Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Pootles - Pink and a spot of Gold with Stampin' Up! Garden in Bloom Well firstly I have to say that I'm feeling much better than

Nobody likes to make sympathy cards, but I find making masculine ones even harder. You could make this more feminine just by changing the colors. Lately I have been drawn to the blues and grays together. In this card I used the colors of Dapper Denim, Basic Gray and Smoky...

Some pretty colours for this week’s Artful Stampers Team Challenge Blog Hop. I chose to watercolour some images from Garden in Bloom on the special Watercolor Paper. Some eggplant splatters a…

We had a gorgeous weekend with the most beautiful weather you could ask for. It's warm but not hot - that two week (if we are lucky) window between pollen and heat. :) I love a bright, bold color color combination in Spring, and this week's trio of Melon Mambo,

I am a very restless kind of person, perhaps it's the ADHD.. or something, but I have a hard time with processing my time and emotions, so this week has been a challenge since hubby has been off. YIKES.. everything I wanted to accomplish didn't really happen. You see I have a list but I'm not able to do the things I once did, and well it's a lot for one person to do alone, so I guess I set my expectations a bit to high. Needless to say I've been extremely crabby to live with because of this. So I got myself busy by stamping this here card that I will submit to the challenge at: Freshly Made Sketches I also thought I'd try my hand at painting rocks. Apparently that's all the rage to hide them around town. So we will see what happens. I thought I'd share a picture of those here too. I have a hard time waiting for the paint to dry, before writing on them. The stamp sets featured in today's card are: Stampin Up~ Hello Friend Stampin Up~ Garden in Bloom I am pretty pleased with this square card, even though I had to consult with youtube to figure out the dimensions of a square card, my first attempt was not so good. UGH.. I'm embarrassed to say I wanted the 5 inch square, however I went about it all wrong, and I'm so thankful for stampers who know what they're doing and giving dimensions. I added a few little embellishments to the flowers, and I added a bit of washi tape to give it a more finished look around the edges that I masked off to stamp the flowers. I really like the vibrant orange colors and the cute little bee made my day. Thank you for stopping by for a visit. Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping.

I used the Stampin’ Up! Garden in Bloom stamp set to create a birthday card to share with you today.

Other projects have been demanding my free time lately (aka nap time), so to have a little stamping time I had to go downstairs once the kiddos were all in bed.....way past their bedtime and mine! I

I love when I can combine two challenges to make one beautiful card. For the second week in a row, I'm able to combine a challenge from the Paper Players (this week's wonderful sketch) and a challenge from Can You Case It? (a great color challenge) to make a card.

So what is totally your favorite stamp set in the new catalog? Last year for me was Hashtag Hello. Do you remember it? See my samples here! Loved it! This time around my winner is Garden in Bloom . Precious! This was one of the sample I made with it. I made this card just for fun. There is many ways to use this stamp set. In this case I opted for stamping my flower on card stock with only the outline and cut with my scissors. This is a second-generation stamp set. Made to stamp twice. You usually stamp the solid image (hello honey-see below) and then the outline (black) as I did on the inside f my card or my little bee. To embellish I used the new Metallic Foil Doilies. Aren't these precious? Yess! Designer Series Paper coordinates with the stamp set: English Garden. Lovely and simple. And this is the inside of my card. Sentiment in from reads:Hope you are feeling special today… O the inside it reads: Because that's just what you are. :) Will you stamp today? Tell me…let's share! Which one is your favorite stamp set in the new catalog? Creative Blessings!

I am back with another challenge from Create with Connie and Mary. I love black with any color so this was fun for me! Strawberry season is over around here (I think), but this paper from the Sweet

I love when I can combine two challenges to make one beautiful card. For the second week in a row, I'm able to combine a challenge from the Paper Players (this week's wonderful sketch) and a challenge from Can You Case It? (a great color challenge) to make a card.

Hello stampers Today panel card is a A-2 size *that is the regular size card but with many panels and it will fit in our envelops. This was inspired by Janet C one of my teammates. We did a swap wa

Today I have a sweet card for you inspired by Try Stampin' or Not on Tuesday's sketch challenge # 268 using the Stampin' Up! set Garden in Bloom. I think I've only used it one other time and that was just to use the butterfly. Today I used almost every stamp from that set! The sketch is a fun one with hexagons on it. I have to admit that I never bought that punch so I was stuck doing a little fussy cutting because these were the flowers I wanted to use. Do you ever get an idea with a stamp in your mind and nothing else will do? That was the case here and I have framelits and punches I could have used if I just would have picked another set! lol Make sure you check out the other fun sketches over at Try Stampin' HERE and play along if you get a chance. We would love to see what you create! While I was at my craft table working on my card one of my daughter's saw the colors I was using a said she really like them. Do you ever just need a little pick me up like that? I sure do and it was a nice vote of confidence. :) These are the colors I used... Blushing Bride So Saffron Pear Pizzazz Whisper White Basic Black At the last minute I remembered that I had Wink of Stella and wanted to add a bit of shimmer so I added it to the middle of the flowers, the bee's wings and the butterfly's body. It's hard to see, but the first picture shows it the best. Just a little touch of something extra like that can make a card pop! I added the bee and butterfly inside as well just for the fun of it. :) Thanks for looking and have a great day! Sara I would love to be your demonstrator! If you like what you see and want to order anything just click on any of the products that I've listed at the bottom of my blog or click on the "Shop Now" tab at the top of my blog. Any of them will take you directly to my website! If you have questions feel free to contact me. Just click "Contact Me" at the top of my blog . If you're thinking of becoming a demonstrator click "Join My Team". I'd love to have you join me! Supplies used on this card:

It's my last day of preparing and packing for convention. And it's going to be a busy one. Tomorrow morning I take off for Salt Lake City, Utah to join up with about 4,000 other

Deze week staat in het teken van Aquarel ;-). Ik heb in elk geval onlangs met twee sets een aantal projecten gemaakt, die ik in diverse berichten voorbij heb laten komen. Je kunt er prachtige aquarel-effecten mee creëren zonder zelf een waterpenseel of blenderpen ter hand te nemen. Hieronder nog eentje, waarbij ik de bloemen en vlinders combineerde op één kaart: De basis van de kaart is Whisper White Cardstock. En niet het cardstock dat tot nu toe in de collectie zat (en nog zit). Maar DIKKER en steviger cardstock -Whisper White Thick Cardstock. Perfect voor kaarten en net zo mooi om op te stempelen. Je kunt het vinden op pagina 149 in de jaarcatalogus. Het stukje Designer Papier is English Garden. De bloemen en patronen op dit papier geven ook dit prachtige aquarel-effect. Het labeltje waar de vlinder op 'geland' is, maakte ik met de Note Tag Punch. Een fijne dag vandaag! Yvonne Gebruikte materialen:

Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Pootles - Beautiful Box using Garden In Bloom Oooo don't you just love creating your own patterned paper? I do. Although with

Hoi hoi, In het filmpje van vandaag wil ik laten zien hoe ik dit kaartje gemaakt heb met de Garden in Bloom stempelset van Stampin’Up! Deze set valt voor mij ook onder mijn favorieten die helaas niet

I’m playing along with two challenges today. The Paper Players sketch challenge and Pals Paper Arts color challenge. I used this to make my cards for a shoe-box swap coming up this week…

Check out the new Color Me Irresistible Specialty Designer Series Paper from the new catalog. In my video, I call it Color Me Irresistibly Designer Paper, no clue why. It is like the designer paper we had during Sale-a-Bration. It...

Schön dass ihr heute wieder bei mir vorbei schaut... ....heute gibt es einen kleinen Notizblock zu sehen, den ich mit etwas Farbkarton und dem Stempelset "Garden in Bloom" aufgehübscht habe... Süß

Oh my goodness, I have not stamped in a few days. Life has just been crazy here. I wish I could share things with you, but I'm not at liberty to do so right now. It involves a few other people, and they would prefer things not be public. However, in my own life, it is amazing how God takes care of us. We drove to pick our son up at the Minneapolis airport on May 28th. As some of you know I can't do much anymore and so the drive was hard. But I was grateful to have gotten there and back with no troubles. However the next day I woke up in a lot of pain and hubby took me in to the walkin department which transferred me to ER because of kidney stones. Oh my goodness that was some ordeal. I'm happy to say that one of the little stones made the trip out and did not have to be surgically removed like 20 years ago. oh gosh still apparently have quite a few in the ole kidney.. so YIKES.. if ya you could remember me in prayer I surely would appreciate that. Thankyou. Any ways as you can imagine, just not up to par, and not able to stamp or concentrate, just feeling blah. Our son and girlfriend are living with us now for awhile. So life proves to be interesting as always. Oh and I'm also trying to still get use to this new blogger. Little changes always seem to throw a stick in my spoke. So if anyone knows how to make sure the pictures enlarge when you click on them please let me know. I really need the help with technology. Thank you in advance to all you marvelous geniouses out there that have helped me out in the past. Well after that long story, onto the card. I made this for one of my favorite challenges to play along with: Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge The stamp set featured in this card is: Stampin Up: Garden in Bloom. I absolutely love the bumble bee in this set. I used a DSP for the first little narrow panel, then I made my own you might say using the bee. and then carried through a little strip of the golden yellow from the background. Thank you for listening to me ramble on and for stopping by for a visit. Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping. 💗 PJ

