Deal of the WEEK & Clearance Rack!

Well Stampin' UP! has done it again! They are offering the much loved deals of the week. And this weeks sell is AMAZING! Check out the Big Shot dies below that are on sale and check out that price! These prices will only be good from October 12th through October 18th! So check this out and get yours while they are on sale. You can shop with me online for these deals or contact me stampinbydiane@aol.com with your order.

Also don't forget to check out the Clearance Rack items while you are there the prices on these are deeply reduced! You can find them here.

Week 2 Deals of the Week!

Item Description Regular Price Special Price
115961 Perfect Setting Bigz XL die $42.95 $25.99
114515 Flower Burst Embosslits die $11.95 $5.99
116760 Pop-Up Three Tier Cake Bigz XL die $39.95 $25.49

Thanks for stopping by today, I apologize for not posting anything in a long while, I'll try to do better but as I've begin to offer more classes and workshops there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day. Something always gets missed. Sorry again and I promise to try to do better. Talk to you soon!

New Classes on my schedule

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to check in and let you know I haven't forgotten that I promised to post how to make the cards from the blog tour and I'm most certainly going to do that. I'm having terrible computer problems. I'll be just working along and it powers off like it's going into standby mode. I've had one person look at it and thought we had it fixed (thought it was over heating because it was full of DOGGIE hair......yuck...LOL) but apparently that was not all of the problem. Our computer guys at work are coming in to setup a new system and I'm going to bring it back to work with me to have them check it out! So the recipes are coming, don't give up!

Also my blog candy winner made contact with me and made her choices and her items are on their way to her now!

And one last announcement. The first Christmas Card SAS is scheduled, there will be one a month, August through November. If you come to all 4 classes you will have 40 Christmas cards and matching envelopes prepared come December! Won't that be great?! So check out my Stampin' Up calendar and let me know you plan to attend as soon as possible! I'll be posting again with more info on this topic soon, with a paypal link for you to reserve your spot for any or all classes. http://www.stampinpuppies.stampinup.net/

I'll be back soon. Thanks for stopping by and understanding about my computer issues.

Blog Candy Winner

Well here it is the long awaited winner of blog candy give away for my blog! And without further adieu the winner is ...........................

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SeekerSeerSage said...
Great work, I love your choice of stamp set and the colors! Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us!MaggieDruydess@TheSeekerSeerAndSage.com
July 27, 2009 9:15 AM

So Maggie, you better start shopping! I'll be emailing you shortly for your $25 Gift Certificate choice! The catalog is at your disposal!

I also wanted to take this time to THANK EVERYONE that stopped by my blog and left such nice comments. Lots of you mentioned my SWEET, BEAUTIFUL and CHARMING little Rodney, the blog mascot! I passed every one of your kind comments on to him and he was just ELATED with the attention! Of course being the proud Mama that I am you simply made MY day too! Thank you to everyone for making this Tour such a success!

Royal Blog Tour

Well the Tour is over but the projects remain! I'll be posting the sizes and all on these projects by Thursay! And I'll be back just a little later today with the winner of the blog candy. See you soon!

We've been months in the planning of this Tour and the day is finally here. What fun it has been to perouse the new catalog dreaming of the samples to be made with the new sets and picking out what each of us would use to tempt you! So with out further fanfare I'm happy to present to you my samples for the Tour.

When my eyes fell upon Pendant Park on that very first pass through the new Catty back in June, I knew this was a set I must have! So please take the next few minutes to see what I have come up with for you using this most BEAUTIFUL set. I know your journey for the next 3 days consists of lots of stops so I'm not going to slow you down by listing all the products used in these cards. But never fear, just bookmark my blog or better yet subscribe to my blog and as soon as the Tour is over I will post all the details of each of these cards all the way down to the dimensions of each layer! That way if you need this set us much as I did you can order and make these cards for yourself.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I know I must let you go know as you have many other stops on this royal journey that you have embarked upon. But please don't be a stranger return often, the Puppies and I would LOVE to see you again.

Nature's Nest Birthday Greeting

Happy Thursday to Everyone! I've got a very speedy post for you guys today. So much to do and so little time. I know you guys understand!

I needed to make a birthday card for my boss, we were having his birthday lunch today and I had this new set and had been dying to use it. I could just picture these bright blue eggs in my mind! I was super please with how they turned out but the nest needs more work. Next time will be better. Here is what I used.

