Happy Saturday my blogging friends! Time for a Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features boxes! Handmade boxes are the best because you can customize them to just about any size you need. And, with all the fabulous Designer Series Papers Stampin’ Up has – you can’t go wrong! I made… [Read More]
Gift Card Holder
Epic Celebration
Happy to be inspired for Create with Connie and Mary and our new Thursday challenge – This is a wonderful, fresh, bright color scheme to design with! I decided to play with a Sale-a-Bration set and create a gift card holder – Random stamped sneakers in the challenge colors. Isn’t this cute! I added the… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – December – Christmas/Hanukkah/New Years
December??? Where has this year gone?? Welcome to the first post for today! This one is a Blog Hop too for Blogging friends Blog Hop! Our theme this month is Christmas/Hanukkah/New Year! I decided to create a quick treat holder to cover both Christmas and New Year – I used the Acetate Card Boxes from… [Read More]
Black & Orange – Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop
Thanks for stopping by this fun fall-ish day! You know, it’s a Create with Connie and Mary kind of blog hop day! Our theme this week is black and orange! Perfect as Halloween is just around the corner! Of course, black and orange can be appropriate for all sorts of things as well. But, I went… [Read More]
Christmas Make’n Takes
Tuesday I showed the swaps from our Team Meeting on Monday. Thursday I shared my swap. And, today, I’m sharing our projects we created! Nice that we made a variety using different items! This first swap was great because I don’t have this Snowflake Sentiments Bundle – It made for a beautiful card. This intricate… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Shaped Cards
Happy funtastic creative Saturday! You know it’s time for another round of creative ideas from Create with Connie and Mary! Our theme this week is a Shaped Card (not rectangle or square). I had to put my thinking cap on for this one. This is going to be a great hop! I looked at some of… [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]
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]
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]
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]
For You, Snowman!
Got a quick card slash gift idea I created for Create with Connie and Mary this week! We have very pretty colors as our inspirational start for the week – I love these colors! So many different ways you could go with them. But, I chose to go with a winter or could be Christmas themed card… [Read More]
Team Meetings SWAPS
This past week we got together for our Team Meeting and we did our usual swapping of new ideas and a couple of make’n takes. These were the two make’n takes – This is an oldie but goodie technique, shaving creme, that I miss and should try again! The results are stunning. Inside looked almost… [Read More]
Halloween is in the Bag
How’s your Halloween weekend going? Doing a little paper crafting this weekend? Hopefully, all these Halloween cards have been inspiring to you! I have a decorated Mini Treat Bag Thinlits, Halloween style, to share today – Isn’t this just the cutest? I really loved these Jar of Haunts when I first saw them in the… [Read More]
Step It Up Reindeer, We Create Blog Hop
This is the second blog hop and post you’ll be seeing from me! Wahoo! Been a crafty little one lately! This is for We Create! Our theme we work with is to either create a card then step it up or create two cards using the same layout. This time, I chose to create a… [Read More]
October Catalog Favorites, Blogging Friends Blog Hop
Welcome fall! Cooler temps. Pumpkins. Rustling leaves. ……and the first of three posts! This is for Blogging Friends Blog Hop! You might have came from Anna Masciovecchio to visit me. Our theme this month is Mini Catalog favorites. As many of you have seen the Stampin’ Up Holiday mini catalog, it’s probably the whole book, right?… [Read More]
Team Trading
Last week I was able to get together with my downline for some stampin’ and chattin’. We chatted. We stamped. We traded. Here is what we created – Nice, simple card. The other was a bit more amped up. A Z-Fold oriented tall. See how cute! We also incorporated the June Paper Pumpkin too. I… [Read More]
Nice Shirt Man, WWC71
Time for another great challenge from Watercooler Wednesday! This time Heidi is the host. She choose a really cool idea. The Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge. See all your combinations here? Some really great ones you can go with. Initially, I was going to go with a graduation theme. However, I changed my mind at the last-minute and… [Read More]
Coffee To-Go Mom?
This week seems to be all about mom. You know, making card for those who’ve made someone a mom or our friends who are great moms, and of course – our own moms! I had this card on my last Card Buffet in April – Simple and fun! Great for mass production – like our… [Read More]
