If you need some ideas on how to use Stampin’ Up! fabric on your projects, just watch this cute video from Stampin’ Up! Then order your fabric from now until Sunday, March 31 at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here!
If you love fabric, you’ll want to take advantage of the Stampin’ Up! Spring Fabric Frenzy! It starts today, Monday, March 25th and runs just through Sunday, March 31.
Seamstress or not–you’ll love using our high quality Designer Fabric–especially at 50% off! Our Designer Fabric is designed to coordinate with Stampin’ Up! inks, paper, and other accessories, and is perfect for adding a stylish touch to traditional paper projects. Available in an extra-wide fat quarters (18″ x 26″). Use it for quilting, clothing, home décor, and more!
*Spring Catalog
All items are limited quantity and the discount will be removed once the quantity is reached.
Even if you don’t sew, you can tear (or cut) strips of fabric to tie packages rather than ribbon. Use with our Big Shot Adhesive Roll for adhering rather than sewing! Use the fabric to make flowers by just twisting and rolling onto our Jumbo Sticky Rounds.
Just shop at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store for the Fabric Frenzy and all the other great offers Stampin’ Up! has going on! Don’t forget the new This and That Bundle and the new Photopolymer Stamps!
Have fun with the Spring Fabric Frenzy at 50% off!
Stampin’ Up! is introducing a new product line called This and That!! It will be in the next new Stampin’ Up! catalog, but we are ALL getting a sneak peek NOW and opportunity to purchase it at a 15% discount!
It’s the latest craze in scrapbooking….just write in the journal, just stick in your mementos, no designing perfect scrapbook pages…..just get it in there! Use the washi tape ( the hottest item these days!), use the clips, cut up the paper…write, stamp, stick…whatever you want! Just get it in there so you have something. It can be the everyday, the mundane, the usual daily stuff…or it can be the special occasion,the extraordinary, a gift, a remembrance.
Click any of the photos above to see more about the new product line, This and That, from Stampin’ Up! Or click HERE to go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and place your order for any or ALL of these products! Surely you want them ALL in the BUNDLE for the 15% discount! Order extras for gifts for your friends or those young people in your life! These kind of journals are “all the go now” as my grandmother used to say!
These products (and more in this line!) will be available in the new catalog; however, the 15% bundle discount is only good from now until April 30. Don’t miss out! Just get it all…..and some extras!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Would you like to receive a little treat bag of candy with a leprechaun made from Stampin’ Up! punches? Yesterday on the Stampin’ Up! home page I saw a leprechaun like this one but made digitally in My Digital Studio. I decided to make it the traditional way using my punches. I can tell you it is easier to do in My Digital Studio because you can make everything the perfect size you want…make a punch shape larger or smaller, change things to any color, whatever you want!
I just experimented with my punches until I got some things a reasonable size to fit. The Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set comes in handy for almost any occasion for the greeting. And don’t you love the Champagne Glimmer Paper?!
This is a little of what History.com says about St. Patrick’s Day:
St. Patrick’s Day takes place each year on March 17, the traditional religious feast day of Saint Patrick.
In 2013, St. Patrick’s day falls on a Sunday.
Have a fun and happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m wearing my little shamrock necklace my husband brought me from Ireland last year!
If you have wondered how to make some of the beautiful paper flowers you see around, here’s how to use the Stampin’ Up! Creped Filter Paper to make lovely paper flowers. Our azaleas are blooming beautifully outside this week so my mind is on flowers!
You can use punches or the Big Shot to cut out your flower shapes. On this flower, I used the Floral Frames Framelits. I cut out four layers of filter paper at one time!
You may leave the filter paper plain white and still make a beautiful poofy flower, but if you like a colored one, there are several ways to do it. The first one I made in this post here, I brayered each piece of filter paper. I suppose you could also sponge the ink on the paper.
