On Saturday, my group of SASsy Stampers & Friends held our summer stamp camp. This is an all day event we hold for our customers. Sometimes the prepping for the event can seem a little overwhelming but then you get there and your customers say something like “We absolutely LOVE this event. We have so much fun!”. Well, that definitely makes the work worth it.

Eight of us design cards and host a table. The guests move from table to table at their own pace to complete the eight different projects with our direction. We also have display boards, a treat bag, a couple of raffle baskets for them to hopefully win and a yummy lunch. It’s funny, we always get compliments on the lunches. This camp we all made different salads. In the past we’ve had a baked potato bar, soups and pastas.

This week and into the beginning of next week I’ll be sharing our projects with you. I think you’re going to enjoy them. It always works out well because our styles are so different so we end up with a nice variety of projects.

Last week I shared a project with you featuring the Good Morning Magnolia Bundle. This is such a popular bundle in the catalog that our Sassy Stamper Friend, Laura K., had someone make us cupcakes with a magnolia on them. Amazing!

Wow! They were yummy too! I wish I had the patience and the talent to do this kind of work! 😀

We like to give out an afternoon treat to our guests too. My friend Jan, the one in the center of the photo with the white pants, loves to design these treats along with the treat bag we give out with lots of fun little treat holders in them. Since our event was so close to the 4th of July, Jan went with a patriotic theme for our treats.

Isn’t this fun?! Jan likes to use the little Starbuck’s bottles with caramel corn for our afternoon treats. She comes up with some fun designs for them. She used a lot of retired products on this bottle but there are also some fun new products like the die cut candles and the “happy”.

Jan designs all of these fun projects and then we get together at her home for a stamp camp work day. We were a little short-handed this time but we still got it all done. Jan has everything organized for us with most everything ready to put together with just a little bit of die cutting and punching left to do before assembly. She always treats us to yummy lunch/brunch. 😀

Our next camp is on October 26th and will be featuring items from the Holiday Catalog. Let me know if you’ll be in the Denver area that day and would like to attend! We always have a great time! Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Do you remember the Upsy Daisy Stamp Set? It was definitely an oldie but goodie. I know it was a favorite of mine. In fact, it was one of the stamps that made it into Stampin’ Up!’s “Best of Flowers” stamp set during Stampin’ Up!’s 25th Anniversary year. It was kind of cute because they shrunk it. I’ll have to see if I can find mine.

Check out the light pink background paper. It looks like it was embossed with the Subtle Embossing Folder but this is actually textured paper from back in the day when Stampin’ Up! carried textured paper. Yes, this is an old card.

The more I look at this card the more I kind of miss this stamp. I’m pretty sure I got rid of mine a long time ago. I just looked on a couple of Facebook Pages that sell craft items and found one that had been sold awhile ago but they had a picture of the stamp set:

It was just a nice little, versatile stamp set. On my card it looks like I first inked the stamp in pink and then maybe added a little light orange or yellow with a sponge or sponge dauber to certain areas. Hmmm…I may have to try that again sometime. 😀

I hope you’ve enjoyed this blast from the past! Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Oh, my! Have you checked out the Magnolia Lane Suite in Stampin’ Up!’s Annual Catalog (page 37-39 if you haven’t!)? It is absolutely GORGEOUS! When I first saw it in the catalog and saw the presentations about it at On Stage in April I thought that it was lovely and that I didn’t need another flower stamp set. Well, I was WRONG! I SO need this bundle of products and so do you!

You may not think you need the stamp set but there are other products in the bundle that you can still make amazingly gorgeous projects with. Check out my card below:

Everything on this card (including the card itself) except for the Mossy Meadow and Whisper White cardstock are from the Magnolia Lane Suite. You can purchase these fabulous emossed kraft cards (with matching envelopes & liners)(#149487 $12.50), The GORGEOUS Magnalia Lane Designer Paper (#149484 $11.50), and the Magnolia Lane Ribbon Combo Pack (#149485 $9). I did also use the Magnolia Memory Dies (#149578 $35) to die cut the single flower. I”m telling you, this suite is GORGEOUS! There is also a Memories & More Card Pack that you can use with the cards & envelopes to make fabulous cards without even stamping if you wanted!

