Thinking of You layout challenge with Stampin' Up!'s Secret Garden and Print Poetry DSP stack

Hello there My Stamping Friends!! I was in a bit of a stamping slump the other day and it seemed like nothing I made was 'working' for me. I guess my mind was less on stamping and more on my almost-done stamp space. So, I gave up went to facebook to see what my friends were up to and the first post I saw was from SUDSOL and it was a layout challenge. That was as good a place as any to start so I went back to my desk and used that layout challenge and ended up a card that looked like ......

Its my floral Thinking Of You card. I know you can't see how glittery and shimmery it is in this photo so I tried to take a side view photo so you can get an idea.

What do you think? Its not 100% my style per se, but I do really like it and it got me out of my stamping slump. And with the card done I could get to work on cleaning, moving, reorganizing my stamping space.  If I hadn't mentioned, I'm taking over our 12x25 basement as my stamping area. I'm sooooo excited about it and even though today it still looks like a wreck I know that we'll be having stamp club in there THIS WEEKEND so I've got to get some serious work done. My work desk has been installed. I have a station for my Big Shots (just need to get some shelves for all my dies) and my Stampin' Score tools, and a cutting station for when I'm prepping for my bigger events (speaking of which, the next Crop Weekend at the Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Department is February 22 & 23. The registration form and list of optional classes are posted on the website www.dlvfrd.org  and the date for my Open House will be posted soon). In my new space I have room for tables and chairs for my stamping friends, but I have to go pick them out and purchase them. Yikes, so much more to do.

Anyway, enough about that. For this project I used, the Print Poetry Designer Series Paper stack, Secret Garden, circle punch, blender pen, midnight muse ink, basic pearls, a retired eyelet border punch, shimmer paint and stampin' spritzer,

Have you been in a stamping slump before? How did you get out of it?

Rose-Ellen

Three Valentines Cards using Outlined Occasions, Sprinkled Expressions, Mixed Bunch, Blossom Punch & Take it to Heart from Stampin' Up!

Good Morning My Stamping Friends, Today I thought I'd share three of the Valentines Cards I made recently, inspired or cased from cards on display at the Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference in San Antonio, TX. I hope you like them.
The first one was made using the stamp sets Outlined Occasions and Sprinkled Expressions from Stampin' Up! which are part of the Sale-A-Bration promotion right now. Sale-A-Bration, is Stampin' Up!'s biggest promotional event of the year and we offer amazing benefits for customers, hostesses, new recruits and YOU! Click here for the details.

I used:
Stampin' Up! Whisper White Card Stock #100730
Stampin' Up! Real Red Card Stock #102482
Stampin' Up! Real Red Classic Ink #103133
Stampin' Up! Large Oval Punch #119855
Stampin' Up! Scallop Oval Punch #119856
Stampin' Up! FREE Sprinkled Expressions stamp set #125132 (clear) or #125130 (wood)
Stampin' Up! FREE Outlined Occasions stamp set #126016 (clear) or #126014 (wood)

For the next card I used the Mixed Bunch and the Blossom Punch from the current Stampin' Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. You can view the mini catalog by clicking the link here or checking it out on the right side bar of my blog.

I used:
Stampin' Up! Mixed Bunch stamp set #125537 (clear) or #125535 (wood)
Stampin' Up! Blossom punch #125603
Stampin' Up! Pretty in Pink card stock #100459
Stampin' Up! Whisper White card stock #100730
Stampin' Up! Pretty in Pink ink #101301
Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake ink #121030
Stampin' Up! Stampin' Sponges #101610
Stampin' Up! Dimensionals #104430
Stampin' Up! Modern Label punch #119849
Stampin' Up! Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch #119275

And for my last share card I used the Take it to Heart stamp set from Stampin' Up! and colored using my Stampin' Up! blender pens and accented with some mini basic pearls in the center of the flowers (which you probably can't see all that well in this photo).

