2013 Calendar March

This is the third in my series of calendar pages created using Stampin' Up's My Digital Studio program. I used a template this year for quick and easy calendar creating!

March is the birthday month for both of my girls, so a picture is usually pretty easy to obtain. :)

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2013 Calendar February

This is the second in my series of calendar pages created using Stampin' Up's My Digital Studio program.  I used a template this year for quick and easy calendar creating!

Picnic in February? Well, these pictures looked nice with the hearts and happy girls are always Valentine joy for this mom. :)

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2013 Calendar January Chow, Chow Chow Chow Chow

Dating myself much with the Cat Chow commercial again?


I love using Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio Program to create calendars for the grandparents each year...This time I used a pre-made template created by Stampin' Up! so some of my color matches and month to activity matches (picnic in February?) are just a bit unusual. It saved a ton of time though!

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NEW! Stampin' Up! Product Test Texture Boutique Embossing Machine

Check out this cutie pie embosser. Stampin' Up! is selling this as a product test, but only has 4000 available...hmmm.....LOVE the color!

'Tis the season of giving, and the Texture Boutique makes a wonderful gift for anyone who wants to create their own elegant embossed art. To help you with your gift-giving needs, we're offering a special value bundle that saves you $5.90. If you prefer, you can also purchase the Texture Boutique alone. Looking for stocking stuffers? Pick up some additional embossing folders.
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Come to Bethlehem in Purples

This Come to Bethlehem card's colors were from a swap I received for different stamp set, but I love the royal look it gives this set too. The silver embossing and silver glimmer paper add such sparkle.  I'm really going to miss Wisteria Wonder next July! It is so pretty and fresh with so many different colors!  You can make this card at Stamp  A Stack on November 15 or 16.  Hope to see you then!

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Alcohol Reinker Emboss Resist

I really enjoyed this quick Alcohol and Reinker form of Emboss Resist. I used Night of Navy, Bashful Blue and Marina Mist reinkers. We will make this card for December Technique Class...Notice that the inside includes a small bit of the technique as well.

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Edmond North Craft Show Today!

I hope you'll come and see me (and my downline Kris Kilkenny) at Edmond North High School band's holiday craft fair today. It is just inside the front doors, and there are many more vendors there as well.


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Ascending Rectangles Snowflake Soiree Stampin' Up! card

These Ascending Rectangle cards are everywhere, so I thought we might as well make one too! So we will make one tonight or tomorrow at stamp club/Technique class. :) I like the bright modern look of these colors and also enjoyed adding the rhinestone bling to all the centers that can be seen well.

I read Lyssa Zwolanek's tutorial for size instructions. Thanks Lyssa!

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Lip Balm Holder using Stampin' Up! Labels Collection Framelits

I will offer this Lip Balm Holder with Stampin' Up! Pomegranate scented lip balm at my Gift Class on November 29, 30 and December 1. Customers need to let me know if they want to make it by noon on November 2nd though because I only have 20 of the lip balm and intend to sell the remainder at the Edmond North Craft Show this Saturday, November 3rd.

The idea came from LeAnn Pugliese.

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Evergreen set Swap Card

I made this layered card for a swap, and now we'll make it at Stamp Class this week.  It uses vellum and StazOn with plenty of Gumball Green. Certainly Celery is so versatile with many other greens, and I used white frost shimmer paint to create the sparkle on the background. I think it is easy and elegant.

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Stampin' Up! Tweet Leaves Thanksgiving card

This card uses the Tweet Leaves stamp and the Core'dinations Cardstock with sanding block. I enjoy this little stamp so much, and I like the look with the woodgrain embossing folder for Thanksgiving. The image was stamped with the marker to stamp technique. We'll make this card this week at Stamp Club/Technique class.

