Father's Day Cards

I love it when the store says "WE NEED MORE CARDS!!"  This time they really needed some more Father's Day cards.

I also made up some Father's Day cards using the May Paper Pumpkin Kit!

The store is called RE INSPIRED TREASURES, and is located at 2417 Eastern Ave SE, Grand Rapids Michigan.  You can visit them on Facebook at facebook.com/ReinspiredTreasures.

If you don't want to miss out on the June Paper Pumpkin Kit please go HERE to find my private Paper Pumpkin Link.  Sign up before June 10th to get the June kit.

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Christi

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Two Days to Valentine's Day!

Getting close to Valentine's Day so I thought I would share with you some of the cards that I made to end out this year that did not get onto an individual post.  I do not have the POST CARD stamp but I DO have the My Digital Studio download!!  BONUS!!  This card is a blend of current and retired products and was inspired by a card I found on Pinterest

 I love the simplicity of this card inspired by Siara Acdal.  All products used on this card are current!!  the stamp set is in the Occasions Catalog called YOU PLUS ME, Large Polka Dot Embossing Folder, and Fashionable Hearts Embosslit.
                              
For this card I used an old Sale a bration FREE set, See Ya Later, but I love the sentiment that says "Once in a lifetime you meet SOMEONE who changes everything."  The hearts are from a mixture of stamp sets... You Plus Me, Hello Life, Snuggles and Smooches, & I love the new Sweetheart Punch shape. This one was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest.

 Cute little fishies!! This one worked very well for my college age friends and was inspired by Janley Holeha.  Stamp Set: Hey Valentine

Hope you all have a LOVEly Valentine's Day tomorrow!!

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Christi

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Stepping It Up

I saw this card on Pinterest by Hayley and I like the simpleness of it, but found it rather plain

This first card uses Pear Pizzazz and So Saffron and the FLOWER SHOP stamp set for the largest flower.

Next Best thing (because I love the layout) was to change up the colors and using the same color scheme I just bumped it up to brighter colors.

In this stepped up version I used Old Olive for my green and Hello Honey for my yellow.  I still used the PETITE PETALS stamp set for the small flowers but used BEAUTIFUL BUNCH for my largest flower then gave the centers some added "oomph" by layering them, then adding the tiniest pearls in the centers.  FLOWERING FLOURISHES is the other stamp set I used as well as Delightful Dozen (retired) for the greeting.  

This is just one of the cards that will be out for you to stamp at tomorrow's COME STAMP WITH ME class.  You must know the drill by now...
TIME: 10am to 5pm
COST: $1.50 per card you choose to make
Come when you can, leave when you must.
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Happy Mother's Day!

I waited to set my post for today until after I had a chance to spend some time with my Mom for Mother's Day.  After morning church my two sisters along with their husbands, Dale and I and our parents met at a yummy Chinese Buffet for Mother's Day lunch.  We were certainly missing our fourth sister and her hubby but when you live a distance away it is hard to be together at all the milestone dates throughout the year.

This is the card that I gave my mom for Mother's Day - it is one that we made at last weeks COME STAMP WITH ME TUESDAY CLASS and was inspired by a card I saw on Stampin' Connection.  Forgot to document who the original demonstrator was and not sure mine looks just like hers because I was making it from memory.  No problem it's good to change things up a bit.

Happy Mother's Day Mom!! Love you so much!

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COME STAMP WITH ME TUESDAY

It's Tuesday and time to COME STAMP WITH ME!!
WHERE: Christi's Craft Room
             4845 Summergreen Ln
             Hudsonville, MI 49426
TIME: 10 am to 5 pm come when you can, leave when you must
COST: only $1.50 per card you  make

These are the cards that will be out for you to make... Mother's Day is creeping up on us SOON - like this coming Sunday so I have a card designated for Mother - but if you do not need a Mother's Day card, you know I have a ton of stamps and you can choose whichever sentiment works best for your card sending needs.  Although the card with the ship says HAPPY BIRTHDAY, it too, can have the words changed up in case you might want a Father's Day card for example.

BONUS!!  for everyone who comes to make at least one card you get to make one of these cute 3x3 cards (one per customer please). These are great little cards to put with a gift or if you like to send lunch box notes to your kids.

Ok to give credit where credit is due I was inspired by these amazing Stampin' Up! Demonstrators: Glenda Calkins, Stampin' Connection, LeeAnn Greff, France Martin and the 3x3: Nikki Spencer

Thanks for stopping by!
See you all soon!
Christi

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Project Life Scrapbooking

COMING SOON!
Stampin' Up! is partnering with BECKY HIGGINS the creator of PROJECT LIFE scrapbooking supplies.  If you have missed the PROJECT LIFE craze (like me) and want to see what it is all about please click HERE.  All of the PROJECT LIFE products sold through Stampin' Up! will be in ALL of the fabulous Stampin' Up! exclusive colors!!  This is HUGE for those of us who want to incorporate our love of Stampin' Up! with our love of Scrapbooking.  This is a super simple and affordable way to get your photos into albums: you just slip your photo into the Photo Pocket Pages and add designed cards. It'a a back to basics approach to documenting your life.

You will be able to order a selection of PROJECT LIFE products starting May 1st! and when the NEW catalog comes out on June 2, you will be able to buy from the complete line of PROJECT LIFE products.  I am super excited about this, I haven't worked on my scrapbooks for a long time, but now with the new baby coming I am getting excited to get back into it.  I have made some double 12x12 pages recently just waiting for pictures to put in them so I will share them with you now

This first one was inspired by Lisa Curcio - I love the little bunny butt sticking out of the flower pot

I can't remember who I snagged this next fun page from, but I know that this scrapbook page will be filled with pictures of our three grandchildren.

The stamp on the right page from STARBURST SAYINGS says "you make the world a better place"  How true! This stamp set can be found in the Occasions catalog and you can click HERE for a better view and then to place an order.  Like what you see? You can make it a BUNDLE and save 15% then you will also have the coordinating Starburst Framelits just click HERE to see the BUNDLE

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Come Stamp With Me

It's another Tuesday and it is time again for COME STAMP WITH ME TUESDAY!!  These are the cards that we will be making...

The fabulous stampers that I was inspired by are... Beth Suhr from Splitcoast Stampers, Chat Wszelaki, Gretchen Barron, and a sketch challenge by Sheryl Dreyer of Splitcoast Stampers.

Some of the stamps are current and some of the stamps I used are retired, but that is the beauty of COME STAMP WITH ME TUESDAYS - we get to revisit some fabulous stamps and papers.  Stamp sets that I used are: Just Buzzin' By!, Simply Sketched, Creative Elements, Delightful Dozen, Thoughts and Prayers, Flores Suaves.  So go ahead and pull out some of your old, yet favorite stamps and paper and give it a try!!  But in the mean time COME STAMP WITH ME!  My craft room is open today from 10 am to 5 pm, and the cost?  ONLY $1.50 per card you choose to make.  Make as many or as few as you want or need. Come when you can, leave when you must! See you soon!

Thanks for stopping by!
Christi


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Red Light, Green Light

What a fun and easy card to send to someone who has recently received their drivers license.  This card was inspired by Brian King (yes, Stampin' Up! has some great masculine stampers out there) 

I used the stamp set LABEL LOVE #130622 $17.95 combined with the ARTISAN LABEL PUNCH #130920 $15.95 to create the traffic lights.  These two items can be bought as a bundle #132722 $28.95 and you save 15% - BONUS!!

The words are from DELIGHTFUL DOZENS #122652 $24.95

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Christi

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Minion Madness

Tyler and Gracie begged to go see the movie DESPICABLE ME 2 when it first came out.  I was not quite sure about it since I had not seen the first one and all the commercials looked rather silly to me, but when my friend Rachel said her family loved it I knew I could trust her judgement so I gave in to their pleading to watch it.  I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
Here is Tyler and Gracie standing by the movie poster
And Tyler with his giant tub of popcorn - never saw a kid who loves his popcorn like Tyler does - Unless it is his Uncle Joey, that is.
I said to the kids that now I needed to make a punch art Minion card - so what did I see on Stampin' Connection the VERY NEXT DAY? A Minion card.  I followed the photo by Tanya Bell to make my Minion.  Not sure that I did it exactly like hers but I think he turned out rather cute.

