Monthly Stamp Club ~ April 2014

Greetings all!

 On Saturday we had our Monthly Stamp Club with Julie and Friends. She always comes up with some wonderful projects and we also swap cards with a theme. Here are the cards that I received:

We made two cards today and it was great as we got to use the reverse of cuts. Here is the first one:

And the second was made from the frame from the pink die cut:

The flower was stamped in Stazon ink and then we used Aqua pens and ink (to give a watercolor effect). For this one I used pop dots to have the stamped image float in the frame. Of course I had to bling it up a little. I love the font on this stamp set too. I am off to be a bit more creative today. Until next time.....

Stamp sets that Coordinate with the Exclusive Close to My Heart Cricut Collections

Greetings all and I hope you are having an amazing day. I wanted to compile some information for you as to which stamp sets in our current 2013 Autumn/Winter Idea Book coordinate with the 3 EXCLUSIVE Cricut Collections from Close to My Heart. Art Philosophy, Artiste and Artbooking come with over 700 images, 3 D-size Stamp Sets and 3 9" x 12" Dimensional Elements. I cannot wait to share some projects I have done with these. Here is the stamp sets so you can search the Item Numbers on the website HERE.

Stamp Name	Item No.	Catalog Pg.	Cricut Collection
In the Moment	C1565	26	Artbooking
Tech Speak	C1566	32	Artiste
B is for Baby	D1561	38	Art Philosophy
Wild Wonders	C1558	39	Artbooking
Classic Doily	B1424	51	Artiste
Reel Life	B1431	65	Art Philosophy or Artiste
Perfect Fit-Holidays	B1412	79	All 3 Collections
Perfect Fit-Thanksgiving	B1427	79	Artiste
Perfect Fit-Halloween	B1413	84	All 3 Collections
Magic Potions	C1509	85	Artiste
Eek & Shriek	B1429	85	Artbooking
Love Life	D1482	94	Art Philosophy
Perfect Fit-Frames	D1527	95	Art Philosophy
Frame it Up	D1524	96	Art Philosophy
School Years	D1556	99	Artiste
Blue Ribbon	C1464	100	Art Philosophy
All the Details	D1555	101	Art Philosophy
Stitch Wonder	C1564	102	Artiste
Holiday Tags	D1560	105	Artiste
Casual Expressions	D1525	108	Artiste

I hope you find this helpful and will be happy to answer any questions you may have about these exceptional products. Until next time....

Ohhhhh, it's the most wonderful time of the year for....

earning free items. Today is the first day you can shop from the new Holiday Gift Guide. If you email me from my website, I can email you a copy of the catalog for your viewing pleasure. 

Just click here to email me.


This promotion starts today, October 15th and runs until the end of December. When you spend just $100, you can choose any 'star' item in the mini-catalog for FREE! And with your order of $100 or more, you can earn the Stamp of the Month for October, Scandinavian Wishes. You can view the catalog online from the comfort of your own home right HERE.

Look at all the amazing things you can do with this stamp set. You can read more about it here. 

Also do not forget I am hosting an Online Gathering this month with a special deal for you. If you purchase one CTMH EXCLUSIVE Cricut cartridge you get a 10% discount, 2 gets you a 15% discount and all 3 nets you a 20% discount. You can view them all at my website:  http://suenj.ctmh.com/

Here are the links to each cartridge:

Cricut® Artbooking Collection$99 (retail value of nearly $125)
1 – Cartridge (700 images: themed projects, cards, font, shapes, 3-D items)
3 – My Acrylix® D-size Stamp Sets*
3 – 12" × 9" Dimensional Elements in coordinating shapes

Cricut® Artiste Collection$99 (retail value of nearly $125)
1 – Cartridge (700 images: themed projects, cards, font, shapes, 3-D items)
3 – My Acrylix® D-size Stamp Sets*
3 – 12" × 9" Dimensional Elements in coordinating shape

Cricut® Art Philosophy Collection

$99 (retail value of nearly $125)
1 – Cartridge (700 images: font, shapes, 3-D items)
3 – My Acrylix® D-size Stamp Sets*
3 – 12" × 9" Dimensional Elements in coordinating shapes

You can add the October Stamp of the Month for only $5 more (with a $50 purchase) Scandinavian Wishes, October 2013 Stamp Of The Month (normally $17.95)

And as an added bonus, I will be entering the names of all who order to win a $25 Visa gift card. Winner will be announced November 1st. To qualify for the discount, you need to place the order via email HERE and I accept Paypal or check for the order. I have Art Philosophy and love it. I will be ordering Artiste and then Artbooking for myself. I am so excited about this new venture and want to share the benefits with you all. Let me know if you have any questions. I'll be happy to answer them. :) Until next time.....

