Click for>> Patty's Convention Special Click for>> Convention Photo Updates Last night I co-hosted a fun Stampin' Up! Pre-Convention party with my DEAR friends Jan Wakeland and Janice Weightman. We've been Stampin' UP! buddies for about 15 or 16 years… amazing!!! I love them dearly!! We each invited our teams to join together …
Click for>> Patty's Convention Special Click for>> Convention Photo Updates This week I'm away at the 2015 Stampin' UP! Convention in Salt Lake City and I'm sharing my convention swap cards with you! I stamped 180 cards to take with me to swap with my fellow demonstrators! When working on designs for my Stampin' …
Last week I opened up my AWESOME Watercolor Wishes card kit from Stampin' UP!, and I was so excited to make the 20 cards!! I decided to create the 20 tags first, and I wanted to create them without looking at the instruction booklet.. I really enjoyed using the stamp set that comes in …
I am really enjoying these Metallic Foil Doilies! They are such a great accent AND they are already die cut.. AND only $4.00 for a package of 24!!! They come in 2 sizes, in gold and silver, so you get a great variety .. but.. hold on.. did you know you can also flip …
Just "Fluttering By" to send you this cheerful Bold Butterfly birthday card greeting today!! I really wanted to try out my new 6×6 Fluttering embossing folder and I was also die cutting these pretty little butterflies and they just kind of fell together on this card! Design Tip: Round just one of the 4 …
Do Polka Dots just make you happy!? They make me smile!! Especially these cute random polka dots in the Color Me Irresistible specialty paper pack from Stampin' Up! Normally I'm not a fan of random… I like everything nice and orderly in rows and columns – must stem from my structural engineering drafting background… …
Do you ever do this? You have some left over pieces from various cards on your crafting table, so you put them together and make a new card? That's what I did .. I had all these elements from other projects and just put them together on a Stampin' Up! Whisper White note card! …
Do you remember THIS BLOG POST from a couple weeks ago where I showed you how to color the Expressions Natural Elements using your Stampin' Up! Ink Pad? I really enjoyed the easy technique I shared with you in that video and have made several more cards with this technique! As you can see …
Fun Foam + Butterfly Framelits = Butterfly stamps! When I was playing with color combos for the Watercolor Wings butterfly stamps (see this post and video), I really wanted to create a monarch butterfly… but I found that I just didn't seem to have the right stamp images… but now I do!! I die …
Did you see my post last week with the Stampin' UP! June Paper Pumpkin kit!? I LOVE this cute posy flower stamp that came in my kit .. so I decided to create a card other than what the kit makes.. here is what I stamped!! How cute is this!? The White Perfect Accents …
Paper Piercing… it's one of those little "extras" that can add so much to your stamped card or handcrafted project, but yet, we often forget about it! I grabbed the Updated Essentials Paper Piercing Template, my mat and Paper Piercing tool (pg 168 in the 2015-2016 Stampin' UP! catalog) and added a circle of …
On Sunday, Eric and I celebrated our 29th Wedding Anniversary… wow.. 29 years? How did THAT happen!!?? He hired me as a Structural Engineering Drafter in April 1984, and we got married on June 28, 1986… yep… 29 years ago!! Amazing! We worked together in the office until 1991 when Jason was born, then …