Posts Tagged With: handmade cards

Stampin’ Up! Garden in Bloom Smiles!

Posted on April 10, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Well, good morning! Here we are, half way thru the weekend, getting closer and closer to OnStage next week! Practicing my “whoo-hoo”ing – in preparation for the unveiling of the new 2016-2017 Annual Catalog! Should be pretty exciting. I’m also going to get to tour the home office, so I’m psyched for that, too! 🙂

My share for today uses the very pretty Annual catalog stamp set called Garden in Bloom. It has such pretty flowers – two step and three step images! I added a little sentiment from Greatest Greetings – in the Occasions catalog (hoping it makes it into the new catalog!). And, when you add in Birthday Bouquet DSP, this is what you get. Take a look-see:

My layout was inspired by the Mojo Monday sketch #442: Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Helping Me Grow Thanks!

Posted on April 9, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Happy Weekend! Hope that you’re fixin’ to do something fun. Or industrious! Or – if you’re really really good….something fun and industrious! I have no idea what that something could possibly be….maybe gardening? Training your puppy? Certainly not vacuuming! Or anything in the “housecleaning” category – that for sure fails as a “fun” anything! 🙁

My card today is a super simple one – almost a one stamp set card! I used the Occasions catalog set called Helping Me Grow on some Birthday Bouquet DSP. Add in a tiny sentiment from One Big Meaning, and….take a look-see:

I was playing along with the Can You CASE It sketch challenge #114 – but I missed the deadline to enter! 🙁 Here’s the sketch that inspired my layout, nonetheless. Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Botanical Playful Pals

Posted on April 8, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good Morning – it’s Friday again! Wow – time is just flying by, isn’t it? Only 5 more days until we leave for OnStage. End of the month is fast approaching as well, which will bring a trip to Savannah and the arrival of tomato and pepper plants – all ready for transplanting! Hopefully not all at the same time! 🙂

Do y’all know about a company called Territorial Seeds? If you like to garden and grow veggies in the summer (or fall or whenever!) this is a great source of seed and – what I love! – plants! You can select when you want them to arrive, based on the best time for your neck of the woods. Then they come all cozy in their packaging – some of the best I’ve ever seen – and they’re ready to harden off and plant. This will be my third year using them (I get nothing from this – I just really like them!) and have had superb results every year. Just throwin’ that out there! 🙂

So, the last time we had a meeting with Amy Koenders, she gave us all a little gift – like she always does! This time around, I picked the Playful Pals stamp set, bundled with the Pyramid Pals Thinlits. I finally decided to get it out and play with it. I added some Botanical Gardens DSP and a flower from the Botanical Builder, and this is what I came up with. Take a look-see:

LOL, I love how the frog has a sort of goofy expression on his face – he’s obviously tickled for having snagged him a little snackerel – and maybe he even wants to present it to the birthday girl or boy as a special gift! Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Cottage Greetings In the Meadow Silhouette and…Blog Candy!

Posted on April 6, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Happy Hawmp Day, y’all! Days are just flying by – one short week from today, Amy Koenders and I will be winging our way West to attend OnStage Live in Salt Lake! Where we’re going to get to see the new 2016-2017 Annual Catalog! Yikes – can you believe it’s that time already?!? That, of course, means it’s almost time to say good-bye to the current catalog and the 2016 Occasions Catalog – the retiring list will be released on 18 April (right after OnStage). So, you’ll want to be thinking about getting stocked up!

Well, today was productive. I updated my Inventory Spreadsheet, alphabetized my stamp sets, and got a new Office Chair! Yeah! It actually has padded parts – and it swivels. And will roll – once I get one of those plastic mat things you put over the carpet. Makes a huge difference over that wooden kitchen chair I’ve been sitting in. It’s the little things, isn’t it?

So, the card I have to share with you today is a quick and easy, Clean and Simple birthday card, using one of my favorite Occasions stamp sets – In the Meadow. And one of the pretty sentiments from Cottage Greetings. Take a look-see:

My color scheme comes from the Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge #42: Continue reading →

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Stampin’ Up! Love You Sew Number of Years

Posted on April 4, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Hello hello! Welcome to another week of stampin’ and makin’ here at Stamps-N-Lingers! I’m feeling awfully perky this evening as I type up the post for Monday. Wayne and I spent much of the day at a Shoe Repair Expo. Yes. That’s a thing! 😉 It was fun – and fueled our long-tamped-down desire to open a shoe repair of our own.

Add in the fact that the day was gorgeous…well, I’m just in a good mood! 🙂

So – the card I have to share is a fun Birthday Card. I combined two great Occasions catalog stamp sets – the Love You Sew host set and the Number of Years bundle. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Greatest Greetings Rainbow Kitty Sympathy Card

Posted on April 3, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good morning! Wow – this was a gorgeous day here in Atlanta (I’m typing this on Saturday night)! The past two days of rain and stormy weather that signaled the passage of a cold front left the air sparkling and (momentarily!) pollen-less-than-normal (not pollen-free but at least we’ve been able to have a few windows open today!)! The dogwood trees and azaleas are going crazy – we only have a few that the previous owners planted – but everywhere you drive are mounds and mounds of azaleas in every color! They’re so spectacular they’ll almost literally make you gasp when you round a curve in the road and see them. Here’s a picture of one of my little ones –

Now, imagine that about 10 times bigger and in a group of about a hundred! All enmass under tall pine trees. Yes, that’s how folk plant them here and it’s magnificent! If I’d been smart and planted one a year since we moved here…I’d have my very own breathtaking display. As it is…I look at my meager group and go out of my way to drive down roads where I know I’ll see them!