I am seeing triple....

Triple step stamping that is! I went to a stamping group on Tuesday and learned this new technique. I definitely love it for sure. The paper and stamps are all Stampin' Up. You can see them on this website: Stampin' Up. Here are my wonderful cards:

The card on the top is a little different. I used a Sizzix embossing folder from Stampin' Up, stamped the lighter color in ink and the darker color is heat embossed on. I will definitely be planning on make some other cards like this! Thanks for stopping by. If you want to learn how to make cards like this, you can Google "Triple Step Stamping" and there are Youtube videos. Until next time....

Crafty Card Gallery's Sketch Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sketch Blog Hop. Everyone has had so much fun doing these it's turned into a regular event!

The purpose of this hop is to show how all of these talented bloggers can take the same sketch and come up with totally different cards. If you've never used a card sketch before, give it a try! You should have arrived from Shawn's Blog and if you just happened along the hop, you can go back to the start at www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com
Enjoy the hop!

Here is the original sketch that we were given to use:

And here is what I came up with:

The paper is scraps from my scrap pile and I used some ribbon I had from last year. This is a 100% recyclable card I guess (lol). Even the pumpkin was from a package of embellishments I bought last year and have 2 left over. 

Thanks for stopping by and your next stop is Jamie's Blog. Until next time.....

Love to Create Design Team Post: Stamp Fairy

Boy oh boy, have I been in a beary happy mood lately. Spring is here and it feels like summer some days. Can you believe we are more than halfway through April? Well, today's sponsor is

I had so much fun making this card. I used the easel card tutorial from Splitcoast stampers. The bears just looked super sweet. I have a bestie and we are going to our 25th high school reunion in July. I am blessed to have her in my life. So here is a card I made in honor of our friendship:

I used Stampin' Up's In Color Designer paper (6 x6) and self adhesive rhinestones. The stamp was a $1 stamp from Michael's. I colored the image with colored pencils. I just love it. I hope that you will hop over to the Love to Create Challenge Blog and join the fun. 

Well, off I go to work for the day. Until next time...

A link to all of today's posts....

Since I have become a crazy busy woman, I have several post that come out the same day. To be fair, I like to post them to the top so nothing gets missed. Here's what is happening here at Susana's Scrappin Corner:


Crafty Card Gallery's Blogaversary Challenge: http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/2011/10/craft-card-gallerys-blogaversary.html


Sweet Stamping Treats Design Team Project - Halloween: http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/2011/10/sweet-stamping-treats-design-team.html


Jen's Digi Stamps Freebie Friday - Breast Cancer Awareness: http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/2011/10/jens-digi-stamps-freebie-friday-breast.html


Happy Hopping. Until next time.....

It has been a Scrappingly good two weekends.....

I have to say that it has been a crafty good time here in NJ! I have had two weekends with my favorite Stampin' Up friend Julie (Stampin Up Demonstrator: Julie Kudish) and have made some pretty awesome things (if I do say so myself). In addition to that, I had craft time with our niece Vanessa. She will be turning 4 and loved making cards with Aunt Susan. Here are some pics I wanted to share with you: 

This is a shaker card made with actual  sand

I just could not resist taking a bite

Here we are hard at work

This was the first layout I have EVER made without having pics already printed

 The next day, I went to the dollar store with my sister in law and my niece in law. We saw this damaged saying and Julie turned to me and said, "You good make something prettier!" Well here is what I came up with.....

 Today I went to a stamping up party for one of the gals in our monthly stamping group. This is the projects we made (card was put together by my dear friend Erin (Comfy on My Cloud):

Very looooonnnggg bookmark

Love this card!

Well as they say in Looney Tunes, "That's all folks...." Until next time....

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

I may not be a Superhero but I know how to mask

I promised a little creativity this weekend and I will not disappoint. On Saturday, we had our monthly Stampin Up card workshop. Our friend and teacher, Julie, decided to teach us a masking technique (Read about Masking here). We had tried this before with a two step flower stamp but she gave us all new ideas with the Butterfly Prints stamp set (http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=120738). Here is a duplicate of the card that she showed us:

This card used three new colors from Stampin Up (Stampin Up Brights Ink Pads, SU Brights designer buttons (these are AWESOME!) and Versamark for that tone on tone look. Then Julie let us loose to come up with our own designs. Well I came up with these other cards using the masking technique:

The tie dye looking card was done with a sponging technique and the same ink pads used to stamp the butterflies in card #1. I ended up with the green when I had to cover a slight booboo.

