Deal of the Week – Heart to Heart Punch

July 27, 2009 By

Heart Trio punch

Heart To Heart Punch 113694
Deal of the Week Pricing $10.99
Stampin’ UP! punches are consistently voted #1 by Creating Keepsakes readers and here’s a great opportunity to add to your punches with another great Stampin’ UP! easy to use lever punch.

Follow this link for complete information on this our final DEAL OF THE WEEK Promotion, (promo pricing will be added at checkout):  http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=113694#

(Remember you’ll have to identify me as your demonstrator to qualify for the Preferred Pricing when ordering online.)

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Family Ties

July 22, 2009 By

As some of you may know and as news to others, my family lives in the Midwest (where I was born and lived the first 30 years of my life) while I reside in the wonderful state of TEXAS!! Yet my family is with me, ever present in mementos around my home.  So that, while we are parted by years and miles, I think of different family members almost on a daily basis.  The placement of  small items that bring different people to mind, whether friends or family, is a wonderful way to keep them in mind and to offer those unspoken prayers of protection and blessing on them throughout the day, week or whenever.

One such treasure that I have was a gift from my sister more years ago than I can even remember.  She had a Homespun Christmas that year and made all of the Christmas ornaments for her tree and sent me several extras for my tree.  That way we could think of each other on Christmas even though we couldn’t spend the holiday together.

Jennie's-Heart

There are several others packed away with Christmas decorations but I have kept this lovely single heart on my linen closet knob in our master bathroom. Every day, every time I am either at my vanity or in the shower or reaching for a clean towel, or just passing by,  I think of my sister Jennie and say a teeny prayer of thanks for the wonderful thoughtful person that she is.

It has been too many years since I have been back to the Midwest for a visit and I guess there’s a bit of homesickness setting in.  Life with growing teenagers and young adult men is hectic for sure and investing myself in their lives is what is top priority at this time.  But, it brings a smile to my heart to know that she’s thinking of me too!

Summer is quickly going by and I hope you spend time with your family and loved ones while the sun is high in the sky and the days are long.

Blessings on your week!

Katherine

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GRrreat BIG Birthday Card!

July 16, 2009 By

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While our son Jack was home from Spartanburg, SC over the 4th we also celebrated not only HIS birthday but our son Brandon’s birthday is on July 2nd!  So we celebrated them together and had a wonderful evening.  The only thing about celebrating two birthday’s at the same time when you’re doing handmade cards is that one can’t out-do the other.  So I got to do another SIZZIX Pop-UP card which turned out grrreat!

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Items used on this card are:

Stamp Set: Under the Stars and Loads of Love

Card Stock:  Gable Green, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Gable Green,Whisper White, Basic Black and the striped Designer Series Paper is a scrap leftover of Urban Garden.

Inks: Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Going Gray and Old Olive Stampin Write Markers

Embellishments:  Styled Silver Brads, 1/2″ Circle Punch, Stampin Dimensionals, Sticky Strip adhesive tape.

This second card was fun to change-up using the cake die and do something a little different.  The SIZZIX three tier cake die is designed to be used with the SIZZIX BIG Shot from Stampin’ UP! so you want to be sure and keep that on your gift list from hubby!

Happy Stamping!  Katherine

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DEAL OF THE WEEK

July 14, 2009 By

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Take advantage of SU’s Deal of The Week Promo by ordering On-Line and add this great savings to your stash of embellishments!

http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryID=397

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Birthday Cake Card

July 13, 2009 By

Time to do a little housekeepping and get ya’ll caught up! I simply can’t believe July is nearly half over and I’ve been so out-of-pocket the last two weeks it’s awful, but here goes…

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June 14 is (or rather was) our son Jack’s birthday and to celebrate I made him a Birthday Cake. (We didn’t get to have our ‘Family Birthday Dinner’ until he came to visit over the 4th but that’s OK too!). I thought he’d like this colorful birthday cake because he has such a colorful personality. I’d gotten the SIZZIX Pop-Up Die for the Cake and have been wanting to try it out so it was a great opportunity to play with something new!

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It went together quite well, I found the directions provided by SIZZIX to be very helpful and was surprised that it wasn’t as hard as I’d thought it would be!

The items for this card include:

Stamp Sets:  Voila’ and Curvy Verses

Card Stock:  YoYo Yellow, Retired In-Color Textured Card Stock Pacific Point and Kiwi Kiss, Real Red and Only Orange

Stampin’ Write Markers:  Green Galore, Cameo Coral, Real Red, and Tempting Turquoise.

Embellishments:  Green Galore Brads, Dazzling Diamonds, Sticky Strip double sided extra-sticky strip adhesive, and Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Hope your summer is going smoothly and you are enjoying this wonderful change of season….pant, pant, pant!

In case you didn’t know it, Texas is breaking records for 100+ days of heat and I hope it’s about to come to an abrupt halt…the last time we had a heat pattern like this was my first trip to Texas for my Brother & Sister-in-Law’s wedding, and it wasn’t enough to discourage my decision to marry a Texan then or stay now!  It would be a welcome sight though to have an early and cool Fall, well it is wishful thinking but we can always hope right?

Stay cool!  Katherine

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