Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Finally got back on line so I’ll save my card for tomorrow but thought I’d share this with you …
Do some of these statements apply to you? I know they do for me … lol
Have a nice evening, and I’ll see you tomorrow!
Glimmer Paper Like Never Before!
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Sorry I missed you yesterday … computer went down and it took me all day to get it back up again, but I have some “sparkle” for you today. We are so excited for our gorgeous new paper and know and so far it’s been a hit with everyone I’ve shown it to!
The 6″ x 6″ Glimmer Paper Assortment Pack comes in sizes and colors you haven’t seen in our Glimmer Paper before. Watch the video to see it in action and then let’s get it in your hands ASAP. Everyone who sees this paper in person will have to have it! I know I did!
I LOVE the Balloon Card!! Add some sparkle and pizzazz to your projects with our 6″ x 6″ Glimmer Paper Assortment Pack–yours for FREE with a qualifying purchase during our 2017 Sale-A-Bration event!
Sale-A-Bration ends March 31, so be sure to contact me today to place your order or host a stampin’ party so all your friends can join in on the fun!
Thanks for hangin’ out with me ~
I hope your day is full of sparkle and smiles!
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Sale-a-Bration Second Release starts tomorrow!
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Today I’m sharing with you some fabulous new items for Sale-a-Bration 2017! Beginning tomorrow you can choose from 3 additional Sale-a-Bration items with your qualifying order …
The following pictures come directly from the catalog! Found them on Facebook and thought I would share them with you until you get your catalog.
If you are one of my customers and have ordered during the Sale-a-bration period … you will find the Sale-a-bration Second Release Mini Catalog in your order! If you have placed your order on-line … I will be sending you one as well.
The first is the “already popular” Glimmer paper …
These cards were made with the help of our “Sunshine Wishes” Thinlits …
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The second is a fun stamp set that stamps in reverse …
You can go simple or get really creative! This card also used the Flourish Thinlets …
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The third item is also a stamp set which coordinates with our “Layering Circle” Framelits …
Both cards show stamp set used with the Circle Framelits, but you could stamp directly onto your cardstock as well …
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I am so excited about the new products Stampin’ Up! is releasing tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, stop back because I will be sharing one of my cards!!
Please let me know if you have any questions with the new release products. Either leave a message below or click on my “Contact Me” button on your right.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoy your day!
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Simply Sunday … Simply Fun!
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Today for my Simply Sunday post, I thought we could have a little fun!
First we will review some of the cards that I have created and shared here with you, then I’d like you to join me in a little poll … I’d like to see which Bundle of the bundles listed is your favorite in the Occasions Catalog! OR do you have a different favorite?
#1. Lift Me Up Bundle …
#2. Sealed With Love Bundle …
#3. Dragonfly Dreams Bundle …
#4. Special Reason Bundle …
Thanks so much for joining in today, I appreciate that you stop by to check out my blog and that you took some time to join in on the fun. I’ll share the results along with another card tomorrow.
Have an awesome day ~
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Good Friends Like You Card …
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Today I’m sharing the second card that our Technique Club made in our February meeting. If you recall, we did the “Peek Through” technique. The layout is almost the same as the card I shared with the new glimmer paper …
We began with a Whisper White base and cut our flower into the Night of Navy. Our second flower was cut out from So Saffron. Both used the Precision Base Plate on the BigShot.
We also used the stamp set more on this card as we used not only the greeting but stamped a smaller flower and a leaf as well. Because the small flower, greeting die and leaf are all open dies (not detailed like the flowers) we used the Magnetic Plate. All of the images cut out used the coordinating framelits … Love them bundles!
We tied the entire card together with the Bakers twine. I love that you can see all of the dimension on this card! We popped up the entire Night of Navy piece along with the greeting and Saffron flower.
You can see step by step instructions on the cutting of the two main flowers on my Wednesday, Feb. 15th post. CLICK HERE TO VIEW
I thank you for checking in on me and my blog today. Let me know if you have any questions on this awesome bundle.
Enjoy your day and have a wonderful weekend!
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SPOILER ALERT … February 2017 Paper Pumpkin
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Today I’m sharing the February 2017 Paper Pumpkin Video … but first I have a little trivia from the home offices of Stampin’ Up! …
- As of 2-15-17, over 510 thousand Sale-A-Bration items have been earned! Wow!
- Top item by quite a bit is Hey Chick.
- Numbers two and three are neck-and-neck: Avant Garden and the Carried Away DSP.
- Anyone have a guess on number four?
