Oh Henry, it's a boy!

The other day, my husband came home from work and said he need a baby boy card for one of his coworkers.  I love doing cards for babies, but I don't have any cute current baby sets.  I dug into my retired stash and found Oh Henry!, the perfect set. Almost everything I used for this card is retired, but you can use the layout with any current set and paper.

Henry was stamped with Basic Grey onto Bashful Blue cardstock and then cut out.  The onesie, booties and bib came from another retired set but I can't remember the name of that set right now.  The card base was embossed with the Polka dot embossing folder.

Hope you like this card and feel free to leave a comment.

Thanks for visiting!

-Roberta

Getting ready for back to school!

We only have a few more weeks left before the kids go back to school.  That means it is time to start thinking about teacher gifts for the first day of school.  You know the old saying "an apple for the teacher", well here is my version.

I know I used some retired items on this project, but it is too cute not too.  I used the milk carton die to make the apple with some leaves from the sizzlet die.  The kids are from the retired set Greeting Card Kids.  I filled the apples with chocolate candies because every teacher needs chocolate after a day full of very excited kids.

Hope you like this project and feel free to leave a comment.

Thank you for visiting!

-Roberta

Paper Pumpkin Promo

I'm Paper Pumpkin . . .

I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage). I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun.

I come in a sweet box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside:

All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create pinable projects. Create stuff like cards, journals, décor, and more!

Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! is a new monthly kit program that anyone (even you) can enjoy!

Offer Dates: July 18, 2013 -August 31, 2013

Offer Details: Use the promotion code PUMPKINDEAL to join Paper Pumpkin before August 31, 2013, and pay only $10 a month* for the first two months.
*plus tax, where applicable. Shipping included!

The Fine Print:

• For new subscribers only.
• Promotion applies only to the first two months of a new subscription. After receiving two month's worth, the price for each month's kit will go to the regular price: $19.95.
• You and your customers need to visit mypaperpumpkin.com to join.
• You must click "Add Promo Code" and then enter the promo code PUMPKINDEAL in the "Promo Code" field when you sign up on the mypaperpumpkin.com website to take advantage of this promotion.
• You must join by Saturday, August 31, 2013; 11:50 PM (MT).

Remember that when you sign up for Paper Pumpkin, you will need to enter my name (Roberta Smith) as your demonstrator.

Hope you take advantage of this great deal.  Feel free to leave a comment with any additional questions.

Thank you for visiting!

-Roberta

Carve your own with Undefined

Stampin' Up! has released a new product called Undefined.  If you have ever wanted that just right stamp and couldn't find it, now you can.  Click on the video below for a short informative video.

Intrigued? We know you want to get your hands on the kit and start carving your own masterpieces. Here are the item numbers you'll need (we suggest adding a refill kit on your first order . . . trust us, you're gonna want it).

Item #	Description	Price
133402	Undefined Stamp Carving Kit	$19.95
134808	Undefined Refill Kit	$9.95
124236	Clear-Mount Cling Foam*	$10.95

*Add a sheet of Clear-Mount Cling Foam to create your own clear-mount stamps. Mounting your stamps on the cling foam allows you to make stamps any size you want, not just what will fit on the blocks in the kit.

Included in the Stamp Carving Kit: 2 carving tools 3" x 4" rubber 3" x 4" foam 4 wood blocks (various sizes) 1 Island Indigo Stampin' Write Marker 3 postcards Instruction sheet Stamp image templates

Included in the Refill Kit: 3" x 4" rubber 3" x 4" foam 4 wood blocks (various sizes) Instruction sheet

Express your personality, thoughts, feelings, etc. with a stamp you've carved all on your own! We know you'll have a "look what I made!" moment.

Feel free to get in touch with me to order your new Undefined set.

Thanks for visiting!

-Roberta

Zebra with Zoo Review

Another swap.

Sorry for the poor picture quality, it was a bad weather day when I took the picture.

This one is simple, but did take some time putting together.  The zebra and sentiment were stamped with stazon with Gumball Green ribbon behind.  The stripes are Basic Black cut in varying widths and curves.  I glued them on Whisper White in designs that appealed to me.

Hope you like this card and feel free to leave a comment.

Thanks for visiting!

-Roberta 

Rings for 3-D swap

I also decided to make some rings to swap.  I used jewelry wire from the local hobby store for the base.  I thought the wire would look better than regular ring bases.  Most of the rings I made used the Vintage Faceted Buttons as a base.

