ICS BLOG HOP-MERRY CHRISTMAS THINLETS

This month on the Inspire, Create, Share Blog Hop, we are featuring Christmas cards galore!!! Tis the season!!! With so many lovely choices in both our Annual Catalog & the Holiday Catalog there's plenty of great items to make something really pretty for your holiday greetings!!! Wait til you see the amazingness here!!!

Here's my card:

I wanted to feature one of my favorite items in the Holiday Catalog-the 

Merry Christmas Thinlets!!! Talk about a quick, easy yet beautiful card!!! The stamp set Merry Christmas to All coordinates just perfectly!

I thought the Petal Burst Embossing Folder-while not Christmas at all- makes a kind of cool background here! Yet another example of the versatility of our tools!!!

The cute little pinecones were made with the Pretty Pines Thinlets! I thought they went great with the beautiful new Under the Mistletoe DSP!!!!!  Right?!!!! That's basically where the inspiration from the card came from! Sometimes I just look at a beautiful piece of DSP, decide to feature that, then decide what I can use to enhance it!!!

I finished it off with some Linen Thread & a bit of bling with our 

Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels!  

So now hop over to Deb's blog for some more beautiful Christmas inspiration!!!! Then keep right on going until you get back to where you started!!! Simply click her name here or the icon below!!!

There's still plenty of time to get your Christmas card materials from the Holiday Catalog!! Simply click HERE & you'll find everything you're looking for!!!!

Since we won't see you again as a hop until the New Year, a very 

Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah 

to you all!!!! Best of wishes for a wonderful, creative 2019!!!!!

Merry Stampin'!

ICS-CROSS-STITCHED CHRISTMAS

This month on Inspire, Create, Share Blog Hop we are starting our       Holiday crafting with a 3-D item! Lots of fun ideas for the holidays!!!   We are a week early this month as many of us will be traveling to Orlando next week for our OnStage event!!! So much fun ahead!!!

So let me start by saying 3-D items are a real challenge for me! If you follow this blog, you know I'm a real CAS (Clean & Simple) kinda gal! My cards are very linear & simple. I do not usually work with 3-D items! In fact I rarely make them!  I love to look at them & see the great ideas others have, but I'm not great at coming up with something new! But the holidays are all about bling & fun, so I decided to give it a try! My creation is rather CAS, but I think its cute! What dya think?

Here it is:

So I thought what's more 3-D for the holidays than Christmas ornaments? Most people have a tree, so we need the ornaments to hang from them! These came out cute, but they are very simple!!!

My fave stamp set from the Holiday Catalog is the Cross-Stitched Christmas set! I love the multi-step stamping, & I think it's a pretty, crisp stamp set!

These 3 little ornaments sparkle! I used my amazing Stamparatus to stamp the base layer in a color, the second layer with Versamark &                     White Embossing Powder, and the 3rd layer with Versamark &

 Silver Embossing Powder!  I chose these colors because I feel they are "cool" colors-for winter!!!

I am not one for fussy cutting, but I thought the Stitched Oval Framelit made the ornament look like it was in a hoop.   Which is where you would work the cross-stitch! I backed them all with a nice Silver Glimmer Paper.  Just thought they needed some "bling" on the backside!

I fortunately had matching colors in the twine-Night of Navy Medium Bakers Twine, & 2 colors from Nature's Twine!  Add a bit of Glitter Enamel Dots & Basic Jewels Rhinestone bling & it's kinda sweet!!!

So nothing fancy but easy to make & fun to hang on your tree! Great to do with your kids!!!!

Now hop over to Terri's blog & see what she came up with!!! Just click on her name or the icon below & you'll get there! Then keep going!! Follow through this great hop of ideas to get you into the Holiday spirit & ready for crafting!!!

Happy Stampin'!

ICS BLOG HOP-MANY BLESSINGS

This month on the Inspire, Create, Share Blog Hop we are celebrating 

Fall for All!!! Beautiful fall creations featuring products from our amazing new Holiday Catalog will be featured!!!! 

Now everyone knows I'm a summer girl, but fall is second best! Here in 

New England we have the most vibrant colors! Lots of apple picking, pumpkins & corn stalks, hay bales & lots more happen around here! Although this year we've had so much rain it's hard to see any colors at all! So looking forward to this blog hop to make my colors shine!!!

Here's my fall creation this month:

This was a fun, clean-and-fairly simple card to make. That's my style!!! This is the Many Blessings stamp set! It was inspired by one of Stampin' Up's Million Sales Achievers-Ruth Snyder! I really like it because it works for anything from early fall right through Christmas! A super versatile, fun stamp set! 

And it's perfect to use with our amazing Stampin' Blends! Ok I love to color. Don't judge! lol This like "grown up" coloring! And I love how these colors really made me think fall!

I used the Layered Leaves Dynamic Embossing Folder. Now usually I spritz the card stock a bit with water before I emboss with these folders, but this time I wanted a softer finish-so no water! Still pretty but a nice light finish!

I love this kind of peek-a-boo style card!!! It just adds a little something extra to a pretty greeting card.   Easy to do with all the Layering Circle Framelits & Circle Punches we have! I used a combo here! And the photopolymer stamps are "flexible" so i was able to fit that wreath-like stamp on the round strip!

Finished it all off with the Braided Linen Trim! I am very happy with this one! Love my Stampin' Blends!

