Snailed It With Playful Alphabets & A Grand Kid

It’s high school graduation time and so using the Playful Alphabets for the stole and the cute Snailed It stamp set made this a fun card to make and another opportunity to use this stamp before it retires. I needed to make a graduation card for my niece so I decided to make the card resemble a graduation gown with her initials on the stole. …

Floral Phrases

Floral Phrases Wedding Card

Floral Phrases is a sweet set with a watercolor flower look. It’s perfect for wedding cards. When you combine it with the Detailed Floral Thinlits, it gives it a more elegant look. I used the Merry Merlot and Pear Pizzazz Stampin’ Write Markers to color the flower and then stamped it onto the cardstock. June is around the corner and wedding bells ring a lot …

Bloomin Heart & Number of Years

Bloomin’ Love Number of Years

Today’s card features the Bloomin’ Love stamp and Bloomin’ Heart Thinlits. I also used the Number of Years and Large Numbers Framelits Dies to create this anniversary card for a special couple. Not too many marriages last this long due to death or divorce so when someone hits this milestone you have to celebrate! I love to use the Number of Years bundle because you …

Beautiful Ride

Life Is A Beautiful Ride

I like combining several stamps and creating a scene and so that’s what I did for this card. I stamped the car, couple & sentiment from Beautiful Ride, the tree from Sheltering Tree and the stars from Balloon Celebration. Actually, when I stamped the stars with VersaMark to emboss with white embossing powder, I thought I had selected the closed stars but instead they were the open …

Number of Years

Have you ever seen a 58th anniversary card in the store? Probably not, but with the Numbers of Years and Large Numbers Framelits Die you can make your own numbered card. That’s exactly what I did and and made this card for my parents who just celebrated their 58th anniversary last weekend. This set has the numbers, the occasions and also a nice floral image …

Guy Greetings & Sheltering Tree

Retirement Under the Sheltering Tree

Let’s celebrate retirement with the Sheltering Tree, the Guy Greetings car, and the Gorgeous Grunge stamps to make this scene. I retired last month from my part time position as office administrator at my church after 18 years working in that capacity. It was good working there, but retirement is so much better!! Every night, I keep thinking I need to get ready for work …

Just Sayin'

Are Your Favorites Retiring? Check It Out!

The Stampin’ Up! retired list is out! Did you get everything you wanted from the Annual Catalog?  If not, here’s your chance to get it for the LAST time and not only that . . . but get some items up to a 50% discount! Can’t get better than that! Remember supplies available while they last. Check out the list here. Here’s a card I …

Flower Shop Congrats

May and June is graduation time. I made this card with the Flower Shop Stamp set for my male cousin who graduated from the New York Botanical Gardens study program where he studied flower arranging among many other things. He has become quite the florist and we have been enjoying the benefits from it! We’re very proud of him.  I needed a card that wasn’t …

Wedding Table seating chart display

Make Your Own Table Seating Chart

As I mentioned in this post, my daughter Melissa was married last Saturday.  Today I want to share with you the seating chart and place cards I made.  The picture below is how they were displayed at the reception venue.  Place cards stamped with the flowers from the Just Believe stamp. Seating Chart Because the tables were named after flowers, I needed to make a chart for people to …

Bridal Dress Form Pop N Cuts

I wanted to make a special card for my daughter’s bridal shower and I knew I wanted a dress so I used the Dress Form Pop N Cuts and Dress Up Framelits for the inside. I also cut a window sheet with the Ovals Framelits for the mirror.  Originally I wanted to add a picture of her and her fiance on the ‘table’ but ran out of time! The …

Rain or Shine

Have you been to the clearance rack lately? The Rain or Shine stamp set is on the clearance rack.  I used this stamp to make a card for a friend last year.  It’s a cool stamp that can be used for bridal or baby showers, Thinking of You cards, I miss you cards or use it with the  rain boots from the Bootiful Occasions stamp set.  All …

Happy Anniversary Thoughts & Prayers

I needed to make an anniversary card for good friends of mine so I decided to play around with some of the colors that will be discontinued once the new catalog debuts.  I used the combination of Bravo Burgundy, Baja Breeze, River Rock and Always Artichoke ink using daubers. I like how well the colors blend together.  I embossed River Rock cardstock with Lacy Brocade and …