I love that some of the dies cut out images right from the designer paper. It makes creating SIMPLE! Oh, I almost forgot to mention the coordinating Magnolia 3D Embossing Folder. Amazing! I will be sharing some gorgeous projects made with this. It’s so pretty you can use it by itself on a card.

The cards included in the Magnolia Lane Large Specialty Memories & More Cards & Envelopes are a bit larger than your regular size cards & envelopes. The folded card is 6 1/4″ x 4 1/4 which fits the large Memories & More cards perfectly.

Look at all of those gorgeous products! Stampin’ Up! has made it easy to “buy it all”! One item number (#152178 $134.75) for ALL of those products you see above. Wow! Is your brain already working overtime to figure out all of the GORGEOUS projects you can make once you get these products in your craft room? I can’t wait to play with it some more!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Stampin’ Up! has some great ribbons in the new Annual Catalog but they don’t always have the ribbon you want in the color you want for that special project you’re working on. Well, what’s a crafter to do? After today’s Tuesday Tip you will know exactly what to do.

I designed this card for a swap I was participating in last night. I had the card designed and it just needed a little something. The pink in this card is the new Rococo Rose. There is a Rococo Rose ribbon in the catalog but it was a little too much for the card. So….I took the fabulous Braided Linen Trim and colored it with my Rococo Rose Stampin’ Blend. Say what? Yep! I colored the trim with my Stampin’ Blend!

Of course this little trick works great on light colored ribbons but look how great it worked on the linen thread! I had to try all sorts of ribbons:

Too fun! Just think! The only thing that is limiting you are the colors of Stampin’ Blends and the various ribbons you own! Here are a number of different ribbons colored with Stampin’ Blends. I even tried two-tone on one.

Go ahead. Try coloring some ribbon with your blends. It’s quite easy. I just used the brush tip of the blend and used the side of the tip to color. You can keep the color light or just keep going over the ribbon with the Blend to make the color deeper. So many options! Wow!

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s tip. I’d love to see what ribbons you color! Feel free to share them with me. Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

I’m starting my Monday a little slow and thought this lovely little card would give me the pick-me-up that I needed. How can you not smile when you see a lovely daisy and it’s telling you to smile?!

There’s a new daisy stamp set in town along with a new daisy punch! Woo Hoo! The stamp set is called Daisy Lane and features the stamped images you see in the above photo along with a few more sentiments, a nice fern image and both a large daisy and a smaller daisy. The smaller daisy coordinates and with the brand new Medium Daisy Punch.

From the above image you can see that the new daisy is quite a bit smaller than the daisy we have. On my card I used the original daisy punch for a couple of reasons. The biggest reason was that I didn’t have the new smaller punch when I was working on the card. I also think the larger one fills the card better. I do have to give Julie DiMatteo credit for the design although I did add a couple of extra layers (surprise, surprise!).

What do you think of that fun center in the flower? It just completes the card, doesn’t it? That is one of the new Perennial Essence Floral Centers. It’s a little fuzzy embellishment that sticks right to your card! Too fun!

I do have to admit that just sharing this fun little card with you has picked me up a bit. I hope you all have a Happy Monday! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Yesterday got away from me and I completely missed Throwback Thursday so today I’m going to combine Throwback Thursday with Fun Friday! I first had to check my file of old cards and did come up with one that I think meets the criteria….Sock Monkey!

Who remembers Sock Monkey? I almost cringe when I look at this card. First of all, the photography is something to be desired. Secondly, I did not do a very good job of watercoloring our little monkey friend. Sheesh! Go ahead and laugh. That’s what these posts are for. 😀

As you can see from the picture I’ve always been a fan of a gazillion layers on a card. The more, the merrier. Right? I’m trying to figure out what color red that is on the card. I’m thinking maybe Riding Hood Red? Again, I need to dig out my old catalogs and check these things out!