Pull off the perfect party with the Many Happy Birthdays Kit! The pull tab candle cards can be used for invitations, birthday wishes, or as gift card holders. The kit will blow you away with nine cards in three different designs, a versatile photopolymer birthday stamp set, two Classic Stampin’ Spots, and gold glitter candle flames for added flare.
What a cute way to present a “Gift Card” or send an invitation.
Paper Pumpkin is on sale during Sale-a-bration!! Now is a great time to try out Paper Pumpkin and to get FREE Sale-a-bration items!
| 3-Month Prepaid Subscription (137859) |
| 12-Month Prepaid Subscription (137861) $215 Take it to the next level with a 12-month prepaid subscription. Save over $2/month with the everyday awesome price, earn Stampin’ Rewards, and get 4 FREE Sale-A-Bration items! |
| This offer will end on March 31, 2017 at 11:50 PM (MT). |
As always … you’ll collect Virtual Rewards Points from me as well 🙂
Let me know if you have any questions on the Paper Pumpkin kits @ lindaluvs2stamp@aol.com or just click one of the links below and start your Paper Pumpkin adventure!
Thank you for taking time out of your day to visit my blog.
Have a nice day! 🙂
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Celebrate Every Day …
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Today I have a fun card to share with you that is full of color and full of layers, yet super simple to put together! Oh yes, and I’m going to tease you again with that pretty Sale-a-bration Glimmer Paper that will be released on the 21st! It’s less than one week away!
To create this card I pulled out my “Celebrate Every Day” Project Life Card Collection. I don’t just use my Project Life for my scrapbooking … I use it for cards and more. There are so many fun patterns and verses. Both of the “cards” came directly from the kit, no trimming or cutting!
Here’s a short video that shows your everything that you get in the Card Collection and Accessory pack.
Memory keeping has never been so easy! With the Celebrate Every Day Project Life Card Collection and Accessory Pack, you can quickly and easily create photo pages, cards, and more.
I am somewhat attached to those cute little heart embellishments too, they are from the Sending Love embellishments found on page 15 of the Occasions Catalog. Hearts aren’t just for Valentines. It’s one of the most treasured ways to express your feelings without saying a word ❤
I used the Tombo Glue to adhere the Glimmer Paper to the base, and the flower card to my Glimmer paper and the Heart embellishments to that card. It works really nice without the worry of the card falling apart.
Let me know if you have any questions about the Project Life Card Collections, we have more in the annual catalog! They are fun and easy to play with.
Thank you for checking out my blog …
I hope your day is a good one!
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SNEAK PEEK … Special Reason Card
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
I hope you had a nice Valentines Day yesterday. As promised I am here today to share a bit more with the Stylish Stems and a sneak peek!
As if Sale-A-Bration wasn’t great already; Stampin’ Up! has added more great to the greatness! Beginning February 21st they will release THREE new exclusive Sale-A-Bration products. Today I’m going to show you one …
YES!! FREE Glimmer Paper … can’t get better than that. It comes in Sweet Sugarplum, Mint Macaron and Bermuda Bay. There are also 2 new stamp sets being released.
Now … are you ready to see what happens when you mix the Special Reason bundle and the new Sale-a-Bration Glimmer paper? Well wait no longer ….
Stunning right! Not hard to create at all. We’ll begin with a Sweet Sugarplum base (which coordinates with the new Glimmer paper) and a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of the Thick Whisper White cardstock.
First take the thick cardstock and cut out the largest flower to create a “peek through” … the 4″ x 5-1/4″ Sweet Sugarplum glimmer paper will be underneath! Oh but I cannot waste… so I cut out my glimmer flower from the “right” side of the paper.
Cutting the large detailed flower takes two steps, you just completed the first. Next you will use the outline die to actually cut the flower out. Today’s card illustrates both ways to use that die.
I attached the flower to the front of the card using the Tombo glue – it really holds nice (I will also use this to adhere the finished card front onto the base). I used Stampin’ Dimensionals to attach the white cardstock onto the Sweet Sugarplum glimmer paper.
The greeting comes from the stamp set “Special Reason” that’s in our bundle. I backed that with a piece of the Mint Macaron glimmer paper and then cut out the leaves. Our greeting says: There’s no special reason for this card … INSIDE: … except to let you know how special you are!
I really wasn’t sure that I needed another flower card, but when I saw what could be done with this bundle, well … I had to have it. The bundle in Clear Mount is $45.75 so if you add the pretty Sweet Sugarplum Ruched Ribbon – you can get the Glimmer Paper free (But Remember … it’s not available until the 21st) You will also receive another stamp on your Virtual Rewards card!
