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Valentine Week Day 4-Fashionable Hearts!

Today's first sample is another awesome creation by my fabulous downline, Linda Reaney! Although CASED from somewhere, this card combines several fun Stampin' Up! products, including the Scalloped Heart Embosslit, Fashionable Hearts Embosslit, and the Tasteful Trim Die! "Happy Valentine's Day" is from "Teeny Tiny Wishes"!

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Mary Hamill combined the "Hello, Doily" background stamp with Melon Mambo Embossing Powder to create this card with lots of visual impact. A particularly fine detail is the two vertical rows of hearts at the bottom end of the Basic Black strip. Mary used the "Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Folder" for those hearts!

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Even though there were not very many in this category, if you browse through all the samples I have and will be posting this week you will see more and more uses of this cool embosslit!

Be back tomorrow with more great ideas! Until then, have a "Stampingrox!" Day!

Valentine Week Day 3-Take It to Heart!

Wow, Valentine week is just whizzing by, isn't it? Today we are going to view the swaps I received and took pictures of "Take It to Heart"!

Joann Wiemers:

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My downline, Linda Reaney!

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Nancy Alvarez. Love how she used the Riding Hood Red 3/8" Pleated ribbon around the heart!

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Susan Bereth:

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Teresa Anderson:

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Last-but-definitely-not least, Sharon Tong-Robinson created this awesome "Teriffic Trio" of Valentine Heart Candy Box, Banner, and card!

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 Tomorrow we will take a peek at a few cards made with the "Fashionable Hearts" embosslit!

Until then, have a "Stampingrox!" day!

Valentine Week Day 2: P.S. I Love You!

 

For today's installment of Valentine Week, I have for you Leadership swaps featuring the Occasions Mini set, P.S. I Love You! (Where available, I will note the creator.)

Beckie Carlson:

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Ellen Auger:

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Glenda Travelstead:

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This one I do not have the creator's name, but there's a feature of this one you may not notice right away. The labels in the center are actually mounted on a clear window sheet, giving it a "suspended" look! Pretty cool! Love the pairing of the Twitterpated DSP with Blushing Bride, Riding Hood Red, and Silver Glimmer Paper!

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To order any of the Stampin'Up! products used in this post:

www.carolpayne.stampinup.net

That's it for today! Join me tomorrow as we view more fun swaps and samples, this time from the awesome Occasions Mini set, "Take It to Heart"!

 

Until tomorrow, have a "Stampingrox!" Day!

 

Designer Cuts for Easy, Elegant Cards!

Stampin' Up! just keeps making it easier to make elegant cards! In the Occasions 2012 Mini there is a package of cards called "Designer Cuts", and they fit this description perfectly:

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These cards come 8 to a package, four each of the two different designs, with coordinating Blushing Bride envelopes included! At $9.95 a package, they are actually quite economically elegant!

Now, I have embellished these Designer Cuts quite a bit, with Blushing Bride Twitterpated Designer Paper, Blushing Bride 3/8" Pleated Satin Ribbon, Jumbo Pearls, Blushing Bride Cardstock to highlight the laser-cut designs, some Fashionable Hearts embossed hearts, and a bit of stamping from "P.S. I Love You" and "Grateful Greetings", but these are also quite pretty all by themselves. Check out page 9 of the Occasions Mini to see what I mean!

If you don't have an Occasions Mini (or a Sale-a-bration brochure, for that matter), email me with your address and I will pop those in the mail to you! You can also view them from the icons here on my blog or go to my Stampin' Up! website:

www.carolpayne.stampinup.net

Sorry, no tutorial for these. They are pretty simple and the Designer Cuts make it easy to adapt for any occasion: wedding, bridal shower, Valentine's Day, & Mother's Day!

If you have any questions, you can always email me!

Until tomorrow, have a "Stampingrox!" Day!

Hershey Nugget Birthday Card!

Good morning Stamping Friends!

I had a fun Birthday Card Class the weekend before Leadership, so wanted to show you some of the cards and share the tutorials from this class!

Here's the first one, a Birthday Cake Pedestal Card complete with Hershey Nuggets attached!

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I also swapped a few of these at Leadership. They are a bulky card, and of course would be impossible to mail (and the postage would be high), but I'm thinking it would make an excellent hand-delivered or attached to a gift kind of card!

The phrase, "happy birthday with a cherry on top!" I thought was appropriate for two reasons, the first being I added punched Calypso Coral cherries from the Cupcake Builder punch to the top of the cake, and second I used the new Cherry-scented Embossing Powder to emboss the phrase! WOW, this embossing powder REALLY smells like cherry while you are sprinkling and using it, but not so much after you have heated it. Stampin' Up! says the scent is designed to be aromatic for two weeks after it is heated, so you need to give this card QUICK before the scent dissipates!

I do have my hand-out/tutorial from this card for you today:

Download Cherry on Top

Also, I need to clarify the smudginess of some of the lettering. My stamp wasn't Versamarked enough when I stamped the phrase, so I went back in with my Versamarker and corrected the flaw in the stamping so the words would emboss correctly. Not my best effort, I admit, but it is what it is and I didn't take any pictures of any of the other ones I made for swaps for Leadership, so hopefully your efforts will turn out much better than mine!

It's hard to see in the picture, but I used the "Heart Presssed" Letterpress Plate on the Crumb Cake background. On my swaps I took this one step further and rubbed my Versamark Pad on the plate before running it through the Big Shot. I also left the area where I was stamping the greeting un-letterpressed so I wouldn't have to compete with the background or have issues with the Cherry-scented Embossing Powder sticking to the background. I DID use my Embossing Buddy on the area before stamping and embossing. I sure hope Stampin' Up! gets a new supplier the Embossing Buddy soon! I have kept using it even though we lost our supplier last September and have a waiting list of customers wanting to order it as soon as it is available again!

Until tomorrow, have a "Stampingrox!" Day!

Project for the Yes, Ma'am's!

Good Monday Morning, Stampers!

Eight of my downline, the "Yes, Ma'am's!" met at my house yesterday afternoon for a time of stamping and sharing. To start off the stamping week right,  today I'm sharing with you the projects I prepared for them to make:

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The box (in the center) will hold the three cards with their matching envelopes and is VERY simple to make! I found the directions for the box on the Stampin' Up! Demonstrator website as part of the Online Extras for the January Stampin' Success, the monthly magazine for demonstrators. Stampin' Up! provides LOTS of ideas and inspiration for their demonstrators, all we have to do is use our monthly magazine for inspiration or go to the website for more instructions! Once I made one, I was inspired to make more!

Here's the first one I made, using our "Simply Scored Scoring Tool", which was almost an exact copy of  Stampin' Up!'s version:

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After I made this box, I started creating cards to fit in it. I knew I wanted to use the "Mixed Bunch" stamp set from the Occasions Mini along with the Blossom Punch. After I paired this set with "Beyond the Garden" Designer Paper, I had to create a different box to match it! Funny how sometimes what you think you are going to do turns into something completely different, isn't it?

I created a tutorial for this box and cards for my downline, so today I'm sharing it with you:

Download Mixed Bunch Quick Cards and Box

The tutorial includes a supply list of all the stamps, cardstock, ink, and accessories I used to create this project. If you need to order any of these supplies, and do not have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator of your own, you are welcome to go to my Stampin' Up! Demonstrator website to order:

www.carolpayne.stampinup.net

Feel free to use this as you wish, for your personal creations or if you are a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator for your events. All I ask is that you do not sell it by itself online, please keep it free!

I hope to be back this afternoon with a Valentine version of this box! My "to do" list is pretty long, so we will see!

Until later, have a "Stampingrox!" Day!

A Pop-Up Card!

Good Evening Stampers!

Sale-a-bration is in full-swing! I have been out a couple of nights this week already with Sale-a-bration workshops, and I have another one tomorrow night! I can't wait!

The past few days I have been spending ALOT of time creating some fun new projects for my workshops and classes, and I have been having a BLAST! One of the challenges I put on myself was to figure out how to make this card. One of my friends at Leadership received a swap similar to this card last week, and since I don't live with her I took some pictures of it, thinking it would be EASY TO FIGURE OUT! WRONG! I even asked my aspiring engineer-son, Logan, to help me figure it out as I didn't take any measurements, just pictures. He, however, was apparently too busy with his online computer game to help, so I just kept at it till I figured it out myself! I am very proud! (Maybe there's a little bit of an engineer in me too!)

Without further ado, here it is:

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Okay, you say? What's the big deal? It's an okay card, but nothing particularly special, nothing you haven't already seen before?

 

 

 

Wait for it . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wait for it . . .

 

 

 

 

 

Lift the flap . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voila!

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I am absolutely IN LOVE with this card, and once I figured it out and wrote down all of my measurements, it is EASY! I immediately made another one using the "Just My Type" stamp set from the Occasions Mini, but that one will have to wait for another day as it is for my husband's birthday, which is a month away. Although he NEVER looks at my blog, it hardly seems fair to share it with the world before he gets to see it, right?

Anyhoo, I used the Create a Cupcake stamp set, matching Build a Cupcake Punch and Big Top Birthday Designer Paper. If you want to know more, you will have to ask!

So here's the deal. I'm going to give this card away! YES I AM! Don't believe me? Just leave me a comment in the comment section. Please be nice, please be clean, and please don't comment if you don't like my card. The FIRST nice, clean, complimentary comment left on my blog about this card will receive it in the mail from me! Just leave your comment along with your email so I can contact you for your address and it's YOURS! I will include a matching stamped envelope so it will be all ready for you to give away to your favorite birthday friend!

But I'm not going to stop there! Keep an eye on my blog and you will find out what else is coming in the future!

Until tomorrow, have a "StampingRox!" day!

Occasions Mini 2012 Sneek Peek from Founder's Circle!

Founder's Circle always provides us with the cutest Make & Takes! I love to get a chance to work on them during my free time. What Stampin' Up! Demonstrator wouldn't love it when someone ELSE is prepping the fun?!

This banner uses some cool "sneak peek" products from the soon-to-be-released Occasions 2012 Mini Catalog! If you have ordered from me in the past year, you should be receiving one of these in the mail near the end of December. If you don't, and it can happen, as they are shipped out Bulk Mail, then contact or see me at one of my future Stampin' Events and I will make sure you get one!

This banner uses the new "Paper Doily" Large Sizzlet Die! All I can say is, "it's simply gorgeous"! The teacup in the center of the Daffodil Delight one is from a new stamp set, "Tea Shoppe"! So sweet!

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Here's another section of the banner, this time using another "Tea Shoppe" stamp, a super-big teacup, scalloped circles, and one of the doilies cut from one of the laser-cut pages from the "Flirtatious" Specialty Designer Paper pack!

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That's all for today, but I'll be back again tomorrow! Until then, hope your day "Stampingrox"!

Beveled Windowpanes and the Charming Stamp Set!

Beveled windowpanes made their debut in the Occasions Mini Catalog and at first I had no idea what I would do with them, but after I saw them in person and used in many creative ways at Leadership I was excited to try them out! Basically they are a beveled rectangle of exremely CLEAR acrylic with slots on two sides so you can thread ribbon, twine, etc, through them to attach to a card, scrapbook page, or even to jewelry!

This sample I CASED from another demo on Stampin' Connection, but at the moment her name escapes me. I stamped the background words from the "Charming" stamp set in once-stamped-off Old Olive, then used a Cherry Cobbler & an Old Olive Marker direct-to-stamp for the flower image. The Beveled windowpane (the largest of the three sizes in the package) is held in pace with the ribbon wrapped around to the back side of the front card layers and a Mini Glue Dot hidden under each ribbon slot! I also used a Vanilla Ribbon Rosette that I colored with the same Cherry Cobbler Marker and then blotted the excess off with a paper towel It is attached with a Mini Glue Dot as well."wishes" is from the stamp set, "Fabulous Phrases".

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For the inside I "huffed" on the left-over ink on the flower stamp and managed to get TWO more stampings with the same inking! "wishing you happiness today and always" is from "Heard from the Heart"!

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These next two cards I CASED from Penny Thomas, a great lady I've had the honor of knowing thanks to Founder's Circle! Penny loves CAS (Clean And Simple)! Here I stamped the little bunny from "So Cute" to put behind the middle-sized Beveled Windowpane, and added pearls & "happy new baby" from "Family Phrases"! I sponged Blushing Bride ink on Whisper White 3/8" Taffeta ribbon for great co-ordination!

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The inside I stamped with a phrase from the oldie-but-goodie, "Curvy Verses"! I love it that you can't mess up stamping these words, they are always "straight"! I punched them with the Decorative Label punch and then punched another in Blushing Bride, cut it into two pieces and STRETCHED my label!

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The cupcake on this card is also from "So Cute", one of the sets you can get FREE right now with a $50 order!

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The inside is stamped with another great phrase from "Bring on the Cake"!

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See you tomorrow, my friends! Hope you have a "Stampingrox!" day!

More swap cards!

Here are some more swap samples from Leadership! I would love to give credit to the creators, but since these are samples from the Main Stage Presentations, the Display Boards, and swaps my friends shared, I can't!

This first sample my SAM, Maxine Conrad, let me take a picture of! It's a take-out-box style container using the Petal Cone Die and the "Eat Chocolate" stamp set from the Occasions MIni!

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Shelli Gardner, Co-Founder & CEO of Stampin' Up! shared this beautiful "Simply Adorned" necklace with us using the Simply Adorned chain, bracelet, and charm!

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Shelli also shared this adorable banner made with the Table Setting Die and the Build a Cupcake punch!

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These samples use the Occasions Mini sets, "Sew Suite", and "Nature Walk"!

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This sample uses the beautiful new set, "Easter Blossoms", and the Lifted Pastels technique!

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That's all for today! Next week begins Valentine Week on "Stampingroxmyfuzzybluesox!"

Get your fingers inky this weekend and have a "Stampingrox!" day!