Holiday Stamp A Stacks - Spots still available

Hi there My Stamping Friends,

I wanted to let you know that I still have space in some of my Holiday Stamp a Stacks. If you haven't heard, the schedule is as follows:

Tuesday Dec 7, 2010  at 7:30pm - 9:00pm Stamp-A-Stack #1 (evening event)

Still need time to get your Christmas Cards finished? Now is the perfect time. Come over and get a few more Christmas/Holiday ** cards checked off your list.. ..and nibble on some holiday candies while you’re here.

You will get to make 15 Christmas/Holiday ** cards (5 cards each of 3 different cards). The fee is $20 and includes a roll of ribbon to complete your cards and you get to take the rest of the roll home. You can make a second set of cards for only $15 (additional sets will not include an additional roll of ribbon). Please let me know how many cards you would like to make when you RSVP. This is the evening offering of the Stamp-A-Stack #1 for Christmas Holiday Cards. I will be hosting four Stamp-A-Stack events in December (a Stamp-A-Stack #1 daytime and evening and a Stamp-A-Stack #2 daytime and evening event). The #1 classes will offer the same cards during the day and evening events but will be different cards from the #2 classes. I will try and post photos on my blog very soon.

Please RSVP by December 1st so I have supplies prepared for each participant.

** You can feel free to leave the sentiment off and change them into general holiday cards.


Wednesday Dec 8, 2010 at 10am-11:30am Stamp-A-Stack #1 (daytime event)

This is the daytime offering of the Stamp-A-Stack #1 for Christmas Holiday Cards. I will be hosting four Stamp-A-Stack events in December (a Stamp-A-Stack #1 daytime and evening and a Stamp-A-Stack #2 daytime and evening event). The #1 classes will offer the same cards during the day and evening events but will be different cards from the #2 classes.
Thursday Dec 9, 2010 at 7:30pm - 9:00pm Stamp-A-Stack #2 (evening event)
You will get to make 15 Christmas/Holiday ** cards (5 cards each of 3 different cards). The fee is $20 and includes a roll of ribbon to complete your cards and you get to take the rest of the roll home. You can make a second set of cards for only $15 (additional sets will not include an additional roll of ribbon). Please let me know how many cards you would like to make when you RSVP.

This is the daytime offering of the Stamp-A-Stack #2 for Christmas Holiday Cards. I will be hosting four Stamp-A-Stack events in December (a Stamp-A-Stack #1 daytime and evening and a Stamp-A-Stack #2 daytime and evening event). The #1 classes will offer the same cards during the day and evening events but will be different cards from the #2 classes. I will try and post photos on my blog very soon. ** You can feel free to leave the sentiment off and change them into general holiday cards.

Mon Dec 13, 2010 at 10:00am - 12:30pm Stamp-A-Stack #2 (daytime event)This is the daytime offering of the Stamp-A-Stack #2 for Christmas Holiday Cards. I will be hosting four Stamp-A-Stack events in December (a Stamp-A-Stack #1 daytime and evening and a Stamp-A-Stack #2 daytime and evening event). The #1 classes will offer the same cards during the day and evening events but will be different cards from the #2 classes. I will try and post photos on my blog very soon.

Please RSVP by December 1st so I have supplies prepared for each participant.
** You can feel free to leave the sentiment off and change them into general holiday cards.


Here is a sneek peek of what the Stamp-A-Stack #1 cards look like.

Hope you can join us tonight or at one of the SAS events this week. Email me at

StampingWithRose-Ellen@cox.net or call me at 703-200-2340.

In like a lion.....

Hi there My Stamping Friends,

For me it seems like the Holiday season 'comes in like a lion'. I'm not really sure where summer went and now we're already past Thanskgiving and we're gearing up for Christmas. WOW!!!

Well, December for me means making LOTS of Christmas Cards. I've been making a few at a time for the last several months but I still have a bunch more to go. This is a card that I created after seeing so many different versions on Stampin' Connection (which is sort of a version of FaceBook for Stampin' Up! demonstrators~and you can have access within moments if you purchase the $300+ kit on sale now for less than $88). Thanks to all my fellow demonstrators for the inspiration.

The base of this card is cherry cobbler. I used the Big Shot to cut out a top note die from confetti cream cardstock. The tree branches were made using Lovely as a Tree with old olive ink and the sentiment was stamped in cherry cobbler using Four The Holidays. The strip of DSP and the ornament was punched from papers from the Jolly Holiday pack. I used the silver tinsel as an ornament hook and wrapped one end around the ornament and put the other end through the top note die so it looks like its hanging on a branch. It might looke like a complicated card but it wasn't at all.

If you want to purchase any of the items needed to make this card you can visit my website at http://www.roseelleneastman.stampinup.net/ or you can email or call me.

A Happy Little Accident

Hi there My Stamping Friends, Its been a while since I've posted but all my girls are back in school and it seems that the routine of school busses, snacks, homework, girlscouts, band, preschool co-oping, school volunteering, PTA meetings and Back to School Nights are all under control. Whew! Now, I can get in some more stamping time! Which is perfect because I'm going to the Stampin' Up! Baltimore Regional this weekend and I've got to get working on some swaps. My stamp studio is clean(er) and my darlin' hubby is out of town so I'll have lots of time to stay up late and get some stamping done.

Before I can show you what I've been working on for swaps, I wanted to show you a technique that isn't new, but since I've never tried it before, its new-to-me. Last weekend I was at a downline meeting hosted by my friend Robin Merriman. The cards were fantastic and there was one that I KNEW I was going to CASE as soon as I got home. I'm not sure who made the original card but if it was you, let me know and I'll give you credit here. The card used the 'dryer sheet technique'. I'll attach a photo of the card that we made at Robin's house and then I'll show you what I made at home.

Here is the beautiful card we made at Robin's house:

And here is what I made at home:

My plan was to CASE (copy the card) but change out the sentiment since I didn't have the same stamp set. Sooooooo...there I was, happily stamping with one of my clubs when my card got a little oopsie (without being reinked, the stamp touched the card stock again along the bottom of the card). Rather than flip it over and start again (which is a perfectly fine thing to do) I decided to add some more trees and make a forest. I actually like the way it turned out. As Bob Ross would say, it was a 'happy little accident'.

To create the card I first stamped the image from the Lovely as a Tree and Four the Holidays stamp sets in Night of Navy ink on Whisper White cardstock. Then I used some adhesive spray on the whisper white and placed a used dryer sheet on top of the adhesive. I trimmed my dryer sheet to the size of the whisper white layer. My dryer sheet was still pretty thick (depending on what brand you use) so I sprayed a little bit more adhesive and covered it in dazzling diamonds glittler. I put brads in the corners and used dimensionals to stick it to the night of navy card base. My Stamping Friends that were in attendace that night LOVED the card and the technique. I hope you do too. Feel free to leave a comment for me and let me know.

If you want to purchase any of the products that I just mentioned you can order directly from my website at http://www.roseelleneastman.stampinup.net/ or you can send me a note and I can answer any questions you might have.

Have a great stamping day!
Rose-Ellen