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Hearts Come Home
Hello Stamping Friends,
Today I send you the Hearts Come Home Christmas card I designed. I am sure you all have your cards made and mailed so you may want to consider these products for next year! Imagine being that far ahead…. so Merry Christmas and may your heart find its home in the Father as your family returns home to celebrate with you!
I enjoy this card style with its flap on the front that reveals all the layers on the inside to make an eye pleasing card.
The stamp set and framelits are on page 39 of the Holiday catalog, bundled for a 10% discount- wood #146065, clear #146068.
The inside greeting and the bow are from Holly Berry Happiness, pg. 118 of the Annual Catalog – #142061
The medallion is made with the hearts square from Window Box Thinlits and then cut with the #3 Regular Circle Framelit and backed by a red foil circle cut with the same framelit and offset just a little.
Card Base – Thick Whisper White, 7 3/4″ X 4 1/4″ Score at 5 1/2″
Red Foil Inside Layer – 4″ X 5 1/4″
Top Layer Inside – Regular Whisper White, 3 3/4″ X 5″ First, stamp the greeting and run through the Big Shot to cut out the village, then emboss with the Softly Falling Embossing Folder #139672. Pull back slightly on the village pieces to make them stand out.
First Layer of the outside panel – Red Foil – 2″ X 4″
Second Layer of the panel – Regular Whisper White – 1 3/4″ X 3 3/4″ – Embossed with the Softly Falling Embossing Folder
First Layer of the outside flap – Red Foil – 4 1/4″ X 3″
Second Layer of the flap – Regular Whisper White – 4 X 2 3/4″ Stamp the greeting close to the right edge so you have room for the church. After stamping, emboss with the Softly Falling Embossing Folder.
Third Layer of the flap – Village Cut out – regular Whisper White – 4 1/2″ X 3″ The trick here is to line your framelit up so the tree on the right side of the house is just at the right edge of the paper. The framelit will not reach to the left edge so you will fussy cut to the edge and then you will cut off the tree at the right hand side and mount it at the edge of the left hand side, covering up the dent made by your framelit. The goal is to move the church to the right to leave room for the medallion.
Behind the scene – Red Foil – 4 1/2″ X 3″ – use the same alignment as you did with the white top layer detailed above.
Medallion – Red Foil – 2″ X 2″ Cut with #3 circle framelit, (old set) – 1 1/2″ circle framelit in the new set. The Window Box Thinlits dies #142762 is used with a 2″ X 2″ piece of regular Whisper White. The hearts are cut and then they are cut again with the circle framelit.
The bow is white embossed with the Holly Berry Happiness #142061 outline bow stamp on red foil – 1 3/4″ X 1 1/2″ and punched with the Holly Berry Builder Punch #141843.
A touch of grey on the bell topped with the Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush #141897 finishes up your card!
SAL, Sending A Love card to you
Karen
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Musical Season
Hello Stamping Friends, (click on the little SAL to go to the blog instead of just this post)
Did you squeal with delight when you saw the Musical Season bundle on page 25 of the holiday catalog?
I wanted to use all the instruments, the greetings and the treble clef so after a bit of thought I came up with this:
The ‘Peace-Joy-Love’ is not glitter. It is black embossed and caught the flash of the camera. In real life it is shiny embossed black. The lute is silver embossed on black paper and the harp is copper embossed on black paper and each are cut out with the framelits. The detail of the instruments embossed beautifully. The french horn is cut out of gold foil paper and adhered to a basic black cut out of the same. Our metallic sequins #144214 have copper, gold and silver so I could use a sequin of each color next to the instrument it matched.
The base is Thick Whisper White 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″
The Basic Black is 10 1/2″ X 4 scored at 5 1/4″ But – DO NOT BEND the score line until after you cut down 1 1/2″ from the top. Fussy cut around each instrument ending at the 1 1/2″ cut from the top.
Merry Music Specialty Designer Paper #144623 (page 13 of the Holiday Catalog): 3 3/4″ X 5″
If you have a large acrylic block you can mount both greetings on the block, stamp in Versa Mark and emboss with black embossing powder.
Gold Foil for french horn – 2 1/2″ X 3 1/4″
Gold Foil strip for left hand side – 4″ X 1/4″
Basic Black backing for the horn – 2 3/4″ X 3 1/2″
Basic Black Strip for the lute – 1 1/2″ X 4 1/4″ Emboss in Silver
Basic Black Strip for the harp – 1 12″ X 3″ Emboss in Copper
Basic Black for the treble clef – 2 1/4″ X 1″
Simple yet perfectly stunning for all your music loving friends’ Christmas cards.
SAL, Send A Lot of Christmas cards you made yourself!
Karen
I would love to earn your business and be your demonstrator! Hostess code for December is TRSWNNDN
Night In Bethlehem
Hello Stamping Friends,
Page 26 of your holiday catalog has the Night In Bethlehem stamp set that I will be featuring here. The bundle, in wood #146043, or clear # 146044, includes the stamp set and the Bethlehem Edgelits Dies which have the most amazing city scenes that fit one over the other to make a phenomenal card!
I chose to do a black and white scene and used white embossing for the stars and the greeting. I placed a star above Mary with one of the Metallic Enamel Shapes #141678. The shooting star was an accident from rolling the stamp a bit but my stampers loved it and wanted to recreate it in the sky. Mary and Joseph were stamped with the Memento Black Tuxedo Ink #132708 and then cut out with the Bethlehem Edgelit Die.
The inside could just as well have been the outside of a card, (you will find that with most of my designs.) The white on black designer paper is on page 13 of the holiday catalog- Merry Music Specialty Designer Series Paper- #144623. (DSP is my shortened version of ‘designer series paper’ when I give measurements.) Note: the city is stamped at the bottom of the whisper white layer and lined up with the base without leaving the standard bottom border of black DSP. This alignment makes the city stand out better. The Whisper White layer starts as 5″ X 3 3/4″. This top piece is cut diagonally 1″ up from the bottom and 2″ over on the top of each side. Hint: When you align it on your Stampin’ Trimmer, place pieces of sticky note on the trimmer to mark the diagonal and you can cut many pieces without remeasuring. Another Hint: put all three stamps, the star, the greeting and the city, on a large acrylic block, use your grid paper to test and make sure they are straight, and then you can stamp the inside all at once making this a very easy card for making multiples. Other measurements:
Base, Thick Whisper White Cardstock – 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″ , scored at 4 1/4″
Outside first layer, Basic Black, 5 1/4″ X 4″
Outside city, Regular Whisper White, 5″ X 6″
Mary and Joseph, Regular Whisper White, 2 1/2″ X 2″
Inside Merry Music DSP – 5 1/4″ X 4″
Top Inside Layer – Regular Whisper White – 5″ X 3 3/4″
Start by stamping the greeting and stars with Versa Mark then embossing with white embossing powder, I used the Stamp A Ma Jig for placement of the greeting. The stars are stamped and embossed on the top 1 3/4″ of the basic black. Don’t go down too far or you will have stars in your street!
The back of the city, the framelit with three palm trees, is adhered directly to the basic black 1″ up from the bottom. The second layer of the city is popped up with dimensionals lining up its bottom with the bottom of the first layer.
Mary and Joseph are stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black, cut out with the framelit, and popped up with dimensionals. It is important to put the dimensionals below their heads so the bottom part is popped up and the heads are directly on the city.
Stamp your name on the back and you are done!
SAL, See A Light shining in Bethlehem
Karen
December’s hostess code is TRSWNNDN. Year end close outs are happening now. Click on SAL to go to the store.
November 2017 Paper Pumpkin- Three Wise Men Sock
Hello Stamping Friends,
The year end close out is ongoing and this month’s hostess code is TRSWNNDN!
Before I post all the fun cards from the last events I want to show you my version of November’s Paper Pumpkin. The kit is an adorable set of 10 little stockings with a black plaid top to match the green plaid cards from October’s Paper Pumpkin. My creative juices started flowing when I saw a Zum Bar of soap in the grocery store made with frankincense and myrrh. They had small ones that would fit perfect in the little stockings. I ordered some gold plated coins and a gold looking Reagan dollar to fill the stocking with gifts representing the gifts from the wise men to the Christ child. I didn’t order this year’s wise men stamp set (Wise Men From Afar #144875) so I used the Come To Bethlehem stamp set from a few years back. With Stazon black ink I was able to get a nice image on the stocking.
I used a Swarovski crystal for the star and 6″ of black and white gingham Stampin’ Up! ribbon from days past to create a hanger for the stocking.
I discovered that one side of the “Merry Music Specialty Designer Paper” #144623 had the music to ‘We Three Kings’ so I substituted a little banner from the designer paper instead of the white one provided in the kit. I did use the white banner as a template for cutting but cut the banner 2 1/4″ long instead of the 2 7/8″ original. It needed a little something else so I added the treble clef from the Musical Instruments Framelits Dies #144677. This set is a must have that will be used well beyond Christmas.
The stocking still had room so I googled the lyrics to ‘We Three Kings’ and found a great printable version that I cut down, sponged and then distressed the edges before rolling it up on a skewer like a scroll. Click to download:
We Three Kings – printable lyrics
The retired stamp set had the greeting: “O come let us adore Him….” I pray you all find time to do just that this wonderful Christmas season!
SAL, Seek And Listen for He is still waiting and wants your love above all other gifts!
Karen
November 18 Card Buffet – 6 card designs
Hello Stamping Friends,
Saturday, November 18, is the fourth Christmas Card Buffet here at my house in Castle Rock! We have had fun times each month and some stampers are well on their way to having a number of handmade Christmas cards for those special people in their lives.
There are two sessions: morning 9-12 and afternoon 1:30-4:30. Bring a sack lunch and stay for both sessions if you would like. I will have drinks, snacks and chocolate to keep up your stamping energy. There will be a door prize and a thank you gift as always. There are six card designs to choose from and prices are $5 for one card of one design, $8 for two cards of one design, $10 for three cards of one design. The cards, fronts and insides, are listed here with numbers for each design. Just RSVP by Sunday evening, November 12 with 1) the cards’ design numbers 2) How many of each design 3) Which session you will be attending.
Card #1, Believe
Card #2, Everything Merry
Card #3, Musical Season
Note: The black embossed words caught the flash but are true black
Card #4, Bethlehem
Card #5, Ready For Christmas
Card #6, Hearts Come Home
Space is limited so RSVP soon with the session/s you would like to attend, the cards’ numbers you would like to make and how many of each card!
I will be posting each card individually with measurements and supplies in a future post. If you would like to know right away so you can order just leave a comment, email or text me and I will feature that card first. The hostess code for November is ZQEYYZXM. Use the code if your order is under $150 and receive a thank you gift from me. Over $150 and you receive the hostess benefits yourself!
Stampin’ Blends Available Now!
November 1 was the debut of Stampin’ Ups’ Alcohol Markers! Click on the image below for a video from the home office.
Click on this image to go to the online store and view all the colors, kits, and package deals:
There are three days left to order your November Paper Pumpkin! We’ve heard talk that it is awesome! Click below:
As always contact me if you have any questions!
SAL, Shine A Light this Christmas
Karen (Click on SAL to go to the online store)
Hats Off Spinner Card
Hello Stamping Friends,
July is slipping away quickly and we have two specials that you don’t want to miss:
- For every $50 dollars spent in July you receive a $5 coupon code by email to be used on a purchase in August
- Sign up to join the fun and become a demonstrator – hobby or business – and get $72 of additional free merchandise. That is a total of $197 of merchandise for the joining fee of $99
Scroll down to the prior post for all the details! If you are reading this on your mobile device, click on the little SAL image at the top to be redirected to the full blog. This month’s hostess code is QHJHTKJQ
My hostess, Nicole, requested a masculine spinner card for her party which challenged my creativity. After giving the idea some thought I used the “Guy Greetings” stamp set on page 36 of the new catalog. It is available in wood mount # 138825, clear mount #138828 and photopolymer #137178.
And created this:
Yes, I did cut the stamp with the six hats into six pieces. The Designer Series Paper, DSP, beneath the Very Vanilla top layer is the new Foil Frenzy paper. The catalog picture doesn’t do it justice:
The Hats Off To You! from Guy Greetings is embossed with copper embossing powder and uses an upside down cutout from the Hearth and Home Thinlits:
And of course one must put a feather in the cap and ‘Jar of Love’ had a great stamp, the one at the bottom right, which just needed a little extra feathering with a Chocolate Chip marker:
To cut out the spinner path, you need a framelit or punch that is just a little narrower than a penny. The Bunch of Banners framelits had the perfect one, the little one at the bottom right:
Since the card is 6 1/2″ long it took four cuts across to make the spinner opening but well worth the time. Cut a 7/8″ wide strip of sticky note and place it at the bottom of the Very Vanilla layer to guide your four cuts.
The inside brings in the foil paper behind another hat just like the spinner on front and adds the classic car and greeting! Scroll back up and check out the variety of greetings this set offers.
- Base – Early Espresso 6 1/2″ X 6 1/2″ scored at 3 1/4″
- Foil Frenzy DSP 6″ X 3″
- Top Layer -Very Vanilla, 5 1/2″ X 2 1/2″ , sponged with Crumb Cake ink and distressed with a finger nail (or distressing tool)
- Inside Layer – Very Vanilla 6″ X 2 7/8″ , sponged with Crumb Cake ink
- Spinner – Scrap of Very Vanilla for 3/4″ punch and Scrap of DSP for the 1″ punch- make a second one for the inside
- Stamps – Guy Greetings and Jar of Love
- Tools – 1″ circle punch, 3/4″ circle punch, Bunch of Banner Framelits, Hearth and Home Thinlits, Chocolate Chip Marker
- Inks – Early Espresso, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Basic Black, Versa Mark and Copper Embossing Powder
- Embellishments – 3 Candy Dots or pearls colored with a brown Sharpie
- For Assembly – Foam Adhesive Strips (see page 203 for this great new product), two pennies and Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Envelope Punch Board for a perfectly sized envelope
Adhere your Very Vanilla top layer to the DSP layer and cut the path for the spinner on both layers at the same time. I used temporary glue to adhere the two layers for cutting the path, then took them apart, decorated the top and then glued them together permanently. For the spinner to work it is critical to mount these two layers to the base using Foam Adhesive Strips (or a lot of Dimensionals).
For temporary glue just use a bit of snail and pat it with your finger and the oils in your finger will keep it from sticking too hard.
For the spinner, place a dimensional in the very middle of a penny and place a second penny on top. Even though the dimensional isn’t round it works perfectly. Then place another dimensional on the top penny and add your hat spinner made from a 1″ circle punch of DSP and the hat stamped on a scrap of vanilla, punched with a 3/4″ circle punch and adhered to the DSP. Beware – don’t get your dimensionals mixed up when you lift the slot to slip the bottom penny inside the path. If you use the dimensional between the hat and top penny it won’t spin.
What do you think?
The catalog can be viewed in pdf form from the catalog tab at the top of the blog. If you would like a hard copy mailed to you, contact me at [email protected].
SAL (Sun A Little– on a beach or a boat or…..)
Karen Click on SAL to go to the online store
Happy Fourth of July!
Happy Fourth of July Stamping Friends!
May you have a wonderful day enjoying friends, food and fireworks and may we all remember that ‘freedom is not free’ and the many who have gone before and are serving now to preserve our freedom! Thank you to all those and thank you to a mighty God – may “One nation under God” be forever true!
