Valentines Smarties Treat and Little Girl Card

I made this little treat for a sweet 5 year old for Valentines.  It is filled with her favourite candy, smarties.  I love how they have pink and red packs for Valentine's day...perfect for crafting!  I used SU's narrow cello bags and I topped the smarties off with a heart and some dsp from the More Amore pack.  The stamped images come from Hearts a Flutter and That's the Ticket and the ribbon is from the ribbon & button pack you can earn for free during sale-a-bration

This little puppy card was made for the same little girl.  It's made out of heart framelits and I got the idea from Dee Slater who is also a demonstrator.

Smarties Treats - Two Tag Die

I made these little treats using the Two Tags die and some More Amore dsp.  They are for the ladies at work.  Angie at Chic 'n Scratch has a tutorial, but my dimensions are different because my candy is different.  The valentine ticket comes from the That's the Ticket stamp set and coordinating punch and the ribbon is from the embellishment pack you can earn for free during sale-a-bration.

Celebrate - 2nd Work Make & Take

This is the 2nd make & take I made with the ladies at work yesterday.  The stamped images all come from Feeling Sentimental which is a stamp set you can earn for free during sale-a-bration.  I picked the phone booth image especially because of the ladies is planning a trip to Britain in May and the red phone booths in Britain or so iconic.  The ovals were cut out with the new oval framelits available in the Spring Catalog.  The dsp comes from the Sycamore Street pack that you can also earn for free during sale--a-bration.

Valentine Make & Take at Work!

Today I'm doing a couple of card make & takes with the ladies I work with at lunch.  As a result, I tried to make the cards simple because some of them aren't crafters per se.  I'm going to be changing jobs and so I wanted to do something a little fun with these ladies that I'm going to miss this week.

Today I'm sharing the valentine card we're making (or it can be an any occasion card by removing the valentine's day ticket).  I pre-embossed the card front (which is pool party) with the lacy brocade embossing folder.  Then I used a strip of dsp from the More Amore pack...this is my favourite sheet from that pack..love the hearts over the typeset!  The sentiment is from the vintage verses stamp set which can be earned for free during sale-a-bration and I stamped it in basic grey then punched it with the largest circle punch.  It is matted with a piece of basic grey cutout with the labels framelit.  The card is finished off with the valentine's image from the That's the Ticket stampset which was punched out with the coordainting punch and I embellished with a flower from the vanilla flower trim in the Spring Catalog.

I'll share the other make & take with you tomorrow.

Quilted Valentines with More Amore Suite!

 

 

Today I thought I'd post these 4 cards I made with a super easy technique called quilting.  You take 4 different patterns of designer series paper (mine all came from the More Amore dsp pack) and you cut each piece to 3.75 x 5 and then you take all 4 pieces (layered together) and cut them in 4 at the same time (I think I cut at 2.5 or 2.75 down and then the wider piece I cut at 3 or 3.25 and the narrower piece I cut at 3.74 or 4.  Then you lay out the pieces to create 4 unique cards...each having a different piece of dsp in a different position.  I then glued and mounted this on a 4 x 5.25 piece of very vanilla cardstock and attached that to a regular card base and  decorated with hears from the More Amore dsp, paper doilies and images from the Hearts a Flutter bundle.  Fun valentine or friend cards quick & simple!:)  ...and cute!

February Club - Project 2 - Bulletine Board, all dressed up!

This is the second project we made last night at club.  We used lots of my favourite including my new Dress Up Framelits and the Print Poetry dsp pad!  We also used my favourite saying from the Feel Goods stampset and the Hearts a flutter bundle for the banner at the top!  All of these come from the Spring Catty.   The remaining stamped images come from the Postage Due stamp set in the Annual catalog, a favourite of mine...I love that there is a coordinating postage stamp punch too!

February Club - Project 1

Today is my February Stampin with Sherri Club and this is one of the projects we will be making.  This card is made with the Happy Hello Simply Sent Card Kit which can be earned for free during sale-a-bration.  It also uses the Sycamore Street designer series paper and coordinating ribbon & button pack that can also be earned for free as well!  Oh, and the sentiment comes from the Vintage Versus stamp set that can be earned for free too during sale-a-bration.

If you have a sale-a-bration order that you want me to include in tonight's club order, be sure to contact me by 6pm today!

