All Good Things Must Come To An End

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Susan Horr

Today is a sad day. It is the last day of Sale-A-Bration. Who doesn’t love free things? Usually when I order from Stampin’ Up! it is more than $50 and during the months of February and March you get extra free things when you place an order of this amount or more. They had some beautiful things you could get for free this year. I think it has been one of my favorite Sale-A-Bration catalogs since I started with Stampin’ Up!. You can see all the items available by clicking on the Sale-A-Bration catalog on the right hand side of my blog or click HERE.

Here are some examples of cards I made using the 2014 Sale-A-Bration products:

Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper:

Banner Blast and Banner Punch:

Decorative Dots Embossing Folder and You’re Lovely:

It is also the last day you can order any of “The Best Of” stamp sets. It was fun to see what stamps would show up each month. My favorite, of course, is The Best of Flowers. To see all The Best Of sets just click on the link above that says “Merchandise Not In The Catalog” and scroll down. This is a great way to see all the items available for purchase that are not in any catalog.

Hurry and order today before it is too late!

Best Of Sun Flowers

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Susan Horr

Sometimes when I make a card, I look at it for such a long time and just can’t figure out what is missing from it. Originally I made this card without the splatters from Gorgeous Grunge and it just looked so plain. The splatters certainly helped with it.

I made the sunflowers using the Best Of Flowers stamp set and my markers. I used the Soft Suede Marker for the middle of each of the flowers and then used the Crushed Curry Marker for the petals. The banner is from the Hostess Set called Banner Greetings that you can purchase for $8 with a qualifying workshop or customer order.

Can you see the diagonal stripes on the Soft Suede card stock? That is an embossing folder called Stylish Stripes that is in the Holiday Catalog and available for purchase until January 2, 2014. It reminds me of candy canes (which would make a fun Christmas card!).

Envelope Punch Board Gift Card

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Susan Horr

Front Of Card

Yesterday I showed you the gift bag I made using Designer Series Paper. Today I am showing you a matching card to go with the bag. Another demonstrator named Jackie Topa did a video showing how to make this gift card using the new Envelope Punch Board. Here is a picture of the card being opened.

Opening Card

As you open the card the inside insert slides up to reveal your message. You can put a gift card or money inside. Isn’t that so clever?

Inside Of Card

Here is a picture of the gift bag, card and matching envelope.

Gift Set

The Best Of Flowers

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Susan Horr

The Best Of Flowers

For some reason I have been thinking about my Dad a lot lately. Maybe it is because my Mom has been visiting for the last month and my sister came for a few days. In any case, he used to grow the most beautiful roses. His favorite of all time was called the Peace Rose. It was a Coral colored rose but had yellow edges.

The rose stamp I used is from the Best Of Flowers Set. Every month, Stampin Up! is coming out with a new “Best Of” set. I think this one came out in March. The Framelits are called Deco Labels and match the new Label Pop ‘N Cut insert which you shall see in the near future (hint).

Best Of Flowers & Chalk Talk

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Susan Horr

I made this very simple card using the daisy in Best of Flowers and one of the stamps in the new set called Chalk Talk. Chalk Talk is great because it has a matching set of Framelits also called Chalk Talk and can be used to the Extra-Large Oval Punch (as I did). The colors are Daffodil Delight and Coastal Cabana.

Flip Flop Card

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Susan Horr

Front of Card

Card Open

I did a very short video to show you how the card works. This is my first ever video so NO LAUGHING ALLOWED!

Best Of May Stamp Set Added

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Susan Horr

For their silver anniversary, Stampin Up! is offering a new stamp set every month called “Best Of”. If you collect 6 of them, you can buy any stamp set with a value up to $14.95 in the catalog for FREE! Each Best of stamp set costs $14.95. Each set will include 3-5 stamps including one “never been seen before” image.

The newest set to be added is the Best of Brides and Babies.

Best of Brides & Babies

Here are the stamp sets offered so far:

January – Best of Birthdays.

Best of Birthdays

February – Best Of Love

Best Of Love

March – Best of Flowers

Best of Flowers

April – Best of Butterflies

Best of Butterflies

Best of Flowers Sympathy

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Susan Horr

Although I dislike making Sympathy Cards, I like to have some on hand just in case. This became a Sympathy Card because I needed to use some kind of saying with it and the stamp set called Loving Thoughts seemed to work. The first thing I did was take a flower stamp from the Best Of Flowers and ink with with Versamark. Then I sprinkled White Embossing Powder and heat set it with my Heat Tool. If you haven’t gotten the Stampin Up! Heat Tool, you should consider it. It is so much quieter than my old one plus it has two settings – one for melting embossing powder and one for drying wet ink. Love it!

Anyway, after I set the embossing powder I stamped the same set in Calypso Coral over the first set of flowers and then took a paper towel to wipe off the ink that was on the white flowers. Ink does not dry on embossing powder so you would have mess if you didn’t wipe it off.

The card still looked a little plain so I sponged Calypso Coral Ink over everything. I like the way it came out.

Best of Flowers Sympathy Card

Best Of……..

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Susan Horr

Here are the stamp sets offered so far:

January – Best of Birthdays.

Best of Birthdays

February – Best Of Love

Best Of Love

March – Best of Flowers

Best of Flowers

April – Best of Butterflies

Best of Butterflies

Best of Flowers For Challenges

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Susan Horr

I am not sure how this happened again but I decided to participate in two challenges again this week and managed to make one card to fit both. I didn’t do it on purpose this time. I just made one card for Freshly Made Sketches and then went to Create with Connie and Mary and the sketch fit both. Here are the two sketches:

Freshly Made Sketches

Create With Connie and Mary

This time I used the Best of Flowers Stamp Set. Stampin Up! is featuring one “Best Of” stamps a month during 2013 as part of their 25th anniversary. I really like the Best of Flowers that was March’s set. I used the “thumping” method on the Hydrangea. This is where you color it with one color (I used Wisteria Wonder) and them ‘thump” another color over the top of the first color with a marker. I used Elegant Eggplant for the second color.