All About Accents

So this morning I thought I’d bring to the forefront a couple of products I love but find hard to use – Accents and Elements, HodgePodge Hardware and Build a Brads. Why do I find them hard to use? Cause I don’t want to run out!

Here are all the products I started with. I [...]

Finally some play time for ME!

WOW! I got this new stamp set, A Beautiful Thing, from the upcoming Spring/Summer Collections Catalogue. I am in a swap with sets from the Preview Brochure and I finally got some time to play and this is the result.
I just LOVE this colour combination: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, More Mustard, Wild Wasabi, Certainly [...]

A Late Tag

I got tagged by Jill at Inkgenious a while back and have been slow in responding….well, here goes!
What is your most enduring Christmas memory? This was hard and the memory that comes to mind isn’t a great one. One year, I asked for roller skates for Christmas. This was all I wanted. This was also [...]

Great Ideas to Check out!

You’ve got to check out Craft Critique! They’ve been doing a Holiday Carnival this past week and have been highlighting some fantastic projects.
Oh, and I’ve also got a project to share today. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do for Greg’s sketch challenge and checked out SCS today for their Inspiration Challenge and [...]

All Heart

Okay, got another challenge done! This is this week’s sketch challenge on SCS. I knew right away what I was going to do. I had to run for my most fave set right now, Holiday Blitz!
I started with a Ruby Red cardbase and grabbed a few more Earth Elements colours – Close to Cocoa [...]

I’m so Challenged

Well, I finally got up early enough to work on some of my Leadership swaps and to do a SCS Colour Challenge. This week’s challenge is to use So Saffron, Elegant Eggplant and Wild Wasabi. Off to the races.
At first, I tried to figure out a way to make these colours into a holiday card [...]

Retiring Accessories

Today is the day that Stampin’ Up! reveals which accessories will be leaving the catalogue to make way for new ones! This list is not being posted on the SU website so please contact me directly or your local demonstrator to find out what is on the way out!
What am I most sad to see [...]

A Warm Wish

Well, Greg is at it again – he is issuing a great challenge. Check it out here on his blog, Captain Crafter.
I always like to take a wee bit of creative license with his challenges so I changed the card size to 6″ x 3″ and added quite a few more layers.
The base of [...]

New Rubbah and a Really Fun Project!

So, for those of you who are demonstrators, I hope you are enjoying the new set we had mailed to us! It is a level 3 hostess set in the upcoming catalogue and I LOVE IT! I’m planning for my last stamp club meeting of the year and had to use this set.

Okay, nice, but [...]

Blog Contest Winner!

Wow – I’m WAY over 30,000 now so I’d better announce the winner of the contest and what the prize is!
The winner is….can you hear the drum roll?
Number 11 comment by: GREG!
Hey, congrats, man!
What did he win? A coffee date with me this Thursday! No, really…he has won a $25 gift certificate to [...]