My Happy Stamping Place

You're Sweet Cupcake

Those of you who have known me awhile know that I used to have a bit of a cupcake obsession.  I just loved all cupcake images in stamps, paper goods, t-shirts, etc.  I'm not a huge cupcake eater but I love the image of cupcakes.  I still love cupcakes but I've tempered the obsession a bit. 

 

For this card, I'm back with the Coffee Cafe' bundle.  Yep, it makes cupcakes too!  I added a greeting from the Cool Treats stamp set.  Another favorite of mine.  Here's the card and all of the supplies are below.

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Product List

Coffee Café Photopolymer Bundle

[145331]

$45.75

Cool Treats Photopolymer Stamp Set

[142982]

$27.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

$35.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

$30.00

Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack

[144177]

$10.00

Polka Dot Basics Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143709]

$7.50

5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

[141487]

$7.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100730]

$9.00

Powder Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[144244]

$8.00

Chocolate Chip 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[102128]

$8.00

Chocolate Chip Classic Stampin' Pad

[126979]

$6.50

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[126949]

$6.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00

Links by TheseAreMyStamps.com

 

All supplies can be ordered from my Stampin' Up! website.

 

I'm going to keep the card love going so check back soon!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Kathleen

Life is a party!

My son, Sam, and I were going through the drive-through at Wendys' after his gymnastics on Saturday when we found the person through the speaker on the drive-through, the person taking our money, and the person giving us our food were in bad moods and very unenthusiastic.  That started a conversation between Sam and I that no matter where you are and what you are doing you may as well make the most of it and have some fun.  He said when he gets a job(at Papa Murphys where his sister works) he's going to greet people in a really friendly way and say stuff like, "Hey welcome to Papa Murphy's!  What can I hook you up with? "  or "would you like some free cookie dough?"  I told him he better watch it with that last one or he may find himself out of a job! The point is, make people happy and have some fun yourself!  You'll be happier too.  I told him, "Life is a party and everyone's invited!"  We came home laughing about it and my daughter was wondering what got into us.  I shared with her the story and she loved the saying I came up.  This saying pretty much embodies my son Sam.  He is a funny, happy kid and likes to make people laugh.  He sure makes me laugh!

This is how I feel about stamping.  It's something that makes me really happy and it's a way I can bring joy to other people too!  It wouldn't be near as much fun for me if I didn't have my customers and friends to share it with.

I do have a card to share with you.  I continue to carry on a love affair with stamped images of cupcakes! I pre-ordered this hostess stamp set from Stampin' Up! called, "A Cherry on Top".  The cake dome is stamped with white stazon on a window sheet and white embossing powder embossed on it. This was also my swap card for the WOW swap I am in.  I can't wait to get back the swaps from the other ladies!

I had my Stampin' Up! new catalog Open House today so my day was filled with fun for me and my customers and friends!  Sharing what I love! That's what it's all about.  I hope your day was filled with fun and laughter!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

 

 

 

Elegant cupcake

 During the month of May Stampin' Up! demonstrators get to pre-order a selection of products from the new Stampin' Up! catalog that will be released June 1.  There was this one hostess stamp set that I wanted to get in my hands ASAP so I pre-ordered it.  It's called "A Cherry on Top".  It's right up my alley!  I decided to team it with some of the new designer paper called, Comfort Cafe. Nice rich colors in this one!

Recipe: Stamps: A Cherry on Top

Ink; Soft Suede, Cajun Craze,Summer Starfruit(new in color!) and Midnight Muse(new in color!)

Paper: Whisper White, Soft Suede, Midnight Muse, Comfort Cafe designer paper

Other:  punch trio pack, rhinestones, crystal effects

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Cupcakes!

Happy Easter-almost!  I'll be making those yummy chocolate chip cookie, oreos, brownie bars for my family's gathering tomorrow.  I have shared it with my husband's side of the family but my side of the family hasn't had the pleasure yet.  My side are total sweet addicts too.  They are going to loooooove it!

I had stamp club Thursday night.  Beth was our hostess and she brought some lovely treats.  There was this fruit pizza.

And these adorable bunny cake pops!  So cute and yummy!

I have made no secret of my love of cupcakes.  More to look at than to eat.  I found this adorable card by Linda Aarhus. I used some different pucnhes to create the cupcake and mounted them on the scallop circle. I added a little decoration on the inside which you can see peeking through the card.

This satisfied my eye candy sweet tooth! Hah! The designer paper is from the Occasions mini catalog called Sweet shop.  The cupcake paper and the embossed heart paper the cupcakes are on are both from this adorable paper pack.  But hurry!  It's only available through the end of this month.  You can order it through my online website here.

Have a Happy Easter!

Kathleen

Cupcake time!

In the new Stampn' Up! Occasions mini catalog there are some awesome cupcake products for us cupcake lovers!  One of them is the new stamp set, Sweet Cake.  I used this set to make one of my Wow cards for the Wow card swap I'm in.

Lots of new product used here.  There's the new Sizzix labels die.  Love this thing!  It goes so well with the sweet cake set too.  The pleated ribbon - I'm in love!!!  The hearts embosslit die.  Heaven!  The cherry on top uses the new cherry cobbler dazzling details.  So many fun new products on one card!

I can't wait to see the rest of my Wow swap cards I'm getting in return. I hear they are exceptional.  I will share them with you here soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Happy 2012!

