Inspire Create Share Blog Hop: All About Christmas

 

Hello friends!! It is a great time for Blog Hops, cuz we all need Christmas inspiration, right?!  Well, to help you out, the Inspire Create Share team is All About Christmas this month! 

I love this Fragrant Forest Background Stamp, but...I don't think it belongs in the background at all! I like it front and center, so all can see and enjoy it!

What do you think about it?!

I couldn't find any Christmas paper to coordinate with it. So, I turned to non Christmas Designer Series Paper and found a beautiful plaid in the Let's Go Fishing papers. I think it goes perfectly! Don't limit yourself to only using Christmas stuff, even on your Christmas cards. 

Hope you like my card. I would love a comment, if you do! Let's go see what Christmas inspiration Tricia has to share with us! 

PPP Blog Hop: Home for the Holidays

 

Hi friends!! Welcome to another Paper Pumpkin Possibilities Blog Hop, where we show you alternate ways to use your Paper Pumpkin kits! While I love Paper Pumpkin as is, and sometimes find it hard to use the product in alternate ways, I try to focus on what I will do with the stamps and ink after the consumable components are gone. 

So, using the stamps and other Stampin Up! products, here is what I created using the cute little house, trees and sentiments:

I also used A Walk in the Forest Designer Series Paper, and some snowflake embellishments. 

Have you created any alternate projects? Want more inspiration, hop along the list below to see what others did with their kits! 

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'! 

Don't miss next month's kit: Warm Wishes

This kit includes:

• 8 boxes; 4 each of 2 designs
• 1 Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Spot
• Iridescent glitter accents on paper
• Precut paper pieces
• Linen thread
• Treat bags
• Warm Wishes photopolymer stamp set
• Completed box size: 4-1/4" x 4-1/2" x 1-1/2" (10.8 x 11.4 x 3.8 cm) and 4/1/4" x 3-3/4" x 1-1/2" (10.8 x 9.5 x 3.8 cm)
• Coordinating Stampin’ Up! colors: Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel, Cherry Cobbler, Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lolly, Mossy Meadow, Night of Navy, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Real Red

There are coordinating cards and envelopes that you can add on: 

Warm Wishes Cards & Envelopes 

Item number: 163985

$14.00 USD 

To get this kit, click here! 

IDEAS Blog Hop: Spread the Sparkle

 

Hi friends!! I hope you are ready to see some fun ideas, and maybe do a little scavenger hunting once you purchase the tutorial bundle (or get it for free!)

This month's theme is Spread the Sparkle. We are using sparkly stuff, papers, ribbons, gems, etc. But, since it is also the 5th anniversary of the IDEAS Tutorial Bundle and Blog Hop, everyone is including  five (5) of something in their projects. Can you figure out what each demo used for their 5? 

This bundle includes projects from 13 demos from all over the world. It has over 50 pages, and tutorials for more than 25 projects. There is definitely something for everyone. 

Here is a sneak peek of some of the bundle projects:

And since my project is exclusive to the bundle, I won't show it here. You will have to get the bundle to see it. But, I have an alternate project for you. Consider it a bonus project!

Here it is:

I did use the same stamp set, and it has all the shiny things, paper, foil, embellishments. But think more festive and party for my tutorial project! 

Are you intrigued? Do you want the bundle for your very own? You can own this bundle and use the projects for your personal use or even in your classes! There are three options to acquire our IDEAS tutorial bundle:

1. Place a $35 order with my online host code, click here

2. It is free for all of my team members, join here.

3. Purchase it for $15 USD.

 Once you have received the tutorials, please remember not to share or distribute the printed or electronic copies of these bundles. We have worked hard to provide these exclusive projects for your use. If you know someone that would like to purchase the bundle, please direct them to me to obtain their copy. Thanks for your support!

Let's go check out the other blogs to see what they have to share with us! Click on the list below to follow along.

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'!

Inspire Create Share Blog Hop: All About Autumn

 

Hi friends!! Welcome to another Inspire Create Share Blog Hop. This month we are All About Autumn! So many have moved on to Christmas already. I have to admit that I have even done a Christmas card class. But, we need to celebrate Autumn and all its goodness first!! 

What are your favorites things about Autumn? 

I made some little treat holders for my friends. Can you guess what the holder base is? Yes, it is an empty toilet paper roll! Appropriately, I used the All About Autumn Designer Series Paper to cover the TP roll, and the Pick of the Patch Stamp Set and punch. 

This one is non traditional colors: 

The cute crow: 

And the traditional fall colors: 

You can put all kinds of candy in these, the typical candy corn and/or pumpkins, or how about Hershey's Kisses, or Jolly Ranchers, or toffee, or ??  What is your choice?

Thanks for popping by! Let's go see what Autumn project Sharon has for us to check out.

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'! 

IDEAS Blog Hop: Christmas Crafting

 

Hi friends!! Welcome to the October IDEAS Blog Hop! We are a group of International Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from all over the world! We love to bring you inspiration. This month's theme is Christmas Crafting! So hang on to see some fun Christmas projects that you can replicate!!

Here is a sneak peek of some of the bundle projects:

Now, my projects are exclusive to the bundle. If you want to see them, you gotta' get it! But, I have another project to show you. It uses the same Designer Series Paper, A Walk in the Forest, and stamp set, Merriest Trees, as my bundle projects. Just think of this as a bonus project...

This bundle contains projects by 13 global demonstrators, over 60 pages of color photos, supply lists, and full in structions in both imperial and metric measurements of over 25 projects! 

So, are you liking what you are seeing so far?!  You can own this bundle and use the projects for your personal use or even in your classes! There are three options to acquire our IDEAS tutorial bundle:

1. Place a $35 order with my online host code, click here

2. It is free for all of my team members, join here.

3. Purchase it for $15 USD.

 Once you have received the tutorials, please remember not to share or distribute the printed or electronic copies of these bundles. We have worked hard to provide these exclusive projects for your use. If you know someone that would like to purchase the bundle, please direct them to me to obtain their copy. Thanks for your support!

Let's go check out the other blogs to see what they have to share with us! Click on the list below to follow along.

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'!

09/26/23 Creative Crafternoon - CASE the Mini Catalog, pg 20

 Hi friends! Thanks for joining me on my CASE the Catalog journey. This week, I CASEd the September - December Mini Catalog. Better known in Stampin' Up! Circles as the Holiday Mini. I used a design from page 20. 

I used pumpkins instead of trees, used different Designer Series Paper, and turned the card horizontal instead of vertical, but really the same card...lol!! 

Here is mine:

Catch the video here

Check out page 20 and let me know what you think.

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'!

Paper Pumpkin Possibilities Blog Hop: With Love & Gratitude

 

Hi friends! Thanks for joining us on another Paper Pumpkin Possibilities Blog Hop. This is where we show you all, ok, well some of the things you can do with Paper Pumpkin: With Love & Gratitude! 

I love this kit, but I love Shelli's style and so it isn't surprising that I love it when she gets involved and helps design a kit. It doesn't happen often, so when it does, it is a real treat! 

Here is how the kit is designed to look when complete:

8 adorable 3" x 3" cards and 8 lovely treat bags! 

I always try to think about what I can do with the stamp set when the consumables are gone. Let me tell you a secret...at first glance, I thought the pumpkins were flowers. Which would have been beautiful, but I love them even more now that I know they are pumpkins!

I did cut up one of the mini cards, but you could just as easily use cardstock with a texture from an embossing folder, or some Designer Series Paper. So, I really felt this would still work when the consumables were all gone. What do you think?

Thanks for popping by, but don't stop now! Follow along and go through the list to see what alternate projects the others have created! 

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'! 

 

 

ICS Blog Hop: Mini Catalog Showcase

Hi friends!!

Join us as we hop a long on another Inspire Create Share Blog Hop! We are showcasing products from the September- December 2023 Mini Catalog. 