Now hop on over to Megan's blog & see what she is featuring for Fall for All!!!  Then keep going & check out everyone else's! Just click on her name or the icon below! Happy fall y'all!!!

Happy Stampin'!

ICS BLOG HOP-BALLOON BOUQUET PUNCH

This month on our Inspire, Create, Share Blog Hop we are featuring our "Passion for Punches"!!! These tools are such an amazing, quick, & easy accessory to your stampin' fun!!! And Stampin' Up! has so many awesome coordinating punches & stamp sets!!

Here's my card this month:

This is a fun & easy birthday card! I needed one last minute so had
to whip it up! Now I've used this Balloon Bouquet Punch & 

Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set combo I can't tell you how many times! What a sweet easy birthday card they make together!

But wait, can you find the second punch on this card? Yup! The 

Classic Label Punch! There is an image for that too in the stamp set! Now don't get me wrong-I am a Framelits freak!!! But these punches make everything quick & easy!!!

And what about that background!!! That is a brandy new stamp from the Holiday Catalog (available soon!) called the Buffalo Check! It fits a full card front & stamps so sweet!!! I KNOW this is gonna be one of my "go-to's"!!

Other items used include the Night of Navy Medium Bakers Twine & the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls! The colors used are from the new 

In-Colors!!!

So go hop over to Karie's blog & see what punches she's using! Then keep going! Then go grab your own punches & use the inspiration to create a cute card!!! Need some punches? 

Well if you don't already have a demonstrator that you work with I'd love to help you out! Just click HERE! You'll find some beauties!!!

Happy Stampin'!

BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET-SYMPATHY CARDS

I have needed way too many sympathy cards lately! I decided to make a few different ones to have on hand!

These are all made with the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set!

Here's the first:

This one I used the Bouquet Bunch Framelits to cut out the flower details. The beautiful backgrounds the Basket Weave Dynamic Embossing folder!   This one is very simple-I made several! 

The sentiment is from the Itty Bitty Greetings. The ribbon is the 

Grapefruit Grove Grosgrain ribbon.  I did have a couple of extra sequins from an old Paper Pumpkin kit! They matched perfectly!!!

Here are the 2nd & 3rd:

Both cards are made from the same stamp set & framelits! Amazing how 1 stamp set can make such different cards!  These are almost the same, but I used a little different placement with the ribbon. The DSP is from the 

Wood Textures 6x6 DSP Pack. It's from the same piece reversed. Which one do you like best? Did you even notice the difference? lol

The ovals are from the Stitched Frame set & the Layering Ovals Framelit pack.  

I pulled out the retired Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set for the sentiment. While I love the new one, this one will always be close by for sentiments! They just "fit" anywhere!!!  The rouched ribbon was from the last catalog. Retired but the color is still current. Yes, I do use up my retired materials! lol 

So same sentiment, same stamp set, 2 very different styles! I love this bundle! You can get it HERE!!!!

Use the Hostess Code UKXWUT4B  when ordering!!!  And pray I don't need any more sympathy cards too soon! Geesh!

Happy Stampin'!

SEA OF TEXTURES-ONE OF A KIND!

Yes I love this stamp set! I've been playing a lot with it! lol Sea of Textures never fails to amaze!!! I love the way everything comes out!

With this one I was dying to use the cute little octopus!! There is an octopus framelit in the coordinating Under the Sea Framelit pack! Of course it goes with the stamp! The seaweed & such on the bottom are also cut with the framelits! So many to choose from! It's a great deal!!!

So  the DSP is from the Tranquil Textures pack! I've almost used this pack up! I love it! It goes with every stamp set & can be used for every sentiment!!!

The sequins are leftovers from a recent Paper Pumpkin set.  There are always plenty of extras in those kits! Not a subscriber yet? Boy are you missing out!!! Contact me to find out how you can join!!!

Anyway, thats really the only extra used here! Oh, the Baker's Twine on the octopus is white colored with the Tranquil Tide Stampin' Marker! A bit messy but quite an effective way to get the colors you want! I thought the little bow made him "one of a kind" like the sentiment says!!!

Anyway, if you'd like this stamp set/framelit bundle, you can save 10% by ordering HERE!   

Be sure to use the Hostess Code UKXWUT4B at checkout!!! Hope you enjoyed!

Happy Stampin'!

SEA OF TEXTURES-THINKING OF YOU

So today's stamp set is quickly becoming one of my favorites-Sea of Textures! If you follow me you know I'm from Cape Cod. I am all about anything ocean, sea, nautical, etc! So when one of these stamp sets come out I get all giddy! lol And this one lives up to the hype! You can find everything in this post in our amazing Annual Catalog!

I needed a card for a neighbor who was in the hospital. She's a neighbor from where I grew up-on the Cape! So this stamp set seemed like the natural choice!!

I absolutely LOVE how this came out! The background is from 

Tranquil Textures DSP pack. This paper is part of the same suite as 

Sea of Textures, but it's super versatile!!!! I thought this one was kind of like bubbles!!! lol

When you use the Under the Sea Framelits with the stamp set it's a win-win combo! I love these sand dollars!

It's finished off with some Crumb Cake Twine from the 

Nature's Twine Combo Pack!  The greeting is from the new 

Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set! I love having the versatility of those little words!!! So many to choose from!

If you like the Sea of Textures/Under the Sea Framelits combo, you can save 10% on the bundle!! You can order it HERE!!!

Be sure to use the Hostess Code UKXWUT4B at the payment section of the order!!

Happy Stampin'!