I hope you all had a wonderful New Year's Eve.  We made an Angus steak dinner at home(yum!), played Apples to Apples and watched a movie.  We were supposed to get a big snowstorm but it never amounted to much of anything. 

At any rate, it's a 3 day weekend.  Woot! And I got to spend some time in my craft room.  Woot! Woot! I'm working on some Wow card swaps. While I was playing and trying to figure out what I wanted to do I came up with this card.  This uses lots of new stuff that is coming out in the Occasions mini catalog on January 4.

Stamps:  Sweet Cake

Paper: Crumb Cake, Indigo, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Calyspo Coral

Ink: Early Espresso, Indigo

Other:  new label die!, new pleated ribbon!, lace border punch, Sizzix Top Note die, In Color polka dot brads, tulips embossing folder, clear embossing powder

I'll be back to show you my Wow card swaps.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

The cupcake case

Or is it the case of the cupcake?  No matter.  This card was cased from someone who cased it from someone else, who knows where it originated?  I put my own little spin on it with the sneak peek silver glimmer paper.  It makes for some blingy cupcake frosting tops!

This is a stair step card.  You can find directions for it on SCS.  It's really easy with the new stampin' score tool by Stampin' Up!  This handy tool will be available Sept.1.  I can't wait for you to get your hands on it. 

 

Stamps: Create a Cupcake, alphabet

Ink: Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze, Early Espresso, Peach Parfait, Wild Wasabi

Paper: So Saffron, Eat cake designer paper, silver glitter paper(available in holiday mini Sept.1!), build a cupcake punch, pennant banner punch, stampin' dimensionals, stampin' score tool

We had a lot of fun at my hostess appreciation event on Friday night.  It was an event I held for all of my party hostesses over the past couple of years.  I had fun spoiling them with special projects, prizes, goodies, and treats.  I'll post the other projects we made soon.

Thanks for stopping by.

Kathleen

Wow Swap

I participate in a Wow swap each time a new mini catalog comes out.  A group of us that were going to Convention got together for a Wow swap and got to meet each other.  This is the card I made for our Wow Swap.

 

Yes, I used my new favorite color, Pool Party.  I just couldnt' resist.  This is an easel card.  On the front panel I used the double embossed technique.  You run your cardstock through the Big Shot with an embossing folder.  Then you brayer versamark ink over it and pour irridescent ice embossing powder over it and emboss. 

Recipe: Stamps: Create a Cupcake, Perfect Punches(greeting)

Ink: Pool party, Blushing Bride, Early Espresso

Paper: Pool Party, Blushing Bride, Early Espresso,Whisper White, Just Add Cake dp

Other: Finial Press embossing folder, Scallop Squares duo sizzix die, wide oval punch, decorative label punch, glitter brads, perfect polka dots embossing folder, irridescent ice embossing folder, blushing bride ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, triple blossom punch, early espresso thin taffeta ribbon, tasteful trim sizzix die

That is the last of my convention swaps.  I'll be back to show you what I have been up to in my craft room since I have been back from Convention!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Convention highlights

This year's Stampin' Up! convention was a blast.  Just imagine 3300 people who are as passionate about something as you are and you get a lot of great energy, excitement and fun!!!

This year's theme was grow.  This theme was woven through everything from the decor, the class names, the message, etc.

 
This was the main stage set.

They were very generous with us this year with lots of give-aways and suprises.  They gave us more make-n-takes than we could ever get done in an hour and a half plus a workshop in a bag we could take home with us and use it at a workshop when we got home.  All of the projects were planned and pre-cut for us.  Do you want to be the first one to get to do these projects?  Contact me to book your party!

 

This is Kelly and I.  Kelly is my friend, downline and roommate at Convention.  Both of us thought it would be tons of fun to go in a bigger group next year.  Why not sign up and join the fun?  We would love to take you with us next year!

Kelly and I ate some delicious dinners out while we were in SLC.  It was a different cuisine every night, Mexican, Chinese, Italian and good old American.  We walked it all of going to and from our hotel.  We purposely booked a hotel that wasn't right across the street from the Salt Palace so we could get our exercise in.

We had lots of time between general sessions and classes.  There were tons of fun things on display to take pictures of and demosntrations by fellow demonstrators. Here's a few of the displays and samples we had to look at.

 

 

 
 

The time went fast as all fun things do.  On the last day we got together with some leaders in our group to hear and ask questions about how they had such a successful year.  Very informative!  While we were waiting to meet, Kelly and I wandered around the Salt Palace to explore it.  Everyone was gone except the workers tearing everything down.  The salt Palace is huge!  We barely scratched the surface of this place!  There's room for a ton more!  We got some funny looks from the Salt Palace crew but it was fun to go exploring. 

This last picture is of me by one of the flowers they had scattered all around the Salt Palace.  Once everyone was gone Kelly and I had free reign on the photo ops!

 


I'll be back with some more of my swap cards from convention.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

 

More cupcakes!

I found this card by krista824 on SCS and just had to case it.  I made just a few minor tweaks.  Such a fun and happy card!

 

Recipe: Stamps: Create a Cupcake

Ink:  Melon Mambo, Pumpkin pie, Chocolate Chip

Paper: Whisper White, chocolate Chip, dp from the SAB Ice Cream Parlor Accents kit

Other: ribbon from SAB Ice cream buttons and ribbon kit, word window punch, modern label punch, itty bitty punch pack flowers, square scallop duo sizzix die, stampin' dimensionals

I'm going to spend some time in my happy place again today - my stamp room!  Can't wait to create some more!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen