Stampin' Up! One Day Sale!

Hello!  Today Stampin' Up! is having a one day only sale you won't want to miss. Today only, November 20th, the Stampin' Trimmer (Regularly $29.95, on sale for $20.97), Diagonal Scoring Plate (Regularly $11.95, on sale for $8.37) and Many Marvelous Markers (Regularly $109.95, on sale for $76.97) are 30% off, which makes all of these great deals!

MANY MARVELOUS MARKERS Price: $109.95 $76.97

SIMPLY SCORED DIAGONAL PLATE Price: $11.95 $8.37

STAMPIN' TRIMMER Price: $29.95 $20.97

Order yours today in my online store or contact me.  Use this hostess code when ordering: UEEJ6PPB.  
Here are the deals starting today, continuing through December 2, 2013:

2012-2014 IN COLOR CORE'DINATIONS Price: $11.95 $8.37	8" X 8" DIVIDED PAGE PROTECTORS Price: $4.95 $3.96	A ROUND ARRAY Price: $14.95 $7.48	ARTISAN LABEL PUNCH Price: $15.95 $11.96
BE MERRY CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $8.95 $6.27	BEST OF SHELLI CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $14.95 $8.97	BRIGHTS CORE'DINATIONS CARDSTOCK Price: $23.95 $16.77	CHEERS CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $5.95 $3.57
CHERRY COBBLER DAZZLING DETAILS Price: $2.50 $1.75	CHRISTMAS COLLECTIBLES CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $16.95 $11.87	CHRISTMAS MESSAGES CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $20.95 $14.67	CIRCLES COLLECTION FRAMELITS DIES Price: $26.95 $20.21
CYCLE CELEBRATION CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $29.33	CYCLE CELEBRATION CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE - SPANISH Price: $29.33	CYCLE CELEBRATION WOOD-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $32.83	DECO LABELS COLLECTION FRAMELITS DIES Price: $24.95 $18.71
DESEOS EN ETIQUETAS CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $17.95 $12.57	DIGITAL POCKET CARDS BUNDLE - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Price: $19.05	DIGITAL STAMP BRUSH SETS BUNDLE - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Price: $24.39	ESSENTIALS PAPER-PIERCING PACK Price: $7.95 $5.96
ETCETERA DESIGNER SERIES PAPER Price: $10.95 $7.67	FESTIVE PAPER-PIERCING PACK Price: $7.95 $5.96	FRIENDSHIP PRESERVES CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE - FRENCH Price: $17.43	FUN WITH CHRISTMAS CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $12.95 $7.77
GIFT GIVING BUNDLE Price: $5.96	GUMBALL GREEN 3/8" STITCHED SATIN RIBBON Price: $8.95 $5.37	HOLIDAYS SWEET PRESSED COOKIE STAMPS Price: $10.95 $6.57	IN COLOR EMBELLISHMENTS BUNDLE Price: $13.52
IT'S A WRAP OCCASIONS CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $17.43	IT'S A WRAP OCCASIONS CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE - FRENCH Price: $23.03	IT'S A WRAP OCCASIONS WOOD-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $20.93	IT'S A WRAP OCCASIONS WOOD-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $23.03
JOY AND LOVE CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $6.95 $4.17	JOYFUL CHRISTMAS CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $16.95 $11.87	LABEL LOVE CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $17.95 $12.57	LARGE SCALLOP EDGELITS DIE Price: $7.95 $5.96
MAGICAL SEASON CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $5.95 $4.17		MEDAILLONS SEDUCTION CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $14.95 $7.48	METALLIC INK BUNDLE Price: $15.92
