The Designer Paper, Everyday Enchantment and the Stamp set- Sprinkled Expressions are both Sale-a-bration items
Pool Party and Lucky Limeade, gorgeous colours. I used the Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch to make the soft scallop edge top and bottom of the paper then the repeated the slight scallop on the image panel by using the Scallop Retangle embosslit. The flower image is stamped using Pool Party and the sentiment, You make my whole face smile, in Lucky Limeade.
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to this stop on the SUDSOL Blog Tour, I know that you are getting some fabulous ideas for projects to make with the stamps and accessories in the Occasions Mini. If you didn't arrive from Anne Hayward's blog, make sure to click the back button and see her wonderful projects. Not only is Anne a talented stamper, but is so great at sharing her experience with fellow SUDSOLers.
I joined SUDSOL shortly after I became a demonstrator and it was certainly a great decision. SUDSOL is a wealth of information, helpful fellow demonstrators sharing ideas and advice, patterns, class outlines, calendar templates, workshop ideas, business building ideas and weekly challenges to keep your Mojo following and a gallery filled with inspiration.
Speaking of patterns, we have so many different patterns from Home Decor to cards. I love to package goodies to give to others and with 98 different box patterns in our Pattern Gallery, I will always have a perfect box for any item. I chose the Big Blooming Box pattern for my Valentine box making the basic box but then used our new Heart Framelits to make a window in the box.
I like to use Crumb Cake as my base as it looks good with any colour. Since I was filling the box with Ghirardelli Raspberry squares, I thought that Melon Mambo complimented the candy wrapper and chose the polka dotted pattern from our Designer Paper stack. The window is cut with our new Heart Collection Framelits, so easy to place and put your opening right where you want it and then a piece of clear Window Sheet is attached to the back with glue dots to contain those goodies. The Melon Mambo heart is also cut with the framelits, using the same one as the window and then the next size up to perfectly frame the window. The sentiment and cupid are from the P.S, I love you set, that is one great set, with lots of possibilities for anniversaries and weddings as well as Valentine's Day.
My next card uses another of my favorite sets from the Occasions Mini, You're my Type. I love the DSP pack, Attic Boutique, soft colours, soft images, all but this sheet, truthfully this pattern was a bit daunting to me. I love that all our papers are double sided so that if there is a pattern that I am not too fond of I can always use the other side but this sheet, both designs were well, not really my style. But look closely at the paper, lots of antique-y images, just like the typewriter in the stamp set. This card would be a perfect Valentine or anniversary or just card for that special someone.
I covered the front of a Whisper White card with the paper then used Poppy Parade(only four more months of this In Colour) highlighted with Basic Black punched with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch for just a bit of texture. The typewriter is Black embossed onto a 3 1/4" circle cut with my Circle Scissor along with the Basic Black mat. The Poppy Parade hearts are punched with our Owl Punch- just makes the perfect little hearts. Inside
Two more hearts cut with the Hearts Collection Framelits and the sentiment is embossed.
My last card is a case of a card in the Sudsol gallery. It was posted by Mary Brown in the summer, and I fell in love with it and saved it to my favorites. When I saw the Fashionable Hearts embosslits, I knew this was the perfect layout.
I used Whisper White for the base, rounding all the corners with my 3/16" corner rounder punch.
Check out the Pretty in Pink hearts made with the Fashionable Hearts Embossit die which cuts and embosses at the same time. The die does make five hearts, I only used four. The bling comes from our fabulous Basic Rhinestones, I love how they come, both individually in three different sizes and then strips, perfect when you want a straight line. I used the 2 3/8" Scallop Circle punch for the Basic Black Circle filling it with a 1 3/4" Whisper White circle again, made quickly with another punch. The sentiment is from Delightful Dozen and stamped in Basic Black.
Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you have enjoyed my projects and if you are a Stampin' Up demonstrator and are not a member of SUDSOL, click on the link and check it out with a 2 week free membership and get ready to be inspired. Got some extra time, check out my SUDSOL gallery to see more projects.
Now onto the next stop on the tour, Christyne Richardson and see what fabulous things she has to show you
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Stampin' Up has a small assortment of fabrics in the same patterns as some of your favorite Designer Series papers. In the Occasions Mini, the fabric is the Twitterpated Collection
Aren't they beautiful? And then when we had the Online Extravaganza, they had other fabrics on sale so I got some of the Christmas ones with the "intention" (you know what that means!!!) of making bags to put gifts in instead of using paper. And one of the FREE sale-a-bration items is Flirtatious fabric. Anyway when I was on Pinterest I saw these cute owl heating pads. My nieces are coming for a visit so I thought these would be perfect gifts.
It's he cute? I used Candy Cane Christmas blue polka dot and the pink is from Twitterpated. The second owl uses all Twitterpated fabric
Truthfully once I figured out how to use the Zig Zag stitch on my machine (yes, it is definitely not used much!) they were really quick and easy to make. Just pop the finished bag in the microwave for one minute and stay warm for quite some time.
If you want to make some yourself, Suzanne has so nicely shared her pattern.
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are so wonderful to receive. I just got my SUDSOL Occasions Mini swap cards and my, we certainly have some talented demonstrators.
