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Happy Birthday Susan
Susan Field is a fellow Stampin’ UP! demonstrator who has been the pilot on several road trips to various Stampin’ UP! events. I, am (affectionately) known as the nagigtor and serve as her co-pilot. Susan’s birthday is tomorrow and I put this card in the mail to her. A lovely person deserves a lovely card. Happy Birthday Susan and may you be blessed with many more to come!
Inspired by: Ann Schach
Stamp Set: Just Thinking
Inks: Stazon Black
Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, First Edition Designer Series Paper
Tools & Accessories: Sizzix Big Shot, Window Frame Framelits, Simply Scored Scoring Tool & Styus, Cobbler Seam Binding, Basic Pearls
Winter Flower
Even though the holidays are almost behind us, snowflakes are still relevant for the winter season. I used this ensemble of punches and die cuts to create a Winter Flower. The silver glimmer paper makes the flower glisten. I will be sending this to my peep, Mary Taylor for her birthday.
I’m also going to crop out the flower and use it as my Facebook badge for January.
Inspired by: Donna Wicks
Stamps: Word Play (inside)
Ink: Marina Mist (inside)
Paper: Whisper White, Marina Mist, Silver Glimmer Paper
Tools & Accessories: Sizzix Big Shot, Chevron Embossing Folder, Snow Flurry Bigz Die, Blossum Punch, ½” Circle Punch, Dimensionals.
Holiday Romance
I have always been terrified of watercoloring with an Aqua Painter. I don’t know why because it’s so easy. And how exquisite with the right stamp set and color palate. This is not just a Christmas card. I plan on using it as a birthday card.
Inspired by: Lee Conrey
Stamp Sets: Bordering on Romance
Paper: Be of Good Cheer Designer Series Paper, Gumball Green, Very Vanilla, Watercolor Paper
Ink: Stazon Black, Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green
Tools & Accessories: Sizzix Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine, Labels Collection Framelits Dies, Stripes Embossing Folder, Scallop Border Punch, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon, Basic Jewels Rhinestones, Aqua Painter, Stampin' Dimensionals
Quint-Essential
This punch has so many possibilities and it’s going to be offered as a free stamp (with a $50.00 purchase) during Sale-a-brations.
Inspired by : Ann Schach
Stamp Sets: Quint-Essential Flower, Petite Pairs
Ink: Bravo Burgundy, More Mustard, Old Olive
Paper: Bravo Burgundy, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest Designer Series Paper, Regals Designer Series Paper Stack & Brights Designer Series Paper Stack
Tools & Accessories: Sizzix Big Shot, Chevron Embossing Folder, 2⅜ Scallop Circle Punch, 1 ¾ Scallop Circle Punch, 1” Punch, ⅜” Punch, ½” Punch, 1”, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Square Punch, Basic Pearls, Dimensionals
Customer Appreciation
This past Sunday, my Stampin’ UP! demonstrator pals Judy Sumner, Mary Taylor and I hosted a Customer Appreciation Soiree to express gratitude to our clients for their support and friendship. We had three make & takes for them to do and a table spread with lots of delicious food & beverages. I also gave a short tutorial on how to use the My Design Studio 2 software to color a stamp using a variety of colors as in the Tweet Leaves card.
Our distinguished guest was our upline and friend, Pam D’Urso who came from Mahomet, IL to be with us. Her presence made our day extra special.
All three of us were totally wrapped up in the day that we forgot to take pictures. Maybe next time.
These are the make & takes from this lovely afternoon.
Hybrid Cardmaking
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Purchasing Stampin’ UP!’s MDS-2 digital has been one of my round-to-its. Last week, I surfed across a U-Tube tutorial by Sage Kimble showing in detail, how to color a stamp using multiple colors. Don’t ask me how I got there, I just did. It gave me the perfect reason to get around to it. I purchased the MDS-2 upgrade, downloaded it, installed it and then open up the software. After that, Sage’s instructions walked me step by step on how to color the digital stamp. Once colored, I exported the file as a jpeg and it was ready to print. All this with going through only a half a bag of chocolate.
The Tweet Leaves image is the only digital image on this card. My customer’s at Saturday’s stamp camp were ever so happy that they didn’t to color the image with markers.
The MDS-2 software is now half price which makes it a fantastic bargain with endless possibilities.
MDS-2: Tweet Leaves
Stamps: Sweet Essentials
Ink: Midnight Muse
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Midnight Muse, Cajun Craze
Tools & Accessories: Sizzix Big Shot, Stripes Embossing Folder, Designer Ribbon Slides