Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hi everyone! Remember Me? Can you guess what my first New Year resolution is? Yep to start blogging again! hooray! I wanted to kick off the year by showing you a few cards I made for Christmas.
The first card (above) is one of my favorites. I love the "2 Step Bird Punch" (#117191). Here I punched the bird body in Riding Hood Red and then the tree branch and leaves in Chocolate Chip and Old Olive. I then used my 2Way Glue Pen and glitter to bling up the wing a bit. When I pieced the bird together I also used a Stampin' Dimensional dot to pop up the wing. The floral designs are from the stamp set Season of Joy (#110384). I have to admit the "Joy" stamp is not Stampin' Up!

I was really loving the "Season of Joy" stamp set and the swirl design on this card is also from that set. The Christmas tree and sentiment are from the set "Jolliest Time of the Year " (#116584). I used Stampin' Write markers to color in the tree and added glitter with my 2Way glue pen. I have a bling addiction so get used to this theme as you look on!

Okay so this stamp set cracks me up and lends itself too one of my favorite coloring techniques. I use this design element a lot. Stamp the image in black ink and only color in certain aspects of the design. This technique also works great with Stampin' Round wheels and their images. On this card I used a MUST HAVE stampin' up product...GLITTER GLASS! It is basically old fashioned, chunky glitter. Watch my site here for the new color being introduced in a few weeks.

At the request of one of my stamping buddies I made these snowman tags for a swap this holiday season. The snowman body is made out of "White Circle Aluminum Edge Metal Tags" from the Clearance Rack on my Stampin' Up! site. They are on sale for only $1.49 a package and you get both sizes! For the top hat I used the "Round Tab Extra Large" punch (#119864). It works perfectly when you fold it in half. I have also seen really cute purses made with this punch. Then I used the "1 3/4 scallop circle" punch in Pumpkin Pie cardstock to make the noses. I simply cut triangles like cake slices out of the scalloped circle. I used silver cord to hook the head to the body and grosgrain ribbon to make the bow tie and tag holder. I had some little jingle bells which I thought were a perfect addition. The sentiment on the snow man is from a Paper Source stamp.

Gear up all you stampers because SALE-A-BRATION 2011 is coming soon! You can always find great techniques and project ideas on my Stampin' Up! site, not to mention shop directly from the site and have products on your doorstep in a matter of days!

Summer is over but the fun is just beginning!

Hey everyone! So I have had a whirlwind summer to say the least. But the good news is that the whirling has not stopped! My next Stampin' Up! workshop is scheduled for Aug. 30th at 1pm! It is called Fall into the Holidays and we are making Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas projects! Don't miss it. You'll get great ideas for the upcoming holidays, plus there are some really fun prizes I am giving away too! If you are not on the evite already send me an email and I will add you on!


This is a card I made for my coworkers wife who broke her arm. Can you guess how? heehee. The stamps are hero arts and stampin' up! The paper is all stampin' up! I embroidered the swirlee line with brown embroidery floss. It added a fun little something. I also used copic markers to color the little girl. Easily one of my most favorite cards to date!

Oh yeah! I have had over 600 views!

Hi Everyone. I was pretty excited to see the "hit" counter for my blog past the 600 point! I know that at least 100 of them are just me! haha! But who cares! So tell your friends about the blog, send them a link....1,000 here we come!

Here are a few of my favorite cards for my most recent class "20 cards in 2 hours". Now, technically the class took about 3 1/2 hours if you take out chat time, break time, potty time and general off track conversations by the teacher! But we finished and everyone did a great job! Speaking of asides...I am working on learning how to change the "level" of my camera so the colors are more vibrant when I post these pictures. Stay tuned to be amazed! Maybe not today or tomorrow...but someday soon!

In this card we used the super popular Stampin' Up! "Top Note" die cut as well as the Stampin' Up! "Simple Flower" embosslit die. It is amazing how fast a card can come together with a few simple die cuts. The pearl is from the Stampin' Up! "pretties kit" and the stamp set we used was "All Holidays". The color inspiration for all 20 cards in the class came from the Stampin' Up! designer series paper "Sweet Slumber Specialty"...which is already sold out. But we had just enough for class and loved every thing we did with it! Because the colors in the photo are a little off they were : Baja Breeze, Ruby Red, So Saffron.

This is the simplest card in the bunch...but I think the cutest! We again used the designer series paper and the Stampin' Up! "Big Bold Cupcakes" sizzlit 4 pack dies. Did you all know that if you have a cuddlebug it works with the stampin' up! dies? I love this die set! A perfect cupcake everytime!

Mix it up!!!

Hey all. You might be surprised to know that I sometimes use supplies that aren't exclusively Stampin' Up! heehee! This posting has a sampling of cards I made for a friend using the new Cosmo Cricket line "Early Bird" I DID however use Stampin' Up! rubons that are AWSOME! They totally matched the style of the paper too. Enjoy!

The stamped owl on this card is by Hero Arts and is my favorite! I used stampin' up! chalks to create the yellow hue onthe edge of the white piece. The owl is stamped in Kiwi Kiss. The "thank you" is a Cosmo Cricket sticker and the little green/blue flower that is part of coordinating chipboard stickers.

The "friends" is a Stampin' Up! rub on.

Don't you love the stampin' up! eyelet punch I used on the bottom of the green strip paper! It makes a little straight edge turn into a fancy accent!


The Cupcakes and words are rubons. The cupcakes on the card are stamped in kiwi kiss. It is so fun to use Stampin' up! coordinating things like these rubons and stamps!

Isn't this owl winking so cute!!! it is also a rubon from SU!

A fun mother's day card.

I have no idea why it is underlining my words!!! Anyway, here is the card we made for mother's day. It was made using the fifth avenue floral set with the matching embossing folder. We then trimmed the flowers and did a "gate fold". I got the idea from a great stamper and you can see more of her work at http://stampingdoc.blogspot.com/
Have a great day!

Stampin' it up as always!

Hi everyone. I haven't posted in awhile but that is because I have been having sooooo many stamping events! The spring/summer season of Wendy's Workshops has been flying by and I have been having so much fun! So far Cinco de Mayo has been my favorite!

Here are some of the fun things I have been working on lately:


I am in love with these colors! The paper is kraft, baja breeze, apricot appeal and chocolate chip. The stamp set used was Say it was Scallops and the flowers are from the flower fusion bundle! I don't know why I haven't used them forever! They are so versatile and cute!

This is my crazy kissing card! I used pumpkin and red riding hood ink and paper colors. I kissed the lion with apricot appeal and red riding hood ink.

This is my card made with only rub ons! And some cute patterned paper too! I made it in 5min!

This was a card we made with the kissing technique in the technique tuesday club. It didn't come out too well in the photo but the alligator is kissed with baja breeze and kiwi kiss ink...it looks like scales. We used the wild about you set and the big deal alphabet.

Here is my favorite card ever! I used the trendy trees stamp set and I really like how it turned out. The card is sahara sand and look how well the versamark stamped trees show up at the bottom.
REMEMBER* you can order any of the products used to make these cards by going to wendyhalverson.stampinup.net

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Presenting WENDY'S WORKSHOPS!

For the first time ever, I am doing a series of workshops that cover techniques, scrapbooking, card making, and much more! Check the calendar of events at wendyhalverson.stampinup.net and email me ASAP to register!