Simply Inspired Blog Hop - Seasonal Expressions

Welcome to the Simply Inspired Blog Hop!  We are showcasing projects using brand new product from Seasonal Expressions Volume 1.  

If you arrived here from the lovely and talented Lisa's blog, you are in the right place!  

My project started with a whole lot of random stamping and coloring...

I used the stamp set Friend in Me and Shinhan markers.  I colored the flowers with are Peony Purple, Tender Pink, Turquoise Blue, Leaf  Green, Golden Yellow, and Light Orange.  I didn't like the stark white background, so I filled it in with the Pastel Peach marker.

Then I cut the paper into 4" x 3" rectangles to insert into our black display tray.

I wanted this project to be about my sisters, so I simply added some purple and gold glitter mats, black and gold ribbon, and a heart charm.

Your next stop is the incredibly sweet and creative Sheri!

This is the beautiful floral stamp set I used for my project:

While you are at my website, be sure to check out the newly updated Clearance tab!

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Charlotte Layout Workshop - Long Distance Option Available

Charlotte Layout Workshop - $35

Sunday, February 21st at 2:00 pm

(Andover Senior Center)

or

Monday, February 22nd at 6:30 pm

(Brenda's Home)

In this class, you will create THREE 2-page layouts!

There is no stamping this month, but a whole lot of great design and embellishments!

(Don't you think these photos of my nephew's family are perfect?!)

Class kit includes:

• Charlotte Paper Packet, pre-cut and ready to assemble
• Charlotte Complements
• Black and Gold Ribbon (5 yards)
• Treasured Puffies
• Gold Shimmer Trim
• Printed Instructions

This class can be ordered long distance, and kit will go out by February 22nd.

(Please note:  Priority shipping has gone up quite significantly.  

I have had to increase postage costs to $7.00 per package.)

Charlotte Layout Class

In-Home Class $35.00 USD Long Distance Class $42.00 USD

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Charolette Card Class - Long Distance Option Available

Charlotte Card Making Class - $20 

Thursday, February 11th

6:30 pm

Brenda's Home

I've got some great new techniques to share, and I can't wait to show you!

We will be making 9 nine cards (3 of each), and we will be using the new Thin Cuts as well as watercolors to color our diecuts.  You will love how easy and fun this is!

This class includes:

• Pre-cut Charlotte Paper
• Pre-Cut Watercolor Paper
• Use of Thin Cuts, Stamps, Inks, and Watercolors
• 9 Card Bases & Envelopes
• Black and Gold Ribbon (5 yards)
• Gold Treasured Puffies (43)

At $20, this class is a steal!  

(This class is most beneficial if you come to my home, but I understand that many of you are long distance.  Long distance kits include a $3 fee for die cutting, watercoloring, and stamping your pieces as well as a shipping fee of $4.)

Charlotte Card Class

In-Home Class $20.00 USD Long Distance Class $27.00 USD

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Card Buffet - Sunday, January 24th

YOU ARE INVITED TO A CARD BUFFET!
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24th
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Andover Senior Center
1685 Crosstown Blvd NW; Andover
(Turn into the City Hall parking lot and the Senior Center is located at the north end of the building with it's own entrance.)
 

You can pick and choose which cards you'd like to make, and how many of each.   I have packed a lot of fun techniques into these cards!  A few of those techniques are:

Dry Embossing

Heat Embossing

Coloring with Alcohol Markers

Water Coloring

Cards are $2.00 each and include envelopes.  Make 10 or more cards, and they are $1.50 each!  There will be at least 10 all occasion cards to choose from, and there will be at least 10 of each card available to make;  Come early for your best selection!

PLEASE BRING:  Adhesive, Scissors, Glue Dots, Pop Dots

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.  Bring a friend and receive a free gift from me!

Here are four of the cards that will be available to make:

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Team Builders and My Meraki

I returned from Salt Lake City yesterday after spending 2-1/2 days at the Close To My Heart Team Builders conference.  It is an amazing gift from Close To My Heart, and it is filled with rich knowledge, business ideas, great friendships, and artwork.

One of our artwork projects this year was Meraki.  Have you heard of it?  Meraki is to do something with your soul and with love.  We were given a piece of white daisy paper, a piece of watercolor paper, and paint brushes,  When we reached the table, we were able to choose from a dozen stamp sets, markers, and watercolors to create our own Meraki.  It was an exercise in putting ourselves and who we are on paper.

