Fifth Avenue Floral

This is another card from our recent Swap - I really enjoyed making this one ... featuring the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set and the Cute by the Inch set for the sentiment and the Manhatten Flower embossing folder adds some wonderful texture to the back layer!

So pretty and fun to make - thank you to the designer Yvonne for sharing it - thanks Liz for helping me put proper credit!

Sale-a-bration Book-athon

Stampin’ Up is hosting a book-athon for today! Our collective goal is to have all the new 2010 Demonstrators book at total of 1000 workshops in a day – that is some challenge but they are offering some AMAZING incentive to us to try to achieve that goal!

Every demo who books a workshop will receive a prize for reporting their first booking, and will be entered into a drawing for a $100 shopping spree for each additional booking reported. But the fun and prizes don't stop there—if we reach the goal of 1,000 bookings, every new demonstrator who reports a booking will receive an additional fabulous prize! Who wants to turn down a chance at free stuff?

Not me - I love free stuff and more than receiving free stuff I love sharing free stuff with my friends – so if you are interested in helping me earn some free stmapin’ prizes as well as a chance to get some free stampin’ stuff yourself now is the time to act! In addition to the wonderful hostess rewards program that Stampin Up offers every new hostess who books a workshop with me during today’s Book-athon will receive an additional prize from me on the day of their workshop!

The great thing about Sale-a-bration is the free stuff does not stop with the Demo or Hostess but the customers get free stuff too! For every $60 in merchandise ordered between January 25 – March 31 customers receive a FREE stamp set from the Sale-abration catty … and there are some truly CUTE stamp sets and embellishments to choose from!

So now is the time to share your passion for Stampin’ and paper crafting with your friends in an in home workshop - just shoot me an email or give me a call to book a slot on my calendar – cannot wait to hear from you!

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

ScrapSketch Challenges

Been busy over the holidays with the My Digital Studio and catching up on some of the previous Scrapsketch challenges from over at My Digital Studio website!

This scrapbook series features the Blueberry Crisp Designer series paper download - truly beautiful color combination that matched the 'vintage' look of the 1000 Island Tour that ended at the Boldt Castle ... a wonderful vacation experience for anyone looking for something cool to do in the summer I might add!

I cannot wait to get this printed although I am waffling between deciding if it is better to do them as single pages in a traditional scrapbook or to wait until I get caught up and have a 'bound coffee table scrapbook' made - the choices are just so versatile for the Digital scrapbooking!

December Swap Share

At the end of December I was blessed to get together with a group of awesome talented women on our growing team of Stampin' Demos to engage in our card swap!

This card was shared by Nancy ... at least if my memory serves - there were so many of us I should have written down who shared what ;)

I love the use of the paint chips and the Upsy Daisy with the white emboss powder ... just so elegant all done up together!

Clean Simple Colour Q Challenge Cards

Happy New Year Everyone - may 2011 be full of abundance and prosperity for all!

Today's card offering palette is inspired by the Colour Q Challenge #65

As well as the layout inspired from the Clean & Simple 121 challenge a challenge that is my New Years resolution to take more often as I tend to design cards that are more time consuming that workshops and classes allow for so the inspiration from these challenges should help me to learn to find the elegant beauty that can be found in clean and simple!

So I think I did a pretty good job here combing both challenges! The colour palette of the Crumb Cake card stamped the En Francais background stamp in versamark and than the clean and simple inspired Old Olive cardstock strip run through the Plenty of Petals emboss folder and accented with the Scallop Trim border in Basic Black. Embellished with the 5 Petal Flower done in Basic Black, Basic Grey and Whisper White and accented with a Build a Brad button stamped with the Tiny Tags 4 You sentiment. The sentiment which I placed on the Word window punch layered with the Modern Label punch is the 'With Sympathy' stamp from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

This is a sentiment that you always regret needing but unfortunately I had a friend who has lost her father this holiday season and wanted to send her my condolences with a nice handmade card sending vibes of strength during her time of grief!