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This year's stamp set that helps to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House is called Tag It. It's retiring soon! Every stamp set sold Stampin' Up! gives $3 to the Ronald McDonald House Charity. They have given over $1,000,000 to this charity and I am a big supporter of what the Ronald McDonald House does. This month my Girl Scout Troop decided to help out our local RMH by painting some artwork for them to use in the hallways. We also went there and made dinner for the families staying there. Talking to some of the families we learned about the amazing things that RMH provides. A place to stay that's close to the hospital. A place to wash their clothes, eat meals, use computers, connect with others and feel a sense of comfort and home during their challenging times. Here's the stamp set below: Tag It 130300 Price : $22.95 ...

I love surprises! My Paper Pumpkin is my monthly surprise that I give myself. Every month my red box shows up in the mail and I can't wait to open it and see what's inside. May's kit didn't disappoint. I love the amazing designs, colors, embellishments, stamps, ink, envelopes and printed paper. I admit that a few of the past Paper Pumpkins left me wondering what was going on with this kit. It's suppose to be a showcase of Stampin' Up! products. A few of the past kits made me think they were running to a Big Box store for supplies. So I wrote to Stampin' Up! about my concerns and they listened. I have to say I'm so impressed now with this subscription that I feel it's worth more than the $19.95 that it costs. I look forward to every month and seeing the amazing product that it includes. One thing they improved most on was the quality of paper. I now feel this is something that is worthy of the Stampin' Up! name. Envelopes and cardstock ar...

Every month I send out a hand made card to my downline for the top ten in sales. I also send out a card to those who promote. Here's a new stamp set coming out in June. I love how fun this little guy is. Plus the new In Color is amazing! Lost Lagoon. P.S. Just entered this card into a challenge on the Stampin' Up! Only Blog. I love this card and thought it was summer time ish. LOL. Let's hope I win!   Stamp set: Sea Street  133988 Colors: Basic Grey, Lost Lagoon   Here's the card I did for my team member Christa. She promoted last month. Yeah!         stamp set: Happy Congratulations 133047 Colors: Hello Honey, Basic Grey, Lost Lagoon. Paper: DSP paper stack moonlight      Get this stamp set before it retires! I'm probably not going to part with mine. At least not this year. LOL.    

This week my class was on watercoloring. I know it's frustrating to figure out the best method for making your cards and scrapbooks look like a water color painting. Here's some basics that you should know about. Aqua painters give a more watery look. Colors are more muted and transparent. Blender Pens give the most depth of color but can be tricky to learn to use. Plus you have to keep dipping your blender pen in the ink well. Regular markers can give quick color but it's not blended very well. New Blendabilities offer a lot of depth, can be corrected with the color lifter and blending is easy. Here's the card we made. I used four colors in the Blendabilities to make the flowers. I first went in with the lightest yellow for the centers, then a dark purple on the edges, followed by the light purple next to that. Finally I used a medium yellow to blend it all together. Awesome! Here's three flowers done three different ways: The one on the right...

Do you love ribbon? Then you will love this week's Deals! Stock up on your favorites because a lot of these are retiring! Another thing you should notice on the Weekly Deals is the MDS download for a recipe book. This is the one I've been looking at getting but didn't really want to spend close to $20 for it. Now it's only $10.77. Preserve your family recipes and print off copies of the book to give as Christmas Presents or at a family reunion. Check out www.mydigitalstudio.net  for more ideas on using the downloads Hurry! These items are while supplies last. Remember I have a drawing this month when you place a $25 order through me for a free set of Blendabilities. (a $11.95 value). Oh and tonight is my Supper club. I hope you can come. If not take a look at what you would learn to do:     Watercoloring like a pro. That's right. We will be learning to use aqua painters, markers, blender pens, ink pads, and Blendabilities.   Have a blessed day...

It's getting closer to the new release of Stampin' Up!s new catalog. As a demonstrator I can pre order all the goodies a month before anyone else. Check out what came to my house. I am holding a drawing this month for those that place a $25 order with me. The drawing is to get a free set of Blendabilities (3 markers in light, medium and dark) in your choice of color family. You can get extra entries by coming to my classes this month. Also if you bring a friend you get 3 extra entries. So I hope you can come. I will demonstrate the new markers at my class. They make coloring so easy. Thanks for looking.

I have been able to get the new Blendabilities before they are available to customers and I have to say I love them! Using markers and aqua painters has worked for me to water color images. I love the look of watercolor and enjoy shading and creating depth on my projects. Since I got the blendabilities I am so thrilled with how easy it is to create this depth and shading with just three markers and going over the project until I'm happy with how it looks. Here's something I did using the different colors and the Poppy background stamp. I found a blog that describes the new markers much better than I could have so please go visit Linda Heller's blog. I have a class coming up on Tuesday and I will show how you can watercolor like a pro so I hope you can come.

Okay people, this card was a tricky one but I think it turned out great. Stamp set is Peachy Keen 133113  14.95. It's retiring this month so make sure you get it! I love the camera, arrows and the hello saying in it. The designer paper is Retro Fresh. You need to stock up on this paper. It's awesome and also retiring. 132993  10.95 The matching framelets are bundled with the stamp set to save you money. (15% off)   Peachy Keen Clear-Mount Bundle                           135225 Price : $38.25    Instructions for pop up card are here: For a standard A2 card (vertical): Cut cardstock to 7 1/2"x9 1/4". Score at 2 1/8", 4 1/4", 6 3/8" and 8 1/2" on the long side. Rotate the cardstock to the left. Cut off 2". Cut the 2" strip at 3 5/8" and cut ...

I've been wanting to use this product since I saw it in stores but because of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator I usually don't buy products I can't sell. Luckily I can now buy and sell Project Life! Stampin' Up! has 5 new kits that will make scrapbooking so easy and quick. I made four pages in an hour. Take a look: I don't know about you but for me that's a record. I really liked looking for the cards that matched paper I already had. The pictures are from Meet the Teacher day and First day of school. I can envision my child's school year in an album now. I think this will make my life so much easier and less stressful too. I usually take hours to make one page. With this I just slide the pictures into the pockets and then add a few embellishments along with a journal card. Easy. Fast. Plus I think they turned out great! Oh I don't know if you noticed but I did stamp on some of the paper. I have to include stamping. That's the ...

3/16 Inch Corner Punch Price : $6.95 $5.21 Bbq Blitz Ensemble - Digital Download Price : $12.95 $7.77 Etcetera Designer Series Paper Price : $10.95 $8.21 ...