The Road Trip Begins…Sort Of

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Well the road trip has unofficially started. I say unofficially because this leg of the trip from Craig, Alaska, to Idaho and Salt Lake City for the Stampin’ Up! convention has been taken for the last 3 or 4 years.

I created this scrapbook page for the MDS Monday Challenge 21. We were to insert one picture into several photo frames. I love doing this technique as it gives added interest to a photo. The day we got on the ferry was a beautiful, sunny day, a rare thing for SE Alaska! The next day was misty and overcast. I thought the layers of fog against the mountains on either side of the Inside Passage were beautiful and had to have a picture. I used the Fifty Nifty Kit for this page. I will be using this digital kit and its state punches and stamps a lot on this trip! Order your copy of the download here. The background is one of the designer series papers from the Spring to Life Kit.

Supplies:

MDS software digital download (130646), MDS software disc (130647), or 30-day Free Trial of MDS (130910)

Fifty Nifty Kit (130059), Spring to Life Kit (133026)

Buy Three Get One Free

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If you are a card-maker and not a scrapbooker, you may wonder why you would need 12 x 12″ designer series papers. Well, I used to wonder that too, but I find I use designer series papers on my cards all the time. I have discovered that using pieces of designer series paper can save me time in creating cards. For example, I needed to quickly make a birthday card for our great-granddaughter this morning before heading out to her birthday party. I chose a Very Vanilla card base and a piece of the polka-dotted Afternoon TPicnic Designer Series Paper that was cut 4″ x 5 1/4″. I layered the designer series paper on the card front then stamped the greeting on a scrap of Very Vanilla card stock with Coastal Cabana ink. I used one of the new Chalk Talk Framelits to cut out the greeting and mounted it on the card. Butterflies punched from Silver Glimmer paper were the final touch. Here is the end result. What took the most time was getting out my supplies from all the different places I have them in our travel trailer and putting them back. The card is a little bent because I took the picture after our great-granddaughter opened it. :o)

This special of buying 3 packages and getting one free only lasts the month of July. There is no limit to the number you can buy as long as you buy in multiples of 3. Buy 6 and get 2 free packages. This special does not apply to the designer series paper stacks or to the specialty papers. If you want to get four of the same designer series paper, order a quantity of 3 and then add your free one as a second item. Now go to my online store and start shopping! :o)

Supplies:

Delightful Dozen stamp set (122652-c, 128457-w)

Ink: Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin’ Pad (131175)

Paper: Very Vanilla Card Stock, Afternoon Picnic Designer Series Paper (131390), Silver Glimmer Paper (124005)

Other: Bitty Butterfly Punch (129406), Elegant Butterfly Punch (127526), Chalk Talk Framelits (129983), Big Shot Die-Cut Machine (113439)

July Best of 25 – Best of Shelley

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July Best of 25 Collection

I’ll bet you are thinking that I have dropped off the face of the earth. Well, that hasn’t happened but so very much else has! The title of my post on July 17 was The Packing Begins and by the time Ron got home from his trip to Anchorage on the following Friday, I did have my stamp room packed up. The 21st, 22nd, and 23rd were to be packing days for the rest of our things in the school trailer. But our plans always seem to get unplanned wrinkles in them and on Saturday morning Ron was life-flighted to Seattle with heart attack symptoms. After an angiogram, it was determined that he did indeed have a small heart attack. He was released from the hospital on Monday and told we could continue our plans for this trip but he needed to exercise in moderation. We are beginning to learn exactly what moderation looks like and he is doing well but still tires easily.

With Ron out of the picture for packing and leaving Craig, I had all the responsibility to do it all. I had wonderful help from some very good friends who also traveled with me on the ferry to Bellingham as I had two rigs to get down here. We are now settled into our 5th-wheel trailer and I can get back to blogging.

Today I want to share the newest Best of 25 Years stamp set collections. The Best of Shelley collection contains stamps that are favorites of Shelly Gardner, one of the founders and CEO of Stampin’ Up! To order this set, click on the photo above or visit my online store.

You Missed the Fun!

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If you weren’t at our card exchange club last night you missed out on a lot of fun. Hubby is out of town and I can think of no better way to spend an evening than spending time with my stamping ladies creating gorgeous cards, laughing, and having fun. This is the card you missed out on creating.

One of the new toys…err…tools I purchased this month is the Circles Collection Framelits. I was hoping they would take the place of all my circle punches thus saving me space in our travel trailer. However, the only one that duplicates a punch if the 1″ diameter one. The rest complement the circle punches. Here are the measurements of the circle framelits: 5/8″, 1″, 1-1/2″, 1-7/8″, 2-3/8″, 2-3/4″ 3-3/16″, 3-5/8″, 4″, 4-3/4″ which is the scalloped one. My dear, sweet husband said, ” Take the punches also. You will be really frustrated when you need that particular size and it is in storage.” Thank you, dear!!!

This tomorrow is the Blessing of the Fleet, an annual tradition in fishing communities. I thought The Open Sea was a particularly fitting stamp to use last night. Sail boats and sailing vessels like this have a romantic aura for me but I also know they are a lot of work!

Did you know that you can stamp on and color the cotton ribbon? I felt the natural color of the ribbon would be too light for this card so I used a sponge dauber to sponge Baked Brown Sugar ink on it.

Thanks for coming to visit me today. As always, order the supplies needed to make this card by visiting my online store or by clicking on the hyperlinked names of the supplies.

Supplies:

Stamps – The Open Sea (128454w, 123032c), Express Yourself (130336w, 130339c) hostess set

Card Stock – Soft Sky, Baked Brown Sugar, Very Vanilla

Ink – Night of Navy, Gumball Green, Baked Brown Sugar

Other – Circles Collection Framelits (130911), 7/8″ Cotton Ribbon (127844), Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine (113439), Sponge Daubers (102892)

Terrific Tuesday – Everybody’s Business DSP

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Yep…it is a Terrific Tuesday and I have a terrific card to share with you using the new Everybody’s Business DSP download. I particularly like this new download because each pattern of dsp not only has a colored version but also a grayscale version for you to color. I love using the recoloring feature of MDS! In this card I recolored the dsp with Crisp Cantaloupe and the Whisper White grosgrain ribbon with Cajun Craze. (You have to usually go much darker when recoloring ribbon to get the right shade, so play with different options.) As usual, I thought the Soft Sky card base looked a little flat so I added the overlay stamp from the Because I’m The Dad Greeting Card Template and recolored it Soft Sky. By adding a drop shadow to the overlay, I got just the effect I wanted, just a hint of texture. Go here to see and purchase today’s new downloads.

Supplies:

MDS software disc (130647), MDS software digital download (130646) or MDS 30-day Free Trial (130910)

Stamp Brush Sets: Because I’m The Dad Greeting Card Template (134685) – overlay, Holiday Blitz – thanks

Paper: Soft Sky background, Everybody’s Business DSP (133499) – 7 (grayscale colored Crisp Cantaloupe)

The Packing Begins

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My stamp collection

A week from today we have to be out of the school trailer with all our ‘stuff’ packed up to take with us on our long road trip or to be put into another storage unit. (All our household goods have been in storage since we sold our house last year.)Unfortunately, this packing up includes my stamping space…sob, sob! I have been mulling over…actually arguing with myself…as to which stamp sets I absolutely must take with me on our road trip and what absolutely needs to go into storage. Neither side has been able to convince the other to give.

Today I was having a conversation with my business coach who suggested I take the negative space rubber (the rubber that is left over when you take the stamps out) out of the cases and put two or three sets into the same case. I ended up putting one stamp set with its negative rubber on one side of the case and another stamp set on the other side. I think the surfaces of the rubber stamps touch each other when the case is closed but they don’t have pressure against each other so I think they will be fine. This allowed me to really condense the amount of space taken up by the stamp cases. Yay! Besides that, when my hubby comes into my stamp room he won’t see as many stamp sets on the shelf and won’t realize that I actually have double that amount…hehehe! I’ll post pictures of what the stamp sets look like in the cases later this week.

stamps after consolidation

In conjunction with us starting our road trip and being on the go, I am excited to bring you the Soggy Stamper Club to Go. This is the perfect stamping club for you if you a. don’t have time to go to a regular stamp club; b. can only find time to stamp after the kids are sleeping; or c. you live in an area where there are few stampers, no demonstrator, and no craft stores. With the Soggy Stamper Club to Go, you place an order through my online store for $35 or more by the 10th of each month. Then I send you a link to a 20-30 minute video of an exclusive class just for my Club to Go members. Check it out with more information here.

Last Day!

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Just a quick reminder that today is the last day to take advantage of Stampin’ Up!’s 25% discount on selected digital downloads and print products! I placed my order for 4 8″x8″ photobooks this week. Have you placed your order? Just think, if you design a quick Christmas card today and send it off for printing by Stampin’ Up!’s professional printer, not only will you save 25% and have fine quality Christmas cards but your Christmas cards will be all done! Check off one thing on your Christmas list already! Here is where you go for more information.

Best of Greetings

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With all the excitement of the new 2013-2014 Stampin’ Up! catalog being released the first of June, this wonderful stamp set the Best of Greetings is almost lost in the shuffle. Remember when you order this set to save the little circle that has the 25 in it. When you have collected 6 of these sets, you can send in a form to get a free $14.95 stamp set of your choice. Visit my online store to order.

Recycled Wedding Card

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In May I shared this Mother’s Day card along with directions for making your own shimmer spritz. You can read about it here. Today I needed a wedding card and began working on my design. I didn’t have wedding greetings in my arsenal, so I turned to MDS and found just what I needed. I printed out the greetings on Whisper White card stock and trimmed them down. I was still trying to decide what to do for the rest of the card when I saw this card lying on my stamping table. I was able to gently lift off the top layer of the card and use it on a different design. The greeting would cover the Happy Mother’s Day that I had stamped directly on the layer. Here is the beautifully recycled wedding card.

I really love using Crisp Cantaloupe for the card base. The inside of the card has a greeting from the Curvy Verses stamp set. This stamp set retired this year so it is no longer available for purchase. But thanks to MDS, I can still use it. You can shop for the supplies I used in my online store.

