Do you live in central Illinois? I'm excited to be part of Champaign's Downtown Festival of the Arts on Saturday! I'll be hanging out with the kiddies in the Little Artist's Alley from 11 am til 8 pm. Come by and stamp a gift bag to take with you--points for the most creative creation! Plus mention that you saw this blog post when you
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Plate for All Seasons Class
Another cool project shown at the Stampin' Up! Convention... this great home decor plate with 8 inserts for different seasons... Christmas, Valentine's, St. Patrick's, Thanksgiving, etc. Too cute!
So I couldn't resist... I'm offering a class to create this great project. There are so many fun new things in this project... new Designer
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One more use for Sponge Daubers
Yet another idea shared at the Stampin' Up! Convention... one of the demonstrator presenters showed this beautiful card featuring the new Upsy Daisy stamp set. Instead of inking the stamp with an ink pad, she used Sponge Daubers to apply the ink colors, in Pink Pirouette (a new In Color!), Real Red and Tangerine Tango (another In
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Designer Series Paper & Ribbon Share–get ’em all!
Designer Series Paper ShareDo you love using Designer Series papers in your projects? If so, this one-time club is for you!
When the new Stampin' Up! catalog comes out on August 11th (TOMORROW!!), there will be 20 different packages of Designer Series papers AND 14 different colors of the Patterns Designer Series Papers. You are going to
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Decor Elements for art projects
So who knew? Decor Elements are NOT for walls only! I've seen some great ideas for where to use them... car windows, patio doors...and now, picture frames!
Check out this project that was presented at Convention last week by Brent Steele, Stampin' Up! artist extraordinaire.Brent started out with a double-glass frame from a department
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Inspired by Nature (and chocolate!)
This is a FABULOUS (anything glittery is fabulous) project that someone gave one of the Stampin Up! staff members at Convention last week. I had to take a picture! Not only does it include a huge bar of chocolate, but it also uses the new Inspired By Nature stamp set (pg 100 in the fall/winter idea book), which I LOVE.
If you want to
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Headstart on the holidays
I know, July is over, so we can't be talking about "Christmas in July", but these cards were made in July, so does that count? And what's more, they're made with stamp sets or colors that will be retired <gasp!> on August 10th, so if you see something you "need", you'll need to order quickly!
These were the 4 cards from my
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