I want it ALL in the Holiday Catalog!

Did you get the new Holiday Catalog in your hands?

Isn't it awesome? yes yes yes!

I received my Pre-order this week and have been playing during the weekend with all my new goodies BUT there is a problem. Just like you…I WANT IT ALL!

And that is why I have a wonderful opportunity for you. Send me a message as soon you receive this message if you are one of my six! See below…

Now…don't you think this is the cutest poinsettia ever…eek!

This beautiful poinsettia is the coordinating punch for the new stamp set Reason of the Season. Yes, Jesus is the reason for the season. Get ready for the beautiful Christmas season. Check my share below…and if you need a Holiday Catalog leave me a little note today. :)

Join my share!

Creative Blessings,

Jessica Urrutia

Is All about Backgrounds Today

So many cute ideas to bless others with. 

Try something new this weekend.

What about a new background? Check these options.

1. Punches as backgrounds. 

To achieve this look. 

Punch several of the Flower Medallion images in Basic Black.

Adhere to Lost Lagoon Layer (4" x 5 1/4")

Stamp set is: A Whole Lot of Lovely

Punch: 2" Circle Punch

2. Use pretty paper as your background.

To achieve this look. 

Cut a piece od Designer Series Paper to 4" x 5 1/4" with a Card Base 8 1/2" x 5 1/2".

Adhere to Card Base

Stamp set is: A Whole Lot of Lovely

Leaves die cut from Bouquet Bigz L Die

Framelits: Floral Frames

3. Use embossing folders as your background

To achieve this look. 

Pass your top layer of Whisper White through your Big Shot Machine using

the Polka Dots Texture Embossing Folder. Done!

Stamp set is: A Whole Lot of Lovely

4. Use a technique for your background.

Here heat & stick! Check below...

To achieve this look. 

Stamp your Dots for Days Background Stamp with Versamark Ink.

Pour Heat & Stick Powder over the image and remove excess.

Heat with your Heat tool to activate.

Pour Gold Stampin Glitter  over it and remove excess.

Heat set again with your heat tool.

Done….it looks stunning and glitter stays!

Stamp set is: A Whole Lot of Lovely

Try something new this weekend!

Send a prayer…send an encouraging word.

Go for a simple background or a fancy one, 

but choose to make a difference in all that you do.

Be excellent!

Polka Dots Texture Embossing Folder

A Whole Lot of Thanks

Bouquet Bigz L Die

Dots for Days

Check mY events below!

September 5

7am-4PM

Annual Yard Sale. 

Lots of items will go. Plus my friend Debbie will meet me with tons of crafty things to sell. Yay! Don't miss it! Stop by! Shop from all my retired stash and get BOGO from the newest Holiday Catalog or big catalog. 

September 19

10:00AM-1:00PM

New Catalog Card Class

Don't miss this cool class using new and beautiful stamp sets from the new catalog. Come make 8 Different Occasions Cards for $15. Free with a minimum* order.

10:00AM-1:00PM

October 16

6:00PM - 9:00PM

Holiday ShoeBox Swap

Sign up for this super fun event. Is free!

Only requisite is using stamps from the Holiday Catalog! Yay!

October 17

8:00AM - 8:00PM

StampaBlessing Stampers Retreat

Take a full day off to stamp, laugh, play games and win prizes.

Separate the date! We will have a blast. You don't want to miss this.

Creative Blessings,

Jessica Urrutia

More Garden In Bloom for You

Giving thanks for your awesome support is one of my favorite "hobbies".

Here is a card I made for a sweet lady who placed an order in my store a few days back.

I love creating with this set. Is so fun and different. You can make so many different things with it.

Is a simple card with lots of love in it.

I created a background with the flowers and topped it with a center dab of color.

Don't you love that little bee?

I used my X-Large Oval Punch to punch the sentiment. 

I had to make a cute inside…what better than that bee? :)

As you can see there is so many different style cards you can make with the same stamp set.

 Here is another thank you.:)

I used Garden in Bloom and Tin of cards "Thank you".

I hand cut my butterflies and stamped the sentiment right on the DSP (Designer Series Paper). 

Elegant Garden DSP is gorgeous.

Did you see yesterday cards with this same set?

Here is my schedule of events for the next two months.

Separate the dates…and RSVP soon!

September 5

7am-4PM

Annual Yard Sale. 

Lots of items will go. Plus my friend Debbie will meet me with tons of craft things to sell. Yay! Don't miss it! Stop by! Shop from all my retired stash and get BOGO from the newest Holiday Catalog or big catalog. 

September 19

10:00AM-1:00PM

New Catalog Card Class

Don't miss this cool class using new and beautiful stamp sets from the new catalog. Come make 8 Different Occasions Cards for $15. Free with a minimum* order.

10:00AM-1:00PM

October 16

6:00PM - 9:00PM

Holiday ShoeBox Swap

Sign up for this super fun event. Is free!

Only requisite is using stamps from the Holiday Catalog! Yay!

October 17

8:00AM - 8:00PM

StampaBlessing Stampers Retreat

Take a full day off to stamp, laugh, play games and win prizes.

Separate the date! We will have a blast. 

You don't want to miss this.

Creative Blessings,

Jessica Urrutia

My Fall Events are here!

Some week are slow, some weeks are fast.

Every week is a blessing. Every day, actually.
Make today your best day ever.

Love more, give more, play more, laugh more. 


Here a card I mailed to bless a friend I love and cherish.

 This card has some of my favorite goodies from 

Stampin'Up! New Catalog.

