My daffodils are starting to come up (seems like winter was forever this year)! I included an up-close shot of the beautiful detail of the stamp.   You can click on the card for a close up as well.

The card is Vanilla and the Saffron designer paper.  The flower was colored in with the Summer Sun and Old Olive Watercolor Crayons and an Aquapainter.  This was a very quick card!  The vanilla satin ribbon gave it a richness and don’t you just LOVE the Scallop Trim Border Punch (#118402) which is a FREE Sale-A-Bration gift with your $50 order and available only until the end of this month.

This limited edition set ‘Abundant Hope’ (click on thumbnail below to see full sized set), is available until April 30th.

Materials:
Vanilla cardstock
4 x 3 inch Certainly Celery Cardstock
3 ¾ x 2 ¾ Very Vanilla cardstock
2 x 4 So Saffron Designer Paper
Vanilla Satin Ribbon
Scallop Trim Border Punch #118402 (FREE SAB)
Black StazOn
Earth Element Watercolor Crayons
Aquapainters

The flower heads were cut out and petals bent with a bone folder and then attached with Dimensionals®.  I love the colors Celery and Plum together anyway.

UPDATE: I bought a new Nikon D3000 SLR camera and I took a new photo… way bolder color! The thumbnail photo lower is with the old camera and you can see how washed out the color is.

It doesn’t help that I also have a terrible case of ‘photography envy’ from looking at the superior photography of Jon Haverstick and his photography of his wife’s Stampin’ Up! creations.  Oh well, I must embrace my mediocrity for now (but you can run out and buy, buy, buy more Stampin’ Up! products from me so that I can afford some better equipment…).

Materials Used:
Set(s): 5th Avenue Floral,
Well Scripted (#118601)
Accessories:
5 ½ x 8 ½ Perfect Plum cardstock
4 ¼ x 3 inch Certainly Celery cardstock
4 x 2 ¾ inch Whisper White cardstock
4 ¼ x 2 ½ inch Whisper White
For stamping and cutting flowers out
5 ¼ x 2 inch ‘Cottage Wall’ DSP (#115671)
Dimensionals®, Celery Satin Ribbon
Black StazOn ink, Bone folder
Certainly Celery Watercolor Crayon
Perfect Plum watercolor Crayon
Aquapainters

All registrants are being contacted directly and updates will be posted on my team site where there is a link to sign up for the wait list.

Meanwhile I will flagrantly torture you with the gorgeous projects we will be making including this unique stationery box (top right), Explosion Card (bottom right) and Flowerpot card (bottom left).

All projects were made with Stampin’ Up!’s Vintage Vogue stamp set (#117690 Wood, #118598 clear mount) from the Occasions Mini Catalog, as well as the ‘Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper’ and lots and lots of Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive cardstock.  Festival included the Vintage Vogue stamp set in wood or clear mount (with a clear block).  Details on the festival are here.

All projects will be featured in the next few weeks on my blog… don’t worry!

This unique ‘Class to Go’ features these super cute bunny baskets to hold a few special Easter treats, and the 8 matching monochromatic Easter cards.  All eight of the Easter cards are a perfect size to give on their own or with an Easter plant or treats!

Click here for more details and the supplies list you may wish to purchase that will earn you this free.  And remember, you get ONE FREE SAB gift for each $50 in purchases AND hostess benefits for your $150+ order.

It incorporates quite a few punches and the colors are taken from Stampin’ Up!’s  psychedelic looking designer paper ‘Kaleidoscope’.

The ‘gift bags’ were made from the coordinating 1 1/4 inch jumbo square punch and the 1 3/8 inch jumbo square punch, the handles are natural hemp.  I used a tiny square of white tissue paper for the tissue inside the gift bags.

I like to use the Modern Label punch over the Designer Label punch for the greetings.  The ‘On Your Birthday’ set is FULL of greetings including ‘belated’ greetings, and many of them fit on our punches.

