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Terrific Tuesdays Roundup . . . Springtime Expressions!

 

Hello Fellow Stampers ~

So hard to believe that February is over tomorrow; and we will officially be in the final month of Sale-a-Bration for 2018!!  Wow!  You don't want to miss out on these final weeks to snap up all those wonderful FREE products.  When they're gone - they're gone!  So get your qualifying orders in today and snap up all the goodies.

 

 

Paper Pumpkin Anniversary Celebration!

Next month is the 5 year Anniversary with Paper Pumpkin!! Wouldn't you love an opportunity to have your very own class in the mail from Stampin' Up!? Paper Pumpkin is it!! You get a stamp set, ink, some of the more specialty adhesive types and all the supplies to make the projects in each month's kit. And, once you are a Paper Pumpkin Subscriber, you can even order kit refills!! It's a wonderful win for you.

March is the Five Year Anniversary so you know Stampin' Up! will offer a perk with next month's kit. Be sure to subscribe or re-subscribe by March 10 to get next month's kit. Another option, if you would like to take advantage of Sale-a-bration Options, is to subscribe by getting a 3, 6 or one year subscription. You can find all your subscription options RIGHT HERE! Let Stampin' Up! do the work so you can "Skip to the Fun!"

 

 

 

SALE-A-BRATION PRODUCT FOCUS OF THE WEEK!

 

If you would like to check out the new Sale-a-Bration options that were introduced to the Sale-a-Bration line up - click HERE to the Flier.  The photo above shows off the Eclectic

 

Expressions stamp set and Springtime Foil Designer Series Paper.  And you know how it goes . . . the paper is always so much better "in person" than in the photo!  Don't miss this G O R G E

 

O U S paper!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHY I LOVE STAMPIN' UP!

 

 

There are so many reasons why I LOVE being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator . . .

 

•     I LOVE that people look forward to getting cards from me!
  
•     I LOVE that I get Host Creddits, AND Flex Points for my orders (exclusive to demonstrators)
  
•     I LOVE all the coordinating products and color collections.
  
•     I LOVE all the wonderful friends and relationships I've made over the years.
  

There are sooooo many reasons to LOVE joining Stampin' Up!  Join the Fun and Join Stampin' Up! today !!  If you need a suggestion for what to put in your Starter Kit, just contact me.  I'm happy to help!  Even better, during Sale-a-Bration you get soooo much more!!  Add 2 FREE stamp sets (any price) to the $99 Starter kit as a bonus during the Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration promotion!  That’s an added value of up to $101!  Exclusive Host & Sale-A-Bration stamp sets excluded.  And I suggest you order the Large Letter Framelits in your Starter Kit -- and add the Letters for You as your free stamp set - a $49 stamp set for FREE!!

 

 

ONCE YOU PURCHASE THE STARTER KIT . . .

You have no further obligation.  If you want to stay active and get all the demonstrator perks, just you have to meet your minimums by June 30th.  There's no greater time to give it a try than during Sale-a-Bration!  Please contact me if you have any questions.  I'm here to help!

 

Until Next Time . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mix-It Up Mondays ~~ A Cake Soiree Flip Card

Hello Fellow Stampers :-)

Happy Monday!  Here we go with a "long" week ahead of us.  I'm hoping it will be a little smoother of a week than last week.  Certain, I'm crossing my fingers for warmer temps!  Miss Sadie Ann is going to be happy as a clam to go play with her BFF's today.  I kept her home all last week as it was just way too cold to be outside for little paws.

 

Today we're going to create a "flip" fold card, using the wonderful Cake Soiree bundle - one of my favorites for birthday cards right now.  And I'm going to showcase the fabulous Sweet Soiree Embellishment kit in today's project as well -- so gorgeous!!

 

 

 

A flip card can be created with any solid framelit type die that we have - it's easy!

The card base is cut 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", and then you score at 4-1/4", and at 2-1/8".

Then it's all about how you run that die through the Big Shot - I'll do a short tutorial on this soon!!

 

Here is the card spread open.

The front 2-1/8" panel was embossed with the Petal Pair (floral image) Texuted Impressions Embossing Folder; then sponged with Powder Pink, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive inks.  So soft and pretty!

And here is where I jumped in and used all the pretty pieces and parts of the gorgeous Sweet Soiree Embellishment Kit.  This kit has all the pretty cakes, flowers, etc - all stamped and ready to be punched out and used (all cut out for you already).  You will find pre-stamped/colored and die cut flower sprays, both on whisper white cardstock, and then silver foil flowers and leaf stems on vellum -- just gorgeous.  The kit includes little white clothespins, a beautiful Marina Mist blue velvet ribbon, and a teeny tiny silver stripe washi tape along with some sweet little paper tassels. 

