Stash Sundays: Retired Watercolor Garden 2 and Retired Loving Memories

I hope you are enjoying Stash Sundays and my little trips down memory lane. Even though I keep my stamp sets, there are a few that I always come back to time and time again. The Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Garden stamp sets are those for me. I love the quick…

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Global Design Project 186: Sketch Challenge

This week’s Global Design Project is a fun sketch challenge. I’m using the retiring Beach Happy stamp set and Seaside embossing folder to make my sketch challenge card. Start with a Crumb Cake cs card base. Cut a Whisper White cs panel, dry emboss it with the Seaside embossing folder,…

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Don’t Overlook The Lovely Retiring All That You Are Stamp Set

Summer is fast approaching and with it the changing of our catalogs. The last day to order from both the 2018 – 2019 Annual Catalog and the 2019 Occasions Catalog is June 3rd. We’ve already seen some of our favorites from these catalogs sell out but there is still time…

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A Lovely Perennial Essence Petal Palette Card

My box finally arrived and I was able to play with some new product from the new 2019- 2020 Annual Catalog. I watched my unboxing and I said “It’s so pretty!” like a million times while looking through the Perennial Essence DSP. So of course I chose a piece of…

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Sentimental Rose – April’s Gorgeous Paper Pumpkin Kit Stamp Set

I absolutely love this month’s Distinktive Paper Pumpkin’s stamp set, Sentimental Rose. While I was still waiting for my Pre-Pre-Order from OnStage I enjoyed sharing the April Paper Pumpkin Kit on my Facebook Live. You can watch the replay here. Start with a Gray Granite cs card base. Cut a…

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April’s Paper Pumpkin Kit – Sentimental Rose

April’s Paper Pumpkin with the Sentimental Rose Distinktive stamp set is gorgeous! I love this kit! The cards that come with Kit are so lovely and easy to make. The embellishments – corrugated layers & banners and enamel dots are super cute and fun to add to the cards. I…

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Stash Sundays – The Gifts of Spring

Happy Easter! Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday. I didn’t realize how far I reached into my stash for ‘The Gifts of Spring’ until I found the copyright of 2000 – gulp 19 years back – it doesn’t seem that this stamp set was from that far back. I…

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Global Design Project 185 – Purple’s Pretty

I’m a big fan of Purple. For this week’s Global Design Project I used the new Daisy Lane stamp set I received at OnStage with the Gorgeous Grape & the Highland Heather colors. Start with a Highland Heather cs card base. Cut a Gorgeous Grape cs panel, dry emboss it…

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Glimmer Gal Sketch Challenge – Lovely As A Tree

My fellow Glimmer Gal, Theresa, gave us this sketch challenge. I couldn’t resist using Lovely As A Tree stamp set. I was sad to learn that Lovely As A Tree is on the retired list and won’t be in the 2019-2020 Annual Catalog. If you don’t yet have this awesome…

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Retiring Products -Get Them Before They’re Gone

It’s that time of year when we say good-bye to some of our favorite products in the 2018-2019 Annual Catalog. The Lovely As A Tree stamp set is retiring this year. I still have this set in Wood Mount and it was one of the first stamp sets I ever…

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