April Pumpkin Posse -- My Paper Pumpkin cards and exclusive posse projects

Hey friends!

I love this month's (April 2013) My Paper Pumpkin kit!

The directions made this card

made following the instructions

I got creative and came up with these designs using the items included with the kit this month---not too bad!

You Kick Booty!

Love your guts!

 Inspired by the Love part of the stamp, I got my heart punch out and went to town.....and this is the result:

Love you!

I always have related project for my pumpkin posse---my customers who selected me when they signed up for their My Paper Pumpkin subscription. This month we made a wallet for their cards...seriously!!!

Inside view---the cards fit nicely

Decorated with left overs from the kit

I designed another card for the posse featuring the cherry cobbler ink spot they received in their pumpkin kits and the Easy Events stamp set; using a dauber made the background with the cherry cobbler ink spot. This card was inspired by a card that was demonstrated at Stampin' Up! regional event in Baltimore April 13th. Simple but with WOW!

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Stamping is fun!

Terri
terhare@hotmail.com

My Birthday fun!

Hey friends!

I had a wonderful birthday. The celebration went on for days! My cube-mates had decorated my desk with flowers and balloons...

 

and had left me a birthday button to wear---and of course, I did wear it!

But then had a brain cramp when someone unexpectedly wished me a happy birthday, wondering how they knew! We had ice cream and cake, too!!

But wait there is more...when I arrived home my sweetheart gave me roses and more balloons!

I had planned a stamping evening on my birthday because stamping is my favorite thing to do. Here's the Make & Takes I prepared....

there's a cookie in there, wrapped up tight

Now you can check out the cookie I stamped with the Sweet Pressed Cookie stamp--love it!

Easy Events tag

Easy Events birthday card and notched envelope

Christmas card (more about this card in a later post)

Reason to Smile card

My oldest came to stamp, too---an extra special treat for me!

My sweetheart treated my stampers and me to a Carvel ice cream cake--yummy!!

But the celebration didn't end there....the next day my little daughter painted and decorated my toes before my sweetheart took us to lunch. Awesome cream of crab soup and crab cakes!

Pink and purple toe nails with sparklies

The celebration wasn't over since I had dinner the next week with my best girlfriends. I feel so spoiled!! I captured the event with a few photos...

Moulin de Paris menu

glass wall art at the restaurant

Barb's drink

My dinner -- house curry was super yummy!

chocolate cake with raspberry cream for my dessert---with a candle!

The owner gave me a cookie--a pink flamingo! Super Cool!!

birthday present---for me!!!

I even got a hand stamped card!

another present just for me!

Birthdays are fun!!!

Terri

A scrappy little card

Hi stamping friends!

I am very honored to participate on the Kricut Krazy design team!

As some of you may know I have been a Stampin’ Up demonstrator since October 2010. I attended my first Stampin Up (SU) workshop in 1996. Most of what I saw at that first show is long forgotten. But I still remember exactly what I purchased, though, and why. My first SU purchase was stamp for a wheel and an ink cartridge for the wheel handle that had both purple and blue inks; being the crafting packrat that I am I believe I still own both! That long ago demonstrator showed how you could easily stamp the edges of tissue paper using the stamping wheel. I bought a wheel with a pansy design because I thought of how cool my gift bags would look with tissue paper stamped with two-toned pansies. Even then I wanted to share my stamping projects!

Over the years I have become more and more enthusiastic about stamping---and now I can honestly say most of my thoughts are stamping related. I have so much fun stamping and sharing my creations that I want everyone to have the same fun! 

I made the birthday card below as a sample for my 3 for $5 class I taught last Tuesday; I'm sharing the ingredients and recipe with you today. I'm calling it a scrappy card because it uses many scrap pieces of cardstock. I hope you like it! Please contact me if you have any questions. This card uses tone-on-tone white cardstock embossed with SU’s vintage wallpaper embossing folder and a splash of Melon Mambo color.

Ingredients:

Stamps: Mixed Bunch, Easy Events

Ink: Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight

Cardstock:
Whisper White 8.5 x 5.5 ", 4.75 x 3.3.75" scraps for flower, 1" circle, word window punch
Melon Mambo 4.25x .75", scrap for modern label punch

Punches: corner rounder, blossom punch, 1” circle punch, dotted scallop ribbon border punch, word window punch, modern label punch

Accessories: Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, dimensionals

Recipe:

1. Emboss the 4.75 x 3.375" white cs with the vintage wallpaper embossing folder. Cut it into 3 pieces, each 4 3/4" by 3 1/8"; to keep the order correct on the back of each, mark the pieces 1, 2, and 3. Round the corners on each piece.
2. Attach the pieces to the white cs base in 1, 2, 3 order, centering top and bottom with about 1/16" between the pieces. 
3. Using the ribbon lace border punch punch the 4.25x .75" piece of melon mambo cs. Attach to the card base. 
4. Stamp a flower from mixed bunch set with melon mambo ink on a scrap piece of white cardstock (cs); punch out using the blossom punch. Using a bone folder curl the petals back.
5. Stamp a flower center from Mixed Bunch stamp set with daffodil delight ink on another piece of whisper white cs; punch out with 1" circle punch. Attach with a dimensional to the center of the flower punched out above then attach to the card base with another dimensional.
6. Stamp happy birthday from the Easy Events set in melon mambo ink on a scrap piece of whisper white cs; punch out just the birthday greeting using the word window punch.
7. Punch a modern label using a scrap piece of melon mambo cs. Attach the happy birthday word window punch on top of the modern label punch. Attach to the card base with dimensionals.

Stamping is fun!

Terri Stewart

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