Stamp with Amy

Every Little Bit meets Curly Cute

Hello! This weekend I have my Stampin' Up! Open House to get my business started here in Richmond, & I am so excited! I've continued doing classes in Raleigh, but it is time to get it going here, too. 

This is one of the projects that we will be doing. It starts with a 6 x 6 piece of Rose Red cardstock, and the guests can choose whether to make a scrapbook page or a card.

As you can see, it is the exact layout. Look how little Ciara was. That seems like 100 years ago, but I guess it was 7 years ago. <sigh> They're growing up too fast!

The present stamp is from the Every Little Bit stamp set, which has 28 cute little stamps. I can see myself using this set for so many occasions.

The gorgeous sentiment is from the Curly Cute stamp set. Love that font! Both of these sets are brand new in the 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog. Most demonstrators sell them for up to $10, but I give mine for FREE to my customers. If you are looking for a demonstrator, email me with your contact information, & I'll be happy to send you one! I also have a Frequent Shopper Program. Check it out!

Supplies:

• 120558 Every Little Bit clear mount stamps (117096 wood)
• 120510 Curly Cute cleasr (117014 wood)
• 119945 Rose Red 12 x 12 cardstock
• 100730 Whisper White cardstock
• 105118 So Saffron cardstock
• 102067 Tempting Turquoise cardstock
• 117173 Island Oasis DSP
• 101406 Black Staz On ink
• 100058 Tempting Turquoise marker
• 105114 So Saffron marker
• 100063 Rose Red marker
• 105115 Pumpkin Pie marker
• 119246 Basic Rhinestones
• 119860 1 3/8" Circle Punch
• 119861 1 1/4" Circle Punch
• 119854 Scallop Circle Punch
• 119878 Photo Corners Punch
• 102023 Dazzling Diamonds glitter
• 100425 2-Way Glue Pen

Wish me luck at my Open House! To place an order for Stampin' Up! Products online anytime, click the link below.

More Scrappers Express Layouts

Hi! I'm back from vacation, & I wish I could say that I'm rested! Traveling with kids is exhausting! We had a great time, though.

Today's project is another double page layout from June's Scrapper's Express Club, which featured the Sweet Pea DSP. It was such a huge pack of patterned paper that you could have many many layouts, all completely different!

This is such a quick & simple layout,  but I love it! I will add a title to the left page on the Chocolate Chip cardstock, but this was the general layout for my Scrapper's Express Club.

The Big Shot Die Cut Machine made cutting different sized stars out of cardstock and chipboard a breeze. The cardstock stars were given a texture treatment with the Perfect Details Texturz Plate. I found out through trial & error that it is much easier to emboss first before cutting the stars!

By swapping the cardstock & DSP layer, but keeping the scalloped DSP border the same, it is pleasing to the eye without being too busy.

Supplies:

• Sweet Pea DSP (no longer available)
• 107070 Kraft (aka. Crumb Cake) 12 x 12 cardstock
• 107102 Chocolate Chip 12 x 12 cardstock
• 101584 Taken With Teal cardstock (retiring June 30)
• 112091 Scalloped Border Punch
• 113439 Big Shot Die Cut Machine
• 115962 Perfect Details Texturz Plate
  
• 113461 Stars #2 Die
• 114320 Long Board Chipboard

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Sweet Pea Scrapper's Express June Projects

Happy Sunday and Happy Father's Day, Everyone! I am in Florida enjoying the sunshine with my dad and my huge family. Wish you were here! :-)

Today's project is one that my Scrapper's Express Club gals did this month. Unfortunately, the Sweet Pea DSP is no longer available, so I can't take any more club orders for June, but if you would like to find out more about this club, click here.

 

Isn't that cute? I'm sad to say that Taken with Teal, the layout base, is retiring. I will definitely miss that color! The DSP is all from Sweet Pea, and the pink is the gorgeous returning In Color, now a Core Color, Pink Pirouette.

The Brad on the right page is an Epoxy Brad from the Occasions Mini Catalog. I love those!

 

The journaling block is a Scalloped Square Die Cut, cut in half for journaling on both pages.
 
   

Well, I won't give many details about the projects this week while I'm gone, but if you ever want to contact me, please send me an email. I'll be checking my email account several times a day.

I'm off to join my family for dinner! Thanks for stopping by!

Scrapper's Express Sweet Pea Layout

Hi there! Today I want to share one of the layouts that my Scrapper's Express Club will be doing this month as part of their June kit. I just love how this layout turned out!

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This layout is about all of the sweet ways that her friends said goodbye to her when we moved from Raleigh to Richmond. To me, the butterflies symbolize our family flying off to our new destination. The Sweet Pea DSP and the Playground Buttons are fun & playful, perfect for this layout.

