FREE SHIPPING, and Mojo Monday 392

Ok, first let us cover this free shipping thing.  Stampin Up has free shipping from Apr 6 through the 10th.  That's it! So hurry and place an order, what a nice savings.

Todays card was made for my youngest grandson's birthday.  He is so into green, I thought about going all green, but yuck! I am not a green lover, LOL, not really much on monotone cards either.

I love color, I'm all about the color, and I seldom have an occasion when I don't use pretty colors.

Today I used our new incolor Mossy Meadow along with Crisp Cantaloupe and Whisper White.
He will be 16 and is a boy so I kept it pretty simple.  All 3 of my daughters had a child within a one year period, and this one is the last to be born and the last of the 3 to turn 16.  No more little ones for me. :(.   No one to color eggs with. Now that is just plain sad. LOL.   I always loved doing that.

You will notice that although I used the 2" circle punch, instead of using the 2 1/2" circle punch for the color under the sentiment circle ( you sure can do that if you like) I wanted a smaller spacing so I used one of the circle framelits.

 I hope you enjoy.  click on any image below to be taken to my store.

Perfect Pennants Clear Stamp Set

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Stacked With Love Designer Series Paper Stack

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Circles Collection Framelits Die

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2" Circle punch

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Birthday Bash Specialty Designer Series Paper

$12.95

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Stampin Up, PPA 234

Our first PPA challenge of the new year and it's a color challenge. Feel free to join in, it's fun and can help to hone your skills.  Honestly, if you want to keep getting better and learning, you have to play and play and play. The more you do the better you do.   It is honing your talent.  So, lets see what you can do!

I did a very simple card today, I used the World Map stamp and embossed in silver. Silver is very hard to take a photo of, this one isn't too bad, but it really is much nicer in person. I love this for a guy card. And it occured to me that if you do cards for Operation Write Home, this might be a really good one. And that may be exactly where this one goes. I love making cards that end up making someone's life a tiny bit better.   The military LOVE being able to send hand made cards to their friends and love ones.

Here are the colors for this week.

Hope this gives you some ideas of your own, Happy New Year!

Banners Framelits Die

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World Map Clear Stamp Set

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Perfect Pennants Clear Stamp Set

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Stampin Up PPA213, You and Me

It's that time of the week for a PPA challenge. At first I just couldn't think of a thing to do for this sketch.   But as I was having issues with even sitting at my desk last night, I let it go until this morning and my brain worked on it during the night. I woke up knowing what to do.

I debated about going just black and white, but decided to look through my DSP and see what came up. PSSSSSST, you know that for the rest of this month, July, SU is having a sale on Designer Series Paper, right? Buy 3 and get one free.

Anyway, I saw this one and it spoke to me.  I'm very happy with how it turned out. This little frame is one of 2 in a new frame embossing set, worked out very well.

Thanks for coming by, I hope I have inspired you just a little bit.

Perfect Pennants Clear Stamp Set

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Confetti Celebration Designer Series Paper

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Fancy Fan Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

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Fun Frames Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

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Rhinestone Basic Jewels Embellishments

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Mojo Monday 351, Sending Good thoughts

Good Mojo Monday to you! It's a fun sketch this morning.
Here is todays sketch:

For mine I took my colors from the All ABloom DSP Pad.  If you have been here before you'll know
I love those pads, they are sized for cards with a nice selection of double sided designs.  I used a piece of one of them on the left border.

I punched out my circle from the 2 1/2" circle punch and used the gel pen for my stitching, quick and easy and I didn't have to get out the sewing machine. For the banner across I embossed using the Decorative dots folder, then used the striped banner to put my sentiment on. To get it light enough I stamped off on paper before stamping on my CS.   To get the sentiment in just the right spot, the Stamp a ma jig is perfect and easy. I love how the sentiment from Perfect Pennants fit right over the banner from Amazing Birthday.

My colors today are: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Strawberry Slush, Pistachio Pudding, Soft Suede.

I hope I've given you some inspiration today, thanks for stopping by.

