It is Tuesday and you know what that means — new Weekly Deals announced by Stampin’ Up!
This Weekly Deals offer expires on August 25th at 11:59 PM (MT) and items are only available at these prices WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! Don’t miss your chance to get your hands on these products at these amazing prices!
Thank you for stopping by my blog again today. Come back tomorrow as I hope to have a card or two to share with you.
Until then, stamp on my friends,
Linda
Welcome back to my blog. I actually put stamps to ink to paper on Sunday and had intended to share this sneak peek with you yesterday, but Mother Nature blew through Carrollton, Texas with a mighty boom and cracks of thunder knocking out my cable, internet and telephone for more than 24 hours. Thankfully my services are now back online!
2014 Holiday Catalog
COMING SOON!
I chose one of the stamp sets we got as part of our #Inspire.Create.Share.2014 Convention Bag called Seasonally Scattered which will be released in the 2014 Holiday Catalog on August 28 as the focal point of my card design.
I actually used several new products from the 2014 Holiday Catalog! Can you pick them out from the pictures below?
Below is a list of the products I used in the design of this card, starting first with those that will be available starting August 28 when the 2014 Holiday Catalog launches!
Seasonally Scattered Stamp Set
Watercolor Winter Too Stamp Set (Photopolymer)
Cherry Cobbler 3/4″ Chevron Ribbon
All is Calm Snowflake
And now the products that are available now for purchase from the 2014 Annual Catalog:
I had a lot of fun making this card and can’t wait to get my fingers all inky again real soon. Again, thank you for stopping by and visiting my blog today. I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper — I would love to see what you come up with.
Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda
One of the things I love most about Stampin’ Up! products are how easily they coordinate together. Whether you are looking for that perfect color combination, designer series papers that are a near perfect match to cardstock, inks and embellishments, or stamps with punches or framelits that make cutting out images quick and easy, Stampin’ Up! seems to have it all!
Below is a collection of cards I swapped with other demonstrators at Convention last month and they all use either a punch or a framelit in their design. I have included a comprehensive list at the end of the post of all of the products used (with the exception of ink colors, cardstock and/or designer series paper as not all designers included a recipe with their swap).
Designed by Cindy Wilson / Dunedin, FL
Designed by Kathy Gage
Designed by Unknown
Designed by Carmen Harder / Choctaw, OK
Designed by Cat Power
Designed by Beth Metzger
Designed by Marianne Webb / Mooresville, SC
Designed by Patti Carbonnell
Wow – imagine how much time these ladies saved using punches and framelits to cut out their images instead of “fussy cutting” them with paper snips!
Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I hope you leave inspired to put stamps to ink to paper, and maybe throw in a punch here and there. Oh, and as promised the list of products used in the designs are below. Contact me if you have any questions about the products used on a particular card.
Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda
Stampin’ Up! has released another Photopolymer Stamp Set this week … Yee-Haw! Okay, while I am very excited to see another truly clear stamp set, that just happens to be the name of this new set!
Dust off those boots, shine up your spurs, and figure out where you left your ten-gallon hat because with the 25-piece Yee-Haw photopolymer stamp set you can really let your cowboy (or girl) flag fly! [Recommended clear block sizes are A, B, C, D, & H (not included in the set).]
Stampin’ Up!’s photopolymer stamps offer a versatile all-clear stamping option. You’ll find that our photopolymer is top-quality and gives a perfectly stamped image every time. The stamps stick amazingly well to our clear blocks and are easy to place just where you want them. And best of all, you get to enjoy tons of images for a great price!
Below is a sampling of the projects the Stampin’ Up! design team came up with using the Yee-Haw stamp set — wow, wouldn’t that be an amazing job to be able to play with stamps and inks and papers all day, oh my!
I just love it! Looks like I will need to start a new Wish List and put this at the top of that list — YEE-HAW!
If you would like to add this to your Wish List too, here is a quick and easy link to my demonstrator business website:
Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Come back tomorrow to see what new stuff I have to share with you. Until then, stamp on my friends,
Linda
It is time to reveal this week’s Weekly Deals!
Get your Weekly Deals before they are all gone — these prices are only good WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
Thank you again for stopping by my blog. Come back tomorrow to see what else I have to share with you — you won’t be disappointed. Until then, stamp on my friends,
Linda
In my last blog post (which embarrassingly was August 6th), I shared with you a card that I got at Convention 2014 in a swap that featured a technique called “Masking Tape.” Earlier that same day my husband received the sad news that the mother of one of his good friends had died the night before. I knew I wanted to make Ricky and Debbie a sympathy card and thought that both the technique and the stamp set featured in my August 6th post would be perfect.
Now, I have to confess that I had never tried the Masking Tape technique and it was not as easy as my last blog post may have led you to believe (or maybe I’m just masking tape challenged). After several trial runs, I finally found a method that worked for me.
My tips for this technique: (1) use masking tape that is 1/2 to 3/4″ wide (I used 1″ wide tape and it is almost too wide); (2) if you have the juicier foam ink pads, “stamp off” on scratch paper once to reduce the amount of ink that will transfer from the tape to your cardstock.
In addition to the Lovely As A Tree stamp set, I used the Love & Sympathy stamp set for the greeting and on the inside of the card. I also used Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up the top matted layer from the card base.
If you would like to give this card a try, here are the materials and products you will need with easy links for ordering:
Crumb Cake Cardstock
Soft Suede Cardstock
Whisper White Cardstock
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin’ Pad
Soft Sky Classic Stampin’ Pad
Soft Suede Classic Stampin’ Pad
Sponge Dauber
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Extra-Large Oval Punch
StazOn Black Ink (trees)
Black Stampin’ Emboss Powder (trees)
Heat Tool
Lovely As A Tree stamp set (clear-mount) (wood-mount)
Love & Sympathy stamp set (clear-mount) (wood-mount)
Snail Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Masking or Painters Tape (non-Stampin’ Up! product)
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will come back again to see what else I have to share with you. Until then, I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps to ink to paper.
Stamp on my friends,
Linda
I am going to try sharing something a little new with you all today — so aren’t you glad you decided to drop by today?!
There are so many amazing Stampin’ Up! products and some pretty incredible “say what” techniques out there on how you can get that ink onto paper and end up with a spectacular piece of ART.
While swapping at Convention this year I managed to get my hands on some technique cards that just simply took my breath away and so I thought I would start with my first Products & Techniques post to help us both think outside the creative box.
Before I get started, can you take a guess as to the name of the stamp set that has been the longest selling in Stampin’ Up!’s Annual Catalog? Wait for it … if you guessed Lovely As A Tree then you would be correct! I have this stamp set in my collection with a copyright date on the wood blocks that reads 2001. (My fingers are crossed that it stays around for many more years to come!)
Coincidentally the technique swap I am going to share with you today uses Lovely As A Tree — and the technique used is called “Masking Tape.”
Designed by Terri Stewart
So just what is the “Masking Tape” technique?
When Terri created this card she started off with a 5″ x 3.75″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. She tore off a strip of masking tape and laid it sticky side down across a Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin’ Pad and rubbed it slightly with her finger to pick up some of the ink, removed the strip from the pad and then laid it across the lower part of the cardstock and rubbed with her finger to transfer the ink which created the grass. She repeated this step with a Marina Mist Classic Stampin’ Pad and laid the strip across the upper part of the cardstock to create the sky. Then she stamped the trees with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and double matted the stamped image with Basic Black cardstock and Marina Mist cardstock.
Sounds pretty simple, right, but the look is spectacular! You could add extra “pizzazz” to your stamped trees by sprinkling on some Black Stampin’ Emboss Powder and then rev up a Heat Tool to give the trees some texture.
I can’t wait for the weekend to roll back around so that I can try this technique myself. Now, if I can just remember where I put all of that extra painter’s tape …
If you are one of the half dozen or so people on the face of the planet who doesn’t already have Lovely As A Tree in their stamp collection, you can order yours by clicking on the links below (oh, and you can see / order the other products used in this card by clicking any of the links above too)!
Lovely As A Tree
(wood-mount) (clear-mount) (digital download)
Well, I was going to try and share two techniques with you but I think I will start and stop with just the one for today. The others are also pretty spectacular so you can bet that I will be sharing them with you real soon.
Thanks for stopping by. Again, I hope you leave here inspired to put stamps (or tape) to ink to paper. Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda
Here is it, my first Weekly Deals post since my return to posting to my blog (unfortunately I was sick last week with a stomach virus so we missed last week’s deals).
