Stellar Stamps

A card of congrats from my Stampin' Up! upline

In our Stampin' Up! family tree, we are connected 5 levels above us and 5 levels down. I'm in the 5th level of Jill Olsen's downline. Jill is one of the most senior demonstrators with our company having joined almost on Day 1. This week, I received a lovely note of congrats from Jill using the "Designer Cuts" Cards & Envelopes Set (125414 $9.95 for 4 sets of 2 designs & only available thru 4/30/12).

I am a huge fan of "clean and simple" stamping and this card fits that criteria perfectly!

Jill has thousands of demonstrators on her team so to be recognized in any given month in her top-30 is a huge honor!

Happy Valentine's Day = what else...??? Chocolate!

Who knew that paper crafts and chocolate went so well together? Today some of my co-workers will get a Hershey's bar wrapped in Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper. Yes, it's retiredpaper so this was a fabulous opportunity to make good use of it.

This project could not have come together faster which is what you want when you're wrapping about 30 candy bars. I call it speed crafting! Here's the quick summary of steps:

 

• Cut Designer Series Paper to wrap around candy (I got 4 wrappers per 12' x 12" sheet) and adhere with Sticky Strip (104294 - $6.95)
• Print sentiment on our Whisper White Card Stock (100730 - $8.95 for 40 sheets) then trim
• Adhere sentiment on Basic Black Card Stock (121045 - $6.95 for 24 sheets)
• Punch hearts using Full Heart punch (119883 - $16.95) and red Glimmer Paper (121790 - $4.95)
• Using Stampin' Dimensionals (104430 - $3.95 for 300) adhere sentiment to candy bar
• Then also using a Dimensional, adhere heart to sentiment

Happy Valentine's Day!