Retired Items for Sale

Clear Stamps For Sale
New Unmounted
Hostess- Long Fellows $10
Hostess Punch Potpouri $10
Hostess - It's the Thought $10


Mounted Lightly Used
Hostess- Playful Pieces $12
Hostess- Apple Blossoms $10
Hostess- Birthday Bakery $8
Paisley Prints $8
For A Friend $10






Wood Stamps
Define Your Life- $20 
All Holidays- $18
So Many Thanks $5
Tart & Tangy $ 8
Be My Valentine - new unmounted $8
Great Friend $12- some staining
A Good Egg $15
Love You Much some staining $15
Sock Monkey $15
Big on Christmas $15
Bundle of Joy $15
Dreams Du Jour $8- stained on some stamps
Celebrate Everything $8
Beautiful Baby $4
Unfrogettable $12- some staining
Just for You Series-Santa & Friends $ 10
Yummy- Stained on 1 block only $8
Punches Three $8
Razzle Dazzle $12
Warm Words $ 10




Marker
Yoyo Yellow $1.5
Dusty Durango $1.5


Ribbon
Dusty Durango- Polka Dot Ribbon maybe 12 yards left $4
Soft Suede Polka Dot Ribbon - Maybe 8 yards left $3
Orchard Opulence Ric Rack - 10 yards $5
5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon Certainly Celery - 12 yards $4


Buttons
Kraft Corduroy Buttons- 22 of 24 $5
Summer Sun 15 of 24 $3

6x6 kids scrapbooking class

I recently taught a fun kids scrapbooking workshop using the now retired play date line. Each child went home with a 6x6 ring bound album and 24 pages ready for them to add their own photos and stickers from the sticker pack. Everyone had a wonderful time!

Here are a few of my favorite pages.








If you are a demonstrator and would like to teach my class or if you would like to order the class instructions and see all the pages, please contact me.

Retiring List is Here! Soon Accessories won't be though

Check out the list of fantastic sets that are going to be retiring at the end of the month, as well as paper, ribbon, punches, and more accessories.  Accessories are limited, so get your order in soon!  And if that wasn't all, many accessories are now on sale!  Visit my website to shop day & night, or email me your order.  Send me a second or third choice with accessories as they tend to go fast!

June Promotion from Heather Pilz only!
Order $25 and  earn a free 2011-2012 catalog from me, valued at $9.95.
Order $50 and earn the new catalog, and a free class voucher- valued at $10.00
Order $100 earn a free catalog, a free class voucher, and a free new In Color ink pad- color of your choice. (a $26 value)

Week 1 sketch- summer mini

I love the weekly sketches, for no other reason than getting the creative juices going.

This week I did a sketch layout from creative-sketches.com, with my new stamp set from the Stampin Up Summer Mini Touch of Kindness,#123203- clear. I adore cats, so when I saw the set, I had to have it!! Plus, I love to color, always love a session of coloring therapy! I also used my newest Big Shot die, with two scalloped squares.  They are absolutely wonderful! The designer series paper is the flip side of the fantastic Play Date Designer Series paper, which is on sale and will be retiring at the end of the Month.  Supplies for this paper are limited, so order soon!

My posting this month has been a bit slow, but please visit Creative-sketches.com to try our weekly challenges!  We have a new one each week.

Birthday Invitaton

 

I designed this invitation for a friends daughter's Birthday Bash.  She loves Hard Rock Cafe, and I was thrilled when I found the Grunge Rock set.  Not only was it birthday themed, but it had an awesome guitar.  I used the rock and roll technique to stamp each guitar in Cherry Cobbler and Basic Black, creating a unique guitar on each invitation.

Supplies on this card included the Rockin Wheel, Twine, Inviting Stamp Set, and the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder.  Unfortunately the inside image is terrible, and I already gave the cards to my friends.

Creative Sketches Week 4 Holidays

This week we were working with circles in our sketch at Creative-Sketches.com.  I took the sketch below and altered the circle concept to use a variety of circles, punches, and dies. Our concept also included Holidays, but my card didn't have an actual holiday in mind.  Is there a National Friends Day?
I adore my new Boho Blossom Punch! My favorite stamp set right now is the Just Believe stamp set.  I have watercolored it, stamped it and now colored it with markers.  Love all the variations!  Hope you get a chance to come by and join us in our design challenge!

Creative Sketches Week 4 Mother's Day

This week, the Creative Sketches Design Team tries to combine a Sketch and a Holiday card.  Knowing that Mother's Day is really not all that far away, I started thinking of what my mom might like to get in the mail. My Mom does not love pastel colors, which typically are used in the spring and for Mother's Day so that makes it challenging to make a card for her.   She loves rich jewel tones though. I was thrilled that I was able to combine the Color Challenge from Just Add Ink (Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, and Whisper White) with the Creative-Sketches.com Sketch Challenge to come up with a card that I think my mom will love!

This adorable card uses one of my favorite Holiday stamps sets, All Holidays.  It covers just about every major holiday in the year.  So versatile!  I pair with my trusty Big Shot Top Note Die, and Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder, my new Boho Blossom punch, the two Step Bird Punch, and some wonderful Designer series paper from the Bold color pack.

To add a little sparkle on this card, I used my favorite Old Olive 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, a Rich Razzleberry brad, and some wonderful pearls. I love the different sizes with the pearsl too!

So, go on over to Creative-Sketches.com and post your holiday card! Can't wait to see what you make!

Messages For Mom - Contest Submission

So I finally got up the nerve or punctuality to submit an entry to Stampin Up!'s monthly challenges.  The theme for my entry was Mother's (or Fathers) Day.  I am writing this post in January, and the contest ends in February, so I will have to do an update.  At this point I have no idea if I have a chance or not, but it is my goal to win at least once this year, and to do that, I will have to start submitting every month.

This card is not one I would ever want to make in bulk, but I love the results.  I stamped the flower in this set on watercolor paper, water colored it all in, and then cut all the little flowers out. Then I added crystal effects to the little flowers to add some sparkle and dimension to each one.  I am really loving tearing paper, so that was another fun way to perk up the color palette of Rose Red, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Pear Pizzaz, and Blushing Bride. those colors are part of the color palette for the Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper which I love!

Creative Sketches Week 1 Challenge

This week for our sketch challenge, we had a vertical layout with several thin layers.  I decided to use one of my layers with a stamp instead of adding a piece of cardstock.  It is a little hard to see in the picture, but look to the left of the larger image.  I used my other layer as the edge of the top note die.

I have really struggled with Poppy Parfait as a color, but this color challenge from Handstamped Sentiments provided the Colors for the week, Pear Pizzaz, Poppy Parade, and Blushing Bride.  I like the combo very much.  I will definitely be using it again soon!  I cheated slightly and added a tiny sliver of Crumb Cake!  Sorry guys!

The stamp set I used is Just Believe.  I absolutely this set and have used it several times.  I had not used the frame stamp though so it was great to get that inky!  Hope you like it and want to go over to Creative-sketches.com and give it a whirl for yourself!

Creative Sketches Week 1 Challenge

This week at Creative-Sketches.com, we are working with a Sketch challenge.  What can you make with this Sketch?

I don't have any handy Oval cutting dies,so I chose to use my Stampin' Up! Big Shot, and my largest Circle punch. (We have an even larger circle in the current Mini catalog, but I don't on that yet!) I really love Elements of Style, and wanted to showcase the gorgeous flowers in a subtle fashion.  I stamped it out and punched out 2 circles, the trimmed out two more flowers. I used the stamp in the background, for a tone on tone look.  I also used my Color Spritzer to add interest to the bottom half of the card.  my Top Note die, trimmed the long way added another element to the card.  The final element was my grosgrain ribbon.

Pop over and send us your card submissions!

Creative Sketches Week 4 Holidays

This week at Creative-Sketches.com we are creating a card for  a Holiday. Since Spring is coming our way, and I made about 5 valentines day cards this week, I was in the mood for something else and went with a Mother's Day Card.

I really love the stamp set Just Believe, but so far I have not tried using it on moist watercolor paper. I colored in the flowers and inked up the grass then pressed firmly on my damp but not wet paper.  I also tore the edges for the deckle edge.  I also just got some wonderful new ribbon, Blushing Bridge Stitched Poly Ribbon.  It is heavy weight stuff, but makes a great bow!  My final step was to turn this into a Mother's day card.  The modern label punch would have worked, but instead I used a smaller approach with the Word Window punch, then embellished it with another stamped flower. This time I did not use moist watercolor paper, but colored it and cut it out. I added a Pearl in the center to give it a little more polish.  Now to store it somewhere safe until it is time to send it to my Mom!  Pop over to Creative-Sketches.com and post your holiday card.

So when I started the card, I just chose the colors myself, or so I thought.  After I was popping around on a few other sites, I remembered seeing the Inkspirations Challenge Color Challenge this week.  So my first version was all but perfect except I forgot the Early Espresso on the card.  So I stamped it again, and here we are!...I just found another fun challenge site, and had to submit this there are well.  They wanted a card with a bow :)  Thank you Pals Paper Arts!  I love bows!  I also submitted it to CraftyCardmakers Challenge site with their Floral Challenge.

Always Valentine

I took an existing layout from a previous post, and converted it to work with a different stamp set.  I really like swapping out layouts that I like with different stamp sets. When something works, it is easier than dreaming up a whole new plan. 

I like this card because it could work as a Valentine, but would also work nicely as a simple card of affection at any time of year. 

Thank you Dad! - Totally Tool

 

My parents came to visit us over Christmas break,  and it was wonderful having them!  I was particularly grateful that my dad was able to fix one or two things at the house that have gone under the ready for awhile.  So I borrowed this wonderful Set, Totally Tool #113256 and made this card to send to my dad.  I'll be sending it out tomorrow!

