Monthly Archives: December 2015

Stampin’ Up! Wild About Flowers Acrylic Block Stamping

Posted on December 21, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Alrighty, folks! I’m home in Atlanta! The weather is crisp and cool and the days are counting down to Christmas. So, as you’d obviously expect – I have a completely non-Christmas card to share with you today. Not a Calling Bird to be found! 😉

I saw a similar kind of project on Pinterest, and wanted to give it a try. It uses acrylic block stamping – something I always think “oh, that’s cool, I’m going to try that” and then I always forget. Well, this time I didn’t forget. I also used my new-to-me Wild About Flowers to create a silhouette and the ever-faithful Watercolor Wishes for the sentiment. Just as an aside, folks – if you haven’t availed yourselves of the Watercolor Wishes Card Kit – do yourself the favor of picking it up. The cards you make with the kit are lovely, and having the exclusive-to-the-kit stamp set to use forever and ever is a true bonus!

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming….

Here’s what I got with my first go at acrylic block stamping. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Everyday, Sympathy, Thinking Of You | Tags: 2016 Occasions Catalog Shares, Acrylic Block Stamping, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Watercolor Wishes, Wild About Flowers | 5 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Lovely as a Tree and Timeless Textures. A Close Non-Example

Posted on December 20, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Well, good Sunday morning to you! It’s Saturday evening and I’m sitting in my hotel room in San Diego – waiting for dinner to arrive. I made a pretty classic Mary-mistake today. I got into town early enough to decide I’d do a little tourist-y thing. First I took a picture out my window….

…then decided to NOT rent a stand-up paddle board, due to the unseasonably cool (like blustery and freakin’ cold!) weather here.

Yep. The weather. That’s why I didn’t rent a stand-up paddle board!

That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it! 🙂

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Categories: Any Occasion, Everyday, Just Hello!, Thinking Of You | Tags: 2016 Occasions Catalog Shares, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Lovely as a Tree, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Timeless Textures, Watercolor Wishes | 6 Comments

Stampin’ Up! White Christmas for Super Simple (and Single Stamp set!) Saturday

Posted on December 19, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Hello WEEKEND! And – more importantly for me (and it’s all about me, remember!) – it’s the day before I go home! Whoo-hoo! We got done a little early, so yesterday was just getting ready to get gone – and today I’m headed out to leave tomorrow. I’m so excited….and I just can’t hide it….(please hum that when you read it. Yes, go back and hum the song. You know the one!) 🙂

I used White Christmas – and only White Christmas! – for my share today. It’s on a Whisper White Note Card – so you don’t even have to cut card stock and score it to fold. Easy Peasy is what I’m getting at. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Christmas | Tags: 2016 Occasions Catalog Shares, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, White Christmas | 6 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Lovely as a Tree Brings Peace

Posted on December 18, 2015 by stampsnlingers

It’s Friday. Finally. Following a week made up primarily of Mondays (okay, Tuesday was pretty good, but the rest of the week….there’s been knots in the floss for sure). I’m very much counting on this being the last weekday post from Arizona! Please keep your fingers crossed for me! 😉

Thanks for stopping by yesterday – hope that you enjoyed our Black/White/Gold creations. Next Hop will be on Christmas Eve!

Today’s share uses Lovely as a Tree – one of our oldest (and most beloved?) stamp sets. When I get sad that Wonderland (2015 Holiday Catalog – and retiring soon!) is going away, I pull Lovely as a Tree out and remind myself of its beautiful images – including one of my very favorites. It’s a wonderful little pine cone on its bough. And I just love it. So, I combined all that with a sentiment from Peaceful Wreath (also retiring on 4 Jan 16), and this is what I came up with. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Christmas | Tags: 2016 Occasions Catalog Shares, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Lovely as a Tree, Paper crafting, Peaceful Wreath, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | 8 Comments

Stampin’ Up! All Ye Faithful and Every Blessing for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop

Posted on December 17, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Well, it’s Thursday again – and you know what that means….it’s Happy Stampers Team Blog Hop day, of course! Once again, the ladies-who-hop have gathered together (sort of virtually….) to bring you some creative projects for your crafty pleasure. I hope that you’ll enjoy what I have to share and then head to everyone’s blog and see what they brought to the party!

Our challenge this week was to use Basic Black, Gold, and Whisper White.

Easy peasy. Right? Well….yea. Sure ’nuff. Unless, of course, you go to your stash and discover….not a piece….not even a sliver!…of Gold Foil! I mean – Not. A. Bit.

Dang it.

What to do?

I thought about begging for a pass – maybe permission to use Silver – which I have in abundance.

But then I thought – come on, Mare (that’s what I call myself when talking to myself!)…..get a little outside the box, for cryin’ out loud. There’s nothing says you have to mat in Gold Foil.

