Top Note Wedding Invitation with Seashells

Note: The rope is long b/c we are going to hang a sea shell from it!

This is the beautiful invitation Lexie, Eric and I came up with for their wedding

down in Key West on the beach in May. The stamp set is Seaside on page #95 $25.95.

There is nothing greater than your customer bringing

her new fiance' to your stamp studio

to do their wedding invitations and he is a natural born stamper!!

They were awesome!Lexie hit the jackpot with this one!

We used Baha breeze 5 1/2 x 51/2 as the base (it doesn't open just a single)

Then the whisper white CS layered on top is 5 1/4 x5/1/4 where we randomly stamped all the different shells in Baha breeze, Kiwi kiss, choc chip, pink pirk ink

then we typed up a mock announcement chose ink in choc chip to match

( made sure to center it in the middle)

and cut an 8 1/2 x11 sheet of kiwi at 4 1/4 down the middle x 11

then loaded it in the printer pushing the printing plates to the middle

and making sure to seperate the two announcements far enough apart so that we can

get two on the one strip of 4 1/4 x11, hence getting 4 announcements on one sheet of cs.

Then we cut out the top notes carefully lining them up so that the announcement is on the middle. You probably can't see it but they stamped the conch shell in versamark on the very top of the top note that really finished it off. The we took the rope left from The Holiday mini and put it through the top. The reason it is hanging so low is because we left it long Eric is going to try to drill a whole thru the shells they have and have it dangle from the rope, then will cut it shorter.I think it was a wonderful collaberative team effort and our ceation came out beautiful.

What I enjoyed so much is watching the two of them interact as they created their invitations.

If you marry a man who enjoys creating and stamping with you what a blessing!!

They are also doing the pillow boxes in Kiwi Kiss and stamping the outside

with close to cocoa and using the 2 line classic SU stamp that we ordered that says

Eric and Lexie

May 23, 2009

on one of the tags from lots of tags sizzlits, trying to decide what color the tag should be?

Any ideas? Please send them in!! We are also going to do the ribbon different probably use the cropadile and put holes in the top and thread the ribbon thru, gotta play with that a bit more.

So, I would love to hear your comments and ideas! If you can think of anything we haven't thought of please your comments are welcome. when their order comes in they will be back to

the Stamp Studio and they will make their invitations using stamp studio time.

Getting married on the beach in Key West how romantic, I wish them all the luck. Lexie is a great girl and deserves nothing but the best!

This a card that I cased the basic layout but changed a few things up and of course I can't remember which site it was from.I really have to better about this.

I used the Parisian Breeze textured paper and the Echoes of Kindness stamp set.

I used water color paper (ticket cornered it) on my focal point and used ink (brown stazon to stamp image and baha and close to cocoa) to paper with the blender pen to fill it in and then used dazzling diamonds on the flower.

I used Lots of Tags sizzlits for my sentiment with the stamp set Hope Happens stamped in white craft ink and embossed with white ep.

Then I used my new latte buttons I chose the white one and threaded beading twine thru the middle. Also the ribbon is the 1" double stitched baha breeze.

Very simple but elegant. the textured paper really makes it.

Hope you like it!

Fifthe Avenue Floral Frenzy

Can you tell this is my absolute favorite stamp set The Fifth Avenue Floral

and designer paper Urban Oasis

This card was inspired by my downline and good friend Vicky!


I saw this on one of my buddy's blog and for the life of me I can't remember which one...

This another crafty idea of Vicky's. She did hers in Raspberry Tart and

of course I had to do Urban Oasis.

I was hooked on RBT for so long I needed to try something new!!

These cards are 3 3/4 x 4 1/4. I put the top note on the front with a sentiment. Then on the back I added another top note where you can write a message. The envelopes will go on other side of the folder.

These are perfect to make with the gift notes on the under $10.00 page #208 in the back of the catalog! In April, we will have a special promo, for every $40.00 order you place you will receive a FREE item from that page.

This is the Sizzix Box #2 stamped with Fifth Avenue Floral with kiwi kiss, basic grey. and baha breeze inks. It looks just like the Designer paper in Urban Oasis!! I used the lots of tags sizzlits for the sentiment with the Thank you stamp also, from the under $10.00 page! It's only $ 5.95. WOW, what a great investment. I love those tag sizzlits. They are a must have so easy to make an impressive classy tag or focal point for any card or project. Great journaling tags for scrap pages as well. They are on page 201 only $21.95.

This card features the new Birthday set "On your Birthday" page 141 $33.95 with 12 stamps in the set, it covers about every bday sentiment you could want. Even one that says look who's turning ( ) you just put in the number for year. I also really like the two sided kiwi kiss satin ribbon, with vanilla satin on the back side accented with flower fusions 2 and our rhinestone brads. What did we ever do without all these beautiful new embellishments to choose from

yeah, don't answer that demonstrators!!

This is the pillow top box, made with the Bigz Sizzix die cut from page 197 for only $19.95.

Great for baby showers, bdays, bridal showers and weddings. I actually have couple using them for their wedding and putting in small starfish. too cute. They are having a beach wdding wait till you see the invitation I designed for them.

It is also so easy to punch the box and put acetate behind the punch

and you can see what is in the box.

Nice and simple. I love the sentiment if you can't read it, it says:

"Plant your feet firmly and let your heart have wings" from the stamp set

Hope Happens $19.95 page 135

I love this color combo, baha, pink pirk, and choc chip

with a little paper piercing around the outside edge. Easy peasy!!
Use the mat pack for the paper piercing $9.95 in the accessories section.

Well I am off to try to move onto another set. I really don't want to but I must!! I have all this NEW stuff to play with and being sick for three weeks and not being able to stamp almost killed me!! Can anyone recite Step One for me! Have we actually formed Stampaholics yet? Does anyone have a meeting schedule! LOL!

Hope you enjoy the cards and look forward to seeing you this month at Card and Craft class March 21, 2009 Saturday 10-am-2pm.

Deadline for reservations is March 9th. We will be doing SAB and Easter projects!! Whoo Hooo I love Easter and you will too when you see all the new stuff in the Occasions Mini coming out soon. You will be able to order from it April 1st, there are a couple of Easter sets that are available for pre-order now. Go to http://www.whitneyrichardson.stampinup.net/ and look for The Occasions Mini pre-order sets.

Save the date and come crop with us at Nativity Catholic Church's annual Spring Crop!! March 28th 9-4pm

tickets are $30.00 for all day 9-4pm tons of raffles and goody bags, all vendors will be there with make and takes, demonstrations and more!!

You can reserve a whole table for you and all your friends

Come visit Whitney's Stampin' Studio and get your hands on the latest and greatest.

We will be representing Stampin' Up! at the Crop! Great time to catch up on your cropping and enjoy fellowship and a few make and takes and help raise money for the missions trips this year.

See you soon!! Happy Crafting!!

Manhattan Flower Texture Impressions Die Now Available!!

Wow!! I am sooo excited! Ever since I saw this at leadership I could not wait to get this and it is NOW available!! You have to check out this baby for only $7.95 you can't go wrong! It is amazing. It coordinates with the Fifth Avenue Stamp set and the Urban Oasis Designer paper!!

I have had a blast with that stamp set! I will post all my goodies tonight of what me and my girls have been up to since coming back from my two week bout with the YUCK! It feels great to be back at the drawing board!! Easter is coming and wait until you see the cool sets they have for us this year. I am impressed SU's Easter sets are really awesome this year.

I will post those tonight as well!!

Now back to work!!

Simply Scrappin' Crew Boys Scrap Tin

This is the card I made out of the Simply Scrappin Kit to go with the tin which was a gift.
Inside of the card

The outside of the tin. I made a belly band and used the BIG SHOT Frame XL die with chipboard and applied the die cut adhesive to it for my focal point on the belly band.

This is the inside of the tin! I really loved how these colors came together!

The last page was my favorite! Join us for our next Scrap tin class just in time for Mother's Day,

Father's Day and Graduation in April!

January Card and Craft Projects

This basic layout of this card was cased fom my roommate at leadership, Judy Carpenter.

