Hello everyone and welcome to another Artisan Design Team Blog Hop! We are all excited to share some amazing products that are premiering and are available to order for demonstrators today! These products will be available for customers starting March 1st. So now would be a great time to join the Stampin' Up! family. Not only could you get these items a month earlier, you can take advantage of this amazing opportunity with bonuses to your personalized Starter Kit only available during Sale-A-Bration. There are several great products being released that coordinate perfectly with existing Sale-A-Bration product rewards and a... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. I missed last month's hop but am so glad to here this month especially with the focus being on Sale A Bration! This month's challenge is to showcase our favourite Sale A Bration item. There are so many amazing choices this year, but ultimately for me it came down to the wonderful sentiments... Continue reading

Hello and welcome to the first Blog Hop with the 2019 Artisan Design Team! I am beyond thrilled to be working with the amazingly talented creatives that make up the 2019 Artisan Team. We are a group of 16 Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from around the world, that have been chosen to represent Stampin' Up! over the course of the year, through blog hops, Facebook posts and corporate blog posts. For those of you new to my blog I am so happy to have you here and hope you will enjoy and find inspiration in my posts. I live in beautiful... Continue reading

Well here we go with my first blog post of 2019! Not going to lie, 2018 was a year of challenges, health issues and some trying times for our family, so we gladly welcomed in the new year with a positive mind set and are looking forward to some positive changes. Speaking of the New Year and new beginnings, I get to finally share a project with my brand new Stampin' Up! Artisan Team Watermark!!! I apologize in advance for the excess usage of exclamation marks in this post. The new Sale-A-Bration stamp set Part of My Story is a... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. We also have some more Fancy ladies joining us this month, so be prepared for some amazing inspiration! This month's challenge is for us to share our Christmas cards that we plan to send out this year. This was tough for me because I have a hard time mass producing any design I... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. This month we have a theme challenge - create anything with a Christmas-y feel! Now that it is the beginning of November the pressure is on to start creating some Christmas cards. Stampin' Up! has created so many amazing stamps, papers and bundles that at times it is hard to choose what to start with... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. This month with have a picture inspiration with a unique and inspiring colour combination. The challenge is to use the color combo of Mango Melody, Powder Pink, Pacific Point, Smoky Slate, Rich Razzleberry and Whisper White. You do not have to use ALL of the colors but I challenge you to try, it's always fun... Continue reading

It's the last Friday of the month and that means I am back hopping with my Fancy friends! Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. This month with are focusing our challenge on the many amazing coordinating bundles that Stampin' Up! has to offer in the current 2018-19 Catalogue. There are so many to choose from that it was hard for me... Continue reading

Last week I registered for Stampin' Up's OnStage Convention. To say I am excited to be in Orlando in November would be an understatement, I can't wait to soak in all of the amazing creativity and see some of my favourite people:) One of the hilights of Convention is checking out all of the fabulous display samples created by fellow demonstrators, showcasing new and upcoming products. This year I thought I would apply to be one of those stampers (fingers crossed). To apply I need to showcase my work with 3 cards, 2 3D items and a scrapbook page. These... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. This month we are being inspired by the Tropics! Our challenge was to create a project that has a tropical vibe to it. I completely took this challenge literally and used the amazing Tropical Escape Suite from the current annual catalogue. This challenge totally inspired me to start tackling a project that should have been... Continue reading

As i have mentioned before, I love a good challenge! Especially when it involves playing around with colour combinations. This week at the Global Design Project they are having a colour challenge, so naturally I had to play along. I started with a piece of Shimmery White and stamped the floral image using Stazon Jet Black Ink. I then proceeded to colour the whole background with Mint Macaron Ink using an Aquapainter. I love the way the shimmery White Card stock takes to watercolouring. The flowers were then colored the same way using Fresh Fig and Grapefruit Grove. To add... Continue reading

This week's challenge at the Global Design Project is to CASE the designer. I love a good challenge and when I saw that the designer was the very talented Charlet Mallett I knew I had to find the time to play along this week! CASEing (Copy And Selectively Edit) is a great way to have a starting point for a project. I love Charlet's card, the colours, clean lines and use of contrasting pattered papers. I very much copied the main base layout with layering DSP and banner. I started with a Whisper white card base and added on a... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. With the new Catalogue there was an amazing core colour refresh and the Stampin' Up! colour families were changed and some fantastic new colours were added as well as the return of some old favourites. So for our challenge this month we were to use NEW or RETURNING colour favorites from the Colour Refresh. For... Continue reading

