Stamp of the Month Club

I'm so excited to be able to offer you, Stamp of the Month Club starting October 2016. 

Build your own stamp collection, get everything you need in the mail to make the cards that we make in our Monthly Stamp Club, you will get 6 cards, two of a each different design, all precut and punched using the featured Stamp set of the month. 

You will also receive a full color photo and directions for creating each card as well as the list of supplies needed for each card. 

Each month in the mail you will get:

Precut, or punched card stock to make three different designs, two of each design, using the featured Stamp of the Month.

• The featured Stamp of the Month, either clear mount or photopolymer stamp set, valued at approx. $18.95 depending on the set.  Occasionally it might be a little more depending on the Stamp Set.
• Full color instructions to make each card.

Stamp of the month will be $30.00 a month, it might fluctuate due to the cost of the featured stamp set.

With your own imagination I'm sure that you will be able to come up with your own beautiful designs.

Click on the link on the right side of the page under "Join the Fun at Home" and it will take you to the registration form and start getting your kits in the mail. 









 

What a deal! Photopolymer stamps

Just a quick post to let you know of a great deal on a selection of photopolymer stamps. 

I love them they are so easy to work with and great when positioning images on your paper.

All of these stamps sets are 50% off of the price listed below and on the flyer. They include seasonal as well as all occasion.  Some great buys here.  If you see something you like don't wait, supplies are limited and when they are out they are gone. 

• Banner Blessings (136720; $15.95)
• Bite Me (134622; $13.95)
• Bombs Away Birthday (133411; $13.95)
• Christmas Bliss (138897; $15.95)
• Christmas Tagables (134623; $14.00)
• Countless Sayings 1 & 2 (135892; 135893; $13.95)
• Dear Heart (138157; $25.95)
• Eye-Catching Ikat (134624; $13.95)
• Gentle Peace (139523; $15.95)
• Greetings From (134621; $13.95)
• Just Kidding (140667; $15.95)
• Lovely Amazing You (140594; $14.95)
• Map It Out (134620; $13.95)
• Settin’ Sail (133453; $13.95)
• Show & Tell 1 & 2 (133450; 133481; $13.95)
• Wanderlust (133452; $13.95)

A great time to get started on those Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas cards! 

 

Jar of Cheer Gift Tags

 

Thought I'd play around with  my Jar of Cheer stamp set today to see if my idea of gift tags would work.  I also used the Jar of Love Stamp bundle.

 

Here's the final product.  I used the medium jar stamp from the Jar of Love stamp set and the corresponding Framelit.  Using a piece of cardstock 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 folded in half, I stamped the Jar in Mossy Meadow. 

The gingerbread man is from the retired stamp set Scentsational, the candies are from Candy Cane Lane stamp set and the rest are from the Jar of Cheer. The gingerbread man is stamped in Crumb cake, the others are stamped in Cherry Cobbler except the snowman, he's stamped in Basic Gray and colored with Cherry Cobbler, and some retired markers that I had.  You can't see it but I also used a bit of Wink of Stella on him.  The jar rings are stamped in Cherry Cobbler also.  Oh the little bow tie on the gingerbread man is from the Snow Place stamp set.

When I went to die cut the jar I placed the edge of the top of the jar off the paper (folded edge), and ran it through the Big Shot. I hope you can see that in this photo.

I used my magnetic plate but on the little dies they sometimes don't like to stay put, so I use a little removable tape made by Scotch Tape, a Post-it flag or Post-it Note would also work. 

When I glued the jar ring onto the jar I only used glue on the bottom of the back of the ring, and positioned it so that half of the ring was off the page.  I used the fine tip glue  for this on my Silicone Craft Sheet so the glue doesn't get all over. 

Then on the inside I stamped "to" and "from' using the stamp from the Candy Cane Stamp set. 

I think they are rather cute.  I haven't decided if I'm going to put some bakers twine through a hole in the top.  There is a cute spool in the Holiday Catalog, with some bling in it, it is paired in the catalog with a spool of Real Red baker's twine.

I was thinking of making some more and selling them in set's of 4 at the craft fair.  I might try my hand at making some also out of Wondrous Wreath and maybe Embellished Ornament bundles. 

Supplies:

Jar of Love Bundle
#142342

Jar of Cheer
#142161
 



Candy Cane Lane
#142040

Snow Place
#139738



Whisper White cardstock
#100730

Cherry Cobbler Stamp Pad
#126966

Big Shot
#143263

Fine Tip Glue Pen
#138309



#127853

Magnetic Platform
#130658

The Mossy Meadow ink has sadly been retired.  It's one of my favorites.  :-(

All the supplies listed above can be purchased in my 24/7 store.  I appreciate your patronage.  New customers will get a personal thank you from me as will also be put in the monthly drawing for a set of cards from me.

God Bless!


















 

Black and White Sympathy, etal

Last Tuesday was our regular monthly stamp club.  This was the first time we tried a 3D project.  Last month I had shared with them the ones I was working on for the craft fair and asked it they would be interested in trying to do something like that.  They were eager to try so the one they picked out was on of my Milk Carton/Baker's Box projects.

Milk Carton/Baker's Box

I created an instruction sheet for the Milk Carton and if I could figure out how to upload a pdf file to my blog I would post that for you too.  In the meantime, if you are interested in having it, send me an email and I will email it back to you. 

We also made two cards, a black and white sympathy card using the Detail Floral Thinlet dies and a cute Get Well card using the Weather Together bundle.





 

Weather Together Bundle "Wishing you brighter days"

 

Black & White Sympathy with Detail Floral Thinlet,
Butterfly Basics  (butterfly) and Teeny Tiny Wishes (sentiment) stamp sets. (Ribbon is non SU)




The sentiment and floral design is from Thoughts & Prayers stamp set. 

 

Hope you enjoy these! 




PS:

I couldn't find a quick and easy way to insert a pdf file so I used a clip program to make them jpgs.  There is a duplication in one of the lines (last on top portion and first on second portion), just to confirm that the whole document is there.  I hope that this will work for those of you that are interested in this.  Again, if you would prefer I will email the pdf for those who request it. 

 

 Take care & God bless you!

Woodland Textures and Wonderland trees

 

I love the technique of the illusion of the pine trees from the Wonderland stamp set behind the birch trees on the Woodland Textures embossing folder.  I don't know how many different variations of this technique I have pinned on my Pinterest boards.

Is it because I'm from Minnesota that I love the pine trees?  There aren't as many where I live, in the metro area, as there are in the northern part of the state. When you travel to the north there is almost a definite line where they start appearing.  I love the fresh smell of them when traveling the roads  up there. 

Before I retired, I worked for the Minnesota DNR and so many of our conservation officers/game wardens go into the program with the hope of one day getting a station in the northern part of the state.  Who can blame them!  It is beautiful!

In my video I show the technique that works for me.  If you have any questions, please leave me a comment.

 

 

 

Supplies:

Whisper White cardstock
#100730 



Woodland Textures Embossing Folder
#139673



Pool Party cardstock
#122926

Pool Party stamp pad
#126982



Decorative Label punch
#120907

Curvy Corner Trio punch
#139683 (soon to retire) 

The Curvy Corner Trio punch is on Clearance so if you like it, hop on over to my store and snatch it up before it's gone!  Once they are out, it's history.

   https://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryid=10200


Big Shot
#113439

Paper Snips
#103579




Snail
#104332



#103683










#104430

 

The Mossy Meadow ink that I used is retired.  :-( It's one of my favorite greens. 

Love to hear any comments or questions you may have.

Have a beautiful day! Today is the first day of Fall! 

Happy Fall Y'all!



Starlight Framelits

 

 

As I was making this I had a DUH! moment.  I was so excited about something I discovered, but then realized that because I'm blonde and a senior citizen it took a little bit for the "bulb" to go on. 

I love this bundle, not only for the stamps and variety but because of the sentiments.  Being a Christian it is sometimes hard to find sentiments that represent my values and feelings.  Stampin' Up! does a very nice job providing these in their stamp sets. 

Here's a little video I put together with my "discovery" :-)

Supplies used in this video:



Star of Light Bundle
#143508

Night of Navy
#100867

Silver Embossing Powder
#109131



Whisper White Cardstock
#10073

 

 

Silver Foil Paper
#132178

Heat Tool
#129053









Versa Mark Pad
#102283



Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper

#135315





Big Shot
#143263

 If you do not have a demonstrator I would be honored and privileged to be yours.  All supplies listed above can be purchased in my store at www.sharonbrennan.stampinup.net.

All new customers will receive a card from me to personally thank you for your business. 

 Questions, comments are always welcome.

Thanks for stopping by!  I'll have a new video for you soon with some other items from the 2016 Holiday Catalog.  Here's an online link to the catalog if you don't have one yet.

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/sharonbrennan/promotions

If you would like one let me know and I will pop one in the mail to you.

May you have a blessed day!

 

Scentsational Cocoa Card

 

Had to use this adorable retired Stampin' Up! set called Scentsational for this cocoa filled card for one of my craft fair projects.  The only thing it is missing right now are the  candy canes, which haven't appeared in the stores yet.  Well let's hope not it's only September, we have to get through all the Halloween candy that is making it's way to the store shelves and then we have Thanksgiving! 

Even though I am making Christmas items, I like to enjoy each holiday as it comes, without it be infringed upon by the next one that is off in the future.  I know I'm fighting a losing battle, all I can do is avoid those aisles.  Well, enough of that. 

Here is my "Scentsational" Cocoa Card. 

As you can see this is a pocket card.  After cutting the card base, I lined up the upper left hand corner at the 4-1/2" mark on my Simply Scored and the opposite corner at 1-1/2" mark and cut the angle for the pocket.  I then scored the card in half at 4 1/4".  The card will lay better if you use your bone folder to give it a nice sharp fold.

I then used multipurpose glue (Tombow) on the left edge below the angle and the bottom of the angled half, a very thin line about 1/16" from the edge of the card. 

I used the sentiment from Candy Cane Christmas, in the 2016 holiday catalog which was heat embossed with snow embossing powder.  I also heat embossed a star from Candy Cane Christmas, in the upper right hand corner of the card, but it's hidden by the cocoa.

The cardstock is also Candy Cane DSP, a one inch strip and then a 1-1/4" strip of Whisper White.

The scallop circle was punched with a 2-3/8" retired punch and the red circle is a 2" punch.

The candy cane and cup are stamped in Real Red and the steam from the cup is stamped in Crumb Cake. 

I really enjoyed making these.  I only made a few of them, to test the waters so to speak.  If they go over well at the 1st craft fair I will make more for the second!

Here's a collage of the cards that I made.  I hope you love them as much as I do.  Stay tuned I have another idea that I will be doing as soon as I receive some more supplies. 

Here are a few of the supplies that I used, which can be purchased 24/7 at my online store:

Candy Cane Christmas
#142040



Real Red Cardstock
#102482

Candy Cane Lane DSP
#141988



Crumb Cake Stamp Pad
#126975



Real Red Stamp Pad
#126949

#110755

 

 

Stampin' Trimmer
#126889

Snail
#104332

Images © Stampin' Up!

As always I welcome your comments.  If you don't have a demonstrator I would be honored to be given the privilege to be yours. 

All my customers that order through the year will automatically get the catalogs and flyers mailed directly to their door as soon as they are available.  New customer will also get a card in the mail from me as a personal thank you for your business. 

Till later, God bless!