You aren't going to want to miss out on this sale!  These little pieces of hardware are so much fun to add to your projects, whether card making, scrapbooking or 3D items.

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Page 

Description 

Regular Price 

Special Price

114348 

179 

Basic Jumbo grommets 

$6.95

$4.49

109857 

179 

Mini Library clips 

$12.95 

$8.99

112571 

179 

Circle Designer brads 

$5.95 

$3.99

112581 

179 

1/2" Library clips 

$6.95 

$3.99

Check out the library clip used on this scrapbook page.  Love it!

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CIAF-Group1-Sep09-400 Don’t you love it when you give a gift that is so pretty that your
friend almost doesn’t want to open it?  Well now you can give your
friends that anticipation easily with the super-fast and versatile
Treat Boxes from Stampin’ Up!  They are so pretty your friends will
never know what a value they truly are!  To purchase the Treat Boxes visit my store page.

Products Used:

Stamps
•    Delightful Decorations

Paper
•    Whisper White
•    Chocolate Chip
•    Taken with Teal
•    Real Red

Ink
•    Close to Cocoa
•    Taken with Teal
•    Real Red

Accessories
•    3/4” Polka-Dot Grosgrain Ribbon-Real Red
•    Elastic Cord-Gold
•    Treat Boxes
•    Ornament Punch
•    3/4" Circle Punch
•    Crop-a-Dile
•    Stampin’ Dimensionals
•    Sticky Strip
•    SNAIL
•    9” x 12” Catalog Envelope-Whisper White

Treat Boxes (115690) Highlight

Ornamental Bags & Tags is now available for download.  Click here for more information and to buy now.

Here is another sample of this class made with different colors and stamps:

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Christmas Card Stamp-a-Stack – Round 2

By Kari Kechter | Filed in Cards, Classes, Holidays

Winter-Post Sign me up!

If you missed out on this month's Christmas Card Stamp-a-Stack featuring the Dasher stamp, you still have time to register for November's Stamp-a-Stack.

Elegant and beautiful holiday cards!  We'll use the beautiful Serene Snowflakes and Winter Post stamp sets to create these enchanting, shimmery, almost nostalgic holiday cards. The cards are designed to be beautiful, easy and affordable to make, whether you make a few or a lot!  Share joy and warmth by sending friends and family heartfelt greetings with handmade cards this holiday season.

Just in time for the Christmas/holiday season!  Get your Christmas cards complete before Thanksgiving!!

Serene-Snowflakes-in-Sahara PRICE: Your choice!  (Choose how many cards you want to make.)
Date:
Friday, November 6 (6:30p-9:00p) -OR- Saturday, November 7 (10:00a-12:30p)
RSVP by 23-October

These are just 2 of the cards you will be making (total of 4 different designs – you decide how many sets you want to make).

Click here to register for this class before it's full.

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Textured Roses

By Kari Kechter | Filed in Big Shot, Cards, Dry Embossing

Manhattan-Texture-Leslie I made this card for my dear friend Leslie's birthday. I have to admit that I love the way it turned out. Sort of an impressionistic, water-colored look. What do you think?

Here's how I made it:

1) Cut Rich Razzleberry card stock at 5.5" x 4.25".

2) Cut Whisper White card stock at 8" x 5.25" and score at 4" (so folded card is 5.25" x 4").

3) Dry emboss card front using the Manhattan Flower Textured Impressions Folder and the Big Shot (love the deeply etched images these folders create!).

4) Water color the flowers using an Aqua Painter and Rich Razzleberry and Crushed Curry ink pads. Add a bit of foliage color with Garden Green ink.

5) Stamp greeting from Sincere Salutations with Garden Green ink in upper right corner of card front.

6) Attach embossed card front to Rich Razzleberry card base. Stamp birthday greeting on inside using Rich Razzleberry ink.

Leslie - I hope your birthday was as special as you are!

Stamps: Sincere Salutations, Full of Life

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Garden Green

Paper: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: Aqua Painter, Manhattan Flower Impressions die, Big Shot

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2nd Deal of the Week

By Kari Kechter | Filed in Big Shot, Dry Embossing, Specials
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Dates

Item

Page

Description

Regular Price

Sale Price

October 12, 10:00 AM (MT) through October 19, 9:50 AM (MT)

115961

200

Perfect Setting Bigz XL Die

$42.95

$25.99

114515

195

Flower Burst Embosslits

$11.95

$5.99

116760

201

Bigz XL Cake 3 Tier Die

$39.95

$25.49

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Truckin’ Along in Paper Piecing Style

By Kari Kechter | Filed in Cards

My nephew's birthday was last week and I was trying to come up with a card that wasn't too cutesy, but not too serious either. I decided on the ever fun-loving Loads of Love (and Loads of Love Accessories) to create this card:

Loads-of-Love-Michael 

The truck was just calling out to me to be paper-pieced, so I listened. I used some retired DSP (I think the paper was called something like Prestwick?), that has lots of blues and grays. So how do you paper-piece? It's actually very simple. You just stamp your image on colored paper (could be DSP as I used here, or colored card stock), and then cut out the pieces of the image that you want in that color of paper. In the case of my truck. I lined up the stamp so that it looked like the "paint job" on the truck had stripes. Pretty cool, huh?! I then stamped the exact same truck image on a piece of Whisper White card stock (I also stamped the presents and driver), and then glued my new truck body over the top – leaving the presents, driver and tires showing. I could have stamped and cut out the tires and hubs in different papers, but I wanted to color those in. I used a Basic Black marker to color the tires, and pure color pencils to color the hubs and the presents in the back of the truck (along with the lady driving).

