I went to a fabulous ladies night at my friend, Paula's, house last weekend.  I brought a bottle of wine as a hostess gift, but decided to add a little bling to the bottle to include with the wine.  I threw it together with scraps from one of my recent layouts.  I try to make extras whenever I pull out my Big Shot, so I always have something to make last minute cards and gifts.

Featured Products:  Fun Flowers Big Shot Die, Antique Brads, Butterflies Sizzlits, Thanks stamp set FREE with a $50 order during Sale-A-Bration!!!

Featured Techniques:  Crumpled Flowers

Pull-Apart Crumpled Flowers Technique -  from the Uptown Creations February Stamp Club

1.)  Wet 1 Die-cut flower shape with spritzed water
2.)  Crumple the flower into a little ball
3.)  Uncrumple and look for separation of the edges of the paper
4.)  Gently pull apart the paper
5.)  Layer

Happy Stampin'!!

Uptown Creations February Stamp Club

Another fabulous post of the projects I created at the Uptown Creations Stamp Club.  These are the incredible projects from the February club.  For more information on Uptown Creations, visit the blog.

Enjoy the pictures and Happy Scrapping!!

Bliss Flower Card

Featured Products:  Bliss Stamp set form Sale-A-Bration catalog, Fun Flowers Big Shot die, textured impressions folder

Featured Techniques:  crumpled flowers and negative embossing

Welcome Baby Card

Featured Products:  free stamp sets from the Sale-A-Bration catalog!!!!  Visit my Stampin'Up! website for more details or email me to find out how to earn free products for every $50 you spend until March 31st.

Thanks So Much Card

Featured Products:  Elizabeth stamp set, Three Little Words stamp set - some of the free stamp set choices when you spend $50 during Sale-A-Bration

I hope your stamping travels this month take you to beautiful places.  Happy Crafting!

Uptown Creations January Girl's Night Out

To fully quench my stamping craving in January, I not only held my own classes, participated in Dazzling Diamonds swaps and the Uptown Creations stamp club, but I also attended the Uptown Creations Girl's Night Out.  The products were fabulous as usual and I super excited to share them with you!!

For more information on products or techniques used in this post or others, please feel free to contact me.

Artistic Etchings Desktop Calendar

Create a Cupcake Card featured in the Occasions Mini Catalog

 I love the cupcake punch and matching stamp set!!!

I {Heart} Hearts Valentine Card - outside

Inside

For more info on Uptown Creations classes and stamp club, visit the Uptown Creations blog at www.uptowncreations.blogspot.com.

Happy Stampin'!!!

Uptown Creations January Stamp Club

I am a little behind in my posts about the fabulous Uptown Creations Stamp Club monthly meetings.  It is a fun night to stamp with the girls.  For more information on the the stamp club and how to join, visit the Uptown Creations blog.  Melissa is beautifully talented and the projects are always superb!

Here are the projects from January Stamp Club:

Artistic Etchings Valentine's Card - outside view

Inside View

Create a Cupcake Card using the NEW Cupcake Punch

Owl Punch Fridge Calendar

I hope you enjoyed the pictures!  For more information of the products or techniques, please feel free to email me.


Happy Stampin'!

February Scrapbooking Class - Valentines!!!

The Scottsdale Stamper February Scrapbooking class was a lot of fun!!  We made 4 pre-cut layouts which are shown below.  Each layout uses current materials from the Stamin' Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and current Idea Book and Catalog.

If you are interested in attending a Scottsdale Stamper class, please join our meetup group for automated emails and information.  If you have any questions about upcoming events or the projects featured in this post, please feel free to email me.

Valentine Owl Layout

Featured Products:  Red Glitter Paper, Two-Step Owl Punch, Red Glimmer Brads

Featured Techniques:  Clean and Simple, Punch Layers

Paris Amour Layout

Featured Products:  Love Letters DSP, Artistic Etchings stamp set

Featured Techniques: Antiquing, circle punch scallops

Flower Layers Layout

Featured Products:  Lap of Luxury DSP, Fun Flower Die Cut (new from the Occasions Mini!)

Featured Techniques:  Scrap Fun with Layers, Using the Big Shot

Valentine Hearts Layout

Featured Products:  I Heart Hearts Stamp Set, Red Satin Ribbon

Featured Techniques:  Clean and Simple, Stamping Fun

Happy Scrapping!  I hope to see you at a workshop soon!

January Make And Take Projects

Here are some cute projects from our January Dazzling Diamonds INK Stampin' Up! meeting.  We made super cute projects for Valentine's Day using supplies from the new 2011 Stampin' Up! Occasions Mini Catalog.

Please email me for more info on the supplies used in these projects.  If you are interested in learning more about how to make these projects or attending an upcoming class, visit my Scottsdale Stamper Meetup site at http://www.meetup.com/scottsdalestamper.  I hope to see you at a class soon.  Happy Stampin!

Thank you Joanna for these fabulous projects!!!

This third picture is a project from a class held by Joanna.  You make adborable, festive inserts for a shadow box frame.  Each insert is for different seasons/holidays of the year, so you can change out the pictures all year.  If you are interested in hosting this class or another class in your home with a group of friends, please email me at scottsdalestamper@gmail.com.

January Meeting Part 2

Here are the cards from our Dazzling Diamonds INK swap in January.  Our theme was anything from the new 2011 Occasions Mini Catalog or Sale-A-Bration catalog.

If you are interested in learning more about the products used in these samples or joining our Dazzling Diamonds INK team, please contact me for more info.

I apologize as I can't remember who did which card.  I'll have to take better notes for you at the next meeting.

Next post:  Pictures of the make-and-takes from the meeting...

Happy Stamping!