Abe's Corn Maze

A few weekends ago Jeremy, Lauren, Derek, Becky, Karen, Jacob, and I all went to Abe's Corn Maze here in Springfield. I've been wanting to use the Autumn Spice DSP from the holiday mini catalog and thought that the trip to the corn maze would make the perfect page for that DSP.

This morning at Rachel's awesome Christmas stamp a stack, we were talking about spritz spray and until this afternoon, I'd never used the Log Cabin Smooch Spritz. I had a strip of Early Espresso card stock left over so I experimented with the spritz and it was so cute that I decided to spray all my letters. You can't really tell from the picture but it's a really neat effect:)

I wasn't sure about tearing the paper in the corner of the page since I'm normally very straight edged when it comes to making pages but I thought it needed a more rustic feel.

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

Scrapbooking Frenzy

I must have been in a very creative mood this weekend because I cranked out three and half scrapbook pages. I should get another order delivered tomorrow night and I hope to finish the 2 page layout that I'm working on and make two more with some of my new goodies.

The first page that I made this weekend was CASED from Rachel's September Scrapbook Club blog posting. I couldn't make it to her house for scrapbook club so I made it on my own here at home. I used the Play Date DSP and the Itty Bitty Buttons to create my own personalized embellishments. I love it in scrapbooking how you can start with the same layout and the actual pages can turn out so differently just based on DSP and color scheme choices.

For my second page, I used a page that we created during my first round in Rachel's scrapbook club. For the first page, I used pictures from a mini golf outing at Knight's Action Park. I still had some pictures from later in the day when some went Go Karting so I decided to change up the look of that page, reverse the layout and use a different color scheme so it was similar, yet different.

The final page that I made will be used for pictures that we took when Lauren, Andrew, Jeremy, and I went to see Into the Woods at the Springfield Muni. I had the idea to use DSP diagonally on a page and used My Digital Studio to layout the page and figure out my sizing and spacing. It's a little hard to see from the picture but I ran the old olive top note die through the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder and it gave it a very pretty, flowery touch to go along with the girly theme I was going for. I was extremely anxious about stamping the forest directly on the 12x12 cardstock but I think it turned out really well!

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend and as always please let me know if I can help you with any of your paper crafting needs:)

More Extreme Stamping

Here's another project that I made on our extreme stamping retreat. I CASED this scrapbook page from Stamping Connection, a social networking site for demonstrators. I used the fancy flower punch and tropical party set to cut out all the flowers but after putting it together Becky and I realized that it used the big shot die Island Floral. I used Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry, and Old Olive. Becky also made this page using Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, and Pear Pizzazz. I think I'm going to make another page, using the big shot to cut the flowers, and steal her color combination because it is such a great combo!

Hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day!

Xtreme Stamping Weekend

Last weekend I went on a Stamping Retreat with my upline Rae Anne and her sister (also my coworker and friend) Becky. It was a great weekend full of food, relaxing and stamping! I had such a great time and got several things crossed off my to do list.

One of the projects I wanted to finish was my cookie sheet calender. I was originally going to use a retired paper but replaced it with the lovely Island Oasis DSP from the summer mini catalog and thankfully my numbers were already made with Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron so it was really easy for me to switch DSPs. I originally put off finishing the project because I thought it would be too complicated but it was really simple to put together thanks to Rae Anne and Becky's help:)

Here's the finished project...well, almost finished, somehow I've misplaced my 3. I guess I better find it or make a new one before next month since that's my one year anniversary:)

Enjoy and if you wish to make your own calender let me know and I would be more than happy to help!

