Breast Cancer Awareness Month

When I saw this darling card idea I KNEW I had to make some up
because my friend, Melissa, has several family or friends whose
lives have been touched by breast cancer and
she always wants new ideas for them.

I thought these were so sweet, and fun

MENU:
SS: Woodgrain Background, Computer generated sentiment
CS: Melon Mambo, Pretty In Pink, WW, Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzazz
INK: Pretty in Pink
PUNCHES: Full Heart, Scallop Trim Border, Owl Builder,
Bird Builder, 1 1/4" Circle, 1 3/8" Circle
Accessories: Heart Sweet Treat Cups, Google Eyes (local craft store),
Dimensionals, Pretty in Pink (retired) ribbon, and pink M and M's of course!!
Thanks to: Sally McDonald

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Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Sweet Little Baby

Last week I had a play date with my gal pals.

How sweet they were to help me make up some cards for my craft sale stash.
We had so much fun planning and laughing together.
This is the card we made.

LOVE IT!!



MENU:

SS: Something Sweet
CS: Pretty In Pink, WW
INK: Pretty in Pink
PUNCHES: Eyelet Border
Accessories: Sweet Treat Cups, Pretty In Pink Taffeta Ribbon,
Perfect Polka Dots, Big Shot
Thanks To: Joycelyn P Sims for this cute idea

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Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Dial Card Tutorial

Just as I promised... Click HERE to check out step by step instructions on how to make this adorable card. Once again, here is a photo of the card

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Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Messy Charlie

It has been a while since I posted a Charlie inspired card. I took this photo when he was just six months old and it was my first day to be able to feed him some veggies. Now Charlie is 8 months old – oh, how the time flies! He LOVES, LOVES, LOVES his veggies. Actually he just plain LOVES to eat. When I am eating my lunch he wonders why he doesn’t get any and that is AFTER I have just fed him a bunch. It is so cute to see his little bird mouth open and hear him “UMMM” and smack his lips.


As soon as I saw the orange carrots on his face I knew there was a color combo to be made. This is what I decided on…




I was inspired by a card I saw on Stampin’ Connection by Rachel Yurkanin. You can see her version if you click on this site…
http://www.stampinconnection.com/photo/magnified-worm
I changed it up a bit with color and adding the clouds in the sky. It is also hard to see, but I couldn’t resist smooshing my worms with Versa Mark and heat embossing them with Iridescent Ice so that they look just like the sour neon gummy worm in the Sweet Treat Cup.


MENU:
SS: Inspired By Nature, Bugs and Kisses, Something Sweet
CS: Creamy Caramel (retiring), Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, WW (worms)
INK: Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Basic Black, Versa Mark
Markers: Brilliant Blue, Pixie Pink, Lovely Lilac, YoYo Yellow, Only Orange
Accessories: Sponges, Dimensionals, 1 3/4” Circle Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch, Iridescent Ice, Sweet Treat Cup.

So For Now…
Happy Stamping!!
Christi Pin It Now!

Halloween Cards

Here are the Halloween cards that I made for my family. Thought you might like to see them. Julie and Jeremy’s card: a cute pumpkin made with our Sweet Treat Cups and Pumpkin Patch Stamp Set, and filled with Julie’s favorite orange flavored Tic Tac. The Spider card is for Jeff and I made one for Tyler too. It’s a good guy card don’t you think? Especially since Jeff is the “Bug Man” for his job. Once again I used a Sweet Treat cup to hold only the black M&M’s from the Halloween bag of M&M’s, and an embossing folder bought at a local craft store.

This pretty Purple card is for Jessica who absolutely loves the color purple and it is filled with the yummy Halloween colored M&M’s. The stamp used in Jess’ card is called Sweet Centers. I also used the Wood Grain Background stamp and Holiday Best (Hostess level 1 stamp set)

Joey’s card just had to be “Joe Cool” waiting for the Great Pumpkin. The Pumpkins are stamped using Autumn Harvest Stamp Set and the little leaves were punched from a non-SU mini punch. Gracie’s cute little Witchy Bear card is made using the Big Shot and the Build a Bear dies exclusive to SU, the Holiday Best SS, Cast a Spell DSP, and the large and small star punches. I really should have made Gracie’s little bear into a Princess because she is going to be Cinderella for her first adventure in Trick or Treating. I can’t wait to see how cute the kids will be when they come to Trick or Treat.

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Red Hot Challenge

Glenda, our up line Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator always gives us a challenge at each monthly meeting. As a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, one of the many perks we get is that we receive the STAMPIN SUCCESS monthly magazine. It is chock full of great tips and ideas to use for our classes or personal use if you are just a hobbyist. In the September issue they had a sketch challenge so Glenda challenged us to make a card using that sketch. Here is the sketch challenge and here is what I came up with…

Click here to see what the other gals came up with for their challenge.

MENU:

SS: Sweet Centers (Holiday Mini), Eat, Drink and be Scary

CS: Pumpkin Pie, Elegant Eggplant, WW

INK: Pumpkin Pie, Elegant Eggplant

Accessories: Old Olive Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Sweet Treat Cups, Small and Large Tag Punches

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Sweet Treat Cups

YEAH!!!!!!!!!! It's finally here!!!!!!!!!! The brand new HOLIDAY MINI, that is. I know I've said it before, but I love (almost) everything in it. My two favorites - at this time - are the BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP items, pages34-37, and the SWEET CENTERS stamp set #116521 $29.95 along with the SWEET TREAT CUPS #116802 $2.95 for 12 treat cups. I worked last night as long as I could knowing I wouldn't be able to do all my fun crafting for a while and wanted to show you two cards that I made with the SWEET TREAT CUPS that used, not the SWEET CENTERS stamp set, but showing how you can incorporate the TREAT CUPS into any (almost any) card. Just want to give credit where credit is due - I found these two card ideas here at Gretchen Barron's site. I changed up the style of the grass because I just didn't like not being able to see their cute little shoes.
This next card uses another favorite stamp set called BUGS AND KISSES. I got my set when STAMPIN' UP! had their promotion last month, if you bought $35 worth of stamps from the GROWING UP section of our main catalog you got a FREE set buttons.
Anyway...

... I love this set, and was borrowing my friend, Sue's, set and finally had to get my own (te he).

*Right now is the perfect time to hold a workshop. From September 1 to November 30 if you host a workshop and it totals $250.00 or more, you may choose one item in the new HOLIDAY MINI for only $10.00. (Hostess sets and Digital Studio Excluded). Call or email me and we will set up a date for you in your house or mine. Your guests will make two cards and a gift card for a $3 fee. Fee is waived if an order is placed.

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