I am completely sold out of these kits, but if you are interested in joining Scrapper's Express and receiving all the materials and instructions for 6 pages each month, click here for more information or to sign up.

Retiring Stamps List!

Retiring Accessories List! While Supplies Last!

Retiring Decor Elements List!

The accessories are available while supplies last, so be sure to check the updated list each day before ordering. Stamps sets and Definitely Decorative items will be available until June 30th. To place an order for Stampin' Up products online anytime, clink the link below.

Have a great day!

 

New Digital Downloads for My Digital Studio

Hi there! Stampin' Up keeps churning out more and more downloads for the My Digital Studio digital papercrafting system! These are perfect for graduation, and you can't go wrong with an alphabet set.

Item	Description	Price
121069	Go Graduate Plus stamp brush set	$5.95
122143	Jumbo Outline Alphabet stamp brush set	$9.95
122145	Contempo Alphabet stamp brush set	$9.95

Be sure to visit my Online Store (click the link at the bottom of the page or at the top of the right sidebar) to see all of the digital downloads. If you have another type of digital papercrafting software, you can still use the Stampin' Up downloads with your software!

More Stampin' Up promotions:

National Scrapbooking Promotion: Get free designer brads when you order select Stampin' Up! stamps sets or My Digital Studio.  Ends May 30.

On-Line Clearance Rack: Save up to 60% on close-out items. LOTS OF NEW ITEMS!

Fill Your Wish List and Save Money:  Enjoy Stampin' Up! discounts, see the new In Colors and order new products a month before the customer sales period!

Sweet Treat Cups and Sweetheart Stamp Set:  Not in any Stampin' Up! catalog but available for purchase.

National Scrapbooking Month Special Offer!

Promotion Dates: May 1-31, 2010

Promotion Details:

May is National Scrapbooking Month -- what better way to celebrate than with a fabulous promotion!

For the month of May: purchase a qualifying scrapbooking stamp set or the My Digital Studio software and receive a FREE package of Designer brads--choose from four designs!

Qualifying products and Designer brads are listed below: 

Stamp sets

Page	Description	Wood-Mount Item	Wood-Mount Price	Clear-Mount  Item	Clear-Mount Price
81	Extreme Elements	115181	$26.95	---	---
119	Framed with Love**	114389	$27.95	---	---
128	Certified**	113706	$27.95	---	---
129	Circle Circus	115778	$28.95	---	---
12*	Elements of Style	118611	$27.95	120045	$19.95
13*	Mementos	119910	$27.95	120105	$19.95
13*	Elements de style	119900	$27.95	120099	$19.95
14*	Rough Type	118659	$26.95	120072	$18.95
22*	Sentimental Journey	118513	$23.95	120075	$17.95
25*	First Day	118521	$23.95	120051	$17.95
25*	Camino a la Escuela	120152	$23.95	120154	$17.95

*From Summer Mini Catalog
**Last Chance stamp set! **Last Chance stamp set!

My Digital Studio software

Page	Description	Item	Price
32*	My Digital Studio	118108	$79.95

*From Summer Mini Catalog

Designer brads

Page	Description	Item	Retail Price	Price with Qualifying Purchase
179	Flower Designer brads	112579	$5.95	FREE
179	Filigree Designer brads	112577	$5.95	FREE
179	Circle Designer brads	112571	$5.95	FREE
179	Star Designer brads	112572	$5.95	FREE

Be sure to visit my Online Store for all of your scrapbooking needs! Just click the link below to start shopping.

Be sure to visit my Online Store for all of your scrapbooking needs! Just click the link below to start shopping.

Sweet Pea Scrapper's Express April Projects

Hi there! I cannot believe April is almost over! Time is flying by, and that means that the Occasions Mini Catalog is about to come to an end! I'll be so sad to see the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper go... it is just perfect for scrapbooking! 

But I have good news! If you love it, you can still join my Scrapper's Express Club and make gorgeous projects over the next 3 months! That is 18 pages! The paper pack is so huge, that all of the pages will look completely different (but coordinated). 

Ooh, how gorgeous is that? Love that color combination of Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, and Pumpkin Pie. 

Cutting those circles was a snap with my Circle Scissor Plus. If you join my club and get a To Go kit mailed to you, I'll cut your circles for you!

The Sweet Pea Felt coordinates perfectly with the DSP and adds softness and dimension to the layout.

Want to see the other layouts for this month? Lookie:

And one more double page layout for you:

In your Scrapper's Express kits, you receive all of the  materials, the entire pack of DSP, cardstock, ribbons, buttons, brads, etc. to complete your pages along with a private link on my blog with written directions and full color photos of each page. Want to find out more or sign up? Click here for my Scrapper's Express Page.

