Unfrogettable Stamping!

Love is in the air and it's Fabulous!!!

  Happy Friday and welcome back for another edition of Fabulous Friday!!  This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog Karla wanted us to participate in the Colour Q color challenge #226:

  I love this color combination - it's perfect for Valentine's Day!  So I came up with a Love frame that is one of the projects in my "It's All About the Hearts" Valentine's Day class on Saturday, Feb. 8th (there's still time to sign up!).

  Here's a close-up... I relied on my trusty Big Shot to help put this together pretty easily!  Not much stamping besides creating the background with the Creative Elements stamp set.

  For even more inspiration with this color challenge, be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog later this afternoon to see what Karla and Rachel came up with this week!!  Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous weekend!  I'll be celebrating Sale-a-Bration... I still have room at my Sale-a-Bration Kick-Off open house tomorrow, just be sure to RSVP by 5 pm today for either the morning session (10 am-noon) or the afternoon session (1-3 pm).  Thanks and hope to see you there!!  Can't make it but want to place an order?  Either contact me to place your order for you  or place it online via my Stampin Up! store (just be sure to use Hostess Code CVWGAD2M) by Sunday, February 2nd.  I'll send you the two make-n-takes as a thank you for your order!

Time to Sale-a-Brate with a new Weekly Deal!!!

  Aren't Tuesdays great?!  We get a new Weekly Deal from Stampin' Up! and today is even more special because it marks the beginninng of Sale-a-Bration!!  Below you'll find the items sale priced at 25% off this week... stock up and hit $50 to earn your FREE Sale-a-Bration item!!!

  Don't forget about my Sale-a-Bration Kick-Off Open House this Saturday!!!  You need to RSVP for a specific time (Morning or Afternoon session) so I'll have enough materials prepped for the FREE make-n-takes.  Hope to see you there!!

Our biggest promotion of the year, Sale-a-Bration, has begun!!

Earn an exclusive Sale-a-Bration item for FREE with a qualifying $50 purchase now through March 31st!!

  It's finally here - the biggest promotion of the Stampin' Up! year!!!  Sale-a-Bration officially starts today and runs through March 31st.  Earn a FREE item of your choosing from the Sale-a-Bration (SAB) brochure with every qualifying $50+ merchandise order.  Did you receive your SAB brochure in the mail?  If not, let me know if you'd like one... I have plenty!  The selections this year are sure to please!!  I have used four of the products with my card above - can you name them? (Hint - see below...)

1. Sweet Sorbet designer series paper, #133521 ($10.95 value)

2. Banner Blast stamp set, WM #133551 ($19.95 value)

           or CM #133554 ($13.95 value)

3. Coordinating Banner punch, #133519 ($12.95 value)

4. Big Shot Decorative Dots textured impressions folder, #133520 ($7.95 value)

  If you are in the Central Virginia area this Saturday, February 1st, please drop by for my Sale-a-Bration Kick-Off Open House!  Just be sure to RSVP for either the 10-Noon morning session or 1-3 pm afternoon session.  Bring a friend that is new to me and you both will receive a thank you gift and extra door prize ticket!!  I hope to see you this weekend!!  

  Can't make it but want to place an order?  Either contact me to place your order for you by Sunday, February 2nd or place it online via my Stampin Up! store.... just be sure to use Hostess Code CVWGAD2M.  I'll send you the two make-n-takes as a thank you for your order!

Thanks for visiting me today... have a fabulous day!

Clean and Simple sympathy card featuring the Blessed Easter tulips

  Too often these days I am finding myself in need of a sympathy card and flower images just seem to go so well with this type of card.  I wanted to share another non-Easter card idea with the beautiful tulips from the Blessed Easter stamp set in the Occasions catalog (remember this one I shared earlier?).  It really does make it easier to stamp just the tulips since I mounted them separately from the sentiment.  Priced at just $11.95, this single stamp is a great value!  You could easily make several of these cards to have on hand and stamp different sentiments on them since this is such a classic layout... Valentine's Day, Anniversary, Birthday, Graduation and Get Well.  Please see below for a list of supplies used and dimensions for cutting your card stock.  I hope you give it a try!

Supplies used with today's project include:

- Blessed Easter stamp set, #133212 $11.95 (Occasions catalog)

- Love & Sympathy stamp set WM, #128652 $15.95 or

   Love & Sympathy stamp set CM, #122797 $11.95

- Very Vanilla 8-1/2" x 11" card stock, #101650 $8.50

   (11" x 4-1/4" scored at 5-1/2" and 4-3/4" x 3-1/2")

- Real Red 8-1/2" x 11" card stock, #102482 $6.95 (5" x 3-3/4")

- Jet black StazOn ink pad, #101406 $7.95

- Real Red stampin' write marker, #100052 $3.50

- Pear Pizzazz stampin' write marker, #131266 $3.50

- Real Red 1/4" stitched grosgrain ribbon, #126875 $4.95

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  Place your order online via my Stampin' Up! store or contact me to assist you with your order.  Have a $50+ order?  Sale-a-Bration starts on Jan. 28th and you can earn an exclusive item for FREE!  Contact me for more information!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a fabulous day!

 

 

 

Fabulous Sweet Sorbet sticky notes holder

 

  Happy Friday and TGIF!  It is FREEZING here in Central Virginia, how is it where you are?  I plan to stay in all weekend so I can stay warm and have some fun creating in my stamping studio!!  To get the creative juices started I made this sticky notes holder for Fabulous Friday over on the Sisters in Stamping blog.  Rachel asked us to design a non-card project featuring Sale-a-Bration items since this awesome promotion starts on Tuesday (can I hear a WOO HOOO?!).  I chose to use the gorgeous Sweet Sorbet designer series paper pack as well as the You're Lovely stamp set - both available for FREE with a qualifying $50 purchase from January 28th - March 31st.  Can you tell what the base of this sticky notes holder is?  It is a 4" x 6" acrylic picture frame.  

  Here is a full-on shot of the project - when I first opened this pack of paper I was a little stumped by the black piece but I really like how it turned out as the base of my project.  The crisp cantaloupe ruffled ribbon really makes the lighter colors in the DSP pop.

    I used to just apply sticky strip to the back of a 3" x 3" sticky notes pack and put it directly on the picture frame but find that by putting it in this little card stock holder it is protected and easy to switch out once the pad is done.  I attached a small piece of velcro so that it will stay shut on my desk.  It allows me to embellish it a little more...

  You can see two other designs from this paper pack in my flower layers which were punched out with the Blossom, Boho Blossom and Itty Bitty Shapes punches... fun, right?!  I crumpled the layers once I punched them out to add a little texture and embellished the center with a rhinestone jewel for some bling.  The leaves behind the flower are from the Bird builder punch.

  Here is a close-up of one of two images from the You're Lovely stamp set.  I stamped it twice, once in crisp cantaloupe and once with black StazOn which I colored with markers and punched out with the 1-3/4" circle punch.  Do you know that this image coordinates perfectly with the Deco Labels framelits pack for the Big Shot?  I also used my decorative label punch and added the pistachio pudding layer beneath it.

  I had some DSP left over from my sheet so altered this mini clipboard with it and added a notepad which I embellished with a coordinating piece of DSP and the crisp cantaloupe ruffled ribbon.  These are fun additions to my desk!!

  For even more inspiration and to get you excited about Sale-a-Bration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what Rachel and Karla came up with this week.  Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend... here's wishing that you stay warm and find time to stamp!!!

Another Great Year birthday card featuring Fresh Prints

  I participated in a mail-in swap with a fabulous group of demonstrators across the U.S. and Canada earlier this month and this is one of the cards I submitted for the Occasions catalog swap.  It features the fun stamp set called Another Great Year as well as my new favorite DSP - Fresh Prints stack.  The colors are so fun - coastal cabana, real red, crumb cake, sahara sand and whisper white.  Be prepared to see a LOT of samples using this paper!!  I love how the large sentiment fits perfectly in my Big Shot Top Note die.  Look, I even fussy cut the cupcake and you know how much I dislike cutting, but it sure made the card, don't you think?!  It is sparkly with dazzling diamonds on the "icing" - not sure my camera captured that.  I also added a rhinestone jewel to do the "i" in birthday.

Products used:

Stamp set:  Another Great Year

Paper:  crumb cake, whisper white, real red, Fresh Prints DSP stack

Ink:  coastal cabana

Markers:  real red, coastal cabana, crumb cake

Accessories:  Big Shot, Top Note bigz die, 2-way glue pen, dazzling diamonds, stampin' dimensionals, paper snips

  If you'd like to purchase any of the products used with today's project, please visit my Stampin' Up! online store here or contact me to assist you with your order.  All online orders earn a free single tutorial from HERE as a thank you.  Place a $50+ order and earn a stampin' reward punch.

Awesome Bonus for new Paper Pumpkin subscribers who sign up by Feb. 10th!!!!

  If you haven't tried the Paper Pumpkin kit subscription program that Stampin' Up! rolled out last year, this free offer might entice you... NEW subscribers who join by February 10th will receive a FREE pack of 2011-2013 In Color markers (a $14.95 value!) with their first kits.  WOOO HOOOOO!!!  And please choose me as your Demonstrator (Debbie Naylor in Lynchburg, Virginia) when you decide to subscribe... to show my appreciation, I will be sending a project sheet to all subscribers starting this month with some alternative projects to make with your stamp set from the kit.  So not only will you have an idea from the kit, but you'll get additional ideas, too!!  Won't it be fun to have a creative surprise show up in your mailbox each month?!

  Have questions?  Contact me and I'll be happy to answer them for you!!  But hurry, the special offer for the FREE marker set ends February 10th!!!  

TGIF... time to share my Fabulous Friday candy favor!

  TGIF and Happy Friday!!!  I have never been so happy to see Friday roll around... it has been one tough week.  I flew home from the Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference in Houston on Sunday afternoon exhausted from a whirlwind trip (TOTALLY worth it - so much fun and I learned a lot) and then have worked 9-1/2 hour days every day this week trying to get caught up and cover a co-worker's absence in the office.  PHEW!  How about you - have you had a hard week?  And now I'm happy to share this little candy favor for Fabulous Friday over on the Sisters in Stamping blog... stamping therapy is always a great cure for stress, don't you agree?!

  I decided I wanted to make a little pocket holder for some Pixy Sticks that I had in my candy drawer... you can actually make two of these from one sheet of card stock.  It features the Quatrefancy specialty designer series paper.  I will work on a tutorial this weekend and get it posted for you. 

 

 

  The flap is held shut with a belly band I created from a 1/2" piece of strawberry slush card stock and embellished with a heart punched out of whisper white card stock.  I added texture with the Perfect Polka Dots impressions folder with my Big Shot and sponged strawberry slush ink around the edges to make it pop.  I added the "For You" sentiment from the Itty Bitty Banners stamp set and put a little rhinestone in the corner for some bling.

  For even more inspiration, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog later this afternoon.  Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend! 

Fabulous Peachy Keen bundle from the new Occasions catalog!

  Happy Friday!  I am currently in Houston for a Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference but wanted to share my Fabulous Friday project with you today.  Have you had a chance to check out the fabulous new Occasions catalog?  There are quite a few great bundles (at a savings of 15%!!) and that is the product theme for our projects this week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog.

  I chose the Peachy Keen bundle to feature this week because who doesn't love Polaroid pictures?!  You get a fun stamp set and coordinating framelits collection for the Big Shot with this one...

  My color scheme for the card was pulled from the gorgeous new Watercolor Wonder designer series paper which features a palette of crushed curry, daffodil delight, gumball green, island indigo, smoky slate, tangerine tango and whisper white. 

  I thought it would be fun to make the Bird builder punch the focus of the photo...

  I hope you found some inspiration here today and will check out the bundles (and everything else!) in the new Occasions catalog.  View it in a .pdf file by clicking on it in the sidebar menu to the left.  Need one mailed to you?  Send me your address and I will be happy to send one to you!!  Want to place an order?  Visit my Stampin' Up! online store here or contact me to assist you with your order.  All online orders during January are eligible to choose one single tutorial for FREE as a thank you from me.  I will also be holding an Open House to kick off this new catalog AND Sale-a-Bration later this month so stay tuned!!

  Thanks for stopping by today!  Please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what Rachel and Karla came up with this week.  Have a fabulous weekend!!

Happy New Year! Check out my Fabulous Blessed Easter card...

  Happy New Year and Happy Friday!!  I took some time off to enjoy the holidays with my family and I hope you did, too.  I did spend time in my stamping studio creating with some of the fabulous new products from the brand new Occasions catalog (which debuted today!!) that I preordered during December - I *love* this perk we demonstrators get!! 

 

  This week on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring stamp sets from the Occasions catalog for our Fabulous Friday projects and I just had to share one I made using the new single stamp Blessed Easter (#133212, $11.95) and Hardwood (#133032, $17.95) background stamp.  I absolutely love red tulips and wanted to be able to use this stamp for more than just Easter cards so I cut my stamp prior to mounting it to give me more versatility...

I mounted the flowers on one side of the wood block off-set like so with the sentiment sticker...

And the sentiment stamp on the other side with the tulips sticker like so...

 Pretty cool, right?!  And then I used Fall-to-Layout #203 from the Clean & Simple Stamping blog to design my card...

  To take it a step further, I even embossed the tulips so they are raised - it's a little hard to see it in the photo but it is super-cool in real life!  To create this look, use the smaller end of an embossing stylus (I just grabbed mine from my Simply Scored scoring tool) to outline what you want to pop (I did the petals of the flowers and the leaves) from the top of the paper on a foam pad.  Next, flip the piece over and use the larger end of the embossing stylus to rub inside those lines which actually embosses the image.  It is critical that you do all of this on a foam pad so there is some give... the Stampin' Pierce Mat is perfect for the job!  To finish off the card, I added some additional texture with the Square Lattice impressions folder and my Big Shot to the Apothecary Accents framelit and some pearls.

 

  I was pretty happy with the way this card turned out... hope you like it, too!  For even more inspiration from the Occasions catalog, be sure and hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to see what Karla and Rachel came up with this week.  Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!  I'll be spending mine at the pool... another swim meet weekend!!

  To purchase any of the products used with today's project, please contact me to assist you with your order or place it online via my Stampin' Up! store.  All online orders are eligible to choose a free single tutorial from THESE HERE as a "Thank You!"

Products used with today's project include:

Stamps:  Blessed Easter, Hardwood, Petite Pairs

Paper:  whisper white, wild wasabi, soft suede, real red

Ink:  Jet black StazOn, soft suede, real red, wild wasabi

Markers:  real red, wild wasabi

Accessories:  Big Shot, Square Lattice impressions folder, Apothecary Accents framelits, Ovals Collection framelits, stampin' sponges, stampin' dimensionals, Pearl accent jewels, Simply Scored stylus, stampin' pierce mat