My Happy Stamping Place

Blue Birdie

This stamp set, Cheep Talk, was calling my name from the moment I saw it in the catalog.  Along with the Trendy Trees stamp set.  You'll be seeing a card with that set soon.  In fact everything on pages 90 and 91 must be mine!  I already own all of it except for the Good Friend stamp set.  I'm going to try to wait for Sale-a-bration awards to earn that one. 

Recipe:  Stamps-Cheep Talk
Paper:  Bella Rose designer paper, Blue Bajou, Summer Sun(circle), Whisper White, Pacific Point, Chocolate Chip
Ink:  Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss
Other:  Top Note Die, Sizzix Texturz plates, scallop edge punch, silver hodgepodge, Chit Chat rub-ons

I received a big box with new stamping toys yesterday.  I was giddy!  I got lots of new Sizzix dies, embellishments and designer papers.  I was bouncing around my craft room running the new dies through my Sizzix Big Shot.  There's definitely something like the feeling of being a kid again when I use my Big Shot.  I didn't form anything into an actual project yet.  I just couldn't wait to play.  I have to clean the house today though cuz I have some ladies coming over tonight to stamp and scrap.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Birthday party invitations

These are the birthday party invitations for my daughter, Rebecca's 15th birthday.  She wanted something that would match the theme of her birthday.  She is inviting boys and girls to go sledding at a local hill and then back to our house for hot chocolate and cake.  I pulled out my, Like it a Latte, set for this one.  I was happy to have a chance to use this set again.  It's a retired Stampin' Up! set and my all time favorite.  Even better than cupcakes! 
 
I used the Ski Slope designer papere that was in the Holiday mini catalog.  Too bad I can't get my hands on more of that.  The cup of cocoa was punched out with the 1 3/4" circle punch.  The scallop is from the pennant sizzix die.  I used the new eyelet border punch underneath the strip of designer paper.  I glitterized the heart and peppermint stick.  These were so fun to make!  I have to get these out in the mail today!

Have a great day!

Recipe challenge#33

This weeks' recipe challenge for Tamara's sketch blog was to use:

• Die Cut
• Ribbon
• Buttons
• 

I kept it pretty simple.  I stamped the greeting onto the oval of the oval scallop sizzix die.
The heart is stamped and punched out with the new heart punch.  I added a heart button I had in my stash and threaded ribbon through.  That took card of the three elements. 
Recipe:  Heard from the Heart, A Little Somethin'
Paper:  Whisper White, Purely Pomegranate, designer paper by Amy Butler
Other:  heart button, ribbon, Sizzix oval scallop die

Check out what the rest of design team came up with on Tamara's blog.

I kind of left you all hanging for a couple of days.  I announced I had new stuff and then I disappeared.  Don't you hate that when people do that?  I had a Valentine class on Sunday and have been working on my daughter's birthday party invitations for the past couple of days.  She's inviting girls and guys to go sledding at a local hill and then back to our house for hot chocolate and cake.  Then the guys will go home and the girls will stay for a sleep over.  There will be 18 teenagers at our house if everyone comes.  Am I crazy?  Just maybe!

I did get to play tonight with some of my new stuff.  I will post that and my daughter's invitations over the next couple of days.  Thanks for stopping by!

New stuff!!!

I'm so excited to play with my new Stampin' Up! stuff that came yesterday!  I have mostly just run the new dies through my Big Shot and mounted my stamps.  I only got 2 stamp sets in this order.  My big order is coming via the slow boat.  Anyway, I wanted to throw a quick card together to show you some of the new product. 

For this card I used the new Cheep Talk stamp set.  I love those birds!  I also used lots of Sizzix Big Shot dies.  I used the Stampin' Up! backgrounds texture plates(the embossed flower design in the background), the Oval Scallop Frame, and the Flower Burst Embosslit.  The Embosslit cuts and embosses at the same time.  Cool stuff!!!  I punched out the holes in each scallop with my crop-a-dile.  That's all I have put together so far.  I'll be back with more!

Petal Pizazz

I wanted to have a lot of samples made up for my open house last weekend.  I went to the place I always go- Splitcoast!  I CASE'd and tweaked many cards I found there.  Here are the ones I made with the new Petal Pizazz stamp set.



As you can see there are a lot of possibilities with this set! 

I got a box with some new Stampin' Up! goodies today!  I'm hoping to play with it tonight and tomorrow so I'll be back with more to share soon! 

Open House make-n-takes

Here are the 2 make-n-takes customers made at my open house.  The first one is a CASE of this card by Jenn D.  I needed something simple but cute and this was the ticket.  I just changed the greeting, the colors and I popped up one of the flowers.

This next card uses the 3 for you heart punch and Candy Lane Designer paper that is part of the Love You Much Bundle.  The circles are 1 1/4" circles.  The button is the sizzix button die. 

I had around 30 ladies come through my open house so I needed to keep the cards simple but cute.  I think these both worked out great!

Have you had a chance to order from the new Stampin' Up! catalog yet?  I have placed several orders already and am now waiting on getting my goodies.  I expedited one of the orders so should be getting it before this weekend.  New toys to play with on the weekend!  Yippee!!!  I'll be back with more samples to share.  Have a wonderful day!

Recipe Challenge #32

This is my card for Tamara's Recipe Challenge Design team this week.  This week's challenge was to use:

1. Lined Notebook Paper
2. Ink/Paint
3. Journaling box

i used a journaling card I got in the Target dollar spot for my lined notebook paper.  The Bee Mine is my journaling box.  It came from a package of little banners from K&co.  And the third element was my ink to stamp the bees and the "love".  I have seen a lot of movement in the papercrafting world to use what you have.  I am modifying that to not hoarding.  I buy all of these cute things and then don't use them.  I'm bustin' open those packages and using all of my fun crafty supplies this year!  Check out what the rest of the design team came up with on Tamara's blog.

Yesterday the new Stampin' Up! catalog went live!  Yippee!  There are so many gorgeous new stamps, papers, scrappin' kits, and fun accessories and big shot dies to play with!  My wish list is LONG!  If you want to check out the new catalog you can see the new products on my online ordering site here.  You can place online orders with me 24/7 and it will be shipped anywhere in the US!

I'll be back later with the make-n-takes we did at my open house during the past couple of days.  Have a great day!

Pink Bees!

I made a couple of cards with this new set called, Just Buzzin' By.  I liked the set and all but it wasn't until I saw Cami's pink and red bees and hive that the wheels started churnin'.  Now I'm lovin' the pink bees!  Sometimes I forget to take creative license when choosing colors for my stamps.

Recipe:
Stamps:  Just Buzzin By
Ink:  Jet black Stazon, Riding Hood Red, Summer Sun, More Mustard
Paper:  Riding Hood Red designer paper, pirouette pink, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Other:  Regal Rose and Pretty in Pink Stampin' Write marker, So Saffron wide grosgrain ribbon, 3 heart punch, top note sizzix die, scallop edge punch, horizontal slot punch, pirouette pink striped ribbon, dazzling diamonds glitter.

I have lots more samples to show you this week.  I will spread them out over the week.  I have round 2 of my New Catalog Open House tonight.  I will show you the make-n-takes tomorrow.  Thanks for stopping by!

Open House tomorrow!

I have lots of fun new projects to show you.....just not today.  I'm getting ready for my New Catalog Open House Sunday and Monday.  If you are local to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota feel free to come by.  It will be 2-5 on Sunday and 7-9 pm on Monday.  I will have the brand new catalogs, 2 make-n-takes, ribbon club, big shot club and stampin' club sign ups, hand-stamped cards and retired stamps for sale and lots on display.  Contact me at [email protected]

I'll be back in a day or two to show you what I've been up to!

Cupcake Page Spread

I finally used the big cupcake from Simple Birthday Thanks.  I can't believe it took me so long to ink up this cupcake!  I cased the left side of the page spread from a page I saw on Kimberly's blog. The right side of the page I needed a journaling block and an embellishment so I inked up the cupcake minus the writing inside and then drew journaling lines on the bottom half of the cupcake. The letters were done with my Sizzix Gogo Boots and pink fun foam.  It looks like thickers in real life!

The designer paper is from the Sweet Always Paper pack.  I LOVE this paper!  Probably because it goes so well with cupcakes.  hehehe.

Recipe: 
Stamps:  Simple Birthday Thanks, Ink:  Chocolate Chip, Paper:  Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Sweet Always Designer Paper. Other:  Sizzix Gogo Boots Alphabet, crystal effects(cherry), red chunky glitter(cherry), paper crimper, scallop edge punch, chocolate chip marker, stampin' dimensionals, the dots are like dew drops but were purchased at Michaels from the floral department-they were like little flat edged marbles you fill vases with.

The photos were from my daughter's 14th birthday party last year.  We are about to come to her 15th birthday so it was time to get this scrapped!  I made her a jumbo cupcake cake for her birthday so this stamp was pretty appropriate!  The colors were wonky in the photos so I had them printed up in black and white. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a cupcake kinda day!