Stamparatus Magnolias ... So Fun ... and Easy!

At my July Scraps and Prayers class, I'll be teaching how to use the Stamparatus and Simply Scored tools to create a super fun card ... with magnolias, of course.  Here are the cards I've made:

I actually made 2 versions of my design.  In case you don't want to mess with trying to tie a little bow, you could punch out a couple of leaf trios.  Some days are bow days and some just aren't.

I used scoring lines on my scrap template to determine the best placement for the text, in the center of my square.  Once I had that figured out, I could use my Stamparatus to keep the placement exactly right for my cards.

I added a touch of stamping on layers inside my cards, as well.

I really like how my cards turned out.  I love the little blossoms.

It's always nice to have a little stash of 'Thinking of You' cards. 

Before you go, be sure to scroll down to see my reminders AND to see something new --- about a special drawing!

UPDATES ON WHAT'S NEXT:

JUNE HOSTESS CODE:

KG7BHGYD

My Order Incentives:
- Orders of any of our Punch + Stamp Set Bundles
- Orders of any of our Dies + Stamp Set Bundles
- Orders of any of our complete Suites above $50.00.
Our BUNDLES may be found in our new Annual Catalog on pp. 4-11.

Qualifying Suites:
- Woven Threads (p.12)
- Noble Peacock (p.24)
- Magnolia Lane (p.37)
- Follow Your Art (p.53)
- Pressed Petals (p.73)
- Bird Ballad (p.91)
- Dinosaur (p.99)
- Perennial Essence (p.107)
- Mosaic Mood (p.119)
- See A Silhouette (p.132)
- Come Sail Away (p.145)

Any orders over $50.00 will also earn tokens, as well, and all orders during this time period will earn equal credit at my Annual Garage Sale.
Incentives will be given out at a date (announced here) soon after my June 23 Summer Open House/New Catalog Party.

There will also be game prizes and door prizes that may be won during the Open House.  Those winners will be announced here and have prizes available at a date (announced here) soon after my June 23 Summer Open House/New Catalog Party.

NEW

ALL ORDERS WILL BE ENTERED INTO A DRAWING FOR A SPECIAL PRIZE!!! 

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JUNE HOSTESS CODE:

KG7BHGYD

MY SUMMER OPEN HOUSE PARTY IS TOMORROW!!!

June 23 --- 2:00-5:00 / Get ready for fun!  

June 28-20 --- 8:00-5:00 Friday / 8:00-Noon Saturday

MY ANNUAL GARAGE SALE 

I'll have lots of stamping and paper crafting products for sale.

Come and find a good bargain!

July 8 -- Scraps and Prayers / 5:30-7:30 / $18. 

Pay to register by July 1.

We'll be making some more beautiful cards and enjoying using some fun, new products.  We'll be working with White Craft Ink and I'll have a couple of really fun ways to use the Stamparatus to share with you, as well as a new fun fold card design.   I hope you can join us.

That's it for now.  Thanks for stopping by my blog neighborhood.  Have a beautiful day!

Good Morning Magnolia 2 Ways

I have more magnolias for you today and 2 more ways to design your cards.  Enjoy!

Here's a simpler version, on a Crumb Cake card base.  We'll be making this one at my July 8 Scraps and Prayers class.  I love it on Crumb Cake.

Here's a stepped-up version, on a Mossy Meadow card base.

For an added touch of fun, I added more layers to the inside of my cards.

Of course, you can change the sentiment and try other colors, as well.  Which version do you like the best?

UPDATES ON WHAT'S NEXT:

JUNE HOSTESS CODE:

KG7BHGYD

My Order Incentives:
- Orders of any of our Punch + Stamp Set Bundles
- Orders of any of our Dies + Stamp Set Bundles
- Orders of any of our complete Suites above $50.00.
Our BUNDLES may be found in our new Annual Catalog on pp. 4-11.

Qualifying Suites:
- Woven Threads (p.12)
- Noble Peacock (p.24)
- Magnolia Lane (p.37)
- Follow Your Art (p.53)
- Pressed Petals (p.73)
- Bird Ballad (p.91)
- Dinosaur (p.99)
- Perennial Essence (p.107)
- Mosaic Mood (p.119)
- See A Silhouette (p.132)
- Come Sail Away (p.145)

Any orders over $50.00 will also earn tokens, as well, and all orders during this time period will earn equal credit at my Annual Garage Sale.
Incentives will be given out at a date (announced here) soon after my June 23 Summer Open House/New Catalog Party.

There will also be game prizes and door prizes that may be won during the Open House.  Those winners will be announced here and have prizes available at a date (announced here) soon after my June 23 Summer Open House/New Catalog Party. 

JUNE HOSTESS CODE:

KG7BHGYD

SAVE THE DATES: 

June 23 --- 2:00-5:00 / Get ready for fun!   

