Here are some more wonderful cards, made using the items from the new summer mini. Really fabulous and fun. I plan to be in more of these swaps. The card above was made by Amanda Mutter from Kelowna, BC. I love the colour combo, but note that taken with teal will be retiring as of June 30th. The twine tied around the pot is so sweet. It is the small details that really make a project pop!

This card is so pretty. So many people used the new embossing folder (119176) It is great with so many card styles. I also love that it can be used either way for 2 different looks. This card was made by Trish Miles.

This final card for today features the new builder wheels. These are so neat! You can use all 3 together, use just 2 or even 1 alone. You can also stack them any way you like. Using the 3 chamber ink cartridge you can easily use any colour combo you want. We have been promised new wheels in the Idea Book coming in July. I can't wait. This sweet card is by Brandi Mah of Alberta.

I can't wait to share more cards with you. Until next time Happy Stampin'.

A couple more cards for today. The card above is by Tamara Arnold. I love her Rock and Roll Technique on the ice cream and the use of dazzling diamonds. Too sweet!

This card is by Ellen Baker from Ontario. I love this set but have not purchased it yet.... I love the colour scheme here and the use of silver smooch spritz. A really lovely wedding card that could be accented with any colour to go with the wedding colours. I love the layout as well.

Thanks for stopping by, I'll be posting more projects this week.

I was recently in a Summer Mini Swap with other Canadian Demos. Let me just say that this was a cool swap and I was really happy with the cards I got back. So I will share a few with you over the next few days.

This card was one of my favorites. It was created by Alison Reid. I love the texture and the use of smooch spritz on it. It inspired me to make a similar card for Mothers Day.

Dates to remember... mark your calender.

May 31st: Order your retiring card stock by this date.

June 1st: Retiring List comes out. Stamp sets and accessories.
June 26th: New catalogues should be in hand. (they are a full 16 pages bigger)

I am ordering the catalogues on May 20th. The cost will be 10.00 each. Reserve yours today.

They are also FREE to Hostesses, or with 100.00 order.

I can't wait to get my hands on one. :)

Attention is required. I am sorry to report that Stampin'Up card stock has been at an all time high demand situation. SU! had told us all colours would be honoured until May 31st and as supplies were available after June 1st.
Demand for some colours has already depleted some stock. They had to decide between filling retiring colours or having the new core/in colours ready for July 1st. The new colours won the draw.
I am placing an order on the 26th of May, we are having a Party at Best Friends Fashion Bins at 7 pm.
I will be placing the order promptly and I hope that I can have all orders filled.
It is sad to say goodbye to some of the retiring colours. I will miss pale plum alot. But let's embrace the stunning new colours thate are coming our way. I have seen samples of the new In Colours (available for 2 years) they are fabulous.

I have been having some fun playing with the new set's from the summer mini. I think my favorite set is Elements of style. (if you purchase this set in May you will receive a package of designer brads FREE!)

I love how beautiful these stamps are and they don't need to be all fussy. It's actually been fun just doing clean simple cards. For this card I just water coloured, punched an eyelet border and used some of that beautiful satin ribbon. I do believe I have a ribbon fetish.


I made this card or a couple of them anyways for the Missionaries to send home to their Mom's. Cards are made to be sent right? Again just stamped and water coloured and then layered on Regal Rose and Old Olive. I took a glue pen and randomly outlined the flowers and used Dazzling Diamonds on it. I love bling!

This card is made with the same set just different images. I love the pretty humming bird. Actually this whole set totally rocks and pretty much is my favorite set ever, yes, I know that's a bold statement.....but true. This set is a MUST HAVE.
I also am loving the whole black and pink scheme. It feels so good to be settled in an Ayden free area and be stamping again. Almost on a daily basis, it feels so decadent. :)

Hey everybody, just a quick note that Stampin'Up! has some super cool and inexpensive items in their clearance rack. Check it out and score some great deals.
http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryID=494

May is National scrapbooking month. I did this page using The My Digital Studio software. I love how quickly I can create and also the chance to use the papers and embellishments repeatidly without running out.

This is one of my favorite photo's of my Grandmother and was so happy that I can scrapbook it for future generation's.

Supplies
card stock: Almost Amethyst (R), Certainly Celery and Pretty in pink
Watercolour crayons
Textured impressions square lattice (new)
Vanilla shimmer smooch (new)
Greeting from Watercolour Trio (new)
Set: Bloomin Beautiful....... I love this set, I hope it doesn't retire this June.
Scallop oval and large oval punches.

