Stampin’ Up!’s Year-end Closeout Sale. Stampin’ Up! kicked off it’s Year-End Closeout Sale – a celebration that runs through January 3. Here’s what you can expect: Retiring List. Stampin’ Up! has released its “retiring list” of items in the Holiday Catalog – the list of items that will no longer be available after they are sold out. If… Read More »
We have been so busy the last 6 weeks going to open houses, finding our downsized empty nester dream house, painting and packing to get our house ready and then showing it to prospective buyers…I just have not had time to stamp or to blog! I haven’t sent out a newsletter in ages. My New Year’s resolution (assuming… Read More »
Don’t you just love the sentiment on this card? Christmas Wishes From Across The Miles. Since I live 500 miles from my entire family, this is an especially personal sentiment for me at the holidays. This card was created from this week’s Paper Craft Crew Sketch! I’ve used the Warmth and Cheer Designer Paper Stack, the Santa’s Sleigh… Read More »
It really feels like the sky is falling here on Eastern Long Island! We have had a bumper crop of ACORNS this year! They seem to be falling by the buckets and I have been pelted on the head more than once just walking across the lawn! My card today is an Ode to the Acorn! This week’s… Read More »
What Will You Stamp? is a weekly challenge blog and this week’s challenge uses one of my favorite sets from the Holiday Catalog from Stampin’ Up! Paisleys and Posies!!!! You know that I can’t get enough of that set! I’ve been dying to stamp this simple image and just color it in with the new In Colors for… Read More »
Okay…I know that I used the same stamp set and materials to create my card for this week’s Paper Craft Crew challenge as I did for the What Will You Stamp challenge and the SUO Challenge, but I LOVE the colors and the stamp set! Once again, we have a great sketch to work with from Pam Staples… Read More »
What Will You Stamp challenge blog invited me to be a guest stamper this week with the Totally Trees stamp set. This is a fun, graphic set of trees that you can use for all seasons. The stamp set itself has a ton of individual stamps that give you unlimited possibilities for getting creative! I tried to keep… Read More »
You are cordially invited to play along with the Paper Craft Crew for this week’s sketch challenge! I love this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch. Pam Staples really did a great job! I love the sketches that she makes each week to challenge us with! Pam is the Team Coordinator over at the Paper Craft Crew and… Read More »
You read that right! I’m this week’s What Will You Stamp? Challenge Blog’s Guest Stamper. My card was randomly selected as the winner for the Ghoulish Grunge challenge and I have the privilege of being their guest stamper for the week!! The challenge this week is to use the Labeler Alphabet stamp set. You know that I love… Read More »
I just got a new box of goodies from Stampin’ Up! and the papers are fabulous! There is a Buy 3 Get 1 Free Designer Paper sale going on at Stampin’ Up! until October 31! Who can resist such a great sale? I took advantage of it and I love this new Presents and Pinecones paper! Isn’t that… Read More »
This week over at The Paper Craft Crew, we are having a fall card challenge. Any fall themed card works for the challenge!!! My goal with this card was to make a fall card using the scraps of papers sitting on my desk! I have little squares and rectangles of left over papers all over! I really love… Read More »
I was excited to see that the new SUO Challenge #159 was a Holiday Paper challenge. Here is my crack at the challenge: I was delighted that I could create any card that I wanted as long as I used Stampin’ Up!’s holiday papers. I can keep my card clean and simple that way. Some of the challenge… Read More »
I have not played with the Halloween stamp sets enough so far this season. The Halloween Cookie Cutter set and the Jar of Haunts has really kept me occupied! Today I played with the Spooky Fun images. I’ve been using the sentiments from this stamp set because I didn’t think the other sets had enough fun sentiments for… Read More »
I have a confession. After participating in the Mojo Monday sketch challenge last week, I browsed the Verve online store to see what kinds of goodies that sell. I found a fantastic stamp set called Autumn Blessings that had a coordinating die set called Autumn Thanks. Of course I purchased the bundle! It came within two days with… Read More »
When I checked out the Retrosketch challenge for the week, I realized that it’s one of my favorite card sketches to use for holiday cards. Needless to say, I created a Christmas card that would be easy to mass produce and it would also be easy to mail since it doesn’t have a lot of embellishments that would… Read More »