Just a Reminder and New SU Catalogue News

Just a reminder, the old Stampin'Up! catalog expires onthe 10th. If there are stamp sets and other items "you can't live without" please contact me to order BEFORE the 10th!

Also my new "cattys" are on the way! I am so excited as I had a sneak peak from my upline yesterday. The catalogue is FULL of new items. Stampin'Up! is offering a 15% off sale on 10 NEW stamp sets from the new catalogue! I have a picture and details here, but I hope to get a better link on my sidebar later.

Gatefold Bluebirds

You ever get a day when you get a great idea, walk into your "creative room" and then forget what it was you were going to do? Well, that is the kind of day I had yesterday, so I ended up just doing this gatefold card. I used two of Stampin'Up!'s newest "in colors" Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze. I also used DSP from Daisy Bucket. The bluebirds I punched with a MS punch that I had just purchased at Walmart (our Walmart is loaded with MS stuff), and I used pop dots to give them flying dimension! The ribbon is from Mikes, though in this photo it is hard to tell, but it is a perfect match for the paper. I also used the 3 flower SU punch for the flowers. The sentiment looks blurry, but its not, I was trying to take this photo during a lightening storm. I should of taken photos of the lightening, it was amazing!

Also, the coutdown to the new SU catalogue is 6 days! I have had a sneak peak of it from my upline and it is packed full of goodies! Save your "moolah" as you will want it all!!!

Designer Bags

I saw the instructions for these cute designer bags on another blog which I will try to find and post later! I made 8 of these bags and hope to show more later this week. The rose one, of course is the new SU paper that I am in love with and I decided to leave any embellishments off of it and I felt it was "beautiful" as is. The other one is pretty busy, I added a small "owl tag" to it. I have to say these are somewhat addicting, and I plan to use these in a SU workshop, as it is a wonderful way to show the scallop punch, round tab punch, cropadile, DS paper, large eyelets, ribbon, and the stamp set used to embellish! These are easy and my 7 year old grandson helped me by punching out the tab punches! I am going to make a few more as I have a few changes to make it "more mine" that I will also show later.

White On White Stamp ~Simply #46

I like doing the challenges as it keeps me inspired. This one was to do a simple card that was basically white. You could add a small amount of pastel color if you wanted, but I keep mine very simple and very white! I used up some OLD embossed paper I have had for about 10 years, an old paper doily, some pearls, and a sentiment from the SU "Delight In Life" set, that I keep using and using. I stamped an image with Versamark and used SU's Heat and Stick Powder to add some poly glitter to it. I have to say I am not "in love" with this card, but it was "simple"

The challenge can be found here and you can see some of the beautiful cards on SCS under the keyword ssnotime46.

Another thing is, sorry if you were trying to get on my blog the last few days and couldn't. Seems there was a glitch with my visiters counter and had us blocked for a time. All is well now and hopefully it won't happen again.

From Courtney's Closet Challenge #11

Here is my card for the challenge "From Courtney's Closet. If you would like to know more about it or play along you can visit her blog here . She dresses her darling baby daughter every Thursday in a cute outfit that we are to use as inspiration for our card! Now what better inspiration can you have then a sweet baby??

I struggled this week trying to think of a card, but I have this little House Mouse stamp that I have used before "in a pinch"! All paper and inks are Stampin'Up!'s. In fact, the pink is the great new "Pink Pirouette" in color" being released for sale on Aug 11th. I am really, really liking these new colors! The other SU paper is one I use lots of, "Chocolate Chip" (must be the name...mmmmm!), and the ever faithful Whisper White. I sewed a small piece of tulle for the tutu......................and of course since I am a Cuttlebug "freak", I used one of my embossing folders for the background.

New Items Shown At SU Convention Today!!

New SU catalog will be out Aug 11th.....and it is a beautiful catty! Lots of new stamps sets, punches, vanilla hodgepodge (yes vanilla), new Designer paper to die for! Better get a bank loan or remortgage your house, cuz you are going to want it all...LOL! Even the new sock moneky set has an accessories set....I wish I could of gone to convention, they received a bunch of goodies and had the opportunity to purchase all kinds of "special convention goodies"!!! Happy for them, sad for me! :>(

Hoping to put my new designer bags on tomorrow...it has been a busy week!

My Friend's Horse and Purrbag Kitty

I "borrrowed" these photos from my friend "Lana" that lives in Canada. These are "hot off the press" as she just sent them to me this morning! I had to share them, (hope you don't mind lana) and they are such nice photos of two beautful animals. The cat's name is Purrbag, the horse is Nugget, isn't he just beautiful, you can tell he gets lots of attention and is well cared for, look how pretty his mane and tail are!! Thanks Lana for sharing!