Retired List is HERE!
WOOHOO!!! It's HERE!
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Stampin' Up! will be introducing a new catalog on June 1st, so they have listed the stamp sets that will no longer be available!
You'll want to take this opportunity to get these stamp sets that go away on May 31st!
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FROM CONNIE BABBERT!
And…many of you know…I am close to my goal of earning Stampin' Up!'s Fiji Incentive Trip. To help me reach my goal this Stampin' Up! year, I'm placing everyone's name in a basket who places an order of $50 or more (before tax & shipping) until I reach my goal! Orders can be a combination of online order, clearance rack, retired list, or main and mini catalogs! Yes, Stamp Club orders count, too! Place it online, at a workshop, a class or email me!
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FMS30 – Island Floral
Well, I went REALLY easy with this card! Isn't that Big Shot wonderful? I haven't used Island Floral Die in a while, so pulled it out to play along with the Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge this week! The layout just screamed FLOWER to me! I haven't played along in SO long…missed doing their challenges!
Here's my card!
I started with Melon Mambo cardstock. I layered on some YUMMY Summer Smooches Designer Paper…love that Chevron design! I added Basic Black cardstock punched with the Scallop Trim Border Punch. Then cut the Island Floral from Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo center with Lucky Limeade leaves behind it, embossed with the Snow Burst Impressions Folder. I added Summer Smooches brad (only available THIS month…it will NOT be in the new catalog, so make sure you order it!) Finally, I stamped Thanks So Much with Basic Black on Whisper White and cut the flag end. It's from Three Little Words stamp set.
Hope you enjoy! Have a great weekend!
New Stamp sets added!
Going thru my back room, I found another box of stamp sets that I meant to put in my sale over the past few weeks! So…here you go!
Sets are in really good condition, I'm not hard on them. Shipping is extra. Please email your zipcode so I can figure it for you. Only payment holds the stamp set…sorry…I've had a few back out after I've saved them. I will issue you a Paypal invoice so you can pay it promptly. Thanks for understanding. US only, please.
Most alphabet sets come with the divided cases that I upgraded to keep them nice and neat!
Left: Short Type Upper & Lower, double mount – $10 SOLD
Right: Crazy Alphabet, single mount – $12
Left: Alphadots, single mount, $10
Right: Retro Upper, new & unmounted, $15
Left: Jumbo Outline, double mount – $12 SOLD
Right: Alphabits – $6
Left: Fun with Shapes – $8
Right: Around & About – $5
Left: Bella's Bloom – $6
Right: Holiday Frame Fun – $8 SOLD
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Left: Fresh Fillers – $7
Right: Birthday Whimsy – $6
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Left: Fun Filled – $6
Right: Hi & Hello – $6 SOLD
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Left: Sparkling Christmas – $8
Right: All About You – $8
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Simple Shapes – $6
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Left: You and Moi – $5
Right: Birthday Best – $6 SOLD
Thanks for looking! EMAIL me!!!
CCMC197 – Daisies
Today it is time for the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge! We have a color challenge for you today. Grab your stamps and play along!
Of course, I only used one little stamp on mine! Otherwise, I pulled out my dusty Daisy #2 Die. For some reason I hadn't played with it for a while and it was needing some love! And, I love blue daisies…I think they are so happy!
My card has a base of Whisper White. I layered on Certainly Celery cardstock along the bottom, but can you see how I used the Simply Scored Tool to make the lines under the flowers? I thought they resembled the stems, don't you? Of course, I needed a few leaves. I fudged a little with the ribbon color…Pear Pizzazz Scallop Dot Ribbon wrapped with Lucky Limeade Bakers' Twine to gather the centers. Then I adhered them with mini glue dots.
I made two sets of the smallest Daisy die out of Marina Mist cardstock. I punched 1/2" Circles of Whisper White, then added the Concord Crush Glimmer Brads inside. Those are popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals and placed on the front. Finally, I added the greeting from Friendly Phrases in Concord Crush ink along the top.
Make sure to check out what the rest of the Challenge Team did over on Create with Connie and Mary! Play along for a chance to be featured in our Top 3 for the week! We love to see what you do using Stampin' Up!'s wonderful products!
Easy Events
Easy Events stamp set was one of the FREE ones that I received for attending Convention last year. I had not mounted it yet…I know! After I started playing with it, I do find that I REALLY like it. It is a great set for beginners, too. I always like stamp sets that have words and images in the same set together. On this one, I customized the way I mounted them on wood. Some images that I thought I would only use together, I kept together. Other ones, I cut off the greeting to use separately. Isn't it nice that Stampin' Up! gives us the option of mounting them the way WE want?
