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From July 27 to August 31, Stampin' Up! hostesses can earn an EXTRA $25 to use toward Stampin' Up! products of their choice when they host a workshop totaling $350 or more!

This extra benefit is included along with the standard hostess benefits they receive when they host a workshop. The standard hostess benefits include

•A free 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog worth $9.95!

•Free stamp sets only available to hostesses (with qualifying orders; select from the products on pages 10-16 of the Idea Book & Catalog)!

 This extra hostess benefit is only being offered for a limited time, so contact me TODAY to schedule a workshop!

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My blog at 6 months old!!

Happy June 2nd. It's been six months since I started my Stampin' Up! blog. I think things are going well. It's hard to believe that it's almost time for a new catalog. I have so many things to look forward to with the new catalog. The new color renovation, all the fun new stamps, and accessories. I think the new catalog is like Christmas!! There are soooo many, possibilities I can hardly contain my excitement!! Thank you for coming along with me on this blog journey, it is quite rewarding and I hope I have sparked your creativity in some way.

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Birthday Gift Bag Inspiration

I got this gift bag for my birthday back on the first of May. I thought it was sooo cute! I decided that the bag had Stampin' Up! colors and I would design a card inspired from the colors and polka dots!! I think it turned out great. The card is a fun fold called an easel card. It sits up on its own, as you can see from all the pictures. It's a really fun card to make and is a nice change from the regular card folds.

Paper: Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, and Certainly Celery.

Ink: Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, and Pretty in Pink

Stamps: Wow Flowers

Accessories: 1 1/4", 1 3/8", 1/2" circle punches and 3/16th corner rounder punch.

This is the open view.










This is the sideview.













Closed view.

Summer Mini

 The new Summer Mini Catalog is here!! May 1, 2010-August 31, 2010. Great new stamps, punches, designer series paper, decor elements ect. New products include Builder Wheels, Bitty Button, Itty Bitty shapes Punch pack, and Party Favor Boxes.

Stampin' Up! Carryover from Occasions Mini 2010

Carryover Items from Occasions Mini 2010

116519  Charming STMP$19.95
117690  Vintage Vogue WM $23.95
118598  Vintage Vogue CM$17.95
118091  Tiny Tags WM$22.95
118592  Tiny Tags CM$16.95
117535  DÉCOR ELEMENTS F IS FOR FOX CHOCOLATE$4.95
117536  DÉCOR ELEMENTS G IS FOR GIRAFFE CHOCOLATE$4.95
117529  DÉCOR ELEMENTS  "IS FOR" BLACK$4.95
117541  DÉCOR ELEMENTS L IS FOR LION CHOCOLATE$4.95
117542  DÉCOR ELEMENTS M IS FOR MONKEY CHOCOLATE$4.95
117544  DÉCOR ELEMENTS O IS FOR OWL CHOCOLATE$4.95
117528  DÉCOR ELEMENTS SCALLOP FRAME BLACK$6.95
117549  DÉCOR ELEMENTS T IS FOR TURTLE CHOCOLATE$4.95
117552  DÉCOR ELEMENTS W IS FOR WHALE CHOCOLATE$4.95
118139  DS FOLK FLOWERS -SHELLI SIGNATURE COLLECTION$12.95
117597  DS PAISLEY PATTERNS 2-STEP$14.95
118072  PNCH CRNR PINKING HEARTS$9.95
118870  PNCH CRNR SCALLOP TRIM$9.95
117191  PNCH LG 2 STEP BIRD$15.95
118073  PNCH LG FANCY FLOWER$15.95
117649  PNCH MD BRDR PINKING HEARTS$15.95
117190  PNCH MD JEWELRY TAG$10.95
117193  PNCH SM SMALL HEART$5.95
117310  SZX BIGZ L MINI MILK CARTON$32.95
118138  SZX EMBSLTS BEAUTIFUL WINGS$11.95
117332  SZX EMBSLTS SCALLOPED HEART OF HEARTS$11.95
117335  SZX TI PERFECT POLKA DOTS$7.95
116772  RECIPES BY DESIGN$24.95
120435  HEART TREAT CUPS

Medallion

Another image on image card. Aren't they just the best??

Stamps: Medallion, Baroque Motifs, and Messages for Mom
Ink: Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango
Card stock: Very Vanilla, and Dusty Durango
Accessories: Fire Brads, Scallop oval and oval punches

Easy Technique

Oh, what fun!! I was looking at SU's Demonstrator site and found a wonderful card that was done with the a fun easy technique. This is the simple technique. Ink your large image (Medallion) with a lighter color ink, then ink another image (Fresh Cuts) in a darker color. Stamp the darker image on the lighter stamp(rubber to rubber) and then stamp onto your paper. Easy and beautiful results.

Stamps: Medallion Background, Fresh Cuts, and Heard from the Heart
Ink: Crushed Curry, and Bermuda Bay
Card Stock: Very Vanilla, and Bermuda Bay
Accessories: Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon

This is a super easy and super cute 3x3 card that I made for an up coming Artist
Fair. I will be blogging others coming soon.....