So – I didn’t. I pulled out All Ye Faithful. I gathered up Every Blessing. And some Vellum. And Basic Black card stock. And my Versamark ink and Gold Stampin’ Powder. And this is what I came up with. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Christmas | Tags: All Ye Faithful, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Every Blessing, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | 12 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Sassy Happy Birthday Bow-Tie

Posted on December 16, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Good morning! Hope your last week before Christmas is going well – getting all your shopping and wrapping and house cleaning and stocking-stuffer-buying and guest-readying and tree-trimming done! I’m almost done here – just mailed two boxes of SU! stuff (the heavy things – paper, punches, ink pads, TIEFs and Thinlits-on-magnetic-cards) home to Atlanta. Just a few more days until I’m homeward bound! 🙂

Today’s share is a birthday card – with a masculine bent. I pulled out Sassy Salutations (which remains one of my very favorite sentiment sets!) and the ever-fun Bow-Builder Punch. Add to that a few cool textures from Timeless Textures – which will be available on 5 Jan with the 2016 Occasions Catalog. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Happy Birthday | Tags: 2016 Occasions Catalog Shares, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, Bow Builder Punch, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, masculine, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Sassy Salutations, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Timeless Textures | 7 Comments

Stampin’ Up! What’s Up at Stampin’ Up! on 15 December 2015

Posted on December 15, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Happy Stampin’ Up! Update Tuesday! Check out the new Weekly Deals down below.

This is pretty cool – don’t know if you saw the Today show last week, but our Stampin’ Up! Interim CEO, Sara Douglass was on the show that day. The segment was about the 2015 Today Show Toy Drive – so far, they’ve raised $15 million in gifts for homeless and disadvantaged children in the U.S. Stampin’ Up! is a long-time donor to this program, and this year we donated $2 million in craft supplies! If you didn’t see it – here’s a link to the SU! segment. Way to go, Stampin’ Up!

The Year End Clearance Sale and the Retiring List are both drawing to a close (4 Jan 16 – and yes, that’s like….tomorrow!!). Be sure to check out the sales – and don’t miss your chance to get your favorite Holiday stamps, dies and papers before they’re gone!

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Categories: Everyday, General | Tags: 2016 Occasions Catalog Shares, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | Leave a comment

Stampin’ Up! Deer Wonderland!

Posted on December 14, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Today’s share is a card that we all need right now – with Christmas fast approaching, and Monday work – something quick and easy! If you’ve got Wonderland and Sassy Salutations (or any other Christmas sentiment set), you can probably knock out a stack of 10 of these in about 20 minutes. Maybe less! Take a look-see:

I’d seen this uber-cute design on Pinterest, and thought – “Self, that’s just too cute – and what a great way to use that sort of odd antler stamp in the Wonderland stamp set!” But, what I saw was a single layer card – and those kind of terrify me. Especially when they’re on a white card. For me, that’s like a brand new t-shirt. Just point where you’d like me to drop something (or, to bring it back to cards – where would you like me to fat finger a smudge!!?). And, I just kind of like layers. 😉

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Categories: Christmas | Tags: 2016 Occasions Catalog Shares, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Sassy Salutations, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Wonderland | 8 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Another Sneak Peek at Love Blossoms Bloomin’ Love!

Posted on December 13, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Hey y’all! Happy Sunday. Do you know what this is? This is the official start of the countdown – not to Christmas (although that’s just a stone’s throw away!), but to me going HOME!!! Whoooooo-hoooooo!!! Yep – seven days from today I’ll be winging my way back to Atlanta – to start dealing with the impending Christmas rush! So – some time between today and Saturday (when I head over to San Diego for my flight out on Sunday) I have to pack up all my stuff. Get the Big Shot nestled in the suitcase (wish I had a second one of them, but….I don’t, so this one’s going to get some frequent flyer miles in the next couple of months!). Probably mail a box home. And, it means I need to get way ahead in cards, too!

My Seven-Days-Before-Flying-Home card share is another sneak peek at the beautiful Bloomin’ Love stamp Set. And I also used a little of the matching Love Blossoms DSP Stack! Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Congratulatory Party Wishes Sneak Peek!

Posted on December 12, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Good Saturday morning – hope your weekend is starting out well! I think (hope!) that I’ll still be asleep when you read this – keep your fingers crossed. We just got done with the first week of nights – yuk! One more week and then home on Sunday!! 🙂

Today’s share is another Occasions sneak peek. This time, I’m using the coming-to-an-Occasions-Catalog-near-you stamp set called Party Wishes! And the coordinating It’s My Party DSP. Oh, and a sentiment from Watercolor Wishes! Take a look-see: