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Fabulous Friday Pretty Petals purse note card set holder

  Happy Friday and thanks for visiting!  This week for Fabulous Friday over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we  are featuring note card sets with a holder designed to be a gift set.  I created a set of note cards last week and designed this "purse" holder for them this week featuring the same Pretty Petals Designer Series Paper (DSP).

  Here is another view of the "purse" that I designed - it is basically a box created with one sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" card stock with handles.

  I embellished the front of my purse holder using the Papillion Potpourri and Another Thank You stamp sets along with some fun paper flowers.  I love that the butterfly punches coordinate beautifully with the stamp set.  

  For even more note card set and holder DSP project ideas and inspiration with our Stampin' Up! products, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog later this afternoon. 

Products used with today's project include:

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* Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous weekend *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code HEM4TJMJ with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me.

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New Weekly Deals for week of July 28 - August 3, 2015

  Stampin' Up! announced the new Weekly Deals for this week...there's a great assortment of ribbon and other embellishments!!  But be sure to shop early as there is a limited supply of these items at these sale prices!!  Don't forget to use the Hostess Code to qualify to receive this week's QE card as a thank you!

 

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

 

* Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful rest of your day *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2* with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me. (*Note - if your merchandise total is $150+, please do NOT use the Hostess Code so you get the Stampin' Rewards!)

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop)

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)

Quick & Easy Go Wild Groovy Love SC109 card

  Happy Monday!  Here is my Quick & Easy card for this week featuring the Groovy Love stamp set with its fun heart images and the Go Wild DSP stack.  I used the SC109 sketch from the Stampin' Celebration blog for my card layout and really like the way it turned out.  This is a GREAT way to use up your DSP scraps!!

Above is the sketch challenge for this week - I really like it, don't you?

  Here's another view of my card... If you want to receive the project sheet for this week's card please make sure you're subscribed to my newsletter before Wednesday morning when it goes out to my subscribers.  You can easily add your email address in the subscriber box in the upper right section of my blog to have your name added to my distribution list.

* Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful rest of your day *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2* with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me. (*Note - if your merchandise total is $150 or greater, please do NOT use the hostess code so you can get the Stampin' Rewards for yourself!)

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop) - remember that these are offered in limited supplies... once they are gone, the pricing reverts back

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)

Fabulous Friday CASE'd Pretty Petals thank you card set

  Happy Friday and thanks for visiting!  This week for Fabulous Friday over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we  are featuring Designer Series Paper (DSP) in our creations this week.  I saw a set of cards recently on Pinterest with a simple but fabulous design and decided I wanted to CASE it using the Pretty Petals DSP stack. I kept mine very simple and flat so they would be easy to mail. This designer paper is GORGEOUS!!  Next week for Fabulous Friday I'll be sharing a fun gift box I created to hold these cards.

  This is Krystal De Leeuw's design above which I just loved and had to CASE.  Find it pinned here.

  For even more DSP project ideas and inspiration with our Stampin' Up! products, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog later this afternoon. 

* Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous weekend *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2 with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me.

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop)

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)

New Weekly Deals from Stampin' Up! for week of July 21-27, 2015

  Stampin' Up! announced the new Weekly Deals for this week...there's a good assortment of ribbon and it's a great time to pick up some fast fuse refills, Big Shot accessories and card stock packs for your projects.  But be sure to shop early as there is a limited supply of these items at these sale prices!!  Don't forget to use the Hostess Code to qualify to receive this week's QE card as a thank you!

* Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful rest of your day *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2 with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me.

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop)

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)

Quick & Easy By The Tide Anniversary card

  Happy Monday!  Here is my Quick & Easy card for this week featuring the By the Tide stamp set with its great ocean-themed images and I used three of the new In Colors along with very vanilla for my color scheme.  My husband Joe and I are celebrating our 24th wedding anniversary today and I wanted to create a special card for him.  Quick and easy can still be special, right, because it was made with love!

  Here's another view of my card... If you want to receive the project sheet for this week's card please make sure you're subscribed to my newsletter before Wednesday morning when it goes out to my subscribers.  You can easily add your email address in the subscriber box in the upper right section of my blog to have your name added to my distribution list.

* Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful rest of your day *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2 with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me.

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop) - remember that these are offered in limited supplies... once they are gone, the pricing reverts back

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)

Beautiful Bunch Sorority Sketch #2 thank you cards

  Happy Saturday!  I recently stumbled onto the Sorority Sketches blog where Kristin is deconstructing cards from the Annual Stampin' Up! catalog and creating a card sketch layout each week.  This week's Sketch #2 is this one...

  I decided to try this sketch and since the deadline to link up is today I designed these cards on my lunch hour yesterday with limited supplies.  I have my retired Texture Boutique on my desk (because you never know when you need to add texture to something!) and luckily had the current Large Polka Dot impressions folder to use along with some assorted card stock and inks (I bring the ink spots from My Paper Pumpkin kits each month to keep in my desk drawer).  However, I had no DSP, so I just created my own with stamps and ink on whisper white card stock!

  

   Since we no longer have the color coach, I tried out this great site that helps you put color combinations together:  Create, Ink Color Lab.  The colors I wanted to feature were pear pizzazz, whisper white and perfect plum and I decided to try the third option which included marina mist and blushing bride.  This is a great interactive site and best of all, it is FREE to use! 

 

  Here's a close-up view of the pear pizzazz card which is the first one I created.  I wasn't quite sure if I liked it or not so got some input from my sister Cindy and friend Debbie W.  They suggested I try it with either a perfect plum or blushing bride base... 

  And here is the perfect plum version.  I changed the sentiment ink to Memento Tuxedo Black ink so that it would stand out more.

  And this is my blushing bride version.  In order to not have the large flower washed out on the blushing bride background, I changed the ink color to perfect plum.

  Are you like me and keep some stamping supplies in a desk drawer at work?  There have been countless times that I wanted to cheer up a co-worker, or give someone a birthday or thank you card and having these supplies at hand has made it super-easy to whip up a quick card during my lunch break. 

  So, which card is your favorite?  I think I am leaning toward the perfect plum card... Debbie and Cindy prefer the blushing bride card.  That's what makes color so great... it can totally change the project and is such a personal thing!  

* Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful rest of your day *

Products used with today's project include: 

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

 

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2 with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me.

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop) - remember that these are offered in limited supplies... once they are gone, the pricing reverts back

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)

Fabulous striped ribbon flower birthday card

  Happy Friday and thanks for visiting!  This week for Fabulous Friday over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we designed projects that feature ribbon.  I decided to create a card with a focal point of Bermuda Bay 1-14" striped grosgrain ribbon.  I'm an 80's girl and just love this combination of Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo and whisper white! 

  Here is a close-up of the flower (cut using my Big Shot with the Floral Frames framelits and magnetic platform) - I covered a scrap piece of card stock with my ribbon and popped it up behind the cut-out with stampin' dimensionals.  The Vintage Faceted button with pearl jewel looks great as my flower center, too, doesn't it?!

  Here's another view of my favor... I stamped my sentiment and notched the edges of the card stock strip.  It was kind of getting lost on the whisper white background so I edged it with a Bermuda Bay marker to make it pop a little more.  I love my 80's throwback card!

  For even more ribbon project ideas and inspiration with our Stampin' Up! products, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog later this afternoon. 

* Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous weekend *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2 with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me.

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop)

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)

Big Shot purse featuring the new Boho Chic texture folder

  Happy Thursday!  Last week for Fabulous Friday over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we designed projects that featured new Big Shot accessories.  I have only purchased the Boho Chic and Brick Wall texture folders so far (but have many on my wish list!) so I created a cute purse favor that features the new Boho Chic folder and Bohemian DSP and Spiral Flower die for the Big Shot.  After putting my blog post together, I went to look up all the product information and lo and behold the Purse Favor die was NOT in the catalog!  WHAT?!  How did I miss that this die retired?  Anyway, I had to come up another project (which is why my blog post was late) but still wanted to share this project with you.

  Here is a close-up of the flower embellishment on the purse - I used my Fringe Scissors to add the center.  The colors in the Bohemian DSP are just gorgeous, aren't they?!

  Here's another view of my favor... all you have to do to get to the candy is lift the flap under the flower.  These would be fun favors for a Bridal Shower, don't you think?!

* Thanks for letting me share *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2 with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me.

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop)

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)

New Weekly Deals from Stampin' Up! for week of July 14-20, 2015

  Stampin' Up! announced the new Weekly Deals for this week...there's a great assortment of fun embellishments at big savings this week! It's also a great time to pick up some DSP stacks for your cardmaking projects.  But be sure to shop early as there is a limited supply of these items at these sale prices!!  Don't forget to use the Hostess Code to qualify to receive this week's QE card as a thank you!

* Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful rest of your day *

Promotions

 Be sure to use Hostess Code YPHQ6XR2 with your online orders at checkout through July 30th to receive my Quick & Easy card of the week. Spend $50+ and choose any single tutorial from these as a gift from me.

- Weekly Deals (click HERE to shop)

- Clearance Rack (click HERE to shop)