RainyDay Stamper

Did you know?

Stampin' Up! partners with Ronald MacDonald House charities every year?  They create a special stamp set and donate a portion of the sales to RMHC.  This year the stamp set is Moving Forward- isn't it a fun set.

For each stamp set they sell, $3.00 is donated to RMHC.  Our closest Ronald MacDonald house is in Vancouver, by The Children's Hospital, it has 13 bedrooms and helps 400 families a year.

The stamp set is $24.95 WM and $17.95 CM.  Consider adding it to your next order and help make a difference.

Paciflc Point and Real Red are a perfect bright birthday colour combination.  

Happy Stamping,

Spoil yourself!

When it's your birthday, don't you think, you should?

I love this new "Road to Happiness" stamp set.  It comes with such fun images, 

Wedding, birthday, thank you, holiday, you definitely can use it.  I used it for a birthday card today,

The car, Melon Mambo embossed filled with presents and balloons. Rhinestone hubcaps add a little bling.  I used Rich Razzleberry ran through the Big Shot with the Chevron impressions folder then a strip of Basic Gray ran through the Big Shot too with the Wavy Delicate Designs folder then cut with the Large Scallop Edgelit die.The sentiment is from a retired hostess set, but ii is perfect for what I wanted the inside to say

This one is from Bring on the Cake and with a little marker editing, changed "spoil yourself today" to just "spoil yourself".

Happy Stamping,

Only Three Days left

To get this fabulous stamp set, Reason to Smile.

And just what could you make with this set?  $5.00 with a $60.00 order.

Happy Stamping,

If you want to know why

I was exhausted when I got home from Convention, let me show you! Stampin' Up! convention- Wow, it was mind blowing.  The amount of work that went into putting on such a fabulous convention was evident from the first moment you walked in the Salt Lake Palace to get your Convention bag.  Have you seen the bag?

Inside was a convention pin, our stamp sets for our Make & Takes, pen, catalogue and this fabulous program book.

Inside the book was the agenda for the convention as well as these fun pictures of presenters,working with the convention theme:

Now, this was my first convention and some may say, that is why I found it to be so incredible but meeting other demonstrators, ones who have been coming for years, no, Stampin' Up! outdoes themselves every year. 

The general sessions, mindblowing.  From the opening with the video I shared the other day, the presentations by Stampin' Up employees and of course, you can't forget the Prize Patrol. Classes were fabulous, you really learn so much, not only from SU staff but fellow demonstrators as well.   I really enjoyed my classes, I am  Savvy with Donna Griffith, all about creative ways to use our products.  In this class, three fellow demos shared projects with our ribbon, fabrics and kits.

My next class was with Bonnie Thurber, now if you don't know who she is, go to Stampin' Up!'s You Tube page and check out one of her videos.  Bonnie, is such a fun presenter, really enjoyed this class. Ronda Wade and Tami White were the SU demos who presented at this class.

I took two classes with Carrie Cudney, another wonderful presenter.  First was her Pattern mixing pro class learning how to get the most out of our DSP and then I am open for business.  What, you aren't supposed to buy everything for just you!

We certainly can't forget Shannon West's class, this girl is so fun, and what does she teach-how to have fun.  Check out her costume

 
This is how she came on stage to present some Halloween ideas.

In real life, she is Fancy!

Emily Montoya had a very informative and fun class about finding Kate.  Who is Kate?  Well, in the opening session, we have a presentation from Jason Ryan Dorsey, absolutely one of the best motivational speakers I have seen, about the "Y" generation and how to relate to them.  Yes, technology is involved!  Kate, you must of guessed by now, is a "Y" generation person.  My last class was with Pam Morgan and was all about understanding Stampin' Up's career plan.  Now add on Make & Takes, one more evening class, displays, and alot of walking, you can understand.

Now if you got six secret words from the classes and wrote them in our book, at lunch on Saturday you simply presented the book to receive this special Convention stamp set.

Want to come with me next year?  It will be Stampin' Up's 25 Anniversary so it is going to be special just for that.  Next year the convention is July 18-20th in Salt Lake City.  Want to come?  You have to be a demonstrator, so maybe you should sign up.  August is going to be the month to join, extra goodies just for you.  Want to know more-email me.

Happy Stamping,

 

Happy Friday!

When we signed up for Convention, they listed the sets that we would be getting for our Make & TAkes.  You're Amazing was a set that I thought, not that amazing.  Well, got to tell you, I was wrong!

Now I haven't finished my Make & Takes,but I will have them done and on my blog soon.  But I did make another card with this set.

So want to see the super quick and super easy card I made with this set?

 

Yes, the sentiment is not from this set but rather from Bring on the Cake as I was starting with a smaller card- 4 x 4 1/4, so I needed just a single line sentiment.  The elephant is stamped in Basic Gray and his hat coloured in with my blender pen and Real Red and Daffodil Delight inks.  The image is matted onto Island Indigo and attached to the card with dimensionals.  The DSP is from World Spectacular, a pack that coordinates with this stamp set. 

Happy Stamping,

 

No Peeking

You know I love this set

So when I was shopping in the Memento Mall at convention and saw this

I just had to buy it!  Aren't they just the cutest ornaments?  And when I bought the ornaments, they gave me a pack of retired fabric to go with the ones I bought off the Clearance Rack last fall.  Now I bought those to make some gift sacks so yesterday I got busy and made a few.  Well a gift bag is nice, but you have to go that little bit further and make a tag to go with it-

And what better set to use than No Peeking.I stamped the deer in Early Expresso, just check out that perfectly crisp image thanks to our new firm foam ink pads.  I coloured in his scarf with Baja Breeze and a Basic Rhinestone coloured with red for his nose and of course, is that not the perfect sentiment. I simply attached the Whisper White image panel to a folded Baja Breeze card, punched a hole in the top left and threaded through some Real Red 1/8" Tafetta ribbon and used this to close the bag.

Quick and easy to make, quick and easy to wrap your gifts, no worrying about just where you left that tape and best of all no wrapping paper all over the floor on Christmas morning.  Simply pick up the bags and pop then in a box or drawer to use next year.

Happy Stamping,

And just what else can you do with Designer Paper?

Besides using it as a card layer?  This is the project we made in our evening class with Carrie Cudney.  Now I have never made this type of 3D project, it is not hard and really enjoyable.

The flowers are all made using various scallop circle punches, folded and glued.

To make the flowers, punch four Scalloped Circles from one sheet of DSP.  Fold each scallop in half and then in half again.  Using a smaller circle or scalloped circle as a base, glue the four quartered scallops to the base with Tombow adhesive (the green glue). Attach another smaller scallop to the front and then add a button using gluedots.  Fluff up the DSP layers to give your flower dimension. Super simple but looks great.

Happy Stamping,

She's back!

What a wonderful exhausting time I had in Salt Lake City at Stampin' Up!'s annual convention.  Would I do it again, you bet, can't wait till next year.  

This is how our first general session started, imagine great speakers and a jumbotron,

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Spent yesterday removing the houseguests that came to visit while I was gone, that's right, a whole family of dust bunnies moved in!

How about some good news?  Our Keep Calm stamp set is available again!  Now they can't guarantee for how long, so don't wait too long to host your party.

My luggage gained 18 pounds on my six day vacation!!! Stampin' Up! certainly spoils their demonstrators, I got five stamp sets including a special one, just for those who went to convention, lots of DSP and shall we say Memento Mall certainly does require restraint-so many cute things. 

Next year is Stampin' Up!'s 25th anniversary, are you coming to convention?  With our $125 starter kit and oh, a super cute August incentive

You will receive a FREE Howl-o-ween Printer’s Tray project kit! This boo-tiful kit contains all the bits and pieces to create a super spooky Halloween decoration*—includes everything except the ink, but you get that in your starter kit!  Remember our starter kits are 100% customizable (that is a real word right?), you get to choose everything or you can take what they recommend-it is totally your choice.  

Happy Stamping,

Sometimes it is hard

to get in the groove on Mondays, so I am here to help you wake up.  Super bright card alert!

Melon Mambo, Basic Black and Whisper White, now that is a bright combination.

Now this is a birthday that won't hide in the pack.

I started with a Whisper White card base and then a Basic Black skinny mat and then some beautiful Melon Mambo DSP,  I stamped the boots and sentiment using Versamark ink onto Melon Mambo cardstock and heat embossed using Black embossing powder.  The sentiment is punched out using our  large Oval punch and layered onto Basic Black punched out with our Scalloped Oval punch.  I cut out the boots cutting really close to the line so that I would not have a Melon Mambo edge.   Now I have said I love this new embossing folder, Fancy Fan so of course, I had to use it again on the Whisper White strip and then I highlighted the edge with Basic Black strips punched with our Dotted Scallop border punch.  Inside, I used Sassy Salutations and again, more embossing.

Now you are awake, do you know where those boots are from?  That is our wonderful set, Bootiful Occasions,

 A Boot for every occasion.

Happy Stamping,

 

 

Glitzy Tags

Well, this is another Swap card I did, and I must say, I really don't know how other people can do so many swap cards.  I am definitely not one that can make too many of the same card!  This little 3 x 3 tag started out being Calypso Coral and through my trials ended up so totally different than what I started out thinking I would do.  So here is the first card

I used my Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch and

Brushed Silver Cardstock, gold embossed the sentiment and attached it to a piece of Brushed Gold cardstsock then attached it to a 3 X 3 Whisper White card.  Ok, I like it but how would it look in reverse?

Oh, I like that too.  So I make a few, alternating between the two.  Now after a few, I get a great idea, how about using Red Glimmer paper on the back?

Well, they look nice too, but how about changing the embossing powder to Cherry Cobbler?

oh, now I am happy

now the Brushed Gold with Cherry Cobbler embossing

What do you think, would these not look beautiful on a Christmas gift?  So I made a few!

Happy Stamping,