Hello, everyone, and welcome to May...the month of Mother's Day and Memorial Day... and thank you for joining us!   If you are new to my blog, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world (Canada, UK, and USA) 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 Lorraine Tierney of ChatnCraft with Lorraine's blog.  I hope you took a minute to leave a comment for her as I'm sure she'll appreciate it just 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! For this hop, we are focusing on a technique...creating embossed panels with dies--thinlets or framelits. This is the first time I've tackled this particular technique...not sure why...but for sure I'll be incorporating it more in my bag of tricks.  I decided to make a ver...

  Hello, everyone, welcome to March...the month of St. Patrick's Day and March Madness... and thank you for joining us!   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  Helen Jennings' (UK) Love-a-Duckie blog.  I hope you took a minute to leave a comment for her as I'm sure she'll appreciate it just 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! I really fell in love with this card layout and couldn't resist sharing it with you for my anything-goes blog post today.   It's another great way to use your DSP 2" strips that you may have laying around.  I used the template during my Mystery Stamping event on March 15, 2023... Here are t...

Have you ever wondered what to do with older catalogs? Do you just throw them out? I used to...but no more!  There is so much inspiration to be had from them that it would be unwise not to capitalize on it.   During my Facebook Live, I took the opportunity to share how I drew inspiration from the retired Annual Catalog.   Measurements: Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4" Cardstock (same color): 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (punch or die cut) Basic White: 3" x 3"; 4" x 5 1/4", scrap for sentiment Happy Stampin'.  While you are on my YouTube channel, don't forget to subscribe, Like and share the video(s) with your crafty friends. Don't forget to add the BINGO event to your calendar.

Simple stamping can mean so much to many different people. To some it can mean only a one-layer card; to others, it can mean only using Stamps, ink, and paper; yet still, to others, it can mean ensuring your card/project has lots of "white space".  This month, the Stamping with Friends Blog hop crew explores what simple stamping means to each of us.   Hello, everyone, welcome to November,  and thank you for joining us!   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  Diane Evans (Canada) Stamping with Diane's blog.  I hope you took a minute to leave a comment for her as I'm sure she'll appreciate it just 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 pr...