Thank you for joining me this Wednesday ~
I hope you have an awesome day!
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Stylish Stems …
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Happy Valentines Day to you! Today I’m going to keep my post short, a video that shows you how our new Special Reason stamp set and Stylish Stems work together so sweetly.
I shared my card with you on my Simply Sunday post and I’ll be back tomorrow to share a special card using this amazing bundle and a sneak peek!!
Stampin’ Up! trainer Holly discusses the many ways to use the Stylish Stems Framelits Dies and Special Reasons Stamp Set from the 2017 occasions (spring/summer) catalog.
I love all of the different looks that you can create with this bundle … stay tuned and we’ll explore these together.
Till then … have a wonderful day.
Thanks for stopping by ~
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Cute Little Monster
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Hope you had time to enjoy the nice weekend we had! So nice to see the sun out again.
Today I’d like to share with you a couple of “monster” projects! These cute projects were created by the “Yummy in My Tummy” stamp set and one of our 2017 Artisan Design Team members Cathy Caines.
When our Artisan Design Team members share their projects on the Stampin’ Up! blog of stamp sets that I don’t have, I like to pass on the creativity to you.
The first project consists of this cute monster … a shaker card!! His tummy is filled with the Sprinkles Embellishments (item 142741) are the perfect thing to use! Cathy even created a fun envelope for her card.
Cathy said “There are lots of options with this stamp set. You could punch out its belly and replace it with so many things including lollipops, mini containers of colored modeling clay, lip gloss, and chocolate eggs. The possibilities are endless and I can’t wait to see what you come up with!”
Her next little project used a doily to frame her little monster and turn it into a sweet treat for Valentines day. How clever!!
Hope you enjoyed these cute little monsters as much as I did. I am grateful to Cathy for sharing her awesome projects. I think they are so cute.
Thanks for stopping in … and a special thanks to our 2017 Artisan Design Team members Cathy Caines.
Hope you enjoy the day.
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Simply Sunday: Peek Through Technique
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Today we’re pulling out the BigShot to create our Simply Sunday card, which features the Peek Through technique. This is the technique my Technique Clubs learned this month and this is one of their cards.
It’s a done in our Sweet Sugarplum and Whisper White, in fact, we are using the “thick” Whisper White for today’s technique card. Our base is in the Sweet Sugarplum and our Thick Whisper White is our 4″ x 5-1/4″ front.
We are using the Special Reasons bundle found on page 42 of the Occasions Catalog. These special dies create our “Peek Through” by cutting the flower without cutting the edge so it gives you an almost negative image and allows you to see through to the back ground. It also comes with an outline die that will cut out the same flower … so it gives you two uses!
We used the Precision plate with our flower die and placed it onto our thick cardstock and rolled it through. It cut out beautifully and easily releases the pieces, however if you have the die brush you can use that to hurry the process of removing the pieces.
You can see from this camera angle that the entire white front piece has been popped up which creates a wonderful dimension to the flower and the card.
The greeting comes from the Suite Sentiments stamp set found on page 54 of the Occasions catalog … you’ve seen me use this stamp set many times. Did you know that the fonts in this stamp set coordinate with fonts from some of the other Occasions stamp sets! Good to know 🙂
The ribbon is the coordinating Sweet Sugarplum Ruched Ribbon and is used as an anchor to the card. Then just a touch of bling was added to draw your eye around the entire card, and it really completes it.
Thank you so much for joining me this Sunday,
I hope you have a wonderful day.
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Party Animal & Tee?
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
So … what do you think of my catchy little title? Let me explain “tee” comes not from the drink but from the “Designer Tee” stamp set that I used to create the cards. And … the Party Animal is the name of the designer series paper that I used on my cards!
Today I have two cards for you, both using the “Designer Tee” stamp set and the Party Animal designer series paper. I hope you had a chance to watch the video yesterday and see how much fun you can have creating with the “Custom Tee Bundle”.
My first card began with the thought of using the stamp with the cake, then I remembered that I had some designer paper that had cake on it!! Love that Stampin’ Up! is always coordinating there products. Once I had my designer paper … that helped me with my color pallet.
The greeting / cake is stamped in Tangelo Tango just like the cake on the designer paper. My card base is Crumb Cake … just like the forks, and then the banners and mat for my greeting was done is Emerald Envy and Pacific Point to pull in the colors of the candles.
I used two punches on this card, the tag punch (Discontinued/ I really need to pull them out of my drawer) and the Best Badge. It is the Best Badge punch that I used to create my cool banner bottoms. I pulled my cardstock through the front and up (outside) of the punch.
