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Festive Flurry Fabulous Friday sneak peek Christmas card

  Happy Friday!!  For this week's Fabulous Friday project over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring projects from the upcoming Seasonal catalog.  I designed this fun Christmas card using the Festive Flurry stamp set and coordinating Festive Flurry framelits dies.  You can buy each individually, but there is an awesome bundle that saves you 15%!  My color combination is island indigo, soft sky and whisper white - I really like it.  And check out that awesome script impressions folder used on the soft sky flag!  I love it!!  Since the catalog has not officially debuted, I can't show you photos of the products, but never fear August 1st will be here before you know it!  If you didn't receive a Holiday catalog in the mail, contact me and I am happy to get one to you!!

  Thanks for stopping by today... be sure to check out the other fabulous projects on the Sisters in Stamping blog after Noon EST.  My downline Kari Vertican is a guest designer with us this week and I'm excited to showcase her talent!!  Be sure to check it out and have a wonderful weekend!  We are at the Virginia Tech pool for a long course Age Group Championship swim meet weekend with my two younger kids who both qualified this year - so proud of them!  Happy Stamping!!

Video: masculine quick and easy thank you card tutorial

  Here's a video tutorial that I created to show you how to make the quick and easy (QE) masculine thank you card featuring the Label Love and A Round Array stamp sets along with the Woodgrain impressions folder for the Big Shot.

 

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  You will find the complete supply list below to recreate this card.  You can purchase these products in my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order.

Supply list

Stamp sets:  A Round Array (Wood Mount #129087, $18.95, Clear Mount #129090, $14.95) and Label Love (Wood Mount #130619, $24.95 or Clear Mount #130622, $17.95) or purchase the bundle which includes the stamp set AND artisan label punch at a 15% savings (Wood Mount #132723, $34.75 or Clear Mount #132722, $28.75)

Paper:  Naturals Ivory  (8-1/2" x 5-1/2" for card base plus 2" x 5" scrap for punches) and Early Espresso (5-1/4" x 4")

Ink:  old olive and cajun craze

Accessories: Big Shot (#113439, $99.95), Woodgrain impressions folder (#127821, $7.95), Artisan Label punch (#130920, $15.95), 7/8" scallop circle punch (#129404, $12.95), 6" piece of 7/16" natural trim (#129287, $6.95), bone folder (#102300, $6.95), Tombow multipurpose adhesive (#110755, $3.95), glue dots (#103683, $4.95), stampin' trimmer (#126889, $29.95), SNAIL adhesive (#104332, $6.95)

   Thanks for stopping by today - I appreciate you taking a little bit of your day to spend some time with me here!!  Don't forget to visit my online store to place your order or contact me if you need assistance. 

Convention highlights...

  Oh my goodness!  What a whirlwind this past week has been... I so enjoyed my time at the Stampin' Up! 25th Anniversary Convention in Salt Lake City last week  with over 5,800 other demonstrators from the U.S., Canada and even Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., France and Germany!!  Things have been just as busy at home and I apologize for my absence.  So here we go, getting back in the swing of things with a blog post showing some highlights from my trip.

  I am so excited to share that I was one of only 25 GRAND PRIZE winners at Convention - I had the lucky "crushed curry" color band and won EVERY SINGLE STAMP SET in the Seasonal catalog!!   Can you believe it?!  I never win anything!  Here I am holding up the special numbered card (#19) I received that I had to show at the prize booth to claim my stamp sets.  Sitting just a row away was Angie of Stamping Addicts who was also a Crushed Curry winner.  We were on the same flights from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas to Raleigh so we snapped a photo together in the Vegas airport.

  I was fortunate enough to be able to spend time with four of my team members:  Gaylyn Pantana, Kari Vertican and Georgia Vertican.  Here we are during the Opening Session just after receiving our amazing Convention backpacks and below at our farewell dinner at Texas de Brazil - an amazing meat-filled meal!

  Both Gaylyn and Kari submitted projects for the Artisan Award contest and although they did not win, they had many of their projects featured in the display area - I was so proud of both of them!!

  In addition to time spent with my downline, I also always enjoy catching up with demonstrator friends from all over the U.S. and Canada..

 

We had a layover in the Las Vegas airport for over 4 hours and met Jackie Topa (yellow shirt - I LOVE her work!) and Tiffany Welk (left).

 

Here I am with my best SU! bud Rachel Yurkanin (left) and Nancy Schmidt (right), whom I met at the last Convention that I attended.

 

I took this photo with my NC friend Martha Armstrong whom I met a few years ago at Founder's Circle.

 

I was thrilled to finally meet my Business Development Advisor Ashley Christensen in person... she has been an outsanding coach for me and my Stampin' Up! business for the last two years!  I really look forward to our chats every two weeks, even if she gets me to try new things like making video tutorials which are way outside of my comfort zone.  But whoever said growth would be easy, right?!

  As you can tell, I had a BLAST at this event and hope to attend Convention again in the future.  If you'd like to join my team of demonstrators and go to events like these, contact me and I will be happy to share the opportunity with you!

  Thanks for stopping by - look for a new Quick & Easy card video tutorial tomorrow. 

 

 

 

 

So excited to share... introducing Stampin' Up!'s newest product - "Undefined"

  Oh my goodness, we just found out about this fabulous new product that Stampin' Up! introduced today at our Convention!!  Have you ever wanted a stamp but couldn't find the perfect image? Maybe you have a special family logo or a sketch you'd like to have as a stamp. Well now you can! Undefined is Stampin' Up!'s new stamp carving product line. You define the rubber stamp any way you want.

  When you carve your very own stamp, you have will have an entirely new and different creative experience. And when you're finished, you will have created a one-of-a-kind stamp!

  How exactly do you carve a stamp? Watch the video for a tutorial....

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  Intrigued? I know you want to get your hands on the kit and start carving your own masterpieces. Here are the item numbers you'll need (I suggest adding a refill kit on your first order . . . trust me, you're gonna want it).

- Undefined Stamp Carving Kit #133402, $19.95

- Undefined Refill Kit #134808, $9,95

- Clear-Mount Cling foam* #124236, $10.95

*Add a sheet of Clear-Mount Cling Foam to create your own clear-mount stamps. Mounting your stamps on the cling foam allows you to make stamps any size you want, not just what will fit on the blocks in the kit.

Included in the Stamp Carving Kit: 2 carving tools 3" x 4" rubber 3" x 4" foam 4 wood blocks (various sizes) 1 Island Indigo Stampin' Write Marker 3 postcards Instruction sheet Stamp image templates

Included in the Refill Kit: 3" x 4" rubber 3" x 4" foam 4 wood blocks (various sizes) Instruction sheet

  Express your personality, thoughts, feelings, etc. with a stamp you've carved all on your own! I know you'll have a "look what I made!" moment.

Are you excited?  Want to order it today?  Place your order via my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order!! Thanks!!

A fabulous Simply Pressed Clay project

  Happy Friday!  I am still in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the Stampin' Up! convention but taking a break from that to share with you my submission for Fabulous Friday over on the Sisters in Stamping blog this week.  Karla chose the new Simply Pressed Clay as our product feature and I decided to make fabric flower brooches as gifts for my downline who were attending.  5,500+ Convention attendees all received the same bag (it is an awesome white and silver backpack!) and by attaching these flowers it is easier to make yours stand out.  I pulled out my Big Shot and cut eight layers of muslin flowers using the Flower Medallion framelits and dyed them with a stampin' spritzer filled with coastal caribbean and melon mambo ink refills mixed with rubbing alcohol.  I also used it to color my simply pressed clay flowers that I had made as the centers of the flowers.  These were really fun to put together... I used the Buttons and Blossoms clay molds to create the embellishments.

  Here are close-ups of both flowers... I found it easier to create my clay flowers using the raw white clay and letting it dry and adding color later with the spritzer.  While the ink was still wet, I sprinkled dazzling diamonds on top and once dry I set them with hair spray.

  The Simply Pressed Clay is a wonderful new product to add to your stamping collection and you must purchase the Buttons & Blossoms molds - you'll be amazed how many embellishments you'll be able to make and it is so easy to color them to match any project!  I hope you'll give them a try... place an order via my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order.  For even more inspiration with our Simply Pressed Clay, be sure and hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog after Noon today to see what Karla and Rachel designed this week.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

A few more from my team's Summer Shoe Box swap meeting...

   I am in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the Stampin' Up! 25th anniversary Convention and have been traveling all day... so excited to finally be here and I hope to share photos and information over the next few days.  In the meantime, here are a few more cards from our shoe box swap meeting... enjoy!

Julia Miller created this gorgeous monochromatic card featuring the butterfly from Papillon Potpourri with island indigo and whisper white.

 Kathy Kennedy featured The Open Sea stamp set with early espresso for this great masculine birthday card.

 Kris Burdeaux also created this beautiful monochromatic card in basic black and whisper white featuring the Happy Day stamp set.

And lastly, Sherri Gough's beautiful floral card features wisteria wonder and gumball green with the Best of Flowers anniversary stamp set.

