This little beauty is free-standing and includes our Gift Giving Girl stamp and BoBunny pattern cardstocks with felt ribbon and buttons and trim!
The little giftie has a card attached to the back wishing your friend Happy Holidays from our new The Seasons Greetings stamp set.
The gift slips out to reveal 5 mini lip glosses. How fun is that?! 
Here is a Sneak Peek of some of the fun and cute projects we are going to make at the upcoming Christmas Card Workshop here at the Studio on November 14th. The $15.00 fee includes 5 Christmas cards and lunch and dinner (food provided by our Stamp Club members) and tons of inspiration.
Our order of "Scent My Cards" scents just arrived and they smell sooooo good! Here are the scents that we have available in the online store in the section "Just For Fun!";
Whew!... that was a lot of "Cuttle-bugging" to die cut the pieces for the pumpkins that we are going to make on Saturday at the workshop... but it sure is worth it! These pumpkins sure are cute aren't they?
Here is a new addition to our family that has been "my little distraction" lately. Her name is Noel and she is a special needs puppy being totally deaf and seeing impaired. Here she is keeping me company in the Studio under my desk. She can see about 4-5 feet in front of her and shapes beyond that. She is just the cutest bundle of white fluff and our family is totally in love with her, including our coon hound Marble who let's her crawl all over her and bite her ears until she cries!
Wouldn't it be great if our cards "smelled" as great as they look?... especially if you are sending a card with, let's say a Candy Apple on it... or a beautiful flower. Now you can! I just placed an order for these little sent roll-ons that were created to use on our cards.
Hey everyone the first stamp set in our new series Sweet Of The Month is here! Candy Apple item #sotm1 can be found in the online store www.thestampingstudio.com in the section "READY SET STAMPS". Woot... woot!
So you may have seen this cute little 3D pumpkin that I showcased the other day on the blog as a project we are going to make at the October 24 workshop. I had an Aha! moment the other day after I took our boys annual pumpkin photo's and was looking for something fun to do with them. (Every year since the twins were about 12months old I have taken photo's of them with their own pumpkin that they later cut into jack-o-lanterns)
Here it is!.... the first stamp set in our new Sweet Of The Month (SOTM) series from artist extraordinaire Brook Smith. And what better image could we start out with than a hard crunchy but "carmel-ly" sweet Candy Apple that is, of course, calorie free!
I received the most gorgeous papers from "the brown man" the other day and quickly priced and put them on display and have just been enjoying looking at them ever since. Do you think there is something wrong with me... maybe a pattern paper intervention is in order?
Have you heard about our Christmas Card Workshop yet? It is one of our most popular workshops of the year and it gives you a good start on your Christmas cards. This workshop is sponsored by our Stamp Club and they bring all of the food for the event, so you know it is going to be good! The workshop starts at 10:00am and lasts until everyone is all stamped out which may take until 7:00-8:00pm. 
Here is another treat for you eyes from Design Team member Wendy Sebesta! These samples are from the Book Page challenge and don't you just love the purples against the book pages and that against the kraft cardstock. Great combo!
Flower Of The Month 4 Daisy (These are back in stock now1)
Here are the cute decorated clips we are going to make.
The base of the clips come from an office supply store and look like this. They come in these great colors and a nifty storage container.
Some of the supplies you will need to gather are a cardboard slide mount, 2 squares of pattern paper cut 2x2", stamps, inks, embellishments.
Use a corner rounder to round off the corners on both the 2x2" squares of pattern paper. This 1/4" corner rounder is from Zutter and I can special order these for you if you want. Most corner rounders are 1/2", so this one is perfect for using with the slide mount.
Cover the slide mounts with the 2 squares.
On one side only cut out the window using a craft knife.
Stamp your image onto white cardstock. I am using the little butterfly that is in the stamp set "Sing" and Orange Adirondack ink pad. Trim this and glue behind the window you cut out.
It should look like this.
Now take that and glue it over the clip. Use lot's of glue so it is nice and sturdy.
Now is a good time to stamp the saying on the front. This is a saying from the stamp set "Casual Hand Notes" and was too long for the project so I just cut it apart. I love that you can do that with unmounted stamps like ours!
Decorate your clip with paper flowers and a pom pom.
