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With Easter fast approaching, make sure to create a few layouts ahead of time to make saving those memories easier! Then you know whether you need landscape or portrait photos to put onto your pages when you are snapping cute photos Easter weekend.

Have you used a sketch before to create a card or scrapbook layout? Some sketches will have dimensions provided, like mine above, while others won't. You can peruse the 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue for card designs. These won't have sizes but you can use any catalogues for inspiration. Perhaps you'll discover a new project design or even a colour combination that you can try. 
The penguin image from Stampin' Up!'s Penguin Place stamp set is adorable! And is the star of these Penguin Place Christmas Ornaments. Pair the stamp set and Penguin punch with Basic White and Smoky Slate cardstock, the Silver Foil Specialty pack and half of a plastic ball ornament, you can make these cute ornaments for your tree. If you wanted, you could fill some of the ornament with glitter or fake snow. I thought of it but didn't have either on hand. Or you could create this ornament without the plastic ornament piece itself. Since the plastic ornament has the hole for the ribbon you will need to either punch a small hole to thread the ribbon through or glue the ribbon to the backside of the scalloped circle.
Have you used designer series paper instead of stamping for the focal point of your card or project? Stampin' Up!'s Whimsy & Wonder 12" x 12" specialty designer series paper has some beautiful images you can cut out using your Paper Snips and some of the designs might fit in the Christmas Tree Dies. The presents are from one of the designs in this pack and have silver accents mostly on the ribbon. Added to the card was a piece of white Baker's Twine and a few Polished Pink jewels to highlight the ivy. For this card the 'tis the season is stamped (found in the Christmas to Remember stamp set) but you can choose any sentiment you have on hand, either stamped or cut from a sheet of DSP if you have a pack with words. 

Welcome to November's Global Stamping Friends blog hop. Today we are sharing projects with a snowflake theme and the best snowflake item in the Jul-Dec Mini Catalogue is the Peaceful Place Specialty designer series paper. The gorgeous metallic accents in this pack of paper makes this card pop!
Stampin' Up!'s Hand-Penned Memories & More Card Pack wasn't one I thought to use for Halloween crafting but this week I've shared projects using a variety of Memories & More card packs and I just had to make this one for an Instagram Reel using the It's Frickin' Bats audio. This card pack has a few Halloween colours: Pale Papaya, Garden Green and Mint Macaron. This card pack has some flowery designs but I covered up most of the design with a Garden Green die-cut. 
At this month's team meeting my friend Tanya showed us how to make this fun fancy fold card. Her card used the Cute Halloween designer series paper as I have with this card, but she used the skull and bat designs. The ghost and house from one of the DSP pack and the sentiment is from the Banner Year stamp set. Do you think "Happy Haunting" works with the ghosts? 

Stampin' Up!'s Whimsy & Wonder Specialty Designer Series Paper can be found in the Jul-Dec Mini Catalogue and it's a fun pack of paper to use for your wintery crafting. You could use the coordinating Whimsical Trees stamp set with this DSP but I've decided to pair the Christmas to Remember stamp set for my card today.
The weather here in Southeastern Ontario is currently not snowy or cold. It's the middle of October and I still have the A/C on! Not that it would be snowing but I'm hopeful that the weather stays warm that I might be able to harvest some more yellow beans from the garden before the frost kicks in. This was my reaction to uploading this picture to my blog today. What am I doing sharing Christmas cards when it's so nice outside? The main reason is to inspire you for what products you may want to craft with for the upcoming holidays as there are only 74 days to Christmas. Deep breath! 

Welcome to September's Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop! Today we are showcasing the 12 bundles listed on page 19 of the Sale-A-Bration brochure. You can choose one of these bundles free when you purchase the starter kit before Sep 30, 2021. Make sure to scroll through to see the blog list for more ideas.

Welcome! For April's Stampin' Dreams blog hop we are celebrating mothers with our projects. A perfect reason to create some Mother's Day cards.
Using the retiring Peony Garden designer series paper made it easy to create these very elegant cards. This pack of paper uses Petal Pink, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray and Basic White along with flower and pattern designs.
Adding a sentiment from a stamp set that has a variety of sentiments, like the Happy Mother's Day image from the retiring Strong & Beautiful stamp set, gives you the option of creating cards for many different occasions.

