SAB Swaps... Sneak Peek at the new Sellabration items

Aren't these just gorgeous?? Here are my early birds for my Sellabration Swap group... these first two are by Kory and she uses the new set "Good Neighbors" it's a set of 10 with houses that you can mix and match with 3 trees. The roof tops are separate.. very cute and it comes in the new clear stamp too!! In addition she used the new Designer Series Paper: Welcome Neighbor that is a 6x6 stack of 24 double sided designs. 3 sheets each to amke 72 sheets!! Visit my website (www.creativeplaytime.stampinup.net) to see how you can earn those free!!!
Kory placed 9 layers.. yup 9 on this card and it came out gorgeous!!

Kory's second card... also using the same stamp set and DSP as listed above... she is also using SU's polka dot ribbon, small clips and pink brads to accent. Love the colors!!

This is Andrea's card... she is using the felt flowers and saffron brads to accent the centers. She is using from SAB mini the new set Whimsical Words... One of my fav's from Saleabration... it's a set of 6 sayings in whimsical handwriting... one each for different occasion. Love it. The DSP is also from the new Occasion Mini that hits the market on January 5th... so double sneak peek!!! It's from the Sweet Pea DSP pack of papers.. it's 48 sheets of 12x12 double sided paper. It has 2 each of a design. The colors are gorgeous.

Andrea's second card is a beautiful Valentine's creation? Maybe just a motivational card.. also using Whimsical words and the new Occasions mini set called " I hearts" also available in Clear stamp... she used the Sending Love Specialty papers on the strips behind the hearts!! So pretty... love the bling on the paper. Another of my favorite stamp sets. I can't wait to post some more pretties when I receive them.

Stay tuned for more... they're on their way!

Sandra.

Merry Christmas a la MDS...

Happy Holidays everyone... I was playing with my MDS two days ago and wanted to make my own Christmas Card... so I quickly (about 20mins) designed my card and sent to Costco for printing... I was very pleased that the color match to SU's colors is exact!!! WOO HOO!! Only .20cents each. So, what do you think? You can do it too!! If you are interested in learning how ... visit my SU site (www.creativeplaytime.stampinup.net) and there are tutorials and all product information...


Enjoy!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!

Winter Bling LOL swaps...

Here we go ladies... TAH DAH!!!! I was very impressed with all the BLING I got.. many generous cards with lots and lots of layers and embellishments... Thank you all !!!
Forgive me for the sun in some pics... I really just wanted to post these....

Shells004... love the sparkly snowflakes and the color combo!!!

Bonnie!!! Wow!! all those layers...love the colors!!!

Another Bonnie... I love the Beads... lots of layers for sure....

Very Chic Susan!! Love the brown sparkly deer!!!

Dawn... what can I say... way to use the colors and the shimerz on the snowflake!!! Love it!! Oh, and layers.. hello?? 12 or 13?? Way to go!!

Andi... you must love quilting and I love your card... the design is just so much fun and those sparkly flakes... gotta love it!!!

Sharon's festive tree and another tree by Bonnie... lovelie ladies... so much shine and holiday spirit in these cards!!

Sharon and Shelley's cards just look like they belong together... love the color combo and that snowman so happy in his sparkly snow dance and those flakes!! Love what you did with them Shelley..

Theresa's lovely snowflake wreath with all those rhinestones... wow!!! And check out the bling!!!

A closer look... love it ...

Bek's card took me by surprise... I love when that happens, cause when I opened it.. wow.. it unfolded into this lovely creation... wow...the bling and layers... gorgeous!!

Closer look at the sparkle loaded crystal effects on the ornament

This silver embossed Dasher by Sharon is just so adorned... wow.. how'd you do all the dazzling dots of snow Sharon? Wow!!!

Susan.. the simplicity of this card just is amazing and beautiful... I love how you used the design of the Holiday Lounge DSP to enhance the ornament.. which is very sparkly!!!

Shells004's lovely gold peacock...wow... so different.. loe th color combo... and Bonnie (snuck in again) we saw earlier....

Bonnie's pretty is all dressed up for her holiday party... so sparkly and adorned... and checkout silver Rudolph with his lit nose? Love it!!! By Shelley R.

Another very sparkly Theresa's card... I love the color combo an the trees... this set I got as soon as I could... thanks for the inspiration... very nice.

Sharon used a very sparkly cracked glass technique on her lovely ornament card and Gina went out of the norm with her pink Winter card... I love it...

I want to thank all of you so much for sticking around for so long... it's been wonderful!!!

Sandra.

Lollipops anyone??