Card Details:

• Card Stock - Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Brilliant Blue
• Stamps - Natures Nest (113826)
• Ink - Black Stazon, Marvelous Markers in Brilliant Blue, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa and Creamy Caramel
• Accessories - Eyelet Punch, Chocolate Chip Grosgrain, Dimensionals and Perfect Layer Tool, Watercolor paper

Well, like I said speedy! Remember the Royal Blog Tour starts bright and early on Monday morning with lots of WONDERFUL ideas and a few blog candy's too! I will be offering a $25.00 Stampin' Up gift certificate so put it on your calendar so you don't forget! You check out all the details here www.royalblogtour.blogspot.com

Thanks so much for stopping by and see you hopefully with one more post before the tour!

D is DEFINITELY for Dog

Happy Sunday and I have another new set for you today! I love sketch challenges but have been so swamped it's been way over a month since I got to do one. So I did double duty today, actually triple duty, I've got a new stamp set plus I did two sketch challenges.

Well I'm a dog person, I love dogs, better than most people! LOL So every stamp set that Stampin' Up comes out with about dogs I MUST own! This one is really cute and I think people are going to like it. It's called D is for Dog, isn't that cute?

The first sketch challenge was Mary Jo Price-Williams over at Technostamper. She has a new sketch each Monday so I'm just squeaking in at the last minute for this one. Here is challenge and it worked quite well for this stamp set. I used the new IC's Melon Mambo and Soft Suede, first time using Melon Mambo, it's a REALLY pretty color. Thanks Mary Jo for a great sketch!

Then the second card is done using the same set and was for the Stamping 411 blog. They offer a sketch challenge each Saturday but this is the first one I've had time to play along with. What a fun sketch (411-SC108)this one was. As they said in their write up about the sketch it will be one you can go back to time and time again for a quick and cute card! Thanks Ladies!

I used the D is for Dog set and paired it with the Soft Suede (this is a real must have color) and the Melon Mambo. Used lots of circle punches to showcase the little paw print and bone and then the Very Vanilla for the background, which really made the Soft Suede and Melon Mambo ink and paper POP. I was super pleased with this card too. I'm thinking that I will make a few of these for my Vet's office to use. It went together so quick! Love that!

Well that's it for this Sunday. Thanks so much for stopping by and just a quick reminder that a week from Monday is when the next Royal Blog Tour gets started, three days of NEW CATALOG projects and lots of blog candy! Please be sure to visit the Royal Blog Tour site to learn all about the tour. Until next time.....SEE YA!

Farm Life Goodness

More new goodies! Today we have a couple of cards made with the new set Farm Life (#114411). Here is a secret about me, if I could have my dream place to live, anywhere in the world it would be on a place like this at the foot of a mountain!! LOL Not a working farm per se with livestock for profit, they would all be companions just like my dogs! Oh and by the way I would have a LOT more dogs :) Needless to say this is a DREAM as you would have to be MEGA RICH to do that and I'm not even slightly rich. Like I said this is a dream!

Okay back to reality............both of these cards are water colored using chalks and a few marvelous markers on watercolor paper. Very simple technique that ANYONE can do, if I can anyone can! Give it a try if you liked to color as a child you'll love this technique now.


Card Details:
Card #1

• Farm Life (114411)
• Card Stock - Bravo Burgundy, Brilliant Blue, Garden Green, Certainly Celery
• Ink - Black Stazon, Garden Green
• Accessories - Chalks, Aqua Painter, Certainly Celery 3/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Perfect Layer Tool, Dimensionals, Versa Mark

Card #2

• Farm Life (#114411) - Sentiment from Razzle Dazzle
• Card Stock - Soft Suede, Brilliant Blue, Garden Green
• Ink - Black Stazon, Soft Suede
• Accessories - NEW Modern Label Punch (#116630), Soft Suede Grosgrain Ribbon, Word Window Punch, Perfect Layer Tool, Dimensonials, Marvelous Markers

Well that wraps up this post, thank you for stopping by and remember to check the Stampin' Up deal of the week in the right sidebar, it's the Big Shot bag at a HUGE discount and don't forget about the new Demo special starting on August 15th, you can check out the post with all the details on clicking HERE!