A tiny little pop-up card

I made a small, 3″x3″ pop-up card for a new friend of mine.   When I got the Forest Friends stamp set in the upcoming Occasions Mini catalog (available April 1st), I knew these little creatures would be adorable inside such a card.  I felt the images were better served in a card that was smaller [...]

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Wanted: New Home for Retired Stamp Sets!

I have several retired Stampin’  Up! stamp sets for sale – all priced to go!  Click on the top tab “Retired Stamp Sets for Sale!”, or look for link on right sidebar.  Photos included.  Instructions will be on that page.  Thanks!
  

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One more card for Sale-a-Bration

Well, there’s still time to get a free stamp set (or paper pack or ribbon bundle) for Sale-a-Bration, which ends in just a few short days.  For this card I used the Congrats stamp set and the Delicate Dots paper pack (both can be free with qualifying purchase), along with some new paper – Flock [...]

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More Manhattan Flowers

Here’s another super fast card made using the Manhattan Flower Textured Impressions folder.  This time I used the Shimmery White card stock for the embossed image, layered it onto a Basic Gray patterned paper, and then onto my Baja Breeze card base.  I stamped the sentiment in Basic Gray and used the new yummy Baja [...]

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Need a 5-minute card?

Well then you need the new Manhattan Flower Textured Impressions folder from SU!  I played around with mine and had a card done in actually less than 5 minutes!  It couldn’t be any easier to use.  Just slip your patterned paper or card stock into the folder, run it through your Big Shot and you [...]

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Another pop-up card

When I was looking for an image to use inside a pop up card – I saw this little chipboard bird sitting on my desk and knew he’d be perfect!  I just love adding patterned paper to chipboard!  Using the same technique as in my last post with the word window punch, I decided to [...]

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Stamp Club projects for March

  We made this Easter box, which was so simple.  I found the idea here.  Here is Sandi’s template for the head.  And here is the template for the box, which is a Stampin’ Up! template.  I used the Sale-a-Bration DSP, Delicate Dots, matted with Bashful blue card stock.  I had forgotten the blue gingham ribbon is [...]

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So very lucky

I made this card for my good friend Jean.  I used the Card Sketch a Day #197 (yesterday’s sketch).  I was introduced to this cool blog from my friend Juanita.  I often need a sketch to start from, and this blog has one a day!  How cool to find this site.  Thanks, Juanita!
I thought that [...]

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Paper sunshine

We’ve had such great weather today…full of sunshine and light winds. I got to take this card’s photo outside – love that! I’ve had this little paper bird on my desk for awhile, he was a reject for decorating the chipboard bird in his shape and I hated to throw him away. So I sanded [...]

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You asked for it…

…so here are the details for the purse-shaped invitations and purse-shaped boxes I hinted at on this post.  I was in charge of an event for the ladies at church.  The theme was centered around purses so I made 80 invitations in a purse shape.  Here are a few of them.  I didn’t have a pattern, so [...]

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Let the patterned paper take center stage

When it’s this pretty, keeping the card simple is the way to go to showcase your patterned paper.  This is exactly what I thought when I saw Sophie’s card here.  So I did the same with this one using the Urban Oasis paper.  For a fun twist, I repurposed some packaging made of very thick, [...]

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One is, one isn’t.

Stampin’ Up! cards, that is.  My first card IS.   
I made it with the sample I used to show my Stamp Club members how to do the Watercolor Wash technique, like I showed you in this post.  I had brought out the wrong color of blue; instead of the Baja Breeze, I brought out the Bashful Blue and [...]

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Paper Share available

I’m offering a paper share to my local customers, and need a few spots to fill so am opening it up to anyone who reads my blog.  If anyone is interested in joining this share, here are the details:
I’m offering a 6″x6″ sheet of each design in each of the following 14 packages of NEW Stampin’ Up! [...]

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CD holder for a friend

I made this cd holder for a good friend of mine.  She wanted me to burn her the Raising Sand (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss) cd, so I had my daughter do that while I made the holder.  Peggy is such a good friend – the best kind you can have.  So I wanted to [...]

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Preorder your Easter sets today!

The Occasions Mini catalog will not be available to order from for another month, BUT you can order some of the stamp sets NOW – just in time to prepare for Easter!  And you can still receive SAB benefits with your order until the end of March.  Woohoo!  Here are the sets available to order early:

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