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Ribbon of Courage ~ Stampin’ UP!

Posted on August 31, 2017 | Leave a comment

The Ribbon of Courage stamp set was one I was so thrilled to see in the 2017 – 2018 Annual Catalog, it was inspired by Patty Bennett who is one of Stampin’ UP!’s Million Sales Achiever, and was included on my very first order when the catalog went live on June 1st.

I wanted to make some cards with the set and the coordinating Support Ribbon Framelits and I did google the different Awareness Ribbon colors – there are such a huge range for all different causes, but I decided to go neutral today.
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Tagged Awareness ribbons, cancer awareness, heat embossing, Layered leaves embossing folder, Ribbon of courage, Support ribbon Framelits

Background Bits Card ~ Technique and Tips

Posted on August 11, 2017 | Leave a comment

I have wonderful customers who shop for their Stampin’ UP! goodies with me – I am deeply grateful for their support and honored they choose me as their demonstrator.

I like to send each of them a thank you to show my appreciation – sometimes I choose to share them on my blog.

This card is based on a design by Jenny Peterson – I just added my own little creative twist 🙂 and as I was making it I realised it had a number of different techniques or features that would benefit from explaining a little, so I switched on my camera.
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Tagged Background Bits stamp set, Eastern Beauty stamp set, heat embossing, Sheet music background stamp set, stampin marker inking technique

Memory Keeping or Scrapbooking ~ Stampin’ UP!

Posted on August 9, 2017 | Leave a comment

Traditional scrap-booking is something I have loved to do over the last 8 – 9 years, more or less since we became grandparents really. Building up the 12 x 12 pages, adding photos and other memory pieces, but it can take a bit of time to build a page or two.

Memory keeping allows you to build up your album a lot quicker – I have been working thru doing ‘something’ with our wedding photos for several years, with Memories and More I was able to build up about 6 double page 12 x 12 spreads in about 3 hours!

Is it scrapbooking or memory keeping? ~ does it really matter? – lets get those pictures off our phones and into something more permanent and fun to look at! Continue reading →

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Posted in cards, classes, memory keeping, scrap books, Stampin Up

Tagged Bundle of Love, card kits, Color Theory, memories and more, memory keeping, Perfect Days, petal garden, scrapbook, scrapbooking

More Eastern Beauty…………

Posted on July 13, 2017 | Leave a comment

The two cards I decided to share today shows of even more of the Eastern Palace suite of products. The opportunities are practically endless and it is so difficult to just pick one or two examples – so I am going to run with some today and then a couple more next week.

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Tagged Bonus Days, Eastern Beauty stamp set, Eastern Palace DSP, Eastern Palace Suite, fresh fig, Gold Stickers, tassels

Red White and Blue Eastern Beauty ~ video tutorial

Posted on July 9, 2017 | Leave a comment

Back in early May, Stampin’ Up! did an early release on one of the new bundles from the 2017 – 2018 Annual catalog. The Eastern Beauty Bundle included the stamp set, coordinating thinlet dies, card and ink pads in three of the new in-colors. Needless to say I, like many other demonstrators fell on this set – it is beautiful and so very versatile and the rich tones of the new colors were a perfect foil for the stamps. I have some I will be sharing in the coming days.

I was planning to make some cards for July 4th and the stamp set was sitting on my workbench so I picked it up with some Real Red and Night of Navy ink and this was the result!
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Tagged Eastern Beauty stamp set, heat embossing, Independence day, july 4th, Ticket Tear Border Punch

Grown with Love ~ Stampin’ Up!

Posted on July 5, 2017 | Leave a comment

Flowers are my weakness, I am always drawn to those stamp sets with flowers, but as I explained in a post the other day – I ration myself otherwise I would have nothing but flowers in my stash. So when I ordered a set the other week I deliberately chose a set that had flowers but other things as well – Grown with Love has a little cart, flower-pot and watering can as well as flowers and best yet it has coordinating dies which make it a snap to cut everything out with my Big Shot. Continue reading →

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Tagged Arm Fold Card, Garden Grown Framelits, Grown with Love Stamp Set

More Bunch of Blossoms ~ Stampin’ Up! products

Posted on May 3, 2017 | Leave a comment

Earlier this week I shared a couple of cards with the two-step stampin’ technique using the ‘Bunch of Blossoms’ stamp set. I have a couple of cards today that uses the same stamp set using ‘filler’ stamps to give a more subtle ‘watercolor’ effect, As the stamp set is a photopolymer it is very easy to line up each of the layers – in fact you could even do three layers! The set also has 5 beautiful sentiments in such a pretty font. Continue reading →

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Posted in Birthday Card, cards, Stampin Up

Tagged Bunch of Blossoms stamp set, Stamping off technique, Thank you cards, two step stamping

Eastern Palace Suite ~ new early release products from Stampin’ Up!

Posted on May 1, 2017 | Leave a comment

Stampin’ Up! knows that we all love a little something early, and while the full Annual Catalogue is still a month away, the stunning and versatile new Eastern Palace suite has been released early!

Starting today, you are able to buy either the Starter Bundle or the Premier Bundle of goodies. Continue reading →

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Tagged Eastern Palace Suite

Bunch of Blossoms ~ Stampin’ Up! products

Posted on April 29, 2017 | Leave a comment

Two-step stampin’ is a really great technique and there are a number of stamp sets in the SU catalog that have been designed especially for this. ‘Bunch of Blossoms’ is one of them. You can use the outline stamp then a ‘filler’ one to give a crisp image or use both ‘filler’ stamps to give a more subtle ‘watercolor’ effect, As the stamp set is a photopolymer it is very easy to line up each of the layers – in fact you could even do three layers! The set also has 5 beautiful sentiments in such a pretty font. I have two examples to share today. Continue reading →

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Posted in Birthday Card, cards, Stampin Up

Tagged Blossom Builder punch, Bunch of Blossoms stamp set, Thank you cards, two step stamping

Stacks and Splits ~ Fun Card Designs

Posted on February 26, 2017 | Leave a comment

Creating a card with a unique design or focal point isn’t always an easy task, but that’s where this tutorial comes to your rescue! All six of the cards feature a simple layout, but they each have at least one impressive design element that’s either stacked or split. Best of all . . . the cards are really easy to make!

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