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Stampin’ Up! Live, Love, Grow!

Posted on June 29, 2016 by stampsnlingers

So….guess what day it is?!? 😉

Yep.

You know it!

HAWMP DAY!!

And – it’s almost the end of June.

Which means two things:

The Stampin’ Up! June promotions (Extra Stampin’ Rewards AND Two Free stamp sets for new recruits) are ending…in a blink! and…
It’s practically Christmas!

Yes, you heard that right. You’re going to go to bed tonight and then it’s going to be…like…Christmas!

Okay. Maybe not quite that quick, but….not too far off. Next thing you know I’ll be sending out the 2016 Holiday Catalog! 🙂 Watch for more on that.

On to today’s card. This one uses the pretty stamp set called Live, Love, Grow. I love the images in this set! And then I added a few butterflies from Papillon Potpourri! Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Penned and Painted for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop

Posted on June 23, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Mornin’, y’all – welcome to another edition of the Happy Stampers Blog Hop. If this is your first hop, thanks for coming. We’re just a group of ladies who love Stampin’ Up! products and like making pretty projects with them. Each week, we all play along with a common sketch or color challenge. You get to hop thru all our blogs and see how many different ways we’ve all interpreted the challenge!! If this is not your first time here, then welcome back and we thank you for spending some time with us! 🙂

This week, we had a sketch challenge.

I decided to make my diagonal element a little differently and I used a couple of techniques, all working together, to craft my card, using the lovely Penned & Painted stamp set. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Swirly Birds and Butterflies for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop

Posted on June 9, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Mornin’, y’all – welcome to another edition of the Happy Stampers Blog Hop. We’ve got a fun sketch to work from today, so settle back and check all our pretty projects, won’t you? 🙂

I decided to use some of the new Affectionately Yours DSP, the Swirly Bird bundle and a few elements that are returning to us from the previous catalog! Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Oh, Hello Swirly Bird!

Posted on June 6, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Happy Monday, y’all! I hope you’re all ready to go back to work! I’m thinkin’ I may take a day or two off. Maybe three. Just to make a few cards, perhaps do some organizing and cleaning up around the house. Tend my garden – which, OBTW, is growing great guns!! I need to plant some seeds and get them started. I’ll take a picture for you for tomorrow.

So, yesterday I pulled out all my retired punches and TIEFs and Framelits and Thinlits and ribbons and all the etc’s. I stuck them in a box with the retired stamps and punches I already had in there. In a few days, I’m going to post my Retired SU! products page – so, stay tuned and get some good deals, huh? 😉

Today’s card uses two new stamp sets – Swirly Bird and Thoughtful Banners – to create a quick, fun little card for any occasion. Take a look-see:

I played along with three challenges today! The first, for the layout, was the Freshly Made Sketches challenge #239: Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Affectionately Yours Watercolor Wishes!

Posted on June 5, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Home again! Yeah!! Feels good to be back in the fold. The horses were glad to see me – well, they acted like they were glad…coulda just been the prospect of peppermints! 🙂 And I had a lap full of cat last night – which is pretty much about as good as it gets!!

Speaking of peppermints – just a quick reminder that this is such a great time to start filling up those wish lists from the new 2016-2017 Annual Catalog. In addition to the great specials that SU! is putting on in the month of June – you can earn DOUBLE peppermint rewards points right now thru Wednesday, 8 June! So…git yer shop on! 🙂

The focal point for my card today is the very pretty floral paper in the Affectionately Yours DSP. I used the paper and I replicated the flowers with the Love and Affection stamp set. With the addition of a sentiment from the Watercolor Wishes stamp set – available exclusively when you purchase the Watercolor Wishes Card Kit – I ended up with a cheerful summery any occasion card. Take a look-see:

The design for this tall-and-skinny card was inspired by this week’s Mojo Monday challenge sketch #450: Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Pop of Pink Layering Love for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop

Posted on June 2, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Mornin’, y’all – welcome to another edition of the Happy Stampers Blog Hop. This is the first hop in the new 2016-2017 Annual Catalog and I’m bettin’ you see some super fun projects from all the ladies! I hope you have your catalog and are making your wish list! 🙂

We all worked with what is one of my favorite color combinations – black, white and pink. Pink in the form of Melon Mambo!

For my card, I used the Swirly Scribbles Framelits and a little of the matching Swirly Bird stamp set, and the star of the show is a sentiment from Layering Love – displayed in a couple of hearts from the new Sweet & Sassy Framelits set. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogs Public Service Announcement!

Posted on May 11, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Hey, y’all – this is my second post of the day. If you’re looking for my card share from this morning – check it out here! And thanks for caring enough to want to see it!

This post is to let everyone know that I put the 2016-2017 Annual Catalogs in the mail just a couple of hours ago! Whoo-hoo!! I sent one to everyone who’s placed an order of $50 or more with me in the last year. 🙂

All except for two ladies! 🙁 Two ladies who inadvertently picked the no-contact box when they made their online order this past week! And that makes me sad, y’all! Cuz they should be eagerly anticipating the arrival of their new catalog – and thinking about their Peppermint Rewards Points – and deciding what they want for their ordering gift! But they can’t.

So – if you’ve ordered in the past week or so, and haven’t gotten an e-mail from me, then…please blast me an e-mail, would you? (stamps-n-lingers@comcast.net)And I’ll get your info for the catalog and all the other goodies.

I figured I’d take up a hot second of everyone’s time to remind you about the dratted “No Contact” box in the online ordering system….

You can check to see what your status is by going to the Stampin’ Up store and signing in to your account…

Then, once you’re signed in, click over on the right side to My Account…. Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Sitting Here Helping Me Grow

Posted on May 11, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good morning! Hope your week is going well – it’s almost over so hang in there!

My card share today makes use of a new stamp set called Sitting Here. It’s a wonderful set that will let you create little scenes of southern serenity and porch-swing living. I added some Helping Me Grow florals and collage-y elements. Take a look-see:

To begin, I made the vintage-looking card front. I used Crumb Cake ink and stamped the large Helping Me Grow floral image all over the Very Vanilla panel – making sure to turn the image every which way and to go off the panel, too. Then I used my Aqua Painter to pull some of the ink, and also picked up some more ink from the lid of the ink pad, to lightly color the blossoms. Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Of Butterflies Thinlits and Thoughtful Banners

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good Monday to y’all! Hope you’re ready for another week. Of course, I don’t suppose it matters if we’re ready or not – cuz it’s upon us! 🙂

About a hundred years ago – okay, maybe early 2014 – before I found the joys of Stampin’ Up! products, I was self-educating in the world of card making and stamping. The earliest product line I discovered was Tim Holtz – and his fabulous vintage/steampunk/grunge look. Definitely my cup o’ tea! I indulged in a voracious appetite for his goodies – I stalked the aisles of every hobby supply store in the area. I bought heaps and gobs and buckets of Tim’s grungy goodness.

And then I found Stampin’ Up! and that was it for me and Tim (I’m sure he’s somewhere wondering where I am and why I left him!). I put my Tim things away. And yes, I missed many of them. Still do. One little item that I really liked was his word stickers. Whole sheets of stickers with single words typed on them. The idea being that you’d stick them on your project to make phrases. Cool ones – like Dream Big. Imagine Wishes. Wish Big Dreams. Sparkle. Journey. I was never very good at combining them. I stuck to single words. Wish. Dream. Imagine. Oh – well, that would have been a good combo – where was it when I was trying to make cards?! 😉

When I saw the new Stampin’ Up! stamp set called Thoughtful Banners – I was reminded of my Tim Holtz stickers. And I saw some card examples where folks had stamped individual words and then cut them out and stuck them on. Like Ideology stickers (that’s Tim Holtz’s line). And I wanted to try that.

So – today, I did!

I used the stamp sentiments from Thoughtful Banners (new) and added some Papillon Potpourri and a couple of Butterflies Thinlits and Bold Butterfly Framelits to create….this. Take a look-see:

I know. It’s busy. And kind of hard to see the three butterflies in the picture. Also – no matter what you see in my oh-so-wonderful pictures, just take my word that there’s no black on the entire card! It’s all Gold – White – Night of Navy. I know this because I was playing along with the Can You Case It Color challenge #119: Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Swirly Scribbles Thoughtful Banners Hello

Posted on May 8, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there in Blog-ville! I hope you all have breakfast in bed (and don’t have to clean the kitchen), get the house cleaned (without having to lift a finger!), and receive flowers and adulation from all who know and love you!

I am fixin’ to hit the cards hard today – I planned that yesterday, and was partially successful. But…some of the guys wanted to go to lunch….

…what’s a girl to do? And yes – that’s the exact same meal I had at The Olde Pink House last weekend. I was oh-so-tempted by…well, everything else on the menu!….but in the end, just couldn’t resist that chicken!! Yuuuuuuuummmmmmm-oooooo!!

But, I did get one and a half cards made on Saturday – and this is one of them! It’s using some of the many goodies I received this week in my pre-order. It was really hard to pick just one thing to use – so I used a couple! I pulled out the Swirly Bird stamp set and its bundled Thinlits – called Swirly Scribbles and added a sentiment from the Thoughtful Banners bundle as well. Take a look-see:

Bright, huh!? I’m loving these new 2016-2018 In Colors. I wasn’t sure I was going to – and felt the same about the Playful Palette DSP, which you can see peeking out from behind the sentiment panel. But, boy, was I wrong! It’s growing on me like gangbusters! Continue reading →