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Today's tutorial is super easy - and not so much for the card as for the technique. You may remember that when I first used the Pigment Sprinkles and the Friend Like You Bundle....I intended to use the Palm Trees. BUT - they are one of those dies that don't cut the way you expect.  I did figure out HOW to use them, they just didn't work with the background that I had created with the sprinkles. Since then I have seen post after post of stampers asking HOW do you use those dies.  So … [Read more...] about How to use the Palm Die in Friend Like Me

A reminder that it's time to sign up for June's Free Online Stamp Classes!  One of the classes this month features the FABULOUS summertime nautical suite - Come Sail Away!  From the second I first saw the stamps I KNEW that I wanted to do a card that used the stamps in the suite with two of last year's favorites - Sea of Texture and Magical Mermaid. The tutorial is here.  You can see how I brought together three stamp sets and two sets of dies for one supery summery project. The … [Read more...] about Free Online June Courses: Come Sail Away – With Sea of Textures and Magical Mermaid for a Summertime Nautical Card

I know so many of us in the US are stuck in the middle of a wet and soggy summer....so let's use today's tutorial to dream of that rain moving off and the sunny days that are {surely} just around the corner! Because if this card doesn't cheer you up - then.....you must be a winter person! This is the last card (promise) that you will see for a while with the resist technique and the Pigment Sprinkles! I do have two more Pigment Sprinkle cards to come, but I am switching up … [Read more...] about Friend Like You – Pigment Series Project Tutorial #4

Happy Monday!  Let's start the week off with a tutorial that will get you going in a positive mindset.  Think of all the girls in your life that you would LOVE to send this card to!  I have a feeling it might find it's way into a camp rotation soon - I am quickly creating far too many projects for the number of camps that I have yet to come this summer.  The new catalog is just that good! This is the 3rd card in my Pigment Sprinkles (I just want to go ahead and rename them Magic Powder, … [Read more...] about Here’s To Strong Women – Pigment Sprinkles Project 3

I have officially found my new addiction!  I just can not get enough of the new Pigment Sprinkles! There is just SUCH A FASCINATION when you can take such a teeny, tiny, little speck of powder Spritz some magic H2O on this...... and COWABUNGA!!! You get some serious tie dye!! This card combines some new: Over The Moon Birch Backgound Shimmer Embossing Powder and of course the magic Pigment Sprinkles with lots of returning (that you likely have in your stash!) the Lined … [Read more...] about Cow*Abunga – These Pigment Sprinkles Make Me Happy!!

How sweet are these little birds?  If you find you struggle with getting a just right look with your Blends - then watch today's tutorial. On this card I had two goals - 1) use my FAVORITE Stampin' Up! **Newly Released** Blend Color - Gray Granite!!! 2) Keep the colors Light and Airy.  The video will show you how to get that color with your Blends but to keep it on the light side. The card is one that we made at June camp....based off the one we made at my Demonstrator stamp day … [Read more...] about Bird Ballad Card – When You Copy Yourself – Coloring Tips With Stampin’ Blends

Today's video tutorial features the fabulous new suite Come Sail Away - and there is SO much to discuss over it - so make sure you read...all....the...way....to...the....bottom....of this post!  If you are not at the beach (lake or ocean) then at least this set can help you feel as if you are! But first - take a second and see just how easy this card is to put together.  It was a camp card from our June camp.     Don't you love the summer feel?  Speaking of summer - … [Read more...] about Come Sail Away and Summer Series Classes Now

There is a LOT of new on today's tutorial!  Ya'all know how much I loved the Brusho!  Stampin' Up has now released our own version of this super fun coloring medium....and always a bonus when they are in our own Colors! The card also uses new stamps and dies as well as some new embellishments and new embossing powder.  I explain it all in the tutorial.  Which is here, so if you have not watched it yet, take a second to see how easy it is to make! So - of all of the new things used on this … [Read more...] about Friend Like You Bundle with Stampin’ Up!’s New Pigment Sprinkles **Love!**

Happy Saturday! Today's post will be a bit scattered.....as women sometimes our weekends are!  My catalog kick off camp was yesterday, I have a nephews soccer game, a friends euchre party, some grocery shopping, some strawberry picking, vacation planning.......and loads of laundry - you know a typical weekend to do list!  But I want to get my weekend special list to you.  I have two short videos for you as well. First - here is one of the cards we did at camp.  It was the last one I made … [Read more...] about Birch Background, New In Colors, A Good Man – with my Weekend Special!

If THAT doesn't make you smile....then go grab another one of your favorite drinks.  I'll wait!   This post will be super short.  It has been one of my "favorite drink" kind of weeks around here, lol. It's new catalog week after all!  I made this tutorial super early (during my FIRST cup of coffee) My daughter is off work so she has been stamping with me - and you know when you stamp with a 20 something mid morning sometimes there are mid-week mimosas! I have new … [Read more...] about Over the Moon for the New Scalloped Notecards!