Retired Stampin' Up Stamp Sets for Sale

I have the following retired Stampin Up stamp sets for sale. Prices do not include shipping. Will ship to U.S. only. Email me if interested. Shipping is actual cost and will vary depending on number of sets purchased.

A Little Bit of Happiness - new, unmounted (wood blocks) - $8.00 plus shipping

 

 

Blooming with Happiness - new, unmounted (wood blocks) - $8.00 plus shipping

 

 

Cuddles and Tickles - New, unumounted (wood blocks) - $10.00 plus shipping

 

 

Little Layers Plus- New, unumounted (wood blocks) - $8.00 plus shipping

 

Simply the Best - New, unumounted (wood blocks) - $8.00 plus shipping

 

 

 

Wishing You the Best - New, unumounted (wood blocks) - $8.00 plus shipping

 

 

MOUNTED SETS - TRIMMED CLOSELY - NEVER USED

 

Along the Same Lines - New, mounted (wood blocks) - never used - $8.00 plus shipping

 

 



Christmas Cards 2012

Worked on some Christmas cards over Thanksgiving holiday. Haven't felt very creative in a long time so I was determined to make my own Christmas cards this year. I was starting to feel like a hoarder with all the card stock, stamps, dies and embellishments I've bought over the last several years so pulled out a few things and here's what I came up with.




Snowfake Card
Front













Snowflake Card
Inside









Snowflake Card
Supplies used: Stampin' Up! Kraft and Soft Suede cardstock, generic cranberry cardstock, Stampin' Up! Cherry Cobbler and Crumb Cake stamp pads, The Twinery Maraschino Bakers Twine, Stampin' Up! Snowflake punch, My Favorite Things Seasonal Sentiments stamp set, My Favortie Things Layered Label Die.

St Pat's Card

Haven't posted any cards for along time so thought I'd post one of my St. Pat's cards.

Love Story

While surfing the web today I came across this video of some amazing talent. The video features Jon Schmidt on piano and Steven Sharp Nelson on cello. Check out Jon's website where you can find mp3 downloads and information regarding availability of Love Story in mp3 format. Hope you enjoy this video as much as I have.

Valentine's Projects

Thought I'd share pictures of a couple of Valentine's projects I made recently. The first is a Valentine box in a bag that I made for my grandchildren to give to their classmates. The other is a Valentine's card I made with some of my new Papertrey Ink stamps.

I'm also working on some Valentine cards to take to our local nursing home. I'll try to post some pictures of those in the next couple of days.

Party Hearty!

Today is my sister Celeste's birthday. In case you're reading this Celeste it's just one more year until the big 50! (just in case you've lost count!) I have my card all made, in the envelope, addressed but not in the mailbox so you'll be getting it soon.

We have so many birthdays in our family in January that I've been playing around making a few birthday cards. On both cards that I am sharing today I used the Party Hearty stamp set, green galore cardstock and ink, tempting turquoise cardstock and ink, and Rainbow Sherbet Designer paper from Stampin' Up. I also had some turquoise and green saddle stitched grosgrain ribbon that I purchased during one of my ribbon buying frenzies at Michaels that matched everything perfectly.



Happy Birthday wishes (some belated) to my sister-in-law Beth and neice Danielle who both celebrated birthdays on the 31st of December, my friend Holly's mother Helen (aka as Terry) and our neighbor's daughter Micky who both had birthdays on January 1, my grandson Griffin and great-neice Abigal who both had birthdays on January 5, my neice Erin whose birthday was yesterday, my sister Celeste and friend Lois who are celebrating today, my daughter Jennifer on the 20th, friend Ron Yex whose birthday is same day as mine - the 22nd and Holly's husband Howard and my Uncle Ron who are also celebrating birthdays this month. Hope I didn't miss anyone but if I did "Happy Birthday" to you also.

Stamping Again

For the first time in a couple of months I finally felt like doing a little stamping this weekend. Here are two of the cards I made that I thought I would share.

I used stamps from the PapertreyInk Anniversary Stamp set that I received last year. The name of the set is Simple Little Things and was a limited edition that customers who had ordered 12 stamp sets between February of 2007 and February of 2008 received as a customer appreciation gift. I made the scallops around the circle with my scalloped square punch from Stampin' Up. I cut 2 scalloped squares and then cut each of those squares into 4 quarters for a total of 8 pieces. I then started adhering them to the back of the circle and this is how it turned out. I thought it looked pretty nice. The cardstock that I used was the Kraft cardstock from PapertreyInk and Bravo Burgundy from Stampin' Up. Everything was stamped with Bravo Burgundy ink from Stampin' Up.

For this card I used some of the Dark Chocolate cardstock from PapertreyInk and designer paper from Cloud 9 Designs. I stamped images from the Priceless and BoHo Blooms Background stamp sets from Stampin' Up using Chocolate Chip ink from Stampin' Up. I wish the images would have been darker. I had even grabbed my newest Chocolate Chip stamp pad but it still didn't stamp very dark. Guess I'll have to get the reinkers out.

Scrapping Weekend

While the guys are away the girls will play......


Back row left to right - Stacie, Viki, Laura, Amber, Valerie
Front row left to right - Holly, Cindy and Erin

Valerie & her mom Kim from Indiana.

Pop-up Gift Card Holder

This is a pop-up gift card holder that we recently made. I thought the "eat, drink & be scary" stamp was perfect for a McDonald's gift card to give to my grandkids for a Halloween treat. This stamp is from the Stampin' Up stamp set "Eat, Drink & Be Scary" that is in the Holiday Mini Catalog which runs from October 1 thru January 18. It's a really cute stamp set!

Crayon Holder

Here's another project from our last workshop. I intended to make some candy bar holders but found my husband had eaten the Kit Kat bars so I changed the measurements and made crayon holders instead.

The measurements for the crayon holder are as follows: Cardstock measures 2 1/2" x 10 3/4" and is scored at 2 1/4", 2 3/4", 6 1/2" and 7". The print paper measures 2 1/4" x 9" and you do not score it before adhering to cardstock. Also start adhering from short end (front flap).

If you want to make candy bar holders for Funsize Kit Kat candy bars or Hershey bars the cardstock measurement is 2 1/2" X 10", scored at 2 3/16", 2 11/16", 6 1/8" and 6 5/8". The print paper measures 2 1/4" x 9".

Bookmark

We made this bookmark at our last workshop.



It's a great way to use up those scrap pieces of cardstock. The measurements are as follows: chocolate chip cardstock 1 1/2" x 9 1/2", scored at 4 3/4" and 2 pieces of patterned paper is cut 1 1/4" x 4 1/2". After making several bookmarks I found that they stayed in place best when I put scalloped pieces on front and back on open ends. I adhered 2 sets magnets on inside, one set right at the edge of the open ends and the other about an inch from the fold.



These are great as you can bookmark the line you left off on.

Peppermint Pattie

I haven't posted anything for a little while so took some quick pictures this morning of the projects we made at our last workshop.


Got the idea for this sheep card and Peppermint Pattie from cards I've seen on various blogs but not sure who came up with the original ideas. Rather than making a card from the sheep with the pink bow I decided to put a York peppermint between two scallops and add legs to make her stand up by using punches from the Stampin Up word window punch. I thought it turned out so cute.


This Frankenstein card also came from ideas I saw on many other blogs.


When I was flipping through my new Stampin' Up catalog I noticed the scalloped circle card on page 147. I really liked the layout so used the idea for making this Celebrate card with the birthday candles.



And this one was just one I came up with using a layout similar to a card layout I saw somewhere.

Flip-Up Album

Here are pictures of my first flip-up album. I'm not a very good photographer but these pics should give you an idea of what my flip-up album looks like.











I'd been admiring flip-up albums I've seen on other blogs and on Splitcoaststampers so I finally decided to sit down and see if I could figure out how to make one myself. After alot of trial and error this is what I came up with. I hadn't seen any instructions on how to make one so I documented the steps I took in making mine in my own set of instructions.

