Everything had to be set aside because it was time to play when my new Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set & coordinating Flourish Thinlits Dies were delivered! Oh, the fun of trying out all the new dies and then making a fast & fabulous Flourishing Phrases ...
A couple of weeks ago I received this question from one of my sweet customers:"Now that there are no more Color Coaches how can I find out what goes together?"Stampin' Up! used to have a tool called the Color Coach that gave us two 3-color combinations for ...
Framelits and Thinlits dies are thin metal dies. They are stuck to piece of cardstock with very strong tape. Will you bend your new Thinlits dies removing them from the tape? Watch my video now for a tip!Watch my Do you know how to remove Thinlits and ...
It's always fun to discover a new use for a product. That's what happened the first time I used my new Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies to make this card. You just may have a great cloud stencil in your scraps!Looking at the scrap piece of paper after ...
A name has been randomly drawn from all the names of those who subscribed to The Stamper's Insider in June. The winner is Betty G! Betty has won $5 off a Stampin' Up! order of $25 or more placed in my online store www.shopwithshelly.com by July 31, ...
You love Stampin' Up! markers so much that one has dried up from use. Were you going to toss that dried marker away?Because it's a Stampin' Write Marker, you won't have to if you have the Classic Stampin' Pad Refill of the same color!Re-ink your marker ...
A canning jar filled with flowers is a sign that summer is in full swing. You can almost smell the flowers with my pretty Jar of Love filled with flowers card.Unless you paint them, every canning jar I've ever seen was made of clear or lightly tinted glass. ...
Remember the tip I shared last week to use one of the extra three labels for inside your Classic Stampin' Pads? This allows you to easier identify the color when the pad is open. I asked for ideas for the other two remaining labels and have a tip you'll love for ...
With the Stampin' Up! Summer Bonus Days Special you will receive a $5 Bonus Days Coupon for every $50 in product orders placed July 7 - July 31, 2016 that you can redeem August 2 - 31!Here's how the Stampin' Up! Summer Bonus Days Special works:Starting ...
Do you think it's possible to make elegant greeting cards using just stamps, ink and paper? Watch my card video tutorial to see how I made an easy and elegant Stampin' Up! Floral Phrases card!
Click on easy and elegant Floral Phrases card tutorial if my ...
My mom has many more talents than being a master gardener. She made a soft pink teddy bear for me when I was a teenager. Pink because it was then, and still is, my favorite color. When I saw the new Stampin' Up! Baby Bear Stamp Set it told me it wanted to come to ...
The samples of the Swirly Bird Stamp Set in the 2016-2017 Stampin' Up! Catalog are so cute and look simple to make. But copying this Swirly Bird card wasn't quite as easy as expected.Liking everything about the Swirly Bird card sample, I wanted to use the same ...
Stampin' Up! ink pads, Classic and Archival Stampin' Pads, have a large label on the top showing the color and labels to add to the ends. But, how do you tell the color of your opened ink pads? Let's say you're making my Watercolor Wings card and have three ink ...
June 1 just could not get here fast enough so we could place our orders from the 2016-2017 Stampin' Up! Catalog. And here it is June 30 already. Why am I pointing out the date to you? Because June 30 is the LAST DAY for two REALLY, really good specials!The ...
How many times have you wished you could emboss with the exclusive the Stampin' Up! colors? That's exactly what I'm demonstrating for you with my Best Birds card. Watch to see how easy it is to do and learn about my colorful special offer through June 30, 2016 ...
A few months ago I celebrated 15 years of owning my stamping business as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. So I sat down to see if I could come up with 15 reasons why I love being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. Watch now to hear them! Click here to watch my ...
It's easy to create fast & fabulous cards with the beautiful, coordinating patterns in Stampin' Up! Designer Series Papers.Godby (God-be) With Us Stamper Margaret Brennan shared pictures of some of her handmade cards. I liked her idea of using a pretty ...
Talked my husband into getting photos made of more of my retired Stampin' Up! stamp sets from the 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! Catalog and 2016 Sale-a-bration promotion. Pictured below is a partial list of those photos. I'll post more as time permits.
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This beautiful Sitting Here card uses one of the new 2016-2018 In Colors. That's a hint of what my limited-time special is. Read on to learn what it is!The new Sitting Here Stamp Set filled my heart with warm memories of being at my grandma's house. As my ...
We have the incredible new 2016-2017 Stampin' Up! Catalog that we are all nuts about! Many have said it's the "best Stampin' Up! catalog ever". It's filled with so many must-have new stamp sets, stamp sets with fabulous coordinating dies, beautiful background ...
The detail of the new Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies is amazing. Look at the beautiful, handmade wedding card I made with them.There are three dies in the Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies. While designing this handmade card, I first used the largest of the detailed ...
Our handmade cards will be stylin' with 200 accents for Brights, Regals, Subtles, 2016-2018 In Colors and Metallic! Circles, hearts and stars.Unlike the retired Candy Dots, each color has its own sheet. With up to 10 sheets per color collection, how are we ...
"Another great idea!" and "Shelly, this is beautiful. I didn't think of using just the thinlits until I received the stamp set. Good inspiration."What are all these comments about? They're talking about my Birds & Blooms Thinlits card tutorial I posted to ...
Father's Day is just a few days away. Do you need a hand stamped Father's Day card idea? Use the beautiful maple leaf stamp from the Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves Stamp Set!Vintage Leaves, isn't that a fall stamp set? It certainly can be, but it doesn't have to be ...
This is a partial list of my retired stamps from the 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! Catalog that are for sale. As time permits, I will post more.
Please send an email to shelly@stampingsmiles.com with the name of the retired stamp set or sets you'd like to purchase and ...
I love showing off the handmade birthday cards I receive from such lovely, thoughtful ladies! It doesn't matter how many handstamped greeting cards you've made yourself because it's touching that someone is willing to take the time to do that for you.It's ...
Watch to see how to get the look of watercoloring with stamps as I demonstrate my clean and simple Stampin' Up! Touches of Texture card!Click on clean and simple Touches of Texture card tutorial if the video is not displaying properly on your device.The ...
A 31-hour only special for new Paper Pumpkin subscribers is coming this Thursday, June 9!If you've never subscribed to Paper Pumpkin before, you'll want to give it a try for only $5 starting at 5PM MT on Thursday, June 9 through 11:50PM MT, Friday, June 10! Use ...
A name has been randomly drawn from all the names of those who subscribed to The Stamper's Insider in May. The winner is Karen T! Karen has won $5 off a Stampin' Up! order of $25 or more placed in my online store www.shopwithshelly.com by June 30, ...
It's become a tradition to remake the same Gorgeous Grunge card with the newest In Colors. Together again are the Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Set and Elegant Butterfly Punch with the new 2016-2018 In Colors.What a pretty set of new colors we have with the 2016-2018 In ...