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I recently made this card for a workshop that's coming up in March. I used Upsy Daisy and Sock Monkey for my stamp sets and based the color combination off the Urban Garden Designer Series Paper.
To be entered into my monthly giveaway, simply write a comment in this thread about this card and email me at syezefski@yahoo.com with your contact information. This month's drawing winner will receive a free, retired hostess Paper Sampler!
This week's challenge doesn't involve stamping at all. I would like for you to take a peek at the Spring/Summer 2009 Idea Book & Catalog and pick out your favorite sample in the Elements section (pgs 105-129). At the bottom of this post, click on "comment" and write about one thing that you like about the sample- stamp set, color combination, accessories and one thing you dislike (if any). Please be sure to include which sample it is and which page it's on.
Do this and you'll be put into this month's drawing!
Tomorrow, Feb 7th, is National Give a Card to a Friend Day. So, your challenge for this week is to make a card in honor of this day and mail it out to your friend. (No one but us need to know that there was a holiday involved and that your card is late...EVERYONE loves to receive mail that isn't junk or bills.)
There are no speifics on the card, simply that it must be handmade.
So, email me your submissions by next Friday and be put into Feb's drawing!
My mom, Linda, sent me in these two darling Valetine's Day cards. This first one was for me and my husband. The second one was for my son, who absolutely adored the elephant.
Kanaan sent me this card for her submission this week. I love the colors she chose to use.
Congratulations, Kanaan! You are my Wanna Play? Challenge winner for January! You won 10% off your first order in the Spring/Summer 2009 IBC!
I really love the layout for the card on the bottom of page 59 in the Spring/Summer 09 IBC. It's the one with the Kiwi Kiss, Perfect Plum, Kraft and Very Vanilla cardstocks and that uses Close as a Memory and a Thomas Moore quote.
This week's WP? Challenge is to CASE that card! You must CASE the layout, but you can do it vertically or horizontally (in other words, you may flip the card). You may choose to use the same colors or change them all together. All I ask is that the layout be the same.
Please email me your submissions by Friday, Feb 6th.
This is my CASE from page 59. I used Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red and Very Vanilla cardstocks. I used the heart image from Sock Monkey and my Crafter's Tool Kit to punch the holes along the right side. Also, I used a brad and Pink Pirouette ribbon to kick it up a notch. On the inside, I stamped "Happy Valentine's Day".
This is my second version of the same card. I wanted to show all of you that you can take a layout and turn it on its side and get a whole different card! They're both from the same layout on page 59 in the IBC! So, when you think about it, there are twice the amount of layouts in the catalog and on my blog!
Here's Kanaan's card. This is what she said about it: "Mom has a baby shower in a couple weeks to go to, so I designed it around that. It's Choc. Chip, Really Rust, Tempting Turquoise, and Confetti White. I used a quilting wheel to make the hole on the side."
The new Idea Book & Catalog has arrived! Whoooo-hooo! I'm excited and in LOVE with tons of new sets! (Especially Thoughts and Prayers, Friends, and Fifth Avenue Floral)
This week, your challenge is to sit down with a cup of tea/coffee/wine (whatever your drink of choice is) and your catalog and do this fun, quick little scavenger hunt. You can print this page or simply copy it and then email me your answers.
There are NO digital pictures involved in this one...so EVERYONE should be able to participate.
To all of my current customers who contacted me about catalogs, they have all been shipped! You can expect to receive your catalog sometime in the next week!
Don't have a catalog, please click the "email me" button and let me know you'd like one. or browse the online catalog and complete the scavenger hunt as well. (To get to the online catalog, please click on the "Order Stampin' Up Online" button to the left of your screen.)
Without further ado, the scavenger hunt:
1. What are the three new Style Watches?
2. _______ It with __________ is the exclusive stamp set that benefits the Ronald McDonald House Charities for the 08-09' catalog year.
3. A hostess who has $500 in workshop sales can earn _______ (number) Level 1 stamp sets and $______ in free merchandise.
4. New accessories include: __________ and ___________. (Hint: look for the "NEW" symbol (n) next to the item code.)
5. One stamp set that I really like is ___________________.
So far...I have one entry from Kanaan for the scavenger hunt. Come on, ladies! This is an easy entry this week!!
Linda (aka: my mom) is now in the drawing as well!
For this week's challenge, it's real simple! Use ANY color combination that you find in EITHER the Fall/Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog OR the NEW IBC (you can view the new one online at www.stampinup.com starting Monday!) and reference the project/page number that it can be found on.
Please email/snail mail me your submissions by next Friday, Jan 23rd.
Here's my card...
I used Not Quite Navy, Going Gray, Whisper White cardstocks; Urban Garden DSP; Upsy Daisy and Hugs & Wishes stamp sets; and Going Gray and Baja Breeze Inks.
Here's Kanaan's late submission. No drawing entry for it, but an absolutely adorable card! Thanks for sharing, K!
New Years always brings with it a sense of starting over for me. I've never been big into a New Year's resolution or diet, but I've always been into the cleaning rituals that spring up from making way for the new gifts my family has received.
This year is no different for me. To be honest, I left a huge mess in my stamp space when we left for our Christmas travels, between gift making and card finishing. I felt totally overwhelmed by it that I didn't even attempt to tackle it prior to leaving.
Sooooo...this week's challenge? Clean your stamp space! It's always a lot more inviting once there isn't a bunch of clutter. You'll be able to find everything you own. Your head will be clear and ready for creating!
Send me a picture of your cleaned stamp space by next Friday.
-Sara :)
Here's Kanaan's clean stamp space...nice job, K!
Here's my stamp space, tucked away in our basement. I have my own sink, which is wicked exciting!
Wanna get into the holiday spirit? Create any holiday card (Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus for those of us who are Seinfeld fans...) and send it onto me via email. Submissions are due by Friday, Dec. 5th, so you don't have much time this week. Sorry.
If you send it to me via snail mail, you may miss the deadline, so please keep to email this week. Thanks so much!
