Welcome December!

It's December and I'm excited...for oh so many reasons! It's the holiday season, the birth month of Christ, presents, family...and so much more. Although 2020 has caused us to have to rethink/reimagine how we've done things, our creativity and our ingenuity continue to thrive.

So the 1st Sunday of every month, the Fabulous Fun Friday Stampers (FFF Stampers) meet virtually (we used to meet in person, pre-COVID) for Shoebox parties. The premise of Shoebox parties is that each participant designs a card and when we met in person, they'd prepare 1 card kit for each stamper then we'd get together on the appropriate date and get to creating. In this age of COVID, each participant still designs a card, but we post it to our Pinterest board and then each participant searches their stash and creates the card with items they have. Sometimes, we all have the same stamp/paper/stencil/die, etc. and sometimes we don't and thus use the card as inspiration. This month, the theme was birthday, we were a little burnt out on making Christmas cards. Here are the cards I made based on the stampers' upload:

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In The Moment January - June 2022 Mini Catalog Sneak Peak

Hello, all! Thank you for joining me for another Stamping with Friends Blog Hop! For those of you who are unfamiliar, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators who share our love of card making with you through monthly blog hops with various themes. This month, we are sharing with you sneak peeks from the January - June 2022 Mini Catalog. If you've come from Mo Rootes' blog, then you saw her project using the Stampin' Up! Simply Marbleous Designer Series Paper (DSP) . I hope these and the other projects serve to inspire your creativity. Speaking of catalogs, if you don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like a catalog, reach out to me. I'd love to get one out to you and to serve as your demonstrator. For my contribution to this blog hop, I chose the "In the Moment" set. I fell in love with this set, "In The Moment", the moment I opened my order and saw it. This was another of the FREE swag bag produc...

Stampin' with Friends Technique Blog Hop - Masking

Hi there, Stamping Friends! It's time for another Stamping with Friends Blog Hop. As you know, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrators who enjoy paper crafting, creating cards, and other projects to share with each other and with you. If you've arrived from Karen's blog, welcome! This time, the theme is to create a card or project based on a favorite technique. There are sooooo many techniques that I love but with this project, I'm going to focus mainly on two. Can you guess what one of them is? Yup, you guessed it...masking! There're so many things you can do with this technique from: simple masking to creating seamless backgrounds and adding depth...hmmm, I think I've decided to do a blog series focusing on the different things you can do with masking. For this post, I chose to start with a simple spotlight masking technique. Let me show you how I created this card. Now I incorporated several other techniques (dry ...

Stampin' with Friends Blog Hop Vine Design

Hi, so glad you decided to pop in to see what I have in store for you today. This is my inaugural blog hop with Stamping with Friends. Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators who enjoy sharing our love of paper crafting in general and for me, more specifically, card making with you. The group hosts two hops every month. The theme for this hop showcases retiring sets, bundles, or products from the January - June 2021 mini catalog that retires at the end of this month. I chose to feature the Vine Design Bundle. I was drawn to this bundle for many reasons; first, the die cuts are elegant and can stand alone to create a beautiful, simple yet elegant card, second, the sentiments also make it a very versatile set that covers multiple occasions, and third, I could see the possibilities with one of my favorite masking and blending techniques. I hope you enjoy this hop and the cards I created to share with you. This first card highlights the m...

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