I went right for the floral stamp set Blossoming Expressions and the butterfly set Your Beautiful Self.  I stamped the images with Memento ink, and used light watercolors.  I felt like the finished page really was putting my personality and creative style on the paper. 

Meraki was really a freeing exercise.  I think the light colors emulated my somewhat introverted personality.  If you have that quality, too, I think you know exactly what I mean.  The clusters of various flowers without perfect placement, represent my creative style.  The butterflies?  Well, I think they show freedom in being just who I am.  

Try your own Meraki!  Don't copy mine or anyone else's, but rather put yourself on paper.  If you do create one, let me know.  I'd love to see it!!

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Rose Blossom Blog Hop - Live Your Day

Welcome to the Rose Blossoms Blog Hop!  Today we are featuring the January Special - Live Your Day.   The hop is a great big circle, so if you just follow the links, you will make it through all nine blogs.

This collection was designed to coordinate perfectly with the Everyday Life™ 2016 planner pages (which are half-price right now!) and My Crush® Everyday Life pages, so you can seamlessly integrate pocket scrapbooking into your 2016 planner. Whether in the planner or on their own, these cards make it easy to preserve your everyday moments all year long. 

Included in the Live Your Day collection are (20) 4" × 6" Cards and (36)  3" × 4" Cards for the low price of $8.95.  The same design is on both sides. One side features the design vertically and the other side features it horizontally. 

Now in case you don't want to use them in your planner, I have another suggestion for you!  

Why not create a perpetual (and pretty) birthday reminder book using the My Creations Black Mini Book?

I layered a couple of cards on the front and then wrapped some twine and ribbon around it.  My goal was not to make this too bulky so that it can sit on a shelf.

I adhered a card to the inside cover just to keep thing pretty :)

Now the Mini Book has 10 page protectors.  It starts with a protector that has (2) 4" x 3" pockets.  The next protector is 4" x 6", and then it continues to alternate.

I chose to use the decorative cards with quotes to put in the 4" x 6" pockets.  Now if you got to thinking that aren't enough 4" x 3" pockets for all 12 months, you are right!  So let me show you what I did with with November and December using 4" x 3" flip flaps. 

I adhered two flip flaps side by side on the inside back cover, and I put the month cards in the front and the birthday list cards behind them.  To somewhat hide the adhered flaps, I put another one of the cut quote cards that says, "Don't quit your day dream."

This is a great gift, and it can be made quickly for under $20.  

Now it's time to hop on over to Lynn's blog to see what she has created for you!

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Cards from Seasonal Expressions - and How You Can Get Them Free!

Oh my goodness!  You must have thought I fell off the face of the earth!!  I really didn't, and I haven't been lost - just very busy working and creating!!

I'll tell you that one thing keeping me busy is an upcoming event.  I was asked to teach a class on influential leadership this coming weekend at the Close To My Heart Team Builder's event.

This. Is. A. HUGE. Honor.

I've been busy taking some classes at Creative Live, reading a lot, practicing, and refining what I am going to be sharing.  Not only do I want to make certain that people learn from me, but I want to make sure that I celebrate my team well as I share stories about them within this talk.

But for now, I want to share artwork with you!  I taught all three of these cards at my Open House, and anyone that places a $25 or more order this month will receive these cards FREE!  There's a lot of technique in these cards, and I know you will love having them in your collection!  

(I will share the supply list at the end of the post.)

Card #1 Techniques:  second generation stamping, watercoloring, stamping on Cricut cuts, embellishing

Card #2 Techniques:  stamping on Thin Cut dies, coloring and blending with Shinhan markers, washi tape use, Paper Fundamentals, and doodling

Card #3 Techniques:  two-step stamping, elegance with ease, and using the Stamp of the Month

Everything used to make the cards can be found on my website. Here is the shopping list, and as you look through the list, I think you are going to see that January is a great time to place an order!

Card #1:
1385	White Daisy Cardstock
X5932	Cashmere Cardstock
Z2175	Cashmere Ink
Z2164	Sorbet Ink
D1683	Woodland Romance Stamp Set
Z3105	Gold Paper Fundamentals Assortment
Z3167	Cricut Artistry Collection
Z3132	Watercolor Paints
Z3188	Watercolor Paintbrush Set
X254	White Daisy Cards & Envelopes
Card #2
1385	White Daisy Cardstock
Z3127	Whimsy Paper Fundamentals
Z899	Memento Ink Pad
Z2459	Pastel Green Marker
Z2454	Leaf Green Marker
Z2462	Peony Purple Marker
Z2640	Thistle Ink Pad
Z1979	Journaling Pen
C1638	Spring Critters Stamp Set
Z3207	Spring Critters Thin Cuts
Z3198	Limeade Washi Tape
Z3124	Purple Hearts
Z3040	Thistle Twine
X254	White Daisy Cards & Envelopes
Card #3
1385	White Daisy Cardstock
X5927	Ruby Cardstock
Z899	Memento Ink Pad
Z2644	Pixie Ink Pad
Z2170	Ruby Ink Pad
X7201b	La Vie En Rose Paper
S1601	Beloved Bouquet Stamp of the Month
Z3171	Cricut Art Philosophy Collection
Z1809	Black Shimmer Trim

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I appreciate you!!

