Creative Escape 2024!

It’s almost here! This Thursday begins another adventure….this time Country Western! Forgive me very short post tonight…but start watching my Facebook page…. stamptogether by Esther for up to date pictures of the fun!

October schedule will be as normal. Please see the following dates:

  • Tuesday, October 1st - Spartanburg Club, Judy is our hostess

  • Friday, October 4th - 1st Friday Club, Sara is our hostess

  • Saturday, October 5th - Jodi stampcamp in Greenville SC

  • Friday, October 11th - Arbours West Club, Becky is our hostess

  • Tuesday, October 15th - Morningside club, Laura is our hostess

  • Wednesday, October 16th - Sr. Center class

  • Friday, October 18th - Gastonia club, Marti is our hostess

  • Saturday, October 19th - Scrapbooking

  • Saturday, October 26th - Team Meeting

NEW Kits have arrived! 2 wonderful kits that tie into the upcoming holidays….card kits are a fun interactive gift for young and old to enjoy putting together and giving to others or in this case handy to use! The Christmas Ornaments Kit and Card Kit Organizer….both are $25 plus tax and ship.

The Card Keeper Kit also comes with 10 beautiful cards to make and use - store in your keeper until the occasion arises with other cards you may create!

Recently, my husband receive several hand made cards by you! It was touching to me to see how they meant so much to him….receiving a card from my friends. Thank you all so much! Here are a few of the cards…there are more I just haven’t gotten my hands on to take a picture yet. Thank you for encouraging Scott!

As soon as I have a little time, I will be sending invites to all my customers to accept. Please accept the invitation as it will help aid in the preservation of your account info and make it easier in adjust to the new system when we start to implement using it.

Thank you all! Happy stamping and watch for pictures on my Facebook for 2024 Creative Escape! I’ll be publishing the reservations for November Stampin’ Blitz next week!

Esther

NEW Scrapbook products/Sr. Center card class and more

Take Two….I just deleted accidentally the almost finished post for today! Scream! Ok, for not posting 3 weeks let me catch you up with the Boyle home.

First off….the September to December mini catalog is another good one! I love so many of the sets in it! I have mailed a lot of catalogs out and am bringing them to club, but if you are missing a catalog….please reach out to me! I’ll gte one in the mail to you.

So to catch you up to date…my huband, Scott’s dad passed away 3 weeks ago. Scott went up to Indianapolis for a few days and then came back home on the day we were scheduled to go to Wilmington for a fishing trip that was in lieu of the Stampin’ Up incentive trip. Scott and you youngest son, Daniel ended up staying home but Elizabeth and Nate and Joshua, Karla, and Allie and I all had a great time. I’ll post pictures below as I didn’t get them posted to Facebook as we were a little off balance then.

You’ll see Nate had a fight with a shark but won and landed it…..unfortunately, it was not a keeper. Josh, one of my son, Joshua’s friends stepped in and went with us…caught the most fish! You see him in the background of my keeper fish. Our captain lost his chair during the trip too…it landed in the boat. How humbling!

I cam back home Sunday and Scott, Daniel, and I drove to Indianapolis on Monday. All of our other children/grandchildren made the trip also. It was a beautiful celebration of life service. As the officiating pastor said….Don spoke his own funeral. He had such an impact for good at his work and his love for the Lord.

Back home we have been in high gear working to prepare for Creative Escape! So pack your cowboy boots and hats! We’re off to a fun crafty adventure soon!

I invite you to this months Sr. Center card class! It’s Wednesday, Sept. 18th at 2 PM. Please RSVP so I have cardstock prepared for you. Cost is $12 for the 4 cards.

Making it simple to join the love of scrapbooking, Stampin’ Up has added to it’s line of products … scrapbook kits….with Designer Series Paper, 12 x 12 card stock, and euphoria all packaged together. There are co-ordinating stamp sets especially made to support your scrapbook crafting. Click on the link below to pull up the complete catalog brochure.

September to December Scrapbook brochure

Also, just a note…..due to all the changes coming up on Stampin’ Up web site, I will be sending an invite to each of you, my customers to accept. This will aid in keeping your records under me as your demonstrator. Thanks to each one of you! I’m looking forward to crafting with you!

Esther

Sr. Center Card Class this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024

Join me this Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at the Gaston Sr. Center in Dallas NC to make these 4 cards! Please RSVP so I have cardstock cut and ready for you.

Click on image to enlarge.

Cost for the card class has gone up to $12. because of the price increases on my supplies. Please invite your friends to attend with you! It’s a fun afternoon and you’ll have the joy of creating something beautiful and useful! Please RSVP.

Thoughtful Journey goes scrapbooking this month!

  • When adhering your matte’s down, only put adhesive where it will touch the actually 12 x 12 card stock base. This will leave it open so you can slide your picture onto your matte that is on the bottom

Citrus Blooms spread

Citrus Blooms Bundle with Mediterranean Blooms Designer Series Paper Using the bright blue and white as a beautiful backdrop for your summer pictures

  • Again, leave the top part of the leafy frame open so you can drop your picture in

  • When adhering right hand page together….start with the placement of the right 3 squares of blue and white and then place the left hand blue and white block. Finish with the 3 mattes in the center

We meet to scrapbook with 2 NEW spreads each month. September is an exception…..we will be holding our annual CREATIVE ESCAPE during the month of September. October will have another evening of scrapbooking. I hope you can make plans to attend October19th.

NEW CLASS coming this THURSDAY, AUGUST 22nd 2024 in EASLEY, SC. If you are in the area, please come try it out! The cost will be $5 and we’ll be making 2 cards focusing on using new products from the 2024-2025 annual Stampin’ Up catalog and learning techniques on each card to expand your crafting knowledge! I invite you to come! Please contact me for directions in Easlely, SC or if you have questions. 704.860.3646

Thanks for visiting!

Esther

Background Painting with Pearlized Enamel Effects

I have had sooooo much fun with Pearlized Enamel Effects over the past few years! There are numberless ways of using Enamel Effects! Stampin’ Up has 2 different packages:

  • Pearlized Enamel Effects containes: White, Black, and Real Red #156310

  • Metallic Enamel Effects contains: Copper, Gold, and Silver #161610

So what are some of the ways you can use Enamel Effects?

  • One of the primary ways is to make a pearl dot on your finished card. I especially like doing this on a stamped image. I love to see the White Enamel Effects absorb the ink color as the Enamel Effects dries.

  • You can dilute with water or rubbing alcohol and make splatter dots - this is specially nice using the Metallic Enamel

  • You can thin down the colors and actually paint using Enamel Effects - this is beautiful with the Black. When finished it has a silver shimmer

  • It is beautiful to smear all over a dry embossed as a background

  • Use it to “paint” in black coal boats or a Real Red Santa hat! Or beautiful flowers. I have “painted” with a tooth pick or a disposable brush.

  • Use the Metallic Enamel (gold) as highlights on an image

  • And in this sample below, we used a pallete knife to pull the Reinker colored Enamel Effects to paint a fall background scene.

Pearlized Enamel Effects
 

This picture is really close up so you can see the pallets knife marks to spread the Pearlized Enamel Effects.

The butterfly has been painted on top of Crushed Curry Card stock with Cajun Craze ink for an overall rich bronze colored butterfly.

It is so unique and fun to play with! One word of warning….make sure you clean IMMEDIATELY - it will dry with a cloud if you use an acrylic block and it drys HARD!!! It WILL NOT be coming off your projects.

DRYING TIME; That really is the 6 million dollar question! Generally, a thin coat drys pretty fast 10-15 min. and a peal dot will dry best completely overnight! I usually put mine pearl dot on last thing before bed….so I don’t get impatient and touch it before it’s completely dry and avoid a finger print on my pearl.

