I've seen a bunch of birdhouses that have been made from the Stampin' Up! milk carton die.  Finally it's my turn to make one and here it is.  Along with the die I used the Scallop Trim Border Punch, the Two Step Bird punch and one of our new sticky half-back pearls. The birdhouse uses several of our new Stampin' up! colors including Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso, and Daffodil Delight along with Certainly Celery.  To give some detail to the bird I used a More Mustard ink pad and Stampin' Sponge. Let me show you a close up. For those who came to my New Catalog Party a few weeks ago, I Continue reading

I needed to quickly whip up a wedding shower gift yesterday.  I had this box just sitting there on my desk so I made a gift to go inside it.  This box is a little sneak peek at the Special Stationary Storage class.  The boxes we're going to make in class are like this one and yet very different.  You'll see . . . . Anyway, here's a little peek inside the box.  I'll have to show you the handstamped contents tomorrow once I've had a chance to take a picture. You know, on those days when I don't have a new post, like yesterday, that's usually a pretty good indication that I've been really Continue reading

As I mentioned yesterday, I've been doing some work preparing for upcoming classes.  What do you think of this handmade box which is great for gifting handmade cards?  I've shown some boxes like this before and I was often asked for the directions.  Well, I'm going to share it, at the Special Stationary Storage class! I will not guarantee the boxes in class will be decorated exactly like this but it'll be similar.  I can't wait to share them!   Please note that in this class we will be making boxes, not the cards to put in them.   I know you're going to love them!  Be sure to check out the Continue reading

While my sister and I played . . . uh, worked . . . this week we decided to give these lilies a try.  No, we didn't come up with them, we're just good at using other people's ideas! Would you believe these lovely lilies are made using a Stampin' Up! oval punch?  I find it so fun to make different flowers using our punches! We put the flowers we made on top of a handmade box made from Very Vanilla and Certainly Celery.  The box is stamped with the Wedding Sweet stamp set and we tied some Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon around the lid.  It's hard to take a picture that really does justice to Continue reading

What do you do with your Stampin' Sponges after you've used them?  I used to use a piece of sponge, a different color on each side, and then later I never knew which color was used where.  I was given an idea by someone else and took it to make my own creation. I made this little setup you see here.  I used Bravo Burgundy cardstock to create long little boxes and then stuck them together with Sticky Strip.  A little Taffeta Ribbon and Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware and it's together! I made a section for each color family, including the in-colors.  The second step is cutting Stampin' Sponges Continue reading

Welcome to day two of the Blog Tour!  I hope you had a good time touring through the projects yesterday, weren't there some great ideas? I think by now a lot of you know I like to remake trash into treasure.  I recently bought this box of envelopes on clearance at a drug store (you have to have a box of these around for those non-handstamped items you have to mail.)  I thought I was getting a good deal but it wasn't until I opened the box that I found out just how good the deal is.  Do you see how the box opens?  It opens so you can have a neat little holder for the envelopes.    As neat as Continue reading

Welcome to day one of the RemARKable Stampers blog tour!  It's been so busy I haven't even had a chance to tell you to look forward to the tour - surprise!  I hope you'll find this a wonderful way to see some new items out of the new Catalog and be inspired! The first part of my project for today was made using the Because I Care stamp set.  The stem of the flower is a lollipop stick with no lollipop attached (and no, I didn't eat it!).  I simply used my Always Artichoke Stampin' Write Marker to color the stick a nice stem color.  The leaves were made using the Ornament Punch, the Always Continue reading

I've had this container (undecorated) for about a year now, there used to be plants in here from my grandfather's funeral.  Unfortunately the plants didn't make it but I don't want to part with this lovely container, for multiple reasons. As I went through my ribbons, picking out the retired spools, I new the exact place I want to store them (well, some of them, they won't all fit. . . .) I used the Big Shot and Scallop Circle Dies to cut a bunch of scallop circles out of plain copy paper.  I also punched some scallop circles using our new 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch (it layers in there Continue reading

Our "10 minute Challenge" this week is an inspirational challenge.  I was the lucky one to submit the picture to be used for inspiration this week.  I've always loved this picture I took about 5 years ago on the beach of Ocean City, MD so I decided to use it to inspire everyone in their creations today. I may have been the one to submit the inspirational picture but that still doesn't mean I had any idea what to do with it. . .  that is . . . . until I checked my mail today!  I received this fun little canister in the mail with samples of Crystal Light.  Seemed a shame to waste a canister Continue reading

These are so easy to make!  I stamped some Whisper White cardstock with the Bold Brights inks and the Circle Circus stamp set.  Once it was stamped I shaped it into a "sour cream" container and filled with M&Ms.  The tag was stamped with a stamp from the Very Thankful stamp set and punched with the Small Tag Punch. I cut another tag with the Tag Punch (note, there are two different size tag punches) out of Taken with Teal cardstock and then adhered them together.  The tag is tied to the treat using Tempting Turquoise grosgrain ribbon. I'm a little behind for Teacher Appreciation but I Continue reading