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QE card: Serene Silhouettes sponged sympathy card

  Happy Monday - I hope you had a great weekend!  Lately I am finding myself in need of sympathy cards more often and thought I would create one for this week's Quick & Easy card.  If you've been following my blog for any amount of time, I am sure you have figured out how much I love sponging with a solid image stamp, and this week's card features this technique.  I chose to use the tree image from the Serene Silhouette stamp set and sponged using a color palette of blues - pool party, island indigo and night of navy. 

  I decided to go with a circle cut with my Big Shot and the Circles collection framelits for the sponged panel to mimic the moon in the background, and like the simplicity of it.  

  Here's one more view of my card.  If you would like 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.

  I wanted to also share this version of my card done with crushed curry, cajun craze and cherry cobbler. I love the way the two cards feel so different, just by changing out the colors used for the sponging.  I hope you give this technique a try! 

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Fabulous Friday: birthday pop-up card

    Happy Friday!  I hope you had a fabulous week!!  This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog Rachel asked us to create a pop-up card for our Fabulous Friday designs.  I decided to use a few of the Sale-a-Bration stamp sets to create a fun birthday card, based on a QE card I shared with you last month (see that card here).  When I like a layout, I tend to use it again and again! 

 Once again the main focal point of this card is the gorgeous scripted sentiment from the Botanicals for You stamp set.  I changed up the color palette for this week's card to go along with the colors found in the Have a Cuppa designer paper stack, from which I cut the strip on the front of the card. I really love the way the bermuda bay, melon mambo and wisteria wonder work together with whisper white - such a fun color combination!

  And for the pop-up element on the inside of the card, I used DSP in the Have a Cuppa DSP stack to "color" my balloon images, which are from the Honeycomb Happiness stamp set.  The sentiment is from the Perfect Pairings stamp set and really pops in melon mambo, doesn't it?!  The die cut is from the Lots of Labels framelit collection for the Big Shot.

 

  This photo shows how I mounted my pop-up element - I simply used my Stampin' Trimmer to cut a slit on the fold of the whisper white card stock liner 1-3/4" in from both sides.  I had to make a small score line at the ends and then this little piece folded in (I had to make sure it didn't accidentally get glued down when I attached my liner to the card base).  So easy and such a fun surprise for the recipient!

  Here's one more view of my project... I love these colors together!  For even more pop-up ideas and inspiration, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created.   

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! *

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  Be sure to use Hostess Code DW4HDVSR* with your online orders at checkout through March 15th 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!) 

- 2016 Occasions Catalog items (click HERE to shop) 

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QE card: CASE'd Sassy Salutations birthday card

 

  Happy Monday - I hope you had a great weekend!  We had temperatures in the mid-60's... just a week after we had almost 9 inches of snow.  That's crazy Virginia weather for you!  But now that I have had a taste of spring, I had to create a floral card for this week's Quick & Easy card.  This design is a CASE of a card that my downline and friend Michelle Arthur created for our team shoe box swap last month done in cherry cobbler (which was a CASE of this one by Marsha Lavoie).  I chose to feature the new In Color Delightful Dijon for my card, seeing that the crushed curry baker's twine coordinated beautifully with it.  And I just love the whimsical font in the Sassy Saluations stamp set!  Isn't it fun how the Petite Petals punch playfully creates the flower images with the card stock peeking through?  You could certainly change this up and use DSP in the middle layer instead.

 

  Here's one more view of my card.  If you would like 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.

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Promotions 

  Be sure to use Hostess Code DW4HDVSR* with your online orders at checkout through March 15th 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!) 

- 2016 Occasions Catalog items (click HERE to shop) 

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

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Fabulous Chocolate Chip Mint Macaron flower favor and a bittersweet moment

  Happy Friday!  We are spending the day at my daughter Amanda's State championship meet in Richmond watching her swim in her last high school swim meet.  Swimming has been such a large part of her life for so many years and this photo above was one of her Senior portraits and is one of my favorites.  If you're in the Central Virginia area and need a great photographer, be sure to give Brian Sennett a call - he did a fabulous job with her portraits!

