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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Video Tutorial - Two Step Stamping Using Stampin' Up!'s Brand New Picture Perfect Stamp Set

Hi everyone! Well, we survived the blizzard!  Forty inches of snow, can you believe it?  Ugh!  We're still digging out but the roads are much better and things are slowly getting back to normal.  I have an elegant card and video tutorial to share with you today so I'll get right to it.  Here's my card using the two step stamping technique and the brand new Picture Perfect stamp set from Stampin' Up!'s 2016 Occasions Catalog:

   


And here's a video tutorial I prepared to show you how super easy it is to create these gorgeous images from this stamp set:



I was so excited to share this video and this card with you guys.  I truly felt like an artist after stamping these images and that's because Stampin' Up! has created such an amazing and easy to use stamp set.  I hope you find this video useful and that you will be just as excited about this stamp set as I am :)  I will link for you below all the items I used to create this card.  Thanks as always so much for stopping by.  I'm so grateful for all my viewers and customers.  Hug hugs to you!

Hugs,

Christine

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog


Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Dear Friend - Watercoloring brand new Stampin' Up! image

Hi everyone! Happy Wednesday! Hope you are having a great week. It's supposed to snow a lot here starting on Friday so I'm not looking forward to that. I'm just not meant for the cold! :) Anyway, I have another card to share with you today. This one also uses water coloring technique using blender pens and ink pads.  The gorgeous image is from the brand new Birthday Blooms stamp set from the 2016 Stampin' Up! Occasions Catalog.  I just love this flower image, it's my favorite!  Here's my card:


What's so great about the water coloring/blender pen technique is that I colored this entire image using 3 ink pads!  Yep, just three!  The flower was done using Melon Mambo, the leaves using Wild Wasabi, and I used some Daffodil Delight for the yellow in the center of the flower.  It's hard to see in the picture, but I also added tons of sparkle to the flower using the brand new clear Wink of Stella pen found in the Occasions Catalog.  All the supplies you need to create this card are listed below. 

Thanks so much as always for stopping by!

Huge Hugs,

Christine

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Love Bug - Watercoloring Using Brand New Product from Stampin' Up!'s 2016 Occasions Catalog

Hi everyone! I'm so sorry it's been so long since I've posted.  It seemed I couldn't keep myself or my little one well and then there were the holidays.  Then we started the new year with more sickies (my three year old has been so sick, poor baby!)  But I'm glad to say we're all on the mend and I'm ready to dive back into my blog and sharing Stampin' Up!'s amazing products with you.

As you probably know, it's Sale-A-Bration time!  That means, for ever $50 you spend between now and March 31 (and that can be $50 on anything from any catalog), you get to pick a free item from the Sale-A-Bration catalog.  There are so many wonderful stamp sets, paper packs, and even vellum in the Sale-A-Bration catalog.  Plus, the brand new Occasions Catalog has so many wonderful goodies in it!  It truly is an exciting time for Stampin' Up!  If you'd like to request a free copy of the Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogs, please send me an email at christinemriley@gmail.com and I'm happy to send them out to you.  So, without further adieu, let me share my project for today using a brand new stamp set from the Occasions Catalog.


How adorable are these images!  The stamps are from the brand new Beautiful Ride stamp set.  I used my Blender Pens and inks to color the image.  All the supplies I used are listed below.  I hope you like it :)

Thanks so much as always for stopping by.  Huge hugs!

Hugs,

Christine

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Peace: Brand New Christmas Stampin' Up! Card

Hi everyone and Happy Tuesday!  I have a different take on the Reason for the Season Stamp Set from Stampin' Up! and I'm so excited to share it with you.



When I first posted a card with this set, I used all four components of the stamp (the outline, then the three pieces you see on this card).  But without using the outline this time, it gives it a different, but still very elegant and fun, look.  I also embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder which I thought was a nice touch.  What do you think?

Thanks so much as always for stopping by.  I'll link all the products used to make this card below. 

Inky Hugs,

Christine
Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog
And here's what's on sale this week:
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Sweet Fall Card Using Stampin' Up! Products

Hi everyone and Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I have a super cute fall card to share with you today using all brand new products from Stampin' Up!



I just can't get enough of the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set in the 2015 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog.  Look how cute this little bear is! :)  I first took a piece of Whisper White cardstock and stamped a stamp from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set in Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive cardstock for a background look.  I then pulled out my Into the Woods design paper (also from the 2015 Holiday Catalog) and created two banners using my Banner Punch.  I then stamped the cute bear in Early Espresso and cut him out with my circle framelits.  I added some green dots from the Regals dot set.  What do you think?

Well, that's it from me today.  Thanks so much as always for stopping by.  I'll link all the products below.  Huge hugs!

Inky Hugs,

Christine
Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Don't Forget Stampin' Up!'s Weekly Deals!!!

Hi everyone, So sorry I'm a bit behind with my posting, I was a little under the weather the last couple days. I posted this card a while back and I wanted to let you guys know that this stamp set, along with lots of other awesome products, are on sale this week until Tuesday.  Here's the card:



I will link below all the weekly deals.  Happy shopping! :)

Inky Hugs,

Christine
Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Thankful for You - Hostess Gift Box and Card using Stampin' Up! Products

Hi everyone and happy Thursday!  I hope you are all having a wonderful week.  I needed a little gift box and card to give to one of my wonderful workshop hostesses so this is what I came up with.





For my projects today, I used the adorable new Stampin' Up! set, Thankful Forest Friends. I  love this set, it is SO cute!  To create the box, I cut out a 6" by 6" piece of Soft Suede cardstock.  I then scored it on each side at 2 inches.  Next, cut off the four corners (the section in between the score lines at each corner).  Next, I folded up at each score line to create the box shape.  I then adhered my design paper (from the Into the Woods paper stack).  Each piece was cut at 2 1/4" by 1 3/4" and adhered to the outside squares of the box.  Next, I used my 1/16" circle punch and punched holes in each corner, then thread my linen thread through each side and tied a bow.  This is how you hold the box together.  I then cut strips of Soft Suede cardstock and crinkled it to create the fun iside of the box.  I punched out the greeting (stamped in Tangerine Tango ink), from the Among the Branches stamp set, with a 2" circle punch, and adhered it to the box with dimensionals.  I then stamped the fox in Cajun Craze ink, cut him out, and adhered him to the box using dimensionals.  I found the tutorial for this box HERE.

For the card, I used a greeting from the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set and created the mutliple colors by coloring on the stamp itself with Stampin' Write markers, blowing on the stamp when done coloring, and stamping it onto Very Vanilla cardstock.  I used Cajun Craze, Tangerine Tango, and Old Olive markers.  I also used Into the Woods DP, Soft Suede and Tangerine Tango cardstock, Into the Woods DSP, dimenionals, linen thread, and cut out another fox.  What do you think?

Whew, that was sort of a long post today, sorry about that :)  Thanks for hanging in there with me.  I'll link all the products I used below.  Thanks so much as always for stopping by!

Inky Hugs,

Christine
Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog