Card Swap Cards

Hi fellow stampers and friends. Hope you all had a great weekend. I personal feel that the weekend went way to fast. I can't believe tomorrow is Monday already. Another crazy week with the kids. I'm also hoping to get some school clothes shopping done this week. Especially for my Dana, it seems that when I take her shopping for clothes or shoes, they never have her size. So I'm hoping that if we go early in August we will find everything we want/need.

My friend Jenn hosted another great card swap last week, the following are the cards I received - their all so cute. I love these swaps, I like getting new ideas from the cards I receive.

I also posted the card I made for the swap. I made it using my new Nesties - I just love them. Spellbinders just released some new ones, and of course I had to place an order for some more (I haven't even used all of the ones I have).

Enjoy the rest of your day. Thanks for stopping by and Keep On Stampin'.

Some SU News!

Although I'm not a part of Stampin'Up, yet, I'm very interested in seeing the new catalog. I have been on a couple of blog sites and have found out some of the new catty stuff. Some of the new stuff is as follows:


Items from past mini catalogs that made it into the new catalog:
- Holy Triptych stamp set
- Tart and Tangy stamp set
- One of a Kind stamp set
- Bloomin' Beautiful stamp set
- Summer Picnic designer series paper
- A Perfect Day Rub-ons
- Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware
- Mini Library Clips
- Chunky Sprinkles Glitter
- Die Cut Blooms


Items we've seen before but small changes have been made:
- An additional set of Die Cut blooms in baja breeze, very vanilla, close to cocoa, & kiwi kiss
- Carousel Notes in ruby red, kiwi kiss & baja breeze. The envelopes are still Chocolate Chip
- Scallop Notes in pink pirouette, baja breeze, & chocolate chip with very vanilla envelopes
- Gift notes in kiwi kiss, riding hood red, & kraft
- *Textured* love notes in tangerine tango, bashful blue & old olive
- Green Tea designer series paper--same print as Ginger Blossom DSP except the colors are changed to old olive, certainly celery, & baja breeze
- Junior Varsity designer series paper--same print as East Coast Prep DSP except the colors are changed to rose red, old olive, bashful blue & so saffron
- Pina Colada simply scrappin' kit--same print and design as the Summer
Days simply scrappin kit except the colors are changed to riding hood red, tangerine tango, old olive & so saffron
- Flower Fusion--we still have the first set, but they've added another set of flowers in pink pirouette, baja breeze, & chocolate chip (yeah!)
- Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware--just like the silver styled hodgepodge hardware except with a vanilla colored finish
- Ribbon--this deserves a whole section by itself! I'm only listing the new colors added to what we already have. We no longer sell any packs of ribbon origionals.
- 1/4 " grosgrain--added Rose Red, Sage Shadow, Old Olive, & Chocolate Chip (yeah, they brought it back!)
- 1 1/4" Pink Pirouette Grosgrain ribbon
- 7/8" So Saffron Poly-twill ribbon
- 3/8" Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin ribbon--very vanilla on one side and kiwi kiss on the other
- Riding Hood Red Taffeta ribbon
- 1" Double-stitched Grosgrain ribbon (this looks like the wide Rose Red grosgrain ribbon that is currently in the Fairy Tale ribbon originals)--Rose Red, Baja Breeze, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip. The stitching is white.
- 5/8" Striped Grosgrain ribbon (this looks just like the black ribbon with the two white strips going down the middle that's in the Jersey Ribbon Originals)--riding hood red, pink pirouette, baja breeze, pacific point, kiwi kiss, tangerine tango. The stripes are white.


New Punches:
- Scalloped Edge (I've already posted samples of this on my blog)
- 1 3/4" Circle
- Wide Oval
- Scalloped Square
- Curly Label Punch Box--the punch looks like this { } on all four sides. It comes with a set of four stamps.


I got this list from Dannie's Designs, she is currently at the Convention. Check out her site if you get a chance. She always has some really great stuff.


I also heard that there was a new stamp set called "Cheers to you" - it has a martini glass, daiquiri glass, margarita glass, beer mug, and 2 wine glasses clinking together. Jen, another demo, said it was really cute. She also aid there was some new chipboard items and lots of new designer papers.


I can't wait for the new catalog, so many new (and needed) things. I can't believe how expensive this hobby can be!


Well got to go. Hope everyone enjoys their day! Thanks for stopping by and as always - Keep On Stampin'!

Super Sunny Saturday!

Hi everyone! Looks like it's going to be another great, I sure do hope the humidity stays down again. Yesterday was a beautiful day, my kids had a couple of friends over to go swimming - they all had a great time.

My oldest daughter, Riley (6), got to go to her 1st Sussex County Skyhawks game last night with one of her school friends and her family. She was so excited to go, especially because it was fireworks night. So a big "THANK YOU" shout out goes to Lisa and her family. Riley had such a great time, I hope she wasn't too much trouble for you - I know she can be a handful. Thanks Again!!

Well on to stamping stuff. I didn't get to make anything new, but I'd like to show you a baby card I made this spring. I made this card for one of our friends who had a baby girl. I ended up liking it so much, I made several "Thank You" cards (in boy colors of course) for all the great friends that threw me a wonderful "SURPRISE" (and it was) baby shower. Thanks again Laureen and Jenn, I am so lucky to have such thoughtful friends - it was such and unforgettable day. The card idea came from a blog by Lauren Meader, she has so many cute ideas - I don't know where she finds the time to create all her wonderful projects/cards.

Enjoy the rest of your day, outside of course. Summer is half over, so make the most of everyday - the cold weather will be here before you know it. Thanks for stopping by and keep on Stampin'.

TGIF - Hooray!

What a fabulous Friday, the sun is back out and the weather is not as humid - Yeah! The kids are looking forward to some pool time today, so I will not get any stamping time in today - maybe after their in bed. But I was able to get time stamp over the past few days. My friend, Laureen, came over the other day with kids. The kids watched, well they were suppose to be any way, a movie and we got a chance to stamp - of course with many interruptions. We tried our hands at making our 1st swing card. We didn't add a lot of bells and whistles to the card this time - just a cute saying from Close To My Heart stamp set.I think they came out pretty good for the short amount of time we had.

I also got some time to stamp my Card Swap card, but your have to wait til after the swap (which is Wednesday) to see it. I'm also going to a stamp class this week at Meg's house, my Stampin' Up demonstrator and great friend. We going to give some stamp sets a proper send off before they retire - I can't wait, she always has such great cards and projects for us to do. I'll make such to post them as soon as I can, you'll love her stuff as much as I do. Thanks for stopping by and Keep on Stampin'.