Garden in Bloom Stamp Set

Fluttering Embossing Folder

Metallic Doilies (my fave!)

and I used the Banner Triple Punch for the sideways banner. 

Colors are Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey. 

I embellished the flower and butterfly with Gold Glitz Dazzling Diamonds (glitter glue!)

To make my little surprise a bit better I added a bookmark made with the Banner Triple Punch. 

So happy to be able to share my love of stamping with you today.

Which one is your favorite stamp set 

from the new catalog?

Share below!

I can't wait to meet with all of you this fall…check my dates below and RSVP soon!

September 5

7am-4PM

Annual Yard Sale. 

Lots of items will go. Plus my friend Debbie will meet me with tons of crafty things to sell. Yay! Don't miss it! Stop by! Shop from all my retired stash and get BOGO from the newest Holiday Catalog or big catalog. 

September 19

10:00AM-1:00PM

New Catalog Card Class

Don't miss this cool class using new and beautiful stamp sets from the new catalog. Come make 8 Different Occasions Cards for $15. Free with a minimum* order.

10:00AM-1:00PM

October 16

6:00PM - 9:00PM

Holiday ShoeBox Swap

Sign up for this super fun event. Is free!

Only requisite is using stamps from the Holiday Catalog! Yay!

October 17

8:00AM - 8:00PM

StampaBlessing Stampers Retreat

Take a full day off to stamp, laugh, play games and win prizes.

Separate the date! We will have a blast. You don't want to miss this.

Creative Blessings,

Jessica Urrutia

Love cardmaking...

Thought I would share with you a couple of cards I made this week.
One I made for a new friend who placed an order online in my store. Hope we get to meet in person soon.
The second, I was simply thinking of a friend I love,she will get this in the mail very soon.

Love having a few minutes here and there to do what I love.
I love card making. Anything paper-wise really makes me happy…but card making is so easy, quick and enjoyable. 
I am sure you understand. No better feeling than creating and sending a blessing.How powerful!

I haven't use my Butterflies Basics stamp set and coordinating framelits. I really like this. Is funny, my friend Pam Steckman got me all inspired to do this card. 

Her beautiful sketch was so neat. I decided to try it in different colors and different stamps.

To see her beautiful card visit Stampin' in the Sun.

(I will add the exact link when she actually post it, sorry. Is not there yet!)

Here is the inside of the card. 

I used one of the sentiments from One Big Meaning stamp set.

I made this cute card with my new Kind Koala stamp set. I truly have wonderful friends. I need to remind them more often.I used my new Lots of Labels Framelit and Banner Triple Punch.

All my products are Stampin'Up! I will keep this post simple.

Life is full of challenges….keep trusting God. Keep dreaming BIG. Keep training HARD. This place is not our true home. But while we are here let's make a difference.

Create blessings,

Jessica Urrutia

Definitely Dahlia by Stampin'Up!

I know,we all have so many flowers. 
But do we ever stop there? :)

Nope, I got this beautiful flower stamp Definitely Dahlia with my first new catalog order and I love using it indeed.

In my first card I used Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder with my heat tool and the results are lovely.

The "thank you" came from One Big Meaning stamp set. Loving this thanks sentiments. I embossed it with White embossing powder.

Colors: Rich Razzleberry, Crumb Cake and Whisper White.
This card shines.

I used the same sentiment stamp set: One Big Meaning on this card above.

Then I used the Dots for Days on ONLY the bottom part. 

For this card I tried something different with the flower. I use the "kissing technique".

You can see below that AFTER I inked my flower I stamped my new Dots for Days Background.

The background was clean, so what it does is pull some of the ink from the flower. 

Can you see the difference. Is subtle, but pretty!

My children started school and my blogging life came to a halt…little by little I will be able to share more of what is on my calendar and my fun projects with you. Feels good to be back!

Stay tune, and thanks for sharing life with me. Love having each of you in my life indeed!

Creative Blessings!

Jessica Urrutia

Simple Scraps Monday Week 5: Use your Scraps as Backgrounds

Hello!

This month I will be having a technique class on backgrounds. I chose to use my scraps this time to give me a cool background, since I am into backgrounds. Hey!

I found retired Baja Breeze card bases that were already cut and scored and folded. :)
Also pieces of retired DSP cut to 6 x 6. So I got my Banner Triple Punch and got to play.

Here are my last weeks of ideas for all your pretty scraps of paper. 

You have them, why not use them?

I had these cute papers waiting to be used. I cut them at 4" x 5 1/4" 

and adhered them to the front of a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card base. 

I added banners from the chunk of paper cut from the 6" x 6".

Here I used one of My Paper Pumpkin stamp sets. I need some invites.

Want to invite some friends over for games soon ;)

The Triple Banner Punch can be used in multiple ways as you can see.

A couple more. Easy cards showing your pretty papers.

 Time to invite some friends over for games.

Next week I will show you more ideas with this cute punch and your scraps.

Get inspired with more ideas for your scraps below!

Week one - Sketches

Week two - Blessing Notes and Bags

Week three- Paper Piecing

Week Four - Use it as it is

Week Five - Use your Scraps as Backgrounds

Don't forget to RSVP for August 15th…and if coming Aug 8th for Stamp and Connect,

 send me a jingle!

Winner Announced!

And the Winner of this beautiful Stamp set Oh Baby, We've grown is (drumroll):

Debbie Bobb

Thanks Debbie for your continual encouragement and for participating on this cool giveaway!

Thanks to everyone for your love and for sharing the blessing of stamping together! You are my blessings!

Stay tune for more giveaways!

Here other cute ways I used this stamp before…

Creative Blessings,

Jessica