I sprayed the celery piece after I ran it through the big shot. It has a subtle shimmer. I can't wait to have more time to play. I have been pretty sick this week and just trying to hold my head up has been an effort. Hopefully I will be well soon.

As we say Hello to our new and fabulous colour collections...... we must also say good bye to some old tried and true favorites. I think I will miss blush blossom most of all. But I can't wait to get my hands on some of the new colours. I love the excitement as we build up to the new in colour collection. That's a total of 10 new colours. Yummy!

That being said, now is the time to get those retiring colours before they are gone for good...... once inventory is gone, it's likely that their will be no second chance.
So call me or shop online http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/lisacheney/

This card is a nice simple card that can be done in a flash. I started with a base of Sahara sand (I love this colour) I stamped the medallion in Sahara sand as well. I then stamped again on a scrap of SS and punched it our with the 1 3/4 circle punch. I love the crystal brads, so I popped one into the middle of the flower. I used chocolate chip textured card stock and some beautiful 5/8 satin ribbon. I also used the scallop border punch. (It will be available again in July)
I love to do quick and easy cards. I don't seem to have a ton of time these days. I also am in between spaces at the moment. I just want to get settled so I can be creative.

After buying all those fun My Digital Studio downloads, I had to spend some time playing with them. I love the new alphabet and the punches are so much fun too!
But I think my favorites are the new vintage overlays. So much fun to work with.
The more I use My Digital Studio (MDS) the more I absolutely love it. Absolutely a must have tool.
I will be uploading again today, I want to show a couple of samples using a few colours from our upcoming Colour Renovation. I cannot wait to be able to get my hands on these new colours. June is going to be an exciting month. :)

Wow, some awesome and new My Digital Studio downloads. I had to have them all. ;)


121061 Vintage Overlay Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download $7.95


121062 Vintage Vogue Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download $5.95

121064 Well Scripted Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download $5.95


121066 Rough Type Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download $13.25


122131 Extra Large Two-Step Bird punch - Digital Download $1.25


122132 Extra Large Fancy Flower punch - Digital Download $1.25


122133 Medium Jewelry Tag punch - Digital Download $1.25


122134 Pinking Hearts Border punch - Digital Download $1.25


122135 Pinking Hearts Corner punch - Digital Download $1.25


122136 Scallop Trim Border punch - Digital Download $1.25


122137 Scallop Trim Corner punch - Digital Download $1.25

HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!!
We will be getting 10 returning colours, 5 brand new and retiring 30 colours. WOW!
All this comes with the new July Catalogue.
We are having a colour Renovation..... The ones that we bid a fond farewell to are:

BOLD BRIGHTS
Pink Passion
Pixie Pink
Only Orange
Orchid Opulence
Lovely Lilac
Brilliant Blue
Glorious Green
Green Galore
Gable Green
Yoyo Yellow

SOFT SUBTLES
Pale Plum
Lavender Lace
Almost Amethyst
Sage Shadow
Mellow Moss
Apricot Appeal
Barely Banana
Blush Blossom

RICH REGALS
Bordering Blue
Brocade Blue
Ballet Blue
Taken with Teal
Handsome Hunter


EARTH ELEMENTS
Ruby Red
Really Rust
Cameo Coral
Creamy Caramel
Close to Cocoa
Summer Sun

NEUTRALS
Going Gray

And for those of you who love My Digital Studio, a download will be available on July 1 to add the new colours free of charge!
Say Hello to some new and returning colour friends.

I am so excited some favorite colours are returning and we are getting oodles of new colour items. All available July 1st. Stock up on the retiring colour favorites before they are gone for good.

Change is good!!!!! Look out later today for exciting news from Stampin'Up!
Change is in the wind. :)

These are various views of our newly finished dining room. We just love it. Right now it is my favorite room in the house.

I have completed the decore element in the dining room. I didn't video it as it was a 2 person job and really needed the whole attention focused on it. I will video putting up a smaller element but I did take pictures of the process. With this particular one it needed to have the Believe centered and put on and then 14 other pieces lined up and applied. It took us a couple of hours but boy I think it is worth it. I live in a 200 year old house with plaster walls.The walls were rough and uneven where I wanted to place it. So we decided to paint a board and applied it to that. (that way if we move, I can take it with me)

This is showing the placement of one of the pieces. It is then burnished with a scraper tool and the paper is pulled off to show the vinyl underneath. It is actually pretty easy to do. It just requires time and some practice.




I really enjoyed doing it and the effort is well worth it. I wanted a cool focal point for the dining room and I got it!

Well the sun is out and it is a beautiful day, just never enough time. I want to be outside but we have so much to do inside. The good news is the dining room is almost done. The last is to paint the ceiling and floor. I also have the extra large Tres Chic decor element to put up. I will be filming a video of that for you, look for it at the end of next week.

