Get Connected

Starting in April Stampin Up is making it easier for you to connect with family and friends with our new products in the Occasions Mini.

From April 1 - 30th when you spend $40.00 in product from the occasions mini, or host a workshop totaling $150.00 or more you'll get one item from the "Under $10.00" page in the Spring / Summer 2009 Idea book and Catalog ~ FREE!!

Also to help you get your Easter cards ready early you can also purchase 4 stamps sets from the Occasions mini now.

The sets are:

Eight Great Greetings pg. 11

An Egg-cellent Easter pg. 12

Egg Hunt stampin wheel pg. 12

Wagon Full of Fun pg. 13

Tomorrow's workshop

Hi Everyone,

I'm posting early because I wont be home Sunday to post the awesome projects we will be making tomorrow at my workshop. It's going to be a very small group so I'm very confident I won't be ruining the surprise for anyone by posting the cards early.

Enjoy!!

This card is right now my favorite! I went looking for a technique to try that I havent yet done and came across the Shadow Box technique. I originally thought to use the Under The Stars Stamp set but then realized it would be really cute with the Just Buzzin By set. Practically everything has dimensionals on it which I believe just comes with making a Shadow Box card. If you dont use the dimensionals you dont get all the shadow effects. The colors I used are Summer Sun, Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel and Old Olive. I used More Mustard ink on the Summer Sun paper because I felt I wanted the flowers to stand out more than the summer sun ink was providing.

I wanted to work with the color blue because it seems its been awhile since I've used it. I have tons of blue paper that just looks at me begging to become part of a project. I have a hard time working with it though for whatever reason. So after digging around online I found one that inspired me. So here it is. It uses the stamps from the Upsy Daisy set. The colors are the in color blues of Baja Breeze and Pacific Point along with the neutral Whisper White. I also used the new Eyelet Border punch that I absolutely love. It just creates a beautiful addition to almost any card.

I used the Inspired By Nature stampset on this little notebook. I used the finger daubers to apply color to the stamp. The colors used were Always artichoke, Summer Sun, Basic brown. I found when working with vellum that the black stazon works best to get a good clean stamped image.

This card uses the That's Funny stampset. The color combo I used was Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla and Creamy Caramel. I also used a piece of DSP from the Candy Lane collection.

Card for a friend

I feel pretty safe showing this card because the person who will be receiving it doesn't normally go online. I made this card for a long time friend who brought me a wonderful house warming gift the other day when we had a "girls day". It was very hard trying to come up with something on my own that was going to be bright and cheery like her personality so I turned to the wonderful paper crafters on Splitcoast. There I found this card. It was perfect! It was bright and cheery and it also used one of her favorite style of stamps. The card is mostly how I seen it in splitcoast except for a few changes to suit my needs. I used the Garden Whimsy and All Holidays stamp sets. The color combo that I can't believe worked so well was old olive, pumpkin pie and brocade blue. Thank you to the originator of this card, my friend is going to LOVE IT!

Just Jawing

My daughter asked me to put together a card for her friends birthday tomorrow. Here is what I came up with. I used the Just Jawing stamp set with basic black, pink passion and kraft card stock along with some silver embossing powder. I think looks super cute! Wouldn't you agree?

New Announcements

Here are just a few announcements Stampin Up has put out that I would like to share with you.
First of all starting July 2009 we will be going back to the annual catalog. The decor elements will continue to be separate from the catalog and come out twice a year.
The mini catalog promotion will change to include 3 mini catalogs a year with each lasting 4 months. Also in these mini catalog there will be a small selection of hostess sets giving you more choices.
One last thing, double mounted stamps. Stampin Up began double mounting stamps that were in large sets to help lower the cost. After many complaints they have decided to change that policy. However this will not apply to some of the alphabet sets and sets that are a part of a kit. For the time being the stamp sets already in the current catalog will continue to be in double mount along with one set in the upcoming Occasions mini but they will not introduce any new nonalphabet, nonkit sets as double mounted.
If you happen to have any questions about these changes please send me an email and I would gladly help you with that.
Thanks

Swap cards

Here are the cards that we swapped at the Feb. 7th workshop. Aren't they fabulous???? This was a lot of fun and I plan to hold another card swap next month. If your interested in joining us for the March swap please send me an email telling me you would like to participate and I will add you to the sign up list.

I want to say Thank you to those who participated this month and hope you will sign up again for the March Swap. Til then Happy Stamping!

Hayley's

Karen's

Darleen's

Myself
Becky's

It felt so good to finally get back into the swing of things!! Thank you to all who came to this months workshop. It's always so fun getting together.
Everybody who participated in this months swap did a FANTABULOUS job on their swaps. I am planning to do it again next month so let me know if you would like to take part. You'll be sorry if you don't join I can promise!!!!! I will post what you missed this month once I get permission to post their work.

So here are the projects we did for this February workshop. Some are of my own making and some are cased.

This first card was made using the level 3 hostess set called Dream A Little. The DSP used on it is from the Raspberry Tart collection. Pretty Pretty Paper!

This card was made using the Happy Heart Day stampset.

A Happy Heart stamp set was used to create this card along with the Bella Rose DSP. (love this paper!!)


And this really cute tea light with matches package was stamped with the Love You Much stampset with the Bella Rose DSP.

If you have any questions about the projects we made this month or need dimensions / measurements please feel free to email me.

Thanks for looking and I hope you will come stamp with me soon.