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You would think it difficult to get into the spirit of Christmas when the current temperature reads ninety three degrees outside but thanks to a comfortable air-conditioned, seventy degrees inside and Stampin' Up!'s Christmas Pines stamp set, it's not so difficult after all. I was recently invited to attend a local Christmas in July craft fair. I'm so excited to share my Christmas cards and even sell a few but I didn't have a few made at all, let alone to sell!  I'm happy this stamp set carried over from last years catalog along with the matching dies. It has come in handy for some much needed inspiration on the short notice I received on the fair invite. I have some awesome news if you want to get a head start on your Christmas card making! Make a purchase at my store of $50 retail and  Stampin' Up ! will give you a $5 coupon for every fifty you spend that you can use anytime next month (August 1-31)! It's like getting an early Christmas gift! I...

Texture backgrounds anyone? Stampin' Up!'s Pattern Party Decorative Masks create awesome textured backgrounds for scrapbook pages, cards and more! You can use it with your inks and blend the color on or you can use your inks in a new way by blending it with our Embossing Paste to create a custom look and dimension on your project. Today I'd like to show you how to use your inks with embossing paste to make a cool dimensional background. Sorry for the glare here. I'm a card maker not a photographer! Now let's make that background! First, choose your mask. This set comes with four different patterns. I chose the cloud image. Oh the possibilities! Second, choose your color. I decided on pool party for my clouds. Smoosh the stamp pad directly to a craft mat or whatever slick surface you have available to you.  Then add the embossing paste  and mix with a pallet knife. Thoroughly mix in the ink color then adhere the mask to your card stock so it won...

You didn't think ink pads were just for stamping, did you?  Silly, of course not! There are many things you can do with your ink pads to get the most for your initial investment and I'm going to show you five different ways to use your inks in the next five days. Starting today! I'd like to share an ink blending technique that I was reminded of out of necessity. We all know what that means. "Necessity is the mother of invention! I, in no way invented this technique. It does come in handy for the times you run out of coordinating colored card stock. And that's exactly what happened when I wanted to coordinate the Happy Birthday Thinlits Die with the color of card I was making. I may not have had the colored card stock I wanted but I did have the ink color and I had whisper white card stock . Marrying the ink and white paper made for a beautiful union in this case. Check it out! Just by taking a mini ink blending tool  and blending lemon lime twist and ber...

I have a Thank You Card featuring two new stamp set bundles and one of our beautiful new 2017-2019 In colors from Stampin' Up!'s Annul Catalog that launched today! The In Color I chose for today's project is called Powder Pink.  The name says it all when describing this color. It is the perfect color of soft pink and goes great with a number of neutral colors, like the Early Espresso ink and card stock I used here along with Whisper White card stock. I combined the Colorful Seasons stamp and coordinating dies with Daisy Delight stamp set for the sentiment. Both sets are brand new and can be purchased at a ten percent discount when combined with their coordinating dies or daisy punch that comes with the Daisy Delight set.  There are so many possibilities for creativity with these sets! This is just a start for me using the amazing products in our new annual catalog and I can't wait to show you more!  All of the products are available in my online store...

Brenda Matley!!! Thank you to all who entered my giveaway. I sincerely appreciate all the interest and support of my little corner of the interwebz. I wish I could send something to everyone who entered but I plan to have more giveaways in the future as my business grows.   If you would like to join in the fun and be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator , I would LOVE to have you on my team! It's a great way to earn instant discounts on products you may already use or create extra income for you and your family. Stampin' Up! is a wonderful company to work with and there is so many opportunities to earn or to simply get a discount for yourself! Every little bit helps especially since our NEW CATALOG LAUNCHES TODAY !!! YAY!!! Can you tell I'm excited? I can't wait to try out some of our new products and share them all with you!  I've missed my last two Stamping Sunday posts. I feel bad but it has been a little hectic at my house. My daughter is graduating h...

I love being able to play with new stamp sets from Stampin' Up! before they're available to my customers. It allows me the opportunity to give honest recommendations of product that I think worthy of purchase from me. Lets face it, this hobby is not cheap! You have to get the best bang for your buck and if that means forgoing some product for others, I'm all for that! The hard part though is   so much of Stampin' Up!'s product is worth every penny. Today I made a super simple, anyone can make this, card.  I used a stamp set called, Crafting Forever, from our new annual catalog and Stampin' Up! watercolor pencils. Don't you just love a freshly sharpened pencil? Maybe that's just me. It's the small things in life that make me happy. Here is my simple card. I stamped the image on watercolor paper with Stampin' Up!'s black archival ink, colored in the image with the watercolor pencils then used my aqua painter to spread the color. I ...

It's that time of year again! Time to give thanks to the women we know and love as our Mother. Without going into the idiosyncrasies of it all, I'll say I honor Mother's Day with this card. "To my Mom, because of you I am me." The items I used in making this card will soon be discontinued. They are available until May 31, 2017, while supplies last.  Supplies used listed below and available to purchase in my online store at : https://www.stampinup.com/ecweb/default.aspx Oh so Succulent Stamp Set: 142992 Succulent Framelet Dies: 142757 So Detailed Thinlits Dies: 142751 Stitched Framelet Dies: 145372 Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper: 142778 Succulent Garden Cardstock Pack: 142779 Whisper White Thick Cardstock: 140272 Old Olive Classic Stamping' Pad: 126953 Enamel Shapes Brights: 141680 Card Dimensions: Card Base: 41/4x11 scored @ 5 1/2 Designer Series Paper: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2

I'm channeling my best Maggie and the Ferocious Beast   here but yeah, the Studio Katia  google eyes are a great new addition to my crafty stash.  I highly recommend adding them to yours. I happened upon them by mistake. I meant to order a larger size but apparently I mistook these tiny little dots of wonder for the more sensible, wobbly dots of ordinary size. Why is it the tinier something is the cuter it looks? As a child I had a fascination with my Grandma's white china, pink flowered tea set. That is, until she bought me a set of my own and instead of going on a total tangent here, I'll keep it short and sweet. I still have the set. Check out how tiny these eyes are! Great Googly Moogly, they're so stinking cute! I used distress inks to color all the back ground images on this card. I white embossed and colored the Sow Much Cuteness stamp set by My Favorite things with my Zig clean color real brush markers . It's hard to see the eyes on the e...

Hey there stampers!  Today I have a card featuring Stampin' Up! products.  There's only five days left in our annual Sale-a-bration sale! I wanted to feature one of the stamp sets you can earn for free by spending fifty dollars or more in my online store.  Make a Medallion stamp set (143274)is a versatile, elegant set that can be used for so many occasions. I have to tell you, I made a video tutorial for this card but deleted it because of my many faux pas! At one point in the video, I went to open up my so saffron ink pad and the entire thing went flying across my desk ending up in two pieces!  Add that incident along with my continuous use of the word "um" and it was a recipe for disaster.  I don't know how so many people can execute such successful Youtube videos and make it look easy. I'm always nervous! I'll have to keep on practicing but until then, I have several step by step pictures (thank you iPhone) to show how I made this card: I comb...