I cannot believe how fast time flies by! Last month I was traveling and preparing for my first Stampin' Up! OnStage conference and now this month, I just finished the event. Wow, what an eye opener! My husband and I are going to stay in hot and muggy Florida into December so we are not currently in travel mode.
Today I am joining the Colour Combo blog hop. I love the colors this month...
I just had to create a gallery video of swap images to share with everyone. It is just over 8 minutes long.
Stampin' Up! loves to have random sales. They vary from free shipping, a discount on select products, and even limited edition products that are available for as little as one month and then they are gone forever!
Larger promotions include the week long Thanksgiving Extravaganza and of course the three month Sale-A-Bration promotion in which customers earn free products for every $50...
This month's Kre8tors blog hop is all about birthdays. In Fact, Melissa who runs this hop's birthday IS today, so I want to wish her a good one!
I had to get my project finished early due to OnStage, which is the fall Stampin' Up! conference. Since the location is Orlando, Florida, we decided to make a journey of it. We are now camping in Florida all the way from Washington state! This...
I cannot believe today hub drove me to the hotel and I went to the convention center to check in for OnStage. It is a bit surreal. I AM AT ONSTAGE /pinch. It is my first one, and I also cannot believe hub and I drove over 4000 miles to be here with our home! We are staying at a super nice resort in Orlando, the Thousand Trails resort, and it was only a 30 minute drive to get to the hotel....
I am late in receiving this month's Paper Pumpkin due to our travel schedule. I haven't been in one place for more than a day or two since mid September. The second I was checked in to the Orlando Thousand Trails for a long enough stretch, I had our mail forwarded. In the package was the October Paper Pumpkin.
I had to finish all of my swaps and gifts for OnStage today before I could...
This card front is slightly under standard A2 size. This is because the background is from the Delightfully Detailed Laser Cut Specialty Designer Series Paper which is a 12" x 12" so the width of the trimmed down piece is under 4".
I love to make many layered cards. I used the round and small rectangle stitched label dies from Stitched All Around. I also colored a snippet of lace trim...
This design is based on the negative cutout of the Beautiful Blizzard Snowflake die. For each sheet of snowflakes you cut, you end up with an entire sheet of cardstock ready to be adhered to a contrasting background color. In this case I chose Blueberry Bushel cardstock. I used liquid glue to adhere the sheet and the individual snowflakes.
Next, I added a strip of copper glimmer paper...
This card front focuses on many layers in the center of the lovely background DSP from Joyous Noel. I cut a rectangle of vellum to add a hint of structure behind these layers. The rectangle and circle labels come from Stitched All Around.
I used copper heat embossing on the sentiment which is from Wishing You Well and the label is from Merry Christmas To All. The green glimmer leaves ...
We are back on the main land now. Our last day in The Keys was Hub's birthday so we had to celebrate before we left and after we arrived in Homestead. All this celebrating was followed up with some disc golf at the southern most course in the continental US.
Now it is back to business and I have more Christmas card fronts to share. I should mention that Stampin' Up! sent out an...