Summer Open House / New Catalog Party

June 28-20 --- 8:00-5:00 Friday / 8:00-Noon Saturday

MY ANNUAL GARAGE SALE 

I'll have lots of stamping and paper crafting products for sale.

Come and find a good bargain!

July 8 -- Scraps and Prayers / 5:30-7:30 / $18. 

Pay to register by July 1.

We'll be making some more beautiful cards and enjoying using some fun, new products.  We'll be working with White Craft Ink and I'll have a couple of really fun ways to use the Stamparatus to share with you, as well as a new fun fold card design.   I hope you can join us.

That's it for now.  Thanks for stopping by my blog neighborhood.  Have a beautiful day!

Fable Friends Note Card

I have a cute little note card for you today.  I've used our darling little Fable Friends for this one.

I've used Stampin' Blends to color in just the flower and the leaf.

To add a special look (and a pop of extra color) to any card, trim off 1/4" from the front layer of the card base and attach a strip of DSP (slightly wider than 1/4") to the inside of the card.  You can do this with any top OR side fold card.

UP NEXT:

May 13 --- Scraps and Prayers / 5:30-7:30 / $18.
We'll be making 3 beautiful cards ... with watercoloring and trying fun, new techniques using the Stamparatus and we'll try THREE fun 'tricks' with embossing folders.  It won't be all Brusho for this class but it will be all fun! 
REGISTRATION CLOSED.

SAVE THE DATES: 

June 23 --- 2:00-5:00 / Get ready for fun!  

Summer Open House / New Catalog Party

June 28-29 --- 8:00-5:00 Friday / 8:00-Noon Saturday

MY ANNUAL GARAGE SALE

I'll have lots of stamping and paper crafting products for sale.

Come and find a good bargain!

RETIRING PRODUCTS

 CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LISTS:
     Occasions Catalog Retiring Products List
     
     Annual Catalog Retiring Products List

Lots of products are already sold out so shop now if there's something you still want to try to get.  Be sure to check out the Clearance Rack, too.  You'll find lot of great bargains.

Stampin' Blends on DSP

I have another Spring card for you today, using Stampin' Blends.  DSP, no matter how pretty the design, can take on an entirely new look when you color in part or all of it for your background.

I love the black accents with the Bermuda Bay.  I also went over the flower centers with my Chalk Marker.

The butterfly is attached only by his middle, so the wings can have a nice dimension.  Pretty!  Right?

UP NEXT:

May 13 --- Scraps and Prayers / 5:30-7:30 / $18.
We'll be making 3 beautiful cards ... with watercoloring and trying fun, new techniques using the Stamparatus and we'll try THREE fun 'tricks' with embossing folders.  It won't be all Brusho for this class but it will be all fun! 
REGISTRATION CLOSED.

SAVE THE DATES: 

June 23 --- 2:00-5:00 / Get ready for fun!  

Summer Open House / New Catalog Party

June 28-29 --- 8:00-5:00 Friday / 8:00-Noon Saturday

MY ANNUAL GARAGE SALE

I'll have lots of stamping and paper crafting products for sale.

Come and find a good bargain!

RETIRING PRODUCTS

 CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LISTS:
     Occasions Catalog Retiring Products List
     
     Annual Catalog Retiring Products List

Lots of products are already sold out so shop now if there's something you still want to try to get.  Be sure to check out the Clearance Rack, too.  You'll find lot of great bargains.

Spring Doesn't Love Me Back ... Stampin' Blends on Spring Foils Card

I've been struggling with Spring allergies ever since my family moved back to Central Illinois from the East Coast, after I graduated from high school.  I attended high school just 6 miles from Atlantic City.  Our school building was actually on pilings, on the bay.  I loved the East Coast.  I lived in New York state, northern New Jersey and southern New Jersey.  In northern New Jersey, we lived in absolutely gorgeous dairy country.  We had wonderful friends.
When we moved to southern New Jersey, I got to walk home from school every day in the sea mist --- very delightful, except for my curly hair.  Yikes!  We got to go to the ocean frequently and I had the honor of taking organ lessons from George Ashton in Ocean City.  It was a wonderful time of my life.
Moving back to Central Illinois held the excitement of starting college, getting a teaching job and beginning life on my own.  Then, somewhere in the midst of all that, my allergies started.  Ugh!  Now that I have asthma, they trigger my asthma a lot in the Spring.  I am so glad that I can do my art work out of the pollen and all.  I did sneak out to add a few fun things to my front porch.

