The New 2015-2017 In Colors

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Have you seen the new 2015-2017 In colors?  They are real pretty in person and even though you think we already have several of the same colors, these colors really are different.  In the samples above, I have stamped using the Work of Art Stamp set, all the new In Colors in the center of the card, with two of the closest current colors on either side.   From left to right the colors are:  Delightful Dijon, Mint Macaron, Watermelon Wonder (center), Cucumber Crush and Tip Top Taupe.  The matching Dotted Lace Trim is featured on each of the cards well. You only have to wait a couple of more days to start ordering all these wonderful new colors......June 2, 2015 in the day!
Smiles,
Stacey

May Stamp Camp

Can you believe it's almost May!?  That means it's time for another stamp camp!  Wahoo!!

This month we will making 4 cards all in the same color theme of Red, Black and Gray and I will show you how to use those scraps that are laying around your craft space.  They are super cute and I will be showing how to create a unique "quilted" border as well as a weave using 1/2" and 1/4" strips.  These cards would be prefect for a graduation or Father's Day.  We will also be creating a fun girly card using paper piecing, another great technique to use up scraps!  The last card features the stamp set Gorgeous Grunge, Alphabet letter dies and paper from a Project Life paper pack.  I know you're just going to love these cards and find that they will be easy to reproduce in many color combinations!  

Here's all the information:

DATE: Friday May 15th from 6:30-10:00 

            or Saturday May 16th from 9:00-12:00. (Please note time change for Saturday!)

COST: $16 or FREE with a $50 order placed between now and May 16th.  You will also earn a Loyalty Token for every $50 purchase.  Collect 10 Tokens and you will receive a FREE stamp set form me (valued up to $25)

PLACE: Stacey House, Eugene, OR 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 12th, 2015.

Please bring adhesive, scissors and a small paper cutter with you to camp, I will provide everything else for you.  As always everyone will have a chance to win a price and everyone will receive a gift from me!

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment.

See you soon!

Stacey Cogswell

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Website: www.staceycogswell.stampinup.net

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Are you ready to see the projects!?  Here they are!

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Together at Last!

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As many of you know, I love stamping, but I have another love too.  It's Zentangle!  So when Stampin'Up! came out with the Blended Bloom stamp, I knew my two loves could be together at last.  The flower image is perfect to fill in with tangles of all kinds, but for this one I just added thick lines on each of the petals.  The black and white DSP is from the Stacked with Love paper stack (#137779) and the greeting is from the Photopolymer stamp set Better Than Email (#140463) Hope this inspires you to try something a little different with your stamps.  

Celebrate mini size

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I made this small gift card sized beauty using the Photopolymer stamp set called Balloon Bash.
 I stamped the three balloons and them used only a portion of another stamp for the "celebrate".
Quick and easy!

Time to Reuse

Have you ever been at the grocery store picking out tissues when you have an "ah ha" moment.  Well, when I saw this box of tissues, my first thought was that it looks just like a current Stampin'Up! stamp set and colors.  I'm always amazed with how Stampin'Up! stays up with the current trends, even on tissue boxes!  Anyway, when the box was empty, I set right to work making a card.  Here is what I came up with:

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What do you think?  If I hadn't told you the secret you might think I stamped the background, right?  Pretty cool, if I do say so myself and if I had to guess, you'll never look at a tissue box the same again!

Smiles,
Stacey

Customer Thank You

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I'm a little late today posting, so I'm going to keep it short.  This card was the January "Thank You" card that every customer received for placing an order.  It features Sale-a-bration Designer Series Paper, ribbon and button.  This was a pretty simple card to create.  By using the Big Shot for the two central shapes and the new Hexagon embossing folder you can add eye catching interest with out a lot of effort.  Hope it inspires you!

Products used to create this card:
Stamp set: From the Heart (greeting)
Cardstock: Whisper White and Island Indigo
DSP: Sycamore Street (Sale-a-bration product)
Ink: Island Indigo
Extras: Big Shot with Hexagon embossing folder and Window Frames Collection (page 36 of Spring Mini)
Baker's twine, SAB button

Have a wonderful week!
Stacey

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Are you tired of "sea" cards yet? Well, I have one last one for you today.  We all know how hard it is to come up with masculine cards, so when I saw this one, I knew I had to make it.  It used only two colors: Very Vanilla and Basic Gray plus one stamp set.  Quick and easy, but a very cool end product.

Products used in the card:
Stamp Set: By the Tide
Ink: Basic Gray
Card Stock: Basic Gray and Very Vanilla
Extras: 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" square punches

I think this card would look good in Night of Navy or Soft Suede as well.  Really just about any color would work except maybe.... pink! :)

Smiles,
Stacey

By the Seashore

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Well, I missed Monday, so I will make up with a post today.

