This Months Stampin Up! Specials.

A sneak peek into the new catalog! Do you realize that we are only 10 days away from the retired list! I can not wait to see it. Here is a sneak peak for you. You can purchase this stamp set and get these wonderful die cut stamp set along with the note cards that are die cut too.

From June 1-30, Stampin' Up! is providing an advance purchase opportunity for the Fresh Cut stamp set (#111634) and coordinating Fresh-Cut Notes (#111882). These two products will be included in the Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog.

Customers: Purchase the sneak peek Fresh Cut stamp set and add on the coordinating Fresh-Cut Notes for just $5.

Hostesses: Hold a $400 workshop, and receive the Fresh Cut stamp set and coordinating Fresh-Cut Notes FREE.

And then there is this promotion too......

eScape Bundle (item 113700):

Description	Page Number	Price
Love Notes assortment	p. 167	$8.95
Circle of Friendship stamp set	p. 143	$17.95
Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad	p. 165	$5.25
Very Vanilla 5/8" grosgrain ribbon	p. 191	$7.95
Total (non-bundled)		$40.10
eScape Bundle price		$30.00

Pez-A-Doodle Sneak Peek and more sketch players.

Today I am featuring another card done with the Pez-A-Doodle designs stamps. The stamp in the background with the fence is the new stamp, the focal image is a very old retired Stampin Up! stamp that I always loved called Fairies.


Stamps: Fairies (retired stampin up) and Scrollybugs by Pez-A-Doodle designs
Paper: Groovy Guava, River Rock, Wild Wasabi and Whisper White
Ink: Stazon and Chocolate Chip
Other, ink pads and blender pen for coloring, baubles, markers, Nestabilities

Now head on over to the Pez-A-Doodle blog to enter today's giveaway
to win Tim Holtz embossing powders!

Now for a few more cards for this weeks sketch!

Tammy at Stamp with Tammy


Margaret at Fun Stampin with Margaret

Thanks ladies, beautiful cards!

Bling, Bling, Bling and a few more players for this weeks sketch.

Do ya think I went too far? There is lots of little crystals on this card. I actually love the bold and bright colors. This was a fun card to make. It is for a sketch challenge on one of my groups where we are assigned partners and then we send them our challenge card. I am so glad I made the card before I checked my partner because I would have changed it if I knew who it was going to. I am not too sure she likes bold brights but I am going to entice her with this, lol. Besides it is always great to have samples that are made with a different style than our own right.

There is a lot going on here but that is what I was looking for. The circle of flowers is from the Enjoy Every Moment set and I colored each flower individually so that they would alternate the Bashful Blue and Pumpkin Pie colors. I loved how the flowers kind of matched the paper which is from the Summer Picnic collection {love this paper}. I added a mini crystal in the center of all the flowers. {enlarge the image to see the details}. The center flower is from the hostess set Cause for Celebration. This one is stamped in Real Red and popped up. There is a rhinestone brad in the center too. I am not real happy with the picture but after 15 attempts I could not get a better one so I apologize.



Stamps: Cause for Celebration, Enjoy Every Moment
Paper: Summer Picnic, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red and Whisper White
Ink: Real Red
Other: rub on sentiment, lots of bling, cuttlebug, nestabilities

Now for a few more players in this weeks sketch challenge
Technostamper Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge #20


Pat at The Technique Trail


Hetty at Craft Chaos

Thanks for playing ladies.

Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge #20

I really love this sketch today! I got up nice and early and even made three cards for today! I am not so sure about the blue one but I love the other two! And all before 11am, I even impressed myself today! Here is the sketch. It is a really versatile sketch -- so many images would work. My first card is using my favorite -- PUN FUN set. I just love this skunk. And how perfect is this rub on from the Eastern Elegance collection of rub ons. You may have to click on it to see it larger, it says You're a Breath of Fresh Air! Tee Hee, I was so excited when I noticed it. I also used a Fusion Flower to cover the original flower.




And the other great thing about this card is the matching 4 and 3/8 square envelope! I made it my self and it was oh so easy. This is one of those brilliant ideas that {I did not come up with}. I saw it over on Cindy's blog The Creative Closet. She even shows pictures. But essentially you seal up an regular envelope and cut off to make it a square and then re-attach matching paper to make the new flap. Brilliant. Go and give her a little encouragement for this wonderful idea and it was soooooooo easy. Especially if you look at her pictures! Here is a close up view of my envelope. I used the rub ons to decorate it.




This next card is another sneak peek for the brand new line of stamps from Pez-A-Doodle designs. Marti has been known to play a few of these sketch challenge with us. She is releasing a brand new line of stamps on Saturday and I am lucky enough to help her our with some creations. They are really fun stamps, take a look here to see the samples I posted yesterday and keep checking back because I have more samples to add. Amy and Jen will be posting samples at the end of the week to so check them out. Their links are in the last post. This card is using the cobblestone stamp from the background set and the butterfly and fence are from the Scrollybugs set.




Go over to the Pez-A-Doodle designs blog to get in on her contest. She is giving away stuff all week to celebrate the new line of stamps. She has lots of samples to share too.

Now for the last card, I made this card for the inspiration challege on SCS {I haven't posted it there yet though}. The challenge was to use this picture for your inspiration {there was actually a choice of three}



So I used the colors for this card. All of the stamps for this card are from Inkadinkado.



I also used the paisley cuttle bug background and my nestabilites, score pal , circle punches white gel pen, ribbon, paper piercier and mat.

Wow this has been one long post already but don't forget to check out these other
great samples make with this sketch.


Lisa at Splendiferous Creations


Kerry at Three Clover Designs.


Brenda at Memories by Brenda


Adair on Splitcoaststampers


Amy at Patrners in Crimp


and finally Jane has the last card for last weeks sketch

Jane at Jane's Addiction



This should keep you busy for a while!


Have a great day.

Brand Spankin New Stamp Line!!!

I am thrilled to help introduce to you a brand new line of stamps from Pez-A-Doodle Designs. Marti sent me a shout about 2 weeks ago asking if I would be interested in designing a few cards to help here debut her brand new line. Well you all know how I love a challenge so without any clue as to what style or design these stamps would be I said sure! So a few day later I received a package with a bunch of stamps! (got to love that) Pez-A-Doodle will be releasing three sets on Saturday June 7th! and you will certainly want to get your hands on them fast! I am going to show you three cards today -- just as Marti did on her blog --- one from each of the three lines. The sets will be called Scrollybugs, Backgrounds, and Pezadoodles.

This first card uses the Pezadoodles set. This set has four different baby images.




I paper pieced the baby's outfit and the blocks. She is so cute, don't you think?

This next card is from the Backgrounds set. I love this diamond pattern. The flowers reminded me of Stampin Up! Wild Rose so I combined the two sets for this card.


I also used Stampin Up! rub ons for the word friend. The diamonds are outlined in a white gel pen and the Pumpkin Pie base has diamonds embossed with my Score Pal. Fun background to work with.

And the final card is from the Scrollybugs set. This is another great set. I used two of the stamps for this card. The butterfly corner and the image in the oval too. You may have to click on the card to see the details.



I hope you are excited to see the rest of the sneak peaks. Check out these blogs for more ideas using these set during the rest of the week. I can't wait to see what the other girls came up with! I will edit this post with more details after my son's Cub Scout Picnic. I was just excited to share with you the new line! Now go see what the other have done with these same sets.

Marti at Pez-A-Doodle


Amy at Pickled Paper Designs

and

Jen at i{heart}2stamp

See ya soon!