Sweet Pea Designer Paper card

One of the cards we made at Rita’s workshop last weekend was kind of “out of the box” for me.. I seem to have been stuck on red and pink and black lately… but I branched out and used the SWEET PEA DSP from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog as my color inspiration for …

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Bella Bleu Purse Tote with Cards – FREE TUTORIAL

I thought I'd take a quick break from Christmas to share a FABULOUS project we made in my classes on Saturday.. this adorable purse/tote holds 4 cards and coordinating envelopes that are all made with the Bella Bleu Designer Paper from Stampin' Up! This project was inspired by Julie Ramos.  Isn't it fab!? Here are …

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Stamp A Rama and Weekend Special!

Today is one of my favorite events …. Stamp A Rama with my direct recruits and Power Team.   We each bring a project for everyone else to make.. we make a finished sample and pack our supplies in a "shoebox" and have a great day chatting, eating, stamping, chatting, oh, and laughing! 🙂 Here is …

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Is it Christmas yet?

Oh wait.. it's not even Halloween yet… but.. with all the GREAT NEW PRODUCTS in the Stampin' Up! HOLIDAY MINI CATALOG I just had to play with some Christmas ideas that were floating around in my head!!   Enjoy! SUPPLIES FOR CARD BELOW: Christmas Cocoa DSP (item 116770, pg 21 mini catalog), Grateful greetings (item 116511, …

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Flower Folds card

I LOVED this Flower Folds die in the Big Shot section of the new Stampin' Up! catalog, and needed to do a swap so decided to plan my swap around it… I got the layout idea from the VERY talented Mary Brown!  Thanks Mary for allowing me to use the design! Flower Folds die – item 115970, …

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Control Freak Blog Tour – NEW Stamp Set Samples!

Welcome to my blog!  Below you will find my 3 samples with NEW Stamp Sets!  Enjoy the Tour!  I have been a member of the CONTROL FREAK SWAP GROUP for many, many years.. we are a diverse group of stampers from all over the U.S and Canada. We swap about 5 or 6 times  a …

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Fun Flower Pens!!

A couple weeks ago at my Luv 2 Stamp Group meeting, I gave all my meeting helpers a fun notepad on the a Stampin' Up! Clipboard with a coordinating FUN FLOWER PEN!!!  One of my very talented demonstrators, Lenee Pearson, made the pens for me to give as gifts.. aren't they toooooooo cute!?     To …

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Luv 2 Stamp Group Meeting Gifts

Whew.. I've been BUSY!!  This Saturday is one of my Luv 2 Stamp Group meetings (meeting for my Stampin' Up! downline)… and I've got 7 great projects for my gals to make plus other fun demonstrations, presentations and fabulous information!  We are going to have SOOOO much fun swapping, stamping, visiting, laughing – oh and …

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Stamp A Stack card sample – #4

Here is the 4th card from our Stamp A Stack class last weekend.. I got this totally fun idea from a Christmas card from my super blogging friend Dawn! Check out the clever inside…   4 variations all with the Parisian Breeze DSP, Baja Breeze and Creamy Caramel.  All cards 4×4 square.     INSIDE:     …

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Parisian Breeze Scallop Die Cut card

Evolution of a Card…. do you ever do this??  … You cut out pieces for your card and when you go to flip over the piece of designer paper to add adhesive you realize you realize that you like the OTHER side better!?  LOL…  so that's what happened here.. I was going to make a blue and …

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Big Shot Class

I have a Big Shot class this coming weekend.. I think we'll be making this on Saturday… still trying to decide between all the fun projects I've come up with!! 🙂   This is made with the Top Note die and the Pink Flamingo DSP… more details on this type of project can be found …

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New Matchbox Die from Stampin’ Up!

I was able to pre-order this CUTE Matchbox die from Stampin' Up! – it will be in the upcoming Occasions Mini catalog to be released on April 1st.  Pre-ordering new goodies is a really fun perk of being a demonstrator!! 🙂   This is an XL Bigz die that you use with the Stampin' Up! …

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