 Thanks for stopping by today!

More from my team's Summer Shoe Box swap meeting...

  Earlier I shared some of the swap cards from my team's annual Summer Shoe Box Swap meeting on this blog post and I wanted to showcase a few more for you this weekend...

 

  Here's Gaylyn Pantana sharing her super-cute macaron punch art card featuring the large oval punch and our new pistachio pudding ruffle trim along with the From My Heart stamp set.

  This is the card that Gaylyn's Mom (and downline member) Georgia Vertican had for us... she was sadly unable to attend at the last minute.  It features the Mixed Bunch stamp set and Naturals Composition specialty designer series paper.

 

  And lastly, this is the card that Gerin Martin came up with for us featuring the Gingham Garden designer paper (be sure to get it this month during the "Buy 3, Get 1 Free" DSP sale) and coordinating Kind & Cozy stamp set.

  Want to see more?  Please be sure to stop back by tomorrow!!  To purchase any of the products shown in the projects above, please hop over to my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order.  Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day! 

 

 

 

A Million and One fabulous thanks

 

  Happy Friday!  This has been one crazy busy week and I apologize for my absence but I'm back today with my Fabulous Friday project for the Sisters in Stamping blog.  This week Rachel asked us to use new Big Shot accessories with our projects and I pulled out the fabulous Deco Label and Circles Collection framelits to create my card.  The stamp set featured is the Million & One Thanks set - I fell in love with this set as soon as I laid eyes on it in the catalog... don't you love that font?!  I also find myself needing a lot of thank you cards so this was a must-have for me.

  I used the "Fabulous" sentiment along with the smaller images from Mosaic Madness with new In Colors pistachio pudding, crisp cantaloupe and coastal caribbean to create my own designer paper background piece.  The "A Million..." sentiment was cut out using the Deco Label framelit, but the next size up created too large of a mat for my card, so I improvised and used the 2-3/4" circle framelit along with the Decorative Label punch to make my own.  I embellished it with a few flowers that I punched out and blinged up with some rhinestone jewels.

  Thanks for visiting my blog today - please be sure and hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what Karla and Rachel came up with today... have a great weekend!  We're spending ours at a swim meet - lots of chlorine and long days!!

  To purchase any of the products used with today's project, please use my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me for assistance with your order.  While you're there, be sure and check out the Buy 3, Get 1 Free designer paper sale.  Thanks!

Supplies used with today's project include:

Stamp sets - Million and One Thanks, Mosaic Madness

Paper - Crisp cantaloupe, coastal caribbean, pistachio pudding, whisper white

Ink - Crisp cantaloupe, coastal caribbean, pistachio pudding

Accessories - Big Shot, Deco Labels framelits, Circles Collection framelits, Square Lattice impressions folder, Decorative Label punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Basic rhinestone jewels, paper snips, glue dots and stampin' dimensionals

 

My Fabulous Friday project just a little late...

  You know the expression "better late than never" - well that is my mantra for my Fabulous Friday submission for this week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog!  We were out of town for the 4th of July visiting family in the Washington, DC area and I did not have time time prepare my project ahead of time - my apologies!

  This week Karla was our host and she chose to have us create a project that featured all five of the new In Colors.  I love these colors and came up with this fun card... I had seen others like this featuring ribbon, but the new stretch trim was causing me fits with the ruffles so I went with good old reliable card stock instead.  I really like the way it turned out and I hope you do, too.  The sentiment is from the Simply Sketched hostess set - I love how it fits so nicely in the large oval punch which I nested with the scallop oval to create my embellishment.  I think I used every In Color at least twice in this card so I consider it a success.

  If you haven't already done so, be sure and hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to see the other great projects for the week.  Thanks for visiting!!  If you would like to purchase any of the products used with today's project, please go to my Stampin' Up! online store or contact me to assist you with your order.  Have a wonderful day!

Supplies used with today's project inclue:

Stamps - Simply Sketched (hostess)

Paper - baked brown sugar, coastal caribbean, crisp cantaloupe, pistachio pudding, strawberry slush and whsiper white

Ink - coastal caribbean

Punches - small heart, scallop oval, large oval

Other Accessories - Big Shot, Hearts collection framelits, Adorning Accents impressions folders, paper piercing tool, 3/8" crisp cantaloupe ruffled stretch trim, basic rhinestone jewels, paper snips, stampin' dimensionals

Happy Birthday, America!!!

To everyone in the U.S. - have a safe and Happy 4th of July!!!!  Happy Birthday, America!