Once I saw this stamp set in the new Mini Catalog I knew it was the first stamp set I had to buy. I LOVE it! Music is in my soul. I’ve sung in the church choir forever and I’m on my second year of playing in the bell choir. I’ve taken piano lessons and played the flute, oboe and tenor saxophone in junior high and high school. Yes, music is in my soul.

This stamp set was inspired by Million Sales Achiever Dawn Olchefske and you can find it on page 57 of the new Mini Catalog.

I CASED this idea straight from Dawn. She had made simple note cards with her stamp set and this birthday idea was one of them. I just made it into a full-sized card!

Thick Whisper White Cardstock: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ Basic Black Cardstock: 5″x 3 3/4″ Whisper White Cardstock: 4 3/4″ x 3 1/2″

I stamped the music staff first, then the treble clef sign. If you can read music you’ll know that the notes that are stamped on the card are the tune to “Happy Birthday”! Thanks Dawn for figuring that out for me! 😀

I just love this card. So easy! I’m going to make a bunch for our choir director. Thank you Dawn for one of my favorite stamp sets ever!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Today not only marks the first day that you can make a purchase from the 2020 Mini Catalog it’s also the first day of Sale-a-bration 2020! Woo Hoo!

Sale-a-bration is a stamper’s favorite time of year. Make a $50 purchase from one of Stampin’ Up!’s current publications and you can choose an item from the Sale-a-bration brochure for FREE! Make a $100 purchase and you can choose 2 free Sale-a-bration items. Woo Hoo! Free stuff!

Click here to see all of the fun items you can choose during Sale-a-bration. There are so many fun products to choose from!

Making a purchase is only one the great Sale-a-bration deals. Do you want to know what the best Sale-a-bration deal is? Well, let me tell you!

The best Sale-a-bration deal is becoming a demonstrator on my team! Yep! Become one of my Sassy Stampers and you’re getting the best deal of Sale-a-bration. Whenever you purchase the Demonstrator Starter Kit for only $99 you will always get to choose $125 of Stampin’ Up! products but during Sale-a-bration you will get to choose an extra stamp set AND you will receive the fun little Designer Series Paper Sampler along with a Mini Paper Cutter! Woo Hoo! The papers are all from either the new 2020 Mini Catalog or the Sale-a-bration Brochure. Check out the picture below to see some of the papers and the cute Mini Paper Cutter. The paper samples are all 6″ x 6″.

Don’t pass up this great deal! Join my team! Get that 20% discount on all Stampin’ Up! purchases and meet a fun new group of friends! Just click here to sign up TODAY!

Please contact me if you have any questions on this great opportunity! I’d love to have you on my team!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

It’s almost here! Tomorrow is the day that you can order from the 2020 Mini Catalog! Woo Hoo! Have you seen it yet? Do you have your order ready?

This catalog is another amazing one! There are tons of gorgeous products in it. If you haven’t seen it yet you can check it out right here! If you’d like a hard copy of it just let me know and I would be happy to get a copy to you.

Isn’t the cover gorgeous? It shows the Peaceful Poppies Suite that I’m pretty sure you’re going to LOVE! Wait until you see some of the amazing samples made using the products! I got carried away the other day playing with only the stamp set and the coordinating designer paper! I can’t wait to get out the amazing dies and other coordinating products.

Take a peek at this catalog and get that wish list or order started! I know that there will be at least a few products that you want!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Happy New Year! Happy New Decade! Happy 2020!

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year’s Eve last night! We celebrated in MN. Both of our families are here so after our kids leave after Christmas, hubby and I head for the great northern Homeland. Unfortunately, we had to delay our trip by a day due to weather which caused me to miss a few gatherings I had scheduled. Oh, well.

Hubby’s family traditionally get’s together, kid’s and all, on New Year’s Eve. It’s a wild and crazy evening since there are 22 grandkids ranging in age from 6 to 32, although only 15 of them were here last night. Then you need to add in the 13 older adults! It’s a house full, that’s for sure!

We ate food, drank beverages, played games and chatted a lot! It’s quite the evening, that’s for sure! Needless to say, I’m a bit tired today.

What do you have planned for 2020? Have you made any resolutions or goals for the new year? There are a lot of things I would like to accomplish in this new year so I just need to buckle down and get to work!

I wish you all love, joy and peace in the coming year! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t you just love this little turkey from the Birds of a Feather stamp set? These birds are absolutely ADORABLE! There’s a turkey for Thanksgiving, a chick with a Santa hat for Christmas, a duck in a pirate costume for Halloween and a chicken with a heart for Valentines Day. Birds of a Feather is the perfect stamp set for all of your holiday needs! 😀

I stamped the turkey with Memento Tuxedo Black ink ad then colored him in with my Stampin’ Blends Markers. Easy and fun! The designer paper is from the Come to Gather Designer Paper pack in the Holiday Catalog.

Sorry that I didn’t post this early so that you could make this adorable card to send for this Thanksgiving this year, but there’s always next year, right? Ha!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Stampin’ Up!’s annual Online Extravaganza is almost here! This is always a great time to stock up on Stampin’ Up! products. This year you will find select ink pads, cardstock and bundles on sale. You can view all of the items that will be on sale right here.

Get that wish list started and be ready to shop on November 20th – 22nd! Don’t miss out on some great deals! You can place your order by heading directly to my online store or contacting me.

Have fun shopping!

Tool Time Tuesday! The new Stampin’ Up! Trimmer is here and you’re going to LOVE it!

My favorite things about it are the longer cutting blade and the improved ruler on it so that you don’t lose the measurements between 6″ and 7″! 🙂

This new trimmer is a little easier to store and transport since it is rectangular and lighter than the old one. The cutting guide snaps down to hold it in place so there is no separate lock.

This new and improved trimmer is lighter and the rectangular shape will make it easier to transport and store.

Head on over to my online store to find out the complete details on the fabulous new trimmer. At $25 the price is right! Order yours today or maybe order one for a holiday gift!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Have you checked out the Tags Tags Tags stamp set and coordinating dies on page 56 of Stampin’ Up!’s Holiday Catalog?

This stamp set and the coordinating dies are quite interesting. In the stamp set you can see that there are 3 Halloween tags, 3 Valentine tags and 3 Christmas tags. Each holiday has one of each different shape die. Now look at the die itself. The dies are connected. The stamps are also connected. The three Halloween images are all on one stamp! (As are the Valentine and Christmas stamps). This makes it easy to stamp and cut the multiple images.

The card above is one I designed for my Fall & Halloween Card Buffet. As you can see, I only used one of the Halloween tags on my card. Since it was the tag on one of the ends of the stamp I was able to only ink it up so as not to waste paper…although I probably could have come up with a use for other images.

For this card I needed to only stamp the word “Halloween” from the tag on a strip of Terracotta Tile cardstock. I tried using the Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker but it didn’t cover very well on the photopolymer stamp and I also had a hard time getting just the word I wanted inked up. Sticky Notes to the rescue! I used four sticky notes, one on each side of the word, to cover up the areas of the stamp I didn’t want to ink up. I then inked up the stamp, sticky notes and all, in my Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The next step was to remove the sticky notes from the stamp, huff on the stamp (your breath will re-wet the ink), and then I stamped the image on my strip of Terracotta Tile cardstock. The important thing is to remember to remove the sticky notes or you’ll have a big mess when you stamp. Ha!

I backed the tag with a 1 1/2″ circle of Basic Black cardstock before adhering the tag to the front of my card.

The hardest part of this card was making the little strip of Terracotta Tile cardstpck and stamping on it. This is a pretty simple card since the only stamping on it is the little tag. Easy Peasy with the cute images in the Monster Bash Designer Series Paper!

You’ve still got time to make those Halloween cards! Head on over to my online store today!

It’s Throwback Thursday! This morning when I woke up it felt like Fall! I LOVE Fall! It’s my favorite time of year. I would much rather have to put on a jacket and wear jeans than be all hot and deal with humidity. Since it felt like Fall I figured I should choose a Fall card for Throwback Thursday.

As I was looking through my old blog posts to come up with the perfect card for today I found this one. It’s fallish yet still summery. This card was made back in 2016 so it’s not too old. The stamp set I used on this card was called Basket of Wishes. It had a few different images that you could “fill” the basket with. I water colored it with my ink pads and both an Aquapainter and Blender Pen on water color paper.

Isn’t Rich Razzleberry a great color? It’s bright and it makes me smile. Which of Stampin’ Up!’s colors make you smile? Leave me a comment and let me know!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Hello, my name is Cindy and I’m a Designer Paper Hoarder. Yes, I LOVE Designer Paper! Designer Paper adds so much to a card. It can add that little bit of color and design that you’re looking for on a project or it can be the focal point of your project.

When my church card group has to make a lot of cards for the office I usually go for a simple design like the one below. I layer some Designer Paper on matching cardstock, add it to the front of the card and I’m done!

This simple card idea is perfect for any occasion so you can keep a stash on hand. Just add a message on the inside and you’re good to go! On this card I used the gorgeous Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper, a layer of Petal Pink cardstock and a Basic Black card. Easy Peasy!

Did you know that Stampin’ Up! now has a sale on some of the designer series papers in the Annual Catalog? Yep! 10 different paper packages are included in the Buy 3, Get 1 Free sale! Woo Hoo!

Now is the time to stock up on your favorite Designer Series Papers! This fabulous sale only last until September 30th so get that order in today!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Do you have a Stamparatus (#146276 $49)? It’s a great tool. It really comes in handy when you’re making multiples of the same design. I was working on some swap cards and wanted to get the sentiment in the same spot on all of the cards so I got out my trusty Stamparatus. It worked perfectly!

The Stamparatus comes with a foam mat that you use with photopolymer stamps since they’re not as thick as red rubber cling stamps. You can purchase replacements for this pad if need be but I just recently discovered that you can also purchase a Deluxe Foam Mat (#150866 $6). It’s similar to the foam mat that comes with the Stamparatus but it has a plastic grid laminated to the top of it so it looks just like the bottom of the Stamparatus with the laminated grid on it. I used it when I was making my swaps and it was great!

Grid marks are a definite plus when lining up images when making multiples of your projects. I really liked this new Deluxe Foam Mat but I do also like the Small Grid Paper (#149621 $6.50) that you can get for the Stamparatus. This Small Grid Paper fits the Stamparatus perfectly and you can mark on. This is especially helpful to me if I’m using it for a class so my guests can know exactly where to place their paper.

If you don’t own the amazing Stamparatus tool you should definitely consider it on your next purchase. If you do own the Stamparatus, you should consider purchasing either the Small Grid Paper or the Deluxe Foam Mat to use with it. Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!