I have been using one of the exclusive ‘Sale-a-bration’ stamp sets, that is free with a $50 purchase of products until March 31st.
Here are two cards made using theSale-a-bration exclusive products, Petal Parade Stamp set and the Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper, as well as some of the other products available in the ‘Celebrate the Everyday’ mini catalog. Continue reading
A cute treat holder made using the Sale-a-bration Banner Blast Stamp Set and Punch and the Pool Party Twine from the Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack. This would be perfect for Easter, party favors or ‘just because’………. occasions. Continue reading
A card made for an acquaintance who was recently diagnosed.
The base card is Stampin’ Up’s Blushing Bride card, dry embossed with the Decorative Dots embossing folder then topped with a Tea Time paper doily.
The ‘You’re Lovely stamp set was used for the center embellishment layered on to Sahara Sand card both of which were cut with the Deco Labels Framelits. Basic Gray ink was used then Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz ink and a blender pen used to water color the flowers.
This was adhered using stampin dimensionals with a twist of 1\4 stitched Blushing Bride grosgrain ribbon and a gentle sprinkling of pearls to finish off. Hopefully it conveys encouragement for her upcoming treatment.
Happy Stamping 🙂
If you’d like any of the supplies, to shop, or to get a catalog, please feel free to contact me, and if you’re thinking of joining Stampin’ Up! and my team I’d most definitely like to hear from you.
Check out the Calendar Page…. I have added the February and March events…….. lots of lovely things to choose from 🙂
My great-nephew will be celebrating his third birthday next week. He lives in England so I don’t get to see him as much as I would like, but his mother sends me lots of photos of him (and his new baby sister) Continue reading
Check out the Calendar Page…. I have added the January events…….. lots of lovely things to choose from 🙂
This time of year we are wrapping gifts in preparation for the Big Day. I gave up wrapping in paper several years ago…. the shapes were too weird to wrap neatly or the parcels looked too lumpy and unappetising!. I started to use gift bags and tissue paper, a much quicker and easier (and neater!) solution.
Gift bags and tissue can be expensive so I buy plain bags from the craft stores and plain tissue from the dollar store ( 40 sheets for $1) Then I get out my inks and stamp sets and decorate to my hearts’ content.
I have a number of hostess gifts this year so this is the bag/tissue combination I have been working on today…..
The stamp set is Joyful Christmas and I used Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Crushed Curry inks. Now I have some lovely, elegant gifts to take with me.
I hope this gives you an idea for your future gift wrapping……..
Happy Stamping ~ Cindy 🙂
PS I just realised this is my 50th post…….. lets celebrate with your ‘liking’ it and while you are doing that……. just go ahead and ‘follow’ my blog…. then you know when I get to my 100th post!!! 🙂
If you’d like any of the supplies, to shop, or to get a catalog, please feel free to contact me, and if you’re thinking of joining Stampin’ Up! and my team I’d most definitely like to hear from you!
Gorgeous Grunge…… curious choice of words… I have to admit that I did not really see the stamp set when the new catalog was released in June, I am more into flowers and doilies than splodges and skid marks!!! However we were given this set as part of our Convention 2013 goodies and I bought it home and put it in my stamp cupboard.
In late July I was designing some scrap book layouts for my August Scrap camp ~ the theme was ‘fun in the sun’ – I was looking for something that would give me a ‘sand-type’ texture to add dimension to my crumb cake cardstock ‘beach’ I browsed thru my stamp sets and there was ‘Gorgeous Grunge’ sitting there waiting patiently for me…… the little scattered dot pattern stamp gave me a perfect effect.
In August I was working on my September Scrap Camp designs, this time a travel theme, again looking for texture to add interest to the background of my pages…. there was Gorgeous Grunge again….. using the kinda ‘tyre skid’ effect at the bottom of my pages. I was really beginning to warm to this stamp set!
I also used the small ‘splodge’ on the Thanksgiving Banner featured in an earlier post.
November, December and January bring a lot of birthdays for the fellas in my family…… so out came the Gorgeous Grunge once again!
………. and again for a couple of ‘thank you’ cards same layout at the guy cards but using more ‘girly’ colors and the pretty flower from the ‘Oh Hello’ stamp set (which I got as part of my materials at Leadership training way back in January
So I guess the moral is to never judge a stamp set by it cover ~ this little DVD case was full of little gems! 🙂
I went to an inspiration night last week and I have to say I was well and truly inspired by the projects we made.
This one used the Joyful Christmas Stamp Set. Heat embossed in silver on Shimmery White cardstock. We then spritzed it with water before using an Aqua Painter with Coastal Cabana and Island Indigo ink to flood in the color. After it was dry (which only took a few minutes) it was out with the scissors to ‘fussy-cut” the flower before adhering to Coastal Cabana cardstock with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The center was finished off with a bunch of rhinestones to add some extra bling!
Had some of these little calendars kicking around my workbench, so decided to pull together some ink, paper and ribbon to create a little fridge magnet calendar. The base is made of chipboard cut 4×4, a little DSP added with some ribbon in a complementary colour. Flowers were stamped on Whisper White card stock using the Flower Shop Stamp set and punch (available as a bundle) few pieces of magnetic strip hot glued to the back and we have a cute stocking stuffer, hostess / teacher appreciation gift ready for the holiday season.
You can order this bundle directly from my website – just click the picture above. This week’s Hostess Code for week ending Sunday is KWH4TKW3 and you could win all the hostess $$$$$’s that accumulate during the week! One winner will be named at random
If you’d like any of the supplies, to shop, or to get a catalog, please feel free to contact me, and if you’re thinking of joining Stampin’ Up! and my team I’d most definitely like to hear from you!
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