Metallic & Shimmer

I had a few 6x6 sheets of the METALLIC & SHIMMER paper so thought that I would make up a few of these cards inspired by Peggy VanHorn

I changed up the sentiment and used a retired set called Curly Cute instead of the "you are a blessing."

Colors are Pumpkin Pie & Pale Papaya. Cajun Craze for the sentiment.

One of our new kits is available to order

BIRTHDAY CARD ORGANIZER KIT

Item #161056 $25.00

DETAILS

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• Kit includes one 8" x 10" monthly planner with space to record birthdays each month as well as a pocket sleeve to hold birthday cards. 
• Includes 12 full-size birthday cards, 6 of 2 designs, and 12 coordinating envelopes.
• Includes Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Adhesive-Backed Embellishments, and Tear & Tape Adhesive
• Includes die-cut florals and pieces ready for you to use­—no prep work required! 
• Includes sticker sentiments and die-cut labels in Dutch, English, French, and German
• Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Evening Evergreen, Petal Pink, Sahara Sand, and Soft Succulent

COMING SOON:

Fitting Florets Collection 

Look at that gorgeous paper and sweet die set.

This product will be available starting November 1st and will be included in the new January - June Mini catalog. However, the little gold swirls, the designer paper & the Framed & Festive Stamp Set are only available while supplies last. Don't miss out!!

Watch for more details to come. 

STARTER KIT DEAL

The Stampin' Up! Starter Kit is always the best deal, but for the month of October (2022) it is even sweeter. Want more bang for your buck? Until October 31 you can purchase the Starter Kit (with no further obligations) for only $99 + tax (no shipping on the Starter Kit) and get $155.00 worth of your choice of product. That's $30 extra, stampers!! Follow the link provided below to get your very own Starter Kit. Remember there is NO FURTHER OBLIGATION! It's just a great deal.

November Paper Pumpkin Kit

When autumn rolls around, do you start thinking about cozy Christmas crafting projects? This November, Paper Pumpkin delivers this and more with its one-of-a-kind, holiday-themed crafting experience. This festive kit includes 12 fun, sparkly gift tags and (as always!) an exclusive stamp set—plus everything you need for a successful holiday crafting experience. 

Need unique Christmas packaging to round out your gifting? We’ve got you covered with our exclusive North Pole Sacks add-on.

North Pole Sacks item #162416 $4.00

PRODUCT DETAILS:

Make the most of your Paper Pumpkin kit with a Paper Pumpkin add-on product! Combine this additional set of supplies with the From the North Pole Paper Pumpkin Kit for an extension of the kit's crafting experience. Pair with our other products for even more options to create seasonal gifts and treat bags. 

Add-On Includes:
* 12 food safe paper bags
* Bag size: 4" x 6" (10.2 x 15.2 cm)
* Crumb Cake with a festive design

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Christi 

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Paper Pumpkin Alternatives

Last but not least, these are the Paper Pumpkin alternatives that Bev & I made with our June kit

I created a pattern for the basket, then cut it out from Crumb Cake Cardstock and then embossed it for a basket look.

to get the gingham triangle for the front of the basket, I used an Exacto knife to cut out 1/2 of the square that is on the card front. We cut around the fruit, cheese and bread for a cleaner look. We popped up as much as we could to give the card dimension, and rounded the French bread so it wasn't too pointy. the tags, sentiment and linen thread was all included in the kit.

This darling card was cased from one we saw on the Paper Pumpkin Facebook Page. 

What we changed up ... we cut out extra awnings and flower baskets so that we could pop them all up on dimensionals. We also used the card base that came in the kit. (the one we cased used some On The Horizon Designer Paper.  

I just love these cute little hippos from HIPPEST HIPPOS. One of the free items in the Sale a bration brochure through August. And of course, I cased this from the Paper Pumpkin Facebook page.

What I changed up...I had no idea what stamp set/dies the originator used for the add-on flowers so I pulled out my LOVELY YOU stamp set. 

The Blushing Bride stripe paper is from the inside of one of the envelopes that come in the kit.

I thought that Patty's wine and cheese card was so cute that I decided to make a few up with my leftover pieces on the following day.  I changed up the congratulations stamp by using CURLY CUTE stamp set (retired). One thing we learned with the loaf of bread was to color it all over with the Crushed Curry Watercolor Pencil. It gives it a more realistic look. The wine and glass was printed from the computer.

This next card I made on the following day because I had some leftovers to use up. I also had some retired Designer Paper sitting on my workstation and thought it worked perfectly for the extra wagons. Again I used the CURLY CUTE Stamp Set for the happy birthday greeting.

And since I was borrowing some retired products (for the card with the little girl by the farmer's market cart) (Grace's Garden & Birthday Delivery) I decided to make some cards using the Garden Dies. It has this great garden gate 2 piece die.

