Category: Cards – All Occasions

Grateful Bunch

I have a few cards to show you today featuring the Grateful Bunch Bundle. I just love bundles. This means they’ve spent a great deal of time coordinating products that make our lives easier:) This one has a stamp set and a coordinating flower punch. (Bundle #140801 for $40.75)

I received this beauty in the mail from Brenda Nelson and I made up coordinating tags to attach to a little something for my downline meeting last night.Grateful-Bunch-1The color combination is just lovely…Basic Black, Hello Honey, Watermelon Wonder, and Mint Macaron.

Here are 2 more made by Donna Wizniuk. Notice the Wink of Stella on the larger flower?Grateful-Bunch-2She was demonstrating the Press ‘n Seal technique at our meeting last night. She always does such beautiful monochromatic cards.Grateful-Bunch-3

Weekly Deals

There are only 2 more weeks of the Weekly Deals! Don’t miss out on these last 2 weeks. There are 15 amazing items on the list this week:Weekly Deals Apr 5-11When you are ready to place an order, click HERE to go to my online store. I actually featured the Sunburst Thinlits Die on my blog a couple of weeks ago…so if you haven’t got it yet, it’s on SALE this week!!

Important Reminder:
In just a couple of weeks, the Retiring Stamp Set and Accessories List will be posted…

And then we will all shed a few tears. It’s always hard to say goodbye to our favorites. Please remember, that the In Colors from 2014-2106 will be retiring. That means Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, and Tangelo Twist. If you have purchased cardstock or ink in any or all of these colors, you should consider buying the ink refill bottles and more cardstock and accessories NOW. Once that list is out, these will be the first to go and there will be no more made! I can’t tell you how many disappointed customers I’ve had who have waited til the last minute. So…I suggest you put together an order as soon as possible to ensure you get what you need from that color grouping.

That’s all for today. Thanks for stopping by,

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Sunburst Thinlits Die

This morning I have the projects we made with the Sunburst Thinlits Die. I thought I would get them up this weekend, but we were enjoying precious family time…as I hope you were. We actually celebrated 9 family birthdays yesterday, in addition to our Easter Celebration. Birthday-CardsHere they are…minus the little people…who just wanted to be in the picture because:) Birthday-KidsWith a growing family, sometimes we have to celebrate quarterly. This worked out well this time because our daughter and son-in-law were able to be here for Easter AND their birthday celebrations!

Okay…onto the projects! As I mentioned last time, Sherry Roth did the afternoon class at our event and prepped these 4 projects for us. They all featured the Sunburst Thinlits Die.

Card #1
We used the Sunburst Thinlits Die as a template to trace with a black marker.Sunburst-4Card #2
We cut a sunburst out of cardstock, placed it onto a piece of Whisper White Cardstock and sponged between the rays with long strokes starting in the middle so it went from darker to lighter. The clouds were punched out using the Tree Builder Punch (#138295).Sunburst-5Card #3
The Sunburst Thinlits Die used as a sunflower:) We sponged the rays to give it more dimension and embossed the Early Espresso circle with the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder (#133520). The leaf was from the Leaflets Framelits (#138283) and the Celebrate Today was die-cut using the PL Life Cards & Labels Framelits (#135707).Sunburst-6Card #4
This was probably the most challenging card, but I love it! We started with a piece of Watercolor Paper, wet it generously using a clean Aqua Painter. Then we used a few different colors of reinkers in the lids of the stamp pads to dip into (with the Aqua Painter) and worked from the middle out. It didn’t look very pretty…until we cut it out with the Sunburst Thinlits Die. Then look! We stamped random dots from Timeless Textures with White Craft Ink onto the Basic Black Cardstock and adhered the sunburst once the Watercolor Paper had dried.Sunburst-7I hope you enjoy your last day of the long weekend!

Thanks for stopping by,

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Stamp Cafe

I was busy all last week getting ready for a customer event called Stamp Cafe. This is typically an event  I run with a few other leaders in my team and my family helps a ton!

Saturday was a little more challenging however, because our middle daughter was running a case competition at the U of A and my husband has been flat on his back now for 3 weeks with back/nerve pain. So our son Aaron was loaded with a lot of extra responsibilities. He really stepped up to the plate and did an awesome job setting up, running video/sound, doing the lunch run, and tearing down! I also enlisted the help of his girlfriend Kayla to run registration and prize patrol… and my mom helped with clean up. I seriously couldn’t have done the day without them!

Here are a few pics of the set up… I found this door post and sign at a Vintage Market here in Edmonton a couple of weekends ago. I LOVE it!!Stamp-Cafe-3Registration table…Stamp-Cafe-4Stamp Cafe was die-cut from fabric pieces and glued onto vanilla cardstock circles and then adhered to our kraft bags.Stamp-Cafe-5

MORNING CLASS
The morning class was projects featuring the Have a Cuppa Suite in the Occasions Catalogue.  And the Easter bunnies…just because:)Stamp-Cafe-6Images glued onto embroidery hoops…Stamp-Cafe-7My mom’s vintage tea set…Stamp-Cafe-8Here were the projects:

Card #1 (cased from Becky Roberts)…A-Nice-Cuppa-6Card #2 (cased from Sarah Sagert)…A-Nice-Cuppa-5Card #3 (cased from Becky Roberts)…and Gift Card Holder (design by Patty Bennett)…A-Nice-Cuppa-4I’ll share the afternoon Sunburst Class cards tomorrow!
Enjoy your evening…

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