Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day out there to all you fabulous moms! I hope you are able to let your mom know how much she means to you. We are celebrating with mom today with a home-cooked meal! I just love these colors together - especially if your mom loves pink! :)

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Blooming with Love (retired)

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Kraft, Whisper White

Accessories: Dimensionals, Scallop Oval Punch, Oval Punch, Pretty in Pink Stain Ribbon

Mother's Day - easy as a button!

Okay girls - Mother's Day is in TWO days. Do you have your Mother's Day card ready? Here is a super fun and super easy card to whip up for mom! Everyone has buttons, right? Left over from shirts, pants, whatever? Make it into a card with some of your coordinating punches!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Any alphabet stamp set (this one is retired)

Ink: Old Olive, Pretty in Pink

Accessories: Playground buttons, Linen Thread, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" punch, dimensionals

Happy Momma's Day

Mother's Day is just around the corner. Do you have your card ready to go to your mom? Make sure you let her know how much she means to you!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Blooming in Love

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Soft Suede, Real Red

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Real Red, Sweat Pea DSP

Accessories: Soft Suede Ribbon, Dimensionals, 5 petal flower punch, Perfect Polka dots Embossing folder, Rhinestone brad, Jumbo Eyelet

Stamp Club time! And we are going to work a little out of our boxes - are you ready? This first card is super fun. Who doesn't love the 'faux' look? Reminds me of a purse I own. . .

So this is the faux gator skin? Versamark the entire card, then draw lines with your bone folder. Knock off the excess powder and then heat emboss the entire thing. Now, something to keep in mind, and I did not notice until I did the photos - it looks as if there is a little bit of white embossing powder in with my clear . . . Try to keep that seperate (I must have used them in the same tray and then refilled my containers -oops).



And if your outside is a little plain (think no layers), how great to add a little business inside? Don't forget that you can dress up the inside too!

Recipe:

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Rose Red, Close to Cocoa, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White

Accessories: Brad, Scallop Circle #2 die, Big Shot, Cordouroy button, Clear Embossing powder, fabric

Next one - is a man card. I know, I should have told you to sit down. The men in our lives need cards too - without ribbons, pink or sparkly! And what man do you know that doesn't like beer? Well, there aren't too many! Do you recognize it? The foam on the beer is the cupcake topper on Simple Birthday Thanks! And the 'frost' is vellum!

Recipe:
Stamp Set: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Simple birthday Thanks
Ink: Close to Cocoa, More Mustard
Paper: More Mustard, Whisper White, Close to Cocoa, Vellum
Accessories: 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Label Punch, More Mustard brads, Dimensionals, Crystal Effects (for the 'sweat' on the glass)

Okay - don't freak. We are going to sew. I know that this is a stamping club, and sometimes we don't stamp at all on a card (see first card in this post). Well, this time we aren't even going to use paper. BUT - we are using the Big Shot and some fabulous dies. How great is it that you can use the Big Shot for paper and fabric?! Oh my - the possibilities are limitless! This is a little quilt square. Maybe for a hot pad, pot holder, the start of your next quilt. . . ?

Recipe:
Accessories: Big Shot, 3-d Flower, Scallop Circle #2

See ya Wednesday night!

Clearance!!

Do I have your attention? Who doesn't love a clearance!?! EVERYONE! Okay, so Stampin' Up! is having a clearance. Actually - they have a clearance rack! How cool, right? Well, make sure you go check it out, as they are updating it all the time with new stuff!

Check out the Clearance Rack and let me know if you wanna place an order!

Fabric Gift Wrapping

Fabric gift wrap? Well, that sounds crazy, doesn't it? It is actually reall fun, really easy and totally GREEN! I figure - I drive an SUV, so I must do all I can to make a difference in other ways to save the environment. :)

In this, the only item I used from SU! is the Fleurettes II. Scrap fabric, scrap ric-rac and a miscellaneous button . . . and you have a beautiful little wrap. Change the size of your fabric for the size of your gift. Easy peasy, right?! Hope you like! And totally re-useable!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone! Wait - that was a few days ago. Yep - I'll admit it. This holiday snuck up on me a bit! And I must also admit - our Easter cards to our family members just got mailed yesterday. Oh, well! A late hand-made card is better than no card at all, right?! That's what I thought.

I didn't go very traditional with this Easter card on purpose. When you think of Easter, it is all bunnies, chicks and lambs. Well, I want to show you that you can make a holiday card without having all those specific holiday stamp sets! (All you need is Teeny Tiny Wishes - you have that yet??!) You can do a very traditional layout with simple greeting to make a great holiday card. Hope you all had a great Easter! :)

Recipe
Stamp Set: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Old Olive, Kraft, Whisper White, Orchid Opulance, Cottage Wall DSP

Accessories: Rich Razzleberry Ribbon, Scallop Oval Punch, Oval Punch, Hemp Twine, Sewing Machine

Re-vamping Stampin' Up! Colors

Okay, so this is so exciting! We are getting some totally new and great colors starting in July. And - get this - we are bringing back some of our old favorite In-Colors. Exciting, right?! I know!

So first I want to share with you the colors that are retiring. Yep, a whole slew of them are retiring. We have a few months (all available through the end of June) to stock up on our favorites that are going away.


You can either click here or click on the above photo to download the farewell colors we are saying good-bye to. Are there some of your favorites? Me too! Time to stock up, girls!

And then, are you ready? Time to say HELLO to some great new colors and time to welcome back some old favorites that we thought were gone forever. SOOO excited to get these into the rotation!!!!


So, Click here or on the photo above to check out thes new colors. AND - they are rearranging the color families. Just when you thought you had them all figured out - they are moving them all around. And I am loving it! These new colors are GREAT - and are totally in tune with all the wonderful colors that are in right now! Let me know if you need to place an order or if you have any qeustions about these new colors! Happy Stamping! :)

Textured Thanks

This embossing folder is so great! It can be used on any card, for any reason! And I sure do love how it adds so much character to a white piece of card stock! A package of these cards tied up with a bow would make such a great gift for someone!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Very Thankful

Ink: Cameo Coral

Paper: Cameo Coral, Whisper White, So Saffron

Accessories: So Saffron, Dimensionals, Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder

Going Green

Yesterday was that day to 'wear green'. Well, I'm not Irish (and didn't even wear green), but I am all about 'going green'. There are lots of ways to save this environment, and you can even do your part with your cards! So these cards were made totally with scraps. I know you have tons of scraps of DSP that you just can't bear to part with . . . so don't! My scraps are even different sizes (*gasp*). How do you stay "green" when you craft?

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Great Friend

Ink: Garden Green

Paper: Very Vanilla, Flock together DSP

Accessories: Staples, Very Vanilla Hardware