Stamp, Stock & Save with Stampin’ Up!

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

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Stampin’ Up! is so excited about this year’s World Card Making Day, that they are having a ridiculous 15% off sale on some of your favorite products!  From October 1-6 , you’ll be able to purchase select ink, paper, envelops, and adhesive — all at a 15% discount!  Select stamps are 20%!  With Christmas just right around the corner, it’s a perfect chance to restock your supplies and make cards!

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See the flyer HERE or simply contact me for more information.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Lots of outside distractions in my life at the moment, some good and some not so good, but I hope to be back to posting on a daily basis real soon.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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A Festival of Trees on Point

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

I started this post almost a week ago … let’s just pretend it really hasn’t been that long ago …

I have returned home from my weekend in Oklahoma.  I had a blast at the Stampin’ Up! Unite & Excite event (#uniteexcite) on Friday night followed by the Red River Retreat on Saturday.  My husband traveled with me and we had also planned to visit with some of his family who live in Oklahoma, but the death of their dear granny had them traveling to Texas instead.  So my husband and I spent Saturday evening at the Winstar Casino instead (his suggestion) and I only lost $2.17 when all was said and done!

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I had a project board on display for both days and all of my Christmas cards I have shared with you were on the board.  Here is one other card that I made that I did not get a chance to share with you last week using four new products from the Holiday Catalog — can you pick them out?

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Below are the products I used in the design of this card, all of which can be purchased from my demonstrator website 24/7 with just a click of the mouse:

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  Sorry for the long wait between posts.  I will endeavor to do better.  I do have some amazing cards to share with you that we made at the retreat last weekend so stay tuned.

I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.  Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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A Cheerful Christmas on a Filigree Frame

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

I heard on the news Thursday morning that there are something like a 103 days until Christmas!  Oh my, how time flies as you get older (or at least that has been my experience).

In keeping with my theme of late — that is, focusing on projects using the Stampin’ Up! products available in the Holiday Catalog — I designed today’s card using the Cheerful Christmas stamp set and the Filigree Frame embossing folder.  These are two other products that I simply fell in love with when they were revealed at Convention in July and they were at the top of my wish list when the Holiday Catalog went live in late August.

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Are you wondering how I got the two different colors of ink on the stamped image?  Well let me tell you, then.  Rather than coloring the rather large stamp with Stampin’ Write markers, I inked the entire stamp in Cherry Cobbler (Classic Stampin’ Pad) and then used a Blender Pen to remove the ink from the pine needles and recolored just those small areas with an Old Olive Stampin’ Write marker.  BUT before stamping onto card stock I “huffed” on the entire stamp to remoisten any ink that may have started to dry.  And there you go, that’s how I did it.

And here are the Stampin’ Up! products that I used in the design of this card (click on the images to get the details on how you can order them for yourself).

Thank you again for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

It is rather late and I have work tomorrow and then will be traveling to Oklahoma, so I will not have time to add any posts to share with you until my return on Sunday.  I expect they will be amazing so come back to see what’s new.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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A Wondrous Wreath on a Hardwood Door

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

A day later than I had promised, but here is the card that I designed earlier in the week using the Wondrous Wreath bundle from the Holiday Catalog.  I fell in LOVE with this bundle when I caught a sneak peek of it in July while at Convention.  I have had this design swimming around in my head ever since!  (Hey Nancy Q., there’s a door knob!)

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Here are the Stampin’ Up! products that I used in the design of this card, all of which can be ordered in a flash on my demonstrator website — just click on the images below to get there.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you leave her inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.  And be sure to come back again real soon as  I will have more to share with you.  I hope to get a few posts scheduled before I head to Oklahoma for the weekend.  When I return I will have tons of projects to share with you.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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Weekly Deals from Stampin’ Up!

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

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It is Tuesday which means it is time to reveal this week’s Weekly Deals from Stampin’ Up!  Don’t miss your chance to cash in on the savings — these deals are available only while supplies last!

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  Tomorrow I will have a card to share with you that I made using the Wondrous Wealth Bundle available for purchase in the Holiday Catalog!

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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I Needed A Do-Over Watercolor Winter

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

Welcome back to my blog.  Today’s card that I will be sharing with you underwent some renovations a few times and I am still not quite happy with how it turned out but it is time to move on …

This was another project using the Watercolor Winter Simply Created Kit from the Holiday Catalog in a manner slightly different than the instructions provided (who reads instructions anyway, right!).

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I just never could get the look I had envisioned inside my head to come out on the paper.  Have you ever had one of those days?

And here are the products used in the design of this card — maybe you can tweak it to make it just right :).

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  While my project I shared with you was not up to my standards, I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper and improve my card design.  I would love to see what you come up with.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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Wondrous Wreath on Hardwood

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

I did not spend time getting creative today — I spent most of the day with my husband grocery shopping, watching the Cowboys lose and such.  Good news is that I can still share with you one of the make-n-take projects we made at our group meeting on Saturday.

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I just got a shipment earlier this week with the Wondrous Wreath bundle (when you buy the stamp set and framelits as a bundle, you save 15% off what you would spend if bought separately) and the Hardwood background stamp and am very impatient to get them all inked up so you should expect to see something I have designed using them real soon.

Here are the products used in the creation of this card:

Thank you again for stopping by my blog.  I hope you leave inspired to but stamps to ink to paper.  Come back soon to see what else I have to share with you.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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Festival of Trees with a Filigree Frame

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

I spent some fun time this morning with fellow demonstrators at the home of Amy Storrie.  Amy is always a wonderful hostess and shared with all of us some business tips and then five make-n-take projects, most using products from the 2014 Holiday Catalog.

One of the cards she designed for us to make used the Festival of Trees and Tree Punch which are both sold separately — but also as a bundle, which saves you 15% than if you purchased each product separately!  (And if you are a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, you would be saving 35% — wink wink).

This card was quick and is cute as a button.

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Here are the products used in the design of this card:

Thank you again for stopping by and visiting my blog today.  I hope to spend more time creating tomorrow so I should have more to share with you soon.  I hope that you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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Lovely as a Tree is a Work of Art

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

Shortly after I returned from Convention in July I shared with you a selection of cards that I received from swapping with other demonstrators who used the Work of Art stamp set.  I also shared some trivia with you about the Lovely As A Tree stamp set — holds the record for the most consecutive years in the Annual Catalog.

As I was churning the creative juices last weekend I thought why not make a card using both of these stamp sets — so I did!  I also managed to work in one of the new stamp sets from the Holiday Catalog.

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Below are the products I used in the design of this card, all of which you can link to by clicking on the thumbnail which will take you directly to my demonstrator website where you can place your order 24/7:

Thank you for stopping by my blog (sorry I was away for a few days).  I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.  I will be creating more projects to share with you this weekend so come back and see what I come up with.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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Watercolor Winter Sleigh

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Linda Tolson Yarbrough

Stampin’ Up! offers many “kits” — both in their Annual Catalog and the Holiday Catalog — that contain just about everything you need to make cards (or whatever project the kit is geared towards).  Each kit also comes with directions for suggested uses of the contents; but sometimes it is fun to create something original with the kit pieces.

I spent some time this weekend in my craft room (when I was not taking a mini-vacation in Frisco with my husband and our grandson at the Rough Riders baseball game — geez, it was hot!) and created two cards using the Watercolor Winter Simply Created Card Kit that I received at Convention in July.  I was not head over heels in love with this kit (I think it was the water-coloring aspect of it) but I knew it had potential.

Here is the first (and so far my favorite) card I created using parts of the kit along with a few other Stampin’ Up! products.

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The card base, sleigh, vellum snowflake and banners are from the kit.  I added some designer series paper matted with Real Red and Whisper White card stock, a vintage button and the silver snowflake embellishment.

Below is a list of all of the Stampin’ Up! products I used in the design of this card:

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you will come back again to see what else I have to share with you (oh, I placed my order for new products from the Holiday Catalog which will arrive early this week so I will have lots of new stuff to play with!).  I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,

Linda

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