I had more photos, but the reflections in the large front window rather ruined the shots.  Oh well.  I still can enjoy it all, I just can't share it.
My husband and I had a real serendipity this morning.  As we were on the deck, taking the 3 furries out for their morning run (etc.), a tiny, absolutely adorable blue bird landed on one side of our bird feeder.  He flew off and then came back and ate some of the seeds on the ground.  We think it was an Indigo Bunting.  They're in the Cardinal family and love our seeds.  We'd never seen one here before and it was so cute.  It was a gorgeous blue ... obviously a male.  Why is it the male birds get to look so much more colorful?  Is that fair?
So... even though I love Spring and it doesn't love me back,  I can enjoy a Spring card.  Today's card is from my stash of Spring Foils DSP, colored in with Stampin' Blends.  I have since used up this stash, I'm proud to say.  Here's my card.  Yes, it has some fussy cutting involved.  I actually find fussy cutting to be quite relaxing, just not a good thing if you're in a hurry to finish a card:)

This card uses the bright color story of Lemon Lime Twist and Bermuda Bay.  I love it!  By the way, the only way I will be able to endure the loss of Lemon Lime Twist retiring is to cling to our new Granny Apple Green.  Who knew I'd become such a green lover!  (I'll admit I still don't love Garden Green or Shaded Spruce but, with the right color story, they are pretty, too.)  It's all about the right color story.

This was such pretty paper.  I'm not sad it's gone though because we have some new DSP coming out that will take your breath away.  I can't wait to share it!

UP NEXT:

May 13 --- Scraps and Prayers / 5:30-7:30 / $18.
We'll be making 3 beautiful cards ... with watercoloring and trying fun, new techniques using the Stamparatus and we'll try THREE fun 'tricks' with embossing folders.  It won't be all Brusho for this class but it will be all fun! 
REGISTRATION CLOSED.

SAVE THE DATES: 

June 23 --- 2:00-5:00 / Get ready for fun!  

Summer Open House / New Catalog Party

June 28-29 --- 8:00-5:00 Friday / 8:00-Noon Saturday

MY ANNUAL GARAGE SALE

I'll have lots of stamping and paper crafting products for sale.

Come and find a good bargain!

RETIRING PRODUCTS

 CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LISTS:
     Occasions Catalog Retiring Products List
     
     Annual Catalog Retiring Products List

Lots of products are already sold out so shop now if there's something you still want to try to get.  Be sure to check out the Clearance Rack, too.  You'll find lot of great bargains.

  

Seed Packet Surprises

I wanted to share some flower packets at my Spring Open House Party, as well as make extra ones to share with friends.  I had quite a butterflies theme going, so I chose flowers that will attract butterflies.  Take a look.

UP NEXT:

May 13 --- Scraps and Prayers / 5:30-7:30 / $18.
We'll be making 3 beautiful cards ... with watercoloring and trying fun, new techniques using the Stamparatus and we'll try THREE fun 'tricks' with embossing folders.  It won't be all Brusho for this class but it will be all fun! 
PLEASE PAY TO REGISTER ASAP.  
CLASS SIZE WILL BE LIMITED TO 10 MAX!!!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LISTS:
     Occasions Catalog Retiring Products List
     
     Annual Catalog Retiring Products List

SAVE THE DATE:   

June 23 ---  2:00-5:00 / Get ready for fun!

Summer Open House Party 

with our new catalog. 

Things are looking up ... a bit!

In spite of my ongoing troubles with technology, I've been able to work in my studio this week.  Love it!  It's so nice to get back to exploring what all I can create, especially with lots of great new products from our Occasions Catalog and our Sale-A-Bration Catalog.  I'm having a ball.  I can't seem to keep from having ridiculously inky fingers.  There's a lot of creating with Brusho and Shimmer Paints going on:)  I'll post some new projects soon ... I promise!!!  In the meantime, here's a card I made with DSP and Stampin' Blends that I never shared with you.  I thought it would be a good one for today, to remind us that Spring will come ... one of these days.

SAVE THE DATE:
March 17 --- Spring Open House Party  
                              (Yes, it's on MARCH 17.)
                         Grand Re-Opening of my Studio / 2:00-5:00

2019 CLASSES:
Click to see what I have planned for 2019.

SUPER IMPORTANT: 
Contact me to pick up a catalog.

• SAB (Sale-A-Bration) Catalog
• Paper Pumpkin Flyer
• Occasions Catalog
• Annual Catalog  

Hostess Code ID Change / Flying Home Card

Please note new ID for September Hostess Code. 

September Hostess Code

HWWJDSP9

September orders of $35. +

- Earn surprise (you pick!) gift.

- Earn free Color Coach. 

And here's a card for you today from a retired set that I still really like.  Using Stampin' Blends really made the colors look great.

This mama has a big job, keeping 3 hungry babies fed.

September Events:
September 15 --- Saturday Stampers
1:00-4:00 / Fall and Christmas cards / $20.00 / Pay to register by September 8; no exceptions. 
September 17 --- Scraps and Prayers (I've postponed class by one week.)
5:30-7:30 / Fall Project / $15.00 / Pay to register by September 10; no exceptions.
September 21-22 --- Fall Garage Sale / 8:00-4:00 (Both days)

-- Class attendees may 'shop' after class while they're here.

September Hostess Code

HWWJDSP9

September orders of $35. +

- Earn surprise (you pick!) gift.

- Earn free Color Coach.