Barbie Size Quilt and Pillows

Good morning! I'm so excited to finally get to share one of my projects for this round of UStamp Big Shot Brilliance. This round features items that are made with the Big Shot! I chose to make a Barbie quilt and pillows using several of our dies.

Close up of the many pillows.

Dawn said Barbie needed a headband so...

I even made the bed!...

and of course all our projects have a card and envy to match. All instructions for this project and 40+ can be purchased through this round of UStamp. Click on the blinkie at the top left hand corner of my blog and you can find out more. Have a great day!

Sunny Garden Swap

So today we have 2 inches of snow on the ground so I thought I'd share some Sunny Garden with you. This card and paper sack purse is a swap combo I did on UStamp. I just got my hands on some of this DSP about a week ago and it's really growing on me. Love the bright colors, we had this pattern last year in shades of Purple w/Green and it was called Cottage Wall.

So here's what I used to make the card.

Stamp Set: Just Believe

Inks: Early Espresso

Markers: Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzazz

Cardstock: Whisper White, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait,

Sunny Garden DSP

Other: 1/2" Stitched Poppy Parade Ribbon

Scallop Trim Boarder Punch

To make the purse I used...

Cardstock: Poppy Parade, Sunny Garden DSP

Other: 1/2" Stitched Poppy Parade Ribbon

Boho Blossom Punch

Antique Brad

non-SU small paper sack

It's that time again! Are you ready for another round of UStamp with Dawn and Friends? Have you got your subscription yet? This round starts tomorrow and I get to be a guest designer once again! So excited!!! I've got a really cute project for you and I can't wait to share it. Cost of UStamp is $24.99 for 20 days of jam packed projects, over 40 in all each using the Big Shot. All projects come with PDF's for you to download or safe to you computer of a disk. Exciting news this round is that Linda Hansen, Jaron Winder, Jackie Topa, and a guest appreance from the lady who invented the Big Shot Pop Up Tree die!!! Can't wait for tomorrow to get here. Hope you'll join us. You can join by clicking on the UStamp button to the left of this post. See you there!

Downline Meeting Swaps

So I had a downline meeting yesterday and was so excited to have some of my girls come and stamp with me, and even the ones who couldn't make it sent a swap to share. I'm so excited because now that I'm a senior supervisor we get to have a group name and we "Robin" came up with one that we thought was a good one and pretty much goes with most of us being from small towns. Can't tell you what it is yet because I have to get it Ok'd from SU first...The card at the top of the post is the make-n-take card I had for them to do. Super fun card to make and love the colors! We pucnhed out different sized circles in different colors and glued them down to the base Marina Mist then ran that throught the BS using the Square Lattice embossing folder then added our saying and layered on Whisper White card, added some Daffodile Ribbon and we're done! Can't remember the name of the technique? Inlaid Emboss? I don't know. Oh well let me show you the wonderful swaps from yesterday!

Kelly Wood's Swap, such a fun swap using the new button embosslit die! and Sweet Stitches DSP.

Susie Scott's swap using the Oh so pretty Springtime Vintage DSP and an added accent of a Vintage Flower adornment.

Robin Goens pretty swap using the stamp set Elements of Style and the Square Lattice embossing folder. I love black and white cards.

Shannon Bruner's swap using the very fun stamp set out of the Occasions mini Bold Blossom. Oh Shannon by the way won the swap contest for the month.

Teri Whitaker's swap she made using the fun stamp set Button Button and the pretty Elegant Lines embossing folder. She punched out some of the buttons and as you can see used glossy cardstock to kinda get a tye dyed look of one button, a very fun card.

Joan Breinzer's swap all the way from Pennsylvania. She used a couple of sale-a-bration sets on her swap, So Happy for you and Sweet Summer. I love how she added the little blue flowers to her stem. We miss you Joan!

