Stampin' Celebration Inspiration Challenge #19

Hi Stamping Friends!!  It's Thursday and that means it's time to celebrate!!  I love to have a reason to stamp and being able to participate in the Stampin' Celebration Inspiration Challenge is just the the motivation I need to ink up my stamps.  If I didn't have this challenge and the ColourQ to "have to" stamp for, I think too many days would go by with no stamping done, and that would be so sad!!  My life is a blur at the moment with kid stuff, school stuff, church stuff, house stuff and stuff stuff.  I'm so glad I can take a moment to stamp, at least twice every week.

I love today's inspiration photos.  The sunflowers are so beautiful.  And I love the colors going on.  I wish I could say I love my card too, but it's lacking something and I haven't figured out what yet.  I tried adding stuff, but it didn't work, so I left it as is.

WITH ALL MY HEART

I like the colors and the papers and the flower.  I just think it needs more.  It's kind of boring.  Maybe the center of the flower should have been larger.  Maybe I should have had a black circle underneath the buttons.  I do love the buttons though.  I love all the Stampin' Up! buttons.  They are the best!!  And I also love my new Tasteful Trim die from the Holiday Mini Catalog.  Definitely a must have!  The sketch for this card comes from the 2 Sketches 4 You blog.  This is sketch #60.  It was the perfect sketch for the big sunflower I knew I wanted on my card.  Well, I guess you can't hit every ball out of the park.  What a bummer!  Now I'll just have to keep practicing!  :-)

I hope you can stop by the Stampin' Celebration Inspiration Challenge and play along with us this week.  You have until next Tuesday to upload your card.  We are always looking for more stampers to help us celebrate all of life's special moments!

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Stamp Club Sunday

Hi Stamping Friends!

Instead of doing my Sunday Blog Picks, I thought I'd show you what my stamp club ladies (a.k.a. The Card Ladies, as my family refers to them!) will be making this afternoon.  All of these projects were CASEd from other fabulous stampers.

You can learn how to do The Watercolor Rose technique at PATTY'S STAMPING SPOT.  This is a super fun technique and I can't wait for my gals to try it.  I need to play with my colors a little more.  I didn't have a Cameo Coral reinker, so I used Pumpkin Pie, but now I'm thinking I should have used Regal Rose.  The other colors I used were Pretty In Pink and Melon Mambo.

Super cute Milk Carton birdhouse that I've seen EVERYWHERE!  DO STAMPING WITH DAWN has a video tutorial.  I love the Two-Step Bird Punch.  It's just too cute!

I'm so behind the times with this one, but I've never done it with my stampers, so I think they will enjoy it.  There's a tutorial on STEPHANIE LUMAN'S blog.  Which I messed up, because I cut my flower pot wrong.  Oh well!  It will still hold flowers.  :)  The colors on this card were inspired by a card that was done by Lynn Put at THE QUEEN'S SCENE.  I have no idea where the direct link is to the card that Lynn made, but you can just drool at all the other gorgeous stamping on her blog.  She is amazing!

Remember!  Only a few more days to take advantage of the fabulous 2-Step promotion Stampin' Up! is offering.  Click on the SHOP NOW button to order yours today!

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Have a blessed Sunday!

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Friend Pack Card #2

Hi Stamping Friends!

Last week I showed you this card

It's from my Friend Pack for my Cards for Missions Fundraiser.  All week long all be showing you the other 4 cards from the same pack.  For my fundraiser, I sold packs of cards, 5 cards in each pack for $15. Each pack had a different theme: Scripture, Thank You, Thinking of You, etc...  I sold 70 packs of cards!  After hearing that the pre-school where I worked at in the Dominican Republic is in need of funds, I decided to continue selling cards and giving the money to the school. 

I've really enjoyed coming up with all the different card packs.  I've used the same 5 layouts for each pack, just changing the colors, stamped images and sentiments.  The Friend Pack has been one of my most favorite packs so far!  I used the retired DSP Raspberry Tart.  LOVE the colors in this DSP!!  Here's another card from the Friend Pack:

I used the Sweetheart stamp set for the leaves, and the With All My Heart set for the flower image and the sentiment.  The colors are Kiwi Kiss (retired), Rose Red, Cameo Coral, Pink Pirouette (retired).  Gotta love the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder out of the Occasions Mini.  It's one of my (many!) favorites items in the Mini catalog.  I also love the Extra Large Fancy Flower Punch.  Such a classic shape.  The label was puched out using the Lots Of Labels Sizzlet pack.

WITH ALL MY HEART  #118134  $17.95

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Hostess Spring 10

Hi Stamping Friends!

Strange name for a post title huh?!  Well, this is what I nicknamed my current Hostess Club.  I give each club a nickname, that way I can set them up as a group in my email contacts, and when I email them, I just email the group!  One of the most rewarding things about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator (besides the discount!) is how many new friendships I have made through my monthly Hostess Clubs.  I really enjoy getting to visit with these gals each month. And since I keep each group to a max of 6 members, we really get some quality time together.

So why did I bring all this up?  Beacuse today's card is another one that we made on Sunday at my Spring 10 Hostess gathering.  This card (like most of them!) was CASEd from one I saw on the web somewhere. Again, I don't know where, so I apologize to the original creator!

Sorry about the fuzzy pic.  I have a love/hate realtionship with my camera... I love to hate it! It's a really nice camera, but I just can't seem to get it to do what I want, even after taking two photography classes.  I'm sure it's the photographer, more than the camera, but it's easier to blame the camera.

This card has a So Saffron base layered with a piece of DSP from the Sahdes of Spring pack. The flower "stamp" is from the With All My Heart set in the Occasions Mini Catalog and it is punched using the Extra Large Fancy Flower punch, also in the Mini and stamped in Orchid Opulence. The leaves and stem are from the Sweetheart set that is not in any catalog, but is still for sale. It is stamped in Certainly Celery.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Well Scripted set, also from the Mini. The tag is punched out using the Lots of Tags Embosslit set.

Remember, if you are in the Visalia/Exeter/Tulare/Tipton area and would be interesting in making fun cards like this one, contact me.  My next Hostess Club will be starting in July.  And I'll try to think up a cuter name for that group.  Maybe Stampin' Summer Fun 10.

SWEETHEART  #120415  $21.95

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