I’ve spent too much time the past couple of days trying to make a card that can come close to echoing the colors of the azaleas….I have yet to be successful. 🙁

So, the card I have to share with you today is a sympathy card for the loss of a pet. My friend needed one for her friend who, apparently, had a mama kitty who had trouble delivering a litter – and lost all the babies. 🙁 That’s a pretty sad thing. So….she asked me to make a card to send. I used a non-Stampin’ Up! kitty image – and combined it with the rainbow-building swath image from Over the Rainbow. My sentiment is from the ever-handy Greatest Greetings and I also added some of the very pretty flowers from the Number of Years stamp set. It’s easy to forget how pretty those flowers are – the number images pretty much steal the show! But…take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Grateful Bunch Totally Awesome!

Posted on April 2, 2016 by stampsnlingers

Good morning, y’all – hope that you fared okay with the weather these past couple of days – it’s been pretty wild in the South. We got lucky – nuthin’ but some lightning and a bit of rain. The horses spent the night tucked up in their stalls with their fans keeping the bugs off – ahh, the life of Riley for them, huh? 🙂

So, I’ve got a quick card to share with you today, that uses my oh-so-fave Grateful Bunch stamp set and its matching punch – Blossom Bunch. Which I got – and so can you! – as a 15% off bundle! And Timeless Textures – again! Take a look-see:

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What’s Up at Stampin’ Up! for 18 August

Posted on August 18, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Before I delve into the new Weekly Deals and Stampin’ Up! Updates – I’m going to take a half a second to brag on my buddy. As you know, on Sunday, Wayne and I attended the White Coat Ceremony for the incoming Class of 2019 at the University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine. It was so cool that I wanted to share a couple of pictures! The class, which numbers 114 in total (out of 1025 applicants! Yikes!) all walked across the stage and a couple of ranking members of the School helped the new doc-to-be put his/her white coat on. I know – I should know who they are but 1) they ran out of programs before we got there even though we were almost an hour early! and 2) the lady doing the introductions wasn’t close enough to the mic and I believe she had marbles in her mouth!

There’s Docta Chris (that’s what we’re calling him these days!) doing the handshake!

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What’s Up at Stampin’ Up! and Last Day for Blog Candy….

Posted on August 11, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Well, back from my whirlwind business trip. Found a leetle package when I got home – my Stampin’ Up! 2015 Holiday Catalog pre-order! Whoo-hoo! The box – which is hefty, but actually smaller than I’d hoped (I wanted a box that needed to be forklifted!!) – the good folk at SU! are disturbingly and enviably efficient at packing! – is sitting provocatively in the kitchen. Just waiting for me to come tear into it. My plan is to get the horses taken care of, work for a while and then…..maybe as a little break…..yep. You got it!

If I were you guys, I’d anticipate tomorrow’s card share to be something from inside that box! 😉 I can’t wait to see it all and make something!

For now, let me remind you that this is the last day to sign up for the 3rd 100th Blog-post-iversary Candy package! You need to go to this post and leave a comment before 6pm Mountain time TONIGHT! We’ve already had two winners:

Blog Candy #1 – JRGH

Blog Candy #2 – Patricia

Blog Candy #3 – Will it be YOU?!? 🙂

There are some fun new Weekly Deals to be had – check them out and get them while they last!

TTFN

Mary

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Stampin’ Up! Lovely as a Tree at Moonrise

Posted on August 6, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Well, the big cat just determined he was done with my lap – at least for a little while – so I can actually DO a blog post tonight! Leo is a lap hog – he stretches across my lap from one arm of the recliner to the other. And stretches luxuriously and yawns (he yawns quite cute-ly – with the end of his tongue all curled up!) and turns half upside down – all across my lap. And he does NOT think that it’s a good idea for me to set my computer on him whilst he’s doing all this. So….cat -yes. Computer – No. Until he’s done with me. It’s what we do.

My card tonight is inspired by a picture I saw on Pinterest. Not of a card, but….

When I saw this photo, it just spoke to me. About a 1000 years ago, in a galaxy far far away, I spent some time in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Quite a while, actually – another business trip (yes, you’ve figured out my secret – I get ALL the great garden spots for my business trips….). And it was in a pretty isolated little town (Super Walmart came while I was there and the whole town turned out. It was BIG!). So, I tried to find things to do (at that time, I didn’t do stamping, so I didn’t have a room full of crafty things to do) and on one of my little trips, I ended up at a preserve of some sort – no clue what it was called any more. Wide open spaces. Buffalo roaming. Longhorns playing. Bunnies frolicking. Prairie Dogs barking. It was big and, in its own way, beautiful. A prairie preserved. Anyway, I got a bee in my bonnet that it would be really cool to be there at night when there was a full moon. So, one weekend, I dilly’d and dallied about until it was finally dark and the moon had risen over the prairie. I wasn’t alone – other folks apparently shared my bee. It was spectacular. I don’t even remember the time of year now, but it wasn’t too hot or too cold. It was just beautiful. The light of the moon was….ethereal. If it wasn’t too crystal-chaneling woo-woo….I’d say I could hear the creak of the wagons and the rustle of the wheels rolling thru the prairie grasses. Truly one of the coolest experiences of my life.

Well – that picture took me back to that night. And I wanted to re-create it on a card. So I tried. Take a look-see: