Elegant Butterfly

I just love Stampin' Up!'s new elegant butterfly punch!  The old butterfly was so not cute compared to this one! 

The row of diamonds stamp is from the Border Banter set in the Holiday Mini Catalog.  I stamped them with versamark to give it a watermarked look... the basic grey stamp pad made them too dark.

Monster Card for a Monster Truck loving boy

A darling little boy in my neighborhood had heart surgery last year and I made him this card so all his friends in the neighborhood could write him a message inside (and on the back).  I have never made such a big card before!  This was made with a poster board folded in half.  I am not very good at drawing, so my husband found an awesome picture online of a monster truck and I used it as my template.  I LOVE how the big shot and punches make everything so much better! 

Sorry I didn't take any close ups of the poster... the flag was attached to a toothpick, and the bumpy ground is the ric rac on the tasteful trim big shot die. 

Strength & Hope Pages

Last Chance for Strength & Hope! There is only a few more days to order this stamp set, and for each set sold, Stampin' Up! donates $2 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation!!! I LOVE this cause and was more than happy to support it.

These are the pages we made back in May for stamp club.

Button Buddies class

Tomorrow I am hosting a class with this fun button buddies stamp set and I thought I should share the cards we are making with you!

This stamp set is so fun. Each image coordinates with the buttons we sell. The images look cute without a button, the button just makes it pop!

I am loving the scallop polka dot ribbon! they put 2 of my favorite things together!

ok so I have to admit... I LOVE rainbows! so this card makes me happy. I stole the idea to have the snail trail the kindness stamp. I love the new site for demonstrators! they have tons of fun ideas.

Ok so my friend Melanie totally opened my eyes. I probably would have never thought of this... a sick green pig! love it. (thanks Melanie for letting me case this card!)

Anniversary party cards

You all can't wait to see the projects we made at the party right? Well here they are! Everyone who came to my house made these cards for free to celebrate my 7 years with Stampin' Up! Each card used one of the new in colors and every card had a new stamp set!

For this first card we used the Up, Up & Away stamp set and new Pool Party color! This card is a 4x4 card. Did you know that you can get 4 4x4 cards out of one 12x12 sheet? Try it sometime :)

I love those hot air balloons. I have some more balloon cards/pages to show you soon! This next card is made with the new Doily background stamp and the new Calypso Coral ink.

This Last card uses the Pennant Parade stamp set and the Lucky Limeade color. I LOVE that the pennant stamps match the new pennant punch!

Well this event was definitely a success! Keep a look out for my Anniversary party next year! (probably in July - I don't know the exact date I signed up but know it is at the end of July... I should call and find out :) Thanks to everyone who helped me celebrate! Enjoy all your free stuff!

Aahhh FINALLY!!!

oh my goodness, I am SO EXCITED about this. I have wanted a triangle punch for SO long so I could make cards like this! remember the card I made that looks like this but with the fabric? well those took me forever to make, this card seriously took like 2 minutes - and I love it! So pull out your wish list and put this punch down, it will be available in 2 weeks! I made this card for my 12 year old friend Malachi. He wrote a book and got it published! awesome huh? I punched the pennants out of the retiring Play Date DSP and used my Old Olive marker to only ink the words on the Baby Steps stamp that I will miss seeing in the catalog :(

Owl Journal

I recently attended my upline's group meeting. I was so excited to have 5 ladies in my downline there with me, so I decided to make them a little gift. I found these notepads for a dollar at the store and was thrilled that they matched the SU colors! I guess the In colors are still in style, since I used Concord Crush and Poppy Parade along with Old Olive and Baja Breeze.
They are pretty busy, but they look better in person. It was fun to make these... I hope they loved them!

Strength & Hope

I was so excited that Stampin' Up! came out with this stamp set. (It is in the new Summer Mini Catalog) I of course love the images, but on top of that, Stampin' Up! is donating $2 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each set that is purchased! How cool is that! I decided to feature this set at Stamp Club this month. This is the card we made - I will post the scrapbook pages soon!
I loved the butterflies that were shown in the Stampin Success Magazine with the pearl and rock and roll technique, so I copied them!

If you haven't tried the triple layer punches, you must! They are so fun! We used the new Doily triple layer punch to make these flowers, I just scrunched them up in my hand for a little more dimension.

Create a Cupcake

ok it is official, I think this cupcake stamp set/ punch is my favorite. (this month atleast) It is crazy that it is only available for a few more days! I am loving pennants and banners, I hope you aren't tired of them, because I still have more to share!

When I was making this card, one thing I found useful was to stick the half circles onto the glue dots in the order that I would need them. This was the only way I adhered the banner to the card, It seems to hold it just fine!

