Starburst Sayings Take 2!

Hello!  I know you know how much I love this set, so here's another card we made at my class last night.

I loosely cased this card idea from demonstrator Cindy Schuster.  She made a tag for a gift bag that used this idea, and I adapted it into a card.  I was going for a masculine card, but Cindy put an arrow on the tag, and I didn't have any arrow stamps or a way to cut an arrow, so I needed to add something to my card.  Not sure what would go with what I already had, I punched out some stars in the Silver Glimmer paper, and all of a sudden it was too girly to be a masculine card.  But I'm working on a few more cards using this stamp set, so check back daily to see what I've come up with!
Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll see you tomorrow!

Starburst Sayings Card

Hello!  I'm loving the stamp set Starburst Sayings and the coordinating framelits!  I loved this set the moment I saw it, but in preparing for a class this week at my house, I found even more cute ideas for this stamp set.  I found tons of great card ideas, the trouble was narrowing down which cards to have my attendees make!  I highly recommend this stamp set.  If you don't have it, you won't regret buying it!  It's really fun, can be used for many occasions, has stamps in several different sizes, and it's just a cheerful set.  I love it!  On to one of the cards we'll be making tonight at my class:

 I used the Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper for this card, and the colors I used are Soft Suede, Costal Cabana, Tangerine Tango, and So Saffron.  I cased this card from UK demonstrator Tracy May.  Thanks Tracy for a super cute card idea!!!

I was sorely tempted to share all the cards with you that we're making at my class tonight, but you'll have to check back everyday to see the other cards!  Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll see you tomorrow!

Birthday Scrapbook Layout

Hello!  Here's another layout I made with the stamp set Another Great Year.  I love this stamp set because it's great for both card making and scrapbooking.

I paired the stamp set with the Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper from the Occasions Catalog, and the colors used on this layout are Costal Cabana, So Saffron, Tangerine Tango, Very Vanilla, Baked Brown Sugar, and Sahara Sand.

Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope you enjoyed the scrapbook page.  I'll see you tomorrow!

Circles Card

Hello!  Today's card is another one made this past weekend with my friends.  This card was designed by Carrie Nelson.  Thank you for the card idea Carrie!  We used the new stamp set Perfect Pennants from the Occasions catalog, and the new paper, Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper, and various circle punches for the card.  You could also use the circle framelits in the Annual Stampin' Up! catalog.  I colored the stamp with Tangerine Tango and Soft Suede markers to give it a little more pizzaz.  Usually I just ink my stamp with one color, but I decided to do something a little more fun and interesting this time.  It's more pleasing to the eye, I think.

This card is good because it's not necessarily occasion specific, meaning that you aren't limited to when you could use this card.  It doesn't really scream "Happy Birthday, Get Well, Congratulations or Thank You!", so you could just use it if you wanted to tell a friend you had a fun chat on the phone, or just I'm thinking of you, how are you?  You can use this card for anything, and I like that the card is more of a guy-friendly card as well with the colors, and lack of ribbon, flowers, glitter, rhinestones or pearls. So this is a great card to have on hand!  I hope you enjoyed my post today.  Thanks for stopping by today, and I'll see you tomorrow!

Pocket Calendar #2

Hello!  Have you seen the new Occasions catalog by Stampin' Up! yet?  I love it!  I posted a link on the side tab of my blog for you to browse it if you haven't seen it yet.  It's great!  Check out that updated section of my blog on the right hand side.  The holiday catalog expired on the 2nd, but some of the popular items were carried over to the Occasions catalog or are on the Holiday Catalog Carryover list.  If you're interested in seeing that list, contact me and I can share that with you.

I'm having so much fun with these little pocket calendars.  I made one for me today, and I'm excited to use it!  This calendar is covered with the new Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper from the Occasions catalog by Stampin' Up!, and I added some Tangerine Tango ribbon, a So Saffron button, the "To Do" stamp from a past Paper Pumpkin kit, and my trusty old Tab punch that I love to use for organization/office supply projects.  That's how easy this project was!  The colors used on this project are Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Costal Cabana, So Saffron, and Tangerine Tango.  Those are great colors !  I would never have come up with them on my own, but I love the combination!  Great job Stampin' Up!!!!!!!

This is such a fun calendar. So bright and cheery, it makes me excited to be/get organized!  :)  Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll be back again tomorrow!

Make A Wish Birthday Card

Hello! I finally got to stamp a little bit more with my new stuff today.  It was so fun!  I made this card for a birthday we have later on today.  It uses the new Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper and stamp set Perfect Pennants from the Occasions Catalog, and the banner punch from the Sale-A-Bration catalog.  All I can say is that you're going to love all the new items!

I cased this card from a card I saw in the Stampin' Success magazine we get as demonstrators.  I simply took my banner punch, started at the top and punched out, and continued to punch out in a straight line the same punch from the top of the paper to the bottom of the paper, overlapping the punch to keep cutting out.  I'm not sure if that makes sense, but just start at the top of your paper, and punch once, then where you left off, place your punch in the exact same line, then punch again and again to make a track or hole or line.  It would be much easier to make a video and show you, but I didn't have that much time today.  So that will be my goal for next week.  I'll try to shoot a video and post it, but I've never made one before, let alone posted it on a blog, so we'll see how it goes!

Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll see you tomorrow, with more new goodies!