It's time for another Mystery Stamping Event! So grab a beverage and your supplies and join me for an hour of fun! Here are the clues for mystery Stamping! Cardstock Color 1:  -4 1/4" x 5 1/2"  - 2 3/4" x 4 1/4"  - 3 3/4" x 5" DSP: 5 1/4" x 12: Basic white/Very Vanilla:   - 3 1/2" x 4 3/4"  - 2 1/2" x 4" Other supplies: - Stamp set(s): images and sentiments one of the images should be long enough to act as a "border" stamp - Ribbon - Embellishments (jewels, pearls, etc) - Adhesives Click HERE to join on YouTube at 7:30pm CST

  Hello everyone, and welcome back! It's the third Saturday of the month...time for another Blog Hop!  Thank you for joining us for another Stamping with Friends Blog Hop!  If you are new to my blog, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up!® demonstrators worldwide who share our love of card-making through monthly blog hops with various themes. If you are following the hop, you'll have just popped over  from  Mickey Moore - "2 Moore Stampers's " blog .  I hope you took a minute to leave a comment for her as I'm sure she'll appreciate it as much as I will. If you are starting the hop with me, thank you so much and I hope you enjoy what I and the other hoppers have prepared for you today! Our theme this month is all about shapes...circles, squares, rectangles, animal shapes...whatever that means to you.  I chose to use a hexagon shape for my quick and easy project.  I hope you enjoy this card and that you will try to make one or two for your...

Once a month, on the first Sunday of the month, the Fabulous Fun Friday Stampers gather together for our Shoebox Card swap. What is a Shoebox Swap? In our swap, the coordinator, me, picks the theme and each participant designs a project within the parameters and creates card kits for the number of confirmed attendees. All the kit parts and pieces are placed in a "shoebox" and passed around til everyone creates the card. At the end of the day, you leave the event with several ideas. So this month, our theme was "Christmas in August" and our projects had to include ribbon. There were seven (7) of us. Take a look and see what the crew crested. I'm always amazed at the talent of the ladies I stamp with.      (Note: our group consists of Stampin' Up! and non-Stampin' Up!  demonstrators. We set no limitations on brands that can be used or whether current or retired products are used), but the majority of us are either demonstrators or current Stampin' Up! ...

Hello everyone, and welcome back... and thank you for joining us for another Stamping with Friends Blog Hop!  If you are new to my blog, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up!® demonstrators worldwide who share our love of card-making through monthly blog hops with various themes. If you are following the hop, you'll have just popped over  from  Jana Secord - "Crazy Stampin Lady's  blog .  I hope you took a minute to leave a comment for her as I'm sure she'll appreciate it as much as I will. If you are starting the hop with me, thank you so much and I hope you enjoy what I and the other hoppers have prepared for you today! Our theme today is technique focused...the Paper Kintsugi technique. What is that you may ask?  Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer that is dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. This method is similar to the  Maki-e  technique....