Here is another card inspired by our trip to Hawaii.  It is very simple, but still nice.  The largest square is 3 3/4" x 3 3/4" and the smaller squares are 1 3/4"x 1 3/4" and 1 1/2" x 1 1/2".  I stamped the images in Early Espresso and then added a small amount of Calypso Coral ink with a sponge dauber.  Stamp the greeting, spritz a little Early Espresso on the base of the card, add some brads and you're done.

Products used in the card:
Stamp Sets: By the Seashore and Lacey & Lovely
Ink: Calypso Coral and Early Espresso
Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Early Espresso
Extras: Neutral brads, Spritz tool with Espresso marker.

Enjoy,
Stacey

Inspired by Hawaii



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 Many of you may already know this, but in case you didn't......I was very blessed to have the opportunity recently to spend the entire month of January in Hawaii with my family  and it was wonderful.  We got to see and do so many amazing things with the bonus of not having to live through the freezing weather back home!  Since my return home I've been in love with creating cards about the ocean!  I've actually always loved the ocean, but I found that it's way more fun in Hawaii than in Oregon....hummm go figure!  Anyway, over the next several posts I'm going to share with you some of these "ocean" inspired creations.  This first card was actually created some time ago, but I never go around to posting it.  Can you figure out how I made the jelly fish?  No, it's not some kind of fancy hand cutting (I'm not that crazy!) and it's not a pre-made shape....so have you figured it out yet?  It's the lid piece from the Cannery Set Framelits!  Yes, you have to think outside the box on this one, but isn't cool!  Add a little shading*, some ruffled ribbon* and little "water" and you've got an amazing card.

Products used:
Stamp set: Pursuit of Happiness (pg. 140)
Card stock: Pool Party, Whisper White and Perfect Plum
Ink: Perfect Plum, Pool Party and Basic Black
Extras: Corner rounder punch, Cannery Framelits with Big Shot, Taffeta ribbon and Fancy Fan Embossing folder.

* Shading Note:  For the background piece I used a wavy template and a sponge with ink to create the look of waves.  I then spritzed it with water to create the "bubbles" on the paper.  When you add water over an ink area, the water will remove some of the ink and create spots.  For the jelly fish I used an oval punched piece of paper as a mask and sponged ink in toward the center to create a 3-D effect.
* Ruffled Ribbon note:  I took a wide piece of white taffeta ribbon split it into stripes and then VERY CAREFULLY heat the ribbon with my heat tool.  The heat caused the ribbon to curl, but if you're not careful the ribbon will burn.

Have a great day!
Smiles,
Stacey

Wax Resist Technique Again!

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I couldn't resist to show you another example the wax paper resist technique.  This time I simply crumpled up the wax paper before ironing to my gloss white paper.  I sponged with three different colors of ink to color the white areas of the paper, then used I used black Stazon ink to stamp the image.  I didn't want the background papers to compete with this image so I just spritzed and sponged them with a little ink.  If you haven't tried this technique yet, you really should....it's so much fun!

Products used to create this card:
Stamp set: Serene Silhouettes (pg. 75) Loving Thoughts (greeting pg. 136)
Cardstock: Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Early Espresso and Gloss White
Ink: Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Early Espresso and Black Stazon
Extras: 1/8"  Early Espresso ribbon, gold brads, heat tool with gold embossing powder and Modern Label punch.

Smiles,
Stacey

Triple Stamping

If you've been surfing the web lately, you've probably seen this technique popping up everywhere.  Of course I had to give it a try.  It's another one of those easy techniques that looks hard, but it's not.

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Pretty cool isn't it. All you do is figure out the three sizes of Vanilla card stock you would like to use, layer them one on top of the other and stamp with a little bit of repositional adhesive.  Stamp the greeting first (I used Early Espresso ink) and then the leaves (I used Cajun Craze), making sure you over lap the images onto more than one of the pieces of paper.  For this card I used the stamp set French Foliage.  After stamping, take the pieces apart and layer them with a darker color card stock, here I used Early Espresso. Add some Baker's Twine and button. Finally, adhere the layers together with dimensionals.  This technique can be used with just about any stamp set.  It also looks pretty cool with floral stamps or the The Open Sea stamp set for a nice manly card.  Hope you like it.

Smiles,
Stacey

Fall Hello



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This a simple card, but it still has the WOW factor.  I simply took a piece of Vanilla cardstock and sponged it with ink.  Here I used Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie.  The only trick to sponging is to start the sponge off the paper and work onto the paper you're coloring.  Add more or less ink until you get the look you like. For this card I first sponged the cardstock and them heat embossed the image over the top. I used the stamp set My Friend.  I used Early Espresso embossing powder and cardstock along with Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie.

