Cottage Lane Stamper

Last weekend was my first time attending the Creative Connections event.  One of the things that happens is card swap.  I've never participated in this before so wasn't sure what to expect but decided to give it a whirl for the first time.  One of the requirements was that it was to be a current catalog item.  Well, I didn't realize until just this moment that my was a retired item.  Sorry everyone!  It was from last year's Holiday catalog called "Wonderland"   This is one of my favorite stamps set.  It just gives me a feeling of peace and tranquility that I feel on a snowy winter's night.  This is the card front that I swapped.  The trees from "Lovely As A Tree" would also work.   The background, is embossed resist with the new "In" colors, Dapper Denim, Sweet Sugarplum and also Wisteria Wonder.  F irst I stamped the card base with Versa Mark embossing ink using the trees and the sentiment., then sp...

At the Creative Connections event I went to last weekend, put on by a few local Stampin' Up demonstrators, there was one thing that intrigued me as a techie.  Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love my toys. This one had to do with scrapbooking, which I don't do much of, but would like to.  All that writing, then I make a mistake and have to start all over again.  SIGH!  One of the "On Stage" demonstrators, I believe it was Sue Lehrer, showed a scrapbooking page about her dad.  She shared how she was able to get her own handwriting in a FONT!  How cool is that! So, of course I had to try it out myself!  I found a site, www.MyScriptFont .  You download a sheet, write your letters on it, scan it, upload it to the site, they process it and you download and install!  All you have to do is click install.  When I went into Word, there it was on my list of fonts!!!!  Easy Peasy as my daughter, Stephanie (who is a great blogger i...

Ever wish you had someone to hold a ribbon down while you tied the bow?  I do, I want to get them snug enough so the ribbon doesn't slide around the card but not too tight so damage the card or make it bend. I used this little technique when tying a bow.   

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This is the second card that we made in class on July 19.  I CAS'd it from a card of Patty Bennett's that I found on Pinterest.  I changed up the sentiment and the flowers a bit. I love how it turned out. The flower is from some retired paper, English Garden, and I selected a few flowers for the class and then we fussy cut them out.  Fold Rose Red card stock in half. With long narrow stamp from Work of Art stamp set, stamp horizontal lines on the Rose Red card about 1/2" apart. Next we adhered the dotted strip to the card layer with some Snail. Use Paper Piercing Matt with scrap paper on top, stamp sentiment on smaller white card stock with Mossy Meadow. (Using the paper piercing mat underneath when stamping with Photopolymer stamps, gives you a better impression.) Stamp the sentiment on the small white cardstock. We used Mossy Meadow for this. Punch each corner of the white cardstock and the green cardstock with the triple corner punch. ...

This is my favorite card from our class yesterday.  When I saw this on Pinterest I had to have the supplies.  It was posted by Els de Haan on Splitcoaststampers.  de Haan sounds like a Dutch name to me, I'm half Dutch.  So no wonder it's beautiful!  :-) (a little tongue in check there).  I'm also partial to flamingos, I loved all my trips to Florida and was actually planning to move there until I met my husband.  He passed away 8 years , we were only married 5 months. Love of my life. That's another story.  Anyway,  love, love, love this card!  Thank you Els. It was so much fun to make.  I may have to make more, I don't know that I want to give this away or sell it.  I sell my cards at a craft fair in December at King of Kings church in Woodbury, Minnesota.  Huge craft fair first Saturday in December, if you are in the area at that time stop in.  I'm sure you will find something that you will love. Again I hav...

How's your summer going?  It's pretty warm today, which I don't mind, but humid, which makes it harder to bear.  Days like this I think of my parents.  My dad passed away in January and my mom lives in an apartment now.  But before dad went to the nursing home and mom moved into an apartment they lived in their own home, into their 90's and never, never, never had air conditioning.  I don't know how they did it.  They did have some huge shade trees, fans in the windows, and kept their blinds drawn partway to keep the sun out. Amazingly strong and hearty people. I thought I'd share with you the third card we made in our June Cottage Lane Stamper's Class.  We used the Stampin' Up! "Endless Birthday" set. I love this set. It is so versatile. Any time I can use the individual sentiments and create my own I'm happy.  As a matter of fact that's what my class did. They used the other greetings in the set to make their inside sentime...

I have to tell you every time I go to say or type anything about this Stampin' Up photopolymer stamp set, "Sheltering Tree"  I want to say Sheltering Spruce.  I lived on Sheltering Spruce in Chugiak, Alaska, many years ago.  We had many trees on our lot, mostly Aspen and Black Spruce. I did a little different take on this project.  I have done a framed before, and this time I had an idea to make it look more like a matted picture. This was the second thing we did in the June Cottage Lane Stampers class.    We used a 4" x 6" frame from the Dollar Tree (don't you just love finding little nuggets there?) The tree was stamped in Tip Top Taupe, the grass is Pear Pizzazz, the lighter pink for the tree leaves is Pink Pirouette and  the darker pink is our new 2016-2017 trend color  Flirty Flamingo.  I love this color! The swing was stamped in Soft Suede.  Using the Confetti Hearts border punch we punched out...

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June Stampin' Class   This month's cards in our Stampin' Club were all about celebrations.  Stampin' Up! has come out with the cutest balloon bundle, called Balloon Celebrations. Not only is it wonderful for birthdays, but 4th of July, graduations, even wedding and anniversary celebrations. Ours was meant to be a graduation card.  Balloon Celebration     The colors are Crushed Curry and Black.  I love, love, love the new Archival Black that Stampin' Up has come out with.  Such nice crisp colors.    Bundled with this stamp set is the Balloon Punch.  We also used the retired mini banner punch to make our little bow, that "Congratulations" is stamped on.   A tip with the Balloon punch.  Find a heavy piece of card stock and punch out the balloons.  Us this as a template for stamping your balloons.  That way when go to punch out your balloons they are already lined up with the punch. ...