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Video: Decorating your envelopes

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Josee

One of the things I've always done is to DECORATE my envelopes pretty before mailing them out. Why not make the post office AND the recepient happy with your creations?!

In my world, there's no such things as NAKED envelopes!!!

In today's video, you will learn how easy it is to line your envelopes with beautiful paper PLUS stamp them to match!!!

Here's my how-to video, if you're viewing this post by email, click here to see video!

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Want to know a secret?!

Posted on February 23, 2013February 24, 2013 by Josee

This special site isn’t up and running just yet but we hope to have it up soon! Connie and I have some special tutorials and videos that we are working on. You’re going to LOVE hanging out with the Stampin’ Girls! More details will be coming soon!

There is something NEW and EXCITING coming to Stamping Jo!

Beginning Wednesday, and every Wednesday, I am going to be sharing my website with a fellow Stampin' Up demonstrator, Connie Stewart, who will be sharing her ideas with all of us. I am thrilled to be working with Connie and can't wait to learn from her!

A little about Connie Stewart – Connie is a Stampin' Up demonstrator from the United States, specifically Oklahoma (you know the song so just go ahead and sing it).

Connie has been a US demonstrator for 10 years and has earned a spot in the Top 100 US Demonstrators for 3 years in a row. She is also a designer for Paper Crafters Sampler. You may have seen her videos on YouTube over the past few months – close to 2,000 stampers have!

She is known for her very unique quick card technique called "Flash Cards" and she will be sharing this technique with us too.

Her other passion is making boxes and has created an original Box Maker Shim for our Simply Scored Board. You're going to love making that! Connie is the mom of 2 girls, Christina (16) and Ginny (11) and has been married to her knight in shining armor for 21 years. As a family, they are big into the theatre, more specifically musical theatre. Connie says, "Life is just one big show tune, after all"

Want to see more of Connie's stamped art? Check out her website at www.SimplySimpleStamping.com. You'll see why I am so excited to work with her!

We can't wait to start this fun adventure together on Wednesday!

Video: Stampin’ Up! Punch Art-Frog & Lily Pad

Posted on February 22, 2013February 23, 2013 by Josee

Happy Friday friends! I hope you are ready for the weekend. I had a great time today making a new project. I love punch art and am going to start making more as I have a ton of ideas.

Today's video features an adorable frog & lily pad:

Isn't he the cutest?!

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Feb 2013 Techniques: Baby Wipes Technique; Crepe Paper Flower & Watercoloring with watercolor crayons

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Video: Creative Background Series- Stampin’ Up! Creative Elements

Posted on February 21, 2013February 23, 2013 by Josee

I'm super excited to announce a new series of videos….CREATIVE BACKGROUNDS! I just finished my first video in this series and I love how the projects turned out. I hope you do too!

I have 3 versions of the project to show you in the video…the 1-layer card, a step-it-up card and a colour variation.

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Here are the cards I came up with:

My head is spinning with more ideas of fun backgrounds…so make sure you subscribe to my You Tube Channel to keep up to date of when I add videos!

Stampin’ Up! Swallowtail card from the Spring Catalogue

Posted on February 19, 2013February 19, 2013 by Josee

Many times I look at my catalogue for ideas of cards to make and today's card is just that! I really loved the unique colours that were used to demonstrate the Swallowtail stamp set in the Spring catalogue.

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