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...

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....

Join me for Mystery stamping this Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Grab your supplies, beverage of choice and join me on Zoom or catch us on YouTube.  Clue #1 Color 1: - Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" - 3" x 4 1/4" - 3/4" x 4" Color 2: - 4 x 5 1/4" - 1/2" x 4" Basic White/Very Vanilla  - 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" - 4" x 5 1/4" - scrap for Sentiment  DSP - 1 1/2" x 4" - 3/4" x 4" Embossing Folder Sentiment Stamp  Die or Punch for sentiment Ribbon embellishment Check out the event on Facebook.   Facebook event

It's that time again...time for another Roll of t he Die.  This month, we have a new demonstrator, Karen Finley, joining us and I'm excited to share her talents with you. Karen lives in Arlington, TX. As a reminder, the elements the die rolled that we had to incorporate into our projects were: Thanks, Dry Emboss, Brights, Fancy Fold and we had to incorporate foil or DSP. So, where to begin...Colors. The Stampin' Up! Brights collection includes Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green, Mango Melody, Melon Mambo, and Poppy Parade. Now...which of these do I choose...hmmm...my wheelhouse is in the regals and neutrals so this one is a little challenging for me.  Next, which fancy fold do I want to showcase and how does it fit in with the other element...oh, and BTW, we only have 30 minutes to present our projects. I chose to demonstrate a collar fold card. Easy peasy lemon squeezy... Measurements: Base (Daffodil Delight): 8 1/2" x 5...

So today, I share this card I created using the Stampin' Up! Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set.  This card was created for a "sunflower" themed card swap for a swap group I'm in on Facebook called, The Card Shack.  It also gave me the opportunity to put ink to stamp.  In this card, I used masking, heat embossing, and water coloring...yes, water coloring, techniques to create this simple card. I started by stamping the image on the left with Versafine Clair Pinecone.  I created a mask, covered the first image then stamped the second...I had a little too much space (or so I thought) but kept on going by masking the second image and stamping the third.  If I had wanted the middle image to be in the forefront, then I would have stamped and masked it first then stamped the left and right sunflower image. Because of the drying time of the Versafine Clair, I was still able to add clear embossing powder over the complete image then heat set it with the heating t...

Welcome! Thanks for stopping by Sweets' Stampin' Creations where I share card  projects created using Stampin' Up! products.  It's time for another Stamping With Friends blog hop!  I'm hopping with some awesome paper crafters and stampers from the Stamping With Friends Facebook Group.  This weekend our theme was to Copy and Share (CAS) the annual or mini catalog. If you've come from Victoria Littlewood's blog, then you saw her project using the Dragonfly Garden set. I hope these and the other projects serve to inspire your creativity.  So sit back, relax and let me introduce you to  a set from page 49 in the Annual Catalog called Bamboo Beauty (155478).  By Mogens Engelund - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,  Not to bore you, but let me tell you a little bit about the bamboo. Did you know that bamboo is an evergreen perennial flowering plant native to warm and moist tropical to warm temperate climates? Or that the soft shoots, stems, and leaves are a major ...