Christmas in July, take 2

Here is another card that we made yesterday at my Christmas in July Stamp a Stack. I love glitter and thought that Santa needed a little bling:) I was a little worried that my mom's house would be covered in glitter by the time we were done but the sticky pages that I used for Santa's hat holds the glitter so well so there was very little mess. One of the girls mentioned that she didn't like glitter but then after using the sticky pages wondered what other colors of glitter were available to decorate Santa's hat even more. I think I may use this idea myself for my Christmas cards :D


Supplies: Holiday Hoopla, Occasional Quotes (hostess); Top Note Die; Sticky Pages; Fine Galaxy Stampin Glitter; 5/8" Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Real Red, Very Vanilla card stock; Real Red ink

Christmas in July

Earlier today I held a Christmas in July Stamp a Stack at my mom's house. We had six people here and had a FABULOUS time! This is one of the three cards that we made. The inspiration for this card came from a sample in the 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog (IBC), page 154. They took Four the Holidays and, using my new favorite tool the stampamajig, turned the one line stamp into two. The ornament in the top left corner is three punches glued together to give the card a three dimensional feel. I also used the new Jolly Holiday DSP and absolutely LOVE the unique twist on traditional Christmas red and green by using Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive.

Now if I could only figure out how we can have next year's Christmas in July on a weekday so we can all take off work;)

Supplies: Delightful Decorations, Four the Holidays; ornament punch, 3/4" punch; Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla card stock; Jolly Holiday DSP; Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive ink

Joy to the Fishes in the Deep Blue Sea

Back in May I had a stamping get together at my house for some of my fave stamping friends. For their treat, I made a cupcake using my newly acquired crimper. I then went on a crimping spree and this card was born. Enjoy:)

Supplies: Crimper; Ornament Punch, 5 Petal Flower Punch; Silver Smooch Spritz; Crumb Cake card stock, Pink Passion card stock, Tempting Turquoise card stock

Concord Crush Together Forever

Two weeks ago, our friends Jacob and Karen got married at Laurel Hall in Indianapolis. It was a beautiful ceremony and Jeremy and I were very honored to be a part of celebrating their special day with them.

I based their wedding card on their invitation/save the date and a card that I made for our Spring Into Stamping shoebox swap. The wedding colors were differing shades of purples and the invitation had a swirly image that is very similar to Stampin' UP!'s Baroque Motif.

I brayered the white Bridal Specialty DSP with Concord Crush ink to create a customized DSP. I love that you can create your own papers and am so glad that SU is continuing to give us different specialty papers. I didn't realize that I didn't yet have my Concord Crush ink pad until after I already had the pieces cut so I used a marker to ink up the brayer and then "huffed" on it. It was a little time consuming but our friends are definitely worth it!

Supplies: Together Forever stamp set (retired); Concord Crush, Basic Gray, Whisper White card stock; Bridal Specialty DSP; Concord Crush ink

Hello cyberspace and welcome to my stamping blog!!! Most of you already know me and my story but for those of you that don't, here goes...

I am a Stampin' UP! demonstrator and have been so for almost a year. My friend Becky dragged, I mean invited, me to a card making party at Rachel's house and I went and loved it so much that I eventually signed up to be a demonstrator. What's my favorite part of being a part of Stampin' Up!? Ummm...everything? I love love love their colors and designer series papers and our demonstrator group is full of talented and wonderful ladies! I'd like to give a special shout out to my upline Rae Anne and up-upline Rachel. They have been extremely helpful with all my stamping needs and they are FABULOUS!!!! Go check out their blogs because they are awesome :) Other things that you should know about me is that I like smileys and winky smileys so don't be surprised if you see about 900 every post;) see, there's 3 already. I speak a little, and I mean little, bit of Spanish and I am attempting to learn the Stampin' UP! colors in Spanish and then I'm going to tackle French. I also have the best hubby in the world and two wonderful kittens and I'm sure they will make a guest appearance in a scrapbook page in the near future! So, that's enough talk about me...

You may notice that the title of my blog is on a very pretty flower pattern - both the title and my project for today were made in My Digital Studio. This program makes it so easy to create personalized images that can be used for any occasion. My project to the left is a flyer that I have made for my Christmas in July Stamp a Stack that I will be having at my mom's house on July 17. Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year and I love celebrating it in July by getting a jump on making my Christmas cards. We're going to be making 9 cards, with a lot of new products from the new catalog which begins on July 1st. If you're interested in coming, please RSVP with my mom or send me an e-mail at deana_kaye85@hotmail.com and we hope to see you then:)