S.T.A.R.S.--Sharing The Art of Rubber Stamping

Holiday Mini Catalog--Control Freak Style--Part 5

Let's continue the parade of Holiday Mini Catalog Cards I received from the most recent Control Freaks' Swap:

Made by Julie R. Buhler

Made by Kathy Strubel

Made by Katy Clark

Made by Lisa Martz

Made by Mary Beth Brown

Made by Melanie Schulenberg

I just LOVE these cards!  It gets my creative juices pumpin'!!   Erin

PS...If you live in the Oklahoma City Metro Area, I'd love for you to come to my Open House on Tuesday, September 29th at 7:00pm.  Club members can come early at 6:30pm to have first look at the retired Stampin' Up! Stamp Sets & Accessories that I am selling!  We will make a couple of FREE projects, eat some yummy snacks, visit over the Idea Book & Catalog & the Holiday Mini Catalog, look at Halloween, Thanksgiving, & Christmas samples & more!  Please contact me ASAP to RSVP!!

To place an order please click here and then click on "SHOP NOW"!

 

Holiday Mini Catalog--Control Freak Style--Part 4

 Made by Jan Tinklenberg

Inside of Jan Tinklenberg's fantastic card!

Made by Joey Hartman

Made by Judy Di Scipio

Made by Julie Dinn

Made by Julie Dinn (No, this isn't a type...Julie made 2 sets of swaps.  One was for her & the other was for her very good friend & fellow Control Freak, Liz Shultz, who couldn't participate this round because she was moving.  Julie didn't want her to miss out on the swaps...what a great friend!)

These Holiday Mini Swaps just make me want to buy EVERYTHING!!  How about you??   Erin

PS...If you'd like to place an order, please click HERE, and then click on SHOP NOW!!

Holiday Mini Catalog--Control Freak Style Part 3

Are you ready for some more STUNNING cards??  Well, wait no longer, here they are:

Made by Cindy Major

 

Made by Connie Babbert

Made by Dawn Olchefske

Made by Erin Blair

Made by Gretchen Barron

I hope these wonderful swaps I received from the Control Freaks will inspire you to pull out some of your stamps, ink, & paper and make a card or two!  Have a super day...Erin

Click here if you would like to place a Stampin' Up! order & then click on "SHOP NOW" near the top right corner!

Holiday Mini Catalog--Control Freak Style Part 2

  Let's continue the fun with more FABULOUS swaps from the Control Freaks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made by Adele Heffern

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made by Ann Walker

 

Made by Annette Jensen

Made by Barb Mullikin

Made by Cindee Wilkinson

Stay tuned for more Holiday Mini Catalog swaps tomorrow!!  Erin

To place an order, click HERE!

Holiday Mini Catalog---Control Freak Style

This week I'll be sharing with you the FANTASTIC swap cards I received from my Control Freaks!  Today I'll show you mine & all the versions that I made.  Enjoy!

I used the new Pumpkin Patch stamp set from the Holiday Mini Catalog.  I am proud to say that I used EVERY single stamp in the set on each card.  There are 2 greetings, I used one on the outside & the other one on the inside.  I stamped the grass stamp multiple times to make the nice soft cushy grass you see above.  The colors I used were Pumpkin Pie, Eggplant Envy, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, and Shimmery White.  I stamped the pumpkin faces & the greetings in Basic Black Craft Ink Pad & embossed them with Irridescent Ice Embossing Powder.  I used the Scallop Square Clear Bigz Die for the card front & back.  For the back of the card, I scored across the top where the first scallop goes in and then I attached Sticky Strip just above the scored line & then attached the front to it.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Stay tuned this week for a delightful feast for your eyes!  Erin

PS...Yesterday, the Tour de Freaks started.  Go HERE to Julie Dinn's Beautiful Blog to start the tour and to see all the beautiful fall creations.  I am so excited & honored to be able to join the Tour for October & November.

Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit Cards--Part 3

Here is the last installment of cards that we made from the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit .

 

Are you sitting down?  I think I actually came up with this card ALL BY MYSELF.  You can tell it's MY design by how complex & difficult it is...tee-hee! ;)  Here is one really cool thing about this card, are you ready:  The polka dotted adhesive die cut strip that is running across the center of the card is actually two small pieces just barely long enough to be covered by the large Sizzix Scallop Circle Bigz. I used the other part of the polka dot strip on the cards below & couldn't bare to cut up the other polka dot strip for it to be covered up by the scallop, so I made do with the 3 3/4 inches worth of left-overs...so how's that for being frugal & creative?? 

 

For the card on the Left, I blatantly CASED Jeanne's beautiful card HERE in the lower right hand corner.  The only thing I did differently was to pull out the red from the polka dot adhesive die cut border strip by using the red holly circle & punching out some real red cardstock for the old olive snowflake.  I also colored the tip of the reindeer's nose with red, but I forgot to use that sample in this photo...grrr!

For the card on the right, I also blatantly CASED "pkburns" HERE.  My only tweaking was to add a little bling in the middle & to stamp a greeting instead of using the border strip!

For these 2 cards the 2nd card was identical to the ones above, so no need to show both of them.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards over the past few days.  It feels soooo good to have 20 Christmas Cards DONE!  I am planning on making some more from the leftovers from the kit & I will be sure to post those for you.  The only extra paper I needed for the cards that I posted were 2 sheets of Very Vanilla Card Stock!  To purchase your Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit & any accessories you might want to go with them, just click HERE. 

Have a super day...Erin

Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit Cards--Part 2

Here's the next installment of the cards we made using the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit.

  

I gleaned this idea from Jennifer Holiday's blog HERE.  As you can see it's not an "exact" carbon copy & by flipping the DSP around & using a different ribbon, you get a totally different look.

Can you find my mistake in the second card??  I do make mistakes & I decided to just go with it!

I'll give you a hint:  Look at the length of the die cut on the Old Olive cardstock...EEK it doesn't go across the entire length of the card!!  YIKES...I accidentally cut the adhesive die cut too short...OPPS!  I guess I could have just trimmed down the card & no one would have been the wiser!

 

For the card on the Left, I CASED one of "pkburns" cards from HERE .  Although I like the original monochromatic scheme, I thought it needed just a little punching up with the real red snowflake adhesive die cut & Circle and with a little bling from the olive rhinestone brad.

For the card on the Right, I can't seem to find the card that inspired it, but it didn't end up looking much like the original anyway!

For both of these cards, we just duplicated them as is...I made these one's before the inspiration hit that I could just flip the DSP over for a different look.

To purchase the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit, just go HERE.  If you need Ribbon, just go HERE.  If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the Comment Section. 

I have a couple more cards to show you tomorrow, so stick around!  Erin

Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit Cards

Here are the first couple of cards we made with the ALL NEW Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit at my Simply Scrappin' Club in August.  We made 2 each of 10 different card designs.  Enjoy!

   

This top card was inspired from Jeanne's beautiful collection of cards that you can find HERE.  I based several of my cards from her set of cards, so you will be going over there quite a bit!

We made 2 cards just like this.  After I made mine, I realized I could have flipped the DSP over to get a little bit different look...oops!

For this card, I CASEd myself HERE which was actually a CASE of Nancy Kliewer's card that you can find HERE .

The other card we did like this used the reverse side of the DSP with the little red dots & I sponged the edges with Old Olive instead of the Real Red shown here.  I'd show it to you, but the card walked off with one of my clubbers...another oops!

 

These cards were inspired by Jeanne's Christmas Jingle Cards once again.  You can find her cards HERE.

  

Do these cards look vaguely familiar??  Hmmm?

Just look at the previous cards above & then turn your head to the left...ah-ha!  It's the same layout, just turned on it's side!  So smart, right??

I'll be posting more cards tomorrow, so please come back...ya hear!   Erin

Happiness is....

 

....20 Christmas Cards COMPLETED in August!!  I know it's September, but I made these at the end of August.  My Simply Scrappin' Club girls decided they wanted to get a head start on Christmas Cards, so we took the BRAND NEW Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit and made 20 cards in one sitting!!  I wanted to make more but time was not on our side!  I am going to make some more from the left overs (there was definitely enough DSP & Adhesive Die Cuts to make more, just need to add more Cardstock) & show them when they come next month.  Stay tuned over the next couple of days & I'll show you what's in my basket!!  Have a super, stampin day!  Erin