Today, though, I’ve seen other people online spritzing their filter paper! If you have the empty Stampin’ Spritzer #126185 (you get two in a package for only $2.95), just add some 70% rubbing alcohol and some drops of reinker in the color you want. You could combine colors if you wanted. I filled the spritzer tube about halfway with alcohol and put in about six drops of reinker. It came out pretty light although you can respray or add more drops. Better to want to add some than to wish you had made it lighter! I made two colors, one Daffodil Delight and one Calypso Coral. Shake them up and spray! The alcohol will dry pretty quickly.
When dry, layer the flowers one on top of the other, even offsetting them so they look more like a real flower. Insert any brad in the center to hold them together (it will barely show, if at all, so no need to use a good one).
Next, pull up each layer, starting in the center and scrunch it up in the center. Don’t worry, it’s not supposed to look good while you do it! After you do all the layers, pull them all back down slightly to make your flower look how you want. I also sponged some ink around the edges of the whole flower that really added a nice accent.
Try it! It’s easy and probably like paper flowers you made as a child!
Don’t forget, Sale-A-Bration is ending March 22 so be sure to order and earn your free Sale-A-Bration product from Stampin’ Up! with every $50 purchase! Just go to my Online Store here or email me.
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The Kraft Gift Boxes offered by Stampin' Up! are so much fun to decorate! On this one I used the Patio Party Designer Series Paper, which I admit I haven't used very much, but wow, I really loved how this turned out with this paper! I just measured the sides and top of the box, cut pieces of the Patio Party DSP and adhered them. With our double-sided designer paper it's so much fun to choose which side to use….well, even difficult at times since they both often look good! I tied a Primrose Petals Stitched Satin Ribbon around the box and put a paper flower on top. The paper flower is made with pieces cut from the Flower Folds Die. I punched a 1 1/4" circle for the flower center and put a Subtles Designer Button in the middle to top it off.
All very easy to do with a Stampin' Up! Kraft Gift Box and some designer paper…and my friend loved it!
If I were you, I would stock up on a couple packages of these Kraft Gift Boxes #124106 to use for those small gifts we often have. You get 4 boxes in a package for only $2.95. The boxes are 3.5" x 3.5" x 2.5"
You can order anything you want from Stampin' Up! online here!
Let the Stampin' Up! digital papercrafting download for My Digital Studio help you make your Easter celebration a little easier!
This download, Celebrate Easter Ensemble, includes:
* 5-page décor designer template (8-1/2" x 11")
* Double-sided postcard template (5" x 3-1/2")
* 14-piece SVG stamp brush set
* 7 Designer Series Papers
* 8 embellishments
Get these downloads printed and make your own egg holders, napkin rings, mini baskets, cupcake holders, name cards, table tents, invitations and whatever your Easter imagination comes up with!
Colors:
Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Taken with Teal, Whisper White
Click here to purchase this download or to look at each element more closely. AND view the other downloads for this week!
Click on the download to bring up the single download. Right below you will see "More Images". Click on those words, which brings up a closer view. Then click on each image and finally the word "next" to see even more in that download.
If you don't own My Digital Studio already, take the 30-day FREE Trial of My Digital Studio! Buy the Celebrate Easter download, if you like, play around with it, print your projects, and get the full My Digital Studio experience! No obligation! My Digital Studio is pretty intuitive, even for the beginner, but if you need more resources, I can help!
Go to my store now to check out My Digital Studio and all the downloads!
Often a good host or hostess gift to take to a party is a bottle of wine. When you are a stamper, you want to jazz up anything you can with some stamping! Here is an easy wine bottle tag to make in just a few minutes. And of course you could make the same kind of hanging bottle tag, but smaller, to go over water bottles or soda bottles or whatever!
You will have to tailor the size of your hanging bottle tag according to the size of your bottle but these are the measurements I used:
I used the Comfort Cafe Designer Series Paper for a layer. The "thanks" stamp is retired but seemed perfect for this project. It is cut out with the Window Frames Collection Framelits Dies (carried over from the Holiday Catalog) and layered on Champagne Glimmer Paper, also still available from the Holiday Catalog. The ribbon tied around the tag is the Midnight Muse 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon #126847.
