Feature Friday

I'm SO glad it's TGIF! I don't know how those commute on a regular basis! I've been so lucky that the years I had to commute it was 30 minutes tops. Having to drive an hour every day is a KILLER! Hopefully I'll only have to deal with this for a few more weeks! Ok, now that I got that out I feel much better!

I made a few more samples and still have samples from my Spring Fling event using this month's Product of the Month. It's such a great suite, I just can't get enough! On top of it all, there are so many products as part of this suite. I just love how well everything coordinates!

 This is just the stamp set and coordinating dies. A new thing Stampin' Up! has started to do is have multiple pieces of the same die! They've done that with this set. There are 2 different leaves and they included 2 dies of each leaf! The same for a couple of the flowers too! So now, when you want say 2 leaves, you can stamp them 2 times and die cut them at the same time! Yippee!

This was a card I made for a display at Spring Fling. I did CASE this card, but don't have the info on who I CASED it from. The hardest part of this card was die cutting the rectangle. I used the Stitched Shapes and made a rectangle using the square die. This is a shaker card. I should have glued a few of the sequins to the card so there's always something there. The cake is form the Sweet Soiree Embellishment Kit. This is such a gorgeous kit. There are several different flower bunches, vellum pieces, velvet ribbon, tassels and a bunch more things. So all I did was cut a piece of DSP and adhered it to the card front, put the window/shaker together and then take a few pieces of the kit, made a bow from the metallic silver edge ribbon and there ya go!

Here's a real simple card. This DSP is just so beautiful you really don't need to do much more! The "best wishes" is from the Petal Palette and I used the Powder Pink Woven Ribbon and a heart from the Metallic Enamel Shapes.

This is like a goodie gift tag. I CASED this from one of our Artisan's for this year. Her name is Jessica Winter and I think she's from Germany since her blog is in German. Once I converted her metric into inches, this was pretty easy too! I used a piece of Whisper White Thick card stock that was 2"x 6 1/2" and scored it at 3 1/8" and 3 3/8" then punched both ends with the Scallop Tag Topper. I used a piece of DSP and die cut the tag image from the bundle, then used the Sweet Soiree Embellishment kit again to decorate the tag. Oh, it's hard to see but I used one of the flower images and stamped one end of the strip of Whisper White card stock. A Ghirardelli fits in here perfectly! I adhered the chocolate inside and used the Silver Metallic Baker's Twine to close it all together. 

I hope you enjoyed today's projects and they've inspired you to create some of your own! I look forward to your comments. If you have any questions or need help, please contact me. If you don't have a demonstrator, I'd love to be yours! I have a monthly VIP Host Code 
T4ED7Z7F and earn FREE product and card kits. You can find all these products in my STORE. 

Spring Fling Swaps Still Coming!

So how did you like the swaps I posted the other day? Hope so, here are some more! They just keep coming!

If you haven't visited my blog  before, we had our Spring Fling event last month and had 24 people participate in the organized swap. So instead of posting all at one time, I thought I'd spread them out so the post wouldn't be so long. I usually list all the products used but because I'm so tight on time this month, I'll be listing the items after each project.

Donna Foster-Fruit Basket
Card Stock-Whisper White, Tutti Frutti DSP
Ink-Real Red, Garden Green
Accesories-Itty Bitty Fruit Punch Pack, Duet Banner punch, Basic Jewel Pearls, dimensionals

Tina Rosenkrans-Flying Home, Happy Birthday Gorgeous
Card Stock-Whisper White, Bsic Black, Peekaboo Peach , Petal Passion DSP
Ink-Memento
Blends-Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Pumpkin Pie, Pool Party
Accesories-Peekaboo Peach Crinkle ribbon, Layering Circle framelits

Mena Green-Beautifl Day
Card Stock-Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink-Bermuda Bay, Black Memento
Accesories-Petal Passion DSP, Triple Banner Punch, Clear Faceted Gems, dimensionals, black marker

Cyndy, that's me! - Petal Palette
Card Stock-Dapper Denim, Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White, Myths & Magic Glimmer
Ink-Dapper Denim, Flirty Flamingo, Pear Pizzaz, Archival Black
Accesories-Petals & More Thinlits, Petal Pair embossing folder, Pearls, Flirty Flamingo Baker's Twine, Aqua Painter, dimensionals, glue dots, bleach, paint brush, Big Shop, Magnetic platform

I hope you enjoyed these cards and they've sparked your creativity! You can find all these products in my STORE. While shopping make sure to use this month's VIP Host Code T4ED7Z7F. It's also Sale-a-Bration time, so make sure you're earning a Sale-a-Bration item. While you're at it, check out my Wish List for more great reasons to shop with me! If you have any questions or need help with anything, please contact me.

Occasions Open House Displays

We had our Open House on Saturday. Thankfully the weather held out. Parking was tight but everyone squeezed in. I took a few pictures before we began but forgot to pictures during the event. Got a little pre-occupied I guess. We're already planning our Open House for the new Annual Catalog in June!

 This was our table with all our Sale-a-Bration items and samples using the products all available for FREE!

 This is an overall view. That's Tina in the background and her dog Bailey waiting for all the guests to arrive!

This is a short little video of another table with some of the suites from the Occasions catalog.

Want More Spring Fling Swaps?

I'm so glad I have so many swaps to share this month! With all the renovations we have to do, I don't have a lot of extra time, so this is working out great!

In case you missed my previous post I'm sharing the swaps I got at our Spring Fling event. There was 24 swaps all together. That's a lot of swaps! I'm listing all the products used with each swap since I'm really short on time.

Kathryn Roberts did this first swap. She used Picture Perfect Birthday.
card stock - Real Red, Petal Passion DSP
Ink - Cherry Cobbler, Pacific Point, Old Olive, Real Red
Accesories-mini dimensionals, shimmer grey ribbon (sale-a-bration item)

Barbara Dykehouse - Sweet Little Someone
Card Stock-Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Whole Lot of Lovely Dsp, Powder Pink
Ink-Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip
Accesories-1 1/8" & 1 3/8" scallop circle punches, 1 1/4" circle punch, pearls, dimensionals

Vicki Wu-Heart Happiness, Better Together

Card Stock-Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Wood Textures DSP

Ink-Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso

Accesories-Linen Thread, Sweet & Sassy Framelits, Big Shot, Magnetic Plate

Kelly Pena-Charming Cafe
Card Stock-Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White
Ink-Black Memento
Accesories-Everyday Label Punch, rhinestone, dimensionals, Pink Pirouette marker, Big Shot, Magnetic Plate

I hope you enjoyed these cards and they've sparked your creativity! You can find all these products in my STORE. While shopping make sure to use this month's VIP Host Code T4ED7Z7F. It's also Sale-a-Bration time, so make sure you're earning a Sale-a-Bration item. While you're at it, check out my Wish List for more great reasons to shop with me! If you have any questions or need help with anything, please contact me.

Feature Friday!

Happy Saturday! Sorry folks! I forgot I didn't schedule this. I was working on setting up several posts as this month is quite hectic for me and just trying to do too many things at one time! I'm sure you have not idea what I'm talking about! So I guess better late then never right?

Anyway I'm featuring the Cake Soiree this month. If you haven't visited before each Friday (hopefully) I showcase a product all month long. For the month of March it'll be Cake Soiree. I really liked this entire suite in the Occasions but didn't think I really needed it! Well guess what! I'm so glad I got this bundle and the coordinating DSP and embellishments. Besides the packaging you can do for weddings and special occasions, you can dress it down for a more simple birthday, even make a masculine card! I'll show that another week. There are four pages in the Occasions that showcase this suite (pgs 10-13). Besides all that, there are products in the Annual catalog that coordinate with this suite as well.

Enough of all that. Last week and this week feature projects we did at our Spring Fling Retreat. At the event we did some packaging and cards. This first sample is one of the packaging ideas. We used the Striped Treat Bags and gold library clips to embellish this bag. We used the new blends to color in the flowers.

For this next project we used the narrow note cards & envelopes in the Occasions and let the DSP do most of the work here. We also used the new Scallop Circle Punch (1 3/8") and the Petal Palette embellishments. The "celebrate" is from the Sale-a-Bration set Amazing You. The cake on the right card is the DSP and we just punched it out with a circle punch.

For this last project we used the Silver Mini Gable boxes and the Scattered Sequins Dynamic Embossing Folder. They call it Dynamic because it's one of those thick folders and you do the sandwich differently when using it. We die cut one of the largest flowers out of the silver glimmer paper to go behind the detailed flower and also used the new multipurpose adhesive sheets when die cutting the flower. It just made sticking it to the glimmer paper much easier. The adhesive sheets are a great product to use with any detail dies. It puts the adhesive right there for you. It's like making a sticker out of your card stock!

