Hello and Happy Sunday! I am finally getting my post published on the correct day. This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring cards made using retiring products. It is hard to believe that we are saying goodbye to the Annual catalog again, seems like it was just yesterday that it was making its debut! I wanted to feature my favorite set for masculine cards - Hey Chuck. I paired it with the Rock & Roll 12" x 12" DSP - this card was made with a work colleague in mind who is always helping me and I wanted to let him know how much I appreciate him. The shorts are colored with two of our... Continue reading

Hello! I am a little late (again) in posting my Sunday Fun Day project, but here we are. This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring card sets made using 6" x 6" One Sheet Wonder patterns. I decided to use a gorgeous piece of DSP from the Inked Botanicals pack along with a OSW pattern I have used in the past (see that blog post here) to make this quick set of Thank You cards. Products used for all cards: Inked Botanicals 6"x 6" DSP - #161157 $12.50 Annual catalog Color & Contour photopolymer stamp set - #154994 $21.00 Annual catalog Modern Oval punch - 162234 $22.00 Spring mini catalog Be sure to click the... Continue reading

Hello! I have had several requests to share the dimensions for this card set I created for the Stampers Dozen Blog Hop earlier this month (see that post here). Please read on to find the recipe for each card below.... Products used for all cards: Flight & Airy DSP - #162977 $FREE SAB level 1 selection Heartfelt Hellos stamp set - #162964 $FREE SAB level 1 selection Heartfelt Hexagon punch - 162888 $22.00 Annual catalog If you love this DSP and stamp set, be sure to place a qualifying merchandise order of $50 to earn for free before the end of the month when the Sale-a-Bration promotion ends! Be sure to click the links above to check out these items.... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Monday! Another late posting, sorry... this week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring fun fold cards. I decided to use the Flight & Airy DSP to make an easel birthday card. Products used: Go To Greetings stamp set - annual catalog #158763 $24.00 Flight & Airy DSP - level 1 Sale-a-Bration selection #162977 FREE Heartfelt Hexagon punch - Spring Mini catalog #162888 $22.00 Linen Thread - annual catalog #104199 $5.00 Today's card once again features the gorgeous level 1 selection Flight & Airy DSP (FREE with a qualifying $50 merchandise order). I paired it with the Heartfelt Hexagon punch found in the new Spring mini catalog along with the Go To Greetings stamp... Continue reading

