Have been a little bit quiet over the last few days, I had a Christmas/Holiday card Stamp Camp on Friday and Saturday – I spent most of Thursday preparing for it which included tying a bunch of ribbon bows!…. and completely forgot to write something for my blog.
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Welcome to Card # 6 using the Celebrate Today Stamp Set, which takes a Christmas theme.
I know, I know – we are not even half-way thru September and here I am showing Christmas cards!!! but Christmas ‘stuff’ has been in the craft stores for several months now and I am sure the next 3 months will fly by so I don’t think it is too soon to be thinking about getting a head start on the Christmas cards.
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Today’s card using the ‘Celebrate Today’ Stamp Set is a shaker card, I have not done one of these before but I thought the balloon theme lent itself to a shaker card. I trawled the internet for some inspiration to find out how to do this and came across a video which I have linked further down this post.
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Welcome to card #4 of my week with the ‘Celebrate Today’ stamp set When looking at all the pieces in this set it came a surprise to me to see ‘wedding’ as one of the greetings – had not really associated balloons and weddings before – so I took it as a personal challenge!
There is also a video for this one……………….!!!!!!!!!!
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Today’s card using the ‘Celebrate Today’ Stamp Set has bright primary colors which I think would work very well for a younger member of the family.
It features window sheet and is based on a card by Connie Stewart of Simply Simple Stamping.
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Today’s card using the ‘Celebrate Today’ Stamp Set has lovely, fresh blue and white ~ perfect for a fella, albeit perhaps a younger fella!
The card features a balloon but also has lots of stars, which was inspired by one of the stamps in the set.
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The Celebrate Today Stamp Set was introduced in the 2015 Occasion catalog back in January – and it was included in the 2015 – 2016 Annual Catalog that came out in June. I was looking for inspiration for a birthday card and picked up the set….. just to see what ‘vibes’ it would give me………. although the set has a balloon theme it also has a bunch of greetings that would celebrate most life experience occasion…… birthday, baby, wedding and graduation.
While I made the birthday card – which I will share, I also thought it would be a great opportunity to create a week of cards using this set……. so here is #1……..
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I just love to do home decor pieces from paper, ink and embellishments and framed art is probably my most favorite thing.
Last year some ladies and I got together to make one of these for another friend on the birth of her first child, a few weeks ago my friend, Jennifer and I made another for one of the other ladies in that little band of happy stampers. This fits a 9 x 9 frame from IKEA, I took the photo before putting it in the frame because of the reflection of the glass…… it looked so good when it was finally assembled.
If you have a special occasion you would like to commemorate – let me know, I will be happy to work with you to design/make a piece of frame art to treasure forever!
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Many of my lovely customers have already received their new 2015 Holiday Catalog and I suspect they are now well-thumbed, tagged and wish lists all completed! But if you do not have yours yet then this will give you a little taster!
This was the question I posed at the beginning of August…………..
Have you taken a really good look at pages 148 and 149 in the new catalog? the page is headed ‘Paper Basics, cards and envelopes”
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