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And the winner is......

Sandy Danielson!  WooHoo!

Sandy won A $50 Stampin' Up! Gift Certificate!  How did she win, you ask?
For every $50 in Stampin' Up! merchandise ordered through me or my Stampin' Up! Website your name will go into my 50/50/50 Jar.  When I have 50 names in the jar, I will draw another $50 winner!  It's that easy!  Place your $50 order today....you could be next!

There are only a few days left to place your order for the Summer Mini Catalog before those items are no longer available.  Just click on the photo below to view the mini, you only have until August 31st before they are gone forever!

Tea for Two!

I LOVE the new Stampin' Up set "Morning Cup"!  How cute is this?  What a great, easy little gift for a teacher, bus driver, mail carrier...you get the idea.  The card was inspired by one I saw by Erica Cerwin on Stampin' Connection, our Demo-only sharing site.  (just one of the great perks of being a Stampin Up Demonstrator!) The tea cup and tea bag were stamped on Whisper White Card Stock with Black Staz-On ink and colored with Marina Mist Classic Ink and a Blender Pen.  The entire piece was then run through the new Square Lattice Embossing Folder and the Big Shot. It is a little hard to see in the photo but I stamped and cut out an extra tea bag, popped it up with Stampin' Dimensionals and added some Linen thread and my tiny little "tea-riffic " sentiment that was punched with the Jewelry Tag Punch. 
The little tea bag holder comfortably holds two tea bags and is super quick and easy to put together using my Big Shot and the Scallop Envelope Die. Just cut two envelopes and place a piece of Sticky Strip across the base only of the bottom flap.  This will create a divider inside the holder and will leave an open crease at the bottom so your holder will stand up on its own.  Leave the back side of your envelope flap up for support and use Sticky Strip for the side seams.  Fold the front flap down and decorate as desired.  I layered my flap to match my card front and finished it off with a Basic Black Stain Ribbon bow and another "tea-riffic" tag. 
Thanks for stoppin' by! 

 Morning Cup $21.95 (W)  $16.95 (C)

Bouncing Brayer Rock Star

If you are anything like me (and most of the stampers I know) you struggle with masculine cards and cards for teenagers are even worse.  So, if you need a masculine card for a teenager well, good luck with that, LOL!  This was one of my Stamp Camp projects tonight and I knew I had a winner when it got the seal of approval from my 13 year old son Christopher.  I got a "I have to admit that's pretty cool mom"!  Does it get any better than that?  I would love to take credit for this one but I found a video on the Bouncing Brayer Technique on Dawn Olchefske's Blog and she demo'd this exact card.  When casing another stampers work I usually try to make it my own and put my own spin on something that caught my eye but sometimes there is just no need to mess with perfection.  I loved everything about this one.  I did try several other colors but I always came back to the blues.  Dawn used the now retired Brilliant Blue for her card but I liked the brightness of Pacific Point Blue.  I did use the retired set "A Little Something" for the "Rock Star" sentiment because really, it was just too perfect not to!

Extreme Guitar  $8.95

My Favorite Flops

Don't ya just love those flops?  Flops are standard and acceptable attire for just about any occasion in Florida.  We have our beach flops, our shopping flops, our dressy flops, work flops...I even have a pair of "I Love Stamping" flops and a pair that came with interchangable bling on the straps.  So, when I saw this card on Becky Roberts Blog it was a no brainer that I would have to case it!  (wish I came up with it first but thanks Becky!)  That bright, fun stripe is from The Island Oasis Designer Series Paper pack in the Summer mini.  The "Imagine" sentiment is from the new Word Play set in the new Idea Book and Catalog.  If you love the paper, please let me know ASAP as the summer mini will only be here until August 30th and then it is gone forever!  

Island Oasis Designer Series Paper  $9.95

Word Play  $28.95(c)  $41.95 (w)

Stampers 6 Club Card

I love this card!  I am a huge fan of browns and blues together so this new Elegant Soiree Designer Series Paper is totally me.  This was just one of my Stamp Club projects this month.  I cased the card design and the Origami fold from a card I saw on Nancy Riley's Blog awhile ago.  The fold is super easy and I love the way it will fold flat for mailing and kind of "pop up" when it is taken out of the envelope.  Super easy, super quick, super cute!  

Stamps:  Dreams Du Jour, Small Script (R)

Paper:  Elegant Soiree DSP, Marina Mist, Sahara Sand 

 

Stamp Camp Sneak Peek!

Don't ya just love this little guy?  Inside my little LLBean knock off tote is a s'mores kit.  How cute is that?  I made a bag very similar to this last year at CHA as a Make & Take at the Splitcoast Stampers Booth.  I always wanted to duplicate it but could never get the dimensions or the folds just right.  I finally pulled apart the original, adjusted the measurements a bit and created this one.  LOVE IT! 
I used the stripe pattern from the new Designer Series Paper Elegant Soiree.  The adorable bear and the s'mores are from the Under the Stars set.
This will be just one of our projects at my August Stamp Camp next week!  For more info on Stamp Camp please click HERE and join my Meetup site or feel free to contact me directly! 

Under the Stars (set of 10)  $29.95

Have a great day and thanks for stoppin' by!