I used the lavender flowers from the kit, but then it looked too unfinished so I added the cute little doggies (to cover up the stems of the flowers) from LITTLE CUTIES stamp set (retired). However, the doggie stamp was just a tad too big so I stamped several puppies and kittys, then I copied it on the printer at 80%. I guess there is alway a way to get around things.  I added the little bird and trio of flowers because I made a couple smudges and they needed to get covered up. I liked the added look so much that I made all of them that way.

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94

You may remember me mentioning my HUGE order, well I needed to make 94 of these for our friend for the feminine birthday cards for 2015.  This card was inspired by Lisa Young.

Still waiting on her to pick them up but I sure do appreciate the big order each year.  It's a lot of work but worth it in the end.  Stay tuned next week to see the card I chose to make for the Masculine Card and the Thank You Card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Christi

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Congratulations Graduate

Graduation season is upon us and I send out a ton of cards as well as needing to supply the Consignment shop card rack.  Letting the Designer Paper work for me, all I needed to do was add the Congratulations banner using CURLY CUTE stamp set, a grad hat and diploma - perfect!  simple and easy too! Inspired by: Terry Blais
It's not to late to get some of this PATIO PARTY Designer Paper, it is available through May 30th
You can Shop Stampin' Up! online anytime, just click HERE 

Don't forget about the retired lists and my special deal just for you! 
Anyone who places an online order from now until May 30th, their name will go in a special drawing.  I have a gift for the winner from the NEW catalog, you don't want to miss out!!
Click HERE for the PDF of the retiring stamp list
Click HERE for the PDF of the retiring accessories list  
 

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April Classes

So Excited!! These are the cards that we will be making at this months STAMP A STACK CLASS!
Here are the details...
 

STAMP A STACK CLASS

Cost: $12.00

Please choose from one of these options:

Wednesday, April 17, 10am

Thursday, April 18, 7pm

Saturday, April 20, 10am

Please RSVP by 7pm the night before attending any class

*bring along your Adhesive to help keep this class reasonably priced

BOX MAKING CLASS

Cost for this class is $12.00.

This is a very popular class that I have decided to repeat with 3 NEW types/style of boxes

Prepay for this class and receive a small gift.  See explanation above.

Thursday, April 25, 7pm

Please RSVP by 7pm the night before attending any class

*bring along your Adhesive to help keep this class reasonably priced  

AND DON'T FORGET:
COME STAMP WITH ME TUESDAY'S 
Open house style 10 AM to 7 PM
Come stamp as many or as few as you want/need ONLY $1.50 per card!

LOOK: I have added some new incentives for you

Patty Bennett, 

#1 If you bring a New-to-me guest to any class I will have a small gift for you and your guest.  This may vary from month to month – depending on how the spirit moves. 

#2  If you pre-pay for your class or place your order in advance, there will also be a small gift for you.  This will especially be helpful if you had signed up for a class and then were unable to make it.  I would then make up your cards for you and you would not be missing out and you would still get your cards.  I can take payment in cash, check or through Pay pal. If you are placing an order I can take Visa, Mastercard or Discover, just let me know which way you would like to pay. If you choose to place a qualifying order for a free class fee ($25 or more) after you have pre-paid for your class I will simply deduct it from your order.

And just a reminder the 50/50 board still has some squares left so we will keep that going until it is full before doing a random number draw. 

Don't forget to RSVP for the class(es) of your choice by 7PM the night before a class is held so I can have all your things prepared for you. 

Before I forget I want to give credit where credit is due for the ideas and layouts for these cards...
Patty Bennett, Karen Leveille, Debra Damm, Penny Smiley, Melissa Davies, Sandy, Kathryn, plus an idea from leadership conference.


Thanks for stopping by 

Christi

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Bordering on Romance

Happy New Year Everyone!



These are the cards that I made for our Pastor of Worship and Fine Arts.

As our choir director he sends out a birthday card to all the faithful who sing or minister in any way in the music at church, so these are for all the ladies.  I took the Music Note Wheel (#120327 $6.50) off the wheel and mounted it on the Clear Mount Cling Foam (#124236 $10.95)

I really, really, love doing this with my wheels - it's perfect. 

Now I can get all my music notes straight!

I love being able to make my own designer paper with stamps.  I stamped the notes in Early Espresso on Very Vanilla and then sponged the edges with a Tea Stain ink spot.

It was a lot of coloring with the Blender Pen but they sure turned out pretty.

The flower is from BORDERING ON ROMANCE #125480 $27.95 Wood Mount or #124482 $21.95 Clear Mount, and the "Happy Birthday" is from CURLY CUTE #117014 $19.95 Wood Mount or #120510 $14.95 Clear Mount and was inspired by Lisa Young

Thanks For Stopping By!

Christi

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A Family Christmas

We celebrated Christmas with the kids and grand kids on Friday night.  Along with the store bought gifts we gave each of them I also made a set of cards for each of the girls
For Julie who loves owls...

 Inspired by... Beth Crocker

 For Jessica who loves music...

Inspired by Elizabeth Sanders

And for Melissa who will often wear animal print fabrics...

The purses were made using the instructions from Frenchie.  But to get exactly what I wanted for the girls I used printed glimmer paper purchased from a local craft store.

We had a delicious meal with everyone pitching in - even Henry helped me make the potatoes

How do you like the bib I made for him using the Scallop Circle Die and the Typeset Alphabet Bigz Dies.  Didn't want Henry to get all messy working in the kitchen.  Henry thought he would play a little hide and seek....look where I found him...taking a ride in the Lazy Susan!

Joey and Melissa had a power outage so they came early to make their yummy chicken and pasta salad.

 Jessica is doing her final touches on the vegetables and it sure seemed nice to be able to walk out of the kitchen and let the kids do their thing.

Thanks For Stopping By~

Christi

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A Red Hot Christmas Party

 Last week was the Christmas Party for the Red Hot Stampers. We had a great time and wonderful food!  What's a party without food, right?! This is the lovely gift that I received that night made by a very special Red Hot Stamper, Sarah.  I love, love, love these cards and she sure did get a lot of oohs and aahs over her amazing talent.

Glenda gave each of us some of her favorite things and one is these plastic baskets that she uses for her Stamp A Stack Classes, and I must agree they are my favorite too.  I am always glad to get more. She gave us this small bag from 31 Gifts which is the perfect size for storing our Embossing Folders and Framelits.  She made these cute bags to put our gift in.  Don't you just love the versatility of Stampin' Up!'s Designer Paper!!

Thank you Glenda for a super fun night and to Sarah for the beautiful gift!

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Featured Demonstration

Last night was our Down Line meeting at Glenda's with the Red Hot Stampers. 
I agreed to share with the ladies what I learned from Patty Bennett's blog on how
to turn your Stampin' Wheels into a Clear Mount Stamp. 
Since then I have seen several demonstrators show this technique,
so it may not have been new to every one, but I enjoyed showing them
how I did it and what I made.
I have liked the designs on several of the Builder Wheels, but never felt the NEED to buy
them just because they were something new out, but when I saw how you can take the
wheels and make them a stamp I was all for it.
The Builder Wheels are those two small ones you see in this photo

I cut the crayon one off and then mounted it on the Clear-Mount Cling Foam that you can find on page 7 of the NEW Catalog #124236 only $10.95 and you get two sheets that are 8.5 x 11.  You NEED to use the Craft and Rubber Scissors with this as it is VERY sticky.  The Craft and Rubber Scissors can be found on page180.  They are a little bit pricier but WELL WORTH it!! #103179 $19.95.  On this crayon one I was then able to use a variety of marker colors to make a rainbow of crayons instead of only one color when used as a wheel.  In fact, I started down my line of markers starting with the Subtles Collection, and inked a crayon, capped it, put it back in it's spot, pulled out the next one and so on and so on.  When I was done I just huffed on it and stamped it - and look what a nice image it made.  I still want to put this piece to good use on a card someday but it looks so cute in my Clear Mount Case.  Which, by the way, you can also purchase for yourself to store your new Clear Mount Stamps that you make from your wheels.  You can find them on page #7, #119105 you get 4 cases for only $5.95.  I use mine for storing my Framelits, Basic Rhinestones and Pearls, extra markers fit perfectly in them, and I use them as well for craft sale projects which you will be seeing more of those coming up soon too.

 

You can see I have been digging into my foam just a bit.  Remember a little

goes a long way so this is an inexpensive way to make your wheels into a stamp.

One of the first wheels I had in mind to mount was the Music Notes Wheel.

As you can see here when I would use it as a wheel I would always get

a break in the note pattern where the seam on the wheel was.

So by cutting off the rubber from the wheel right at that seam, and using an 

Exacto Knife I laid it on the Clear-Mount Cling Foam and then cut it out.  

I could then trim nice and tight around the edges that would sometimes catch 

and now I get a nice crisp clean image with no breaks and no side smears.

These two music note cards were inspired by:

Lauren Mullarkey

and Caroline Vaillant

Right here you can see I took a wheel called Bright Blessing (sorry -

newly retired) and it has a bunch of words going all which-ways on it.

I cut out one of the phrases, mounted it, and now have a great new

Thanksgiving word stamp.

