Occasions mini catalog

Spring is finally here!

After months and months of cold, rainy, yucky weather, it is finally gorgeous here in southern VA! I am so happy! I didn't think we would ever see warm weather again. I can finally sit outside in the sunshine and soak up some rays. It is supposed to be sunny and 70s the next few days! This card just screamed spring to me. My friend and downline Sandy Alexander made this one for our monthly team swap. I just loved it! Sandy was my featured demo of the month last month and she certainly continues to do amazing cards. She is one of many fabulous stampers on my glitterchicks team. I am so lucky to have such wonderful women to work with. They are the best! Love you girls!

Mojo Monday sketch 3/15

It is Monday which means it is time for my mojo Monday challenge. Every Monday, Julee posts a sketch on the Mojo Monday website and you are supposed to make a card using that layout and see what you can come up with. This week's challenge was a little harder just because I am not a circle person. I would much rather just do squares and rectangles. I used my big shot circle and scallop circle dies to help me out though.  And here is what I came up with…….

I used the Sweet Pea designer paper slab and the Bloomin Beautiful stamp set. The colors are old olive, rose red, and pretty and pink. The scallop circle was actually too big for my circle so I cut off just the scalloped part and kind of turned it around the circle to make it fit better. It worked great.

Featured demonstrator of the month -part 2

Here is part 2 of my March featured demonstrator of the month. I couldn't fit it all in one post the other day so here are some more of Pam's projects….

This first project is a Pringle's canister covered in the razzleberry lemonade paper and then decorated.

Here is a closeup of the butterfly. SHe made the antenna for the butterfly using the big shot dies- the lattice one and the leaf one.

This next card I thought was so springy. Almost everything on this one is done with the big shot too!

This one is one of those special folds you do with 2 6×6 pieces of designer paper. Pam has the directions here on her site.

This last project is an adorable little Easter basket made from the scallop square die. You just score it between every 3 humps all the way around and also score it diagonally in each corner section. Then just fold it up and punch holes where it goes in towards the center. I hope that makes sense. 

Here is a view from above so you can see the little pockets.

It’s Bloomin’ Beautiful!

I did this card as one of the make and takes at my downline meeting last night. I used the Bloomin' Beautiful stamp set from pg 98 in the Stampin Up catalog. It is one of my very favorite sets. It is hard to make a card that isn't beautiful with this stamp set. The background paper is from the Sweet Pea stack of designer papers. That is the best deal around right now. You get a whole slab of designer papers for $24.95. There are 48 double sided sheets in a pack (all 12×12 too) so it comes out to about 50 cents per sheet.  I have made a ton of cards with these papers and I still have a ton left. The thank you sentiment is from the Fresh Cuts stamp set.

Another Garden From the Heart…

This is a gorgeous card that my friend Deb Valder made for a swap I hosted. As you can tell, she is much better at watercoloring than me! LOL! This was one of my favorite cards from that swap. This was another card that I found while cleaning out some stuff. It is amazing what happens when you do that. Maybe I should try it more often! Ha ha…

Garden from the Heart

I had forgotten about this card and I just found it while cleaning out some stuff so I thought I would post it. I made this one with the Garden From the Heart set on pg 9 of the Stampin Up Occasions mini catalog. I stamped the background with the Sanded stamp in chocolate chip. I used the watercolor crayons to color in the hat. Pretty easy card if you like to color. I am not that great at watercoloring so I don't do it very often.

Featured Demonstrator of the month part 2

Last week I showcased one of my downline as a featured demonstrator of the month. I showed several of the projects she made and this week is part 2 of that post. Here are some more awesome samples created by Sandy Alexander, one of my very talented downline.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

This is a beautiful framed art project she made. I had to put a piece of cardstock behind it so you wouldn't see the mess on my stamp table.

This piece was made from our new Stampin Up chipboard albums. I love how she made this look so shabby chic.

This card uses the Abundant Hope set from the Stampin Up Occasions mini. It is such a gorgeous stamp set and Sandy did an awesome job on this card. I love the Pretties kit hat pin and pearl accent.

This card idea is so creative. I love how she wove the ribbon in and out of the scallop border.

Here is an adorable Easter bucket Sandy made using the Eggcoutrements set from the Occasions mini and the Chocolate Bunny also in the Occasions mini. I am so impressed with all of Sandy's projects. I think she did an awesome job being my first featured demo of the month. Please leave a comment and let her know what you think.

Here is a close up of the chocolate bunny (it looks so real in person) and the Easter tag with the silver hodgepodge hardware piece. What a great gift this would be for someone.

Tote-ally Tess

I hosted a swap a while back with some of my good friends and just realized that I forgot to post a bunch of them. This card was made by my friend Christie Daugherty. I just love what she did with Tess. I bought this set and still haven't gotten around to using it. I haven't been in a coloring mood lately I guess, This is such a cute set though. I love how she wrapped the striped ribbon with the polka dot ribbon too. This stamp set is available in the Stampin Up occasions mini catalog.

Mojo Monday sketch!

I needed to get my mojo going this week so I gave a try at doing the Mojo Monday sketch here. I was a little worried about the curved part but I found a great solution sitting right on my stamp table….a CD. I laid that down and traced part of the curve and it worked great. I hope you like my card.

I used the Vintage Vogue stamp set (big surprise there since it is my favorite set!)

I also used the Thoroughly Modern designer paper, our gorgeous Stampin Up polka dot ribbon, and several Stampin Up punches. The colors used are bermuda bay, soft suede and whisper white. Why don't you try the mojo sketch and see what you can come up with!

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Always

My friend Debbie did this card for our shoebox swap the other day. I just love it. It uses the Always set from the big catalog and the Sending Love designer paper. I don't know why I don't use this set more. It is one of my favorites.