Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a farewell to Sale-a-bration. I am sad because I had some real favorites that I’d still like to play around with. One of which is the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper. My favorite is the black and white side. It… [Read More]
Sale-A-Bration
Incredibly Proud
Welcome to our weekly Thursday Create with Connie and Mary challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – I just had to pull out this fabulous Painted Seasons Sale-a-bration stamp set and the coordinating Four Seasons framelits. Perfect combination for these colors! Directions – Petal Pink card base, 4 1/4 x 11, scored at 5… [Read More]
Sweet Wishes
Hello my stampin’ friends! I am soo excited about the new Sale-a-bration coordinating products that just got released on March 1st! Here, I am using the new Call Me Cupcake framelits – Simply adorable! I used the Twinkle Twinkle Designer Series Paper for the cupcake parts! Any Designer Series Paper would work. Directions – card… [Read More]
Country Floral Congrats
Happy Monday my stampin’ friends! Surprised to hear from me today? Well, I thought I’d surprise you with a stunning, easy elegant card – I had my February Card Buffet yesterday and this was a last minute add. I’m glad a did! It was a very popular choice! This folder can be yours FREE by… [Read More]
Well Written Country Floral Birthday
Happy Tuesday Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Got a great new sketch for you today! Optional Theme : Use Ribbon or Twine Great opportunity to use a new Sale-a-Bration folder that will be available Friday, February 15th! It’s called Country Floral. Isn’t this folder just gorgeous???? And, I’m only showing a portion of it!! It’s a really… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Unique Folds
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a Unique Fold. This is the perfect opportunity to show off a few new Stampin’ Up! items available on February 15th and March 1st! First off, this lovely new Sale-a-bration Designer Series Paper, called Painted Seasons. It contains 12 sheets, but… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary – Saturday Blog Hop – How Sweet It Is
Welcome to our first Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop of 2019! Our themes for the next few weeks will feature love / musical themes. This week it will be How Sweet It Is. I used the Hello Cupcake Sale-a-Bration stamp set again creating this beauty – The card base is Real Red, with a… [Read More]
Fabulous You in Foil
Hello my stampin’ friends! I have a card I designed for my Card Buffet this past weekend inspired by Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! We have a new bi-weekly challenge to inspire you – Challenge #361, optional theme : Thinking of You. I knew immediately that I wanted to create this – I started with… [Read More]
Celebrating 500 Challenges
WOOHOO!!! It’s a party! Create with Connie and Mary are celebrating their 500th Thursday Challenge! Can you believe it? When we started, we hardly believed that we would still be doing these challenges every week many years later! And…how can we CELEBRATE? How about some BLOG CANDY!!! Have you tried our Create with Connie and Mary Collections… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – March – Sale-a-Bration
Happy second post Thursday! This is a blog hop for Blogging Friends Blog Hop! You might be asking, ‘what is a blog hop’. Well, it’s a continuous travel through several blogs to see lots of great ideas with a theme! Our theme this month is – What a SUPER theme! First, let me tell you… [Read More]
Consider Yourself Hugged
Happy ‘three post’ Thursday! My first post is for Create with Connie and Mary and our new color challenge for the week. I love these soft, sweet colors! So I found an adorable bunny to go along with these colors – This just makes me want to squeeee! The bunny came from the We Must Celebrate… [Read More]
Bubble Over
Hi my stampin’ friends! Time for a new inspirational challenge from Create with Connie and Mary! This is our new layout for inspiration this week – This is a fun one!! I decided to play with the fun Bubble Over Bundle to create this – Initially, my card was square like the inspiration. These bottles… [Read More]
Petal Palette Thank You
Wow, It’s Thursday already! Time to share a card designed for Create with Connie and Mary. We have a new sketch challenge today – I decided to not create a valentine or love themed card! Because we still need other types of cards! I went with this lovely – A nice mix of colors, products and… [Read More]
We Create – February Blog Hop
Happy first day of February and, happy Three Post Thursday! My third post is another blog hop for We Create. Our theme is to create a card, then recreate it again, adding elements to ‘step it up’, make it fancy. As my focal image, I’m using a favorite of mine, Watts of Occasions – It’s… [Read More]
Life is So Much Better with Tulips
Happy first day of February and, happy Three Post Thursday! My first post is for Create with Connie and Mary and our newest challenge. A color challenge – ‘Lovely’ colors! Perfect for expressing love! When I saw these colors, I thought of the massive tulip fields I’ve seen in Holland. I decided to use the… [Read More]
Let’s Celebrate Sale-a-Bration Style
Happy Thursday! Time for a Create with Connie and Mary sketch! We alternate between a color challenge and a layout. This week, we have a color challenge to inspire you – As always, some great colors! I’m playing with new paper and a Sale-a-Bration framelit set, yes, you read that correct! (Sale-a-Bration is a Stampin’… [Read More]
Hey, Chick
Playing around with some more Sale-a-Bration stuff……This time it’s for Create with Connie and Mary. Here is our sketch challenge for the week – These types of sketches are my favorite! I decided to play with the cute little Hey, Chick for this – love, Love, LOVE, these feathered birds!!!! They are just too much… [Read More]
Hope, Is on The Way
Should read, help. Help is on the way….. A have a couple of friends who have RA, Rheumatoid Arthritis, (recently noted, Shelli Gardner, Stampin’ Up! founder does too) and the days can be unpredictable in how they feel. Lately it’s been really rough for one of my friends. Luckily, today she go in to have… [Read More]
