I hope you enjoyed this weekend’s Holiday Mini Catalog Blog Hop and that you came away with lots of things on your wish-list…

Just a few days to go…you can purchase items from that beautiful Holiday Mini Catalog starting on Thursday September 1st – and there are some gorgeous things in it!

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A very warm welcome to Stop no. 9 on the Stampin’ Addicts Holiday Mini Catalog Blog Hop – you just arrived from Carmen at Stamping Addiction where she showed you some fun out of the box ideas using that brand new Holiday Stocking Bigz Die – isn’t she creative?

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We have 3 friends with birthdays coming up in the next week and so I decided to get down and make some cards for them today…

And you know what color I decided to use again?  Melon Mambo – I have come to love this fabulous pink color as it gives a dramatic splash [...]

Nope, not the Holidays…but for us today is BACK TO SCHOOL DAY!!!

After almost 3 months of the school summer vacation today the girls went back to school…it’s been such a long hot summer – in fact today is the 68th day of 100+ temperatures for Austin this year – and we are all [...]

Are you intrigued?!  Well for Festive Friday this week I wanted to show you a card that has a background made from something that you can find in your kitchen…

And that something is Aluminum Foil!  And what a stunning background it makes when you texture it using an Embossing Folder – wow!

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Silver and black add a touch of classic elegance to anything and today I decided to combine that color combo with a stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog…

That stamp set is Proud Peacock that you can find on pg 14 – it is a set of 6 stamps and features birds, a [...]

My card today is simply sweet…I have just been harvesting the chilli peppers from my back garden and it put me in the mood to make a card featuring fresh produce…

And so I came across that beautiful berry stamp that is featured in the new set Pretty Postage that you can find on [...]

Can you believe that it’s time to start thinking about and planning those Holiday cards and projects?!

And why am I feeling festive in very hot Texas in August?!  Because the Holiday Mini Catalog goes live for customer order on September 1st…

But Demonstrators can order from it NOW!!! a In fact all [...]

I giggled after I had typed in that title…it all sounds very food based, doesn’t it?!   Must be time for dinner!  Today I made a card with a bit of an autumn feel to it…

Yes, after today being the 57th day over 100 degrees here in Austin Texas, I am most definitely craving [...]

I decided to go clean and simple with today’s card and used one of my favorite stamp sets that is featured in the Summer Mini Catalog…

That stamp set is Touch of Kindness and you can find it on pg 25 – it is wonderfully versatile and features a cute cat, birds [...]