Next time you are taking a bottle of wine as as hostess gift to a party, or even just decorating water bottles for a get-together, consider making a cute tag for the bottle!
Stampin' Up! has all the supplies you need at my Online Store here!
In case you are scrambling for a few last minute Valentine candy treat ideas, here are a few for you!
Happy Valentine's Day!
This is super easy! Just fill a cello bag with Valentine candy and make a topper for it! I used the Top Note Die (so versatile), folded it in half, and decorated it with punched hearts. You could add a Valentine greeting, too, if you wanted. You can staple the bag inside or use SNAIL adhesive.
The Scallop Envelope Die makes it easy to make a little treat holder. A Ghirardelli chocolate fits just right inside! Wrap a ribbon around the bottom to hold it closed and add a Valentine greeting! This greeting is from Got Treats. If you don't have the Scallop Envelope die you could fold up your own little envelope with paper.
One of the first cute things I ever learned to make when I first heard of Stampin' Up! was a matchbook! We put post-it notes inside then, but candy works well, too! Mine measures 2 1/2" x 7" and is scored at 3", 3 1/4", and 6 1/4" to fold around a Ghirardelli chocolate. It you have some other candy, you might want to make it larger. The stamp on the Whisper White is from Easy Events, a very versatile stamp set for lots of occasions.
I stapled the edge of the candy to the bottom flap or you could use a mini glue dot. The ribbon will hold the front flap closed. Or the flap can go on the outside. However you want!
Matchbook from the side. You can see how the scoring makes a little space to hold the candy.
Have a fun Valentine's Day doing something YOU love!
The Fancy Favor Bigz XL Die for the Big Shot is one of those very useful dies to own! I think it was at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference last year that I learned to make a box like this using two die-cut Fancy Favor boxes, one inserted into the other. What a cute idea it was! That idea popped into my head while thinking about a Valentine project. You do need 12″x12″ sheets of card stock to use with the Fancy Favor die. I used Primrose Petals and Pool Party card stock for the boxes. I turned the Primrose Petals Fancy Favor Box upside down and punched a heart with the Full Heart Punch. You could also use one of the Hearts Collections Framelits if you preferred. Then when the Pool Party box is inserted, you can see through. In the end I couldn’t resist adhering a paper heart onto the Pool Party box to show through the punched heart!
The More Amore Specialty Designer Series Paper was perfect for this project. Two of the sheets you get in this package are of laser-cut hearts, one Real Red and one Primrose Petals. All you have to do is trim around the edge of whatever shape you want. Since they are white on the back, I turned the heart over so the white would show and punched the same shape heart out of it to line up with the punched heart in my Fancy Favor box. After that I just added various sizes of hearts from punches and framelits until I was happy with the design.
This was one of those projects where I had to slap my own hand and say “Stop!” Knowing when to stop is sometimes the hardest part of a project you like! Just to cover the top of the box (which would normally be the bottom of the box), I added a piece of More Amore paper to cover the tabs. And then I added a bow made from the new Pink Pirouette/Rose Red 1 1/4″ Two-Tone Ribbon.
Here is what the two boxes look like separated.
Think about what a cute gift you could put inside this box! It really wouldn’t even have to be strictly for Valentine’s Day, hearts are good for most occasions!
Be sure to check out the Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog for the paper and ribbon I used in this Valentine project. The Fancy Favor die, punches and framelits can be found in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. Remember, with every $50 you purchase, you can choose a free product from the Sale-a-Bration brochure through March 22. Now is the time to purchase those items you have been wishing for! Just click HERE to go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store!
Today is Inauguration Day in the United States, the day that regardless of political affiliation or views, all Americans celebrate the President of the United States taking the oath of office as prescribed by the Constitution. Some years we are celebrating the peaceful transition of power from one president to another; in this year it is a continuation of the presidency of President Obama for a second term.
I love ceremony and tradition, whether it be the Inauguration or a wedding or a Cub Scout ceremony. I especially love to see or hear of any behind-the-scenes happenings at events like this! To celebration the Inauguration today, I decided to make a patriotic flower out of the new Creped Filter Paper #129393 in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog. You might want to order several packages so you have lots to play with, and they are inexpensive, just $2.95. You get 4 rectangles and 8 circles in a package.
To get the colored filter paper, I used my brayer and ink pads. I chose Real Red and Pacific Point. It was easy and only took a couple of minutes.
Next I used the Big Shot and the Floral Frames Framelits #127012 to die-cut the flowers out of the brayered filter paper.
Stack them in the order you want them according to size and color and insert a brad in the center to hold together.
Next comes the fun part….just separate each layer and crumple toward the center! No perfection required!! Start in the center and work to the bottom.
Once you have gone to the work of crumpling to the center, now it is time to uncrumple to the degree you like and make the actual flower. A little foofing of the papers and you are done!
I have a gift for someone in my family that has to be refrigerated! So it also has to be "hidden" from sight in the refrigerator….not easy! While I was sticking the gift in a brown lunch sack to hide it, I naturally folded over the top of the sack and was planning to attach a note saying to "Keep Out!". But then I thought, why not just punch some holes in the top of this bag and tie a ribbon through, attach a Snow Festival Designer Printed Tag that I can later write the "To & From" on and it's done! It's nothing fancy but then I don't want fancy if it is going to be sitting in the refrigerator until Christmas Day!
So don't forget to use something simple that you can personalize that will save you time with your wrapping!
This is a beautiful Christmas card with a special fold made with the Joyous Celebrations stamp set, the Designer Frames Embossing Folder, and paper from the Festival of Prints Designer Series Paper Stack. I copied it from another demo, Dawn Griffith, who learned to make it with some other demos while they were at Founder's Circle.
Here is the inside of the card. You can see that the ovals are punched through all the card layers after just that front portion of the card is scored on the diagonal. The reindeer image is stamped and embossed on a 3"x3" piece of vellum card stock.
Here is the card opened up with that fold, and the greeting popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals holds it open. Then just put one of those little tealights behind the oval to light it up! So cute!
Here is the card with the little tealight behind the reindeer showing through the vellum. Thanks to Dawn and some other demos for sharing the projects they made with their friends!
Here is a great gift you will enjoy making and your friend will enjoy receiving! This is a "partial" copy of a Christmas collage I saw online made by Connie Tumm. I had some 5" x 7" frames so my collage is a smaller version of hers! The beauty of this gift is not only can you use your papercrafting skills for making something special, but you can customize it to the size of frame you have, colors you want to use, theme, occasion, simplicity or detailed work. Since I had a small frame, I chose to put my greeting from Sweet Essentials in the center on a banner. Also, you can make your squares whatever size works for you, according to the look you want or according to the size of your frame. Mine at 2" square.
I started with a background of Whisper White card stock and embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder #117335. The squares are made with the Snow Festival Designer Series Paper #126908 and the coordinating card stock. For each square I used the Scentsational Season stamp set and coordinating Holiday Collection Framelits Dies, plus the cute Mitten Builder Punch #127824 and the Snow Flurry Bigz Die #127813. And for some bling, some Silver Glimmer Paper #124005, Champagne Glimmer Paper #127885, Baker's Twine #123125, a Rhinestone Jewel #119246 and some Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon #126877.
If you want to have some stamping fun, find a frame in your house you can use and make one of these collages. They are fun and easy to make!
For any Stampin' Up! supplies, you can shop online at my store here! Do you know Stampin' Up! has expedited shipping (for an extra shipping charge) if you want it in a hurry?