Another Great Year!

#stampinup    #faithfulinkspirations   #paperpumpkin   As 2016 draws to a close, I'd like to thank YOU for reading my blog, for leaving comments, for pinning my creations, for encouraging me as an artist, and for supporting me as my customer.  I appreciate every, single one of you!  Just like Stampin' Up's statement of the heart--it is a joy for me to love what I do and to share what I love.

I'm closing out the year with the December 2016 Paper Pumpkin kit, "Another Great Year."  If you're not a Paper Pumpkin subscriber--you should get on the bandwagon!  If you're busy and think you have no time to craft and don't want to set aside a whole closet room floor in your house for the supplies you need, Paper Pumpkin is your answer.  You can create wonderful cards and projects in about an hour.  Everything you need comes in one box.  I love receiving my kit each month.  I love the surprise and I love the quick projects.  Paper Pumpkin truly is "creativity in a box."

Here's a video to show you everything you get in the December 2016 kit.  After you watch the video, if you're kicking yourself because you didn't get this kit, let me know and I can hook you up!!  And keep reading because I'm also showing you alternate uses for the kit's supplies after the video!



I made six great cards using the supplies in this kit!  Look!

Yes, I can count.  I know there are only five cards in the picture.  I gave one card to my hairdresser as a New Year's card.   Here's card number five (with a "friend).

I added Thick Whisper White Card Stock card bases and a 3-7/8" by 5-1/4" Crushed Curry mat to each card.  I cut down the journal pages to 3-3/4" by 5" and adhered these to the Crushed Curry mats.  I adhered this assembly to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals.  I adhered the printed window sheets to the cards with the striped Crush Curry Washi Tape that comes in the kit.  Super easy!

If you'd like to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin you can click on the link to the left of this blog post.  It costs only $19.95 (including shipping) per month for an hour of creativity.  However, if you purchase a 3- or 6- or 12-month prepaid subscription, you'll save money.  You'll save $1/month on a 6-month subscription. And you'll save $2/month on a 12-month subscription PLUS you'll qualify for Stampin’ Rewards (FREE stuff!).  And if you subscribe to a 3-, 6-, or 12-month subscription during Sale-a-Bration (January 4 through March 31, 2017) you'll qualify for FREE Sale-a-Bration items!  

What a deal! What are you waiting for?!  Contact me today to get started!

Cupcake Treat

You must have figured out by now that I "stalk" a bunch of stamping challenge blogs. I also subscribe to the blogs of some of my favorite--and inspiring--stampers. We have a great community of stampers who share and encourage each other. Looking at others' work can be a real inspiration--as I hope that I'm inspiring YOUR creativity!

Not only to Connie Babbert and Mary Brown run the Create with Connie & Mary challenge blog, but they also run a for-purchase quarterly tutorial. But being the wonderful gals that they are, on Saturdays they share one project for FREE!! This quarter's tutorial is all about favors. (You can still purchase the tutorials and get the daily projects and projects you've missed on their challenge blog.)

A couple of Saturday's ago, Mary posted a really cute favor--and the instructions. I knew I wanted to CASE it. Check out Mary's "Zoo Babies" favor here and you'll see where the inspiration for my favor came from.

(Stamp Set: Another Great Year; Ink: Real Red; Card Stock: Real Red, Very Vanilla; DSP: Modern Medley; Accessories: Perfect Pennants Framelits Dies, 1" and 1-1/4" Circle Punches, Real Red Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Dazzling Details)

These cute treat bags would be great favors at any kind of party: baby shower, wedding shower, birthday parties. So sweet!

Another Great Year

It's the beginning of another great year and I'm back into the stamping swing of things.  This is my last birthday card in the week-long blog series.  It uses a great birthday set, "Another Great Year," along with Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper and washi tape--all from the NEW Occasions catalog! These colors are really sunny and bright and the card could be sent to either a man or a woman.

(Stamp Set: Another Great Year; Ink: Baked Brown Sugar; Card Stock: Baked Brown Sugar, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron, Whisper White; DSP: Retro Fresh; Acessories: Retro Fresh washi tape, Coastal Cabana, So Saffron & Tangerine Tango markers)

You can order the supplies to make this card from my Stampin' Up website--it's open 24/7! Or you can host a party and earn some hostess bucks toward the purchase of the supplies for this card. Or you can come to my birthday card making class (details below) and make a couple yourself.