Good Friend

I have to say I love the bird from Good Friend, but he is definitely a scrapbook page bird and not a card bird. It is a big image, but just the same I was able to make a card with him in it. So here's a little happy for your TGIF!

Here are the Ingredients:

Stamp Set: Good Friend, Polka Dot & Paisleys (retired)
Card Stock: Bella Rose Designer Series Paper(retired), Tangerine Tango(retired), So Saffron and Whisper White card stock
Ink: Tangerine Tango, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip Stamp Pad and Stampin' Write Marker
Accessories: Linen Thread, Clear Button
Tools: Big Shot, Sizzex Scallop Circle, Clear Circle, Scallop Edge Punch, 1 3/4" Square Punch

The Special Touches on this Card: Punching out the So Saffron card stock and placing a clear button on top. The second touch was coloring in the eye with my Stampin' Write Marker

Quick & Simple Easy Homemade Thank You Card

Here is a quick and easy thank you card I made. I just love the way this card came out. I am really going to miss the Baja Breeze!

Here are the Ingredients:

Stamp Set: Always, Enjoy Every Moment
Card Stock: Parisian Breeze Speciality Designer Series Paper, Baja Breeze and Whisper White Card Stock
Ink: Baja Breeze
Accessories: Baja Breeze Buttons
Tools: Crafter's Tool Kit, Big Shot, Stampin' Up! Backgrounds I Texturz Plates

The Special Touches on this Card: Paper Piercing with the Mat Pack, Threaded the buttons with dental floss. Who knew that you can use dental floss as thread. I don't remember where I read it, but I love the eay it looks. Also the texturzied background on the Baja Breeze card stock was the last touch.

Christmas in July

This week's Inkredible Impressions Color Challenge we are going to be celebrating a little Christmas in July. It's never too early to start thinking about making your holiday projects. Perfect time to pack up all the stamping supplies you need to make your holiday cards as you head down the shore. This week's colors are: Ruby Red, Kraft, Mellow Moss and Very Vanilla. Here is my scrapbook page using this week's colors with my niece on Santa's lap. I can't believe this was a year and half ago! Time flies.

Here are the Ingredients:

Stamp Set: Season of Joy
Ink: Ruby Red
Card Stock: Manchester and Holiday Treasures Designer Series Paper (Retired), Ruby Red, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla Card Stock
Accessories: On Board Timeless Type, Mellow Moss Buttons (Retired), Twill Tape, Hodgepodge Hardware (Retired), Stampin' Dimensionals.
Tools: Scallop Edge Border Punch, Sponge Dauber

The Special Touches on this Page: Adding the color to the chipboard with my ink and my sponge daubers, adhering the hodgepodge hardware with mini glue dots, cutting out the poinsettas and attaching them to the page with dimensionals.

Mojo Monday #94 Second Card

I decided to try my hand and make a second card for the Mojo Monday challenge this time using the pattern almost to a T.

Ingredients for the Card:

Stamp Set: Full of Life, Great Friend
Ink: Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry
Card Stock: Razzleberry Lemonade Designers Series Paper, Whisper White and Rich Razzleberry
Accessories: White Taffeta Ribbon, Half back pearls from the Pretties Kit, Dimensionals
Tools: Scallop Border Punch, Crafter's Tool Kit

The Special Touches on this Card: Paper Piercing with the Mat Pack and the Scallop Border Made with the Scallop Border Punch.

Mojo Monday #94

Here is my 1st card I made for Mojo Monday. I decided to something a little of the box with this card. The sketch is there just not in straight shapes.

Here are the Ingredients:

Stamp Set: Think Happy Thoughts
Ink: Kiwi Kiss
Card Stock: Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss, Bella Rose Designer Series Paper, Pink Pirouette Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Silver Brads, Stampin' Dimensionals, Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon
Tools: Big Shot, Flower Layers Sizzex, Stampin' Up! Little Leave Sizzlit, Stampin' Up! Backgrounds I Texturz Plates 1", 1 1/4" and 1 3/4" Circle Punches

The Special Touches on this Card: The texturized background and the flowers being popped up with Dimensionals.

Happy Fourth of July

I have to say I am missing being down the shore this Fourth of July. Every year I spend it with my best friend and her family down in LBI. Here is a picture from last year where all the boys are wearing their red, white and blue flag shirts. The background is night of navy and kraft craft card stock paired up with Riding Hood Red Patterns Designer Series Paper. The title was stamped in the Taffy alphabet. The large night of navy chipboard star was die cut with an old Sizzex die. The medium star was first stamped made by stamping the image from the Outlaw stamp set and then punched with our large star punch. The little star I punched and put a vintage brad through the center. Both the medium and little stars were attached with dimensionals. Next came the twill tape that attached to the page and then attached three pewter eyelets with my crop-a-dile. Some finishing touches were the urban west rubons, one on the top of the page, the 2nd one in a hodgepodge hardware frame. Then I stamped three accents on the bottom of the craft with the Outlaw stamp set. The very last things was the photo frame that I paper pierced and the journaling done with my white gel pen. Happy 4th!

