Do you love getting a deal? Really, who doesn’t, right? Well, after Stampin’ Up! announced last week that they were going to have a Flash Sale each Thursday in October (basically one day only sales on some product in the online store), I thought that was it for the extra deals this month. Whelp, I was wrong! They just posted this morning that each Tuesday they are starting weekly deals as well! Now I’ll admit I think I’m going to go just a little bit cross-eyed trying to keep all the deals straight, the good news is that between … Read More
Quick & Easy Thank You Card for a new Design Team!
Today is the kick off for a new blog that I’m excited to be a design team member for – Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration! It is a blog that will have daily posts to help give you new ideas and project challenges to inspire new ideas for you to try at home! Most of the posts will have a particular theme and have many of the design team members showing you different takes on that theme. Fun, right? So, the theme for today was Quick & Easy Cards and you know that is right up my alley! I love clean and … Read More
Pair Up Those Punches!
When they announced the Color Refresh and told us that 10 colors were going to be retiring, I looked at the list and was a little sad but overall thought that I didn’t use the colors that much and so I wasn’t going to miss them too much. Well, then I decide to pull out the colors and make a card with them…. who knew they were so cute together!?! Colors used: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, River Rock, Bashful Blue, Pretty In Pink Colors used: Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, More Mustard, Bravo Burgundy, Not Quite Navy These are my … Read More
LAST DAY!! Sale-a-Bration Send Off: Pretty Petites
Well, its been a fun couple of weeks and now here we are on the LAST DAY of Sale-a-Bration. So, if you have been thinking of signing up as a demonstrator and getting the extra 25% worth of stamping supplies for free….. check out the perks and then hit the JOIN NOW button on the left to get going! If you have those last couple Sale-a-Bration exclusive stamps or items (like the awesome Sycamore Street ribbon and button pack) that you were meaning to get….. knock some items off your wishlist in the online store and pick out those last … Read More
Sycamore St Scrapbook Layout: Great Grandparents
Some incredibly talented girls I know started a paper crafting challenge blog a year ago called The Paper Girls Challenge Blog. They post challenges twice a month for fun and (sometimes) prizes. Well, I was so honored to be asked by them to be one of two guest designers this month – so I totally know what cool challenge is coming up later this month… and no, I’m not going to tell you. hee hee! Anyway, today is their first challenge for February and it was: Use Twine in Your Project! Ta da! Now, their challenge doesn’t have to be … Read More
Size Doesn’t Always Matter!
It is easy for me to make my cards to the standard card base size; sometimes mixing it up with a square 4 1/4” x 4 1/4”. But usually sticking with my basic because it is so efficient with cardstock. (for me, a standard card base is 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” – if a visual helps, I have a post on cutting a standard card base here) Well, sometimes, I have a vision of a card in my head and as I create it I discover that it totally does NOT fit the standard size. But when I finish, … Read More
It’s the Styling Stampin’ Squad January Blog Hop!
Alright, this is my second month with the crew of talented stampers and this month we are sharing project ideas using items from the new Spring catalog and Sale-a-Bration items. Because who doesn’t like fun ideas with new stuff? Well, I have a couple quick projects for you and I hope they inspire some new ideas for you. First up is a little card… I call it a calling card because it is actually significantly smaller than a standard card front. I made these to send with some spring catalogs and SAB catalogs I was mailing out. Something quick, cute, … Read More