Summer Fun Deal of the Week!

Promotion Details: Every week during the month of July, Stampin' Up! will offer one discounted product as a "Deal of the Week." No limits and no minimum purchase required. Visit My SU Site to take advantage of this week's special! CURRENT DEAL OF THE WEEK Item # Description Special Price 112454 Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware $18.99

Enjoying Circle Circus

Can you pick out what new products are on this design? The Circle circus Stamp set and a NEW In Color- Crushed Curry. This is my latest design for support letters for the married couples and priest that are participating in a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend this weekend in the Milwaukee, WI area. I CASE'd this, with only color and sentiment changes, from sophmad at SCS. This is not *my* particular style or base color, but the more I look at it, the more I like it! I whipped out 25 cards very quickly with this design - simple elegance - don't forget about it or underestimate it! :)


Stamps: Circle Circus (NEW!), Sweet Sampler(retired)
Card Stock: Kraft
Ink: Crushed Curry, Real Red and Creamy Caramel(stamped off)
Accessories: 1 1/4" Circle punch and Dimensioanls
ENJOY!

Are you remembering to check my SU! Business Website each Monday to find out the current Deal of the Week?

	Deal of the Week: Square Fire Rhinestone Brads
	Add sparkle to your projects with our Square Fire Rhinestone brads. From July 13–19, they're just $6.99—over 30% off the regular price of $10.95! Throughout July, be sure to check my web site every Monday at 10 AM (MT) for the week's new deal.

Summer of Fun Weekly Online Deals!

This Summer ordering online via my demonstrator website at www.2stampinjewels.stampinup.com can get you some great deals!
This week - you can get the Big Shot Doctor Bag for just $49.99! (Orig. $69.95)

Check it out! Summer Fun Deals change every Monday!
ENJOY!

Chat & Challenge #175 - Fifth Ave. Floral

So I hosted a Chat & Challenge over at SUDSOL this morning. This is always great fun! I used a sketch from PaperCraftPlanet. What a fun sketch, eh? I was excited to get inspiration for my own design right away - and set to work while I was hosting. I had a rose image from Fifth Avenue Floral that I had colored in with Copic Markers that I had been wanting to use. I adore the depth of shading I can achieve with my Copics. I had most of the design laid out, but I needed *something* for that vertical layer under the focal piece. I didn't want to add another color, just some texture. My first thought was to run a piece of Basic Black through with an SU! Texturz Plate - good idea. Then "I spy with my little eye" (my kids and I play this game in the car all the time! lol) something clear and shiny! A piece of window sheet lying innocently on my stamp table from who knows when! :)

















So I ran the piece of window sheet through with the Texturz plate to see if it would work - and IT DID! BEAUTIFULLY! I am so please with the outcome, as it was just what I was looking for - a little texture without another color. It's a bit difficult to photograph, but hopefully you can see it. A little glitter on the Scribbles Swirl Sizzlet, and some 1/4" Basic Black Grosgrain Ribbon run along the top and bottom edges of the card (which you can't see in the pictures) - and Happy Anniversary to my mother and father-in-law.

P.S. I layered the Top Note die cut by cutting away the perforated edge on the Basic black piece.

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral
Card Stock: Basic Black, Apricot Appeal
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Accessories: SU Texturz Plates, Top Note Bigz Die, Scribbles Swirl Sizzlet, Window Sheet, 1/4" Basic Black Grosgrain Ribbon, Mini Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Quickie Glue Pen, Cuttlebug (soon to be a Big Shot!) ENJOY!

Flight of the Butterfly

This design was filled with surprises for me! First, I made it for a Chat & Challenge (C&C) over at Sudsol ( a demonstrator only website - if you are a demonstrator - contact me for a referral to give Sudsol a try!). Now, I have been hosting C&C for several years now - this time I participated AND stamped! (Usually I just chat instead - lol) Second - I rarely use white as a basic layer AND leave so much white space. I was pleasantly surprised at the clean, crisp look with the white here. I think it really added to the over all brightness I was shooting for in this design. The third surprise is that this is a project that needed to be designed right away and I did it right away! double lol

Why right away? Thanks for asking! Some of you may remember that Steve & I have been involved with Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) for many years now. In the last two years, we began to help present WWME Weekends - and that is where we were this past weekend. In our area, we follow up the Weekend with notes sent to the participating Sacraments ( couples and priests) to continue to encourage them to use the new tools they gained from the Weekend, and let them know we are still praying for them. These will be the cards I send out - thus the red and yellow WWME colors. If you would like to find out more about WWME, please click on th elink above. If you are iont he Chicago, Joliet, Rockford, Madison or Milwaukee areas - please visit HERE. Steve & I would love to see you and your spouse on a Weekend!

Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly
Card Stock: Summer Sun, Whisper White & Riding Hood Red Patterns DSP
Ink: Summer Sun & Riding Hood Red
Accessories: Scallop Edge and Trio of Flowers Punches, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Quickie Glue Pen, Red Eyelets, Crop-a-dile, Dimensionals
ENJOY!

Altered Notebook - Lighthouse 2

Here is the last of the altered, lighthouse notebooks made for fellow presenting team for the Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) Weekend going on in Rockford, IL this weekend. These weekends are a gift of approximately 44 hours of time that you give to your spouse - no interruptions of daily life - just you and your spouse, taking a look at your already good relationship and learning techniques to deepen your intimacy - and so much more!

Stamps: Sweet Sampler(SU!), Coast to Coast (retired SU!), WWME stamp
Card Stock: Riding Hood Red, Brilliant Blue, Naturals White
Ink: Brilliant Blue, Riding Hood Red and Versamark
Accessories: Riding Hood Red Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Silver Metal Edge Tag, Circle and Corner Rounder Punches, White Signo Gel Pen ENJOY!