I hope you got a good chuckle out of this card. I did! Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

OMG! This Over The Moon (#149331 $20) stamp set is TSC! Too Stinkin’ Cute! As I mentioned the other day, I don’t really like cows that much but once I saw this stamp set I just had to have it! Aren’t these cows adorable! I love the sayings too.

Don’t you just love the rubber boots that this cow is wearing? Too cute! And what about those spots on the background? I wish I could take credit for figuring out how to make such perfect cow spots but someone else came up the idea and I just ran with it. The “spots” are actually part of flowers. They are from the Love What You Do stamp set. The flowers are a 2-step design so these “spots” are actually the second stamp that will give the flower outline color. Amazing! How do people figure these things out? I’m sure glad they did though.

I couldn’t decide how to color the flower that the cow is holding. It was between the yellow and brown that I did here or just having a white flower with a yellow center. Hmmm….What do you think? I’d love to have your opinion.

I guess I could have used yellow in the card instead of red and then the flower would have matched better. Decisions, decisions! I do like the red boots though. 🙂

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

It’s summer (ok…not officially…) and it’s Throwback Thursday. Here’s a fun, old summer card for you today. Does anyone remember this stamp set? Fun, small, summery images. I love the little pair of flip-flops.

This card design is perfect for highlighting those smaller images. Circles would have worked just as well as squares if you had small enough punches or dies. Actually, this card was probably made before Stampin’ Up! carried dies!

The dots on the background are actually stamped with a background stamp. It had to have been one stamp because they are spaced perfectly.

As I’m stamping this my little brain is working overtime. I should have created a card using this design but made with current products. Hmmm….I may have to work on that. So….if you notice that I haven’t been posting Throwback Thursday cards for a week or so it’s because I’ve been creating. 🙂

I wish I knew off the top of my head what the colors in this card are. I know that the orange is Pumpkin Pie and that the yellow is more than likely Daffodil Delight but I have no idea what color blue that is. I guess I really need to dig out my old catalogs so I can research and really wow you with my knowledge! Ha!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this little blast from the past! Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

The Follow Your Art is a fun new suite in Stampin’ Up!’s brand new annual catalog. This suite is all about crafting. It consists of a stamp set, coordinating dies, designer paper, a embossing folder and an embellishment kit. Did you know that Stampin’ Up! has actually bundled all of these suite products under one order number to make it easier to order? Yep! If you want it all you just have to put in one number with one price!

Look at all of those fun products in such fun colors! We got to play with a few of these products at our On Stage event in April. This first card that I’m going to show you is the card as we were suppose to make it.

This second card is my version of the one we were “suppose” to make. You can see that my version is pretty close but I left off the strip of designer paper. The little scallop piece under the sentiment is different too because they didn’t have die-cutting machines for us to use and we used a punch instead. Other than those two things I followed directions fairly well.

Now this next card is my change-up that we’re going to be making in class next week. I stuck with the same general layout but I embossed the front of the card instead of stamping buttons and I added a border layer to the designer paper and an extra scallop on top of the sentiment. Again, I stayed pretty true to the original but just put my own twist on it.

What do you think of this fun suite of products? I’m ready to try another card. Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping.

Yesterday I shared with you the First 10 Things that I’d purchase out of the new annual catalog. Now over the new week or so I want to share some samples of those things with you.

The first two items on my list were the 2019-2020 In-Colors ink pads and card stock. Check out the gorgeous cards above made by Tami Hewlett! They showcase the cardstock and the ink perfectly! When you see projects like this it definitely makes me glad I invested in these colors. Not only did Tami use the new inks and papers, she also used the new 2019-2020 In-Color Faceted Dots. The stamp set she used is the Floral Essence stamp set. All I can say when I look at these cards is WOW!

Here are some simpler cards made using the new inks, paper, faceted dots and designer papers of the 2019-2020 In-Colors. I like how she used all of these things on such a simple card.