Give this technique a try and let me know what you think.

Smiles,
Stacey

Wide Eyed Owl

A few months ago I saw a card in Paper Crafts magazine that I thought was a very cool and a good way to use little pieces of designer series paper..... if you're like me you can't stand to throw away even the smallest piece and you save them all, until one day you have so many of those little scrap that they start to over flow your work space and you're forced to either use them or else they will take over!....Wow, I might need a DSP scrap intervention!  Anyway, here is the card.

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Isn't this fun. Owls have been "big" over the last couple of years and I'm not really sure why.  I think it's just one of those things that comes around every 50 years or so, kind of like fashion.  I remember as a kid my Mom collected owls and she had everything under the sun with an owl on it, but her jewelry was the best.  I wonder if she still has any of that stuff, if she does, she'd be right back in style! 
This card was pretty easy to made.  The 4 1/4" x 11" card was folded in half and then cut on the top using the Adorning Accents Edgelit, making sure to cut only the center part of the fold.  The back of the eyes were made using large circle and scallop punches.  The center of the eye was created by adding a 1/2" punched circle to the center of one of the Natural Designer button....so cute!  The nose is the Pendent punch.  I used scraps of DSP from Orchard Harvest glued to a paper and then I cut with the Adorning Accents scallop edge before adding it to the front of the card.  Stamp a greeting and wa-la you've created a super fun card and used up some of those dreaded little pieces of paper you couldn't bare to to throw away! 

Enjoy!
Stacey

October Customer Thank You Card

One of the things I love to do is to create a special new card for each of my customer that placed an order.  It's my way of showing my gratitude for their support and now that I'm started my customer Loyalty Programs it also gives me a place their earned tokens, if they will be receiving their card in the mail.  It's a lot of fun to come up with a card and a token that have the same theme.  This month, I created a card and a token using the Day of Gratitude (page 27 of main catty) stamp set.  The token was a little acorn "stamp" and here is the card:

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This was an easy card to create.  I took the Crumb Cake piece (4" x 5 1/4") along with the framelit from the Apothecary Accents set and ran in through the Big Shot to create am opening.  I then took this same piece of paper and stamped it with the background stamp called Netting (page 127)  I sponged the edge with Cajun Craze ink and stamped the leaves across the bottom.  I place a piece of Very Vanilla card stock behind the opening in the Crumb Cake piece and stamped the greeting in Early Espresso ink.  I then attached the ribbons and added a popped up cut out leave.  The Very Vanilla piece of card stock was added directly to the base of the card while the Crumb Cake piece was place on top with dimensionals.  There you have it!

Enjoy,
Stacey

Button Pumpkin

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This is a super fun card to create using the pumpkin stamp (or I guess just the stem) Button Buddies stamp set.  To start; stamp the image, punch out with a circle punch, add a button, layer it with a another circle punch and a scallop punch.  Add some design series paper, punch out a couple more circles, give them some dry embossing and accent with a little espresso Baker's twine. Add any greeting and in no time you've created a super cute card anyone wold love to have.

Enjoy,
Stacey

You Are Fabulous!

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One of the coolest perks of attending a Stampin'Up event is the FREE stuff.  We all love free stuff right?  Well, for the past couple of conventions not only have we received a ton of free products, but also an exclusive stamp set you can only get at convention.  This year the theme of convention was "I am....(fill in the blank)", so of course we all received the stamp set called "I am!"  I used it on this card to send to all of my downline and a couple of my fellow demonstrators I met at convention.  If you too would like to receive a ton of FREE stuff, maybe you should like about becoming a Stampin'Up! demonstrator.....I'd love to have you on my team!

Smiles,
Stacey

Christmas Stamp Camp

It's the first day of Fall!  While everyone is out racking leaves and preparing for all the fall activities, I've been inside working hard to get ready for Christmas.....Yes, it's time to be thinking about Christmas!  I thought for the October stamp camp I would focus on making some fun, easy to reproduce, fast to make Christmas cards and projects.  So without further delay.....here they are!

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This first group of cards and 3D project are super quick to make because the use the pre-printed Snow Festival Designer Tags for the Holiday mini catalog and pre-made mini note cards.  All you have to do is stamp a greeting to the tag, (I used the stamp set "Greeting of the Season" item #128033 for all of them) dry embossed a piece of card stock and add them both to the little mini note card.  For the candy treat holder, cut out a petite pocket with the Big Shot, wrap the tag around it and add some baker's twine.  SuperDuper easy and fun to reproduce.

