A Little Wild Baby Card

These sweet cards were made a while back for a baby shower.

Then I made a dozen coordinating thank you notes for the mom-to-be to send out 

The precious new baby was born just before Christmas, and this means we also have a brand new grandma. So of course I had to make a new grandma card for my friend that coordinates.

I just love this cute little elephant. My favorite go-to for baby cards.

Here are the products that I used:

Stamp Sets: A Little Wild, Cuddles and Kisses (R)

Paper: Bermuda Bay and Whisper White, Watercolor paper

Ink: Staz on Black, Smoky Slate, Petal Pink

Fun Stuff: Layering Circles Framelits Dies, Ruffled Dynamic Embossing Folder, Little Loves Framelits Dies, Smoky Slate Gingham Ribbon (R)

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Sentimental Sunday

Sorry that I have been MIA for the last few days - I had 2 weeks between Christmas and New Year that I had no classes so I thought that I would pull out my scrapbooking and do some catching up in that department.

I must say that I did a LOT of pages and met my goal to have my pictures up to May of 2018 completed PLUS all my photos that we took in Greece. I think I had as many photos from Greece as I did from June 2017-May 2018.

It was good to go through the photos to remind me of God's goodness and grace in our lives through a difficult, yet joyful year.

Time to get started on more cards, which I must say, I am terribly behind on. I have had several people stop in to purchase cards from me and I did not have a selection for them to choose from. The new store in town has completely deleted my supply here at home and now I need to replenish the stock in both stores.

On top of all this I am having my New Occasion Catalog and Sale a bration Brochure OPEN HOUSE this coming Saturday. So if you live in my area I hope you will stop in to check out the new products, see some samples that I made up ahead (before I pulled out my scrapbooking), and make up some simple Make & Takes.  I'm pretty excited about it and I hope to see many of you here. TIME: 10am to 2PM, Saturday, January 5th.  Sale a bration starts on January 3rd so this will be a great time to place an order and get some darling products FREE (*with a qualifying purchase)

Our youngest grand daughter turned 8 months on the 28th! I cannot believe she is growing up so fast. Just look how happy she is

Mercy is wearing the month by month onsies that my pen pal made for when Sawyer was born and they are still holding up through a third child.

Over the Christmas break from school we got the grand kids together to have a photo shoot. I started this tradition when Tyler (now 16) was only 18 months old, and each year we have our picture taken with us and the grandkids. It is so much fun to look back at all the changes.

This one is my favorite.  It was taken at our church using the wonderful decorations that they put up each year

The red and black buffalo check is so popular this year and I hopped on board with it too. Tyler and Sawyers shirts match and then Lily and Mercy have the buffalo check on their leggings. Gracie stands out with a red and black Mickey shirt, but she always new she was special!!  I love it because it's not TOO much! She begged me to take her to Orlando when I went to OnStage in November, so this was my way of appeasing her.

Thanks for stopping by!

Christi

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Waterfront Friend

Life after Momma has been hard, especially for my Dad.
He has had many people speak love and care for him, and one especially did something special for him and he wanted a friend card to give him. 
My mom used my cards all the time. I got my love for sending cards from her, but she would always say to please put a greeting on the inside because she never knew what to say, but Dad, on the other hand, asked for his card to be empty so he could write something special.  Gotta love it!!

Inspired by Wanda Pettijohn
What I changed up: Well, Wanda's card did not have the green smudge (lol). I also changed up the greeting, and because it is as low as it is, is because there was another smudge that I needed to cover up.  Oh my ~ sigh*
I had to change up some colors because the Soft Sky and Wild Wasabi are retired and I sold all mine.  I swapped it out for Balmy Blue and (stamped off) Garden Green.  Card Stock colors are Soft Suede and Mossy Meadow.

My dad has always been an outdoors kind of guy with hunting & fishing. I'm sure it was a great outlet having four girls at home.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
My December Special is still going on.  Perhaps you received some special Stampin' Up! cash to spend and want to be sure to get some of the items that are discontinuing soon. My Hostess Code will stay open through December 30th so don't delay.  As minimum order of $69.00 will get your name in the drawing for the BOKEH DOTS Stamp Set.

Plus your name goes into a drawing to win the BOKEH DOTS Stamp Set 

(make sure you read the fine print)

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Have an amazing day!

Christi 

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Let Heaven & Nature Sing!

Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
One last Christmas card to share with you

PRODUCT USED ON THIS CARD:
Stamps: Nature Sings, Lovely As a Tree
Card Stock: Whisper White, Night of Navy
Ink: Pool Party, Night of Navy, Sahara Sand, Memento Black
Fun Stuff: Stampin' Blends in Light and Dark Crumb Cake, Metallic Pearls (silver), Fine Tip Glue, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Layering Ovals Framelits (largest), Sponges, Paper Snips, Stampin' Dimensionals. 