This was one of the display items I made for my Open House last Sunday. You can't see the back, but they are jack-o-lantern faces on the lollipops... folks came and went... it was a new experience and I sold some of everything... which was nice. I have a ton of retired stamp sets and I'm selling at a HUGE discount... I have to get my list up here. After the Open House.. I still sold some Halloween kits I had made...

These cuties I made for my baby's classroom... as well as another little halloween treat... I now hav to get busy on my son's... Too much fun!!

Full swing and production...

Here comes the Holidays and I've decided to do an Open House for the first time... any suggestions? I'm trying to do a mixture of Sales and show. So here are a few of my kits I'll be selling ... thanks to my upline upline upline upline... Linda and the little cards I figured out myself... with the pouches. Those were fun to make.

My Digi Studio and my projects

I love love love the My Digi Studio.. my good friend asked me to help her with some shower favors for her daughter in laws baby shower and I came up with this... I wanted to send her the grouping of pics and then a lightbulb went off!!! Aha!!! MDS... Whoa!! I made this layout and added the paper behind the photos and watermark!!! Love love love how easy it is to use... I'm a total novice to Digital any craft... I am sooo pleased that I will be showing this at my open house in a couple of weeks... Yippeeeeee!!!
Thanks for looking!!
Sandra.

Halloween Lanterns

Need a light? Well... I got this idea in my head to make some lanterns when by accident I cut out some Top Note dies from a folded piece of cardstock... well, this isn't the only idea I had ... wait til you see the cards!!! Pretty cool stuff... the other three sides are decorated with Stamped images as well as dies... this was a lot of fun. Thanks for looking...

Oh, and by the way... I LOVE MY DIGI STUDIO!!!! Look what I did to my jpeg file!!!! Yay!! Ask me how>>>

Sandra.

Halloween LOL swaps are here!!!

For your viewing pleasure... be sure to give credit if you are copying the cards...

This wonderful sampler is from Joszette....

Here is a closeup of the technique she used on her card... the circle in the middle has an x cut out in the middle and each point is turned out to reveal the back paper design... coupled with the photo corners in two colors... very clever indeed.

This Elegant spooky spider on it's web is by Bekka... lovely indeed, yet spooky!!! Love all the layers of punches ..



These two were made by Bonnie... I'm glad you used the Haunted house... how soon we forget when we're focused on the new and how well is goes with the DSP!!! To the left the Sweet Centers stamp set that you can use to send a card with candy...

These classy cards are by Debbie ... I love your layers Debbie and the Card on the right... WOWzer's!!! Love the spookiness...

Closeup... you would think she stamped the wording, but in fact it is one of the designer papers from the Night & Day packet!!! Love it.

These cuties are by Jamie and I love the creative punch work!!! Great job Jamie.. very clever!!!

These two are mine...

These two are by Susan.. Love the Haunting hill wheel on the Orange and the creative use of the oval windows for both cards... nice design.

This fun fella is by Yvette... love your layers Yvette.. and the use of the black with the Green DSP... great job.

Last, but not least is Shelleys cards... I love love love the skeleton dancing among the tombstones Shelley!!! Hello???? Great job.. it took me a minute to really look at it and it hit me... great job!!!

See what I mean??? Nice!! I'm gonna case this a bit Shelley..

Thank you ladies for joining my swap!!!

Sandra

Holiday Mini Lots of Layers Swap samples

Holiday's you say??? Better believe it... once school is back in session Wham!! The holidays are right there waiting to jump on our wallets... LOL...

So here are my swappers for the Holiday Mini!!! Yes, it should be in your hands already and I thought I'd share some beautiful Samples with stamps and products from the mini catalog... ENJOY!!

Theresa's cards...

A closeup of the fold...

Theresa's 5x5's

Susan's cards...

Joszette's cards...

More of Joszette's cards..

Shelley's cards...

JoAnn's card...

Sharon's cards

A closeup of the new embossing folder... love the poinsettias!!

Some more of Sharon's cards...

Can you see the sparkle on this little guy?

Kory's cards...

A close up of the new snowflake window sheets....

Janelle's card...

Gina's cards...

Sparkly Santa!!!

Debbie's card...

Bonnie's cards... nice!

More cards by Bonnie...

Bonus card by Ann Marie...

Andrea's Cards...

Kim's cards... watch out for all those layers on that skeleton... can you count them??? 10 in all!!

France's cards... nice !!

And voila! My card... I am filling a spot for the last group where someone couldn't make it.

My second card in group 3 to fill the missing one...

Thank you to all the ladies that participated and created all these fun cards. Sandra.