Flowers

Featured Demonstrator of the month for March- part 1

This month's featured demonstrator is another one of my fabulous downline, Pam Browne. Pam has been a demonstrator for about a year and a half but was a natural right from the beginning. She is already one of my top downline and is so motivated to be successful. Here are some of her awesome creations.

I love the spring colors of this card. She used this week's mojo Monday sketch to create this one.

This is a frame Pam picked up at the Dollar store and then created a cute picture to go inside. I love framed art. You can take a card idea and stick it in a frame and voila, you have a nice gift. She used my favorite set, Vintage Vogue and also the Fresh Cuts set for this one.

Here is a sweet Easter card that I just love! The tiny details really add a lot to this one.

This card uses the Of the Earth hostess set to create an oriental flair. I love the red and black together.

I love this last card too. What a great idea. Pam stamped the flowers from the Inspired by Nature set and then using her paper cutter, cut apart the pieces and then kind of put of them back together like a puzzle on the card. She sponged around the edges to create more texture and to make it pop out more. These are just some of Pam's awesome creations. I will post more tomorrow. Pam also has her own blog if you would like to see more of her work. You can check it out here.

Shoebox swap sample

Every other Wednesday I have a group of  8 demo friends that come over to my house and we do a shoebox swap. I started this group about 8 years ago and it has changed slightly over the years but we always have a great time no matter who is there. My only rule is you have to have fun. It is a great way to share ideas with each other and to socialize. We are all great friends now. After a couple power hours of stamping, we all go to lunch and socialize some more. I really look forward to these get togethers and I would encourage demos in any area to try something like this.

 So, here is a card that my good friend Sam Woodruff made at one of our recent get togethers. She is such a sweetheart and I am so glad I got to know her better this past year. She is the one who taught me how to make my quilt purses! She created this card using one of our Stampin Up stencils and we sponged the colors over it using the sponge daubers. Really cool technique.

Another spring card….wishful thinking…

Maybe if I post enough spring cards, spring will hurry up and get here quicker. I am so over winter! I want to be in some tropical paradise sipping pina coladas and soaking up some sun. I can dream can't I? This card was created by another talented girl in my downline. This was Melissa Carr's swap card at our meeting this month. Her card was so cute and had a pocket on the front made out of the top note die to hold a book mark.

Melissa used the Cottage Wall designer paper and the butterfly embosslit to create this adorable card.

Is it Spring Yet?

Today is the warmest day so far this year in Chesapeake. I think it actually hit 55! WOOHOO! It is the first weekend in a long time that there hasn't been a chance of snow so maybe this is a hint that spring is coming. I am so ready for some warm weather. Today's card was made by another one of my fabulous downline (Liz Velazquez). I love how she made the flower from a couple strips of cardstock and the stem is made out of ribbon. This was her swap card at our meeting this month. I sure do have some talented girls in my downline. Great job Liz!

Sweet Treats are so cute!

I just love these heart shaped sweet treat cups and the Sweetheart stamp set that goes with them. You won't find them in any catalog though. They are only available for a limited time. Click here for the flyer. I copied this idea from my friend Deb Valder. She did a demo at our Stampin Up Leadership conference and I just flipped over her card. I couldn't wait to show my customers. I hope you like it too!

Here are a couple more examples using this set.

Sweet Pea Stitched Flowers…oh so soft

My good friend Mary Anne Grimmer made this card for a swap I hosted.  I just love these sweet little flowers. You can find them in our New Occasions mini on pg 32. She also braided the new satin ribbon from pg 27. The background paper is the new Shades of Spring on pg 25 and the pink is done with our new Polka Dot embossing folder found on pg 35. All of these items are in the new Occasions mini! If you did not get one in the mail from me, please stop by and pick one up. I have plenty available and I would love to see you. I hope you are having a great day!

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Charming vase card

A couple of months ago my friend Debbie brought this card to our shoebox swap. I just loved the idea of using the ornament punch for a vase, so I took her card and changed it up to my favorite colors and one of my favorite sets (Charming) and made the pink and brown version (below). I did this in all of my clubs back in December when you could still order this punch. Luckily most of my customers ordered this punch so they can still use it. I really hope this punch makes it into the next catalog though.  It has so many uses other than just an ornament. I forgot to post this back when I was doing it so here it is a little late.

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Another take on the faux lace

I was having one of my stamp clubs on Saturday and a few of the girls were commenting that the faux lace technique was really a little too hard for them so one of the girls cut her strip in half and did a double layer with the crimped piece and it looked great so this method is much easier but still gives a beautiful look.  So, we can credit one of my customers (Brenda S) for coming up with this easier version. I showed it to several of my other classes and about half of the girls chose the double layered look. All you have to do is take an 11 x 1 1/2 inch piece of cardstock, punch a border along one edge, run it through the crimper several times and cut it in half. Then add sticky strip to the back and tape it down kind of loosely. Then add the other half to the top of that.

Here is a close up of just the lace part. I did end up with about an inch left over on each piece so you could make it a little bit fuller if you want to.

This was the original card that we were making with the faux lace on it.

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Is it Spring yet?

On this cold, snowy day in Virginia, I thought I needed to post a touch of spring. I love the yellow and black together on this Vintage Vogue card. This is another card my upline Faith made for me. This is definitely my favorite set from the new Occasions mini which is coming out in just 2 weeks. I can hardly wait! I know you all will LOVE it as much as I do!!

Garden from the Heart

This is a card my upline Faith made for me. We were messing around trying to come up with some ideas and I thought this one came out really pretty. The outer oval scallop is the Bella Bleu paper. It is colored with the watercolor crayons and the blender pen. I love this new stamp set Garden from the Heart. It will be available to order from the Occasions mini on Jan 5th.

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