Monthly Archives: January 2016

Stampin’ Up! Number of Years Pop-Up Birthday for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop!

Posted on January 21, 2016 by stampsnlingers

This week we here at the Happy Stampers welcome you to a sketch challenge! It’s always fun to see what the 7 of us in the group come up with – we’re all so different in our crafty aesthetic – so seeing our 7 very different takes on the same sketch is cool! Hope you’ll take a few minutes to peruse all our various offerings today.

To start out – here’s the sketch we’re working with:

So – two years ago (and one month from today), a lovely little girl was born to one of our favorite and most fun-to-have-around team members. At that time, I was just getting a feel for stamping and making cards. Hadn’t even heard of Stampin’ Up!, let alone availed myself of any of their wonderful crafting goodies. But, nonetheless, I made a welcome baby card. Don’t even have a picture of it. Yes, I wasn’t even a blogger then!! 😉

Last year, I made a card for Miss Scarlett’s first birthday. It looked like this:

For today, as I make her second birthday card, I once again have wonderful Occasions and Sale-a-Bration products to use. I used two really fun things – the first is the wonderful, glorious Number of Years bundle, and the second is the so-intricate-people-think-you’re-a-genius-it’s-okay-just-let-them-think-you-are-one Birthday Pop-Ups Thinlit Dies. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Love Blossom Hearts

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good Wednesday morning! Today’s card is very quick and easy. And super clean. And also simple. Any other descriptors? I saw someone (actually several someone’s!) out on Pinterest had used this little Love Blossom Embellishment Kit wooden panel on a couple of cards. So, when The Paper Players challenge #278 came up for a clean and simple Valentine card….

….I thought I’d give it a go. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Love, Valentine's Day | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, Bloomin' Love stamp set, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, Greatest Greetings, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Love Blossoms Embellishment, Ordering Special!, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Sale-a-Bration, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | 8 Comments

Stampin’ Up! What’s Up on 19 Jan 16

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good morning! New Weekly Deals are out – be sure to scroll down to see them…

Just a reminder on the Stamps-N-Lingers Ordering Specials going on now:

Good thru 31 Jan: Double Points in my Punkin’ Head Rewards Program!
Good thru this Friday at 8pm Eastern: Everyone who orders $50 or more in product will receive a free Fine-Tip Glue Pen, in addition to the usual ordering gift, and the double rewards points! And – since it’s Sale-A-Bration, you’ll also get to pick out a FREE item from the Sale-A-Bration flyer!

The Paper Pumpkin special is ongoing until 31 Mar. Thought you might enjoy a video about the January kit!

TTFN

Mary

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

Stampin’ Up! Botanical Builder Hello and a Limited Time Offer!

Posted on January 18, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Happy Monday! I can totally say that today because….I’ve got the day off! Whoo-HOOOOO!! As I sit here typing this post – on Sunday night – I’m completely free of the “Sunday night blues”! I’ve just spent the day – in my pajamas! – listening to music on my computer thru my bluetooth speaker (Christmas present – thanks Martin’s!), reading and making cards. With a couple of meals thrown in. Heck, I even left the Do Not Disturb sign on all day.

And I have every intention of repeating the whole thing again tomorrow. Well – might have to let housekeeping come – I’m going to be out of coffee and that’s unacceptable! 😉

So, what did I make today? This card, that uses one of my bug-a-boo designs from the Botanical Gardens DSP. Just a hard design and color combo for me, but I decided to give it a go! I combined that with the Botanical Builder Framelits and the Hello You Thinlits and that was it. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Any Occasion, For You, Just Hello! | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, Botanical Builder Framelits, Botanical For You, Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum, Botanical Gardens DSP, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Friends & Flowers, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Ordering Special!, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Sale-a-Bration, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | 12 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Easter Lamb, Friends and Flowers Welcoming Words (and Blog Candy!)

Posted on January 17, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Well, good morning to you! I’m glad you stopped by – I’ve got a cute welcome baby card to share with you today. But, first…

I was busy today. Did a little computer mailing….a little grocery shopping… and some stamping area setting up! If you’ve been following me for any time, you know that I travel with my stampin’ stuff if I’m going to be gone any length of time. I have to say – if any of you are traveling and are just addicted to this craft of ours enough to want to take it all with you and stamp in your hotel…TownePlace Suites are a good bet! I love this table/desk area they have! Take a look at what I got set up today – and didn’t even have to beg an additional table!

Kinda cool, huh? Certainly not bad for a hotel room craft spot!

So, at my new desk, I created a soft, cute card today to welcome a new baby to the family. I used several new stamp sets – Honeycomb Happiness (read on down for a chance to win this set for yourself!), Friends & Flowers, Easter Lamb and Welcoming Words! Take a look-see:

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Categories: New Baby | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, Blog Candy, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Easter Lamb, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Friends & Flowers, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Honeycomb Happiness, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Sale-a-Bration, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Welcoming Words | 30 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Honeycomb Happiness Chick on a Super Simple Saturday!

Posted on January 16, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Made it to the weekend!! Whoo-hoo! I’m sitting here on Friday night typing this post with the entire, beautiful, lovely, empty weekend stretching ahead of me. It’s even a Three-Day Weekend. Thank you, Mr. King! On top of all that, we got off work ridiculously early today. Like…I drove all the way back to the hotel….in DAYlight! 😉 So, I’m simply luxuriating in the knowledge that for the next three days… I don’t have to put make-up on, don’t have to get up at any particular time, don’t have to fight my work computer (whole other frustrating story that I won’t bore you with). Nothing like that at all. For 72 hours! Holy smokes!!

So tomorrow, after I get up whenever I want to! – I’ll be doing my “nesting”. I made the decision the other day to not change hotels, so now I can set up my crafting area, put away all my clothes and stuff, and settle down. And I can make cards again! Whoo-hoo!

But, I’ve still got one more card to share that I made before I left Atlanta. It uses the crazy cute stamp set in Sale-A-Bration called Honeycomb Happiness. This little chick-dude (dude-ette?) is totally adorable. And this card will go together for you lickety-split. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Any Occasion, Everyday, Just Hello! | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Honeycomb Happiness, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Sale-a-Bration, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | 6 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Words and One Big Meaning Thank You Cards

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Well, here it is again – FRIDAY! Wow. It’s weird that I sit at work and the time drags but then I write my posts and my first week in AZ is already in the history books! I’m most definitely not complaining – I’m already looking forward to the end of the trip!

So, in my Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator persona, one thing I can never have too many of is Thank You cards! When I recently sent my 2016 Occasions Catalog shares out, I included (as I always do!) a Thank You note in each package. I put together a stack of them, using the Watercolor Thank You stamp and some of the new Sale-a-Bration Perfectly Artistic DSP. I liked them so much that I decided to make a few more, and share them with you! Take a look-see:

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Categories: Thank You Cards | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, One Big Meaning, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Sale-a-Bration, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Watercolor Thank You, Watercolor Words | 5 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Rose Wonder Sympathy for the Happy Stamper’s Blog Hop

Posted on January 14, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Welcome welcome – to another edition of the Happy Stampers weekly Blog Hop! This week we all worked with some lovely colors – Rose Red, Whisper White and Gold!

I hope that you’ll take a little time today – maybe get a cuppa something warm (and a cookie!) – and settle back to peruse all the pretty projects our Happy Stamper ladies have made for you today. 🙂

My share uses the wonderful new Occasions bundle with the Rose Wonder stamp set and Rose Garden Thinlits ($49.25 for the bundle, a savings of 15%). I made a sympathy card – for my friends in Atlanta. They’ve lost too many of their 4-legged kids this past few months. But, here’s the thing. You could oh-so-easily make this exact card, minus one tiny element, and it would be a lovely sympathy card for any human person need! Take a look-see:

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Categories: Sympathy, Sympathy for Loss of a Pet | Tags: 2016 Occasions Catalog, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Love Blossoms DSP, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Rose Garden Thinlits, Rose Wonder stamp set, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | 17 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Bloomin’ Heart Wedding Congratulations

Posted on January 13, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Mornin’, y’all! As we hit the half-way point, I hope the week is treating you well and that you’re busily stamping away with your fave SU! products and waiting for your new Occasions goodies and FREE Sale-a-Bration toys to arrive in the mail!

My share today is a wedding card – I don’t have anyone on my list right now who needs a wedding card (at least not one that’s as Princess wedding/formal as this card turned out!), but the sketch challenge that I played with for this card just seemed to cry out for a wedding card! I ended up using the completely perfect-for-a-wedding-card Bloomin’ Heart Thinlits, some florals from Timeless Love and both Sassy Salutations and For The New Two stamp sets for my sentiments. Take a look-see:

Bloomin' Heart Wedding Congrats 1 - Stamps-N-Lingers

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Categories: Wedding | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, Bloomin' Heart Thinlits, Bow Builder Punch, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, For the New Two, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Sale-a-Bration, Sassy Salutations, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Timeless Love | 6 Comments

Stampin’ Up! What’s Up on 12 Jan 16

Posted on January 12, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Happy Tuesday!

Sale-A-Bration continues at a blinding pace! Folks are all cashing in on the free items in the Sale-a-Bration catalog. They’re getting those items for free by purchasing their favorite stamping products from Stampin’ Up!

The Double Punkin’ Head Rewards Special is ongoing – don’t miss your opportunity to rack up a lot of extra points towards more free Stampin’ Up! goodies!

See you tomorrow with a new project!

TTFN

Mary

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