Filled with Love Bundle-off to Nashville

Get it Now in time to make all your Valentine goodies!!
Purchase the Filled With Love Bundle
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check out the bundle on the right hand side bar
and receive a FREE gift from me!
I will be leaving Tuesday the 11th for Nashville Tn for the Stampin' Up! Leadership Convention!
Whoo Hoo! Can't wait to come back with amazing samples and new ideas for the new year!
Order the bundle online while I am away and receive your own FREE gift from me!
Below are beautiful samples of cards made with the "Filled with Love Bundle" by guest designer and Serenity Stamper-Leslie Sharpe

I love this Valentine set!! I really liked these samples Leslie shared with me!
So order your bundle online today and have your Valentine supplies to start working on your Valentine goodies!

Technique Class Projects -cont'd

Sandra and Deb Forguson enjoyed our technique class
as we started out on NEW Occasions series!

I got this sketch from the Saturday 411 Operators using the Love Impressions DSP and the DSP from the Filled with Love Bundle.
Card: 5 1/2 x 51/2 base whisper white
CS: Ridinghood Red, White, Gray
Stamps: Word Play (IBC), Valentine Defined (OCM pg. 9 #121941 $26.95)
Ribbon: White Satin ribbon
Techniques:Stamped the heart with cherry cobbler craft ink and heat embossed with irr.ice cut out the heart and then punched out a gray Full Heart punch put it on a dimensional for a little 3D effect. Heat embossed the sentiment from Word Play in black craft ink and black EP

Now when you have a top heavy card you must really gussy up the inside of the card to even the weight or it will topple over...ask me how I know???LOL
so I used my Scallop envelope die cut and made an envelope used DSP on the lip trace it and trimmed it to fit. Then I cut out a glitter heart with my heart

I absolutely love this technique with scrunching the ribbon. You just apply sticky strip to the back of satin ribbon and fold it back and forth. then do the duck tail dance when you cut your ribbon and your good! (I taught my customers a lil dance to help them remember how to cut their ribbon this way, one actually admitted to doing it at home while stamping and I think her husband caught her, I bet she had fun explaining that technique! LOL We have so much fun!
Love this case from Mary Fish at www.stampinpretty.com
New Occasions:
Nature Walk stamp set, Botanical Gazette DSP, Cherry Cobbler, Espresso,Old Olive
and a pack of Vintage brads and you are good to go!
Sentiment is from Elements of Style.

January Technique Class-Project#1

I was so excited to come a cross the directions to this cute little drawer box on Julie Davidson's post on SC. I had so much fun making these and I think they are too cute! Many things you can do with this little ditty!
Stamps: "Be My Valentine( Occasions Mini Catalog a'la Carte Single Stamps on pg. 43)
Eat Chocolate (OCM) pg. #30-121931 $17.95
CS: Basic Gray, Ridinghood Red, Whisper White
DP: Love Impressions, Red Glimmer Paper (OCM pg.7 $3.95)
Heat Embossing: Iridescent ice EP, heat tool, embossing buddy
Ribbon: 1/4: white grosgrain, red corduroy buttons
Punches:Decorative Label (OCM) pg. 30#$120907
I LOVE the NEW Blossom Petals Punch
I use it for so many different sentiments

See the cute little drawer you pull it right out and it is filled with goodies!

The New Eat Chocolate set is perfect for all of little treats!
I used the glitter paper with the hearts embosslit and stamped the sentiment and popped it out with the Blossoms punch in Ridinghood Red ink

It fits two mini choc bars wrapped in DP!

"Sale-A-Brate Good Times-Come Stamping"

Click on this link to view the catalog, if you have not received yours in the mail please email me and I will be glad to send you one.

http://204.228.150.61/20102011catalogs/SAB11_US.pdf

Stampin’ Up’s biggest promotion of the year begins! I love Sale-A-Bration since I’m the first one in line when there is a free gift with purchase. For every $50 you spend, YOU choose one of the free items in the catalog! AND there is a bonus page of stamp sets from our big catalog to choose from also!

