Nutz about Stamping

Last Day for October Specials

Where has this month gone? Thirty-one days and poof.....tomorrow is a new month. I sure hope you took advantage of the fabulous Birthday stamp set October promotion and the great Aqua Painter sale. If you need to check them out one last time, here's the link: October Special .

My Card Club members learned how to watercolor using the Aqua Painter and the watercolor crayons. We had a fabulous guest demonstrator (who just joined my stamping team!) and I got to sit with my club and learn to watercolor too. Here's the card I made using the Morning Soft stamp set:

 

I wish you could see the delicate dusting of Dazzling Diamonds glitter in the center of each flower. This is such a pretty card!

If you want to place an order today, please email me at terri@nutzaboutstamping.com. Or, you can place the order yourself if that is more convenient; just look for the Online Ordering picture on the top right-hand sidebar of my blog!

Nine Weeks till Christmas!

Do you realize Christmas is nine weeks from today? Now don't panic! I am here to help. Every Thursday between tonight and Christmas I will be posting a holiday idea project. Tonight's project is presented in a video tutorial. I have included an up close photo of the Santa Hershey bar holder:

 

Scrap Map Fun

This past weekend I wandered into another yahoogroup card map challenge. Here's the map:

 

Now that circle background presented quite a problem for me. I knew that I wanted to make a birthday card for my grandson and that I wanted to use Crazy for Cupcakes. So I whipped out my Coluzzle, stamped, embossed, colored with blender pens, and cut out the single cupcake image, and layered it on top of the circle using Stampin' Dimensionals. The card has a really nice shine to it with the embossed image and the brads. The Designer Series paper? Oh, that's Prestwick and is great for masculine cards!

Dreams du Jour

The hostess at Sunday's scrapbook club meeting requested a scrapbook page made with Dreams du Jour. She brought me a beautiful page she had already created using this stamp set along with Bella Rose designer series paper and asked if I could make a companion page. For those of you who know me well, know that I love a good challenge. This is what I created for the club members to make:

 

I added a little Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the center of the flowers in the diamond layer and also to the center of each butterfly attached to the photo layer. Amazing what a little touch of sparkle can do!

Season of Friendship

I bet when you saw this fabulous stamp set in the Holiday mini catalog you immediately thought - this set would be great for making cards! I guess I stamp to a different ink pad, lol, because I immediately thought - this set will make fabulous scrapbook pages! Here is a second page that my scrapbook club created yesterday. They stamped the leaves using fall colors that match the Autumn Vine designer series paper and then punched out each leaf set using a 3/4" circle punch. Add a journaling box and a fabulous page is completed in a snap.

 

Sundays with Sizzix

Today's sample was inspired by the changing color of the leaves that is happening all around us now. I decided to use the Big Shot machine to create a scrapbook page for my Scrappers 10 club meeting today. The Leaves (#27) die cuts sponged with More Mustard, Old Olive and Really Rust and "falling" down the side of the page makes a nice element on a page just begging for some Fall photos, don't you think?

 

Each time the club meets they make three completely different 12x12 scrapbook page layouts. The hostess for the month helps me design what will be offered, either through requesting a color choice, a stamp set choice, an accessory choice and/or a theme choice.

Season of Friendship

Have you picked up this cute stamp set yet? Well, after you see all the projects I have made with it I bet you will find it as irresistible as I do! I love the fact that this stamp set is seasonal (hence the name!), it is neither too feminine nor too masculine, and that the tree is large enough in size that a card can be created in just minutes.

Here's a winter card that was created during my Holiday Stamp-a-Stack last weekend. Did you really want to attend my class but it didn't fit with your busy life? Gather 5 or more friends together and I will bring my class to you!

 

You likely can't see it in the photo above, but the snowflakes were stamped in Whisper White craft ink and embossed with Iridescent Ice embossing powder. So each flake sparkles and shines!

Sundays with Sizzix

I am always looking for quick and easy gift ideas, aren't you? Well, today's quick idea uses the Big Shot (yum!), Haiku DS paper and a piece of window sheet. Add some Hallowe'en candy and taa-daa! A cool gift idea!

 

This project can be easily adapted to any holiday. Just change the paper and the candy!

Contact me to join my Anything but a Card Club, which meets once a month, and get step-by-step instructions!

New Poll added

Poll results so far: Organic Grace was the most popular choice for a Level one Hostess stamp set. Deer Friends was the most popular choice for a Level two Hostess stamp set.

Today I added a brand new poll question: Which is your favorite Level 3 Hostess stamp set? Happiness Always or Window Dressing? Answer the poll question found on the right hand side of my blog.

Which do you think is my favorite?

 

Those of you attending my Holiday Stamp-a-Stack tomorrow will be making this card!

Card Map Challenge

Last night I participated in another Chat & Challenge for Stampin' UP! demonstrators who belong to a particular yahoogroup called SUDSOL (Stampin' UP! Demonstrators Online). Here's the card map challenge presented to us:

 

In no time at all I knew which stamp set, colors and accessories I wanted to use. Here's my card using the above card map:

 

What can you create using the same card map? Email me a photo of the card you created. If I decide to publish your card on my blog, you will get a thank you gift from me!