My December team swap entry. These owls are just so sweet. You'll need to put them at the top of your list for Sale-A-Bration 2023...spend $60 and get the stamp set for free. They're super easy to hand cut out or just stamp onto a layer and punch/die cut the whole layer out. This paper is a free choice as well...Dandy Designs. 48 sheets of 12" x 12" with all fun spring and everyday patterns for a minimum $120 order. That will keep you crafting!
The Places in the Heart is the stamp set I chose for my January team tutorial. What's this? It's a 4 card tutorial free for my team members. They can use it to recreate the cards exactly as I've designed them by using the featured stamp set/bundle and papers or they can swap out colours, stamps, papers and embellishments and make themt heir own! How do you get this every month? Buy the Stampin' Up Starter Kit for $135 (or $175 with the mini Cut & Emboss Machine starting January 5) and designate me as your team leader. We get together in person and virtually, swap cards, learn and have fun sharing this hobby we love so much!
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Well you know I also made a mini calendars for Michelle and Kyle! This style works great to stand up on a counter, window edge or desk (it's intended purpose) but you can add a magnet to the back and add it to your fridge just as easily!
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Here's the 2023 tabletop mini calendar I made for Alec's stocking this year using the Starlit Punch. It was bundled with a matching stamp set last holiday crafting season but it's well beyond a Christmas item! Pairs really nicely with this greeting from a new stamp set called Greatest Journey which I will be using a lot for masculine cards and projects for the travelers in our family.
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Made a bunch of desktop mini calendars for friends and co-workers. This is the one I put in my son Craig's stocking. Yes...28 year olds still get stockings from mum. Features a sneak peek at some of our new products: Seaside Bay Bundle and By the Bay designer series paper. We may have winter but crafting for the beach already!
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What a beautiful swap card from my team member Lee in November! Those stamps are from a set you would not think of for winter holidays: Forever Fern. Enjoy the seasonal get togethers with family, friends, fur-babies and nature! If you celebrate Christmas as I do, Merry Christmas one and all!
Sneak Peek from one of the Sale-A-Bration freebies....a Thanks a Bunch card! The front of the card and the stamped inside.
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I'm all set to create anew...check back in a few days because it could be a new Craftimess! As crafters we love organizing and setting up our craft spaces almost as much as making something. Who hasn't wasted 3 hours of prime craft time to organize their stash? Hands up, folks as I know you've done it, too!
Today's video was a snapshot of my very tidy space all ready to start creating with new products from the January to April Mini Catalogue and our annual sale, Sale-a-Bration. I have already made a few items but this is crafting on steroids. You might find me here for 12-14 hours straight once I get in the groove.
From the "I bought it and haven't used it yet" craft supplies pile. Rugged Icons dies. I *think* I've used the Merry Melody embossing folder but wow - they pair up nicely, don't they? This one is in honour of my son-in-law, Kyle, who plays guitar. Enjoy!
As demonstrators we get to preorder new products a month ahead of their release which means....we have some amazing samples to share with you! The By the Bay Suite Collection was the one I was first drawn to. Between the birds (ok we all know I love birds) and the shells and the colours....the images invoke a sense of peace. This was my swap card for a group of Canadian demonstrators I know. What do you think?
The Framed Florets bundle was an early release in November from the January - April 2023 Mini Catalogue. And isn't this a stunning card?! The oval with the hearts peeking through die cuts the hearts out but not the outer oval. So just centre it on your cardstock and run it through! To have the coloured hearts show through, adhere a piece of your favourite colour between the die cut layer and your cardbase. Love the added touch of the copper foil sheets for the leaves. When photographing, they take on a rainbow look but they're actually copper foil. My grateful thanks to Glenda Mollet for this gorgeous swap card!
Would you check out this fabulous card?!?! From my very talented friend and team member Stacey. She used the Stamparatus tool to get the images all lined up then coloured them in with Stampin' Write Markers. So very pretty! Thanks, Stacey, for showing us the versatility of the Graceful Tiles stamp set (#159390 for $25!) with this amazing card as our December Creative Ambassador!
The Thanks a Bunch stamp set is so darn cute with 3 sizes of carrots! Perfect for the "Thanks a Bunch" greeting, right? Here's the card shown at my December 19 Facebook Live showing off the FREE Sale-A-Bration products you can get with your minimum $60 or $120 order starting January 5:
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I just had to make one more card with the Splendid Day Suite before it retires. But you know what? We have some new foil paper coming next month and this card could so be CASEd with it! The squares are from the smallest Stylish Shapes stitched square and evenly spaced across strips of matching cardstock to the layer below (Soft Sea Foam). Then the greeting in the centre is heat embossed in copper. I must say, this is a beauty!
This is a long retired stamp set from Stampin' Up! (My Special Day) that I borrowed from a friend to make this Christening card for a co-worker. Wow...long intro there!
Sharing my Team member, Jane's 4th card in the series on Nuts About Squirrels. This is a super cute stamp set and as she has demonstrated, way outside "fall" or "cutesy". Today's card shows the twisted ribbon technique with a traditionally Ontario grey squirrel all decked out for Christmas. Wonderful job, Jane!
Oh the look of heat embossing! That's the ticket at the holidays, isn't it? The first year I tried heat embossing (it was a deer in gold embossing powder) I was hooked on this stamping and paper crafting hobby. My thanks to Mary Louise Hamill for this beautiful card featuring the large snowflake stamp. As you are bustling about getting ready for the holidays, my wish is that you enjoy all the beauty of this season!
Another fun card from Andrea Estensen of Prairie Sky Paper Crafts. It truly IS the season to be jolly! The santa hat on the "Jolly" greeting brings a real smile to my face.
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What's Up Wednesday? How about the Double Embossed Technique!
Combine your love of dry embossing with heat embossing in copper metallic for a super WOW card.
Merry Christmas from my favourite wee Scottie Dog! Today's creation was shared with me by my Silver Sister Desiree Spenst. The snowy white velvet sheets are now out of stock but a quick embossing will give you the texture you're looking for on this card. The cardbase and main layer are Parakeet Party for such a great pop of colour. Enjoy!
Lovely, yummy candy canes. If these were real, I bet they'd taste like spearmint or wintermint! I received today's card in the mail from my friend Dawn M who is also a crafter on my team, The Inksters. Look at that great bow holding them together. Thanks, Dawn, for sending me this very pretty Christmas card!
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Plan ahead folks...if you need the essentials like paper, adhesives, envelopes, OR get a few last minute items from the Clearance Rack and the Last Chance Sale. Make a list and shop my store on December 15 for one day only!
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Today's card was designed and created by Joanne McTavish of Fergus, ON. The image is so crisp and clear you'd think it was printed and not stamped - buy WOW! It's a stamp from the Peace to You set #159776, y'all! It was stamped in Starry Sky and I would highly recommend using a stamp positioning tool like the Stamparatus so you may stamp it over and over to get full depth of colour. Stunning! Thank you, Joanne!
Check out this cool way to use up scraps! From Andrea Estensen (Prairie Sky Paper Crafts) in MB. Totally in retro red and green striped paper, this card is super cute. The strips measure 4" x 1/4". Hope you like it!
Back in November the squirrels on our street were still very busy getting ready for winter! Riley and I would see them while we were out on our morning walk in droves: grey ones, black ones and brownish ones, too. Funny...when I create with this stamp set, Nuts about Squirrels, I almost always do the squirrel in shades of brown. That's off since I see so many black and grey ones about. Today's card is the first one Jane shared with us in her time as Creative Ambassador with this set. The stamp set was Jane's choice and hers to keep - a gift from me - for posting a card weekly in her month as ambassador. Our team has many other perks so if you're thinking of getting the Starter Kit come the new year during Sale-A-Bration, we'd love to have you join us!
My team members are so amazingly talented! I'm excited to share this beauty designed by Stacey Stark, our Creative Ambassador for December 2022. This month Stacey will be showing 4 cards using the Graceful Tiles stamp set. This is a gem of a set with 13 stamps (6 greetings and 7 images) for just $25. Perfect for all kinds of occasions. I love these colours with the Sun Prints paper from the Annual Catalogue. Enjoy!
The gnomes are carrying over after the end of this holiday Mini catalogue so you can still get them! They'll be perfect for spring time and garden cards especially the dies to use with a new product coming in the Jan-April mini catalogue. These remind me of my cousin's garden and her Mr G garden gnome. He has a social life of his own! Shared with my from Gail Bragg in the Nov 26 swap. Thanks!
Today's card comes from Debbie Bean in Brantford. The layout is a fun one to show off the layer you've covered up with the cut and fold technique on the side. It's simple:
Let's totally WOW your friends and family with this amazing card:
I received today's holiday card from my team member and friend Jane W in our November swap. I really like using left over pieces of patterned paper like these that measure about 1 1/2" x 3 3/4". You know when you have a strip left over from cutting a 12 x 12 edge? Perfect! Lots of texture here with the circles and tree as a focal point. What a lovely card to send this holiday season! Thanks, Jane.
Some days adulting IS hard! My go to is often chocolate, but cocktails works, too! Cheers to everyone during this holiday season and many thanks to Janet Harrison for this simple yet impactful card swap.
This has to be one of the pretties cards I've seen yet with the Fitting Florets Collection. The die cut from patterned pack, DSP strip on the right and an embossed layer over stamped greeting. This card has it all going on and working so well together! You'll be seeing this one in a future Monthly Class for sure. Thanks to stampinwithbetsy for swapping with me Nov 26. Love it!
Part of the reason I started the Creative Ambassador program with my team, The Inksters, was to show off the versatility of some of the lower priced stamp sets in the catalogue. These are often overlooked if they don't come with dies and punches and there are some real gems in there! So it is with Nuts about Squirrels and this sweet card that Jane created for us in November. Enjoy!
So enjoy participating in my team's monthly swaps. This is my card from November which was mailed to the other participants. I CASEd the card from Tamara Bertram's one shared a few weeks ago. The embossing really makes it, I think and with a little sanding of the trees with an emery board, there's a whole new look about it. I think this is the first time I've used the Merry Melody musical notes embossing folder. I quite like how it turned out!
These colours are stunning together, don't you think! Thanks for my team member, Wendy for joining me at the business builders event and sharing this card in the swap. Love this layout for a future monthly card class. The focal image could be stamped as done here with a flower from the Shaded Summer stamp set or a die cut for the Kit to Go option. And that stitched layer is from Greenery Die. Fabulous backdrop! Thanks, Wendy!
