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Stampin’ Up! Retiring Accessories List & BIG Discounts Are HERE!

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Genevieve Valdes

It’s here!  The Stampin’ Up! Retiring Accessories List is now available and check out the amazing savings on many of the retiring products!!!

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Easter Egg Wreath Card

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Genevieve Valdes

This week at Hand Stamped Sentiments we have a color challenge.  I’m still in Easter card mode so I created this Easter Wreath card.  The eggs are die cut with the Extra Large Oval punch and the images are from the Everybunny stamp set and colored with a blender pen and ink pads.  The solid color eggs are textured with embossing folders and decorated with butterflies from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit.  I also die cut the flowers with Trio and Boho punches.

Easter Egg Wreath Card

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Join us this week at HSS and show off your project and see some more inspiration from our design team.

Stampin up color challenge

All Stampin’ Up! supplies below may be ordered from my website or email me to place your order.

All products are Stampin’ Up! unless noted.

Easter Egg Wreath Card

Card Size:  5.00″ x 5.00″

Stamp sets:  Everybunny

Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Pretty in Pink, Early Espresso

Accessories:  Extra Large Oval Punch, Boho Punch, Trio Punch, MS branch punch, Modern Label punch, Perfect Polka Dots and Finial Press embossing Folders, Texturz Plates, Basic rhinestones colored with Sharpies, Dazzling Details, 5/8″ Organza Whisper White Ribbon

Filed under: Big Shot, Color Splash Challenges, Easter cards, Everybunny, Hand Stamped Sentiments Creative Challenge | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Rainbow Flower Garden

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Genevieve Valdes

This week at Hand Stamped Sentiments we are challenging you to create with the rainbow.  Create a paper craft project with the rainbow as inspiration.  With spring almost here I was inspired to create a rainbow garden.  I created my flowers with the circle scallop and Boho punch.  I cut the stem freehand and made trellis or fence with the Lace Ribbon Border and Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punches.  I’m not sure if you can see them.  My camera is out for repair so the photo was not taken with a very good camera.  The colorful sparkle was added using rhinestones colored with Sharpies.

Rainbow flowers card

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Join us at HSS!  We’d love to see your creation.

Hand Stamped Sentiments Stampin Up Rainbow Challenge

All Stampin’ Up! supplies below may be ordered from my website or email me to place your order.

All products are Stampin’ Up! unless noted.

Rainbow Garden Card

Card Size:  5″ x 5″

Stamp sets:  n/a

Paper: Card Stock:  Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Elegant Eggplant, Lucky LImeade

Ink: n/a

Accessories: 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Lace Ribbon Border Punch, Dotted Scallop Border Punch, Mini Brads, Basic Rhinestones colored with Sharpies

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Dreamy Owl Easel card

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Genevieve Valdes

This week’s challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments is a color challenge of Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Not Quite Navy and Neutral (Crumb Cake, Whisper White or Very Vanilla).  When I saw these colors together a cute dreamy owl came to mind.  As mentioned in my earlier post, my latest addiction are easel cards.  For this card I used the large Circle Scallop die to die cut the base in Marina Mist.  I also used the Mixed Bunch stamp set and punch.  I stamped the Very Vanilla with Marina Mist and Not Quite Navy to create the backgrounds.  I used the Owl Builder, Two Step Bird, Blossom, Punch Pack and Modern Label punches.  For some dreamy shimmer I smooched my card with Vanilla Shimmer Smooch.  I went overboard with the pearls but I think it made my card.  The sentiment is stamped with Not Quite Navy and heat embossed with Iridescent embossing powder.

Dreamy Owl Easel Card

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I hope these colors inspire you to create a project and post it on Hand Stamped Sentiments.  Check out the projects from our very talented design team for more inspiration.

All Stampin’ Up! supplies below may be ordered from my website or email me to place your order.

All products are Stampin’ Up! unless noted.

Dreamy Owl Easel Card

Size:  approx. 4.50″ w x 5.00″ h

Stamp sets: Mixed Bunch, Loving Thoughts

Paper: Card Stock:  Very Vanilla, Marina Mist, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy

Ink: Marina Mist, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Versamark

Accessories: Big Shot, Scallop Circle die, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Striped Textured Embossing Folder, Owl Builder Punch, Bird Punch, Punch Pack, Bojo Blossoms Punch, Modern Label PUnch, Circle Scissors Plus, Basic Pearls

Filed under: Color Splash Challenges, Easel Cards, Friendship, Hand Stamped Sentiments Creative Challenge, Mixed Bunch | Tagged: , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Enchanted Butterfly Easel Cards

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Genevieve Valdes

Okay, I admit it.  I’m totally in love with the Everyday Enchantment DSP in the Sale-a-bration catalog.  The colors of Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral, Pool Party and Lucky Limeade are…do I dare say,  so enchanting!  I can’t stop creating with these colors and paper.  Today my man in brown delivered my latest stash from Stampin’ Up!  With this order I received the Beautiful Butterflies Stampin’ Up! Bigz Die.  This is not a new die but it’s one that’s been on my wish list and I finally purchased it.  My latest card addiction is making easel cards so I created a small butterfly and large butterfly easel card.  I’m making the smaller one for my customers and the larger one is for me.  I’m putting it on my desk.  I think it would add a bit whimsy and color to my office.  What do you think?

Butterfly easel cards

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Stampin' Up! Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die

Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die, 114507, $21.95

Sale-a-bration Every Enchantment DSP

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All Stampin’ Up! supplies below may be ordered from my website or email me to place your order.

All products are Stampin’ Up! unless noted.

Butterfly Easel Cards

Size:  large butterfly card:  4″ w x 3″h, small butterfly card:  3″ w x 2″ h

Stamp sets: Loving Thoughts, Mixed Bunch, Taking Care of Business

Paper: Card Stock:  Very Vanilla, Pool Party,  Calypso Coral;  Everyday Enchantment DSP

Ink: Poppy Parade, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral

Accessories: Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies Die, Elegant Lines Embossing folder, Modern Label punch, Word Window punch, basic pearls

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Take it to Heart Forever & Always Valentine Card

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Genevieve Valdes

This week at Hand Stamped Sentiments the challenge is Pleats and Ruffles.  I’ve used lots of items from the new mini catalog to create this card.

Stampin Up Valentine Take it to heart card

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I love the bird image from the Take it to Heart stamp set.  I used ink pads and blender pens to color the image.  To give the image a bit more sparkle I used the tiniest bit of Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details to the flowers.  I also heat embossed the textured background with touches of gold embossing powder.  Since the challenge calls for pleats or ruffles, I ruffled a piece of Victoria Crochet ribbon on a hat pin.  The top of the pin also features small punched flowers.  This is my first Valentine card of the season.  Let me know what you think and also what your favorite items are from the new mini.

Hand Stamped Sentiment ruffles and pleats challenge 100

All Stampin’ Up! supplies below may be ordered from my website or email me to place your order.

All products are Stampin’ Up! unless noted.

Take it to Heart Valentine Card

Size:  5.00″ h x 5.00″ w

Stamp sets: Take it to Heart, Loving Thoughts

Paper: Card Stock:  Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Watercolor paper

Ink: StayzOn Brown, Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Versamark

Accessories: Big Shot, Finial Press, Paper Doily Sizzlit, Heart Collection Framelits Dies, Hat Pin, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Gold Embossing Powder, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Blender Pen

Filed under: Feminine Valentine projects, Hand Stamped Sentiments Creative Challenge, Loving Thoughts, Take it to Heart, Theme Challenge, Valentine's | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

2011 in Review

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Genevieve Valdes

I would like to thank all of you for my 2011 blogging success.  I appreciate you stopping by to see my projects and to comment.  I had a total of 76,560 visitors to my blog in 2011!

Crunchy numbers

About 7 million people visit the Eiffel Tower every year.  My blog was viewed about 76,000 times in 2011.  If it were the Eiffel Tower it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.

In 2011, there were 124 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 225 posts.  There were 462 pictures uploaded.  That’s about 8 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 29th with 1, 716 views.  The most popular post that day was Fashion Inspired Bay Leaf Square Wreath card.  My goal for this coming year is to use more punches.  Stampin’ Up! is having a clearance rack blitz and of course I bought more.  With 40% off who can resist!

Stampin up crad

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Where did all my visitors come from?

Thank you to these top referring sites in 2011.  They were splitcoaststampers.com, paper punch addiction com, demosites.blogspot.com, stampinconnection.com and handstampedsentiments.blogspot.com.

My blog Attractions in 2011

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2011.

1

Pretty Christmas Tag December 2011
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2

Flirty Valentine Corset Card February 2011
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3

HSS Inspiration Challenge – Cupcakes December 2011
1 comment

4

Sexy and Sweet Valentine corsets August 2010
11 comments

5

Watermarks page

Again, a big THANKS to all of you for visiting and in celebration of a great blogging year I have some blog candy to giveaway (U.S. entries only).  All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on this post telling me to enter you.  If you are getting this post via e-mail, please CLICK HERE and then leave a comment.  I will use the random generator to pick a name and announce it on Monday, January 9.

Blog Candy Stampin' Up!

Enter to win this Stampin' Up! stamp set Silhouette Sentiments

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Clearance Blitz

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Genevieve Valdes
10 Shopping Days left until Christmas, and Stampin Up just announced a GREAT SALE FOR YOU, From December 15th to January 5th
CLEARANCE RACK BLITZ – up to 80% OFF.

Stampin Up has just added over 200 new items to the clearance rack

and placed special prices on those items from December 15th, to January 5th.

Here are some of the items on Clearance Rack Blitz!

40% OFF all Punches – lots of styles to choose from 

stampin up punches sandi maciver

BIG Shot Dies (tons of them),  

Glass Glitter for $1.59

Packages of Designer Paper for $3.99 that’s 60% OFF!

Candy Cane Buttons for $1.79 (there are 48 buttons in this pack!), Fabulous Deal!

Did you miss out on the Christmas box?  Now you you can get it!…$11.97-

Card kits (includes envelopes) for $3.99

Scrappin Kits for $7.99 (From half the kit you can make 30 cards and have enough left over for scrap booking!)  The kits include stickers, borders and designer paper card stock.

You need to check out all the other items.  Too many to mention here.

…And Ribbon – there’s tons of it

CHECK OUT ALL THE GREAT DEALS HERE!

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An Old Fashioned Vintage Christmas Card

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Genevieve Valdes

This week at Hand Stamped Stamped Sentiments we have a theme challenge.  Create any paper craft project with an old fashion Christmas theme.  Looking through my stash I found some gold heart doilies and since recently I received the Hearts Collection Framelits Dies I was inspired!  Perfect combo!

I used one of my favorite Christmas vintage stamp sets, Bells and Boughs.  I stamped the poinsettia image on Very Vanilla with Versamark and heat embossed it in gold.  I then die cut it using the heart die.  It was so easy!  The image is colored with a blender pen and ink pads and sponged with Soft Suede.  I cut holly leaves in Always Artichoke and Old Olive using the Large Oval punch and 3/4″ circle punch to cut the sides.  I used a stylus to score the leaf veins.

The berries are cut from Red Glimmer paper with the 1/2″ circle punch.  So sparkly!  I love this paper.  I definitely need to get some more for Valentine’s.   The small circles at the corners and on the sentiments were cut with the Owl Builder punch.

I hope you’re inspired to join us this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments.

HSS Old Fashion Theme Challenge

All Stampin’ Up! supplies below may be ordered from my website or email me to place your order.

All products are Stampin’ Up! unless noted.

Vintage Christmas Card

Size:  5.50”  w x 4.25” H

Stamp sets: Bells and Boughs, Comfort and Joy

Paper: Card Base:  Very Vanilla; Card Stock:  Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Red Glimmer paper

Ink: Versamark, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Soft Suede

Accessories: Big Shot, Hearts Collection Framelits die, Decorative Label Punch, Large Oval Punch, 1/2″ circle punch, Owl Builder Punch, Ticket Corner Punch, Pinking Hearts Border punch, Olive Olive Satin Ribbon, Basic Pearls, non- Stampin’ Up! gold doily

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Merry and Type Christmas Card

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Genevieve Valdes

This week at Hand Stamped Sentiments we have a color challenge.  Create any project with the colors of  Blushing Bride, Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz and Real Red.  Since I’ve been  in the groove making Christmas cards with the Merry and Type stamp set and coordinating DSP I created a Christmas card with these non-traditional colors.

Merry and Type Christmas Card

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Do you recognize the Whisper White square shape?  It’s the Top Note Die.  I die cut the shape as you would normally then I turned the cut Top Note 90 degrees and centered it then ran it through the Big Shot again.  Very easy!

The ornament image is  stamped with Versamark and Real Red then heat embossed with Iridescent Embossing powder.  To color the ornaments I used a blender pen and ink pads.

To add some additional sparkle I embellished with light pink rhinestones.  I used a light colored pink  Sharpie to color them.

The sentiment is stamped with Pool Party and Versamark.  I then heat embossed it with Iridescent Embossing Powder to add some sparkle.  I used the the Decorative Label to punch it out then layered it over Real Red satin ribbon.

I hope you’re inspired to create a project with these colors.  Hop on over to HSS to be inspired by our talented design team.

Hand Stamped Sentiments Color challenge 96 - Blushing Bride, Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz, Real REd

All Stampin’ Up! supplies below may be ordered from my website or email me to place your order.

All products are Stampin’ Up! unless noted.

Merry and Type Christmas Card

Size:  5.50”  H x 4.25” W

Stamp sets: Merry and Type

Paper: Card Base:  Whisper White; Card Stock:  Pool Party, Blushing Bride; DSP retired Pear Pizzazz from Sale-a-bration 2010

Ink: Versamark, Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party, Real Red, Blushing Bride

Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note die, Decorative Label punch, Basic Rhinestones, Real Red Satin Ribbon, Iridescent Embossing Powder, Blender Pens

Filed under: Christmas, Color Splash Challenges, Hand Stamped Sentiments Creative Challenge, Merry and Type | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

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