Here's my card which by the way I cas'd from Mary Fish, I changed up the colors and and added 1/4" circles to the top instead of brads. Also sponged the sides of my petals and popped up the top petal with a dimensional, but glued it down at the bottom. I used the Blossom Petal punch, the stamp sets Sweetheart, Great Friend and the Bigz extra lg die Tasteful Trim. Oh and a little bling.

Just a different little version.

I want to thank all my downline for joining in on the swap and can't wait to do it all over again next month. Happy stampin' to everyone. Have a great day!

Buckets of Inspiration For You

I just love our Stampin' Up Rub-ons! The rub-ons I used are Play Date and Sweet Stitches. Oh what fun to play with and when it includes chocolate well that makes it even better.

I picked up some bright colored buckets at Target Dollar Spot yesterday and couldn't wait to get home and play. I knew just what I was going to do with them. What do you think? I'll be eating out of the sewing bucket today because I'm in need of some sewing inspiration. I hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by. :)

Warning This Post May Becoming Habit Forming...

I don't know why I waited so long to make one of this fun little Build a Bear tin and Bear. After I began it was like I was possessed. I had to keep at it until she had a full wardrobe!

Here's the inside with Little Bear and all her fun little clothes and accessories.

Here's what I used:

All where Stampin' Up products.
Big Shot, Bear Die, Beary Essentials Die, Oval Scallop Frame, Beary Girl Sizzlet, Square Lattice Embossing Folder

SU Magnetic Strips

Cardstock: So Saffron, Early Espresso, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue

Melon Mambo DSP from the Brights Collection

Build a Bear DSP (retired) but there is a new version

SU tin from the clearance rack

Tip: (it was hard to run the magnetic strip through with the sizzlet die and it did not cut all the way though on the purse or the bow for the magnet so you might just want to cut out using the cardstock then attach to magnet and then cut by hand since you'll have to go back and do that anyway.)

Hope you don't get addicted to making these or maybe I hope you do! :) Have a great day!

Easter Blossoms in Baja Breeze

Is anyone ready for Spring besides me? Well just maybe this will get you thinking that way. ma This is a card we made at my last two workshops. I just love this set and it's so fun to use, don't you think. I got my inspiration from a card on Stampin' Connection that Karen Leveille had made. Stampin' Connection is a wonderful online place where demos can share ideas, and there are lots of them. If you'd like more info on becoming a demo e-mail me at tjdstampsalot@yahoo.com or better yet go to my demo site and check it out. Have a great day everyone!

Mini Comp Book Purse

Here's a close up I promised you from about a week ago. I found the tutorial for one of these on Becky Roberts blog. She always has the cutest ideas! Here's my version of one. I just made a one inch square cut it down to a triangle and put it up to the inside corners of my book and traced a line. Then started cutting. Cut a few pages at a time and in no time your done. Add DSP to the outside along with some ribbon (6 1/2" lengths) for handles attach with sticky strip. For the closure I used the Modern Label Punch and then put the largest flower from the Boho Blossoms Punch on top of that, a 1/2" circle on top of that and ending with a Vintage Brad on the top. I used a piece of Velcro to close it. I made one of the large purses also I'll post it later. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Stampin' Addicts Birthday Techniques Blog Hop Stop#10 Collage Stamping

Hi everyone and welcome to another great Stampin' Addicts Blog Hop. Stampin' Addicts is 2 years old so we thought we like to share some gifts with you by showcase 20 different techniques. If you've been following the hop in order you have just come from Sarah's Blog Sarah's Ink Spot where she did a beautiful job showcasing the Paper Piecing technique. After you leave my blog you will travel on to Debra's Blog Heartfelt Inkspiration and she is showcasing the Polished Stone technique. So now I'd like to show you my technique Collage stamping and what I came up with.