Intensify using Adhesive Sheets to lift your sentiments off the page! Look on page 85 in your 2024-2025 Annual Catalog….hiding in the bottom right corner and these most wonderful dies called….WANTED TO SAY #161594.

Foam Adhesive Sheets #152815 give lift, emphasis, attention, and strength to your card - in this case the sentiment that is die cut!

  • take off one side of the Foam Adhesive Sheet’s waxed paper and adhere a piece of card stock - here we used Basic Black

  • die cut placing the die with cutting side down to card stock

  • run through die cutting machine

  • pull off die cut word off waxed paper backing and place on your card

Upcoming Events:

  • Friday, August 16 - Gastonia Club @ 11AM Esther’s home in Belmont Pamela is our hostess

  • Friday, August 16 - 1st Friday Club @ 5PM Esther’s home in Belmont Amy is our hostess

  • Scrapbooking @ 4PM Esther’s home in Belmont

Thanks for visiting! Have a great week stamping! Try something new this week and see how you’ll be amazed and enjoy!

Esther

Team Stamptogether

We just had another team meeting and the swap cards a FABULOUS! What an incredible team I have and they made excellent swap cards! Along with all cute and beautiful cards they made….I also had some make and take cards for my team!

You will find the team cards on last week’s post. And…this week you will see my make and take cards and gifts for my team!

But! Before we dive into the cards….here is the SPECIAL FOR AUGUST!

Our Designer Series Paper is hand created in house. Our artists design, sketch, paint, etc. the patterns you see on the paper. Its durability and utility are perfect for all types of paper crafts. The following paper is part of the sale: 

  • Bright & Beautiful 

  • Countryside Inn 

  • Country Lace 

  • Country Woods

  • Full of Life

  • Lily Pond Lane

  • Mediterranean Blooms 

  • Perennial Lavender 

  • Take to the Sky 

  • Thoughtful Journey 

  • To Market 

  • Unbounded Beauty 

  • Wildly Flowering 

  • Winter Meadow 

In addition, I am attaching a link below you can print off a flyer to see a picture of each DSP that is included in the sale

August 2024 DSP SALE

Stampin' Up 15% off Designer Series Paper August 1014

As you heard in the video…..

  • There is no limit on quantity

  • But if Stampin’ Up sells out of a particular pattern of DSP…there is no backorder or rain check available

  • Sale begins August 6th to end of month

For this reason, I will be securing a host code for each club and if you would like to order and have a direct ship to you on the sale DSP, please let me know and I will be glad to help/get you the host code. Shipping on orders less than $79 are a flat $7.95.

Bring on the sample cards! The first is a gift each on the attending team members receive. It is created from Season of Green and Gold DSP 12 x 12 along with products from the Suite Collection of Season of Green and Gold.

Elizabeth designed the cute little gift bag with a velcro closure and used one of the Greeting of the Season dies to make the tab for closure. The card is a double gate fold….look close in the pictures to follow to see the front panel tucked under the heart leaves and the back panel tucked under the front panel.

Looks like dry embossing on this card…..but it’s not. Well, almost, we did use an embossing folder on the card base, but the images on the hello part are die cuts! We simply ran 3 dies from Thought Wishes Die set through the die cutting machine 2 times and placed them on the card stock. This made easy if you use an adhesive sheet on the Basic White card stock before you run through the die cutting machine.

Here is another fun Decorative Mask….great tree for masculine cards! There is also an evergreen tree in the set.

I love how the colors turned out for this card….we used Peach Pie and Cajun Craze for the foliage and Copper Clay for the stamped tree outline.

More to come next week! When we have the next card buffet, both the Frosted Forest and Thoughtful Wishes cards will be available to make.

More to come next week! Enjoy creating this week! Thanks for visiting! Below is a picture of our booth at the CKC - Greenville this past weekend. I am excited to meet new faces and welcome them to stamp with us!

