Lauri's Stampin' Corner

I had gotten a bundle of some of the new products from the up coming Holiday Mini Catalog, and included in it was some of the Spice Cake fabric and designer (HUGE) buttons. How fun, except I left my sewing machine back in SD. Then an idea hit me...tear it into strips and use it like that. No sewing machine required! And what could be better than having it match with the new In Color, Pool Party, one of my very favorites! The picture of all my grandchildren together, is one of my most treasured pictures! It doesn't happen often enough that they are all in one place at the same time and then trying to get them all looking at the camera and smiling at the same time is about impossible! How precious they are! Ingredients: Stamps: Medallion Paper: Pool Party, Soft Suede, More Mustard, DSP Spice Cake, Old Olive Ink: VersaMark Pad Accessories: Designer Fabric Spice Cake, clear embossing powder, brayer, Designer Buttons Spice Cake, Heat tool, 1 1/4" circle punch, Dimensionals, Textu...

I have paged through the Idea Book and Catalog many times and each time it seems that I see something new. I have a lot of the samples circled to try to copy cat.  It's no wonder that our catalog has been voted as the best for so many years! New to the catalog this year, are the textured impressions embossing folders set (pg 218) that gives you an embossed frame using a smaller sized embossing folder. If you've tried them, you know that they can leave a mark around your card stock where the outside edge of the folder is. Well, that's great if you've going to cut or tear around them, but doesn't look so hot when you're leaving it on the front of your card. I found the way to solve that with the advice of other demonstrators. I love the network available to us as demonstrators! It's like having a whole design team working with you! Ingredients: Stamp Set Curly Cute, Parlor Prints Paper: Baja Breeze, Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Sued, First ...

I loved this picture of Faith holding Michael for the first time, and couldn't wait to scrap it. It just makes me smile! I also love our catalog and the great ideas it is jam packed with and every year I try to pick out my favorite scrap book page and copy it. This year my choice was the page on page 150 in the Idea Book and Catalog. That page caught my eye the first time I glanced through the catalog and this picture was just perfect for the saying on it. Little Faith's smile lit up the room holding her brother for the first time! Ingredients: Stamps Parlor Prints, Sweet Floral Paper: Textured Bashful Blue, Poppy Parade, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White, More Mustard, Subtles Pattern DSP Ink: VersaMark, Old Olive Accessories: Old Olive, Poppy Parade, Not Quite Navy markers, clear embossing powder, More Mustard scallop dots ribbon, Regals brads, dimensionals, Boho Blossoms punch, Lace Ribbon punch , corner punch, Itty Bitty shapes punch pack, Big Shot, Sca...

I'm part of a vendor fair next weekend here in Elko, so have been working on a little give away from me to those that will be stopping by. This little candy wrapper is done with the two tags die and the Big Shot and went together fairly quickly. What a fun little place card this would be for your Thanksgiving table, or even at your next Bunco night! You could stamp anything on the tag to make it fit your occasion. Ingredients: Stamps: French Foliage, Just Believe Paper: Crumb cake, Naturals Ivory, Cajun Craze, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, DSP Spice Cake Ink: More Mustard, Always Artichoke, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze Accessories: Big shot, Two Tags Die, Early Espresso 1/8" Taffeta ribbon , floss, sticky strip, Snail adhesive, dimensionals Here's a picture of the back side so you can see the randomly stamped images and the direct to paper that I did on the edges to bring them out. Here's a picture of the whole pile of them. Aren't those little chocolates...