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Wonderful Winterland

I decided I couldn't resist this set due to the bunny and little girl drinking cocoa image....Then, I saw Janine Tinklenberg's card here http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/2012/09/two-one-layer-cards.html, and I decided we could make something similar at December Stamp Club/Technique class. Her cards are one layer and Gojus phenomenal beauties, and I just used torn edges, but the idea is the same.... :)

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Warm Winter Wishes Stampin' Up! Winter Memories set

I loved a very similar card to this by my friend Kim Bolzenthal for the Stampi' Addicts holiday catalog blog hop http://stitchinnstampinonpaper.blogspot.com/2012/08/holiday-mini-catalog-blog-hop.html, so I changed it from the lovely Soft Suede to Cherry Cobbler and simplified it just a bit by using four punched images instead of three slightly taller images. I hope you like it because we're going to make it at December technique class and club. :)

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Ornament-palooza!

I made a version of the Ornament on page 3 of the Stampin Up! Holiday catalog using Baja Breeze and white, and I really like the soft color. It is sprayed with glimmer mist as well.

I also couldn't resist trying a 3D ornament using the new Big Shot Snowflake Bigz die.  And a little glitter always makes a snowflake better!

I'm considering offering an ornament class...let me know if you are interested!

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MOJO 261 TLC397 Weaving

 

I need to get back to doing some challenges, and these two were calling to me today! This card was inspired by the weaving challenge on SCS and the MOJO Monday sketch for this week. 

 

I had to add something to the inside of this card that I saw on Pinterest. Sadly, she did not watermark her picture, and the site didn't mention her last name in the post, so I can only say it was made by Kimber on Scrapbook and Cards today- the blog.

 

I love how subtle this little pumpkin is!  I went for an understated surprise since the front of the card has a lot of action items. :)

 

 

 

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Brayer Cards Illuminate Ink and Lovely As A Tree

The Halloween card is a CASE of a swap card I received from Sara Cimbaro.  My customer asked to do the brayering technique because she missed that class last time.  Often my customers don't need very many Halloween cards, so I'm offering a choice this month of either the Christmas or Halloween version of this card.  The Halloween card is fairly true to live, but the Christmas card is better in person....you can't see in this picture that it actually uses Glossy Cardstock instead of Whisper White.

The Christmas card features Illuminate Ink and Lovely As A Tree with Dazzling Details glitter glue as well. I think everyone will like one or the other of these cards. :)

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Lazy Girl's Holiday Ornament Framelit Ornament

For this ornament I started with this tutorial by Linda Heller http://lindastamps.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/holiday-catalog-ornament-2-videos/ which is an awesome "Lazy Girl's" alteration of the ornament on the front of the Stampin' Up! holiday catalog. That one is made by stamping and cutting out each image 20 times with the Holiday Ornaments Framelits Dies. I loved Linda's idea of making it from designer series paper to save time.  For the Lazy' Girl's version, one merely needs to die cut the ornament shapes rather than stamp. Frankly, I'm not sure I'd have ever tried it as shown.  My framelits also would not cut through four layers on the large ornament even with a shim. I only cut two layers at a time for both size ornaments.

I didn't mind the Cherry Cobbler scalloped tulle with the Real Red piece of Candlelight Christmas designer series paper. I thought it added depth of color. I made it shorter than the recommended 5 inches (I used 3 full scallops as my guide), and I liked having an ivory pattern for the rosette in the middle rather than a brown.  I also didn't cut the Victoria crochet ribbon in two pieces. I merely folded it over and kept the longer sides of the ribbon on the inner portion of the ornament. There are several ways you could alter it to suit you.

Copying from my friend Kris Kilkenny, I added my name and the year to the bottom of the mistletoe image I stamped to decorate the back of the ornament.

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Banner Deer Merry Christmas

This Stamp a Stack card has a center banner as well as a banner sentiment.  I like how the designer series paper lightens up the card, but I really like the dot of Cherry Cobbler Dazzlind Details glitter glue on the reindeer's nose. :) 

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Gatefold Red Ornament

I have another Stamp A Stack card for you today....typically, these are simpler cards that can be produced relatively quickly.

I really like the cheerful colors of this card as well as the small bit of texture and repeated horizontal dots and dashes.

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Snowflake MOJO258

I didn't quite use all the elements from the MOJO Monday challenge, but I used all of them that I needed for this card.  This will be one of the Stamp A Stack cards for next week.

Colors used were Midnight Muse and Baja Breeze....



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