MIDNIGHT MUSE 3/8" STITCHED SATIN RIBBON Price: $8.95 $5.37	MORNING POST CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $30.03	NEEDLEPOINT BORDER TEXTURED IMPRESSIONS EMBOSSING FOLDERS Price: $7.95 $5.96	NEUTRALS CORE'DINATIONS Price: $23.95 $16.77
NOTE CARD ENVELOPES Price: $5.50 $3.85	OCCASIONS PAPER-PIERCING PACK Price: $7.95 $5.96	OLD OLIVE SIMPLY STYLED EMBELLISHMENTS Price: $5.95 $4.17	PETITE CURLY LABEL PUNCH Price: $12.95 $9.71
PRETTY PRESENTS DESIGNER BOWS Price: $3.95 $2.77	PRETTY PRESENTS DESIGNER TAGS Price: $2.50 $1.75	PRIMROSE PETALS 3/8" STITCHED SATIN RIBBON Price: $8.95 $5.37	PRINCE OF PEACE CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $6.95 $4.87
RASPBERRY RIPPLE 3/8" STITCHED SATIN RIBBON Price: $8.95 $5.37	REGALS CORE'DINATIONS Price: $23.95 $16.77	SASSY SALUTATIONS CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $17.95 $12.57	SEASON OF STYLE THIS AND THAT BUNDLE Price: $21.44
SEASONAL STRIPES 8" X 8" DESIGNER RING ALBUM Price: $14.95 $11.96	SHOW & TELL 1 PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET Price: $13.95 $6.98	SHOW & TELL 2 PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET Price: $13.95 $6.98	SILVER GLIMMER PAPER Price: $4.95 $3.47
SILVER SPARKLE DAZZLING DETAILS Price: $2.50 $1.25		SOHO SUBWAY DESIGNER SERIES PAPER Price: $10.95 $7.67	SPECIAL EVENTS SWEET PRESSED COOKIE STAMPS Price: $10.95 $6.57
SQUARES COLLECTION FRAMELITS DIES Price: $26.95 $20.21		SUBTLES CORE'DINATIONS Price: $23.95 $16.77	SUMMER STARFRUIT 3/8" STITCHED SATIN RIBBON Price: $8.95 $5.37
SWEET PRESSED COOKIE HANDLE Price: $5.95 $3.57	UN AMOUR D”ETIQUETTE CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $17.95 $12.57	VERIEDADES CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $14.95 $7.48	VERY MERRY ARTISAN CLEAR-MOUNT PUNCH BUNDLE Price: $23.73
VERY MERRY ARTISAN CLEAR-MOUNT PUNCH BUNDLE - FRENCH Price: $23.73	VERY MERRY ARTISAN CLEAR-MOUNT PUNCH BUNDLE - SPANISH Price: $23.73	VERY MERRY ARTISAN WOOD-MOUNT PUNCH BUNDLE Price: $28.63	VERY MERRY CURLY PUNCH CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $21.63
VERY MERRY CURLY PUNCH CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $26.53	VERY MERRY CURLY PUNCH CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE - FRENCH Price: $21.63	VERY MERRY CURLY PUNCH CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE - SPANISH Price: $21.63	VERY MERRY FRAMELITS CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $30.03
VERY MERRY FRAMELITS CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE - FRENCH Price: $30.03	VERY MERRY FRAMELITS CLEAR-MOUNT BUNDLE - SPANISH Price: $30.03	VERY MERRY FRAMELITS WOOD-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $34.93	VINTAGE FACETED DESIGNER BUTTONS Price: $5.95 $4.17
WANDERLUST PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET Price: $13.95 $6.98	WONDERFUL BLESSING CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $8.95 $6.27	WONDERFUL WREATH WOOD-MOUNT BUNDLE Price: $27.23

Order these items by December 2nd to receive the discounts and more great products in my store here, and don't forget to use hostess code UEEJ6PPB!  Thanks so much!  See you tomorrow!

Santa Christmas Card

Hello!  It'll be a quick post today.  Lots to do today and it was a very late night last night with my son.  Not fun fighting him to go to sleep.  Hate those nights!  Anyway, here's another Christmas card idea for those of you who are looking.

