SU Masculine Card

Another Sneak Peek….Sale-a-Bration is almost here!

January 4, 2016

GET READY FOR THE SALE-A-BRATION EVENT STARTING tomorrow -TUESDAY, JANUARY 5TH AND RUNNING UNTIL MARCH 31ST- A FREE ITEM FOR EACH AND EVERY $50 INCREMENT YOU SPEND. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?

Check out this super cute stamp set “The Sky is the Limit” available as a Free Sale-a-Bration item TOMMOROW – January 5th. This is definitely my favorite one…we all need a masculine set, and this one is so versatile- Congratulations, Happy Birthday, and You Send me Soaring which I am considering a Valentine greeting. This first photo uses the cloud/ice cream scoops from our Ronald McDonald Charity stamp set called Sprinkles of Life, and the second one uses clouds from the actual SU The Sky is the Limit stamp set.

The image is so easy to fussy cut and add a little vellum propeller made from the Flower Patch framelits…did you see that in the SAB brochure? So fun!

Use the Hostess Code 7U4FTJKU at the top of the page- and you could win a SU treat from me!

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A Fun Weekend!

October 12, 2015

Imagine being invited to a women’s long weekend retreat where you get to share a home with 9 women who have been friends forever stamping, shopping, eating, sharing, worshiping, and praying for each other. That is exactly what I was blessed with this past weekend. A lovely group of women I have met through stamping invited me along on their special weekend.

Our fearless and miraculous leader and Queen of Bling, Donna and I:

I knew 3 of the ladies previously but got to know all the other incredible women with unique lives over the last five days. I am so very thankful they included me as I was tremendously blessed by their warm personalities. We had devotions every morning, dinners every night, and even took in a show at the amazing Sight and Sound’s production of Joseph-
a wonderful reminder of the power of forgiveness and love…

We stayed at The Scrap Pad in Dover, PA that is run by Pat and Heather Jordan. Yes, a house totally devoted to stamping and scrapping.

By the second day, I literally thought I had died and went to heaven and lived with nine other friends I passed in the kitchen on the way to the craft room.

We bunked with each other seeing who snored the loudest and who didn’t! Our living room had 10 big tables for each of us to work at over the days we were there. I must have cut over well over 3000 pieces of paper as I prepared for my upcoming Christmas Stamp-a-Stack this weekend. However, it was light work with the comraderie of the others crafting away in my big living room!

We all took a break from each of our own crafting projects on Friday night when Pat held a class for us. Here are 3 of the cards she had packaged and ready for us to make: one using the SU The Wilderness Awaits stamp set and the Bohemian embossing folder,

one using the SU Heartfelt Sympathy stamp set and the Brick Wall embossing folder,

and a fun Christmas card using the SU Snow Place stamp set
with the SU Snow Friends framelits.

The icing on the cake is I got to end my weekend stopping off in Washington, DC to have a birthday dinner with my middle son on his actual 25th birthday!

What a blessing he is to me:)

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SU Boys Will Be Boys – Etch A Sketch Card

February 27, 2015

Happy Friday, friends!

My 24 year old son is visiting from Washington, DC today! I can’t wait to show him this card…he is the ultimate “grown-up” kid- so smart and wise but enjoys life to the fullest and all his toys! His kids will have the best dad some day!

Here is the Etch A Sketch toy itself…

Of course, I CASED the card from a TON of them I saw online so all the credit goes to everyone else! Just google “Etch A Sketch” card, and you will see them. They are super easy to make with a sentimental “awe” when you finish making it. I used all the fun images from the SU Boys Will Be Boys stamp set. The Sentiment comes from the SU From the Herd stamp set.

Make a landscape card from a 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch Real Red Card card base and corner round the corners.
Layer a 5 1/4″ x 4″ Smoky Slate panel on the front.
Using the smaller rectangle from the Project Life Labels Framelits, cut a rectangular opening from the middle of a 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Real Red cardstock creating a frame. Corner round the frame. *Save that die cut to frame something else or to use for the sentiment.
Place the Real Red frame over a piece of 5 1/4″ x 4″ Vellum. Stamp images on the Vellum with Black Stazon ink. Let dry and adhere the Real Red panel over the vellum. Attach the vellum with the Real Red frame directly onto the card base.
Punch two 3/4″ circles for the knobs and pop off the Real Red frame. You can stamp the sentiment directly on the top of the frame and heat emboss with gold but I popped it off just in case I messed up the stamping after I put the card together. I chose gold since the actual toy has gold on it.
The inside is simply a corner rounded 5 1/4″ x 4″ panel of Smoky Slate- I like that the inside looks like an Etch-a-Sketch, too:) I did a card with a 5″ x 3 3/4″ inside as well that I liked better because it looked just like the front. But lo and behold, I took a photo of this one!

It is hard to see in the photo but the Vellum really looks like the screen on an Etch A Sketch as opposed to the inside Smoky Slate cardstock.

I made one with the SU From The Herd stamp set, too:

I have to say I just LOVE the Project Life Cards and Lables Framelits – Item #135707- so many thinlits to play with when framing an image or a sentiment. You can imagine the size of the larger rectangle when you see I used the smaller one on this card. And, for this card- it was perfect to have the rounded inside and outside corners for the frame:)

Hope this brought a little nostalgia to your day! And as always…

Thanks for buzzing by… cindy bee 5

SU Guy Greetings

January 26, 2015

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I had a few minutes to play with the

Pals Paper Arts #237 challenge before dinner so I thought I would share it with y’all.

I used the new SU Guy Greetings stamp set with Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, and Very Vanilla cardstock. I die cut my letters with the Little Letters Thinlits and then dry embossed them with the retired SU Lattice folder. I admit I took a little liberty with the sketch but was inspired by Nicole’s CAS sketch. Who doesn’t still say this when they need to screw/unscrew something or turn on/off the garden hose?

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SU The Open Sea and Weekly Deals

For a change of pace, I pulled out some dark colors for a masculine card. I used the

PPA # 208 sketch for inspiration.

I was going to distress this up a bit but I am more of clean stamper so I left it as is, but I really do want to move out of my comfort zone some more. Be on the look out:)

Card Recipe:
STAMPS: SU The Open Sea, SU Morning Meadow Hostess (retired)
INK: SU Cherry Cobbler, SU Night of Navy
PAPER: SU Cherry Cobbler, SU Night of Navy, SU Naturals White
ACCESSORIES: SU Burlap Ribbon, SU Regals Brad
TOOLS: SU 1 1/4″ and 1 1/2″ Circle Punches

6/25/14 Thank you, Pals Paper Arts Design Team for the pick!