10% off All Stampin' Up Purchases & a Million Project Pictures!!!

Hello!!! I hope everyone had a fabulous Valentine's Day! I did. Hubby bought me the curtains I've been wanting for our bedroom. Not very romantic to some, but a huge deal to me as we're in our new home and I want to decorate everything. Here is a picture of the card I made for my wonderful guy.
Here is another little card I whipped up yesterday during nap time. I was inspired by one Nichole Heady did on her Papertrey Ink blog using the same vellum paper technique. I had to try myself. And yes, I said PaperTrey Ink! I love Stampin' Up, but I love soooooo many other stamp companies too and just to show you how much this project's sentiment is from PTI! I can do that and still tell you that my SU products are still 10% off.


Well, it's almost bedtime for little man, so I have to sign off. But I have 2 more projects to post coming up; a baby project I finished for baby Cecilia and a shot of my re-decorated guest room using some SU! ribbon to enhance some ordinary pictures from Christmas Tree Shoppe!

Ingredients Card 1
Stamps: Love Bandit
Paper: Kraft, Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate, Chip, Old Olive, Real Red, Bashful Blue
Accessories: word window punch, mini library clips, linen thread, texture plates 4circle nesties (spellBinders), white gel pen

Ingredients Card 2
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, polka dot background, sentiment from PTI
Paper: Barely Banana, vellum, kraft
Ink: Perfect Plum, Craft White
Accessories: scallop border punch, button(my stash), DMC floss

10% Off Stampin Up Purchases! Valentine's Cards Full of Happy Accidents

Hello all! As you read a few days ago I decided to extend my 10% off through March 31st which coincides with SU's Sale-a-Bration. Don't forget to e-mail all orders to me at lpryor1@hotmail.com!!
Here are a couple of Valentine's cards I've put together....sometimes I loose my mojo, can you relate? When this happens I like to go back to my SU catties and CASE a project to sort of jump start the creativity process.... As you can see here I've CASE's this "Love U" card from the recent Occasions Mini catalog, but I changed a few things to make it my own. This little card literally made me buy the I {love} Love Jumbo Wheel, a product I almost never buy! I added some punched blue hearts along the bottom and another red strip above to sort of frame it up. Also, I used a chipboard "U" that I sewed a button onto and I changed up the ribbon treatment a bit to make these little flaps.
For my next card, I started by knowing I wanted to make a ribbon skirt. I won't even bore you with how many time I tried and failed at this. I even broke my sewing machine!!! I ended up using double stick Tombo to create this effect. I used the love wheel here again, layered it over my ribbon catastrophe and punched a few small hearts from my three hearts punch and then added the scallop border. Oh and nothing like a slightly crooked rub-on sentiment to tie this disaster together!!! Oh and to make matters worse, some how there was cat hair on my rub-on which permanently stuck itself to my card which I had to go back in and trim away!!! UG!!! The end result isn't all that bad but for a small and simple card MAN was this a mess. I guess that's how it happens sometimes. I think the painter Bob Ross called them "happy accidents". I used to want to stay home from school to watch him and the Price is Right!! Ahhahaha
Anywhoo...I hope you have a lovely Valentine's Day weekend. Please e-mail me your Stampin Up Orders. I will send you an invoice through PayPal so you can have a secure checkout and enjoy 10% off. Don't forget that you can earn a free SAB product for ever $50 you spend so a GREAT, SUPER, FANTASTIC time to make your purchases!!
Love ya!
I'll be back in a day or so with a baby project I've been working on and a couple more Valentine's cards.

Ingredients
Stamps: I {love} Love Jumbo Wheel
Paper: Real Red, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Pretty In Pink, Chocolate Chip
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Only Orange, Real Red, Pretty In Pink, Old Olive
Accessories: chipboard letter, old olive button, needle, thread, three hearts punch, scallop border punch, old olive ribbon, pinking hearts punch, rub-ons, real read polka-dot ribbon

10% Off Stampin Up Continues & A Valentine's Treat

Good morning! Please click HERE to find out how you can save 10% off your Stampin' Up purchase now through January 31st!

