Ahhhh...a new year and a new blog hop.  Hello everyone, and welcome back! It's the first Saturday of the month...time for another Stamping With Friends Blog Hop!  Thank you for joining us!  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  Ginny Harrell - Celebrate the Journey (US)   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 This month, our theme is to create a Stepper card. Here's the card I made for you today.   The colors I used:   Measurements: Base (Berry Burst): 7" x 11" Mat Layer (Bubble Bath): (If you prefer 1/4" borders you...

  Hello everyone, and welcome back! It's the first Saturday of the month...time for another Stamping With Friends Blog Hop!  Thank you for joining us!  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  Susan Boback Card Connoisseur USA   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! So the theme this month is...drum roll, please...Pocket Card.  What is a pocket card, you might ask?  A pocket card is a type of card created in which you can insert things such as a gift card or a treat of some sort into the "pocket". That's my answer and I'm sticking to ...

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, from all over the world, who share our love of card-making through monthly blog hops with various themes. If you are following the hop, then you'll have just popped over  from  Kelly Taranto - "The Late Night Stamper'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! On July 6, Stampin' Up! released the newest round of Online Exclusive products. What are Online Exclusives you may ask? These are a category of products you will not be able to find in any Stampin' Up! catalog...and let me tell you, sometimes, these products are snapped up within day...(wink, wink....

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...

Hi all! So glad y'all could join us for another Roll of the Die episode. We-- Kathy, Michelle, and I--are excited to bring you another episode and thank you for sharing an hour of your time with us (if you watched the video before). If you watched episode 2, you'll see that the projects we had to create today had to include: fun-fold, paper piecing, congratulations, Stampin' Up! In-colors, and bling. We each only have 20 minutes to present our projects so I started and discarded many ideas, cause I thought they'd consume way too much time. So, in the end, I chose a very simple "fold" if you like. Here are the measurements for the card I created during the Live: Orchid Oasis card base: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; scored at 4 1/4" Cut a 1" strip from the card base on either side Shaded Spruce Card stock: 3 1/8" x 5 3/8" and 1" x 5 3/8" DSP: 3" x 5 1/4" and 7/8" x 5 1/4" Basic White: cut to size to fit the sentimen...

  Hello, Stampers! Thanks for stopping by to visit me on another Stamping with Friends Blog hop! We are a group of Independent Demonstrators with Stampin' Up! who enjoy paper crafting and sharing our creations with each other and with you!  Front Cover of Mini Catalog Well, it's that time again...the debut of Stampin' Up!'s July - December 2021 Mini...AND...Sale-A-Bration catalog. Both of which will go live on my website on August 3, 2021. As an Independent Demonstrator, we are privileged to receive the catalog both in digital and hard copy format and (and this is the most important piece..lol), we are able to pre-order and get hold of some of these goodies so we can start creating card projects for you. If you've followed my on my socials (yeah, that's me trying to be "in"), you'll know that my style of card making is simple, yet elegant (#simpleyetelegant).  With that in mind and I knowing that  I wanted to use the bookbinding fold  this is where...