I wish I had a set by set tutorial for you but completely forgot to take pictures.  To make the base, I threaded the wire through the two holes in the buttons and then wrapped the wire around the top of the Stampin' Cleaner bottle to get uniform sizes.  To hold the wire in place, I wrapped the wire around the sides of the ring a couple times.  The tops are Antique Brads that have the brad backs cut off.  I simple hot glued them to the button.  The two on the far left have flowers from the retired flower trim.

Here is a close up of one of the rings with just the brad and button.

Close up of flower, brad and button.

This is a side shot to show a better look at how the ring base was put together.

Hope you like these rings and feel free to leave a comment if you need any further instructions.

Thank you for visiting!

-Roberta

Monsters Swap

My second swap card is my favorite one!!!

These monsters are too stinkin' cute!!

Super simple to make with the owl punch.  Punch the owl body, an extra set of feet and two hearts.  You can see on the middle monster I used the eyes from the owl punch also, but I like the look of the google eyes better.  The second set of feet are used for the arms and the hearts are the ears.  I used the banner framelits and Itty Bitty Banners for the sentiment.  The pole holding the banner is just a toothpick and I drew the mouths with the Basic Black marker.

Hope you enjoy this card and feel free to leave a comment.

Thank you for visiting!

-Roberta

Blown Reinker Swap

Hello everyone!  It has been a while since I posted the projects I have been working on.  I recently went to Stampin' Up!'s 25th anniversay Convention in Utah and want to show you the swaps I made.

The first one I want to show you is my Blown Reinker swap.

It is super simple and a technique I learned when I was little.  On a piece of Whisper White cardstock, drop a single drop of Stampin' Up! reinker offset from the center.

With a straw cut in half, blow out the reinker until you have the amount of veins you are happy with.

You might need to use a second drop of reinker if the veins are too thick.  Continue with different colors until you have a design you are happy with.

The punch is the new Artisan Label punch and the sentiment is from the Label Love set.

Hope you enjoy this card and if you need additional instructions, please feel free to leave a comment.

Thank you for visiting!

What I have been working on

It has been a very long time since I posted anything here.  I have been doing some stamping but not a lot.  I seemed to have misplaced my camera and my phone doesn't always want to take good pictures, which makes me not want to post.  My camera is still missing in action and my phone has finally cooperated with me so I decided to show you what I have been working on recently.

These are child size crochet hats that are super simple to make!  They are going to be donated to Texas Children's Hospital for the kids undergoing treatment.  My aunt got me started and they are way to fun to stop, plus it is a great cause!

Thanks for stopping by, I am off to make some more hats!

Merry Monday Challenge

I was blog surfing this morning and decided to play along with the Merry Monday Challenge.  I have been following along but have never actually submitted an entry before.  I decided that since I have been playing with MDS recently that I would go ahead and give it a try this week with a digital card.

Here is the sketch for this week.  I decided to rotate the sketch and get a little creative with it.  I used the trees on my card where the ribbon and dsp are on the sketch.  I also thought it would look really cute if I used the deer stamp instead of the punch.  I think this card is super cute and super simple.  Leave me a comment and tell me what you think.

Wedding Words

I am having so much fun with MDS2!  Here is an idea I got from Pinterest.  I really love this idea!  It has the lyrics to our first dance song (Could I Have This Dance by Anne Murray) over our first dance picture.  I am going to have a canvas made from this very soon!

A scrapbook page

I have been playing with My Digital Studio 2 again!  My baby is five years old and about to start kindergarten.  How crazy is it that I am just now making pages for his scrapbook?!?  I didn't use any of the new features on MDS2 this time, but I still had a lot of fun creating this page. 

2 in 1

Here I am on a roll with challenges! This week I did two challenges in one. Pals Paper Arts is having a color challenge for red this week. The Paper Players is having a theme challenge. They want you to use flowers on your card this week. This is the first time that I combined challenges.

For this card, I used the stamp set "Three Little Words." The colors are Real Red, Very Vanilla, Old Olive and Crumb Cake. You can't tell from the photo but I used the Texturz Plate Perfect Details on the smaller red piece.

I hope you like it and leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

P.S. Don't forget about Sale-a-Bration!

Finally a challenge!

I have been telling myself lately that I need to start doing challenges again. I did them awhile back and had so much fun. Then life got in the way. I finally made the time to complete a challenge!

