It's Sale-a-bration Time!

The new Occasions catalog is out and it's Sale-a-bration time! Time to put away our Christmas sets and have fun with some brand new ones.  One of my favorites is the Dragonfly Dreams. There is a great thinlit set that goes with it.  Here are some of the cards I've made with it:

I copied this from Pinterest. The original was done by Leonie Schroder. It uses a masking technique so there's no stamping behind the dragonfly.  It also uses one of my favorite sets from the Annual Catalog - Timeless Textures. Don't you just love that detailed dragonfly thinlit!

This card I didn't make but received in a swap. The paper is from the Falling in Love Designer Series Paper set.  It is gorgeous, I'm going to have to get some soon! The lace at the top is from a Sale-a-bration set - Delicate Details.

This also uses another Sale-a-bration product - Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper.  It's coloring paper!  For this one I used a brayer to add color.  You can also color it with the new Watercolor Pencils or with markers.

This last card uses the cute small dragonflies thinlit. It's 5 dragonflies all connected together. For this card I die cut them, stamped on another piece of Whisper White behind them.  Then I just put them back in the hole I'd cut them out of - attaching them with dimensionals. 

I hope you love this bundle as much as I do. The bundle costs $46.75 so if you get it and spend a few more dollars, you can get the coloring paper free!  Let me know if you are ready to order yours! Or maybe you have lots on your wish list - host a party and get some of it free.

Time to say goodbye!

It's that bittersweet time of year where you find out what favorites from the Holiday Catalog are retiring.   The good news is that means you can get some great deals! Click here to see them. Let me know what you see that you must have!  I know my list is long!

New Craft Room!

My plans for a new craft room started last year when I sent my oldest son off to college.  I thought in a couple of years I could turn his bedroom into my craft room. We decided to turn that room into the (video) game room.  That meant I get the whole finished basement as my craft room!  The first thing I wanted to do was the paint the walls.  They were a deep burgandy color. Very pretty but also way too dark for crafting! You didn't really even notice the woodwork at the bottom.

As most basements, ours had accumulated lots of stuff.  It was time to start cleaning it up so I could get to the walls to paint.

I picked up samples of 2 possible colors at Home Depot.

It's hard to tell in this picture but the color on the right is a little darker than the left. That's the one I picked out - it's called Stonewash.

It's amazing what a difference it makes - it's so much brighter now! My husband teases me and says you need sunglasses now.

Before I show you the finished (for now) room - I thought I'd show you the tiny space I used to work in:

Not only was this a tiny room - it was cold in the winter and damp when it rained.

Now it's time for the big reveal. I decided that I didn't want to spend a lot of money so the only thing I purchased was the paint. So it is not a beautiful, everything matches room. I'm hoping to chalk paint some of the furniture in the future.  What I love about it is that it's big & open. I have room to put up a couple tables and hold class down there.

I'm sure as I use the room, I'll make some changes.  But I am so glad to have most of the work done!

Would you like to see my craft room in person?  I'm planning to host a World Card Making Day event on Saturday afternoon.  Stay tuned for more details!

Keep stamping!

Cindy

More swaps!

Just a quick post to share a few more pictures of the swaps I received. These are all using the Paisleys and Poseys stamp set - it was the first one I ordered out of the new Holiday Catalog.

This beautiful card is from Michele Salchow. I love

how she used the Cable Knit embossing folder for texture!

Lots of beautiful colors and coloring on this card from Miriam Permur!

I love the color combination of this card.

The doily was dyed to match! There

wasn't a name in this card so I can't

give the designer credit.

And this was my swap. I just had to use

this gorgeous set!

Still lot of Christmas swap cards to share!

Keep stamping,

Cindy

Swaps!

I recently participated in a swap with a business group I'm in. I thought I would share just a few of the cards I received. In this swap we were supposed to highlight items from the new Holiday Catalog.

This cute vampire is by Marcia Gay in Ohio.

This is from my very own upline - Kay Cogbill. 

Love the sparkly bow tie!

Love this colorful card from Keri Blake!

It uses the new Totally Trees stamp set.

This also uses the Totally Trees stamp set. It's one 

of my new favorites! This was made by

Terri Meehan in Ohio.

Stay tuned for more cards from the swap.  I have a bunch of Christmas ones and some using the Paisley set.  It was so much fun to open the package and look through all the different cards!

Keep stamping!

Cindy

Happy Birthday Kay!

I just have to tell you about a very special stamper - she's my upline (the person who recruited me) - Kay Cogbill (http://www.papermadeprettier.com/)  Today is her birthday so it seemed like a perfect time to celebrate her! I don't know how she does everything she does - I don't think she sleeps. She has an amazing meeting for us every month.  She shares business tips with us and of course we stamp.   This is what we made at our meeting last Saturday:

Don't you just love these cookie cutter sets? I just got mine this week and can't wait to play them them!

She is always there to encourage us or help in any way she can.  She even includes our team members in her meetings. This is so helpful for those of us that are new to having our own team! This past Saturday she gave all her Silver & Bronze Elite team members something special.  I won't post what it was because I'm not sure everyone has received theirs yet.  It was so thoughtful and generous! I think she has to be the best team leader out there!  

I'll end with pictures of some of the swaps from the meeting:

We have some talented stampers on our team!

I recently participated in another swap with about 20 other people. I should be getting those back soon. Can't wait to see what all I get!  I'll be sure to share them with you too.

Keep stamping!

Cindy

One Sheet Wonder

One Sheet Wonder has been around for awhile.  I've seen a couple variations of it: one uses an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper that is stamped all over and the other uses a 12 x 12 piece of patterned paper.  I've recently been playing around with the stamped version.  Here are 3 cards that I made out my stamped paper:

I made 4 other ones too but I don't want to give away all my secrets yet.  Think this looks like fun?  Stacy & I are having a One Sheet Wonder class on 9/19.  Send me an email or watch for the Facebook event coming soon.  We will have a blast!

This might be a sneak peek...

This has been fun to try and there are so many cutting templates available. I think I'll have to try cutting up a piece of Designer Series Paper next. Might be a good way to make a bunch of Christmas cards quickly!

Hope to see you in a class soon!

Keep stamping,

Cindy