It's an Addiction - Sealed with Love

Hey everyone! I have to admit, I need a 12 step program for this stamp set. I just can not put it down for anything. Just when I think I am ready to move onto something else, another idea pops into my brain and I have to play with it! So, here is the latest one.
Supplies:
Stamp Set: Sealed with Love
Paper: Basic Black 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"; Sending Love DSP 5 1/2" x 1 3/4"; Crumb Cake; Whisper White 3/4" x 3"; Real Red
Ink: Real Red; Crumb Cake
Misc: Sweetheart Punch; Paper Snips; Fast Fuse; Stampin' Dimensionals; Stitched Shapes Framelits; Big Shot; Sponge Daubers

Directions:
Adhere the DSP to the cardbase. Cut the Crumb Cake using the 2nd to the largest circle from the Stitched Shapes framelits and using a sponge dauber, sponge with Crumb Cake. Punch a heart from the Real Red cardstock and add 3 Pearls and adhere to the crumb cake circle with a dimensional and adhere to the card. Stamp the Love Note sentiment in Real Red ink onto the Whisper White and banner the ends using your paper snips. Add this to the card, sliding it slightly under the circle.

I hope you have enjoyed today's card. Please feel free to leave a comment below as I am always excited to hear your thoughts. In the meantime, have a great day!
Happy Stamping,
Katrina

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Sealed with Love - A string of Hearts

Hey all! Happy Tuesday! I'm so glad you could stop by. I had a pretty productive weekend creating and today, I want to share with you this adorable card. Yes, I know, I really am addicted to this bundle of product. I just keep reaching for it over and over again. Yes, I really do love all the other things in this Occasions catalog, but right now, with Valentines Day right around the corner, it seems to be drawing me to this set time and time again.
So, here it is:

The coordinating dies make this card SOOOO easy! I hope you enjoy this one as much as I do.

Supplies:
Paper: Real Red 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" scored and folded at 4 1/4", scrap piece for the dimensional heart; Sending Love DSP 5 1/4" x 3 1/4"; Basic Black 2 1/2" x 4 1/4", scrap for the die cut heart and arrow; Whisper White 2 1/4" x 4"
Stamp Set: Sealed With Love
Ink: Real Red
Misc: Love Notes Framelits; Fast Fuse; Fine Tip Glue; Big Shot

Directions:
Run the Real Red Card base through the Big Shot with the Heart Border die from the collection, add dimension by pulling the heart edges upward. Then adhere the DSP with Fast Fuse to the center of the card base just to the left of the dimensional hearts. Run scraps of Real Red and Basic Black through the Big Shot with the heart dies and arrow die. Adhere the hearts using the Fine Tip glue, overlapping the 2. Stamp the sentiment in Real Red and adhere the arrow below the sentiment also using the Fine Tip glue. Layer this onto the Basic Black panel and adhere this entire piece to the center of the card base using Fast Fuse.
That's it! Like I said, EASY PEASY!

So, what do you think? Please feel free to leave a comment. As always, I love to hear your thoughts.
Until next time, have a great day!
Happy Stamping,

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Sale-a-Bration: Why You Should Join My Team Now!

Hi all! Happy Thursday! I know I have said it time and time again but I only say it because I believe in it so much. Sale-a-Bration is THE most wonderful time of year! The benefits of Sale-a-Bration are just amazing and it doesn't matter if you're the happy shopper or the happy demonstrator there is so much to love about Sale-a-Bration.

