Month: September 2016

Seriously Amazing Special Offers!

Seriously Amazing Special Offers!

I am so excited about the special offer for World Card Making Day on October 1st.  I am even more excited that Stampin’ Up! is offering these products at the discount through October 5th.  Buy one Fast Fuse refill get one Free!  In Color envelope 

Vintage Leaves

Vintage Leaves

Back in August, I participated in a Shoe Box swap at our Northwest Stamp and Share event.  A shoe box swap is a super fun event where you will make several different cards from different designers.  I’ll share at a later date more details on 

Candy Cane Christmas

Candy Cane Christmas

I’m really trying to make Christmas cards this year prior to December 24th.  Don’t laugh – I know you are thinking the exact same thing – yeah right – never going to happen.  This is a super cute, simple, easy to mass produce for Christmas.

Fun tips for this card:

  • Use the bookmark punch to decorate the top layer
  • Attach ribbon to card stock with a mini dimensional
  • Stamp the candy on a scrap piece of paper, then use a circle punch to punch out – and ending with fussy cutting

 

candy-cane-christmas

Breaking News!

Breaking News!

A fun promotion from Stampin’ Up! arrives just in time for World Card Making Day on October 1st.  From October 1st to October 5th you can stock up on a few papercrafting essentials.  Click here to see the products you can save and stock up on. 

Thoughtful Branches

Thoughtful Branches

I was pretty unsure about this set at first.  I saw lots of cute cards using the hydgrania framelit from the set.  Turning them into flowers, pumpkins, coaches – just so many cute idea.  I just didn’t think the set was me and for that matter 

Peaceful Pines

Peaceful Pines

To be perfectly honest with you, I struggle to use any card base that is not Whisper White or Very Vanilla.  I am not sure why.  I just love this card.  Seems so clean and simple – yet makes a bold impact.  

Fun tips for this card:

  • Stamp sentiment in lower right corner before embossing
  • Use mini glue dots to attach bow to tree
  • Stamp tree image and a piece of scrap before using the die to cut it out
  • Use deminsionals to raise each layer of the card

Christmas Glamping

Christmas Glamping

Back in August, I attend a Northwest Stamp and Share event for Demonstrators.  It was a great weekend networking with my fellow demonstrators, making new friends, creating fun new projects, laughing away, Ken going to lunch with the girls, swapping cards, and learning fun new 

October  Cards and Coffee 

October  Cards and Coffee 

Join us on the 1st Tuesday or 3rd Thursday for Cards and Coffee. We will meet at a local Starbucks for our all-occasions card class.  We will play with the latest tools and techniques while having a fun time chatting and creating a couple of 

Swirly Bird Thanks

Swirly Bird Thanks

Our September Cards and Coffee events were the first of their kind.  Not really sure what to expect or how it would work meeting at local Starbucks.  I needed to create a card that was easy to assemble away from the Inky Fingers Stamping Studio.  So I came up with this easy to assemble, easy to mass produce, multipurpose layout card.  I think what I like most about this card is that the colors can easily be changed to fit anyone’s personality and the sentiment can be changed as needed.

Fun tips about this card:

  • A swirl was stamped in Emerald Envy
  • I cut out an Emerald Envy swirl
  • The Emerald Envy swirl is attach with only Washi Tape!  (yep, who would have thought it?)

swirly-birds

Spooky Treat Bag

Spooky Treat Bag

Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing with you the six different projects we made at the Cards and Chocolate and Cards and Coffee events through the Pierce County Papercrafters meetups.  This was the first month with these new events.  I’m working on the