As you can see, these colors are gorgeous and you can use them on simple cards as well as over-the-top cards. You may want to consider adding them to your craft room. 🙂

Today is the day that you can start placing orders from the new annual catalog. Woo Hoo! Are you ready? Head on over to my online store at noon (MT) today and start shopping! Have a great day! Take care and happy stamping!

OOOOO!!!! I can’t wait! The new catalog goes live TOMORROW June 4th at noon (MT)! Are you ready? I’ve been working away on my list and I hope you are too! I’m going to share with you the first ten things that I am going to order or have already ordered since I am a demonstrator. (There are select items that we can order early). I can’t show you photos of these items but I’ve listed the page numbers so that you can check them out starting at noon on Tuesday.

1. The new In-Color ink pads. I always like to get my hands on these to play with them and check them out to see which are my favorites. (page 154)
2. Packages of the new In-Color card stock for the same reason as number 1. (page 154)
3. A Wish For Everything bundle. (page 17) This bundle is going to be so useful. It contains a double stamp set as well a a package of dies that cover lots of holidays and occasions. It’s similar to the Well Said bundle from the 2019 Occasions Catalog but has more to do with holidays.
4. Rustic Retreat Stamp Set (page 49). This stamp set is all about the north woods. It was designed by Stampin’ Up!’s very first million dollar sales achiever, Mary Polcin. It has a rustic cabin (the reason I love it), pine trees, a couple of critters and some nice sentiments.
5. Birch Background Stamp (page 156). This background stamp looks just like birch bark. I can’t wait to get my hands on this one. It’s going to work perfectly with the Rustic Retreat Stamp Set in #4! I’ve even seen samples of it used on floral cards and it’s amazing!
6. Over the Moon Stamp Set (page 32). It’s all about the cows! I’m not a cow person (although my friend Michelle is…) but I fell in love with this stamp set! This stamp set was actually one of the items we, as demonstrators were able to order early. I’ve made a couple of adorable cards with this set already. This stamp set is perfect for coloring as you can do as much or as little coloring on them as you’d like. Don’t worry….I’ll be sharing my samples with you soon! 😀
7. All of the new colors of Stampin’ Blends (page 179). Stampin’ Up! has come out with 6 new colors of Stampin’ Blends and all of them will be on my first order! Four of these new sets of Blends are new In-Colors! How fun is that? The new colors of Blends are Pretty Peacock, Rococo Rose, Seaside Spray, Purple Posy, So Saffron and Gray Granite. What great additions to the Stampin’ Blends family!
8. New Ribbons (pages 174-175). I always like to have the new ribbons on hand when I’m creating. That way if I have an idea I can just grab the ribbon I want to go on the card I’m designing. If I counted correctly there are 14 new ribbons in the upcoming catalog. Good thing I’ve been saving up!
9. New Designer Papers (pages 165-168). All of the designer papers in the new catalog are new designs. There are 14 of these too. At this time I’ll probably only purchase the designs that I really like. Designer Papers aren’t quite as versatile as ribbons. A few of my favorite patterns are Magnolia Lane, Perennial Essence (gorgeous watercolor patterns) and Noble Peacock.
10. Stampin’ Up! Mini Shipping Boxes (page 172). OMG! These are SO stinkin’ cute! They look just like the boxes that UPS delivers to your home! They are little boxes (4″ x 3″ x 2 5/8″) with the Stampin’ Up! logo on them! I have no idea what I’m going to do with them but I do know that I HAVE to have them! Ha!

Of course my list is a lot longer than just these items. Luckily I already have a few of these items and I have some credits I’ll be able to use on this first order. The UPS driver is going to LOVE me! Ha! Oh….speaking of those fun little SU shipping boxes…there is a new stamp set that has a UPS (or any delivery service) driver in it called You Always Deliver (page 59). There are so fun sentiments in it too. Be sure to check it out.

As you can see from this post I could go on and on. Check out some of my favorites when I post the link to the catalog and then come up with your own list. I’d love to know what your favorites are!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!