Needle &Thread Stampin' Fun

After returning from Orlando On Stage event, some of my team met to "play" with our new stuff from the Occasions preorder.  Doris wanted to use the Needle & Thread set.  She is an avid quilter, watercolor painter, and rubberstamper. The card you see above was created by her.  I love the new Gingham Gala paper that we received for attending On Stage along with many other goodies.  This new stamp set is a Distinktive set.   It's amazing how it looks like stitching.  It has wonderful matching dies.  One of the dies makes a beautiful stitched looking design seen on the card below.

This card I made using a new butterfly punch and the Gingham DSP.  The butterflies were cut out of DSP available with a $50 purchase January 3 through March. The other 2 stitched cards were made by Rona and Carolyn.  See the Stampin' Up video below about this new product.  We learned a great tip at On Stage about distinctive stamps and very inky stamp pads.  If a pad is brand new or just reinked it may be too inky for the distinctive stamps and you may not see the detail.  All you need to do is use a plastic spoon or bone folder to push the ink away in a spot on the pad.  Brilliant!  Then you have an area that is just right.

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Blessed Christmas to You

This is the ornament I crafted for those on my team attending our annual holiday luncheon.  We all gathered at a lovely historic home in Fruitland Park, FL turned into a restaurant.  It's called Rose Plantation.  The setting is charming on a lake with beautiful rose gardens.  Back to the ornament, I used  Bethlem Edgelits, Layering Circles Dies, Night of Navy and Whisper White cardstock to create this ornament.  The plastic ornaments I ordered online from Michael's.  I also added some snow I had in my stash.  I used both tombo multipurpose glue and a hot glue gun.  Here's wishing you all a blessed holiday season.  Thank you for your continued patronage and friendship.  I am truly blessed to have each one of you in my life!

Check Out Occasions Designer Series Papers

Nancy and I will have paper shares of all these great papers available January 3, 2019.  We will have an open house at Nancy's on January 11 from 10 am until 2 pm.  You will be able to see the designer series papers along with card samples, stamp sets, dies, new embellishments.  Pick up the Occasions and Sale-a-bration catalogs, do a make in take, visit with stamping and paper crafting friends.  Get Sale-a-bration freebies with $50 purchase, excludes share orders.

Canal Class December 13 2018

 This is Nancy's card using sponging technique instead of coloring with markers. Many people have overlooked this great stamp set in the annual catalog page 59, Peaceful Place. It looks great stamped in one color, sponged, or colored in.

This is Nancy's second card using Still Night, retiring soon with matching dies. It comes with 2 great greetings wishing you a season filled with beauty and sending warm wishes your way.

 This is a card I cased from a swap I received during November Stampin' Up On Stage event. It uses Artistically Asian stamp set and stripes EF.  I used Basic Black and Cherry Cobbler cardstock. I taught the group how to use the stamparatus and markers to stamp the floral image. If it's to light, it is so easy to do another coat or add ink to one spot. Because the lower part of the image is all leaves we used the Mossy Meadow ink spot to do that part for quicker stamping . The background strip uses versamark ink and gold embossing powder.

This card was my design. The stamp set is Alpine Adventure and matching dies, retiring soon. Order yours today. I also used Bokeh Dots with Balmy Blue ink on the stamparatus to create one panel. The other panel is embossed with Cable Knit EF. The mat is embossed with Softly Falling EF. I hope you liked my wintery card. The only snow I see here in Florida is on the cards I make. I like it that way!

Canal Class November 29, 2018

These are the two versions of my Farmhouse Christmas card made at class November 29.  I used Garage Gears dies available on January 3, 2019 on the birthday version. The dsp is called Festive Farmhouse.

I cased this card from Amy Koenders.  I used Winter Woods bundle.  We placed glitter on the tips of the branches. The greeting is heated embossed with white embossing powder.  These next 2 cards were taught by Nancy.

                                       

New Items Added To Clearance Rack

Check out all the great discounted products on the clearance rack.  The have added retired paper and ink and many items from last years Occasions catalog at greatly reduced prices.  Click here to shop.

Year-End Closeout While Supplies Last

See what's on sale by clicking here for PDF.  Shop my store by clicking here.  Most items are while supplies last.  Sale ends January 2 at 11:50  pm MT.  Note that bundles may be discontinuing but items may be available to be purchased separately.  The bundle saves 10%.  Check the price of the 2 individual items to make sure you are choosing the lowest price.  When ordering under $150 please use hostess code P2FNNGXB