Seasonal

Fifth Avenue Floral

Here is a great card created by my so very talented upline, Melissa Ellis. The Fifth Avenue Floral sets is one of my favorites. I really wanted to do a class with just this set and the Urban Oasis paper but I ran out of time. I think I will have to plan one for next month with some of our new papers.

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Quilt card

I am doing a quilt card class this week and this is one of the cards we are making.

I used the Bella Rose designer paper for the quilt piece and then stamped the rose from A Rose is a Rose set and cut that out. Then I added the organza ribbon and the jumbo grommet.

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Flower pot card

I had my shoebox swap the other day with my demo friends and this project was designed by my friend Lorrie. I am so glad she brought this one because I had been wanting to make one of these flower pot cards for a couple weeks now and just hadn’t gotten around to it. These daisies totally make it look adorable. I love the daisies #2 die for the Big Shot.  It adds pizzazz to almost any project.

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DCBD design challenge #119

Hey everyone! It is Wednesday so that means it is time for another Diva’s coffee break design challenge. This is our sketch this week and also we were supposed to use a Sale-abration set along with the design. Here is what I came up with….

I used the Botanical Blooms sale-abration set along with the Delicate dots paper. Both of these items are available for free with every $50 purchase. Just click on my shop now button to get yours before they are gone.  Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. And, don’t forget to check out the other divas at

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Polished stone technique

Here is another card from my shoebox swap the other day. This one was done by my friend Colleen. I hadn’t done the polished stone technique in quite a while so it was fun to try it again. For those of you who don’t know what that is, you need a piece of glossy white cardstock, cottonballs, alcohol and ink refills. You take the cotton ball and get it wet on one side with the alcohol and then drop about 2-3 drops of each refill color onto it. For this one, we used baja breeze, pacific point and the silver. Then just dab it all over the glossy cardstock…do not rub it on…just dab it. The ink will start to run and spread and it looks really cool (like marble). If you are using any of the metallic inks like gold or silver, just spray a little hairspray or acrylic sealer on it when you finish to set the ink.  There is also a step by step tutorial on splitcoast here but I did mine slightly different. I actually put the metallic ink on the cottonball instead of on the paper.

New Blog Candy contest

Hey everyone,

It is time for another blog candy contest! THis time I am giving away a pack of our On Board chipboard accents  and the stamp set Something New to Love (perfect for Valentine’s Day). All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on my blog this week.

Here is an adorable gift that my friend Gina Dygert made for my friend Lorrie’s birthday. We had a get together to stamp and eat lunch here the other day and Lorrie got some cute gifts. This was one of my favorites. Gina made this with the petal card die and cut 2 opposite sides off to make the flip flops. How cute is that?? That petal card die is good for so many cool projects. It makes the perfect heart too by folding 2 adjacent sides down. She also used the set Crab and Company with the matching wheel.

Winner of the Blog Candy Recipe Book and another cute card.

 The winner of my blog candy recipe book is Patti Barish! Congrats Patti on winning! I can’t wait to try out your recipe. Thanks to everyone who played! I will have another blog candy contest posted tomorrow!

This adorable card was designed by one of my very talented downline, Sue Bjorgaard. She brought this to my downline meeting and we all got to make it for our shoebox swap. THe envelope was made using our Big Shot scalloped envelope die and the new Candy Lane paper. This is just way too stinkin’ cute!

This is what the little card inside the envelope looks like.

Gift from a friend….

My good friend and Stampin’ UP convention/ leadership roomie Terri Mongeon sent me this adorable gift. It is a cute tote bag filled with the Season of Friendship cards and matching envelopes. There was one card for each season.  I just love it! I am so sad to see this set go. I am really hoping it will make it into the big catalog later this month but I won’t find out til Wednesday when I get the new catalog at Leadership! I am so excited to go to Orlando to see all of my friends from all over the country. It is like a family reunion every few months when we all get together. I met Terri at the Stampin’ UP Leadership conference several years ago and we became instant friends.That is my favorite part about being a Stampin’ Up demonstrator….all of the friends I have made over the years.

These are the matching envelopes!

Valentine Mailbox….look what’s inside….

I am having so much fun playing with this new Love You Much bundle….I have had a week off since Christmas to just play and make swaps for Leadership. I had a couple of these mini mailboxes left over from last year ( they were in the $$ bin at Target…my favorite store!). Anyway, I thought the Candy Lane paper would look great on one and I was right! Isn’t this adorable…..but wait…there’s more…..open the mailbox to see what is inside……

  These cute little love notes fit perfectly inside the mailbox. THey are 3×3 size. I would love to do a class with these this year but I am sure Target will be sold out of them by the time I get there.  For the mailbox, I used a 4×12 sheet of DSP and made a template out of scrap paper to punch the 1/2 inch circle to go around the flag. I had to punch out a few to get it positioned just right and then I laid that one over the DSP to punch the circle and then snip it so that the paper just slides in right around your flag.  I hope that makes sense.

Raspberry Tart!

I had no idea what to do with our new Raspberry Tart DSP because I didn’t really like it for cards (it is a little on the wild side for me) so I was trying to think of a 3D project I could use with it and then I saw the box of Kit Kats in my stamp room and decided to make a bunch of them for Leadership swaps. All you have to do is cut the DSP into 4 6×6 pieces and each of these covers a full size Kit Kat perfectly. Then I crimped the ends and wrapped with our ribbons and plopped a scallop punch from our new Love You Much bundle on top and Voila! These are super easy and who doesn’t like a pretty piece of chocolate? 

Here is the close up view of one of them….for the scallop, I stamped the image on pink pirouette and vanilla and punched them out. I punched out the center of the pink piece using the 3/4 inch circle punch and then cut the heart out of that piece so I didn’t have to stamp it an additional time.