This card was inspired by: Ann Schach

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Neighborhood Christmas Treats

This past summer we had a bumper crop of beautiful tomatoes, so we set out to make a couple double batches of salsa.
We had a great time walking around the neighborhood last week handing out the homemade salsa with a bag of On The Border Tortilla Chips and a hand stamped card.
And we still have plenty of salsa to enjoy through 2019

I printed out the labels from link I found through Pinterest.  You can check it out HERE
Now I bet you wished WE were your neighbors!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

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A Baby Changes Everything

Tomorrow we celebrate Christmas with our kids and grand kids
Today will be spent in the kitchen doing a LOT of baking and prep work for the BIG MEAL planned.
We decided to have a "my favorite things" dinner.  Each one was asked to request a favorite for us to make and then they also chose something that they would supply for the dinner.  You can imagine that there will be more food than we really need, but it will be delicious and oh, so much fun!

I hope you all are enjoying a very festive time of year, but also that you do NOT forget the Reason for the Season - Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Christmas is not just a holiday, it is Jesus' birthday! So...Happy Birthday, Jesus!!

Please enjoy this video by Faith Hill - "A Baby Changes Everything"
And if you are viewing this in your email feed, please hop over to my blog post to view the video, just click HERE

Plus your name goes into a drawing to win the BOKEH DOTS Stamp Set 

(make sure you read the fine print)

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Christi 

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Bella & Friends Christmas

Today I thought that I would share with you some of the special Christmas cards that I made to send out to friends and family this year.

With the addition of Little Katy to our family I just couldn't resist to make some BELLA & FRIENDS Christmas cards.

I love this little guy wearing reindeer antlers. He was the first one that I made after having a bunch of Cherry Cobbler diagonal stripe designer paper left over after a class.

This second card was inspired by Tracy Elsom on Pinterest (no blog)

Stamp Set: LOVELY AS A TREE

Colors: Very Vanilla, Mint Macron (so happy to have this color back in our line up), Always Artichoke for the tree, but now that this color is retired you could easily use Mossy Meadow if you don't have Always Artichoke

Other stuff: Layering Ovals: 3rd smallest size, Copper Foil for the star and the scallop oval, and my favorite STAMPIN' BLENDS to color in the pup, balloon and bird

How fun is this one with a puppy poking his head out of the Christmas gift. It was inspired by Dani Tauzin on Pinterest (no blog). I used some retired designer paper and the Cherry Cobbler 1/4" Double-Stitched Ribbon
Here is my December Special:

Plus your name goes into a drawing to win the BOKEH DOTS Stamp Set 

(make sure you read the fine print)

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Christi 

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Cling Stamps, Cards From Friends and a Fabulous Deal

Have you ever had trouble getting your red rubber stamps to cling to your cling blocks?

Well, your troubles will soon be over because Stampin' Up! is introducing the NEW, CLING STAMPS in the upcoming Occasions Catalog.

I had a chance to play with these CLING STAMPS at OnStage in Florida in November AND as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator we are able to place a preorder of all the fun new products coming out, and I can tell you for certain that these stamps REALLY DO CLING!!

Here is what Stampin' Up! tells us about the NEW CLING STAMPS:

• Beginning with the 2019 occasions catalog and Sale-A-Bration brochure, all new stamp sets will be available either in cling (for red rubber stamps) or photopolymer.
• Stamps in the 2018-2019 annual catalog will continue to be available in clear-mount, wood-mount, or photopolymer.
• Red rubber stamp sets (clear-mount or wood-mount) in the annual catalog that will be carrying over will transition to cling with the 2019-2020 annual catalog.
• In 2019-2020 annual catalog, clear-mount and wood-mount stamps* will no longer be available. The only exception is background stamps in North America only, which will still be available in wood-mount.

Is this good news or what???

More good news:

I will be hosting a New Occasions Catalog and Sale a bration brochure OPEN HOUSE on Saturday, January 5th from 10 am to 2 pm

There will be some Make & Takes using some of the new products AND samples to whet your appetite.

Are you new to stamping?

Are you wondering what Sale a Bration (SAB) is?

• Sale a bration is a sale that Stampin' Up! has every year from January 3 - March 31
• There is a separate small brochure chuck full of exclusive products that is only available during the SAB period.
• These products can only be EARNED with your purchase.
• With every $50 you purchase you get to choose 1 of the FREE items from the brochure OR there are a couple items (of greater value) that can be earned with a $100 purchase.
• There is no limit to how many items you can earn.
• If you would like to Host a workshop (Party) you can earn more FREE product. When your party reaches $150 you get 10% of your sales in FREE product, but if your party goes to $250 you get the 10% PLUS an extra $25 - so normally your $250 party would get you $25 in FREE product, but during Sale a bration you will get $50!!
• To get an even bigger bang for your buck you can purchase the Stampin' Up! STARTER KIT.
• You can even use your Hostess dollars towards your Starter Kit price!! Contact me please if you have any questions.

STARTER KIT DETAILS:

• Cost for the Starter Kit as always is $99.00 plus tax (shipping is free), BUT instead of getting $125.00 in product you get to choose $175 in product = that's an extra $50!!
• This year during Sale a bration you actually have the option to choose a Starter Kit at $129.00 and get this cool CRAFT & CARRY TOTE that has a $50 value
  
  
  
  

This tote will only be available for a limited time so don't delay!

Have I got you thinking?

I would love to have you join my team!

Just so this blog post is not strictly business - here are some hand stamped Christmas cards that I received this year.

 Thank you Kay

 Thank you Barb

 Thank you Brenda

 Thank you Peggy

 Thank you Donna

 Thank you Chris

Thank you Jeanne

I feel very loved!!

Don't forget about my December Special

Plus your name goes into a drawing to win the BOKEH DOTS Stamp Set (make sure you read the fine print)

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Have an amazing day!

Christi

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Sleeper Stamp Set?

Before I get into my regular blog post for today I wanted to let you all know that Stampin' Up! has updated the CLEARANCE RACK!! So many great deals!!  Check it out HERE

Sometimes there is a "sleeper" Stamp Set in the catalog - one that I just glance over, not giving it much notice, but I am loving the BLOW OUT THE CANDLES Stamp Set

Let me explain...
I first made this card using the BALLOON BOUQUET Stamp Set and it sure enough did turn out cute.

But then I made it again using the balloons from BLOW OUT THE CANDLES Stamp set and I love the smaller balloons so much better.

Here is how I made the cute little elephants  (inspired by Su Mohr)
I first stamped BOKEH DOTS twice in Basic Gray onto Whisper White Card Stock, then stamped the elephant image (from A LITTLE WILD) twice. You can see that the Bokeh Dots is just a hair too small to fit the full elephant front and back, but since I was going to cut them out any way it was no problem.

The 2 partial elephants on the sides are adhered directly to the card front and the 2 full size elephants in the middle are popped up with STAMPIN' DIMENSONALS.

Did you know that the STAMPIN' DIMENSIONALS come in two sizes?

In this photo you can see the size comparison.  Here is the link for the MINI DIMENSIONALS

When you place your ONLINE ORDER of $69.00 or more your name will go into a drawing to win the BOKEH DOTS Stamp Set

                                     

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Christi 

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Bokeh Dots Meets Enjoy Life

Plus your name goes into a drawing to win the BOKEH DOTS Stamp Set 

(make sure you read the fine print)

I promised to show you more cards made with the Bokeh Dots Stamp Set so here you go...

This one is made with the star burst stamp from BOKEH DOTS.

Other Stamps: ENJOY LIFE, BLOW OUT THE CANDLES
Color: Pool Party, Basic Black, Whisper White
I embossed the front Whisper White with the SUBTLE Embossing Folder
Happy Birthday Thinlit Die and some epoxy dots (colored with the Dark Pool Party Stampin' Blends)
Card inspired by: Priscilla Ivier (no blog link)

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Thanks so very much for letting me be your Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Have an amazing day!

Christi 

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Sentimental Sunday, Playing Dress Up!

My Sentimental Sunday Post for today is all about our sweet girls, Lucy and Katy

These 2 little pups sure hold our hearts, and they are getting quite the wardrobe.

 The back of these cute gray and pink hooded shirts say "Wild about Mama"!

 These are their Christmas dresses

 This is the view we get when we come in the door

 Back view - these are nice warm sweaters for them - one of my favorites on them.

 Dad had to buy them Pink Wolverine (Michigan) jerseys

 Here they are in there jammies! These jammies were made by the gal who is the obedience instructor! So nice and warm for when we turn down the heat at night

 Katy is always on the move so she is a little blurry in this photo, but these cute penguin sweaters are a nice change from all the pink!!

Yup! more pink!  I love it - Katy looks like she is posing! Lucy sure puts up with a lot from this little ball of energy!
Lucy and Katy say Merry Christmas from our home to yours!
Thanks for stopping by!
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