Also, big news!  Stampin' Up! will be having a huge holiday sale, with door busters starting tomorrow, so be sure to check my online store at www.williamsali.stampinup.net to see all their great deals.  I guarantee you won't want to miss out on them!!!!!

Christmas Polka Dots

Hello!  Today's post is another idea for your Christmas cards.  Generally I don't like to do Christmas stuff until Thanksgiving is over, but I know a lot of people who already have their cards made (or gasp-purchased) by then and are already writing in them or sending them off (overacheivers!), so I wanted to share an idea or two for those of you who are in the making stage of your Christmas cards.  This card was really easy to put together.  I die cut two pieces of cardstock with my Deco Labels Framelit dies, one in old olive, the other in whisper white, stamped my image in soft suede from the Merry Little Christmas Stamp set, and mounted it on a piece of Season of Style Designer Series Paper.  Then I added some cherry cobbler seam binding ribbon, and that was it.  Very easy for those of you mass producing your cards, and it's not too expensive either!  So here are two pictures of the same card, with different dsp.

Supplies used: Soft suede ink, Season of Style Designer Series Paper, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon, Deco Labels Framelits, Big Shot, Cherry Cobbler Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock, Old Olive Cardstock, Stampin' Dimensionals.  All of these items and more can be purchased through my online store here.  Thanks for stopping by.  See you tomorrow!

Another Fall Card

Hello!  Happy weekend to you!  I hope you're enjoying it.  I sure am!  I shared a fall card a week or so ago and wanted to share a card like it with a different color scheme.  I love this card and knew that I'd be making a ton of them when I first saw it.  Here's the card.  You've seen it in pool party with crushed curry, but I was out of pool party so I decided to improvise a little and I'm happy with the result!

I think the champagne glimmer paper really makes the card!  I also love the birch paper in the background from the Thankful tablescape simply created kit.  I will say, that kit is a must have!!!!  You can still order it in time for arrival before Thanksgiving, or after Thanksgiving is over, you can order it to scrapbook your Thanksgiving memories. Order all the supplies to make this card in my online store here.  The greeting is from the Another Thank You photopolymer stamp set, one of my new favorites!  I love the photopolymer stamp sets.  They're awesome.  They stamp great, cling to the blocks great, are easy to clean, easy to re-stamp if your image doesn't come out just right, they're very affordable, and they come in a compact, easy to store package, which is great for all of us crafters out there who are short on space!  I also love thank you stamps, since I send a lot of thank you's, and this set is great because it has all different sized stamps in many different fonts, so there's sure to be a stamp for every project and card you're making!  And last but not least, I am in love with the Autumn Accents Bigz Die.  I love leaves and fall, so this die was made just for me!  It's a great die to have in your collection for anything fall related, and great for spring and summer projects as well, since you can make the leaves whatever colors you want!  This die has so many possibilities!  Cut out leaves with patterned paper, regular cardstock, felt, chipboard, vinyl, magnetic paper, wood sheets, anything!  You won't be sorry you ordered this die, I promise!!!  Order all these supplies and other high quality Stampin' Up! supplies in my online store here.  Thanks for stopping by today.  See you tomorrow!

Color Me Christmas Card

Hello!  I'm back with another card, giving you ideas for your Christmas cards.  This card is a case from demonstrator Heather Summers.  I love her work and check her blog often for great ideas, and when I saw this card, I fell in love and had to buy the set.  I love the set so much now that I almost ordered it twice on accident, not knowing that I had actually already ordered it.  Funny, considering how I once told myself it was really ugly and I was never going to buy it!
I love this card, because it's really inexpensive to duplicate for mass quantities, it's simple enough to to duplicate for mass quantities, and it's cute.  If you already have the stamp set, for 13.45 plus tax and shipping. (the cost of a pack of Whisper White cardstock and a package of washi tape), you can make about 75 cards.  With the stamp set, it would be 34.40 for wood mount, and 29.40 for clear mount.

Such a cute and simple card that makes me happy!  Supplies I used to make this card:  Color Me Christmas Stamp set (wood #131742 $20.95  clear #131745 $15.95), Season of Style Designer Washi Tape #132155 $4.95, one pack of Whisper White Cardstock #100730 $8.50 for 40 sheets, and Stampin' Write Markers in Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Blush Blossom (Retired) and Real Red (For Santa's Candy Cane).  I popped up my santa and stocking with some Stampin' Dimensionals, but you don't have to if you don't want to. I just felt like the card could use a little dimension since it's pretty flat and really simple.  Popping up your cut out image just makes it a little more interesting.  The greeting is an old stamp from a Christmas greeting stamp set by Stampin' Up!, but you could use any Christmas greeting stamp you have on hand at home.  This card truly is that simple! I hope I've encouraged you to try making your Christmas cards this year.  Enjoy and I'll see you back here tomorrow!

Festive Flurry Ornament Kits!

I know yesterday I said I was going to share a fall project with you, but I am so excited about Stampin' Up!'s new Festive Flurry Ornament kit that I had to share this with you instead.  I love this kit.  I've loved it ever since I first saw it, and I think I'm going to have to break down and buy one or several of this kit.  The ornaments are stunning and would look great on anyone's tree!  See for yourself how beautiful they are!

FESTIVE FLURRY ORNAMENT KIT

Available starting 11/12/2013 - while supplies last

Add a little festive flare to your holiday decorating with our new Festive Flurry Ornament Kit! Top presents, embellish cards, create a wintery garland, or trim the tree. How you use them is up to you!

The kit includes everything you need (minus adhesive) to create 10 snowflakes, including

• 10 feet of Soft Sky Ribbon
• Printed cardstock - die cut and scored, ready to be assembled (Soft Sky, Crumb Cake, Whisper White Cardstock and Silver Glimmer Paper)
• Large Rhinestone Basic Jewels (40)

Product name:	Item #:	Price:
Festive Flurry Ornament Kit	135813	$14.95

The kit is only available while supplies last, and they're so gorgeous, I think you should buy them now, or they'll be gone!  Get yours here.

If the picture hasn't sold you yet, watch this short video demonstrating how to make them.  It's so easy, and I even learned a few new and helpful tips while watching the video, and I've been crafting for almost 20 years!

Don't wait to order your kit(s)!  They're only available while supplies last, and that won't be for very long!  You can order them in my online store here.  Check back tomorrow for another great project.  See you then!

Thanksgiving place settings

Hello!  Today I wanted to show you what I'm making for our place settings for Thanksgiving.  These are made using the Thankful Tablescapes Simply Created Kit from Stampin' Up!  I love these place settings, and they are so easy and effortless with this kit!  Everything you need to create these place settings is found in the kit except for the pillar candle.  Thanksgiving is only two weeks away!  Crazy!!!!  You still have time to order this kit from my online store and have them delivered in time for Thanksgiving.  Order them here.

Hope you enjoyed today's little post.  I'll be back tomorrow with another fall project.  See you tomorrow!

Season's Greetings Snowflake Card

Hello!  Today's card is one of the last few Christmas cards I'll be showing for a little while.  I wanted to share some ideas with you for your own Christmas cards, and then I'll take a break and get back to fall stamping ideas and other cards like birthdays and thank you's.  But the Christmas will be back soon, don't worry.  I just don't want to make some people sick of Christmas.  (I could never get sick of Christmas, but I understand some people can.)  This card is a creation all of my own.  It started out as an idea for something completely different, and just kind of took off running and finished with this.  I might try again for the original idea I had, but I did like the result of this card.  Anything with glitter usually makes me a happy girl!

The card uses these supplies from Stampin' Up: stamp set Festive Flurry and coordinating Festive Flurry framelits dies, the silver glimmer paper (I'm in LOVE with this paper!!!!!!), a retired stamp set Welcome Christmas, and some old ribbon.  Hope you like it and that you'll stop by tomorrow for some more fall cards!  Thanks for stopping by!

