Last weekend, I did a presentation at the Northwest Women’s Show that was based around the idea that you can take one of the many scrapbook sketches out there and use them even if you are not a scrapbooker. I don’t know about you, but while I like designing cards, sometimes my brain just isn’t…
If you are on my mailing list, you’ve seen this card with my last newsletter but I love it so much that I had to share it on my blog too! Now, I’ve done the window frame style card before (like this card) but I really wanted to play around with using the new Labels…
Have you ever looked at your stash of supplies, whether scrapbooking paper or office supplies, and realized you had more than you thought? That was me after organizing my craft room at the end of last year. So I joined a group of girl friends in declaring a 100-project challenge! For this challenge, you…
I hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day! My day was like pretty much everyday except my hubby was super sweet and let me sleep in a little in the morning. He even fed Nicholas breakfast while I slept! That was an awesome enough gift for me. Well, as evidenced by my just getting my…
Every catalog since Stampin’ Up! started offering the Big Shot, they have offered new dies in all kinds of shapes and sizes. This time around, the Occasion Mini catalog offered the Petal Cone Bigz die. My mom ended up getting it and so I had to play with it myself. The die itself actually punches…
Last Saturday was my latest holiday Stamp-a-Stack. Since I had a few folks who had been to my first class, I decided to shake things up and play with some new products and designs. Turns out, I love these cards and had so much fun sharing them with my ladies. So I thought I would…
When I was first playing with my letterpress plates and trying out different inks and paper, I ended up with extra pieces as samples. This Trick or Treat was one of the pieces I made using Confetti White paper and classic Pumpkin Pie ink. It turned out pretty well, so I had set it aside…
This summer, I discovered at one of those big box fabric stores, some pocket calendars at a rediculously low price. So, I just had to pick some up (I’m such a sucker for a good sale). The calendars ran August 2010-July 2011 and so I thought they would be perfect for me to keep in…
As I mentioned last week, I received the new Letterpress Dies and made my first card using the method recommended on the packaging. However, I’m not always good with rules and recommendations and so I had to start experimenting myself with how these dies worked with different inks, paper, and BigShot “sandwich” combinations. I wanted…
If you’ve seen the holiday mini, you’ve seen one of the new products Stampin’ Up! just released – the Letterpress Plates. These plates are made to use with your BigShot and instead of embossing your image by causing the pattern to raise up off your paper, these plates deboss your image – making empressed images…
I’m back from a trip to Salt Lake City for the 2010 Stampin’ Up! convention with my Mom and upline, Kathy, my dad, and my son. I love the chance to go meet other demonstrators, including folks whose names I’ve seen on emails but now I got to meet in person, hang out with friends,…
So, the May scrapbooking promotion was the kick in the pants I needed to commit to getting the rough type alphabet stamp set. I loved the idea of a high quality clear mount alphabet but was initially on the fence. Well, the incentive of free designer brads was enough for me to just go for…