Amazing Birthday Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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Perfect Pennants Clear Stamp Set

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Rhinestone Basic Jewels Embellishments

$4.95

All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack

$6.95

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

$16.95

Petite Petals Punch

$12.95

Decorative Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.95

2-1/2" Circle Punch

$16.95

White Signo Uni-Ball Gel Pen

$3.95

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Mojo Monday 343

I started this card on Monday, honest.   Since it looks like the problem building my strength back up is going to take a lot longer then I had hoped, hubby is going to change my room around so I have a desk where all my SU stuff is so I can now sit. To do that, all the furniture in the room is going to be moved around, but I will also end up with my cutting table now being used only as my cutting table. That will be nice.    So, instead of making my card, I've been cleaning stuff off cabinets and out of the room.
Lots and lots is going to be sold, not my stamp stuff mostly, but tons of other craft items I no longer need or do. I think I'll be sitting at the week end flea market  for a couple weeks to get that done. Sure hope I get rid of it all, and that money will go toward a purchase from the NEW SU catalog!

So, here is the sketch now that you have seen my take on it.

I used Whisper White and Rose red.  The patterned paper is from the Regals DSP stack, and I used both the Flower shop stamps and Petite Petals stamps for that little background I made.  Sentiment is from Perfect Pennants, and I tossed in the pretty little silver ribbon for a bit of bling. I'm happy to say that the Silver ribbon is staying! I use it a lot.

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Petite Petals

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Flower Shop

$17.95

Perfect Pennants Clear-mount Stamp Set

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Regals Designer Series Paper Stack

$21.95

Silver 1/8" Ribbon

$4.95

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PPA 201 and Saying Good Bye

It's that time of year again.  Time to say Good Bye to retired product and time to get excited about what new product might be in the new catalog.  New catalog goes live June 1 while May 31 is the last day to order from the 2013_2014 catalog.  The retired list is out! If you haven't seen it, take a look. Scroll down and you'll find the info. You can go to my shop by clicking on any of the photo links at the bottom of my post.

On the plus side, the two Framelit collections I used on this card will be staying, yaaaaaaaaaa.

But the DSP, Modern Medley, will be departing. We have had some really great DSP this year, but this one has to be my favorite, it's so classic.  The other color, Raspberry Ripple is also retiring, shame, such a pretty color.  My other fav from this color set is Midnight Muse. I really had hoped to see that one come into the line, but apparently it's not to be.

The stamp set is from the Occasions catalog, and as far as we know, it will also retire. I'm going to miss it, it has so many very neat and usable sentiments and other pieces in it.  A really nice collection. On the plus side, you can still order it for awhile longer.
All the rhinestones on this card are staying, but the large rhinestones  set will be going away.

Thanks for stopping by.  And how about telling me which items you are going to miss most.

Window Frames Collection Framelits Dies

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Labels Collection Framelits Dies

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Perfect Pennants Clear-mount Stamp Set

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Modern Medley Designer Series Paper

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PPA 193 Sketch Challenge

Welcome!  I had to ponder this sketch for quite a while before it started coming together in my head.
I love, love, love, the Watercolor Wonder DSP, and the background for the butterflies came from that pack.  I picked up the 2 other colors from that piece of DSP, Daffodil Delight and Island Indigo.

I wanted to use the  larger butterfly punch with the petite butterfly punch on top, however I'd have had to cut my strip and piece it in to use a punch. So, I took the Butterfly die cut from Backyard Basics and used that, then put my Petite butterflies on top.

The Backyard basics is still available as a bundle at the special price until the new main catalog comes out, if you like it, now is the time, or it will have to be purchased as a separate stamp set and die set.

The sentiment came from Perfect Pennants, in the Occasions catalog, you have until June 1st on that one, however, until March 31st, for every $50 you purchase you can choose something from the Sale a Bration brochure. There is some neat stuff in there.

After doing my layering, putting on my tiny butterflies and stamping my sentiment, I sponged on a bit of the Daffodil Delight here and there for some interest.

I hope you enjoyed, click on any of the items below to be take to my store where you can get more info on the products, download catalogs or purchase.
And as always, thanks for stopping by.

Check out the Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge, you can click on my link on the right side of the page and please consider playing with us.

Backyard Basics Clear Bundle

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Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper

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Bitty Butterfly Punch

$15.95

Perfect Pennants

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Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents

$4.95

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