Hello everyone, and welcome back! It's the third 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  Kelly Taranto - The Late Night Stamper (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. This month, our theme is to use products from the January to April 2025 Mini Catalog. I chose the "One More Year". The main dog image seems to be a pug and I absolutely LOVE pugs. Otterly Adorable Designer Series Paper (DSP) ( 166632) Otterly Adorable Suite collection...

Hey there, stamping enthusiasts! 🎉 Get ready for another exhilarating Stamping with Friends Blog Hop! If you’re new here, let me introduce you to our vibrant community of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from all around the globe. Twice a month, we join forces to celebrate our passion for cardmaking and unleash a whirlwind of creativity based on a thrilling theme. Join us on this colorful journey as we inspire each other with dazzling project ideas and showcase the magic of stamping! Let’s hop into the fun! ✨ If you are following the hop (and I sure hope you are), you’ll have just read Robbie Susan Chandler’s blog. I hope you took a minute to leave her a comment on Robbie Susan's Cards and Cards blog, as I’m sure she’ll appreciate it as much as I will.  If you are starting with me, thank you so much and I hope you enjoy what I and the others have prepared for you today. Our theme today is “coloring tools”…the only condition being we cannot use Stampin’ Up!’s Stampin’ Blends. Now I’m n...

H ello everyone, and welcome back! It's the first Saturday of the month... AND...WORLD CARDMAKING DAY...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  Deb Schultz's- "Handcrafted by Deb'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! This month, the theme is to create a "fractured frame" card.  At first glance, you'd think this was a difficult card to make, but it's not.  The easiest is to use a square shape turned on its point to create a...

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....

Are you enjoying my weekly CAS the Catty videos on YouTube?  I know I am! I had so much fun last night CASing the Stampin' Up! July - December 2022 Mini Catalog...I had been wanting to play with this set for a while...and I think the results were amazing!  I took some poetic licenses but pretty much stuck to the cards created by the artists. This was the first card we made ( I actually made a second one).  Measurements: Base: standard A2 (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") scored at 4 1/4" Panel: 4" x 5 1/4" Basic white panel (inside): 4" x 5 1/4", and scrap for sentiment Watercolor paper (6" x 6") should be enough to stamp and die-cut the images. Emboss the panel using the Leaf Fall 3D Embossing Folder Watercolor the bird and the branch For the leaves, on a scrap of watercolor paper; use the watercolor wash technique to apply colors; then die-cut with the leafy die. Stamp and punch the sentiment, then use a sponge dauber or blending brush to apply color ...

  Welcome and Happy Fall Y'all! 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.  For this post, it's all about Fall. I love this time of year...although I live in Texas and don't get to experience the changing of the seasons as dramatically as my college years when I lived in Worcester, MA...I still remember the colors of the season and the changing of temperatures from hot to cool (not cold).    Fall, the time of the year between Summer and Winter (usually between September and December) heralds in pumpkin season (pumpkin spice, pumpkin pie...you get the drift), soup season, leaves changing colors, cooler weather, apple picking (I've never done that), etc. T here are so many ways to celebrate this season of the year.  ...