2009 November » fresh & fun

Tutorial and Product Review on SCS - Flower Soft CD-Rom

3-D items, Flower Soft, Nestabilities, Tutorials, Video Tutorial 20 Responses »

Nov 042009

Today’s tutorial is for a simple Luminaria. They can be created lots of different ways, but I thought I start showing an easy one, all out of one piece of cardstock. The images and the background were printed out with the new Flower Soft CD-Rom. It contains some super cute images and helps to make some quick cards and projects.

The ovals were cut with Oval Nestabilities (of course….I seem to not be able to create one project without Spellbinders products. I am truly hooked on those!). Vellum Paper was taped behind the window.

The images were cut out and taped to my box with Scor-Tape and dimensionals. Polar White Flower Soft was added to the trees and ground.

Here is a video for the visual learner:

Holiday Cheer goes to Rachel Hope

Chitter Chatter 3 Responses »

Nov 032009

Thank you all for your kind words. I really appreciate it!

Random.org picked #127. That should be Rachel Hope! Rachel, email me your address and I will get the dies out right away. They are already packed up, ready to go.

Have a wonderful day! Don’t forget to check out the Holiday Blitz tutorials at SCS! Hugs and smiles

Holiday Blitz on SCS - Snowglobe card

3-D items, Flower Soft, Nestabilities, Verve Stamps 14 Responses »

Nov 032009

Our annually Tutorial Holiday Blitz week is going on at SCS right now. I already missed alerting you about the first two wonderful tutorials, a scrapbook wallet tutorial written by Makeesha Byl and a Matchbook Candy holder by Theresa Momber. I am sorry about that. I was crazy busy packing up sold Stampin’ Up! products and shipping them out. Thank you all for helping me make room in my craft room for new stamps from other companies!

Today’s tutorial is written by Libby Hickson and is for a Snowglobe card. She had posted one last winter and I had asked her right there and then if she would write this for us for this year’s Holiday Blitz. How fun to see one of those on the back of the Winter Mini catalog from Stampin’ Up! earlier this year.

My card is pretty simple. The cute little polar bear and the background are from Flower Soft. Flower Soft has some cute new products coming out. Make sure you come back tomorrow to learn more about them. The sentiment is from Verve. I received it as a thank you with an order last fall. Julee is so sweet to always include a little thank you stamp with each order. It was stamped with Tuxedo Black ink on Gina K’s Pure Luxury Cardstock. It was punched out with the large oval punch from Stampin’ Up! and layered on a Black Scallop Oval Punch-out.

The patterned paper is My Mind’s Eye Merry Days of Christmas. I tied 1″ celery Satin ribbon around the snow globe bottom. I can’t help by make more of those adorable snowflakes, Sherry Cheever showed us how to make. I made a smaller version that I sponged with Faded Jeans Distress ink and sprinkled with Shard Vintage Glass Glitter. The button is from Basic Grey and was tied on with waxed linen.

I hope you have time to check out the new tutorials, let the authors know how wonderful their projects are and try them out.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

Candy Time! - Drawing is over

Blog Candy 351 Responses »

Nov 022009

Last week I crossed another 100,000 in blog visits. My counter got messed up sometime last month or so. It should be showing 3,200,000, but it doesn’t really matter! Thank you so much for always visiting my blog and leaving comments. I really appreciate it!

This time I will raffle away Spellbinders Holiday Cheer dies. All you have to do to enter the raffle is leave a comment under this post. One comment per person. I will pick the winner Tuesday around 2 p.m. EST .

P.S.: If you are interested in how to use the Spellbinder dies, check this product focus on Splitcoaststampers. Tutorials are listed on the right side bar.

Hugs and smiles

Big Changes

Chitter Chatter 82 Responses »

Nov 012009

I am sure you have noticed already that I am not using much Stampin’ Up! products anymore. I decided not to sign the new IDA and today is the first day that I am officially not a demonstrator anymore. I didn’t think I would ever quit being a demonstrator, but I didn’t feel right to only share part of my work here on my blog. I was a demonstrator for seven years and enjoyed every minute of it. I met so many great people and made many friends through Stampin’ Up! I was sad at first to leave Stampin’ Up!, but I am having fun now exploring all the other products out there.

I will be selling a LOT of my Stampin’ Up! products. Please check my for Sale section on the left.

I hope you will still visit my blog even though I am sharing projects made with non Stampin’ Up! products now. I will focus creating with products from stamp companies who support Splitcoaststampers, either by advertising or being member companies. That is the main reason that I decided to sell my Stampin’ Up! products.