It is “Hump Day"…. Wednesday…drum roll – drum roll – you know what tomorrow is…the unveiling of the NEW Holiday Catalog and for those of you that do not have one in your little paw – 1^st, I am sorry….and 2^nd if you are not currently working with a Stampin’ Up! Demonstator, I would be more than happy to send you one. Just email me and I will send one your way!

I hope that today’s post brings a smile to your face and also warms your heart. This is a new stamp that is a “single” stamp and you know how I love my single stamps! I ask you to stop and say…I’m Thankful For ____________________ and fill in the blank! I see endless ideas for this stamp!

Let’s get going!

• The base is Very Vanilla making it into a 5 X 5 Card (I have a bunch of square cards for you this week) and then a “smidge” smaller is the Mossy Meadow and lastly the very vanilla again! I just love layering!

TIP ALERT: I know that I use a lot of paper but I feel that there is SOOOO much that you can do with paper that makes making clean and simple cards even easier etc…please remember, make the most out of your paper. For this card I cut out shapes on the Mossy Meadow, as I knew it would be covered up.

• When you look at the stamp you can see that there are many lines. For today’s card I just wanted the sentiment so after I inked it up in Mossy Meadow I simply took a baby wipe and cleaned off the lines, again – super easy!

• The focal fun is from a Bigz Die called Autumn Accents. You can see from the image below the variety of fun and classic shapes that are on this die.

TIP ALERT #2: This goes back to my 1^st point – see how simple paper makes such a difference! You can place many different little pieces of scraps over the image you want to create and then simply run it through the big shot! These Bigz Dies are to me a must have as you always have a fall back to if you do not have a stamp set for fall…classic – timeless!

• After I cut my images out I placed them on top of a piece of computer paper and then using the splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge I gave it a quick stamp with Soft Suede.

• “Gathering” my fall fun up,  I pierced a hole and then placed a Candy Dots Brad Base and the “dot” is from the Regals to hold it together! Taking a small piece of linen thread and wrapping it around the base made it super easy to make a bow!

• Being that I already knew that this card would take extra postage, as it is a square card, I took advantage of adding a special touch of the linen thread around the edges! I love the look and feel it gives – what do you think!?!?

• Now to the envelope…since I needed to use the envelope punchboard I thought why not make the mailman really smile and make a FUN color envelope! The envelope is Hello Honey and then I took a piece of scrap Blackberry Bliss and stamped it with the Gorgeous Grunge and lined the outer part of the envelope!

That’s is and it is a fun, clean and beautiful card! I am sure that you can think of many people to send this card to. I just adore the font and to me, these 3 words are so powerful and meaningful.

Time is running out for the Short & Sweet opportunity and I invite you to go back to my post that I highlighted the specifics about it. Click here to see it.

I have had many emails about it and I can simply give you this advice…Please read these below bullets and then if you are ready to do something for yourself – than click here and get going! I would love to have you on my team!

• You have nothing to lose.

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• It is YOUR decision to make it what YOU want it to be.

• You have a 1-time opportunity to take advantage of a 30% discount (when I joined, I took FULL advantage of this one as my plan was to sign up…use the 30% discount and be done!!!)

• You would have until January 31, 2005 to make the decision to place another order or not…think about this…that is sooooo far away; you can see that this is a no brainer…

• Being a part of a positive and just simply fun group of individuals is the icing one the cake for me! I am not a facebook gal but Mary Fish has created several private facebook groups that are for us to learn, explore and share our paper crafting skills with. We are a very close and active group and the funniest thing is I have never met them in person but a relationship has developed. I love being a PAL!

Please email me and I would love to talk to you if you wish! There is really nothing more to say than to do it for YOU! I know personally that I have never regretted it one bit, in fact it has enriched my life so much that I can easily say…

I’m Thankful For Stampin’ Up!

Through Stampin’ Up! I have been able to grow, learn and express myself to help not only develop an inner confidence but to also know I make a difference – if it is through my blog…through my monthly service that I do for Breast Cancer but most importantly I am doing it for me…and that makes me happy!

Until tomorrow!

I'm Thankful For Wood-Mount Stamp Set

$12.95

Autumn Accents Bigz Die

$21.95

Regals Candy Dots

$5.95

Candy Dots Brad Bases

$2.95

Linen Thread

$4.50

 

 

Big Shot

$99.95

Gorgeous Grunge Wood Stamp Set

$24.95

 

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