  So this week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog Jennifer asked us to feature the color combination of chocolate chip and mint macaron in our Fabulous Friday projects in honor of National Chocolate Mint day which just happens to be TODAY.  Who even knew that this was a thing?!  That is one of my very favorite flavor combinations and now it will be on my list of fun color combinations!  I decided to create a fun flower embellishment for a baker's box favor.  These are so fun and quick to make and who wouldn't want to receive a gift in one of these cute boxes?!

  I used both the Spiral Flower Originals die for the Big Shot and the Blossoms punch along with the Fringe Scissors to create my flower.  

  I didn't permanently close the lid of my box, but held it shut by wrapping it with a strip of DSP from the It's My Party DSP stack to act as a belly band - the flower is attached at the seam where the strip is glued together to hide it.  The sentiment is from the Party Wishes stamp set - want to know how I got the fancy sides?  I fed it through the decorative label punch!  The "o's" are filled in with mint macaron enamel dots that are part of the It's My Party suite of products from the Occasions catalog.

  Here's one more view of my project... this favor can be changed up for any occasion and I love that it is created with just a single sheet of card stock.  For even more chocolate chip/mint macaron project ideas and inspiration, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created.   

* Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend! *

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  Be sure to use Hostess Code VN4STY74* with your online orders at checkout through February 28th 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!) 

- 2016 Occasions Catalog items (click HERE to shop) 

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

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3 New Sale-a-Bration items and Weekly Deals for week of February 16 - 22, 2016

  Wooo hoooo!  Stampin' Up! announced THREE new Sale-a-Bration items for the remainder of the promotion period through March 31st... here's your chance to earn these for FREE with a $50 qualifying order!!

Metallics Glitter Tape - 141020

Price: $0.00

Pedal Pusher Photopolymer Stamp Set - 141312

Price: $0.00

Party Pants Clear-Mount Stamp Set - 141327

Price: $0.00

Party Pants Wood-Mount Stamp Set - 141324

Price: $0.00

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  And here are the Weekly Deals for this week... 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 VN4STY74* with your online orders at checkout through February 28th 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!) 

- 2016 Occasions Catalog items (click HERE to shop) 

- 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)

                  

 

QE card: Rose Wonder birthday card

  Happy Monday - I hope you had a great Valentine's Day yesterday!  We got a lot of snow overnight so my whole family is enjoying a snow day at home - no school and no work for me!  Here's this week's Quick & Easy card featuring products from the Love Blossoms suite in the Occasions catalog.  I really like the Rose Wonder stamp set and the papers in the Love Blossoms DSP stack are so beautiful!

  Here's one more view of my card.  If you would like 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.

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Promotions 

  Be sure to use Hostess Code VN4STY74* with your online orders at checkout through February 28th 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!) 

- 2016 Occasions Catalog items (click HERE to shop) 

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

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Fabulous Friday Valentine's Day favor

  Happy Friday Saturday!  Yikes, the week really got away from me... between a Regional High School swim meet out of town on Thursday with my girls and a promotion at work (meaning back-to-back meetings all day Friday), I missed getting a post done yesterday.  Better late than never, though, am I right?!  Plus, you'll still have this idea to use in time for Valentine's Day tomorrow!!

  This week over on the Sisters in Stamping blog I asked everyone to create Valentine favors in honor of the big day this weekend.  I created my design based on an Easter one I made a couple of years ago (see this post for instructions and dimensions).  I love chocolate raspberry as a flavor combination so used that as inspiration for my color palette going with chocolate chip and rose red.  The stamp set featured is Groovy Love from the annual catalog - I really love this set - even more because the Sweetheart punch coordinates beautifully with the hearts in this set!  The favor is held closed with velcro and the chocolates stay put in a cello bag.

  Want to know how I created this heart embellishment?  I stamped then punched out 6 hearts and then folded them in half lengthwise.  I then glued them back-to-back to create this 3D heart.  Fun, right?!  The little sentiment was a strip that I cut feeding it through the bottom of the banner punch so that only the notch cut out from it.  I trimmed the other corners off at the "from" end using my paper snips.  

  Here's one more view of my project... this favor can be changed up for any occasion and I love that it is created with just a half sheet of card stock.  For even more Valentine favor ideas and inspiration, please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to check out what the other designers created.   

* Thanks for visiting and have a sweet and Happy Valentine's Day! *

Products used with today's project include:

 

Groovy Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set - 134246

Price: $18.00

Groovy Love Wood-Mount Stamp Set - 134243

Price: $25.00

Sweetheart Punch - 133786

Price: $16.00

Hearts Border Punch - 133784

Price: $16.00

Banner Punch - 133519

Price: $13.00

Silver 1/8" Ribbon - 132137

Price: $5.00

Neutrals 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 131191

Price: $7.00

Rose Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 102544

Price: $7.00

Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad - 126954

Price: $6.50

Paper Snips - 103579

Price: $10.00

Stampin' Trimmer - 126889

Price: $30.00

Simply Scored - 122334

Price: $30.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue - 110755

Price: $4.00

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  Be sure to use Hostess Code U2JJWEEN* with your online orders at checkout through February 14th 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!) 

- 2016 Occasions Catalog items (click HERE to shop) 

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

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New Weekly Deals for February 9 - 15, 2016

  Stampin' Up! announced the new Weekly Deals for this week...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! 

 

Weekly Deals

February 9 - 15, 2016

  

Baker's Box Thinlits Dies - 138279

Sale: $24.75

Price: $33.00

Bermuda Bay Sequin Trim - 137910

Sale: $3.75

Price: $5.00

Blossom Bunch Punch - 140612

Sale: $13.50

Price: $18.00

Butterfly Basics Wood Stamp Set-Mount - 138813

Sale: $36.00

Price: $48.00

Crushed Curry Baker's Twine - 134586

Sale: $2.25

Price: $3.00

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If you love making little favors, the Baker's Box thinlits is a must-have!!  Remember this one that I posted a few weeks ago?  You can make these with just a single piece of card stock and they come together so easily and quickly!

 

 

Check out this video from Stampin' Up! (if you are reading this in an email, click this link here):

 

  

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Promotions 

  Be sure to use Hostess Code U2JJWEEN* with your online orders at checkout through February 14th 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!) 

- 2016 Occasions Catalog items (click HERE to shop) 

- 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)

                  

 

QE card: You've Got This card

  Happy Monday - I hope you had a fabulous weekend!!  We spent ours at the pool watching my son Brandon compete in a swim meet (he won the 100 fly and had some personal best times so it was a good one) and then ended it watching the Super Bowl last night.  Were you happy with the outcome?  I was hoping Carolina could pull out a win but sadly it just wasn't meant to be this year. Speaking of sad, do you ever need a card to send to a friend who is going through a hard time?  This week's Quick & Easy card is just what you need... it features the You've Got This stamp set and 2015-2017 In Colors from the annual catalog. 

  It's very difficult to photograph, but I used the Wink of Stella gold glitter brush in the center of my flower.  It looks great in real life with lots of shimmer!  Instead of coloring the flower, I stamped the image on watermelon wonder card stock and cut it out.  I like the way it turned out.

 For the foliage I just colored in the image with a cucumber crush stampin' write marker.  

  Here's one more view of my card.  If you would like 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.

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Promotions 

  Be sure to use Hostess Code U2JJWEEN* with your online orders at checkout through February 14th 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

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Fabulous Friday Wildflower Blossoms get well card

  Happy Friday!  I hope you've had a great week and are looking forward to some football this weekend!  I don't know which I enjoy more, the actual game or the fun commercials that are shown during the Super Bowl... how about you?  This week for our Fabulous Friday projects Karla chose get well cards as the theme over on the Sisters in Stamping blog.  I decided to open and use my Wildflower Fields DSP that is a Sale-a-Bration selection this year and paired it with the Birthday Blossoms and A Dozen Thoughts stamp sets from the annual catalog.  This card is inspired by a beautiful card that my friend Missy Shipman shared recently.  I love the diagonal fold and flowers anchoring it. 

Wildflower Fields DSP

  Look at all the gorgeous prints in this Wildflower Fields DSP pack - and you can earn it for FREE with your qualifying $50 purchase during Sale-a-Bration now through March 31st!!

  I also embellished the inside of the card with a flower and leaf image.  The flower was cut out using the Pansy punch (LOVE that!) and I fussy-cut the leaves.

 

  Here's one more view of my project... this card is a super-easy layout and one I'll be using again and again.  For even more get well card ideas please be sure to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog later this afternoon.   

* Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful weekend! *

Promotions 

 

  Be sure to use Hostess Code U2JJWEEN* with your online orders at checkout through January 31st 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)