Occasions Mini Catalog goes LIVE today!

It is time for a fresh start & new look!
Start the New Year with some amazing new products!
Take your creativity to a new level with some of these goodies!

Stampin' Up! Occasions Mini catalog is filled with 43 pages of the new trends in Occasional
paper crafting and stamping delights. Check it out by clicking the link below. If you have not received your catalog in the mail email me and I will be glad to mail you one.

http://204.228.150.61/20102011catalogs/Occasions11_US.pdf

You can order online at www.whitneyrichardson.stampinup.net
or email me directly at
www.whitneyrichardson1969@gmail.com

Baby Girl is Growing UP!- Last Christmas Story

This is the baby, Ansleigh who is 9. Isn't she looking dapper in her Florida winter wear.
We have broken major winter tempature records here this year .
I think she just looks too cute in this picture.

Okay long story short NO I would never buy a cell phone for a 9 yr old. I had to buy a new fancy 3G phone and this is my old phone which we had an extra aircard line turned phone line on our plan so I activated the phone for her. In hopes of trying to teach her how to actually speak on the phone, it's weird you hand her a phone and she freezes up.

This is her very first IPOD , the little shuffle one started out slow seems like with Chesne they always got lost or stolen in middle school.
Ansleigh's passion for life is in the Sim's World! this kid has every expansion pack for it now and I am telling you she is going to be an architech one day it AMAZES me!!
I always tell her to wear her good Christmas pajamas and here we go, her girl scout shirt and sweats. Gotta love it.

Our christmas Part -2- A Love Story

This is the face I have been looking for Christmas morning for the last 7 years with this guy, My wonderful husband! I finally got him this year and saved enough to afford a super duper surprise for Christmas morning that I bought solely from my own Stampin' Up! money so it was a complete surprise!

Well now I would not be too successful of a demonstrator if that Patriots blanket was it, now would I? But that blanket is just to keep his feet warm while he enjoys his other gifts.

Here see the dismay & confusion......side bar: we just bought a NEW 52" LED TV right before Christmas and all the techy accessories have to change once you go LED. Come on everyone is suppose to know that! Best Buy thinks so anyway.
So apparently the technological world has been doing this for ages changing techy stuff on the big item so you have to buy all new accessories that are that kind of techy too!
That is why you need a new laptop like every 2 yrs.
I just have to compare it to my recent wardrobe situation for justification...yes after moving to Daytona I have gained more than a few pounds, so if my jeans don't fit I need a whole new wardrobe or either I am getting to the age (like my Aunt who you to have a wardrode is every size range) YIKES come on y'all your metabolism changes after 40 !
Anyhew, back to his gift....

I got him a Blueray surround sound system to go with his new TV and he was completely surprised and blown away! Now we can play our WII again and we did.
Sidebar: He was distrought after we bought the new TV because there wasn't a plug that was adaptable for the Wii gaming system that we ONLY play once a year at Christmas. He became obsessed with it. So the new surround sound system fixed that problem as well!

Family Wii Tournament
Huge Bowling tournament with my brother and his family and out of 10 ppl this ole girl came in 2nd place.
Now being a winner comes with a price girls
seriously after Wii bowling I could not walk for 2 days. LOL
So sad, I guess this is where I should make a New Year's resolution or something...

This is the" HONEY, I love you , you did it look"!
I have tried to get for the last 7 Christmas's but I cannot keep a secret and always blow it!!
Best part is my Stampin' Up! Business paid for this smile, even better.
Progress not perfection !

I want to thank all my wonderful customers and friends in the blogging world who make this a journey and so much fun sharing what I love with them and making money is a perk too!
God has blessed me beyond belief this year and I give all the praise and glory to him!

Happy New Year to all of you and thank you for letting me share a little of our Christmas with you.