Hi Stampers, welcome back to my card making blog. M share today is the Dragonfly Dreams Birthday Card. When I first saw the Dragonfly Dreams Bundle I was very intrigued. I have a great fondness for dragonflies. We have huge ones in our yard all summer (they eat Mosquitoes – so we love them) haha.. They often attach themselves to…
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Faux Frames with Avant Garden
Hi crafting friends and welcome back to my cardmaking blog. My share today is the Faux Frames With Avant Garden. Each month our Stamping Techniques 101 Design Team brings you simple cards created with the Challenge of the Month: This month, it’s the “Faux Frames” technique – super cool, and super easy, plus it works with almost any stamp set…
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Balloon Adventures Masculine Card
Hi stampers, and welcome back to my card making blog. today I’m sharing this fun Balloon Adventures Masculine Card. Who doesn’t need masculine birthday cards? This one fit’s the bill and is also a 10 minutes to WOW. Each Tuesday morning we get notification of upcoming events, card ideas, class ideas and other fun news. Today, this cute little card…
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So Detailed Valentines
Hi Stampers, welcome back to my card making blog. My share today is So Detailed Valentines. It’s kind of a “Use what you have” card, LOL and what I have are a lot of framelits and thinlits so if you noticed, or maybe not, there is no stamping on this So Detailed Valentines card. So Detailed Valentines -Sandi’s Tips &…
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Tasty Truck Sale-a-bration Stamp Set
Hi Stampers, welcome back to my card making blog. Quick post for you today with the Tasty Truck Sale-a-bration Stamp set. I have another class in my studio today, this week it’s the Technique Club – wahoo! we will be getting inky fingers for sure, haha. I love this Tasty Truck Sale-a-bration Stamp Set. Because it’s free with a $60….
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Moon Baby in the Stars
Hi card making friends, my share today is Moon Baby in the Stars for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week. Moon Baby in the Stars – Tips & Tricks: Made to be coloured – with the amazing NEW Watercolor Pencils. The clean lines in the stamp design also lends itself to a super simple background as I have used…
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Avant Garden Thank You
Hi card making friends, my share today is the Avant Garden Thank you. The Avant Garden stamp set is part of the Sale-a-bration offering and can be earned for free with a $60. product order. Sandi’s Tips & Tricks: Create a single layer card by using the Thick Whisper White Card stock. It’s lush and smooth and accepts stamped images…
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Doing the Funky Chicken
Hi card making friends and welcome back. Yep, today we are doing the FUNKY Chicken with the Hey Chick Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up This is a Sale-a-bration stamp set that you can receive for free with a $60. product order. I’ll make a couple of suggestions below: Sandi’s Tips & Tricks: Stamp the Funky chicken on Watercolour paper with…
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So In Love with Stitched Shapes
Hi card making friends and welcome back. In celebration of the dies being available again starting today, I created this So In Love with Stitched Shapes card to share today. SO In Love with Stitched Shapes This set of 12 dies will be taking up permanent residence in the new Annual Catalogue out in June, until then, we have them…
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Oh So Succulent Wreath and Card
Hi crafty friends and welcome back, I have a very fun share for you today, the Oh So Succulent Wreath and Card Yes, it’s finally finished…wow, a pile of die cutting and sponging, but it was SO MUCH FUN. Sandi’s Tips and Tricks: The Wreath for Oh So Succulents Cutting was done in Bermuda Bay, Mint Macaron and Perfect…
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Stitched Shapes Framelits will be available Jan 16
Can we have a Whoo Hoo! – Stampin’ Up! has just advised that the Stitched Shapes Framelits will be available Jan 16th – MONDAY! Stitched Shapes Framelits will be available Jan 16. Order #145372 For all of you who missed out the first time around, get your orders ready. These little lovelies add the perfect stitched edge to each cut,…
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Avant Garden and Delicate Details
How to get Avant Garden and Delicate Details Stampin Up Stamp Sets for Free Hi card making friends and welcome back. My share today is created with two of the FREE Sale-a-bration stamp sets, Avant Garden and Delicate Details. Sale-a-bration is Stampin’ Up!s Biggest event of the year. Between Jan 4 and March 31 2017 – for each $60. you…
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Mirror Image Technique with Beautiful You
Mirror Image Technique with Beautiful You Stamp Set from Stampin Up: I used the Mirror Image Technique with Beautiful You stamp set for my share today. Sometimes adding a quick technique to your stamped image can give it some added depth and elevate your card to the WOW factor – this technique is one of those. The Mirror Image/Reflection Technique:…
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Oh So Succulent Wreath Card
Hi Stampers, my share today is the Oh So Succulent wreath card created with the NEW Stampin Up Oh So Succulent stamp set and coordinating Succulent Framelits Dies. Purchase the Oh So Succulent Bundle from Stampin Up and receive a 10% Discount You will find both of these items on pages 20 and 21 of the NEW Occasions Catalogue along…
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Dragonfly Dreams and Inside the Lines
See How I combined Dragonfly Dreams and Inside the Lines on one card: Hi Stampers, my share for you today is Dragonfly Dreams and Inside the Lines. It’s fun to combine a stamp set and Sale-a-bration Designer Paper into one card, even more fun – Hopping with Kylie’s Crazy Crafters Stampin’ Up! Team from Australia. I was so honoured when…
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Tasty Trucks Free Stamp Set
Tasty Trucks Free Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Up’s Biggest event of the year started yesterday, Sale-a-bration and I’m using one of the FREE stamp sets for my share today: How can you get your Tasty Truck Free Stamp Set? For every $60. of product you order, you can choose a free item from the Sale-a-bration brochure and for…
