Silly Wedding and Anniversary Cards

I did this wedding card (left side) awhile ago, you can check that post HERE. I kept dreaming up this REALITY card for the same couple (my son and his wife LOL) for their first year anniverary. Notice the dirty towel that is on the floor (right side) is the MR. towel. LOL Silly card, I know....

CLEARANCE RACK!

Just like Nordstom's has their "Rack" of sale items, now Stampin' Up does too!!! Check out the STAMPIN' UP CLEARANCE RACK! There will be MANY discontinued items at GREAT PRICES, some up to 80% off!!! You can check the products there by clicking on my website HERE. These products must be ordered off my Stampin' Up website.

The items found on the Clearance Rack are while supplies last. They will be updating with new items periodically.

September weSTAMP Meeting

We had another awesome weSTAMP meeting this month!

We always start our meeting with a make and take. Barbara taught us all how to make a tissue holder. There is a wonderful tutorial for this on Barbara's blog HERE. THANKS Barbara!

The bulk of our meeting was instruction (by Pam) on My Digital Studio! Pam really is an expert in this area, and we are so thankful for the time she invested learning this program so she could teach us!Here are our swaps for our weSTAMP meeting tonight. The theme was using something from the Holiday Mini Catalog.

Peggy's swap:

Jennie's swap:

Melissa's swap:

Ginny's swap:

Barbara's swap: (notice it matches our make and take!)

Linda R's swap:

Toni's swap:

Patti's swap:

Pam's swap: (made with brand new My Digital Studio!!)

Linda B.'s swap:

Jenn's swap:

Tracy's swap:

Lorri's swap:

Lorri's inside:

Recipe:

Stamp Sets: Medallion, Delightful Decoratins, Four the Holidays

Paper: Real Red, Very Vanilla

Ink: Real Red

Assories: Ornament Punch, Sleigh Bells Ribbon, Gold Elastic Cord, Fire Square Rhinestone Brads, Embossing Powder (Medallion is embossed)

Door prize was made by Leah, won by Melissa! It is a beautiful desk organizer!

Yummy pumpkin roll treats made by Jenn!

3-Mn Demo for weSTAMP

In case you don't know this about me, I LOVE CANDY CORN ANYTHING! So when I stumbled across a blog that showed how to make candy corn out out of punches, I couldn't help but show our weSTAMPERS how to make these! I first saw these on Hannah's blog, which can be found HERE. Hannah's tutorial shows how to make the larger candy corn. I then tweaked it to make smaller candy corn and have provided the diagram below, and the sizes of punches.

To make the smaller candy corns:

First punch out an orange circle with the 1 3/8" circle punch. Then center your 1 3/4" circle ontop of the circle you just punches out. This will leave you with a "ring" of orange paper. Glue it to white cardstock (See picture 1.) The reason you don't just use a 1 3/4" orange circle in this step is because it will become too thick to punch through at the very end if you keep layering full cardstock pieces ontop of each other. By cutting the ring, it eilimates another layer.

Next, punch out a 1 3/8" circle out of yellow (I chose Summer Sun) and glue it to the inside of the orange ring. (See Picture 2.)

Last, punch out the center of this with your large star punch. Then nip the points of the stars to form the candy corn! (See Picture 3.)

Pumpkin Patch 3x3 Card

Simple 3x3 card using the new treat cups!


Recipe:
Stamp Set: Pumpkin Patch
Paper: Only Orange, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: Old Olive, Black Stazon
Accessories: 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Treat Cups, M&M's

Halloween Treat from Joann!

One of my stamp club members, Joann, gave me all the "fixin's" to make this card! Wasn't that the sweetest thing??? It was so much fun creating (CASING! LOL) her card! Joann is famous because her card got published on a blog, and you can see her card HERE!

Thanks Joann!! I sure had fun with this!!

September Girl's Day/Night Out

This time I'll start my post off by what I served for FOOD for my Girl's Day/Night Out this month, then onto the projects.

The cupcakes are just chocolate cake mix with Betty Crocker chocolate frosting. Then I made the webs by downloading a spider web picture, putting that piece of paper UNDER wax paper, and then tracing the design with melted white chocolate chips. (I used a frosting dispenser.) I then put some plastic spiders ontop of the web. Then I put them in the refrigerator to harden the webs, Take them out, peel them off the wax paper and set them ontop of the cupcakes! I forgot to tell the gals the spiders were PLASTIC, but they SOON FOUND OUT!!! LOL

The template for the spider web can be found HERE.

I made these little witches hats out of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. The tutorial can be found HERE. However, I didn't mess with sticky strip and just used good ol' fashioned hot glue to assemble it. Each gal got one of these at their work station.

Here are my Girl's Day/Night Out projects for the month of September.


There are LOTS of versions of these out there on SCS! Here is Frankie!

Recipe:
Stamp Sets: Smarty Pants
Paper: Old Olive, Lovely Lilac, Basic Gray, Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink: Old Olive, Basic Blac
Accessories: 1 1/4/1"/Word Window Punches, Daubers, Dimensionals





I saw this little "treat box" on the infamous Becky Robert's blog (which can be found HERE.) You can find instructions and the tutorial for this on her blog.

Recipe:
Paper: Only Orange, Always Artichoke, Soft Suede
Ink: Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Wide Oval Punch, Little Leaves Sizzlet, Gold Brads




I love this new stamp set from the mini catalog, called Pumpkin Patch! So fun to work with! I was inspired by this card HERE on SCS.






Recipe:
Stamp Set: Polka Dot Background, Pumpkin Patch
Paper: Basic Black, Dusty Durango, Whisper White, Cast a Spell DP
Ink: Basic Black, Old Olive, Dusty Durango
Accessories: Polka Dot Dusty Durango Ribbon

I saw Nancy Riley's card HERE and loved how she spotlighted the leaves on this card. Check out her blog and you will be AMAZED!

Recipe:
Stamp Sets: Falling Leaves

Paper: Always Artichoke, More Mustard, Ruby Red, Autumn Traditions DP

Ink: More Mustard, Ruby Red, Always Artichoke

Accessories: 1 1/4"/1 3/8" Circle Punches, Scalloped Edge Punch, Soft Suede Polka Dot Ribbon

Trick or Treat!

I found this pattern about a year ago and finally got around to making this! What you can't see very well in the picture is the embossing on the lid of the coffin. It is the Medallion stamp embossed with clear embossing powder.

The pattern for the coffin lid can be found HERE and the pattern for the bottom can be found HERE.


Recipe:
Stamp Set: Holiday Best, Medallion
Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Versa Mark
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Non SU Ribbon

September Stamp Club Projects

September is always a difficult month for me to choose projects for Stamp Club, because there are SO MANY ideas and I only get to choose 3! (Granted, I'd love to do all of them but it would have turned into an all-nighter!! LOL) Here are the 3 projects we did this week.

This project was totally inspired by one of our own weSTAMPERS, Rachele!! She used this idea last year for our weSTAMP swap. I found the pattern for these test tube treats HERE.

Recipe:
Stamp Sets: Batty For You, Smarty Pants
Ink: Perfect Plum, Pumpkin Pie, Craft White
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Whisper White, Cast a Spell DP,
Accessories: 1 1/4”/1 3/8” Circle Punch, 1/4” Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon, Test Tubes, M&M’s



This card features the "Sweet Treat" cups that are found in the Holiday Mini Catalog. You can download the mini catalog HERE. (You can get this $29.95 set for only $10 by hosting a $250 workshop this month!!)

Recipe:
Stamp Sets: Sweet Centers (New Holiday Mini Catalog!), Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black
Paper: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White
Accessories: 5/8” Basic Black Grosgrain Ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch, Sweet Treat Cups, 1 3/4” Circle Punch, M&M’s

Last but not least, this card is a 100% TOTAL CASE of Gretchen Barron's card, which can be found HERE. I KNEW I wanted to CASE this card the moment I saw it! Did you know this is the number one selling stamp out of this year's catalog?

Recipe:
Stamp Sets: Medallion
Ink: Craft Chocolate Chip
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery
Accessories: 1” Double Stitched Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon, Clear Embossing Powder

Sketch Challenge

I've been dreaming of this card for quite some time, and thought I would try it out with a sketch. I rarely do sketches, not that I don't like them, but usually don't have enough time to do "onsie" cards. This was so fun, and it really does help to have a sketch in front of you to get you going! This sketch was done by Karen Giron, whose blog can be found HERE.

Here is the sketch that she came up with for this week:

And here is what I came up with:

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Under the Stars, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Pumpkin Patch

Paper: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Creamy Caramel, SU DP (Retired), Naturals Ivory (Pumpkin Stem)

Ink: Brown Stazon, Basic Black, Always Artichoke, Craft White

Accessories: Small Oval Punch, Scallop Edge Punch, Dimensionals

Card is 5"x5". Pumpkin on bear is made with 5 small oval punches taped together.

Birthday Treasures!

I thought I would share with you some of the handmade things I received for my birthday a couple of weeks ago! LOVE all of them, thanks everyone!

The first one isn't "handmade" but it is just too cute not to show you! Isn't this the CUTEST floral arrangement you have ever seen? This is from my friend Jennie.

These hand-made cards are BEAUTIFUL, aren't they! They are from my friends (clockwise starting with upper left) Chris, Cheryl, Chris and Cindy.

These two cards are so FUN and creative! They are from my friends Lana and Linda.

Nancy Riley (blog: iSTAMP) made these hand made goodies!! She also gave me a cookbook from her HOMETOWN! Don't you agree those hometown recipe books are the BEST? LOVE IT! What a fun gift, can't wait for you to see these in person!

Barbara (blog: creativestampinspot) made these beautiful fall creations. They are so pretty setting out on display!!!! Great fall color choices.

This card isn't homemade but it is HILARIOUS! This is from my friend Deborah.

Hope you enjoy them. Thanks everyone for your birthday wishes!