I was also able to tie this in nicely into the Diva Coffee Break Challenge with their color challenge with Bashful Blue, Sahara Sand, and Night of Navy.  I had never combined those colors, but it is a perfect manly combo!

Supplies

Totally Tool

Big Shot and Square Lattive embossing folder

Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Sahara Sand, and Very Vanilla Cardstock

Bashful Blue and Sahara Sand markers

brads

Creative Sketches Week

This is my second post as a member of the Creative Sketches Project Team.  Having a blast so far! I was working from the layout below. I created this card using my trusty Big Shot and my Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder.

I have not used Friends Never Fade stamp set and Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Wallpaper in awhile so it was fun to get those back out.  I have been holding back on this sheet with the huge Pumpkin Pie flowers, but it was just right on this project. I used the coordinating markers to color in my stamp to match the paper.

I used a bunch of punches on this card as well; Word Window, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle, 1 3/4" Circle, and my corner rounder.  I also used my Circle #2 Die from my Big Shots which nests perfectly inside the 1 3/4" Circle. This was my first time using my newest embellishment- my 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain ribbon.

Hope on over to Creative-Sketches.com to submit your sample!

Filled With Love - Valentine's Day Bundle

 

Valentine's Day is the second biggest holiday for sending cards, and during Stampin' Up!'s Filled with Love promotion, you can get an exclusive package of Designer Series Paper perfect for creating cards for family, friends, classmates, and more!

From December 17, 2010 through January 24, 2011, get a FREE package of Bitty Buttons--a $4.95 value--when you purchase an exclusive Filled with Love Bundle. This bundle contains the Filled with Love Set (on page 43 of the 2010 Holiday Mini Catalog) and Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack.

Download the flyer for complete details, item numbers, prices, and photos!  Or pop straight over to my online store and start shopping! Click on the link, then click shop now under products. Remember to check out the Clearance Rack for some incredible deals!!

Punch Art Elf Card

I made this little guy before Christmas, but just finally got a chance to post this.  This guy take a lot of pieces to create.  I didn't get a chance to create a tutorial, but here is a quick list.
Ornament Punch-hat and face
Owl punch - I used the small heart to make the ears and hands and bow, eyes and center of the bow
Oval- bite off the top of the hat, legs
Word window -Socks
Trio hearts-arms, and collar, feet
1/2" circle nose and puff on the hat
Large tab-shirt
I think that is everything.  I also used the Snowflake embossing folder and white craft ink to create a fun winter scene.  Feel free to email me for a better picture, or if I can, recreate him and post the pieces. I made a UPS guy clock once, and he is similar in concept to the body of the UPS guy.

Sneak Peek New Occasions Mini Catalog

I just got my box of goodies from Stampin Up! on Tuesday, and I finally had time to sit down and do a little stamping.  I am so excited about the upcoming Mini Catalog! It is available for Customer orders starting January 4th!  What a wonderful new bunch of goodies!  If you don't have your mini catalog yet or you are not on my mailing list, please email me and I will put on in your hands.  In the mean time, here is my first teaser.  If you don't know, I love to sew, so this set called Sew Suite really spoke to me!  Especially with all the coordinating goodies like the designer paper and the Button Button stamp set! For the saying, I used the Word Play Stamp set from the Idea Book and Catalog.  I really love all the different sentiments in that one stamp set!

I decided to test out my goodies using the Mojo Monday Challenge of the week.  The layout was perfect for this set!  Totally worth the wait and the tidying up I had to do before I could stamp! Look forward to my next sneak peek and come back soon!

$200 raffle basket

I had a great afternoon with 4 other ladies doing a multi vendor holiday open house. We had a good turnout, and if you missed a chance to get in on the incredible basket with $200 worth of goodies from Stampin Up!, Lia Sophia, BeautiControl, Thirty-one, and PartyLite, there is still time to earn raffle tickets.

Until next Friday, if you book a workshop with me or place an order with me, you will earn Raffle Tickets for the large basket. Booking workshops earns 5 tickets, and every $10 spent earns 1 ticket. Orders can be placed online, emailed or called in to me to earn tickets.
Every $50 order placed with me earns a free framed art project in additional to the
Raffle tickets.


I also was holding an added incentive tree and will allow you to choose an envelope from my booking tree as well. The tree held items from $3-$10. You would receive them with your workshop order.

Please contact me with any questions, or to place orders. If you would like to order Christmas cards, contact me as well.

MDS hybrid card

I love my digital studio! This set comes standard and I don't own the actual physical version. I made this card digitally then mounted it on cardstock, colored it, and added lovely satin ribbon to finish it off.

I just taught a MDS class, and if you would like a copy of my class tutorial, it is available for $5.00. It walks you through a card and scrapbook page.

Just believe card set

I got this set at Stampin Up Convention, and have loved it, but jut recently taught a workshop using it. Such a wonderful set!! We did a simple card that I cased from another demo and put a little twist of my own on it. Love the colors and simplicity of the set.