Get Well Soon

Stampin’ Up! Weather Together Rainbow

Posted on August 2, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Hey y’all – it’s Tuesday, 2 Aug – and you know what that means, right?? Yup – today’s the day you can get the great new Thoughtful Branches stamp set and the matching Beautiful Branches Thinlits. Get them separately – or better yet, get them as a bundle and save 10%. AND – if you got those Bonus Days coupons last month – you can reduce the price even further! That’s right – it’s time to spend what you earned! They expire at the end of August!! 🙂

You can also snag that other new stamp set – “I Stamped This” – a great set full of images that let everyone who gets one of your beautiful creations know that you made it with your very own hands – and a lot of love!

There’s more info – including pictures! – down below.

For today, though, I have a card that was a special request. My friend needed another Get Well/Encouragement card – for a dog lover. And a Labrador Retriever lover, more specifically! So I pulled out a few fun Stampin’ Up! sets – My Hero, the new Weather Together bundle and the fun Over the Rainbow stamp set. Then I added a non-SU! labrador stamp. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Sitting Here with Bella and a Flourish!

Posted on June 11, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Happy Saturday – I hope that you’re getting ready for a fun weekend! We’re busily cutting and winding and sorting beautiful new designer papers and ribbon and twine and various fun embellishments to fill my Catalog Shares. I say “we” because…well….

Please ignore my messy kitchen, okay? The housekeeper has the decade off! The point of the pictures is that my wonderful husband helped me cut paper and wind twine! He needed to be the paper cutter cuz when I cut it – well, it wasn’t quite right….please check his laser focus on getting the measurements exactly right! 😉 But I did do the twine cutting – or we’d still be doing it – while he measured it to a nano-meter!! Just in case NASA were to call and need exactly, precisely, 3 yards of Melon Mambo Thick Baker’s Twine.

One just never knows, does one?

And yet – even with his help…we’ve still got a lot to cut and wind! I’m still behind. How is that possible, does anyone know? I sure don’t!

But, I did have some time to make a card for y’all. This is a request-card. A couple weeks ago, I made a Get Well card for my friend to give. She wanted a card with a little white dog on it – but I didn’t have that stamp set yet. So we decided on a two-parter. The first card – you can see it here – was a pretty, vintage-y card using the Basket For You Host stamp set. This one uses Sitting Here – she’d asked for the swing – and the new Bella & Friends for the little dog image. And I pulled some images and sentiments from the new Flourishing Phrases, too. Take a look-see:

I started by stamping a Dapper Denim card stock panel with the large flourish image in Flourishing Phrases, in Dapper Denim ink, and lightly sponged the edges in Dapper Denim. That became my card front. For the Very Vanilla art panel, I used masking to create my vignette. So I stamped the cat image from Sitting Here in Soft Suede, then covered him with a mask that I’d made from a sticky note (just stamp the image on a sticky note and fussy cut it). Over that I stamped the Sitting Here basket of flowers in Always Artichoke. Then I covered that with a sticky note mask as well. Finally, I stamped the swing image in Crumb Cake ink. Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Basket For You Get Well

Posted on May 22, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good morning, y’all. I’m sitting here on Saturday night writing this post, listening to Home Free on YouTube – watching a storm gather outside the window. I’ve had a good day – resting, making cards, resting some more! I hope that wherever you’re reading this – your weekend is going swimmingly! 🙂

My card today uses a beautiful Host-Exclusive stamp set that will be available on 1 June. You know that means you need to host a workshop in order to be able to get this beautiful set. One way to do that would be to sign up for my Online Host Club! Then you could order it in your Host month! Just sayin’….. scroll on down for the details and snap up one of those last spots! 🙂

The stamp set I’m referring to is called Basket For You, and it’s the focal point of this card. I added a sentiment from Thoughts & Prayers and this is what I ended up with. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Layered Letters and Another Sneak Peek!

Posted on April 24, 2016 by stampsnlingers

So, as I write this Sunday morning post on Saturday afternoon – I’m ridiculously tickled with the return of the Hummingbirds! I’ve had my feeders out for a few weeks now and we’ve had one little dude coming by for the last couple. Today – we’ve got TWO of them. One – I’m pretty sure – is the same that’s been visiting. I can tell cuz he’s green. And his wings flap really really fast. And he’s tiny. So I know it’s him! 😉 But now he’s got a little friend – this one has the red band under his chin. I just love watching them on the feeders.

Does make it hard to wash dishes though, at least without getting water everywhere cuz I’m so busy trying to peer out the window and wash at the same time. That’s multi-tasking. Sometimes it works better than others! 🙂

Anywhoooo – on to the cards for today. Yes – cards! I have one that I made to share and two that I brought home from OnStage. They were the Make-and-Takes, so they’ll be a good little peek at some more new Annual Catalog things.

But first, the card I dreamed up all by myself! 🙂 My friend needed another card – this time for a young (?) lady who was trying to learn to ride a motorcycle. With her boyfriend. They were apparently on separate bikes, riding slowly thru their neighborhood while she was getting the hang of riding. He got a little ahead of her, she throttled up – a little more enthusiastically than she’s planned. The bike jumped a little and she subsequently throttled up even more….and went into the curb. The bike stopped. She didn’t. Here’s the kicker.

She wasn’t wearing a helmet.

Seriously?!? Learning to ride – and no helmet. No helmet is a bad plan for any rider, but a new rider?? She’s danged lucky to just be alive, let alone without serious injury.

So – I was asked for a card. Now, if this was about 5 weeks from now….I might have a motorcycle stamp (that’s a hint….). But not now. And I couldn’t make the bike in Pedal Pusher even sort of look like a motorcycle.

I decided to go with more of a….road rash….theme. I used some Layered Letters, a little Timeless Textures and a nice little sentiment from And Many More (sadly retiring!). Take a look-see:

It’s a little hard to tell – black is really tough to photograph! – but the card base is black, and the card front is Blackberry Bliss. I really went for it with the bruised and battered theme! Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Floral Wings Petite Pairs Get Well!

Posted on April 16, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Happy Weekend, y’all!

Heading into the last day of OnStage Live. It’s been a great event – punctuated by lots of Prize Patrols and whoo-hoo-ing – and a great new catalog. I’ll be bringing home a few make-and-takes, that showcase some of the new products, and I’ve taken lots of display pictures – that I’ll share with you with the updates on Tuesday! I can’t wait for you to see the new goodies!

Today’s card is another one that uses a non-Stampin’ Up! pet stamp image. I’ve used this cute little tilty-headed lab before – here’s a link to one, if you’re interested! I combined it with a few images from the Host Exclusive stamp set called Floral Wings and sentiments from And Many More and Petite Pairs. Add in some pretty DSP and, well, take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! The Wilderness Awaits In The Meadow!

Posted on March 26, 2016 by stampsnlingers

So – I love when someone asks me to make a card for them to give to someone special. For me, it means that they really care enough to not want a cookie-cutter card from the grocery store aisle. And that’s cool. I also really like it – a lot! – when that request gives me an excuse to buy a new goody! Like the card I have to share with you today.

My friend has a friend who’s been in the hospital – in and out – for the past several weeks. A long time! He’s a “dog guy” – I made the leap that he’s a “hunting dog guy” – since those are a lot of the kinds of folks she knows. So she wanted a card with a dog and the outdoors.

Sadly – I had yet to purchase the The Wilderness Awaits stamp set. I’ve been so busy acquiring Occasions catalog sets and bundles that I kept pushing that down my list. So now was the perfect opportunity! Once it arrived, I paired it with the In the Meadow set – which did come from the Occasions catalog and I very much hope makes it into the next Annual! I added a few of the great sentiments from Greatest Greetings and….take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Get Well Melon Mambo Soup!

Posted on March 7, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Well, it’s happened again. Monday! Back to work…

It was a most beauteous weekend – Wayne’s got 3 of the 4 veggie beds done. We opened windows and enjoyed the warm day – right up until some neighbor decided to burn last Fall’s leaves! 🙁

And I made some cards! One of them is ready to hit the mail at the very next sign of a flu outbreak! Or just someone having a case of ADR. That’s vet-speak for Ain’t Doin’ Right! But it could surely be

…wait. On the tv right now is a lady who own 55,000 pairs of salt and pepper shakers! That’s 110,000 shakers (you’re welcome). Oh. My. Lord! Her husband has built lighted glass-front cabinets all over their house. And he’s added more house to put cabinets more in. Makes me tired just looking at it.

…sorry. Anyway. ADR. Usually a diagnosis for animals – but could also be applied to people, yes? So – if you know someone who’s got a little ADR or even something more concrete, take a look at Get Well Soup! This is an ala carte (one stamp) stamp in the Annual Catalog. I used a little It’s My Party DSP to jazz it up. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Grateful Bunch on Wildflower Fields!

Posted on March 6, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good morning! I hope that you’re having as nice a weekend as I am! The weather is drop-dead gorgeous – we’re talking shirt sleeves and birds singing and ducks paddling in the pond. And today (Saturday – as I type this!) isn’t even the warm day! To be honest, I’m happy where it is – for me, it could stay at this temperature 24/7/365 and I’d be GTG!

Wayne and I spent some time outside building my new raised Square Foot Gardens! Well, while I’m making a card, and posting it and getting dinner ready, he’s still out there. I can hear the grinder and the welder sparking!

Yea, I know. A man welding – especially in those sexy green welding “sleeves”! – is hot! Many many years ago, we were working together on a steel structure. I thought it was so “cool” how the weld spark looked in the night – and I was…well, head over heels, so…I took lots of pictures. I thought I was being so careful not to look right at the spark. Well, at 2 am I discovered I hadn’t been so careful! Safety tip – pictures of welding at night can get you in trouble. Also, looking away from the spark, but at a metal building where the reflection is will also get you in trouble! I’d burned my eyes enough to need to go to the doc in the morning. Wayne told me to put raw potatoes on them.

Uhm. No – that didn’t really help! 😉

Anywho – here’s what he’s working on today!

That’s the first bed all ready to fill and plant! That means it’s for sure spring!! Can’t wait to see them full of tomatoes and peppers and turnips and kale…. 🙂

Well, on to the real reason you dropped in, yes? Being that it’s feeling all spring-y today, I was feeling in the mood for flowers. And butterflies.

I ended up with flowers – not the Rose Wonder flower I’d pulled out to use, but the pretty Grateful Bunch flowers (my faves!). And I never did add a butterfly….take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Rose Wonder Joins Grateful Bunch

Posted on February 19, 2016 by stampsnlingers

It’s Friday again! Whoo-hoo! I’m almost back to being “on” Eastern time – which is good for the morning, but bad for my evening stamping sessions! When I’m still on Mountain or Pacific time, I get a lot done in the evening! Not so much when the old bod realizes where it is!! 🙂

Thanks to all who came by yesterday for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop – it means a lot to all of us to have you see what we put together for you each week!

Today’s share is the last card I made in Arizona. I combined flowers and flowers and flowers – all from the fun Grateful Bunch bundle with a couple of great sentiments from Rose Wonder. This one went out to my friend who’s fighting a battle with cancer. I purposely made it a little over the top – cheery and warm. I wanted the flowers to be abundant – to look like a cottage garden overflowing with beautiful blooms. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Greatest Greetings Clean and Simple Butterfly!

Posted on January 30, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Hello! I hope that when this posts, I’m still asleep. Really asleep. Not that thing where I’m laying there and I know I’m awake but I can’t really move and don’t really want to. That I can’t hear any noises. No one calls me. Don’t have to go to the bathroom. Brain isn’t running thru a litany of things I need to get up and do! You know – dead-to-the-world.

Will be a tiny miracle! So, I’ll just hope to sleep until 7! Arizona time. Fingers crossed for me, okay?

So – I have a fun little thing happening tomorrow. One of the ladies from work here and a lady that found me on the SU! website is coming over to stamp for a little while. I think it’ll be fun! In the course of determining what we’ll be stamping and creating, I came up with this card. My friend from work is a complete newbie to stamping. The other lady is an experienced crafter – so looking for projects that will appeal to her, but not overwhelm my friend and make her wonder what the in the world she was thinking!!

Now, there’s a card in the Annual Catalog that I’d been meaning to do a riff on – and it seemed like this would be a great time. It’s easy peasy to make, but looks so cool that I think it’s going to work great! It uses the ever wonderful Butterflies Thinlits from the Annual Catalog and Greatest Greetings from Occasions. And Washi Tape! Take a look-see: