Welcome stampers! Glad you stopped by! Sharing a cute card designed for Create with Connie and Mary today. It’s Thursday – we have a new challenge – So, this is a really cool sketch! Aren’t they all?? I knew immediately I wanted to use a new Sale-a-Bration set, Party Pandas, but I also wanted to create… [Read More]
2017 Occasions Mini
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Hello Summer
Holiday Wishes this Saturday! Taking a little time out to be creative this weekend with Create with Connie and Mary and a blog hop! Our theme this week is Hello Summer! Perfect for this Memorial Day holiday, which seems to be the kick off for summer! …..and perfect for this card! You could create this for Memorial… [Read More]
What’s in Your Pocket?
Every other Tuesday is Try Stampin’ on Tuesday day for me! Our layout this week – Challenge #323. Optional Theme : Pretty as a Picture I love the layout but got hung up on the ‘Pretty as a Picture’ theme. I created this without the picture theme – A brightly designed card using some soon-to-retire Designer Series… [Read More]
Watercooler Wednesday #119 – Judy’s Masculine ‘Anything Goes’ Challenge
It’s been a few days since I posted last. Nice to spend some time designing for Watercooler Wednesday today! Our theme today comes from a new team member – Welcome, Judy!! I went with a fun, traditional color scheme – …..and, some retiring Designer Series Paper, stamp set and some items carrying over!!! The Designer Series Paper… [Read More]
Watercooler Wednesday #118 – Penny’s ‘Mom’ Theme Challenge
Middle of the week inspiration coming from Watercooler Wednesday today! Our theme today, you guessed it – I have created lots of different cards for Mother’s Day. I was thinking…..another one?? Well, after reading of some of my team members situations of loosing their own moms, I let that be my inspiration – ‘Mother in my heart’… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – May – Retiring Favorites
May first and before we know it, the new catalog will be here. This is the first of two blog hops for the day! In honor of the current catalog ending, we will say farewell to some of out favorite Retiring Products. This post is all about retiring products. A few that I really liked… [Read More]
Stamp’n Chat Fun!
I wanted to share briefly about my class on Friday night. A group of ladies created this – I did already show you, but I wanted to refresh your mind again. This, It’s a Sara Thing Paper Pumpkin was a HIT!!! The ladies really enjoyed themselves! As a thank you to the host, I gave… [Read More]
It’s a Sara Thing for a Stampn’n Chat
I am hosting a home workshop today. How fun will this be! I decided to use the April 2017 Paper Pumpkin kit, It’s a Sara Thing for the event. I did a little re-constructing of the kit to have everyone create 3 cards and a box to put them in – all from the kit!… [Read More]
HB to You
Got you thinking ’bout it, didn’t I? We have a new sketch at Create with Connie and Mary challenges today! Isn’t this a great layout for a card? I love it! I’ll put it in my go-to sketches on Pinterest! That way I can easily find it later. Yes, I lose ideas like this….. Back… [Read More]
Watercooler Wednesday #116 – Kath’s Masculine Challenge
Happy Watercooler Wednesday my stampin’ friends! We have a new challenge starting today. Love the ‘masculine’ theme. Love the ‘anything goes’ theme! I decided to play around with this bundle a little more before they are totally retired from Stampin’ Up’s catalog. I think they are already sold out as well. It’s a classic red tool… [Read More]
It’s a Round for Mother’s Day
This week over at Try Stampin’ on Tuesday, we have a really cool sketch to work with! Just see for yourself – Challenge #319. Optional Theme : Circle or Oval card How cool is this?!?! We don’t create shaped cards too often these days, so this is refreshing! I went with a lovely floral-ish card –… [Read More]
You are Amazing
Happy start of another week! April almost over! Yikes! At my April Card Buffet, I designed a simple dragonfly card with Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits. I admit. I hadn’t gotten these until recently – yes, I know they have been all the rage. This turned out to be a popular card too. It’s simple. It’s clean…. [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Punch Art/Die Art
Welcome to another Create with Connie and Mary blog hop filled with wonderful ideas to spark your creativity Our theme this week is Punch or Die Art. This is a wonderful idea! We all see other uses for dies, framelits and punches other than what they were actually intended for. I went with the Window Box… [Read More]
Rad Dad Fun
Some FUN color inspiration today over at Create with Connie and Mary! Just take a look at these colors – Fresh and fun, right? I thought they were ‘rad’ – So I created a Father’s Day themed card. As we know, that will be here soon too! The colors are great for a different look in… [Read More]
Watercooler Wednesday #115 Gail’s Clean & Simple ‘Spring’ Theme
Happy Wednesday! Time for a new challenge from Watercooler Wednesday! We have a fun theme from Gail to play around with today – I think of flowers when I think Spring! Bright, cheery flowers. And, that’s what I created for this challenge! It was simple to create. I used two stamp sets only because I wanted… [Read More]
Silver Elite and Team Meeting SWAPS
Good news! Good news! I was promoted to Silver Elite during the most recent Sale-a-Bration! Yay! So excited!!!! Thank you to Joan and Karen for joining my team! Welcome! At our team meeting last night, my upline, Pearl Robb, surprised me with a sweet little, unexpected, gift! I just had to take a picture because,… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Oh the Places We Will Go
Happy Saturday before Easter! We are still having our Create with Connie and Mary blog hop! Thanks for joining us this weekend! Our theme this is Oh the Places you Will Go or Travel. I combined the two and created this – Looks like a nice ‘travel’ card. Great to stash in the suitcase and mail when… [Read More]
Congratulations, Graduate!
Today we have a super sketch over at Create with Connie and Mary – I was really inspired by it. As we know, graduation season will be starting next month (I know, right? You didn’t realize it, did you!?). I decided to get to work on grads ideas! I have made two recently, here is one of… [Read More]
