Today’s card of encouragement uses two stamp sets – Nature’s Harvest and Hope & Prayer. Both of these sets are on sale today.
Watercolor Shapes With SAB Amazing Phrasing
Make a quick and easy card to celebrate special moments with the Sale-A-Bration Amazing Phrasing stamp and Watercolor Shapes stamp set.
Easy Watercoloring With Ink – Faith Over Fear
We continue learning more about watercoloring techniques. Today we’ll focus on an easy technique using ink and water painters.
Watercoloring With Happiness Abounds and Soft Pastels
In today’s post we’ll continue to explore another way to watercolor. Today’s focus will be on watercoloring with pastels using the Happiness Abounds set.
Here For You Z Fold, Stitched Triangles, Color & Contour
Make a clean & simple Z fold card using the Color & Contour stamp. The card incorporates three embossing folders for added texture.
Amazing Silhouettes & Special Moments For Someone Wonderful
Create clean & simple cards with the Amazing Silhouettes stamp set. Read more to find out how I created this card and brought this silhouette to life.
One Sheet Wonder With Nothing’s Better Than
Are you one of those people who has tons of patterned paper stored away because you love it so much that you don’t want to cut it up? If you are, let’s try to remedy that. I’ve had these set of cards sitting in my draft folder for quite a while and hadn’t gotten around to posting them. I shared them with my customers last …
Ornate Layers & Sailing Home
Today is the last day to earn bonus dollars! For every $50 you spend (before tax & shipping), earn FIVE bonus dollars to spend in August. What’s new in August? Our August – December Holiday Catalog! The main feature of today’s card is how the dies from Ornate Layers were used to create this card. Let’s go right into the details: The 3 flower borders …
Butterfly Thoughts & Prayer
Here’s another card I made a while back combining two retiring stamps – Butterfly Basics for the image and Rose Wonder for the sentiment. I used the Butterflies Thinlits to die cut both butterflies. I love everything about this card. I think it’s simple yet elegant. The Butterfly Basics stamp set is a great collage stamp which allows you to layer your images one on …
Birthday Blooms
I have a quick post for you. For today’s card I used the beautiful blooms from the Birthday Blooms stamp (retiring soon). Although I usually use all Stampin’ Up! products, I came across this sentiment from Sweet & Sassy that I loved. It’s a set with snippets from a few timeless hymns and the music and choir director in me just couldn’t resist! Isn’t it a …
Share What You Love
Starting May 1 – 31, 2018 Stampin’ Up! is releasing products from the Share What You Love Suite from the 2018-2019 Annual Catalog before the catalog goes live. Four bundles are being offered – 3 from the suite and the 2018-2020 In Color bundle. There’s a bundle for each type of crafter of every skill. Want to see what’s being offered? Check out the video …
Celebrate Amazing You
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This card was obviously not designed for that occasion but it does have some green it it, so that works, too, don’t you think? Today is not only St. Patrick’s Day but is also a special day for me as my grandson turns ONE and he is amazing and so much fun as all 3 of my grandsons are. I’m so …
Sale-A-Bration Designer Tee
There are 3 weeks until Sale-A-Bration ends. That also means that as Sale-A-Bration is coming to an end, items are available while supplies last. One of the items that already sold out is the Card Tin, but there are still some great items available. Today I want to share several of those items that I used for this card – Delicate Details, Designer Tee and …
High Tide
I’m always drawn to lighthouse stamps because I love visiting lighthouses. When I saw the High Tide stamp set in the Occasions catalog I knew that eventually it was going to wind up in my stamp collection. Everything you see on this card was stamped with images from the set which also has 4 nice sentiments. Isn’t High Tide a nice set for stamping your own peaceful …
Weather Together
On Saturday, I attended Onstage Local – a Stampin’ Up! event for demonstrators. Demonstrators all over the world gathered in different cities and countries and we had a good time. Among other things, we saw and played with new products, saw the new Occasions 2017 catalog and swapped cards with each other. A lot of the swapping happens while we’re waiting on line to go …
Weather Together The Shelter From The Storm
A simple task of backing up computer files and updating to Windows 10, unfortunately, took a lot longer than expected due to some issues with my back up. If you were wondering why you haven’t heard from me the past few days, that’s the reason. In light of everything that’s happening here and around the world this past week alone, I thought I would post …
Old & New – Pleasant Poppies & Touches of Texture
I don’t usually post cards with retired stamps, but I wanted to share with you this card that I recently sent a friend who’s going through a difficult time and needed encouragement. I knew I wanted to send this Scripture verse and so I looked through my binder and went in search of what flowers would go well with it. I chose Pleasant Poppies (retired) …
Banner Blessings – Give Thanks
Have you ever had a day when you wish you could go back to bed and start all over? That’s the kind of day I had yesterday and it all started bright and early in the morning. I went outside to water my flowers and what do I see before my eyes? An entire bag that had all my cardstock pieces from my last class …
Timeless Texture . . .Fear Not
Today’s card features the Timeless Texture stamp as the background and Rose Wonder for the sentiment. I love all the texture and grunge stamps Stampin’ Up! offers in their catalog – Gorgeous Grunge (you already know it’s a favorite), Timeless Texture, and Touches of Texture. I combined all the images from the Timeless Texture stamp and used different color inks to create the background. I …
Love You Lots
Today’s card features a sneak preview of the Love You Lots hostess set from the new catalog. It has some adorable images and sentiments. I sponged all five of the 2016-2018 In Colors and made this into a faux layer card. Nice colors, right? And aren’t these hedgehogs cute? More sneak previews to come. Thanks for stopping by. . . hope you have a great …