Now to get back to what I am showing you today. These are some digital pages I have done recently. I was inspired just by viewing the photographs. I had these printed by the Stampin'Up! printer so I can't wait to get them.


I love these pics of Ayden taken last summer. He had stolen the sucker from his unsuspecting Uncle and wouldn't give it back. It was pretty comical.

If you do one you have to keep everybody happy. So I did up these pages of Charlotte and Laura, taken last year on a beautiful summer afternoon that I am so longing for again.

The work continues at our house. A new back door has been put in but the dining room still isn't painted and the new dishwasher is at least in the kitchen. My craft room is far from being completed but.....we have a room and a plan for now.

I am going to try to start regular posting next week.

For now I am going to show you the new downloads available for My Digital Studio.





Item Number Name Price
121063 Satin Ribbon - Digital Download $5.95
120171 Mini Project Boxes - Digital Download $2.95
120172 Springs Shades Designer Series paper - Digital Download $6.95

I can't wait to get a chance to play with these new items. I love the digital scrapping aspect. Lot's of fun items to play with and totally reusable so that means being a little more green.

Never have truer words been spoken. There has been a lot of stuff that I have wanted for awhile. But times and budgets being what they are, I put a lot of it on a wish list. But my dear Father sent me a gift and after some bills and some home repairs, I had a little left to splurge on ME!



What fun it was to be able to unpack the boxes. I was so excited to get 3 sizzix alphabets for cutting chipboard. I am always in need of chipboard letters. Now I can have them any time I like.

so here is a close up of all the goodies one more time. I know you want to see them because you are so Happy for me. I know that I can't let this spoil me as this is a once in a lifetime thing. But I can bask in the glory of my beautiful new toys!!!!
Now I guess I need to go and stamp something.......

This is a great video so you can see how to use the corner scallop punch (118870) and the scallop trim border punch (118402). This border punch is free right now during Sale-a-bration. Just purchase 65.00 in merchandise and this little beauty could be yours. :) You know you want it!

Good morning, it is nice to see the sun after what has been a very snowy 2 days.
I am just letting you all know that I am going to need at least 2 weeks before you see another post from me. We have decided to paint the dining room. Well you know how that goes, my DH says why don't I pick up white paint and finish the powder room too...... oh and fix the ceiling too, oh maybe I will build doors too.

Finally I made him get on the phone to hire someone to paint the living room. LOL
But the big thing is my craft room is on the main floor, I try to keep it organized, but with a 2 year old toddling around and thinking everything is fun and pretty and his. It can become disorganized quickly, so I have decided to move it upstairs until my permanent space is ready. So no one sees my mess and it remains safe from the big dumper.
I am actually looking forward to this change it gives us back a room of living space and will allow us to entertain more.

So I will post as I can over the next couple of weeks, and thank you for your patience til I can get up and running at full speed.

Fun and new downloads available for MDS. Corduroy buttons and epoxy brads. Too cute.



These are super easy to download, and an inexpensive item to have. The digital image is the same size as the actual embellishment so you could add it to a digital layout just to pretty it up.
For those of you thinking of going digital this is a great program, with monthly new product to purchase.

 

I thought I would share this project today. It has some of my favorite things in it. For one the stamp set is friend's 24-7 (this set is awesome), the paper is Razzleberry Lemonade......so pretty.

One thing I also love to do is to re purpose items. This was a formula tin that I covered and filled with chocolate chip cookies as a gift.

I love to design gift packaging and items, I love giving almost as much as I like getting. LOL But I also can't forget the stick pin bling either. This really turned out so pretty and was appreciated by the recipient.

Hello and Happy Friday. I am sorry for the lack of posts this week, but I have a good excuse really I do. It was our Anniversary this week and my DH wisked me away to the city for some much needed relaxation and just plain doing nothing.
I did get to hit a couple of cool stores and my DH gifted me with a really cool Lensbaby "muse" lens for my camera. I haven't used it yet as it is just too cold to go outside.

It is harder than I thought to try and blog everyday, so I have decided the days will remain the same layout of idea's but I will pick and choose the days I post. Some week's will be more and some will be less.

My DH and I are in the middle of a big paint and reno. It's been needed for along time. I can't wait. Also I will be moving to a cool new scrap room. Again can't wait it will be all I have dreamed of.

I looking forward to continue to provide tips and ideas, as well as in the near future Video's. I am so excited about that one. So please continue to drop by and see what I am up too and hopefully help you along with your creative endevers.