It is Thursday and time for a new Create with Stamping Friends Challenge. This week it is a Sketch Challenge. Father's Day is coming up so I reached for the Trusty Tools stamps and dies. Pecan Pie CS card base 4-1/4" x 11". Crumb Cake CS layer 4" x 5-1/4" corrugated using the Mini Corrugated…
Ready for another Festive Friday challenge? What is the Festive Friday challenge? The Festive Friday challenge is a bi-weekly challenge that is inspired by a holiday/festivity. An Inspo list of 10 items is created using the festivity as its inspiration. To play in the challenge you need to use 3 items from the Inspo list…
Welcome to the Inspire, Create, Share Blog hop. This month the theme is, It's a Guy Thing. This is a timely and helpful theme. I think it is safe to say that most of us have a harder time creating masculine cards. We are approaching Father's Day so hop along with us and hopefully get…
Welcome to another Creativity Abounds Blog Hop! We are an international group of Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators who have joined together to collaborate. This month we are hopping and also have created a tutorial bundle around the theme Masculine cards. Thank you for joining us and enjoy the hop! Masculine cards are some of the hardest…
It is time for the Festive Friday Challenge #FF0035. When you participate in the Festive Friday Challenge you have some options. You can use the "festivity" theme (Father's Day) or the optional theme (Blue) or both. I chose to use both themes. I used the Sailing Home stamp set which will be available for…
I have been wanting to make a card using this sentiment ever since I first saw the Stampin' Up! Pick a Pattern Designer Series Paper. When I saw sketch #230 on the CAS(E) this Sketch! blog everything came together. Here's the sketch which I followed pretty much exactly! Why mess with perfection? Get it? I…
I know this sounds like a game show question…Is It Manly? Remember this blog hop post? This is the second card I made and it didn't pass the manly test, at least according to my husband. He said it was a nice card but wouldn't commit to manly. I questioned him extensively about specifically what about…
You have probably heard about the campaign #imbringingbirthdaysback. In a nut shell, Shannon West, Demonstrator Training Manager at Stampin' Up! decided to bring back the act of sending birthday cards instead of only posting "Happy Birthday" on someone's Facebook page. You can go here to read all the details. You can now order your own…
Today I want to share with you a masculine card…no, this is not an April Fools joke! I admit that I do not often share very many manly cards but no fooling I have a manly card for you. If this looks familiar it is because I first played with this color combination of…
Welcome to another Stamper's Dozen Blog hop! This month our theme is Sale-A-Bration. If you are new to Stampin' Up!, Sale-A-Bration is probably the biggest event of the year. In a nutshell, for every $50 you spend (before tax and shipping) you get to choose a free item from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. Sale-A-Bration runs from…