Mosaic Madness Stamp Set, Coordinating Punch and Embossing folder

Good Afternoon Friends!

I just wanted to post some creative inspiration for you today.. Did you know that this past Saturday was World Card Making Day??  Stampin Up had a crazy sale on every day essentials like ink, paper, envelopes and that sale ends today.  If you want to see what's on sale you can click here for a flier, or just click here to shop in my online store for the Stamp Stock & Save Sale.  Ends today!

Today, I'm featuring the Mosaic Madness Stamp Set.  This Pretty Card was made with Pool Party and Baked Brown Sugar Card Stock and Ink.

This one is Sahara Sand, Strawberry Slush and Rich Razzleberry.

 This one is Pool Party, Black and White.  These Cards could be adapted for any occasion. 

 Finally this Happy Birthday Card Uses Bermuda Bay and Crumb Cake. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  Here's a quick shopping list if you need it.

Mosaic Madness Stamp Set,
Mosaic Punch,
Mosaic Embossing Folder

Love,

Selene Kempton
Stampin' Up! Creative Coach

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8/19 Stampin' Up! Tag Talk and Bracket Label Punch, Customer Appreciation Event!

Good Evening Friends,

It's almost here!! Only 4 more wake-up's till my big Customer Appreciation Event!  I'm so excited!

Here is a share of one of the free projects we will be stamping on Saturday. 

I'm so excited that my customers will be stamping with my assistant Michelle when they come in to make two cute projects and this is one of them!   Isn't it pretty?

Here's a Clickable shopping list:
Stamps: Tag Talk Stamp Set Clear
Ink: Lost Lagoon Ink Pad
Paper: Lost Lagoon Card Stock, Soft Sky, and Whisper white (embossed with the Lovely Lace Embossing folder), Silver glimmer paper
Accessories: Bracket Label Punch, Lost Lagoon Ribbon, and Self Adhesive Rhinestones

I'm so excited to see my customers and share with them.. There's some crazy fun raffles and did I mention FREE CARDS? if you haven't registered yet, click here if you are coming over!

Here's how you can earn tickets for the SUPER COOL prizes!
(which will be drawn at 2PM)

• RSVP by registering above = 1 ticket
• Attend = 1 ticket
• Bring a friend that hasnt stamped with me before = 2 tickets each
• Current club member? = 3 tickets
• Book a private class for the week of October 17-23rd = 4 tickets + 20 cards at your event if you have 6 guests or more.
• Sign up to be a demonstrator that day (or any day in the month of August leading up to the event), and choose $99 in retired product from my table. + 4 raffle tickets
  
  Get free cards at this event too..
  • Are you a current club member?? = pick 5 cards!
    (sorry club is full, there is a waiting list)
  • Spend $25 = Pick 4 cards
  • Spend $50 = Pick 9 cards
  • Spend $75 = Pick 14 cards
  • Spend over $100 = Pick 20
  • Join my team for $99 = Pick out 20 cards

I hope you can make it!!

Love,


Selene Kempton
Stampin' Up! Creative Coach
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5/23 Kind and Cozy, Gingham Garden ~ made with Love

Good Afternoon!

I swear I haven't disappeared!  I have been busy working and stamping and stamping some more!!  

Spoiler Alert!!  Don't continue reading if you want to be surprised with new colors and stamps and paper, oh my!!

Summertime is coming and I'm so excited for backyard BBQ, swimming at the pool, and of course CAMPING!  I hope you'll have some fun with me this summer as I'll be posting lots of fun new samples like this one!  Want to get my updates automatically?  The signup box is right over there --> on the right hand side!  Feedburner allows you to get an email when I post, and ONLY when I post.  No post today?? No email!  Woot!

Okay, Here is a GORGEOUS card share that my guests made at my 20 card catalog rollout.  What a day it was this past Sunday!  Lots of fun stamping, an all attendee giveaway, raffles, pizza, goodie bags and more!  Everyone loved the projects and I'll be sharing a few of them with you here (not all 20).  

This card features the 5 new In Colors, the Kind and Cozy Stamp Set and my FAVORITE new designer paper called Gingham Garden.  All of these products will be available for sale in just under a week! 

From top to bottom, the colors represented by a heart with a pearl are:

• Coastal Cabana
• Crisp Cantaloupe
• Strawberry Slush ~ I can't seem to put this color down!
• Baked Brown Sugar (lighter than suede)
• Pistachio Pudding

Swoon!!!  This card was really made with love.  The sentiment came from the Kind and Cozy stamp set that I got while on the incentive trip to Fiji, thanks to my team, customers and many of you!  :)  

So ~ would you like to get your hands on some sneak peek products before the catalog goes live?  It's easy!!  Sign up to get the demonstrator kit and get an extra $30 for their Starter Kit! That means you will get to choose $155 worth of ANY products you choose for only $99 and there's no shipping charges!!

The best deal in the book just got even better but only until May 30th!!  Email me or click here to sign up and pick out your goodies.  Once on the Stampers With HeART team, you'll have access to training, and a private facebook page just for our group!  I'm here to help so let me know!!

So excited to be back, and I'm most certainly running like crazy, but loving every minute!

Love,

Selene Kempton
Stampin' Up! Creative Coach
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Summer Smootch Swaps

Good Afternoon Friends!

Today I have this sweet swap card to share with you.  My upline Katherine, had a team social last night.  Among the 12 girls that swapped, we got some GORGEOUS cards!  Yea!!  :) 

The swap theme was a sketch challenge from split coast stampers SC344 and it's a sweet one!

I started with my new fabric buttons.  These are ONLY available from Stampin' Up demonstrators (that's me) for the month of April!  They match the beautiful designer paper and stamp sets that are on special for this month as a preview.  I'll get to that in a bit.  Looking at the sketch and my fabulous buttons, I thought it would be sweet to make a dimensional flower with my fun flowers die.  The die actually allows for 3 different flowers that stack on top of one another, but I wanted to keep my flower the size that it is.. so I used two layers, ummm twice!  :)  I was able to cut 6 sheets at a time on my big shot with the large steel rule die!  yea!!  so this went pretty quick.  Because I didnt want a whole bunch of leftovers, I cut my paper to 5 1/2" square and cut 3 whisper white and three tangerine tango all at the same time.  I put them into piles and made a total of 19 cards.

After putting a few cards together, I felt like it was taking me some time to distress my flowers, so I changed methods, and crumpled them all in a ball, in piles according to size and color first.  then when I went to go build my flowers it was easy.  I used my mat pack and piercing tool to punch a few holes, then slid my brads through.  It's good to punch a few holes, as the brads need a little extra room to slide through. The rest of this card is pretty clean and simple and they went together fairly fast after the dimensional flowers were all built.

Okay.. So my measurements are here.
Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" scored and folded in half at 4 1/4", tangerine
Layer 2: 5 3/8 x 4 1/4", espresso
Layer 3: 5 1/4" x 4", whisper white
Layer 4: 5 1/4" x 2 1/2, espresso.  (i made this a 1/4" larger to account for the decorative border)
Layer 5: Smooch designer paper 5 1/4" x 2"
Layer 6: a 5/8" espresso satin ribbon
and the flower on top!  :)
I stamped the word "friends" and punched it with the tag punch.

What a nice evening!  Okay.. so if you need it, here are the details on this month's sale.
The fabric buttons (that i'm in love with) and stencil, are ONLY available during the month of April.  The rest of the items are a sneak peek out of the new catalog.  they will also be available for purchase during april, then will not be available again until June 1st. :)

Here's the list!  (to shop the whole smooch line in my online store, click here.
Of course, i'll be showing more projects with this line throughout the upcoming days.. :)
But here is the whole list.