Esther

Eye-Popping Cards From Our Latest Team Meeting

I’m always excited to have a team meeting! I love getting together with me friends and teammates and I love for them to have a valuable time connecting with others, relaxing, visiting and being INSPIRED!

The swap cards from this meeetingwere spectacular! We certainly have exceptional card artists on my team! Please be encouraged, inspired, and challenged to create!

 
Citrus Blooms bundle by Stampin' Up with lemons and tiny yellow flowers

Created by Peggy

Created by Marilyn

created by Debbie

Created by Debbie

Just the cutest TV and the tastiest too! A TV box of treats created by Judy!

created by Vanessa - nothing better than chocolate and coffee

created by Cathy

created by Wendy

created by Amanda

created by Elaine double arrow fun fold card

created by Leisa

created by Jennifer

created by Linda

created by Judy

created by Sara

created by Sandy

 

Such lovely cards made by all! I hope you are inspired to copy and create! Click on the picture for more info on products used.

Thanks for visiting!

I’ll be posting on Facebook again this week for CKC - Greenville classes. Please copy and share and invite to your Facebook feeds.

August Calendar of Events

REMEMBER TO BRING COUPON CODES TO CLUB TO REDEEM IN AUGUST

  • Tuesday, August 6th - Spartanburg Club, Tarah is our hostess

  • Friday, Aug. 9th - Arbors West Club, Georgia is our hostess

  • Friday, Aug. 16th - 1st Friday Club, Amy is our hostess

  • Friday, Aug. 16th - Gastonia club, Pamela is our hostess

  • Tuesday, Aug. 20th - Morningside Club, Anne is our hostess

  • Wednesday, Aug. 21st - Sr. Center class @ 2PM RSVP

  • Friday, Aug. 23 - Pool Party for everyone that invites a new guest to one of my events in August :) (Planning on homemade ice cream and cook out by pool!)

  • Saturday, August 24th - Garden Cafe in York SC Craft Fair

Stampin' Up Country Woods Designer Series Paper

This Designer Series Paper is soooo versatile! I love how it looks on this scrapbook spread! And you could put almost any everyday life pictures on these pages!


The lighting appears a little funky in my photography….Sorry! I am including a picture of each page individually also for you to see.

If you like being creative….please join us next month when I hold scrapbooking class! We make two 2-page layouts each month. It is so rewarding to have pages to drop your pictures in. You can then frame them or just add to a book and place on the coffee table. Guaranteed for smiles from all who see it!

This spread was made using Stampin’ Up Country Woods Designer Series Paper- definitely a MUST have! and Country Flowers Stamp and Die bundle.

Our other July spread uses Unbounded Beauty Designer Series Paper and Irresistible Blooms Stamp and Die Bundle. It’s a fun puzzle to put together little 2 inch squares and triangles…..but it is so intriguing to look at!

Let’s see you get creative! I’m attaching a picture tutorial with tips on putting the following page together as a Christmas picture matte. It uses the NEW BEAUTIFUL Season of Green and Gold suite from Stampin’ Up. Click on the picture and see all the beautiful Designer Series Paper and Vellum! I love how the dies cut out the stamps, DSP and vellum that is in this suite.

I’m excited to use this paper! It makes Christmas card making easy and soooo beautiful and festive with the bit of gold foil and printed vellum!

tutorial

I’ll be using this paper for a class at the Creative Keepsakes Convention Greenville August 2 and 3rd. I hope you can join me then! Below is a link for the class list. I’ll be teaching 3 different classes both Friday and Saturday: Spotlight on Backgrounds, Pockets and Posies Scrapbook Spread, and Season of Fun Folds (Christmas cards)

Creative Keepsake Convention - Greenville

Thanks for visiting! I will be posting daily on FaceBook (Stamptogether by Esther) this week and next about the Creating Keepsakes Convention - Greenville classes. PLEASE SHARE INDIVIDUALLY TO FRIENDS YOU KNOW AND TO YOUR TIMELINE to help me advertise the classes I’ll be teaching.