Collage Curios and Soda Pop Tops

This card was inspired by page 24 for the Spring Catty...that and some free Sale-a-bration products too - like the Sycamore Street designer series paper and the coordinating ribbon pack (which includes butons too!).  I used the new Collage Curios stampset and Soda Pop Tops to create the focus for this card...I flattened the soda pop top for a different effect (you just use your big shot!) and then I coordinated this piece with images from the Artistic Etchings stampset from the Annual Catty...Artistic Etchings is an all time favourite of mine!  The background for the card is on sahara sand card stock and was embossed with the stripes folder.

Playing 'Dress Up' "Feels Good'!

 

I fell *in love* with the Dress Up framelits on page 32 of the Spring Catty!  On this card I used the dress form framelit and then made a girlie skirt out of the flower trim from page 5 in the catty.  The dsp comes from the Print Poetry pack...what a deal, 48 sheets in the pack, and isn't this pattern delightful?!  And the sentiment comes from the Feel Goods stamp set on page 21 which I stamped in basic grey!  For some reason the background looks pinker in the photo than in person...the frame image is really a raspberry ripple which is is almost a rich red in person with a slight pink undertone:)

Pack Your Crafting Bags!

Dates:  February 1 - April 30, 2013 Details:  During this limited-time offer, you can purchase the exclusive Sent with Love Stamp Set or Sent with Love Designer Series Paper-or bundle them for a special 20 percent discount! The Sent with Love product suite is perfect for making a whole array of travel-themed projects!!

Item	Description	Price
131847	Sent with Love Stamp Set (clear-mount; English only)	$21.95
132182	Sent with Love Designer Series Paper	$13.50
132851	Pretty Bundle Includes the Sent with Love Stamp Set, Sent with Love Designer Series Paper, and Calypso Coral Baker's Twine	$31.50 20% off retail value!

The Sent with Love Stamp Set and Sent with Love Designer Series Paper are only available during this special offer. After April 30, they'll both fly away!

In addition, you may purchase the Sent with Love Digital Kit (item 132914; $12.50). Please note that the digital kit is not included in the bundle.

It’s here! Sale-A-Bration 2013 has begun. How will you party during Stampin’ Up!’s premiere event?

There are three ways—choose all that apply!

1. Host
Have your friends over for a party and earn fantastic Sale-A-Bration freebies with a qualifying order! For a minimum $200 CAN party, you’ll get a FREE pack of Silver Glimmer Paper (silver paper for Stampin’ Up!’s silver anniversary!). Host a $525 CAN party, and you’ll get the free Glimmer Paper PLUS a FREE product bundle—and that’s in addition to the normal hostess benefits (including $90 CAN in FREE products of your choice)!
Contact me today to set a date for your party/workshop!

2. Shop
Shopaholics unite! For every $60 CAN you spend, you’ll get a FREE Sale-A-Bration product—there are nearly 20 to choose from! Here's a link to my online store if you can't wait to shop...just click 'shop now'!   ...and if you just want to see what you can get for FREE, click 'see what you can get' here in my online store!:) ...or you can click on the sale-a-bration icon on my right sidebar ---> to see what's in this year's flyer!

3. Join
Party all the time when you become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. Plus, when you join during Sale-A-Bration, you’ll get 25% more products for FREE in your Starter Kit! Click the 'Join the fun' link on my website at this link to get started and email me for the password or any help you need!

Sale-A-Bration is one of the most exciting times of the year at Stampin’ Up! How will you Sale-A-Brate?

Dude, You're Wecome Kit

Brand new today!  Designed BY MEN, FOR MEN!  This new kit is available in my online SU store today...just click on my website on the right panel!

What a great valentine's gift this could make for the men in our lives...and in the long run it would accomplish two things:
- save them money when they give us cards (probably $6 - $10 saved per card for occasion or thought)
- get them to give us cards!:))

Valentines Treat Mailboxes - Make & Take #2

This was the 2nd make & take from yesterday's workshop.  Inside of each of these adorable little mailboxes is 2 Hershey's miniatures.  The idea for this project came from Tami White, who did something very similar a couple of years ago, but she used Hershey nuggets. I can't find nuggets around Saskatoon anywhere these days, so miniatures it was.  The width of the mailbox changes to 1 3/4" but the rest is fairly similar:)

We used the More Amore dsp for this project and the Ciao, Baby!  stamp set and coordinating punches, one of which you can earn for FREE during sale-a-bration, which starts on January 22nd!

The workshop order from yesterday will go in tomorrow morning, so if there is something you need or want, be sure to contact me before then:)

Valentine's Workshop - Make & Take #1

At every workshop I like to have 2 free make and takes for the participants.  This was the card we are doing at today's Valentines Workshop.  On it we used the More Amore Suite of products including the dsp and the Hearts a Flutter bundle.  Plus we used the That's the Ticket stampset and coordinating builder punch:)

 

Paper Pumpkin Announcement...coming soon!