 You can go to 

debbiesdesignsblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/tuesday-tips-or-techniques-mounting.html

to see how to "un-wheel" your wheels

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

 

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SQSC #18

The Stamping Queen's Sketch Challenge for this week is...

And here is my take on it...

You can't see by the photo but I spritzed it with Champagne Mist
Shimmer Paint mixed with rubbing alcohol

This sketch "screamed" for me to use the new stamp set called
APOTHECARY ART in the new mini coming out in January,
along with the new FRAMELITS DIES Labels Collection

You are going to LOVE all the new things coming out in
the Occasions Mini Catalog on January 4, 2012

If you want a copy of the Occasions Mini for yourself
just place a comment on this post and I will get one mailed out to you.

MENU:
SS: Apothecary Art, Curly Cute
CS: River Rock, Rose Red, Naturals White
INK: Staz On Black, Wild Wasabi, Rose Red, Daffodil Delight
PUNCH: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border
Accessories: Framelit Die Labels Collection, Blender Pen, Basic Rhinestones
Perfect Polka Dots EF, Big Shot, Dimensionals,
Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint

Thanks for Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Today is the last day to take advantage of the ONLINE EXTRAVAGANZA!!

Don't miss out on the SAVINGS!!

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This is a SUPER quick and easy, yet elegant Christmas card - taken straight
from the pages of the Big Stampin' Up! Catalog and Idea Book

Card Measures 3" x 6"
MENU:
SS: Bells and Boughs, Curly Cute
CS: Cherry Cobbler Textured 12x12, Very Vanilla
INK: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories: Top Note Die, Big Shot, Victoria Lace, Dimensionals

Thanks for Stopping In!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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After I hold a workshop I like to send a Thank You card to each of the ladies who attend the class. I usually put a note inside without writing on the inside of the card so that she has a card to share with someone else and she has a new layout design to use in her own card making. This card I made specifically for the hostess.

Thanks to my friend Marla who loaned me her Totally Tess Stamp Set. I am having a lot of fun with this stamp set, so watch for more in the future.


MENU:
SS: Totally Tess, Curly Cute, Wonderfully Worn Background
CS: Pacific Point, Basic Black, WW
INK: Basic Black, MARKERS: Pacific Point, Riding Hood Red, Crumb Cake
PUNCH: 1 3/4" Circle
Accessories: XL Flower Folds Bigz Die, Big Shot

If you live in the Hudsonville area and want to hostess a workshop with me
please contact me by email at christijo48@sbcglobal.net
You won't be disappointed - there are MANY great benefits for my hostesses.
OR
if you don't live close enough to have me come to your home you can always do a Catalog "show" and earn FREE product. I will give you the same benefits as any other hostess.
OR
Click HERE to place an online order with me.
Remember for every $50 (before S&H and taxes) you will receive a Frequent Stamper Token. For every 10 Tokens you collect you may redeem them for a FREE Stamp Set.

Don't forget about the August Special
Buy 3 Designer Paper Packs and Get One FREE!!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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July Stamp A Stack part 1

These are the first two cards we are making at this months Stamp A Stack classes.
This first one uses some of the new IN-COLOR classic inks:

Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade and Wisteria Wonder.

Stamp Set: Curly Cute, Printed Petals

Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots EF, Bitty Punch Pack, Basic Rhinestones

This next card also uses the Perfect Polka Dots EF. I think this is my favorite Embossing Folder, however, we have some very cool new ones introduced in the NEW Idea Book and Catalog as well as the Holiday Mini being released on September 1st.

MENU:

SS: Create A Cupcake

CS: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Pretty In Pink,
Red Glimmer, Pretty In Pink DSP, Wild Wasabi

INK: Early Espresso, Pretty In Pink,

Punches: Build A Cupcake, Modern Label, Word Window, 1 3/4" Circle

Accessories: Pretty In Pink Satin Ribbon, Dimensionals, Perfect Polka Dots EF

The Counter Top and Tile back splash gets installed today
so I hope to have a photo for you tomorrow.

Have a Blessed Day!

Christi

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Beveled Window Panes

This is a card I made when the Occasions Mini Catalog was current (January 2011-April 30, 2011) I loved the Beveled Window Panes, and we even used them in our
Make and Takes at Leadership in Tennessee in January.

Just a bit of a sneak peak:
I am happy to say that the Beveled Window Panes were carried over into the NEW 2011-2012 Catalog and Idea Book so I thought I would share this card with you that was inspired by
Angie Kennedy Juda


MENU:
SS: Curly Cute (Yeah! another Stamp Set carried over to the New Catalog)
CS: Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Botanical Gazette (retired)
INK: Early Espresso
Accessories: Sponge, Crumb Cake Seam Binding, Linen Thread,
Beveled Window Panes, Tulip Border EF, Big Shot

Have a Blessed Day!

Christi

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