Stamp by the Beach

This past weekend I was a part of stampin' retreat hosted by Stamp with Lisa Marie AKA my amazing mom. ( follow her here--> Stamp with Lisa Marie  ). It was great fun and I was able to play with some product that has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time. One of the products was the pigment sprinkles, which to be honest are quite intimidating to me. I very much like for things to be precise and controlled and I don't like when I lose control of my work, and pigment sprinkles are very unpredictable! So after I created a horrid disaster that I will save your eyes and not share with you, I was cleaning my space with a baby wipe and this amazing smear affect occurred... so I decided to recreate it on my project! It's funny how happy accidents occur when you are crafting. Below I show you 2 different projects I created using this baby wipe smear technique and I just absolutely love it! I love that I could control it and that it created a simple background that my o...

This month's paper pumpkin featured 20 treat boxes all packaged up in an exclusive halloween themed box. Watch How I turned my box into a haunted house perfect for decorating and still had plenty of left over to make treat boxes to hand out! Also featured in my video was how to use 2 of our current punches to make a bat and pumpkin! Super Cute! This is such a fun project to create alone, with friends or even with your littles. I just love the way this turned out and the good news is, it is not too late to get yours! We have released the full Paper pumpkin kits and the refill kits to the website this morning! Hurry, go grab yours before they are all gone!  My completed Haunted house using the outside paper pumpkin box and the pieces from the kit. Fun fact, I only used 2 of the treat boxes total, which means I still have 18 treat boxes to hand out! How fun! You can make your house and your treat boxes with the same kit! Look how cute the windows are!   ...

Hey Friends! Yesterday was definitely a Monday! Luckily, I work at an amazing pediatric clinic and we have a therapy dog that comes in to Calm the patients... and the staff! This is Maverick and he is definitely a good boy!  This past weekend I have been working on holiday classes. I have my monthly class coming up this week, Thursday at 6:30 pm. I have a few seats available and I would love if you could make it! This month we are using the "baby wipe" technique and playing with a few sets from the holiday catalog! We are also having an amazing deal on designer series paper this month, so I made sure to include some of the amazing prints in this month's creations as well! In case you missed it, through the 30th of this month, Stampin' Up! is offering a buy 3 get 1 free sale on select designer series paper packs. This is a great way to stock up on your favorite designs or maybe try a few that you have on your wish list. I know, I know- the big box stores h...

I have been working hard today designing cards for the Stamp a Stack - Wrapped in Plaid Suite coming up this week. I was originally planning to design 3 cards, but once I got started I just couldn't help myself! If you signed up for the class, then SURPRISE! We will be making 4 cards, 3 of each design. So you are still leaving with 12 cards, but you will have a greater variety! I am pretty sure I have said it in earlier posts, but I am just loving this Wrapped in Plaid DSP. It is Gorgeous! I unintentionally created my original designs using the same DSP in 3 out of the 4 designs, I had to go back and switch it up a little, the Shaded Spruce Plaid just really spoke to my heart and made it sing- O' Christmas Tree has been stuck in my head all day!  For my customers who did not make it into the cutoff for ordering supplies for this month's stamp a stack class, I have created a PDF with all 4 of the cards complete with pictures, measurements and instructions as well a list...

If you guys have been following me for any extent of time, you know that in person I am just an awkward quiet person- I have a ton to tell the world, but when I open my mouth words come out all jumbled and my brain works faster than my hands. Oh well-- I can in fact write! So, tonight we talked about making our own DSP A.K.A. Designer series paper. It can be hard decided which DSP to buy and which ones will coordinate with our projects, especially when you have a very specific project in mind. BUT if you have stamps and you have ink, you have endless possibilities for creating DSP. In my first attempt at a live, it was sideways and you may have gotten a crook in your neck trying to keep up, I am sorry... In my first video I demonstrated how to use multiple colors and images to create a beautiful back ground that coordinated perfectly with the rest of my project. All the stamps were from the same set, Merry Moose which will be available for you to purchase beginning September 4th! Whi...

Since I cut into this beautiful paper earlier, I felt like I needed to keep using it so that nothing was wasted! In this card I featured a fun feature with the ornament "dangling" from the center of the card. The ornament will actually "spin" and turn on the string for a fun interactive feature!  To create this card, I simply lined up my stitched oval in the center of my pretty peacock paper and then ran it through my die cutting machine to pop out the center. Then I took the inside piece and I lined up the slightly smaller stitched oval onto and ran it through the die cutting machine to create the "frame" to go around the opening of the card. I stamped two large ornament images very vanilla cardstock using versamark ink and I embossed using the copper stamping embossing powder to coordinate with the copper accents of the DSP. I finished the ornament by coloring the image with my stampin' blends. I layer a piece of Very Vanilla on the inside o...

 We are one week away from our Holiday Catalog Launch!!! I am absolutely loving the new Wrapped in Plaid suite! I created the cards below featuring the Wrapped in Plaid DSP which is AMAZING! I think I have mentioned this before, but in this pack of 6x6 paper you receive 42 sheets of pure amazingness! On one side there is a gold embossed plaid print and then on the reverse side is a coordinating pattern - holly, pinecones, stockings, snowflakes etc. SUPER CUTE! These were both just fun ways to use up the DSP and even use scraps from your bigger projects! This: I simply cut my paper strips at 3 3/4 inches by 1/2" and glued them on my whisper white layer which is 4"x 5" using my liquid multipurpose glue. Layer that onto shaded spruce cut at 4"x 5 1/4". Stamp the tree and punch him out with the coordinating punch and then punch a shaded spruce tree to layer behind him. Finish it off with stamping words in shaded spruce ink and adding the red rhinestones to ...