I get so excited about the Holiday catalog that I sometimes forget about the annual Stampin' Up! catalog. I'm so glad they included Christmas stamp sets in the annual catalog. It lets you get a jump on the season. Here's a simple card using the Embellished Ornaments stamp set and...

Today is sort of my anniversary…no, not wedding…that was in June…. This is a different kind of anniversary….19 years ago today I had very risky brain surgery… so risky the neurosurgeon, who came out of semi-retirement to take me on as a patient, didn’t not want to perform it….I had to talk him into it. He was afraid I would end up dying on the table or wake up as a vegetable…. Didn’t happen! Here I am still enjoying life and watching four more grandchildren being born and growing up. I’m…

Good morning and a very merry Christmas to you! I hope that you have had a wonderful Christmas and that you are now able to relax a little for Boxing Day (or beyond that as it is here in Australia :-0 ) Here in Melbourne we had a hot Christmas - both Christmas Eve and Day were around 35 degrees and the relief of the cool change came through overnight with some much needed rain and we are still enjoying the cooler temperature :-) This last design of card is on it's way (or hopefully arrived)…

For week 2 of the Heart of Christmas Countdown I have used the Christmas Gleaming bundle along with the Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP. The baubles were cut from the Brightly Gleaming DSP. I added a topper to each bauble by punching just the top of each bauble from Copper Foil paper. The strings for the baubles are actually very fine strips of Copper Foil paper that I cut using my paper cutter. The Merry Christmas greeting was embossed with Copper Emboss powder. The Old Olive sprig above…

I saw this card on a blog, Inspiration Blooms. I had the Cuttlebug embossing folder but I did not have the stamp that she used so I had to compromise. I used a stamp of a Christmas tree from Flourished and stamped it three times with Versamark ink and embossed with gold embossing powder and then used a Nestie to cut the stars. The sentiment is from PTI also embossed in gold. I did the same thing for this card but I used a medallion stamp that is a little bigger than the star.

Hello everyone, Thanks to all who created using my Technique and Stash Challenge and our winner is Anne Congratulations Anne! We would like to invite you to be a guest designer on an upcoming challenge. Please click HERE to let us know you are interested. And the Honorable Mentions go too - (In submission order) Helen Betty Kathy Congratulations to you all! We hope you'll enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog. You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

Today's IC took me [url=https://www.usmintsheets.com/product/showitempop.php?catnum=2368][Color=Red]here[/url][/color] JUL18VSNG: Make a holiday themed card. [url=https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-use-die-punch/][Color=Red]Simon Says Stamp[/url][/color]: Use a die or punch. This was fairly easy to create. Die cut solid from red glimmer, top layer in silver foil. Added silver cording and silver splatters to bg. Sentiment stamped in encore metallic silver with…