Feelin' Spicy

If you've had an opportunity to take a peek in our new Holiday Mini Catalogue, you've probably seen our new Spice Cake Product Suite offering. I absolutely love, love, love the new Designer Series paper, gorgeous fabric and accessories and the beautiful Fall-inspired stamp set "Gently Falling".

I finally had an opportunity to sit down and create a couple projects using these new products. The first is a step card. It's such a unique card design but still uses a "regular" size piece of cardstock (this is cut 4-1/4 x 11, folded in half). It's the special cuts and scores that give it the unique look.

I started with a Soft Suede base and decorated it with a piece of our Spice Cake dsp, some Very Vanilla seambinding ribbon and the Maple Leaf image from the stamp set. Love!



The second project I made was so quick and simple to put together and my plan is to make more as place setting markers for the Thanksgiving Dinner we're hosting for my hubby's side of the family this year.

It's called a "twist" container and is SO cute! It's the perfect size to add a few chocolate treats.

The "ribbon" is just a 1" strip of our fabric which I literally ripped from one of the three "fat quarters" to give it a rustic look, threaded it through the punched holes and tied a knot.

Quick, simple and SO cute!  The above shows all three fabrics included in the Spice Cake fabric offering.  Even if you don't sew, these fabrics are great for using on cards and other projects in place of ribbon and coordinate perfectly with the dsp.


Hope you like them! :)

Happy Stamping!

Holiday Mini Catalogue

Wow! September already! After a busy summer, I can hardly believe it's already time for my kids to go back to school next week. When I think of back to school time, I also think of colorful crunchy leaves, hot apple cider and that amazing Fall scent in the air. I also start thinking of the upcoming holidays! With Halloween, Thanksgiving and (dare I even say it) Christmas!

Stampin' Up! released their Holiday Mini Catalogue today!!!

Flash Version    PDF Version

It is PACKED full of amazing new goodies - Stamp Sets, Paper, Dies, Punches, Fabric AND EVEN OUR VERY OWN SCORING BOARD!

I've already ordered the beautiful new Spice Cake product suite! The gorgeous fabric, the great stamp set for Fall and beautiful paper...and check out those buttons! Can't wait!

Take a peek and let me know what you think! If you've been thinking of hosting a workshop, now would be an amazing time!  With the new hostess plan, you can even choose ALL your hostess rewards from the new mini if you wanted!

Happy Stamping!

Buy 3 Get 1 Free: Paper Promo

Hello everyone!

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. My life just got so insanely busy the past few weeks that I haven't had much time to blog. Eek!  Hopefully that will change now.

SO, I'm back and just HAVE to share this great promotion Stampin' Up! has on right
now.

For the entire month of August, when you purchase 3 packages of our amazing designer paper, you'll receive a 4th package of your choice for FREE! I absolutely love our designer paper; the colors, the patterns, the quality! So many of our papers coordinate so well with our stamp sets as well! LOVE!!!  Of course, our designer papers aren't just for scrapbooking, they're also perfect for greeting cards and even home decor!

Take a peek at our gorgeous selection you can choose from here.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Happy Stamping!

Party Invite

It's our daughter's 3rd birthday next week and this year because I ran out of time and forgot to stamp real ones I decided to email out out invites I'd created using our My Digital Studio software.  It was so quick and simple to put together! (Click the pic for a closer peek)

Now, I've taken out all the party "details"  because as much as I would love to invite the world to her party, we just don't have the space! ;)  I knew right away I wanted to use my new Beau Chateau designer paper download.  You'll recognize the paper if you saw my post using this designer paper on my vintage card.  I also used one of the small safety pins from the Vintage Trinkets download along with the pearls from our Basic Pearls and Rhinestones download. I love the added "visual texture" of the stitching on the left and the white watermark on the right.  And little girls and pink satin ribbon just go together!  I think almost every one of these items is available to purchase in "real" product as well!

Wouldn't this design work work well for a baby announcement?  Change the colors and a few of the embellishments and you'd have a perfect Christmas card!  So many options to choose from! :)

If you have any questions, let me know!

Happy Stamping!

Inspiration Overload

Saturday I spent the day with a group of local Stampin' Up! demonstrators. I love getting together for a day of chit chat, good food and stamping!

One of the things we did is have a card swap. I love to participate in swaps and go home with a ton of gorgeous new sample cards.  Saturday's "New Catalogue" swap did not disappoint! All I can say is WOW! These girls are SO talented!

Are you ready for an overload of inspiration? Here they are (in no particular order).  Enjoy!

Aren't they all just gorgeous!  Do you have a favorite?  I'd love to know!

Happy Stamping!

Vintage French Country (or something like that)

After the kids went to bed last night, I spent my evening working on another card. I knew I wanted to combine my new Established Elegance stamp set with the new Beau Chateau designer series paper.

After playing around with various layouts, this is what I came up with:  (click the pics for a closer peek)

Isn't it pretty? I think it's so soft and feminine looking!  I ran a piece of our Vanilla Seam Binding ribbon through my sewing machine set to my basting stitch (which is just the longest straight stitch) which gave me a beautiful even gather.  I adhered it to the card with a small strip of double sided adhesive along the front and wrapped the edges around and adhered them to the back.

I cut out the flower using my Fun Flowers Bigz die.  That tiny silver center? That's one of our new silver Mini Brads! They are so petite which makes them absolutely adorable!!

The small leaves are cut out using my Little Leaves sizzlet.


Can you see the small embossed oval next to the flower?

I used one of our new Designer Frames Embossing Folders.   The oval frame is the exact size as our Extra Large Oval Punch so it makes it SO quick and simple to add a greeting or stamped image to the center.  To finish it off, I added three of our small Basic Pearls.

Hope you like it!  If you have any questions or would love to see any of these products in person, let me know!

Happy Stamping!

It's been awhile....

Wow - I can't believe it's been almost 2 weeks since I last posted anything. Unfortunately, our household was hit with a brutal cold/bug and I'd HOPED it would skip me, but no, I too got hit. A week and a half later and I'm still dealing with it.  Not much fun when I'm still trying to deal with three sick kids!  It looks like we're all finally on the mend though! :)

I did sneak into my craft room last night and sat down with a new stamp set that just arrived. It's called Established Elegance and I loved it as soon as I saw it in our new Idea Book & Catalogue!

I just love anything vintage right now, so I knew I had to add this set to my collection! 

Here's my card:

If you saw my pool party card post last month, you'll probably recognize the layout.  I pretty much copied the layout and colors (using Crumb Cake instead of Wild Wasabi) and used my new stamps.  I added a single rhinestone to the crown image for a little extra sparkle.  I also dusted off my Sincere Salutations stamp set.  I keep forgetting what a great little set that is and it covers a number of different occasions!

Hope you like it!

Happy Stamping!