So my huge box of Stampin Up goodies arrived yesterday afternoon and when hubby came home last night I went directly upstairs to get playing! Something I didn't realize about the new clear mount stamp option from Stampin' Up....the new stamp sets come in their own DVD-like case! I love this new option. The best thing about it is that you can store the sets upright like in a bookcase and the title is on the spine of the case. Super space saver!! Love love love! Of course it being Sale-a-bration as well, I stocked up on card stock and buttons and punches, oh my! And it was so worth it because I was eligible to receive all 6 SAB items which are fab! I could go on and on, but I will get to my project!

Ok, so I've been wanting to try my hand at these little sour cream containers for quite some time and I thought Valentine's Day would be perfect! This is such and easy thing to make, nothing hard about it at all. HERE is a link to some great instructions on SplitCoast Stampers. If any of you aren't already members there it's free and it's a priceless resource for stamping addicts like me.


I used this adorable set called Love Bandit as well as my new Sending Love specialty designer series paper both available in the Occasions Mini now through April 30th. I colored the image with Copic Markers and punched it out with my Marvy 3/16ths punch and mounted it on a scallop circle. I then punched out the sentiment with my word window punch, added a silver brad and added a punched heart from my three hearts punch. I added a glue dot to the back and stuck it on my sour cream container which is filled with Cherry Cordial Hershey's Kisses which are amazing!!!!!!

I still haven't had a minute to take the natural light photos with my new tabletop light studio, but I'll get there. Stay tuned as I have a bunch a of birthday cards to make including one for a man and for a two year old. Hope I can make them in time otherwise I'll be busting out the belated happy b-day stamp!!!

Have a great day!

Ingredients(All SU unless noted)
Stamps: Love Bandit
Ink: Stazon Black, Copic Markers
Paper: Sending Love Specialty, Real Red, Pretty in Pink Regal Rose, Whisper White
Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, Word Window Punch, Heart to Heart(3 hearts)punch, paper piercing tool, 3/16ths punch(Marvy), silver brads(Making Memories), Atyou Spica glitter marker

Home Decor Project

So I was just getting around to putting out some Valentine's Day decorations...changed my placemats and table centerpiece and I was inspired to make a little something for the door in the kitchen that leads to the basement. So here is what I came up with. I was very much inspired by the beautiful banners that Kelly Lunceford makes.
What you can't see in the picture is that the Very Vanilla main panel is dry embossed with the SU! large dots texture plate, but it didn't photograph well!!! New Year's Resolution...commit to taking better photos of my projects!
Thanks for stopping by!
Ingredients:
Technique: Accordion Fold Flowers
Stamps:none
Paper:Bazzill, K&Co (will get you the name) bought a whole pad at TJ Max for $1.69!!, Very Vanilla, Rose Red(SU!)
Ink: None
Accessories: all SU unless noted...3/4 circle punch, glue dots, chipboard alpha, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, scallop border punch, texture plate, Real Red polka dot ribbon, white with red dots ribbon (my stash), corner rounder(Marvy), machine stitching, half back pearls (Marc Richards)

Love is in the Air

The card was made for this week's Sketch Challenge at SCS. It's definitely my own take on the sketch as the card opens to the left of the sentiment. What you can't see in the photo is that I used my new clear spica marker on the wings and heart flutters. I took some inspiration from Jen del Muro. She used these images together and I just loved him. You can see her card here.
Hope you like it! Thanks for dropping by.

Ingredients
Stamps: The Cat's Pajama's
Paper: Basic Grey's Bittersweet collection, SU!'s whisper white
Ink: Memento, Copic, SU!
Accessories: rhinestones from CTMH

Getting Ready for Valentine's Day...

I'm trying something new here...The heart in I {heart} U is actually a pin I made from clay which can be removed from the card and worn if so desired. I've actually had a bunch of these pins laying around from when I made them several years ago and sold them to a local crafts consignment store. I was happy to have been able to repurpose them! I think I will try a couple that can be used as magnets. What do you think??
Ingredients
Paper: cardstock (SU!), decorative paper (local supply)
Accessories: chipboard alphabet (K&Company), ribbon (local supply), handmade clay heart (me & Sculpey), clear rhinestones