National Scrapbook Month

I'm so excited - I managed to post two days in a row! I'll try to keep this up for most of this week, but I make no promises!!!!

Tonight I'm going to combine National Scrapbooking Month (you know, I never remember if it is "scrapbook" or "scrapbooking" month - so I go back and forth) with Mother's Day. I had created this scrapbook page for my May club meeting, but we never got around to making it. You'll see the project we did later this week and you will understand why we didn't make it to the scrapbook page! Anyway - for those of you who look over and over the catalog like I do - you may recognize the layout. I CASEd it from page 4 of the current catalog. I love this picture and thought it perfect to use - it is the four generations of "Elaine"s. My grandmother, my mom, myself and my daughter all have Elaine in our names whether it be as a first or middle name.

A couple notes about the parts of the layout... for the "mom" at the top, I used craft ink to color some of our on-board letters. I had always been hesitant to do that because of how long it took to dry; but then I discovered the joy of using our heat tool to make that drying job so much quicker! You have got to try it! You can tell when the ink is dry - there is a slight color change. Also, I don't know if you can see it in the picture (sorry it is a little dark, and I promise it is a 8-1/2" x 8-1/2" square - I just had to take the photo at a slight angle in order to avoid the camera flash in the photo - and I still got a little bit)... anyway, I don't know if you can tell in the photo, but I also stamped the Lilly of the Valley stamp behind the Whisper White scrap; on the Going Gray card stock.

Supplies (don't forget - you can always order Stampin' Up! products at any time of the day or night from my web site; link is at the top left):

Ever After stamp set
Basic Gray, Always Artichoke, and Cameo Coral Classic Stampin' Pads
Cameo Coral Craft Stampin' Pad
Cameo Coral Stampin' Write Marker
Going Gray, Baja Breeze, and Whisper White card stock
Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper
1-1/4" Square Punch
Eyelet Border Punch
On Board Lots of Letters
Baja Breeze and Basic Gray Corduroy Buttons
Fresh Favorites II Colored Buttons
Baja Breeze 1" Double-Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon
Chocolate Chip Taffeta Ribbon
Linen Thread

It's Sale-A-Bration time!

I love this time of year! Sale-A-Bration give you an easy way to get even more free stamp sets and accessories! All you need to do is order $50 and you get a FREE Sale-a-Bration, limited offer, stamp set or accessory bundle. If you order $100, you get two; $150 and you get three; do you start seeing the trend? Plus, there are other great benefits if you host a workshop or join the Stampin' Up! team during Sale-A-Bration. Hostesses: host a workshop with $350 in total sales and get a FREE Sale-A-Bration set or bundle - that is in addition to any you earn with your personal order in the workshop. Join my team: get 15% off the starter kit, plus a free stamp set from the current Idea Book & Catalog (a $47.95 value). See below post for more details on joining my team.

To give you a peek at the fabulous products offered only during Sale-A-Bration, here is one of the projects I am doing for my February club meeting. I used both the Sale-A-Bration designer series paper bundle (Delicate Dots) and the Sale-A-Bration ribbon bundle for this 6x6 scrapbook page. I picked this size, because for my club members who are not scrapbookers, they can easily turn all the exact same supplies in to an adorable 3x6 card.

Supplies:
Define Your Life stamp set
Chocolate Chip Classic Ink
Baja Breeze textured, Whisper White and Pink Pirouette card stock
Delicate Dots DSP (Sale-A-Bration)
Certainly Celery ribbon (Sale-A-Bration Ribbon Bundle)
Key Tag punch
Wide Oval punch
Linen Thread
Silver Brads
Clear Buttons
Stampin' Sponge
Stampin' Dimensionals

November Club Meeting & the BIG SHOT

For my November club meeting, we played around with the awesome new Big Shot by Stampin' Up! and Sizzix. I take no credit at all for the portfolio design that held the cards - that design came from another great demonstrator named Andrea Wolford (a link to her blog is on the left). I did design the 4 cards that went in the portfolio, however. The beginning of my card designs came from the "Join in the Cheer" Decorative Strip Die. I thought it would be neat to separate the 4 words and create four different cards with those words. Then I also used the Scallop Envelope and Top Note Bigz Dies. The new Big Shot is so much fun to use! If you are interested in finding out more about the Big Shot or ordering the supplies for the Big Shot or these cards, just contact me. You can also order on-line through my Stampin' Up! web site. The link to this site is on the left of this page.

Supplies for each card:
Cheer card - Scandinavian Season stamp set; Kraft, Textured Chocolate Chip, and Textured Riding Hood Red card stock; Baja Breeze and Old Olive Classic Ink Pad; Little Felt Flurries; Silver Elastic Cord, Baja Breeze 5/8" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon; Earth Elements & Neutrals Buttons; Paper Piercer; Top Note Bigz Die and Join in the Cheer Decorative Strip Die.
Joy card - Scandinavian Season stamp set; Whisper White, Chocolate Chip & Textured Riding Hood Red card stock; Autumn Vine DSP; Old Olive and Riding Hood Red Classic Ink Pad; Season of Cheer Rub-Ons; Silver Elastic Cord; Pewter Build-a-Brad; Little Felt Flurries; Earth Elements Buttons; sponges; Top Note Bigz Die and Join in the Cheer Decorative Strip Die
Love card - Scandinavian Season stamp set; Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke, and Textured Riding Hood Red card stock; Baja Breeze Classic Ink Pad; Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write Marker; Season of Cheer Rub-ons; Baja Breeze 5/8" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon; Pewter Jumbo Eyelets; Vintage Brads; Little Felt Flurries; Scallop Edge punch; Paper Piercer; Crop-a-dial; Scallop Envelope Bigz Die and Join in the Cheer Decorative Strip Die
Peace card - Scandinavian Season stamp set; Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Textured Chocolate Chip, and Textured Riding Hood Red card stock; Autumn Vine DSP; Baja Breeze Classic Ink Pad; Season of Cheer Rub-ons; Silver Elastic Cord, Whisper White 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon; Pewter Build-a-Brad; Silver Brads; Library Clips; Little Felt Flurries; Top Note Bigz Die and Join in the Cheer Decorative Strip Die; Paper Snips; Stampin' Dimensionals