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Snowflake Winter Card Kit - Back by Popular Demand! SOLD OUT

I have never had to re-start kits sales, but today I am re-releasing the snowflake card kit due to popular demand!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!   It makes me happy that you enjoy my kits so much!!

The glacier houndstooth sheet in the Zoe paper packet is perfect for winter cards and snowflakes!  These cards are also be stamped on the inside with a strip of houndstooth paper and silver shimmer trim.  Let me show you an example of one:

For this card set, I have used an amazing all-occasion set called Sending Love:

When you purchase this kit, you can purchase it with or without the stamp set.
$13.00 shipped without stamp
$24.00 shipped with stamp

Even if you purchase the stamp set, your kit will come stamped!  I just know you are going to love this one for later use!

• Pre-cut and pre-stamped paper 
• Die-cut snowflakes from the Artistry cartridge
• 5 cards and envelopes
• 4 feet of silver shimmer trim
• Full package of clear sparkle
• Photo directions
• Sending Love stamp set, optional

I will mail the kits starting January 18th (maybe sooner depending on how quickly I get my order).  I think you will LOVE these snowflake cards!

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Rose Blossom Blog Hop - Beloved Bouquet Stamp of the Month

 

Happy New Year!  What a better way to start 2016 than to be inspired by the Rose Blossoms?  I've only seen sneak peeks, but I can't wait to see what is shared!  There are seven of us in this hop, and it's a great big circle.  Just keep moving from blog to blog, and if you get lost along the way, I've got all the blogs at the bottom of this post.

 

The stamp of the month is called Beloved Bouquet, and I am thrilled with a stamp set filled with rose blossoms!  There are also seven great sentiments on this set.  $5 with a $50 purchase?  It's a steal!!

 

I created a layout for my shadow box frame.

 

 

I will show you some close-ups in a bit, but I wanted to tell you that these flowers are so simple to two-step stamp!  Two-step stamping means you have two stamps to create one image.  In this case, I've stamped the background of the roses with Pixie ink.  The second stamp is the detail, and I used Ruby for that.  They weren't terribly hard to cut out, and after I did, I sponged the edges with Ruby ink.  There is a weed-looking stamp in this set, and I stamped that across the bottom of my page.  Now I need to show you some close-ups.  You'll see in the next photo that I did some faux stitching on the edges using my clear ruler.  I also splattered light brown watercolor up in the right corner of the page.

 

 

I also splatted watercolors amongst the weeds:

 

Here is the stamp set, and I think you will agree that it is "must-have" for your collection!

 

 

Now it's time to move on to Lynn's page and her gorgeous artwork.  Judging from the peek I saw, we are going to be WOWED!

 

Should you get lost, here is the order!

 

Brenda - YOU ARE HERE!
Lynn - http://frommybungalow.blogspot.com/2016/01/rose-blossom-blog-hop.html
Marg - http://ididnthavepotatoes.blogspot.com/2016/01/rb-hop-january-stamp-of-month.html...
Shelly - http://just1piece-shelly.blogspot.com/2016/01/beloved-bouquet-january-2016-stamp-of.html
Kim Hill - http://violetsandsunshine.blogspot.com/2016/01/rose-blossoms-blog-hop-little-blossom.html
Kristine Porter - http://merryheartcreations.blogspot.com/2016/01/january-stamp-of-month-blog-hop.html
Kim Sparks - http://memoriesinthyme.blogspot.com/2016/01/rose-blossom-beloved-bouquet-stamp-of.html

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Brand New Seasonal Expressions - Shop Today!

 

What a gorgeous cover!!  And this mini Idea Book is FILLED with all kinds of new!

 

Head on over to my website to take a look through the book, and you will fall in love as quickly and as easily as I did.  I'll be sharing all kinds of goodness in the days to come!

 

Come back tonight for the Rose Blossom Blog Hop!

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