tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45773962944114021322013-01-17T20:34:42.473-06:00Where Friendship Meets Creativelysohottstamperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18399405471582693519noreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577396294411402132.post-70053861435412626682013-01-17T20:34:00.001-06:002013-01-17T20:34:42.479-06:00

See me LIVE open and play with the new Stampin' Trimmer from Stampin' Up!

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Catch me LIVE trying the reformulated SNAIL tape for the first time.

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I had my big annual What A Girl Wants event tonight. Normally my daughter would help me but both kids have the plague that's going around. So my husband came with. He's such a gem. During a lull he was fascinated by the British phone booth stamp in one of the Sale-a-Bration FREE ones (need to look up which one). He says it looks like the Tardis from Dr Who. Having never seen the show, sure. He

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I would like to invite you to the 8th Annual What a Girl Wants Expo on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 from 4-9 pm at Greenhaven Country Club in Anoka. This is my third year participating. I have lots of samples and two make n take projects. So excited!!! Admission is $2.00 and you will receive raffle tickets at check in. Waxing, music, massages, 90 vendors and more. Please go to facebook.com

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Wednesday we lost our pup of 16+ years Ginger RIP 1996-2012 Our beloved pup of 16 years. She was a strong survivor. We still called her a pup for a reason. Half chow chow/ half German shepherd she was beautiful, like a furry coyote. Fierce family protector, loving to her family. I remember when I called her sweetie early on and Rory got mad and said "I'm Sweetie!" She was Rory's daily work

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Gifts Wrapped - check! These cute boxes Stampin' Up! Carried a few seasons ago. They are wax coated and food safe. I bought them from the Clearance Rack for .99 for a five pack. I bought a lot of them. They have been rather handy. While I cannot reveal their contents they were the perfect size. The tags were made quickly. The red circles were leftover from a project a long time ago. Glad I

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Another quick and cute card made at my uplines Christmas party. The fluff is made by folding the tulle ribbon in half or almost in half for a fuller layered look. You will need a jumbo sticky round and 12-18 inches of the tulle. I love the tulle and hope we see more in the future. It is available until the end of the year in the mini catalog. Remove one layer of the sticky round and place on

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This was a card made at my uplines holiday party. It is super quick. You just need the card base and one layer (optional) and the tags set, one greeting to stamp - greetings of the season stamp set, rhinestones. I did run the gumball green layer thru and embossing folder to up it a bit. If you want to be super quick you can just use notecards and the tags and add some bling. 25 tags. 20

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O.0 That moment when you realize you made your coffee too strong!

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This is the first time I have ever worked with live greens and birch decorating for Christmas. It was fun getting dirty outside today. Except for the live items all the rest was stuff I had on hand. The ribbon was extra from a project a million years ago. The birds were decorations I bought for my fathers funeral earlier this year. The dried flowers I plucked from his funeral arrangement. The

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My upline made this adorable pin out of products from the Stampin' Up! Holiday mini catalog. Using the mitten punch, bakers twine, cherry cobbler scalloped tulle ribbon, sticky rounds, circle punch and houndstooth embossing folder. So cute and super easy.

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The mom of the recently dedicated/ baptized child also made these balls that were hung from a light. She cut out polyester circles and then heated them to fuse and melt the edges. She started using a lighter them switched to a candle. Little did she know that there was something called a heat tool when she could have heated several at once. She then pinned them to a foam circle. So simple and

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Mom of the child we know recently dedicated/blessed/baptized made this. She is so talented. She even had her art on display in DC when she was younger. We did not coordinate stuff. I made mine on a hunch and based on the invite. You'd never know it. All was beautiful.

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This banner goes with the table decoration I posted a few days ago. I used the Perfect Pennants die. The rectangles were cut and the triangle cut out was done by hand. Colors: elegant eggplant, very vanilla, perfect plum, a little retired pale plum, soft suede. Paper flowers, twill ribbon, other. Some of it was spritzed with my homemade spritzer (shimmer paint and rubbing alcohol). It

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This card goes with the other recent baptism items I have posted. This is the card I made for the gift (purchased items) that I gave the little one. The stamp set is retired, sadly, but went with numerous religious events. I will post my other project shortly. And some of the items the child's crafty/artistic mom made too.

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Get 75% off select Miche bundles thru Monday at http://sandyshandbags.miche.com. Order today, availability changing as stock shifts. Happy Holidays from me!

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Attention scrapbookers, this could be you! Happy Black Friday!

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Take the scrapbooking poll on the right. I am curious to find out.

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I love this newly learned technique from My Digital Studio. And it is so easy! You need a star punch and a pennant punch. Take your punch and matt it with a l width line in the color of your "call out". Grab your pennant punch and color it to match your star's matt. Change the width of pennant punch to the width of the star you are bursting. Grab the corner of your punch and rotate to match

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This table centerpiece was made for my cousins grand daughters Dedication/Baptism coming up this weekend. The day I got the invite, about three weeks ago, I had this and one other item whipped up. I love making stuff like this. The invite came in elegant eggplant and a woodygrain patterned paper in similar colors to soft suede. She also is going w a bird theme. I could have added aboard to it

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Using some of the cool new layout tools in My Digital Studio where you can line up objects by bottom, top, centering and more. It makes creating a collage of photos very easy. For the one page I grouped them after I was satisfied with their placement then rotated the whole grouping. I have been working my way scrapping forward. It has been fun to walk down memory lane. Such as the whole point

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A friend needed a banner for her pre holiday event. She asked for a banner. I asked what do you want it to say? S N O W. It was mostly a Big Shot project. All supplies from Stampin' Up! Dies used: stocking, new snowflake from holiday 2012 mini catalog, retired alphabet die, snow embossing folder, polka dot folder, and shimmer paint mix in Champagne., and expression scallop ribbon tulle and

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Stampin' Up! Just released its first app available only for iOS devices so far. It makes quick cards, can add photos and then post to your social media or email or whatever you want. Backgrounds are pre formatted and come in several options. Add embellishments, text, a picture, and done. This is going to be a fun app. I expect as time goes on and enough interest we will see different options

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One more decoration made. Check! I purchased the grapevine wreath. The rest of the supplies are from Stampin' Up! Paper: whisper white, very vanilla, champaign glitter paper (from Holiday mini) more mustard, soft suede Big Shot: Autumn leaves die, wood grain and brocade embossing folders all in the Holiday mini catalog Ink: early espresso Other: Espresso tulle scalloped ribbon, champaign

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