Monday, June 15, 2015

Stampin Up, Paper Players #249. Friends

Is everyone enjoying summer?   Around here, in N AZ the temps are over 100 already and won't come down much if any for about 4 months.  It's the time to either leave and go sit on the coast, or stay inside with the A/C.

I can't afford to go sit on the coast, so staying inside and playing with paper is my choice.
Today is a color challenge from Paper Players.

I had a lot of fun with this new set of Photopolymer stamps.  You can bend the stem anyway you want to get the desired effect, so you could have a whole surface of flowers all in different directions.
Have you ever had a stamp and wished it went in both directions? This is it.

It's a 2 step stamp set, but you don't have to do it that way, lots of choices here. I think this just might be my favorite of the new sets.

Thanks for stopping, hope I have given you some ideas.


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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Stampin Up, Pals Paper Arts #255



Welcome.   Today's PPA challenge is a color challenge:

I do love blues and browns together, it's a great color combo for a guy card, but I just had to use flowers, right?   That piece you see in the center is from the new 12x12 DSP Neutrals Stack.  They have been all redone for this year and the patterns are fab.
Also, instead of White and Very Vanilla in this stack they have put Gold and Silver, it just doesn't get any better then that!

Very simple card, I hope you enjoy and it gives you some ideas of your own.  But hey, feel free to CASE, in SU talk that is Copy and Share Everything.


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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Stampin Up, Mojo Monday 401, Happy Birthday


Happy Birthday to you..... Happy Birthday to you..............

Yup, a friend is having a birthday. All new product for you today. I have Watercolor Words, love these large sized watercolor style sentiments.
New DSP stacks, the small ones, 6x6" now.  And the new Butterfly stamps that cut out using the Butterfly framlits you may already have. There is a new set as well, that goes with this set. Too cool!

I hope you enjoy, fab sketch from Mojo Monday.





Click on any of the images below to be taken to my store.

Colors used this time are Basic Black, Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla

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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Stampin Up and Paper Players 248, Happy Birthday


Gee, what do I say about this? I needed to make a masculine card and I don't have any stamps I could think of that I'd use for that. I really need to get a couple sets.

We, that is Stampin Up, have this new brick embossing folder, I have lots of other ideas for it, but for this card I thought I'd make it look like graffiti.  The stamp in a new one in the Watercolor Words set.

The banner paper was just to make it look a bit happier and honestly it just didn't seem to need another thing.
I am getting a lot of questions about how I made the brick wall. It's pretty simple actually.
Ink up your brayer and run it over the side of the folder that has the bricks raised up, put your paper
in and emboss as usual.  After that I just stamped the words on. I love this new Watercolor Words sentiment set!  Thanks for the feedback, it really helps. 

It's a very new idea for me, is it bad? Good? You like?  Let me know please.


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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Stampin Up Pals Paper Arts Challenge 254

Today we have a color challenge.  My card to day is going out to a very good friend who is suffering.
She lives in AR and works over the border in TX, things there are very bad, on both sides of the
line. Flooding is sever and lives have been lost, some were people from her church and were close
to her. She also has a lot of other things to deal with in her job.

I hope this makes her know I love her and wish I could help.

Here are the colors this week:
Because Strawberry Slush has been retired and I no longer even have it, I have chosen to use our
brand new Watermelon Wonder. As much as I loved those 5 colors that just left us, our new ones
are fab and the Watermelon is my personal fav.

Before I  show my product list, I'd like to tell you something.   SU is having a wonderful special for anyone who would like to join us in all the fun.

You get the kit, and you choose all the elements that it comes with, plus you can choose any 2 stamp sets in the new catalog and they also will come with your kit. Woo Hoo.
If you are thinking about a good sized order from this catalog you could be getting a fab discount and free shipping plus even more free product.

There are NO requirements to stay as a demo and you have over 3 full months to test drive all SU and our group of Pals has to offer, there will never be any pressure to stay.  You can join, get your kit and just not do a single thing after that, it's all yours.

You can join all by yourself just by going to my store here:
Click on Join the fun and follow along, or I'm happy to help, write to me here, kraftycat at gmail dot com.

Now that you have gotten the commercial, here are the products.


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Monday, June 1, 2015

Stampin Up and Paper Players 247, Good Things


I love when I'm given choices and this weeks Paper Players has a Tic Tac Toe challenge, choose any three in line. Here it is:
How cool is that, love it.   I did the bottom across. Die cut, Patterned paper and yellow, how'd I do?

I had not used the large butterfly in this die cut set yet, wow, it's awesome, just makes the whole card.
Click on any of the images below to be taken to my store. You can check out the items or any times once there and if you choose to you can place an order.  Thanks, Happy Stamping.



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Stampin Up, Mojo Monday 400, Something worth celebrating.

This is a very special week for Mojo monday, it's 400th sketch this week. For this one they went back to the beginning. This was also the very first sketch that started it all. Here it is!  It can be as simple or as complex as you want to make it.  Love this type of sketch, so much fun.


I used the new Neutrals 121x12 paper stack. I think you'll be seeing a lot of posts with these papers, they are just wonderful. I wanted a very soft look, so I used vellum over the top, and stamped my flower in the corner of the vellum.  TIP: If you haven't used vellum before, it is a non porous paper, so it can take quite a while to dry. If you are careful you can use your heat gun to hurry it up, or you can choose to emboss it.

Tomorrow, tue, june 2nd 2015, is the first day to order from the new main catalog, so it will all be available to you.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!



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