Feb. & March CD Calendar Sheets

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I forgot to post the CD calendar sheet for last month – it went by so quickly even with that extra day. So I'll post it today along with the one for March. If I was on the ball I would get them posted on the first day of each month but this being retired just keeps me soooo busy and I get behind.  wink

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CDMarchMarch is one of the hardest months to come up with a design for and I saw a card, probably on Pinterest, that someone had done with the shamrocks on a tree. I guess this is a lucky tree.

It's always fun to turn over the sheet for the next month because by the time the new month rolls around I have forgotten what the sheet looks like. I have a friend who I give a calendar to every year and she never looks at all the sheets when she gets it. She wants that surprise on the 1st of every month.

I'm off for a crafting weekend with friends. We go twice a year and simply craft, each doing their own thing. I have stamping and cross stitch and reading and even taxes packed to work on. It will be fun hanging out with girlfriends and getting things finished. We don't go anywhere or do anything else. Well almost nothing else. There will be some mahjong played when we need a break from our crafting.

Have a great weekend. The weather should be perfect.

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Weekly Deals and Tin of Cards

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Here are the newest weekly deals:

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I am so excited to see the Tin of Cards on sale as I had been working on a special class using it. The class will be Saturday, April 9th at my house. If you sign up for the class this week the class fee will reflect the sale price. I have the coordinating stamp set which you will use to complete the project. The class fee is $26 if you sign up by Monday, March 7th and is $33 if you sign up after that date. Class size is limited so reserve your space early. It will be fun and you will have 16 cards when you are finished. Just let me know and I will order the kits along with anything else you might want to order.

Hugs,

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Perfect Bows

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I happened on this video for making bows by demonstrator Georgia Giguere at StampinGeorgia.com and shared a how to at my stamp class today. Everyone wound up with a quick, easy and pefect bow and left very happy. This will be the way I make bows from now on. Thanks Georgia for the great video.

 
 

Paper Pumpkin on Sale!

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Never tried Paper Pumpkin? Now is the perfect time to see what it's all about with a Pre-paid 3 month subscription. Not only is it on sale but you will get your choice of a FREE Sale-a-Bration item. Once you are signed up you get a surprise kit in the mail each month.  Each kit has all of the supplies needed except adhesive. You will get stamps, ink, paper and embellishments. Already a Paper Pumpkin subscriber? You can get this deal too. Your automatic payment will be put on hold while your pre-paid order is active.

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I like to wait awhile before putting my Paper Pumpkin kit together. There are always alternate ideas available online so even if you don't quite like a particular project there are so many different ways to use the kit contents. Pinterest is a good source of ideas as well as Facebook's "Paper Pumpkin Fan Club". 

This was January's kit:

heartsCute hearts to be made into a banner or the cookie treat bags. I saw several ideas online where the hearts were used to make cards. My friend Sandra Bruce used the kit along with a few additional items to create these adorable favors for her son's wedding rehearsal dinner.

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If you have questions about Paper Pumpkin let me know.

$55 for a 3-month Paper Pumpkin subscription AND a FREE Sale-a-Bration item!

3-Month Prepaid Subscription (137859) $59.85 $55  Offer ends March 31, 2016.
Save on a 3-month prepaid subscription and instantly qualify for a FREE Sale-A-Bration item!

12-Month Prepaid Subscription (137861) $215.40
Take it to the next level with a 12-month prepaid subscription. Save $24 a year with the everyday awesome price, earn Stampin’ Rewards, and instantly qualify for 4 FREE Sale-A-Bration items! 

 

Flowering Fields

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Here is another card made using some of the FREE Sale-a-Bration products.
 
Flowering FieldsI used watercolor paper and an Aqua Painter to color the flowers after stamping the images with Archival Black Ink. After coloring the flowers I cleaned the brush tip of the Aqua Painter and then used just water to "bleed" the ink around the images. The flower panels are attached to a piece of FREE Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper. An easy way to line them up is to place your vellum on a a sheet of grid paper. You can see the lines of the grid paper through the vellum making it easy to perfectly line up the top and bottom edges of the flower panels. To attach the vellum piece to the card base use SNAIL under the areas where the panels are so that it doesn't show through on the front.
 
Sale-a-Bration continues through March. Get your FREE products with any order of $50 or more. Would you like to come to one of my stamping events? Let me know. I would love to have you join us.
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Just For You

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One of the FREE Sale-a-bration products you can get with any $50 order is the stamp set Botanicals For You. These cards were stamped using this set. I did a feminine and a masculine version and offered my stampers their choice. The card with the flowers used just the Botanicals For You stamp set. I used one of the splotch stamps from Georgeous Grunge for the masculine version which I saw on online.

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Have a great wekend!
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3 FREE Sale-a-Bration Products Retiring Early

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Sale-a-bration continues through March but did you realize that 3 of the FREE items are only available until February 15th?  That's right! These 3 items will be retiring early so if they are on your wish list be sure to order before the 15th.  Receive one FREE with each $50 purchase.  Your BEST BET is a $150 order.. you will receive 3 Free Sale a Bration items, plus $15 in hostess $$ to spend any way you wish.
 
 
 
You can see all of the FREE Sale-a-Bration products by clicking on the Sale-a-Bration catalog link below.
 
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Newest Weekly Deals

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Here are the newest Weekly Deals available through next Monday, January 25th.

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I love the little Party Punc Pack. It coordinates with the Party Wishes stamp set. Of course, they can be used alone and punch out such cute little shapes. While this is a great sale price I just want to caution you that if you wanted the coordinating stamp set too the discounted bundle price is just a little better than purchasing this sale punch pack and the stamp set separately.

party wishes stampsParty WIshes: $27.00 wood mount, $19.00 clear mount  

Bundle, Stamp Set and Party Punch Pack: $37.23 wood mount, $30.50 clear mount

party wishesThis card uses the Party Wishes Stamp set, Party Punch pack, It's My Party Designer Series Paper and Baker's Twine Combo Pack all found in the new Occasions Catalog.

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Balloon Celebration

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Balloon Celebration
People send more birthday cards than for any other reason and this card just says it's time to celebrate!  And the stamp set is called Birthday Celebration. I love that there is a new balloon punch that coordinates with the two different sizes of balloons. I do like fussy cutting images but when you are doing a lot of cards having a punch makes it so much easier and faster too. I played around for awhile with this set and discovered that I liked the balloons a lighter, softer shade of ink so I inked up the stamp and stamped off lightly on scrap before stamping on my cardstock. See the photo below that shows the comparison of straight ink and stamped off ink. I used the new Wink of Stella glimmer brush on the balloons but it's hard to see in the photo. Be sure to watch the video at the end of this post to learn about this great new glimmer tool.
 
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Thanks for stopping by and stay warm.

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A Few of My Favorite Things

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Each new catalog I like to post a list of my favorite things. I usually limit the list to 10 things so I've cheated just a little bit by using the bundles of my favorite stamp sets and counting the bundle as a favorite.  There are so many wonderful new stamps and products so once again, I have purchased a wee bit more than I told myself I would get. It's easy to see that it's one of the reasons I am a Stampin' Up demonstrator. The discounts help with my wanting it all.
 
 
Here is a card from this weeks classes from the Botanical Gardens Suite. Botannical Blooms stamp set was the number 1 priority on my wish list. It's so tropical and so very different from any other leaf stamp sets I have. Some of the sheets of paper in the DSP package are designed to add some stamping accents. How cool is that!  And don't you just love the leaf cutouts on the left edge of the card? Easy peasy with the matching framelit dies. The flower framelit does a double cut so that the petals on the inside of the flower stand out. My card had been in a cello envelope for class purposes and I forgot to pop them out for this photo but you can see where they are cut. There is even a framelit to make that amazing flower center.
 
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Thanks for stoppin by and have a great weekend.
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