This one is for the The Paper Players. The challenge this week was to create a clean and simple card with a tag on it. Clean and simple is the way I do most of my cards so this was perfect for me.

I picked a color combo out of the color coach for this one. I don't normally used Soft Suede and I wanted an additional challenge, so I went with it. The color coach said that Soft Suede, So Saffron and Regal Rose made a good combo; I agree. I also used some Very Vanilla to balance them out. The stamp sets are Vintage Vogue and On Your Birthday.

Leave me a comment and tell me what you think!

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As a customer:As a hostess:The hostess bundle includes products found on pages 6-7 of the Sale-a-Bration brochure including,

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*Free shopping tote with workshop, customer and demonstrator orders only; offer does not include online orders. Free hostess bundle with workshop, customer, or demonstrator orders; offer does not include online orders. Offers are not incremental (i.e., a hostess does not receive two totes for a $300 workshop or two bundles for an $800 workshop).

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3rd and Final Regional Swap

Here is the last swap I made for Regionals. Hope you like it!


I used Three Little Words stamp set and the Timeless Portrait DSP. The flower is the 1 3/4" scallop circle punch scrunched up and separated with an Antique brad in the center. The edging is the scallop trim border on the Whisper White topped with Cherry Cobbler. I used one of my favorite tools, the color spritzer, to finish it off.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

I will update you on Regionals when I get back so stay tuned!

Regional Swap 2

Here is swap #2 for Regionals this Saturday! I cased this one from page 209 in the IB&C. I changed it up a bit because I didn't have a couple of the items used on the original.



I used the Sprinkled Expressions Stamp Set from the upcoming Sale-a-Bration catalog. My colors are Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, River Rock and Whisper White. I also a number of embossing folders and Texturz plates. The letters are from the Timeless Type Sizzlits Dies.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

More Regional swaps to come!

Swaps for regionals

I have not been feeling the mojo recently; which explains my lack of posts. Sorry for that! Regionals are in San Antonio the Saturday and I have been making swaps. Here is my first one.


I used Flirtatious Specialty DSP and cut the different designs into varying lenghts and widths. The stamp is from the On Your Birthday set. I stamped it on Whisper White in Pumpkin Pie ink, punch it with the curly label punch and lined the edge with Pumpkin Pie marker. The "Happiest" is stamped in Melon Mambo, punched with the word window punch and lined with Melon Mambo marker. I added jewels to give a little bling.

If you are at Regionals Saturday, let me know what you think; if not leave me a comment here.

More Regional swaps to come!

Stocking Die Notepad

My mojo has been acting up recently; which explains the lack of posts. I am starting to get it back though.

Here is one of my newest creations! A notepad I made using the Stocking die and the Bigshot. It was super easy to create. I used chipboard covered with retired dsp for the top and bottom pieces. The notepad portion is a total of 80 copy paper stockings.
I used the Christmas Lodge set for the sentiment and Very Vanilla for the heel, toe and cuff.

Now is the time to be a hostess!

It's Good to Be the Hostess Promotion

Now is the time to hold a workshop!

Dates: November 1-December 15, 2011

Details
Hostesses will receive an additional $35 in free Stampin' Up! products when they hold a workshop totaling $350 or more (excluding tax and shipping)! This is in addition to all the other benefits they already get as a Stampin' Up! hostess.

If your hostess' workshop sales total is	Your hostess earns hostess dollars		It's Good to Be the Hostess	Total Free Stampin' Up! Merchandise	Plus, hostesses earn full-priced items at 50% off
$350	$50	+	$35	$85	---
$400	$65	+	$35	$100	1 item
$500	$80	+	$35	$115	2 items
$750	$120	+	$35	$155	3 items
$1,000+	$160 plus 15% of amount over $1,000	+	$35	$195 plus 15% of amount over $1,000	4 items

Things to Remember

• Only customer, demonstrator, and workshop order types qualify for this promotion. Online orders do not qualify.
• Orders must be $350 or more to qualify.
• Orders larger than $350 are not eligible for additional hostess free merchandise dollars. For example, a $700 workshop does not receive $70 in additional dollars. All orders over $350 always receive $35 in additional free hostess dollars.
• Hostesses may use their additional $35 in free merchandise on any catalog/mini catalog products.
• Qualifying orders must be placed by the following deadlines:
  • Phone: Thursday, December 15, 2011; 6:50 PM (MT)
  • OEX: Thursday, December 15, 2011; 11:50 PM (MT)