The second card is just a whole lot of fun and so easy to do!! Again I used the Party Animal designer series paper … love those little dots!! So what better stamp to go with my designer paper than one with a smiley face! The smiley is done in Crushed Curry – the same as the base of my card, and the words in Pacific Point.
The circles were punched from Crushed Curry, Pacific Point and Emerald Envy. The punches I used were the 1/2″, the 3/4″, the 1-3/8″ and the 1-3/4″. I love my punches and my dies but sometimes it’s just better to be able to punch, punch, punch!
Two of the circled were mounted directly to the designer paper, and the other three along with the greeting were all popped up using the Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I hope you enjoyed these alternative cards to the ones you saw in the video. I love showing you different ways to use your products … it’s much more cost effective (and fun!).
Have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you tomorrow with my Simply Sunday post.
Thanks!
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Dreamin’ of T-Shirt weather …
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Today I’m sharing a video that features the Custom Tee bundle and the Designer Tee Stamp Set.
Get the Designer Tee Stamp Set for FREE with a qualifying purchase during Sale-A-Bration, January 4 – March 31, 2017. This supercool set coordinates perfectly with the Custom Tee Stamp Set and T-shirt Builder Framelits Dies in the 2017 occasions (spring/summer) catalog!
Stop back tomorrow because I’m going to show you what I did with the Designer Tee stamp set.
Thanks for checking in on me …
Hope you have a warm and wonderful day.
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Hoping Your Day is Perfect …
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Hope you’re staying warm … burrrr, it’s cold out there!! But you gotta love Wisconsin, it’s going to be 42 degrees this weekend. Our boots are always next to our flip flops … lol.
One of the most requested types of cards is “Quick -n- Easy”. With everyone busy as ever, many of you are looking for quick cards that are still pretty. My advise to you is … Designer Series Paper! You can create card so easy by using the paper as your background and your greeting as the focal point.
Here I used the “Affectionately Yours Specialty Designer paper”. This designer paper patterns consist of colorful floral designs which include some with copper foil. My greeting comes from my latest “go to” stamp set … “Suite Sentiments”. This is a basic design using my paper cutter to cut out my greeting mat.
You can easily change this up a bit by using any or our punches or fabulous array of framelits and thinlit dies to cut shapes for your greeting. Speaking of punches and dies … you could also use these to add a decorative touch to your card.I used the beautiful “Falling In Love” embellishments.
By using any of our beautiful designer papers with any of our cutting tools, you’ll be sure to have a cute card done in just minutes! And don’t forget to add that special touch by adding a punched butterfly, a die cut dragonfly or any of our wonderful embellishments, even a doily would add a nice touch.
Hope you enjoyed my quick -n- easy card and the tips to get creative with a simple design. Have fun with it, and feel free to share! You can post it on my facebook page Linda’s Stampin’ Escape/facebook.
Thanks for sharing a piece of your day with me!
Hoping your day is perfect.
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Enjoy Life …
Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Sorry I’ve been awol, but I’m back today with the card I promised you on Sunday. I said I had a special card that I created with the “destressed wood” designer paper that I used on my Best. Guy. Ever. card.
I may be using the same designer paper but the look it the exact opposite! As with so many of our designer papers they can be used for many different occasions but this was was not only manly enough for a guy card, it reminded me of a beach house …
Maybe it’s the destressed wood look or the Pool Party color or the combination of both, but it worked for me. And what do you see around beach houses … Dragonfly’s! My dragonfly is perched upon the Burlap Ribbon found in the Annual Catalog and the pretty little Lace Doilies from the Occasions catalog.
Want to know something neat about those Lace Doilies? One side is Very Vanilla and the other side is Whisper White!! You can use them on anything and they are so pretty!
You can see that I used the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer paper for my Dragonfly … but I also gave it a color wash with the blender pen. I took a little Pool Party from the lid and with the help of my Aqua Painter I gently color washed my dragonfly. I love the different highlights of color … the white was just too much, adding the touch of color really softened it.
My greeting comes from … you guessed it, Suite Sentiments! The font really fits this card well, and it fits the Carousel Birthday stamp set too! This stamp set was designed to coordinate with many of the sets and bundles in the Occasions catalog. Way to go Stampin’ Up!
So I’m not expecting beach weather in February in Wisconsin … but I can dream! Here are both of the cards – same designer paper, different look!
Thanks so much for being patient and for stopping back to visit my blog. It is really appreciated.
So enjoy life today … and have fun!
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