This beautiful card is from Carol Matthews, a Nova Scotia demonstrator. She used the set, Sweet Cake to make this lots of layers card. The Pool Party background is embossed using our Stripes Textured Impressions folder and then the image is stamped in Soft Suede. She stamped the cupcake in Calypso Coral, fussy cut it out and popped it up on dimensionals.
Can you see all the glitter, the icing swirls and the edge of the stamped image are all glitter-fied! ( I know what you are thinking-yes that is a real word in stamping circles!) I love the tiny scalloped edge made with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch and the Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon bow.
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special moments,
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Preserve memories by making a simple scrapbook page. Our uniquely shaped Side Notes die-cut tags and accents offer a quick way to add dimension, texture, and journaling to any project. The Marina Mist 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon to this page for a bit of extra pop!
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Our Markers are marvelous. Our markers are dual tipped- brush end and a fine tip for writing and they are available not only in our four colour collections but in our In Colours as well. Want all the markers and the horizontal storage case the keeps both tips evenly inked and includes extra storage space for the In Colour markers- join my Marvelous Marker Club 4 members required.
Cost is $50/month for 4 months
Each month you will receive:
As a Sale-a-bration special, everyone who joins in the Marker Club in February will also receive a share of Everyday Enchantment DSP (6- 6 x 12 pcs) and a share of Everyday Enchantment Ribbon & Brad pack (8 assorted brads, 2 yards each Lucky Limeade and Calypso Coral Ribbon with their first marker set.
You must commit to participate in all four months (postdated cheques or a credit card guarantee is required) Payment will be due to me by the 5th of each month. No other discounts apply to this very special offer.
Email me to sign up.
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for Valentine's Day. These ones use the Two Tags die to make a cute little holder, simply cut two of the large tag (but make sure you do cut them one at a time, when you use any die with score lines, using two or more pieces of paper, just enables the die to cut instead of score-you don't need to know how I know that!)
I used P.S. I love you again, so great to simply stamp and then punch out your images, I used the Full Heart punch for the large heart, Modern Label punch for the sentiment and then it needed something else so I added a little Pretty in Pink heart punched with the Heart to Heart punch.
A little box attached to the center holds the treats so they don't fall out.
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a chocolate cupcake, piped on high frosting topped with a cherry. Ok, I definitely could not make that but second best I could make you a card that looked like that.
Isn't this a fun stamp, from the new Occasions Mini it is called Sweet Cake and comes with three different sentiments, Happy Birthday, Be my Valentine and You're so Sweet. I stamped the main image in Pool Party and then using my Two Way glue pen to glue up the swirls to attach Red Superfine glitter. The cherry is a 1/4" circle of Red Glimmer paper and then the Chocolate Chip cupcake is paper pieced. Using my Stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped the sentiment in Island Indigo. I used our ticket corner punch to mimic the corners of the stamped image and then matted it onto Island Indigo.
And the nicest thing about a card over a real cupcake, this is calorie free and has not freshness date!
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This was a set that I went back and forth on as to whether I should order it or not. Well I did and I am glad. I really don't have a Valentine set since they retired my favorite-Happy Heart Day. Now with this set I could see lots of possibilities so I got it. Here is one of my swap cards that I made
I don't know what is going on, I seem to be on a Pink Pirouette kick lately, that and Real Red or Riding Hood Red, funny how that happens. This card uses Real Red as its base and for all the mat layers. I used Pretty in Pink and Real Red dotted DSP and then the sentiment is stamped onto Pink Pirouette using Real Red and Versamark and then embossed it with clear embossing powder. Three Real Red brads are easily placed using my Mat Pack (105826) to make them in a perfectly straight line. The heart is from P.S I love you set, stamped using Versamark ink then embossed with Heat and Stick powder, then Real Red Fine Glitter punched out with the full Heart punch and layered onto a Pink Pirouette Scalloped Heart of Heart die cut. At this point the card looked ok but needed something and my friend, Sherryl (hi) suggested adding a couple more hearts so using the new Fashionable Heart embosslit, it finished it off perfectly.
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Starts today! For every $60 (before shipping and tax) receive one item from the Sale-a-bration brochure FREE! There is no limit to the number of FREE items you can receive- making this the best sale of the year.
This was one on my top picks for a stamp set in the Occasions Mini-why-well that is what I learned to type on. Remember in high school, typing class, the guys signed up as they thought it was going to be a easy class! Well, they were wrong, but I really enjoyed it and on these old typewriters, I used to be able to type 65 words a minute.
Here is a card that I made for my SUDSOL swap
Don't you just love the Pleated Satin Ribbon, well that was my starting point. I decided to use the Riding Hood Red one and making my card base Riding Hood Red and the papers, are from Timeless Portrait for the background and then First Edition Speciality DSP for the small circle (and I chose the paper that told about typewriters- I wonder if anyone will notice). When using the Pleated Satin ribbon, my advice would be to use Sticky Strip to attach it to your card, you definitely want to make sure that it stays put and I wrapped it just under the Basic Black strip and attached the strip with Sticky Strip too. The layout for this card came from the Card Sketches on SCS. Now don't you think this card would be a perfect Valentine card too!
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