Blackberry Bliss, oh my!

    It's Friday!  Whooeee!!!  Okay, I don't know if you've checked out the new colors we have, but can you say OH MY GOSH!  I am loving them!!
     Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow and Tangelo Twist...  They are so rich and saturated, and just plain beautiful!  I am having so much fun playing with them, and I can't wait to post all the projects I've got done and the ones still in my head!
    For this card, I used our new Moonlight 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 pad (love these!).  Double sided heaven!  I used Sahara Sand as my neutral, and just had to make my favorite color combination (purple and yellow) with the blackberry bliss and hello honey!  The pinwheel is made with 1 1/4 squares, opposite corners rounded, and cut in half from point to point.  Assemble on a 1 inch circle.  Top with hello honey 1 inch circle, and then a 7/8 scallop punch of blackberry!  Top with a teeny bow of our vanilla and gold twine!
   I added some of the new 2014-2016 in color ribbon (it's gorgeous), and a tiny bit of bling with a gold punched star!  Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy!  This card literally goes together in like 10 minutes!
    I hope you enjoy it and give it a try!  Toodles!

Bon Voyage!

   Happy Wednesday everyone!  It's hump day!  I thought I would post a card I made with one of my favorite NEW stamp sets and one of my favorite OLD stamp sets!  The new one is Traveler; 134513 Clear, $19.95!  It's got amazing line work, and stamps beautifully!  The OLD stamp is the World Map, 130345 Clear, $13.95.
    I used Sahara Sand, Whisper White and our lovely new Lost Lagoon!  It's a very simple card, and I didn't put a sentiment on the outside because I thought it would detract from the beauty of the stamps.  Plus, this way you can make it any occasion you need it for!
   I hope this inspires you to create something awesome!  If you're interested in ordering, let me know!
   Toodles!

Oh Look! It's Blendabilities!

   Happy belated Mother's Day to all you mommies out there!  I hope you all had a wonderful day!   I thought I would share with you today our new Blendabilities from Stampin' Up! Having had bad luck with "other" alcohol markers on the market, I was a little nervous at first, to even try them; even though I love, love, love to color with crayons!  I actually used to have the whole 64 box of crayons memorized!  I still miss Lemon Yellow...  Anyway....
    I decided to give them a try, and well... I'm hooked!  My downline came over and we played for almost 2 hours coloring with every color I had pre-ordered!  They are amazing to use, they blend extremely well, and they feel very comfortable in your hand.  I do have to note that you will need to use Memento Ink to stamp your image, because you can't mix alcohol and alcohol (i.e., Stazon with Alcohol markers).  Just like you can't use the Memento with our normal markers because you will get the dreaded 'bleeding' effect.
     That all being said, I cannot wait to get my hands on all of our other colors and I'm hoping that they come out with a Blendability set for every stamp/ink color we have!  Here are a few more pictures of some of what we played with!
      This is the Pumpkin Pie set with the Cherry Cobbler center:

             This is the Old Olive set with a Pumpkin Pie center:

            This is the Coastal Cabana set with a Daffodil Delight center:

           This is the Rich Razzleberry set with our Fleshtone center:

     

       My favorite one has to be the Coastal Cabana, followed by Cherry Cobbler!  I hope you've enjoyed a little sneak peak into the newest addition to our Stampin' Up! marker family!  Don't be afraid to try them, and they are considerably less expensive than others found on the market (which I've tried), and I love these so much more!  No more guessing which color is going to go with which color.  Each set is ONE color... the normal shade of it, a darker shade, and a lighter shade.  No guesswork, no boo boos.  And... it matches the cardstock!  And... the inks!  What more could you ask for?  So, now that you know about them, how many sets can I put you down for?!!

Happy Mother's Day!

     Happy Friday everyone!  Yaayy!  It's the weekend!  Although the weekend is when I do most of my work!  I design and kit about 80 - 100 cards every weekend for my Monday card class, and since I'm one of the world's worst procrastinators... well, you get the picture.  Although, in my defense, I've been getting them all done by Saturday night, or Sunday Morning, depending on what time I actually finish!
     The daffodil card above is one of the ones we did for Stampin' Up club, and for card class!  I love it when I can do double duty with one card!  I actually saw this on Pinterest, and CASED it because I fell in love with it!
    It uses our wonderful Hardwood stamp!  I hand cut the pot, and used the word window punch for the top of it.  Loving the new fringe scissors (they cut much easier and smoother than the M.S. ones)!  I used the petite flowers punch and boho blossoms punch for the daffodils!  Add a touch of daffodil delight ribbon, and a sentiment of your choosing, and you have an adorable card to give to someone special, or someone who needs a pick-me-up!  Who wouldn't want some sunny daffy's!
    Have a great day!  Toodles!

  Hi everyone!  Since the name of my blog is All Cracked Up Designs (and no place to scrap), I thought I would be remiss if I didn't do a scrapbook layout!  

    I used all Stampin' Up products for this, except for the large doily.  The papers are from our Sale-a-Bration brochure, and they have to be my favorite papers yet!  The background is coordinations Pool Party, and the picture mats are Crumb Cake, stamped with our new Hardwood stamp (another favorite).  It really is easy to create awesome projects when you've got so many wonderful products to choose from!  That's one of the reasons I love Stampin' Up!  Everything coordinates, and projects just GO together easily and beautifully!  

    Don't forget we've got our new catalog coming out June 1st, and it's loaded with fun and creative stuff and I can't wait to show you some things I've been working on!  Stay tuned !  I'll post some sneak peaks tomorrow!  Toodles!

    Hi everyone!  Hope you're having a wonderful day!  We were supposed to have some rain today, but we didn't!  Just glorious sunshine!
    I thought I would post a picture of my May frame class.  I will be teaching this at the Hope Senior Center in Roy on the 5th of May at 11:30.  
     It's 99% Stampin' Up materials.  I found this really pretty leafy-viney ribbon and I knew it would match our Pear Pizzazz paper pretty well!  It looks awesome trailing up the birdhouse!   I also used Wisteria Wonder and So Saffron, with a little Crushed Curry thrown in for contrast!  The gold glimmer paper I found in my old stash of stuff (the champagne we have didn't match), and what's a project without a little bling!  I think my favorite thing though are the little grape hyacinth's!  I used the word window punch and one of our Itty Bitty Shapes punches!
     While this frame took me about 3 days to finally come up with a color combination and style, I think I like this one the best!  Here are the other months, starting with February!  Hope you enjoy them and get inspired to create something awesome today!
    If you would like to purchase any of our wonderful Stampin' Up products, email me at crafty_chick@hotmail. com, and put Stampin' Up in the subject!  As soon as I figure out how to add links to my blog, it will be a whole lot easier!
    Have a great day, and I'm off to tiptoe through the tulips tomorrow at Thanksgiving Point!  Lot's of flowery inspiration there!  Toodles!

I did it!  For the past week or so I've been looking everywhere for my thing to attach my phone to my computer to download all the photos I've taken of my cards, to no avail.  So, while messing around on Pinterest , I thought, "let me click on my photo and see if I can save it to this device.". It worked!!!  So yaayy!
     This is a card I made using an example of one I made at our latest scrapbook expo.  It uses a Spellbinder's die, but Stampin' Up! Papers,  embossing folder and sequins!.   We made this in my card class today.  One of the ladies had asked me to create a card using these stamps (they're hers).  I used pacific point and pumpkin pie DSP papers.  I prefer our pinwheel sizzlet, but it's a little difficult for some of my older ladies, so this worked good!
    Hope you enjoy it!
P.s.  I'll be on here more often now that I've finally figured out how to get my pictures on here!!!