Each week on Thursdays I will share a video on how to create a project. This video will be available on my YouTube channel and shared on Thursday's blog post with more details about that project. See today's video below or you can watch it on my YouTube channel:

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Thank you for stopping by! ~ Amanda

So Cool by Paper Pumpkin is the fresh, versatile, and fun taste of summer that stampers of all ages will want to savor. What makes the April Paper Pumpkin kit So Cool? This vivid, summer-inspired kit includes two full sticker sheets and all supplies needed to make 12 fun-shaped cards with matching envelopes. But, even more cool: it’s the first Paper Pumpkin kit designed with kids in mind! 🥝 🍓 🍉 Subscribe for April's kit by Apr 10th by visiting this link https://www.paperpumpkin.com/en-ca/sign-up/?demoid=2157916
If you love great deals, our Last-Chance Products Sale is the perfect time to shop. You’ll get deep discounts on your favorite products from the 2020–2021 Annual Catalog. Many items will sell out fast, so don’t delay. Some items have sold out. See all the deals here: https://www.stampinup.ca/categories/sales-specials/last-chance-products-sale?dbwsdemoid=2157916



Hello and welcome to Facebook Thursday! Every week I pick a product to create at least one project and show you how to create it during a Facebook Live. This week I've used the Sweet Little Valentine Cards & More with the 6" x 8" pocket pages to create an adorable 2 page layout of Griffin. The Sweet Little Valentine's Cards & More can create 10 cards and includes envelopes. The finished card size is 4.25" x 3.25" and the die cut card fronts are 3" x 4". This makes these perfect for pocket pages! Scroll down to view the list of products used and for today's Facebook live video and link.

Hello and happy Thursday! Today's blog hop is all about LOVE! A month from today is Valentine's Day and this blog hop is a great way to be inspired.
Today is also my Facebook Thursday! Every week I pick a product to create a project and show you how to create it during a Facebook Live. This card features products from the Snail Mail suite! This guy is so adorable. He's cut from one of the sheets found in the Snail Mail designer series paper. The sentiment and heart images are from the Snailed It stamp set, stamped in Pool Party and Real Red. Do you spy the little white resin hearts? A cute little addition to the card.

In case you've never joined me for a Facebook live, I go live every week on Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern on my From Where I Stamp page: https://www.facebook.com/FromWhereIStamp. Everyone is welcome to join! If you are unable to join me live you'll find the recording below:

 

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Thank you for stopping by! Head on over to the next stop in today's blog hop - Alejandra's blog to see here pretty creation .~ Amanda 
Join us on Jan 20th for our next Crop Kingston Virtual Crop using the True Love designer series paper! Choose from our Card To Go Kit, Scrapbook To Go Kit or Virtual Crop Access Pass! Each option includes a PDF of the card & scrapbook projects along with access to our exclusive Facebook group where we will share live videos, additional ideas using the products and more! The Card and Scrapbook Kits To Go include cardstock, embellishments and product needed to create the projects. Registration closes January 17th. See more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2801979933453896
Let's have a virtual winter picnic together! Stampin' Up!'s Sweet Strawberry and Berry Blessings stamp sets have me thinking of summer and picnics. Join me while we enjoy a winter picnic together! Join the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/266053647891781/



Did you see my video that I shared over on my Facebook page on Sunday where I talked about how to use my online store to search by colours? Slip over here to view it: https://www.facebook.com/FromWhereIStamp/posts/10157568087381611. The 2nd part of the video shows how I searched for the pattern paper and then searched by Pool Party. My card today uses one of the pattern paper packs I found during the search - the Whale Of A Time designer series paper. At first glance the Whale Done stamp set doesn't look like a Valentine's Day kind of stamp but it have this awesome saying "My Love for you is bigger than the ocean" and the cute little heart stamp that fit so well for this theme. The jellyfish were stamped twice, once in Coastal Cabana and the second time with Pool Party.
 
This week the projects, starting with Sunday's post, I'm sharing with you all have one thing in common? Any ideas on what it could be? Stick around for Thursday and Saturday's posts to have more clues! Would love for you to leave me a comment if you've figured it out already.

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Thank you for stopping by! ~ Amanda 

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