 I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the variety of birthday greetings then stamped a separate one in Pacific Point ink, cut it out and popped it up.  His shoes are made using the framelits from SECRET GARDEN.

Thanks for stopping by, and remember you can grab inspiration from ANYWHERE!! Even a kids movie!!
Shop Stampin' Up! Online ANYTIME just click HERE
Sign up to be on Christi's Creative Crew and you get to choose a FREE kit to add to the already fabulous Starter Kit.  Contact me for details or click HERE to just get started

Christi

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Get Well Soon

 I don't know if your family was affected by the "bug" this past winter, but it sure was a nasty one.  I thought these fun get well crafty items would be a great addition at the craft sale coming up on Saturday, April 27th at the Hudsonville High School.  If you live in this area we hope to see you stop by.  The craft sale is a fund raiser for the High School Orchestra so they can get some much needed new uniforms.  Won't you come and support them with me?  This cute Rhino was one I saw on Beth's blog, but she gave credit to seeing it on Angie Juda's blog - see I am not the only one who CASEs another talented stamper.

This tissue holder was one I got as a 3D SWAP at Leadership from Sherri Peters.  I am not sure if she was the originator of this design but I was thankful to have traded such a cute item.   These are the ones that I made up for the craft sale...

 

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Christi

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He Is Risen

Of all the Easter cards that I made this year I think these cards inspired by Lisa Young are my favorite

and they, by far, show the true meaning of Easter, Resurrection Sunday

Have an amazing Easter Sunday celebrating our Risen Lord!

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Christi

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Ears To You

 Bunnies! I love bunnies! When I was a little girls I had a big white bunny with beautiful red/pink eyes and appropriately named Snowball.  So even though I do NOT think the Easter bunny is real, bunnies do represent the newness of Spring.

 A closer look...

These Easter cards were made using the single stamp set EARS TO YOU.  I'm not totally fond of the words that came with it so I used the greeting from DELIGHTFUL DOZEN.  The greenery is from JUST BELIEVE. 
The previous cards were inspired by Sandi MacIver

However... this one is my own. The inside says..."Happy Easter" from the WACKY WISHES stamp set
One more... inspired by Melissa Davies - I think this one is my favorite

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Christi

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Happy Easter Every Bunny

Two cute cards using the stamp set EVERYBUNNY inspired by Dawn O and Melissa Davies
  Everybunny - Clear-Mount Stamp

Price: $19.95 Delightful Dozen - Clear-Mount Stamp

Price: $24.95

Bird Punch

Price: $16.95 Floral Fusion Stampin' Up! Sizzlits Die

Price: $5.50 5/8" Flower Trim

Price: $6.95 Ovals Collection Framelits Dies

Price: $26.95 Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die

Price: $7.95 Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Price: $7.95 

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Christi

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Crosses of Hope

Yeah!! the first full 24 hours of Spring today, and here in Michigan we have a new pile of snow, but that doesn't defeat me, I will be wearing my WHITE Capri pants today as I usher in Spring.
I am sharing 2 cards with you today, both using the stamp set CROSSES OF HOPE and ELEMENTS OF STYLE.  The TULIP BORDER EMBOSSING FOLDER gives each card an elegant touch. These cards were inspired by Terri Isferding and Krystal DeLeeuw. I chose to decorate the envelopes with ink and paper, making the giving of a beautiful card even more special. 

Product used on these cards...
Crosses Of Hope - Clear-Mount Stamp

Price: $14.95 

Éléments De Style - Clear-Mount Stamp

Price: $19.95 Delightful Dozen

Price: $32.95 

Framed Tulips Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die

Price: $7.95 

Click HERE to get started shopping

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Christi

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