Valentine treats

These are the Valentine's treats I made for everyone in my office. The M&Ms for the student employees & the pens for the full timers since most of us are on a diet. So quick & easy!

Fabric February Blog Hop

Greetings! Thanks for joining us on this Fabric edition of our blog hop. Chances are you just came from Diana's page. Doesn't she have the cutest creations?

Ok, I admit it; I'm a Fish McBites addict. The only thing I have a bigger addiction to is the Dress Up Framelits! What better way to showcase fabric on a card than to make it a dress. :)

Products used:
Cardstock: Marina Mist, Whisper White
Paper: Champagne Glimmer
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Fabric: Twitterpated
Adhesive: Tombow, Glue Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals
Accessories: Cute Clips-Hung Up, Big Shot, Top Note, Dress Up framelits, Stampin' Trimmer

Last weekend I spent 2.5 glorious days at Creative Convention Online, where I gained some valuable tips to use in my Stampin' Up! business and made Make & Takes galore! This layout was one of the M&Ts that we did. Change the paper, change the images on the front, and voila, I now have an encouraging card to give to a friend before her job interview.

This picture isn't as good, but I wanted to show that the dress is hanging on the hanger and not actually glued to the card.

Thanks for stopping by! I'd love to hear what you thought of my latest dress creation and see what you've been making with your dress framelits!
Head on over to Shellie's blog now. She's so creative and crafy!



Blog Hop Participants:

1. Shellie G. of Craft Smashup
2. Annie L. of Love Me Cards
3. Nancy B. of Lady Stamps-A-Lot
4. Rose C. of Stamp with Rose
5. Tonya B. of Stampin' with Tonya
6. Dawn S. of Dawn's Creative Chalet
7. Pamela W. of Stinky Tofu
8. Kim R. of Stamping with Kim
9. Justin K of JK Cards
10. Heidi B of Stuck on Stampin'
11. Jennifer B of NW Stamper
12. Bree of Craft-somnia
13. Diana E of Stampin' Fun with Diana
14. Darcy J of Dj's Stampin Place

Recent cards

These are some cards I have made recently. The red one with the dress is one that I had made at the crop last weekend.
I've decided to start mass producing "designed bases" and leave greetings off until I need to use them. This worked very well this morning when my husband texted me that he forgot to tell me that it was one of his co-worker's birthday today & could I make her a card & get it to the store that the carpool leaves from. :)

The owl card was an easel card made for a friend's baby shower. I punched the owl out in the same color pattern as the owl pillow I got for her.

Crop weekend

This weekend I set up a vendor booth at a local scrapbooking crop. I love doing crops because I can share my love of Stampin' Up! with others while also working on projects I've been meaning to complete or dreaming up.
Yesterday I brought the laptop and finished our 3rd anniversary album in My Digital Studio. Today I'm working on cards. I didn't bring any stamps because I didn't want to have to bring all my punches & ink caddy (because you know the color I had to have would be at home if I only brought a few). I'm making the card bases & design & will add sentiments when I get home. :)

Here's a preview of my (small) mess and a few dress cards I've made. The new Dress Up framelits are addictive!

Gifts

So, yes I'm a little behind on sharing this post with you. Did you see the holiday ornament that was on front of the Holiday Catalog? I had a blast making these for my family for gifts.

My Christmas-y colored ones.

Made for my sweet twin nieces for their 1st Christmas!

Not SU, but I made these dishcloths as part of their gifts.

Quickly designed gift box to hold ornament.

The greatest thing about these ornaments is that you can use different Designer Series Paper and make them for any time of the year!
They make great gift tags, especially hanging on a bottle of wine! ;)

I love teaching how to make these; if you'd like to schedule a personal class to learn how, please let me know!

December Blog Hop

Happy Holidays! I can't believe that it's already December. The 70 degree weather here in the Land of Oz has made it even harder to believe, but I'm not complaining. I still haven't found my gloves, so the cold can stay away just a little bit longer!

I love making holiday projects. My card is one I designed for our club meeting last month. I had told them we would do either a card or a gift card holder; at the last minute I decided to make it both! I love the versatility of the Festival of Prints Designer Series Paper stack. (Preview: there's a new stack coming out in the Spring Catalog!)
My initial card was the middle left. During the club demonstration, I made the on the middle right. The others were made by some of my club members.

Supplies used:
Card Stock: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Island Indigo, Crumb Cake
DSP: Festival of Prints
Stamp sets: Scentsational Season, Curly Cute
Ink: Early Espresso, VersaMark, Cherry Cobbler, Lucky Limeade
Tools: Big Shot, Holiday Collection Framelits, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch, Stampin' Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Heat Tool
Adhesive: SNAIL, Tombow
Other: Cherry Cobbler and Sparkling Silver Dazzling Details, various embossing powders

Inside view

My 3-D project is actually one that I made to sell. Some local crafters and I got together and opened our own Little Shop of Treasures holiday shop 2 years ago. We had a lot of fun doing this. I had found this idea from another demonstrator on our exclusive demonstrator website.
This is definitely a great way to dress up candy cane treats for the holidays.

Supplies used:
Punches: Curly Label, Word Window, Boho Blossom
Markers: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie
Adhesive: Glue Stick
Embellishments: Metallic Brads

I hope you enjoyed my projects. It means a lot that you took the time to stop by and check them out! Click that Next button below to head on over to Kim's always-fabulous blog! Make sure to keep hopping around; you'll see some new faces this month. Our blog has always had tremendous talent, and we've added much more this month. You don't want to miss Justin's blog. He posts a new card every morning for us demonstrators to see and every single card is drool worthy!


Blog Hop Participants:

1. Shellie G. of Creative Electica
2. Annie L. of Love Me Cards
3. Pam S. of Stampin' in the Sun!
4. Nancy B. of Lady Stamps-A-Lot
5. Rose C. of Stamp with Rose
6. Tonya B. of Stampin' with Tonya
7. Dawn S. of Dawn's Creative Chalet
8. Darcy J. of DJ's Stampin' Place
9. Kim R. of Stamping with Kim
10. Terry B of Goin' Over the Edge
11. Justin K of JK Cards
12. Heidi B of Stuck on Stampin'
13. Jennifer B of NW Stamper

Thankful to Hop

Greetings to all! You may have noticed that we are hopping on the second Thursday this month. Most of our hoppers have little ones or work with little ones and having the first Thursday fall on the day after Halloween wasn't too convenient. Geez calendar!

I've been doing a Day of Thanks post on my FB page. I must say that I'm incredibly thankful to be part of such a great group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators. These ladies that I hop with are all so talented and I owe them a lot because some months the only stamping I get done is for our blog hop. I'm also thankful for all of my followers and visitors. Thank YOU for letting me share a little bit of my stress relief with you!

My card this month is a thank you card. I had already made my 3-D item and wanted to coordinate the card with it. I really miss the Copper embossing powder we used to carry. It would have POPPED on this card!

Supplies used:
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Island Indigo, More Mustard
DSP: Orchard Harvest
Ink: Island Indigo, Versamark
Stamps: Curly Cute, Gently Falling
Embellishments: 3/16" Metallic brads, Gold embossing powder, Pewter embossing powder
Adhesive: Glue stick
Tools: Heat tool, paper piercer, paper piercing mat

I decided to try my hand at the ornament on the cover of the Holiday catalog. I taught myself how to do this, and then taught it to some of my stamp club members (I owe those ladies lots of thanks for lots of different reasons) that evening at our club meeting. We did fall versions with the Orchard Harvest DSP (use what you have, right?). I wish that I had gotten pictures of each person's ornament. They all looked so different even with coming from the same pack of paper!
In addition to ornaments, these would make great gift tags, place settings, candle wraps, etc! The possibilities really are endless!

Supplies used:
DSP: Orchard Harvest
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip
Punches: 3/8' Circle, 2 3/8"Scallop Circle
Framelits: Holiday Ornaments
Dies: Rosette XL
Ribbon: Chocolate Chip Dotted Scallop, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Linen Thread
Embellishment: Brushed Bronze Designer Buttons
Tools: Big Shot, Silicone Mat
Adhesive: Tombow
Non-SU: glue gun, crap-ton of hot glue (yes a technical term)

I hope you have enjoyed my projects. Thank you for stopping by, now I hope you enjoy Kim's creations!

Blog Hop Participants:

1. Shellie G. of Creative Electica
2. Annie L. of Love Me Cards
3. Pam S. of Stampin' in the Sun!
4. Nancy B. of Lady Stamps-A-Lot
5. Tonya B. of Stampin' with Tonya
6. Dawn S. of Dawn's Creative Chalet
7. Patricia T. of Sunnyone Stampin'
8. Pamela W. of Stinky Tofu
9. Darcy J. of DJ's Stampin' Place
10. Kim R. of Stamping with Kim
11. Nancy B of Momma B Stampin'
12. Terry B of Goin' Over the Edge