Great Catalog Party!

Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who stopped by my New Catalog Party to drool over the new catalog with me! It was great to see all of you!

If you missed it, here are some highlights:

Everyone received a fun water bottle as a thank-you for coming. I used the new Greenhouse Gala Designer Paper to make the wraps for the bottles and the thank you is from the stamp set With All my Heart. Do you like my bucket? I found the plain white bucket and personalized it using chocolate chip Décor Elements and my Big shot. The letters are from the Billboard die.



Then, to entice everyone to book a party I made this awesome booking cake:


Each piece has chocolate inside (of course) as well as a prize for booking the workshop. To create this cake, I used Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip card stock for the pieces and then for the flowers, I used the Island Floral Big Shot die. It was a bit of work to make but I love how it tuned out....super fun! This would be great to make for a bridal shower or other type of party...you could change the flowers to roses to make it more elegant.

Here is a top view:



I also had "Survival Kits" for those who picked up their new catalogs:



And, of course, Make-and-takes. Here's the Card we made:

This card uses the new Greenhouse Gala Designer paper again. I love this paper! The card uses two the new colors, Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizzaz along with Pumpkin Pie. The stamp set is also a new one, It's called Friends Never Fade. This set is very versatile and I'll be showing you more cards made with it soon! We also used the new 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Daffodil Delight. This ribbon is really cool, I love the white edge on it and it comes in 13 colors! I'm going to be doing a sampler with it this month, so let me know if you'd like to participate. Check out the post below for details.

Here's the other Make-and-Take everyone got to make:


This is a simple little Hershey Nugget Wrap. It uses all new colors. The red is the new Poppy Parade. Then the ice cream cone (from the set Sweet Scoops in the Summer Mini) is stamped with Peach Parfait, Blushing Bride, and Poppy Parade. Punch it out with the Large Oval Punch and then tie the whole thing together with some 1/8" very vanilla taffeta ribbon.

Hope you enjoyed my "virtual" open house. If you didn't get to stop by and get your catalog, contact me to get your copy!

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With All My Heart...

When I first got the set With all my Heart, all I could think of to make with it was valentines since it matched the Sending love paper. Then I saw a sample on the Stampin' Up! Website in these colors and was "wowed". Why didn't I think to use it with other colors? Silly me! All of a sudden, this set seemed so much more versatile!

For this card I used Bashful blue for the card base and stamped flowers on it using bashful blue ink. Then I made a fun pattern with the smaller flower using old olive, bashful blue and melon mambo. I punched out a flower using the XL Fancy Flower Punch and added it on along with some striped grosgrain ribbon. I love how this looks and am excited to use this set for more non-valentine cards!

stamps: with all my heart
ink: old olive, bashful blue, melon mambo
paper: old olive, whisper white, bashful blue, melon mambo
other: Striped Grosgrain ribbon, XL fancy flower punch

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Happy Valentines Day!

Hope you are having a great Valentines Day with your loved ones!

Here is one last valentine to share with you! This one was super simple to make. I used the jumbo roller I {love} Love from the Occasions mini and rolled it out with real red ink on very vanilla card stock. I tied some red satin ribbon around it and framed it with Chocolate Chip card stock that I used the scallop trim border punch on. Then added it to my real red card stock base and added the sentiment "with all my heart" from the With All my heart set.

A simple, sweet and easy Valentine!

stamps: I {Love} Love, With all my Heart
ink:real red, chocolate chip
paper:real red, very vanilla, chocolate chip
other: real red satin ribbon, scallop trim border punch

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Tissue paper flower Card

When I saw the tissue paper flowers on Julie Buhlers blog post here, I had to try to make them myself. They're really easy. You just stamp on tissue paper...I did four layers, and then lay on top of a piece of cardstock...I used old olive and punch all the layers together. Then you can kind of spread out your layers and make it look like a flower. The epoxy brads make a perfect finishing accent to the center.

For this card, I used the jumbo roller I {Love} Love, with real red ink on real red cardstock to make a background pattern. Then I used chocolate chip as the next layer and added some real red satin ribbon around it. The main image is a piece of whisper white cardstock that I punched both edges of using the scallop trim border punch. I attached my flower to this piece and stamped the word friend from the With all my Heart stamp set. This piece was attached with dimensionals to make it pop off even more.


Hope you're having a good Valentines weekend!!

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All My Heart

Valentines day is coming up and the colors in the Sending Love paper are perfect for making Valentines. This card would make a great valentine. The base is real red cardstock and I cut a piece of the Sending Love paper to fit across the middle. I used the new Scallop Trim border punch to accent the edge and tied around it with some very vanilla satin ribbon. The flower is punched using the new Extra Large Fancy Flower punch. I punched it twice, once from the patterned paper and once from vanilla. The stamped flower is from the set With all my Love and I added corduroy brad in the center. It turned out really pretty, I think. Then I used the sentiment "Celebrate you" from the set A Little Birthday Cheer.

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Sending Love Valentine Album

Here is a Valentine album that I made using the Sending Love Specialty Paper and some new stamp sets from the Occasions Mini. It fits nicely inside this little tin. If you are coming to my class on friday, you will get to make one of your own! Here are some more photos. The first one is of the cover. I used real red card stock as the base. I also used the new Extra Large Fancy Flower Punch to create the main flower. The stamp set is the new With all my Heart set.


When you fold it out, there are 4 panels. Here's what the inside looks like-- I picked some of my favorite pics of my and my hubby from this year and then decorated the pages.


And here is the back side. These little albums are fun and quick to make. The part that took the longest was finding and printing the photos!


If you want to make one of your own and can come by on Friday, sign up for my class today!


stamps: With all my Love, You & Moi, Vintage Labels, Whimsical Words, Well-Scripted.
ink: Real Red, Chocolate Chip
paper: Sending Love, Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip
other: Extra Large Fancy Flower punch, Small Heart Punch, Curly Label Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Large Oval Punch, Circle PunchSending Love Epoxy Brads, Real Red 5/8" Satin Ribbon

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