Often I find myself without ideas – so one thing I have started doing is checking Pinterest for card layout ideas. Sometimes that will spark something in my brain. I saw this as a layout (sketch) and loved how it turned out!! The Designer Series Paper Stacks are wonderful sometimes just for adding color and…
Another fun way to swap, is to join an "organized" swap. Can't say I'm so organized, but I made up 48 swaps and we swap with 48 different ladies at a pre-arranged time. This is the SUDSOL swap. SUDSOL stands for Stampin' Up Demonstrators Sharing On Line. This is a wonderful group of demonstrators who…
We all love flowers and I just had to make some for one of my swaps. This was a very quick and easy card yet LOVE how it turned out It seems I don't have a lot of stamp sets with "stems"; I searched through the catalog and everyone that had a stem was a…
Can you imagine 300 ladies standing in a hall swapping cards? Yep – hard to imagine, but that is what we do. While waiting for the General Sessions to start, we stand around and swap samples. Most of the samples we make are card fronts – saves oodles of card stock. These ladies are SO…
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I'm headed off this afternoon to Portland and we fly out tomorrow for Salt Lake City and the last of it's kind – the Stampin' Up 2015 Convention. Yes, that's too true – this will be the last one – in the future there will be smaller gatherings locally – which will be nice, but…
I saw this idea at the Swap and Share on our Hawaii Incentive Trip and had such fun making them for my club members. And inside are little flags for their catalogs These are so quick and simple to make Cut a piece of card stock 6 1/2" x 2 3/4" Score at 2 1/2",…
Yep I cleaned off my desk (well somewhat…) and found one more Corner Fold Card. I used the Market Fresh with the Just Ripe for You sentiment and inside Measurements Real Red Card Base 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Front Old Olive 2 7/8" x 2 7/* Whisper White 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" Inside…
Love this stamp set and it works great with the corner fold card. Click here for a little tutorial on how to make this card And inside I have to admit I wasn't too excited about the Mint Macaron color this year, but I'm actually LOVING it!! It's definitely a "go to" color! Measurements…
The Market Fresh Stamp Set is SO unique – just love it. Three fun sentiments, Thanks a Bunch, Lettuce Celebrate and Just Ripe for you are SO fun – on this card I used my Stampin' Write Markers and colored the stamp, but you can stamp it in a sold color (black) and then color…