But I have to tell you, it is absolutely the BEST time to join!
And here is why: In addition to the normal "design your own demo kit" by selecting $125 in product (anything you wish) for just $99 with FREE shipping, you now get to throw in not one, but TWO stamp sets of your choice! That's ANY TWO stamp sets you choose!  There isn't a dollar limit on what you can choose! Now, here is the real kicker...there is absolutely NO OBLIGATION! Once you purchase your starter kit at such an AMAZING value....you aren't obligated to do a single thing with it! There is no one that is going to call you and demand you sell stamps, no one pressuring you to be a sales person. It is totally up to you! Now, don't get me wrong, there is definitely perks for maintaining your demonstratorship, but it's not required. If you do choose to continue, you will make/save 20% on all of your sales/orders. Now, tell me, who doesn't love a good discount? You get "sneak peaks" into up coming catalogs along with the opportunity to pre-order before anyone else even gets to see the inside of the catalog. You can attend exclusive Strampin' Up! demonstrator events and you can even earn incentive trips (this year everyone is working toward earning Alaska - oh how I yearn to earn Alaska!) And, you get access to an exclusive Demonstrator quarterly publication, Stampin' Success full of business tips, crafting ideas and so much more. There is also the weekly email, Succeed Weekly also full of great information. And then there is the personal side of the "business", the amazing relationships you forge when you come together with others that love the craft as much as you do. And those relationships are those formed with other demonstrators as well as your customers. You become a great big extended family. That to me, has become the biggest perk of all. I love and appreciate everyone of my customers and I love to share ideas with them, I love to encourage creativity in others. If any of this even remotely sounds like fun to you, then seriously, consider joining my team. Just use the tab up above and follow the link. Easy Peasy, I would love to have you join me.
In the meantime, Happy stamping,

Window Shopping

Hey all!
I hope you are all enjoying the start of the new week. So far, so good here. I accomplished so much over the weekend that currently, I feel totally caught up for a change. I realize that feeling won't last for long, but for now, I am going to enjoy it!
Anyway, today I want to share a card I made for a friend who is recovering from surgery right now. I happened to see this card in the Occasions Catalog and just fell in love with it, so I decided to C.A.S.E. (Copy and Share Everything) the card. It uses the Window Box Thinlits to create the cut out card front. And I just LOVE the watercolor behind. This was such an easy card to create, And here is how it was done:

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Window Shopping

Paper: Extra Thick Whisper White cut 4 1/4" x 11" scored and folded at 5 1/2"; Watercolor paper cut 4" x 3 1/2"; Whisper White panel cut 4" x 5 1/4"; Pool Party 1/2" x 3 3/4"

Ink: Mellon Mambo; Pear Pizzazz

Misc: Aqua Painter; Stampin' Dimensionals; Big Shot; Window Box Thinlits; Paper Snips; Fast Fuse Adhesive; Die Brush Set

Directions:

To begin, once I created my card base, I ran my Whisper White panel through the Big Shot with the large floral design thinlit from the Window Box collection and removed the die using the die brush and foam pad. (This worked like a DREAM!)

Next, I lined my Watercolor paper up behind the cut out image and using a pencil, I lightly marked the outer-most parts of the image so that I could be sure to ensure my color extended far enough and I knew I wanted to be able to keep the Pear Pizzazz to the outer edge and that helped with my color placement. I then set my cutout panel aside and went to work on the Watercolor.

Using my Aqua Painter, I soaked my Watercolor paper. Then I began to pick up the Mellon Mambo with my Aqua Painter from a pool of color in my stamp pad lid and literally just "dropped" it onto the center of my Watercolor paper and allowed the ink to spread, and I continued to do this until I was happy with the amount of ink I had. I then did the same process with the Pear Pizzazz, concentrating on the outside perimeter of the paper, catching the edges of the marks I made with my pencil. I then dried the ink with my heat tool. Once it was dry, it was a bit warped, so I used Fast Fuse all around the edge and lined it up behind the die cut panel. I then attached the panel to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals.

I stamped the sentiment onto the Pool Party piece using Pear Pizzazz ink and using my Paper Snips, I bannered one end and angled the other and attached it to the card using a couple of Stampin' Dimensionals. 

That's it, that is all there is to putting this pretty card together. Now, if you will excuse me, I need to drop this into the mail box so that it makes it's way to the intended recipient. Have a great day and Happy Stamping,

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