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  • My Sweet Sanded Valentine

    I needed a card last week for my stamp club and I was getting stuck in a rut with always turning to flowers to stamp with.  But then my friend, Annie, came over and reminded me about the cute designer frames embossing folder set and I saw my Love You More stamp set and suddenly things started coming together.  I won’t tell you how long I futzed with the final elements trying to decide – should the bird have pink or just red, should the stamped frame be at an angle or straight, should the ribbon be near the top or down near the bird…. but eventually I settled on this!  : )

    I even broke out the Alphabet Press embossing folder (on sale this week with the weekly deals!) for the background.  I’ve had this folder for a while but keep forgetting to try it out.  Doesn’t it sand awesomely?

    And for the finishing touch, I just had to use the “Made with Love” sentiment from the same set to complete the card by stamping it on the back.

    Sweet right?

    Just a reminder, if you love this set, it is only available until January 27th.  It’s not in a catalog but you can find it in the Valentine’s Product’s section in the Online Store.

    Stampin’ Up Supplies Used
    Stamps – Love You More
    Ink – Real Red, Markers: Real Red, Smokey Slate, Basic Black, Blushing Bride
    Paper – Brights Core’dination cardstock (Real Red), Whisper White, Basic Black
    Accessories – Alphabet Press embossing folder, Big Shot, Designer Frames embossing folder, Sanding Block, Naturals Chevron ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals

    Oh, and want to see a cute variation that uses all the same supplies, just switching out the sentiment with one from Happy Watercolor?  Look what Saundra came up with at club night:

    You may me happy sanded alphabet card

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  • Some Valentine Treat Fun for a Blog Hop

    Thank you so much for joining us for our January Stylin’ Stampin’ Squad Blog Hop!  Love is in the air and our talented group of design team members have a Whole Lotta Love Goin’ On as we are excited to be sharing some NEW Occasions Catalog goodies and some Valentine’s Day projects with you this month!

    As you hop along, please be sure to comment and show some love on every blog!  We are always excited to hear from our followers!

    You should have just left stop number 15 on the Stylin’ Stampin’ Squad blog hop – the fabulous Annie Lee. If so, you are in the right spot. If a link doesn’t work or you get off track, you will find  the full blog hop lineup below.

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    So, for the blog hop today, I started and stopped on at least 2 different projects and designs.  Normally that wouldn’t be a bad thing, but with all the crunching to get ready for Leadership, it meant a little last minute creating.

    Thankfully the first project I have to share I was able to get done early!

    A “Wheely” Cool Valentine Card

    I recently got this Love You More Valentine’s Day stamp set and just love this globe image.  But the part that I really thought was fun with this card was the red flowers on the right side of the card front.

    Know what it is?

    Yup, a WHEEL STAMP!  Betsy’s Bloom is the name.  It’s been ages since I pulled them out, but they sure do make a striking background for your card sometime using exactly the color you want.

    Add a bit of ribbon for a finishing touch (and to cover up if you rolled your wheel a little less than exactly straight, ha ha! Winking smile )

    Send a Valentine Treat this Year

    I had one more idea that I wanted to create to share today.  It was an idea in my head that I didn’t have time to complete it before heading to the airport so I punched out a few shapes, grabbed some paper, ink, and stamps… and headed to Houston.

    Turns out, I got to my hotel and set out to create the idea in my head and I discovered that I left my paper trimmer at home.  Oops!  So, check out the ideas and don’t mind the not quite perfect cuts since I had to make due with my little paper snips for all the paper in the project other than the red Chevrons (Chevron punch) and the Heart (lg Full Heart Punch)!

    The idea for this project is a little treat you can send or give to a special someone.  It’s another stamp set from the Love You More set again… I was inspired by the arrow images and thought I would turn a small Hershey bar into it’s own love arrow!

    If you want to make your own, all you need to do is:

    • Wrap a chocolate bar with a patterned paper from the Fresh Prints designer paper stack in the new Occasions catalog and adhered the arrow images from the stamp set for my central point.
    • Stamp the same arrow w/ sentiment (“straight to my heart”) on a strip of Whisper White cardstock. 
    • Adhere a thin strip of Soft Suede cardstock (approx 3/8” strip) across the middle of your stamped image.
    • Punch out a set of chevron pieces from Real Red using the Chevron punch and a heart from Real Red using the Heart punch.
    • Adhere the Whisper White strip to a piece of Soft Suede cardstock for matting.
    • Adhere the wrapped chocolate over the center of the arrow so that it covers all but the “Straight to the Heart” sentiment.
    • Done!

    So I hope you enjoyed my projects today and check out more great projects on the hop using the links below.

    Blog Hop Participants:
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    1. Anastasia R. of Stampin’ Blondie
    2. Cynthia R. of Ink-a-Doodle Creations
    3. Dawn S. of Dawn’s Creative Chalet
    4. Kathy P of Katrina P’s Creative Corner 
    5. Pamela W. of Stinky Tofu
    6. Diana E. of Stampin’ Fun with Diana
    7. Darla R. & Nancy K. of Stampin With Darla and Sisters
    8. Jamie H. of Unique Ink
    9. Rose C. of Stamp with Rose
    10. Kim R. of Stamping with Kim
    11. Darcy J. of DJ’s Stampin’ Place
    12. Bree R. of Craft-Somnia
    13. Kristina M. of Mama’s Sanity
    14. Annie L. of Love Me Cards
    15. Jennifer B. of NW Stamper  <— YOU ARE HERE
    16. Tonya B. of Stampin’ with Tonya
    17. Heidi B. of Stuck on Stampin‘
    Interested in updates from Leadership 2014?
    I’ll be spending the next few days in Houston, TX getting filled with new project ideas and updates from Stampin’ Up!  I’ll be trying to share what I can     via my Facebook page and then coming back in the evening and sharing a summary of what I saw. 

    So enjoy all the inspiration today and stop back by tomorrow to see what’s happening in good ol’ Texas!

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  • Using Your Paper Scraps for a Cute Valentine

    Alright, I know I’m the queen of blabbering on and on in my blog posts so I’ll try to keep this one brief.   (Wish me luck!)

    I got a day recently to spend all afternoon stamping and so I got to work making thank you cards, swap cards for this week’s leadership conference with Stampin’ Up, and just play with my new supplies.  However, I gave myself a challenge to try to use up my left over scraps of designer paper and left behind pieces when I cut out ovals and shapes with my Big Shot.  Basically, get them used now instead of having them sitting around because “they are perfectly good punch outs that I can use sometime” and never use. Smile 

    So, this is what I came up with for some of my left over strips of paper after I made the watercolored thank you cards I shared the other day.

    The two patterns are the front and back of the same paper and all the strips are the same size, just offset from each other. 

    The bird and sentiment are from a limited time Valentine’s Day set from Stampin’ Up called Love You More.  I actually bought it because it has a cool globe image, but I also loved this sentiment and the made with love stamp as well.  see…

    image It’s from the set of special valentine’s stamps and kits available through January 27th.  You can check them all out online here.

    But back to the card… Smile  you just color in the bird with your markers and punch out…then stamp and punch the sentiment.  I decided to add a little bling by glittering up the “love” and “more”.  Lots of scraps and this and that in this card!

    Everything I Used on the Card

    • Stamps – Love You More (available until Jan 27th)
    • Ink – Soft Suede, Real Red; markers: Soft Suede, Coastal Cabana, Soft Sky, Real Red
    • Paper – So Saffron cs, Whisper White cs,  Fresh Prints designer paper stack
    • Accessories – Dazzling Details, White gel pen, White Tea Lace doilies, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers

    Alright, I was kind of brief… but I guess I’ll have to try harder next time I don’t want to be a jabber mouth!  Until then…

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