Here is how I know when I’ve had a good day crafting: My craft mat is covered in ink! Yesterday I settled in to make some place cards for our Christmas dinner. I pulled out my left-over package of Thoughtful Journey DSP. I always find it hard to use an entire package of 6 x 6″… Read More »
It’s the last day for the Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar for 2025! I’m so happy I splurged and treated myself to this advent calendar. It’s the first time that I have ever purchased myself an advent calendar and I was not disappointed! Today we got 6 white embossed 3 x4″ cards and over 20 laser die cuts… Read More »
Wow! I’m almost done with the Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar for 2025. Just today and tomorrow left. I have absolutely loved the items in the calendar. I have a wonder mini suite of coordinating products that I will play with all year long. Today’s goodie was a surprise! Stampin’ Up! doesn’t currently carry anything like this product. … Read More »
The 2025 Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar Day 10 reveal! What more can there be? This is a bag of true shaker elements. I know that I said I don’t love shaker cards, but I did see a cute idea on the Stampin’ Up! Official Instagram page. They created a banner set to hang that included shaker elements. … Read More »
I’m down to the last 4 boxes of Stampin’ Up!’s very first Advent Calendar. I have loved all the goodies so far and I’ve enjoyed creating with them every single day so far. Check out what Door 9 revealed: Today’s gift was 10 double sided 3 x4″ cards and 20 decorative die cuts and tags. … Read More »
Day 8 already!! December is flying and I’m three quarters of the way through this advent calendar already. Stampin’ Up! is doing a great job with it’s very first Advent Calendar. I feel like I have gotten great value for my money so far. If I add up what I believe they would charge for each item, the… Read More »
I can’t believe that I’ve opened up half of the goodies in the Advent Calendar already! Time is flying. I still haven’t put my tree up or decorated my house for the holiday yet! Today’s reveal: It’s Puffy Stickers! There are two sheets of tiny puffy sticker embellishments! I used one of them today on… Read More »
Stampin’ Up! came out with their first ever Advent Calendar this year. It’s the 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar. The calendar came with a double stamp set. It include several images in one set and an entire set of sentiments in the other set. I’m now up to day 5 and I’ve been enjoying making a card… Read More »
Today’s gift from the Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar is revealed below! This is the Day 4 gift… It’s a nice set of foiled sentiment tags! There are 19 tags in all and they all have some foiling detail on them. I made two cards using the stamps and dies, the patterned papers, the sentiment… Read More »
If you didn’t order the 2025 Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar, I hope you are enjoying this daily reveal. It can help you decide if you want to order a future Stampin’ Up! Advent Calendar. For today’s reveal, I did not have time to create a project yet. I just wanted to post a photo of what the gift… Read More »
I’m really loving the Advent Calendar that Stampin’ Up! came out with this year. What a nice treat for myself! I’m spending several hours each day playing with the goodies that have been included in the reveals so far. Here is today’s reveal: The Day 2 gift was designer series paper! We got 20 sheets of single… Read More »
I’ve been looking at all the Advent Calendars that you see during the holiday season. I’ve been contemplating purchasing one for myself for a couple years and I finally did it! I purchased the Stampin’ Up! 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar. I actually purchased it in October (or whenever they first came out with it)! It felt… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge has the following sketch: I started by cutting a Cherry Cobbler and a Shaded Spruce mat to 4 x 5-1/4″. I lined the diagonal up with the track on my trimmer and cut each piece in half diagonally. Then I gently turned the cut pieces so the other diagonal lined up… Read More »
I enjoyed playing with this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! Check out this week’s sketch: I love this sketch. It feels like a classic layout that you could use over and over again with so many different stamp sets. I chose to do a Christmas themed card today. The stamp set that I used for this… Read More »
I have another sketch challenge from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! This isn’t one of the weeks my team is scheduled to create a card for the sketch challenge, but this is one of my favorite card layouts. I decided to play along! I’m still playing with the Mix & Match Christmas cards & envelopes, tag… Read More »