I used:
Stampin' Up! Take it to Heart stamp set #125522 (clear) or #125520 (wood)
Stampin' Up! Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set #115370
Stampin' Up! Big Shot #113439
Stampin' Up! Framelets Dies - Hearts Collection #125599
Stampin' Up! Regal Rose card stock #105130
Stampin' Up! Whisper White card stock #100730
Stampin' Up! Chocolate Chip ink #100908
Stampin' Up! Eyelet Border punch #119853
Stampin' Up! 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon-Daffodil Delight #119254
Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight ink #119667
Stampin' Up! Lucky Limeade ink #122935
Stampin' Up! Pumpkin Pie ink #105216
Stampin' Up! Regal Rose ink #105211
Stampin' Up! Basic Pearls #119247

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day full of love and surrounded by loved ones.
Rose-Ellen

Already Stamping ~ using my Stampin' Up! Simply Scored Diagonal Plate

Good Morning My Stamping Friends, I made it back from the Stampin' Up! Leadership with only a 45 minute delay (we had a hard time landing in Atlanta due to thunder and lightning). I'm so thankful because some of my friends were hours and hours late arriving and others had to stay in Atlanta overnight because of delays. Ouch!

Anyway, on Sunday I spent a few hours at Robin Merriman's team meeting and we had so much fun. Robin was one of my friends that had a several hour delay and since I had a little time and a brand new Simply Scored DIAGONAL PLATE that I won at Leadership, I helped out my bringing a Make and Take.  After I got home I made another little project very similiar to that. Here is the little 'box' and gift card with envelope that I made using my Stampin' Up! Diagonal Plate. It is sitting on top of my Simply Scored tool (you cna tell because the diagonal plate's groves are much thinner). Sorry about the lighting. Its such a bright day here and my camera was mis-behaving.

The Diagonal Plate (#125586)  is a plate that sits on top of the Simply Scored tool. It is held in place by rubber pads and ridges on the back of the plate. This plate has etched groves every 1/8th inch and can score cardstock up to 12x12. Then you get yours it will include instructions for creating common envelope sizes. This amazing tool will be available for clients to purchase on March 1, 2012. Meanwhile, keep following my blog because I plan to use mine all the time.

For this project I used:
Stampin' Up! Simply Scored Scoring Tool #122334
Stampin' Up! Simply Scored Diagnonal Plate (available to cusomters on March 1st) #125586
Stampin' Up! Twitterpated Designer Series Paper #125046
Stampin' Up! White 1/4 inch Grosgrain Ribbon #109025
Stampin' Up! Riding Hood Red cardstock #111348
Stampin' Up! Whisper White cardstock #100730
Stampin' Up! Riding Hood Red Ink #111836
Stampin' Up! Pear Pizzazz Ink #119784
Stampin' Up! Basic Black ink #101179
Stampin' Up! Blender Pen #102845
Stampin' Up! Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set #115370
A newly retired stamp set from the holiday mini to make a wrapper for the chocolate nuggets.
We also made a few other Make and Takes and looked at everyones swaps from Leadership. I'm very thankful to know and to be able to stamp with this group of Ladies.

Have a Stamptastic Day,

Using Autumn Splendor & Hand-Penned Holidays to 'Give Thanks' with Stampin' Up!

Good Morning My Stamping Friends,  Since today is officially the first day of Autumn I wanted to share an Autumn card I made for a swap. The swap doesn't happen until Saturday so if you're one of the swappers, just close your eyes. For this card I used Stampin' Up!'s Autumn Splendor from the current Idea Book and Catalog and Hand-Penned Holidays from the current Holiday Mini.

I started with

Stampin' Up!'s Raining Flowers general greeting card

Hi there Stamping Friends, I hope you've been inspired by a few of my latest posts and I hope you've even copied, or CASED some of them. I've been swamped getting ready for a vendor table I have this Saturday morning so today I'm showing you my CASED version of a card using the Stampin' Up! set called Raining Flowers. The original card I saw was shared on Stampin' Connection (a Stampin' Up-demonstrator-only website where demos can post photos of their creations, among other things). We currently have about 190,000+ photos on there and lots of discussion forums.

For this card I used