Cottage Lane Stamper

I fell in love with the "Best Dressed" suite the moment I set eyes on it in the 2020 Mini Catalog .  It's a great set for girlie girls, mothers, friends, party favors, thank you gifts! Endless ideas! I've even seen someone use the Stone embossing folder (only available in the Power of Hope bundle, with a qualifying purchase from the Sale-a-Bration catalog through March 31, 2020) and the purse looks like an alligator purse! Purchase the Dressed to Impress bundle and you can get the Power of Love Sale-a-bration bundle FREE! I wanted to see how easy it would be to put together without any instructions (except an occasional glance at the catalog, haha!) using the purse die from the "All Dressed Up"  from the bundle. This suite, "Best Dressed" is on page 55 of the 2020 Mini catalog and the suite includes other beautiful items, Mint Macaron 1/4" Textile ribbon, Best Dressed tassels , and adorable Best Dressed note cards to t...

Hi Friends, It's been a while since I have posted.  I'm sitting in my living room, listening to some relaxing music, sipping some cinnamon tea and recovering from yesterday's events; 2019 Regional Onstage Stampin' Up!© conference in Minneapolis. I say recover because I suffer from 3 autoimmune diseases and chronic fatigue so it will take me two to three days to get back to my "normal". But the Onstage Event was worth it.  We get to catch up with and meet new fellow demonstrators!  Ours was the largest Regional gathering "GLOBALLY".  That's saying something. I think the only event larger than ours was the LIVE event in Australia, where our CEO Sara Douglass was. Imagine being in a room with 1200 other (mostly) ladies, who share the same passion for card making and paper crafting as you.  Yes there was a lot of laughter and a few tears, usually by Sara when she expresses her love of her demonstrators and the difference we make in peoples liv...

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  Well I hope you are not tired of my posts featuring the Cookie Cutter Christmas Bundle.  I'll give you all a break and make this one the last one for a bit.  The main part of this card I made for a Collage Swap, that I ended up not going to but I thought it was so cute I decided to make it into a card. I like the little gingerbread man peeking out at his friend the penguin.  The base layer is Real Red.  The Whisper White layer is embossed with the Brick Wall Textures Embossing folder.  Then I placed a strip of Candy Cane Lane DSP, I thought the little white dots looked like snowflakes.  The base of the top layer is Cherry Cobbler, with a layer of Crumb Cake on top of that. The little Gingerbread man is stamped in Soft Suede (I like them a little darker, looks like real gingerbread to me) and the penguin is stamped in Basic Black Archival ink.  The igloo is punch out with my 2" circle punch and the 3/4" circle punch was used to make...

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 Te...

    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 wo...

  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 scor...