Cottage Lane Stamper

What is Stampin' Surprise Saturday you ask?  Well, the 1st Saturday of the month we get together, via Zoom. I love being able to craft with my friends near and far, no matter the weather.  There is not a class fee.  When you have signed up, by the previous Sunday, I will send out a list of supplies needed & the Zoom link on Monday. You have a week to  gather your supplies together, cut and score etc. and then we meet on Zoom that next Saturday.  You choose your colors, embellishments, DSP, stamp sets etc.  I will give a suggestion as to what I'm using and when get meet on Zoom, we put them together.   Today's Stampin' Surprise Saturday is a fun fold.  I love to do fun folds for Saturdays, because stamping and Saturdays should be fun!!!!  And the surprise is you don't know what your card will look like when you are done. For this card I used a base of Basic White, a background layer of Night of Navy and DSP from "Beauty of the Earth" ...

One of my dear friends has been sick for over a week!  She's such a giving person always helping or doing something for someone. Every year, at least two or three times, suffers from horribly debilitating sinus infections.  I also used to suffer from this at least 2 or 3 times a year for years and years, and I would be out of work for at least a week at a time.  Then about 5 years ago I had surgery and, praise God, haven't had one since.  My good friend also had the surgery and it helped her for about a year and then, for whatever reason, they came back.  :-( So using the Weather Together stamp set and Umbrella Weather Framelits, I made her this card. I CASE'd it from Karen Spreckley with just a few changes. The base is Very Vanilla, the bottom layer (5-1/4" x 4") is Pool Party Using watercolor paper (5" x 3-3/4") and Bermuda Bay Stamp pad and Aqua Painters I colored the top layer.  I squeezed my stamp pad, while it was closed, ...

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...