The day has finally arrived, when Stampin'Up has added 3 additional products to their Sale-a-Bration catalog. This means you have 3 more products you can earn with every $50 purchase! Here are some pictures of the new items:
1. Reverse Words: Neat look and water color too!
2. Make Medallion - This is a two step stamp that can stamped inside one another. Not only that, but it also cooridnates wit the Layering Circles Framelits Dies! You can cut these images out for a beautiful and easy layered look:
3. I saved the best for last: 6x6 Glimmer Assortment Pack! The colors are Bermuda Ba, Mint Macaron, and Sweet Sugarplum These colors coordinate with the Cupcakes & Carousels (OC p. 8-9), Falling in Love (OC p. 50-2 and Succulent Garden (OC p. 20-21) suites. Oh so pretty!
Now here is a Stampin'Up video to inspire you even more!
Remember - for every $50 you order from either the annual catalog or the Occasions catalog, you get one free selection from the Sale-a-Bration catalog, plus the new three items.
Today I wanted to share with you the Valentine cards that I made my little kiddos - Maelyn, Sage, Kale and Cody. I just love the stamp set, Yummy in My Tummy (pg 16 in the Occasions Catalog) - a wonderful stamp set to make birthday cards for the 2-8 year old set. (Cody is 13, but he still appreciates a slimy monster or two.) So why not a Valentine card? That horned monster, with the big circle on his tummy is just asking to be made into a shaker card!
Here is what I made:
Green Monster: I slimed the green monster two ways; one card I used the fine tip glue pen and smeared that all over him. Once he dried he was a 3-d slime fest. It took several hours for the glue to dry. So next, I used a sponge dauber and versa mark and inked up the slime monster with that. I also used my blender pen, dipped in a puddle of versa mark ink to get the small area. Then I used clear embossing powder, and blasted it with the heat gun; instant shiny slime monster!
Horned Monster: I stamped the horned monster in archival black ink on a sheet of the 6x6 paper stack, Sending Love (pg. 15), fussy cut him out and punched out his tummy with a 1-1/2" circle punch. I then punched out some glittery red hearts using the red glimmer paper and the confetti hearts punch. To fill the shaker part, I used glittery hearts and the Sprinkle Embellishments (pg. 32). These have little pearls in it and it makes the monster rattle ever so nicely.
Here is what the inside of the cards looked like:
Here are the Measurements:
Whisper white CS - 5-1/2 x 7-1/2, scored at 4-1/4
Real Red - 3 x 5-1/4 for front of card (embossed with Happy Heart Embossing folder)
2 x 5-1/2 for cutting out hearts using the Love Notes Framelits
DSP - 1-1/2 x 5-1/2 and 3/4 x 5-1/2 for inside of the card
Window sheet - 2 x 2
Stamp Sets: Sealed with Love and Yummy in My Tummy
Ink: Real Red
These were fun and easy to do! My grandchildren just loved them!
I want to share with you a card that we made in my January Class which featured 3 different ways to watercolor. This card was inspired by Kim Jolley at Stampin'Artfully. She had a tutorial that showed how to "watercolor" with baby wipes! She laid down a background by dipping crunched up baby-wipes on the ink pad, then dabbing,squishing the baby wipe on the card stock. She also used a clean baby wipe to soften her stamped images. Here is my interpretation of her tutorial:
People have told me that it reminds them of winter in Central Park New York City. It does look like a cityscape! The trees are embossed - I used archival black ink and immediately put clear embossing powder on it and then heat set the embossing powder.
Kim recommended water color paper. I tried that, but I had a hard time inking the trees on the water color paper. So I used shimmer paper - this works well for water coloring because it has a coating on it that doesn't absorb the water as quickly as regular card stock would. Plus, it gives the card a nice sheen and shimmer.
Stamp Sets: Lovely as a Tree, Touches of Texture, Timeless Texture
My students found this a fun and easy way to get a water color effect. It doesn't look like much until you get the trees on it - and then it all comes together. Everyone's looked different but beautiful!
Visit Kim's website for more inspiration on this technique and her tutorial; http://stampinartfully.blogspot.com/
Thanks for stopping by today. May you have a blessed day!
Just wanted to remind you that the deadline for signing up for our Calendar of Cards Event is Tuesday, February 14th. The date is Saturday, March 4th, at the Northwest United Methodist Chruch on War Memorial. Cost is $40 for 12 cards and lunch. We will begin stamping at 9:00 am and finish at 4:00 pm. Stamp at your own pace. You will get a nice variety of cards, plus a delicious lunch with home made treats, and the chance to relax and stamp with your fellow enthusiasts. What a better way to spend a cold winter day!
The registration sheet is in the right column. Just click on it, print it off and send it to me, with your check for $40. Call me or email me so that I know it's coming!
Seems like one of the most needed cards, at least lately, has been birthday! So I've decided that the theme for my March 2017 class will be birthday. Stampin'Up! Occasions catalog has some wonderful and creative birthday card stamps and thinlits. Here is just a sample:
Cake Crazy - Pg 7 Occasions Catalog
Party Animal Suite (pg 4 & 5 in the Occasions Catalog)
And lastly, my favorite, Cool Treats Suite, pg 32 and 33 in the Occasions Catalog:
And to give you more information and inspiration, here is a video from Shannon from the Stampin'Up home office:
I hope you enjoyed today's post. The dates for my March class are March 12, 14 and 17. We will be making lots of cute and beautiful birthday cards! Thanks for stopping by today!
Check out this cute stamp set that you can get absolutely free during Sale-a-Bration...... It coordinates with the Custom Tee Bundle, found on page 30 in the Occasions Catalog. If you buy the stamp set and the coordinating T-Shirt Builder Framelits Dies, you are just a couple of packages of dimensionals away from earning the Designer Tee set.
Todays spotlight is on the Designer T stamp set which is free through Sale-a-Bration; where you get to select free product from the Sale-A-Bration Catalaog for every $50 you spend! This is for a limited time only! Sale-a-Bration ends March 31st, so if you want this stamp set, contact me and I can show you some wonderful product and get you this free stamp set! Here's a video created by Stampin'Up!:
Sale-a-Bration Second Release - Coming Feb. 21st!!
And, to add a little bit of fun, Stampin'Up! is releasing 3 new items in the Sale-a-Bration catalog on February 21st. There will be 2 new stamp sets and packet of 6x6 glimmer paper! The stamp sets are amazing - a layered medalian and a reverse water color stamp - beautiful!
I'll be posting the Second Release Pamphlet on February 21st, so stay tuned!
Good morning stampers! Today I'm going to tell you about a really wonderful stamp set and how to make 12 beautiful cards that you can store in a decorated tin. Give as a gift or keep for yourself!
The video shows you how to make these adorable cards. If you would like to get together and do this as a class, let me know! The paper and the tin are free Sale-a-Bration items. For every $50 you spend, you get one Sale-A-Bration Item. Ordering the Lift Me UP Bundle (Lift Me Up Stamp set and the Up& Away thinlits), would be $45.75. Add a few bits and bobs like dimensionals and mini-glue dots and you have your carried away paper! Class is free if you order $50 or more from me. Contact me for a date! Here's the video!
Hope you enjoyed today's little video. Remember - contact me if interested in getting together to make this.
The February 2017 card class for My Stamping Classroom is in session and I'm so excited to share this with you. Once a year I like to do a class that features the note cards that Stampin' Up! sells, (item# 131527). I love these cards for many reasons:
Best Value in the catalog! 20 3-1/2 x 5 cards and envelopes for only $6!
They require no additional postage when mailed
Quick and easy way to build up a stash of cards
Makes a beautiful, useful and thoughtful gift
Here is a picture of what we will be making - all 20 cards plus a beautiful gift box (8 note cards and envelopes fit very nicely in this box).
In addition, these cards are made as a One-Sheet-Wonder - in other words, one sheet of 12 x 12 Designer Series paper makes all 20 cards! The stamp set is Fresh Fruit (item# 141770) and the Designer Series Paper is Fruit Stand DSP (item #141660). You can get 8 sets of DSP for the notecards out of one package of Fruit Stand DSP. (that would be 160 notecards!)
I've had my eye on this stamp set and designer series paper ever since it came out in the new 2016-2017 catalog. I LOVE it! The colors are so summer and right now as I'm in the middle of winter, I could use some color right now! The layout for cutting the 12 x 12 paper came from Brenda Quintana, a very talented Stampin'Up! Demonstrator in Canada. Check out her blog here: http://qbeesquest.blogspot.com/. She did a similar set of 20 note cards a couple of years ago. I took her idea and transformed it into the Fresh Fruit stamp set. The only difference is that I mixed up 4 sheets of DSP to make this.
We will be making 5 cards of 4 different Fruits (5 of the Pear, 5 of the Peach, 5 of the Flower, 5 of the Strawberry), with their coordinating Fruit Stand DSP Paper.
In addition, we will be making a cute box to carry some of the cards in;
This looks complicated, but believe me, it's quite easy. You just have to do it in an assembly line order. I couldn't believe how quick these cards came together! And I'm rather digging how they look.
Times for the class are: Sunday, February 12th - 1:30 to 4:30
Tuesday, February 14th - 10 am to 2 pm
Friday, February 17th, - 10 am to 2 pm
Cost of the class is $15, which includes the cost of the note cards. It's a bargain! Plus you get to meet other stamping people (and you know we are a special breed), and have a fun day making cards. Great get away for a dreary winter day! Please contact me here to make your reservation. Hope to see you soon!
Here's a little video highlighting the cards we will be making in class...
If you love making cards, or if you have never made a card, but thought it might be fun to try, our Calendar of Cards event is for you. It will be on Saturday, March 4th at the United Methodist Church on War Memorial Drive from 9 am until 4 pm - lunch is included. There will be door prizes, lunch and drinks and you will be going home with 12 beautiful, seasonal cards with envelopes. What a fun way to spend a dreary winter day, then to be with friends and making cards!
The deadline for signing up is February 14th - So mail in your registration today!
Here is a short video of the cards you might be making for the month that I am designing a card for: February. It will be one of these 4 cards - you will have to come to the event to see which one I've selected for you to make!
The registration sheet for the Calendar of Cards event is in the right hand column. Just click on the image and you can print off the sheet. Return the completed sheet to me with your check to hold a place for you. I can't wait to see you there!
I'm very excited about Stampin'Up's new 2017 Occasions catalog and all the beautiful birthday stamp sets that they are offering. One in particular is on page 7 and is called Cake Crazy.
At first I wasn't so sure about it, until I saw some cards made with it. Here are two from my fellow demonstrators. Really beautiful cards !The first was made by Karen F.
and the second by Josie:
A really versatile and fun set. Who wouldn't love getting one of these cards?
If you want to order this product, please click on the image below to go to my on-line store. Or you can call me. I'd be happy to order it for you.
Who doesn't always need birthday card? Seems like a month doesn't go by that I should send a birthday card, and what better way of saying Happy Birthday then with a hand made card?
Stampin' Up has made it easy for us too! In the 2017 Occasions Catalog, there are many choices! For example on page 5 , you will see the Party Animal Birthday Suite. Here are all the coordinating colors, stamps and accessories that you need to make beautiful, unique cards! The coordinating Balloon Pop-Up Thinlits feature a pop-up die. Here are some samples:
And here is a short video showing you how to make these pop-up cards:
Hope you enjoyed this little video. Tomorrow, more birthday card ideas!
