Make Your Own Catalogue Envelopes

If you're a fan of re-purposing, this tutorial is right for you!  What happens when you're Stampin' Up! Catalogue retires and you no longer have a need for it?

Well, you can turn all those pages into envelopes so that you have something to stick your beautiful cards into when you're ready to deliver them! :)

How freakin' COOL is that?!?

Here's an example of what these envelopes look like.

 

Here's the tutorial on how to make your own!  These are absolutely Simple & Sweet. :)

Catalogue Envelope Tutorial


If you decide to make your own, please leave a link to your blogs in the comments below! I'd love to see how they turn out! :)

EDIT: Some people are having trouble viewing/downloading. I was able to load the pdf to my site, so you can direct download it from here.

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Punch Bunnies

Hey all!

Here's wishing a great long weekend full of fun and laughter with your loved ones! :)

Just a few days ago I had to create a bunny treat box project on the fly for a group of scouts, with an estimate of 25 kids!  I was a bit anxious, 'cause it usually takes me all day to create and another day entirely to prepare projects for events, and I had about 6 hours to do everything.  Eep!

So I went online and found the CUTEST Easter Bunny treat boxes from an amazing demo that you might already read.  Frenchie, of "Stamp and Scrap with Frenchie" created these awesome punch bunnies that turned out to be the perfect project to work with seven to eleven year olds.  So I gathered all the punches needed to make these bunnies and got started on 25 kits for the kids to get their hands all glued up and sticky with, lol.  And yes, the glue flowethed everywhere that night!

Aren't these a bunch of cuties??

And this is what they look like on the inside!

These ones were made just in time for giving Easter treats to the neighbours' kids on Monday! :)  Now just to pick up some candy tomorrow to fille 'em up.

If you decide to make these as well, I would LOVE to see the pics!

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Happy Easter Card Share

Whew!! Where did the time go?? Between the Creative Heart Collective craft show, CreativFest, and my bi-weekly card event at Wise Daughters, the days have just flown on by without so much of a blink! I love keeping busy, but sometimes it's also nice to just put your feet up and watch something mindless, which is what I'll be doing tonight, lol.

So... those who needed an Easter Card for the coming weekend were able to join me at Wise Daughters this afternoon to create one from scratch!
I really enjoyed making this card! If you're an avid stamper, you know that sometimes the card just seems to "make itself", and that's how this particular card came to be.



This card was made using the Easter Blossoms stamp set, along with Pacific Point, Pear Pizzazz, Rose Red and Daffodil Delight inks and paper.

If you'd like to join me at my next event at Wise Daughters, you can show up at any time between 1 and 3PM on Tuesday May 3rd! We'll make three cards you to take home for $15!

If you have any Q's you can contact me for more info! :)

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Introducing: PaperStickies

If you haven't noticed yet, I'm always eager to try new things. So my latest attempt at new was to make stickers! And it WORKED! I'm loving these babies so hard right now, lol!

I'll be selling packages similar to this one at the Creative Heart Collective on Sunday April 17th.

Here's some Blog Candy: Mention this blog post when visiting my booth the Creative Heart Collective show on Sunday, and I'll give you a FREE sample pack! :D Who doesn't love stickers??  Or even better, FREE stickers!

So here's what my first set of PaperStickies look like:

And the back side too:

The labels need a little work, I know... I'm still waiting for professionally printed parts of my labels to be delivered (hopefully by next week!)  Ball point pen?  What is that??

So.  Can't wait for a free sample pack of stickies?  Or maybe you live out of town?  Well here's some EXTRA blog candy for you: a free regular-sized pack of stickies for one lucky person who enters the draw! YAY!

You have two ways of entering:

1. Follow my blog by clicking on the Google Follow on the left hand side of this page and email me at info @ papersweets.ca mentioning that you're now following my blog. OR
2. Leave a comment below.  Anything you want!  Even just "I want to win! Here's my email addy..." works. ;)  But PLEASE leave a working email address so that I can contact you if you win!

You'll have 'til next Friday, April 8th to enter to win!

Good Luck!

EDIT:

You can't really tell (I think) from the images above that the stickers are sorta see-through, so here's some more pics! :)

They can also be used as Wall Art! :D

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Remember Those 50 Cent Grab Bags You Wanted When You Were A Kid?

(lol, and the winner for the longest blog title goes too...)


GRAB BAGS!  I don't think I can stop saying/typing those two lovely words.

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Grab Bags!

I LOVED them as a kid.  Forget the penny candy, the Grab Bag was what I was after with my fifty cents after a hard day at school!  Grade 3 was a tough year you know! ;)

I was always excited to find out what neat little toy or candy I'd get within the bag, and thanks to the awesome Stampin' Up! marketing team, we can re-live that feeling of happy surprise once again!

'Cause Stampin' Up! is now selling Grabs Bags!! (I feel like dancing, lol!)


You have three bags to choose from.

• A $6 bag that has at least $24 worth of goodies inside; 
• a $12 grab bag with at least $48 worth of fun stuff inside; 
• or maybe try for the jackpot with the BIG $18 grab bag with at least $72 worth of awesome Stampin' Up! product inside!!

What products will you find in there?

You'll be set up with a fantastic array of discontinued products, including any combination of the following: ribbons, Accents & Elements, chipboard, Designer Series Paper, or Simply Sent kit components; which is just about anything you'd find in the Clearance Rack. 

Grab bags do not contain stamp sets or tools though, but for me, that makes the grab bag all that much better!  I'm particular of what stamp sets I collect so I'm glad I won't be collecting stamps that I wouldn't normally use, but I'm the complete opposite when it comes to embellishments.  I can't get enough of them, and love trying out different product that I never got a chance to before. 



What am I hoping for??

I'll admit, I've been wanting to start collecting as many markers as possible recently.  On my last personal order, I was all set to purchase the 5 marker In-Colour set from 2009/10, only it wasn't in the clearance section anymore! I was completely bummed out that I had waited so long and missed out on an lovely set of markers - I think they were just over $4 too, which is crazy cheap for that kind of quality!  So imagine my surprise and GLEE, as I just went to look again while writing up this blog post, and see that there are now three new sets of markers from before the Colour Change of 2010. I'm so EXCITED to see a set of 12 High Quality markers for just over $15 each!  That's over $30 OFF the normal price for each of these sets.  I so want!  So yeah, I'm going to pick up the $18 bag, and will cross my fingers that there's a set of markers inside.  

Will I be bummed if they're not there?  Meh, maybe for a few seconds, but then I'll be too busy getting super excited over all the cool-over-$75-worth-of-stuff that I'll find in my Bag anyway! :) 

So let Stampin' Up! send you a FUN SURPRISE with a whole lot of product for an amazing price and by playing a bit of chance, you might find something that makes your future projects all that much more perfect.

Go check out the Clearance Rack now to look at all the goodies and get yourself a grab bag while they last!

Keep Stamping!