and punched out four wings to add feathers to the top of the mask.  First I sponged them with Gumball Green and Concord Crush inks before attaching them to the mask.  I dimensioned up the mask over the Fleur De Lis and the two nobs showed through the eye holes and they look like eyes, too funny.

The next two cards are from my Technique Class last week.  First we learned the Tie Dye Technique and made St. Patrick's Day cards using it.

First take a light ink with a sponge in a circular motion on a sheet of white cardstock. Then do the same thing with a medium color ink on top of the large light and lastly add a small circle of dark color ink. Then take a Stampin' Up! Aqua Painter and lightly draw a circle where the colors meet, then a fine mist of water.  Heat with heat gun to dry. This creates the tie dye look.

 

The next technique we learned is the Stampin' Mist Technique using the Pleasant Poppies Background Stamp.  I love how versatile this stamp is. 

 

On White card stock, sponge and ink and just rub it on your paper. After filling the paper with ink, you take your stamp and place Versamark on it, then mist it with Stampin' Mist cleaner. Then stamp it on your paper! It is almost like a bleaching technique.

Before you leave here is a picture of my newest granddaughter, Corinne.  She is seven weeks old today.

Visit our hop next month again, thanks for dropping by today.

 

 

 

Spring-a-Bration Blog Hop

Welcome to our Spring-a-Bration Blog Hop!  You must have been in awe with Stephanie's Blog, she creates all of our banners and does such a wonderful job.  So much has happened in my life since our last hop.  I am now a grandma to two beautiful little girls.  Pictures at the end of the blog if you are interested.  I have finally gotten to play with my new stamps.  I will be posting more in the future, I am really inspired by our new Stampin' Up! products.

My son-in-law, Andrew asked me to stay with them for two weeks after the baby was born to help out.  What a wonderful gift it was to see her changing daily.  I just heard yesterday that he received a bonus at his work because he put in some many extra hours the last year.  One of his favorite shows is Dr. Who and I was so excited to see an English Police Box in the sale-a-bration catalog as part of the Feeling Sentimental Stamp Set, and the best part is that I got it for FREE!  So I added a light to the top of the police box to make it look like the tardis from Dr. Who. Hope he loves his card and realizes how proud we are of him.

Tardis Feeling Sentimental

I must admit that I had a terrible time this week with getting my stamping juices flowing.  It had almost been a month since I had stamped.  So I went in search of some challenges to help get me going. The color challenge #118 is from:  Utah Divas International.

 And the sketch Friday Sketch #011813 over at Paper Craft Planet.

Recipe:

Stamps:  Feeling Sentimental(SAB), Carry On(Hostess), Collage Curios(Spring)

Paper:  Pool Party, River Rock and Very Vanilla Cardstock

Ink:  Soft Suede, Versamark

Accessories: Honeycomb Textured Impressions Embossing Folder(Spring), Pool Party Embossing Powder(Spring), Island Indigo and So Saffron Many Marvelous Markers

When my ladies first saw the Spring Catalog they were so excited to have the Sizzlits Die Pinwheel.  I wasn't as interested in it until I started seeing other demonstrators making very cute cards with it.  The next card uses it and the Wishes Your Way stamp set.  I used a reinker and the aqua painter to die the doily the color I desired.

Windy Wishes

 
 
The color challenge was from Fab Friday #10:

And the sketch challenge is from Freshly Made Sketches #70:

Recipe:

Stamps:  Wishes Your Way

Paper:  Very Vanilla and Pool Party Card Stock, Print Poetry Designer Series Paper Stack(Spring), Tea for Two DSP(Spring)

Ink: Versamark, Pool Party

Accessories:  Sizzlits Die Pinwheel, Cloudy Day Textured Impressions Embossing Folder(Spring), Tea Lace Paper Doilies(Spring), Pink Piroutte Reinker, Ovals Collection Framelit Dies(Spring), 1/8" Mini Brad, Aqua Painter

Well, my new granddaughter's name is Corinne May.  Here is a picture I took of her last week:

And here is one of Addison when she came home for a visit at Christmas.  She is wearing the cute hat I bought her at the Apple Festival.

Come back and see us next month for another hop.  Have a good month and don't forget about sale-a-bration!

Fall-i-Days Finale Blog Hop

Well it is the last Blog Hop of 2012 for us.  I can't believe that the year has gone by so quickly.  I became a grandma for the first time this year and it is wonderful!  But this time I want to share with you my beautiful great-niece, she is also a cutie patootie so I have added her picture at the end.  Last Sunday was the marathon Christmas card making class at my house.  It was supposed to take three hours and took four and a half instead.  Here are three of the twelve cards we made that day.  These were all cased cards from my favorite Pintrest.  Thanks to their original designers, they were beautiful.

Next on to Stephanie Osgood's blog, you will enjoy her creations.  She is so talented at the Stampin' Up! MDS2 and designs our header and buttons for our hops for us.

And here is the picture of beautiful Charlie, isn't she so cute?

Saturday Craft Fair

ONE HOT COOKIE   AND

Murphysboro Hometown Christmas  Craft Show

Saturday, December 8^th 8am – 5 pm

Homemade Arts & Crafts

Murphysboro Youth & Recreation Center  

(I will be located here)

1818 Walnut Street

Murphysboro, IL 62966

*Due to the overwhelming response we have added Vendors of all types and have added an additional site.

Murphysboro Christian Academy

Holiday Bazaar & Cookie Walk

805 N. 16^{th ST.}

SHOP MURPHYSBORO

Saturday, December 8th

40+ Vendors, great antique and gift shops

Lunch available at both sites

FREE admission and parking

Drawings every 30 minutes for Food Pantry Raffle –

Prizes include a $50 food basket & gifts from the vendors

Raffle tickets $1.00 or 6 for $5.00 OR bring personal hygiene or household items to donate to the Murphysboro Food Pantry and receive FREE raffle tickets.

Yellow Christmas for The Friday Mashup!

Yellow Christmas

I needed to design some cards for my upcoming Card Buffet class and fell in love with the challenge over at The Friday Mashup!

I decided to Mash it Up  by dry embossing the dsp and using the colors listed below.  So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:

1. Make a project with "Dry Embossing".
2. Or Make a project using the colors " Daffodil Delight, Basic Grey & Basic Black".*
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project with "Dry Embossing & The Color Combo". 

Card Recipe:

Paper:  Basic Grey and Basic Black, Retired DSP

Stamps:  Ornament Keepsakes

Ink: Versamark

Accessories:  1/2" Daffodil Delight Ribbon, Retired Ribbon, Big Shot, Labels Collection Framelits, Embossing Buddy, New Heat Tool, Pewter Stampin' Emboss Powder