I liked the Create with Connie and Mary sketch last week so much that I made another card using the sketch. I had cut out this little ducky image using a technique called "Outside the Box" that I showed last night at my Technique Class. This was the option of using punches to do the technique. They did a card using the Label Framelit. Both ways are basically the same except for the cutting mechanism. See how the little umbrella is outside the circle? I think it was Nance Leedy that showed how to do this technique with punches!
The base of the card is Whisper White. I added Lucky Limeade Patterns Paper, layered on Basic Black cardstock. I wrapped the 1 1/4" Striped RIbbon (available in my RIBBON SHARES HERE!) and secured it to the back. I gathered one end and tied a bow with Lucky Limeade Baker's Twine.
I stamped the Ducky with Black Stazon, then I used Stampin' Write Markers in So Saffron, Daffodil Delight and More Mustard to color the duck, and Lucky Limeade and Always Artichoke for the umbrella, Pumpkin Pie for the beak. I added highlights with a White Gel Pen. The Ducky is punched with the 1 3/4" Circle Punch and layered on 2" Basic Black circle. I added both of them to the Pennant Medallion of Always Artichoke. It is popped up on the front with Stampin' Dimensionals! I added the trio of large Rhinestone jewels along the top of the circle as the sketch showed.
I wish I knew someone having a baby that I could send this to right now! lol!
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Bright Blossoms 2
I'm still having fun with my Bright Blossoms stamp set, one of the Summer Smooches items! The Summer Smooches ensemble is a sneak peek special this month for customers to order something just this month that will be in the new catalog coming out June 1st!
While cleaning out my studio supplies in preparation for getting my new cabinets, I ran across a package of these Beveled Windowpanes. They are a fun little accessory and I had only used a couple of them out of the package. I thought it was time to get another one out and play with it! I like how they kind of magnify the image behind it and make it seem more prominent and important!
The base of the card is Lucky Limeade (I can't believe I let myself get down to only a couple sheets of this! I had to hurriedly order MORE…love this bright green!) I layered on Sahara Sand and then the chevron pattern from Summer Smooches Designer Paper. I stamped the leaves from Bright Blossoms upside down for a little different twist on it. I wrapped the Daffodil Delight Seam Binding Ribbon around the Sahara Sand to the front. The flower vase was inked with Stampin' Write markers of Poppy Parade, Lucky Limeade and Daffodil Delight on Whisper White, then I lined up the Beveled Windowpane on top of it and cut slits with my craft knife. The ribbon was fed up thru the back of the stamped image and thru the windowpanes to hold it in place. I tied off the ribbon on each side with Lucky Limeade Bakers Twine. Finally, I stamped Happy Birthday from Family Reunion stamp set in Poppy Parade ink.
It came together pretty quickly and I can't wait to send it off to the recipient when it is their birthday!
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Happy Easter – Mixed Bunch!
Happy Easter!
I like to make little favors to put in my monthly Stamp Club order bags. I don't do it EVERY month, but I do try to hit the holidays at least! I so appreciate the fact that they support my business…and have become wonderful friends! Hi gals!!!
Here is what I did this month to celebrate Easter. I saw the Mixed Bunch flower punched with the Extra Large Oval to make pretty decorated Easter Eggs. And, the hostess only designer paper, Cheerful Treat, has perfect Easter colors! Then, since I have a TON of Melon Mambo cardstock left over from doing wedding invitations, I used that as my base color. I think they turned out SO cute!
The base of the candy holder is cut with the largest size Label Framelit. I scored two lines 3/4" apart in the center area to hold the candy in place. I wrapped it around the candy and held it together with a Sale-A-Bration brad (hope you got some of those yourself!) I added the strip of Cheerful Treat Designer Paper along the front. Then stamped the Mixed Bunch filigree flower in Crushed Concord and punched with the Extra Large Oval, I added a pearl in the center. I added it to the front with Stampin' Dimensionals. Finally, I stamped Happy Easter from Delightful Dozen in Crushed Concord.
Here they are all lined up and ready to put in bags! Inside is a yummy Caramel filled Chocolate Egg!
Hope you have a WONDERFUL and blessed Easter!
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Build a Cupcake
It's Thursday and time for another Create with Connie and Mary challenge. We have a Sketch Challenge for you to try today! Grab your stamps and play along!
I pulled out Build a Cupcake punch that I hadn't used in quite a while as a regular cupcake! I need birthday cards this time of year!