Another tip: I did not punch a whole circle and then cut it in half, I just punched out half of the circle and the straight edge was from the edge of the paper. does that make sense?

Cupcake Party

Ok I am realizing that I keep straying to pennants and banners! I think they are so much fun! To make these pennants, I cut a bunch of old olive rectangles I just attached them with one dimensional each and made sure that it layed on the top of the thread and under the pennant! easy. I did basically the same thing with the ribbon ties but used glue dots instead.

Love this saying even though the textured paper makes it a little hard to read!

The pages were fun to make because we got to use almost all the stamps in the stamp set to make all the different kinds of cupcakes.

So I have to admit something... I didn't use 100% Stampin' Up! products on this layout. This white crochet thread was store bought... It was hard for me but guess what? It is coming! you can see it in the next mini catalog! YEA! I kind of wish I waited a couple months to make these pages but I didn't know until after the class was over.

Hearts and Pumpkins

Here are the last 2 cards I designed for the group meeting this month. This first card was pretty simple... the second one took a lot longer to make. I loved the dimension on this first card, usually the stamped image is on top, but on this card, it is on the bottom. :) To make this circle/heart image, first punch out the heart out of cardstock and then punch out the circle around it.

To only emboss the top half of the card, I just turned the embossing folder so it was facing the opposite direction that it usually faces. The green border was made with the new decorative label punch, and we stamped the pumpkin with the rock and roll technique.

Here is a picture of the inside. You can see all the different layers.

Candy Jar

Here is another super cute gift I received from my friends at convention. My friend Megan made this. I just love these jars from IKEA and I love the sticky rhinestone!

This next picture turned out a little wierd... but I love how she folded up the flower petals.

Fontella's Cards

Isn't this fabulous?

I just LOVE these cards. My new friend Fontella (she doesn't have a blog or I would send you to it) gave me these cards at convention! Isn't this clock card amazing? And she is really good at punch art as well. Thanks for the cards!!!

Way too fun. I should make some more of these baby ones, since I don't have ANY baby stamps... seriously what am I thinking?

Small things make such a difference!

Look how cute this is! My awesome upline Brandi gave this to me for helping out at her downline meeting. Now the brads are AWESOME but this simple tag makes it look so cute I just had to share it! And it has a butterfly on it so it really can't get any better :)

Butterflies and Birds on a Line

Sewing on paper is so much fun! A while ago I made this spring decoration using the bird punch. All you do sew bird after bird down the line leaving some thread in between each of them. I also made some with butterflies to decorate for my daughters birthday. (sorry it is a bad picture - it wasn't working for me that day!)

price lists...

I am excited to share something totally different with you today. My friend just opened a salon in Taylorsville and she asked me to decorate a price list for her to display.

My friend wasn't sure what colors or images she wanted so I made 2 for her to choose from. She wanted to display it on an easel instead of in a frame so I snailed a chocolate piece of cardstock to the back to make it stronger.
To create this brown frame, I just cut out paper, sponged the edges and glued it on. The leaves were cut using the embosslit and the bird punch. I actually gave her 3 different colors of birds to choose from. She chose the yellow (not pictured).

My Piggy Bank

At Leadership I participated in an organized sweet treats swap. I thought of a fun way to access the treats or in this case the money. :) When you pull the piggy's tail the money falls into the box,

and then you slide the box out to retreive it!

I was sad that the matchbox die was too small for this project so I just made my own box instead. FYI - the Basic Grey Designer Series Paper is from the simply scrappin' kit.

I want to send out a shout out to Jackie Topa for the cute idea to use the sweet treats cups as a piggy bank.

My favorite Christmas card

I received only one stamped Christmas card this year.... gasp I know. This card was from my awesome upline. Isn't it cool. (I don't know why my camera doesn't like red. if you have any suggestions please send them my way)

Santa and Reindeer

These are 2 of the cards we made at my sweet treats class last fall. If you have any questions as to how I made these just let me know!

So Many Hearts

Stamp Club is this week and here are the projects we are making. On this card we used Chocolate Chip, Real Red (I am not sure why it looks so pink in the pictures), Pretty in Pink, and Very Vanilla to match the new DSP. If you have not seen this paper in person, it is FABULOUS! It is SO sparkly on one side of EVERY sheet!

The stamp set we used is the new set With All My Heart. This is the stamp set we received last week at leadership. On this page, I left a space for journaling above the title.

On both the card and the page we used a brad from the new occasions catalog. On the card we used the sending love epoxy red brads and on the page we used the corduroy buttons. To attach them to the page we snipped the prongs off using the craft and rubber scissors and then attached it to the page with either the dimensionals or glue dots.

My favorite part of the page is the slew of punches I put along the right edge.

Last but not least, here is a cute box I gave to everyone who came to club this month.