Take Care! Esther

Mega Card Buffet this Thursday and Friday!

Come enjoy your day making cards Thursday, July 11th from 10 AM to 6 PM or Friday, July 12th from 9 AM to 2 PM! There are so many different cards to choose from!

  • Choose the cards you would like to make and the amount of each card to make.

  • Cards are $3 each or make 8 and get the 9th one FREE!

  • RSVP

You will find lots of the cards available to make on last weeks post and here are some more cards…..

 
 

EARN

Shop and earn a $5 USD coupon for every $50

USD you spend between 3–31 July! There’s no

limit to how many coupons you can earn. Make

sure to use a valid email address when completing

your purchase.

SAVE

After placing your order, the coupon code (or codes)

will be emailed to you. Save those emails, write

down or save the codes, or even take a picture of

the codes so you don’t miss out on any savings!

REDEEM

You can redeem your coupons between 1–31 August!

Use as many coupon codes as you want during

checkout (tip: remember to separate each code by

a space). And make sure to use them all before the

month is over.

Thanks for visiting! Esther

Mega Card Buffet!

Oh My!!!!!!

I think I’m counting 30 different cards available at the next card buffet!!! I think we’ve gone crazy making cards! Some are left from previous card buffets and we have added a lot more!

Come and join us Thursday, July 11th 10AM to 5PM OR Friday, July 12th 9AM to 2PM. RSVP the day you plan to attend.

You choose the cards you want to make and the amount of each you make. Cards are $3 each or make 8 and get the 9th one free!

Why come to a card buffet?

  • It’s a lot of fun to make pretty cards!

  • It’s great to visit with friends and new friends

  • It’s a wonderful place to learn and work at your own pace

  • Experience using different stamp/die sets to see what you like before you purchase

  • Spark your creativity with a different way of using the products

  • Make a lot of cards to send out

  • Something fun to do and keep cool in the hot summer weather

I hope you can join us! And bring your friends!

Here are a few of the new cards to make……

 
 

Creative Keepsakes Convention is august 2 & 3

I am so excited to be teaching 3 different classes both August 2nd and 3rd at the CKC in Greenville SC this year! Please help me SPREAD the word - invite everyone you know to join me for one of these special classes! The link to sign up is below for CKC. Look on the class list and you will find my classes listed for you to sign up. It’s a little less expensive to sign up now than at the door.

For club this month and at CKC, I will be teaching using the NEW Seasons of Green and Gold by Stampin’ Up! The paper and vellum are beautiful and calming with a touch of elegance! You will enjoy using them! The dies cut out stamp/Designer Series Paper/vellum - so dies are a must and definitely don’t purchase without the stamps! Those attending my classes will also get a 10% coupon to use when they purchase back at my booth.

Classes:

Seasons of Fun Folds: Using the Seasons of Green and Gold products for 3 Christmas Cards - offered both Friday and Saturday morning at 8:30AM (cards shown above)

Spotlight on Backgrounds: learn 3 different techniques for backgrounds - a must to learn these wow! techniques. - offered Friday 4PM and Saturday 1PM


And Pockets and Posies Scrapbook Spread: You’ll create a fun new pocket to embellish with flowers and tags for your spread - offered Friday and Saturday at 10AM


Creative Keepsakes convention

Glass Mat—

You’ll be happy to know starting July 2nd you can purchase a Glass Mat Studio! I know I REALLY REALLY like mine, especially for stamping photopolymer stamps - it stamps excellently!!!

Also, be sure to check out the NEW products being added ONLINE July 2nd! One of the products is a mega suite with the Seasons of Green and Gold stamp/die/ and beautiful Designer Series Paper and Vellum!

Thanks for visiting! I hope to see you at the next card buffet! Remember to invite your new friends! You’ll receive a package of gems for bringing them and in august, you’ll be invited to a pool party at my house.

See you stamping soon! Esther