This bookmark uses three of my many favorites in the catalog and the new Lemon Lime Twist ‘In Color’ paper. The greetings, front and back, are from “Crafting Forever” . The butterfly is from the ‘Move Me’ Thinlits and has a lovely matching stamp set. I will be posting a card using that set in the near future. For those of you who sell cards, the “Crafting Forever’ stamp set has a separate copyright stamp for using on your cards. The branch is from a long time favorite I hope never retires – “Thoughts and Prayers”. Here are the details:
- Base= Basic Black 2 1/2″ X 6 1/4″
- Front= Lemon Lime Twist 2 1/4″ X 6″
- Butterfly= Basic Black 2 1/2″ X 2 1/2″ Cut with Big Shot and Move Me Thinlits -Two butterfly thinlits used together
- Circles for the top= Basic Black 3/4″, Lemon Lime Twist 1/2″; punched with the 3/16″ hole punch (Crop A Dile)
- Words= Crafting Forever Stamp Set
- Dots on background= You Move Me Stamp Set
- Flowering Branch= Thoughts and Prayers stamp set
- Ribbon= 6″ Ombre Lemon Lime Twist, 6″ Black Baker’s Twine
- Three Rhinestone Basic Jewels
And for a few Fourth of July cards I went back into history and found one I had made by creating two sizes of tubes with card stock and then cutting very thin slices of the tube and mounting them to create a fireworks kind of look:
Remember Paper Pumpkin’s cute pinwheels a few years ago? I mounted them on a decoration I found at the store to make a fun wall hanging:
So celebrate the Stars and Stripes that represent our great country!
SAL, (Salute A Legend)
Karen
Wedding Wishes Card & Mother’s Day Box
Hello Stamping Friends,
It’s May in the Rockies! I think we started the fountain a little too early. No, that is not a real jack rabbit, but the garden statue sure shows up nicely in the snow! The sun melted every flake the next day and the lawn loved the moisture so we are thankful!
Thank you to those of you who ordered in April with the hostess code! Sharon did earn her Big Shot and if you missed her party with all the fun thank you gifts, I will be mailing you a thank you gift for your online order!
May’s hostess code is: 29SANZNQ It is the last month for the Occasions Catalog and the Annual Catalog and many items are already sold out. You can go to the online store and click on Retiring items on the left side to view images of the retiring items. The Clearance Rack has been stocked with other items as well so stop by there while you are visiting to see if anything is a must have! Online Store
Use the hostess code and receive a gift from me if your order is under $150! Order over $150 and you earn the hostess dollars!
Sharon’s party focused on the Floral Boutique Suite on pages 76-77 of the Annual Catalog. The bundle is still available at 10% off and the Designer Series Paper (DSP) is still available, though inventory is low. The Washi Tape and Baker’s Twine is sold out – so sorry.
For Sharon’s thank you gift I used the gift bag punch board and made a medium sized bag with the Floral Boutique DSP and then filled the bag with the Washi Tape and Baker’s Twine.
Sharon had recently purchased the Pansy Punch, #130698, and the Flower Shop stamp set, #130942, so I made her a 3D flower using those products. I will explain how to make a pansy punch flower later in this post.
For her thank you card, I used the Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies with the Floral Phrases stamp set. The border stamp was a great way to enhance the greeting on the inside of the card:
Would you like to host a party? I will plan something special for you as well!
Thank you card:
- Base: Thick Whisper White Card Stock 4 1/4″ X 11″ Scored at 5 1/2″
- Top Layer: Night of Navy 4″ X 5 1/4″ with thinlits positioned on each end and cut, then each end cut with the border thinlit.
We made two projects at the party, a wedding card and a mother’s day box using the Window Box thinlits on page 43 of the Occasions catalog. The bundle is still available and, though the Window Shopping Stamp set and Window Box Thinlits carry over to the new catalog, they won’t have the 10% discount.
The little blue flower on the top of the box is from the Flourish Thinlits set #141478. It coordinates with the Flourishing Phrases stamp set which has greetings for many occasions. Check out page 49 of the Annual Catalog. The 3D flower is made using the pansy punch.
3D Flower:
- Using regular Whisper White card stock 2″ X 7″ punch four pansies
- Sponge the edges with Night of Navy ink
- Punch a hole in the center of each flower. I used a business hole punch and punched about three times to make a nice hole
- Using your bone folder curl the petals a bit for softer looking petals
- The 5 petal pansy becomes the base, the first layer
- Make a cut between two petals to the center hole and then glue one petal on top of the other; this is the second layer-4 petals
- Cut out one petal, save it for the center, and glue one petal on top of another to make the third layer-3 petals
- Cut out two petals, save them, and glue one petal on top of another to make the fourth layer – 2 petals
- Roll the two petals you cut out- 1 petal
- Roll the one petal to make a center
- Place a glob of hot glue on the Silicone Craft Sheet #127853 and quickly layer your flowers, the glue should come up through the holes in the middle of the flowers. (Some crafters layered the flowers first then placed them on the hot glue.)
Wedding Wishes Card:
- Detailed Floral Thinlits #141482
- Floral Phrases Stamp Set #141767 (Can be bundled for a 10% discount through May 31)
- Card Base: Thick Whisper White #140272 cardstock 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″ Scored at 4 1/4″
- Night of Navy cardstock #100867 cut at 5 3/8″ X 4 3/16″ ( I call it 4 1/4″ (minus a hair))
- Use the smaller thinlit and the border thinlit and cut the right hand side of the Night of Navy
- Glue the cut piece to the card base flush to the left
- Using just the border thinlit, cut the card base to match the Night of Navy top
- Fussy cut along the fold line to make it a bit neater
- Cut an outside 2 1/4″ circle with the circle framelits and a 2 3/4″ X 2 3/4″ piece of Night of Navy
- Using a 2 1/4″ X 2 1/4″ piece of Whisper White stamp your greeting, then cut to make a 1 7/8″ circle with the Stitched Framelits specialty set #145372, the 2nd circle in from the center
- Cut a piece of the Floral Boutique Designer Series Paper at 4″ X 3 1/4″
- Layer the circles and then center them on the DSP and attach
- Wrap the DSP and circles tying a bow with 14″ Bakers Twine and then attach to the Night of Navy layer
- As you trim the Bakers Twine save a little bit and separate the strands to make little antennae for the butterfly
- Stamp a butterfly with the Papillion Potpourri stamp set #123759 and punch with the retiring Bitty Butterfly punch #129406
- I put one glue dot on to attach the antennae and then another to attach to the card
- The inside is the Standard Layers (click here) Night of Navy 5 1/4″ X 4″
- Whisper White top layer of 5″ X 3 3/4″
- Helpful Hint: Mount all three of the stamps on one block to get them nicely squared and then stamp the inside greeting
Imagine the different Designer Series Papers we could use to make this a birthday or graduation or………
Mother’s Day Window Box:
- Window Box Thinlits #142762
- Flourish Thinlits #141478 – use Night of Navy 2″ X 3 1/2″ and cut one flourish
- Pansy Punch #130698 – see instructions for flower above
- Thick Whisper White cardstock 11 X 6 (cut two box bases) See prior post instructions by clicking here
- Designer Series Paper; start with 3 3/4″ X 4″ and then cut just a top with Window Box Thinlit then cut off all the tabs; I had several to make so I used grid paper and made a template of just the top so I could quickly cut off the edges-store this template with your framelits for the future
- Every other side, three of the six sides, was made using #2 of the Stitched Shape square specialty framelits and a piece of DSP that was 2″ X 2″ (Note: #2 means the second one from the center)
- The other three sides used the # 2 Stitched Shape square and a 2″ X 2″ Night of Navy cardstock for the back border
- The top of the Night of Navy used a 1 7/8″ X 1 7/8″ piece of Whisper White and the heart cutout from the Window Box Thinlits layered with the retired #2 Regular Square Framelits Die. You layer both on the Whisper White and only need to cut once. The magnetic platform really helps with this cut!
- Before gluing all the pieces to the top of the lid, cut a 2″ piece of ribbon, fold it in half and glue it to the box lid. I used the retiring 5/8″ Organza #114319
- Cut a Delicate White Doilie # 141701 to fit the left edge of the top and attach your layers: the DSP, then Doilie, Flourish and finally the rose. I made an extra to store with the framelits for a template so future projects will take less time.
