Happy Mother’s Day Gift Bag with Fancy Favor!

Featured Retired Products:  Fancy Favor Bigz Die, Extra Large Tag Punch, Tea for Two Designer Series Paper, Pop-Up Posies Kit, and the Wonderful Mother Stamp Set I planned ahead for Mother’s Day this year.  I know!  I shocked myself!  I usually realize that, “Mother’s Day is tomorrow!”,  before I come up with a plan.  Since my mother lives… Read More »

Great Beginner Stamp Set: Easy Events Free Tutorial

Find Out How To Get A Free Easy Events Card And Project Tutorial! Whether you are an experienced stamper or a beginner, it’s tremendously useful to have one stamp set that covers several occasions!  Stampin’ Up!s Easy Events stamp sets is one of those great versatile stamp sets.  You can sit down for an hour with some card… Read More »

Quint-Essential Flower from Stampin’ Up!

The Quint-Essential Flower stamp was on my wish list the moment I opened the Stampin’ Up! catalog!  This one stamp has incredible potential for color and creativity!  I created a set of 4 cards and a card holder in less than an hour. I make no secret about how much I love layers for cards and scrapbooks!  Early… Read More »

Boutique Boxes Designer Printed Kit From Stampin’ Up!

Stampin’ Up! carries some fun kits for scrapbooking, card making and gift giving.  Every now and then I love to make a kit because they are quick and easy.  Sometimes I follow the kit directions and other times, I do my own thing with the kit.  I did a bit of both with the Boutique Boxes kit in… Read More »

Stampin’ Up! Announces the Retiring List and Clearance Prices!

BIG NEWS TODAY!  Not only do I have a retired stamps and retired accessories list for you, but Stampin’ Up! has listed many of these items at discounted prices – 25% off, 40% off and 60% off!   These are available only while supplies last and the list is LOOONG!  Sadly, I’m seeing some of my favorite sets on… Read More »

Field Flowers with Stampin’ Up!

Here is another stamp set that I hope I don’t find on Stampin’ Up!s retired list in the morning, Field Flowers!  I love the images and sentiments in this one.  My favorite sets all have great images and fabulous  sentiments.  I love sets that come with sentiments and inspirational sayings.  One of the mistakes I made when I… Read More »

Happy Birthday Katie!!!!

Happy 21st Birthday, Katie! I hope you have a GREAT day and I hope that giant birthday cookie arrives on time for you to celebrate with your friends!  This stamp set was made by Stampin’ Up! just for your birthday!  How perfect is this? I saved this stamp set just to make a birthday card for my daughter! … Read More »

Playing with Punches and Stampin’ Up!

I always enjoy playing with punches and my Big Shot framelits, dies and embossing folders.  Plus, with all of the colors retiring at the end of May, I want to use all my retiring papers and colors before I have to put them away!  I can’t decide whether I am looking forward to the retiring stamp set list… Read More »

Stamping and Scrapbooking Sunday with Stampin’ Up!

I’ve decided to start a new series called Stamping and Scrapbooking Sunday!  Earlier this week, I was asked if I knew of any place to get information about combining our two favorite crafts!  I did some research and discovered that there are many card making websites and many scrapbooking websites, but I didn’t find any devoted to the… Read More »

Decorate Your Office With Stampin’ Up!

My sister just got a new job and she has a FABULOUS new office all to herself!  To help her decorate, I created a project in My Digital Studio.  I’ve been using MDS for quite a while now, but I still feel like I’m at the playing around with it stage.  I love to create projects using the… Read More »

Stampin’ Up! Did It Again!

Stampin’ Up! has me hooked on yet another stamp set!  I loved the card I made yesterday so much, that I decided to turn it into a pair of scrapbook pages!   If you have a card that you love, you can easily turn it into another project.  I created a scrapbook page today.  I could make a gift… Read More »

Stampin’ Up! with Summer Silhouettes!

I really should never browse card ideas.  Honestly.  It’s amazing how much money browsing costs me!  I resisted buying Stampin’ Up!s Summer Silhouettes stamp set until I had a few customers who recently purchased the set. I was browsing card ideas to email customers and just fell in love with the cards I saw.  I had to have… Read More »

Stampin’ Up! Best of 25 Years Butterflies and Flowers!

I really love the Stampin’ Up! Best of Stamp Sets.  I have to say, I especially adore the March and April sets with the butterflies and flowers.  The images Stampin’ Up! chose are really from classic stamp sets.  You can create such a variety of cards with these sets using a multitude of different techniques!  Today, I used… Read More »

Join Stampin’ Up! and Get More Stamping Supplies!

Stampin’ Up!s 25th Anniversary= $30 More In Your Starter Kit! You choose $155 worth of products and pay only $99 plus tax and you also get: Free Shipping on the Starter Kit 20% off future purchases of Stampin’ Up products. Join MY TEAM of demonstrators and you also get a 25 week training program, videos, tutorials, and a… Read More »

Creating Children’s Games with Stampin’ Up!

When my kids were younger and we had to go for a long car ride, I would load up the car with games and activities that they could do in the car without getting hurt if I stopped fast.  (Which, by the way, I am known for! The brake guy loves me.  As does the tire guy since… Read More »