Supplies:

MDS software disc (130647) or MDS software digital download (130646)

A Word For You stamp brush set (123958), Curvy Verses stamp brush set (129884)

Delicate Doilies Sizzlit die (126999), Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine (113439)

Why Two Newsletters?

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You may be wondering why I have two different newsletter subscription boxes on the sidebar. That is because I am continuing to publish a traditional paper and ink newsletter, The Soggy Stamper Newsletter, and the digital-only News From My Digital Craft Corner. I still have my little corner of the digital world and I still want to share news from it. Yesterday, the June issue of The Soggy Stamper Newsletter was published. If you didn’t receive it, you missed out on some exciting news and some wonderful projects. Don’t miss another issue! Fill out the Soggy Stamper subscription form right now!

The June issue of News From My Digital Craft Corner will be released tomorrow. You need to subscribe to it now! I’d love to share the content with you but you must be a subscriber. The process is easy. Just fill out the box at the right. Be sure to respond to the email I will send you to complete your subscription.

Quick Card Using Mosaic Madness

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I needed a quick card to contact our yard maintenance man so whipped up this one using the new Mosaic Madness stamp set and the new Mosaic punch. My original concept was to just have the diagonal line of mosaics but the card looked a little ‘blah’. So I added the border stamp diagonally across the corners. I am pleased with the results. Of course, I have no Spanish stamps so had to hand write the greeting. Can you name the two new colors I used? Leave a comment below with your answer.

Supplies:

Stamp set: Mosaic Madness (130249 – c, 130246 – w)

Inks: Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin’ Pad (131171), Baked Brown Sugar Classic Stampin’ Pad (131174), Marina Mist Stampin’ Write Marker (119679)

Paper: Crumb Cake and Whisper White card stock

Other: Mosaic Punch (131267)

My Digital Studio Monday – Using the Color Tool

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Good morning! It is My Digital Studio Monday and I have been mentally creating this scrapbook page of my lovely granddaughter. She has always been quite the tomboy and very athletic so I was quite surprised at how beautiful she looks all dolled up! Wow! This is my version of the MDSM 16 challenge to use the color tool on a stamp. The color brush tool is so easy to use and you can even use the color picker to get an exact color match to another element on the page. This time, I just colored the flowers of the floral frame Whisper White. Here is the challenge sketch:

Have you tried Stampin’ Up!’s professional printer yet? Now is the perfect time to do so because select print products are 25% off. The process is relatively easy and your printed projects are shipped directly to you. The last day of the sale is June 15 so get busy creating and then send your creation off to be printed. Be sure to list me as your demonstrator. :o)

Supplies:

MDS software disc (130647) or MDS software digital download (130646)

Everything Eleanor Stamp Brush Set (130859)

Spring to Life Kit (133026) Spring to Life Designer Series Paper – 5 (recolored with Recolored with Regal Rose)

Eyelet Border Punch (122150)

1.25″ square punch (comes with MDS)

It’s Live!

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Today is the first day we can order from the new 2013-2014 Stampin’ Up! catalog. Do you have your wish list in hand? What? You haven’t seen the new catalog yet? You would have it in your hands if you were a member of my team of demonstrators or you can email me your name, phone number, and best time to call you. I’d love to have a conversation with you about how I can send you the catalog at no cost to you. I will also be happy to have a conversation with you about how you can start your own business for only $99.95. Just contact me or check out more information here.

The Latest Word!

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As you probably know…at least you should know if you have been following me here…the new 2013-2014 Stampin’ Up! catalog goes live tomorrow at noon Mountain Daylight time. But…not to worry, you can still order from the old catalog; the retirement list; and on Friday noon to midnight, from the Spring mini. Here is the latest and final (hopefully) word from Stampin’ Up!

Online ordering will be closed at midnight May 30th/May 31st. Online ordering (or OEX for demonstrators) will reopen at noon on May 31st.

And then you can begin to order from the new 2013-2014 Annual Catalog.

You can order from the Retiring Lists of stamps and accessories until midnight on Monday June 3rd–while supplies last of course.

You can order from the ‘old catalog’ until midnight, Monday June 3rd.

You can order from the Spring Occasions/”Mini” Catalog until midnight, Friday May 31st.

All times are all Mountain Standard, aka Salt Lake City, home of Stampin’ Up!

So happy weekend shopping! My online store is always open 24/7. 🙂

Hybrid Graduation Gift Card Holder – You Go Grad

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You may think that the Pop ‘n Cuts Card Base die is only for making pop-up cards but the exclusive closure lends the card base to all kinds of other uses. I used it to make these gift card enclosures. I created the greetings with MDS, printed them on Whisper White card stock and then cut them out. I cut a piece of Pool Party Core’dinations card stock, embossed it with the Delicate Designs embossing folder, and sanded it lightly before adhering it. To order the supplies to make this project, either click on the linked names or visit my online store.

Supplies:

MDS software disc (130647), MDS software digital download (130646)

Stamp Brush Sets: You Go, Grad (129878), Go Graduate Plus (121069)

Be Yourself May Kit (133426)

Pop ‘n Cuts Card Base Bigz Die (