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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Seasonally Scattered Convention Samples

I had the honor of being a display stamper for the Stampin' Up! Inspire Create and Share Convention 2014. I was asked to create a total of 24 samples but a selected few were posted on the boards at Convention. I plan to show all the samples that I made over the next few days.

The following samples were created using the Seasonally Scattered stamp set. This stamp set will be in the upcoming Holiday catalog - products available for purchase on August 28.  All others supplies can be purchased from the annual catalog.  

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Project Life® by Stampin' UP!® Gift Boxes - Artisan WOW

Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! This week is our last blog hop post as the Stampin' UP! 2013-2014 Artisan Design Team!  Get the tissues out! What an AMAZING year it has been thanks to Stampin' Up! Not only has my biggest dream come true with being on a creative design team for Stampin' UP! but I now have 9 new BFF's forever! I am abundantly blessed! (tears streaming) I gotta get back to the post....
You just came from the uber talented scrapbooking icon Cathy Caines and next is my spiritual sister, the one and only Connie Collins, but before you do come check out my adorable Project Life® by Stampin' UP!® gift boxes! You might have seen them on Stampin' UP!'s Facebook Page last week!
I took the bold and fun patterns of 4x6 cards in the collection and cut them to the size of the kraft boxes. I  selected some of the 4x4 and 3x4 cards to add to each box. Some I cut down or punched out in a 2 1/2" circle or just folded in half. Just add some great ribbon, washi tape from the Playground Accessory Pack, and buttons to complete the look on each box. I did use the Star Framelits and Gift Bow Die Cut too.  Who knew Project Life® by Stampin’ Up!® could be more than memory keeping?

Paper
122925: Calypso Coral Cardstock
122924: Pool Party Cardstock
135300: Playground Project Life Card Collection
124106: Kraft Gift Boxes

Accessories & Tools
134586: Crushed Curry Baker’s Twine
134578: Tangerine Tango Baker’s Twine
131151: Island Indigo 3/4" Chevron Ribbon
134568: Pool Party 1/4" Cotton Ribbon
134567: Whisper White 1/4" Cotton Ribbon
130029: Regals Designer Buttons
135303: Playground Project Life Accessory Pack
120906: 2-1/2" Circle Punch
113439: Big Shot
129977: Gift Bow Bigz L Die
133723: Stars Framelits Dies


Here is my favorite one! It is how I feel about all of our followers! Thank you so much for all of your love and support for this Artisan Design Team! We love you!
We hope you all have enjoyed joining us on our weekly 2013 Artisan Design Team blog hops. We sure have had fun sharing our creativity with you! We've had a little something in the works for awhile, and we are excited to announce that we are going to continue to create together and share with you during our monthly...

"Fancy Friday Blog Hop!!!!!!!!!!"

Join all 10 of us on the last Friday of each month, starting August 29th, for “Fancy Friday” as we are sure to continue to WOW you with some clever ideas you're sure to love! So be sure to check back August 29th!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope that we have inspired you over the past year! I also hope that you will continue to stop by our Fancy Friday Blog Hop! See you there!
Cindy

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button!

Kinda Eclectic Convention Samples

I had the honor of being a display stamper for the Stampin' Up! Inspire Create and Share Convention 2014. I was asked to create a total of 24 samples but a selected few were posted on the boards at Convention. I plan to show all the samples that I made over the next few days.
The following samples were created using the Kinda Eclectic stamp set. All the supplies for each of the projects are available in the current catalog.





Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!
Cindy

Be sure to check out the rest of the display samples from the following:

Monday, July 28, 2014

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #75


Tara has a super duper cute sketch today over on MDS Monday for ya! I love the "snap" photo theme of this sketch as well as the "frames" in the background. I just did a global search for frames and all kinds came up in my library of downloads. The rest is chalkboard background from a Convention download and some washi tape from another download.

Do not forget that MDS printing is now available! They are have a special of 20% off printing right NOW until July 31st! I am DEFINITELY getting some projects printed! How about you?  I hope to share with you all here on a review of the printed items thru the new printer when I get them back!

I had so much fun making this page because of my friends Rachel and Shelley. When we get together at church youth events, we ALWAYS get this pose together. Sometimes it is CRAZY like the bottom photo. Which then you can see we easily can create mayhem at our youth events! I love both of these ladies and their love for Jesus and their heart for our youth kids!

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! Follow the directions on the site to upload your page and link it from your blog or MDS.net. Winners and honorable mentions are announced every week.

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 
MDS Mondays and our challenges!
Cindy 

Friday, July 25, 2014

Amazing Birthday Convention Samples

I had the honor of being a display stamper for the Stampin' Up! Inspire Create and Share Convention 2014. I was asked to create a total of 24 samples but a selected few were posted on the boards at Convention. I plan to show all the samples that I made over the next few days.

Below are the samples created for the Amazing Birthday Stamp set. All the supplies for each of the projects are available in the current catalog. 







Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!
Cindy

Be sure to check out the rest of the display samples from the following:

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Summer Happiness - MDS Blog Hop

WELCOME TO THE MDS BLOG HOP!
A bunch of us have joined together to share our passion for digital designing with Stampin' UP's My Digital Studio.  These ladies are SERIOUSLY talented in MDS and I am thrilled to be on this Blog Hop with them! You will find us blog hopping on the 2nd and 4th THURSDAYS of each month! We will have a "theme" selected on the first hop and then a "What we are doing in MDS" on the second hop. This week we are catching you up with what we have been working on in MDS lately.
Today is our 21st anniversary! Hard to believe it has been 21 years already, over half of my life has been with this wonderful guy! We have been blessed by this friendship/marriage and we continue to ride this roller coaster called life together!

For this page, I used the download called Summer Happiness #130076 and right now in our weekly deals on Stampin' Up! it is on sale for just $5.97!!!  It includes 17 piece Stamp Set, 12 Designer Series Papers and 26 Embellishments!  I was able to mix it with several other elements that I had in my MDS program already to create this sweet page.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you to go get that download today!
 Cindy 
Click on the button to move on to see what Cori made!

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Happy Happy Girl - Artisan WOW

Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! We are moving on to our second to last post by the 2013-2014 Artisan Design Team! I had the opportunity to hang out with some of these fun and fantastic ladies during the Inspire Create and Share Convention last week. We made some great memories together over the past year and I hope that it continues! More to come on that! ;)  We have something "FANCY" in the works!

You just came from Cathy Caines and next is Connie Collins, but before you do come check out my scrapbook page featuring hexagon punch with the AWESOME Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper.

Some of my favorite things on this page:
*The Beach Hose Designer Washi Tape! The color combo is Crushed Curry, Pool Party and Real Red so it was the jump start for color on the Basic Black and Very Vanilla DSP.
* The hexagon punch is a great way to showcase several side to this Specialty DSP.
* Using the Metro Type Alphabet stamp set for the title as well as the "happy" from the Amazing Birthday stamp set. 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!
Cindy

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button! She is going to blow your mind with her technique card tonight! 

Project Life® by Stampin' UP!® Convention Samples

I had the honor of being a display stamper for the Stampin' Up! Inspire Create and Share Convention 2014. I was asked to create a total of 24 samples but a selected few were posted on the boards at Convention. I plan to show all the samples that I made over the next few days.

Below are the samples created for the Project Life® by Stampin' UP!® Everyday Adventure Collection. All the supplies for each of the projects are available in the current catalog. 

You can still do traditional scrapbooking style with Project Life® by Stampin' Up!®. But I have to say that memory keeping has never been more easy with Project Life® by Stampin' UP®. Plan to see more from me!

Neither of these cards were on the scaled down sample boards at Convention but I love them sooo much! I wonder where they went? Hello???
Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!
Cindy

Be sure to check out the rest of the display samples from the following:

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Amazing Stars - Artisan WOW

Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! I am so EXCITED at this very minute! I leave in the morning for Salt Lake City and the Stampin UP Convention!!! I am going to see all my stampin friends and learn about new product and have fun and be crazy and sleep very little! I also get to see some of these fantastic Artisan Design Team members! I CAN'T WAIT!

We are moving on to our last box of Stampin' Up products for this AWESOME Artisan Design Team! We are all so sad that our term is coming to a close at the end of July. Gonna miss this so much! This box was full of NEW products that just came out in our new Annual Stampin' Up catalog!!! We hope you stay with our Artisan Design Team Blog Hop for the whole month of July! You just came from Cathy Caines and next is Connie Collins, but before you do come check out my card made the fabulous Star Framelits, sponge daubers and a new stamp set!

Some of my favorite things on this card:
This stamp set called Amazing Birthday and coloring it in with Stampin Up Markers in Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry and Bermuda Bay.
Using the end of a sponge dauber for the background circles! I used Whisper White and Bermuda Bay ink pads.
The Star Framelits with DSP from the Brights Color Collections and the Moonlight Paper Stack. 
Now go and make today ridiculously AMAZING! I plan to do just that for the next 5 days!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!

Cindy

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button! She is gonna make you CRY!!!!

Monday, July 14, 2014

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #74

This challenge brought to this week by Beth can be so fun once you find a perfect picture for it. That one picture you move and highlight has to be placed just right in the original photo. It took me while to find a photo that worked well then the rest of the page sort of fell into place. I used the downloads called When the Clock Strikes Twelve and Glimmer Kit.

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! Follow the directions on the site to upload your page and link it from your blog or MDS.net. Winners and honorable mentions are announced every week.

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 
MDS Mondays and our challenges!
Cindy 

Friday, July 11, 2014

Project Life Tough Mudder


Trying my hand at Project Life® by Stampin' UP® again! We went to the Tough Mudder Race back in April to support our group friends and watch their baby boy while they did the race. PL was perfect to scrapbook this event! I took the Everyday Adventure Kit and selected the cards that had the color theme that I was going for: Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Basic Black and Basic Gray. I used the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and the What's Up punch too! You have to have red mud splatters being in Georgia!
Page 1
Page 2

I love how they looked all clean on page 1 at top left and how they finished looking 
on Page 2 on top right. Muddy and very very sore! I give my friends high praise for finishing the race! It was brutal!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you to scrap your next event 
with Project Life®by Stampin Up®!
Cindy