Stamp Set: Petal Pizazz, A Happy Heart, Bella Toile BG stamp

Card Stock:Base: Kiwi, Rose Red, Whisper White and my favorite Raspberry Tart DP

Inks: Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss, Regal Rose

Accessories: white gel pen, Arrow Punch, 3/4" circle punch, Pink Perk 5/8" ribbon. Pretty in Pink 1/4" ribbon, Scallop edge punch, Sizzix XL Large Scallop

Raspberry Tart Valentine Favor
Use the 2 scallop Sizzix die cut for the topper, use cropadile to thread ribbon thru on both sides of scallop, rhinestone brads, 3 heart punch, or window word punch, use small SU 3x5 cello bag on the inside cut off at 2 1/4 add candy and adhere to inside of favor

Inside shot of my candy

I received this card in a swap from Heather Medford. I just changed the color combo and design a bit. But when you pull the tab out it becomes a bookmark. See below. She is very talented.

Love those filagree brads! Super deal 8 small, 8 large for only $5.95

I received a swap from Charlene at leadership, which was one of my favorite swaps and of course I had to come home and turn it into a Raspberry Tart bouquet. In order to make these you must have the BIG SHOT with the following die cuts: Baskets and Blooms, Large Scallop, 2 scallop die and the ribbon I used was the 1 1/2' pink perk and the kiwi 5/8 grosgrain. I also used mymat pack to punch he holes in the ends of the scallops much faster than the croppy. I got this bucket at Old time Pottery back at Christmas for like $2 bucks!! This would make a great teacher or mothers day gift or great for your desk at work and use your large circle punch and put pictures of the kids and put in the center of the flowers! Definately selling these at my vendor stand at the Nativity Crop in March!

You probably recall the front of this 6x6 flip scrap book from a previous post.

I love to take card fronts and turn them into the focal points of my scrap pages! Why reinvent the wheel when the wheel got alot of WOW's the first time!

This will be our March stamp camp project.

6x6 Scrap Flip Book Stamp Camp will be held on

Saturday 10am-4pm on March 7th,

so make sure to save the date! Stamp Camp will be $40.00 and you will receive an entire pack of Designer Paper of your choice to make your book. 6 pieces of 6x6 chipboard, 2 rings to fasten it and 6 pieces of ribbon for the top. Plus access to multiple dies embosslits, texture plates, and tons of other accessories to design your scrap pages. So start choosing your pictures! This is a quick instant gratification scrap project.The first three people to reserve their seat with pre-payment will receive a $5.00 gift certificate!(Must sign up by Feb 8th to receive special offer)

I have a few new scrapping techniques I learned at leadership I can't wait to share with you!

**Also I will be offering a basic version of this as a bonus make and take at the Bloomingdale High School Orchestra Fundraiser on Feb. 21 at a reduced rate. All the profits and proceeds will go to the BHS Orchestra. Space limited to the first 10 ppl who sign up for this make and take at the BHS crop! Details on my previous email regarding the crop. you can contact Lisa Curcio to reserve your crop seat. These are the most wonderful group of kids. This is a non-profit event and a non-sales environment. You will not be asked to order or book workshops. Just come and crop enjoy fellowship and make and takes. And help our kids!! If you have been meaning to do more charity work, here is your opportunity and you will be doing something you enjoy in the process.

Plus there will be massive raffles!!

Sample page of the inside, I still need to pick out my pictures!

4 Scallop envelope die cuts make a box! These have been among my stampers favs this month!

you can fill it with candy and makes a cute VDAY gift!

I made these for my down line girls that attended Regionals in Orlando on the 10th.

It is 2 top notes with a base card stock and then Dp over it, with a cello bag inside that fits 8 Hershey's nuggets, with Rose Red 7/8' Grosgrain ribbon, the rope twine ribbon from the Holiday min, love that stuff! Then a scallop circle from the 2 scallop die cut, and then I stamped the tic tac toe stamp from "Happy Heart" ( whew! so glad that made it into the catty i love it) and popped it out with the circle scallop punch, then stamped the i love you and punched it out with the arrow punch. That is becoming a fav of mine lately. I found this pattern on a blog and can't for the life of me remember who's. During leadership swap preparation my whole family had the flu right up until the day I left for leadership. So it was all kinda of a blurrrr.....

