Summer Mini Catalog Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampin' Addicts Summer Mini Blog Hop. I'm so excited that you have decided to join us on this fun hop! The Hop runs through May 1st, so there is plenty of time to view it all.
There are 22 stops included in this fabulous hop featuring stamps and products from the upcoming Summer Mini. Each stop links to the blog in front of and after so it doesn't matter where you begin you'll make a circle and come back to the one you started at in the end. Please leave comments if you'd like. We all love to hear what you think of our projects. If you have been following the "Hop" in order you have just arrived from Cindy's Blog: Heart's Delight Cards where she showcased the new Beautiful Flower Garden Embossing Folder in a very beautiful way. I chose the stamp set Touch Of Kindness for my stop so let's begin:

I love this new set, such a fun and happy set. I chose to use Sunny Garden DSP with it. I just can't get enough of this DSP right now. So bright and cheery. :) Coordinating colors are Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Daffodil Delight, and Pear Pizazz. Most of these are new In-Colors, but did you know that the In-Colors are going to be kept for two years now! With the introductory of new ones in July. So happy to hear this. Seems like we just get used to them and they are gone. Ok enough chattin'. Back to stampin'.
I chose to use the kitty cat image for my first card and of course she needed a little bling for her collar. I also used the Polka Dot Embossing Folder on the scallop circle to give it a little pop.
For my second card I used the cute little bird bath and bird stamp to make a fun easel card. I used our stamp n write markers for this card. Also added some rhinestones to the water drops. The idea for this card came from a swap I received from Rosemarie Diehl...The Big Shot and Dies where used to make the card elements.
Last I thought the flower and stem stamps would make a perfect little front for a memo pad holder, complete with a pen at the side. Add a little bling and your done. Thanks for stopping by, leave me a comment if you'd like and tell me what you think of my projects. I'll have the directions for the notepad holder for you back here on Monday. So be sure and come back. Now it's time to hop on over to Mickey's Blog: Paper Conversation where she has made some wonderful cards using the stamp set Wonderful Greetings. You are going to love her stuff!

UStamp With Dawn and Friends - Classes, Clubs, & Camps!

If you are a demonstrator this round is a must get event! Over 40 different classes, club and camp ideas with pictures and free pdfs once you sign up and pay the fee of $24.98. Not bad for that many different ideas. Hope you'll join us! Event starts tomorrow!!! Want to join? Just click on the Blinkie in the upper left corner of my blog and it'll tell you what to do. See you there!

Customer Appreciation Night Gifts

Here's what I made for those who attended my Customer Appreciation Event last Tuesday night. I got the idea from a fellow demonstrator named Lorri Heiling. What a super fun idea! Mostly made of different sizes of Circle Dies and the Big Shot! I used the Square Lattice Embossing Folder for the top of the compact. Ink pins came from Shindigz.com.

Inside shot for you. I was able to find some round post-it-notes but had to make some of my own using a circle die and the Big shot! Thanks for looking and have a great day!

The Ultimate Swap Bag

This is my second project for this round of UStamp going on right now! Dawn wanted me to create the ultimate swap bag. So here it is. Full directions with pictures are available on UStamp Big Shot Brilliance.

Big Flower on Bag

Side View #1 This bag has plenty of pockets!

Inside View

Other side view It has dividers that can be brought up in the middle.

My matching card and envy. Have a great day everyone! See some of you tommorrow

at my Stamp Camp!

April 1st No Foolin' Deal!!!

Who wants a grab bag! Get them before they are gone! Visit my on-line store and get yours today. They have added some really god stuff to the clearance rack too! And for today only, April 1st if you place a $50 or more order on-line with me I'll pay your shipping. Yep that's right, I'll send you a check for the shipping on your order as soon as it's placed, but it has to be today before midnight. What are you waiting for? go shop!

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.