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Dragonfly Dreams Easy Triple Panel Card
Hi Cardmaking friends and welcome back. Today I’m sharing Dragonfly Dreams Easy Triple Panel Card The first card is created with the Dragonfly Dreams Bundle that goes live in the NEW Spring Occasions catalogue today and I repeat this card in the video below: Purchasing the Bundle of stamps/thinlits dies also qualifies for a FREE Sale-a-bration Item Here…
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Special Reason – Stampin Up
Hi cardmaking friends and welcome back. Another of my favorite items from the New Occasions catalogue is on page 42 Special Reason – Stampin Up. This Die/Stamp Set bundle is great for showing off several unique looks with one set of dies. Use the Dies to create layering pieces or to make one image that allows the paper underneath to…
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Lift Me Up from Stampin Up
Happy Boxing Day everyone, hope you enjoyed Christmas Day. Now that the work is all done, presents unwrapped and you have stuffed yourself with Buttertarts, (oh wait, that’s me, haha), we can relax and enjoy the season. I did with a few NEW products from the upcoming Occasions Catalogue – Lift Me Up from Stampin Up. This new catalogue along…
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Hey Chick – Good News
HEY CHICK – GOOD NEWS..….Ok, the chick is below – here is the good news: We are doing the happy dance around our house this weekend….I FINALLY got my 6 month C.T. scan results on Thursday afternoon and my results are “UNCHANGED”: Yeah – No new cancer (just a spot to watch). I’m so ecstatic, I (almost) danced on a…
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Owl Always Love You with Cozy Critters
Sometimes it’s fun to use a stamp set for a different occasion than it’s originally intended purpose – like today’s share – Owl Always Love you with Cozy Critters. Cozy Critters is one of the Host Stamp Sets from the Holiday Catalogue, intended to create Christmas Cards….BUT it’s also perfect for a Valentine’s card too. To obtain this stamp set…
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Merry Mice in Plaid
Today for my 10 Minutes or Less Challenge, we have our little Merry Mice in Plaid. A fun and simple little card great for the guys in your life…nothing frilly or fancy about this one, haha… I kept this one nice and simple. Sandi’s Tips & Tricks: Stamp the little guy in StazOn Black onto a piece of watercolor paper…
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Star of Light in Gold and White revisited
Hi Stampers, today my share is Star of Light in Gold and White revisited I have received a couple of e-mails from stamping friends who don’t have 1/16th on their cutters and asked me to simplify the cutting instructions a bit, so I did…I also taped a short video showing you how I cut it and placed the pieces of…
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Gift Card Holder Video for you
Hi cardmaking friends, today I have a Gift Card Holder Video for you created with the Stampin Up Merry Mice stamp set. With the holidays quickly approaching gift cards are the ideal solution and tucking them into a pretty Holiday Card is the perfect packaging. This adorable little fellow is all ready to spread some cheer….adding a little Cable Knit…
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Candy Cane Christmas and the Masking Technique
This month for Stamping Techniques 101 – I’m playing with Candy Cane Christmas and the Masking Technique. Each month we choose a technique and the Design Team creates simple cards showing you how they use the technique. I have a video for you today for my technique and three card ideas below. We also try to use a minimal of…
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Looking forward to a Wonderful Year
Around here we are looking forward to a Wonderful Year ahead. We spent the weekend decorating the tree, wrapping parcels, getting them in the mail to loved ones and enjoying some quiet family time together. I snuck in a little quiet time this morning too (after I cleaned all the decorations off my worktable LOL), to create this CAS Card…
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Wrapped in Warmth for the Holidays
Handmade gifts Wrapped in Warmth for the holidays are the perfect gift for those special loved ones, helpful neighbors, and your favorite barista Stampin’ Up! makes it quick and easy with these adorable White Gift Boxes. Great News – the Warmth & Cheer Designer Series Paper is on sale at 50% Off, the Wrapped in Warmth Clear Stamp set is…
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Cozy Critters for Mimeograph Monday and More
Hi Stampers, welcome back. Today we have Cozy Critters for Mimeograph Monday and More for Over the Border with Sandi and Di. The Cozy Critters Stamp Set can be found on page 3 of the Holiday Catalogue and is a Host Stamp Set: which means you have to place an order or have a party of $200+ in order to…
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Wonder of Christmas and the Online Extravaganza Sale—-
Hi Stampers, my share today is the Wonder of Christmas and the online Extravaganza Sale – In picture form….. As creative people, pictures inspire us right? – so here are a couple of cards I created with the Wonder of Christmas Stamp Set, one of the sale items in this week’s Online Extravaganza Sale. But first my card shares….this…
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Totally Trees and the Bokeh Technique
Hi stampers, my share today is Totally Trees and the Bokeh Technique….While I was playing with this stamp set the other day, it dawned on me (light bulb on above head), that the fill in circle for the tree would work perfectly for a Faux Bokeh Technique…. and yep it does…..It made this so easy to create…and what do you…
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Acorny Thank You for Mimeograph Monday and More
Hi stampers, my share today is Acorny Thank you for Mimeograph Monday and More. What is Mimeograph Monday you ask? It’s a fun program that Diana Gibbs, friend (also Canadian) and fellow Stampin Up Demonstrator in Arizona started a while ago. When she asked me to join her I was so excited and jumped at the chance. So Welcome to…
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