Item	Description	Price
125495	Bright Blossoms Wood-Mount Set	$16.95
125497	Bright Blossoms Clear-Mount Set	$12.95
5409	Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper	$10.95
125583	Daffodil Delight 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon	$10.95
125411	Summer Smooches Designer Fabric	$9.95
125589	Summer Smooches Fabric Designer Brads*	$6.95
125626	Summer Smooches Décor Stencil*	$7.95
125606	Petite Purse Bigz L Die	$32.95
129919	Summer Smooches Photobook Template	$17.95
129601	Summer Smooches Digital Kit	$9.95

That's all for today!  Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Selene Kempton

Live in the Sunshine ~ SSC248

Good Evening Friends! 

It's time for another sketch challenge!  Yea!!  I'm steppin out with the honey tonight! Got a sitter and everything so I'm pretty excited. 

We're trying to get out more as a couple.  That's hard to do when you have a little one sometimes.  Although Alexis is getting older, we still don't always make the time. 

I have a friend in from Florida and we're headed out to see a band play.  I'm excited about that too! 

The weather in the northeast has been unseasonably warm.  All the trees and flowers are blooming and it seems like we've skipped spring and moved right into summer!  Don't get me wrong ~ I love it ~ but it's very strange to be at the beach in New England in the middle of March.  All the stores are closed but it's 78 and sunny.  The water temperature is a whopping 40 degrees, so you can catch hypothermia if you go swimming.  Just strange.  Maybe it's from the solar flares that we've been experiencing?

This week's card reflects my mood.  I do better when I have a bit of sunshine during the day.  I've been making an effort to get outside for a little bit every day.  Even if it's just a few minutes.

So how about some measurements?
Base: 11 x 4 1/4", scored and folded in half at 5 1/2" ( so saffron)
Layer 2: 3 1/2 x 4 (soft suede)
Layer 3: 3 1/4" x 3 3/4" Vanilla
Oh and there is a label punch tucked between the base layer and layer 2.  I flipped it the short way, mainly because it fits. :)

I stamped my sunflower image in soft suede then punched a 2 1/2" circle punch out of some scrap paper.  I love the really big sun.  I used the punched piece to make my sun and just sponged in a circular motion using so saffron ink. 

Next, I stamped some grass at the bottom in old olive and sponged some old olive (using a circular motion at the bottom.  I also added some bashful blue ink for the sky (again, just making big circles with my sponge).

Finally, I tied it off with a piece of old olive satin.  Ahhh, feels like summer! 
Thanks for stopping by today.  If you have time, try making a card with this super simple sketch this week. If you want to see what my friends are up to, head on over to stamping 411 for the latest samples made with this sketch! 

Cheers to you!
Selene Kempton

Aviary ~ Never been inked

Good Evening Friends!

When I saw the sketch over on split coast tonight, and I'm WIDE awake when the rest of the house is sleeping, I thought it was a good time to make a card for my friends son Carter.

This talented young musician plays both the guitar and harmonica.. (maybe I should buy the set with the guitar).  

Carter is currently suffering from a brain injury due to a car crash about two months ago.  Although Carter is much older now, (20) I remember him as a little kid, not much older than Alexis.  My heart goes out to him and his family during this rough patch while he makes a full recovery.

He was driving home from a job interview, when he turned down a road and lost control of his car.  He is now able to eat on his own, which is HUGE and although the road ahead is long, he's expected to make a full recovery.

Now that he's older, I'm thinking this card is a bit young for him, but I did manage to keep it masculine.  I've never inked my Aviary set.  I wonder if being in there and fighting to get out is a little bit like this guy trying to get out of his cage. He's actually able to reason, and sing in harmony.  I expect at some point he'll just get up and walk out of that hospital, and I pray that he can do that soon.

So ~ please tell me what you think.  Is this too young for the (boy) that I remember that's now all grown up?

Hugs,
Selene~

Cheryl's Stamping Workshop ~ Paper Players Challenge Cards

I'm very much looking forward to my buddy Cheryl's stamping workshop this week!  I had one more design to come up with this morning.  I love doing challenges as a jumping off point.  I also need to keep these cards on the simple side.  We're meeting late (7 PM) and each of the guests at her workshop will be making 9 cards.  Simple is essential, especially if they are working the next day. :)

 So, for starters, we're making 3 of this above card.  So springy and beautiful! 