Well that's all for today! I hope you enjoyed these projects and got you thinking about this fabulous suite! To purchase any of these products, you can find them in my STORE. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me, I'd be more then happy to help. Make sure when shopping to use this month's VIP Host Code T4ED7Z7F. Also check out my Wish List and why shop with me! Since it's Sale-a-Bration, if you're order is over $100 consider Joining My Team! Then you can earn discounts yourself!

More Spring Fling Swaps

Good Morning! This is a very busy month for me. My husband and I have a 2 family house and had a tenant move out and have to renovate the whole apartment! So my posts this month may be a little late. 

I'm sitting here watching the snow fall (not much yet) and since it's nice and quiet I can get this post out. I still have many swaps to share and don't want the post to be too long! So if you haven't been following, we had our annual Spring Fling event last month and we had a big group that signed up for the organized swap.

 So for this first card, this is where I really want to be right now! Sunny Florida! Ah, the sun, the warmth, no snow! Ok, let me get back to the details! Barbara made this card. So simple. She used the Waterfront stamp set, I just got this set but haven't had a chance to play with it. She also used the Seaside embossing folder and Stitched framelits. The other addition was the burlap ribbon. Wish I could go to this place right now!

 This next card was made by Mary Ann. She joined my team last year during Sale-a-Bration. I love this card! She used Sunshine & Rainbows. So often I see this set with the rainbows and I think that's a lot of work. This card looks so dreamy to me. I've been temped to get the coordinating dies, because I really like those clouds and how she used the bottom ones as a border. The card base is Pacific Point and the sun is non other then Daffodil Delight. That just screams sun as well! To soften the look Mary Ann used Soft Sky and some Clear Wink of Stella on the sun. I'm not sure you can see it but she also used some of those clear epoxy shapes. You can use them clear or color with our Blends!

This last card, I didn't even recognize this stamp set. How bad am I! I think it's adorable but had no idea it was Stampin' Up! This is another place I'd like to be right now! Everything is green and warm and NO SNOW! Don't get me wrong I do like the snow but I'm just so tired of it! Anyway, back to the card. Peggy made this card and it's a Hostess Set called Cozy Cottage. If you don't know what a Hostess set is, it's available only to someone who has a party or places an order of $150 or more. Peggy did a lot of coloring on this one. She used our new Blends. She used all light of the colors mentioned. Here are the colors: Old Olive, Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight. She also used Smoky Slate light & dark, Crumb Cake light & dark. The ribbon is a Sale-a-Bration item, it's a trio of shimmer ribbon. When coloring with our Blends or any alcohol marker you need to use a water base ink to stamp your image so you don't get bleeding.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope these cards have sparked your creativity and give them a try. You can find all these items in my STORE. If you need help with anything, please contact me. As always, I'd love to hear your comments, so please leave them!

Stay warm, dry, and keep the electricity flowing!

Spring Fling Swaps

Hope you had a great weekend. Mine seemed to fly by. I have more swaps from Spring Fling to share. We all choose different stamp sets from the Occasions & Sale-a-Bration catalogs. Everyone did a great job!

The group I'm sharing today are nice bright cards and great for birthdays but change out the sentiments and you could use for anything. They're nice and bright and can lift you from the grey days of winter.

 This first card was made by Leslie and used Bird Banter. What a great layout. I really like how this card is so bright and cheery. Leslie used the ink colors on each color of card stock but you could also use VersaMark and get a similar result. She also used punches for the focal point.

 This next card was done by Laura, who coordinated the swap. She used Birthday Wishes and got the idea for this layout from a card that Shelli Gardner, our Stampin' Up! co-founder, demonstrated a similar layout at an On Stage event last year. It's another great card and bright colors!

This last card was made by Daneen. Aren't these critters adorable? They're from We Must Celebrate and the word "Celebrate" is a Sale-a-Bration freebie when you spend $100. Daneen used our new Blends to color in the critters and the fun sequins are the new ones in the Occasions and already have adhesive on them. They're called Tutti Fruittie adhesive backed sequins. She also used the circles stamp from Playful Backgrounds. She also used a circle die for the holes that the critters are peaking out of but I'm sure you could use a circle punch.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed these swaps. You can find all the products used for these cards in my STORE. Make sure to use this month's VIP Host Code T4ED7Z7F. If you have any questions, please contact me and I'd be more then happy to help. Till next time!