I'm not sure if my album was made in the same way as others that I've seen but after writing my instructions this link was shared by a member of a stamping group I belong to. The directions vary a bit from mine but you may want to check it out. My album was made using 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" pieces of cardstock but it could be easily adapted to any size cardstock.

If you'd like to receive a copy of the instructions I wrote for my version of this flip-up album I would be glad to share them with you if you would be willing to share instructions and pictures of a "wow" project with me.

Email me with your name, email address, how you found my blog and include your blog address if you have one as I love visiting other people's blogs for inspiration.

Always Cards

These are some cards I made using the Always stamp set from Stampin' Up.

Another Always Card

Made another card using the Always stamp set from Stampin' Up. This time I switched up the designer paper a bit but still used the Le Jardin collection.

Always

Here's a card made with one of my new favorite stamp sets, "Always", from Stampin' Up. The first time I saw this stamp set in the current catalog I wasn't too sure I liked it but then I saw a few cards made with it that changed my mind.

For this card I stamped the images with versamark ink and embossed them with black embossing powder. I used designer paper from the Le Jardin collection from Stampin' Up. I mounted everything on Basic Black cardstock and then mounted to River Rock cardstock. Didn't quite punch my holes for the black eyelets perfectly but still thought the card turned out well. Very easy card to make but impressive look I thought.

Hope you enjoy!

A Little Birdie Told Me..........

Finally took a picture of the one other card we made at our March workshop. I just love this Little Birdie Told Me stamp set from Stampin' Up. And those ribbon slides from Stampin' Up's new hodgepodge hardware kit is so cool. I got to thinking that the Copic markers which are alcohol based might work well to add color to the ribbon slide so I gave it a try and it worked fantastically! Hope you enjoy the card.

Candyce's Recipes

At our last workshop Candyce whipped up some yummy food that everyone really enjoyed. Candyce was glad to share those recipes with us. I don't like crab but that Crab Bisque sure smelled good!

Pretzel Dip

1 egg
2 tablespoons vinegar
3 tablespoons sugar

Combine all ingredients in saucepan mixing well. Heat until mixture thickens, stirring constantly. The mixture will thicken quickly. Remove from heat.

Add:

1 – 8oz. cream cheese, softened
¼ cup green pepper, chopped finely
½ cup onion, chopped finely

Stir and chill –serve with pretzels


Crab Bisque

1 stick butter
1 bunch green onions chopped
2 cups half-n-half
2 cans cream of potato soup
1 can rotel
1 can whole corn (not drained)
8 oz Velveeta cheese – I usually add more
2 cans crap meat

Sauté onions in butter in a large stock pot. Add next five ingredients. Then add cheese. Once cheese is melted add crab meat (finely chopped shrimp may be substituted). Simmer 20 minutes.


Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup peanut butter
6 cups crisp rice cereal
2 cups (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips, melted

In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup and peanut butter. Cook over medium-low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat; add cereal and stir until coated. Spread into a greased 13-in.x 9-in. x 2-in. pan; press lightly. Spread melted chocolate over bars. Chill.

March Workshop

Thought I'd post these cards we made at my March workshop real quick this morning. The frog card was cased from Michelle Force. and I got the idea for the little birdie card from Chris Smith. I'll also be posting another card we made once I take a pic of it. Our March hostess, Candyce, shared some yummy recipes with us which I will be posting later as well. Enjoy!

Color Blocking

This is a card I made this weekend using the Love and Happiness rub-ons from Stampin' Up. I like the Color Blocking technique on this card. It's a simple technique that allows me to use up some of those cardstock odds and ends I've been hanging onto and makes a fairly attractive card. I got the card layout idea from Julee Tilman's blog "Poetic Artistry". Julee has a link to a pdf file containing a sketchbook of some really neat card layouts.

I will be posting projects from my March workshop as soon as I get the pics taken.