Leadership Highlights—Project Ideas!

At every Stampin' Up! event, you come away with LOTS and LOTS of ideas and inspiration!  I wanted to showcase some of my favorite projects that I saw at Leadership…and oh, it was so tough to narrow down my pictures for this blog!  This doesn't even begin to cover all the awesome card samples that …

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Love Letters Scallop Envelope Gift Card Holder

With the gift-giving season fast approaching, I like to start creating fun little gift card holders to have on hand.  I found a cute (and super easy!) idea at Tara Bazata's Ink & Paper Café blog using the Scallop Envelope Bigz Die.     The Scallop Envelope Die creates a cute little envelope that you fold …

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Stamp Club August Challenges

Every month at my Stamp Club I offer challenges for the members to try and I wanted to share a few of the awesome cards that were shared at our event!   Challenge #1: Create a pop-up card    Here's Peggy Tassler's take on the pop-up card.  She used the retired Polka Dot Punches set with …

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Greenhouse Gala Fancy Flower

When I want a quick and pretty card, I fall back on the awesome patterns of Stampin' Up! Designer Series Papers to help me out.  Here are a couple versions of an easy-to-make card that I CASEd from Mary Brown at StamperCamper.com.    There is only one stamped image on this card, the words are …

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Sculpted Paper Roses

I can't take any credit for this beauty (although I certainly wish I could)!  I received this card from Carmen DeBruce—it's simply gorgeous!    Look at the details of the beautiful, 3D sculpted roses!  They are so realistic looking!  Can you believe that they are made from using the Fancy Flower Punch?  It's true!  And, …

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Folk Flowers Stenciled Card

    It was SO difficult for me, but I actually made a card that was all one layer!  OK—technically it's got layers because I had to create a frame around the artwork!  But, it's almost one layer!  Hey, what can I say, it's hard for me to do simple. I wanted to try a whole …

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