Have a fantastic weekend! We're supposed to get rain, but I hope it will hold off until after our baseball and soccer games! 

Scrapbooking Club April Project

Hello everyone! Today I am actually back in Raleigh, holding my local Cards & Projects Club class, my local scrapbooking class, and my Scrapper's Express class, all at the same time! Yikes! I must be crazy, but since some customers of mine were kind enough to open their home for my classes, I didn't want to impose too much. Thanks Anita and Kristin! I'm sure it will be a bit chaotic, but we'll have lots of fun!

The scrapbook layouts that I'm sharing today are the ones that my local scrapbooking club will do, and I have to give credit to my buddy Catherine for the design. The pages are 12 x 12, and they feature The Write Stuff Specialty DSP. This DSP is perfect for scrapbooking, because it comes with 3 sheets of textured cardstock die cuts that are journaling blocks. Finding a place to journal is always a challenge, and this solves that problem perfectly!

  
 
Now, it is practically impossible to get good photos of scrapbook layouts! I did these with my light box, but I just couldn't get it right. Hopefully someone will have some pointers for me on how to use it with scrapbook pages. If you click on the photos, they will enlarge. That's me with the super-short hair. Yikes! I was recovering from chemo, so I was just grateful to have hair. LOL!

The blocks are the Write Stuff DSP, and there are also Crushed Curry cardstock squares that were run through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder. See my post here for a card made with the same squares.

If you are interested in finding out about my Scrapper's Express club, click here! For only $37, you get all the materials and the instructions to make 6 pages... all you have to do is add your own photos! In 6 months, you'll have 36 pages done!

Hope you are having a great weekend! 

Mom scrapbook pages after the big move!

Helloooooo..... I'm blogging from under a mountain of boxes! Aggghhhh! Actually, our move went really smoothly (so far), and we have made huge progress in the unboxing process. I feel like we'll never unpack all of them... but that is my goal! Thanks again for all of the wonderful emails and comments wishing us a good move. It's been stressful, crazy, exhausting... but I guess moving is always that way, huh?

Well, I had high ambitions to have my stamp room all set up by now and have a brand new project to show you, but unfortunately mommy is always low-man on the totem pole in the family order of importance. (I'm just kidding! But you know what I mean... gotta get the kiddos all set up first!) So, I have a scrapbook layout from last month's Scrapper's Express Club to show you today. Tomorrow, I will craft!

 

Gosh, scrapbook layouts never look as pretty in pictures as they do in real life! I'm telling ya, this layout is gorgeous with the sparkly DSP and the Faux Suede Flower! Here's a close up of each page:

I guess it would show up more, too, if I had a colored background instead of white.

  

I started with Very Vanilla 12 x 12 cardstock, and used the Oh So Gorgeous Sending Love Specialty DSP. Can you tell I'm crazy about that paper? I thought I would say goodbye to it after Valentine's Day, but Hooray! it is awesome for lots of occasions! I love it for my page about being a mom. Can you believe all of that big curly hair I used to have? 

If you missed the Faux Suede Technique Video, click here to see it! What a fun technique!

If you haven't finished your Sale-a-bration shopping, you only have 6 days left to get your FREE stamps with every $50 purchase! Be sure to click the link below to take advantage of this great deal before it is too late!

Thanks for stopping by! I think the craziness is mostly over, so I'll be back to posting every day! :-)

February Scrapper's Express

Hi there! I'm trying to get back to doing Scrapbooking on Sundays, so welcome to Scrappy Sunday! This 12 x 12 double page layout is the one that my Scrappers Express Club did in February. The layout was inspired by a layout I saw in a scrapbooking magazine, but was changed to use all Stampin' Up products.

The Sending Love Specialty DSP is the star of the show in this month's club kit! It is oh so glittery and gorgeous. Even though the DSP is glittery, I thought the layout was perfect to show yearly photos of my son from newborn to age 5. Oh, they grow up too quickly!

 

The Eyelet Border Punch adds a gorgeous decorative edge to the Pretty in Pink and Real Red glittery DSP.

The exclusive Stampin' Up Hearts & Brackets Die for the Big Shot was used with the DSP to add cute accents to the pages, and the Pretty in Pink Corduroy button adds soft, pretty texture to the layout.

 

The brackets were used to frame the journaling block.

How do you like the layout? Do you want to see more scrapbooking on my blog? More cards? More 3D projects? Leave me a comment!

Supplies:

• 117153 Sending Love Specialty DSP
• 106545 Real Red 12 x 12 cardstock
• 113439 Big Shot Die Cut Machine
• 115955 Hearts & Brackets Die
• 113692 Eyelet Border Punch
• 117681 Pretty in Pink Corduroy button
• 104199 Linen Thread

Have a great day!

Amy