Happy July 1st! Our theme this month is pattern paper, Designer Series Paper because Stampin’ Up is having a paper sale!!! So why not show you how to make the most out of a 6″ x 6″ sheet of Designer Series Paper? Look at these wonderful cards – I started with a 6″ x 6″… [Read More]
Anniversary
Best Wishes Gift Bag
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! We are switching up our challenges a bit to sketches from the new catalog – Then, we recreate it! So stunning! Perfect bag for a wedding ot to welcome a little girl! I embossed my Polished Pink Ombre Gift Bag using the Checks &… [Read More]
Make A Wish!
Happy Monday! Let’s start the week off with a another great challenge from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge – So fun, isn’t it!?!? I went with a playful take on the sketch – These Party Puffins are the best! I used my Stamparatus to stamp these nice and evenly. Then I fussy cut them out. I… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Evergreen
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features all green cards! I made two using the same size pieces! Aren’t these soo pretty?!?! I started with the soon-to-retire Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper* – I added the sentiment from the coordinating Forever Fern stamp set, yay, it will… [Read More]
Simply Thinking of You
Happy Wednesday! Playing with the February 2021 Bouquet of Hope Paper Pumpkin again today. I created a simple, elegant card – I know, that looks soo easy! And, well, it was sort of. Designing a simple card is the hard part. The first card I made with this large, thin, sentiment sticker was a disaster!… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Non-Traditional Valentine
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a non-traditional Valentine card (no reds or pinks). I got this! Having fun with this number – Not having fun photographing all the metallics here! Lol! I wasn’t sure what I was going to create. I just started cutting things!… [Read More]
Wish For It All
I have a triple sweet share for today. Actually, one card for three shared special occasions! First, it’s my birthday!! Second, I have a birthday twin, Happy Birthday Gladys! Third. Another friend, MarthaJoe is celebrating 30 years of marriage, also today! To inspire a card to encompass all this, I looked to the Paper Players for my… [Read More]
Mr. & Mrs.
Hello my friends! Still making one card a day for the month of July!! I needed to create a wedding card. I needed some inspiration. I really liked this sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches this time around! Wonderful inspiration for this – I stamped the two cakes in Early Espresso on Very Vanilla. I… [Read More]
Happy Anniversary
I want to wish a very special friend a very special anniversary. It is their 30th!!! Wow! In honor, I created a simple, lovely card – I started with making the layered flowers piece. I used several of the Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape petals creating a square before deciding what shape I’d cut out…. [Read More]
Congratulations, Daisy
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our CASE the catalog challenge – I copied the layout and the colors a bit – I am enjoying playing around with the Daisy Lane Bundle. Here, I combined it with the Garden Lane Designer Series Paper and the Stitched Nested Labels Dies…. [Read More]
Lovely Wedding Wishes
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Need some motivation to play with your stuff today? How about this new challenge – Optional Theme : Embossing Perfect inspiration to create this wedding wishes card – First off, I haven’t played with this gorgeous Merry Merlot color much. and, why? It’s gorgeous!!!! I created the embossed background by… [Read More]
Frosted Floral Special Day
Happy Tuesday my Try Stampin’ on Tuesday friends! Sharing this beautiful card suitable for a birthday, wedding, or maybe even an anniversary! I love this Frosted Floral Designer Series paper – it is so beautiful! All of it! It’s all shimmery! I stamped my sentiment on Shimmery White card stock which complimented the paper quite nicely, softer than… [Read More]
Anniversaries are Charming
Today is a special day for me in the Stampin’ Up world – it’s my 10th Anniversary! Yep. That’s right. 10 years ago I signed up as a demonstrator and got the free box of ink pads – my choice of color family! And, back then it was like a $55 value. The rest, history,… [Read More]
Happy Luna-Versary
What the….?..?..? Well, five years ago, this happened – We became first time cat parents. We’d never had cats before. Until. Until this little adorable thing followed our daughters home from a walk to the mall. I told them if she stayed around a few nights, I’d consider keeping her. Well, she never left! Today,… [Read More]
Coffee, Tea…or Me?
Lol, I’m sure some of you might know that tagline!!!! It was from an airline in the 1960’s. This week at Watercooler Wednesday, we have another Simply Stampin’ challenge – This one is from Heidi and you have to feature coffee or tea. It was way more difficult than I thought because you are limited… [Read More]
September Blogiversary Blogging Friends Blog Hop
That’s right. It’s our ONE YEAR BLOGIVERSARY!!! Part of Three Post Thursday for me today! First, a congrats to all of those who’ve been with us since the beginning, and all the newbies we’ve acquired along the way! It’s been a wonderful year of learning and growing together! Our theme is, of course, CELEBRATION! And, to… [Read More]
Wacky Watercooler April Blog Hop
It’s April, and that fun time of the month again! Besides the excitement of it being my anniversary of 26 years yesterday (hence why I’m late), it’s also a fabulous blog hop over at Wacky Watercooler! Grab a cup of coffee Make a pot of coffee and prepare yourself for a real treat of a… [Read More]
Love You, CCMC
Yes. Two things going on here. First, it’s my anniversary. I know. Another life event happening on the SAME day as a card challenge – on a challenge blog that I just recently became a Design team member of……. This week over at Create with Connie and Mary, we have another great sketch to get… [Read More]