Winter Frost Christmas Card

Hello!  I love today's card for several reasons.  First of all, it's a Christmas card, and in my opinion, that's the best kind of card.  I love Christmas.  Second of all, I love the name of the designer series paper used on this card-Winter Frost.  I live in a part of the world where it doesn't snow for Christmas, so ever since I was little I've dreamed of waking up to snow gently falling and a world of white.  It's been my dream for as long as I can remember.  I've listened to Amy Grant singing about a tender Tennessee Christmas with snow, and I just want to have a white Christmas once in my life!  This card helps me at least dream of that kind of Christmas.  It's fun to have a dream. :)  This card is another one I received while at convention this past summer, and I couldn't wait to share it with you.  It was made by demonstrator Margaret Hall.  Thank you Margaret for such a great card!

It uses the stamp set Merry Little Christmas, Winter Frost designer series paper, the Labels Collection Framelits dies, a rhinestone basic jewel, and the silver 1/8'' ribbon from Stampin' Up!'s holiday catalog.  The colors used are Bermuda Bay, Costal Cabana, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Whisper White, and Silver.

I hope you enjoyed today's little escape (in the form of a card), and that you'll be back tomorrow.  See you then!

Christmas Stars

Hello!  Happy Veteran's Day!  In honor of veterans, I chose a card displaying stars.  :)  Thank you to veterans every where for your service so that my family can enjoy freedoms and safety!  Today's card is a card I received while at Stampin' Up!'s convention over the summer, and I've been dying to share it.  It's such an eye catching card, yet it's so simple!  I love it.  It uses the Simply Stars stamp set, and a greeting from the stamp set Sassy Salutations.  I would have used a different greeting stamp, but all the same, I still love the card.  Thank you to Angie Kopydlowski for the really fun card.  I fell in love with the card the moment it hit my hands!

I'm a sucker for anything with stars, and when you have stars with glitter, well, I've gotta have it!  I hope you liked today's card.  Check back again tomorrow for another card!  Thanks so much for stopping by.  See you tomorrow.

Merry Little Christmas Card #2

Hello!  Here's another card I made using the stamp set Merry Little Christmas.  I love the stamp set because when I really read the stamp, I start singing the song in my head and it gets me excited for Christmas.  This card was really simple.  I used a cherry cobbler card base, cut a piece of paper from the Season of Style Designer Series Paper pack, stamped the greeting on a tag I got from an old Stampin' Up! flower tag kit, tied some ribbon on the card, and I was done!  This would be a great card to do if you have a huge Christmas card list!

I'll be back tomorrow with another card.  See you then!

Merry Little Christmas Cocoa Card

Hello!  Today's card is another Christmas card to help you get ideas for your own Christmas cards.  This is a really cute idea I saw on the internet a few years back and it's been so long ago that I don't even know who I got the idea from, but it's pretty clever.  It's a Christmas card made out of a brown paper lunch bag with hot cocoa inside.  I believe the person I cased this from made her card an invitation to an ice skating event, and then stashed the hot cocoa packet inside the invitation with some cute little saying like 'join us for hot cocoa after' or something cute like that.  I've made this card once before, but made it again this year with current Stampin' Up! stamps.  I used the stamp set Merry Little Christmas, and Festive Flurry for my card, and also used the illuminate stamp pad and pool party ink.

 I added a snowflake cut out of the silver glimmer paper with the snowflake framelit die and popped it up on a dimensional and tied the card off with ribbon to hold the cocoa packet inside.  Pretty fun!

I hope you liked today's card.  I think it was a clever card, and wish I could give credit where credit is due, but at least you know I was not the original creator of this card.  I'm just really good at 'case'ing.  See you tomorrow!