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This second set of card is created using the stamp set "Scentational Season" item #121190 for the Holiday mini along with the Festival of Prints Designer series paper stack.  For $6.95 you get 48 sheets of 4.5" x 6.5" pieces of paper, that when cut in 1/2 will give you enough designer series paper to make almost a 100 cards!  At camp we'll be making 4.  The cards also feature the new ribbon slides and stitched In Color ribbon.   But you can't have a card with a cup of cocoa on it without.........a cup of cocoa gift!

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Isn't this cute!  I saw this blog and instantly knew it would make the perfect 3D project to go along with my cards.  This scored folder uses the same stamp set "Scentational Season", but did you know this set also has a matching Framelits die set?  How cool is that!  Stamp, cut and you're done.  Too cute and so much fun to give.  How much would this be to receive.....chocolate and peppermint...how can you go wrong!

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Lastly,  I wanted to show you the cool new Core'dination card stock on a card.  This card stock, unlike all of Stampin'Up's other paper, has a white core, so when you emboss it and sand it the white comes through.
It is so much better in person, because you can see the rich texture and feel the velvet created by the paper.  It's hard to see, but the star is stamped in gold and accented with a pearl and the "Wisemen" are misted with a thin layer of sparkle to give the feel of traveling through the starry night.  This a a classic and elegant Christmas card that looks like you spent hours on but didn't. 

Well, what do you think?  I'd love for you to come to camp and make all these wonderful cards/projects.  The date will be Friday October 12 from 6:00-10:00.  Please let me know if you would like to come and if you are already on my email list you will be getting a detailed information about this camp soon.

Smiles,
Stacey

Back to School

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Today was Zach's official first day of the 8th grade, so I thought it would be fun to make him something special.  I saw a verison of this card on the blog "Think Outside the Box" and thought it was so cute.  Of course I had to change it around to use Stampin'Up! products and what would be more perfect than the apple image from the new stamp set in the Holiday mini on page 29 called Perfectly Preserved!  Second, I saw the "pencil" somewhere, but I can't remember where, but thought it was a great idea.  The "pencil" is actually a roll of Rolo candies with a candy kiss on top.  Super easy to make, just roll the paper around the Rolo tube and write something clever on the side.  The hardest part was making the "lead", but what I did was take 1/2" circle punch of paper, cut a slit into the middle and then rolled it into a cone shape.  Zach was pretty excited to have these at his desk, otherwise known as the kitchen table, this morning when he arrived to start school.  He did remark that the card looked more like a pencil that had been almost used up in comparison to the other pencil, but oh well.

Hope you had a great day, school or no school!

Smiles,
Stacey

Perfectly Preserved Bundle

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There are so many wonderful new products in the Holiday Mini, but I think the Prefectly Preserved stamp set and the Cannery Framelits (on page 29) have to on the top of my favorites list.  What really cool too is that Stampin'Up! is now offering a 15% disscount if you order them together.  How cool is that!  They pair perfectly with the Orchard Harvest Designer paper (on page 28.)  I'm crazy for the whole canning thing.  This first card started out with me trying to use a MOJO Monday sketch #247.  If you go to the site, you'll see that they are now on #256 or something.....I like to print off the sketches and keep them in a folder for future use.  It really helps when you need a little creative inspiration.  I also used the new Woodgrain embossing folder plus a little ink rubbing to give the side strip a little texture.  Here is the funny thing, I completely forgot that I had a die to cut out the apples, so I hand cut them....I won't make that mistake again!

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After making the first card, much to my surprise, I received a Starbucks Gift Card in the mail from my dentist, so I decided to send him a thank you card. I used the same sketch, but changed up the stamped images. I use the new silver Stampin'Up Dazzle marker (#128978 page 19 in the Holiday mini) to color in the spoon and I'll have to tell you...it's the first metallic pen I've ever had that didn't run me out of the room by just taking the cap off.  Love it!  I'm sorry to say that the coffee stamps are not Stampin'Up!, but I wanted to share the card with you anyway.

Enjoy!
Stacey

Second Double Insert Card

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Here is another version of my double insert card.  This one is horizontal instead if vertical.  I made this card for Del the owner of Clark Printing Co.  He has been super supportive of my Zentangle art and I've designed a few things for him over the past several months.  I can't wait to see the first two designs in print, one of which might be for the Oregon Ultimate Disc team!  We have all kinds of plans to print my art on shirts and fabric for quilts, isn't that exciting!  Anyway, I thought I would share the card with you.  I didn't use Stampin'Up! paper, it was just some paper I had in my black & white stash and the bold "tangled" looking greeting stamp (sorry, is retired), but even though I didn't use all current stuff, it's still a great card with all kinds of potential.

I will include a note for Del and I made him a special Zentangle of the print shops logo.  Hope he likes it!

Smiles,

Stacey