Exiting announcement at Leadership yesterday!!

"I'm Paper Pumpkin...

I come to your door each month (a fully decked out creativity carriage).  I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun.

I come in a sweet box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside:

All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create pinable projects.  Create stuff like cards, journals, décor and more!"

Starting Monday January 14th you can sign up for this monthly program and then every month you will receive a new, surprise project kit at your doorstep.  And the first month, as a free gift to you, with your first kit you will receive a clear acrylic blog for FREE.

I believe the first projects go out in March and that if you sign up by the 10th of the month your project will ship on the 15th of that month.  If you sign up on the 11th of a month, your project will be shipped the 15th of the following month:)

I *love* this idea!!  The is great for anyone who wants to just sit back and create...and it comes to your door!!  Here's a link!

Anyone want to get together every month and make paper pumpkin projects?!!

That's the Ticket - Hearts a Flutter

On today's card I continued to use the Hearts a Flutter bundle which I'm sure you can see I'm in *love* with !  I also used the 'That's the Ticket' new stamp set and the coordinating punch.  Also the heart in the background comes from the More Amore dsp and the doily is from the Paper Doilies pack (can you believe that you can get 24 for just $3.95?!  great, huh!)  I crumped up my doily before adhering it to give a more vintage look:)  I took a bit of inspiration for this card from the project on page 10 of the Spring Catty...that project uses the Artisan Embellishments Kit which I'm also in *love* with!;)

 

 

Monochromatic Hearts a Flutter

 

Today's card was made with the Hearts of Flutter bundle on pool party dsp.  I embossed the background with the lacey brocade embossing folder which carries over from the Holiday Catty (Yeah!) and then I white embossed each of the stamped images.  The greeting comes from the Ciao, Baby stampset and coordinating punch.

 

 

Inspiration for this card came from Kimberley Van Diepen.  She made a similar card a few days ago in crumbcake that I just loved!  Here is a link.

Spring Catalog is LIVE! January Special and more...

I thought I'd share this mailbox I made today since the Spring Catalog is live today!  The mailbox is made from all kinds of goodies on pages 10 and 11 in the new catty...most notably, the Hearts a Flutter bundle, the More Amore Suite and (my favourite!) the Artisan Embellishments Kit!!

Inspiration for this mailbox came from Amy Celona.  She posted this one a few years ago...mine has a few extras ad libbed here and there but Amy has an easy to follow tutorial at the link below:
Amy's pdf

To browse the Spring Catalog, just click the link below:
http://204.228.150.61/catalogs/flash/en-CA/2013_Spring_3mf0s1/20130103_SpringCatalog_en-CA.pdf

OR to view it in my online store, click this link below:
http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryID=1177

Also starting today is a new promotion...perfect for Valentine's!  It's called "Feel the Love with 2 sweet offers"...and this is how it works:
- you  can get 20% of the Valentine Treat Bundle
OR
- you can order the 'My Little Valentine" stamp set (for only 11.95) and receive for FREE the 'Sealed with Love Simply Sent Kit'  ....FREE, you gotta like that!;)

For more information on these promotions, please see my Stampin Up website by clicking below:
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/sherribstampin/promotions

Keep Calm and LOVE!

I made this bookmark for the devotional I am using for 2013.  I decided to join the group of creative people I know who choose 'one little word' for the year...  My 'one little word' for 2013 is LOVE. So I will be focusing on, studying and pursuing LOVE this year. And with me, part of focusing is creating, so I needed to create a new bookmark for this year's devotional ("Love Out Loud").

The 'love' image I used come from the Ciao Baby stamp set in the spring catalog that starts tomorrow.  'Keep calm' comes from a set only available to hostesses in the main catalog.  The dsp I used is the More Amore specialty paper and I also used some of the goodies from the Artisan embellishment pack.

Feel Goods - Spring Catty Sneak Peek

Happy New Year!!

Another sneak peek today from the Spring Catalog.  Not too long now til it starts (Jan 3rd!)

New products on this card include the Hearts a Flutter bundle that I've been using the last few days, but today instead of using it with dsp too, I did all the stamping on cardstock and then string it together with cherry cobbler bakers twine and tied each with bows!  I also embellished with rhinestone jewels, faceted buttons and regular buttons.

And my favourite part about this card is the sentiments.  "the best things in life aren't thing' comes from a new stamp set called Feel Goods in the new spring catalog.  Contact me to receive your copy today!