Magical Wonder Card

Hello!  Here's a card I made for a class I held last night.  I love this card because it's simple, but it still reminds me of Christmas.  I used the single stamp Magical Season for the greeting, and the branch stamp was from the hostess set Simply Sketched.  I knew right away when I saw this stamp set, that the branch would be good for a Christmas card.  I used Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, Whisper White, and Soft Suede for my colors.

I hope you enjoyed today's card and that you'll check back for more Christmas card ideas!  See you tomorrow!

Gently Falling Card #4

Hello!  Today's card is the last one of the set that I made to go inside the card holder I posted a few days back.  This card is neat because of the technique it uses.  I'm not sure what the exact name of the technique is, but you cut a piece of card stock (for this card, I used a 3 1/4'' x 4 1/2'' piece), stamp your images on the piece of card stock, and then cut it into three equal pieces and adhere it to your card, leaving an 1/8'' of an inch between each strip.  Or, you can cut three equal strips instead of one piece, to avoid having to cut it up again when you finish stamping.  (You'll just have to line all three strips up when stamping to make sure your images line up.  But remember, if you mess up, you can flip your paper over and use the back!  If you are using my measurements, then each strip would be 1 1/2 x 3 1/4''.)  Once I had all my images stamped, I glued a small strip of early espresso card stock to the very bottom strip, added two brads to the top right of my top strip, popped the three strips up using Stampin' Dimensionals, and stuck it to my embossed piece of card stock.

I love the subtlety of the metallic gold encore ink pad.  It adds a lot to the card, in my opinion.  The gold was stamped with the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set, the leaves are stamped with the stamp set Gently Falling, and the Thank You is stamped with the Lacy & Lovely stamp set.  The colors used on the card are pool party, very vanilla, early espresso, tangerine tango, and metallic gold.  I love this card. I hope you do too!  See you tomorrow for some Christmas card ideas!  Thanks for stopping by!

Gently Falling Card #3

Hello!  I hope you are enjoying seeing these cards to go with the card holder.  Here's the third card to go inside.  This card is my favorite, by far, of all the cards in the holder.  The reasons I love this one the most is because I love die cut shapes, especially holiday ones (and leaves are really fun), I love the glittery leaf die cut from the Champagne glimmer paper from Stampin' Up!, I love the tag embossed with the woodgrain embossing folder and the birch paper in the background.  They both add great texture that gives the card an additional fall feel.  I also really love the colors used.  I would never have come up with them on my own, and I love how well they go together.

The birch paper is from the Thankful tablescape simply created kit, as is the yellow maple leaf, the pool party leaf and the champagne glitter leaf are cut with the Autumn Accents Bigz die, and the thanks stamp is from the new Another Thank You Photopolymer stamp set.  I really love this card and plan to make a ton more of it!  I hope you were inspired by today's post.  Check back tomorrow for the last card in this series.  After that, I'll be showing off some Christmas cards to help you get ready!  See you tomorrow!

Gently Falling Card #2

Hello!  Here's another card from the card folder I made with Mayra.  I love all the cards in the folder, and couldn't wait to show them to my family and to all of you.  I hope you're getting some great ideas for fall cards to send to your friends and family, and to decorate your home for Thanksgiving!

This is another card using the stamp set Gently Falling from Stampin' Up!, the greeting is from Lacy and Lovely, and the strip of patterned paper is from the Thankful tablescape simply created place setting kit (Item # 132164, $19.95).  It was the napkin holder, cut into pieces to make several of these cards.  A great way to use up your left over pieces if you didn't use a whole kit, or another use for that great kit!  I love everything in that kit and have so many ideas for how to use each and every piece that comes in it.  It doesn't have to be just for place settings.  You can make cards with all of the paper, use the chalkboard pieces for labeling jars in your kitchen, organizing your linen closets or your kids toys, your scrapbook/crafting supplies, garden supplies, and you can also use the napkin holders in the kit to turn into a 6 x 12'' scrapbook tied together with binder rings or ribbon.  I'll have to show my scrapbook later on this month.  Anyway, I hope I've given you some ideas for how to use that kit, so now go order it!  :)  It's a great deal for all the items you get in the kit.  You can order it through my online store here.  Thanks for stopping by today, and I'll see you tomorrow!  Two more cards left to show you, and then I'll show you a few of my Christmas cards for all of you early birds getting a head start!