I cased these from Janet Wakefield's blog and made a bunch of them for swaps and actually got to swap with Janet herself at leadership and show her what I did with her pattern, It was an honor! I put the little packets of the sweethearts in them, too cute! We hung out with some members of Janet's down line( which is HUGE) Jan Shaw and Jennifer Thompson who were awesome!

We had the best time dancing and laughing and carrying on during the end of leadership when they were giving out all the prizes. For breakfast every morning, I had to meet them at their hotel, I would have to shlep about 1 1/2 miles down to their hotel where my up line was staying to join all of my sideline for breakfast and get ready to go over to the convention center. Boy, did I ( and everyone else realize how out of shape I was!!) the pouty face and barking dogs probably gave it away too!LOL!

This is one of my latest creations with metal embossing. This is a accent element tin

that I heat embossed and decorated the belly band with Baroque Motiff and Together Forever, Always, and Happy Heart stamp sets. 2 scallop die cut and the circles die cuts, with Rose Red 7/8" grosgrain ribbon and the arrow punch again with the I love you. Can you ever save anything and not show it to your husband? Or are you like me the night before trying to come up with something totally original he hasn't seen to surprise him? Or be honest how many of you end up at Hallmark with a singing card. OHHH if those walls could talk, over thousands of dollars in paper crafting materials and a store bought card. AHa hah

without the belly band

My candies I threw together literally walking out the door to leadership!

I hope you enjoyed the projects and we would love to have you join us to make them wit us his month. We still have room at class on Jan 30 th Friday AM 9-12 and a Valentines Day Stamp a Stack on the 31st Saturday from 10-2pm. If your schedule is crazy and you cannot meet on any of the days outlined on my SU calender at www.whitneyrichardson.stampinup.net and you need help with Valentines or party favors for your childs class you can rent stamp studio time or schedule a one on one class, details located on mu SU website!

I will be giving away blog candy to a random winner on January 29th from all the people who post comments regarding this post. So let me know what you think. Any questions can be directed to www.whitneyrichardson1969@yahoo.com

Happy Crafting!! Can't wait until my new stuff fromt he new catty comes in, how bout you?

New Sizzix 3D Die Cuts Coming soon!

In the new Spring-Summer Catalog we have alot of new Sizzlits die cuts.

Above the one in the picture fits perfectly on the Stamp set

"Big Bold Birthday"page 40 to make the icing on the cupcake 3D.

(this die cut is in the catalog pg. 201 and available now)
At leadership, this year they demonstrated some super cool new big 3D

die cuts that will be coming out later in the year. Believe me with all the new die cuts we have enough to keep us busy until then.

This is the stamp set "Big Birthday Candles" on page 38 with the candles

are cut out on top of the card and below there is a huge 3D cake that

will pop out of your card when you open it!! So cool!

Below is a beach ball which is a Sizzix die cut that is put together inside
with rubber bands to hold it together.

Look below:
The front of the card is too cute, imagine that big beach ball popping out at you as you open the card! Won't your friends be impressed with your handmade cards then? LOL!

So yes Cuttlebug girls, you are going to have to start saving your money for the

"BIG SHOT" because alot of these die cuts are too big to fit through the cuttlebug machine!

Trust me I was a cuttlebuggin fool and I have fallen in love with the BIG SHOT there are just so many more possibilities with it!! Also make sure to check out the new texture plates on page 203

they come 2 sided so you get 6 for $11.95 do the math cuttlebug embossing folders are $4.99 each even if you catch at 30-40% off Stampin' Up's! texture plates are still the best value for the money. Plus they are going to match your stamp sets!

Valentine Stair Step Card

This is a new card fold I learned at Leadership, I couldn't wait to come home and try it.

I took a couple of cards that I received as swaps and redesigned them to fit this card style and tweaked it to my style. We will be incorporating the cards into our classes this month.

Hope you like them tell me what you think?

Stamp Sets: Love You Much ,Bella Toile Background Stamp, and Heard from the Heart

Pink Perk, ,Chocolate Chip and Vanilla card stock and inks, along with the 3 heart punch.

And always 2way glue and dazzling diamonds and Chocolate Chip grosgrain 5/8' ribbon