 

 

This is the inside back panel.  Here you can see I used one of the pre-cut/stamped floral sprays, backed with some of the beautiful silver embossed vellum flower and leaf stems.  I popped this up with dimensionals and laid it over a strip of the gorgeous Berry Burst 3/8" Metallic-Edged Ribbon.

Then the sentiment was stamped with Versamark and embossed with Silver embossing powder; then punched out with the Pretty Label Punch.  Also popped with dimensionals - I laid one of the Marina Mist tassels behind it - and finished it off with Glitter Enamel Dots.

 

Here's the back side of the front flap/fold.  On the "flip fold" I used two of the pre-cut cakes from the kit.  All I did was color in the flowers on the cakes with Stampin' Write markers to match the color scheme of this suite.  I used the pink cake on the "front" flip; and the yellow cake on the back of the "flip" panel.  For the back side of the flip panel - I added a pretty piece of Sweet Soiree Specialty DSP, another one of the pre-die cut floral sprays, and then several of the Vellum silver embossed flower stems to the cake itself; finished off with a Petal Passion Embellishment.

 

And here you can see the card from the front with the folds in place.  I colored on the vellum cutouts from the back side to add some "stained glass" color, and then attached these to the back of the sentiment die cut circle for the front cake - popped with dimensionals.

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed our Mix-It Up Monday project today - I like bringing you something a little different on Mondays - either a fancy fold, or a 3D project when I can.  I am loving the Sweet Soiree Suite - and it combines beautiful with pieces and parts from the Petal Palette Suite.  You can order all your supplies for today's project in my Online Store - and remember, you earn FREE SAB Products for every $50 in order you place!  We're entering the final month of Sale-A-Bration this week - so don't miss out on the goodies!!

 

Until Next Time . . .

 

 

 

Fabulous Friday Fun ~ Inspired Designs

Hello Fabulous Fellow Stampers ~

TGIF!!!  Yes Yes Yes!!  It's been a yucky week!  No way around it!  And, the issue with my herniated disc stuff has taken about 10 steps backwards, so I've been running around to the chiropractor as we try to "put me back together" again -- LOL.  Isn't there something about Humpty Dumpty in there somewhere??!!  LOL 😉

 

Anyway - it's my off-Friday with a fun weekend ahead with my stampers for the annual Birthday Stamp-a-Stack.  It's been very cold, so I'm looking forward to snuggling in, something warm in the crock pot, and some creative play time.  Then my honey and I are planning to escape on Sunday to the Garden & Home Show at the Convention Center for a few hours.  A few hours of sniffing Spring in the beautiful gardens, and dreaming about home makeovers -- LOL  😉

 

Today I want to share with you a couple of fun cards I created.  And I want to talk to you a little bit again about taking your inspiration from all around you.  A couple of weeks ago I did a Valentine card (HERE) that was inspired by an advertisement in a grocery store ad email I got.

 

 

Today's cards are inspired by an email I received some time ago - selling some real live cards - you know, those ones you buy in the store??!! LOL  These are pretty simple cards and are "offered" through a Bible inspiration/devotional site I'm subscribed to. 

 

When I saw these, I thought to myself . . . hey, I can design something similar that would be just as pretty (maybe better), and certainly wouldn't cost what a site like this would charge, right?  I immediately was drawn to the large bold florals in these cards, and the coloring of the images.   Let's take a look at what I came up with - and I hope you feel inspired today!!

 

I made a set of two cards, like my example above - but each of these cards is very different from each other - mainly in what I used to create them.  I did, however, use my Stampin' Blends to do all the coloring on these images.  These are CAS (clean and simple) cards with no layering - just stamping and finishing to the front of the card base.

 

This card uses the flower image from the Beautiful Day stamp set, stamped in Crushed Curry for a softer outline look - then colored with Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends (the leaf is in Bermuda Bay).

The sentiment, from the Sale-a-Bration set - Heartfelt Blooms - is stamped in Versamark and embossesd with Gold embossing powder.

I finished off my roses with "dew drops" from the Glitter & Clear Epoxy Shapes collection.

 

This card was created from a totally different source - and it may surprise you . . .

These flowers are from the Petal Passion Designer Series Paper, and have been colored and fussy cut, layered on the card with some popped with dimensionals, or attached with glue dots, and finished off with pearls.  This is so pretty - you wouldn't even realize they came from a paper rather than a stamped image . . .

