Monday Night Stampin' Up Projects

Once a month I attend a fun night of stampin' with my local Stampin' Up crafty buddies. Charla is my SU! Demo and she brought these wonderful Valentine projects over the last 2 meetings. (I think I am missing one of them...hmmm maybe I ate it???? LOL)

She had them all decorated pretty, but I was busy gabbing and being the monthly hostess, so I had to finish these projects on the fly at home...and I think I didn't follow directions very well...it's a memory thing! Oh well, several of the projects were made from Dawn's ( Dawn's Stampin Thoughts) wonderful video's here and here.

OH NO! I bet you are sick of these, but I just had to try to make an all Stampin' Up stair step card...I almost made it, but I did have to sneak in the stamp in the middle...not sure where it came from, I have had it for years. Everything on the Riding Hood Red was embossed with SU! white embossing powder, so it had a nice texture.

I made thes fun little candy tubes for part of the nightly munchies. I used a retired tag punch stamp and both sizes of the SU! tag punch and some misc Craft Warehouse ribbon. I bought the tubes from a stamper who had a "tube share" on Beate's Stampin Up Yahoo group. She has a wonderful blog here as well. Wish I had ordered more now...

Stamp: Stampin Up Love You Much (page 27), Retired Valentine tag punch

Cardstock: RHRed, Real Red, SU! DP in RHRed and Pink Pirouette, Candy Lane DP,

Ink: RHRed, Black, Chocolate Chip

Misc: Heart to Heart Punch, Tag Punches, Scallop Punch, (most punches on pages 184 and 185), Stampin Up Bigz Dies Top Note(page 196) and Petal Card for the heart box (page 197)

Penny Black Stairstep card

There's a whole lotta paper piecing happening on this card! The little letter the "chick" in front is holding is pieced in pink SU! DP, as well as parts of the hats and the bow too! I got some new SU! Riding Hood Red DP in all the different prints and it is just beautiful. I just had to try to fit it in on this card where I could.


I used copics, prisma pencils and OMS and SU! markers to color this card. (that's a lot of stuff to clean up too LOL)


I dug out a retired Stampin Up Chicken Wire background stamp for the back drop . I used to be such a background stamp fiend...but have gotten more where I use DP now. (which explains the chaos of my craftroom!)

This card is for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge #35.

Now, I think this might be the last stairstep card I make for a while, but no promises...I just love making the little scenes this style of card allows!


Stamps: Penny Black Pinky and Porky 3110K, Penny Black What a Day! 2350F, Studio G $1 sentiment stamp from Michaels, Stampin Up background stamp.

Cardstock: Stampin Up DP and Riding Hood Red, SU! Pink

Ink: Memento Black, RHR, Prismas, SU! markers and copics

Misc: Martha border punch, SU Riding Hood Red ribbon, Nestabilitie Hearts

Beary Full of Truffles

I could use a couple truffles after a busy day cleaning my house...it was time...I would rather be stamping.

Here is one of the stair step cards I promised to show you. This card fits the House Mouse Monday Challenge #23-Valentine cards.

I have another Penny Black stair step card I need to post too. I used my new Stampin Up DP on both...boy I love that stuff!

hmmmm...I am off to find some truffles...I need a house cleaning treat.

Stamps: Beary Full of Truffles (Pebble) VR1004, Studio G $1 stamps from Michael's (Circle Sentiment and hanging hearts on the front of the card

Cardstock: RHRed, RHRed and Pink Pirouette DP

Ink: RHRed ink,Memento Black, colored with prisma's and OMS.

Misc: Heart Nestabilities, Martha punch, SU! punches, RHRed satin ribbon, scorepal

Snow Angel Stairstep card #1

I love making these stairstep cards. I joined a swap on my Yahoo stamping group and I have to make 3 cards. This is card # 1.

I woke up Sunday morning to this wonderful snow surprise and felt inspired to get out this set to commemorate our snow storm! Although this stamp set is retired, it is still one of my favorites!

I stamped the set of mittens in a line to use as a border. The images are colored with SU! markers and highlighted with my Sakura glitter pen...wish you could see all the glitter on this card!

I am putting the finishing touches on a cute Penny Black stairstep card and have a Gruffie stairstep floating around in my head (somewhere LOL). Stayed tuned.

To make a stairstep card, cut your carstock 5 x 10 1/2 inches and score at 1 1/4, 2 1/2, 4 1/4, 6, and 8 1/4.

Stamps: Snow Angels (SU! retired)

Cardstock: Real Red and Brilliant Blue, DP is DCWV

Ink: Mememto Black, SU! markers

Misc: Snowflake punches from Marvy and Emaginations, Bling clear dots from Hero Arts

Card Size: Standard A2

From Courtney's Closet Challenge- Pumpkin Patch

Oh looky...Courtney and Carter at the punkin' patch!

I used the SCS technique challenge (TLC190) of the week here, to make this stair step card.

I just love this little CTMH fence and all the little Paper Shaper punches too!

Courtney went to the punkin' patch for this week's From Courtney's Closet Challenge.
Oh how fun can this challenge get! Her mama bought her the cutest little punkin' outfit for her trip too! If you haven't jumped in on this challenge, you are missing out...it is the cutest challenge around!

I admired this Peanut's stamp in the gallery of Michelle Adams a while back and she was so nice to share some stamped images. Thanks to Michelle! Her SCS gallery is Shellapoo.

Stamps: Stampabilities The Great Pumpkin Patch SR1005, CTMH Autumn's Gifts D1172

Cardstock: Navy, Wild Wasabi, Only Orange, Kraft (all SU!) and vanilla

Ink: Choc Chip and image colored with prisma's

Misc: Lots of paper shaper punches, brads and string