There are no limits on the quantity of the items at these prices — however, they are only available at these prices WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! So hurry up and snatch your deals while they are still available.
Did you notice that there are three products that are used with the Big Shot? Coincidence? Why not check out the Big Shot Bundles Promotion that runs through the entire month of August!
A Holiday Sneak Peek
Or if these Weekly Deals are not for you, have you been wishing for cooler weather now that the heat of August is finally settling in (at least here in Texas!)? Why not spend some time inside in the nice cold air conditioning and start early on this year’s holiday cards?
To help get you started, Stampin’ Up! is offering you a chance to get your hands on one of the new stamp sets from the 2014 Holiday Catalog (releases on August 28) — Beauty of the Season.
Beauty of the Season / 2014 Holiday Catalog
Truly lovely, don’t you think so? And it’s never too early to start creating those hand-made holiday cards!
If you have any questions regarding any of the products I discuss in my posts, do not hesitate to ask me, your creativity coach — I am here to help you!
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you leave inspired to put stamps to ink to paper. Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda
Hello once again and welcome back to my blog. Today I am sharing with you four cards — one that was a Make & Take project (that I stamped while at Convention) and three that I got by swapping cards with other demonstrators. The one thing they all have in common is that they use one of the new stamp sets from the 2014-2015 Annual Catalog — Kinda Eclectic — which was one of the stamp sets we received in our convention bags.
#Inspire.Create.Share.2014 Make & Take
Designed by Celia Cawthon
Designed by Kaye TeRonde (inspired by Kimberly Van Dierpen)
Designed by Amy O’Neill
Just another example of the versatility of what you can create with just one stamp set. If you need to add this to your “must have” list, here are easy links to my demonstrator business website:
Kinda Eclectic
By the way, did you know that Stampin’ Up! makes all their stamps themselves?
Our stamps feature exclusively designed artwork deeply etched into rubber. With hundreds of styles for every occasion, every taste and every creative mood you’re sure to find something you’ll love. What’s more, we’ve grouped our stamps into sets for easy coordination!
Versatility Meets Creativity
Our stamps offer you so many choices:
Our stamps now come in two different styles: our traditional wood-mount and the sleek clear-mount option. With clear-mount rubber stamps, you’ll enjoy the same high-quality rubber and foam you’ve grown to love on our wood-mount stamps. But repositionable clear-mount stamps helps you save on space and mix-and-match your images on any clear block. (Clear-mount blocks are sold separately.)
Meet Photopolymer Stamps
Enjoy a select grouping of stamp designs in top-quality photopolymer, too. It’s completely clear stamping! It’s just what you need for perfect placement every time. Our top-quality photopolymer has just enough give to create a perfectly stamped image. They’re durable, and they stick amazingly well to our clear blocks.
Rollin’ with Our Wheels
Our Stampin’ Around wheels combine high-quality rubber and exclusive artwork in a wheel! They let you create continuous patterns for backgrounds, pages and more. They also coordinate with many of our stamp sets, so you can use them together for awesome coordination. Plus, our builder wheels let you build your wheel any way you’d like. Stack three, two or even one! Stampin’ Around wheels come ready to snap into a handle for easy creativity.
Acrylic Blocks
Our variety of clear-mount blocks offer you all the sizes you need. Made from high-quality, sturdy acrylic, these blocks give you the versatility to stamp one image or to create a collage of images or words to meet your creativity needs. Each block is etched with a letter for easy identification and all four sides of the block are grooved, making it easy to grip as you stamp.
Putting Your Stamps Together
Our stamp sets are die cut to make it fast and easy to start stamping, but you still get to personalise your stamps by placing the rubber however you’d like on the wood or clear block.
Well there you go — everything you wanted to know about stamps but were too afraid to ask!
Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you leave inspired to put stamps to ink to paper. Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda
In my prior post (here) on the newest must have color tools available from Stampin’ Up! — their alcohol ink markers called Blendabilities — I made mention that the remaining six color assortments would be released soon.
As of August 1, you can now also purchase the following Blendabilities assortments:
What Sets Them Apart:
These markers are amazing to use. If you loved to color as a kid, you will love using these even more!
Thanks for stopping by. Take some time this week and sit down and get crafty. I would love to see what you come up with!
Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda
