Getting raggedy edges when trimming your cardstock?

This little piece is called a cutting mat and if it gets junky, it will cause raggedy edges when trimming your cardstock.  Before changing your blade, try "sweeping" the groove out in the cutting mat with the end of either paper snips or a piercing tool covered with a tissue. 

You've got two grooved sides to use in the Stampin' Trimmer with regular cutting blades.  The two smooth sides are to be used with the rotary addition arm, seen here. 

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Now is a great time to buy a Big Shot!

Check out this great offer from Stampin' Up!  Buy a Big Shot (my all time favorite machine) and get a free stamp set/framelit bundle.  If you're not buying a Big Shot, you still get 15% off these select bundles.  Sweet!  Let me know if you have any questions!  Check out my online store for more great products. 

Another Thank You Shadow stamping...

This card has a bit of a country and western feel to me!  It's simple, but I really like how it turned out. 

I stamped the sentiment in Crumb Cake and then cleaned it, and stamped again in Chocolate Chip.  Really easy to do with these new Photopolymer stamps.  I would have needed to use a positioning tool if I was working with rubber.  It makes it look a bit 3D doing it like that.

 I accented with some rope twine and Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip candy dots. 

 

Stamps:  Another Thank You

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla

Ink:  Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Neutral Candy Dots, Rope Twine (retired)

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Mother's Day Flower Pot Card "Mini" class!/Free Shipping offer/Retiring Products List

If you live anywhere near Lexington, Kentucky-check out this adorable "Flower Pot" Mother's Day card! I'm offering a "Mini" class this Friday, April 25th at 7pm for those that would like to learn this easy technique-your Mother will love it! My Mother-in-Law has hers framed in her living room. I'll also have some other sentiments available. Hope you can come! Email me at christy@craftymasterpieces.com for more details!

Also, there's FREE SHIPPING on everything today until Friday, April 25th!  Whoo hoo!  This would be a great time to check out those retiring products that were just announced today.  Click here to check them out.

Have a great day!

New Hostess Club rotation beginning soon!

My Hostess Club will beginning a new rotation soon!  If you're in the Lexington, KY area and you love to craft-you should totally check it out!  We typically meet the 4th Sunday of the month but I may open up Friday evening, too.  My club started 3 1/2 years ago and has been such a blessing to me!  I have so much fun preparing for it each month and look so forward the club weekends.  Please consider joining us!  I'll post all the details below.  Please contact me if you're interested or if you have any questions. 

Join my Hostess Club!

Do you ever take some time for yourself?  Do you want some fun “girl” time?  Do you need to just escape from reality sometimes?  Do you want to learn crafting techniques that aren’t hard, but that look like they are?  Have you been seeing the awesome pictures of stamp club projects I’ve been posting online?  Then join my hostess club!  We’ll learn techniques that can be used for card making and scrapbooking.  We’ll also do fun stuff like origami, digital crafting, interactive cards, and cool projects with household items.  

Benefits:

-Receive a FREE Annual Catalog (over 200 pages of ideas and inspiration!)

-Hostess gift and  20% discount on personal order during your Hostess month!

-Eat some yummy munchies!

-See and learn new ideas and techniques (we'll make 3 projects each month)

-Slowly build up your crafting supplies

-Get IDEAS!

-And best of all-get together with friends and do something really fun!  We all love some girly girl time!

How it works:

-Each member agrees to order a minimum of $15 in Stampin' Up! merchandise each month.  Each member will get a turn to be "hostess", which means you get to pick out $25 of free merchandise.

-Clubs usually run for about 1 year, depending on how many people we have.

-Plan to meet at my house on the 4th Sunday of each month.

- If you know of anyone who might be interested, please pass this along. The more the merrier!  

-Each member of the club will have a turn being the hostess so that each member has the opportunity to earn FREE stamps and accessories. When it's your turn as hostess, you can gather outside orders and earn even more free stuff!

That's pretty much it in a nutshell!  Please let me know if you're interested.  Just message me or call me if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Christy

859-433-9409

www.craftymasterpieces.com

My First Lever Card!

I've been meaning to try this technique forever, and just got around to it yesterday.  It's pretty cool!  I think this technique would lend itself well to a masculine card and may use it to design a Father's Day card for my Hostess Club members to make. 
Here it is closed:

And here it is opened up:

Stamps:  Trust God
Ink:  Strawberry Slush, Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango
Paper:  Strawberry Slush, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Quatrefancy DSP
Accessories:  Labels Framelits

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March club projects!

I had so much fun stamping with my girls last Sunday!  These are the projects we made:

Happy Easter box-
Stamps-Delightful Dozen
Ink-Raspberry Ripple
Paper-Raspberry Ripple, Whisper White, Birthday Basics
Accessories-Raspberry Ripple ribbon, Large Oval punch, Spiral Flower Die, Large Rhinestone, Banner die from the Circle Thinlit set

Pop Up Slider card-
Stamps-Just Sayin', See Ya Later (inside), Perfect Pennants (inside), Dictionary Background
Ink-Real Red, Coastal Cabana
Paper-Coastal Cabana, Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories-1/8" Real Red Ribbon, Distressed Dots Embossing Folder, Word Bubbles Framelits, 1" circle punch

Tag Topper Closure card-
Stamps-Perfect Pennants, Petal Parade
Ink-Pool Party, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding
Paper-Pool Party, Whisper White
Accessories-Scallop Tag Topper punch, Banner Framelits, Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack

Have a great weekend!
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