Hello and thank you for stopping by during this month's Stampers Dozen blog hop! We were tasked with creating projects featuring the awesome Sale-a-Bration selections. This awesome Sale-a-Bration promotion is ending on February 29th - have you earned all the exclusive items that you wanted yet? My favorites this year have been the Flight & Airy DSP (the patterns and colors are so beautiful) and Heartfelt Hellos stamp set! Please read on to see what I created with them... It has been a while since I joined this blog hop but I am happy to be back this month! I plan to continue to hop each month so be sure to subscribe or check back on the 15th each month... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Monday! Another late posting, sorry... this week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring projects featuring hearts in honor of the Valentine's Day holiday coming up this week. I decided to make a birthday card using some fun heart-themed items. I took my inspiration for the color theme from chocolate-covered strawberries: early espresso, flirty flamingo and sweet sorbet. Heartfelt Hexagon bundle - #162889 $37.75 Spring mini catalog Most Adored 12x12 specialty DSP - #162976 $FREE SAB level 1 selection Sweet Sorbet 1/4" bordered ribbon - #162558 $8.00 Spring mini catalog Rhinestone Basic Jewels - 144220 $6.00 Annual catalog I like the hearts in this DSP, but there are some patterns that include some beautiful... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Monday! Another late posting, sorry... this week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring florals and I made this card (and a few others as you will see below). Isn't it simple but pretty?! I don't know why, but it is much more vibrant in real life. Enduring Beauty stamp set - #162670 $20.00 Spring mini catalog Enduring Beauty decorative masks - #162673 $10.50 Spring mini catalog Double Oval punch - #154242 $22.00 Annual catalog Very Best Occasions stamp set - 159871 $25.00 Annual catalog Small Blending Brushes - 160518 $12.00 Annual catalog Here are all 5 cards that I made using the Enduring Beauty stamp set and coordinating decorative masks from the new... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Monday - sorry for the delay in getting this posted but it's been a tough couple of weeks as I have been getting over being sick. This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring some of the fantastic bundles found in the Spring mini catalog. With 28 different bundles to choose from (at a savings of 10%!!) I had a hard time narrowing it down to just one, but the Cutest Cows won me over! Cutest Cows bundle - #162897 $41.25 Spring mini catalog Heartfelt Hexagon punch - #162888 $22.00 Spring mini catalog Bright & Beautiful 6"x6" DSP - 161449 $12.50 2022-2024 In Color Baker's Twine pack - #1591985 $15.00 Pecan Pie Stampin'... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Monday - sorry for the delay, we had some technical difficulties! I also took a few weeks off to enjoy the holidays with my family and now I am back in full swing for 2024 and hope you'll continue to stop in and check out the projects I am sharing. This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring some of the exclusive Sale-a-Bration items that you can earn with a qualifying $50 (level 1) or $100 (level 2) merchandise order. This is the biggest promotion that Stampin' Up! offers, and it is in effect through the end of February. Bonus, since 2024 is a leap year you get an extra day to take... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday Monday! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing Quick & Easy (QE) last-minute Christmas gift ideas. If you're like me, you always have a few extra bottles of wine on hand and having some hand-stamped bottle tags made makes it super easy to give a gift to someone from whom you may not have been expecting to receive one. If this looks familiar, it is because I shared this idea last year too (see that post here along with the dimensions)! The Joy of Christmas DSP is really pretty and perfect for your Christmas gift tags. This DSP was on the Last Chance list and is sadly all gone; however, there... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing Quick & Easy (QE) Christmas card ideas. If you're like me, you're really behind, and these are great for sending to friends and family! Between our move and being super busy in my full-time job, it has been really hard to get cards made. Thanks to the super cute Beary Christmas bundle and DSP, I was able to make a bunch yesterday!! I was in such a zone that I wrote in them all and put them in envelopes already, completely forgetting to take a photo of the bunch. The Beary Christmas DSP along with the coordinating Beary Cute stamp set and matching Bear... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing Christmas gift tag ideas. I decided to make little 3"x 3" note cards that could hang on a gift bag or bottle of wine (see those ideas shown at the bottom of this post). I just love this Beary Christmas suite in the Holiday catalog and am so sad it is retiring at the end of the month! Do you remember the Coca-Cola polar bear commercials from a few years back? That is what these bears remind me of when I look at them... so cute! Read on for more details about my project today... Today's gift tags feature the Beary Christmas DSP along... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing cards with a monochromatic color theme. I decided to go with an array of browns to make a sympathy card that was more masculine. Sadly, I needed one to send tomorrow to a friend and former downline who lost her father-in-law this week. It's always sad to lose loved ones around a holiday and I hope that Thanksgiving won't be too painful for them next year. Today's card features the the Hope You Know and Oceanfront stamp sets. I kept this card very minimalist to give it an artsy feel, but also because it is to express sorrow for the death of a man.... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing thank you cards. With Thanksgiving in the U.S. coming up this week, it is a great time to reflect and be thankful. I am so thankful for the many friends and customers I have met over the last 18 years that I have been a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and I hope to meet many more in the future! Two wonderful demonstrators that I have been stamping with for over a decade are Karla Anders and Rachel Yurkanin, with whom I co-host the Sisters in Stamping blog. I haven't seen Karla in person in quite a few years, but managed to meet up with Rachel... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday Monday! If you're wondering where I've been, we recently moved to Staunton in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and it has been quite an ordeal packing up a house that we have lived in for 22 years and then unpacking enough to find stamping supplies to make a project. I promise to be posting more regularly now and hope you enjoy this week's Sisters in Stamping blog project. We are sharing card ideas to use up scraps. You know, those pieces of left over card stock and DSP that seem to grow on your crafting table every time you make a project. This card is a clean and simple one featuring a birthday sentiment from the... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing cards featuring a great color combination that Karla chose. I decided to watercolor a masculine birthday card with this color palette. Karla chose the color combination of Copper Clay, Old Olive and Pretty Peacock for our cards this week. I must admit this was a tough one for me! I thought it looked like a masculine combination, so I made a masculine birthday card using the Wild & Sweet stamp set. The Wild & Sweet stamp set is great for watercoloring! And the new Water Painters make it so easy - I just pulled the ink off the lid of the stamp pad to... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing fall cards. Can you believe we are already in October?! The leaves are starting to turn here in Central Virginia and the temperatures are finally beginning to feel like fall. I challenged myself to try using a stamp set that is not ordinarily used for fall and think I pulled it off thanks to the color palette. The Hello Ladybug stamp set is currently in low inventory status, so if you want to purchase it please place your order online. In addition to this set I used the Go To Greetings stamp set for the birthday sentiment. I also added a bit of bling... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday! This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing cards featuring fun folds. These cards are so fun to receive and some techniques are more difficult than others. I found this card idea by Karen Titus on Pinterest (see that pin here for great directions). She didn't give the fold a name so I am just calling it a fun fold surprise card. I made a set of two using this fun new DSP from the Holiday catalog and wanted to show how versatile it is by making both a Christmas card AND a birthday card just by switching up the stamp sets used. Read on to find out more about each card...... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Monday! Sorry for the delay, but I forgot to publish my post yesterday (oops!). This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing cards featuring the Fractured technique. I made this card a short while after creating my project for the Stampers Dozen Blog Hop (see that here) and still had the stamp set and ink on my desk so decided to make my own "DSP" to create this fun card. I stamped the images all over a piece of 6" x 6" very vanilla card stock and cut it down to size for this card. I will probably use the remaining pieces on another project soon. Once again I used the Color &... Continue reading

Hello and thank you for stopping by during this month's Stampers Dozen blog hop! We were tasked with creating projects with a Fall theme. When I think of Fall I think of all the beautiful pots of Mums sitting on people's porches. I decided to try and recreate that look in some cards. I have a Color Combo and Inspiration board on Pinterest and it is always my go-to when searching for color combinations. For these Fall cards I decided to go with a palette of Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry and Old Olive that I found on the Birds Nest Designs blog. Aren't these colors great together?! For both cards today I used the Color & Contour stamp... Continue reading

Hello and Happy Sunday evening! It has been a crazy last couple of weeks so I apologize for being MIA for a while. This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing cards featuring Vellum. Since I haven't stamped in a while, my creative juices were not flowing easily. I decided to keep things simple and go back to one of the first techniques I learned using vellum - stamping line art images with Stazon ink and coloring on the reverse side to create a look like stained glass. In the past I used stampin' write markers but thought I would change things up and use my Stampin' Blends today. For today's card I used the Quiet... Continue reading