Tuesday Color Challenge

Every day there is a challenge for stampers on SplitcoastStampers. Tuesday is a color challenge and today's colors are Garden Green, Baja Breezes and Pacific Point. I like using blues and greens together and this combo came out nice.

Supplies:

Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly

Ink: Garden Green, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point

Paper: Garden Green, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Whisper White

Accessories: Paper Piercer

Decor Elements

Stampin' Up! offers a line of home decor which is vinyl images/words that you can put on many surfaces. Its an easy & inexpensive way to decorate walls, mirrors, doors - the possibilities are endless! And the products are beautiful, whimsical, sentimental....I could go on but why don't you take a look for yourself: Decor Elements Brochure

I can't wait to decorate with it and will post pictures as soon as I do!

Let me know what you think! If you'd like to purchase anything from this brochure, click on my web site at the top right and then click on "Shop Now".

My Retired Stamps For Sale

I have some stamp sets for sale if you are interested. I am selling them for well below the orignial price so please check them out: http//www.eastcoastscrappersaleitems.blogspot.com/

Last Call

FYI - today is the last day we can order from the Fall/Winter Catalog. If there is anything that you want - you can order online by clicking on my web site on the top right button and then click on "Shop Now". Here's an 8 1/2 x 11 scrap page I did of my sister Nancy & I using Season Of Friendship stamp set, which is retiring. Love this set, as I've mentioned before. Its also at a discount price.

My sister is the pretty one on the right!

Tomorrow the new catalog goes live at noon and the SU! site and my web site will be down until then while they load all the new catalog goodness. I can't wait for you to see al the new stuff...my wish list is so long! A lot of great new stamp sets as usual but the papers, ribbons & embellisments are to die for. You need to check it out then!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Season of Friendship
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Old Olive & Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Old Olive
Accessories: Old Olive 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals, Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive

Kristina Werner Color Challenge #38

I have always wanted to do Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenge. Now that I started a blog I decided to go for it. It was fun and it really pushed me to get creative. Here is the card I came up with using the colors:

Here's a link to Kristina's blog for all the info: Color Inspiration from Kristina

Try the challenge for yourself !

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly Paper: Ruby Red, Pixie Pink, Pumpkin Pie & Whisper White Ink: Ruby Red & Pixie Pink Accessories: Crystal Effects, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Scallop Edge Punch, Photo Corner Punch, Wide Oval Punch, brads, eyelet, ribbon & pop-up Glue Dots

Another Stamp Club Card

Here is another card we did at last week's stamp club. The tree image is from a stamp set called "Season of Friendship" and it is definitely one of my top ten stamp sets. Unfortunately it is retiring but I won't part with mine! I love using it for cards and for scrapbook pages. It comes with flowers, snowflakes, leaves & bird stamps so you can change up the seasons. This card is a CASE (Copy And Share Everything) but for the life of me can't recall where I copied it from. I think its a compilation of ideas...yeah that sounds good. Let's go with that! ; ) Its hard to see but the flower centers have glitter on them. Really pretty irl. You can still get this set until January 18. Trust me - its such a versatile one you will love it!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Season Of Friendship Paper: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Almost Amethyst & Lovely Lilac Ink: Almost Amethyst, Lovely Lilac & Certainly Celery Accessories: Sponges, Photo Corner Punch, Crystal Effects, Dazzling Diamonds glitter & Rhinestone Brads

There's still time.........

You can still order Stampin' Up! retired stamps and accessories until January 18th. After that they are no longer available for purchase. Stampin' Up! is also having an Inventory Blowout Sale. Retired, retiring & some current products are being offered at discounted prices. I was able to stock up on some of the current products myself! Here's the link: http://www.stampinup.net/uploads/fckeditor/stampinup/File/Inventory_Blowout_109US.pdf

Stamp Club Card

This is one of the cards we did in our stamp club last week. It uses some new product and one of my favorite retiring background stamp: Floral. I love the color combination and the faux cardstock ribbon. I found the tutorial here http://stampinbythesea.com/page/2. This is one of my favorite Stampin' Up! demonstrator blogs that I go to daily for inspiration. Kimberly Van Diepen is an amazing demonstrator and so creative. Check out her blog and get inspired too! Here's the rest of the recipe for the card we made:

Recipe:

Stamps: Floral, Sweet Stems, Sincere Salutations Ink: Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Blue Paper: Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Blue & Whisper White Accessories: gold brads, photo corner punch, aqua painter

It's Here!!!!

What a great day it turned out to be! Mr. Brown delivered my box of new catalogs this morning so I had all day to leisurely look through it. I can't post pics of what's inside yet but you are going to love this one! A lot of new accessories to play with like crocheted flowers, canvas cuts, corduroy buttons, beautiful new ribbons, new glitters, new chipboard, new punches, a cool new circle cutter, gorgeous designer series papers, Simply Scrappin' Kits, and more. So much more! If you would like to get your hands on one just email me. We can officially start ordering from the new catalog on January 19th!