Collage stamping is very easy to do now that SU has clear stamps. All you have to do is put a bunch of stamps on one of the bigger clear blocks and there you have it. A really neat background that you can use for a number of things as you see here. I chose to use the Nature Walk stamp set for this project along with Baja Breeze (so glad they brought this color back) Very Vanilla, and Early Espresso for my ink.For my card I chose to use SU Very Vanilla seam binding to add an extra touch and used the extra large Oval punch to stamp my greeting on. I'm thinking this would be a really pretty watercolor technique card too. Just some soft Baja Breeze? Ok enough...

So if your going to have a birthday you need gift bag right? So here is my gift bag and I tied it together with Very Vanilla and Baja Breeze seam binding, also using the extra large Oval punch for my hole at the top. This was just a plane little brown paper sack.

Then a little present to go inside... an altered mini composition books. If you have never altered any of the comp books let me tell you it's very "addicting". Let's see so again I used the same seam binding and then I used the stamp set Tiny Tags and the Medium Jewelry Tag punch to punch them out, tied together with some Linen Thread and there you have it. I hope you've enjoyed your stop and now it's time to "Hop".

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Card Portfolio

Super fun little card portfolio I made using Mary Brown's tutorial found on her blog. I used SU's stamp set Easter Blooms, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, and Love Letter DSP.
Inside view. I used the notecards and envys to make my cards and they are a little bit to little for it. So I think I'll downsize the portfolio a little bit for the next one. Thanks for looking and have a great day!

OMW Scavenger Hunt!!!

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be able to share with you as one of the Designers for UStamp with Dawn and Friends, Oh My Word! Edition 2011 I get to participate in a FUN Blog Scavenger Hunt. I have a "key word" that I have hidden in my post and the members need to find it and the other hidden "key words" on the rest of the participating Designers blogs, and then unscramble the sentence. I can't wait to see who will win the fabulous hand stamped prizes! Here we go...
This is the card I chose to make for the OMW Hunt. I've actually used 3 of the SAB products on it. The main set I used was a "Flower For All Seasons", the saying I used was from the stamp set "So Happy For You", and the DSP and embellishments are from the "Icre Cream Parlor DSP and Quick Accents Pack". The coordinating papers I used were my key word is and Old Olive and Melon Mambo. I also used Black Stazon and SU Stamp and Write Markers. Thanks for stopping by and happy hunting! :) ONE MORE THING I forgot to mention I have a FREE PASS to give away to the next round of USTAMP to someone who has never been a been a member before. So here is your chance. Please leave me a comment and let me know if you'd like to be in on this fantastic fun experience. Have a great day!

Ladies Scrapbook & Craft Retreat at Camp Illiana

What a great time I had last week-end with some ladies from church. Arlinda, Sherri , Tammy and I traveled over to Camp Illiana for a 3 day scrap & craft retreat and a treat it was! We worked on several different projects and made some new friends too. Here is a picture of some comp book purses we made along with some new friends too.

Sitting by the nice warm fireplace getting our picture takin are (front row) Jill Staggs, Donna Matthews, Sherri Culter, (back row) Tammy Roberts, me :) Amy Stamm, and her sister Kelly. I almost forgot Arlinda took our picture. We had so much fun! (Oh, did I already say that) We worked on projects all day and night, the devotions and music were wonderful and the food was great. Angela Buhr did a great job as coordinator this year! Thanks Angela! I'll post close ups of my purses later, (which by the way were made from a tutorial Becky Robert's had on her blog for FREE. Have a great day everyone!

My U-Stamp Project for OMW

This is my project for this round of Dawn's U-Stamp. What do you think? This is the first woven basket I've made and it was so much fun! Can't wait to make another.

If you'd like to try your hand at making one you can find the directions along with the pdf for it on Dawn's U-Stamp OMW. All you have to do is click on the blinkie over to the left on my sidebar and it'll take you to the link where you can sign up. Cost is $24.95 for 40 different projects and pdf's. I promise you this is the best round yet. There are cute little boxes, little scrapbooks, altered tins and the list goes on. See you there!

