Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog

It's finally time to reveal the newest Stampin' Up Holiday Mini catalog! Click on the links below to view the catalog and obtain the supplies information.

Holiday Mini (flash version)

Holiday Mini (pdf)

Stampin' Supplies List

If you would like to place an order you can do so on my Stampin' Up! web site or email me at tmariestamps@comcast.net

Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper Promotion

Promotion Dates: August 1-31, 2011

Promotion Details: During August, get a FREE package of Designer Series Paper when you buy three! Stock up on all your favorites, including brand-new designs from the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog.

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•Specialty Designer Series Paper and Hostess Designer Series Paper are not part of this promotion and cannot be redeemed through this offer.
•On-line ordering deadline is Aug. 31 at 11:50 P.M. MT

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It's A Good Day

I thought I would quickly make another card using this week's Summer Card Camp colors. This is a super simple card using a cute Unity Itty Bitty stamp set called "It's a Good Day".

I love the bicycle trend that's booming right now and have been collecting some cute stamps! My DH and DS are huge into bike riding. My Son works at a bike shop and both my Son and Husband race their bikes. They are gearing up for a HUGE mountain bike race next month in Leadville, Colorado.

I used PTI kraft cardstock embossed with a Sizzix Winter Set #2 embossing folder, and a little snippet of patterned paper from Crate Paper's Portrait Collection. The ribbon is from SU.

Summer Card Camp ~ Week 3 Color Challenge

It's hard to believe that our Summer Card Camp is half over! I'm so glad I signed up for this calss as it's forcing me to use colors and color combos that I wouldn't normally use. I love this weeks colors, they were fun to work with!

For today's card I used some fun dotty paper from PTI Distressed Dots, I just love this paper, mostly because I love all things polka dotty! I paird it up with a paper from a 6x6 pad from My Minds Eye, Stella & Rose Gertie. I also love this paper, so much that I've found it hard to cut into. Anyone else have that issue? LOL! The butterflies were cut with SU's Beautiful Butterflies die, another one of my favorite things!

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Summer Card Camp ~ Week 2 Color Challenge

This week's color combo reminds me of our trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in 2006. We made the trip with our Son and his best friends and their families for the boys last spring break of High School. One last vacation together before they all headed off to college. Wow, what a fun week that was, so full of fun memories, perfect weather and margaritas.


Anyway...for this week's card, I used a super cute little stamp set from Darcie's that I came across at my LSS. The whole set is adorable with lots of little elements and various sentiments. The papers are from a 6x6 pad of My Minds Eye Stella and Rose Gertie papers. I colord the image with Copic markers and added a little sparkle with some diamond Stickles.

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Asymmetrical (Informal) Balance

Summer Card Camp continues with today's lesson all about balance. Our assignment today was to use one of the layouts provided to create a card using one of the balance lessons. I choose to use asymmetrical (informal) balance for my card and pretty much flat out copied Kristina's card only using our colors for the week! The fun "smile" stamp is from Hero Arts, I've had it forever and I think this was the first time using it! I colored the word with Prismacolor Pencils and blended with gamsol. I forgot how much fun that technique is, my Copic markers get used more than my colored pencils but I like the soft color the pencils provide.

I checked the Summer Card Camp blog today and holy heck there are well over 500 entries. And let me tell you, they are all amazing!

Summer has finally arrived in Minnesota, it's close to 100* here today...a great day to stay inside and make cards!

Summer Card Camp Week 1

This is the first week of Summer Card Camp and we started out with a color challenge. These colors were very tough for me, not colors that I normally work with, especially orange. But this is why I signed up for this class, to challenge myself and to get me to work outside my comfort zone, and to try new styles and techniques.

I was happy to find some Basic Grey bloomers in my stash that had a splash of orange on a few of the flowers so that became my focal point of my card. The papers are from My Minds Eye 6x6 pad, Lime Twist-Happy Go Lucky.