When the new Stampin' Up! catalogue was first available to view online for demos, I not so patiently waited for it to download so I could virtually flip through every last page. There were so many amazing stamp sets and accessories that it was hard to decide what to order first, but I knew the minute I saw Dandelion Wishes it was a must have. I fell in love with the combination of whimsical images and fabulous fonts. So the minute I received my order it was the first set to see ink. This week's Global Design Project is a... Continue reading

One of the great things about paper crafting is the amazing online community of people sharing their work, whether it be through blogs, facebook, instagram etc. there are so many inspiring projects out there. This also means I see many items that I may have over looked the first several times I flipped through the new Stampin' Up! Catalogue; such as the Serene Garden Stamp set and coordinating Framelits. It became a must have after seeing so many beautiful samples online. This one in particular by the talented Jen Timko made me push the order button,lol. It is also the... Continue reading

The new Stampin Up! Catalogue is here and with it means the launch of 5 new In Colours. They are so bright and fun and nice clear crisp colours. Of course we still have the 2017-2019 In Colours as well. I wanted to create a card with all 5 colours and love how they can be used to minic a rainbow. This card was super easy create and I love how bright and cheery it turned out. I cut a piece of Thick Whisper with to 3 1/4 x 5 inches the attached 1 x 3 3/4 inch strips of... Continue reading

Thank you notes are something that I can never have too many on hand, especially this time of year. I was excited to see the theme challenge this week for Global Design Project is "Just a Note to Say..." and even more excited when I realized I could actually get a card done before the challenge deadline. Soft Suede Mint Macaron Cajun Craze Crumb Cake Whisper White There are only a few more days until the new Annual Stampin' Up! Catalogue launches on June 1st and one of my "must have" items would have to be the Nature's Poem Suite... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. We even have a few new Fancy Friends added to our hop this month, welcome to the very talented Mindy Backes and Lauren Alaird. For this month's challenge we were INSPIRED by the by the True Gentleman Suite on page 44-45 in Occasions Catalogue. The Occasions Catalogue is only current until the end of May... Continue reading

I don't know about you, but I can never have too many birthday cards on hand. I also seem to have a tendency of hoarding pretty patterned papers, so in my effort to use what I have before I dive into my new preorder goodies (as I have mentioned before, one of the biggest perks of being a demonstrator is getting new products before they are released to customers) I have made some quick, fun and easy birthday cards. The Picture perfect 6x6 Designer Series papers has photographic imagery of everything that a good party needs: balloons, hats, donuts etc.... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. This month's challenge is to choose one of the amazing projects seen on the pages of the Occasions Mini catalogue and CASE (otherwise know as Copy And Selectively Edit) it! The card I chose to draw inspiration from is on page 24 of the catalogue. One of the perks of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. This month's challenge is to use one of the fabulous Designer Series Paper from the Occasion Mini Catalog. There are so many beautiful papers to choose from, but in the end I went with the gorgeous Sweet Soiree DSP. How could one go wrong with silver foil, stunning floral prints and vibrant colours?! I ended... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. This month were were given a colour challenge to work with and I love how it challenged me to work with colours I may have not normally put together. I knew I wanted to play with Brushso again and the blue colour in the set was a perfect match to Night of navy. I sprinkled... Continue reading

"A piece of paper folded in half...", that is what a card is, right?! As soon as I saw the stamp set Birthday wit I knew I had to immediately have it. You see, believe it or not my husband doesn't really see the point of cards. GASP, I know how can anyone not see the value of a kind note of thanks or a happy birthday wish? Now don't get me wrong I know he does appreciate it when he receives one and has been know to give me a few sarcastic and funny cards over the past 20+... Continue reading

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. This week were were challenged to create cards that we actually intend, are going to mail. We are hopping aboard the #mailacardmonday movement and I hope you will join us. This was one challenge I am excited to get on board with and I couldn't think of a better theme than Friendship to start with.... Continue reading

I can't believe we are already more then half way through January! Too be honest 2018 has not had a great start for our family, but I am trying to focus on the good. Back in December I signed up for a card swap that was arranged by the lovely Alison Solven. We created a card that focused on products from the Occasions Catalogue and another card with products from the Saleabration catalogue. This is the card I made using paper and stamps from the Picture Perfect Party Suite of products. Now I am not one for mass creating, so... Continue reading