I used our Extra Large Fancy Flower punch on Rich Razzelberry Card stock.
The card stock was run thru the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder.
Notice below the flower is 2 score lines. Those are there to add some visual interest to the
plain Whisper White card stock.
The center of the flower and the greeting are from the Wow Flowers stamp set using Rich Razzelberry ink,
and a 5/8 brad in the middle for dimension.

Keep it simple

I really like this card! Simple but lots of style. I used Bermuda Bay Textured card stock but what you can't see is I sanded it to make it suede like. It is very soft to touch. I added a some texture to the Soft Suede card stock with the color spritzer using the Soft Suede marker. I have a whole kit of the Hodgepodge hardware and thought this is a good time to use it. The swirl around the Happy Birthday is from the Vintage Label stamp set. It is an oval stamp but I realized that it would fit nicely in the Designer Label punch. Oh, and the Happy Birthday stamp is also from the Vintage Label stamp set and made to fit perfectly in the middle. I just love how Stampin' Up! makes it sooo easy to make things look great!!

Pink, Pink and more Pink!!

I made more pink cards for my last stamp camp, than I have ever in my 8 yrs of stamping!! Okay, that may not be true but it sure seems like it. This was a card sketch from somewhere but I don't recall where. I like the way it turned out even though it is pink. The black really makes everything pop, don't you think??
Paper: Regal Rose CS, Basic Black CS and Whisper White CS
Ink: Regal Rose, Basic Black
Accessories: Paper Piercer, Scallop edge punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, and Heart to Heart punch.

The Scallop Trim Border Punch is from the Sale-a-Bration catalog. I got it for free for ordering over $50 in Stampin' Up merchandise!! If you click on the catalog (to the right) it takes you to my Stampin' Up! website, and if you order $50 you can get free items too!!

Masculine Card

This card was from my Stamp Camp last Saturday. I didn't get a chance to take a picture prior to the class. I did a lot of pink cards so I had to balance with a masculine birthday card!!
Paper: Basic Gray Cardstock, Basic Black CS, and Whisper White CS
Ink: Going Gray, Basic Gray, and Basic Black
Stamps: Circle Circus, and Happy Everything
Accessories: Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

Animal Cracker Box

Another Stamp Camp Project!! Don't you wish you would have come....

I saw a video on how to make this box, and thought it was cute and functional!! Function is important to me. If it's so tiny you can't put much in it, it doesn't function!! The fun part is the really pretty paper with sparkle!! Funny thing is I bought this paper and didn't read the description well. I was very surprised when I opened the paper and it had sparkle!! This paper is from the Occasions Mini Catalog that came out January 5th. It continues until April 30th. There will be more examples of cards made from stamps that are in this catalog!! Also the Extra Large Fancy Flower punch is from the mini catalog too!!

Paper: Very Vanilla CS, Sending Love Specialty DSP

Ink: Real Red

Stamps: Vintage Labels (Sale-A-Bration)

Accessories: Crop-A-Dile, and 5/16th very Vanilla Brad and Jumbo Eyelet (pewter)

Stampin' Does Happen!

Some days it just feels like it all comes together!! I saw this sketch in the Stampin' Up! Demonstrator magazine (Stampin' Success), and knew I had to give it a try.

I'm enjoying my new stamps from the new Occasions mini catalog!!

Stamps: With All My Heart-118134(W) 118623(C)

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Bermuda Bay(marker), Real Red(marker)

Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink and Bermuda Bay

Accessories: Crop-A-Dile, 5/16 brads, Whisper White Ribbon, Big Shot Texturz plates and the new Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions folder for the Big Shot.

Mojo Monday!!

This is a simple card (Mojo Monday 121)that took very little time to put together. I got the sketch from the MojoMonday Blog!!http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/
Usually I need mojo on more than Mondays!! I have been finding that sketches are allowing my creative "mojo" to come out.


This set is from the new  Occasions Mini catalog that started January 5th and ends April 30th 2010.


Stamp set: Vintage Vogue 117690 (wood mount) or 118598 (clear mount)
Ink: Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive
Paper: Very vanilla, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive(CS) and Old Olive DSP
Accessories: Very Vanilla ribbon, 1 3/8 and 1/ 1/4 circle punches, Scallop Circle punch, Corner rounder and Sponges.

Paper Pals Sketch Challenge PPA24

Another great sketch from the Paper Pals Arts Blog! I wanted to use the SAB Welcome Neighbor DSP Paper pad. I used Melon Mambo and Bermuda Bay paper along with the Love Much stamp set. I did some paper piecing on those cute little birds!! Hope you like it!!

Happy New Year Plus One

I hope all of you had a safe and happy start to the New Year! I made this card a few weeks ago, to do the Pals Paper Arts Challenge!http://www.palspaperarts.com/ They have great challenges to get your creative mind working!! The challenge was to make a card with Old Olive, Crushed Curry, and Soft Suede. I used Pocket Silhouettes stamp set, my Big Shot Little Leaves Sizzlit die, Scallop Edge Punch, and Crop-A-Dile to punch and set the eyelet. I hope you enjoy!

Happy Stampin'

Tina