Tag Archives: Friends

Stamping on the East Coast

By | October 11, 2016

“The funny thing is, the moment I am in one country, I am homesick for the other.” from Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say I’ve been on vacation, but I’m back in California now! Just like Allen Say’s grandfather, who grew up in Japan and immigrated to San Francisco as a young man, I feel like… Read More »

She Loves You

By | October 9, 2016

It’s John Lennon’s birthday, and although I’ve never done a “Happy Birthday” post for him or any of the Beatles before, Beatles’ lyrics often inspire my work. Usually it is personal artwork rather than business-oriented cards that tend to show up with the Beatles’ words on them, especially for my husband, so today I thought… Read More »

Star of Light Shines Tonight!

By | October 4, 2016

My past few posts have been scheduled ahead, and today is no exception, because I’ve been gallivanting around the country visiting my stamping peeps that live in the far-flung Northeast region. A year ago in September we stamped at Sherry’s house, and made these window cards: Sherry, Wanda, Mindy, Kathy and Karenlee – the Chittenden… Read More »

Save the Date!

By | September 26, 2016

At the end of last year Stampin’ Up! came out with a Paper Pumpkin kit designed to make a revolving calendar page for every month of the year. However, we like to customize our kits, so some of us used it to make cards instead, and it’s been fun to pick a recipient for each… Read More »

Remembering a Friend

By | September 24, 2016

It is with sadness that I share that our friend Anna from the Stamp Group has passed away after a valiant fight with cancer. Anna, Susan, Nora and Nancy sharing cards made at a group meeting. When Anna joined our group, she was upfront about her medical condition, but she loved stamping, and getting together… Read More »

Oh, Christmas Treat!

By | September 10, 2016

On swap day, our friend Susan showed Ann and I how to make a Christmas card that I really love! It’s simple but elegant with some shiny gold accents, and it would be a really easy card to reproduce when making multiples and time gets short: It was inspired of Susan to use the Woodland… Read More »

Friends and Family in the new Take Ten!

By | September 4, 2016

The Autumn 2016 issue of Take Ten magazine came out on September 1st, and I went to my local Barnes & Noble store right after I was done teaching school to pick up my copy. My sister-in-law Sherry had let me know that she has two cards published in this issue, and I was also… Read More »

Now For the Halloween Swaps!

By | September 3, 2016

I’m glad I was swapping with Ann and Susan, because as I mentioned in a previous post, I don’t have any Halloween stamps from the current catalogs! But while my friends designed their swap cards independently of one another and they used different stamp sets, they did use the same colors of cardstock and ink,… Read More »

Remember Those Swaps?

By | July 30, 2016

I didn’t forget! A while back I mentioned the Stampin’ Up! demonstrators’ gathering that I attended with my friends and said that I would be sharing some more swaps from that event. Here are a couple of cards that we made with the Swirly Bird stamp set and matching Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies. I’ve shown… Read More »

Start With a Button…

By | July 14, 2016

In New England there is an expression that goes something like, “Start with a button and make a shirt,” meaning to begin with something small and make something larger out of it. Yesterday I spent the day with my friend Ann, and we worked on several different projects, each of us sharing a new stamp… Read More »

How to Get Inspiration From Swaps!

By | June 28, 2016

I attended a demonstrator’s gathering earlier this month where we swapped different card ideas, and this one was designed by Ann with the new Touches of Texture set, with a sentiment from the Perfectly Wrapped set. Her color scheme is Very Vanilla, Delightful Dijon and Night of Navy with a little Always Artichoke on the… Read More »

New Catalog Means New Card Designs!

By | June 1, 2016

I’m excited that the new 2016-2017 Stampin’ Up! catalog goes live today! This week I have been working on a card design with some new 2016-2018 In Color card stock and inks and the new Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies for a demonstrator’s swap that I will be participating in this weekend: The pink sponged centers… Read More »

Retiring Stamp Idea #5 – “I Meant to Do That!”

By | May 25, 2016

In my last post I showed you an example of how to use this gorgeous retiring Swallowtail stamp with Aqua Painters on a card made of Shimmery White cardstock: Today I’ll explain how I took this a step further to make the Butterfly Bliss card shown above, and how this card came to be! The… Read More »

Pocketful of Paper Pumpkin Fun!

By | April 7, 2016

Sometimes the stars align just right, and my Paper Pumpkin Peeps and I have the same days off from work during the week. That happened yesterday, it’s the perfect time for an impromptu get-together to pull out our kits and start stamping! Can I just say how much I love this kit? Pocketful of Cheer… Read More »

Sweet Spring Treats

By | April 5, 2016

Before the Easter season has completely passed I wanted to show these beautiful treasures that my friend Kathy Sawyer shared with our friends in the Hostess Stamping group. She made these with the  Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies and the Decorative Label Punch (she used some paper that she had found in San Francisco’s Japantown.)… Read More »