I have a sweet bookmark card for your today, outfitted with the perfect pocket! I'll share a 1 Minute to WOW! video tomorrow on how to create the pocket! STAMPIN' PRETTY TIPS: Stampin' Up! Pretty Petals Designer Series Paper Stack (6" x 6") is possibly the prettiest paper I have ever owned.

I used the Stampin’ Up! Garden Meadow stamp set bundle and Meandering Meadow DSP to create a hello card to share with you today. I also did a video tutorial for this card and you can see tha…

We are back today with another wonderful Fab Friday challenge! Today we've got some fun colors to use! They could make for some great Easter or spring cards! I went with a spring congratulations theme! And I pulled out the Garden in Bloom set which has clearly been catching my eye a lot lately when deciding on what stamp set to use! I played around with a lot of the Garden in Bloom stamps to make the larger background panel -- it's almost like DSP, but not as pretty! I did bring in Sahara Sand as a neutral because otherwise it just seemed like too much pastel or too much dark Night of Navy. The Sunshine Wishes thinlets and Sunshine Sayings stamp set were used for the focal sentiment elements. I hope you'll enjoy these colors and share your creation with us in the Fab Friday challenge gallery! Thanks for looking! Did you stamp today? Stamps: Garden in Bloom, Sunshine Sayings Ink: Night of Navy, Soft Sky, Powder Pink, So Saffron, Sahara Sand Paper: Sahara Sand, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Pool Party, Powder Pink Accessories: paper doily, Stitched Shapes framelits, Sunshine Wishes thinlets, dimensionals, 1/4" organza ribbon

I am back with another challenge from Create with Connie and Mary. I love black with any color so this was fun for me! Strawberry season is over around here (I think), but this paper from the Sweet

It's not often I create a one layer card (well, technically it's a one layer card front), but I wanted to show off the lovely Garden in Bloom two step stamp set, and the Masking technique was perfect for this card. So simple, but effective I think. Stamping Tips for a great masked result: One of the keys to a great masked card is having a well defined edge to the masked area. I find using paper (grid paper is perfect) to mask off the area works better than cardstock for that purpose. Grid paper is also perfect for lining...

I used the Stampin’ Up! Timeless Love and Garden in Bloom stamp sets to create my card for the Sunday Stamps sketch challenge this week.

I used the Stampin’ Up! stamp sets Garden in Bloom and Friendly Wishes to create a clean and simple card to share today.

I used the Stampin’ Up! Garden in Bloom stamp set to create a birthday card to share with you today.

Sharing cards created with Citrus Blooms Bundle and Mediterranean Blooms 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper. MEDITERRANEAN BLOOMS 12″ X 12″ DESIGNER PAPER 163284 (pg. 35) – 12 sheets: 2 each of 6 double-sided designs Product colors: Balmy Blue, Boho Blue, Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Garden Green, Lemon Lolly, Night of… Read More

Sheltering Tree would have to be my most-used stamp set in the Occasions Catalogue. It's such a versatile set. We're making this set of cards in this week's Stamp-a-stack classes. The colours I've used are Pear Pizzazz, Island Indigo, Hello Honey and Blushing Bride. I've also used the Stacked With Love Designer Series Paper Stack. To make the 'leaves' on the Hello Honey card, I've punched flowers from the Itty Bitty Accent punch, and snipped them into quarters to make leaves. Thanks for visiting! Email me to place your order, or click HERE to Shop Now Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

I have decided to continue last week’s Tool of the Week. Stampin’ Up! has so many great framelits/thinlit that I feel we have only scratched the surface. So I hope I am not boring you with this tool, but I feel we have so many cards that we can make stand… Continue reading

Sneak Peek! New stamp set, accessories and Misty Moonlight (new In Color) sneak peek featured in my cards today! Let me show you how to create these Blossoms in Bloom cards with the Stamparatus! I love this fun fold, and I have cutting/scoring directions and a video for you today!! Watch the Video! I'll be doing a Facebook Live today at 11am PT (Noon MT, 1pm CT and 2pm ET) to show you how I made these fun cards! Tune in HERE on my PattyStamps Facebook Business Page to watch! I'll also post it to my YouTube channel