Retirement list is out!

 Hello fellow stampers and crafters!  Thanks for stopping by!  Today I do not have a card or project for you.  Instead, I wanted to do a super quick check in regarding our retirement list.

Our Annual Catalog will end May 3, 2021.  The list of items retiring from this catalog has been posted (contact me if you want the full list) and there are SO many great things retiring.  A few of my absolute favorites and some surprising-to-me-ones.  I do have a video that "quickly" goes through the Annual Catalog retiring products that you can view HERE.  

Between now and May 3rd, many of the retiring items will be discounted in my online store.  Please remember that this is while supplies last.  If there is anything that you have been dying to get, or even been on the fence about, you may want to check to see if it is leaving and place an order sooner rather than later.  I know I will be ordering a few items for myself!  

Once the new catalog goes live (May 4th) I will be selling many of my retiring items.  If you are interested, send me an email.  (Please remember, I cannot sell them until the new catalog goes live.)


That's it for today!  Check back in next week for a new project, which will likely feature a retiring set.  As always, if you are in need of a demonstrator (and live in the US), I would LOVE to fill that role for you!  

Lovely You catalog CASE

 Hello friends!  I hope everyone is doing well.  I have a card to share with you, once again.  This card was CASEd from the Annual Catalog, page 23.  I changed some things, adding my own take, but left the basic idea in tact as I really liked the card in the catalog.  So let's get started!

How To:

Create your card base using basic white.  Cut another piece of basic white (dimensions to follow) as a panel for you card.  You will also want a scrap piece of mint macaron and rich razzleberry.  One final piece of "paper" is needed- vellum!

Mount your stamps from the Lovely You stamp set. I chose to use the same stamps as the catalog- the "fern", the laves, the mall double flower, and the large single flower.  Starting with the fern, I stamped it on my card panel using mint macaron. Next, stamp the leaves in gray granite.  Make sure you are leaving space between each stamped image for other images.  Then, stamp the large flower in crushed curry and then the small double flower in rich razzleberry.  Choose a sentiment and stamp it on your scrap piece of rich razzleberry using versa mark.  I then embossed using a clear embossing powder because I couldn't find my white.  I think white would look much better!  The sentiment I chose was " Just because".  I then punched the ends of both the rich razzleberry scrap and the mint macaron scrap using the Pick A Label punch that is bundled with the Lovely You stamp set.  Adhere these two pieces together.  Adhere the stamped panel to the car base leaving a border on two sides.  Adhere the vellum to the stamped panel, adhering only behind where the sentiment will be so that you can't see any adhesive.  Now adhere your sentiment on using some dimensionals.  Last, add some fern pieces from the In Good Taste Elements with some glue dots.   See the video here.

Dimensions;

* 8.5" x 5.5"  folded at 4.25" basic white card stock
* 5.5" x 3.75" basic white card stock panel
* 5.5" x 3.25" vellum
* 1" x 3" mint macaron
* .75" x 2.75" rich razzleberry



Product List

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Well, that's the card for today!  I really do love this set.  If you would like to get the products to make this card, please visit my online store.  I would appreciate your business and would love to be your demonstrator!

Pattern Play Birthday Invitation

 Hello fellow stampers and crafters!  I have another project for you today.  Super quick and simple and can be changed up a million ways!  It is a birthday invitation.  My daughter turned 9 today, and we made a sort of last minute decision to have a small party.  I hate buying invites and needing to fill all the info in.  So I decided to make them myself. But I didn't want to take more than 20 minutes or so to do it.  

I knew the Pattern Play stamp set would be a great choice!  I also use a retired set, but you can easily substitute for something else.  

How to:

Cut a piece of Blushing Bride card stock to 5." x 4.25". This is all you will need for card stock (minus whatever paper you place on the other side for invite information).  Using the Pattern play stamp set, stamp the patterns you like, into the places you want them.  I used the solid hearts (in Highland Heather), the rows of lines that look sort of like  they come together as arrows (in Blushing Bride), and the piece that reminds me of fireworks (in Blushing Bride).  I also added some candles from a different (retired) set called Approaching Perfection (which was stamped in Coastal Cabana).  Last, I added a center sentiment from the Pattern Play set in black Staz On, which says "Cue the confetti".   That completes the front.  For the back, I just typed up what I wanted the invitation to say, sized it to fit the card and adhered it on.

Dimensions:

* 5.5" x 4.25" Blushing Bride card stock



Product List

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See?!  Simple, quick, yet affective!  It didn't need to be fancy, because let's be honest, 8-10 year old girls really won't care much either way.  Check out the video here!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Let me know what colors you would use for yours!  And as always, I would love to be your demonstrator!