Kaleidoscope Designer Paper Bermuda Bay cardstock
Pumpkin Pie cardstock  
Bermuda Bay ink pad
Whisper White cardstock
Kraft cardstock
Natural hemp
white tissue paper
1 ¼ inch Jumbo Square punch
1 3/8 inch Jumbo Square punch
Designer Label punch (#107590)
Modern Label punch (#116630)Sticky Strip, Dimensionals™
Eyelet Border punch (#113692)

Click on the ‘Valentine Button’ that I made and view all my past posts and projects with the ‘Valentine’ theme.

You probably don’t know it but my middle name is Valentine and my favorite aunt has always given me heart shaped gifts (and jewelry).  I still do LOVE hearts.  And I really DO like Valentine’s Day.

This was a Valentine that we made at my last Stamp a Stack (and it was one of the Occasions class cards).  It really is a postcard with a smaller card on top, but it squeaked by as a card.

Materials Used:

A Happy Heart set (#111758)
5 ½ x 4 ¼ Basic Black Cardstock
5 ¼ x 4 Real Red Cardstock
5 ½ x 2 ¾ inch Basic Black cardstock
Two 2 ½ x 2 ½ Whisper White cardstock
Two 5 ½ x 4 ¼ pcs. White cardstock
This is for embossing and punching hearts
strip of White cardstock (for stamping red)
Real Red Ink pad, StazOn Black pad
Full Heart Punch (#113693)

Heart to Heart Punch (#113694)
Small Heart Punch (#117193)
½ inch circle punch
Finial Press textured impressions pad
Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine, Multipurpose Tray, Two standard cutting pads

The tags are just under 6 inches long, so they are not very big, but they are very versatile (see the screenshot of the die below)!

I used the new Occasions Mini set ‘I[Heart]Hearts’ (see below) of which $2 from the sale of each set will go to Haiti to benefit the survivors.

One of the things that I love about the ‘I[Heart]Hearts’ set, is that  they have a ‘trio’ of hearts that coordinate with the ‘Heart To Heart’ 3 heart punch (which you must purchase!).

Materials:

2 ¾ x 5 ½ inch Very Vanilla (to stamp the hearts)
3 inch x 6 inch ‘Sending Love’ Specialty DSP
Real Red ink pad
Close to Cocoa Ink pad
Full Heart Punch (#113693)
Heart to Heart Punch (113694)
Sticky Strip
Treat (mini Hershey Bar)
Stampin’ Up! Two Tag Sizzix die (#115954)
Two standard cutting pads
Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine
10 inches 5/8 inch Wide Grosgrain ribbon Red
7 inches narrow grosgrain ribbon Chocolate Chip
½ inch circle punch

DOWNLOAD the PDF of the Valentine ‘Survival Kit’ contents.

This set is the awesome new stamp set ‘Vintage Vogue‘ from the Occasions Mini Catalog.

The accessories I used were:

• Vintage Vogue stamp set (#117690) $23.95*
• Inks: Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, Brocade Blue, Always Artichoke
• Paper:  Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla & Bravo Burgundy
• Medium flat clear bag (#102757) 50 for $4.50

Click on the image (left) to view the larger sized image.

Again, it will be at the Newark Baptist Church (in Elkton, MD) on Saturday, February 27th and we will run from 8:30 am until about 1:00 pm.  Your registration includes Stampin’ Up!’s ‘Vintage Vogue‘ stamp set from the new Occasions Mini Catalog and you have the option of purchasing the ‘clear mounted’ set.

There will be 4 projects plus a service project and the projects rotate… you stay where you are!  There will be displays to photograph and a live demonstration of products and techniques as well as the very popular ‘Recycled Rubber’ table of new and used discontinued designs for cash.

CLICK HERE for all the details and to register!  Contact me if you have any questions.

The first two pages are the display boards of Sale-A-Bration ideas and the displays from the awesome demonstrations on the first day.  The third through sixth pages are the on stage demonstrations.

I will be uploading more detailed shots of the display boards in the next week!

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