Gently Falling Card #1

Good morning!  Thanks for stopping by to see more of my cards from the card holder I showed yesterday.  I really love this project I made designed by my friend Mayra.  It's a card holder that holds 4 cards and 4 envelopes to give as a gift to someone.  Such a beautiful gift!  I'd love to be the recipient of something such as this, what about you?

 The cards are absolutely stunning!  Each and every one of them are elegant and beautiful.  I might have a hard time giving these cards away!  Here's the first of four cards I made to go in the card holder.  You'll have to stop by tomorrow and keep coming back to see all of them!  :)

I used the wood grain embossing folder on the larger piece of very vanilla card stock to add some texture and dimension, and the 'twine' is strings from Stampin' Up!'s burlap ribbon.  You cut the finished sides off the ribbon and 'fray' it to get individual strings.  I tied it around some paper from the Thankful tablescape place setting kit and stamped a leaf from the Gently Falling stamp set.  The greeting is from the Lacy and Lovely stamp set.  Check back again tomorrow for some more of this set!

Gently Falling Card Holder

Hello!  Over the next five days, I'm going to be showing you a card holder I made with my friend Mayra.  She comes up with the greatest ideas!  I saw the card holder and the cards that go inside it, and loved them all immediately.  You'll want to check back everyday to see all the cards!  Here's the card holder for today.

The holder is made with a single sheet of 8 1/2 x 11'' card stock, and then tied off with some soft suede taffeta ribbon.  I stamped everything in the card holder with the stamp set Gently Falling.  It's a great fall set.  I absolutely love it!  Each year I tell myself that I don't need a new fall leaves set, because I already have this one, but now I want this one too!  I comes with 12 stamps: 6 solid images, and then 6 outlines to stamp over the image if you would like to step up your stamping.  The colors I used were pool party, early espresso, very vanilla, tangerine tango, crushed curry, and papers from the Sweater Weather Designer series paper pack, and also paper from the Thankful tablescape place settings kit.

Don't forget to stop by tomorrow to see more of the contents of the card holder!

November Best of Stamp set

Hello!  Today I wanted to share Stampin' Up!'s latest stamp set in their Best of 25 series.  The set is called Best of Snow, and it'll be great for all your holiday cards and projects!

You can purchase this set here in my online store.  I'm getting excited about our next two holidays, how about you?  I'll see you tomorrow!

Happy Thanksgiving Card

Hello!  I hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween.  I always am sad when Halloween is over, because I feel like fall is moving too quick!  Thank goodness for two more holidays after Halloween to keep me excited about something.  This card is to welcome in November!  It's a card I received from demonstrator Julee Hicks while at Stampin' Up!'s convention this summer.  I love the colors used. I wouldn't think of using Island Indigo on Thanksgiving projects, but I love the colors together.  I think they mesh well.  The card base is made with Crumb Cake card stock, and the Very Vintage wheel (#117693 $8.50) was rolled across the top in Soft Suede ink.  The Island Indigo strip of paper was embossed with the Stylish Stripes Embossing Folder (#132174 $7.95), and then placed on top of a piece of Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper (#132184 $10.95).  The greeting was stamped in Tangerine Tango ink with a stamp from the Tags 4 You stamp set (Wood #131820 $19.95  Clear #131823  $15.95) and punched out with the Label Bracket Punch (#132153 $15.95) and placed on the card after some linen thread (#104199  $4.50) was wrapped around the card. Lastly, a rhinestone jewel (#119246 $4.95) was put on the greeting to add a little extra something.  I think it's a nice Thanksgiving card.  Thanks Julee for the great card swap!  I hope you enjoyed it and that you'll be back tomorrow!