I am using the Fragrant Forest background stamp. I think this is an easily overlooked stamp, and am hoping to change that. It can be used as a background or a focal stamp. 

Here is my card:

The sentiment is from the Merriest Trees Stamp Set. I used the Stylish Shapes and the new Deckled Circle Dies, the 2023-2025 In Color Jute Trim and the Timber 3D Embossing Folder. 

The colors came from the Stampin' Up! Color Coach:

I have a lot more uses for this stamp in mind. Keep a look out for what will come next. 

For now, join me as we hop along to Deb's blog to see what new item(s) she is showcasing. 

Hope you are inspired as you check out our projects!

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'!

IDEAS Blog Hop: Family Celebrations

Hi friends! I'm so excited to share our September 2023 IDEAS Blog Hop with you today. We are featuring projects that we feel celebrate families. There are birthday, Christmas, and Halloween projects and more. There are fun folds, boxes and scrapbook pages, and so much more! Our tutorial is full of amazing creative ideas!  

 This graphic shows a snippet of some of the projects in our September 2023 IDEAS Tutorial Bundle.

I used the Bright & Beautiful Memories & More Card Pack for all my projects. But, my actual tutorial designs are secret and exclusively shared in the tutorial. I have made an additional fun fold card, also using the M&M cards, to share with you here....consider it a bonus project!

I love a good easel fold, don't you?! Easy and eye catching...

Each tutorial designer features at least one card and one 3D project, some include multiple projects. There are 12 designers this month, with over 25 designs! Would you like a copy of the tutorials for these projects for your personal use, or even to use in your classes? Contact your member demonstrator or me.  There are three options to acquire our IDEAS tutorial bundle:

1. Place a $35 order with my online host code, click here

2. It is free for all of my team members, join here.

3. Purchase it for $15 USD.

 Once you have received the tutorials, please remember not to share or distribute the printed or electronic copies of these bundles. We have worked hard to provide these exclusive projects for your use. If you know someone that would like to purchase the bundle, please direct them to me to obtain their copy. Thanks for your support!

Come with me an let's go check out the other blogs to see what they have shared with us! Click on the list below to follow along.

Blog Hop Index

Until next time...
Happy Craftin'!

This or That Sketches

Hi friends!! This or That Stampin' has morphed into This or That Sketches, at least for last week.  My followers had a choice of these: 

"That" won:

And here is the card made with that sketch for inspiration: 

I used the Hey Chuck stamp set and the Fresh as a Daisy DSP. 

Which was your choice? How did I do? 

Join me on my facebook page for more stamping fun!

https://www.facebook.com/creativechaoscraftin

Click here for the link to the card video. 

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'! 

Creative Crafternoon - CASE the Catty, page 25

 Hi friends! I am still doing CASE the Catty in my Tuesday afternoon Creative Crafternoons! 

Join me each Tuesday at 4pm central time on my Facebook page to see what I will do next. Click here!

Here is the card I CASEd from a card on page 25 of the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog. They used Color & Contour; I used Sending Smiles. 

Click here to watch the video of me making the card. 

Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'! 

Inspire Create Share Blog Hop: Technique Showcase

 

Hi friends!! Welcome to the Inspire Create Share August Blog Hop. This month we are spotlighting techniques. I have no idea what my team mates selected for their techniques and I cannot wait to hop through and see all the samples. I hope to see some past ones making a come back and some new (to me) ones too! 

 I love the Sea Turtle Stamp Set. I have used so many different background techniques, bubble wrap, water color, etc. and now the Masking Tape technique. It is one I haven't done in years, and thought it would be fun to show it again.

So, without further ado, here are the steps: 

1. Press the masking tape (or painters tape) into the ink pad: 

2. Press the tape onto the card: 

3. and Voila! Then repeat with whatever colors you want, until you have the look you want. 

Here is my completed card using this technique: 

The colors I used are, starting from bottom up: Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, Boho Blue, & Balmy Blue.

I hope you try and enjoy this technique! I would love to see what you do with it! 

Janey is up next, and using the new online exclusive Trucking Along bundle. I am curious what technique she is using. Hop on over with me to see.

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'! 

IDEAS Blog Hop: Fun Fold

 

Hello friends! Time for another IDEAS Blog Hop. This month we are featuring Fun Folds!

I love an easy, but WOW! fun fold! How about you?! I have a few go to's, but for this tutorial bundle, I wanted to find one that I hadn't done before. I featured the Origami Window Fun Fold. It definitely met my criteria. 

We had 15 demonstrators from all over the world participate this month. What does this mean to you? Over 68 color pages of instructions for 15 different fun folds! Some I have seen before and some I haven't! I am excited to try a few of these out! There are some bonus projects included too!! 

Here is a collage with some snippets of our work:

Since my work is exclusive to the bundle, I normally show a bonus project. Unfortunately, we have been visiting family in Missouri and due to a storm, our leaving has been delayed by a day. I didn't make it home in time to make an alternate project. So here is a close up sneak peek of my project instead:

You are going to want a copy of this bundle to use for your personal use, or in your classes! I offer three options to acquire our IDEAS tutorial bundle:

1. Place a $35 order with my online host code: KM6HXBK3, or click here. 

2. It is free for all of my team members, join here.

3. Purchase it for $15 USD.

Once you have received the tutorials, please remember not to share or distribute the printed or electronic copies of these bundles. We have worked hard to provide these exclusive projects for your use. If you know someone that would like to purchase the bundle, please direct them to me to obtain their copy. Thanks for your support!

Let's go check out the other blogs to see what they have shared with us! Click on the list below to follow along.

Blog Hop Index

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'!

Camping

 Hi friends!

Sorry, I have been absent. We are camping (in our kids front yard) in Missouri. We cannot go many place due to our pups. We don't know anyone in Tennessee to sit for us like we did in California. So, we take them with us in our camper. We hadn't seen the Missouri kids since last October for Staci's wedding; we  decided to pack up the pups and head to Missouri. 

We had done this from California during 2020, when everything was closed down in CA. We left and drove to Missouri and camped in their yard then. We had a month long trip and had so much fun with the grands and great grand. Now 3 years later, we have another great grand! Having just as much fun just doing everyday things with them; coloring, drawing, sharing a meal, timing them when they are swimming, watching them hula hoop, and more....

The pups have a decent size area to hang out (no fenced yard) and love their pup tent!

I hope to be back to doing Facebook lives later this week, if I can ever get my husband to leave here!! 

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'!

Paper Pumpkin Possibilities: Fun in the Sun

 

Welcome to the monthly Paper Pumpkin Possibilities Blog Hop. We love Paper Pumpkin and love to share our enthusiasm for this monthly box of fun and creativity with you. The Paper Pumpkin kit is designed so you can follow the instructions provided in the kit to make the projects, or use the supplies as a starting point to let your creativity run wild (as we have!) Hop along with us, as we will share alternate ideas on how we used the July Paper Pumpkin Kit: Fun in the Sun.

 

This month's kit made 9 fun fold, beach themed cards, 3 each of 3 designs. Here are the cards as designed:

I normally try to focus on the stamp set, so I can show my friends and family what to do with it once the kit parts are used up. This month didn't have many images, making it a little rough. 

I did use one of the kit die cuts, and embellishments. I also used pieces of the Bright & Beautiful 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper.

Here is my alternate:

Hope you enjoy the Blog Hop, and are truly inspired to make some alternates with your kit. Or not, cuz it is cute just the way it is! Leave us some love along the way, if you see some thing(s) you like! Click on the list below to hop along.

Until next time...

Happy Craftin'!

Don't miss out on the August Paper Pumpkin kit....

Meaningful Flowers

This kit includes:

• 8 cards; 4 each of 2 designs
• 8 coordinating envelopes
• 1 photopolymer stamp set
• 1 Pretty Peacock Ink Spot
• Linen thread
• Vellum and precut paper pieces
• FREE Distinktive stamp set
• Adhesives

You must subscribe by 8/10/23 to get this kit! Click here!