Mother's Day

This is the card I made for my mom and mother-in-law for Mother's Day. I got the idea from Linda at stampingschool.com. I used the Friendship Blooms set from SAB, stamped in white craft and then embossed with white embossing powder. I then cut out all the flowers and popped them up with dimensionals. I put some of the rhinestone brads in the centre of flowers. I used the 1 3/8 square punch to punch out the window. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to determine the size of the window for the mother's day saying. I really like the look of the peek through cards. I have been doing quite a few of them lately. You just might see more of these types of cards in the next little while.

Supplies Used:

(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Friendship Blooms, All Holidays
Ink: White Craft, Perfect Plum
Cardstock: Perfect Plum, Whisper White
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Rhinestone Brads, Dimensionals

5 Years

On May 10th my husband and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. My husband bought us tickets to go see the Music Man at the festival theater in town. It was so good. I love the music man, I have watched the movie so many times and know basically all the songs. Andrew had never seen this musical before, and is not really one for musicals, but he knew I really wanted to go see this one. I was so excited that he got us tickets. I loved it, and afterwards Andrew said he really liked it as well. Anyways, here is the card that I gave to Andrew:

Supplies Used:

(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Summer By The Sea, Hugs & Wishes
Ink: StazOn Timber Brown
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Old Olive DS Prints, White
Accessories: Watercolor Crayons, Blender Pens, Kraft Taffeta Ribbon

Friends Forever

I had so much fun making my husband's anniversary card that I decided to make another copy for my best friend. I hope this card will cheer her up a little. I just changed the colors again and the image. I knew right away what stamp I wanted to use, we both love the elephant from Wild About You, so I knew I had to use that image. Here it is:

Front:

Inside:Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Wild About You, So Many Sayings
Ink: Certainly Celery, Black StazOn, Chocolate Chip Marker, Real Red Marker
Cardstock: Brocade Blue, So Saffron, Whisper White, Sarah DS Paper
Accessories: 1 3/8 Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch

I hope this card makes you smile Christine. Have a great day.

Happy Anniversary

This coming Saturday is my 5th year anniversary. I am really looking forward to it. My husband, Andrew, got us tickets to go see the Music Man at the Stratford Festival. I am so excited. The Music Man is one of my favorite musicals. I am a member of stampinschool.com and have gotten so many ideas off of the site. Linda is so talented. I cased this card from there, I just changed the images and the colours. I am going to give this card to Andrew for our anniversary. Andrew loves fish, he has a 38 gallon aquarium and is always going to pet stores to look at their fish. He is always bugged by everyone that he is fish obsessed. I bought the stamp set Fishy Friends quite a while just because of him, and have used it on so many of his cards, but he never seems to get tired of it, so of course I went to it again. This is the card I made:

Front:

Inside:

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up)
Stamps: Fishy Friends, Hugs & Wishes, Small Script
Ink: Black StazOn
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Brocade Blue, Whisper White, Sarah DS Paper
Accessories: Watercolor Crayons, Blender Pen, 1 3/8 Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch

Bridal Shower

This past Saturday I went to a bridal shower for Liz, my brother's fiancé. They are getting married in 33 days. I can't believe my little brother will soon be married, he has found a great girl and we are very excited to have Liz become part of our family. Anyways, this is the card that I made to go with the gift. I wasn't really sure what the right sentiment would be for a bridal shower card, so I decided to go without one and just wrote a personal message on the inside. I took a card that I had done a little while ago that I really liked and just changed the image. I really like how it turned out. The first card is the card I gave to Liz and the second card is the one I had made before that I just changed a little.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Priceless
Ink: Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensional, Paper Piercer

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Priceless
Ink: Bashful Blue, Rose Red, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Always Artichoke, Whisper White
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals, White Gel Pen

Stamp Club - April

For my Stamp Club meeting in April I focused on Mother's Day and Father's Day. These are the cards that we made.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Bud Basics, Hugs & Wishes
Ink: Basic Gray, Regal Rose Marker, Rose Red Marker
Cardstock: Regal Rose, Basic Gray, Old Olive, Whisper White
Accessories: Silver Brads, Stampin' Dimensionals, Stamp-a-ma-jig, 1/16 Circle Hand Punch, Sponge Daubers

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: For Father, Weathered
Ink: Black StazOn, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel
Cardstock: Really Rust, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Bordering Blue
Accessories: White Ribbon, Watercolor Crayons, Blender Pen, Photo Corners Punch, Glue Dots

Get On Board With Chipboard

For the month of May, when you spend $40 on any Stampin' Up! products, you'll get 25% off all On Board chipboard products from pages 178-179 of the Spring-Summer Collection 2008!

Stampin' Up!'s On Board chipboard collections offer a fun and easy way to embellish projects, create custom greetings, and decorate scrapbook pages. The exclusive, versatile, die-cut chipboard is designed to coordinate with many Stampin' Up! stamp sets and accessories.


Also this month when you purchase a Cutting Mat you will receive a Hobby Blade for free!

Loonies for Littles

Be a part of DSA's Loonies for Little Campaign benefiting the "Littles" (kids) and "Bigs" (adult volunteers) of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada. From April 15 to may 31st, Stampin' U! will donate $2 to Big Brother's Big Sisters' In-School Mentoring program when you purchase the Loonies for Little Stampin' Kit.

This kit - only available through May 31 - gives all grownups and kids a fun easy way to preserve their special memories, while helping out a great cause at the same time.



Kit is made up of the following items:

- Exclusive double-mounted Good Together Stamp Set
- One 5"x5" On Board Art Journal
- Two sheets of double-sided Designer Series Paper from Boho Blend Simply Scrappin'
- Three sheets of self-adhesive die cuts from Boho Blend Simply Scrappin'
- Four sheets of 12"x12" textured card stock
- Two classic Stampin' Spots: 1 Old Olive, 1 Pumpkin Pie
- Full-color insert with photos of project, along with step-by-step instructions
- One Craft Keeper

All This for only $ 32.50