Do you have your FREE Rub-Ons yet??

Time is RUNNING OUT!!!  Can you believe there are only 9 days .. YES NINE DAYS left during Stampin’ Up!’s annual Sale-A-Bration sale!!??  aaaaaaaaaaah! Do YOU have your FREE Rub-ons yet? OK, now that I have your attention… I hope you enjoy these projects I’ve been working on using the FREE Sale-A-Bration Rub-on package!! They …

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Carousel Note cards – Oh My Gosh – Too Fun!

I think I’m just having TOO much fun with all my "new toys".. from the Occasions Mini catalog!!  My friend Aimee inspired me to get out my Carousel notes and start playing!! I’m so glad she did!  I am LOVING these notes!! I’ve combined them with Sale-A-Bration Rub-ons and "Lucky Star" Accents and Elements Tin …

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Hostess Gift – Summer Picnic paper

My workshop hostess this weekend will be getting this gift from me.. I am pretty sure she doesn’t look at my blog (but why not??) – so I’m posting it now and we’ll see if she sees it!  The tutorial for making the Origami box can be found on SCS HERE.   I used the …

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Trifold Sweet Celebrations

I saw THIS IDEA on Fran’s blog and just LOVED the fold… as you can see, I not only copied the fold, but also the stamp set and ribbon! Guess I wasn’t very original, but I really loved her card! Thanks for the awesome idea, Fran! I used the Sweet Celebrations set on pg 131 …

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Sale-A-Bration Stamp A Stack class samples

We stamped 10 cards in my Sale-A-Bration Stamp A Stack class this week.  Stampers made 2 each of 5 different designs.  CARD #1: Jumbo "Classic Stars" Wheel (pg 112) in Certainly Celery on Med. Whisper White card.  Star from "Classic Backgrounds" (pg 133) stamped in Certainly Celery ink punched out with Jumbo Star punch and …

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All 12 Months of my Coaster Calendar

Many of you have asked to see all 12 months of my Coaster Calendar class.  Details can be found HERE and Bind It All info can be found HERE.  I got the calendars at www.vippies.com   We will replace the 2008 pages with 2009 next year. You’ll notice many of the months use retired SU! DSP …

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The Cookie Made me Do It ??

Ummmm … so … don’t try to eat a cookie and punch the Scallop Circle punch at the same time…. it may not work out as planned: Geeeesh!! What a Dork I am!  (but the cookies were good!) Another sneak peek of another swap I’m working on for the Stampin’ Up! Regional Seminar this coming …

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Watercolor Wonder Crayons & Ginger Blossom paper

One of the requests for my workshop on the weekend was to work with Watercolor Crayons.  So this is the project I designed.  I brought River Rock and Groovy Guava cards, and an assortment of Ginger Blossom paper precut, and showed them how to use the watercolor crayons on an outline image on the watercolor …

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Watercolor Crayon Resist

I remember doing Crayon Resist a long time ago, but was reminded of this great technique by my friend Dawn.  Use the White crayon in our "Neutrals Watercolor Crayon" package and scribble on a stamped image (regular Ultrasmooth White c/s works fine for this), then sponge color over the white crayon, then buff with a …

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Hostess Gift – Pockets & Pieces

My workshop hostess, Valerie, will be receiving this gift today!  Thanks to Erica for this totally adorable idea!!  I used the Stampin’ Up! Pockets & Pieces kit to make this pouch.. and just as Erica mentioned, I don’t think I made this quite right either.. but hey, it worked! 🙂  I used the new Die …

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Occasions Mini Preview + SAB samples

Wow… what fun I had this morning!!  I was inspired by Beate’s cute little box HERE and I just kind of got ON A ROLL making scallop punch embellishments, and using the new "A Perfect Day" Rub-ons from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions mini catalog (demonstrators got to Pre-Order this month!) {yahoo}!!  Let’s see.. I also …

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Tie the Knot details

Thanks for all your kind comments on my Tie the Knot samples from last night!  Those were SO quick… I did all 8 cards in an hour!!!  I only used 2 sheets of cardstock, 1/3 of each of the patterned cardstock pieces and very few of the self-adhesive die cuts from the Tie The Knot …

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