A new year, a new blog!

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to blow the dust off my blog and try and blog at LEAST once a month. I was going to continue using my old blog, but I realized that I hadn’t used it since October of 2009 and the nice template I had for it no longer existed on the internet and it was too much work to set it all up again, so I figured I’d just start over!

This blog will be a mix of stuff I create, photos I take and tales of my trips to Disneyland and other happenings in my life.

Today I am sharing a card that I made for a swap over on Stampin Addicts (a forum for mostly Stampin’ Up! demonstrators and their customers).

This swap was for our Sale-A-Bration mini catalog that starts on January 24th and runs thru the end of March this year. The stamp I chose is one that is actually featured in the current catalog (on pg 18), Triple Treat Flower. It will also be available as a freebie during SAB. The sentiment is from one of my favorite sets, Sincere Salutations (pg 160) The patterned paper (DSP) is from “Everyday Enchantment” and is exclusive to this year’s SAB catalog. It is one of 12 designs in the package. The cardstock colors are two of the current “In Colors”, Pool Party and Calypso Coral and I also used Island Indigo for the sentiment and the Bakers Twine (which will be in the Occasions Mini that goes live on January 4th), and So Saffron for the center of the flower. The flower was created using the Fancy Flower and 5 Petal Flower punches (pg 210), the 1/2” circle punch (pg 212) and Stampin Dimensionals (pg 206).

If you ever have any questions about something I share here or about Stampin’ Up! products, just leave it in the comments and I will do my best to answer you in a timely manner. Also, bear with me as I tweak the appearance of this new blog until I get it to where I want it. I’ll probably go thru a whole bunch of fonts!