Bullet Journal need some color? I can help.

If you have started a bullet journal and want to add color to it, I have your solution.  We have wonderful markers that are double ended ( one end for fine tip journaling and the other end for coloring in as a paint brush tip).  Depending on how much color you want to add, we have a set of 40 markers in a case, down to 2 different sets of 5 markers.  Also if you spend $50 on products thru my website, you earn a free item from the Sale-a-Bration catalog and use the hostess code: SXTMWUYP to earn a free gift from me.  To choose which set you want, click on the picture below:

Product List

Many Marvelous Markers [147154] $123.00	Stampin' Write Markers New Color Assortment [147160] $48.00	In Color 2018–2020 Stampin' Write Markers [147159] $15.00	2017-2019 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [144033] $15.00
Regals Stampin' Write Markers [147155] $30.00	Subtles Stampin' Write Markers [147156] $30.00	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [147157] $30.00	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [147158] $30.00

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28 years of marriage and still going strong! Help me celebrate and earn free items for you.

28 years of marriage!

Help me celebrate today. Put in an order today here. 1) Order at least $50 and earn a Sale-a-Bration item. 2) Use the hostess code: SXTMWUYP (if order is less than $150) and earn a free gift from me. 3) For every order of $50, your name gets put in a square on my 50/50 chart and when it's full, a random number will be chosen and the winner will win a $50 shopping spree with me.  Any orders today will earn an extra special gift from me.  Email me with a date you would like to have a stamping party to earn another prize.

Merrily celebrating today,

Tracey Gouraud

Lovely part of the story tutorial

     Hi y'all.  As promised yesterday, here is the tutorial for the card I posted in yesterday's blog hop. 

1. Cut Real Red CS to 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and fold in half to make card base 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".

2. Using 2 3/4" stitched square framelit, and Big Shot, die cut Whisper White CS to a stitched square.

3. Use Stamparatus and acrylic sheet template (or drawn template as shown) for wreath building for this size square. Place Whisper White stitched square in position one. Place small flower stamp in center of top of square and flip side of stamparatus over to collect. Ink up flower part only in Real Red and stamp onto square.

4. Rotate stitched white square to diamond view of template. ink up only flower and stamp. Rotate stitched white square to next square view and stamp flower. Repeat till 5 stamped flowers.

5. Remove flower stamp from Stamparatus and place decorated border line on stitched square. Collect with side and ink in Versamark. Stamp. Rotate square 180 degrees and ink and stamp again.

6. Remove decorated border and place sentiment from Part of my Story on stitched white square under flowers. Collect with side of stamparatus and ink with Versamark and stamp.

7. Use Copper Embossing powder to coat 2 bars and sentiment. Shake off and tap off excess powder. Use Heat Tool to emboss.

8. Cut Silver Foil Sheet to 3 1/4" square. Using Basket Weave Texture folder, put it thru the Big Shot.

9. Sponge all 4 edges of both squares with Stazon Black ink. Adhere Silver square at top of Real Red card base and adhere White square towards bottom of Silver square.

TADA! You're done!

tams# 29226

Product List

Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102482] $8.50	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $4.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $9.75	Lovely Lattice Cling Stamp Set [149730] $0.00
Part Of My Story Cling Stamp Set [149719] $0.00	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [147084] $7.50	Versamark Pad [102283] $9.00	Stamparatus [146276] $49.00
Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder [141636] $5.00	Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad [101406] $9.00	Stamping Sponges [141337] $3.50	Basket Weave Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [146841] $9.00
Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] $30.00	Heat Tool [129053] $30.00	Big Shot [143263] $110.00	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $7.00

If you don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator and live in the United States, I would love to be your demonstrator.  Contact me for catalogs and I'll help you get the most out of Sale-a-Bration.  If you think you might be spending a lot of money on this wonderful "hobby", join my team and earn the discount and more fun.

Lovely part of the story

 Welcome to the Paper Crafting monthly blog hop's January 2019 hop featuring Stampin' Up's Sale-a-Bration sets and products.   Sale-a-Bration is the time of year that you earn FREE items for each $50 order.  I am glad you landed here.  If you came here from Terri Stewart's US hop, I'm sure her post project was great.  First I hale from the wonderful state of Texas in the United States. I've been an independent Stampin' Up demonstrator for almost 15 and 2/3 years.  I've only been blogging for a little while and just realized this is my 100th blog post.  Help me celebrate by commenting and I'll choose a random commenter to receive a free gift from me.

     I would like to share the inspiration behind my card.   I received Lovely Lattice from the prize patrol at the OnStage event in November.  It is one of the Sale-a-Bration sets you can earn for a $50 order. Who doesn't love FREE?!  I've seen lots of examples using the big flower basket stamp from this set but none that really used the other 2 stamps.  As one of them was a decorated border line, and the name of the set is Lovely Lattice, I decided to use it with my Stamparatus and either do a grid or outline with it.  I also wanted to use the little flower from this set w/ one of the sentiments from the Part of the Story set.  As I was playing with that idea, my design changed but I like it and I used the 2 stamps I wanted to use.

   Please return to my blog tomorrow to find out how to make this card.  Also, please leave a comment to tell me what you like about my card and this International blog hop.  Also, please consider sharing my blog post with other people who might be interested in creating fun and easy projects.  You can find the list of items needed to make this card after the list of blog hopper links.  In the meantime, please hop to the next stop, Katie Johnson, on the blog hop.  I'm sure you're going to enjoy her project too.  Please leave her a comment too.

Shirley Merker
Tracy Held
Sue Boerner
Sue McDonald
Anastasia Radloff
Elizabeth Green
Sandy Ward
Terri Stewart
                             Tracey Gouraud  < You are here

Katie Johnson
Darla Roberts
Sandra Roberts

     

tams# 29226

Product List

Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102482] $8.50	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $4.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $9.75	Lovely Lattice Cling Stamp Set [149730] $0.00
Part Of My Story Cling Stamp Set [149719] $0.00	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [147084] $7.50	Versamark Pad [102283] $9.00	Stamparatus [146276] $49.00
Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder [141636] $5.00	Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad [101406] $9.00	Stamping Sponges [141337] $3.50	Basket Weave Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [146841] $9.00
Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] $30.00	Heat Tool [129053] $30.00	Big Shot [143263] $110.00	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $7.00

If you live in the United States and don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator, I would love to be your demonstrator.  There is a link to the side of this post that lets you follow my posts and leave a comment to ask for a current catalog.

Stamping over the rainbow,

Tracey Gouraud

Paper Pumpkin sneak peak!

Hey,  bet you want to see what exciting things are happening with the February Paper Pumpkin kit!?  Now you can see a little peak behind the process of how they created the kit. 

 These kits are available for $20 each month and if you get a prepaid 3 month or 6 month or 12 month subscription, you'll also earn Sale-a-Bration items!  

Click here to subscribe with me if you haven't already.

50/50 board update and Sale-a-Bration

     Well, the 50/50 board has 12 squares filled!  That means at most 38 people need to put in $50 orders for it to be filled and a winner randomly chosen.  Just a reminder that the winner of the 50/50 board will get a FREE $50 shopping spree with me! And since it is Sale-a-bration till March 31, where $50 orders earn a free Level 1 item from Stampin' Up or $100 order earns a FREE Level 2 item.  If you use my hostess code (for orders under $150) for the month, you earn something FREE from me.  Each of these $50 orders gets put on a square of the 50/50 board.  There's a whole lot of FREE going round! 

     This card is a sample of #simplestamping.  I stamped the flower, the sentiment and the butterfly in Stazon ink.  The butterfly was done on a scrap.  Then I used Stampin' markers and Blends to color in the butterfly and the flower.  Then I punched out the butterfly and adhered it to the petal of the flower.  It took very little time and I'm not very good at coloring in things, but these markers and blends make it easy!  This was done as part of this month's #simplestamping challenge from Stampin' Up!  The theme is Valentines and we can only use stamps, inks and paper with the only tool being a punch.  Even my college son thought it was pretty and was a good Valentine's card.

      I received a book for Christmas that was written by another Stampin' Up demo and it was a novel about stamping parties and stamping demonstrators and the fun and socialization.  It's called Orange Glow Stampers by Rhonda K. Amoroso.  It was a great story and shows how much fun and friendship building stamping really is.

     If you don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator and live in the United States, I would love to be your demonstrator and send you a catalog and show you how easy it is to learn how to stamp and find your creative side.  Please comment on this post for me and let me know what your favorite color is and what kind of card you would like to see me make next.

Stamping over the rainbow,
Tracey Gouraud