- I didn’t want to clutter the top with a greeting so I used the 2 1/2″ circle punch to punch a circle, sponged the edges and added a greeting. My Mother’s Day greeting comes from my stash of Paper Pumpkin stamp sets but the retiring Oh So Succulent stamp set on page 21 of the Occasions catalog #142992 and the That’s The Tag # 142755 retiring set on page 23 both have Mother’s Day greetings.
So now lets go find a beautiful piece of Navy satin and a lovely necklace, or perfume, or gift card to put in the box. Then let’s make a graduation box with a graduation cap instead of a rose what do you think?
SAL, Stamp A Lot this wonderful May month
Karen
Happy Easter!
He is risen indeed! May that truth give you cause for another joyous Easter celebration!
What better use of the Sunburst Thinlit than showing the resurrection of our Savior Jesus, God’s Son, who burst forth from the grave conquering death after becoming the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. Hallelujah!
The Sunburst Thinlit retires at the end of May, as does the Easter Message stamp set used here, (pg. 19 of the Occasions Catalog). If you would like next year’s Easter cards all designed and ready to mail, order the products before they expire, and then on those dreary January or February days you can be proactive and get all your Easter cards made. (You know I am talking to myself more than to you.)
Supplies:
- Easter Message Stamp Set, Clear 142987, Wood 142984
- Sunburst Thinlits, 140617
- Elegant Eggplant Card Stock,105126
- Copper Foil paper, Holiday Catalog Carryover, 142020
- Copper Thread, 141696
- Copper Embossing Powder, 141636
- Gold Sequins, 138390
- Pop of Pink Designer Series Paper, 141648
- Whisper White Card Stock, 100730
- White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, 109132
- Layering Oval Framelits, 141706 (I used the retired oval framelits)
There now, didn’t I make that easy?? I know, you are wishing for this a month ago but time flies and next Easter is only 360 days away!
Here is the front using copper embossing powder for the greeting instead of white.
Use the hostess code ZEAR3PSB if your order is under $150 so our monthly hostess, Sharon, gets credit for the order. She is hoping to earn enough to get a Big Shot!
SAL, (be Salt And Light to someone this Easter)
Karen
Hey Chick!
(If you are opening this in your mobile device, click little SAL at the left to have a more readable version of the blog.)
Hello Stamping Friends,
Crocus’, daffodils, tulips….oh my!
And then come the iris to beckon our eyes…
“Look, look,” they all seem to cry,
“Spring is here, let’s dance with delight!”
Spring is starting but Sale A Bration (SAB) will soon be ending so the news I am proclaiming from the housetops (blogtops?) is:
Only 10 days left of Sale A Bration with one free item for every $50 purchase.
Terri is our hostess this month and would love to receive credit for your order if it is under $150.
The hostess code for Terri is: 7BTDD3SU
With a purchase of $150 you will receive 10% of the total order in hostess dollars and with purchases of $250 or more you receive an extra $25, a special offer during SAB, plus the standard 10%, so you receive $50 in free products plus one item for each $50 order.
One of the free Sale A Bration stamp sets is called “Hey, Chick” and Evelyn Bicknell from Melbourne, Australia created a pocket card using the stamp set that is awesome! She also sent a pdf instruction sheet so you can create your own Hey Chick card. Check this out chickies:
Evelyn Bicknell
Hey Chick Pocket Card
Click on the blue link above for the pdf! Thank you, Evelyn!
Several of you have selected this set as your free SAB item. Send me a picture of your creation if you would like to share with our blog followers.
SAL, (‘Spring’ ing A Long)
Karen
Click the SAL computer image to go to the online store. Terri thanks you for your order and I thank you by sending a card with a little gift for each online order. In January my online customers received a set of In Color Doilies (page 175) and in February my online customers received the set of 20 Note Cards and Envelopes (page 176). For March it will be…………….a surprise! tee hee cheep cheep!
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