January 2017 Card Buffet

Happy New Year everyone!  What a great start to a new year.  A new president and administration.  A new Occasions catalog along with Sale-A-Bration.  And it's a very beautiful day here in Fort Worth - sunny and 64 degrees.  That's picnic weather, right?  Maybe not, but it sure is beautiful.  This is the time of year I break out the Valentine sets to create some cards in plenty of time for Valentine's Day.  The new Occasions catalog has a wonderful stamp set along with framelits that I am loving.  I think this Occasions catalog is the best one I've seen in a long time.  With every $50 you spend from either the Annual or Occasions catalog you can choose a free item from the Sale-A-Bration catalog.  There is an adorable chicken stamp set which we will be using this month.  So I hope to see many of you this month to create some cute cards together.

Happy Valentine's Day - aren't the little envelopes just the cutest!

Valentine #2 - Valentines can be a little "grungy".

Happy Day Chicken - with new Hexagon embossing folder

inked and made to look like chicken wire

Dragonfly Dreams - another new stamp set with 

matching framelits

January Card Buffet 2016

Welcome back ladies!  Another new year to start new things and maybe even finish a few old projects.  With the new year comes the new 2016 Occasions catalog and the Sale-A-Bration brochure.  This is always one of the most fun times in the Stampin' Up year.  Remember, with any $50 or higher order, you can choose a FREE item from the Sale-A-Bration brochure.  Have a $100 order?  Then you can choose 2 FREE items.  January also brings the right time to make Valentines.  Take a look at the 5 choices for cards for this month and send me an e-mail with your choices.

 Happy Valentine's Day - New Have a Cuppa Designer

Series Paper Stack, Bermuda Bay 1-8" Stitched Ribbon

 You are so loved - Love Blossoms Designer Series 

Paper Stack, Timeless Textures Stamp set

 Know what I love? - SAB What I Love stamp

set, Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack

 Thank You - SAB What I Love Stamp set

Happy Birthday - Rose Garden Thinlet dies, Rose Wonder

Stamp set, SAB Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Paper

4th of July VCMP - His & Hers Cards

Happy 4th of July everyone!  Welcome to my blog and the first challenge of Operation Write Home's 4th of July VCMP.  The first challenge was to make a His card and a Hers card using a sketch from OWH.  She chose sketch #161, so I decided to use the same one.  I love my oval framelits, so this was the perfect sketch to use.

Deer Card

Cardstock by Stampin' Up - Crumb Cake, Soft Suede,

Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow

Stamp sets - SU Hardwood, Teeny Tiny Wishes,

Nobel Deer (retired)

Ink - SU Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede

Love Card

Cardstock by Stampin' Up - Hello Honey, Lucky Limeade (retired)

Stamp sets - SU Flower Shop

Ribbon - SU Daffodil Delight and Lucky Limeade (both retired)

Flowers colored with SU Daffodil Delight Blendabilities pens

Love stamp - unknown, but purchased at JoAnn's