 

Then we are going to make 3 of this above card.  Guest will be able to choose between blushing bride and baja breeze.

Finally, we're going to make a trio of cards using the BEAUTIFUL sale a bration papers!

Guests will be able to choose any sentiment from teeny tiny wishes.

So All of these cards fit the challenge over on the paper players this week.  Thanks girls for getting me to think spring!  

Now, for my local girls, because my hostess Cheryl has more than 6 people coming, she won't pay for her set of cards!  

Isn't that fabulous?  Would you like to have a girls night out too?  Call me to get on my schedule and we'll have a blast at your girls night out!

See you soon!

Selene~

Hangin' with the Paper Players

Good Evening Friends!

There's something about this designer paper from the Sale A Bration Catalog, Everyday Enchantment, that makes me want to embellish, embellish, and keep adding layers!

I had fun playing with the paper players last week, and thought that I'd play along with their latest challenge, a color challenge.

The colors they challenge you to work with are: Poppy, Pool Party, Vanilla, and Soft Suede.

Most times, I use less colors, but it really fits well with this designer paper!  

I started with the 3 layers in the middle.  I cut the pool party to 5 x 3 3/4", the suede was an 1/8 in smaller so 4 7/8" x 3 5/8"  and the Designer paper was 4 3/4" x 3 1/2" .  Then I put them on my big shot and cut the line for the middle of the card all at the same time.  That line was cut with the super cool Edgelit Dies, Adorning Accents from stampin up.  I like to run them through together, so they line up nicely.  I attached these 3 pieces together with snail adhesive and set them aside.

Next, I grabbed my base.  I went back and forth on this, and cut about 4 pieces of paper different ways before deciding on Poppy Parade for the base.  I put the embossing folder (adorning accents) at the bottom of my card, then lined up the layers that would sit on top to make sure my embossed border would line up in the right place.  Then I slipped the extra 3 layers out, and ran it through my big shot to get that pretty line.

I grabbed my "hello" from a stamp set I haven't inked up yet.  My friend Gina ended up with two of these stamp sets by accident and gave me one.  (how lucky am I??)  Elementary Elegance, is more of a vintage set and it's way out of my normal comfort zone.  (I lean towards clean and simple).  But it's pretty fun to work with !  I'm not sure if you can see it, but right above "hello" I stamped a little bird from the set with versamark.  It adds a little subtle detail.

Next, I inked up another set that I haven't been able to play with, Mixed Bunch and stamped the cute flower medallion.  It has a coordinating punch, called Blossom Punch so I just punched a poppy colored flower, and my stamped image out of the paper.  Then I crumpled them up.. Yes, I rolled them in a ball and unrolled them.  :D  I added some soft suede ink to the outside of the petals and poked a hole with my mat pack and piercing tool and put the brad through.  The brad is one of the Sale-A-Bration rewards also!  (who doesn't love free stuff?)

Finally I spritzed the whole front of my card, and I over did it by a pinch.  A little bit goes a long way, and I just got excited.  (what can I say?) 

Well, i have a house full of stamping friends arriving in just under a half hour, so I need to "step away from the laptop!"  :)

Rubbah hugs,
Selene

Valentine's Day!

I have SO many projects to share today!  I didn't want Valentine's Day to go by without showing you some goodies I've been waiting to share!  So here we go!  

From my team meeting, here are the valentine related projects.   I'm going to be sharing these and more on my demonstrator facebook page this week if you want to check it out.  You wont want to miss some of those creations!    So here are the valentines in no particular order:


Gina made this AWESOME gnome card.  Makes me want to break out my set!  

 Confession time!  She also brought us these cute candy bars.  I immediately slid mine out of the package and ate it! Although I did find a replacement, even her candy was cuter!  Isn't this a great idea for a teacher gift? 

Christine Crutcher is the queen of 3D on my team.  She comes up with the best 3d items! She brought these goodies to show off, and somehow I ended up keeping them!  (oops!)  The next two projects are hers! 

Finally, I've been promising my customers a peek at tomorrow's stamp a stack cards.  Friends will make 12 cards for $25 and they need to bring their own adhesive!

I added a time slot in the morning, so there will be two classes, one at 9 am and the other at 6:30 pm.  

Here are two of the cards we'll be making!

 

Whew!  I've been busy!  :)  

Have a great Valentine's Day!

Rubbah hugs,

Selene!

Winter Blues ~ Saturday Sketch Challenge 240

Good Evening Friends!  It's time for another sketch challenge from the stamping 411 operators! 

This week, Gretchen Barron is at the sketch board again. 

I really struggled with this sketch, there are two separate focal points.. I suppose one of mine is now flying away!  :D  Too funny!

How about some measurements!
Base: (oh yea, shimmer white baby!)11 x 4 1/4", scored and folded in half at 5 1/2"
Layer 2: 4 x 5 4 1/4"
Layer 3: two pieces of The Gorgeous Sweet Shop designer paper (mini catalog) cut to 3 7/8" x 1 7/8" each
Layer 4: Island Indigo 3 1/8" x 2 1/8"
Layer 5: Shimmer white 3 x 2"
Layer 6: Island Indigo stamped on shimmer white and cut out.

I actually made this card with Gretchen Barron on the phone!  :D  This brand(y) new set Just Soaring just arrived in the mail yesterday and of course, I was LATE submitting my card!  Tisk tisk tisk.  I had an especially challenging week and I joked with Gretchen after I stamped the sentiment.  Is it weird to make a card for yourself?  But I suppose it's nice to give back once in a while! HA!

I just love the big soft bow, and once I actually sat down to do it, I was really happy with the result!  I love the big frumpy bow on the side.  It's so soft! I took an aqua painter and water colored the sky, with soft sky ink, I just left the sparkly clouds there to glisten. 

So tomorrow, my family and I have to leave our house for 6 hours while they turn the power off and do some work... Any thoughts on what we should do in a cold rainy New England with my hubby and 7 year old?  I've been writing directions and crafting like a mad woman.  So, it will be good to take a break. Who's got a fun family idea for me?

Until tomorrow,
Selene~

Saturday Sketch Challenge 239

Good Evening Friends! It's time for another fun sketch from my buds at stamping 411. This week Gretchen Barron took a turn at the sketch board. I (of course) took some liberties with the sketch. I had so much fun!

I made this pretty card for a friend who has taken a bit of a break from stamping. I got a note from her that she received the card and that it brightened her day. That makes my heart happy! It's actually very sparkly in real life. For this one, it's most certainly prettier in person.

I struggle with some of the new brighter in colors, but this new ribbon is just to die for! The ribbon will be a sale a bration reward when SAB starts this coming Tuesday. So fun! The butterflies took the place of the 3 circles from the sketch (below). I could see them braking out of the "circle" and flying off.. :D The designer paper is the gray pattern from the Twitterpatted designer series paper pack. it's so pretty!!!

So let's talk measurements.

I started with a Calipso coral base 8 1/2 x 5 1/2", scored and folded in half at 4 1/4"
Layer 2: 5 1/4" x 4", whisper white
Layer 3: 5 1/8" x 3 7/8", basic grey. I cut a 3 inch circle from this layer to expose the layer below. Then stamped the leaves on the white layer.
Layer 4: 3 3/4" x 1 1/2" twitterpatted dsp
Additional layers are all cut out flowers and butterflies. The "inspire" was stamped on a 1/2" piece of scrap paper, then sponged. I added LOTS of glitter on top.

So, here is the fabulous sketch we got to work with. Pretty fun! If you have time to play along this week, just post your card somewhere online and link back to us over on stamping 411. We cant wait to see what you come up with!

Thanks for stopping by to see me and for those of you who leave me comments, just know I appreciate you more than you know! (((hugs)))

Selene~

A little something for mom

My mom is most certainly a tea person. I got her a little something for her upcoming move and made this quick and cute card to go with my gift.

The colors are pacific point and daffodil delight. I water colored the teapot with markers and an aqua painter.

I embossed the back panel with the big shot, then heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder. I hope you're having a wonderful week!