Birthday Cake Pop Up Card VIDEO TUTORIAL

FINALLY I finished the video tutorial for the Birthday Pop Up Card! I'm so sorry it took so long. Here is a photo of the card I made and posted earlier. When you open the card flap, the cake pops up, and reveals the sentiment.




I also did another version of this card for my Stamp Clubs this month.

Here is the video tutorial of the card! Hope you enjoy it!

Craft Project Central #11

Here is the last project for Craft Project Central for the month of June!

This Surprise Candy Box & Easal Card is beautiful, and I LOVELOVELOVE the color combo! Kim over at Paper Punch Addiction created this. Aren't these wonderful projects?

You can receive the tutorial for this project, plus the REST of the July projects by subscribing over at Craft Project Central!

CPC (Creating Pretty Cards) Challenge 1

Craft Project Central is hosting a monthly card challenge! They will provide a sketch challenge each month! Each week their project designers will pick their top two favorites. At the end of the month the designers will vote on a favorite (out of the eight), and the winner will receive a $50 Stampin' Up! shopping spree! Check out the Pretty Card Challenge details!

Here is the July sketch!

Here is my card! The bottom part of the image with the kids on it is cork, which is simulating a bulletin board. I then added a black brad as the bulletin board "tack".

Recipe:
Stamp Set: Greeting Card Kids, Teeny Tiny Wishes, School Lines

Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Watercolor Paper

Ink: Stazon Black, Daffodil Delight, Not Quite Navy, Wild Wasabi, Soft Suede

Accessories: Naturally Serif Sizzlit Decorative Strip Die, Black Brad, 1/8" Taffeta Basic Black Ribbon, Dimensionals

$99 Start Up Kit Ending July 31st

Time is running out! Take advantage of the $99 offer to join Stampin' Up! You will get over $185 worth of products for joining. Signing up means you buy at WHOLESALE PRICES! I would LOVE to have you on my team, and I have a special gift for you for signing up under me. If you are interested in joining my team, AND being a member of weSTAMP (downline group) please contact me or sign up on my website HERE.

Picnic Themed Gift Set

Here's a project I've been working on this week! This is a birthday gift for a VERY SPECIAL FRIEND of mine, Nancy Riley! It is a "picnic themed" gift. The items are placed ontop of a picnic style platter. Also included are napkins, cupcakes (grilling theme), a pincic basket with goodies inside, and a sandwich card!

The picnic basket and card patterns were from Lynn Pratt, whose blog can be found HERE. Lynn has AMAZING creations!!

Here are the cupcakes I made. I found these on the Family Fun website.

If I can help you with your stamping needs, please visit my website HERE! Also, the $99 promotion deal is ending soon! I'd LOVE to have you join my team! You will instantly become a weSTAMPER. (See previous post HERE for some of the fun things we do!)

Craft Project Central #10

I LOVE the new Pennant Parade stamp set. Check out this set of goodies using this set! This was designed by Anne Marie over at Stampin' Anne.

You can receive the tutorial for this project, plus the REST of the July projects by subscribing over at Craft Project Central!

weSTAMP Surprise Baby Shower!

Our weSTAMP met this month, and threw a SURPRISE BABY SHOWER for Melissa Sunde! Melissa is expecting her FIRST baby next month. You can probably tell by the colors, it's a GIRL!

Here is a darling picture of Mama to be! It was also her BIRTHDAY that evening!

Maggie made the table party favors. She made up her own pattern for this! She filled the buggy boxes with PINK candy. CUTE CUTE!

Pam was in charge of decorating. Notice the DARLING clothespins holding the baby girl clothes on the line!

Pam made a BUNCH of these flowers and butterfly dangling decorations (on the back curtain). We had them everywhere in the room! They were BEAUTIFUL!

We had quite an assortment of FOOD!! Thanks to Terri, Glenda, Norene, and Kathy for providing FUN FOOD for us! Nancy donated the BEATIFUL roses in the background!

Incase you haven't noticed, not only is Terri creative at stamping, but she is ALSO creative in the KITCHEN! Her food creations are works of art! Take a look at the butterflies on these cupcakes. They are frosting SHEETS and you can actually take a craft punch and punch out shapes from them! They were SO TASTY, too! GREAT JOB TERRI GUYMON!

Here are some of the weSTAMPERS, concentrating while playing a game.

Michelle was the gal behind this cute little basket, filled with handmade thank you cards that she and many of the weSTAMPERS made. This will help Melissa when the gifts come in and she will have a stash of cards to pull from! Great idea Michelle!

Linda B HANDMADE this baby afghan! We were trying to decide if it was knitted or crocheted. (Linda wasn't able to make it that night). What a special gift, I KNOW those take a long time to make!

Terri made a scrapbook for Melissa, out of chipboard! The shoes are made of punches, and the paper is VELVET! The word BABY is BLINGED UP to the hilt with GLITTER! CUTE!

This is a shadow box that I made for Melissa. Maggie also got her a shadow box just like this, same size and all! In that box, Melissa can add her baby's handprints, photos, or anything to it! Besides the many gifts Melissa got, MANY MANY weSTAMPERS donated $ and we got her a gift certificate to Babies R Us!

We ended the evening with our swap. Our theme was to use this photo from Pottery Barn to inspire us!

Here are the swaps!

Nancy's swap:

Norene's swap:

Peggy's swap:

Stephanie's swap:

Linda R's swap:

Maggie's swap:



Michelle's swap:

Lorri's swap:

The doorprize was made by Patti!

What a fun evening! Would you like to be a part of weSTAMP! There is only a few days left of the $99 deal going on! Why not purchase your products at a discount? Contact me if you are interested, or visit my Stampin' Up Demonstrator Workshop to JOIN NOW! Just click HERE.

Coffee Cup Video Tutorial

More Convention Photos!

Here are some more photos from convention! These gals are a part of my upline's group, The Dazzling Divas! We met after all the festivities were over on the first night. We were all SO TIRED, but it was great to connect with each other again!


Here are some of my general swaps for Convention. This little sucker holder was fun to make because they don't take very long! I found this on Dawn Olchefske's blog, found HERE.


Here is another one of my general swaps, made with the new stamp set Pennant Parade.

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Pennant Parade, Create a Cupcake (sentiment)

Paper: Crumb Cake, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White, Pool Party

Ink: Crumb Cake, Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Pennant Punch, Pool Party Ruffled Ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch, White Baker's Twine

Craft Project Central #9

This is project #9 from Craft Central Project! Isn't this the CUTEST thing! These Flirtatious Fabric Flower Headbands were made by Joanna over at Inspired by Stampin'.

You can receive this tutorial and the rest of July's projects, over at Craft Project Central this month!

More Convention Photos and Projects!

One of the most exciting things at Convention was being included in Becky Robert's Downline Get Together! I wish you all could meet Becky personally, she is one of the sweetest gals I know! Becky rented a room at the Hilton for the get together. We had YUMMY appetizers, handmade surprises, made NEW FRIENDS, and she gave us some insight and business tips to help us all in our business! PLUS Becky is HILARIOUS, and so entertaining to listen to! What a FUN AFTERNOON! We were BLESSED to be included in this get together. THANKS BECKY!

Here is a photo of Becky and I.

Becky made us all Party Favors, how cute are these! This little box was FULL of surprises!


I also received a cute little cosmetic bag with an altered notebook, fingernail file and gum holder from Becky. I LOVE IT! Even the zipper on the bag has a cute little "Inking Idaho" pull tab. You can see an even better photo of this on Becky's blog HERE.

This is a photo of my convention gift to Becky. I made similar ones to give to my downline and you can view those again HERE.

Becky invited a few other creative gals to her get together, too. I finally got to meet Connie Collins in person! Connie is such a SWEETHEART! I knew the moment I met her that we would hit it off! Connie has an incredible blog, which can be found HERE. Did you know that Connie was chosen from THOUSANDS of Stampin' Up demonstrators to be an Artisan Award winner? It doesn't surprise me, she's one of THE BEST!

Becky hosted a swap for all of us attending. Here is the card I made. I have WEDDING on my mind because my daughter is getting married in March! The cake stand is 3-D and pops out away from the card and cake. You can't really see that in this photo.

I did a similar card to this one earlier, which you can view HERE.

Here is my 3-D swap. These little nugget purses have been around awhile. I first saw them on my friend Nancy Riley's blog HERE. They were FUN and easy to make! There is a little Stampin' Up logo tag on the side of the purses. By the way, NANCY is an amazing friend! I was in a PANIC before convention because I had SO MANY unfinished projects! Sweet Nancy came over for 10 hours to help me finish up! Between her 10 hours, my 10 hours and another friend (Rachele), we logged over 24 hours getting MANY PROJECTS DONE! THANK GOD for great friends!

Last but not least, Becky had asked us before we got together who we would LOVE to meet! Besides Shelley Gardner, the CEO of Stampin' Up, these gals were the most requested! Here is Diana Gibbs to the left of Becky, and Jill Hilliard to the right! I'm not kidding, I felt like I was at the Academy Awards meeting these super creative gals!

That's all for now, folks!

Craft Project Central #8

Here is Craft Project Central Project #8! This fun little party set was created by Kim, over at Paper Punch Addiction! Kim's blog is so fun, you can spend A LOT of time there!

You can receive this tutorial and the rest of July's projects I have posted by subscribing to Craft Project Central this month!

By the way, I got to meet Jacque at Convention last week!! She's sweet as ever and has a great thing going with her business! Here's a photo of us at convention!