To add a little more color, I stamped the greeting with Basic Black on Whisper White card stock, but then I used the pure color pencils again to highlight each of the words with a different color. Helps make the words pop out. I double matted the greeting and truck image with Night of Navy and Going Gray card stock, then attached them to a piece of DSP that was cut slightly smaller than the Whisper White card base.

I hope Michael had a fabulous birthday and knows how much we all love him.

Please give paper piecing a try and then email me a picture of your work – I'd love to feature you on my blog as you are all so talented!

Stamps: Loads of Love,
Loads of Love Accessories, Full of Life (inside saying)
Ink: Basic Black, Basic
Black marker
Paper: Whisper White,
Night of Navy, Going Gray, Prestwick DSP (retired)
Accessories: Pure Color
Pencils

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Happy Birthday, Dad – collage style card

By Kari Kechter | Filed in Cards, Punches, Retired

Yesterday was my Dad's birthday and while we celebrated over the weekend, I wanted to send him a little card to tell him how much he means to me. However my Dad can be a bit critical, so I wanted the card to be more masculine and not so "cutesy". Here's what I designed – what do you think?

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I used some old favorites like Aged to Perfection and the background stamp – Ephemera. I was going for a collaged, aged look. Do you think I succeeded? I like how it turned out, and hopefully Dad will to. Here's how I made it:

1. Create card base from Tangerine Tango card stock (8.5 x 5.5" – folded in half).

2. Stamp the Ephemera background stamp with Tangerine Tango ink on the front of the card, then tear one long edge and tear a chunk out of the right side of the card.

3. Sponge the card edges with Chocolate Chip ink.

4. Cut a piece of Always Artichoke card stock (1" x 5.5") and attach behind the long torn edge.

5. Using Aged to Perfection, randomly stamp the smaller images on the card front. I stamped with bleach, as well as with Chocolate Chip ink (be sure to clean your stamp very well after using bleach!).

6. Stamp the Superior stamp on Creamy Caramel card stock with Always Artichoke ink. Tear the edges near the image and sponge with artichoke ink.

7. Mat this image with a piece of Close to Cocoa card stock and tear those edges. Attach to front of card in upper left corner.

8. Stamp "perfection" image with Chocolate Chip ink on Close to Cocoa card stock. Punch out with the large oval punch.

9. Attach this image inside a hodgepodge hardware oval using Crystal Effects as the "glue".

10. Attach this embellishment to the lower right side of the card front using the coordinating brads from the hodgepodge kit.

11. Attach another hardware embellishment to the lower left corner of the "superior" image using a brad.

12. Stamp inside of card (I love using Full of Life for my inside sayings) and enjoy giving this card to your friends and family!

And here is the coordinating envelope:

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Deals of the Week are Back!

By Kari Kechter | Filed in Punches, Specials

Throughout October, get all-new Deals of the Week—with select products up to 50% off! See below for this week's Deals of the Week:

Dates

Item

Page

Description

Regular Price

Sale Price

October 1, midnight (MT) through October 12 (9:50 AM)

109183

186

Trio Flower punch

$15.95

$10.99

109041

187

5-Petal Flower punch

$15.95

$10.99

110709

187

My Way punch

$15.95

$11.99

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Got scraps? Check out this card

By Kari Kechter | Filed in Cards, Classes, Punches

Autumn-Harvest-Rub-Ons This is a card that was featured in my August class – Razzle Dazzle Shabby Chic Gift Set – and I also demonstrated it during my September parties. I love how you can use up all sorts of scraps on this project. Of course I'm assuming you are like me and cannot throw out even the smallest pieces of your designer series paper, because you just don't know when you might use it. :-) Anyone else out there horde their designer papers? Come on, am I the only one?

While I said you could use your scraps, your scraps do need to be at least 4" in length – the width can vary, and actually looks better with varied widths across the card front. I tore all of the right edges of my scraps and then sponged them with Dusty Durango ink so that they all had a uniform feel to them. As you are layering, simply start on the side on which you want your torn edges to show. In my case, I started layering on the right side of my card and worked left until my card front was full. Does that make sense?

For the tag, I used a piece of Dusty Durango card stock that I rounded 2 corners and tore the opposite edge. I also used the horizontal slot punch to make a place for the Rich Razzleberry ribbon to slide through. Here's a little tip with the ribbon – place a small piece of SNAIL adhesive just underneath the "fold-over" loop, so that your ribbon doesn't try to come undone. For the words on the tag, I used the Autumn Harvest rub-ons and chose the words – a note of thanks. I rubbed those onto my DSP, tore the edges and sponged them with Dusty Durango ink. I then layered that on another scrap of the Razzleberry Lemonade DSP, tore those edges and sponged them as well, and then layered everything onto my tag. Then I added the bough rub on over all of the layers (rub-ons are great for that!), so the image went from the DSP to the card stock tag. I attached the tag to the front of my card, and voila – done! Isn't this a great use for scraps? I love the rich look of this card.

Change out the words and image and this card would make a beautiful Thanksgiving card (well, I guess saying a note of thanks would also work as is).

Stamps: Full of Life (inside sentiment)

Ink: Dusty Durango

Paper: Dusty Durango, Razzleberry Lemonade DSP

Accessories: Autumn Harvest rub-ons, Rich Razzleberry polka-dot grosgrain ribbon, horizontal slot punch, corner rounder, sponge

Interested in step-by-step directions for this card and 3 other coordinating projects, which would make great gifts? Click here to order the tutorial for only $6.95.

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My-Digital-Studio

"Stampin' Up!, long known for its exclusive rubber stamps and accessories for paper crafting, scrapbooking and home décor, is venturing into the digital age with the release of My Digital Studio.  My Digital Studio is an easy-to-use, software-based design studio featuring thousands of Stampin' Up!'s award-winning images, colors, and accessories."

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