Valentine Treats

Here's what the stampers received for attend our Stamp-a-Stack. Cute little flower treats made with the large 5 petal flower punch and some circle punches and the little heart punch. And if they brought a friend... This idea came from Stampin' Connection an online site for demos.

They received one of these folded pouches full of m&ms. This idea came from Andrea Walfords blog. See everyone tomorrow.

It's That Time Again!!! Oh My Word!

The next round of U-Stamp has begun and I think it's the best one yet, in fact I think it should be called Oh My Wow! The projects are such WOW's! I can't wait to start making some of them! Hope you'll join us for this round, cost is $24.95 and worth every penny I promise. 40 different project with pdfs for all of them you can print out or save to a disk! Get in on the fun now! U-Stamp runs now thru March 2, so there's still time to get in on the FUN!

And the Winner is...

Post #17 by Lori. Please send me your address at tjdstampsalot@yahoo.com and I'll send you your bandaid tin and mints. You have one week to reply. Thanks everyone for hopping with us and thanks for the great comments.

Sale-a-bration Blog Hop Stop #3!

Hi everyone and welcome to stop #3 of the Stampin' Addicts Sale-a-bration Blog Hop. There are 21 stops along the Hop filled with great ideas. As you know during Sale-a-bration for every $50 you spend you get to pick a FREE product of your choice out of the flyer!!! If you have been following the Hop in order you have just come from Jennifer's blog where she did a super job creating projects using the Punch Bunch set. The FREE product I am featuring during the Hop is the Ice Cream Parlor DSP & Quick Accents Pack! and I LOVE it!!! So here we go...
The first picture is a group shot of what I made using the Pack. This pack is so much fun! You really don't even have to use stamps with them to make a notecard or two.
I made 3 cards using the pack with a minimum of stamping. I used the Punch Bunch stamp set on two of the cards. Also the 1" and 1 1/4" circle punches, SU markers, the Scallop Trim Border Punch and some of the Ice Cream Parlor Ribbon for accent.I also used Peach Parfait, Pear Pizazz, Pacific Point and Old Olive cardstock to add some background to my cards.
And now for some chocolate. You know me, everything looks and taste better with chocolate. This is a band-aid tin I alter in the Melon Mambo and the Peach Parfait, you know I didn't really like the PP until I put it with the Melon Mambo and now it's really growing on me. Ties different strips of ribbon on the handle, add a couple of York Peppermint patties covered with the DSP and you have a great little gift to give away. Did I say give away? Ok, leave me a comment and I'll select a random winner after the Hop to send the little tin and mints to. (limited to US resident only, please.) I hope you've enjoyed the Hop so far and now it's time to Hop on over to Joyce's blog where she has done a beautiful job of featuring the Digital Content CD which has the Sale-a-Bration items in it!!! Happy hopping.

Close Ups

I thought you might like a close up of my card and the little Hershey nugget holders so...I made this card using one of the new SAB sets "Punch Bunch". My color choices were Poppy Parade and Pear Pizzazz(two of my favorite new in-colors)!
These little boxes were made using the petal punch. It's just too cute! You put two together, I used glue dots. The stamp set I used was Filled with Love♥, and I just had to use some of our new red glitter paper!!! Thanks for stopping by and have a good day!

Stamp Unto Others Shoebox Swap

Finally pictures of our shoebox swap. At the top a card I made for Robin Goens to use, on the left is Teresa Simpsons and to the right Teri Hermans's.
At the top Darla Cummins' card. (She is our upline), to the left Jenni Miller's and to the right Lori Smith's card.
This was Kelly Woods' swap.
The Valentine card belongs to Leona Gher who wasn't able to attend but sent a swap for us. Thanks Leona! and then the little bitty treat boxes are mine made with the petal card punch. Aren't the cute, they are so little! I love little things! I got the idea from a demo on Stampin' Connection. I love it when we can get together and stamp! It's fun to see all the different ideas and takes everyone has one a card. Plus it's nice to be with stampin' friends.