The yellow card was made the new color, the SU brayer (http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=102395), and I used the Decorative Label punch (see it here) to make the mask. The sentiment is from the butterfly stamp set mentioned above. I think this stamp set has a lot of options and can make some wonderful cards. 

You can leave a comment if you have any questions on how to make these cards. I may have to get a brayer to try some other techniques with it. I was seriously hoping that my friend Erin from Comfy on My Cloud (Stop by and show her some blog love) would have posted hers but she must be swamped with her current work project. Well, I am feeling under the weather today, so I am going to end here. Until next time........

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

What a productive weekend.......

Happy Sunday!

I do not know where the weekends go! Even though I ran all weekend, I had a little bit of time to be creative the past two days. Yesterday was our Sat morning Stamping group that meets once a month. Had a wonderful time with our Creative Consultant, Julie and my fellow stampers, Nicole, Erin and Jean.

We made two projects yesterday. One was stamping with bleach and the otherwas a two step stamp set called "A rose is a rose". The bleach one was interesting as a background so I added patterned paper. I want to use the Create a Critter Cartridge when I order it....

Today while my daughter was at drama practice I decided to play with my new stamp set. It was a great deal as you got loads of stamps. I think there are 10 in total. Now I want to use it and stamp to make a sunflower with these Sweet Treats cups from Stampin' Up. They are fun to work with but I would have liked to see them a bit bigger. Let me know what you think....

Here is the up close of some of them.....

I hope that you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed making them. Until next time....

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #3

Challenge #3 had definitely had me "Thinking Outside the Box". I used pearls, eyelets, vellum and foam flowers. Then I had to get creative with the leaves (shhhhhh, don't tell anyone but I used a heart punch and cut it in half). I think this one was really fun. Now onto Challenge #4 :)

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #1

Hidey ho all! Today is National Scrapbooking Day and Erin and I decided to share it with My Pink Stamper's Robyn. This is the first challenge that was posted today. It was called "Mother Dear I Love You So". I wanted a panda but used all my black paper (can you say "I need to go shopping" ) so I settled for a koala. He inadvertantly got a Cindy Crawford mole. Thanks Robyn for this great idea!

Now onto Challenge #2

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

Can I Get a Witness

Good evening all!

The witness is to see if I am certifiable. According to my dear friends they need to have an intervention as they have created a monster. I was very happy to have played with my new Copic markers with my friend, Erin last night and a new stamp I purchased at Paper Wings in Tuckerton, NJ. We also embossed, used ribbon and brads and stamped the night away! We looked at the clock and it was almost midnight! Thank goodness all the men were busy .

This morning I woke up really early (after getting to sleep around 12:30 AM) to having dreamt of two card layouts. Well, I drew them out and tried to go back to sleep. It didn't work and I got up and started the cards. All were finished by this evening (after teaching Sunday school, helping parents pack, spending time with family and doing some things here at home). It was a good weekend. Here are the fruits of my labor.... you be the judge if I need an intervention ....

This is a trio of cards that I completed. This is a new stamp I purchased. I colored them with Copic markers, Zig Zag markers and/or colored pencils. I used Stampin Up cardstock and some of the Michael's Card packages. Here are the close-ups....

This is my boricua faerie as I call her. The cupcakes and the saying are all Stampin up products. Embossing is becoming one of my favorite techniques.

Here is my pink and purple faerie. She represents my favorite colors. She is colored strictly with Copic markers. I embossed the card with the Quickutz A2 polka dots folder, the "Love" strip is from a scrapbook page kit from Stampin Up and the brads are theirs as well. This was one of the layouts I dreamt of and had to sketch out.

Here is my Spring faerie. The background is embossed with silver and white images. The faerie was colored with colored pencils. The card is Stampin Up cardstock as is the stamped saying and hearts. The patterned paper is from a paper pack from Michaels or AC Moore. I just cut out the part I liked from the 4x6 piece.

Of all the cards, this is my least favorite, this is a new Sizzlits die. I will have to play with it a bit more. The setup is the same as pink and purple faerie card but I wanted to try this. I was going to emboss but decided not too. Might have to try it.

This was the other layout that I dreamt about. I have to say I like it very much.I cannot find my 1 1/2" circle punch so I used the 1 3/8" Cuttlebug heart die cut. It was surprisingly easy. The stamp is the Stampin Up Ronald McDonald set. The brads in the corner are Stampin Up too.

Next blog post will be cards made by my partner in crime, Erin :)

Have a happy night!

Susan