Quick & Easy Thank You Gifts

Here are a few quick and easy thank you gifts I made for my customers. One is a really simple thank you card made with the Kind & Caring Thoughts stamp set and my Stampin' Write Markers. The next is bookmarkers made with the same stamp set featuring all of the new In Colors. The greeting comes from the Inspired by Nature set. The bottom has an eyelet border and the finishing touch was the polka dot grosgrain ribbon in the Soft Suede.

Inkredible Color Challenge for the Week

Here is this week's color challenge: Cameo Coral, Ruby Red and Sahara Sand. These colors just screamed a beach scene for me. So here I pulled out a summer beach picture to crop. The background is the Cameo Coral texture paper. I cut the circle out with my Circle Cutter System. The chipboard On Board Timeless Type. I added some rhinestone brads around the center of the circle for a little bling. I then started with the flower which was a retired piece of chipboard I had followed by a Big Shot die cut of the Flower Layers with Leaf and then I punched out a 1 inch circle of the Walk in the Park designer series paper. The last touch for the flower was the clear button with a linen thread bow. The strips of paper come from the Walk in the Park and the To the Nines Speciality designer series paper. One strip of paper, I stamped the Kind & Caring Thoughts stamp in Ruby Red on a piece of Sahara Sand. The sides have a scallop border and a strip of Ruby Red. The last touch was Urban West rubon framed inside a Styled Silver hodgepodge.

The new 2009-2010 Catalogs have arrived!

The new 2009-2010 Catalogs have arrived!

The Idea Book & Catalog has 208 pages filled with products to purchase, new ideas to try and even crafting tips!

Click here to check out the new products online & start shopping now!

Click here to check out the new latest and greatest catalogs and download the pdfs to your desktop.

There are three new catalogs for you to browse:

- The 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog

- The Spanish catalog, Celebrando Creativdad

- And our Definitely Decorative catalog filled with home décor vinyl products.

Here is just a summary of some of the wonderful new products: ­

6 new In Colors: Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Bermuda Breeze, Soft Suede, Dusty Durango and Crushed Curry. In addition to stamp pads and card stock, the In Colors can be purchased in a set of Stampin' Write Markers and Polka Dot grosgrain ribbon. Loving having the markers and the polka dot ribbon is two sided, just turn it over and you have the same beautiful ribbon without the polka dots!

3 new punches: Butterfly, Snowflake and Modern Label. Check out the project of the month to check out the new modern label punch.

­18 new designer series paper

6 new Simply Scrappin' Kits ­

23 new Sizzex dies, new alphabets, scallop square, heart & brackets, two tags

New Pirate and Princess parties kits

New personalized stamps

More sets for pre-teen boys & girls, children!!

And lots, lots more!!!

Click here to check out new projects made with 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog products!

Every Week a New Weekly Special from Stampin' Up!

Every week during the month of July, Stampin' Up! will offer one discounted product as a "Deal of the Week." No limits and no minimum purchase required.

Customer Weekly Deal Announcements will appear on the following days on my Stampin’ Up! website, so click here to see this week's special:

Deal #1: Wednesday, July 1, 2009; 2:00 PM EST
Deal #2: Monday, July 6, 2009; NOON EST
Deal #3: Monday, July 13, 2009; NOON EST
Deal #4: Monday, July 20, 2009; NOON EST
Deal #5: Monday, July 27, 2009; NOON EST

The deadline for each new deal is 10 minutes before the next deal is announced, except for the last deal, which ends at the end of the business day July 31.

New Catalog Open House

This year's new catalog open house will be held on two dates:

Sunday, July 12th 1 p.m.

Monday, July 13th 7 p.m.

Free Make & Takes! 3 Beautiful Cards!

Over a 100 retiring stamp sets for sale 20 -50%!!!

Purchase 75$ worth of retiring and/or new products and go home with the new Idea Book & Catalog for free!

Please RSVP as soon as possible for all events so that the card stock is ready for everyone to start stamping when the event begins.

Featuring stamp sets (in order as they appear on this entry): Kind & Caring Thoughts, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Circus Circle, Only Ovals

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Become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator with the limited-time $85 Mini Starter Kit. The Mini Starter Kit contains the following products as well as the same business supplies as those who order the standard Starter Kit. Offer expires August 31st, so don't miss an opportunity to earn a little extra cash, email me today so we can get you started on your own business opportunity!

Here is the contents of the Mini Starter Kit!

Item Code Description
Retail Value:
115360 For All You Do stamp set
Retail Value: $28.95
115658 Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad
Retail Value: $5.95
115656 Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad
Retail Value: $5.95
115659 Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad
Retail Value: $5.95
115654 Dusty Durango Classic Stampin' Pad
Retail Value: $5.95
115655 Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad
Retail Value: $5.95
115657 Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad
Retail Value: $5.95
100730 Whisper White card stock (8-1/2" x 11")
Retail Value: $7.50
115315 In Color assorted card stock (8-1/2" x 11")
Retail Value: $7.95