I thought I had come up with a fairly simple card to share with my group of twelve stampers at our semi-monthly class at the Avimor Community Center last week. But……that simple bit of changing colors and words proved otherwise! It does take time to get the right color and the right goodie sent around the tables while letting everyone get the color and image of their choice. The…
Today’s cards are one sample of the card “my” stampers made at our local Community Center last Thursday. It’s really quite simple and doesn’t require a lot of supplies. Product List Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock [159229] $8.25 Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [159276] $9.75 Fresh Freesia 8 1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [155613] $8.75 Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin’ Pad [155611] $7.50 Highland…
A fun group of neighbors have been gathering, around 7:30, every Friday night since last September, maybe a month earlier. We each bring a snack and some wine. One of our group is about to move to North Carolina!!!!! Sigh. We all moved into this newish neighborhood (Avimor, NE edge of Boise ID)around December 2019. It’s an amazingly friendly, fun place to live. And to lose a friend and neighbor…
And with July comes a great offer from Stampin’ Up! The Designer Series Paper Sale. During this incredible sale, you can enjoy a 15% discount on select papers from the 2021–2022 Annual Catalog! Now is a great time to stock up and save on some of Stampin’ Up!’s most popular paper designs! Starting tomorrow, Thursday, JULY 1st, you can purchase these Designer Series Paper packs for 15% off. Click…
In honor of World Diversity Day, I feel the need to repost a card my grandson and I made well over a year ago. He and I were having a crafting afternoon and the card was pretty much his idea. We made 16 cards, each with a different color background and using ALL of the puzzle pieces we die cut. It was a great project. He also is responsible…
If you don’t have a lot of space, time or an intention to collect lots of stamping supplies, then these kits might be just the answer you didn’t know you were looking for. As a demonstrator I’ve been able to purchase a few (my choice of purchasing only a few since there really are a bunch of kits) kits and I now, in just a few hours, I have…
I consider myself quite lucky in that I have a dedicated (and “stolen”) bedroom that is dedicated to my stamping business. Today isn’t a day to show the whole room but I was inspired to do this little bit of sharing by pulling an item from the most important ‘tool’ on my desk: a Stampin’ Up! coffee mug! My most often used tools find their way into this…
As soon as I saw this Garden Birdhouses stamp set in Stampin’ Up!’s new 2021-22 Annual Catalog, I knew it had to come to my house. I love birdhouses and the joy of watching birds come to our backyard to feed from spring through fall. These are my first cards made with this bold set. I say bold because the line art and fonts are quite strong or bold.…
It’s always fun to stamp to a challenge and today my challenge was Monday Mystery Stamping with Texas Stampin’ Up! demonstrator Sharon Armstrong. I usually make two cards while Mystery Stamping and today was no different. Today’s cards have only a teeny weeny difference between them……the color of their greeting. and As always, this was a fun card to put together. Product List Beauty Of The Earth…
If you’ve been wanting to give Paper Pumpkin a try, for sure now is the time. If you’ve never tried it before, for only $5, which including shipping, you just can’t strike out! Step up to the plate, take a swing, and knock it out of the park! With the Batter Up! Paper Pumpkin Kit, it’s your turn to go to bat for all the people who’ve gone to…
Oh my gosh. I was putting a card together when I realized that I’d put that lovely gooey-ooey “green glue”, aka Multipurpose Liquid Glue, on the ‘wrong side’ of my piece of Designer Series Paper. So, I decided to just go with it. One card below is the intended card and the other is with the Designer Series Papers swapped to the ‘other sides’. Which card appeals…
These are rather crazy hectic times at Stampin’ Up!, for customers and demonstrators alike. In order for new products to come into the upcoming annual catalog, older items must be retired. Here’s the scoop: Only select items in the 2020–2021 Annual Catalog will be discounted. No minimum purchase is required. Retiring items are available while supplies last. Exclusions apply: Carryover items and some retiring items will not be…
I’ve been creating a variety of cards for my neighbor (much better than going ‘down the hill’ to the store) for various upcoming special events in her friends’ and relatives’ lives. Today’s card is for her dad who will be 100 in early April. He is as strong as an oak tree and she requested an oak tree for his card. I brought out my beloved (now retired) Lovely…
Well……..I’m going to blame that home improvement project for not getting this post finished when I planned to. Hmmmm. When you can get two of us (Russ/Blythe) to work together to get that slowly-coming-together-project actually finished and put into place, you take advantage. I did, on Monday (yesterday), play along with Sharon Armstrong and her Monday Mystery Stamping on FaceBook again. It’s so much fun stepping forward into…
It’s a few days after Monday (like it’s already Friday!) but I still want to share the fun card I made for Sharon Armstrong’s March 15th Mystery Monday stamping project. Sharon gives only items used for the day’s card, with measurements for the various ingredients, on Sunday afternoon. My challenge to self, having no clue what the mystery card will end up looking like, is to use a…