Explosion Box obsession

If you've spent any time on pinterest as of last, you will have seen a million of these "explosion boxes" come up. What makes this unique is that it folds into a regular 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card!  So when the person receiving opens up the card, it "pops" open!
It's really fun.

I wanted to make one that was bright and cheery, so I choose to make this... with "sweets for the sweets" and as many bright colors as possible!

this is the back view: The white is so you can write on the "card".

Thanks for looking!

Retired Lists 2014

The retired lists are here! These products are ONLY available while supplies last... And until Friday you can get FREE SHIPPING to YOUR HOUSE with NO MINIMUM ORDER.
retiring stamps: http://su-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/lastChance/2014_NA_RetiredList/NA/CA_Retiring_Stamps.pdf
retiring accessories: http://su-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/lastChance/2014_NA_RetiredList/NA/CA_Retiring_Accessories.pdf

My demo info is Erica Jones Surrey BC V3W 3L2 for your online orders...

Don't forget to look at the clearance rack while you're shopping!
http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryid=493

Cadbury Easter Egg Holder and other stampin' up projects for spring

It's Easter weekend, so I thought I better get my projects up before it's over!
Life is busy with 3 little girls, but we still manage to have tons of fun!
Audrey (my 6 year old) and I made these Cadbury Easter Egg Holders (originally made by Mary Fish, she's the best!) for our Easter breakfast this morning... we made 8, one for each of the kids.

 here's the side view:

I also made this card last month with the club for sale-a-bration: 

Really beautiful.

And finally, a card for mother's day:

here's a close up of some of the details:

We made this for club this month. 

I used the bigz dies (the scallop circle and the big circle) to create the card shape.

The embossing folder is retired, but you can use the new beautifully baroque instead... I inked the so saffron card stock to make it two toned.... The rest is pretty basic...

A great card to make to show off the big shot, As I used 2 bigz dies, the butterflies embossits, AND the chalk talk framelits.

Colors:

So saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz, chocolate chip

Saleabration 2014

I love saleabration... where you spend $60 in product and get something free!  We have some amazing things this year available... talk to me to place an order and get these limited edition items for free! http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/CategoryPage.aspx?categoryid=1734

I made this card for stamp club:

on the inside we mounted whisper white and then stamped some of the flowers from the outside... cute, right?

The embossing folder is from saleabration, you can get that free!  I think this is a stunning and easily replicable card.
Colors: Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio pudding, Crumb Cake

DSP: Sweet Sorbet (saleabration!)

Stamp sets: perfectly you (digital download)

petite petals (spring mini)

Accessories: petite petals punch (spring mini)

large circle punch

Decorative Dots Embossing folder (saleabration)

One of the girls did a different color scheme at club, and I LOVE it!  It makes it very retro:

our second project we used the banners stamp set and punch from saleabration to make this card:

here are the banner details:

I am totally obsessed with the new in colors.  And I didn't have the right ribbon color, so I just made ribbon out of paper! super cute.
One of the girls did a different color scheme for this, as well, and it TOTALLY changes the card!

I love love LOVE this

Thanks for looking!

new year, new projects....

I had no idea I haven't posted since November! Time goes so much faster with 3 little ones under my feet now :)
I started a new stamp club this January, so I have a few projects from it to share...
I made this simple green card with club this month to fulfill the request for a "boy" card... it can be hard to know what card to make for a guy in your life.
I made it with gumball green, basic grey and basic black.  The stamp set birthday bliss is retired (you can get current stamp sets though that are very similar) and the flag is stamped with gorgeous grunge, one of my favorite new stamp sets!
Someone in my club choose to make it with pacific point instead, and i think it turned out great!

 here's a detailed look:

 and then of course we needed to make a valentines project, so we made these adorable little bags!  I got the measurements from this post: http://roseyscrapper.blogspot.ca/2011/01/valentine-treat-bag-with-stampin-up-top.html

 I made this red, pink and silver one:

and other girls from the club made the pink and grey one, and I love it!

Christmas Time Is Here....

Our final club we made some Christmas projects... it was so fun!
We made this box for Cards... I got it from http://elainescreations.blogspot.ca/2011/03/scalloped-card-box-tutorial.html.  I used some retired 12 x 12 paper to make the smoky slate card pop.

 Then we made this swing card.
I wanted to use the cutest new Christmas stamp set ever, "Color Me Christmas".  We used a watercoloring technique... so fun!

The instructions on how to make it are http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/swing_flip_flop_card/

 Then I wanted to show how to make a santa with sparkly beard using dazzling diamonds:

 And that's a wrap! Merry Christmas everybody :)

Christmas Stamp-a-Stack

One of the events I look forward to the very most the entire year is my Christmas Stamp-a-Stack... I decorate early, get a Christmas playlist of my favorite tuns, put Caramel Apple Cider on the stove and prepare 3 Christmas Cards for the class.... and you fill my house with laughter, concentration and joy as we get ready for Christmas together and make a pile of cards.
This year, I offered 4 cards to choose from instead of 3, because I couldn't decide!
Here's the first:

 It's not a great picture... but we used the mosaic emboss folder from facebook, and then the mosaic stamp set and punch... a fun card and very easy.
Colors: Smoky Slate, Real Red, Garden Green

 This is a classic Christmas Card, using my two favorite colors for Christmas: Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive

This is a lot simpler than it looks... I love cards that are all on the same layer, but it's very striking all the same.

And I think I saved the best for last, this is a card I cased that is SO amazing.... we did it in black and in brown.  The background is an embossing folder, then I brayered it with black or brown on one side of the folder to create this unique background.  Thanks to Laura Leuenberger for coming up with this beautiful card!