Don't those chocolate with white frosting cupcakes look good on the Sweet Shop Designer Paper? Makes me hungry when I look at it. I duplicated the cupcake with the Build a Cupcake punch by punching the bottom from Early Espresso and running it thru the Big Shot with the Square Lattice folder. The top was from Whisper White and I added a Red Glimmer Paper cherry on top. I placed it on a 1 3/4" punched circle of Baja Breeze, then a Whisper White medallion from the Pennant Builder Die. The Poppy Parade pennant in the background is also from that Pennant die. I added some Real Red Taffeta Ribbon tied in a bow with an Espresso Glimmer Brad in the center. The Sweet Shop DSP is layered on Poppy Parade and a base of Baja Breeze. Along the edge of the Poppy Parade pennant, I added three 1/4" Circles of Red Glimmer paper. It is hard to see on the DSP, but it shows up much better in real life!
I realized when I went to post about this, that my greeting somehow fell off before it was photographed. Since I made this card a while ago at the retreat, I have NO idea where it is…and where that little greeting flag went to. So…you'll have to imagine the words on there! lol!
Make sure to check out how the rest of the Challenge Team on Create with Connie and Mary interpreted this sketch! You can see their designs on Create with Connie and Mary!
Summer Smooches Butterfly
When I was working on my Create with Connie and Mary challenge last week, some of the pieces fell together on my desk and resembled a butterfly…well, at least they did to me. So…this idea has been in my head for a while. The new Summer Smooches Designer Paper seemed perfect for this butterfly. She is easy to make…cut some squares and round a couple of the corners! That's it! Combined with Perfectly Penned stamp, "Celebrate today"…it seemed like a great reason to celebrate! Oh, and I finished the wedding invitations for a friend…another reason to celebrate today!
The base of the card is Rich Razzleberry cardstock. I layered the Summer Smooches Designer Paper along the bottom of Whisper White (this is my FAVORITE pattern in that package!) and I tied the new Daffodil Delight Seam Binding Ribbon around in a knot bow! (Check out my Ribbon Shares here…I've added Daffodil Delight Seam Binding!) I stamped Celebrate Today from Perfectly Penned in Rich Razzleberry in the center. My butterfly wings are 1" and 3/4" squares with two opposite sides punched with the Corner Rounder Punch. A tip…use a post-it note to hold the tiny 3/4" square in place while you punch it. The body is a trio of Pearls and a small cut of Old Olive 1/8" Taffeta for the antenna. Pretty clean and simple card, but I like how it turned out!!
I hope you Celebrate Today, too, and have a GREAT one!
Summer Smooches
First…THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all of you who supported my Adhesive Sale this past week! So many of you emailed that you love my blog and that is SO nice to hear! I'm happy to have shared this huge discount with you on some of the staples of our business. I appreciate you all SO much for your help in getting me closer to my goal of the Fiji Incentive Trip this year! I'm inching closer and closer as you can see from the themometer on my right sidebar.
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I love the name of Stampin' Up!'s April Promotion…Summer Smooches. Since Summer is my FAVORITE time of the year…yes, I love hot weather…it puts me in mind of all the fun activities to do in the summer. The cute little set, Bright Blossoms, is just SO fun and fits my idea of summer. AND…that Summer Smooches Designer Paper is so bright and cute and wonderful, I know it will be a favorite of mine. Fabric Buttons, Fabric, a new PURSE die, ribbon, a Decor Elements Stencil…just look at all those yummy things! Stampin' Up! is giving YOU, our customers, a chance to get the Summer Smooches products early in April, prior to it being released in the big catalog on June 1st! So…take advantage and order yours today! You can see a color flyer HERE! And place your ONLINE ORDER at my website HERE!
This was my Control Freaks swap card I made last month. Now I've seen all KINDS of really CUTE ideas that I love using the Bright Blossoms stamp set, but when I got this set there weren't many samples out there at all, so we all were creating without any ideas. I was amazed to get the swaps back in the mail and they all were SO different, even using the same set of products and stamp set!
I structured my card to use mostly the Summer Smooches family of products. I used a base of Daffodil Delight cardstock and layered on Baja Breeze cardstock. Then I cut a 4×4 square of Summer Smooches Designer Paper (did you know that you can get 9 pieces out of a 12×12 sheet of DSP using that dimension?) for the bottom of the card. I used a piece of the new Daffodil Delight Seam Binding Ribbon across to hide the seam. I stamped the Bright Blossoms image, inked up with markers, on Whisper White and cut with the Label Framelits. It is popped up on the front of the card with Stampin' Dimensionals. Then, I added a little Boho Blossoms flower punched from the Summer Smooches Designer Paper and a mini brad along side the Label. Finally, I stamped "I'm Here For You" from Petite Pairs in Island Indigo ink next to the image.
Isn't it a FUN and cheerful card with those bright colors? I think so!
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