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Cold Fronts, Things to Do & More Blog Candy!

South Florida Weather

I’m sure that for those of you that live “up North”, you’ll find this amusing… We’re getting a cold front here in sunny South Florida this weekend, which means I have an excuse to do any or all of the following:

1.  Stay in my pj’s all weekend

2.  Make soup from scratch or throw something in the crock-pot

3.  Light every candle in the house

4.  Opening ALL of the windows and curl up on the couch with thick blankets and watch Lifetime Television all day

5.  Spend as much time in my studio as I want.

6.  Go for a long walk with my fur-babies

Anyway, I probably will spend a lot of time designing and creating and nesting.  I just got my shipment of the new Twitterpated fabric, designer series papers and some of the newest stamps from Stampin’ Up.  I really love these colors and patterns and can’t wait to get the creative juices flowing; however, I am open to SUGGESTIONS!

Leave me a comment and tell me what YOU would create with these items? I’ll draw a name on Sunday and send the winner one (1) yard of each of the satin ribbon!Stampin' Up Twitterpated West Palm Beach

Until next time,

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New Stampin’ Up Twitterpated Products! 10% off Thru Friday!

Just thought I’d share some of my absolute favorite things from the new Occasions Mini Catalog!

Stampin' Up Twitterpated Designer Series Paper 12 sheets total; 2 ea. of 6 double-sided designs. Acid and lignin free. 12″ x 12″. Pear Pizzazz, Basic Gray, Island Indigo, Riding Hood Red, Blushing Bride, Baja Breeze, and Whisper White. Page 13 $10.95

Stampin' Up Twitterpated Designer FabricCoordinates with our Twitterpated Designer Series Paper. 100% cotton. Each fat quarter piece is approximately 27″ x 18″. Pear Pizzazz, Island Indigo, Riding Hood Red, Blushing Bride, Baja Breeze, and Whisper White. Page 12 $9.95

Stampin' Up Twitterpated Designer ButtonsColors coordinate with the Twitterpated product suite. 48 pieces total, 12 ea. of 2 designs in 2 colors. Double scallop design is approximately 7/16″; flower design is approximately 3/8″. Blushing Bride and Baja Breeze. Page 12 $6.95

Stampin' Up Blushing Bride Pleated Satin Ribbon5 yards of pleated, 3/8″ satin ribbon. Comes in Blushing Bride (shown here) and Pear Pizzazz, Riding Hood Red & Baja Breeze. Page 12 $6.95

 

 

Stampin' Up Take It To Heart Stamp Set

 

This five-piece stamp set’s nostalgiac images will capture your heart and give you so many creative options–for Valentine’s Day, weddings, and more! Coordinates with our Hearts Collection Framelits Dies and the Full Heart Punch. Page 14 $26.95

The Twitterpated Product Suite is gorgeous! There are lots more beautiful stamp sets (clear and wood) as well as some beautiful embossing folder, Bigz Dies and the new Edgelots Dies!  You can see the entire catalog here!  From now until Friday, when you place your order with me, you will receive 10% off  EVERYTHING!  Just email me your order (stampinwithelayne@yahoo.com)  and I will send you the total amount due or feel free to call me toll free at 800-398-0429

Until next time,

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The Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog Starts Today!

The wait is OVER! The Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog is live and customers can place their orders! The on-line version of the catalog along with the Stampin’ Supplies List are below!

Stampin' Up West Palm Beach

Occasions Mini (Flash Version)
 Occasions Mini (PDF)
  Stampin’ Supplies
  Occasions Mini Spanish sets
  Product Guide

NEED A CATALOG?  Prefer a print copy of the Occasions Mini or Sale-A-Bration Catalogs and don’t have a relationship with another demonstrator?  Email me (StampinWithElayne@yahoo.com) your name and address (U.S. only) and I’ll send them to you free and fast!

IF YOU’RE PLACING AN ORDER . . . be sure to visit the Stampin’ Up! Clearance Rack before you check out.  It’s a great way to stock up on Stampin’ Up! products (loads of punches) and save up to 80%!

To make it SUPER EASY and just call me toll free and I will help you place an order and answer any of your questions right away!

You are gonna LOVE this mini!

800-398-0429

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christmas keepsake box

Stampin' Up West Palm BeachOn Black Friday while everyone was out shopping like crazy people, I had a pajama day and made some Christmas gifts.  This is a little Christmas Keepsake Box that I made using some of the awesome Stampin’ Up! products from the Holiday Mini Catalog. I lined the inside of the box with some extra fabric. I hope to make a bunch of note cards to add to the gift. Now I just have to decide who to give it to? Maybe I’ll just keep it for myself!

Stampin’ Up! Christmas Products Used:

 

  • 7.25″ x 2″ box. (A cigar box will work well too)
  • Pines & Poinsettias Stampin’ Up Stamp Set
  • First Edition Designer Series Paper
  • Holly Berry Designer Series Paper
  • Real Red Top Note (cut from Top Note Bigz Die)
  • Real Red Decorative Label (cut from Matchbook Big XL Die)Stampin' Up West Palm Beach
  • Wild Wasabi Card Stock
  • Holly Berry Bouguet Designer Fabric
  • Read Red 1.25″ Striped Grosgrain Ribbon
  • Real Red n5/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon
  • Victoria 5/8″ Crochet Trim
  • Linen Thread
  • Champagne Fine Galaxy Stampin’ Glitter
  • Vanilla Pearl 1/2″ Simply Adorned Bauble
  • Pearl Basic Jewels
  • Holly Berry Bouquet Designer Buttons ~ Large Wild Wasabi and Small Real Red
  • Mini Vintage Tags
  • Early Espresso, Real Red and Wild Wasabi Stampin’ Write Markers
  • 3/16″ Corner Punch
  • Paper Cutter
  • Needle
  • Glue Gun
  • Stampin’ Dimensionals
  • Christmas Music to get into the spirit!

If you’d make a purchase of $25.00 or more on my website, I will send you the easy, step-by-step directions for FREE!  Just email me and let me know!  Have a wonderful Sunday!

Until next time,

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pretty table top ideas for fall

Today I took down all of the Halloween stuff and began decorating for Fall. This is the time of year that I most enjoy entertaining.

I love opening up the house, lighting lots of great scented candles and just relaxing with friends and family. Sometimes we’ll have a football game on, other times we’ll just have some good music playing in the background.

I am having 14 people here tomorrow and although I won’t be dressing up my tables like this, I thought I’d share some of the ideas that I used last year!  Have a great weekend! Until next time,

 

 

 

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the healing effects of hot peach tea & coloring

I just got back from the most amazing weekend in Asheville where I attended the Once Upon a Dream event. For three days I was surrounded by the most talented and amazing women, all of whom share my love of mixed media art, paper crafting, design and the love of fashion, home and family.

I came home all excited to get creative and guess what? I’ve got nothin’…..Zip. Nada. Zilch. How is it possible that after 3 full days of inspiration, in some of the most beautiful settings imaginable; with women and teachers that left me spell-bound, I can’t come up with one single thing to create or photograph to take?

All day today I felt  anxious, irritable and out of sorts. Not exactly what I expected after the great time I had. I gave it some thought and decided that I would just do the one thing that I know relaxes me – I would color.

So I dug out my watercolor pencils, stamped a piece of card stock and got to work. The thing is it wasn’t work. It was fun. It was relaxing.  It was peaceful and meditative.

I made a cup of hot peach tea, put on some soft music and just colored… There is something about the doodling and repetitive stokes that is both calming and soothing to me. After an hour or so, I found that the healing effects of the tea, combined with the mindless attempt to stay within the lines, had completely gotten rid of the anxiety and crankiness and healed me of whatever my basic problem was.  I would’ve been content with just that but I am happy to say that it jump started my creative juices and I went on to create a couple of pretty good cards.

Creativity comes and goes. It’s nice to know that I can be just as happy coloring and doodling as I can working on a week-long project. I am looking forward to lots of days when the creative juices are just flowing like crazy, but I’m also going to enjoy days like today too; and take this as a lesson not to be so hard on myself.

Until next time,

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DIY Tote – Fast and Easy to Make!

My new fabric is beautiful!  I decided to go ahead and make this Tote even though the fabric is a little “Christmassy”.  You can use any fabric you choose.  This fabric happens to be 100% which makes it easy to toss in the wash and then just air-dry.

Have fun!

Instructions

  1. Zigzag-stitch sides of the crochet trim together until you have created a big enough piece of fabric to run through a Big Shot.
  2. Run crochet trim “fabric,” beige fabric, and cotton batting through Big Shot using Flower Folds Bigz XL Die cutting one 3-3/4″ flower, one 3″ flower, and one 2-1/2″ flower. Sew crochet trim “fabric,” cotton batting, and beige fabric together to create three 3-D flowers.
  3. Iron Décor Bond to wrong side of each piece of 4″ x 28″ fabric. Fold in half with right sides facing and sew along long sides, making handles the width you desire (ours are 3/4″ wide). Turn fabric; iron flat and top stitch.
  4. Create three ruffles for each side of bag by cutting four layers of each of the Deck the Halls fabric using the Big Shot and Perfect Settings Bigz XL Die (cupcake liner). Sew two ruffles together for each ruffle and sew to each side of the bag.
  5. Sew Chantilly 1/2″ Crochet Trim on the top of the bag.
  6. To create outside bottom of bag, sew a 7-1/2″ x 14″ piece to each side of 10-1/2″ x 14″ piece to create a 14″ x 24″ rectangle. Iron Décor-Bond to wrong side of outside bag bottom.
  7. Iron Décor-Bond on the inside of bag top. Sew bag bottom to bag top.
  8. Fold lining in half and sew the side seams.  Sew across corners at 2-1/2″ to create gusset for the bottom of the bag. Repeat for the outside of bag. Turn outside of bag right-side out and slide lining inside.  Fold the top of the bag down and top stitch closed, adding the handles as you do this.
  9. Crisscross piece of Chantilly 1/2″ Crochet Trim through Big Designer Button.
  10. Attach flower to base of handle using Chantilly 1/2″ Crochet Trim.

Accessories and Tools

  • Chantilly 1/2″ Crochet Trim
  • Fabric:
    • Lining: 14″ x 24″
    • Outside bottom: 10-1/2″ x 14″; two at 7-1/2″ x 14″
    • Handles: two at 4″ x 28″
  • Big Buttons
  • Big Shot
  • Flower Folds Bigz XL Die
  • Perfect Setting Bigz XL Die
  • Beige thread
  • Sage thread
  • Cotton batting
  • Beige fabric
  • Décor-Bond by Pellon

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I Love Fabric! New Fabric Wrapping Ideas!

   
I was browsing the internet looking for some ideas on what I can do with a bunch of new fabric I just ordered and look what I found! This adorable little store that I just have to share with you, called Pink Olive!  I love it! 

Their About Us page  says “Pink Olive was born out of love. The love to find a beautiful gift that makes you smile. Pink Olive aspires to be a place for your imagination to sparkle and creative spirit to soar. Spend some time with us and feel inspired by this whimsical wonderland”. 

Just my kind of place!  Best of all, I found some great ideas on what to do with the new fabric I am getting next week!  What do you think of this great idea?  

I am always looking for new, inspirational ideas that I can use to bring warmth to my many projects!  Be sure to visit their store for lots of great ideas and good bargains! Enjoy!

 

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