My Stamp Lady

New Catalog Open House Tonight

 Are you coming tonight? I will have a lot of catalogs on hand and am planning a night of fun. It will be nice to get out after "The Blizzard"! Here is a picture of one of the door prizes for tonight. It is a small tin decorated with the Berry Bliss designer paper. This is the perfect tin to fill with a small gift or a treat and give to someone special this Valentine's Day. I also used the stamp sets "Sweet Celebrations" and "Priceless" to do the stamping. This was a fun and easy project to make.

The Open House will be held tonight at The Bluffs in Houghton on the second floor. It will start at 7:00 and finish up at 8:30. There will be a Free make and take, drawings, specials, catalogs available, and refreshments. I will also have information about becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator available. Be sure to join us tonight

Priceless Valentine

I combined "Priceless" and the new 2008 Stampin' Up! Spring/Summer hostess set "For A Friend" to create this Valentine's Day card. I really like this new level 1 hostess set and I cannot wait to make a variety of cards using this set.

The patterned paper on the left edge of the card is from the "Berry Bliss" designer paper package. The other background  designs are made with the flourish  from the "Priceless" set. I also layered the double stitched Purely Pomegranate ribbon over the wide Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon. I used the Coluzzle to cut out the heart circle and then the Pomegranate mat.

Stamps: Priceless, For A Friend

Paper: Close To Cocoa, Pretty In Pink, Purely Pomegranate, Whisper White, Berry Bliss

Ink: Pretty In Pink, Close To Cocoa, Purely Pomegranate

Accessories: Ribbon, Coluzzle, dimensional

Another Pink Nursery

Well, I said that I would make my next baby card a boy card, but here it is another pink one. The reason that I made a pink card because I wanted to use glitter and I only had pink that would work with a baby card.

I really wanted to do a solid glittered shape and so I used the star with Nursery Necessities. It is really much more sparkly than it looks in this scan. I punched out the star from some punchable sticky sheet that I have. I also used Nursery Letters wheel for the background. The word baby is from the "Everything Baby" stamp set and is embossed with white embossing powder.. All of these sets are available in the Spring/Summer Stampin' Up! catalog. The background of the card is actually a square white card stock base. Maybe sometime I will take a photo of this card and it would show up better.

Leadership Make & Take Remake

This card is one that we did at the Leadership using the Stampin' Up!" Sweet Celebrations rubber stamping set and rub-ons. I really liked this card because it gave me a chance to use rub-ons and I love the striped ribbon. I wanted to share this card with my downline, but I did not have all of the products so when we made this card at the downline meeting I substituted a few products. There are still all Stampin' Up! products. I am also showing the remake that we did at the group meeting.

If you see a project in the Spring/Summer Stampin' Up! catalog you like, but you do not have all the product I hope you see how you can make substitutions and still have a great projects. I did not have the small metal rimmed tag so I punched out a piece of the silver metallic paper to stand in for the tag. I also switched out the colors because I did not have 12" kraft card stock. This card stock is 12" and each side is folded in to make this card.

Always Valentine's Card

I was so excited when we received the Always set at Leadership's manager's reception. This set was on my wish list and I couldn't wait to use it.

Last night I worked with the set and this is the Valentine's Day card I designed. I had seen a card on display in a store that used grays and I knew that I wanted to do a Valentine card with gray. This heart is so elegant and looks so nice when it is embossed. This was also the first time I actually used one of the stick pins from the Pretties kit. The flowers have been very easy to use, but I feel like it has to be a really special card for the stick pins.

Stamps: Always

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Versamark

Paper: Basic Gray, Going Gray, Pretty In Pink, Real Red

Other: White Embossing powder, Pretties kit, Ribbon

Mailbox Class coming up.

Here is a sample of the upcoming mailbox class held on Thursday, February 7th at The Bluffs in Houghton. I did not use the Mod Podge so there is no strong smell and it is so easy to make. In addition to covering a tin mailbox, you will make 4 scalloped notes to put inside. You can give this project as a gift or you can fill it with candy and just give the mailbox. And if you just can't part with it, keep it for yourself.

The tin mailbox is covered with paper from the Berry Bliss paper from the Stampin' Up! Spring/Summer catalog & idea book.

Sneak Peak Time

It's coming this Thursday. The Happy Heart Day stamp camp. It had been a while since I have done this type of camp and I can't wait for it to come.

All of the projects are centered around the Happy Heart Day stamp set and use red and different shade of pink. The full card is shown on my January Class page.

Last night I was thinking about my March and April classes and coming up with a lot of fun ideas. Watch my blog for those announcements soon. The new catalog has so many new fun things to explore.

 

Altered Magnets

Here is how the magnets started. I found these magnets at Macy's after Christmas on clearance. I didn't like them at all the way they were, but I figured it wouldn't be very hard to alter them. It was easier then I even thought.

I was able to easily pop the clear plastic cover off and remove the printed papers. I was going to stamp something and replace the original papers. I had some of the beautiful Ginger Blossom paper sitting on my desk and decided that I would just replace the paper with the same size pieces of the Ginger Blossom paper. It was easier than can be and I love how they turned out. They are nice strong magnets. I also bought a few similar necklaces. I plan to alter them for birthday gifts for my daughter to give for birthday presents.

My New Availablity Calendar

Today I made a new calendar to take to workshops. This is similar to one that I saw at the Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference. I didn't have all the supplies the SU artist used so I altered it to fit what I had. I plan to mark off my current dates that are taken and open dates for booking purposes.

I used the Berry Bliss paper to cover the smaller chipboard clipboard that SU carries. Then I painted my chipboard letters brown with acrylic paint. The word "available" is stamped with craft ink directly on the paper. I made the calendar with Stampin' Up!'s calendar stamp. I am really happy with how this clipboard turned out.

Make & Take from Leadership

Here is one of the make and takes from the Leadership conference that I attended.

We started with a large circle cut out from the East Coast Prep designer paper. The circle was traced from the Ginormous Flowers chip board. We then folded the paper to make this envelope. The white accents were done with rub-ons from the Anchored set. I had fun working with the rub-ons and learned a lot about them. My upcoming classes will feature rub-ons. So, if you want to try them out be sure to sign up for one of the classes.