 

In fact, I spent a fair amount of time this past week, just coloring with my Blends, this piece of the paper - isn't this gorgeous!!??!!

I had a lot of fun just experimenting with my Blends, creating different color mixes, and testing out ideas.  This paper is perfect for this type of coloring!

And it's pretty easy to fussy cut these flowers out as well!!

 

So what do you think?  Did we achieve as good a design as the store bought's?  Or better?  I actually love how these cards turned out - I almost hate to use them . . . LOL  Do you get like that?  Make a card and then don't want to send it!!  Someone special will get these!!

Have a wonderful Friday and weekend ahead everyone!  And stay warm!

 

Until Next Time . . .

 

 

 

 

 

Case-Out Thursdays ~ Simply Celebrate

 

Good Morning Fellow Stampers ~

 

Howdy! Howdy!  Well, Tuesday evening was somewhat of a fiasco at home; so we took the day off from blogging yesterday.  Hope you're all okay with that.  I have some things planned and up my sleeve for future Class With Wendy; just give me a little time! 

 

This week we're returning to our CASE-Out Thursday post after taking last week off for the Stampin' Pretty Pals Blog Hop.  And today I'm bringing you a card that's right smack dab on the front of the 2018 Spring Occasions Catalog and has had my eye from the beginning.  Why?  Because, in its sheer simplicity, it just grab you!!  And it has everything to do with the fantabulous stamp set that we're going to showcase and use today!!  Here we go . . .

 

 

Picture Perfect birthday

2018 Spring Occasions Catalog - Front Cover (stamp set and suite on page 4/5 of the catalog)

 

Picture Perfect Birthday, is partially a 2-step stamp set, as you can see in the picture above - as such, it is a photopolymer set so that you can line up the images.

We are also going to talk today about how to "replace" an element when it is not available - in this case, the Picture Perfect Paper Ribbon did not arrive in time for the Spring Catalog, and so is not available to "match" the sample on the front of the catalog.

 

 

Design Colorology

 

Flirty Flamingo

Berry Burst

Pool Party

Bermuda Bay

Peekaboo Peach

Lemon Lime Twist

Smoky Slate

Whisper White

 

 

 Stamps, and Ink, and Paper . . . Oh, My! 

Stamps: Picture Perfect Birthday [Item #145519 - photopolymer]
Paper:  Thick Whisper White (5-1/2" x 8-1/2" - cardbase); Whisper White, Reg. weight (5-1/4" x 4"); Bermuda Bay (4-1/4" x 1"); Lemon Lime Twist (4-1/4" wide for punching)
Inks:  Flirty Flamingo [Item #141397]; Berry Burst [Item #144083; Pool Party [Item #126982]; Bermuda Bay [Item #131171]; Peekaboo Peach [Item #141398]; Lemon Lime Twist [Item #144086]; Smoky Slate [Item #11179]; Versamark [Item #102283]
Other: Decorative Ribbon Border Punch [Item #143721]; Rhinesones [Item #144220]; White Stampin' Emboss Powder [Item #109132]

 

 

 

"CASE-Out" Design Guide

1. Score the 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Thick Whisper White cardstock at 4-1/4" and gently burnish with your bone folder. [Reminder:  Fold "inward" on your bump - bump goes to the inside - to get that nice clean professional look].  Use your bone folder gently so as not to "crack" your cardstock.  

2.  "Set up" your Stamp-a-ma-Jig with the main "bow" image from the stamp set.  Then line up the images the 5" x 4-1/4" Whisper White cardstock piece.  Stamp each one (one at a time) as follows:

Top Row:  Flirty Flamingo/Berry Burst;  Pool Party/Bermuda Bay

Second Row:  Pool Party/Bermuda Bay;  Peekaboo Peach/Flirty Flamingo

Third Row:  Lemon Lime Twist/Smoky Slate;  Flirty Flamingo/Berry Burst

Some tips for your success:  The colors listed above are the main bow, and then the inner color.  The image for the "inside" of the bows lines up - see the "arrows" on the acetate sheet they rest on.  There is more space between the first row and the second row, then there is between the second row and the third row.  This allows for the sentiment strip to lay between the rows and not cover up too much of the bows.

Adhere your finished Whisper White piece to the front of the card base with SNAIL.

3.  Ink just the "celebrate" portion of this sentiment from the stamp set in Versamark ink and stamp it on the Bermuda Bay strip.  Emboss with White embossing powder.  Stamp the little "stars" in Bermuda Bay around the sentiment.

4.  We're going to replace the Paper Ribbon with strips punched from the Decorative Ribbon Border Punch instead.  Cut a piece of Lemon Lime Twist cardstock so that it is 4-1/4" wide, then punch two strips off that cardstock using the punch.  Add SNAIL along each of the long edges of the back side of the Bermuda Bay strip and adhere the "ribbon" strips.  Then SNAIL the strip to the front of the card.

 

5.  Add some Rhinestone jewels, and your card is complete!!

 

Here's a peak at the inside of my card!!

What's nice about both the front of this card, and the inside sentiment is that it's "generic" enough that you could use it for other celebratory celebrations, not just for birthdays!

 

What fun this little card was to make.  I like the CAS (clean and simple) feel to the front of the card.  Interestingly, this card was not as "simple" to make as you might think -- LOL.  And while typing this blog post, I've decided I may need to do a video tutorial for this one so that everyone can see first hand how to put this all together.  I LOVE the final effect.  So glad we unlocked the suitcase combo today!  Now the suitcase is safely closed back up; we'll have to wait until next week to see what's inside!!

Have a wonderful Thursday everyone!  It's my "Friday" since tomorrow is an off-Friday week -- whoo hooo!!!  So I'm off to finish up my week at work.

Until Next Time . . .

 

Terrific Tuesdays Roundup . . . Beautiful Blooms

 

Hello Fellow Stampers ~

 

Brrrrrrrrrrrr . . . it's Pawsitively NOT Puddy Dawg weather this morning!!  Minus 2 degrees fahrenheit when I crawled out from under the covers.  However, Miss Sadie Ann thought attacking the shovel and getting mom to toss snow on her while she romped to her heart's content was just THE Best this morning!!  We didn't stay out too long -- not good for the Paws!

 

Time to "round up" the fun into the Stampin' Up! corral this morning . . . let's run through this week's review:

 

 

I hope you are LOVING the 2nd release for Sale-a-Bration this year.  I adore the new products - stamp sets, paper and an INCREDIBLE new embossing folder.  Check out all the details for this year's Sale-a-Bration HERE and you can click on the icons below to see this year's Sale-a-Bration brochures. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions. 

 

    

 

INDULGE IN THE ART OF STAMPING & SAVE!  The Stampin’ Up! $99 Starter Kit is the Ultimate Stampin’ Up! Bundle.  Get up to $125 in products for $99 (that’s $26 in free products) and the kit ships FREE for another 10% savings.  Enjoy 20 – 25% off Stampin’ Up! products on subsequent orders from the day you purchase the kit and join the Stampin’ Up! family through at least July 31, 2018.  There’s no risk and no penalty to drop!  See what you get in the kit and additional benefits here!

BONUS!  CHOOSE TWO FREE STAMP SETS DURING SALE-A-BRATION!  January 3 – March 31.  Add 2 FREE stamp sets (any price) to the $99 Starter kit as a bonus during the Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration promotion!  That’s an added value of up to $101!  Exclusive Host & Sale-A-Bration stamp sets excluded.

 

SUBSCRIBE TO PAPER PUMPKIN - AND EARN FREE SAB PRODUCTS TOO!! From January 3rd to March 31st, during Sale-a-Bration, order at least a 3-month Prepaid Subscription, and you will earn a Free SAB Product with your order.  It's Easy!!  Learn More about Paper Pumpkin During Sale-a-Bration HERE!!

**Don't forget that with a 6-month and 12-month prepaid subscription, you get a discount savings over the regular monthly subscription rate.  And you earn multiple SAB Products too!!  Bonus!!

 

 

CELEBRATING 5 PAPER PUM-WONDERFUL YEARS!

It's Paper Pumpkin's 5th Anniversary!!

Thanks to everyone who has helped us reach FIVE wonderful years with Paper Pumpkin! As part of our anniversary celebration, we have a fun surprise for our subscribers: a March kit that includes a fantastic, FREE gift and a specially designed, one-of-a-kind box. The celebration begins February 11 and runs until March 10.

So get ready everyone!  Sign Up today for Paper Pumpkin -- you won't want to miss out on the Celebration!

 

 

Place your Pre-Paid subscription of choice in your Online Order today!!

  

PRODUCT FOCUS OF THE WEEK

 

The Blooming Basket Bundle is one of our newest Level 2 Sale-a-Bration releases.  And it is an "award winner" in the flower market!!  Earn this wonderful wonderful bundle FREE with a minimum $100 purchase - it should be one of YOUR Top Picks!!

 

 

Until Next Time . . .